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by bjarneh 5y ago
> This is also the case if you buy from a human. This used to be the case here in Norway until 2021 as well, but now it's illegal to slap the old "sold-as-it-is" clause at the end of the contract. You can still sell horrib
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> acted in bad faith I'm all for going after them in person I agree, but this should be standard procedure. Hiding behind these peculiar "legal entities" that cannot possibly be held accountable anyway, makes no sense. &gt
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> ceases to exist Exactly, you cannot just change name and buy a mustache like these companies basically can.
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> Big difference between board members and stockholders. Completely agree, but in small/medium size companies (no public stock etc), these are often the same people. In many cases it's completely obvious who (which humans) that
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> companies escaped seizure through insolvency This is a strange arrangement that I guess most countries follow. Companies are legal entities, that can be sued and so on. But a company cannot go to jail (board members or stock owners don
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> because they made it a pre-condition of them purchasing Microsoft licenses that they must have source code visibility. Even the communist party in China is more up to date then my own government
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by bjarneh 5y ago
I don't see how that makes me "in control" of the car; I can perhaps be lucky and manage to stop it if I see some obvious a mistake coming, but you sort of trust it to "miss" things as well if you use that feature.
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by bjarneh 5y ago
I never understood why others are not required to do so. Even when you stand outside your Tesla and "summon" it to you and it drives into something; you're somehow legally the driver?
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> You can build anything on DigitalOcean I was almost expecting that text to be a link to zombo.com
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> Not because they are women though, but because they had trouble finding work somewhere else Because they were women?
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> I valued men and women equally, and found that because other employers did not, good women economists were less expensive than men. Is this a very nice way of saying that you can hire women economists and underpay them in order to make
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by bjarneh 5y ago
:-)
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> but all things considered not the worst thing that's happening. I agree, not a big thing, and I certainly think people with that kind of wealth know more about hiding money than the rest of us will ever know, and this war will pro
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by bjarneh 5y ago
I always thought: Wow they seized his yacht; I never thought that these people had a bunch of these billion dollar things floating around... So they seized one of his many, many boats. I have to agree with everybody else in this thread, n
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> It would be like spending all your work life on the beach. This is where flight attendants spend their non-work life :-) The radiation from the flight could be a factor of course; but being from Norway myself, and getting burned like
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by bjarneh 5y ago
The skin cancer + flight attendant connection has to be due to white people working in the industry. People tend to fly to places with plenty of sun and warm climates. Australia's skin cancer rates are also very high, although not so m
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> I have no way of making progress This is how you make "progress", by disturbing people who are working? It's probably for the best that we work different places :-)
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> I want to be able to quickly resolve any issues in person, not over voice call or slack.. Isn't this the main problem? I hate everyone who comes barging in and wants to "resolve issues" quickly. Not saying I love remote
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by bjarneh 5y ago
Hard to take any of his advice serious, when he starts by saying that weight isn't that important for a bike. Riding old heavy bikes vs. new lightweight bikes is a world of difference. The stuff said about safety: > if a car crumple
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> made Google what it is today is PageRank Yes, but it was no secret that Google's page ranking was based on counting links from different web-pages; I think Page/Brin even wrote a paper about this when Google was in its infanc
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> I was too young to use Google when it first got started, but according to many, in the beginning, Google had better or more accurate search results. I'm old enough to remember when Google came, and the main difference was this: Wi
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> There is really nothing you could do with a car to prompt the car maker to take it from you. Maybe not take it from you, but with new cars that are always connected (Tesla et. al). They can certainly make them quite terrible if they wa
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by bjarneh 5y ago
The good old "a quick chat"; that's when you know some blame is about to be handed out...
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by bjarneh 5y ago
Most frameworks (web-frameworks at least) get you from 0 to 80% in very little time. Nice layout/css etc, but they require you to learn how they want to do everything; which can be both cumbersome and time consuming. Frameworks also gi
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by bjarneh 5y ago
I've been writing Go since 2009, so I'm not late to the party. I was there when it started :-)
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by bjarneh 5y ago
Wow, what a horrid and cool way to create a function that accepts generic types in Go :-) func add(a interface{}, b interface{}) interface{} { if a, ok := a.(int); ok { if b, ok := b.(int); ok { return a + b
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by bjarneh 5y ago
I like that other "Big Mac index" where they compare how long an employee has to work at McDonald's in different countries to buy a Big Mac there; that at least give you some idea of which economy you'd want to live in.
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Nice, although this will not build unless you already have javafx in your classpath. The only use of javafx seems to be javafx.util.Pair. Source version 1.5 is also deprecated if your Java version isn't ancient.
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Boeing
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by bjarneh 5y ago
> most school is forced knowledge work on problems that don't fit the person's problem situation. Have you never been in a situation where you are about to take train going at 80 mph; wondering when you'll meet up with you

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