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by durnygbur 7y ago
After 4 years you paid for the sofa 2400$, "rest of your money" is -400$, sofa doesn't belong to you, and in case of scummy renter you own money for damage repairs and cleaning. Ready for legal litigation?
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by durnygbur 7y ago
The opposite over here. Met less than a dozen at most of people exclusively through various online interactions. Use various online media and platforms only to sustain existing relationships and even this not always works. Dating and socia
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by durnygbur 7y ago
Unless they start killing people, then - it's complicated.
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by durnygbur 7y ago
It's unbelivable how no one ended up in jail for this whole Telekomunikacja Polska and Orange privatization enterprise. Then the sudden and mysterious death of the Polish oligarch responsible for the transaction. Story for a movie, bec
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by durnygbur 7y ago
We've got a large influx of these people in Poland during quasi colonial privatization bonanza in the 90s and 00s (e.g. see the history of Orange in Poland, most "Polish" premium vodka brands, retail, strategic industries lik
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by durnygbur 7y ago
Soda/cold drinks industry of today is the tobacco industry of 60s and 70s. How can an individual consume daily and voluntarily hundreds of grams of sugars and sweeteners?
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by durnygbur 7y ago
There must be some psychological treat that many people just enter <name>.<surname>@gmail.com from laziness, carelessness, or treating the address as a black hole? This happens too often all around the world.
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by durnygbur 7y ago
That’s similar to my setup. Migrating out of Gmail took good couple of months as their service is so bloody good and intuitive and for free. Over decade of categorized email history and incoming email filters...
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by durnygbur 7y ago
I was wondering if some media server [1] set up in local network and serving audio and media files in popular formats from an external USB drive would do the job for me. Don't have the time to experiment even with such a simplified set
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by durnygbur 8y ago
Not every drop out is Feynman, it’s not like I’m judgmental - just an observation on who is more likely to be swarmed with lesser tasks in a workplace environment, especially among colleagues with academic credentials.
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by durnygbur 8y ago
> In fact, the ones with only some college (especially those with a family) seem to be more reliable and willing to do the occasional boring things that those with a degree tend try to avoid doing. Some would call it „willing”, some „mor
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by durnygbur 8y ago
Having similar budgets, the German rocket program consumed a lot of slave labour. No concern for the conditions of the labour, either their salaries of course - replaceable human machines with service length 1-2 years. Add the worth of the
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by durnygbur 8y ago
Their subsidary - Watson Business Machines - was optimizing the logistics of transporting people to concentration, labour, and death camps with punchcard workshop straight next to the Warsaw Ghetto. The IBM's original "Watson proj
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by durnygbur 8y ago
I was not only about the land anymore, the massive industry [1] and agriculture [2] needed a lot of free stuff. Mistreatment of civilians was an implication, and we overestimate the destructiveness of hate - until the unification of Germany
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by durnygbur 8y ago
> Nazis as a gang of uneducated mobsters Not at all e.g. most of the Wannsee Conference attendants had "Dr." title. Numerous responsible for massacres of civilians or inhumane medical experiments had the "Dr." title.
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by durnygbur 8y ago
Countries east of Germany were not signatories of the Geneva Convention as of WWII. The civilians of these countries were basically considered as and treated as cattle, including when they were kidnapped to inland Germany as slave labor. I
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by durnygbur 8y ago
> I'd love an API that I could use to easily pull all of my banking details into my local system. This is almost non-existend for personal banking. First and only case by now I’ve encountered was in Czechia: https://www.f
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by durnygbur 8y ago
SOFORT quite explicitly ~scraps~ scrapes the entire available transaction history for „your convenience” (much more is available with access login and password actually). What a satisfaction when they tried to enter Polish market and the Po
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by durnygbur 8y ago
yes LinkedIn was certainly using dark UI patterns to upload the contact list and send invites to everyone on it.
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by durnygbur 8y ago
Well no one was expecting emojis, so let the old guys have some fun as well? Have had this idea for a long time, but by now it remained only as a concept. Someone hacked the access to my notes, or maybe certain ideas are universally silly-g
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by durnygbur 8y ago
Germany’s byzantine buearoucracy and regulations spilling over the whole EU at this point are a corruption, just different form of it.
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by durnygbur 8y ago
Significant payrise on switching jobs is a thing in Europe only until mid-level perhaps, above that it's on pair with regular payrise and is absolutely not compensating the stress of adapting to the new working environment. The salary
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by durnygbur 8y ago
Once you discover later on in your career that seniority and respect of your peers is not transferable between companies, that hopping to the next job from the job board is vicious circle of working on dull dead end projects under authocrat
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by durnygbur 8y ago
Many EU countries with much younger democracies behave much more mature regarding the internet. Some silly slogan is a miserable explanation of the state of affairs.
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by durnygbur 8y ago
It’s really hopeless each time one realizes how French and German politicians perceive the internet. For them the internet is not synonymous with the freedom of creativity and expression, but with the freedom to restrain and to control.
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by durnygbur 8y ago
Wasn’t the problem exactly that the government had too much control over the information flow and the general narrative?
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by durnygbur 8y ago
Ability to filter the knowledge one injests is one of the skills which makes a capable engineer. Reading with understanding and fluent expressing oneself in writing are essential. I did encounter many, non only junior level, developers&#x2F