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by badpun 3y ago
It's simple - after sanctions, the Chinese got a much bigger pie of the Russian car market.
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by badpun 3y ago
Java Swing still works.
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by badpun 3y ago
1. I agree that difficult work should be payed more. For example, military service is as difficult as being a CEO (just in a different way), but pays a fraction of CEO's salary. 2. Should job requiring acquisition of skills pay more? P
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by badpun 3y ago
I will agree to abolish the inequality caused by WfH when CEOs agree to abolish the inequality caused by salary discrepancies (i.e. never). We leave in an inequal society, and for good reasons.
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by badpun 3y ago
I've heard good things about Switzerland.
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by badpun 3y ago
We simply don't know what it will be. Growth in nature does not continue at the same pace forever, and eventually the speed of innovation will taper off. It's a common phenomena, described with an S-curve: ( https://en.w
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by badpun 3y ago
People who are hungry obviously can't afford the food, so giving them free food does not withdraw them from the food market, as they weren't on it already. Consequently, the overall demand for food does not fall.
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by badpun 3y ago
> My solution in general terms is to go where competence isn’t ambiguous. And you went into management?
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by badpun 3y ago
There's no indication that the pace of innovation for LLMs in the near future will be anywhere near what it has been in the past few years.
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by badpun 3y ago
From what I've heard, Japan has very different corporate culture, more focused on loyalty and social stability, than on maximizing profit. They can even keep unprofitable divisions of the company, because they don't want to fire p
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by badpun 3y ago
On the other hand, this limits the number of jobs available to you by a factor of 10 or 20, depending on how large the industry is.
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by badpun 3y ago
And without commercialization, i.e. without millions to pay people to code and flesh out the actual product, there is little more that a cool PoC.
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by badpun 3y ago
In my experience, average contracting rates are not that different between UK and mainland Northern Europe. It's around 500-600 GBP in UK, and 500-700 EUR in Northern Europe (or local equivalent in SEK, DKK etc.). Southern Europe is mu
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by badpun 3y ago
> Civilization 1 and 2 was much greater experience than 5 How so? I've played all 3 of those, and much prefer the Civ 5. Or at least I think I do? I haven't played Civ 1 or 2 for 20 years now, so it's hard to compare.
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by badpun 3y ago
Solar and wind are pretty expensive a lot of the time, e.g. on windless nights.
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by badpun 3y ago
Innovation, at least in our sector, requires capital investment. Hardly any startup can bootstrap. At high interest rates, and with people retiring and moving their money into safe assets, there will be little appetite to fund startups in t
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by badpun 3y ago
Without oil and gas and coal (meaning - if they all disappear today), modern world as it looks today ceases to exist. The death toll would probably be in the billions, and standard of living for people who survive could be potentially worse
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by badpun 3y ago
I'm not an accountant, but to me it looks like the IRS was operating at an assumption that the software engineers write is not immediately consumed, but rather has on average 5 years amortization period (meaning, it's producing va
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by badpun 3y ago
> 99% of jobs are CRUD People say that, but I have yet to work on a CRUD project. That's despite 15 years in industry and being involved with dozens of projects. My guess is that simple CRUD use cases are automated via Google Spread
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by badpun 3y ago
For some people, yeah. For others - you don't argue with a an attack of crippling headache, you lie paralysed in a convulsive spasm, waiting for it to pass. And then you remember that you perhaps should rest more.
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by badpun 3y ago
That's perhaps true, but the lack of energy is also simultaneously true. Just a tougher-than-usual week at work can give me crippling headaches from pushing myself to the brink. The time after work is definitely spent recuperating, so
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by badpun 3y ago
Presumably, you leave to go work for another company, so none of these are a problem.
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by badpun 3y ago
Most people don't have nearly inexaustible amount of energy, so they need to rest and recuperate (merely just sleeping will not do it for them). So, if they have a demanding job, the 40 hours of week of having fun outside of work will
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by badpun 3y ago
In Poland, some of the houses where historical exterior by law needs to be preserved are insulated from the inside. Of course this eats into the square footage of the building.
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by badpun 3y ago
It's not just shipping costs and times, but also (and perhaps most importantly) shipping's total capacity. The same fleet of ships can now make substantially less trips, which means that substantially less goods will be transporte
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by badpun 3y ago
> and the people are better off with free, open markets long term. The theory only says that all the people globally will be better off. It does not say anything about citizens of a specific country that is applying protectionism. They m
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by badpun 3y ago
> Anna Karenina: Talks about rural and urban life, faith, and social change in the 19th century Yes. But does not talk that much about politics. Unless for you the above things somehow count as politics? > The Idiot: Centers around so
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by badpun 3y ago
> Let's say you have one car per hour, or any number of cars approaching in such a way that none of them gets close to the intersection at the same time. That's not light traffic, that's basically no traffic. I don't
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by badpun 3y ago
For example, most of the greatest classics, e.g. "Anna Karenina", "East of Eden", "Mice and Men", "The Idiot", "Crime and Punishment", "Frankenstein" etc. etc.
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by badpun 3y ago
There are oceans of non-political novels which nevertheless have something to say.

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