As you move from country to country, employment laws and tax laws change as well.
Your employment contract will probably be illegal in some countries, and this could cause legal troubles for both you and your employer.
Depending on how much time you spend in a country (and this threshold may vary from country to country), you may be required to pay taxes there. This could as well affect the employer, who may also be required to pay part of your taxes.
I'm not saying that it's impossible, just really really hard, both you and the employer would need to hire an expert on taxes and labor law for each country you go to.
Exactly. What I've seen done when people really want to work outside the country is they are given the option to quit and become a contractor. That puts most of the risk on the employee to handle the country specific regulations, along with all the other contractor type risk (and benefits).
(and this threshold may vary from country to country)
To be more specific: this depends on treaties between the country of residence and the country of employment, so it can vary for every combination of countries. It may even mean that taxes are due in both countries (double taxation), and getting a tax waiver in one of them may require legal proceedings and/or expensive accountants.
It may even depend how close you are to the border. E.g. between germany-austria-swiss, you have grenzgänger status if you are within 30 km of the closets border, which may influence your social/ healthinsurance and your income tax
From the way the abstract is written, I think it was done with the intent of conclusively disproving that assumption. I don't know how much difference a study like this will make to people who make that assumption, but whatever difference it can make, it reads like it was intended to.
It much depends: if trains are very frequent, train stations easy to reach and you only take one single train, that's one kind of experience. If there's few trains, you have every day the anxiety of risking to loose the train and the be very late, or in some cases, absent for the day.
If the train station is hard to reach, you have stress along the way.
If you have to switch three trains, you cannot concentrate on your book/podcast/whatever, because you must always check if it's your stop, and then maybe you have to sprint to take the next train.
Typical management/leadership. Everybody must go back to the office because some people miss working in person, and nobody's allowed to be fully remote because not everyone likes it. Nobody cares about the people who prefer working remotely and who work worse in person.
I think that at this point, whenever someone tells us that we, or something we value, is important to them, we can safely consider it an insult, they are just giving the middle finger to us.
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My favourite example of how making a statement intended to seem to soften the message ends up coming across as an insult are the automated "we're sorry for the inconvenience" messages at UK train stations when there's a delay. Every time I hear one, my immediate inner monologue is "no you're not - if you were actually sorry someone would deliver the message manually, and sound a bit embarrassed".
If you've gone to the trouble of automating an apology, I'll instantly assume they don't care, and be insulted that they think we're dumb enough to fall for it.
Great work!
I join the margins bandwagon: when displaying a single column, it would be great to be able to have a not too big page width, as very long lines on a desktop monitor are hard to read.
> [...] for failing to predict a deadly earthquake
That's not what they were accused for. After a earthquake swarm that scared the people, the head of the national service for civil protection asked them to reassure the population, and they obeyed, publishing a statement that said that everything was OK and there was nothing to worry about.
After the definitive absolution, some of them kept saying that they were tried for being scientists, but the truth is that they were tried for NOT being scientists: saying what politicians ask you to say is very far from being a scientist.
This is one of the first things you learn in any Web accessibility class:
"Centered or justified longer pieces of text can be hard to read as well. Justified text adds space in between words that can cause rivers of white space through lines making reading difficult for some users with dyslexia. If hyphenation is supported this can reduce this effect but hyphenated words can be a barrier for many readers."
https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/page-structure/styling/#tex...
"Sometimes full justification makes reading more difficult because extra space between words causes “rivers of white” making it difficult to track along a line of text, or less space between words makes it difficult to distinguish separate words."
https://w3c.github.io/low-vision-a11y-tf/requirements.html#j...
"Many people with cognitive disabilities have a great deal of trouble with blocks of text that are justified (aligned to both the left and the right margins). The spaces between words create "rivers of white" running down the page, which can make the text difficult for some people to read. This failure describes situations where this confusing text layout occurs. The best way to avoid this problem is not to create text layout that is fully justified."
