Maybe it's simply that companies aim for a certain aesthetic, and letting people bring random chairs in would go against it.
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Like so many others, you have discovered why you lost contact with these people to begin with. There is nothing that Facebook offers that improves the quality of those relationships - arguably, quite the contrary - so no reason to cling on to them beyond voyeurism.
> Does wealthy Europe have among the highest rates of suicide on earth
Certainly not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
Only your two examples are in the somewhat upper bound of that list, the rest of Europe are among the lowest suicide per capita countries in the world.
Some examples are plain false (calling "thin" volume when several exchanges see a billion dollars a day).
If the point was that banks will not let you transfer out of the exchange, the exchange will hose you, or your tethers will prove worthless, then the article should have just made that point. BTW the first two are false, obviously no experience actually dealing with big money crypto. WRT to tethers they look like a fraud but only represent one inferior exchange.
The previous portfolio did suck bad, but they could easily have improved it. Major missed opportunity.
Another dampening factor has been the regulations introduced after 2008 like S̶a̶r̶b̶a̶n̶e̶s̶-̶O̶x̶l̶e̶y̶ Dodd-Frank, the moratorium on IPOs has definitely helped to slow things down.
Now things are moving again, trouble is, history has shown time and time again that monetary policy is a ketchup bottle, once it starts having effect it is already too late to moderate it. That's why we have bubbles - suddenly there is too much money slushing around chasing finite resources, markets become crazy and regulators have to slam the brakes hard (in combination with banks predictably finding ways to overleverage, legally or not). Which leads to my prediction: Markets are still not crazy enough. Crazy, but not enough to look like the part where it all blows up. So I am betting on at least six months more of "growth" (i.e. inflation) before the inevitable crash.
Also, and this is encapsulated in the ideas above, don't freaking rely on family, friends, or acquaintances, to tell you what they think of the game. Not even other devs. Nobody wants to be the asshole that shoots down someone's dream. Again, if you can't even get actual players to try your game then you have big problems that you need to work on.
Obama actually stated that the United States refrained from fighting ISIS because it would have helped (then) Iraqi prime minister al-Maliki (who no longer served U.S. interests and hence was pushed out).
I'll tell you what I believe: The U.S. has been in collusion with Saudi Arabia and their ISIS henchmen from the beginning, trying to use them as a tool to force a regime change in Syria and Iraq. This is why ISIS has been treated with kids gloves for the duration of the campaign, first in Iraq and later in Syria. It was shown that the supposedly intense bombing campaigns were mysteriously ineffective for years, both the British and the American ones, ISIS again and again happened upon stashes of cash and weapons, etc. etc. Too many weird coincidences to mention.
This will not be a difficult theory to consider for anyone with knowledge of history and the American modus operandi in foreign policy. But somehow you're a crackpot to challenge the official story. The mainstream media has been shown to selectively present news to support the official line, and occasionally lie, but people reel at the thought that there is another very different side to the story they get told. Government sponsored covert propaganda campaigns are exposed every other week, but people still buy the 'grassroots' reports from Twitter et al. It's sad but unforunately it may just be human nature to tend towards believing authority.
Also: https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/03/18/88-dinner-partie...
The debate in Europe is so toxic, on one side starry-eyed humanists, on the other narrow-minded losers. Each resort to separate little bubbles where they can reaffirm each other. In the middle, reasonable people get squeezed out.
Also, I wouldn't be caught dead in a car that looked like that, but that's another matter.
I'm not sure what it is (lack of body language? Lack of shared physical presence and tools?) or if it can be remedied by better technical solutions (it's possible), but it's the reality right now.
Some complicated development tasks require 100% uninterrupted concentration for several minutes at a time. You're sitting there trying to build and maintain an extremely complicated model in your head, involving many complex parts, and their interactions along a time line, introducing permutations of that model to simulate the changes you are considering and simulating the outcome in your head. Then someone asks you something, or asks someone else something, or simply passes in your peripheral vision, and poof it's gone.
There a many tasks that don't require that kind of concentration, and many jobs, even in software development, that never involve those kinds of tasks. But with a setup that encourages 'communication', in the form of forced non-stop interaction, you have effectively made sure that the developers will never reach those heights, and most likely not by conscious decision, but out of ignorance.