penguin

It's fundamentally impossible to grant read access without copy. And you can always do whatever you want to your copy.

Otherwise, piracy wouldn't be a thing.

Or trying to drive to the shop instead of getting a tow.

Admins > Mods > Users

Admins are like the gods of the site. They can do anything in any sub.

Mods are like the demigods of their specific domain (just the sub they are a mod of).

Users have no power whatsoever.

Because people are irrational.

Before he revealed himself to be one

Convert all the empty offices to apartments. Solves housing supply problems, makes a lot of dense units instead of sprawl, puts them right next to any of the offices that have reopened, and would make the owners of the office buildings happy so they'd hopefully get out of the way of WFH (if they're doing any lobbying or propaganda or whatnot).

I know it's too expensive to be worth it, but it's a perfect thing for governments to give grants for since it has so many benefits.

It's happening a bit in Canada.

Projects are undervway in Calgary and Halifax; others are being planned or debated in Toronto, London, Ont., and Yellowknife.

From here

Very true. I also believe though that CEOs essentially never do anything for the common good of other companies or even the entire planet. If they can earn 0.00001% more revenue by firing a bunch of people, or polluting, they won't think twice about it.

So if they could earn more by leasing their office space to another company, they would do the same thing (if they were acting equally logically/pragmatically) but I believe it's different in this case because of my personal opinion that it's simply the preference of the upper management types for various reasons.

But not every CEO has forced people back. Many have embraced how it's the future of office work.

But then when you do see the nutrition label, it ends up acting as an ad that it's a healthier drink.

My favourite way to teach how averages aren't always the perfect metric is:

Most people have higher than the average number of arms.

I've seen that about Ubuntu a few times. Can someone provide me with a TLDR or a good summary article of what's happened to them? Also is it their server stuff too or just desktop? (I use Ubuntu on my home server and have for years)

It's not training. It's quite intuitive. Voting for/against something is common in many scenarios, not just from Reddit. And most people will associate up with good and down with bad.

If you like something, you want to reward it, and if you dislike something, you want to do the opposite.

With the vote buttons right there, it was inevitable this is how it would end up.

Even more logically, people know that higher-voted items get more visibility and lower-voted items get less, so if you like something you're more likely to want others to see it. Therefore, upvote it to send it higher up the tree. And send it down to hide it.

They have no power to make companies tell their employees to go back to the office though.