Tsagadai

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by Tsagadai 15y ago
Phone numbers are not unique identifiers. In several regions around the world, phone numbers are reused. Please keep this in mind because it is very short sighted to say you will never expand globally.
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
Actually, by some countries I meant East Asia. I had a friend get fired after getting hit by a car and needing 2 months leave (because his office had no wheelchair access). Technically not legal but you can't exactly fight a well funded emp
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
No it's not. This is an argument against poor management, not any particular programming language feature. If you have someone writing code like this in production you have a management problem. Review code, use and create clearly defined c
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
If you have dedicated sick leave pay that's fine. However, sick leave is unheard of in some countries. Why would you force someone to take annual holiday time off to be sick or, worse, unpaid leave. Then they would be even more miserable th
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
If they change then they can honestly say that they were an arsehole before but they aren't any more. Everyone wins.
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
I read the article. He does sound like an arsehole, but you know what, it's probably because he is one. Many people are arseholes, they just don't tell you about it. You don't find out about their true nature until after the contract was si
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
Did they consider that options are pretty complex and for many people, with the amounts offered, they are barely worth the effort. Other than the questionable methodology of the study options are annoying, especially in the small amounts of
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
IANAL but have you ever read an Open Source license? Or almost any other software license? If you cannot unload liabilities onto the consumer, you cannot have Open Source code. If you could sue for a defective "free" product we would be wor
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
I used to sleep between 0 and 14 hours a day (completely irregularly). Now, I sleep a fairly regular 5 to 6 hours per day.
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
I've lived in South Korea for two years and this is the most I've ever heard people talk about Kim Jong Il or North Korea. Even the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in 2010 didn't generate this much talk. This is also the first time I've ever
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
I know this is anecdotal but I feel it is worth sharing. I've had insomnia for several years. I've tried treating it with drugs, sticking to routines, exercise, meditation, diet, controlled lighting, and quite a few other methods. Eventuall
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
Trust on the internet is dangerous. You should exercise your judgement and not let it be impaired by a perceived absence of trolls. There are trolls, flamebaiters, astroturfers, bots, vested interests, paid posters and spammers everywhere o
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
I think many people would be happy to pay if the payment method was easier and less intrusive. If there was a method for sending a few cents for a pageview without a credit card or permanent account, I would use it , constantly. Such a paym
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
You know men have children too. The difference is more that fewer men are completely dedicated to being a father than mothers dedicated to being mothers. This is a significant societal issue where many men don't take responsibility for rais
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
(I think some commenters assumed I was not a native speaker. English is my first language). Mastery for me would be mastery of English as an art and as a craft. It's about making something people want to consume. Poetry, novels, songs, tech
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
The second hand effects of alcohol can also damage your health. As someone who has lived in or around nightlife districts for the last 10 years cleaning up vomit, blood and urine isn't particularly good for you. That said, I don't really ca
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
You probably haven't read enough. It really depends on your goals and what you are trying to learn (or whether you are trying to learn at all). Doing is great and it's how you get things done but not everything can be learnt in a few short
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
Singapore is by no means a homogeneous country. There a re four separate historical groups (Malays, Tamils, Chinese and Europeans) with various subcultures within those groups (you can still find speakers of Chinese dialects in Singapore th
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
I am aware universities can charge what they please for a law degree and that they benefit from exclusivity (less people studying means more money for the ones who do). But what if the price was reflective of the cost plus a profit instead
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
For what it's worth, the article did end with a mention about humanities majors in the closing line, "psychology, U.S. history and military technologies". While not humanities, Military technologies is an easy one to work out why people are
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
I majored in CS and maths too and like you I also took advantage of various electives (psychology, philosophy, anatomy, genetics, public health). I spent a lot of my time attending friends lectures as well because you could just walk in and
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
A better question is why law degrees cost as much as they do. Law is one of the cheapest subjects for a university to teach yet law is usually one of the most expensive.
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
Yeah, all those arts graduates filling prisons with dissidents. There are already calls in the comments for a similar system in other countries. Why should university be about getting a job? Shouldn't university be about learning, and being
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
Domains for large organisations are exceedingly complex webs of power and politics in most cases. Stanford is pretty big in an organisational sense (I don't really know, I am just assuming based on the amount of money they have in the bank)
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
I completely agree. I think Wikipedia should stop trying to be an encyclopaedia and start being a source of encyclopaedic information. The whole notability blame game detracts from it overall. Sure some elementary school in North-East Canad
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
It wasn't my intention to be misleading, I just misread. I've updated the link.
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Liblime seeks trademark for an open source product created by an NZ library(diligentroom.wordpress.com)
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
Think of a system that works much the same way as speed cameras work in some countries. You deter the majority of people from speeding in a particular area. You automate an amnesty into the system for certain types of vehicles (emergency se
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
In a real democracy the majority would actually make the laws. A fine of $100 sounds fair, it is still a punishment and would be much more acceptable to police heavily (and with less lawyers involved). I would be fine with automated fines o
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by Tsagadai 15y ago
Except it doesn't. Being unemployed isn't fun, it isn't "a holiday". Most people feel stressed because of that uncertainty in their life. There is also a strong social stigma associated with unemployment, no one goes around at a party gloat

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