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In my previous job, they began using scrum agile to develop hardware. I don't know if it ever worked because I left. But when I was there, it was more stressful than before agile scrum.

EarthIsHomeon McKinsey Plans to Eliminate About 2000 Jobs in One of Its Biggest Rounds of Cuts

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EarthIsHomeon Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate

> Imagine commuting to the office 60-90 minutes each direction

Assuming 240 work days per year. A one-hour roundtrip commute means you're spending 10 *WHOLE* days in your commute per year. Two-hour roundtrip? That's 20 whole days. Three-hour roundtrip? One whole month.

EarthIsHomeon World’s largest four-day work week trial finds few are going back

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EarthIsHomeon Office Landlord Defaults Are Escalating as Lenders Brace for More Distress

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EarthIsHomeon “How America took out the Nord Stream pipeline”

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EarthIsHomeon The United States Frequency Allocation Chart

Another fun, somewhat related poster from 1944: Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations [0], and a "color-corrected" version [1].

[0]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/llnl/9403051123

[1]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/acme-laboratories/31849902131

EarthIsHomeon Federal court requires Amazon to stop firing employees for protected activities

"Now let the court enforce it." -Andrew Jackson

EarthIsHomeon IKEA asks horror game to change so people stop comparing it to IKEA [update]

It makes more people aware of the game.

EarthIsHomeon UN Votes Overwhelmingly to Condemn US Embargo of Cuba

They recently overwhelmingly voted on a new Family Code law [0], one of the most progressive laws to be passed.

And if you're interested in how democracy and elections work in Cuba, here is a pretty short and very informative clip (13min) [1] explaining the Cuban democratic system.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Cuban_Family_Code_referen...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMsi-A56ds

EarthIsHomeon Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse

This happens to me. I never realized that anything happened and that the URL changed, which means I would naturally click the back button again, and it takes me to the previous-previous page (which is usually a new tab for me). It's very frustrating.

Edit: this happens on Firefox on Windows. I haven't tried Chrome.

EarthIsHomeon Nord Stream blast 'blew away 50 metres of pipe'

> Why would Europe sit idly by while the US unilaterally reshapes their energy policies?

Because these are our client states. NATO's purpose is to bend Europe's will across the Atlantic and away from having mutually beneficial relationships with Africa and Asia.

They aren't our allies; they are our client states. The European leaders align with what Washington wants, and not what the majority of their people want. The US doesn't have allies... only interests.

We are crushing German industry; this is beneficial to us, because it allows our industry to thrive and helps reshore production. We get to sell more energy to Europe; this is beneficial to us... and so on.

EarthIsHomeon Nord Stream blast 'blew away 50 metres of pipe'

Russia could just turn off the taps instead of blowing it up... Russia spent billions building these pipes to bypass transit fees through other countries.

This is not a mystery. The US has the most to gain from this: increase Europe's energy dependence on the US by literally forcing Europe to not use cheap Russian energy

EarthIsHomeon The self-taught UI/UX designer roadmap (2021)

https://archive.ph/ry2Kc

EarthIsHomeon Is Hans Niemann cheating? – Expert analyzes

Regan's algorithm cannot prove that you did not cheat; it can only fail to prove that you cheated.

The question that Regan's algorithm is this: "Did you cheat?"

If the algorithm comes back with "Yes," then you cheated. But it cannot come back with "No." It can only come back with "I failed to prove that you were cheating."

You need another hypothesis: "Did you not cheat?" But this is an impossible test.

EarthIsHomeon Foreign Affairs at 100: A look back at the first issue

That's the point of the magazine: it's to spread ideologies around. If you want to know what people in the state department (or adjacent/influential) are thinking, then "articles" in this magazine are one way of peering into their minds.

One example of this is the the Mr. X article. It was published anonymously in Foreign Affairs. Mr. X was George Kennan, a US diplomat, who popularized the strategy of containment which ended up as US foreign policy during the Cold War. [0]

So, if you want to know what's en vogue in certain foreign policy groups in US and western society, then Foreign Affairs is a very good magazine... But your point is right: I found very little substance and critical evidence to back many of the ideas presented when I had a subscription.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Article

EarthIsHomeon Cfplot – Generate waterfall graphs of CloudFormation