em-bee

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by em-bee 8mo ago
Why are privately owned restaurants part of a city's "livability", as if going out to eat food made by an underpaid slave wage class of migrant workers, is somehow a god given entitlement for the western person that's
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by em-bee 8mo ago
xkcd turned stick figure drawings into an art form. sometimes it is not about how something was created, but about the story being told. some people build apps to solve a problem. why should they not share how they solved that problem? i ha
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by em-bee 8mo ago
are we? are we not also talking about enabling restaurants to exist in order to make our city livable? i also don't see the issue with housing support. in vienna more than half of the population lives in subsidized housing. the current
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by em-bee 8mo ago
gig economy is like working as a freelancer except the pay is lower. and that's the problem. working as a freelancer only works out because i get a higher per hour rate so that i can deal with downtimes where i get no work. gig work sh
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by em-bee 8mo ago
if you enter a country whose citizenship you have you must always enter with the travel document or proof of citizenship of that country. no exceptions. that is a global convention. using a foreign document is most likely a violation of th
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by em-bee 8mo ago
these laws don't apply to small companies. the minimum is 50 people i think. i just came across an article that stated that the law applies to companies with 10 or more people. so maybe it is relevant for startups.
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by em-bee 8mo ago
i am talking about germany, but i believe this is true for many european companies. i am legally compelled to not dismiss people if that causes social/financial hardship for them, when i could dismiss other people who would face less h
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by em-bee 8mo ago
The employer usually does not know about your family structure when i need to let go people from my company because i need to downsize for whatever reason i need to choose those who would be least affected. that means i need to know who i
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by em-bee 8mo ago
What if we actually expected people to understand something about technologies they want to use? but that's what we have now, and it's not working. the implied question is: what if we don't allow people to use technology un
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by em-bee 8mo ago
this is not about moral busybodies. it's not even a moral issue. it's an existential issue. this is about demands from the population to be safe from scams. those scammers ruin lives. do you think those people really prefer to be
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by em-bee 8mo ago
I'm not against "intuitive UX design" in general, but at it's extreme, it just fuels incompetence. how does it do that? (i am not getting hung up on "intuitive", i just mean you argue that the currently used
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by em-bee 8mo ago
the problem is that in developing countries smart phones are a massive technology jump for people who lack the education to even have a clue whats going on. treating people as adults does not work if they don't have the education neede
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by em-bee 8mo ago
you are ignoring that even among animals, and mammals specifically the amount of nurture vs nature varies a lot. some animals, especially those who are prey, are born with the capacity to run. others are born blind or weak and need more nur
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by em-bee 8mo ago
No one said anything about policies forcing people to keep their pay secret. We love our freedom of speech, so that wouldn't make much sense. really? it has been a widespread policy in many companies across the US until the laws chan
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by em-bee 8mo ago
but we aren't animals. as humans we are not bound to our instinct. we have the capacity to overcome our nature. of course not everything is learned. breathing for example, but heck even properly latching on to a breast is learned, wher
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by em-bee 8mo ago
in this german article there is a table with numbers: https://moms-favorites-and-more.de/kosten-kindergarten/ (disclaimer: i wonder if that site content is AI generated. some details/inconsistencies don't add
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by em-bee 8mo ago
According to your line of thinking, anything that results from nature can be attributed to nurture because "we can't prove 100% that it isn't nurture". This is a terrific example of an unfalsifiable hypothesis. all cor
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by em-bee 8mo ago
actually, in the US policies about keeping your pay secret are illegal. and in many states salaries need to be published on job postings too. so it's not hard to figure out what someone earns, and it is in your benefit to not keep it s
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by em-bee 8mo ago
yes, that is kind of unavoidable. but i don't really see why you would want to keep that private. we already have or work on laws that makes peoples salaries public to allow employees to know if they are paid fairly, and you are not go
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by em-bee 8mo ago
It sounds like this was the case for you, but it doesn't mean it is the case for other men. It isn't the case for the dads I know who didn't have an in being around their babies/toddlers. They simply did not have an int
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by em-bee 8mo ago
only if the husband actually is earning enough in any particular case. each persons situation needs to be looked at individually. given that in most cases a single salary is no longer enough the male breadwinner theory is no longer reality.
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by em-bee 8mo ago
on the contrary, it makes less sense if you want women to get equal chance of a career at work. the likelihood of women staying at home reduces their chances at being promoted, causes them to get paid less, etc. the pay gap, which is suppos
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by em-bee 8mo ago
correct. in general, when letting people go you need to consider the impact on their lives. and you need to let go those who are less impacted. you can't just pick the weakest performers or the most expensive (although the higher paid
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by em-bee 8mo ago
which is why non-established contributors generally are discouraged from submitting large amounts of code.
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by em-bee 8mo ago
"just" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. people wasting time staring at screens is the prevalent problem of today. with TV it was not as bad because there was/is only one in a room so it becomes shared experience. phones
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by em-bee 8mo ago
15 years in china, with a chinese wife and everyone in my family and my environment speaking chinese with each other did not help me learn more than a few words and phrases of chinese. so just bombardement is not enough, you must be doing s
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by em-bee 8mo ago
evolving gigantism they evolved from dinosaurs. i guess they could evolve back...
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by em-bee 8mo ago
i don't quite follow your argument, i think the opposite is true. you should trust LLMs LESS than any random person. the problem is not whose fault it is. the problem is: are you even able to recognize that this information is wrong. i
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by em-bee 9mo ago
sure there may be some that can benefit from these donations, but there are others that are hurt. it's up to them to decide what they prefer. it's not up to us.
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by em-bee 9mo ago
hiding whitespace changes is not the same as indicating them as whitespace change. in particular hiding messes up the proper display of indentation, so it's not always useful.

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