Hannes

Opening the narrative with “I’ve seen things” in this way that people expect the Blade Runner Quote and then ending it with the “you wouldn’t believe” part is genius writing

Yeah - it’s an art to find the perfect mix between “sounds complicated enough that they zone out”, “sounds like stuff gets done” and “not making people ask if you need help with that”.

Anonymous usually means that they don’t want their name to show up publicly.

There’s almost certainly knowledge of who that money is coming from at least with a couple of persons that received the funds.

So someone donates money to their city’s library with the specific purpose that they can expand their building to have more space that’s a bribe?

Should it? I get that political parties should report donors - but for nonprofits and other institutions I feel it’s not that necessary since they are directly investing that money in projects (that the donor may choose - but if that’s not the case then that investment isn’t happening) - for political parties and politicians it can be seen as a bribe as the things they invest in usually don’t have a direct return of investment.

And there should be rules and regulations making sure that that donation is not ending up in some kind of contract for the company of the donor but that whatever that investment is funding has a transparent process

Where do we draw the line? Should donors to libraries be made public even if that person wants to remain anonymous but fund an expansion? Should donors to non-profits be made public?

Sounds like something Leon Skum world say

I mean AMD heavily relies on Taiwan being independent to even be the company they are. If China takes over most people in power and all the shareholders are fucked - so in this instance it actually makes sense even from a company standpoint to do malicious compliance

Libertarianism is just the extremest form of liberalism though?

Libertarianism also means EVERYONE is free to live their lives how they want - murdering someone is the very antithesis of liberalism

I’m not a native speaker - I just wanted to say that for a very long time, most podcasts where hosted on iTunes and that was (and kind of still is) the go-to place for podcast-reviews/ratings

And as I said: they kept the system open despite their market position

It’s one thing to rule them all and a whole other to lock users into your platform

Apple monopolized the podcast market for a decade but never stopped people from using the podcasts there with whatever client people wanted to use it with

Spotify is just going the shitty route and forcing people to use their client and not just their servers

*unless you’re working for public infrastructure, service industry, cultural industry, energy production, some parts of transportation or some parts of manufacturing where you can’t shut down a plant for a single day.

There are so many exceptions to that law I’m really wondering how much difference it would really make it supermarkets and regular shift works would also continue on the weekends - just with the standard 5 days workweek still applying and having to pay a bit bonus for working on Sundays, the same way the other jobs are also getting paid more for Sunday work

Is this an US thing? I’m fairly certain I’ve never seen that in Germany

Yeah those SR-games where amazing storytelling

You mean the one pretty much every manufacturer did that just got associated with Volkswagen since they were the first to get caught?

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My rule of thumb is that “recyclable” is 99% greenwashing and 1% a clueless business actually meaning well.

Everything is recyclable to some degree - if they wanted to do something for the environment it should be made from recycled material instead of advertising that it’s possible to recycle the material they used

Was using Osmand before and it’s a lot nicer to use for day to day navigation on the bike than the sluggy mess Osmand sometimes is

But the available vaccine for pox is also working for this one, right?

And even if they don’t keep it: they got browser-level Adblock- and Tracking-Filters that you can just feed the same lists you’d put into uBlock

Sure it’s lacking the spot-blocking, tool if there’s a missed ad or a fine-tuned whitelisting but I think that browser will stay usable even if V3 is implemented.