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by akoncius 8y ago
I was thinking the same because I am a programmer and it’s quite easy to find programming job in another area. But then I thought about other industries, dor example if I’m researcher about LED lights for 20 years, then my other options for
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by akoncius 8y ago
exactly the same applies to workers - if my work generates less money than it is neccessary for living, then it’s not worth doing it, why lose money?
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by akoncius 8y ago
It’s not as simple as you are implying. Multiple times Intel made deals with PC vendors just to deny AMD access to computers. It is anticompetitive and in the ling run it damages consumers by limiting competition and innovation. Good thing
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by akoncius 8y ago
nowadays it’s quite good situation with php refactoring, given that php now allows type-hinting and if you keep type-hinting variables with phpdoc-style comments, IDE refactors code really well.
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by akoncius 8y ago
but weather is so nice here /s
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by akoncius 8y ago
yeah, quite similar situation in my experience too. Usually you need to implement features ASAP, so rarely you have time to do it properly, so you cut corners , implement it , and move on to another burning task just to meet deadlines for n
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by akoncius 8y ago
it's not a definition of working when you need to cheat system in order to get it working.
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by akoncius 8y ago
> Second it's hard not to notice that much of what the EU does is try to hurt US tech companies I totally understand what you are saying, but on the other hand: maybe a lot of US tech companies do unethical/bad things? Antitrus
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by akoncius 8y ago
USA will not be able to play this card for long. Trump already expressed doubts about whether USA would defend eastern EU countries. Trust is almost gone already, so USA is losing "benefits" what to offer to allies quite fast. Wha
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by akoncius 8y ago
on the same topic, another thing what needs to be changed is metrics how “success” of a country as a whole is measured. currently it’s mostly employment rate. low unemployment=good economy, country in good shape. problem with that is it doe
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by akoncius 8y ago
yeah, similar for me. deaf people have their own advantages!
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by akoncius 9y ago
is there really a need to force everybody to the same level? I don’t think that it is a competition, people just share their moments. why equalize everybody’s photos to same crappy quality?
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by akoncius 9y ago
you are confusing jokes with fiction. It is possible to tell true story with additional jokes there and there without fiction. And I think here is confusion - for me Last Week Tonight seems like serious show which tries to do a lot of resea
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by akoncius 9y ago
what are you trying to say? That given he is comedian, his reporting is less credible or audience should receive his stories less seriously or what? Given that he throws a joke from time to time, does it mean that it's less reporting a
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by akoncius 9y ago
you can use https://gitter.im/ , it's free for OSS/free communities
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by akoncius 9y ago
for case to be “antitrust” does not requires to be monopoly as such. it can be a company which is dominant in its market by big margin. Microsoft got involved in multiple antitrust cases, even if there are alternatives (mac, linux), but MS
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by akoncius 9y ago
small anecdote: when spotify vecame available in my region (Lithuania), I instantly became paid subscriber because it was really convenient. And my colleagues did the same - it’s just simpler to use Spotify with its was library instead of w
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by akoncius 9y ago
yeah, it's more like a theoretical option, because rooting voids warranty, plus you have to have technical knowledge how to do it. It is difficult to imagine my dad rooting phone :)
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by akoncius 9y ago
Yeah, but I didn't write "Hetzner sucks because their disks are failing constantly". One commenter wrote "Hetzner has an excellent reputation for rock-solid engineering" and as a counterpoint I wanted to tell my ane
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by akoncius 9y ago
I was just saying that our experience with Hetzner was not as rock solid as others were saying, that's it. Don't understand why some people are downvoting my comment. Also it happened ~6 years ago, so I'm not sure if they off
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by akoncius 9y ago
in my previous gig we used hetzner server to have several VMs and storage of that server failed , resulting that all our production servers went down. luckily we had backups, and restored partially our production, but after that incident we
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by akoncius 9y ago
so if there would be a law restricting meat consumption then everything would be fine?
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by akoncius 9y ago
your analogy would work if parent comment would say “just eat meat carefully”. overall it makes sense to reduce meat consumption, because if you look deeper in reasons for antibiotics use in meat industry, mainly it is used as a consequence
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by akoncius 9y ago
no, it’s like telling people to stop driving cars at 100 miles per hour inside city. makes sense.
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by akoncius 9y ago
humans have huge variety of choice for food which has all necessary nutrients which does not originate from meat, so this comment “eat like rabbit” is not correct if you are concluding vegetarian diet.
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by akoncius 9y ago
exactly. loyalty in employer’s eyes is to work as much as possible for as little as possible and not leave. if you require more from employer it can be interpreted as disloyalty. on yhe other hand, when employer fires employee, it’s just bu
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by akoncius 9y ago
why so negative? if somebody provides value, why not contribute back by watching ads? or do you regularly pay money to authors? if not, then maybe don’t visit websites if you refuse to compensate other people’s work?
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by akoncius 9y ago
because socialism is not same as corruption?
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by akoncius 9y ago
I think either political view does not raise main question: why there is a poverty in a such level? what causes it? safety nets are temporary solution, just to keep people from starving to death. but to prevent people to even get to poverty
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by akoncius 9y ago
I don’t think OP meant literally rent, it’s a term “rent seeking”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

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