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This trash paper doesn't even back your claim.

A novel can make you addicted? Like you have to read it every day?

I played a lot with friends, but I never made friends through playing.

I was enthralled by games, but when I was finished I wasn't "richer" in any way, just shorter of time.

It is ok to waste your time if it is fun, but trying to glorify wasting your time is just trying to find an excuse.

Computer games are build to make you addicted and waste your time and money.

"They can even connect you with a rich tapestry of human life."

Tapestry of human life? Seriously?

"For example, countries with lower levels of government spending as a percentage of GDP having on average higher rates of economic development."

Any citation for that?

The same as a quarry truck in Switzerland: https://www.autoblog.com/2019/08/26/edumper-electric-mining-...

I guess the idea is to minimize the amount of slurry per square meter.

"Nitrate exceeds the limit value of 25 mg/l in groundwater at almost 15 % of the monitoring sites across Switzerland. In areas where arable farming is predominant, concentrations are above the limit at more than 40% of the monitoring sites."

Thank you for this interesting comment. Are there any places on the internet where you can find worthwhile discussions about this stuff?

You may earn up to 7.8% APR (currently) on your stake.

> The best way to eat a pretzel: with butter and Nutella

A Bretzel with Nutella, this is disgusting.

The killer app of Bitcoin is Ransomware.

Instead of having suspicions you could read.

Do pedastrian-only zones or the internet kill retail?

When I recently had to make a decision about which Cloud provider to use, Google, although looking fine technically, wasn't even an option because of their killing everything attitude. Reading stuff like [1] I am not assured they will never kill their Cloud offerings.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...

Everybody not living under a rock knows that some day you might get banned/destroyed by some amok running script from Google. Are we supposed to be enraged that this can happen to buddies from Google employees also?

> https://docs.python.org/release/3.9.0/whatsnew/3.9.html#you-...

Compared to Python, good old Windows DLL hell looks like a paradise to me.

> Are people in Germany more critical of Google? I somehow don’t believe that…

For historical reasons (NS, Stasi) Germans value their privacy very high. Google is collecting a lot of data and therefore they are critical. 10 years ago, before Chrome vs. Firefox it was IE vs. Opera. This is also the reason why still a lot of Germans avoid using credit cards.

Don't know why you are downvoted. This outcome was obvious from the beginning. Europe’s GDPR enforcers do not have the capacity to investigate Big Tech, just small fishes.

Google and Facebook love the GDPR, they have the resources and lawyer to circumvent the spirit of the GDPR. Their smaller concurrents do not.

> Developers should be aware of some features that are being deprecated and removed in 3.9, as well as some more deprecations that are coming in 3.10. Many Python 2.7 functions that emit a DeprecationWarning in version 3.8 "have been removed or will be removed soon" starting with version 3.9.

> To avoid this you’ll need better more stringent zoning laws with bigger buffer zones.

Zone the whole world as industrial zone, climate crisis solved.

As far as I know there is nothing. If your customers do maybe buy your product multiple times you could sell credits (10x, 20x). If not you are out of luck.

If you are fascinated by this, you will also be interested in the similar drama of the eruption of Mount Pele on Martinique in 1902.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_eruption_of_Mount_Pel%C3%... or https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/benchmarks-may-8-1902-...

Welfare costs money.

"De jure" was breaking down in the Weimarer republic like it is in the US today.

> " he or some contractor could have built the same product in a weekend."

All available contractors where already busy building a FB clone on a weekend.

You also could have a look on twitter how many people with hacked accounts try to reach sendgrid support via this channel.

Sadly they do now also allow bulk emails and therefore will soon be as shitty as all other emails sender services.

This article sounds like sendgrid is the victim. But in reality this is going on since months. My account was hacked three months ago and abused by spammers. There was no way to stop it in the UI and the support didn't react for days. In the end I had to pay ~1k$.

I guess Twilio will close down sendgrid soon anyway and this is a way to monetize the last few months.

Stay away from Sendgrid and Twilio, they are incompetent and/or aholes.

All those mentioned pain points are also valid for Google Play store. If you want to keep your sanity just avoid being depended on those wallet gardens.

Everybody who is dumb enough to use his crap is electing him. Monarchs do force you to obey, nobody is forced to use FB.