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by dvtv75 10y ago
You have over-simplified the problem, apparently assuming that people will just do their jobs and not engage in a kind of guerrilla warfare intended to keep their jobs. Example: I once worked with a guy who knew he was an underperformer - h
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NASA isn't tasked with food production or distribution, nor should they be. There are other departments for that. You're shoving the responsibility for the starving masses on NASA and their relatively small budget - why not the m
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Empathy may be seen as an admission of liability in certain situations, so it's best to keep it completely controlled.
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I didn't downvote, but I wanted to add this: Many years ago, I was staying with my then-girlfriend and her parents. Her mother, deciding to prove to me that I was sexist and prejudiced because I'm a male, started by talking about
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My guess is that you've crossed the threshold where you have enough money to get by. For me, money matters significantly, remains important, and will do so for the foreseeable future. I have bills to pay, food that I need to eat, tran
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by dvtv75 10y ago
As a counterpoint to this, my second year in CS had four papers (Programming, Data Structures and C, Operating Systems, and Networks). The course was being revamped one year at a time, and right at the beginning of second year there was a
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I did something similar, unfortunately gritting my teeth... well, the dentist had to repair one of my teeth that cracked slightly. Both figuratively and literally, be very careful how hard you grit your teeth. They (and you) can break.
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Some of us are highly educated, and are still forced to take the bottom line work-or-starve jobs.
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You would be surprised at just how poorly managed some businesses are, I think. A prior employer has such a bad reputation around the city that even the local IT school refuses to acknowledge that one of their graduates runs the IT departme
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Depends on why you're burning out. Constant demands for overtime without the extra pay? Your manager is also responsible for the IT dept., so when your computers fail IT are told not to bother? Forced to resign down to a much lesser
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by dvtv75 10y ago
A few years ago, in my old job, I was talking to the marketing team about something. One of them mentioned that she rarely gets sick, but she never lets something as minor as a cold or flu stop her, and she still comes into work because sh
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by dvtv75 10y ago
You're focusing on just one group - those who don't have jobs. Consider that a UBI would directly address bad employers, such as mine. Let me explain the situation, a very common one where I am: My employer feels that, because h
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Sometimes, there are actually reasons for procrastination. I've mentioned my disability a few times here, and now I'm going to again: as a result of it, I tend to avoid situations that make me uncomfortable, ones that I've n
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by dvtv75 10y ago
I don't think this is really about cars as much as it is about saving, and I can't speak for everyone, but I can speak for myself: my job pays crap. My last job paid crap. When my current workplace folds (which is likely to happ
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Second post on this thread, and sadly it's as much a joke as the first. From this point on, I'm going to cease saying "it's not rocket science," and start saying "...it's not potato science."
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Judging by the title of this thread, I think the GP meant to type Europans, not Europeans.
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One of the things that irks me about this is the number of people who would pull a gun on me and insist they're free to live their lives the way they want, do whatever they like, but the moment there's a poor person with a TV then
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Along these lines, a while ago I was fortunate enough to come into (indirect) contact with an organization that was retiring a bunch of old Apple systems and a few PCs. Because of this, a number of people too poor to consider buying a comp
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Making an assumption like that ("I don't think poor folks buying older or used iPhones is prevalent") is a bit foolish given the vastly incomplete "data point" you cite. Until you can tell us how many smartphones yo
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In my experience, tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome are hand and wrist examples, tennis elbow, there are neck problems, upper back problems, shoulder problems, general muscle balance problems. I developed a click in my wrist from mousin
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Actually, a friend of mine was looking for a flat (a rented house) about 3 years ago. He and his girlfriend were waiting to interview with a real estate/rental management agency in Dunedin, when a (probably) Chinese man walked in with
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by dvtv75 10y ago
Student loans. That's what "financed by the future" means.
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I've interviewed more than everybody else I know, and I always get great feedback on my interview technique, particularly when I hear from someone I know who works for the business. Not one of them has ever told me why I didn't g
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In some jobs, notably temp jobs, I have been. I don't drink, and my refusal cost me a permanent position. In other jobs there's no obligation to go, and the employers often understand, particularly when the jobs have very low pay
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by dvtv75 10y ago
That makes sense - I would imagine a purchase agreement would lock you into product warranties, service contracts, and so on. You might end up in violation of your contract if you send the robots to someone else for maintenance.
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Only if the state has deemed the death of the adversary a necessity, and as I understand it, soldiers aren't obliged to perform illegal killings (for example).
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Australia: better pay, better hours, better conditions, better weather, and better career prospects. New Zealand: free plane ticket. Rugby. But then, Australia has that, too. Umm. Hmmm. Honestly, being born in New Zealand, earned a Bache
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Much of this is dead on, but some of it is completely wrong. What's right: There's not much money to be made as an employee, and the further south you head, the worse it is. About 15 minutes south of Christchurch onwards, employe
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Work doesn't always imply progress. Ask anybody who stacks shelves or waits tables for a living, or someone who works two or three jobs.
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It's rather funny that the cyclist who rides downhill at 40mph outside my home every day classifies cars as the hazard and not himself, since he must ride on the road and not the footpath. He's no different to the guy who was rid

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