If you have vision problems, US currency is totally unfriendly to you. Unlike other countries, which have bills of different sizes, all the US currency bills are the same size, so getting change as a blind person is basically relying on the honesty of whoever is behind the counter.
Yes. I used to work at a movie theater, where all transactions were to the nearest $0.25 because it made it easier for the kids like me behind the counter to count the change and not lose track... seemed sensible at the time and that was 20 years ago.
Why is UN recognition the metric here and not, like, idk the fact that Taiwan is a liberal democracy with the rule of law and freedom of speech and not a hypercapitalist dictatorship that disappears dissidents?
Neither are the real metric here. Taiwan is a US ally, China (mainland) is not, this is a US board. The reasoning goes backwards from that point.[1]
You have to be on the level of Israel’s aggression to lose the “liberal democracy” cover that most US allies get (or similar great titles).
[1] Enough to start a subthread with a very confident and polemic phrasing anyway. There are plenty who disagree with the OP here. I’m not saying that this place is an echo chamber on this point at all.
What incentive does Apple have to comply in advance? Every government wants to have their stamp on it, trying to build ahead of the specifications risks building something that is not compliant.
Yea, this is the bigger problem: 3rd party software developers drop support for "too old" operating systems WAY too early. Especially on mobile. Some developers only support one major previous version, which is insane.
So, Apple leaves old hardware high and dry by not supporting them with operating systems, and 3P software leaves users high and dry by dropping support for operating systems. It's like they are working together to create e-waste.
I'd argue it's a bit of both. In my case, I have an iPad 3, which runs iOS 9 compatible apps, but iOS itself doesn't backup the app files, so when various developers pulled their files off the app store for those old iOS versions, I lost access to the old software that did work, which really doesn't make want to buy another iOS device. Less of a problem on mac though.
Would be interested to know the terms of the severance. Non-disparagement seems likely, but noncompetes are not enforced in California. So if you were trying to leave anyway, seems like a win/win.
My understanding is that there are no particularly special rules.
The VEPs are good for people who either are already planning to leave or who are considering it. I'm much happier that Google has done VEPs followed by layoffs to hit targets rather than just plain layoffs this year. I still think that the layoffs are horseshit given how outrageously profitable the company is, but the VEPs have been great.
The pay is less than most people think as reported since it is just salary and doesn't include stock vests, but if you've been at Google for a while its still a good chunk of change.
