If it's glance.com, it seems Glance puts ads directly on your lock screen. So that you can be served ads without even unlocking your phone or going to their app.
Jrockwar
joined 1 year ago
It wasn't? How much of the show have you watched?
I think what you meant is saying "your engine oil is on, it's too late to take the car to the garage" is an unhealthy attitude towards car maintenance.
So hang on, did your managers not come from the same background? Did they promote people who couldn't do the job at the individual contributor level, or was it that they hired "career managers" whose only skill was to organise things?
I'm obviously not as skilled with coding anymore because even though I try to stay current with pet projects, the reality is that I don't have much time for that and there's no replacement for practice. But whenever there are technical challenges I've usually seen them before and can offer at least some guidance.
What does help is that I work in a system-wide role (you could call it systems engineering) and despite the management component of my role, my understanding of the interactions between components has gotten better over time, not worse.
I think my job is technically a middle manager at this point?
The reality is that the priorities come straight from the top, people in my team are mostly self-organised unless the tasks they choose were to be wildly misaligned with company milestones (which in practice never happens) or people have questions about what needs tackling first or when by, and I'm mostly a technical unblocker that jumps into the hardest or slowest moving technical challenges.
My point to all of this - "middle manager" is a wildly different concept in every company. Nobody likes a pen pusher with no knowledge, but also no company hires people into the title of "middle manager" hoping they'll boss people around cluelessly. If that happens and that role exists, something has gone clearly wrong IMO.
That article brushes over many things, like some of the big contributors to the economy being straight up amoral organisations that will do anything for money.
Nestlé, facing constant boycotts for things like the formula scandals, their damage to the rainforests, and so much more.
Big pharma running what you could call price rackets.
Banking sector which will happily take money from arms dealers and the like and turn a blind eye to that.
That all gets you a very profitable economy, sure, but not all is rosy.
Then you go to Geneva and somehow, despite all that sweet tax money, you still have buses from the 1980s and public buildings that haven't seen a renovation in the last 60 years. The airport terminal is straight up run down if you compare it to European airports like Heathrow, Barajas, Schiphol...
Then people struggle with the cost of housing - median salary is around 6k CHF (monthly), with 2k of deductions that give you a 4k net. According to rentola.ch, the rental for a 1-bedroom flat in Geneva costs on average 3.2k CHF a month, meaning you need about 3x the median salary (!!) to be able to afford a 1-bedroom flat within the recommended 30% of your salary. Working hours are longer than the neighboring countries.
So yeah, they have a great economy because the numbers are skewed by many-million-francs salaries of the corporations in there. If you're not in a C-suite or visiting as a Sheikh wanting to spend a few millions in Geneva, quality of life is absolutely nothing to write home about.
Judging from the upvotes that was a room well read.
The fact that it lasted only for a week, or the fact that not even during that week could Israel keep their rockets in their pants?
I agree with you with the fact that it's wild, very distopian sci-fi.
However, even it this very much an ethical no-no, I'm not sure which bit is the technically illegal part.
If he were selling normal sheep, that would be perfectly legal. Nobody would bat an eyelid, despite being similar treatment to animals.
Is it the cloning that is illegal? If he were to clone a species on the brink of extinction to re-populate an area, would that be ethical but illegal?
Is the problem that he's cloning without authorisation? Who decides whether we can bring new animals to life via cloning? Is there a Ministry of Clones that needs to authorise people to clone stuff?
A friend of mine was in a similar situation with a dangerous chemical that he used for some hobby projects (an acid for glass etching)?
It wouldn't be accepted anywhere so he ended up calculating how diluted it needed to be and pouring it mixed with a lot of water down the sink.
For 5 litres of nicotine to be safe you'd need a lot of water though if you'd want to make this remotely ok for the environment...
What about mixing it with cat litter and then disposing it?
Yes, but they're making people quit instead. They don't need to pay severance to employees who quit because of RTO.
I have a closca loop helmet, which is also collapsible (not inflatable) and fits nicely in a backpack.
I presume it's not as light as an inflatable helmet, but it feels like a normal helmet, costs like a normal helmet, and I don't need a pump to use it.
I don't know if there are any other brands that make this but I'm super pleased with the concept. It lets me have a helmet in my backpack in situations where I wouldn't be carrying a helmet otherwise, for using with scooters and the like.