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by fy20 1y ago
I feel the main issue was that the US historically was the place to go if you want to study or work with the "best" tech minds so talent flocked there. During the industrial revolution you couldn't so easily just pack up and
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by fy20 1y ago
Maybe this is why Europe is so popular with migrants? I've lived in four European countries and never had anything like that. To rent a place you just need to pay 1 or 2 months deposit up front. I've never heard of anyone being de
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by fy20 1y ago
Sex doesn't equal intimacy, at least in the way people really want. Modern dating apps turn sex into a transaction, a one night stand on tap.
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by fy20 1y ago
I've experienced the same thing, I thought it was just people didn't like me but maybe there is something else here. If I see people regularly (e.g. at the office) I can make good friendships with them and we get along well, but o
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by fy20 1y ago
> Why has flight booking become so obsfucated and annoying that people want an agent booking for them? Money. The currently process is beneficial for airlines. People end up spending more than they need to, and they profit from it. They
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by fy20 1y ago
Modern iOS and Samsung devices have very good QR code libraries which work well even under challenging conditions. Other Android manufacturers (e.g. Xiaomi) and a lot of the "QR Scanner" apps on Google Play use a really old librar
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by fy20 1y ago
There are plenty of them out there, but they will expect to hire you are a freelancer/contractor, not an employee. Hiring an 'employee' across borders, even in the EU, is a lot of work, unless you use a third-party. The advan
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by fy20 1y ago
The price still needs to come down for what is effectively a slightly more rugged robot vaccuum. I could buy a used car for that, and have enough left over to make it run reliably. The quality of cheaper models is not great. I bought two f
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by fy20 1y ago
I'm in another European country. Here it's combined into the final kWh price rather than a separate line item. 7c/kWh for transmission fees. The grid is owned and managed by a government entity, so the price is set by them wi
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by fy20 1y ago
Don't forget these parts have been around in hybrids for multiple decades, and taxis often use hybrids (so higher milage, longer running times). In my country the most popular car for taxis and food delivery is the Prius gen 2, which w
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by fy20 1y ago
English often has a lot of redundancy, you could rewrite your comment to this and still have it convey the original meaning: Regarding cost per token: is a token ideally a composable, atomic unit of information? Since English is often used
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by fy20 1y ago
Firing queries all the time is especially annoying if your users are in another continent, and you don't have proper state management to only show results for the latest query, as opposed to the latest response. RTT from Europe to AWS
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by fy20 1y ago
This is the same for almost all electronics. If you buy a toaster, how much do you think it really costs to manufacture the €20 no name brand vs the €80 Delonghi branded one? In both cases, the price the customer pays is many multiples high
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by fy20 1y ago
Not really hard to understand when a VC backed company needs to show returns to their investors. Restaurants get less than 50% of the order total. The only parties winning from this shift are the delivery companies.
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by fy20 1y ago
I wonder if this is related to Grok thinking it's a reincarnation of Hitler. Maybe Twitter isn't the best thing to train an LLM on.
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by fy20 1y ago
My last company was unsure about paying $20/mo to get a Copilot license for all the engineers.
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by fy20 1y ago
I came across this a couple of weeks ago, and it's a good read. I'd recommend it to everyone interested in this topic. Althogh it was written somewhat as a warning, I feel Western countries (especially the US) are heading very muc
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by fy20 1y ago
As someone who has been involved in hiring, that's definitely not the case. The people I've seen who got hired are those who got through the interview process without any major red flags. There usually isn't any other potenti
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by fy20 1y ago
You can also use dot matrix / impact receipt printers, they work in the same way, just with an ink reel. So no special paper needed. They are used in kitchens where thermal paper obviously won't work. Other advantages are they can
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by fy20 1y ago
My country has a fairly high % of PhD holders, but nowhere near enough jobs for them, so they end up getting regular jobs (e.g. I have a friend who got a PhD in laser physics, who now plays with AI models for license plate recognition). The
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by fy20 1y ago
I'd say the main reason is that Europe has been doing it longer and they don't outsource. In Europe the biggest suppliers of public transportation vehicles and equipment are Siemens (Germany), Alstom (France), Solaris (Poland), Hi
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by fy20 1y ago
I live in a country where summers are warm and winters are cold. One idea I've thought about is why we don't just have massive water tanks under our houses. Energy can be dumped in during the summer for cooling, and taken out duri
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by fy20 1y ago
Actually it is. My house has radiant underfloor heating built into the concrete slab, and the water runs through at 30c. Keeps it a toasty 24c when it's -20c outside.
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by fy20 1y ago
In two years time you'll need to add an 10% Environmental Tax, 25% Displaced Workers Tax, and 50% tip to your OpenAI bills.
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by fy20 1y ago
I'd disagree, once you get wealthy (and it doesn't even need to be that much), you can: - schedule beauty appointments to fix how you look - go on coaching sessions to increase your confidence and how you socialize - take people o
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by fy20 1y ago
No OP, but I'm in a smallish EU country and it's not available here.
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by fy20 1y ago
> It's called family or a close friend. It's good you are socially privileged, but a lot of people do not have someone close who they can feel secure to confide in. Even a therapist doesn't help here, as a lot of people ha
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by fy20 1y ago
And Wolt.
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by fy20 1y ago
Throughout her teenage years, my wife's father would drag her along to his bowling trainings and matches. A smokey dingy bowling alley with drunk middle aged men may not seem the best place to take a young teenage girl, but there were
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by fy20 1y ago
Imagine walking through a shopping mall and suddenly having a Nike logo projected directly onto your retine, obscuring everything you see.

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