They could finance this easily, California has lots of assets. With a bit of cost cutting and some changes to planning laws and land tax they could boost tax revenues and economic activity.
I am trying to imagine. The end result is similar. In Europe it would be "unlimited unpaid vacation days on top of the mandatory paid vacation". The same problems will appear: self-restrict to taking it. Management would never help employees to take the days. My manager does not help me even take the mandatory legal days, it's all on me to deal with priorities and deliverables and find a way to still take vacation. With decent managers, there would be no burnout, but we are in a crisis of morals in corporate management, the job of most current managers is to make a career at the expense of the employees.
Oh I don't doubt that the mandated leave entitlements and severance would be kept. But I think actual leave taken would increase, bounded only by the fact that taking holidays is expensive, and kids have to go to school. So you balance your career progression and hence holiday spending power in the future against immediate satisfaction from taking leave. I think many jobs without a meaningful career trajectory would experience massive leave taking. Remember, these people can't be fired or demoted in any way. If the work has to be done, it might even cause employers to incentivise work differently.
I don't think career plans matter. Workload does. If you have a work plan and taking any free days puts it in jeopardy, you will not take any extra free days. And if not meeting the full work plan results in no salary updates, which is technically not a punishment and it is allowed by law in most of Europe, with some inflation (over 10% in my country) it is practically a pay cut, so you can't afford that.
That would certainly not fly in France, it would land the employer in a tribunal. Paying someone less because you gave them more work than could be completed during working hours?! Non, impossible.
Most large enterprises are not run how you might expect them to be run, and the inter-company variance is larger than you might expect. So many are the result of a series of mergers and acquisitions, led by CIOs who are fundamentally clueless about technology.
I don't disagree, I work with a lot of very large companies and it ranges from highly technically/security competent to a shitshow of contractors doing everything.
This is such an egregious lack of respect for users, you can't trust this organisation again, and the lack of responsiveness just signals that they don't consider it a problem. Users must signal to companies that this attitude is unacceptable by dumping them.
To anyone reading this and assuming it applies equally to electrical conduit, it does not, which is why the NEC specs a maximum of four 90 degree bends between pull points. You could probably manage five, as was described, but it is technically disallowed (again, for electrical wiring - the NEC doesn’t care about networking).
One of the few valid uses for polymarket is hedging against events that are hard to insure for. E.g. it made sense to bet on a Trump win (at least early on when odds were good) if you would lose out from him winning.
Tibet is clear-cut annexation of a sovereign country. HK / New Territories was only leased, and it wasn't going to be practical to keep it longer. The problem is that Beijing no longer needed HK as a gateway, the US/EU had already embraced going directly to the mainland to do deals by the early 2000s. The HK I knew was already gone by 2014.
If you're using tailscale it's a true VPN, not a proxy, and it won't have any impact on you. If you're using the Mullvad add-on that's a different situation.
