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by adetrest 8y ago
In Canada now, but it isn't much better. As the article says, we get the worst of both worlds: lower wages and shitty work conditions. Seriously considering Europe in the near future. Not sure every EU country is equal on that front th
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by adetrest 8y ago
> I enjoyed the article - is this too strong a look in the mirror for most folks? My ideal job now is one where I can live in the bush, have boring but steady work, and otherwise not care about programming after 5pm and feel OK with myse
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by adetrest 8y ago
How is that a bad thing though? Why would you voluntarily work for free (overtime is rarely paid in tech) and long for it? Giving away your most valuable hours 5 days a week isn't enough, you should aspire to more? Screw that, you&#x27
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by adetrest 8y ago
In my opinion, it's not as underhanded on aliexpress as it is on amazon: when I buy the brand name on amazon I never know whether I'm getting the real deal, a hastily repackaged used item sold as new, or a knock off. Aliexpress is
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by adetrest 8y ago
How about ebooks? The public library? Or other retailers? Amazon isn't the only option for buying books online, whether you live in a city or not.
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by adetrest 8y ago
Because it's owned by Amazon probably and parent boycotts amazon?
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by adetrest 8y ago
To add to the above, most big box stores carry the same brands for a price very close to Amazon (you'd be surprised how often that's the case of you checked before buying on Amazon) At a big box, I don't have to wait for the
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by adetrest 8y ago
Cancelling my prime was one of the best thing I did for my future self. I really didn't need half of the crap I ordered from Amazon. It's mostly overpriced, poorly refurbished or low quality junk that I could get for half the pric
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by adetrest 8y ago
In rural settings there are more foxes, coyotes, and hunters which are dangers to cats. They can also get stuck and die, or injured and die because they can't come back. None of that happens with indoor cats, urban or rural.
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by adetrest 8y ago
Do you have background sync problems with k9? I can't get mine to fetch emails while I'm not using k9, I have to open the app, go to unified inbox, and manually refresh. Background sync etc is on but disables itself.
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by adetrest 8y ago
They probably let you see it because of gdpr, and wouldn't have before that law?
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by adetrest 8y ago
Anecdote, data, all that.
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by adetrest 8y ago
Cats are perfectly fine indoors and not "trapped". In fact, indoor cats live much longer on average than outdoor cats because there is much less danger (attacked by dogs, wild animals, ran over, poisoned, maimed) Cats are not dogs
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by adetrest 8y ago
I wonder if the keyboard is like the newer macbooks. And of course the best way to ruin a display is to make it glossy, which they did.
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by adetrest 8y ago
Switched to ff when quantum came out, never looked back. It's really fast! And I absolutely love how the dev tools show which elements are grid and flex box containers with a little pill in the DOM explorer. I don't see a single g
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by adetrest 8y ago
> I believe it's mostly a question of company culture and perhaps the expenses the employer needs to pay (gov tax, etc). I agree, it's the company wanting to evade taxes but getting you to incorporate so that all the risk is sh
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Ask HN: Canadian incorporated employees, how do you deal with the CRA risk?
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by adetrest 8y ago
I... Don't get the point. How many orphans are there who will never be adopted? Why go to such length if you really want a kid? I find this a bit perverse personally. While the medical and scientific achievement is amazing, I don'
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by adetrest 8y ago
Same here. I though it was due to my ad blocking. Anyway, here are examples: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Blue+and+orange+movie+posters
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by adetrest 8y ago
Now if only we could stop with the lazy coloring that results in a blue and orange tint on blockbusters. See https://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orang...
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by adetrest 8y ago
> Does anybody buy a phone/car/... based on manufacturer ads? In a sense this is a self-selecting scam. If you don't check 3rd party reviews, then well, you get "advertised" Yes, and that's exactly why ads a
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by adetrest 8y ago
> Friends of the Earth International said the sponsorship of the summit by a Polish coal company “raises the middle finger to the climate”. A long way to go.
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by adetrest 8y ago
Where it breaks down is when you add a developer are forced to write and deploy shitty code. You know it's broken, told the PO/PM/whoever is in charge, and they refused to listen. Or when new features are more important than
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by adetrest 8y ago
A dodge ram, of all cars. Why go to such length to own a car that isn't really good looking or remarkable in any way?
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by adetrest 8y ago
I never understood this almost deity like admiration that people have for individuals like elon musk or Jeff bezos (amongst others). They are massive jerks who have built amazing fortunes at the expense of their employees. Why are we admiri
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by adetrest 8y ago
What's the point of reimplementing a set though? It already comes with the language, and the language's implementation is probably miles better than what you'd come up with anyway. I'd be more interested to know whether
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by adetrest 8y ago
I learned with fusion 360 and their online training. A hobby license is free, and the videos are good. There is also a Danish guy, I can't remember his name, who makes enthusiastic fusion 360 videos on YT regularly. Edit: this is the g
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by adetrest 8y ago
Not in the US myself, but this is a US discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3772897 While technically not always illegal, giving an IQ test is a minefield for HR and that's why almost everyone avoids it. It
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by adetrest 8y ago
Funny, my mobile browser (Brave) assumes that my system click is ahead and demand I correct the time rather than considering the certificate might be expired.
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by adetrest 8y ago
This happened in Indonesia. SE Asian domestic airlines have abysmal safety records, and most of them are on blacklists that prevents them from flying anywhere else for that reason.

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