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> You forget how hardwired humans are to really enjoy the natural environment," she said. People get respite from being connected to nature, she said, "even in an urban environment like a city"

Um, no I don't think I'll enjoy working @ 78F much.

I think you're right then in terms of it not being technically a recession.

> Nearly all nations tanked similarly

Is this true though?

Australian GDP tanked between 2013 and now. It's a recession by definition. This is trivial to verify.

Why not? Seems like a common sense rule.

It's called East Cut, I live here. NYTimes is running out of subjects to be angry about.

It's equally wrong from the moral standpoint to operate in China under CPC as in EU under the Right to be Forgotten and the likes (censorship is censorship). But I'm not sure if avoiding these two markets altogether is a practical strategy given the rise of Chinese tech competitors. It's sad but I think the short period of history during which free speech was celebrated is coming to an end.

They ship to France: https://eu.customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/204712...

Immigration laws have largely been unchanged for decades and are severely out of touch as a result. Nobody with actual power (i.e. Congress) wants to touch immigration as it's a politically charged subject. Politics is ugly in the US nowadays, everybody knows this but it's hard to break out of the deadlock.

Heavy-weight regulations like GDPR also help to keep status quo.

Please don't post Dropbox links, the PDF downloads are unusable on Android.

It's a fine for being an American tech giant.

Poison oak please.

The article says it's "an international partnership between CSIRO, Verily and James Cook University".

Why dystopian? Seems subjective.

What if I want to work a lot? For example, if I want to do something with my life and my job fulfills that need. Do they just force employers to pay overtime or am I not allowed to work beyond those hours anyways?

Place your bets: how many years til EU kicks Fb/Google/Amazon out of Europe?

I'm not trying to argue or convince anybody, just answering the question from the HR perspective (I spend ~20% of my time hiring engineers in a large multinational company). Every large company has internal data overwhelmingly showing that you want to jam as many people in one place as possible. Of course there's physical limits (real estate, talent pools, cost of living), so you are constantly making a trade-off between paying a premium (more rent, higher salary) vs hiring remote workers who are cheaper but produce less on average. That's just how it works.

I'm literally in France now.

I hear people talking trash about 'brown' refugees on a daily basis here in Paris. I've probably heard something similar once or twice in my 8 years in the US, mostly coming from mentally unstable people like the ones you see in the streets in San Francisco.

TBH UK is a lot more sensitive than the mainland Europe (there's a lot more immigrants in London too).

Anecdotal, of course, but that has consistently been my impression.

Because in-person collaboration is more effective.

A premise that there's less racism in Europe than in the US is just wrong (I'm a European who've spent a lot of time in the US for work and school). US is the PC capital of the world (for better or worse). There's just not a whole lot of non-white folks in Europe even now.

Cities can do whatever they want.

What unavoidable human work at pharmacy? Authenticate patients and ship them prescriptions. Even CVS is doing it now.

You need data to build technologies of the future and continue improvement of living standards. We (Western countries) should make it as easy as possible to collect and share it between businesses, and embrace it culturally if we want to stay relevant in AI-powered future.

I'm getting GDPR flashbacks.

Apple is a US based company. The point of this post is to try and hurt American hegemony in tech and promote European alternatives. Europe desperately needs it given a dangerously old population and increasing irrelevance of its tech industry, with GDPR being yet another populist nail in the coffin. Method of choice is thru soft power - swaying opinions on HN, Reddit, Facebook, and other social media.

Start it in San Francisco and Board of Supervisors will immediately shut it down.

It's not going to happen, hospitals mostly get revenue from Medicare/Medicaid.

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Source?

Jeff Sessions is irrelevant when it comes to passing laws.