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by ascar 8y ago
It's not about differential pricing. If a vendor has to pay x% on a majority of purchases, he will just increase the price for all purchases. So without CC everyone pays less, while with a majority CC customers, everyone pays more. Whi
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by ascar 8y ago
While I don't necessarily disagree with your first statement, your second statement seems to put things in the wrong light. > It can be more than just saline polluted. Pretty much anything that can be in the earth and can mix with
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by ascar 8y ago
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (the tab) had a feature in cooperation with WolframAlpha a few years back that translated your handwritten formula into a nice digital formula. It was like 90% there. Unfortunately fixing interpretation errors was a
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by ascar 8y ago
But why shouldn't companies be able to hire only employees that like and fit into how the company is run, i.e. culture fit. Every company is different and attracts different kinds of employees for various reasons. Anti-discrimination i
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by ascar 8y ago
And there are many companies that value humbleness. I love sharing my accomplishments. I know what's socially expected from me, but not sharing feels really bad to me. It feels as all the work I've done and that cool accomplishmen
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by ascar 8y ago
Most children in non-english countries, especially in US influenced countries, have to learn English for up to 12 years in school. I'm not sure, if there are any other benefits than being able to communicate in English. But in Germany
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by ascar 8y ago
> Same with training, almost all other jobs give you time for training, but for programming learning new technology is somehow something you should be teaching yourself in your spare time. Maybe it's your company? All companies I
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by ascar 8y ago
I was in Tokyo to the emperors new years speach and we got two Japanese plastic flags to wave around that we could keep after the event. We walked a bit in the city and my spouse wanted to take pictures of me in a park. She put the flags on
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by ascar 8y ago
> the program was a bit of an industry mismatch in that they don't teach software engineering but academic theoretical computer science, which has at most 10% overlap with what programmers in industry do The important thing to rem
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by ascar 8y ago
> s3 costs of docker image with nothing but the base os An alpine container is in the middle double digit MB range and will be reused in all other images using it. The space costs are trivial. Furthermore the base image is hosted on Do
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by ascar 8y ago
I'm always getting angry that most countries force many kids to be sleep deprived for ~12 years. I was one of them. I just can't operate properly before 10a.m. and even if I'm super tired it's very difficult to fall asle
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by ascar 8y ago
If that would actually be the case you would have these salaries all around the world, but you don't. Because it's mainly a few big highly profitable companies (FAANG) that can afford these salaries and a big VC and stock market f
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by ascar 8y ago
Not parent, but I would define it as "Monuments" to visit (e.g. Eiffel tower), history of the area, culture entertainment like museums or theaters (i.e. not just movies, but opera, plays, musicals or concerts) and maybe regional a
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by ascar 8y ago
I have the feeling they force some UI and especially icon redesign with every new Android version. Not because it's necessarily or actually looks better, but just to make it different. It's mildly annoying to me. Especially since
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by ascar 8y ago
Who defines "moral"? I can't see that breaking any law is the moral thing to do as the law is the moral code that society agreed to give it self (at least in a democracy). By your logic it might become moral to murder, becaus
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by ascar 8y ago
The only time I've seen something similar to what you describe was on my trip in New York. And I've been to about 20 countries across 4 continents. It's an American homegrown problem with too much focus on capitalism. edit: Y
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by ascar 8y ago
I got also very annoyed by that to the point where I spent more time filtering fake reviews than the cheap product is worth. I always start npw by remembering myself that a physical shop would not give me any reviews, but also often the sam
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by ascar 8y ago
My personal experience is very contradictionary to that statement. Handoptimizing a slow PEG parser, but still using PEG gave me 10% performance increase. Handwriting it on low level libraries, but in the same high level language, gave me a
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by ascar 8y ago
I was just paraphrasing the concept of authentication for email domains. That's what DMARC is doing and why I mentioned DKIM and SPF. I was unaware gmail free has a supported way to add the correct SPF records. Though thinking about it
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by ascar 8y ago
Thanks for the quick and honest answers :) About DKIM: It adds another layer of authentication to the email by adding a signature. It being absent isn't really a bad indicator, because unfortunately email headers might change during de
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by ascar 8y ago
That sounds pretty much like spoofing to me and not as actually sending from that address. Or does Gmail also give you the option to add the necessary DKIM and SPF records to your domain?
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by ascar 8y ago
I'm a little bit skeptical, because you present very little information. Maybe it's all in the signed-in area? 1. I don't see anything about DMARC (DKIM, SPF) setup for your users. Do you provide DMARC? 2. Do you use shared i
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by ascar 8y ago
Even POP3 should suffice for backups. It downloads the complete emails by default anyway :)
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by ascar 8y ago
That he probably didn't have a paid sabbatical. Getting paid for a sabbatical is very rare and not the norm.
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by ascar 8y ago
We had until about a decade ago a system in Germany that forced us to choose between 9 months of military service or 9 months of civil service (everything from emergency service to elderly care). It was highly unfair in the sense that women
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by ascar 8y ago
> going to shop at supermarkets and food stalls as late as possible Yes I do the same multiple days per week. It works surprisingly well here though. Rarely more than 3-4 boxes left on the shelf that has over a hundred around noon. Som
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by ascar 8y ago
Ah from my experience on HN derailing topics is acceptable as long as it stays constructive and new things are said. Also no one is forced to read a thread that already starts at ~3 levels deep, if he doesn't like the topic. It's
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by ascar 8y ago
Are you sure your friends disclose their actual salary? Or might they be underselling themselves to meet expectations and not disturb 和 (Wa)? Would be a very Japanese thing to do, wouldn't it?
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by ascar 8y ago
I hope I'm not annoying you with my replies. I'm enjoying the friendly discussion. > To your point of foreign food in Japan, I find it to be of better quality than foreign food in Europe. That's mostly an illusion based
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by ascar 8y ago
> Not to mention the fact that in many Western capitals you literally walk on garbage. The discipline Japanese have in regards to garbage is astonishing. Especially if you consider how much plastic wrap they use. I was so surprised see

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