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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Yep, and then employees have a harder time challenging it - because how is an employee without the power of HR, facilities etc. going to gather the almighty data?
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I find I work more with other teams in WFH. When we were in the office it was rare to speak with anyone who wasn't on your floor, whereas now it's no harder to work with someone in Stockholm or Berlin than it is in London. Doing Z
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
It's one of my favourite films. The weird thing is I watched it before going to college and now I am working for several years it still feels super-relevant to the modern workplace.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
You can have social contact outside of work though. WFH gives people back time to explore hobbies, join clubs, meet people etc. The social contact you have at work often feels forced and artificial - you can choose your friends, your collea
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
If they do then why don't they share it? I mean they must realise this is a pretty unpopular decision so why not share their justification. Otherwise it's just an appeal to authority - "Ours not to reason why.."
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Yeah, I've always used airplane mode as well and it's been fine.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Because they went from the disaster in Wuhan to zero cases, with no vaccines.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
The antivax movement is ridiculous and hopefully the necessity of covid vaccinations will destroy it as should have happened years ago. Similarly, the evidence for climate change is pretty much undeniable now and I can only assume that thos
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Yeah, the UK even has Unexplained Wealth Orders specifically to combat money laundering and dirty money in general. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexplained_wealth_order
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Even most programmers don't have options when it comes to open offices. The office == open office for most.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
It's known as "The Grauniad" for a reason.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
We develop better abstractions and tools though. I can write programs without needing to know how the CPU chip works, an engineer can build a new device without having to understand every detail of the new cutting edge materials science etc
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Yeah, my PC is from 2015 (and it wasn't state of the art then..) so it's quite a pain to replace. Also I have an Ultrawide monitor which perhaps isn't the best for gaming, but is far superior for work.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
This is a bit sad though, one of the Professors at my University used to invite even his undergraduate tutor group to his house for dinner with his family to get to know them better. It was a bit unusual but it seemed to work, I mean he was
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
As a counterpoint I got an Xbox Series X because the cost of building a decent gaming computer has become ridiculous. Just the GPU would cost me as much as the whole console and as my desktop PC has an ancient motherboard, RAM, CPU etc. I&#
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
GDP is also just a bad measure. I mean as Bobby Kennedy said "...it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile." The size of an economy doesn't indicate whether or not it is actually improving peopl
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
He's taken a low-end salary but take 80k euros or even 90k and his argument still applies.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Hornblower is decent as well.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Wow, your blog is beautiful! I had used Hugo before, but I'm learning some Full Stack dev now (I work in Data Science, so it isn't my main work) and making a blog could be a good exercise.
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Yeah, I think the problem with self-hosting vs. Medium is that it is harder for the authors to reach a large audience. I mean, even if you don't want to make money from your cool project or tutorial or whatever, you still want people t
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
It's economic productivity, not worker productivity - so it has more to do with the circumstances of the company in the market than the employees. The companies are bigger with much larger market share (often a significant fraction of
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Germany also has among the lowest median household wealth in Europe[1] despite having a high median income[2]. This explains the high wealth inequality we observe[3], despite the low income inequality[4]. This could be caused by the low lev
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
It doesn't need to be just because of that book - e.g. companies can see impending food scarcity and invest in agricultural research etc. to avoid it and profit by meeting the growing demand. The thing is although we now we can often f
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
That data seems really suspicious as looking at salaries in Italy/Spain I find it hard to believe Germany is so much poorer (even in the mean, let alone the median). Although I checked the data here: https://en.wikipedia.org
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Maybe it's a cultural thing - but as a British person I'd be fine with the NHS. I'd be happy if they stopped the salaries being like 2-3x smaller than the USA though - I get it, the CoL is lower, but it's not that much
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
As someone who doesn't speak German and has only a cursory understanding of the electrical grid - how significant is this?
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
For Music I would mention BandCamp and Spotify (as you did). For Books, I'd mention Amazon (as nowadays it has become far easier to self-publish)
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
I can look it up on various providers, but it's not that reliable (as one has to check with quite a few providers as they don't all share lines). Also often the address isn't given until after you've arranged a viewing s
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Yeah, it really irritates me when renting or purchasing a house/apartment that they often won't say (sometimes don't even know) if it has fibre coverage or not. I lived in a flat that only had ADSL a few years ago and I never
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by alexgmcm 6y ago
Yeah, economically a marginal rate would make more sense and avoid hard step changes. But I guess it might be harder to implement, not only for Apple, but also for developers to keep track of etc.

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