There's tons of people over here taking 3 or 4 weeks contiguous, especially if they have children. That is in addition to other vacations around christmas etc. It's definitely not 5 separate weeks.
I don't think there's a lot of things that one could do in 5 weeks, but where 4 weeks would be too short.
Tons? Hyperbole? Are they teachers or something? That amount of leave in one go is basically unheard of, with the exception of maternity leave I don't know anyone who's been on leave for more than 3 weeks as a single block.
This is also taking from that same 5 week leave bucket people have available per annum, if they're taking 4 weeks then they have 5 days to last the remainder of the year. Not that crazy, but I have literally never even met a single person who does this let alone knowing tons.
No, it's not hyperbole. 5 weeks vacation is the legal minimum, this also includes the right to take 4 contiguous weeks in the summer.
At my last employer, I had 6 weeks paid vacation per year, that's 4 in the summer, 1-2 weeks around the Christmas holidays, and a couple of extra days here and there if needed. Most people spent their vacations like that.
There's also something called the "industrial vacation", where related manufacturing industries coordinate the 4-week legal right, which typically results in everyone in that sector taking July off.
In Southern Europe, the same thing happens in August, it's very common that people simply take the entire month off.
> I don't know anyone who's been on leave for more than 3 weeks as a single block.
I don't know if this is a Norway exclusive thing or if some other countries have similar laws aswell, but we have the right to take three continuous weeks of vacation during summer. You don't have to take the continuous weeks, but in my experience most people do
The 2023 mini banking crisis has its own wiki page and it's quite informative. Of the three banks involved, one bank saw its shares drop 97%, another "shareholders lost all invested funds" and the third got auctioned off for pennies on the dollar. No investors were bailed out.
Banks go bankrupt all the time. Community Bank and Trust of West Georgia went bankrupt just 3 days ago. The Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust that went bankrupt back in January. 99% of the time the investors are completely wiped out. Bailouts almost never happen, which is precisely why it's such big news when it happens.
Interestingly, oil investors experience this boom-and-bust cycle too: every time oil prices spike, a bunch of extra companies flood into the market to drill some wells or weld pipelines or build tankers or whatever. All the extra supply crashes the price and most of the new companies go bankrupt or get consolidated into the big energy firms. This slowly brings spare capacity back down, so the next time there's a disruption the cycle kicks off for its next round.
It's tough to generate revenue that isn't through ads.
That said, if the users could organize into special interest groups and create a walled-garden with default no ads, and then gate-keep advertisers to a permitted white-list.
You want the unemployed to pay? Or do you want the employers to pay? If you want the employers to pay, how do you attract enough attractive unemployed to your site?
Well I guess we have a possible reason why LI is still relevant.
This suggest then that the relevance of any solution would need to appease the employers... yet here we are trying to build/design something for employees first.
Right, the website being annoying doesn't really matter compared to the network quality.
One thing I've considered, what if there were a site where you could rep trusted people anonymously? Then employers (or buyers etc) can see if there's some path from themselves to the candidate, at least to know they aren't some total rando who could be a scammer. The thing is, it's hard to obfuscate the reps if you're answering those queries, and it all falls apart once someone can prove that they gave or received rep.
I really like the anonymous angle. Suspending the unspoken reality of bias and profiling by employers, the point of job postings is to fill a skill void, I think. The idea of embellishing the recommendations seems like it would require some sort of validation of the recommendation giver...so yeah, eventually there needs to be some verifiabilty.
There is one piece of non-anonymity, you know who you're repping. The system only cares if there's a path from you to the target, so there will never be a path from you to a bot unless a real person you indirectly know reps a bot. 1000 bots can rep each other and nobody will care.
I guess that's what they're hoping for. With my admittedly biased opinion of the average linkedin user, about 99% will have the default set of extensions installed and so will not be very useful. Those users might have other identifiers of course, so who knows.
Do you re-read the source code for your keyboard drivers each time you boot up the PC? If not, how can you as a mere mortal be expected to understand if some keys still work the same as yesterday?
No, but when I'm in project folder and I'm not sure if done source file is still used somewhere, I type "banana" in it and hit compile. If it passes it's not used. I would have to break law to test this in law, that's ridiculous.
Does your country not have a set of books or a website where the law is published? Mine has a complete set of current laws published online, if it's on there then it's current law, if it isn't then it isn't. I don't see why finding out what the current laws are is such a problem.
I don't mean to nitpick, but absolute values for both of these matter much less than how much it is compared to "enough". As long as the throughput is enough to prevent the video from stuttering, it doesn't matter if the data is moved to your video player program at 1 GB/s or 1 TB/s. Conversely, you say you don't mind if a video buffers for a moment but I'm willing to bet there's some value of "a moment" where it becomes "too long". Nobody is willing to wait an hour buffering before their video starts.
The perception of speed in using a computer is almost entirely latency driven these days. Compare using `rg` or `git` vs loading up your banking website.
can confirm. worked in a very small office with a guy who didn't give a damn. silent but deadly doesnt do it justice. between that, a single bathroom right across from the secretaries desk (the unfortunate lady she was), and the sound of coworkers breathing, it was unbearable to say the least
I don't think there's a lot of things that one could do in 5 weeks, but where 4 weeks would be too short.
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