I'm in the UK where AM is barely a thing, at least I've not heard of it in years but it was always muffled super low quality so why would anyone want it in this day and age?

How on earth is this marked insightful? I remember when this was a site for smart people. At least those with an ounce of empathy.

Firms have done this for decades. Back in the 90's when I was last job hunting I was warned by bureaus that many of the jobs were fake to draw in CVs or analyse the market.

America is amazing. People give all their money to billionaires because of some sort of cult worship.

It's the side effect of believing the American Dream. They hope that with hard work they'll become the next billionaire and don't want to jinx their income when they get there,

So they'd rather promote someone doing an OK job but showing their face than someone doing an awesome job but from home? Well, that's one way to end up with some seriously bad management in a few years, not that the current ones sound that great if this was deemed a good idea.

You stopped reading after the first 10 words, didn't you?

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I actually said communism. Bernie is a communist. Keep up.

Way to go, showing the world you haven't a clue on what terms mean.

Many countries have trialled 4 day weeks and found if anything it increased productivity. Your suggested 4 day 10 hour shifts are common too and have been for years. Most grown up economies allow workers to choose work patterns that work for them as long as it doesn't adversely impact the job. I'm left pretty much to my own devices as to whether I work in the office or at home and what hours. If I need a few hours off for something, I do that then catch up in the evening. Works for everyone.

How on Earth is this marked troll? Are you all so conditioned in the US to working every working hour that any attempt at balancing things out is seen as bad? This post is bang on the money.

Yeah, it's easy to forget just how freaking EXPENSIVE computer stuff was back then.

My Atari 400 was GBP350 and the 48K upgrade another GBP100 then GBP350 again for the disk drive back when my take home pay was GBP150 a month. I had multiple loans running in parallel to buy all the stuff.

Elite was great but that was hardly unknown back then. The Atari 800 (1979) had display lists (and later Amiga with Copper Lists) that allowed you to change graphics mode or colours on any scan line, hence so many Atari games having scrolling rainbows from top to bottom. You could also define different scrolling regions via display lists so different sections of the screen scrolled in different directions.

Reminds me of similar tricks with Atari basic. A number took I think 2 bytes whereas a variable was 1 so any number appearing more than once got converted leaving reams of lines like Dim n1=1 total = total + n1 It also worked with gosubs so you could have gosub g1000

I've never heard of an Amazon aggregator and now I've read up on it, I still don't get the point, let alone why investors would throw money at it.

Back in the 80s a UK bank experimented with signature verification by recording the sound of the pen movements on the paper as that was harder to replicate by a fraudster vs just being able to recreate the signature after a bit of practice.