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by badpun 2y ago
A Wired story says the EPAM employee whose laptop was compromised with a keylogger was Ukrainian, not Polish.
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Depends on definiton of poverty. In many places, it has moved from living in objectively deprived conditions, to just being in the bottom centiles of population.
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Prohibit importing non-compliant goods. Do compliance checking in ports and punish local importers, both companies and their owners/executives, for noncompliance.
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The LNG facility will presumably produce some jobs, and bring in a lot of taxes (from exporting large quantities of natgas overseas.) So, the dam is basically an investment for the state, which will pay dividends for decades to come. That’s
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They have a very advanced and large economy (fourth in the world by size). Their problem is labor shortage, due to being one of the oldest nation in the world. They've already outsourced a ton of work, because there just isn't eno
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> One way I’ve heard American firms fire is to force employees to relocate to another Asia office with more lax protections. I find it hard to believe the American firms can "force" employees in Japan to relocate to another cou
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I’d say uk is probably in top10-top20 places in the world to live.
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Math is not about the universe, it would be true even if the universe didn’t exist at all.
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It's not a matter of scale. The whole business premise is that it can be almost fully automated via computers. The terrible customer service is baked in, no matter if Google has 1 million or 1 billion users.
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> For example, when you play games online today and you purchase cosmetic items or you play magic the gathering and buy cards, it's pretty silly that you only own a license to use those things for as long as the game exists and ther
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Billionaires depend on regular people having money, as otherwise they lose customer base. So I'm guessing, if your scenario materializes, the elites will be pro-UBI.
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How is Netflix special then? How’s it different from Disney, HBO, Sky, or dozens of other companies that also do paid video streaming?
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In Poland, it's not hard. I suspect some other EE countries are similar. Western Europe is harder, with high marginal tax rates and super-expensive real estate.
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> Been around forever (70’s or earlier), large multinational, more about business integration and sales than any headline tech. This fits Microsoft as well. Are they not in tech?
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First things baliffs typically seize are bank accounts, way less fuss with them than with physical assets. You typically only seize physical assets from broke people, or from companies that went bankrupt.
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by badpun 2y ago
1. I don't have any strong interests. I like to dabble in many things, but nothing is interesting enough for me to stay with it if I don't have to. 2. The fun part of programming is conceptualizing (e.g. figuring out a new algorit
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by badpun 2y ago
You need money to survive. Hence, it's wise to optimise your life to obtain money with minimum suffering involved.
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There isn't that much genuine innovation going on in our industry. This is one of the few cases. No wonder people are interested.
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He must have a ginormous ego to even consider running in his state of health. Seemed borderline narcissistic to me.
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by badpun 2y ago
It’s not a rounding error.
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Whenever you have two goals competing for the same resources, you need to prioritize. I'm for preserving life on Earth first, and spreading it to other places as a distant second.
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Why it's a good idea to fill galaxy with life? Why should we care about it? Also, seeing that our current civilization-system is already at the brink of catastrophe, we should focus on less ambitious goals, such as preserving life on E
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by badpun 2y ago
America has absurd amounts of natural resources, compared to all European countries except Russia. It would be fairly rich just by exploiting them, without any advanced economy, just like Australia or Canada are. Add advanced economy on top
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by badpun 2y ago
There are no school buses in Polish cities. I was using regular city transit buses, just like grownups do when going to their jobs.
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by badpun 2y ago
I was born in a walkable in Europe. School was 5 minutes (by walk) from home. High school was 10-15 minutes by bus, plus 10 minutes walking to the bus stops. The bus service was very frequent, there was no endless waiting on bus stops in sn
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If you enjoy the goal, but not the process, there's a term for it - it's called a grind. It's no different from weight loss or any other unpleasant chores. You choose to temporarily suffer in order to accomplish the goal. Inc
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Most people (in rich countries) can retire early if they live frugally enough. There'd be much less workers on the market, so companies would make much less stuff - but frugal living means less consumption and much more reuse anyway, s
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That would make sense, except Amazon stock's PE is currently around 50, which means that it's priced like a highly innovative company with large growth potential. So, if management doesn't want a massive stock price drop (and
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If it's not her, it will be somebody else. The system is the problem, not specific people.

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