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In smaller cities you can let people park outside and they will be able to walk in within minutes. That's even better than using crowded public transport.

Rents are skyrocketing in Berlin because everybody and their friend wants to visit us or live here. At the same time for decades no new buildings were built. Remember? Supply and demand.

Yet rents are still not as high as in New York, London, Paris, Munich or even Hamburg so that people from everywhere flock here.

Yeah, but you only mean low level ones who barely earn enough to eat. I don't mean those. I mean the bigger fish.

Ah, the impact of Mastodon - the decentralized Twitter-alternative. I highly recommend it.

You can even run an instance yourself, just like you run WordPress.

Yeah, I live in Berlin and we have an increasing number of car free zones here where people can move around without being afraid of getting killed.

Even children play outside again in such areas without risking their life. Not to mention the lack of noise, pollution and clogged up space with parking cars.

Cafes thrive and people stroll around to spend their time and money. Businesses return from the outskirts etc. It's a dream for everybody. Also crime rates drop as drug dealers can't drive through anymore.

I referred to the headline "At least 10 police forces use face recognition in the EU, AlgorithmWatch reveals". Now it has been changed on HN.

I refer to LED lamps - similar to those joggers wear all the time.

Yeah, CV Dazzle shows possible haircuts.

Here's a LED setup that works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=2y3HWR3NMDQ&...

Of course they do. Western technology corporations provide the tools, the Chinese regime proves it works and then everybody else wants it as well. This is the process. It is not democracy though. The police should not dictate the policy.

There are haircuts that prevent face recognition.

Also you can wear a special headlight that renders CCTV cameras useless.

Kids do not even spend time outside these days as it's "too dangerous". You could get run over or abducted by a pedophile.

Obesity and screen related issues like depression and anxiety run rampant. Do your kids a favor: take away their smartphones.

Last company I worked for a as "remote worker" had three tools you had to switch on all the time: Flock, Slack and Skype. For actual conference calls etc. more tools were used ad hoc.

All the interruptions and constant onslaught of messages were very distracting and hampering productivity. After a while I had the phantom ringing syndrome where I looked up the tools all the time even when no message arrived.

Companies require remote workers to use those to exert control (to make sure they are online/at work) but it backfires as no high quality creative work is possible when you add so many stressors.

People still investing in climate warming assets don't deserve better.

This is a rhetorical question, isn't it? Otherwise the answer is: of course!

People judge a website in milliseconds just by looking at the design. When it's cluttered etc. they leave instantly.

I'm glad I don't have to.

Yeah, why track users server-side when you can have them wear a wiretap already?

Mobile phones are the perfect surveillance tools and Facebook finally offers a neat implementation people will willingly install.

Who needs backdoors when people are inviting spies through the front door?

The offer sounds good. Take note when asking website owners to add a badge that you are required to add "nofollow" or "sponsored" to those links. Otherwise Google might penalize you.

I took a look at your demo but sadly the font is hard to read on my machine. I use Windows with font smoothing turned off so that I get crisp fonts like back in the days but some low level fonts only work with smoothing.

Sure, some people can work longer than others but they also may get sick more often then. A friend of mine used to work 10h/12h and then game at night but was chronically ill with his skin. It only really got better when he went on vacation.

The 40h work week has been introduced by Henry Ford 100 years ago because even in factories with dumb menial work people were getting tired and breaking more than making after 40h.

In creative industries that require programming, graphic design, writing etc. you can't assume that people will be doing good work for as long as factory workers do who only have to focus on the same repetitive tasks.

The code is the most value part. You can sell it or you go open source and find a community to extend the life of your project.

The "humans are inherently bad" truism does not explain it entirely. By now it's obvious that people will be affected personally during their lifetime.

Yeah, good intro. The problem is that most companies still use the rather meaningless "last click attribution" method and see that social media does not yield results while most people convert through search.

Without discovery on social media the whole customer journey you ideally measure will not even start though. The actual search for the product that comes at the end won't happen that way either.

Take some rest man. Accidents happen for a reason. Fatigue is one of the most common ones.

I've seen stats that show that most people are already aware of the climate emergency and that it will have an impact on their lives.

Just a small minority still blocks off reality successfully.

So by now it's time to talk about actual solutions not to try to convert those who "don't believe in science".

I've got her "Hold Me Tight" book here but have stopped reading it a while ago. Good reminder to finish it now.

My impression - even with my parents - was that couples always replay conflicts following certain patterns. Turns out it's really the case.

"we cracked the code of love" would have been a better headline for that article. It's an actual quote from it.

Yeah, true, that may happen. Ideally you get a combined payment by hours with a bonus for performance. That is often a bit complex or tricky though.

You mitigate the risk of getting paid not enough in case the hours spiral out of control while still getting paid a lot when you outperform expectations.

The client usually wants a solution. What exactly it is you decide as the expert.

Yeah, and that is the actual self-fulfilling prophecy. You make what you actually are afraid of happen by behaving in a way that causes the quality issues to appear.

Thank you! Just what I needed.

Does not work on my Firefox though as block sneaky redirects.

When I was still a coder - I moved on after a few years - I noticed that working long hours made my work quality suffer.

The longer I worked the more bugs I introduced and the more I looked for the bugs in the evening the worse it became.

Ensure a proper work-life balance and plenty of screen-free time. Do not spend the night gaming when you work onscreen all day already.

The ideal per day work hours are 4h! No joke. In case you have to work 8h or longer perform simple tasks in the remaining 4h (meetings, documentation, emails, errands).

Eat well, get enough sleep, exercise, meditate, go outside and the next day you will find the bug and fix it within 10 minutes.

Many programmers tend to be the prototypical zombies who never see the light of day and only survive on caffeine (give it up). Remember that you're human.

None of those two. Charge by value you deliver. You can build a 100K car in an hour? Excellent.

Don't punish yourself by charging only $100 for the hour you worked on it.

Know your value - which in capitalism depends on market demand - and charge accordingly.

When you are a distinguished expert you can charge more of course as well.

Make a name for yourself and ensure that everybody knows upfront that you are not a "cheap outsourcing" drone.

When you charge low rates people will assign low value to your work and assume that you are entry-level.

Even when they know your work is of good quality they will think that by being unaware of its worth you are probably not very experienced. Last but not least you of course get exploitative clients that way.

The worst thing you can do is offering free work for "friends". Often they will not even say "thank you" or use the actual work you delivered.