Kurtz79

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by Kurtz79 9y ago
The biggest "cultural hegemony" is basically capitalism, though. Companies have all the interest in having such events adopted locally, since it translates in more sales for them. But yes, Halloween and Black Friday rank among the
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"I'd much rather live in a world where people were just more happy to pay for things they consume" As an "old" and grumpy gamer, I agree, but I think we are past that point. Nowadays I think new gamers are losing tr
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Tell me of some parsers that do not deal with deterministic inputs and have 100% accuracy, then.
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Even if they make MacOS ARM-compatible, its users will be left with tons of applications that won't work anymore on an ARM-based architecture. Considering that Apple does not compete on price, making developers and users unhappy to sav
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Lived in London for 1.5+ years and in Madrid for several years afterwards, and I think Madrid's system is better (not that London's is bad overall). Cleaner, more modern, frequent trains, less delays.
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A parser (assuming you are talking about a programming language parser) has the luxury of having highly structured and deterministic inputs, and to be able to refuse giving an "answer" if they are not.
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"i've had more arguments in the midwest with people that think tesla is a POS company for not following the rules. there's a lot of people averse to change." People are averse to change that might negatively their impact
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A pity that multinational companies can usually afford much better lawyers than the average Joe. It's really not the same as threatening your neighbor with a "We'll see each other in court", for a parking lot dispute.
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As the ancient Romans said, "Pecunia non olet". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet
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It depends, if you consider using the phone while laying flat on a desk as a normal or edge case. I'm not an UX designer, but I would optimize for the nominal case, rather than choosing a solution that is sub-optimal 90% of the time, b
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>I told myself what I'm sure every single novice restauranteur tells themselves: I'll be in the 1 percent that make it, by sheer will. I would be surprised if every single novice restauranteur tells themselves that before start
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"The UK is more than 10x the size of all EEA members combined. The EEA exists / works because its members are largely peripheral." My guess is that by EEA you refer to those members that are not already part of the EU, althou
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Nice, I'll try it out once I get home. A couple of question: - What is the throughput once you fixed the issues ? - If you were to implement a client for mobile (iOS, Android), how would you go about it ? (Just theoretically, I underst
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And when the contract ends, the permanent guys have to sort out the mess the contractor made.
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I wasn't aware that Brexit involved relocating the island to another continent... There doesn't seem to be a huge difference in salaries between Germany and Canada, at least on average. https://www.daxx.com/article
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Except you are comparing a 749$ phone with a 220$ and 60$ ones. You could buy a new Moto G every 2 years and you would still have an up-to-date phone that is more economical than an iPhone, if OS-updates are your main worry (on average, I b
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We (actually you) are talking about "market rate". The Eastern Europe "market rate" is lower than the US because cost of living is. I assure you that people earning USD 40K in Eastern Europe have a quality of life compar
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"These are salaries much below the market rate." Are you really comparing US market rate, which even varies inside the US, with that of Eastern Europe ? Or are you saying that USD 40K is much below market rate in Eastern Europe ?
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If you think that having a real alternative to Office is a minor point, than you haven't worked in a corporate environment, and I'm not talking about Internet companies, but traditional medium-sized engineering companies, accounti
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Given that USD 40K is a pretty decent salary in most of Southern and Eastern Europe, as other people have pointed out, US companies tend to be pretty good employers, and why not ? They can pay a fraction of what you would pay US based engin
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"Propaganda" is a loaded word, as it immediately reminds us of authoritative regimes and totalitarianism, but its definition, according to Merriam-Webster is: - The spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of help
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The main difference I see, is that unless you are a Nobel Prize or Olympic Medal winner, or a 26-30 yo with a PhD perfectly fluent in English, the only way to qualify is to have an existing job offer. If I'm not wrong, both in Canada a
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Prejudice: "preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience". The poster is "speaking from personal experience", so it's not really surprising.
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I'm not overly familiar with the website, but the few recipes from it I have come across are usually accompanied with an in-depth recount of the thought process that went into the recipe, including failed experiments and iterations, c
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Most of people's actions have personal gain (be it money, power, recognition, sense of worth, etc...) as their main motive. But it does not make them necessarily wrong or worthless to others.
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The original article and comments are definitely worth a read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14859602 The exploit really reminded me of those in the game/CTF Microcorruption, which I cannot recommend enough if y
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Definitely NOT making a mobile app with decent UI. Jokes aside, having to negotiate with tons of artists and their labels/managers, I imagine their legal/business department is significantly bigger than that of most tech startups.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article
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"Work is what you do with your day that you find enjoyable and that others consider useful. " "Work is leisure you get paid to do." Source ? This is really the first time I have heard the definition of "work" w
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I assume it would have to be trained with existing material, which would mostly consist of US ships in US waters and Chinese ships in Chinese waters. You are implying that the problem would have been in the set that was used as input, but

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