bodas

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by bodas 8y ago
"Eventually" but to get to that point you have to endure years of getting half the time off that a burger flipper gets in McDonalds UK. Honestly it's a bit humiliating.
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by bodas 8y ago
Even on a selfish level, the extra 2-3 weeks of PTO in UK is easily more important than the extra compensation in the US. What's the point of having more money if you are stuck in an office for more of the year and can only spend it on
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by bodas 8y ago
I don't believe that. They never installed Whatsapp? The intersection of people who build chat accessory apps and people who have never installed Whatsapp is surely empty.
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by bodas 8y ago
"laki" actually an example of a word that changes its meaning when reduplicated instead of creating a plural. "laki" means husband and "laki-laki" means man or male . So you have to be careful about using
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by bodas 8y ago
It is democracy and free speech that is enabling Islamic politics in Indonesia. The alternative is a strongman who imposes secularism. Indonesia already tried that, it is not so good for minorities.
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by bodas 8y ago
> It seems likely to me that people who are speaking Indonesian as a first language (e.g. Jakartans) have a substantially larger vocabulary than those that are speaking it as a second language (e.g. Yogyakartans). They are speaking Indon
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by bodas 8y ago
Twitter realises it is stupid. However many of their technologically illiterate users don't and when they tried to change it there was an outcry that Twitter was helping abuse or something silly like that. Keeping the feature is as is
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by bodas 8y ago
Online interactions are just different. Yes they are not the same as IRL interactions, but they can be made around a shared interest, particularly something that might be hard to find where you live. So they can be more important.
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by bodas 8y ago
The Fermi paradox concerns the galaxy, not the rest of the universe which is too far away to know anything about.
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by bodas 8y ago
To be clear, if it's an emergency door in a large building where a crush could occur, it will open outwards. But most residential buildings aren't big enough to require that, except for large tower blocks.
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by bodas 8y ago
It's also for fire safety reasons that doors open inwards in the UK. It means that the door can't be blocked from the outside.
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by bodas 8y ago
Finitism sounds like a good idea actually because Mathematicians have a terribly bad habit of playing with infinity when they could be doing real work :)
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by bodas 8y ago
Inflation is an indication, it's not actually measuring anything, because it has so many parameters you can literally make it whatever value you want.
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by bodas 8y ago
That's a good thing, I think. Programmers should have a good understanding of general algorithms but it's up to the frameworks themselves to reduce the need to be "mastered". I don't want to spend time mastering a p
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by bodas 8y ago
I think the point is that they would have colonised Earth already. It is comparing the age of the Earth (billions of years) to the size of the galaxy (100kly)