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> For the other "business falling apart", maybe they consider it’s part of the business owner’s responsibility to make sound business decisions when involving someone else’s livelihood. Just like when leasing a shop or taking on a loan.

What about running a tech startup with high chance of failure? Ever considered why they seem to be few and far between in EU?

> These are mechanics that will just create certain kinds of behaviors.

Yes, but if platform API allows using customizable third-party clients it is not really a problem for me (e.g. I can just enable chronological timeline, filter out all the ads and noise).

> For everything else, including desktop and mobile operating systems realtime sounds like a good idea.

Why on earth would you need real time on desktop? Every time the topic is discussed on internet bunch of confused people chime in with this sentiment that doesn't make much sense. "RTOS" is not some magic that somehow makes everything on your desktop fast. All it would do in reality is make everything slower for 99% of your interaction but guarantee that "slowness" is uniform and you don't have any weird latency spikes in other 1%. Note that for cases that are not "nuclear reactor control system that requires Very Certified OS with audited and provable reaction times" RTLinux is already available, but distros are not inclined to leverage it on desktop for reason described above.

> we don't want to help other countries at our short term cost (even if it is a long term gain for us)

It is not even that since what they basically propose is to dial down the war in Eastern Europe but get more involved in the war in Middle East and possibly soon in East Asia. That stance always seemed very confusing to me as a non-US person.

> What crawls on four legs and causes women to drop out of the labour force?

"Women earn less due to sexist discrimination" and "women earn less due to bearing the brunt of raising children" are two distinct claims. The first one is contentious and widely disputed (disproved?).

> Being a manager is about more than just getting people to do their job well. You also need to plan things, you need to know what's changing over time, you need to test whether your processes are working. I use metrics to measure the aggregate impact of my influence on managing my teams, not that of any IC on any of my teams. Employee metrics are useful for a big picture view.

The point of the article is exactly that such metrics don't give you any kind of a good signal unless you are really into the fine details. And if you are, then you don't really need them in the first place.

> quantitative details (eg a count of how much output there is)

For example I recently spent a week producing several thousands of lines of tedious trivial code that parses some configuration out of JSON file in pure C. Then I spent a month writing less 1k lines of very dense low-level packet parsing code and the main loop also in C. So the metrics would show you the big picture of me slacking and my performance tanking which obviously wasn't the case. You can't substitute actually knowing and understanding of what your reports are doing with some tools providing you with trivia like number of commits, lines of code changed or tickets closed.

Yes, and suppliers outsource the actual development and testing to cut costs even further.

> Changing course is a CEO taking responsibility for the company.

Changing course and immediately resigning would be that.

> For now, most countries still have some semblance of control, usually backed by the power of international treaties, DNS blocking and control over payment infrastructure, but I wouldn't be surprised if the prevalence of fast and affordable satellite internet on one hand and easier access to crypto on the other will make the situation even worse.

What exact scenario are you envisioning here? Germany bans X (for example), but people smuggle Starlink terminals to continue reading it and advertisers continue advertising to them illegally by paying with crypto? Sounds extremely unrealistic to me TBH.

> Alternatively: it's what users want.

So why are they so opposed to adding some toggle in the options to allow chronological feed then?

> Edit: the 49-euro ticket is great though!

As a Swiss person you want appreciate German tax rates that subsidize that 49-euro tickets. The money has always got to come from somewhere.

Yeah, just went over their pricing and they apparently don't have any lower tier subscription besides 20$/month "unlimited Phind + 500/day ChatGPT" version. I don't need that, what I need is something like 100 uses per month for 5$. As a coding-focused search engine they really need to consider why would people pay them same rates as for more feature-rich competitors.

This is true in my experience. Before searching for something I often try to guess whether it will take me more time to quickly go over Google results or watch Perplexity Pro slowly spitting the answer line-by-line.

> Ukraine. We spent a week being confused because the Ukrainiens expected the electricity bill to be calculated based on the size of your house and how many animals you have. The concept of a domestic electricity meter was completely foreign to them.

What are you talking about? Private apartments and houses in Ukraine had domestic electricity meters installed since soviet times.

> I heard that wges are less than 50% but you end up saving more

Curios regarding how you came up with that conclusion. After paying rent, taxes and buying some groceries from EU senior engineer's ~80k you will generally have enough to maybe buy a new smartphone at the end of the year, not any meaningful amount of savings.