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by furyg3 11y ago
The American professional mindset is that you are hired for a role, and a good employee does what it takes to do that role. There are different rules (in California) for professionals who plan their own work and/or supervise others ve
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by furyg3 11y ago
Hey, I know something about this! I moved from silicon valley to NL about 8 years ago. First off there are two ways to spin this: 1) women are less emancipated in NL because they participate less in the workplace or 2) women are more emanc
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by furyg3 11y ago
The guy in the second situation is a huge asshole, but it is also very naive to think that you can simply rent out your propery to someone (especially on a long-term basis) and you do not somehow enter a landlord/tenant relationship. M
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by furyg3 11y ago
Before Blendle I only used paywalled sites that I had a physical subscription for. It was horrible (only the economist worked as expected). Watching magazines and newspapers implement their own solutions was just painful... some Dutch new
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by furyg3 11y ago
While I was driving a friends keyless car (he had the key) he stepped out to get something and the car flashed some lights to inform me I was driving without the key. It didn't turn off (thankfully). This is the correct behavior. I o
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by furyg3 12y ago
Yeah I mistyped that. I meant to say that bike riders emit much less CO2 than both cars and scooters.
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by furyg3 12y ago
Selfish greed is also the reason why people buy movies instead of donating their money to charity or using that time to plant a tree. People want stuff, and they want it to be a) good and b) cheap. And you're totally dismissing the f
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by furyg3 12y ago
Electric scooters are becoming very popular here in Amsterdam, and I really hope this gets more of the gas-powered scooters off the market. Scooters here are mostly either used by delivery boys or as a luxury item (since the bike lanes are
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by furyg3 12y ago
It is also throttling in the EU (At least in NL). If I pay for an 'unlimited' data plan it's usually something like 2GB at 4G and then "2G" speeds (64kbps) after that. It's just throttling, as your phone remai
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by furyg3 12y ago
You really nailed it. Among my duties are systems administration for a company that works with a lot of software development vendors. We have a user acceptance team that makes sure that we get what we ordered, that the QC stays at a high
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by furyg3 12y ago
This logic blows my mind. Winning back your penny at the penny slots isn't the result you're playing for, but it's a better result than losing the penny. I don't know the details of the FourSquare pivot, and hindsight is
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by furyg3 12y ago
This is my solution, but honestly there's a lot to be desired, especially with regard to photos. Storing Aperture, iPhoto, or Lightroom databases on the network is not ideal. Wifi, even 802.11ac, is barely usable. Gigabit means you&#
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by furyg3 12y ago
I was lucky enough to have a friend working at BeOS at the very end. This is when they abandoned all hope of getting bought by Apple (erm... I mean gaining presence on the desktop) and focused on "Internet Appliances" like eVilla
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by furyg3 12y ago
Well considering parliament dissolved over the issue I can imagine there's a lot to be desired. However, like construction projects, the original politician/official get the credit for signing the contract and their successor actu
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by furyg3 12y ago
It's a very 'agile' project. When will it be done? Don't ask! How much will it cost? Who knows! It's going to be awesome, though! But... you don't have to wait to see how powerful this weapons system is.
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by furyg3 12y ago
I had a similar beliefs about diamonds and wasn't really sure how to talk about this to my (then) girlfriend. She's very progressive and would not interpret what I was saying as being a cheapskate (I'm the spendy one), but i
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by furyg3 12y ago
A very good idea. Although someone intelligent enough to rig this up almost certainly bought a pre-paid SIM with cash.
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by furyg3 12y ago
Hilarious. No problem for the company, but I wonder if they installed two or just sent the data to both of them... I have a car I don't use very often and often forget where I park it. DX and BangGood have GPS trackers you can buy fo
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by furyg3 12y ago
WhatsApp is a closed-source proprietary app owned by Facebook. Metadata is owned and kept by them, and normal chat data is also theirs. They claim they have started using the textsecure encryption mechanisms on their apps, but this appear
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by furyg3 12y ago
"Is the creator still earning from this product" is a test that congress believes doesn't matter. Walt is dead, Mickey lives on (with copyright restrictions)...
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by furyg3 12y ago
Why doesn't this work with taxes? I feel like the US government needs to steal some marketing team from champagne companies... I mean, only the very rich can voluntarily pay 95% of their income in taxes! Nobody else can do that! Go
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by furyg3 12y ago
I don't find QoS at odds with Net Neutrality. High Netflix usage on an ISP's network shouldn't kill voice calls or interactive applications. Deciding what goes into the 'video' 'voice' 'p2p' QoS
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by furyg3 12y ago
If your corporate operations are vital to national security, congratulations! You've made it big! Also, you should take security seriously. This should be an agreement between you and the rest of society (read: laws or standards). Gov
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by furyg3 12y ago
And here's one in Amsterdam: http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/clubs/photos/2012-04-0...
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by furyg3 12y ago
In Amsterdam one of these (and the very old industrial terrain around it) has been repurposed into public spaces. Concerts/Festivals are frequently held: http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/clubs/photos&#x2F
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by furyg3 12y ago
Dangerous industrial places like ports, for example, have big fences and security cameras and security officers watching those cameras and driving around. It could be that hiring a tractor babysitter is cheaper than all of that.
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by furyg3 12y ago
> he interesting question is how much of it was serious investigation of space aliens 0%
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by furyg3 12y ago
With no wings is it really a spaceplane? It looks like a capsule...
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by furyg3 12y ago
Surely refrigerating your whiskey is the correct approach? Or chilling the glass?
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by furyg3 12y ago
Took me a couple reads to get it, he was identifying the wrench size by the 'ring' the wrench made by scraping it on the concrete? Very cool. A few years back I figured out that shoving my finger in a wrench is far more accurate

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