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by century19 3y ago
The OP said the Chinese did some good things but nothing like the special Europeans. It was clearly a race discussion.
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by century19 3y ago
Like I said, I called it out in its tracks and gave them the chance to correct if there was a misunderstanding.
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by century19 3y ago
White supremacy is basically this, "we are special". Needs to be called out in its tracks. They don't have to explain, but they can expect push back like I gave and can easily clarify if I was misinterpreting, which they ch
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by century19 3y ago
That I'm not racist? What is so special about Europeans?
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by century19 3y ago
I've read other people say some cargo ships have been refusing to take EVs, there have been a few of these incidents in the last few years. If so, this looks like an incident that could make banning EVs on boats more common.
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by century19 3y ago
What do you think of this story with one person dead? https://news.sky.com/story/one-dead-and-several-injured-afte...
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by century19 3y ago
Never heard it before but what you say sounds correct.
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by century19 3y ago
You'd need to define that something special, else you sound really racist. More likely Europe stumbled on a couple of things such as reading glasses (that gave much longer working lives to scientists) or the steam engine that gave an
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by century19 3y ago
100% He opened up the arena.
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Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’(theguardian.com)
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by century19 3y ago
One of the noticeable things when visiting Cuba is the lack of advertising boards. There are political slogans instead, certainly gives a different feel.
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by century19 3y ago
Oh that's not the case here, management would love to get off these systems. They see the risks with the age profile of developers, staffing issues, and general ageing tech problems. Re-writing these systems in another language is alm
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by century19 3y ago
When I've seen this in other banks it's been difficult to keep the junior devs interested in staying with COBOL. In general they wanted to move to other teams.
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by century19 3y ago
As the other comments say, this is not a myth. Of course banks use other languages and try and put as many work processes as possible outside the core system, but core COBOL systems is very common. Have worked at a couple.
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by century19 3y ago
As you mostly change jobs every couple of years, I’d say you should be looking for way more than 5%. Unless you are at the top of your pay scale, in which case it’s not worth moving for money, certainly not 5%.
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by century19 3y ago
BAM is an interesting case. One of the largest engineering projects of the 20th century, and they had to convince volunteers to join. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal%E2%80%93Amur_Mainline
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by century19 3y ago
60 on iOS.
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by century19 3y ago
And will there be enough power stations to generate all the electricity?
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by century19 4y ago
It's not imitation though, which would be copying their method.
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by century19 4y ago
Google accused Microsoft Bing of using them for page rankings a few years ago. Setup a sting to show that when you searched for something unique on Google using MS Explorer, shortly afterwards the same search result would start showing up
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by century19 4y ago
(Serious) Food inflation started within the last 2 years. Has there been increased regulation in that time?
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by century19 4y ago
I’m surprised he doesn’t mention Scala and Spark.
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Sacked Twitter UK staff claim unlawful treatment in ‘sham’ redundancy(theguardian.com)
5 points by century19 4y ago|0 comments
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by century19 4y ago
Walking is also good exercise. I often walk when I live in a very cycle-able city, to add to low effort exercise. Cycling is too easy :-)
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by century19 4y ago
Contracting interviews are nothing like FAANG though, I literally had one that was a 30m chat with a couple of softball questions. Compared to FAANG they are all a walk in the park and barely need any prep.
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Ask HN: Has Hacker News banned posts about Twitter?
2 points by century19 4y ago|7 comments
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by century19 4y ago
Not working well here then since this should be on the Front Page. Your explanation sounds correct though.
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by century19 4y ago
I'm sure you could find a buyer, but the price would be on their terms.
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by century19 4y ago
And sell it to who? It's going to have to be seriously discounted because it will cost them years to rebuild what he has already broken.
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by century19 4y ago
Correct. And Databricks/Spark is not really a database, it's a processing engine which can connect to many databases.

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