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G169.html
"Fully justifying text can also present problems for people with dyslexia, where the large uneven spaces between words and sometimes letters within words can create what’s been termed “rivers of white” that run down the page and also make the line of print hard to follow. Readers find it more difficult to find the end of sentences and can repeatedly lose their place."
http://mediaaccess.org.au/accessibledocumentservice/2015/08/...
"A lot of people seem to love justified text, arguing that it contributes to the feeling of a more consistent page layout. From a strictly accessibility-focused perspective however, justified text creates large uneven spaces between letters and words that make reading a little more difficult for all users, and even more so for users with dyslexia."
https://dboudreau.tumblr.com/post/84344543792/avoid-justifie...
I had stayed away from the game for fear of being hooked up, but decided to give it a try when I was confined home, so I downloaded the demo.
I really wanted to like it, but I gave up after an hour or so, because I felt that the game devs want me to be frustrated.
Now, of course nobody likes frustration, but I hate very much everybody who wants me to feel bad.
First of all, I was expecting a sandbox game, and instead I got objectives, and a stupid popup telling me what I am supposed to do.
Secondly, one of the first non trivial objectives is to reach a certain production speed, which, at least in the early stages of the game means hustle (I haven't bothered to check if it changes later on).
The game promises hustle from the beginning: you have to feed coal to a machine that extracts coal; you can use robot arms to feed the coal extracting machine with coal, but you have to feed coal to the robotic arm. WTF?
Finally, I'm really done with games where you have to do your thing but also fight monsters. Compare that to, say, Minecraft: you craft a bed, spam lights everywhere and never, ever have to fight a single monster if you don't want to, while you're still free to go and fight monsters with your bare hands if that's what you like.
Is there a sandbox game that is not hustle for the sake of hustle, that doesn't tell you what to do and in which you can do your thing without being too much bothered by monsters?
You can just turn biters off or put them on peaceful mode. Then do what you want. Also, I'd advise you ignore the popup if it bothers you. It comes up only once per game.
Everything in that game can be automated to minimize hustle, if you'd like it to be. Something I found fun was learing to figure out how to automate everything. For example, a drill outputs coal in a direction. The coal can go directly onto a belt, into a chest, into a smelter, or into another machine. Knowing that, you can figure out how to keep the coal drills operating continuously, without using inserters.
BTW, coal inserters will feed themselves coal if they are pulling coal off of a coal belt. So it's useful for feeding coal into your boilers for generating electricity, but not much else.
Finally, do you have evidence the game devs want you to feel bad? I think they want to produce something that challenges their users who enjoy challenges. You are free to respond to a challenge with frustration. But casting blame on the devs for your negative emotional response to their creation is unfounded.
Anno 1800 might float your boat? Or any of the previous games in the Anno series for that matter. The campaign does very much have a story and specific objectives, but the interesting bit is the regular sandbox game:
Turn off pirates and competitors, and either turn off or ignore NPC quests. (There's no penalty to ignoring them, but they sometimes can be useful if you need money.) You'll still have incidents like fires, industrial explosions, disease, and riots, but those are influenced by factors you control, and with well-placed fire stations, hospitals, and police stations you can very much contain them so they're a non-issue.
When did you try it? They added a new version of the tutorial in 0.17 (the one that has the little robot that talks to you), but decided to get rid of it as it's too much hand holding and doesn't really reflect the actual game.
If you want a sandbox game with no fighting, play the freeform game mode instead of the tutorial/campaign (which is how factorio is mostly played) and turn on peaceful mode?
Your employment contract will probably be illegal in some countries, and this could cause legal troubles for both you and your employer.
Depending on how much time you spend in a country (and this threshold may vary from country to country), you may be required to pay taxes there. This could as well affect the employer, who may also be required to pay part of your taxes.
I'm not saying that it's impossible, just really really hard, both you and the employer would need to hire an expert on taxes and labor law for each country you go to.