Make a product that solves a sufficiently common problem, and make it extremely high quality. Want more growth? Find another problem to solve and launch a product in that space.

As for Steve Jobs and selling out, Apple bought FingerWorks. That's how they ended up with excellent, multi-touch touchpads while the rest of the computing world suffered. Make great products (or "features") and never sell out to soulless megacorps.

Portugal: 58 Romania (highest in EU): 78 EU overall: 44 Sweden (lowest in EU): 20

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

So, depending on where OP is from, Portugal could seem a bit more dangerous or wildly more dangerous than their home county.

Walk up and place him under arrest. He might have a bomb. He might have a trigger for it, or he might have a dead-man's switch. It might detonate and kill you along with bystanders. That's a risk you take.

Unless you know with certainty that he has a bomb and does not have a dead man's switch, you don't just take his life because you're concerned about what-ifs.

It's no different than cops killing a man because he was holding a wallet, which they imagined might be a gun (e.g. Amadou Diallo).

Police need to stop pretending that they exist within fiction, where the outcome is known by the author. Just because you're afraid of something doesn't mean it's an actual threat.

Since 2001, there's been a real uptick in confusing fear and suspicion for evidence and knowledge.

What evidence do you have of this? The only sources I can find that would even vaguely support your claim switch to talking about physical abuse in schools, or sexual assault committed by fellow students.

To be clear, we're discussing the sexual assault of children by adults here. We're not talking about physical abuse, nor are we talking about assault by fellow students.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rkE5I9nFqrI

That thing I see on podiums and backdrops?

That all formal diplomatic letters are still sealed with to this very day, without exception.

Why would anyone here know this?

We've probably all seen media depicting a medieval king pressing a seal into wax, but it doesn't mean we're familiar with it as a modern legal or procedural thing. Japan has what I assume is the same thing: hanko, a personalized, carved stamp. It's always a subject of surprise and novelty for North Americans who go there to teach English.

Reminds me of the reason that grass yards exist: to show the world that one can afford land for the sake of owning it, rather than for growing crops.

2) Pay attracts workers. "Happiness" is a separate and personal issue.

3) Anecdata.

4) The fact is that far higher wages would attract American teachers for short periods. It is a free market, until exploitable labor is introduced. Foreign teachers absolutely are suppressing wages, as evidenced by the fact that the wages aren't high enough to attract American teachers.

1) Why is that the dichotomy?

2) Do you say the same thing about well-paid oilfield workers living in RVs, away from their families and social networks?

3) Do you think the foreign workers are happy to be in Alaska for the sake of the Alaskan experience?

For some reason, people are convinced that teacher salaries have to be suppressed, lest the "wrong people" take the jobs. As if stressing about making rent is a critical signal of virtue, exclusively for teaching.

How are those not simply child processes? I don't understand your use of the word 'threads' here.

Does the Unix world not distinguish between threads and processes? In Win32, threads exist within processes, and you can create new threads or child processes.

Anyone want to give a layman-ish explanation of why aluminum versus lead makes such a huge difference?

I'm not suggesting that you correct your customers, but there's no reason to sink to the lowest common denominator when writing.

I think you meant premises.

https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/30/premise-premises/

I assume I wasn't the only one to have this problem, because they were gone by the next time I went shopping.

That said, there are so many drivers already distracted by their phones and 'infotainment' systems that I don't know if obnoxious advertisements will make things any worse.