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by biztos 4y ago
I sort of doubt that's how it works in Texas, but in Germany that's the law! A company can only prevent you from working for a competitor by A) keeping you employed by them; or, B) paying what the competitor would pay you. When I
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by biztos 4y ago
> You can however assess how smart somebody is Are you saying the Leetcode-style interview assesses how smart someone is?
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by biztos 4y ago
Maybe if you could outsource the handing to a low-wage country, while still having the handees be either Gen-Z Americans or other VC-backed companies.
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by biztos 4y ago
My place in Bangkok is a nice modern luxury building... at least it was luxury when they built it 17 years ago, now it's falling apart a bit but the amenities are awesome. The electric is probably grounded straight into the Chao Phray
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by biztos 4y ago
> as long as you mind your voltage It's not the plugs, it's the devices (or more commonly now, the power adapters) that work with 120, 240, or however many volts. Nowadays many (most?) things take both voltages or, AFAICT -- I&
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by biztos 4y ago
> the lack of innovation in AC power plugs Having lived in a country (Thailand) where both Euro and US plugs work just fine as long as you mind your voltage, I have become quite annoyed at that lack of innovation.
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by biztos 4y ago
No comment on the actual content, but I love how the German version is almost 30% longer ;-)
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by biztos 4y ago
> I'm assuming stereo is 2-speakers You can't do stereo with fewer than 2 speakers but even if you have 64, you're probably still doing stereo. (Or you are a movie theater.) Generally speaking, you can probably achieve
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by biztos 4y ago
I have a friend who as of 2019 was still running her black plastic MacBook for music production. (Probably still is.) Every time I saw it I felt a little pain -- why did I buy the white one? (Which turned half yellow with time.) I guess it
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by biztos 4y ago
Is that not a use-case for Family Sharing? Apple says you can "download content" bought by other family members[0], but I guess this doesn't work for subscriptions? That's a real missed opportunity. I would expect them
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by biztos 4y ago
Commerzbank terminated my contract after 14 years as a loyal customer (and plenty of money in the account) — they refused to say why, but my best guess is they were culling Americans. I think getting a German bank to open a business account
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by biztos 4y ago
> You have one packet loss, your download is doomed. I’ve noticed that on my iPad with a few different video services. Makes me wonder if there’s a buggy video-download API. In any case, absolutely maddening when you’re trying to “fill
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by biztos 4y ago
> expect the government to bail them out … > A lot of other businesses did not prepare for this So did the government bail them out?
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by biztos 4y ago
I have Nanoleaf bulbs that connect to my phone via Bluetooth. It’s kinda fun, these are my first ever RGB bulbs, but it’s super slow and finicky. I will probably upgrade to the Philips next year. They were cheap though!
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by biztos 4y ago
Um, figurative painting is all the rage in the actual art world today. Art was never primarily about realistic mimicking of nature, even if some subset of it in some cultures may have temporarily appeared to be.
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by biztos 4y ago
What I really loved about those magazines, living in a small town, was how they simultaneously showed you the variety of what was out there, mostly through the small ads, and the speculative future of the technology through the articles, wh
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by biztos 4y ago
Sorry, I really didn’t get that far. I’m just trying to figure out what “uselife” means, not the dating tech.
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by biztos 4y ago
I'm not an archaeologist and I'm having difficulty looking up "uselife" online. What does it mean? Is it jargon for "the duration of its use by humans?" In the above quote that's how I read it: "When
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by biztos 4y ago
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but why would ancient sculptors necessarily have to work fast? Bang some rocks together for half an hour, come back later; you have a perceptually infinite supply of half-hours; eventually you'll get i
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by biztos 4y ago
> retire into a jar I mean, that's the Metaverse, right?
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by biztos 4y ago
Much of SF is annoyingly loud, but much of it isn’t. The Outer Richmond can be super peaceful, so can parts of Noe Valley, and in Diamond Heights I could hardly believe I was in a city. Just to name a few places I know; there are plenty m
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by biztos 4y ago
But there could be, right? It’s just that actually backing your PLNC 1:1 with actual Złoty[0] you can actually retrieve, leaves very little room for the people behind the coin to get rich. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by biztos 4y ago
> It’s pretty obvious … the ultimate goal here is for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) How is that obvious, or maybe — to whom? I think the whole CBDC idea as more like governments trying to pile on to the “blockchain” trend. We a
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by biztos 4y ago
I agree with the other replies about California Superlative in general, but at least in German it would not be weird for some corporate bro to say he was "WAHNSINNIG stolz..." which means exactly the same thing.
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by biztos 4y ago
* Volca if $SONG < 256 * Kastle while $SONG == $DRONE * Model::Samples while $SONG in @SAMPLES && isNotOnFire($BATTERY) * !$BUDGET && PO-33
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by biztos 4y ago
My German online bank, N26, does free “instant” SEPA up to 2000 EUR. I think others do too but not all.
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by biztos 4y ago
Nope, I’m going to NYC soon for the first time since 2000… Times Square is not on my bucket list but I will keep an eye out!
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by biztos 4y ago
In Bangkok, ads for crypto everything and NFT stuff are ubiquitous. One of the biggest campaigns says “Join the Crypto Revolution.” I’m sure a lot of people are buying into this lottery who really should not. Meanwhile in the consumer pro
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by biztos 4y ago
A couple months ago I was trying to figure out how they did “stablecoins” across multiple IRL currencies, which of course can fluctuate wildly against each other IRL. Their Discord helpfully explained that it’s just incentivized validator-
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by biztos 4y ago
On a big database migration a few years ago where I was working, the “solution” was to assign one of the engineers the DBA-ish role for the duration of the project. Turned out to be a bad idea, but he did his best. If we had had anyone who

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