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by gaius 8y ago
the rich like endurance sports because they're safe What a peculiar thing to say. You can get caught in a rip tide swimming in the sea, collapse from heat exhaustion while running, any number of things. never worry about taking a ki
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by gaius 8y ago
they qualify as a highly evolved corporate entity Why not? You’re a highly evolved biological entity and you were from the very moment you were conceived! Evolution refers to your ancestors, not to any individual.
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by gaius 8y ago
Read Douglas Coupland’s Generation X, the original book that coined the term. It’s all about 20-somethings in the ‘90’s dropping out because the rewards seem so impossibly far out of reach that it’s not even worth trying. Also held the Boom
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by gaius 8y ago
That is surely an implementation specific complaint; calling FORTRAN code from other languages was always very easy on VMS (same with Pascal, BASIC, whatever else)
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by gaius 8y ago
You need to attach yourself to a team that is making your manager and their managers look good. Right, it’s the same business model as elite universities - find people who are likely to succeed anyway and take credit for their success. Ex
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by gaius 8y ago
Yeah, it’s like saying you can make a waterwheel therefore hydroelectric is democratised. Go tell that to the Hoover Dam!
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by gaius 8y ago
A handy bit of kit is the portable bothy e.g https://rab.equipment/uk/superlite-shelter-2-silbothy
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by gaius 8y ago
That isn’t how Americans react. Chinese companies, malicious or otherwise, are going to face very significant hurdles expanding in the West. I would like to think so but the reality is, Western companies and consumers just buy whatever&#x
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by gaius 8y ago
Solar power is considered democratic since anyone can harness it But that makes literally no sense. You can’t fabricate solar panels in your backyard. You need a factory handling toxic chemistry and a supply chain of rare earth elements f
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by gaius 8y ago
Techies: we’re all different skill levels we cannot possibly bargain collectively Hollywood unions: lol srsly, we have millionaires in our unions
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by gaius 8y ago
Choose randomly of course, Thanos style
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by gaius 8y ago
Do authors get bonuses for releasing fiery volatile articles at Bloomberg or something? Actually, yes: https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa... It isn't necessarily nefarious, it's a metri
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by gaius 8y ago
Seen this a few time in my career, "sorry guys, I know we had another record quarter/year, but we didn't make our stretch goals so there won't be any bonus". Then you read the filing which all public companies must
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by gaius 8y ago
Quite a few of these "non-tech workers" are employees, too Google (et al) go to considerable, some might say elaborate, lengths to keep their service staff - cleaners, catering, security, etc - off the payroll and partitioned of
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by gaius 8y ago
Technical skills are the skills to make machines do whatever you want, they get no say in the matter. People skills are the skills to make people do whatever you want. You can see why many are reluctant to get involved in that.
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by gaius 8y ago
a title recently thrown around a lot for positions that used to be called "data analyst" Agreed. Maybe this is different in different markets but in London the vast majority of "data scientist" positions advertised are
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by gaius 8y ago
denying him the bonus and leaving the team to scramble and organize a mini-summit to do knowledge transfer I hope he said “no bonus, no knowledge” because that’s the only reasonable response!
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by gaius 8y ago
Any junior has the title of "Vice President" It’s partly that sure, but it is also that to enter into financial contracts on behalf of the company you need to be an officer of the company, and VP is the lowest reasonable title
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by gaius 8y ago
FTA significant part of the UK fossil fuel subsidies identified by the commission is the 5% rate of VAT on domestic gas and electricity, cut from the standard 20% Taxing something less is not the same as subsidising it and it is disingenu
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by gaius 8y ago
There won’t be Uber and Lyft if there aren’t already a road network and a massive pool of people who know how to drive
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by gaius 8y ago
In the UK fuel taxes raise £50Bn for the exchequer every year and the total transport budget is £25Bn. Maybe it’s different in the US but certainly here, the idea that cars are subsidised just isn’t factually true. Drivers pay for all forms
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by gaius 8y ago
most game developers couldn't get other sw dev jobs if they wanted to, after all. The C++ guys working on the engine, sure. But they are a minority and the rest don’t have easily transferable skills.
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by gaius 8y ago
Disclaimer The author has never used APL I’d like to know more about the underlying motivation! APL is a fascinating language but I’m not sure how you’d implement it efficiently in a language like Go - you would need intrinsics to get at
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by gaius 8y ago
I expect they (we) already are. I never formally linked my FB and IG accounts and don’t use FB itself anymore but IG always suggests me the people I left FB in part to get away from! It’s obvious that it has linked the accounts internally.
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by gaius 8y ago
Apples to oranges. Cutler designs new OSs from first principles, Torvalds implemented a version of an existing OS. You might compare Cutler to Tanenbaum if you wish.
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by gaius 8y ago
Well, sure, manual labourers/athletes are likely to be lean in any culture but what about the general population?
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by gaius 8y ago
What newspapers never realized was that they're in the distribution business, people were paying them to print out their content and deliver, they were never really paying for the content itself Traditionally in newspapers advertiser
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by gaius 8y ago
Same here - long time, >15 years NYT subscriber, I stuck with them even while they were so obviously biased against my boy Bernie but finally it became too much. They just stopped reporting actual news one day and never looked back. They
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by gaius 8y ago
but the stories broken by NYT, WSJ, Washington Post etc. each day are assuredly not "fake". There are, on occasion, factual errors in a story Waiting for the retraction of the Covington story based on the full video? To be given
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by gaius 8y ago
The thing is, for the vast majority of human history, the ability to quickly pack on fat was a crucial survival trait, and those with “skinny genes” wouldn’t last over a hard winter. It is only in soft modern society that it is viable to li

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