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by badpun 2y ago
There are jobs (e.g. database engine development) where knowledge of distributed systems algorithms comes in handy. Most likely not nearly at the level of your theoretical PhD, but also much more stimulating that adding fields to JSON.
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by badpun 2y ago
To my understanding, Netherlands had a long-standing tradition of maritime commerce. Before discovery of sea routes to Asia and Americas, they were doing a lot of trading within Europe (e.g. selling Polish grain on the Western markets). Aft
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by badpun 2y ago
Netherlands back then flourished thanks to being a trade superpower (similar to Venice a couple centuries earlier), not thanks to being open to immigrants. Poland was also extremely open to immigrants back then, but didn’t have the high sea
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by badpun 2y ago
They usually are. Even a couple centuries ago, a lot of Europe’s elites back then didn’t even speak the language of their own country on a daily basis - they preferred French. The culture of their own country was often something they knew r
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by badpun 2y ago
Japan also had no economic growth and had a population decline over the past couple of decades - this for sure must cool the housing market.
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by badpun 2y ago
Partnership can have employees who are not partners.
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by badpun 3y ago
In Poland, according to official government stats, 60 year old men will, on average, die at 78 year old. 60 yo women will, on average, die at 83 year old. Interestingly, for 30 year olds, it's average death at 73 for men and 81 for wom
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by badpun 3y ago
C# is mostly adopted by large, hugely profitable companies which were penetrated by Microsoft sales teams, whereas Ruby companies are the opposite - startups which have made it past the startup stage. Some of them are successful, but majori
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by badpun 3y ago
You can only make billions as developer if you start a company. Then, you're no longer a developer, but rather a business owner and operator - something that a lorry driver can do as well. Also, there's probably larger chance of s
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by badpun 3y ago
I think Jobs once said that they're not willing to pay top market rates because they don't want to attract people strongly and primarily motivated by money.
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by badpun 3y ago
Not neccessarily. Companies just pay each country's market wages. The difference between US and UK is that large amount of developer positions with high return on investment (for the company) pushes US market wages upwards - all those
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by badpun 3y ago
By some estimates, the US is home to 50% of world's globally reaching corporations. Software written at those companies has giant business implications (thanks to those companies' scale), and thus the devs can be better compensate
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by badpun 3y ago
Company that's not a corporation. As per dictionary: - company: a commercial business. - corporation: a large company or group of companies authorized to act as a single entity and recognized as such in law.
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by badpun 3y ago
I don't think it's "corporate world", but just capitalism. Non-corporate companies often have thinner margins than corporations and thus skimp on "extras" such as quality, craftsmanship etc. even more.
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by badpun 3y ago
In European bank I worked at, it was worked around by having an employee "reviewing" the "recommendation" given by AI, and making the final decision. The final decision was of course 100% in line with AI "recommenda
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by badpun 3y ago
Your work doesn't seem to have a purpose for you, apart from just paying the bills/surviving. It would help to find a new motivation. For me, it was improveing my coding skills to get better paying jobs, so that I can save a lot o
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by badpun 3y ago
> There are lots of codes that we need to destroy corporations and states. Interesting. Can you give a couple examples?
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by badpun 3y ago
Da Vinci perhaps did not lament, but hustled hard to minimize the amount of boring commissions people were most willing to pay for (portraits of noblewomen, of merchants' daughters etc.). And, when he did take a boring commission work,
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by badpun 3y ago
Most things are hard or impossible to monetize. It's much better to focus on monetizing things that are easy monetize to and bring in a lot of money (e.g. coding skills, via a full-time job), than trying to monetize writing, guitar pl
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by badpun 3y ago
Regarding low-income as a result of adverse childhood experiences. This ignores the fact that some jobs just don't pay a lot, and even if everyone had super-duper childhood, some portion of those people would still end up working minim
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by badpun 3y ago
I don't know if he'll read my email right away, which is important if I want him to call me back ASAP.
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by badpun 3y ago
I don't think it's better (unless you prefer smaller phones, which is the case for me), but it's also not worse, and around 50% cheaper. Unless you're a multimillionaire, that should be a factor.
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by badpun 3y ago
I tried getting into some forms of art (mostly drawing) many times, but in the end I always find it contrived and pointless. Basically a more taxing version of playing bingo to pass the time.
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by badpun 3y ago
Texts come in at later stages of discussion, e.g. when I miss their call and need to ask them to call again etc.
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by badpun 3y ago
Get the iphone SE then. More than good enough for everyday intents and purposes, and you’ll save hundreds of dollars.
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by badpun 3y ago
I’m in Europe (Poland). I only miss other people not having iMessage when dealing with recruiters, because a sizable portion of them are from abroad and replying to their texts costs money (roaming laws do not cover it).
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by badpun 3y ago
It wasn’t just „German Greens” who opposed buying Russian gas, it was a nearly universal EU ban.
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by badpun 3y ago
> people with higher IQ (...) tend to be able to better control their impulses Is that true? Are there studies showing that?
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by badpun 3y ago
I don't know about German law, I was talking about Poland. In Poland, the employer cannot refuse to give you a day off (even if your request it on the very day), four times a year.
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by badpun 3y ago
You can take a day off when you're not feeling it and don't want to go to the doctor, but it will be subtracted from your paid vacations. You can do that for up to four days a year. It's not that much different than the sick

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