Usually companies now ask the question "would this candidate be eligible for rehire in the future". If someone is fired for performance or other cause, the answer is more likely to be "no".
This works around potential libel issues associated with giving specific reasons.
If they truly provide the same economic value this creates the incentive to hire younger people into these roles so this may actually prevent age discrimination.
We tried low code (citizen development) as a solution to the "IT dept sucks" problem. It worked pretty well at the start but eventually became a data governance nightmare and as soon as we needed to restructure the business we ended up with ownerless applications and datastores all over the place.
It eventually turned out there was a prioritisation problem rather than a development capacity problem.
I don't think so. I don't code anymore because I am responsible for around 100 FTE but can still pair programme effectively. Coding is just the tip of the engineering iceberg.
Same as renting vs owning. Eventually you become the company laying the undersea cables and incremental increase in bandwidth utilisation effectively costs zero but you still have to pay to own and maintain all this infra.
I'm not sure about Stripe in particular but many financial institutions are tracking the top 10 global risks published by the World Economic Forum. The number one 10 year risk is "Failure to mitigate climate change". In total 6 of the top 10 are directly related to climate change and 3 are indirectly related e.g "Large scale involuntary migration" and "Erosion of social cohesion"
It's not exactly the same as email though. Email servers don't have a culture and you don't generally interact with other users of your email server unless they have given you the email address. And most people don't choose their email server. For personal email they use Gmail/Yahoo/Outlook and at work they use the provider their IT Department chose.
If you work in a regulated environment it's so much easier to explain to a regulator that you work with a single SOC 2 compliant, ISO 27001 certified cloud provider rather than a mishmash of services.
I think the key words are "a" vs "the" when you use "a" the relationship is one to many, whereas when you use "the" it's one to one. If I say "Charles is the King" then "the King is Charles" also holds true. If I say "Charles is a King" then I can't conclude that the King is Charles.
Not a lawyer but most countries have the idea of secondary or contributory infringement where if you compel, induce or cause someone else to infringe copyright you have committed an offence. It's probably very hard to prove.
The whole purpose of shrinkflation is to prevent yourself from getting into a game of prisoners dilemma with your competitors. You can cut the product size, and therefore costs, and maintain a "competitive price".
There's a general push in supermarkets to move consumers towards own-brand goods as the profit margin is higher. It wouldn't surprise me if this was a marketing tactic to push people in this direction.
Hong Kong is in China and everyone has an English legal name and most people have a Chinese legal name. The English name may be a Romanisation of the Chinese name, a western name or a combination. Depending on which combination of names you have, your nationality and the specific situation, the Chinese or English one may take precedence e.g some government departments prefer the Chinese name but most businesses prefer the English names unless it's a Mainland Chinese business.
I have met people with 5 years experience who are significantly more capable than others with 15 so I don't think time is a good metric. A lot of it is about attitude, some of which comes with age, but some is more intrinsic to the person.
They own .blog so I am guessing they can at least keep that part of the bargain. As to what level of service they can maintain over 100 years, or whether the web as we know it will continue to exist, remains to be seen.
Chinese, especially in the upper tier cities, don't want babies now. Same as the West and for roughly the same reasons. Historically kids stayed with their parents until marriage who would then look after the grandchildren while they work. Now the parents are getting left behind in the villages or low tier cities while the kids fly out to the higher tier cities to work leaving no childcare structure and everyone grinding away at work with no time to find partners.
Future generations have to pay off the debt generated by the current generation. Same as everywhere. You can either grow the population or make the economy more efficient, China still has the latter lever available to pull.
Pinyin is used in regions where Simplified Chinese is the predominant written language, but other systems are generally used in regions where traditional Chinese is the written language e.g Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan