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by dagw 3y ago
severe (severe!) fines Unless you can pierce the corporate veil or somehow make owners criminally liable for low safety standards, levelling huge fines at small companies is meaningless, as the company will just end up declaring bankruptc
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by dagw 3y ago
This is where taking a more holistic approach to curriculum planning would pay off. If the weeks after you were taught these (or any other) concepts in math class they start showing up in your science and geography classes, you'd proba
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by dagw 3y ago
Norway has never been number 1 and has lower suicide rates than the US.
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by dagw 3y ago
The fundamental difference is that in the US the Government dictates minimum wages and working conditions by law, in Sweden it's the unions that do it by agreement.
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by dagw 3y ago
traditional bare metal: Email IT and ask for 3 severs spun up for this small in-house project my team is working on. Email back and forth for a few days, book two meetings, and then wait 10-14 days before getting access to the servers. Clou
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by dagw 3y ago
They tried with podcasts. Several podcasters jumped on the chance to trade exposure for a nice big check. Don't know if it worked out for Spotify or not though.
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by dagw 3y ago
That isn't what the inflation number means. An inflation rate of 0% means prices stop going up and stay at their current level, not that prices go down. Prices going down would be deflation, and that almost certainly won't happen.
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by dagw 3y ago
It's a redistribution of taxes It's also a replacement for other forms of financial aid. Someone currently on unemployment or other benefits won't get UBI on top of his current benefits, but instead of. Most proponents of U
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by dagw 3y ago
Developing the software is easy part. Handling and negotiating contracts and licensing agreements for all their music and podcasts (and advertisers) all across the globe is probably the hard part. Plus of course all the marketing, support a
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by dagw 3y ago
The parody aspect is only relevant for the lyrics side of things, he still has to pay royalties to the composer for the melodies.
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by dagw 3y ago
Sometimes the music is itself parodied, and performed using an accordian or some other unique instrument. For this conversation, that is completely irrelevant and he still has to pay royalties to the original composer. Furthermore, while
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by dagw 3y ago
There are plenty of ads on Twitter and thus plenty of advertisers. The problem from Twitters point of view is partially that those advertisers don't pay enough, and more importantly that in many cases they aren't the sort of compa
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by dagw 3y ago
It is way cheaper because majority of Uber cost is the driver. That is only true because Uber doesn't have to pay for buying and maintaining the cars in their 'fleet', having offloaded that cost to their drivers. If Uber we
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by dagw 3y ago
Consider yourself lucky. If I was to sell my house today I would probably get basically the same price I paid in 2017. All the money I've spend on renovations and improvements are 'lost'. That being said, I love my house and
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by dagw 3y ago
They also both have a single person that has been leading the project from day 0 up until today.
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by dagw 3y ago
If I listen to 10 songs in a month all by artist 2 and you listen to 1000 songs by artist 1, should my subscription money all go to artist 2 or should it 'subsidise' your listening to artist 1. That is the core question. Basically
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by dagw 3y ago
My subscription money ends up going to subsidise super popular artists I never listen to, rather that the artists I actually do listen to.
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by dagw 3y ago
Which country? That does not match my view of any Western European country I've lived or driven in.
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by dagw 3y ago
A notary in the UK is a type of lawyer (although not necessarily a solicitor) and requires special certification and training. Their job is to make sure all the paper work is in order and to sign off and legally certify that is in fact so.
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by dagw 3y ago
i simply tried to look up the number of trucks volvo and freightliner SAY they delivered As of February of this year Volvo say they've sold over 4300 electric trucks. https://www.volvotrucks.se/sv-se/news/p
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by dagw 3y ago
The entire US of A is free R&D for Chinese manufacturers. And in return the entire US of A gets to buy these of $2 instead of $20.
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by dagw 3y ago
start a family and go to cabin to go skiing and nothing inside of them says "if i work hard good things will happen." I'd argue that if you have a family, a house, a cabin and time to go skiing then good things have already
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by dagw 3y ago
Unlike most open source projects, Blender started its life as a professional piece of software by and for artists who had to deliver commercial projects on a dead line. First as an in house tool for an animation studio, and later as a comme
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by dagw 3y ago
The developer world can be roughly split up into two camps. Those that are developing software for a single tightly specced hardware/OS combo, and those that are developing software that can be installed by as many people as possible.
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by dagw 3y ago
If you're only targeting one specific version of one specific distro on one arch, then 93% of all packaging problems tend to go away, and almost any approach will work.
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by dagw 3y ago
I've noticed that over the years, coding has gotten easier. That is the history of programming in a nutshell. I know I've told this story before, but my wife's uncle talks about the revolution he felt when FORTRAN IV was r
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by dagw 3y ago
I came to the conference with a MacBook I remember being a at MS/.Net event a couple of years after Apple released Bootcamp, and Macs was the single most popular brand of laptop I saw at that event.
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by dagw 3y ago
That required the time of an electrician union member. For what it's worth, that is simply not a thing in Sweden. Being a union member (or not) is completely separated from any certifications or licensing. You cannot have being a uni
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by dagw 3y ago
No, it make sure your total unemployment benefits is 80% of what your salary used to be.
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by dagw 3y ago
At least it's better than the scale used by many outlets to rate wine, where 80/100 is for wines they consider undrinkable, and 91/100 is a pretty good mid-level wine.

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