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by ddebernardy 7y ago
> Thus if you find a good CEO they are well worth a much larger salary Of course. And to be clear I'm not quibbling about CEO pay being higher than the minimum wage. The question that I've an issue with is how much larger. Back
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
> Redistributing 100% of these 5 executives' salary to all 2.2m workers would be a raise of... $32/year. But that's besides the point. What on earth do they need to get paid that much for? Even if you assume they're c
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
Location: Currently France/Hungary Remote: Ideally -- but not necessarily -- with a team that is mostly located between US Central and India (i.e. Europe compatible). Willing to relocate: Depends on the opportunity. Technologies: Manag
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
My Physics classes are rusty, but if you've 400GPa across a 1mm^2 surface, and the back of the two opposing diamonds is e.g. 1cm^2, then you've a straight pressure reduction then and there -- not unlike what might happen with a le
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
Correct me if my first impression was incorrect, but scanning through your scripts they all seemed like sub-kilobyte one-liners. Which, yeah, just use Shell for those and you'll be fine. To my mind, the parent post was referring to len
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
I dunno. Having lived through the days where having 128kB of RAM was an eye popping upgrade, you could easily have made the argument back then that 2GB of RAM was future proof for as long as the eye can see. And in fact, they did. By the ti
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
Tech isn't innocent but you can't blame it all on tech either. Polarization has been a thing for decades upon decades. In the US a major shift occurred around the Civil Rights movement, after which Southern voters basically drifte
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
Ugh... Building the M4 in Budapest was plagued by scandals, delays, and cost overruns, and ridiculed for having cost a whopping €1.6 billion for the entire line. Salaries over here are perhaps a fourth or a fifth of what they are in the US,
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Corona Beer Surges on Google Trends as Coronavirus Spreads(eu.usatoday.com)
4 points by ddebernardy 7y ago|0 comments
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
Friends can likely tag you in their photos, even if you don't have an account.
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
Exactly this. And it's also worth pointing out that before matches were a thing, the main way to start your fire when yours went out was to go to a neighbor's place with some kind of combustible (torch, lantern) or a container to
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
> I'll concede that phonics are a mess, but it's not riddled with more inconsistencies than most other world languages. Actually it is. And it's not just a matter of opinion, either. Going by objective criteria: 1. English
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
If you're in the UK, there's at least one ISP that is XKCD compliant: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1f154z/til_t...
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
TFA is Slashdot jargon for "The F'ing Article".
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
That's besides the point. Why block users from using it if they want to so? If it works without any extra maintenance, great. Which, apparently, it did. Unless Slack has material amounts of support due to mobile users trying to use its
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
Not would. Is. Speaking personally I haven't bought anything from Amazon for that reason.
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
Insofar as I've understood, buying products that are sold and shipped by Amazon doesn't protect you anymore because inventories are no longer segregated.
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
The article doesn't say the name of the high level programming language he invented. It was the Mark 1 Autocode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode
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Tony Brooker Obituary(theguardian.com)
7 points by ddebernardy 7y ago|1 comments
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
> I know technically all this debt is probably being purchased by retirement funds Actually, a material chunk of that debt is held by big tech. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/08/how-big-
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
The European Parliament assigns seats to member states based on population, but the European Council gives one vote per state. So the answer is kind of -- they basically did join, in spite of odd representation mechanics. And FWIW I think t
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
It's not the same. The House of Representatives is intended to represent the people. The point of the upper house is to represent the States. There's no reason why there shouldn't be some weight thrown in based on some object
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
It could be done like in Germany without the spirit of the Senate being lost. Something like 2 representatives plus some number that depends on the population.
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
You don't need to lock the software in practice. Your customers don't usually bother with redistributing what you're selling. With few exceptions, resellers (designers, web shops, etc.) don't do so either. Basically, if
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
> Stab a Book, the Book Won't Die True, but they tend to not survive toddlers.
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary#Normie
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
> People sometimes won't mention important things (e.g., blockers, possible misunderstandings) unless prompted and encouraged (you sometimes actually need to look at the person's face and hear the intonation). But that's a
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
No, the story is apocryphal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Holland_Duell#Everythi...
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
The essay is from 2005. Internet marketers were seeing that trend in the run up to the dot com bubble. And porn sites were seeing it even earlier. (Internet marketers were learning from the latter at the time.)
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by ddebernardy 7y ago
> this dispute was a bloodless conflict. Err... a pig died... :-)

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