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Comment Re: The USA is not welcoming of foreigners (Score 4, Interesting) 115

For what its worth, people TALk a lot of sh$t here but our murder and crime rates are actuallly pretty low.

US intentional homicide rate is 5.763 per 100,000 population. That's considerably higher than the wild west known as the Philippines at 4.348, and Liberia at 3.087. It's more than five times Scotland at 1.038, Germany at 0.911 and Australia at 0.854. It's over ten times Northern Ireland at 0.521, and twenty times Japan at 0.229. US murder and crime rates are not low.

Comment It reacts against the thing producing the field (Score 1) 49

The spacecraft reacts against the Earth, the source of the magnetic field it's working within. The Earth is just so much more massive than the spacecraft that it doesn't affect it very much. It's much like when you jump, you're reacting against the Earth by pushing against it directly. It reacts against the Earth via electromagnetic forces rather than physically pushing against it.

Comment Re:Kinda Funny (Score 1) 85

And demanding tribute from the dominant service is an attempt to make them less competitive.

No, enforcing consumer protection laws facilitates competition.

Now, show us the exact damages that google is illegally doing. If so, why are they not in criminal court. EU has criminal courts as well, don't they.

They were already found guilty in criminal court. Now that guilt has been established, parties harmed by their illegal actions are suing for damages. You're either playing dumb or didn't even read the summary before commenting.

I'll await your answer of what crime it is.

Even the summary gives you a reasonable run-down on that.

Comment Re:Kinda Funny (Score 4, Insightful) 85

It isn't a fine. They're being sued for damages. The money goes to the litigant, not to "Sweden". If Google want to avoid constantly paying damages, they should consider not constantly doing illegal things. It's ironic that you're accusing Europeans of wanting to be anti-competitive when this whole thing is about (American) Google's anti-competitive practices.

Comment Re:False Hope (Score 1) 94

If one actually reads the story, these engineers are being hired to complete training of AI that was incomplete due to earlier departures. The positions being filled, in this case, are very short term. They know up front that as soon as the AI training project is complete they are again redundant.

*engineers complete training of AI*
Management: "You've been promoted to customer!"
AI: *follows training, flags QA issues, slows production to ensure resolution*
Management: "The QA flags are slowing production too much!"
AI: "You're right! We need to increase production!"
Customers: "...this product failed miserably!" *files lawsuit*
Management: "The AI didn't do a good enough job flagging QA problems! Bring the engineers back to get it back to the point of avoiding the lawsuits!"
*engineers complete training of AI*

Comment Re:Can't Wrap My Head Around Notion (Score 1) 35

Jira and confluence both used bbcode formatting (similar to what Steam forums, phpBB, UBB, etc. use). Around 2012, a major update to Confluence switched to using an XML format for storage, which was a lot harder to edit. They provided an updated WYSIWYG editor at the same time, but it was a pain if you wanted precise control over formatting or tables. So you were stuck editing in a proprietary XML format.

At the same time, they started using markdown for formatting in some of their other products, e.g. Bitbucket.

From my point of view, Jira and Confluence were useful tools before 2012, but they did their best to ruin them, while also making them prohibitively expensive.

Comment Re:Volvo but not Polestar? (Score 4, Informative) 125

Volvo is still Swedish, but they don't sell cars. They sell trucks, earthmoving equipment, marine diesel powerplants, etc. They also own various other brands (e.g. Mack trucks). Volvo-branded cars, like Polestar, are a Geely brand. It's kind of like how Rolls Royce is still British, but Rolls Royce-branded cars no longer have nothing to do with them, being BMW products.

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