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by dagw 3y ago
You seem to believe that the 'sustainability' argument is a bogus smokescreen. Why do you think the WEF is actually publishing this article? Please explain the conspiracy I'm missing.
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by dagw 3y ago
Another problem I've run into more than once is that many orgs don't allow ssh out through the firewall. One project I worked on recently the client had to send and receive data via his home computer after work and transport it to
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by dagw 3y ago
It's a very US centric term You've never heard of "freshers week"? That being said, I've never heard the term used to refer to anything other than university students.
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by dagw 3y ago
Depends on what you did with your cash. If you wasted it on something (perceived as) 'stupid' then your stock price would go down, lowering your market cap and your enterprise value would stay the same. If however you invested th
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by dagw 3y ago
The part you're missing is that the 3 variables aren't independent of each other or of the underlying company. You'll never have two 'identical' companies that only differ in one of those variables. If company 2 has
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by dagw 3y ago
2600 Hz was a frequency used as a control tone by the old telephone switches. Basically the old telephone switches would communicate with each other by sending different frequency tones or tone pairs to execute different commands, and 2600
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by dagw 3y ago
Sport will actually make you want to eat more The big problem with sports and serious exercise is that this desire to eat more tapers off very slowly if you start exercising less. I know several people from college who where pretty seriou
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by dagw 3y ago
These drugs let you buy your way out of the willpower requirement. Doesn't that describe a huge class of drugs. Lots of maladies will eventually go away by themselves if you ignore them, drugs just makes the process faster and more c
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by dagw 3y ago
What did people use before it? For GUI editors, X forwarding.
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by dagw 3y ago
There are lots of ways to raise the avg. salary without giving people a raise. If you fire the lowest earners (and perhaps outsource their jobs to third party contractors) then the avg. salary goes up without having to give anybody a raise.
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by dagw 3y ago
no other language has even attempted to compete with PHP PHP has been very good at reinventing itself and being its own biggest competitor. Zend outcompeted PHP3, PHP5 outcompeted PHP4, PHP7 outcompeted PHP5 and so on. Compare a site wri
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by dagw 3y ago
Another trendy database will come along and you'll stop seeing all these posts about it. Happens every decade. And then after a couple of years people will realise that Postgres can do everything the trendy database can do and come b
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by dagw 3y ago
Kids, who as a category have no income, have a Hobson's Choice: eat or go hungry. The problem is that if kids don't eat lunch and go hungry that will negatively affect their ability to learn. As such offering less healthy food t
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by dagw 3y ago
Taste also evolves. My daughter loved broccoli (and a bunch of other things) when she was little, but once she turned 8 or so her tastes completely changed.
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by dagw 3y ago
Honestly it is probably the worst way to prepare broccoli. Broccoli is one of my favourite vegetables and I would probably pass on boiled broccoli, if there was any other vegetable on offer.
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by dagw 3y ago
quick snacks through whole day No, a decent breakfast, then sandwiches for lunch, maybe a small snack around 2, then a warm dinner at 4-5. edit: in general I would say that focusing what and how much you eat is far more important than foc
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by dagw 3y ago
they consistently produce some of the best engineers and scientists in the world All countries are capable to turning out a handful of amazing engineers and scientists each year from their top percentile students, almost no matter how ter
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by dagw 3y ago
In some places the 'proper meal' of the day isn't eaten at lunch time, but rather in the afternoon. Lunch is a quick sandwich and some fruit to get you through the rest of the day and then you have your proper meal at 4-5 aft
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by dagw 3y ago
How is spending 10 minutes to eat a sandwich and drink some milk while sitting at your desk child abuse?
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by dagw 3y ago
Don't know where the parent is from, but that sounds exactly like I had it in Norway.
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by dagw 3y ago
50 minutes for lunch or a 50 minute break in the middle of the day? My daughter gets a 55 minute break in the middle of the day, but only 15 minutes of that is for actual lunch, after that they're 'forced' outside.
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by dagw 3y ago
article you linked to: "...is a normal state of drowsiness" you: "It's not normal" pick one.
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by dagw 3y ago
My understanding is that the big difference between the US and the EU is that in the US rail prioritises cargo over passengers. Amtrak is already competing against a lots of other companies for track time, it's just that those companie
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by dagw 3y ago
Was Encarta ever released online? I only remember the CD-ROM version.
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by dagw 3y ago
Physical teaching like 1:1 practices of martial arts/dances/etc. There are whole host of companies offering various apps where you film yourself doing a sport or activity and an AI will give you advice on what you are doing wron
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by dagw 3y ago
Lots, but generally to work at the Chinese offices of their US employer.
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by dagw 3y ago
Sometimes they're weirdly incompetent, treat everyone like shit, and then act surprised when half of the company leaves. Honestly that seems to be the norm in my, admittedly limited, experience.
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by dagw 3y ago
At a company I worked at the CEO out of the blue called for an all hands, all offices meeting with a few days notice. Everybody who wasn't in the main office had to connect via video link. This had as far as anyone could remember never
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by dagw 3y ago
That really does capture it in a way I haven't thought about in while. Reading DDJ wasn't just about programming (much of it I honestly only, at best, barely understood) , it was also discovering the existence of this cool exotic
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by dagw 3y ago
Almost all public companies have shareholders from all over the world, including China. While Opera might not be a Chinese company in the strictest definition, over 50% of Opera's shares are owned by their Chinese parent company, and

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