No you don't. Employees do have more protections than in the USA, but severance payout is dependent on how long the employee has been with the company, if they were at fault or not, in which way the severance is handled (carefully and legally vs arrogantly and carelessly) and so on. There does exist a court where employment disputes are settled and employees do not typically win, by a long shot.

Just in case anyone wasn't paying attention, we are consumers, nothing else. Consume, or else.

Not so difficult when you live atop one of the largest petroleum reserves in the world. Oil and its derivatives make up 59% of Norway's exports. I agree that Norway has been investing its petroleum manna pretty wisely though.

A pretty remarkable woman by all accounts. She stood by him (even though they divorced) through the dark decades of his illness and remarried after.

This is a terrible irony. His death is most untimely indeed. Here is a high-level description of Nash's work on PDEs by C. Villani.

Here is another description from the Abel Prize page.

The paper is here.

Remember Ernest Rutherford, the arrogant physicist who was saying that all of science is either physics or stamp collecting?. Here on Slashdot, because many of us are self or well-employed developers and computer scientists, we think that we can easily figure out even the most vexing problems relating to the economy. In particular minimum wages are of course for slackers, never mind that first summer job we got ages ago.

How about some interesting myth busters?.

I am an employer and I actually like my employees a lot. They are smart, they work hard, coming to the office every day is basically a joy. I try to make their life as easy and as productive as possible, and I pay them as much as I can. They know this, and this works pretty well.

I believe that if every employer actually saw their employees as human beings who are doing the best they can, and treat them accordingly, the world would be a much better place.

You mean like in this document ? If so, then no it isn't. Compare to that document. In particular typesetting quality, consistency, features, and ease of creating macros.

Strong words maybe.

My opinion is that AI and more generally CS research allows us to better define what "intelligence" is and isn't. Also, allows us to realize that whatever is between both our ears is still mysterious. The debate is still open on whether we will be one day able to replicate it, and if we should.

Her problem may have had a solution: leave the company-issued work at work, or turn it off after hours. Buy a private phone, use that one off duty. If you must answer phone calls off duty, forward calls from the company phone to the private one.

Unless you were located in a major university or a place like CERN, network capacity was essentially nowhere in sight in the early 90s. Remember 14.4kbaud modems? In my first actual job in 1990, we didn't even have a storage server, a print server or anything like that, only separate PCs where a backup meant copying your code on a floppy disk. At uni we did have VMs, X11, thin clients and remote desktop, sure. The theoretical capacity was there but no one had ethernet in their home or sufficiently affordable computing resources to run them. Now everyone has multicore handheld computers and wifi. Deployment is the key, not reinvention.

also Thinking Machines Inc.

Missing features maybe. Like OpenMP, which is not there yet. LLVM and GCC feed off each other. Some competition is good.

Trinity was a 20kt bomb exactly like the one that obliterated Nagasaki. Hardly very small.

So, people in Texas who try to use the board of education to promote textbooks that have a negative stance on evolution? These people are from the left? I wasn't aware.