At the top management meeting, it’s mostly a discussion with product management and R&D to know How bad is-it, and why we’re late ? It’s absolutely fine to do the bare minimum on the new cool feature, to focus on stuff which bring immediate profit (e.g. system reliability, manufacturing optimisation, or even getting new markets), and then up to Sales and Marketing to manage the prospective customer. can be what competitor has isn’t that cool. to Let’s sell-it anyway, and in the 3 years between order and delivery we’ll have the time to develop-it this one usually goes with the good-old Use vague and ambiguous terms in the contract to deliver a best-effort solution when it’s ready and then do the strict minimum

What do you mean ?

Most lemmy communities are pretty relax and laid-off, not really aplace with troll and censorships

IANAL but I really doubt you can’t patent a game mechanic. Have you noticed the amount of “D&D clone” which aren’t SRD version but do use D20, classes, and level rather than original game mechanics?

You can’t come with an infinity of games mechanics and even assuming it’s legal to patent (I doubt-it) there is tons of previous art which would make the patent invalid. Even a very inovative game like Blade in the Dark re-use tons of concept from other games like reputation score, partial success, dice pools or clocks

Isn’t it even part of US law? And why big organization request their data to be hosted in their country?.

I thought this was far more than just Snowden

Engines are cheating. Good pilots don’t need one :)

Joke aside, while having an engine is comfortable, no need to wait for hours for the right moment, no need to struggle to stay in the air, it removes a huge part of the fun which is staying in the air and gain altitude.

Open the windows at night. It’s more efficient if you have blinds and can close them to prevent the sun to heat the windows during day

Something that is very easy to forget is that stock value is only very loosely tied to actual company value. Stock value is based on what people are prepared to pay for the stock, not what the company is worth.

Which IMO is a real problem in Tech companies If I look at more traditional industries, A coca-cola stock gives me ~ 0.50 US$ per quarter, so with an expected yield of 3% I am ready to buy a stock at US$ 66. and the current market value is US$ 68, if I do the same exercise for Airbus with 2 EUR of regular divident and 2 EUR of exceptional dividend and that I expect a 3% yield, I would pay 133 EUR for an airbus stock, for a market value of 166. A worse investment than Coca-cola, but still a decent one especially considering the raise of the military companies.

And then there is tech company giving no dividend and using stock buyback (How is that even legal) to keep the company value artificially high.

If you have any leadership role in a guild, you know more about (project) management than someone who doesn’t

At the time there was no server per language/regio, we learned English by playing video game

IVAO/vatsim might help you to learn aviation phraseology. However, relatively few simmer do fly VFR on the network

Why would any one spend one month of minimal wage in a phone, especially considering the trend to boycott made in US.

I am ready to believe that iPhone are great but no way I spend that much money for a phone

there isn’t actually that much to read, at the user level. Nowadays, on a “user friendly distribution” you should be able to launch firefox to browse lemmy, and open a pdf without much difficulties. Even printer aren’t anymore a nightmare to install.

Main stuff to know IMO.

• Linux distribution came with app store long before it was cool, for 99% of the case should just use-them, no need to worry (at first) about how to install an app which doesn’t come from an official repository

• While you can choose among many Desktop environment, just take the one coming with the distro you choose and get used to it.

• Terminal is a pretty neat tool once you know-it, but so is a Torque-wrench for your car. You do not have to know how to use-it to use a PC.

Serious answer : I am not living there, have no idea how to compare, nor whether the court system works as a safeguard.

Troll answer In democracy you have the right to healthcare and education, so it’s been a while it isn’t

No,

However, be clear with potential lovers (if any) that you’re not searching to get engaged yet. So people have clean expectation. Moreover, think about your mental well-being first and don’t destroy your health by over working.