> walala

Is this like voila or something else?

I thought it was “wololo” (the sound made by the priest in Age of Empires when it converts an enemy unit to a friendly one.)

It almost sounded like "wallah", Arabic slang for "I swear to god"

It's voila, if you're posting on a forum for Chevy truck owners.

Is that true? What if Google just pays them $150m to disable ad blockers?

Not sure if that's legal or whatever but killing ad blockers is probably worth it for Google.

Google wouldn't spend $150m to block adblockers if nobody was using adblockers.

I suppose the idea is that even if tourism brings in billions of euros, makes up 15% of the economy, and provides 150k jobs in a country where youth unemployment is rampant and jobs are hard to come by...

No, actually, I find it impossible to make sense of that.

In my experience the majority of xenophobia is driven by a fear that one is not being afforded proper respect. Sometimes this fear is well-founded; half of the countries with citizens wealthy enough to engage in mass market travel (e.g. Germany, Israel, Russia, China, UK, etc.) have their own reputations for being Ugly Americans. Not every tourist is respectful, and even those who are polite may be disrespectful inadvertently.

Casual xenophobia is endemic to most societies; it’s quite normal to distrust the unfamiliar, and it strikes me as being a natural topic of conversation, and one that does quite well when sensationalized by journalists. I think most cosmopolitan westerners have this idea that xenophobia is the exclusive purview of a racism that originated in Europe and is now resurging in the Anglosphere, but from what I have observed, most of the world is like this and probably always has been.

The anthropic principle is named as such because it is "pertaining to human beings".

This is like saying McDonald's is named after the McDonald's happy meal rather than the McDonald brothers.

This is exactly the example I thought of and came here to post.

The rule is obviously wrong.

I think just having no cycles is good enough as a rule.

I don't have my phone (a Pixel) because it frees me from shackles or anything like that. It's just a phone. I use the default everything. Works great. I imagine most people with iPhones are the same.

Salaried employees are already paid for their labour, I'm not paid hour by hour.

If I work one extra hour, was that unpaid and my employer stealing from me? If I work one hour less, is that me stealing from my employer? No on both counts in my opinion.

When picking a job I consider a commute a cost already and would need to be compensated for it in the form of higher pay.

But I don't think we should artificially stack the deck in favour of people who live close to work, that just adds a totally fake and unneeded item to the long list of advantages e.g. non parents have over parents who need a bigger house or access to schools.

Agreed, which is why all salaried positions allow you to leave work at any time, as long as your work is done for the day.

Heh, "all". Fun fact: you don't know "all".

That was a joke. The percentage of salary positions that allow this rounds to 0.

That surely already is the case. I pay more for rent to live closer to work. People who live further away don't.

If you want to get paid more, negotiate it.

Seems like a non issue to me.

Surely people who can't get a job aren't "junior engineers" - they're just graduates.

Junior engineers, i.e. people who have already been hired, can indeed fight back by getting really good at their jobs.

But you're right, it doesn't help you get hired if you can't even get an interview.

Being real good does not change the fact, that one is cost factor and at the end only a row in payroll spreadsheet. Junior with low salary and low compensation during layoff -> priority departure.

Having in couple hours unannounced meeting. My boss told me over private channel, that he just got fired. It’s very interesting and the home mortgage does not really help today. I was really good. Better than expected and accomplished few optional projects. Looks like it didn’t help again.

Wouldn't it be easier to build multi storey datacenters than space datacenters?