AdamN

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by AdamN 3y ago
What OS do you use now?
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by AdamN 3y ago
Virtually all of the underpaid executive bureaucrats in the US are already rich or will be once they cycle out. They are underpaid for a few years and then are made whole. It would be better to just pay them properly in the first place.
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by AdamN 3y ago
Maybe at the $10MM scale I'd agree but even CEOs of Fortune 500 companies rarely make that much unless they are founders or hit all their targets over many years in a row.
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by AdamN 3y ago
The banner probably drives enough small donors to give the big donors confidence that they are force multipliers and not just propping up a one-off thing.
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by AdamN 3y ago
I lived it - that was the straw that broke my back. I can't speak for others but for me that's a first-person experience. Edit: Just to add, like many professional developers at the time, we were driven from Windows just as much
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by AdamN 3y ago
Times like these that I appreciate living in Germany with Datenschutz! It's rather surprising to me that at least some of the US states aren't more data protection–oriented on this stuff.
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by AdamN 3y ago
The thing that saved Apple was the retirement of Classic Mac OS in favor of the NeXT OS (OS X and now MacOS). In the early 2000s, developers were building for the Internet and there were only two options for hosting: Windows NT and Solaris.
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by AdamN 3y ago
In Chicago there are neighborhoods that actively blocked subway access so they could be car suburbs and not get the change that comes with mass transit access. Same for the famous Robert Moses parkways on Long Island. There is some validit
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by AdamN 3y ago
It's critical to compensate non-profit employees near the market rate otherwise you end up with sub-par performers, martyrs, having the vision co-opted by the wealthy who can afford to be underpaid, or the young who leave disillusioned
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by AdamN 3y ago
Alot of socioeconomic factors are baked into the above co-morbidities but anyway, is there a reason to think that veterans of two different marine camps have significantly different socioeconomic profiles from eachother?
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by AdamN 3y ago
I'm starting to call all of those 'indefinite residency' as well. I'd be interested to know of visas that do offer stronger residency that is more permanent than these but not quite citizenship.
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by AdamN 4y ago
'publicly funded' would be more appropriate but then I'd also like to see 'commercially funded' for all the private media outlets. The majority of NPR funding is not from the government so 'public' is mor
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by AdamN 4y ago
There are 360MM people who aren't German, but are EU citizens and have the right to work in Germany without a permanent residence permit.
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by AdamN 4y ago
My Austrian co-worker hates talking tech in German - it just doesn't roll of the tongue and he's more comfortable in English with that domain.
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by AdamN 4y ago
English is full of loanwords from French in particular. 'particular' being from Old French of course.
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by AdamN 4y ago
I met a Dutch woman expat and she didn't even teach her son Dutch - just totally migrated to English. The husband is British and they live in Germany.
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by AdamN 4y ago
That's for non-EU citizens. There are 360MM non-German EU citizens - some of which are living in Berlin visa-free.
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by AdamN 4y ago
Germany doesn't really have permanent residency - it's more like 'indefinite' residency that is revoked when you leave the country for too long. So basically what you're saying is that after a few years you need B1
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by AdamN 4y ago
I don't think anybody 'wants' to not know German in Berlin - it's just that they've decided it's not worth the effort at all or they are ok with their A2 level even though it's obviously not ideal. I know
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by AdamN 4y ago
My wife tried to check into a fancy hotel (nothing hip) in Berlin and the receptionist only spoke English (and presumably some other language). It's not just hipster restaurants. Even when the person does speak German, they're of
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by AdamN 4y ago
The quality is probably very high for those 10MM compared to the 450MM. Still, Twitter is ahead by an order of magnitude for sure. fwiw I left Twitter a few weeks ago with Elon's 'defund NPR' tweet which I only saw the image
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by AdamN 4y ago
Population growth is already <1% and trending down YoY. It's scheduled to plateau in 2086, 43 years from now. Most of the growth at this point is attributed to prior high birth rates and increased longevity.
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by AdamN 4y ago
Dentists are already 3:1 dental hygienists these days and I would expect AI can make that ratio 5:1 or 6:1. Technicians will also be enabled to be more effective with AI (faster diagnoses, remote diagnosis, predictive ordering so you don&#
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by AdamN 4y ago
Yeah I think the drawbridge is getting pulled up on that one. This won't be as common in the future and from the other side we're at the point where most new hires went to college to get a degree specifically to get a tech job.
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by AdamN 4y ago
As an American living in Germany, can confirm :-) I affectionately call my mailbox, the 'box of pain' for all the form letters I receive for various steps I need to take vis-a-vis the government, my landlord, utilities, and on it
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by AdamN 4y ago
Nobody's suggesting that speaking the local language isn't a major contributor to integrating in and understanding a local culture. It's just not the only contributor.
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by AdamN 4y ago
The ideal is two or maybe even three standards. Having one means that upgrading to any new standard would never actually be possible.
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by AdamN 4y ago
There is an argument that companies in mature sectors (like automobiles) advocate for increased regulation as a moat to keep competitors out since building a mechanism to comply is extremely expensive for new entrants.
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by AdamN 4y ago
That's not totally true - in Berlin there are lots of English speakers (many/most English as a second language) and so people including myself live here with pretty basic German (A2 probably). Those people are certainly learning
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by AdamN 4y ago
I'm guessing it was top to bottom and then during the modernization process, left to right was added? It's smart that both forms are allowed though as I could imagine modifying a written language takes many years and massive publ

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