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by Shacklz 5y ago
My probably a bit naive take: The MBAs take over and implement KPIs that might even be well-intentioned but are ultimately easiest to satisfy by cutting corners. For example: KPI that measures market share of Edge; instead of making Edge be
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. The world would be a better place without ads; less pointless consumerism and less money for companies that abuse basic human instincts to shove an ever-increasing amount of ads down our throats, without any care about
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by Shacklz 5y ago
If it wasn't for free and if you wouldn't be able to afford it, your government might see the need to provide this as a public service, as in my opinion should be the case anyway. Or projects like peerTube would take off. Or... co
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> Motion Sickness, headaches, sweaty headsets and detachment. I've bought a Vive when Half Life: Alyx came out and was completely blown away by the first impressions and immersions of that game. Since then however and after the firs
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> get rid of physical security, as everyone should have the right to protect themselves and their property. This kind of individual-first-thinking is probably one of the main reasons why we see pictures like in OP in the first place.
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Swiss Army Bashing, count me in! You're completely right, unfortunately. For a country that prides itself with its neutrality, we sure do like our armed boy scout club. I do have hopes though that their F35 plans won't work out; t
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> No, Theranos was outright, egregious fraud, and most startups that "collapse under the weight of unrealized promises" are not committing fraud. Most startups don't get the traction and publicity that Theranos got, howeve
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by Shacklz 5y ago
This purist talk about how everyone should stick to some system standard or whatever really needs to die. It's not working. Nobody is doing it. Everyone, literally everyone is running their own thing. Name me big company that doesn&#
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> they're making the wrong choice. If what feels like the vast majority of them are making the same "wrong" choice, we should probably think about ways to make that choice more "right", because clearly, the curre
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Oh Teams started doing this too now? This was that one thing that made me absolutely hate Skype (other than being utter garbage in general) and that at least worked so far in Teams... Looks like all commercial chat-software is destined to
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by Shacklz 5y ago
For the list-bug, there is a workaround I think, if you go into the "Edit-mode" (or whatever it's called) where Enter won't immediately send the message, having multiple bullet points (by using Enter) still works. But ye
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by Shacklz 5y ago
I just started to watch all movies in English whenever I can, this helped me a tremendous amount. But occasionally, it happens that I still get it wrong. For example, just a few weeks back, I've heard 'Arkansas' pronounced
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Has anyone tried it out and knows if this also gets rid of the Cookie banners? Blocking them with uBlock origin is a bit of a PITA, as the rules always break sooner or later, and whenever I happen to end up on google somehow, getting the ba
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Again: Reading comprehension. Reread OPs comment again, he wasn't referring to some averages over all projects, he was telling you to take any project and you will see similar issues.
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Reading comprehension. They may or may not have picked an unfortunate example to make their point, but that by no means refutes their initial statement: > Mile for mile, studies show the U.S. spends more than all but five other countries
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by Shacklz 5y ago
That's the case for other countries too but they still manage to do better
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Back when I was there, the first year of BSc was fully in German (apparently mandated by law), afterwards, there was the occasional lecture in German but usually with slides/exercises/exams available in English as well as English-
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> academics > business model In a perfect world, we should be able to say: pick one. Heck, even in our imperfect world with us mere human beings, I still believe that it would be for the better of academia to keep any "business m
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Angulars "ng serve" defaults to 4200 as far as I'm aware; never seen 5000 in the wild in the context of Angular
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> 01215 Why are you prefixing the years with a zero, is that a thing? Are you preparing for those who might read this in a few millenia after us?
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> And countra argument is that smart capable educated people choosing to do machine learning instead of physics is not social issue. You want your brightest in society to do things that further society/humanity as a whole; playing t
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Holding on to my put options, but I'm really harsh in the red. I do believe that Tesla has a bright future in the industry, but their current market cap is just straight up ridiculous. Unlike any other tech giant, they will never be ab
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Unions are for sure not the silver bullet that will solve all problems, but just look at the different working conditions across countries and you will see that generally speaking, unions do lead to better working conditions and overall w
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> with all the picks and keyof and typeof... Depends of course a lot on the codebase but all typescript codebases that I've seen so far and considered "well-maintained" didn't really use keyof and typeof all that much
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> As much as Florida gets dunked on in the US, it's still an economic powerhouse of the region. Just looked at the linked list and when sorting by GDP per capita, Florida is rank 38. Not exactly what I'd call an economic powerh
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by Shacklz 5y ago
I hope I didn't misread the numbers but to my understanding it's just what they get from twitch directly (ads/subscriptions share), most streamers probably make significant amounts in donations on top of that, and probably ha
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by Shacklz 5y ago
The amount of crimes committed with firearms seems to generally correlate with the ease of access to firearms. Trying to make it less convenient to obtain and own firearms, and this includes registration thereof, generally reduces the amoun
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> Whether or not you agree that the people on these lists deserve to be hurt for their political opinions, many innocent people are also being caught in the crossfire. Not sure if your choice of words is very unfortunate or if there&#x27
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Are climate activists expected to "take some loss" or what exactly are you implying with this question? If people die because they engage in non-violent activism it's just wrong, plain and simple, there's no gray area (a
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by Shacklz 5y ago
While the incident is really a bit worrying, I'm personally not paying PM to protect me from state-agents - I'm paying them to protect me from Joe working in marketing. If a state agent wants my data and brings the necessary paper

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