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by badpun 3y ago
In Europe, you don't generally get "sick days" - you're entitled to stay at home or in hospital for as long as it takes for you to get better (even for years, if necessary). In the meantime, your salary is paid by the st
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by badpun 3y ago
What does enterprise API management entail in practice? Configuring endpoints and services on Kubernetes?
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by badpun 3y ago
China leads in solar panel production, not neccessarily in "climate change". Production of their panels emits vastly larger amounts of CO2 (because so many things are coal-powered in China) than panels produced in say Europe.
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by badpun 3y ago
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If the software is ok and it's free, why throw money at it? Companies generally spend as little money as possible. The tech industry in the past 10 years was an aberration, because it was fuel
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by badpun 3y ago
Problem with Russia isn't even primarily that they want to pull you into your sphere of influence - because, as a Russia's neighbour, to defend yourself, you have to subscribe to another sphere of influence (US). The main problem
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by badpun 3y ago
How about he steals your suit next, you'll likely be fine as well.
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Did the system somehow forced this man to avoid working for a living?
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by badpun 3y ago
Chinaski was working for a living, this guy would rather cheat and steal, as he thinks labor is beneath him (he described a regular cleaner's job as "demeaning").
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by badpun 3y ago
He stole a $4k suit out of a store, for one thing.
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by badpun 3y ago
There are plenty of other forms of companies than LLC which people can use. With an LLC, the company is only liable with the capital that it has, and if it has none, then it can scam people with impunity (there can be criminal charges if th
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by badpun 3y ago
Madoff wasn't a banker.
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Technology will be our downfall.
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by badpun 3y ago
What will be wrong with living on the surface, that could be only fixed with living underground? The only thing that comes to my mind is radiation after a nuclear exchange.
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by badpun 3y ago
Singularity will allow anyone with capital to employ large number of virtual geniuses, working tirelessly to solve their problems. This should vastly accelerate GDP growth (one researcher estimates it at GDP doubling every couple of weeks I
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by badpun 3y ago
Stars are hired because they make the studios money (as a marketing vehicle), not on some money-wasting whim.
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by badpun 3y ago
Same here. Great movies (most of the imdb Top 250 easily qualifies) can be rewatched every couple of years IMO, unless you have unusually good memory.
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by badpun 3y ago
The expectations are absolutely communicated, but usually behind a closed door, between the CEO and a consultancy's senior partner that may not even be involved with the project directly (because he's too high up). And there'
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by badpun 3y ago
> I remember meeting an old artist at college who had gone to NYC for training in his youth. He explained how such an adventure was impossible nowadays, because it's just not possible to afford living in NYC as a young person withou
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by badpun 3y ago
> It's fine for your early 30s, but if you hope to be part of the "professional class" then that form of living takes it's toll exceptionally quickly. Why it doesn't take a toll on members of other classes?
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by badpun 3y ago
Where "abroad" is pretty much US or Switzerland?
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by badpun 3y ago
> You have to ask why they feel the need to spend on contractors. They often have salary caps which don't allow them to fill all vacant positions. Whereas the same company's caps for contractors are higher.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Yes.. so hypothetically if not for Safari/Chrome not being updatable for MacOS High Sierra, she would still be using the same laptop. If she'd preferred not to spend money on the laptop, or is just angry about Apple's pl
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by badpun 3y ago
> One doesn’t have to be in the NBA to play basketball, but there’s a world of difference between playing at the local park versus being on the Golden State Warriors. Depends on the research field. For example, Einstein did some of his b
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by badpun 3y ago
Is it really falling apart? The US universities hire many, probably thousans or even tens of thosands, of excellent history professors. What's the problem with it?
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by badpun 3y ago
> You then define all value only within the limited logic of markets. Not all value, just monetary one. There's plenty of valueable activities that do not pay much or even a dime. However, the discussion revolved about making a livi
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by badpun 3y ago
> What's so interesting is that so many of these cheaters, the worst ones included, were extremely intelligent people. It's not surprising at all. In Computer Science at least, intelligent people quickly realise that CS univers
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by badpun 3y ago
Yep. Cheating was one of the few truly creative and exciting things I did in school and uni. Printing out large amounts of pieces of paper with 3.75 font that included significant parts of Halliday and Resnick allowed me to pass my physics
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by badpun 3y ago
Well, except for: "Europe tends to be much less diverse and less creative in its foods."
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by badpun 3y ago
> Who else feels like they left money on the table by missing out on Nvidia, selling too soon, or being invested in the wrong tech stocks like Apple, Google, or Tesla. I don't feel like I've left money on the table when I'
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by badpun 3y ago
Exactly. Remember that we are not customers, we are the product. Presumably, LinkedIn is adding a lot of useful features for their actual customers, they're just not visible to us.

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