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by filoleg 3y ago
> Inflation would mean that the nominal revenues of EU companies would also increase to the same extent. Only if their customers are not from EU (aka their customers pay in USD instead of EUR) or if the company increases pricing to match
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by filoleg 3y ago
> WHY IN HELL IS EUROPE, WITH ITS INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF AVAILABLE RESOURCES NOT DOING TH SAME?!? Probably because Euro is much more stable (relative to dollar) than Naira (the official currency of Nigeria). So european companies don’t fee
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by filoleg 3y ago
Why do you claim that what I said was incorrect? I am well aware of COBRA, but have you seen how much it costs? The previous job I quit a couple years ago, I actually checked the numbers to see how much it would cost me to keep. I think I w
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by filoleg 3y ago
That’s called “leasing a car”, and it comes with a limited number of miles per year, beyond which you pay $X/per 100 miles iirc. I wouldn’t know the details, because I bought my car instead of leasing, but I remember looking at lease t
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by filoleg 3y ago
My best guess: if you want to switch jobs and you are under a non-compete, you have to wait for a period of time before starting a new job at a competitor (typically 6-12 months, fairly common in finance). During that in-between period whil
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by filoleg 3y ago
Somewhat agreed (I prefer the Tesla infotainment system over CarPlay, but they both have their own advantages, despite being imo equally good overall), but I would say it’s not super relevant to the argument. And only because Tesla infotain
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Are seat warmers a subscription now? They almost became a subscription, but BMW backpedaled at the last second[0]. 0. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/7/23863258/bmw-cancel-heated...
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Japanese is more difficult to learn than an English objectively. I press “doubt” on the entire comment just due to this statement. There is no “objectively more difficult” for most of the major languages (but it exists), and especially
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by filoleg 3y ago
This. People just pull random sticker prices from Ivies/Stanford/MIT type of schools, without realizing that almost no one attending those schools pays that much. They have amazing need-based financial aid programs. “I got accepte
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yeah, had a similar experience with my undergrad in CS. The expectaton at the college I went to was that each credit hour roughly maps to 1 hour of lecture + 3 hrs of work outside of class. That estimate wasn’t even for getting an A, that w
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by filoleg 3y ago
> I almost have to believe it’s just paid PR people from those corporations, because I don’t know what else would motivate such defending Have you never met an engineer who is arguing heavily over a topic with you, purely because they be
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Gambling is a negative-sum game Depends on what kind of gambling we are talking about. Sports betting is pretty much zero sum.
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by filoleg 3y ago
All the Amazon Go stores that have been open near me for the past few years are still open. Went to one last Friday, in fact.
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by filoleg 3y ago
Not if you have TSA precheck as well. Most US airports I’ve been to have 4 types of queues: * No TSA precheck, no Clear * TSA precheck, no Clear * No TSA precheck, Clear * TSA precheck, Clear They all work exactly as you expect (you get the
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by filoleg 3y ago
To the European Commission, yeah. To the public, no.
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by filoleg 3y ago
> These seem largely absent today. I still hold the same stance today, but I am just tired of arguing for it on HN. I noticed the same thing with the prevailing opinion on the issue changing on HN as well. However, it wasnt because there
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by filoleg 3y ago
But that’s the thing, most of them would much rather be employed at a FAANG with high pay and high tolerance for “expressing yourself” in the workplace. I totally agree with you that they would be unlikely to not be able to get a job at som
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by filoleg 3y ago
Ditto, that’s the same one I’ve been using and am pretty happy with it.
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by filoleg 3y ago
> why on earth should they quit instead of doing what they did? Would’ve made them more hireable in the future. Especially given the arrest record for some of them. Usually, having an arrest on your record isn’t going to result in an aut
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Are people really just out there, no script, tracker or ad blockers, no dark mode enforcers, no pay wall bypassers or YouTube enhancers, just raw dogging the internet on their iPhones? Idk since when, but Safari on iOS had extensions a
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by filoleg 3y ago
Proactive, in this case, means “before they are legally required to.” If they waited until NHTSA performed their investigation and made a recall request (which is how the heavy majority of the recalls in the US are performed), that would be
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by filoleg 3y ago
I mean, I am not sure what response people expected when a person, in a conversation about their work project, is being asked “what do you like to do in your free time.” Maybe I am an outlier, but when in a conversation about work-related t
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by filoleg 3y ago
VRChat is more popular, but it doesn’t mean that copying their approaches would be the move. For all we know, VRChat as a concept of that kind is a local maximum, and imo it wont scale well to genpop. Not claiming this as an objective fact,
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yeah, exhibits like this are basically the old adage of “people won’t remember what you told them, but they will rememember how what you told them made them feel”, but with the expectation that you will indeed focus on the latter. Not doing
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by filoleg 3y ago
It is the shortcut for switching between windowed and full screen mode for most games.
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by filoleg 3y ago
Having an engineering mindset is not the same as never making mistakes (or never being too early to the market). The only way you won’t make those mistakes and keep a perfect record is if you never do anything major or step out of the comfo
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by filoleg 3y ago
The first line does not have two errors, it makes perfect sense. Here it is below for others to actually see that everything is fine there. > From 3AM on Sunday September 11, 2011, until 3AM the following day (US east coast time), WikiLe
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by filoleg 3y ago
And how exactly is a local cop in the US supposed to enforce the law against someone who (both legally and physically) is a resident of a country on the other side of the globe (Nigeria)? Asking because that’s the situation the article in t
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by filoleg 3y ago
That’s totally fine, i am not against services requiring phone numbers during registration. I am just against those services allowing sms to be used as an easy 2FA fallback when an app-based 2FA is enabled. Because doing so makes app-based
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by filoleg 3y ago
Half the time, even if a service supports autheticator app 2FA and not just sms, all it takes is just clicking “use another method” on the 2FA page, and it defaults to sms-based 2FA anyway. And it would still require a phone number when reg

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