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  1. Re: Gmail, the worst interface EVER on Google is Killing Its 4-Yr-Old Inbox Email App (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It works great. For them.

  2. These geniouses who you talk about, how many of them had social anxiety. How many scientists do not have it?

    Being able to talk to a group of your peers is a requirement. Bit like this that looks like a classroom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

  3. The first time I did it, I trembled so hard, my whole arm was shaking. When one of the kids asked me a question, I just reapeated the whole thing.

    Afterwards I felt sorry for that kid, because it never received an answer, while it stook its head out to ask the question.

    I learned a lot that day.

  4. If it is at the office, I asume the machine is not yours. So if it really bothers you, find a new job. What I do is just not care about the inefficient way my company wants me to work.

    If I sere an issue, I will tell them and provide a solution. From then on it is THEIR problem, not mine.

    To make a point, the company has a website that I need to use and they made it so it only works in Chrome. The Company, in all their greatness, has also put in placvve a police where I am not allowed to run Chrome. So I am unable to visit that site that I need for my work.

    The fact that I am unable to do certain tasks is THEIR problem, not mine.

    My personal machines all run Linux. I will not use them at work or for work.

  5. Re:Why have nocotine at all? on FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    But tobacco IS natural.

  6. Re:The FPV industry was destroyed in EU already on European Parliament Votes in Favor of Controversial Copyright Laws (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So use a phone instead. Problem solved.

    OTOH I doubt that a phone is that great in flying, so comparing the two is a bit of a strange thing.

    I also think that they looked at the distance and that resulted in the 25 mW. The issue was not the wattage, but the distance.

  7. Times have changed. I am not so sure what the outcome will be. And if it does not stick this time, they will try again, untill it sticks.

  8. Re:I could be way off here... but: on Four-Day Working Week For All is a Realistic Goal This Century, UK Trade Unions Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of people have no idea what to do, besides working. And I live in Europe where we have ree time.

    e.g. ask when people say what they would do when they would win the Euromillions lottery (15MM as a minimum). Most will say: "I would still work". The thing is that they have no idea what to do with the time that becomes available to them.

    I have seen it with people going on retirement as well. No idea what to do with their free time. Now obviously there are plenty of people who are not like that.

    I have been unemployed for a longer period once. Timewise, I had no problems with it. There was plenty of things to do. The main issue was the money.

    Not having a job does not mean you sit at home and watch a screen and do nothing. For people here: you can volunteer in some open source project. Not even as a main developer, if you do not want the preasure, but as a tester or bugreporter or whatever.

    Did some of that when I felt like it. Not work, yet still feeling a part of society and contributing to it.,

  9. Friend of mine used to do the 8 day full time, but now has gone to the 9 day fulltime over 2 weeks as age was starting to take its toll. And she now has 2 days working at home per week.

    This is in Europe, so things will be a bit more flexible here. I get my holidays. I have no limitation on sick days, as I do not know when I will be sick and those are paid (reduced after a month). If I would have kids, I could get time off for that.

    I know several people who took a large holiday of several months (that is not paid after your standard holdays) and came back and are still working at the company.

    Once I was forced to take a week of, as I had forgotten to take enough days of. And my N+1 came to me when I would be taking that extra hour I worked overtime one day.

    Yes, even many managers are aware that you only come to work to make money you need to spend in your free time. I know of managers who are fired because they disregarded hours and did unpaid overtime against company policy.

    The downside is that you need to plan so many holidays. What I still need to do this year is a 5 day holday to Champagne France, 9 days probably Berlin or Hamburg and another 9 that I have no idea yet. And that is not counting Xmas and new years that are both long weekends.

    Life is horrible sometimes.

  10. The fact that "not allowed to sue in the futere" exists is a problem by itself.
    To me the whole reason a contract exists is so you have some base is somebody sues.

  11. So who will not be sanctioned? on Trump To Target Foreign Meddling In US Elections With Sanctions Order (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    will slap sanctions on any foreign companies or people

    Emphasis is mine.
    So why not any US companies as well? "Because that is already illegal" is besides the point. I doubt that that law will read "except when you are foreign".

