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541.
by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, if they live in a small town in some rural area they either inherit a house, or build their own, with substantial financial help from from their parents. If they live in a city they are screwed, unless they are lucky enough to get a r
542.
by Detrytus 3y ago
Meanwhile, in Poland tech salaries are 3x-4x the GDP per capita, which is why many of software developers own more than one house/apartment.
543.
by Detrytus 3y ago
Lithium, as an element is not rare, but the deposits that are economically viable to mine are. I keep hearing about extracting lithium from seawater, but no one so far have come up with viable technology. Funny thing is: laws like EU's
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by Detrytus 3y ago
The students who are really interested in AI will buy desktop PC anyway. And the fact that they can use the same GPU for model training and for playing Diablo IV makes the whole investment easier to justify.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
I think "dark matter" bullshit is a good example of that: you create mathematical model of the universe, but the reality does not match predictions of your model, so what do you do? You invent "dark matter". Now tell me:
546.
by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, the problem is: hot dog cart might be a great business, until you account for all the government regulations, taxes, stupid sanitary requirements, etc. severely limiting your earning potential. Things like that were much easier in lat
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by Detrytus 3y ago
I would rather have them offer a full purchase option, with, say, 10 years of upgrades included. I could pay 750 EUR for it once, and be set for the rest of my career, basically, instead of having to deal with purchases every year.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
But "walkable cities" can overdo that. I live in big European city, do not have a car, and I work from home, and I have most of the places that I need to go to (grocery store, dry cleaning, dentist's office, pharmacy, restaur
549.
by Detrytus 3y ago
The way it works is that ticket price of 10 EUR only really covers the cost of printing the ticket :) Everything else costs extra, which means that if you, for example, want to take some luggage with you, you would need to pay around 100-15
550.
by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, there's always a treatment if you have money to pay for it. And if you don't you still have options like various charities, crowdfunding, etc. That's still a better scenario than the court ruling that the best thing for
551.
by Detrytus 3y ago
Well, that's the downside of publicly funded healthcare: government pays for your treatment, so government gets to decide if you are worth the expense. Which of course is completely fucked up.
552.
by Detrytus 3y ago
Yes. Also: everyone should be forever young and handsome...
553.
by Detrytus 3y ago
No, GP is right. Without Proof of Work blockchains have no leader - think about Git repo with multiple branches: which one is main? Nothing in blockchain itself determines this, only we, humans chose to name one of them "main" (fo
554.
by Detrytus 3y ago
Maybe for you its not a part of what you negotiate, but it surely is for your employer. In my country it is a typical to work based on self-employment and you can see it quite clearly even in advertised salary ranges: the amount you can get
555.
by Detrytus 3y ago
The big and bad error that caused European bad reaction to the financial crisis was the introduction of common currency. Eurozone does not form Optimum Currency Area, under Mundell's definition ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
556.
by Detrytus 3y ago
> total tax wedges (including employer payroll taxes) Those "employer payroll taxes" are still part of your salary. It's just an accounting trick to fool you.
557.
by Detrytus 3y ago
I thought water from creeks and streams was drinkable anyway, without any filtering. Purification is supposed to be required only for still water, like a lake or pond.
558.
by Detrytus 3y ago
Why would they invest in the office space for rent? It's not their core business, just a distraction. They might own their own offices, but that should be really tiny, by square footage and by $$.
559.
by Detrytus 3y ago
Not "sometimes", most of the time.
560.
by Detrytus 3y ago
> We don't do that survival of the fittest mindset here. Which is why the gap between US and Europe is widening - 20 years ago EU GDP was on par with US, now it is 2/3rds of it (and that's after adding UK, to make things c
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by Detrytus 3y ago
So, the biggest opportunity you can count on in your current job is to be laid off and get a huge severance? I guess that makes sense for some low level, incompetent employees who live in fear that their incompetence will be discovered and
562.
by Detrytus 3y ago
>> The last option is more rare because smart people are less susceptible to propaganda This is actually bullshit, you can easily manipulate smart person, by appealing to their perceived smartness :) Anyway, just because someone is s
563.
by Detrytus 3y ago
I think that rocket scientists are usually cherished by totalitarian regimes, not persecuted.
564.
by Detrytus 3y ago
Yes, if you want to be nitpicking then government money is tax money. However that means that cost of the sick leave is spread over the whole society and not a single company, or single manager’s budget, making it easier to accept for busin
565.
by Detrytus 3y ago
And your employer would be forced to pay your salary indefinitely? No wonder they seek to limit this. In Europe companies only pay for your sick leave for maybe 30 days, after that money start coming from social security fund (.I.e. you are
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by Detrytus 3y ago
The reasoning in the ruling is a bit different: copyright was invented to give humans a financial incentive to create art. Machines need no incentive, so they do not need copyright :) So, if the basic distinction here is: - if AI can create
567.
by Detrytus 3y ago
You can see that with so called "Big Data" tools. Those which originated as databases (Mongo), ended up adding "Map-reduce" feature. Those which started as map-reduce tools evolved to support SQL (Hadoop->Spark). Thos
568.
by Detrytus 3y ago
Totally offtopic but I can't help but wonder why this guy has a site with .pl TLD. He seems to be based in the US, not Poland. Does he think "pl" stands for "programming languages"? :)
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by Detrytus 3y ago
That's wishful thinking: battery technology required to reduce weight of EV enough is not in sight yet. It might even be physically impossible.
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by Detrytus 3y ago
Maybe I missed something in the article, but they do not mention any technical issues caused by the 7x number of players, they are just expressing their surprise with the game popularity. So it seems IT team followed your advice?

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