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by IMTDb 5y ago
Because as soon as one person in the team is remote, the whole team needs to organise around that. Think of a 5 person team where 1 is remote and the others aren't. Your daily standup ? can't do that quickly at your desk, you need
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by IMTDb 5y ago
What part of these profits comes from work actually done remotely during the pandemic ? What you are proving is that the Google model of hiring extremely talented devs, paying them handsomely, and asking them to spend days in their campus a
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Figure 1: Plotting the cost of “time spent compiling” of the old vs. new laptops shows the one-time cost of the hardware upgrade quickly pays for itself. Where the horizontal axis is labeled as "10", "20", "30&
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Regarding 1), you just need to think about conservation laws as being many worlds "blind". Let's assume that we devise an experiment that we 100% prove would split the universe in 3 versions. Executing that experiments splits
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by IMTDb 5y ago
You are living under the assumption that giving a raise would prevent churn. In many cases it does not work like that, just reading the comments in this thread shows that many people would be OK earning less if that meant working part-tim
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by IMTDb 5y ago
When that technology becomes a non-trivial part of the global CO2 emission without bringing any value for anyone except select few "investors", it becomes an issue. Completely shutting down all cryptos would have the following eff
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by IMTDb 5y ago
My "Do Not Track" setting is set to "Authorise Tracking". So companies are respecting that, but they have no choice to still nag me.
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> This disallows EU websites from using those US cookie management popups that users universally hate. You know, the ones where you have to un-tick 20 items by hand and then some more on the hidden "legitimate interest" page. A
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Have the EU cookie regulations actually bring any measurable improvement to anything at all ? As a user ? No. As a business ? I brought additional costs and risks, but didn't change anything in the data we collect. But some pencil
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by IMTDb 5y ago
"Sign In with Google" works with third party cookies disabled.
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by IMTDb 5y ago
The root domain example.com is still the same here.
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Please don't force browsers (clients) to fix what's fundamentally a server side (website doing shit with your data) issue. Browser can choose to respect the cookies (first, or third parties), but ultimately don't force them
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Is there any question we should ask ? About some challenge or interesting discovery / aspect that most of us wouldn't even realise ?
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by IMTDb 5y ago
The vast difference is that Alzheimer's patients aren't willingly putting their money in dangerous places with the sole purpose of increasing their purchasing power without contributing to society in a meaningful way.
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by IMTDb 5y ago
It really depends on the economic situation of the recipient. I am lucky enough to have more than enough money to maintain the life that I want to have. Giving me cash makes no material difference to me. It will most likely sit in a savings
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Sure, let's take the example set by specific individuals and extrapolate that to an entire group of people that share some commonalities. That usually works well. We have a wide range of those: Muslims are terrorists. Farmers are racis
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Sure, you might like one manager over another, but they will probably be gone in a year anyway. In my two and a half year career at three companies, I have worked for 6 people. It's strange, the most common - and best in my opinio
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Interestingly, 50% declare that it makes a company unappealing if people are asked to work in an office. This also mean that half of developers have no problem at all with onsite work. Reading HN, I would have expected the ratio of "re
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Anything with heavy car traffic tends to have more intentional destination type stuff. Is it possible that the intentional destination is the pedestrian street, to do your shopping ? Remove the heavy traffic lanes around it and people
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by IMTDb 5y ago
More accurate title: "Some Apple employee have a bad experience in perfectly safe and OK paying jobs due to harsh managers".
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Ameca: New Humanoid Robot from Engineered Arts(engineeredarts.co.uk)
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Squid Game crypto token collapses in apparent scam(bbc.com)
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Every calorie ingested needs to be accounted for, either through work, waste, or storage. What people are arguing on here is that, depending on the type of food - for a given amount of work - will the remaining calories be converted
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Well known, based on personal experience with these folks. But most of the time, it's due to how these guys are managed by their client. When you bring in an individual from a top consulting firm, they will fight tooth and nail to get
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by IMTDb 5y ago
They are: the advertisers pays for the service users are consuming. The "free with advertising" business model is an efficient version of Advertisers give money to users give money to content provider Where money given to the
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by IMTDb 5y ago
The spirit is here is that you should fully open all those factors and fully open how they influence the cost paid by the patient. Make an excel sheet, a web app, an API, whatever. But let people know and simulate the cost - include al
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by IMTDb 5y ago
> Is it a _fact_ that booster shots are necessary, or is the current vaccine regimen sufficient? The issue is that the words "necessary" and "sufficient" are left to the reader, and are deeply political. Some people w
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by IMTDb 5y ago
How does the currency you are paid with changes anything (apart from tax evasion) ?
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Yes, seriously. The real question is : "Is environmental activism today more dangerous than it was yesterday". The typical way of computing "dangerosity" is through a ratio. Eg: number of death / kilometer for trans
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by IMTDb 5y ago
Selection bias ? How many child actors play in a few TV episodes, probably have a bit of fun and earn a bit of money, then disappear from the spotlight. You never hear from those because there is nothing to say.

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