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Wait until some far-alt-right starts pushing some conspiracy theory or outright racist content. "This holocaust denial was brought to you by the California Legislature that prohibits social media platforms from deciding to ban this con
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Cybersecurity seems to be rife with people who did some sort of bootcamp or cert or associate degree and who don't really seem to understand what's going on. It seems to attract people who consider writing code too complicated for
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> Whenever a lunatic has done something in Sweden it has been either with a hatchet, a truck, a knife, a sword. Very rarely with a gun. That's sure to bring comfort to the victim's family. "Your son was brutally murdered w
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> Ask "what if this breaks?". Have an answer. This isn't "being an engineer", engineers get in Actual Trouble when a bridge falls down, but it is being a skilled crafter of software, and they're not dissimil
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> just a few years ago (ok maybe a decade) a "Software Engineer" was a person who built Software, now it's a frontend developer that has a basic understanding of the backend. I'll cut a bit of slack to the frontend as
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A lot of that depression seems to be root-caused to teens comparing themselves to their peers. In 2018 "obesity prevalence was [...] 21.2% among 12- to 19-year-olds." [1] according to the CDC. That's one out of 5 being obese,
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> Most of what comes as "SV caliber" is mediocre devs. That's an interesting statement. I assume the whole tech ecosystem and market is completely irrational since it seems to price these developer so much higher than thei
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From my observation, the ratio of American Engineers coming to Europe vs Europeans Engineers coming to America is at least 1:10, if not more. And most of the expats I know who did it seemed to be working for SV companies. So they didn'
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> by the easy money. A lot of this completely self-imposed (and very much by design) to prop-up real estate because there's no other industry to support the economy. Vancouver is a prime example: it's extremely easy (compared t
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> There is a huge salary gap between usa and Canada as well. Not in my experience. At least not for SV-Caliber talent. Something you have to keep in mind is that there are two parallel markets over there: SV caliber developers and the re
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> 80k US$/year puts one above many top executives, doctors and other prestigious jobs. Not bad at all for a remote position in software development. The real question is: Who is creating the most value here? The top executive at a l
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Tax system in Europe is also a lot more complicated with many loopholes. In Belgium, almost every white collar job has a company car included, since it's much much cheaper than for an individual to buy one.
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There's nothing wrong with having these Governors and Senators nominated by the Prime Minister. To be fair, it sounds a lot like here in the US, where unsurprisingly, Supreme Court Justices nominated by a certain party tend to agree wi
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> Any impropriety in the process would have almost certainly toppled the government and led to an immediate election. Didn't they just have an election that resulted in the minority government? Meaning all parties knew their chances
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> In fact, once the emergency is over they're required by law to hold an inquiry on whether the action was justified in the first place. So the government will investigate... the government. Do they at least wait for an administrati
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> 1: What I wanted to be addressed above all was why Canada went so much further than any other country in N. America in response to COVID, and what purpose did it serve when it's biggest trading partner (The US) was also starting t
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> ( some sort of senior politician kidnapping ) and what it was used for in peace time ( forcibly dismantling a protest ). The state media and government tried to pin mailbox bombings and an instance of kidnapping to this group called t
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> the threat You can see here how wrong and violent these protests were. The bouncy castle and hot tub were a danger to society! [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P74pbbhCZng [1] https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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> the power it hands to a few oligopolistic credit card processors And the government. In Canada the government suspended the constitution (because that's a thing over there?) because of some peaceful, free-speech protected, protest
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In the French speaking world they come from the former French colonies (Côte d'Ivoire or Algeria).
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> And the ability to get reliable parallelism for free - e.g. Java’s parallelStream - is not a feature of for loops. This is the big one. For large datasets or computationally intensive processing the speed difference will be noticeable.
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> Well, just like the giant oak that falls and gives nourishment to the forest saplings seeking to grow, so do senile old people give away their wealth to young hungry people in other countries seeking to sustain their internet scam busi
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> The house was built in 1870, before ACs. I suspect the original residents had techniques for keeping it cool I think it's tempting to ascribe some lost ancestral knowledge to older house, but to be completely honnest a lot of them
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> MSVC (and a lot of Microsoft stuff in general) uses amd64 as do many BSDs. That's partly because Microsoft had support for ia32 (x86) and ia64 (Itanium). So amd64 was to differentiate the architecture (and it was unclear Intel wou
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> - He thinks this should not be allowed and Hyundai should recall the cars to fix this Why do a recall? Sounds like it's a simple software fix. Can be deployed over the air.
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> This happens a lot. Another way of looking at it is that this is a successful outcome for Oracle, because they've hugely increased their billable hours. Honestly, it's not that surprising. Government salaries aren't comp
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Out of a class of... 40 you got 4 good hires. Meaning the rest of the class was probably unemployable (and 10% would be pretty good for a bootcamp). > On the other hand many better programmers just didn't care. They spent days playi
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> were $100K+ in loans at the end. Now tell me I'm responsible to pay for their decisions... Don't forget you'll be told you are lazy for not affording a house unlike your friend who just had his debts cancelled and was ab
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In my experience, it's been tough to find bootcampers who can actually code. > secondary to your willingness to learn and do stuff. The fact that people have done tons of algo exercises or system design is quite irrelevant when your
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> Except that in the case of CDG they decided that it's not enough to be able to make the trip within 2h30 from Paris, you need to be able to do so from the TGV station at CDG airport. That's absurd, the vast majority of flight

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