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I've heard similar things said about the new Royal Enfield motorcycles here in India.

The redesigned J-series engines on their new motorcycles are smoother and I've heard some people wax nostalgic about the old thumpers and say that the new ones "lack character". I've even heard people speak fondly of the the UCE engines (introduced in the early 2000s) which were hated for a similar "lack of character" when they replaced the older engines (which were originally designed back in the 50s I think).

Your responded to a comment that brought up Japan *in comparision with Europe.*

You claim that "I said Tokyo has shit air" while ignoring the parent comment you responded to.

The comment you responded to was about how this low noise experience is not unique to Europe, and saying Japan has similar experiences.

You came in with "Tokyo has shit air" as a response. Now you claim the others are "whataboutists" when they are merely continuing the original conversation topic comparing Europe with Japan.

>And yet everything they make sells out. Almost like it's worth the price.

I dont think, A implies B.

With great marketing and lower volume production, you could probably make most overpriced, average quality widgets sell out.

Doesn't mean that because they're sold out therefore they were priced "right". (as subjective as pricing is)

> A cardinal rule of choosing restaurants is to avoid the ones with huge, unfocused menus.

Take Behrouz Biriyani and Faasos in India. These are operated by the same company - and almost always from the same location. However because they have 2 different listings and thus 2 separate menus, they are able to create a relatively cohesive and simple menu for each listing.

So on first glance Behrouz Biriyani, looks fairly straightforward. It serves Biriyanis (with a lot of variants/sizes/combos etc). And Faasos serves wraps, rolls and other related snack foods.

If you did not know that these were essentially from the same place, you would assume that these were separate restaurants with relatively focussed menu, hence passing said cardinal rule.

With physical restaurants, the rule is easier to apply. With deliveries, it's far more difficult as the huge, unfocussed menus get separated into different restaurant listings.

> If remote working was a point on the collective organizing table then management would be able to request mitigating actions to compensate for whatever they felt was lost because of WFH.

What you are missing is that there does not seem to be a "collective organizing table" that you speak of at Apple. An edict from above comes in saying staff need to return to office. Apple execs did not "request mitigating actions" they demanded it.

> This, on the other hand, is a single issue action, which involves no bargaining and places demands from 1 side without a corresponding opportunity to mitigate negative effects.

Any bargaining starts with needs and wants from both sides. Apple has made their demand to the employees telling them to return to office. Some employees are trying to organise to put forward a counter-demand. Apple execs could respond to said petition with an offer to come to the same table and negotiate, but it does not seem like they are at that stage yet.

> There are certainly better ways to communicate your point than this.

Well, do tell.

Passing along a petition sounds like a very low impact way of collectively asking for something. It's not like they are starting off with a strike.

Or are thinking of a "mgmt's way or the highway" type of deal?

> There are lots of things I’m sure you and I might find interesting. But HN doesn’t benefit from the practice of “ooh, let me use this topic as a pretense to post something I wanted to share regardless, and without reading the article”.

I disagree. The comment is related to the discussion (about SEC action) and the comment was pretty interesting and added value to the comment section

On the other hand, posting shallow dismissals and implying that they haven't read the article is not adding value to the comment section.

>> Nobody should be rewarded for that.

> One strike, you're out? Is that the rule you judge by?

That's how law works isn't it? Just because you've done a lot of good things doesn't mean that you shouldn't be tried for stabbing a person.

> Codespaces costs money.

It's going to be paid by your employer which leads to GP's concern about,

> or build a productivity dashboard so managers can fire people for not being productive enough (like Xsolla did)

Which is more likely. If your employer sets something like this up - will they use it to calculate a productivity score and use that for lay offs? Seems rather probable to me.

Do you think once you are charged with possessing child porn - will you still have your job, your friends, your family, your life as you know it? Will a court decision - months or years later - restore what you have lost?

My understanding (outsider perspective, based on what people have told me) is a combination of silly complicated laws pushed by politicians to keep people from abusing the service, lobbying by private healthcare providers (insurance etc) to keep government assistance limited and purposefully annoying and politicians against "big government" underfunding institutions to see them fail.