You mean the updrafts created by the energy from sunlight?

There plenty of historic and current terrorism conducted by Israel, and the civilians in Gaza have no weapons to overthrow Hamas. Its disgusting you try to justify genocide with its going to be messy. In many ways Israel reaps what it has sowed.
Pull your head out of Israeli propaganda and think, all this will do is strengthen Hamas in Gaza in the long term, as the entire population is radicalised now.
Of course you dont care what Israel does, supporters of genocide never do.
Israel was founded by terrorism and never stopped killing and stealing land.

Nope, my argument is that both companies acted in their best interest.

The business case for Google vs Apple leaving China are vastly different:
1) Apple sells hardware which people pay big money for, abandoning their users is a bad look. Google's thing is internet search, which is useless when censored, and available anyways via proxy.
2) Removing a few apps is different than the highly detailed censorship and snooping that would be asked of Google.
3) There's tons of alternate search engines just a click away, Google could vanish near instantly if they are perceived as inferior.
4) Can almost guarantee that Google would have had to do infinite snooping, censorship, and propaganda promotion before being replaced anyways.

There's a big disconnect here. OK, sure, Google is a "workplace", but a place for doing what kind of work? They talk about being on a mission of social change. Their list of Commitments is long on sociology, but very short on engineering.

What normie Google consumers want is just solid products and services. There's a lot of excellent work in the Google product lineup, but there's still so much farther to go. Just yesterday I ran into another brain-dead limitation: regular expression replacement groups only work in Google Sheets. That is just completely inexcusable.

I would give up 8 people working on "sustainability" at Google just to have one competent engineer go through the technical debt list and make some genuine headway.

Outside of the /. crowd

Sometimes I wonder why this particular website bothers to cover issues related to that particular crowd. They're such an insignificant minority!

I'm very happy to see a "climate change" article that is consistent with geologic facts, that is an excellent development. Land subsidence is naturally occurring and happens all the time, but it can be significantly accelerated by draining aquifers, which lowers the water table and compacts the soils. This is definitely a direct consequence of urbanization, especially in arid climates.

Subsidence is typically quite localized, if by "localized" we mean an entire geographic region. For example, all of the land surrounding the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in the Eastern US is subsiding much more rapidly than the rest of the coastline. That's because the mouth of the Bay is the epicenter of an ancient meteor strike 60 miles wide, and all of that land is essentially just ancient in-fill.

Apart from not draining aquifers, there's probably not much that can be done to stop subsidence, we'll just have to adapt. But since the process is blazingly fast in geologic time -- 5mm/year -- it's still relatively slow by human standards. Still, fast enough to have to be figured into land development engineering plans.

There you go, as you say the majority of the posts aren't spam. I imagine well over 1% of your google search results for dating will be ripoffs or even worse.

However shitty reddit may be, at least it's real humans talking about things humans care about. Way better than the spammers that have bamboozled google with SEO, which is about to be worsened by AI.

The 5th Amendment isn't about public vs private stuff. It's because at the time it was common to torture people until they confess. Passwords are an interesting case because they can't be a false confession; but confessing that you know the password is confessing that you have access to the account, but the stuff protected by the password is physical evidence and not a confession. There's been cases of people being compelled to share their password after admitting they know it. And biometrics are physical evidence, not a confession.

Just as well as I use my left nipple for unlocking.

They can have my smartphone when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers. Oh. Wait.

We told you that forcing people to return to the office was a bad idea! But did you listen? No. :0