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by Detrytus 2y ago
Lucky you. I would need to drive to another country for an Apple store... And I don't live in Third World either (theoretically), but in Central Europe.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
It's just self-preservation instinct: if they move they bleeding edge manufacturing to the US then the US no longer has a reason to defend Taiwan against Chinese invasion. Which sucks for all the TSMC C-level executives and their famil
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Yeah, modern corporations tend to threat people with things like raising sea levels to make them buy electric cars or photovoltaic panels, or vegan food. They also impose their woke worldviews on their employees. And don't get me start
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by Detrytus 2y ago
With its creation, by which I mean Lisbon Treaty. Before that EU was basically just a free trade zone, after Lisbon the eurocrats took over, trying to turn EU into socialist's version of heaven on Earth.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Not a number a mark, either on their forehead or their hand. Which kind of resembles Apple's FaceID and TouchID :)
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Similar thing with Nike commercial starring Ronaldinho bouncing the ball from the crossbar: https://youtu.be/qRWnDBN5MgQ?si=mdEYS9X9FwkwOkmj&t=90 To his credit, preparing for the shooting Ronaldinho allegedly managed to
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by Detrytus 2y ago
> I don't get all the author's hate for sql. It's one of the most successful declarative languages ever. To be fair, they criticize SQL as a language for writing triggers, which are imperative by nature, and SQL/PLSQL
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by Detrytus 2y ago
>To raise others up, and provide an environment where they can do their jobs effectively. You mean: to influence them?
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by Detrytus 2y ago
My personal experience is exactly the opposite: in the office people would approach me many times. Sometimes with some work-related issue they needed advice about, sometimes they would simply want to socialize and ask me "do you want t
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Who decides what is a net benefit to society? In capitalism people vote with their own money: if there is a demand for some good or service it keeps getting provided. Of course you might argue, that average person can be manipulated into bu
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by Detrytus 2y ago
I believe the ambitious plan by Gelsinger to release "5 nodes in 4 years", as well as building couple of new factories necessarily resulted in a lot of redundancy and hiring people who were needed for the transition period, but no
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Well, I would expect that, in addition to paying money, this settlement also obliges Meta to stop doing whatever they were doing. And if they don't, then I would expect fine for repeated offense to be much higher, like 10x. At some poi
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by Detrytus 2y ago
You're mixing up many things here: 1. Accenture, Capgemini and Atos are consulting companies that don't produce anything, they just rent out their code monkeys to the customers. And you know what those code monkeys are trained in?
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by Detrytus 2y ago
It's about fast-twitch vs slow-twitch kinds of muscle fibers: the former are good for strength, the latter for endurance. We evolved to be distance runners, so our muscle composition changed, decreasing our strength.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
And for Jews specifically, it might sound weird, but in Poland they were actually better off than average citizen. It's just an artifact of our history: even in 18th century, before partitioning of Poland the social structures we like
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by Detrytus 2y ago
I spent 15 years here, had like 5-6 software engineering jobs, moved a few times to a different neighborhood, tried different social activities (sports, arts, dance lessons, online dating, etc.) and in the end the people always turned out t
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by Detrytus 2y ago
And me, I'm just moving out, after 15 years in Warsaw, because I hate it. I agree that it's mostly safe, but green, or clean? And the public transportation is a mixed bag, my daily commute to the office used to be 1h each way (aro
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Forgot to add: the cyclist apparently suffered no injury. The police gave him a ticket for ignoring the red light and the barrier.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
This stupid adage by Marx has to die. It never works. For one, some people have extraordinary abilities, and will be pissed off if, in exchange for their extraordinary contributions, they only got the income "according to their needs&q
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by Detrytus 2y ago
This is an educational video from Poland ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeXzUGfNLWo
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Compiling to Javascript is a really low bar: all Turing-complete languages are equivalent, one can be translated to another. You could have a Lisp or Haskell compile to Javascript. The problem is: everyone has their favorite language, so su
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Controlled temperature and humidity makes all the difference when it comes to the speed at which bacteria can multiply. Aged meat has many orders of magnitude less bacteria than rotten one.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Because he was promised that once he gets it to the top, he'll be free. So, he keeps pushing, hoping that this time he'll succeed.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
In the US 200k is what you need to achieve the standard of living of an average German citizen on welfare. /s
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Until $1B runs out? Tuition is like $70k per year, so $1B should be enough to cover 3300 students for four years.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
The article title is a lie. "It may be difficult for me to start, or I may delay projects… But once I get started, I don’t waste any time until I’ve put in the hours I’ve set out to do." So he does procrastinate, he just works in
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Isn't this kind of self-evident? According to government statistics about 60% of high school graduates go to college, while IQ over 115 is found only in 15% of total population. If "everyone" goes to college then the average
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by Detrytus 2y ago
“Birthday” is just short for “birth day anniversary”, I guess…
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Limiting acceleration could be dangerous: you need it when overtaking slower vehicles (not necessary cars, it can be a tractor in rural areas).
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by Detrytus 2y ago
When the stock/crypto goes up 100% people will gladly take their profits and go on with their lives, instead of waiting for even bigger profits. When the stocks starts its fall towards 0 people will do incredible mental gymnastics, cli

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