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And it considers Ukraine ethnically related. Many Russians have relatives in Kiev etc.. Using nukes on Ukraine would be huge political problem.
It is FUD spread by trigger happy westerners, who want to normalize nuclear war!
Or skip battery, and use electricity from generator. It is called diesel-electric and is reliable way to produce EV vehicles. Well tested on cars, trains, tanks, boats even submarines...
Because it is is not necessary. Setting up something like Github onsite takes 1 hour. Network effect really is overrated.
Where it hurts are payment systems, credit cards etc.. And there are alternatives.
Doing this sort of manipulation over email or slack is way more difficult.
But if direct manager promises pay increase or promotion, it is not binding or "official" as well.
That was official work, very senior manager pulled me out of project, and temporarily assigned me to different division. Not my fault paper work and finances between divisions never got sorted out, I did not even had access to that stuff!
About 15 years ago, our corporation had orphaned project. Entire team of 5 developers quit without notice (found other job). Horrible code, no documentation, no tests, no spec, not even build system (was on one of the developers laptop). There was important deadline 6 months away.
I stepped up, worked 16 hours a day four couple of months, eventually got project back on track, and trained new team. As reward I got put on PIP (performance improvement plan) and eventually got fired.
Problem was:
- I worked for other division, for my manager I was dead weight. It was sort of emergency reassignment and paper work never got ironed out.
- I mostly worked from home, come to office barely. Some coworkers thought I left. Not keeping appearances was main excuse for getting me PIPed.
- My project was 1 month behind the schedule. I missed the important deadline.
- Senior manager who initiated my work quit, leaving me behind.
I am not sure what is the lesson here. But now I work in remote job, where I can do all my weekly work in about two hours. Way happier now.
Edit: this was official assignment from very senior manager within company. I saved them a lot of money on fines!
We implemented relatively simple income tax reform a few decade ago in small EU jurisdiction. But law makers were very vague in some important details, and there were about 8 different interpretations. We had to implement, run and support all 8 versions for couple of years, until they decided on final interpretation. Non compliance would be fine of couple of million euro.
And that was tiny country of 5 million people with clean newly written laws. Not babylon with 300 years of baggage like US.
I remember SAP circa 2003. The only think that used XMLHttpRequest (AJAX aka dynamic html) was Outlook web frontend, and SAP web UI. GMail that widely popularized dynamic html did not even existed yet.
There is also Cypriot bail in in 2013...
There is also problem with deposit insurance. In EU deposit in single bank is insured upto 100k euro. If bank bankrupts, you loose anything over that. So it is better to spread deposits across multiple banks, each with 100k euro deposit.
And by aware that many banks are owned by the same group, and use just different brand as front. Insurance is per bank license, not per bank brand.
Damage from all the lockdowns was devastating. My business and marriage fall apart, lost many friends, became alcoholic and now I have heart problems from overweight.
From my workstation I need 64GB RAM, good cooling and many ports (4x displays etc). I do not feel any current laptop provides that. And I do not want to pay $7000 premium for decent machine. So at end I decided for mini PC (Asus PN 52). It is 1kg tiny box, can be carried daily and is very cost effective.
It is pretty easy to start your own project, with some consulting on a side.
Reductionist approach "skin color"=="race" can be easily debunked. Could white German be ever racist to white Jew?
Why is it just not called racism? Introducing new terms kind of derails the problem.
India (and Africa, China, Asia...) has a system where people with lighter skin are consider as "better". People with fair (whiter) skin are considered aristocracy, that never had to work outside on fields.
And castes could not intermarry for couple of thousands of years, it is legitimate to consider them as a race.