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> Do you have a source not behind a "cookie wall"?

Ignore it, use technical measures to overcome it, disregard it.

If a stranger came up to you in the street and demanded $5 to continue looking at them, you’d tell them to fuck off (in so many words). You certainly wouldn’t avert your eyes, nor would you cough up.

Fuck these bozos and their shrink wrap licenses and their cookie popups and all.

It’s the only place to find classic hardcore and punk.

Americans are still part of the most powerful western economy so I guess yes?

Evaluating a hypothetical is hard. I’m glad I’m not an Iraqi though. What a fucking fiasco.

(Not arguing morality just effectiveness).

Exactly. It’s a choice.

I had a family instead, but anyone can do it.

He was incredible and to think he wasnt working incredibly hard to develop his work is (probably, who can say?) nonsense.

> Or there’s the tried and true explanation that it’s just micromanagers who want play power games with their employees.

Everyone thinks they are the good employee that doesn’t need to be managed thank you very much. Yet every manager has seen employees that produce very little if they aren’t constantly managed.

And every manager thinks they’re a good manager, too!

“Good things come to those who wait.”

Have the biggest stick. Use it responsibly. The idea that anything else will work is naive.

Thanks for explaining a bit how things work in the EU. Pretty interesting, and not something I would have thought or cared to look up.

In this light it feels a bit like some of the grandstanding bills US politicians write or even pass in the House, knowing they haven’t a chance in the Senate, or whatever. And perhaps the audience is folks in the home country or even other politicians in the home country?

I retired in my late 30s and had kids. So I’m a full time parent as is my partner. I guess that’s my revealed choice for what my ideal job would be? Sometimes I’m not completely happy with my choice, but mostly I am.

If I had more time, or more energy, I’d program for fun more often.

I don’t especially believe in “changing the world.” Not that you can’t (though really, you can’t, to 3 sig figs) just I don’t care to.