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altero
13y ago
No. My example is when MEMBER of minority (or other protected group) bullies other people. In that case it is much harder to fight bully.
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Good luck with that! (seriously) Many times bullies are well protected and are practically untouchable. For example they could be from minority, and any sort of complain makes anyone automatically racist. To win over administration one has
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altero
13y ago
Trim has been already supported for years. It just was not on by default.
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altero
13y ago
Central Europe has good security tools for this. For example whitelist for transaction. Or approval for each transaction via SMS. Or temporary unlocking card while shopping
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altero
13y ago
And the office could be rented. I think it is clear that Google expect people to check emails and do 'work stuff', it was mentioned several times.
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altero
13y ago
Rent prices and other expenses skyrocketed. And not everyone has option to move out. So yes, it caused powerty.
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altero
13y ago
Technicaly the bus is place of work, so there are interesting implications for Google as employer.
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altero
13y ago
Even some self-employed people have to pay social insurance. Plus one can opt-in voluntary, it makes sense if one retires after a few years into normal job. I have no credible source I could post here. However the work is for _SUPPORT_ per
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altero
13y ago
Some of my relatives are nurses so I know well. There is big difference, just try to say: "I work in brothel!". Plus once employed one must follow work rules such as uniform... Not sure what is situation in US. But in contimental
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13y ago
In Germany they went one step further. Prostitutes are registered workers, they pay taxes and must pass monthly health checks. They also get unemployment support and state pension after retirement. On other side many people lost unemploymen
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altero
13y ago
???
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altero
13y ago
I think you have no idea about situation Czech Republic and Russia. Work Law is influenced by socialism and way more friendlier to worker. Any discrimination based on sexual preferences, sex, race, age and so on is strictly forbidden. One c
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altero
13y ago
So what? Most terrorist attacks on US were orchestrated by FBI or secred services, who spoon-fed attackers, give them bomb and 'catched' them. Nobody cares.
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altero
13y ago
Why? Dogs are autonomous as well, but live happily without such philosophical conflict.
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altero
13y ago
But they do need help. Diversity is nice, but someone still has to do the actual work.
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altero
13y ago
Have sex-change operation and paint your skin! Be a man!
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13y ago
What if someone gets beaten up by minority members? Or does not get a job thanks to positive discrimination?
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13y ago
Follow the money Today patient has to pay lot of money to be kept alive. Also deciding about death is expensive and this burden would be on government. In a few decades elderly people will be 40% of population. Government will probably have
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altero
13y ago
A-hole adds diversity to a team :-) Often one is a-hole because he insist on basic principles, such as unit tests.
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altero
13y ago
Perhaps rent a family house on sub-orbs instead of an office.
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altero
13y ago
20 MB/s, my phone has USB Host :-)
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altero
13y ago
So to copy album into phone I have to upload to web, than download it to phone? I could also use USB 1.0 or serial port with similar speed. Until network will be more reliable and faster than my hdd, there is not much to discus.
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altero
13y ago
> Music is a great use-case for keeping data in the cloud Since when? For start it drains battery much faster. Oh and you know, it does not work offline!
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13y ago
Cheap movie promotion?
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altero
13y ago
Perhaps it is time to roll out alternative crypto-currency. Bitcoin has way too much attention and speculation.
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altero
13y ago
If has a wrong shape, proper keyboard should be choped in the middle :-). I used to have wrist pains, 4000 solved it. I bought six of those just in case. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Natural_keyboard
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altero
13y ago
Most people who complain about pair programming, tried it only on tiny laptop in loud cafeteria. But pair programming is easy, all you need is decent hardware and private office. Pretty awful this is not common in year 2013.
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13y ago
I am in/from post soviet country and have zero exposure to recent american culture. So my question is serious: is this article joke? >I want to see all people fairly compensated for their labor without feeling forced into it; I do n
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13y ago
The rate of mentally retarded people in open source community is actually much higher than in general population. Various forms of autism, social anxieties, mild psychopathy and border-line schizophrenia are surprisingly common. But it was
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13y ago
Is this article a joke? It is like some twisted communist manifest fitted on 21st OSS.
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