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151.
by amag 9y ago
That's right! Linus needs to rewrite the kernel in Fortran so we can utilize this code compaction!
152.
by amag 9y ago
What are they afraid of? It's too dark down in a coal mine to read any health studies anyway!
153.
by amag 9y ago
Given the state of affairs with online reservations, going to your local travel agency is is undeniably the future. Oh the irony.
154.
by amag 9y ago
Oh, don't get me started on hotels.com. It's seems to be quite common for hotels.com to sell you the room with breakfast (in countries where breakfast typically is included) but when you get the confirmation, there's no men
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by amag 9y ago
This is highly dependent on the kind of work you do as a developer. A lot of times I'm just using one monitor and switch between windows and that's fine. Edit some text, run a build script, run some tests, commit to git. But whe
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by amag 9y ago
Well, I do give a larger fraction of it to the government. My current margin tax rate exceeds 60%. I never claimed it was controversial but the consequence of this (good or bad) is that I feel more inclined to ask for more free time rathe
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by amag 9y ago
Well, there are progressive taxes and there are progressive taxes. In Sweden, the taxes were a bit too "progressive" a couple of decades ago, when you could have a margin tax rate above 100%. It's a bit better now though...
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by amag 9y ago
This was very apparent to me when recently on a visit in the US. There were a lot more TV commercials for different kinds of drugs than I'm used to. Ironically the required(?) list of potential side effects at the end of each ad often
159.
by amag 9y ago
According to my calculations 60k in Sweden would land you some 43k after taxes. At 60k the progressive taxes in Sweden are just starting to hurt. Somewhere north of 80k, it starts to feel like you only work for the government...
160.
by amag 9y ago
Add to that in Sweden you also have: * Long (1+ years) state funded parental leave. * Childcare at a negligible cost. * Free education all the way through University.
161.
by amag 9y ago
You put on your nerd goggles and that's what ruins Star Trek for you?
162.
by amag 9y ago
> The biggest deterrent, for me at least, is not the price but the need to switch platforms. Agree, especially when most doesn't work nearly as well as Netflix. I prefer to use the TV app and the horrible user experience I had with
163.
by amag 9y ago
Hehe, yeah, voting is a joke. First take the ballot of your preferred choice in clear view of everybody (unless you care enough about your voting privacy to take one ballot of each choice) then go behind a screen to put that one ballot ev
164.
by amag 9y ago
In Sweden we had a minister of justice a couple of years ago who thought it would be a good idea that persons suspected of buying sexual services (which is illegal in Sweden) got their court order sent in a special large purple envelope. Th
165.
by amag 9y ago
When I learned t drive I was instructed not to mind smaller critters as the avoidance maneuver (steering away one way or the other or heavy breaking) is more likely to cause a serious accident than the collision with the small critter.
166.
by amag 9y ago
Whoa, that's right up my alley! Too bad I'm not really looking for a new job and you only offer remote within the US... Well, I might still contribute just for fun!
167.
by amag 9y ago
Love the 20h work week!
168.
by amag 9y ago
It looks like git-mediate does one more important thing; it checks that the conflict is actually solved. In my experience it's very easy to miss something when manually resolving a conflict and often the choices the merge tools give
169.
by amag 9y ago
"Someone was wrong on the Internet, it was me."
170.
by amag 10y ago
Total phwnage! Setup a malicious wifi hotspot in a busy place and phwn away. You don't need to target anyone in particular, just wait and see what you got...
171.
by amag 10y ago
Because that would require everyone to have the zeronet client installed before they can go to the zeronet website to download the client...
172.
by amag 10y ago
Breathing is not just inhaling, you also need to exhale.
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by amag 10y ago
Nah, but either interstellar travel has not been invented anywhere in the universe or there are more interesting/threatening things discovered by those who have invented it. Given that there may be a lot of intelligent life in the univ
174.
by amag 10y ago
Well, what makes a blockchain a blockchain is not that it's a list of nodes where each contain the hash of it's previous node. In that case git would be a blockchain. It is the PoW and consensus programs that make it a blockchai
175.
by amag 10y ago
While you may be eating the _same_ things, did you eat the same _amount_ of the things? In my experience it's very hard to compare the amount of food I eat with how much someone else at the table eats.
176.
by amag 10y ago
I just negotiated the option to work 80%-100% (in ~5% intervals) at my own discretion. Basically I'm allowed to take up to one day/week off. I'm a software engineer working in tech.
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by amag 10y ago
I actually negotiated the possibility to take one day off per week at my own discretion, thus working flexibly between 80%-100% in ~5% steps. In my mind this is a compromise with my dream of early retirement "Mr Money Mustache"-st
178.
by amag 10y ago
In the process of transferring a phone number now and it seems to be universally insecure. Sign a paper and you're done. A simple automated SMS from your current provider that requires a "YES" response would be a lot securer
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by amag 10y ago
I don't think it's unrealistic, it's just that our expectations have gone (way) down after years of abuse. The cost of an employee is at least a magnitude larger than the extra cost that comes with giving them a private offic
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by amag 10y ago
Ah, but is there a productivity loss only initially? I'd argue the productivity loss will remain. After a while developers may get used to the lower productivity as a fact of life and not report it as such. I know I got used to a low

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