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by eertami 7y ago
>They'd probably decline to provide them and refuse to rent to you, in the same way as you can decline to provide them and refuse to rent from them. Well... yeah exactly. You realistically don't have the option to ask for a ref
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by eertami 7y ago
>Most of my stickers aren’t really related to IT or a business or anything This I think people have less of a problem with, as your stickers add a bit of personality. The guys with GitHub, redis and a chrome logo however...
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by eertami 7y ago
And usually the exact same unrelated tech company stickers...
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by eertami 7y ago
Even without kids I work like this. Just because I'm not a parent doesn't mean I'm going to take on work that could potentially stress me out eat into vacation time... It seems like more of a work-life balance philosophy thin
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by eertami 7y ago
Equating council tax with property tax is extremely misleading imo. For the benefit of people not from the UK: Council tax is effectively a bill for services & utilities paid by the occupier. Cost differs slightly based on overall prope
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by eertami 7y ago
>There are plenty of affordable new cars, they might be small and slow Define affordable, because I'm never going to spend more than €2000 on a car so at the moment drive a small-ish but slow 1.6L petrol car from 2004. At least it w
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by eertami 7y ago
>We're not talking about software developers here, are we? Why wouldn't it be...
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by eertami 7y ago
>Apple cannot see it. How can you be sure? End to end encryption is not a guarantee when you're inputting your key into a closed source client to store and retrieve the data.
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by eertami 7y ago
Even Samsung... in the UK you can buy a S10e for cheaper than the 3A XL.
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by eertami 7y ago
>1) State that their goal is to make their devices last longer. Either a lie or they don't know what the word 'goal' means after shipping their devices with high failure rate keyboards?
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by eertami 7y ago
I've still never seen a single pair in person, despite living in a major city some of the year (London). I don't think they've really taken off in Europe.
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by eertami 7y ago
When I was at University all my spare time was taken up by running a student media outlet, playing sports, and volunteering my time to student run services. I would argue that all of these things have been much more helpful when finding wo
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by eertami 8y ago
I wish Nokia would release a cheap phone with an AMOLED screen, eg, like the Oneplus X 4 years ago... Until there's another sub 300$ phone with an AMOLED upgrading seems pointless.
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by eertami 8y ago
>If you truly cared about your art and wanted it to be seen, you would devote yourself to that and work on getting into a gallery You've not understood what the word amateur means, at all. It's like suggesting an amateur tennis
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by eertami 8y ago
(For the third time.) Fourth time's the charm I guess.
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by eertami 8y ago
>I don't really get the dongle complaint though. The dongle themselves, yeah sure whatever. The fact that they placed the fucking WiFi antenna next to the USB-C port? That's just downright hostile. I'm stuck with this lapt
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by eertami 8y ago
>You can pick your housing and location based on not owning a car Only if you want to live in a large city and don't do anything outdoors. I go skiing, hiking, mountain biking, camping 3-4 times a week. Where I live (the Alps), it i
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by eertami 8y ago
>A democratic process and result. Pull the other one. This isn't the BBC Have Your Say comments section. People won't just believe that because you've declared it so. Illegal data theft: https://twitter.com&#x2F
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by eertami 8y ago
>I don't really understand Ok I get your sentiment and I agree that peaceful protest is just woefully ignored in the UK - but someone with a job and a peaceful life typically doesn't want to risk getting arrested, and potential
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by eertami 8y ago
>If you’re using the iPad Pro in the mindset of “This is going to be my main work machine”, then you’ll be living in constant fear. I feel like this should be the opening line, not buried in the ending notes.
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by eertami 8y ago
Easily, I haven't lived in London in a while but I can name three: Japanese Canteen, Browns, Shrimpy's.
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by eertami 8y ago
Yeah but the difference is when you work remote, you can use that other 40% of your time to: - run errands - do the laundry - hit the gym for a while - cook a tasty lunch or even dinner for later. Whereas in the office, you just use that ti
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by eertami 8y ago
Software developer for a financial services company. Employee at first, went freelance for unrelated reasons. Honestly there wasn't much to it I just asked, but also made it clear I'd be leaving if the answer was no. Company alrea
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by eertami 8y ago
I went one further and dropped down to 3 days a week. I earn less now sure but I get 3 full days to commit to hobbies/activities AND a no-guilt dedicated rest day. I'm in my mid-late twenties however, where the time is certainly m
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by eertami 8y ago
Maybe I'm missing the forest for the trees but... what possible reason would you have for taking a Chromecast to a coffee shop?
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by eertami 8y ago
I guess "Millionaire decides to stop working" wasn't an enticing headline for the author.
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by eertami 8y ago
>I will not risk hiring a young woman Not everyone wants or will have children.
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by eertami 8y ago
That's... not something I or anyone I know has ever experienced. Maybe they assume you could be weird for some other reason, and Instagram gives you a lifeline? But again noone I know without Instagram has had any issue dating. I think
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by eertami 8y ago
> worst in the developed world Current government policy in the UK is trying desperately to make the UK public schools steal that title.
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by eertami 8y ago
But would you turn up to your work on Monday morning if it didn't pay you a salary? Even people that "love" work usually know that it isn't the thing they would most want to spend their time doing if they had the choice.

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