HobbitFoot

Yeah, I wouldn’t consider this a sign of recession. Instead, it is the confluence of various structural changes in the industry.

1. Because the industry was forced to work in a distributed manner, it has removed the location premium in a lot of salaries. Companies are firing high cost of living areas and hiring in lower cost of living areas.

2. Outside of cost of living, total supply for developers has increased significantly.

3. The return on investment for software development has either dropped or are starting to be included in more decisions. This is leading to development budgets getting slashed.

Well, if you don’t need programmers to work in place place at the corporate headquarters, you can hire them anywhere.

It is likely that the EU is dropping bourbon taxes because US barrels are very important to wineries and distilleries in the EU.

Also, many wine regions in the USA are in liberal states, so this could be the EU trying to target their tarrifs.

This is why the Cod Wars happened, so I’m not surprised.

Android is open source except for Google Play Services. Other major companies attempted to gain market share in Android but couldn’t because of the power of Google’s monopoly.

I don’t see how a consortium fixes this.

Why the fuck would they delete the content?

The studio owns the content outright, so streaming rights costs should be nothing.

The beginning of the EU started to keep France from trying to invade the Saarland again.

This is a reason why there is a push for an EU military. Right now, there isn’t a functional EU body which can launch the nukes.

I’ve read estimates that, given the technology needed for production, a country like Japan could develop a functioning nuclear device within a month.

I feel like part of the problem is that management wants staff that can do a wide range of tasks when it ends up creating a staff that can’t specialize in a small group of tasks.

I’ve seen plenty of times where people can operate well as a cog on a big machine, but fall apart when they have to work in roles that require a variety of skillsets. Larger engineering companies can typically create enough work for people to specialize in smaller tasks than smaller engineering companies.