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by fleddr 4y ago
I absolutely agree that A/B testing in the way described in the article is a catalyst for creating dark patterns in a UI. Because dark patterns work, they deliver short term increases in particular metrics. The author's idea is th
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by fleddr 4y ago
Can you clarify what those numbers try to show? The point I made is that I don't expect a "lot of braindrain" from Europe and that this concerns a tiny percentage willing to move to the US. What is the relation with the tax r
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by fleddr 4y ago
You're right. Being alone and the very idea of privacy is a modern "luxury". It did not exist as hunter gatherers nor in the "african village" model. In some cultures, it still doesn't exist, think a multi gene
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by fleddr 4y ago
You need to let go of the idea that every moment of your life needs to have purpose or some productive output. Luckily you already come to that conclusion: a way to reset the brain and moving your body is always a good idea.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Potato diet sounds like the much acclaimed "dutch cuisine". I'm exaggerating, but not by much. I grew up on tasteless boiled potatoes, at least 6 times per week. Supplemented with veggies boiled to pulp. Very fatty meat. And
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by fleddr 4y ago
Citation needed, specifically regarding your use of the term "a lot". Sure enough, if you take the small percentage of extreme tech talent or very entrepreneurial employees, many in that group might consider taking their business
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by fleddr 4y ago
Whilst this draft bill is laughable and outrageous, isn't a similar concept in the making for the EU? One not emphasizing children but copyrights and such instead? Article 13, I think it's called. I consider them conceptually simi
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by fleddr 4y ago
There was a dutch researcher that claimed that their weed killer was responsible for the wiping out of many insects, notably bees and bumblebees, but possibly others. The man was ridiculed by his professional peers, whom later turned out to
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by fleddr 4y ago
I agree that modern society is not set up to encourage having children as well as that people start about a decade too late with it. But still, even in societies with excellent maternity leave and child support, people do not have more chil
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by fleddr 4y ago
Those are...ELITE. How hard is it to understand that word?
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by fleddr 4y ago
No, they won't. Even in developed countries where having children is financially manageable, people do not want kids. Less than 2 on average. The wealthier, the less kids. It's a consistent international conclusion. When people do
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by fleddr 4y ago
The big disadvantage of microservices is also organizational.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I remember a story from some Googler complaining how from his apartment, the next Starbucks was about a mile away, a major degradation in life quality compared to the 5 star hotel that is a Google office. The guy can't even make coffee
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by fleddr 4y ago
The utility of this viewpoint is that adults should stop victimizing themselves when they lack the absolute basics of being an adult. The very idea of being an adult is that you no longer have somebody to hide behind. You're naked. Des
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by fleddr 4y ago
True, and the other discipline is that at one point I settled on a lifestyle and never upped it again, despite a growing income. So the savings rate itself also increases over time.
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by fleddr 4y ago
What if you have no talents? "Emerging talent"?
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by fleddr 4y ago
Well, I have news for you: 100K in a LCOL is a type of salary that pretty much nobody in the US, let alone the rest of the world earns. It's an elite salary. The absolute top tier for employees worldwide. It's not hate, it's
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm stunned really. I'm from the Netherlands, known for its comparatively poor pay for engineers as well as high costs of living. Despite that, from day 1, when my salary was at its lowest and I was still single, I saved 25% of my
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by fleddr 4y ago
"Not everyone was taught financial literacy" That's not how adulthood works. The world doesn't care if you learned it nor will it teach you. Besides, it doesn't take a course in finance to understand basic financial
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by fleddr 4y ago
The key skill is to distinguish between harmful repetition, harmless repetition and beneficial repetition. Say you have two templates (web pages). They are conceptually independent and serve two different business purposes. Yet in terms of
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by fleddr 4y ago
Honestly, I think we have a discovery problem. There's plenty of room for both groups. In a way the internet is limitless. A lot of that weirdness still exists, it's just incredibly hard to find.
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by fleddr 4y ago
You're not wrong. But why do shareholders love buzz words? It's realistically not in their interest at all? The older I get, the more I'm inclined to join the dark side. To just play the game and not fight it. As such, I&#x27
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by fleddr 4y ago
One of my friends is such a "liquidator", he buys up both excess inventory (never sold) and returned items for rock bottom prices. He has developed a keen sense in finding the profitable jewels. For example, women's cosmetics
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by fleddr 4y ago
"Why did the company not hire more people?" COVID dramatically reduced worker demand for airlines, hotels, restaurants, the like. So those people went to do something else, something that saw an increase in demand, say delivering
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by fleddr 4y ago
I struggle with it in the sense that it maddens me. I do typically understand what is said as from 20 years of experience I developed an internal corporate nonsense translator in my head. Paragraphs after paragraphs of fluffy academic corpo
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's an awkward and elitist thing to say, but I believe it to be true: whatever is embraced by the masses, suffers in some ways. The expert/nerd internet was pioneering, weird, edgy, cooperative. The internet for the masses is...d
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by fleddr 4y ago
Quite a few are commenting from their own perspective, as a consumer/user of an Apple device, and whether you're happy with it or not. That's not really the point. The emphasis of this legislation first and foremost is on dev
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by fleddr 4y ago
I said it saddens me that a physical social place is going extinct and you translate that to me thinking it's bad that people consume less alcohol? What is this, Twitter? Stop putting words in my mouth.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I don't agree with the cost of living remark. The main reason is that contrary to pubs, restaurants are doing extremely well. At least where I live. Quite a few pubs are converted into restaurants and they're full all of the time.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Somebody else already mentioned it, but I want to highlight Adobe's other CMS product: Adobe Experience Manager. It is a bizarre product in the sense that the typical web developer has never heard of it, whilst it's one of the mos

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