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If half of my coworkers got laid off, I'd be running away from the company faster than light. Staying after they pull a stunt like that only means waiting until they pull another one (or the company just collapses from the shock of losing that much capacity).

I totally disagree. If you actually contribute to a conversation (which means saying something which is considered relevant by the people taking part in it - not just saying something random) people will reply to you or share your views or just add a like (or platform equivalent), thus making your voice heard.

On the other hand, paying to boost your tweet regardless of its actual value is going to be a great tool for spammers, troll or people who really care more about saying something than they care about its utility to the conversation. This will definitely drive down quality (and I'm ready to bet that browser extensions to just block out anything from paid users will start popping up).

It also depends a lot on the person. Like, I totally refuse equities as a compensation and thus would not consider any job with a salary under my minimum, even if the equities would bring the total compensation to an extremely high value.

Policy leaks are, in Italian politics, an extremely common thing. Sometimes (often) they come directly from the government itself, as a way to test public reactions before enforcing them.

When, in 2018, Matteo Salvini was minister and often didn't show up to his office, taking important calls from his mobile phone, the Italian Secret Service went pretty vocal (as much as a Secret Service can go vocal, anyway) against the practice for security reason. This time, we don't hear anything like that.

So either they decided that there's no hope in trying to secure the communications of Italian politicians, or they found out some way to secure the device to a degree they find satisfactory.

Establishing a colony on another planet is going to require a monstrous amount of money, time and resources. I doubt a single country could manage it (look at what it takes to run the ISS, and that's a joke comparse to Mars), but there are zero chances a single man, no matter how rich, is going to do more than a dent in that enormous task.

Solving the technology problem is just the tip of the iceberg.

> Doesn't he kind of forfeit that bragging right if he tries to walk away from the deal though?

Look at this thread, you'll find enough of his fan calling this a victory because it will expose how corrupt Twitter is or whatever. Reason, common sense and the frigging obvious don't have a grip in their minds.

> Tesla is a car company.

Tesla is a very complex financial operation which, sometimes, sells some cars. From Musk's point of view it's working exactly as planned.

> It's a shame that this guy is the figure that will take humanity to Mars

That's just more BS from him. He'll just keep kicking the can, resuming the project with some spectacular stunt every time he needs it. Everything Musk does or says is just a performance to manipulate the markets.

Exactly, I think we are going to see some funny headlines in the coming days.

Probably because you can move between U.S. states without a visa, which is required to permanently work in another country. I feel like Google could do something similar between it's different offices in the Schengen area, but moving from Ireland to Mexico or from USA to Italy is going to require a lot more work and paperwork than most people are willing to put in, especially if there's a simpler option already available.

That's me. Note that I'm not a US citizen (in fact, I never set foot on US soil, nor I intend to, in my whole life), so your mileage may vary.

In the end, I decided to launch all my side-projects for free (sometimes I outright include a "non commercial" clause because I don't see why somebody should profit off my free work). I find this reduces all the project related stress to a fraction.

And so what?

Enjoy your life and just be extremely rude to whoever takes exception at your choices.

Yeah, but have you considered that liberal man bad?

But it infringes on my freedom to get spied on by shady companies and their government!

We already had two (I don't remember the order, but they were called Privacy Shield and Safe Harbour) and somehow US and US companies "forgot" to upheld their part in any meaningiful way, so there's some mistrust on the whole idea at the moment...

Channels are extremely public, in the sense that you can access them even without installing telegram [1] and there are websites which can generate RSS feeds for all the posts of a channel or things like that [2]. So this is not exactly a private conversation we're talking about, more like the printing of broadsheets to be nailed to every other house's wall.

[1] For example, this is a post in Telegram's own public channel https://t.me/telegram/167 [2] For example, this two: https://tg.i-c-a.su/ and https://rss.app/rss-feed/create-Telegram-rss-feed

At the moment, ads are only displayed in public channels with at least 1.000 users, so they are still pretty rare to come by (like, I use Telegram regularly and only see them every other day). Plus, I've heard that some clients aren't supporting them yet (even if Telegram's stance is that every client should), so maybe you'll never see them.

I don't. I like many things about my job, like the colleagues, the environment, heck, it even has the best desk I've sat at so far, but I'm under no illusion that, if my whole industry would disappear into the Ocean overnight, any tears would be shed for it.

I just need the money and found the least-soul-crushing way to get it, while I find my purpose in life elsewhere.

Yes, but the crypto crowd stems from the libertarian scene, which is averse to regulation in any form.

It's a political stance first, the technological "solution" is selected just because it fits the ideology.

You'd get emotional too, if somebody started calling out the pyramid scheme you out your money in.

> Is NortonLifelock whatever charging a fee? Or does this refer to gas?

It seems that NortonLifeLock takes about 15% of whatever gets mined. In addition to that, you'd probably have to use and external service to sell your ETH (an other article I saw mentioned Coinbase as the only place where you can move your ETH from Norton) which Will charge its own fees and then there is the gas fee.

Tools have use cases and use cases are not amoral. You can argue that in some cases otherwise immoral actions can be justified (such as your example), but this doesn't justify said actions moral outside that case.

Assuming that a tool is amoral just because it, theoreatically, could be used to act in a morally justified way is just cherry-picking situations in order to have them fit your worldview.

Which means that anybody who gets access to the token can steal it and there is no legal recourse for the legitimate owner. That's not exactly what most people look for when they decide what to leave to their kin after they pass away.

Honestly, until they provide some more support at least in the editors and IDEs field and support native Windows Crystal is not going to be more than a fun tool. I like it, because the general developer experience I had was really pleasant, but I cannot really use it for work.

I really don't get all this fascination for weird diets, fasting and such. You only live once, enjoy it.

> In my opinion I'd tend say that modern western societies are the most safe and welcoming societies for foreigners, were you face the least amount of discrimination as an outsider.

I think it depends on so many factors that you shouldn't make a blanket statement in any direction. You can say both things on different areas of the same city.

Only if they can't get you with public information. Suppose that your transactions reveal enough about you to allow the government to profile you, arrange a stake out (and thus get you in another way) or something like that. Or you could have left some trace in a direction which is not that much protected (like you bought something physical which has been delivered to you).

And the fact that it's recorded for eternity means that maybe you don't have enough information to link people to the transaction today, but the information will keep accumulating...

My company has done a bunch of those activities, but luckily for me they were webinars so I just muted the tab and keept doing my job without paying them any attention. I even managed to do it at in person events. Most of the people attending those events are trying to do the same, so they won't snitch on you.