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by blunte 5y ago
Ah yes, my confusion at your meaning. I don't drink coolaid often. But I hate spending my mental and creative energy on dead end roads. If I were the boss, I would probably direct my staff toward a lot of dead ends as well. It'
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Oh I liked the article too... didn't mean to suggest otherwise. My one Japanese company experience was in my early career, and it was discouraging. It has been so long, I can name NEC. The colleagues were great, but on the occasions t
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by blunte 5y ago
Wow. I'd just rather never eat at Cheesecake Factory. Please let me take you to some good restaurants :).
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Michelin Star restaurants, in my 6 or 7 different experiences, are as much about the title as the food. Indeed the service is more formal, to the point of being a bit ridiculous in some cases. But the food itself was not so much more spec
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by blunte 5y ago
This is spot on. And it's such a shame. Most good raises come from quitting and changing jobs. The first few months, once you've passed the interview and been accepted, you have ridiculous room to be a loser (not suggesting you
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by blunte 5y ago
9 hours is the practical time you spend at the office. 8 hours is the theoretical time worked. In reality, it can vary from 9 hours of solid focused work (rarely) to 3 hours of productive work. But either way, you're at the office f
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by blunte 5y ago
But in your day job, if your manager hands you a task which you know is futile, or shortsighted, and a week or month later you're all going to regret the way it was done, do you just dig the ditch on the beach quietly, or do you fight
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Can it really be enough money to matter? If you're someone worth following, is this really the best way to make money?
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by blunte 5y ago
Dear Cory Doctorow. > You have 2 free member-only stories left this month. Sign up for Medium and get an extra one Why write something if a good many of your readers will not be able to read it? Do these writers realize they're stan
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A non-supportive spouse may simply not understand you; or they may be caught up in their own struggles; or they may not be the right spouse...
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by blunte 5y ago
> losing the moments I had with my family because my mind was so overloaded and preoccupied with things that ultimately didn't f*** matter. 12-18 mo after joining most companies in my career, this was my feeling. It's awful.
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I don't believe anyone can prove how the violence has actually preserved my "liberal" western life. If you go to the "worst" territories with the worst regimes, you will find people surprisingly like us. They are i
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by blunte 5y ago
Dig a little. Why? Why is anyone at war with anyone else? Usually the answer is, "because they did this first". But if you follow all the trails, you ultimately come to the conclusion that the real answer is either, "well,
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I don't want anyone having those weapons. But they exist, and worse, old ones exist and are unaccounted for. But who should judge which regime should have them, if only some should? Most of us are born into a belief that our people ar
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by blunte 5y ago
That's the justification used for the thousands of drone strikes the US has performed in the last decade. I suspect depending on where you live, your definition of "goal" will be different.
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by blunte 5y ago
Of course that's not the goal in most cases (but it obviously is the case where warfare is involved - at least ending a subset of humanity). But if you look at food/diet changes, lifestyle changes, warfare changes, energy source&#
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by blunte 5y ago
I know it has been attempted many times. But like the general problem of too many options, it doesn't gain enough attention and develop a critical mass. And in the case of setup tools, they tend to all suffer from the problem of being
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by blunte 5y ago
It's really so amazing to watch how humanity is spending great amounts of creative energy toward the goal of ending humanity.
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by blunte 5y ago
Sorry, sometimes I forget my expat living abroad situation is uncommon. I guess that could be considered “very long term travel”.
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Which ones? The ones I've used use passport (and often photo holding passport) to enable certain features or raise limits, but they're not used for withdrawl. 2FA and email verification is.
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by blunte 5y ago
If you travel much, or nowadays if you register on just about any legitimate cryptocurrency exchange, you've already shared this information - and usually with a photo. And with the new COVID stuff/vaccinations, it's being sh
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I guess I'm in there too. But passports get copied and provided to so many institutions these days that I wouldn't even consider nationality and passport number as private. Now, if someone is traveling to Thailand to partake of s
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by blunte 5y ago
PHP, _like Javascript_, can be great when used with some extra care. I have no beef with PHP (although omg do they waste space with curly braces on their own lines and vast amounts of indentation!) A good foundation can be in any language,
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by blunte 5y ago
> should be a solved problem by now, and not require every developer to ask themselves these questions again and again This applies to so very much of web developement. We have spent so much collective time building web apps, and some h
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by blunte 5y ago
I'm in the same boat. But I don't think there's a lack of good info, but rather there's too much info and too many variants and options. There are probably many "correct" choices in the beginning, but we natu
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by blunte 5y ago
What would be the result if something this large hit Earth?
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by blunte 5y ago
It seems that your definition of "good husbands and fathers" implicitly disallows non-monogamous interactions. I would bet that men (from couples) who have clear and open communication can be otherwise very loving partners and dev
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by blunte 5y ago
I think hosts learned to post very clearly if they were not looking for dates. That way potential guests would not misunderstand acceptance (for a place to stay) as also being a potential for romance. I saw plenty of host profiles that we
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One of my hosts did the same. She was more casual about it. But I also heard from people how they hated when guests would show up and start acting like it was for dating. So many profiles would explicitly state that they were not looking f
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by blunte 5y ago
I used CS in 2008 in Switzerland, and it was a great experience. The people I met and stayed with were all nice and friendly (even if sometimes a bit quirky). What shocked me was that even in the town of Bern, which is not a huge city, ther

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