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Your comment comes off bitter. You could just provide additional links for those interested, and/or not read/buy the course if you're not interested. Whatever is upsetting you is not this.

I get that, and I wish you the best with it. It's definitely interesting like I said. I'm not sure what financial model would make it seem less intimidating, but I'd imagine as a indie course-maker-on-the-side it'd be too expensive. Maybe a different pricing scheme for corporations.

Interesting course. I'm not sure if you're affiliated with tigyog.app owners or not, but 20% commission on paid courses is too much. The platform looks neat and interesting, but I wouldn't pay 20% of whatever I'm charging for a course to be able to use a platform that self describes as a "blog with buttons".

I think the point is to avoid including low quality websites…

"No it doesn't" is not much of an argument, and to quote one of your previous comments "Citations needed.".

Battery storage and hydrogen are not much solutions. From the article:

> To control these swings and provide reliable power, renewables advocates argue that battery storage and hydrogen can store electricity and dispatch it when solar and wind aren’t producing. Germany’s largest battery storage program is its home storage systems, but years of battery storage installations have barely made an impact on the German grid. The country currently has an estimated 435,000 homes equipped with battery storage systems of various capabilities, and 145,000 home storage systems were installed in 2021. But there are 40 million households in Germany, and home battery storage systems usually last only a few hours, while the grid needs storage that can support variations lasting weeks.

It didn’t occur to me that account creation is part of the experience, but if it is you win!

Same applies to closing down nuclear reactors and coal mines over the last decade in some countries in Europe.

Don’t force me to create an account before seeing what the game is about.

Vegans* have checked out of their cause since that beyond meat crap started to become a thing. Just enjoy your legumes and fruit and call it a day!

* Obviously not all vegans

I only hope they also extend this ban to that synthetic meat stuff.

> Sadly this is just another layer of protections to the industrial meat complex.

How so?

I think it's a very good idea to not allow product marketing to (ab)use terms to confuse people. If people want to eat meat that's their business. This is like that old trend of putting a "milk" label on almond drink/juice. It's just a straight up incorrect.

Deregulation works

Sorry, I don't speak nihilism.

Why is no one trying to kick Qatar out of the Swift network?

Author seems to miss one major point that many tech-journalists seem to miss these days which is the internet is different than the web. I had actually bookmarked the book before but now it doesn't seem very interesting to read.

PS: What the hell is the point of writing a title as aggravating as this? It's almost as if they go out of their way to be insulting! Sheesh!

`putils` is not available yet, but your main first example uses it. The docs generally are very lacking.

Positioning your identity around sexuality (what pride month is essentially) is a left issue, sexual orientation or preference in general is not. GLBT people have allowed themselves to be used and abused by the system and the corporations unfortunately.

Ok, thanks for clarifying.

What the hell is a Juneteenth?

@dang: this shouldn’t be flagged.

What’s the activism angle exactly for? Do you think people on the fence about some issue will be swayed one way or the other?

Sorry, I don't speak nihilism.

I'm curious if you're actually a programmer or working in programming in any capacity? One thing here to understand is that you won't really be able to see OP's perspective if you haven't worked in this for at least a few years.

Though I agree that there could've been a better way to handle it (OP states it), your tone sounds almost like you’re that bad manager. As a manager you’re as much a cog as anyone else, and you need to be accountable downwards and upwards. A good company understands that.

Ideally it should’ve been that OP just quietly switched teams or found another job.

But I’m glad that this got posted. I don’t want to work at a company that I don’t have an opportunity to criticize their internal structures with valid rational reasoning. Being fired is ok, but being marked as bad cultural fit is clearly a retaliatory move, which is not just bitter from the company but also from the HR department at Spotify, especially that no one asked OP’s colleagues.

This seems like a thing in Swedish medium/big tech companies, at least from what we read about Klarna last month.

Not true. Communism is inherently inhumane.

The concept is sound, implementation is what matters. Blockchain and crypto got hijacked is all.

Wait, so the whole point is to show buttons that I click to redirect to the search page of a search engine?

Not to hate on you personally, but this is pretty useless.

Agreed.

But also we need to accept that this is also happening because software startups (SaaS or otherwise) are functioning more and more like predators than value providers these days.

At this point, it's not just the aggressive subscription/upselling models, but the various dark patterns in their design, the abusive immediate various newsletter subscriptions, the constant emailing, the popups, the little help widget thing at the bottom right corner of every startup that's there to supposedly help you, the hostile data collection, and many many other insulting and abusive patterns that's more or less a standard now.

And yes, FAANGs do this, but people are comfortable with the abuser they know and already are prey to than the one they don't.

There's nothing wrong with "the cloud", it's all the same tech behind the scenes whether you own it and run it or not, but it's the mercilessly hostile, incredibly ruthless and vicious attitude that these startups display that makes people not want to pay for them.

Hilarious. Get off your high horse and stop ripping off other people's voices.

This is a typical brute behavior. It's not about breaking a rule or two for the sake of success, it's about doing it while riding on people's backs. You think that stealing someone's voice is ok for a small startup company because you don't have the budget to know better while this is not the issue at hand. You obviously know this is wrong and are trying to get away with it riding on people's good intentions.

This is blunt and clear immoral behavior and you are fully aware of it. You just think that you have the right to reach success not by your own skills, but by stepping on other people, and until they complain you'll keep doing it.

PS: Even if Amazon does the same thing it's no excuse for you. Look up tu quoque fallacy.