    So who or what is he trying to hide, or is he just blowing air as usual? Amd to think he might be re-elected.

  12. Re: Like all things socialist as on Swiss Village Votes for Free Money. Now It Just Needs the Cash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Basic income can be seen in the same way.

  13. "Man bites dog" is news. on Solid-State Battery Startup Claims Breakthrough For Electric Vehicles (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    This is not news. Let us know when a startup company tells us they have nothing and close shop. This before they went public or received money in any other way than from the owners of the company itself.

  14. When I was a teen, we had to walk to the Telegraph office. Through the snow. Uphill. Both ways.

    Still better than the ones before me who burned, raped and pillaged instead of talking to people.

  15. In Europe we value our off time and limit our working time and take holidays. Even people who are self employed are spending their money on it.
    If your hobby becomes work, it is still work. So look for something ekse to do. Build in weekends you are not in front of a PC or camera. Take uearly holiday.
    Moaning about work? There is a support group for that and we meet at the bar.

  16. Re: why I won't use onedrive on Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Friend of mine has an iPhone and wants to go to Android. But somehow she is unae to download her 6000 photos of her travels around the world.
    So eother ditch sevetal years of memory, or stick with Apple.

  17. Re: Commercials on NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft (al.com) · · Score: 1

    Name the person who landed the SpaceX the first time. Or 2 people closely involved thatare not the CEO, but actually involved in the landing.

  18. You should meet my wife.

  19. You basically pay for them for flipping a switch. The fact that the other person is able to compare the quality of the diffent support teams says a lot about the quality of they service.

    I honestly have no idea how the support is of the provider I am with for several years now. I think I ance had a very basic billing question. Not enough to form an opinion about it.

    I once looked at getting a fixed IP. With the same speed I would have now, I would pay a lot extra. The IP adresses are extremely cheap for a provider and they must have them available anyway, so the scarcety is a bullshit excuse. It was confirmed by three providers (of the record) that it was just to get extra money and had nothing to do with any scarcety.

    The reason they do not increase the speed for the 'normal' users, while it is clearly available for the GP is so people like hime will shell out extra money and be happy about paying extra.

  20. So that is a reason to not bring fast interent to them?
    Can we do that for other services as well? Hey, no police coverage, because you have a nice ocean view. No fire protection service, because you have a big garden whgere you can sit in. No ambulance service, as you already have close access to a coffeshop.

  21. Re:TAMPAX on NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft (al.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of Trojan. Imagine how the rocket would look after a paintjob?

    The slogan: Safety for blasting rockets since 1916.

  22. And remember that it is only a loss when you sell it (at a loss). As long as you did not sell it, the loss, if there is any, is not yet there.

    Loss or gain depends on what you bought it for and what you sold it for. You can add inflation if you so desire. I know people who calculate loss by also looking if putting it in a savingsaccount would have given them less or more.

    But the basic is what you take what you sold it for, deduct an expensen you had (Be it maintanace for e,g, a house or fees for selling shares) and deduct what you bought it for. If that is in the plus, it is profit, if it is in the minus it is a loss.

  23. Re: It seems like Apple wants us to ditch adapters on Someone With an iMac, iPhone, and iPad Might Soon Need Three Different Headphone Adapters (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    On top of worse battery life.

  24. Re: It seems like Apple wants us to ditch adapters on Someone With an iMac, iPhone, and iPad Might Soon Need Three Different Headphone Adapters (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I really love needing to charge several extra things, like headphones. I also need to charge the phone sooner, because it uses extra power and that is great as well. /sarcasm.

  25. Re:Developed nations are responsible for this mess on Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    WalMart is also not the one telling them not to, yet they know it is happening. They instead say "We want it 1 cent cheaper." and that results in the companies eother losing that business or doing the cleanup.

    So WalMart is an enabeler. Remember it wasn't Nike that employed the kids. Hiding behind am other company is nice, but does not make it morally OK.

    The fact that it is legal in said countries does not really matter. If they wanted, they could demand it. They decide not to demand that.