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by badpun 2y ago
> Since trade is conducted largely in USD, that means other governments must purchase USD to trade. This is the core of trade deficits. Foreign countries buy US dollars so they can trade with other people. That guarantees the deficit sin
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Given predicted decline i global population size, some of these effect will be partially offset by less pressure from the population.
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Until now, EU countries saw US as alligned with them, so saw no need to wall off US social media and start their own, with their own propaganda, like Russia and China did.
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There are plenty of things to invent still, but perhaps no longer in software. Every other field - mining, railroads, car making, chemistry etc. had its huge boom period sparkled by breakthrough innovations, and later settled into a mature
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by badpun 2y ago
You can make gasoline out of coal. That was in fact Hitler's backup plan for WWII, in case he failed to secure the oil fields he needed.
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by badpun 2y ago
Wait till you see YouTube.com, they literally got millions of people to make videos for them, most of them for free!
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by badpun 2y ago
The issue is the electricity bill (for cooling).
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If both of the major parties are against something, you can only vote for some independent third party, which in the foreseeable future will never even have a single seat in Congress (not to mention a ruling majority). In countries without
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by badpun 2y ago
That's what I was doing as well (only in Bytom lol, to have even lower life expenses), till I retired at 41 years old. But, software engineers are an exception. Everybody else is pretty much making local salaries, which are lower than
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by badpun 2y ago
If you work in a high-paying profession, you'll probably be able to retire faster (off your savings) in US than in Poland. On the other hand, in the US you'll have to work harder and more hours.
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Most US citizens are for socialized health care. However, t seems that both parties are bought by the health care industry and prevent the change the people want.
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Working inside a government is your best bet for a chill work. They're sheltered from market forces, so don't have to maximize output from their employees.
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by badpun 2y ago
In general, I find retired people are more intersting, because they have so much more free time and, in consequence, so much more going on in their lives (interests, relationships, going deep into things), compared to people who just have t
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by badpun 2y ago
> now I'm focused on all the schlock-y writing of the latest Marvel movie I'm at with my friends instead of enjoying it Not enjoying crappy Marvel movies any more is a feature not a bug, it means you're growing as a human
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by badpun 2y ago
For many people, that's Apple. You pay a premium, but the product will not shitty in many ways that the competition can be. Sure, they drop the ball from time to time (see the MBP keyboard fiasco c.a. 7 years ago), but at least they tr
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by badpun 2y ago
Russia hardly has high speed rail, it's just one line (Moscow to St. Petersburg) and top speed is just 200 km/h for most of the line.
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by badpun 2y ago
You can use modules to structure your own codebase. No more need to write headers and think about how to structure your code in terms of compilation units. But yeah, your link shows that practically none of the popular libraries (except STL
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by badpun 2y ago
C++20 has modules, which replace header files completely (unless you use old libraries which aren't available as modules yet). Compiler support is there, but unfortunately IDEs are lagging. If you use modules with Visual Studio, say go
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Women get tons of matches though.
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I wonder if we're entering an era of social stagnation, caused by screens. Before screen-based entertainment was so ubiquitous, young people (teens and young adults) experienced a lot of boredom, which pushed them to do new things. Man
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by badpun 2y ago
It's more complicated than that. For example, software in car or electronics companies is not a cost center, but is nevertheless treated as an ugly stepchild most of the time. They usually have a culture, where "hardware" eng
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by badpun 2y ago
If you are advanced enough to do that, you’re advanced enough to clean up Earth and make it a paradise.
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> I find myself falling into this line of thought a lot: why should we make tradeoffs that favor the earth instead of hyper-accelerating progress to get off of it in preparation for its inevitable demise? Get off and go where? Anywhere w
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> I’m considered a low performer along with 3/4ths of my team. We’re a 4 man engineering team. If three out of four people are "low performers", you're good. They can't fire all three of you. One guy being too sl
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by badpun 2y ago
You don't _have_ to work harder, as evidenced by those people who do the bare minimum. You just care about your work more than people who pay you for it (or the manager hired to manage you), which is the cause of your frustration here
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> And while this might be healthier for you as an individual, it's bad for the Economy. ... an while it's bad for the economy, it may be good for the country. Notice how Europe doesn't have regular school shootings, rampan
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I would too I think, if I lived in the US. But the culture around law in Poland is pretty much opposite of the US. People just aren't lawsuit-happy, probably partially because the courts are inefficient and you can wait a long time for
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by badpun 2y ago
That's how it works in Poland. A client required me to get an insurance for my 1-person contracting company, and I was able to get a policy that only covers trivial things like spilling hot coffee on someone, but none of the software r
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How would they know that though? It's a huge personal risk that can be alleviated simply by investing in anything else in the world besides US companies.
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Jailing people just for having a stake in a company that did something illegal could kill the economy. People would be affraid to invest in companies, and move money to simple things like real estate (or to foreign investments).

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