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Netflix is planning to raise prices… again
  • Ah but when the prices can't go any higher they can always remove content, paying their suppliers less and getting cheaper hardware. I wish I was joking but these are the options that are left.

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    McDonald's franchisee group says new $20 minimum wage California fast-food bill will cause 'devastating financial blow'
  • Restricting your own wage increase in the hope that companies won't add to inflation is very much like trying to be extra nice to an abusing partner in the hope that they won't hit you.

    I know that you later wrote that you're in favor of a law restricting their ability to increase prices so please take this as an aside.

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    Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks?
  • Agreed, most of home security is to try and make your neighbours a more tempting target than you. The ethical choice is to do it by making your home a bit more difficult to break into though I guess you could "debuff" the neighbours as well 😉

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    Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks?
  • I wish that he would try his hand on a lock from Yale. Considering that they are part of Assa Abloy who are very well respected in the lock business. My suspicion is that a company who are mainly makers of mechanical locks at least won't fall prey for the many of the beginners mistakes lockpicking lawyer points out.

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    Unions seek gains in hostile territory: ‘If you change the South, you change America’
  • Fighting for seniority can have its downsides but without rules against it what tends to happen is companies firing skilled and experienced workers as a way to wage dump. Since so many in upper management only see wages as an expense without any meaning besides "low good, high bad" they'll gladly lose out on productivity by firing people who actually know their stuff.

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    Sarah Palin On ‘Disheartening’ Jan. 6 Sentences: ‘Makes the Good Guy Think, What’s the Use in Being a Good Guy?’
  • I can imagine it losing him both the republican voters who dislike women and all the voters who simply dislike her.

    I further believe that women voters while they do like representation they vote based on politics to a further degree.

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    and then they called Moses a socialist
  • Considering that the part about being stewards of god's creation is mentioned in the first chapter of the bible it's a feat to have missed it. But here we are

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    Google Now was the better phone assistant, no AI or LLMs needed
  • Annoying yes but at least these days there's one check box in the settings that turns off the connection between likes in YouTube and YouTube music.

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    It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore
  • I'm guessing that we are around 1% of the general population 😉

    Not enough for a big company to build a community on though. Of course, it would have helped if Google hadn't restricted sign-up. Just because it worked for Gmail, but a social network is a different beast than email, that already had a critical mass of users.

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    What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?
  • Yes exactly. Google is a big culprit of this, for instance translating descriptions of apps in Google play or giving me results on Google search in Swedish when I specifically wrote it in English. If I had wanted results in Swedish I would have written it in Swedish. Adding quotation marks doesn't even help. I miss the time when you actually got what you searched for and not what Google believes that you search for... YouTube has an issue in the app when looking at playlist. Since the word "visningar" is so much longer than "views" the rest of the line is cut off. So you for instance can't see if the video was posted 1 month ago or 1 year. This is more a failure of gui due to translation than the translation it self though.

    On the subject of shitty translations: a budget webpage translated "disabled", as in "this option is turned off", as "funktionshindrad" which means a person with a disability. I bug reported it and the initial response was:

    We do not currently support this functionality, but will pass your feedback on to our product team, who will make a note of it and try to incorporate it into our product as soon as possible.

    Two months later they wrote that it would be forwarded to their product team for "whenever there's an update in our system". That was 10 months ago and it still isn't fixed.

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    “X” Didn’t Pay Severance. Now It’s Facing 2,200 Cases—and Big Fees
  • Many sub contractors live on the mercy of the companies they supply. That forces them to show more goodwill than they want.

    I remember a couple years back when Ericsson unilaterally decided that they would stop paying their bills after a month and instead changed it to three months. So, do you want to piss off the biggest company in the region or do you just say "Thank you, sir"?

    As an aside, what kind of amoral sod goes around teaching companies what bills they can ignore and how morally bankrupt must you be to listen to them?

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    What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?
  • In Sweden kids learn English from second grade and a third language from fifth grade.

    What really annoys me is how many programmers seem to expect us to only be able to understand one language. I much rather have the program made in English than to read a bad Swedish translation.

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