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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I am surprised it's called "America's celebrated work ethic" - from my (Dutch) perspective, it's notoriously terribly exploitative and bordering on dystopian for many. Is it true that people celebrate American work practices?!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The article did mention them as "registered", so I don't think this applies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I'm loving the puns quoted in the article haha

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

"Setting up a base in Vietnam" for a US company sounds like slightly painful wording to me..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I'm wondering if it's tied to how status symbols differ per culture. Its been 20 years, but I don't remember status symbols mattering much to my environment when I was a teenager in the Netherlands. I wonder how that is now.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I find their statements a bit on the sweeping side.

Out of more than 1.8 million administrator credentials analyzed, over 40,000 entries were “admin,” showing that the default password is widely accepted by IT administrators.

That's just over 2 percent. "Widely accepted" in my book is a much larger percentage..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

That makes sense, thanks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I wonder what would happen to the works were the museum to go bankrupt instead - then they would be sold for their "monetary value" as well, right? Then this seems more like protest for protest sake, as it's a last resort damage control measure that can hardly be avoided from the sound of it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

"up to 1% of 2100 planes could be affected" followed by "based on our calculations, as many as 21 planes could be affected" made me chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They did, but they didn't see as sharp of an energy price increase as far as I know. Our energy bill has increased so much that we had to not only deal with project (and thus payment) delays due to the shortages, but also with projects suddenly not bringing in money but costing us. This had a compounding effect on many small businesses.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It might be overstating some things, but I've heard quite a few hardware startups fail the past years due to parts shortage, rising parts costs, energy costs, etc.

On the large industry scale the machine is ticking away just fine, but I've experienced first hand how those factors have decimated any reserves small players have over the past few years. And large companies don't innovate nearly as much as small ones can - competitive advantages for the future are definitely lost here. While that may not be a problem today, that does mean Germany will be behind on innovation in 5 - 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone have any context about the "assassination wanted" banner in the listing image? I find it quite shocking, and the article didn't make any mention of it that I saw.

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