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by elygre 1y ago
«Tip-pooling» is common many places. This implies that tips is shared between employees, for example including the kitchen staff.
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by elygre 1y ago
If I was rounded up in an ICE raid, I would enthusiastically depart the country, even if I was fully compliant with every rule. That’s to say that a voluntary departure doesn’t mean no harm was caused.
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by elygre 1y ago
The article says that the ICE agent thinks the worker was compliant with visa terms: «From statements made and queries in law enforcement databases, [redacted] has not violated his visa; however, the Atlanta Field Office Director has mandat
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by elygre 1y ago
And the inventor was blind! From the same article: Dalén lost his sight in an explosion while developing his earlier invention, a porous substrate for storing gases, Agamassan. Forced to stay at home, Dalén discovered that his wife was exha
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by elygre 1y ago
Random anecdote, probably repeated all over Europe and the rest of the world: During World War II, the top leadership of the Norwegian resistance had most of their meetings in a civilian apartment in the middle of Oslo. One you’re occupied,
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by elygre 1y ago
It might end up financing a gold-plated airplane for a library.
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by elygre 1y ago
I won’t benefit from this. At the same time, I cannot see a single bad thing about it, so I’m surprised about all the negative energy.
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by elygre 1y ago
The below article is in Norwegian, but has many references at the end. Apparently people are overwhelmingly happy, so it seems inappropriate to talk about «hurting quality of life». https://www.tiltak.no/d-flytte-eller-reg
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by elygre 1y ago
I’m urging for someone to write «welcome to the rab-bee hole», and now someone did!
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by elygre 1y ago
So, maybe. And also maybe not. https://www.forskning.no/forbruk-ntnu-partner/er-vaskemaskin... (in Norwegian) quotes research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The article says that a washing mac
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by elygre 1y ago
The two revelations of the wine monopoly. The first is «you have a monopoly???», and then later «and you actually like that?????»
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by elygre 1y ago
That was the exact point where I stopped reading, to be honest.
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by elygre 1y ago
You find the same in any language. A «coming of age» story is not about birthdays.
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by elygre 1y ago
Supremely court decisions, I think.
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by elygre 1y ago
I cannot kill a cow, but I’m happy there are people who can. I also cannot build trains or houses, but I am an ardent supporter of a rain-proof roof.
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by elygre 2y ago
> Why do you only pay the minimum amount of tax? You didn’t pose the question to me. And yet. Very many people don’t. We know there are constructs that would enable us to pay less, yet we choose to not pursue them. We are part of a socie
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by elygre 2y ago
I assume that the paragraph called «after hitler» is more appropriately called «during hitler» or similar. Do you know what the current path is on Germany? (I don’t, honest question!) (Edited typo)
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by elygre 2y ago
You pay the cost only when the exception is raised. If that happens on more than 1% of your runtime checks, it probably is not (aka should not be) an exception.
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by elygre 2y ago
Of course, the word girlfriend is already ambiguous. From Merriam-Wester: "1. a female friend 2. a frequent or regular female companion in a romantic or sexual relationship".
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by elygre 2y ago
And it gives details about everything you could imagine. It’s a gold mine for train travel through Europe!
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by elygre 2y ago
I love how that’s the hardest thing to believe.
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by elygre 2y ago
They left because they didn't want to pay taxes. No monkeying about, they want to be rich and tax free.
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by elygre 2y ago
A quote I often remember -- don't know the source: > We live in a unique moment in time. Cameras are everywhere, and we can see them. Previously, they were not there. In the future, we will not be able to see them.
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by elygre 2y ago
Thank you for this comment. I know the US is different from where I live, but the distrust shown in other comments just made me very depressed.
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by elygre 2y ago
True. In our example we didn’t have to generate online help and pdf manuals from the same asciidoctor sources. But when we chose to, we really needed the customization that cradle offered.
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by elygre 2y ago
That’s some very selective quoting there. Let’s do the full thing: > Heap flattening must maintain the integrity of objects. For example, the flattened data must be small enough to read and write atomically, or else it may become corrupt
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by elygre 2y ago
Possibly this: In twenty years, the experience retires. In forty, it dies.
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by elygre 2y ago
From discussions in Oslo, Norway: every researcher or institute says that buses are both cheaper and significantly more flexible, and should be used. And then the public comes along, preferring trams by a mile.
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by elygre 2y ago
It might also be a trick — maybe it’s nine?
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by elygre 2y ago
Could I suggest that greppbarhet is more precisely translated as “the ability of being understood”? (Norwegian here. Our languages are similar, but we miss this one.)

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