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People don't typically get a nice severance package if they're fired for violating company policy.

(edit: not saying that was the case here, working on devrel usually makes it part of your job to publish code)


Firings like this often include a technically voluntary separation agreement that gives you a few extra weeks' pay or some additional months of health benefits etc. precisely to avoid that problem. (Also gets them out of paying unemployment, and means they can get a fresh set of NDAs/nondisparagement etc. signed with the employee.)

I would never fire an employee unilaterally, especially over something like this, when there's valuable IP at stake and you can just talk the person into agreeing to sign over whatever it is you need.


Not sure if there's more recent stats, but 2020 data: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-transport

I'd see a lot more "nuclear no thanks" stickers in swiss German side than Romandie.

I'd expect the strong anti movement from Germany to have some impact.


I assume taste was meant in term of coding. "taste" is still often the lacking trait that LLMs have when it comes to code design.

More surprising it didn't pass the "majority of cantons" either (both are required for initiatives like this), I would have expected it to pass (there are a lot of smaller/rural/alpine cantons which tends to vote more conservative).

> The current system permitting freedom of movement across the continent while devolving immigration policy entirely to members creates a fundamental tension the EU needs to resolve. Because otherwise, Berlin can basically dictate EU immigration single handedly, which is bound to generate backlash even if they run a perfect programme.

You do realize German nationals (followed by French) are the top contingent in term of immigration to Swizerland.

(Only EU citizens benefit from freedom of movement to settle in Switzerland)


> You do realize German nationals (followed by French) are the top contingent in term of immigration to Swizerland

Yes. I’m also conceding to the SVP the observation that a good fraction of said nationals are recently naturalized.


If the SVP says it, it must be true :) What's their sources? I'm sure they could find a couple of anecdotes, doesn't make it significant.

Assume it's true for the sake of argument. Do you think that would be an issue then?

> What's their sources?

Don’t know, don’t care. Mine are conversations in Zürich.


What's the issue with WSJ? "people familiar with the matter" is standard lingo, means the journalist and editors have vetted the sources (multiple).

& many times the sources don't want to reveal their identity or go on record. A sort of tradeoff--to get the info they have to protect the source

"You may not talk to the media" is pretty standard language in US employee contracts so obviously these people don't want to fireable offenses on the front page of the newspaper.


I saw several mentions of corruption. But who brought it to the administrations attention. Envy and corruption. Stifle competition, by greasing palms you are familiar with.

Seems like it's 4 per hour on Rotterdam/Utrecht, seems similar to Geneva/Lausanne with 6 per hour.

In any case, I think commuters are fine with every 15 min, as long as there's enough seats. (for long distance like trains, my feeling is that frequency below 15min doesn't have a lot of impact, unlike shorter distance public transport like tram/bus/subway)


Yeah there's tons of work ongoing. Lots of line close to the big hubs have ongoing construction to eventually switch to 15min takt.

Improvements on various train station (new underground stations in Geneva and Luzern, extra platforms, etc.).

https://company.sbb.ch/en/railway-development/future-rail/na...

(for example, there's also lots of tram, etc. projects)


> The public version of Gemini is ridiculous. At least half their search "answers" are just wrong.

That's not Gemini, that's AI Mode (in Search), they're different products built by fairly different part of Google (actually one is built by Deepmind).

(I don't think it's much comparable to https://gemini.google.com/app at least in the past you'd get very different results)


And it's extremely poor marketing by Google to do this - the general perception people have is that Google AI is dumb due to this.


To be fair, this is classic Google.

As I keep saying, they should win this AI stuff, but I have complete faith in their ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.


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