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by biztos 5y ago
A friend of mine had the Abmahnung thing happen to her. Accidentally included a photo without permission, in a batch of photos she otherwise had permission for, in a portfolio of architectural work. After a few years she got a claim for a
902.
by biztos 5y ago
If it’s a stupid question, nobody told the EU. https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=457 “Better pay” has brought lots of computer programmers, construction workers, and yes, prostitutes from one EU country to ano
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by biztos 5y ago
I don’t know about the legality, but home distilling is the norm and not the exception in rural Hungary, Serbia, and plenty of other European countries.
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by biztos 5y ago
“FKK” is German for “nudist/naturist” and means Free Body Culture, in case anyone was wondering. Most spas in Germany expect everyone to be naked, but don’t involve anything sexual at all. Large scale brothels use the term as a transp
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by biztos 5y ago
What about dealers that only supply these recreational users? Is there something about this “bad” judgement that puts it in a different class than drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, or supersizing your daily McMeal?
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by biztos 5y ago
Sounds like the maintainer is optimizing for job security and/or work-life balance. And from all the comments on this post, it sounds like that’s a pretty rational course of action.
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by biztos 5y ago
Being able to stop, go back, and look stuff up is huge. Googling the common form of a phrase you want to use is huge. Assuming you have basic reading proficiency already. I’m learning Thai: literacy is not for beginners here. But I look fo
908.
by biztos 5y ago
…and for Americans, not getting in trouble with the SEC.
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by biztos 5y ago
This may be a stupid question but: is it actually possible to have a price less than zero? TFA suggests that this line: require(_share_price > 0, “Invalid share price”); ...should be "greater than or equal." But if
910.
by biztos 5y ago
I missed out on the unregulated ICO rush because I thought you had to, you know, develop a new blockchain technology for your new cryptocurrency, which is really hard, and I was busy. Much later I learned all you had to do was copy and pa
911.
by biztos 5y ago
> Smart contracts function – in whole or in part – to give effect to legal contracts. Except when they don't, which is... most of the time? It's true (and I would hope obvious) that a smart contract doesn't play like a leg
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by biztos 5y ago
From the quoted paragraph I get: You sell for $100. Amazon was taking $30. Now Amazon takes $20 and gives you a "promotional credit" of 10% of the $80, or $8. So if you use all of the "promotional credit" then you ma
913.
by biztos 5y ago
So the contributors are paid in “exposure” or am I missing something? I mostly enjoy A16Z and @pmarca in particular but they’re pretty hostile to contradictory ideas. Like if I pitch GDPR compliance for Substack I don’t think they’ll be su
914.
by biztos 5y ago
> the government should take an ownership percentage in return for its funding But wouldn't that create a big conflict of interest? WidgetCorp is 10% owned by the Feds, InterWidget is not. Who gets the contract for those $6M widget
915.
by biztos 5y ago
> The end result is administrators who essentially make work for each other while providing much less societal value than is justified by their cost while actively devaluing the “real” work done by those around them. I wonder if this is
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by biztos 5y ago
> academia everywhere is exploitative and toxic Do you mean "everywhere" in the USA, or everywhere? I have noticed quite different levels and types of dysfunction in different countries, and again between public/private
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by biztos 5y ago
I am grateful to Bill Watterson for gifting us with that.
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by biztos 5y ago
> But according to who? Whom. ;-)
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by biztos 5y ago
Interesting that you prefer a small (shared) office to a cubicle -- I never worked in one but I imagine it to be a special kind of Hell. At least with a cubicle your space, such as it is, is your space -- you don't have to share it w
920.
by biztos 5y ago
Not OP but in case it's interesting: I was a remote employee (IC) for about 12 years, and this was a recurring problem. I was one of a handful of remotes in a global team across several time zones, so at some level everybody had to
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by biztos 5y ago
Did you start by consulting for people you'd worked with in the office? How did you develop clients with whom you've never worked in an office at all? (I consulted many years ago, sometimes remote, but everyone wanted to see me co
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by biztos 5y ago
The implied threat of war is usually sufficient. Or regime change, "police action," targeted sanctions, and so on.
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by biztos 5y ago
It's ironic in this context that one of the most prominent non-Roman characters in HBO’s Rome, the enslaved Eirene, who speaks English with a thick accent, was played by an actress from… Rome: https://www.imdb.com/nam
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by biztos 5y ago
I agree, and I also found the "no rollover" rule in Germany quite helpful. You have your very nice vacation allotment and you must take it or you will lose it and your manager may get a talking-to. In many companies you are eve
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by biztos 5y ago
Wouldn't it be simpler to declare everything "hybrid" and then you don't have to track who's in the office, even though you expect there will be stuff like better promotion outcomes for people who spend more time fa
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by biztos 5y ago
I can't imagine doing this without actively thinking about leaving my current job for whatever company I'm interviewing with. Which is maybe not a bad idea, say once or twice a year? Even a loyal and supportive manager has certai
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by biztos 5y ago
Is that stack-ranking? /s
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by biztos 5y ago
It would probably be a lot more expensive to replace more than 20 years of domain experience immediately because you quit to go work at rand($FAANG).
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by biztos 5y ago
I get that this is a joke, but — would that be legal in the US? In Germany it definitely would not, at least not without it being specifically allowed by your contract. But maybe in the US, as long as you didn’t have a conflict of interest?
930.
by biztos 5y ago
Where I last worked it was common to have your manager be in another country, sometimes with a pretty difficult time zone difference. I was remote but many offices had a butts-in-seats policy because of unapologetically old-school top manag

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