Kurtz79

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by Kurtz79 8y ago
It's not exactly a new thing, even outside of gaming: https://www.businessinsider.com/bro-culture-harassment-discr... If you have been exposed to the same culture through school, higher education and then finally the w
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Newspapers were never valued for their ability of generating profits, but more as tools that can shape or sway the public opinion. Having "few" and "consolidated" reporting entities basically reflects the status-quo pre-
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Yes, everybody has an e-mail address, I'm talking about day-to-day communication and how much each medium is used. My brother/sister/mom/friends might use the e-mail once or twice per day, while they would use IM on mobi
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Not sure if it's your case, but the concept of "expensive" changes radically from when you are in school to when you have an actually paying job. Most likley Paris has not changed, but you did :)
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Not at a local level. In many countries in Europe, WhatsApp is just about ubiquitous, and used by the average guy way more often than email. The same (from what I understand) for WeChat in China. Yes, if you need to communicate outside of y
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Because your arguments are ridiculous, and you are referencing directly to material that points out very clearly that exposure to asbestos carries a risk of health hazard, for the people exposed. "In general" people who become ill
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How do you concile this view with the fact that other European countries (Germany, Austria, Netherlands, nordic countries) have very healthy economies and an expansive welfare state as well? Monetary devaluation and increasing national debt
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Reforms are generally intended as addressing overly generous social security programs, corruption, tax evasion. Portugal and Spain (and Ireland) implemented some of these reforms and, lo and behold, a few years later are some of the fastest
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As an Italian, having spent all my life up to that point bathing in the tame and shallow coasts of the Mediterraneum, I remember vividly when pluging the first time in the Atlantic in Figueira da Foz :) Even in a tourist beach, the strength
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I'm pretty much sure you are describing the vast majority of tech workers. They (we) earn an above average salary, at maybe non Forture 500 companies, 40ish hours weeks, still enjoy what they do at work, but can find fulfillment in oth
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Such as?
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For me it is the opposite, and I have been using eBay since the early days. I can get from Amazon stuff that is new, that I can return with minimal fuss, at my doorstep, often next day. Whatever savings I might get using the same item used
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That's exactly how (many) crowfunding campaigns work in practice. Most kickstarters define "stretch goals" that are promised at different targets, if funding surpasses the base goal. These goals may be release for different p
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Of course. A laptop, no matter how powerful and well designed, is always going to be a compromise compared to a desktop, in terms of raw power and relative cost. The tradeoff is convenience, where you would have single machine that is able
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I have had thermal issues both in my old Lenovo T61P and a more recent Macbook Pro 15, both with dedicated graphic cards. No replacing of soldering paste on my part was ever able to improve the situation, with the result of having powerful
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It's a texbook case of: - It's good enough - It just works It solves the problem of sharing files across different devices and does it with no fuss. I have tried alternatives such as Google Drive and Onedrive and changing terms (l
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It wasn't a powerhouse, but it was (the second generation one) the first successful "thin" laptop that made reasonable compromises so that it could be used a development machine. In an era of remote servers and web scripting
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The first Macbook Air was a seriously limited device, style over substance. Expensive, weak CPU, mechanical hard drive, low battery life. It was with the second generation (2011) that they knocked it out of the park, where they added fast C
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My point is that there is a much larger audience outside of our own "niche". The fact that we see a lot of developers with Macs, does not mean that they are a large audience among all of the Mac users. My brother works at an Apple
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"Further, I would say that developers/enthusiasts comprise a very high percentage of macbook purchasers." And you base this assumption on? Every action from Apple in these last few years have gone towards the wishes of the av
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You are being downvoted but, regardless of whether the argument has merit (it does IMHO), it is a fact that traditional media companies have been negatively affected by the rise of the new tech giants, and can be scarcely objective in the
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Microsoft is well aware of that, they went as far as not making first party titles exclusive for the Xbox, and releasing them on W10. It's a competitive advantage and they won't be giving it up so easily, they know a lot of people
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I find 11% a surprisingly high percentage, since I would think "Quality of manager or management" is something very hard to assess during a selection process.
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To my knowledge, in some machines non-US ZIP codes are accepted up to a cash limit (can't remember if it's daily or for transaction). Probably your bill at the gas stations was higher than the one for the subway tickets.
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Barcodes were introduced to automate the process of having to insert he price manually in the register, payment by cards to eliminate the necessity of having to handle chash and change. The self-checkout in itself might not be considered as
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For "low participation", do you mean that the majoritiy of population actively opted out? How is the decision to opt out made?
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"HN" is not a single entity and it is made up of los of people with different opinions and values. If everybody had the same point of view, there would be no ground for a discussion...
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The first time I used this command to monitor traffic remotely on a headless device it felt like magic. Incredibly useful. You can achieve the same under Windows using putty/plink: plink.exe -ssh -pw password root@host "tcpdump -n
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At these salary levels? What do you expect? Higher salaries do exists, so people will move away as soon as something better shows up. What companies paying 20K€ end up doing is provide "free" training and experience, to the benef
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Yup, I graduated in Bologna with a 3+2 engineering degree, it was pretty much a straight conversion from the previous 5 years curriculum, with the latest 2 optional. The classes themselves were made more accessible (broken down in shorter m

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