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by flakeoil 3y ago
You don't get it do you? The person took the job knowing that they have to commute. Be it 5 minutes or 5 hours. the took it based on a certain salary. If they then all of a sudden don't have to commute (let's say 5 hours), th
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Well, most people took the job as a being-in-the-office job (before the work from home took off). Which means you took the job + commute for that salary. If you then suddenly don't have to go to the office it's not such a stretch
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by flakeoil 3y ago
I wasn't necessarily comparing a programmer working remote with a programmer working in the office. I mainly tried to say that if we want to have people working in factories, working as nurses or doing office work that requires working
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Stolen? You were paid for and took the job you knew was a certain distance and commute away from your home. I believe employees have to start to get used to being paid less when working remote. People who work in an office or factory have t
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by flakeoil 3y ago
> if you don’t have the know how to make the tools that make the tools it’s difficult to impossible to literally copy it. Smart and knowledgable people in a certain field, but who are slightly stuck, can be helped by a few tiny details.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Running your own business is not necessarily more freedom than being employed. It's easy to think you can decided everything yourself, but you have customers pulling you here and there, you have rules and regulations, accounting, taxes
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by flakeoil 3y ago
We can see that in real life everyday when listening to the PhD's of Sand Building at the central banks.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
I don't think it has any benefits to remove children from their parents. That's why I think that was a bad policy. I think however it would be beneficial for the children if their parents adapted their lifestyle to fit the modern
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by flakeoil 3y ago
I don't defend that policy, but on the other hand, the children who stay and live the Yenish life will often not get a good education and will have to continue to live a life outside the regular society.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
They stay in their caravans. The set up their camp anywhere they like, on a large parking lot or a field somewhere. There are some places provided by the government, but typically that space is not enough so they set up anywhere, but are of
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by flakeoil 3y ago
I don't think the standards have to be low, but the software engineering field would have to be narrowed down. Only teach and use a certain few languages, only use certain tools, only use certain patterns, only use a specific few frame
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by flakeoil 3y ago
If I understand the below correctly then it seems they can use your data for whatever purpose they want. Also training AI even though it does not explicitly say so. "2b. To the extent necessary to provide the Services to you and others
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by flakeoil 3y ago
At the end it's all humans. Government does what the voters want so the get elected/re-elected. Unfortunately voters don't seem to want to pay more tax for fuel and electricity. They don't seem to want to pay additional
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Skype is mainly a consumer product and that's where they have their users.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
A natural forest doesn't burn as easily as a planted forest.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
A "plantation" in this sense is something that has been planted by man sometime in the last 100 years. Many forests you see which are 40 or 70 years old look like real wild forests, but are in fact planted. Don't forget that
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by flakeoil 3y ago
It's politicians, and indirectly voters, who decide the way forward. Big oil companies might lobby and promote their stuff, but at the end of the day it's bad decisions by politicians and voters.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Well, everyone did, or at least the US congress. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NOdTEIihFU It's easy to blame the oil companies, but in fact, the governments around the world did not care or do anything about it.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Well, someone who plays the drums in a band which I and millions of other people enjoy listening to for sure is a drummer. And a good one at that.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
The main thing it fixes for me is that I can now use a regular Logitech mouse and scroll just like on Linux and Windows. Before it scrolled too slow (on pixel level) and even when scrolling fast it went slow (no matter the settings on Mac O
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by flakeoil 3y ago
"And in order to actually get your profit you have to sell, which means you’re no longer an investor." But that is basically because the company bought some shares for you. So if you sell to create your own kind of dividend makes
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Wow, imagine having 117B people walking around on earth right now. No thank you.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
It's not Facebook, it's Instagram. And you don't need any of them to use Threads.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
But why would staying long on a web site correctly indicate the page provided the answer? Is you spent a short amount it could also indicate you found what you were looking for, and off you went.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
I have a bad experience with night guards and it seems to be something dentists like to prescribe unfortunately. I got one as I had pain in one tooth and it was due to grinding and closing my mouth hard in the nights. Once I started with th
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Making a bridge is considered malpractice now. This is what my younger dentist told me. I had an older dentist in the past who recommended a bridge. Making a titanium implant or just leave it is the best option. Only if you are over 80 year
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by flakeoil 3y ago
And can they produce "fighters, Patriots, and NASAMs" fast enough when they run out of them?
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by flakeoil 3y ago
This has happened many times before and probably will again. IT Security companies and their s/w and tools are a great way to attack their customers.
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by flakeoil 3y ago
Exactly!
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by flakeoil 3y ago
> making it a major life decision to use drugs instead of a daily decision You basically spell it out yourself. Making it legal and accepted to use drugs makes more people use it. If more people use it there will be more drugs being sold

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