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by ascar 7y ago
> I also think this innovation has a larger impact if it were used to bring existing generators of emissions closer to being carbon neutral. It also reduces the burden of being cost efficient on Day 1 since the carbon intensity of large
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by ascar 7y ago
> The default, "My coworkers are brilliant" point of view is just so contrary to my cultural upbringing ;-) It's not just cultural upbringing. It's difficult to really realize that the intelligence/competency di
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by ascar 7y ago
Though the discussion had long shifted to nationality and culture and was only slightly related to immigration at that point.
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by ascar 7y ago
I'm not sure, if it's really the free part. I had free food at a previous employer and loved it, but a company cafeteria with high-quality food, fast service and acceptable prices serves the same purpose. And every single company
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by ascar 7y ago
Yes, they gather data from all possible sensors. This data is aready there though. Their product just visualizes it and their consultants/forward deployed engineers (or w/e they are called) basically create pipelines and transform
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by ascar 7y ago
Substitute nationalism for nationality and my statement remains valid. The difference between the status of belonging to a nation and ones self-identification with ones nation is not relevant, if my point is that culture is not necessarily
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by ascar 7y ago
Culture and nationality are not synonyms. In fact most countries have multiple cultures. Especially the US as a country of immigrants. Saying the idea of nationality is silly, isn't the same as saying culture is silly. Edit: changed &q
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by ascar 7y ago
Same as other consultancies and software companies. They get hired by other companies for ridiculously high daily wages and sell their platform for recurring fees. E.g. in a recruiting event they demonstrated how they setup their data analy
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by ascar 7y ago
Slightly related: Human Resource Machine of these guys was the best mobile game I've played so far. The game idea is just fantastic and I think this game is a great example of how to teach stuff (here assembly) through video games.
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by ascar 7y ago
The engineers involved were not part of YouTube at the time of acquisition. YouTube also wasn't really acquihire. The site had a huge user base Google wanted.
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by ascar 7y ago
My point wasn't about multiple choice tests, where I have to cross out false answers to get the right one. That this is testing the wrong skill and again only reinforces the question-creators opinion, even though I might disagree with
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by ascar 7y ago
> Some things seemed so far fetched, so random, so made up. And yet it was supposed to be _the_ right answer. When I offered another one, even knowing the official one but disagreeing, I was graded as failing. I absolutely agree with t
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by ascar 8y ago
Small anecdote: The acceptance email to my universities study abroad program landed in my Gmail spam folder. An email that I had 5 days to react to or someone else gets the spot. I thought it's great that I have so rarely stuff in my G
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by ascar 8y ago
I don't think there is a huge ethical problem with automatically terminating employees based on metrics. Quite the opposite, it could make this process more fair. The problem is in how the metrics are used and there is no real differen
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by ascar 8y ago
Birth control can fail. Depending on the kind of birth control more or less unexpectedly...
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by ascar 8y ago
Yes, I agree. It only solves a subset of the problems. Formatting and RTL/LTR is difficult to solve with gettext.
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by ascar 8y ago
> Most of these people aren't "incompatible with peaceful society", they just need help and can't get it Do you have any source that most of these people can't get it? With a father who outright refused any med
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by ascar 8y ago
You make a lot of good points in the linked article, but you lose some credibility right from the start > Secondly, it makes it impossible to introduce multiple messages with the same source string which should be translated differently
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by ascar 8y ago
GNU gettext is a well working framework for i18n. For the sentence ordering we include all variables in the translations, but split translations on styles. We then give the translator the text in order of html appearance in source code for
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by ascar 8y ago
One of my manager once told me: Sometimes you are unproductive all week and then you push out two weeks of work in a day. It's not always this extreme, but I would be crushed, when measured on a daily basis including some very unproduc
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by ascar 8y ago
Something like this is usually not done out of economic incentives, but because of ethical and emotional incentives. In the end people do it to feel good, but might do more harm, just in another way.
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by ascar 8y ago
Thank you. Didn't know that :) I misinterpreted stuff there
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by ascar 8y ago
It's different today though. While the historically famous Edo period lasted 265 years, today the periods just end when an emperors reign ends. They are also counting years (today, not sure if they did earlier). E.g. 2018 is 平成30年 (Hei
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by ascar 8y ago
Here you go https://imgur.com/a/BzMdUtQ I think I can't edit the styles in Chrome on Android though. (no dev tools) This https://imgur.com/a/I3CHas1 is for comparison a screenshot of the mobi
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by ascar 8y ago
Cool! For my personal taste a little bit too much padding for my Galaxy S9 though. 1.25rem or 1.5rem would be sufficient and gives another 1-2 characters per line. But that's mostly personal taste.
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by ascar 8y ago
And your CTO didn't know about your trip abroad? Seems highly unlikely.
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by ascar 8y ago
Your first four points basically describe lat/lon. But it is hard for humans to parse long characters/numbers. And it's even more difficult to speak random characters. E.g. "B" "b" "be" "bee
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by ascar 8y ago
It's confusing for me, because bike is used for both depending on context. But when you are talking about cycling, most people (outside of India) would interpret bike as bicycle. If bike is used without much context, I would also assum
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by ascar 8y ago
I usually don't wanna be that guy, but this is super confusing to read. When you say bike, you mean a motorbike. Bicycle, cycle and bike are synonyms for the 2-wheeler without a motor. Bike is only used for motorbike, if the context is
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by ascar 8y ago
I'm curious, if NVC goes for indirect instead of direct conversation. I was working in an American company (I'm German) and had to learn to adapt to the style of being too nice (in my opinion). E.g. an "it might be better to

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