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I've been working at EU startups and tech for a while now. There isn't much worry about data laws. All the data you need for the real product you can get without even getting close to breaking any privacy laws.

It only gets very complicated when you start forwarding that data to 3rd parties, intensively tracking + storing user behaviour and engineering patterns aimed at deceiving how you use the data.

If you're that worried about keeping up to date on these types of rules, you can subscribe to the EU data protection newsletter, which will be a fairly decent overview on what's going on: https://edps.europa.eu/press-publications/publications/newsl...

While the google images thing is kinda shitty. Pinterest is really really good at image search and image recommendations.

Can you imagine having such unexpected jumps in housing costs and not even owning your home? That would be way way worse

Actually banning fossil fuel cars from dense city centers has been proven to be healthier for the people living there. So yeah would be great if they could ban them everywhere.

Mixing and matching 2-3 UI / state frameworks will always be an hassle.

Which is “totally” different than US corporations. The American ones also comply with government requests, supply back doors or capture the traffic at an ISP level.

XP got patches for so long just because many many governments and very large corporations convinced microsoft to keep extending it.

Does that mean it has clearly been cultivated to be that flat?

lol the only thing that happened in the last 20 years is american consumer tech? haha

Don’t connect to any ISP?

If reddit did that from the start we wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place?

Then don’t run a content site?

Ugh still 50k for a car. Why can we have a basic car like this for like 10-20k?

9 other subscriptions and I only have to work 0 hours a week

the way you calculate savings is not really true in reality. even if I can now do my work 4 hours a week faster. I'm not immediately getting a pay bump, my boss just gives me 4hours of extra work.

It won't give me 4 hours a week back, because my boss still reserves my time for those 4 hours.

My household won't have an extra 30 euro a month to spend on those dinners. actually it will directly have 30 euro less to spend on dinners. so yeah all those considerations make me cautious paying for more subscriptions.

Fokker will return in the year of the linux desktop

Honestly too little nuanced reviews, too much 5 star reviews or 1 star reviews all signal the same thing to me: toxic workplace.

With smaller companies/startups >60 people, a better signifier is very little glassdoor activity. Someone who works in a healthy workplace with fair, well paying salaries has no reason to ever even open that dumpster fire of a website.

The problem isn’t that the 30% rule isn’t a good idea anymore. The problem is that for so much of the population it isn’t realistic anymore.

Also I wouldn’t be surprised if a terms like housing stress based on the 30% rule is part of official terminology. So it can be used for discussing rental rates, morgage prices and legislation.

Looking at averages like you propose isn’t useful if something bad impacts a whole population.

The repo for anyone interested: https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-foundation

Do youtubers have tvs running with their videos on it to farm views in a meaningful way?

Because we didn’t do shit to address our climate emissions for the last decade(s)

Honestly without a UI framework programming languages are kinda useless. Ecosystem is key to day to day usefulness compile time is secondary to that.

In Europe its with the idea that even if a tenant is put on the street it will cost money. Plus it will usually create bigger problems than what ever months of rent are missed.

It’s similar to the fact that giving homeless people a place to live for free is cheaper than continually kicking them on the streets

It’s a bit of a balance, more aggressive approaches work well when there is high growth. But are more painful when things are bad.

Unions often slow down change, in bad times this means more job security and protections. In good times they might act slower.

Perhaps in SF the victims of violent crime are in a higher social bracket than in other cities?

Aka more rich people are the target in SF compared to other cities where mostly lower class people are effected?

unless the update requires version updates on multiple services which means the versioning and rollback has the same effect as a more monolithic codebase. but with the added complexity of not knowing how it all impacts each other.

In my experience updates to smaller services are often trivial, or for updates that are actually impactful it would be way easier to coordinate in a monolithic codebase.

indeed because the deadlines are rigid and the work load estimates are inaccurate.

Again why do we need hospitals to make money? Aren't national expenses like healthcare a good place to use taxes for?

If people don't get healthcare but still have costs of managing their symptoms. Or when people die at home, those costs aren't in the hospital books.

Moderation is real continued work, not something you can do once and solve. Putting up an real life event at any size requires moderation or guiding the visitors. I don't know why people in tech continue to be surprised about having to take care of their audience.