I meant I’ve never come across one not good enough in store, sorry about the confusion. That is, Whistles bought seem fine.

Thank you

Hm, fair enough

I’ve never come across a whistle that isn’t good enough, so I don’t really understand

I see…

Why not buy a regular whistle?

If google really wanted to, they can. But if you’re so against ads, what’s the point in showing them? Leaving a mechanism to block ads with default being with ads is net positive for google. Now, something like AdNauseum is what hurts google

Yes, that’s right, agile in its general meaning. High pressure could change things but it needs to lead to permanent changes in incentive structures, as pressures come and go too fast.

How Lack of Agile Ties to European Tech Limitations:

1. Slower Time-to-Market: The tech industry demands high-speed, iterative, and “fail-fast” development cycles to dominate consumer markets. European firms tend to have slower product development cycles compared to US counterparts, often favoring long-term planning over rapid, iterative, and agile software development.

2. Talent and Structural Rigidity: Rigid labor structures and high restructuring costs in Europe make it difficult to pivot, scale teams quickly, or adopt flexible, “sprint-based” agile approaches, unlike US firms that can rapidly restructure teams.

3. “Middle Technology Trap” & Risk Aversion: Many European companies excel in mature technologies (e.g., traditional engineering) rather than the rapid, agile software development required for consumer internet platforms. This leads to a risk-averse culture, where firms hesitate to make the massive, risky investments in software that define US Big Tech.

I didn’t say it’s the only factor, it’s just one I’ve noticed. Other factors might be more important. At the end of the day, it’s not like we can run experiments to see how the world evolves with different factors, in order to know precise causality and mechanisms.

The company would have to be suitable for it. Force fitting the principles from agile manifesto isn’t going to be useful.

Europe struggles with agile, in my experience

Russia is European too :D Sorry about the imprecision, I meant EU company

Only SUSE is European, right? So either that or a lesser known one

This is good actually, “privacy sandbox” is like baked in ad targeting service. Better to just block third party cookies. I’ve only needed third party cookies for microsoft 365 stuff.

That’s for editorialized content aka algo feeds

To complete your argument, quote the increase in residential real estate too. If there was a >=4% increase in residential floor space and number of units, the problem definitely lies elsewhere

Whereas what you say is true, there is a difference in the kind of inheritance. The kind of inheritance that the article talks about means that doing no productive work is in the optimal approach to getting rich.

They don’t have a physical horn? Wtf…

No shit sherlock, mature and low cost vs experimental and unreliable

Every sovereign state can publish maps require everyone to use it as reference for further publication in its own territory. Hence you’ll see different maps on Google for different regions. There’s a UN committee to coordinate these and also to publish international water area names.