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Why is the technical crowd less in need of an upgrade? My proverbial “grandmother” only accesses her gmail and one news page. Arguably she’s at less risk than someone testing new software.

What about Poland, the Baltic States, Czechia and Slovakia, Hungary? Also devastated? I’m sure we’d do much better with our friends in Moscow calling the shots.

Whataboutism. Even if the US and UK govt want Assange to die in prison does it give Putin’s government the license to torture Navalny?

Brave new world ;)

Same in Poland — after 2y on a permanent job contract the leave is 3 months. It goes both ways. I can be shorter if both parties agree.

How does this work in real life? How does say Tesco can find out if I’m shopping there because of a billboard ad, or because it’s conveniently located on my commute? How do they measure their ad campaign effectiveness?

What does the Facebook get out of it?

Do you think Poland is a good place to relocate to for person from the Middle East? I'm Polish and the country never struck me as particularly tolerant for foreign cultures, although I have some anecdotal evidence of Indian people who relocated here and they do quite well from what I understand. I don't have any first hand account, but there is a sizable group of doctors and civil engineers from the Middle East / North Africa who I believe migrated here during the communist period (as our government back then had good relationships with some of their governments, they've often arrived on students exchanges and stayed).

Note, I don't want to discourage anyone, I hope Dalia and people in the similar situation have a great career in front of here. I'm curios about the outside perspective and why you've indicated Poland as a potential destination to relocate to the EU.

Don’t understand the downvotes. I block all the images by default so I assume I’ve been a victim of such a “best practice”. Also with hey.com auto blocking spy pixels I just don’t see how this is still a best practice

This post is about Twitch, not Twitter.

Omg are you serious? Do you have any good things to say about NK political or judicial system? Would you defend Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia the same way?

Then the govt is not really that effective as people make it to — prefers the interest of foreign mega corps before their own voters.

I don’t know much about Spain or Italy, and I agree that Germany uses a lot of copper cables. But France and Poland? Esp. in Poland it most towns you have fiber, all new buildings have had fiber for ages. I currently pay 15–20€ / month for 1Gbps in a like 5th biggest city in Poland (not center, but not far either). In a couple of places in France I’ve stayed longer the internet was good as well (though I don’t recall the prices or exact speed details) — cities including Paris and towns. Granted this is all anecdotal and my bubble, etc.

Serfs are (were) bound to their feudal overlord. Their children were bound as well. They couldn’t quit. They’ve had no political power. In many places they were even denied access to courts — they were forced to arbitrage through their lord. There was nothing they could do to improve their or their children’s lives.

I don’t think it compares, even as a hyperbole, to Coinbase employees.

Which companies do you believe?

How are they occupying Germany? When was the last time they’ve intervened or even threatened to intervene? Don’t blow it out of proportion.

I think school and day care are a reasonable assumption. It’s a bit unfair to say — _keep your spouse at home because there maybe once-in-a-lifetime pandemic and the schools will be closed_.

It think Austria is proud of their Salzburg heritage and China (CCP) works really hard to tear down the Tibetan culture.

Not sure why this got downvoted — a personal anecdote as a reply to personal anecdote.

On the subject — I’ve learned the “classic” office but really like the ribbon. I’m not a power user though — just a doc or a spreadsheet every now and then.

In Poland there’s really nice pay-by-link (you’re being redirected to your bank website, log-in, they display the merchants data and amount and you confirm it) and basically all the merchants support it. There’s also BLIK, which is a payment app started by a few banks which is gaining traction. This all is super convenient and easy to use.

However, I still prefer to use a credit card, because of the chargeback — the legal protections with credit cards are still higher.

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Edit: about “you’re paying the fees” — maybe, but most of the merchants don’t show different price or don’t charge extra for credit card payment. So why not use the IMHO better option if it costs me the same.

> let my customers .. install my software .. the way want to

I generally agree with the sentiment as a developer.

As I user I never want to side load an app though. I’m afraid this will e.g. allow my bank to develop a shitty app bypassing the permission model and ask / force me to install it. I prefer to know even “strong” entities need to play by the sandbox rules.

> And you don't think it's weird that you have to buy hardware to get the software you want?

I think software needs hardware to run on. I don’t get the comment.

Meta, but clicking on the article brings me to a page where I can’t read anything on the ledger iPhone — the top half is logo, ad and white space. The bottom half is covered by a huge cookie popup. And the bottom line is a floating chat button ️

> You can't really get good advice from strangers on the internet

I totally agree with this part, but I also think it’s valuable to get an option from the strangers because it may give you a different angle to look from or suggest things that you (or your lawyer) might’ve missed.

They are a very popular discount (I guess a bit like Walmart, but this is not a 1:1 analogy). The article mentions cloud for the retailers and 70 cloud specialists. It think this is far from AWS scale and judging by the article I’d expect they (will) offer services for European retailers rather than general purpose global cloud.

They are good in their core business, and I’m sure this means logistics, marketing, etc. but does it translate to potential operational efficiency in cloud infra I honestly don’t know. It may, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Maybe it’s English to English ;)

Well, they likely need to pay income tax and social insurance in their own country. The burden has just been shifted to them.

To be fair, I’m not 100% sure how this works in the US, in PL where I’m from and probably in all of the EU countries if you are on a job contract then the employer pays the taxes and social insurance for you. If you are self-employed / freelance you have a business registered in your name and it’s your responsibility.

Either way, I don’t see how the taxman’s cut disappears. Also lot of countries have higher taxes + social insurance than the US.

If you really want to make a case, you can say that the contractors from a low-cost-of-living countries may undercut American workers (but then, if they work remotely I think they mostly undercut the office jobs, not “workers”) because they ask less money for the same.

What would you instead?

Does it look like a fact statement or opinion?

> ... supported by Netflix, Amazon, et all

So in case I'm stuck I can pay Netflix to help me?