akoncius

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by akoncius 4y ago
exactly, you are paying for current skills. If employer is fine with current skills, and employee wants a better salary, which would require new skills, who should make effort?
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by akoncius 4y ago
well after education usually salary can be upgraded, so it’s a benefit for employee. if employee does not educate himself, he may stay the same level with no salary bumps. sucks for both parties I guess?
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by akoncius 4y ago
look at gorbachev, he is still alive. so I don’t have high hopes that putin will be solved in natural ways any time soon.
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by akoncius 4y ago
so.. you are saying that if you are attacked, don’t resist, and then there will be no conflict/war?
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by akoncius 4y ago
and in some sense we right now observe failure of this proposal. Russia was included in majority of international organizations; trade was increasing with Russia with hopes that they will start prospering and become less agressive than befo
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by akoncius 4y ago
I’m not OP, but I will offer my point of view: NATO is only defence in military sense from external threats. Internal relationships are much broader: trade, laws, internal politics, multi-country alignment towards same goals, even goal defi
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by akoncius 4y ago
you forget / ignore another aspect of conflict: territorial disagreements or historical arguments. some countries or politicians may feel that area of other country supposed to belong to their country based on history or something but
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by akoncius 4y ago
in that case, why it is called 'brutalism' instead of 'brutism' ? I'm not implying you are wrong, but probably it's the reason of confusion: * brutal - brutalism * brut - brutism
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by akoncius 5y ago
so.. in that case it means computer belings to MS even if I paid full price?
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by akoncius 5y ago
is it even relevant? usually people who are against microservices or react are against those not because they are “new” but because usually those are incorrectly chosen tools for the job.
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by akoncius 5y ago
sounds about right! I got some of those vibes more than twice in my experience :D
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by akoncius 5y ago
have you seen AWS/azure/GCP data transfer fees? mozilla would go bankrupt overnight
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by akoncius 5y ago
https://elementary.io/ might be interesting to you if not looked already
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by akoncius 5y ago
some pointers: just invite to connect at least current colleagues, just to get ball rolling. also: even if you don’t have much to add, describe in more detail what you have already done in that pisition, so recruiters/hiring managers w
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by akoncius 5y ago
yeah, that’s what ai fear the most about omicron: it’s established that the more people get infected by covid, the more it mutates. so given that omicron spreads the fastest, we will get lots of mutations and variants. so seems that the end
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by akoncius 5y ago
well actually they ARE providing value for shareholders by using opensource products instead of wasting thousands of human hours for reinventing the wheel.
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by akoncius 5y ago
here in Lithuania we already have some cases when people were caught using fake/other people's QR code and got punished for it. another case was that doctors were bribed to sign a document that person was vaccinated even if that p
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by akoncius 5y ago
for me it's super annoying when I click on link inside of gmail app on iOS and it suggests at the bottom to install google chrome instead of using default browser . selected "don't show this again" many times, still I se
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by akoncius 5y ago
well what about macbook pro series? professionals constantly WANT to have ability to upgrade devices down the road, but Apple simply denies it.
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by akoncius 5y ago
IMO it is at minimum grey area when company introduces “free unlimited/little limits” while having clear understanding that it is not sustainable and then start charging people after they have moved all their archives to gDrive. it is
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by akoncius 5y ago
yes, was talking about webOS and palm Pre devices
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by akoncius 5y ago
palmOS and nokia n9 are the most promising and the most failed projects in the last decade i think. it had so much potential but failed miserably.. I would really want to live in alternate reality where these two projects are successful :(
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by akoncius 5y ago
spectacle is important here. it’s important for Putin to claim that people chose him, he is a leader of population by choice, not force. look at Belarus, when stuff became too obvious, people started to display dissatisfaction. That is Puti
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by akoncius 5y ago
so main difference is kinda transparency? everything else matches. you (old investor) are receiving profits from new investors. and in some countries retirement money is speculative matter for politicians (vote for me I will increase retire
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by akoncius 5y ago
better formula would be “in next 20 years we will have economic downturn” :D
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by akoncius 5y ago
"back in my days, salmonella wasn't a big deal anyway, these younglins are too fragile in modern times"
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by akoncius 5y ago
> Will we get to the point where statues of now-famous people are pulled down because they ate animals? Could you tell me any case where statue of famous people were pulled down because they used cotton products made by slaves? eating me
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by akoncius 5y ago
man, it sucks to see such stories. especially for such big scale projects/products accessibility should be high priority :(
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by akoncius 5y ago
seems like you have issues with vocabulary - it clearly indicates that problems are with authentication, not authorization :D each time klarna identifies user as different user.
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by akoncius 5y ago
and your point is ... ? also: even if there are some things which do not rely on DNS, but proportionally speaking majority of things do rely on DNS - web, email, file sharing, chats, calls, you name it. it already gets to significant majori

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