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Some call it "phoning it in", some call it "working sustainably and avoiding burnout". It's fine to "phone it in" for the daily grind if it helps you maintain your reserves for actual emergencies. As the a
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> I'm not really sure how creating a clone of "Hot or Not" really helps people connect. If Harvard didn't take Facemash down and Mark didn't face any sort of threat of punishment (expulsion, violation of copyrigh
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But the article says this: > He was just trying to help connect people at college. Are you saying the author's hagiography of Mark Zuckerberg is misleading? I'm shocked.
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> Zuckerberg asked [Kagan] to choose between himself and Facebook. I guess that is what Kagan meant by this: > When your team feels like an owner, they will act as an owner.
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Turns out becoming a billionaire is not about being a super genius at everything for all eternity. Actually it's more like ten percent luck, twenty percent skill, fifteen percent concentrated power of will, five percent pleasure, fifty
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by hnbad 2y ago
This article has more red flags than a Chinese embassy. > At Facebook, it was normal to work 12+ hours a day. That is called unpaid overtime. > Mark constantly pushed us to have a sense of urgency. That is how you stop employees from
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The allegation isn't that they denied or never apologized for "Japan's actions in China/Korea". The allegation is that they don't acknowledge the Rape of Nanjing (or the crimes of Unit 731). Imagine Germany had
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It depended on the focus, I think. But I think you're right: I believe Theoretische Informatik was a Diplom study at my university, but there was a related study that used Magister (computational linguistics and humanities comput
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I formally enrolled in 2005/2006 and at the time these things were definitely not in place in the fields I studied. There were some mandatory introductory courses but even with those you usually had a wide range of options and one of t
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The unstated assumption in this is that it was important for the US to be the one to defeat Japan. It was not just about defeating Japan, it was also about the Soviet Union not defeating it first. The US had been continously fire bombing Ja
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While the horror of the atomic bombings of civilian centers is more obvious in hindsight, it also overshadows what was at least equally horrific at the time: the continuous and deliberate widespread fire bombings of civilian centers. Much o
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It's a bit more complicated. The reparations were a bigger concern in the early interwar period and hamstrung the Weimar government but a big problem was that although Weimar Germany was formally a democratic republic following the dep
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It's a mixed back. Germany was supposed to be demilitarized following the immediate end of WW2 but the successor to the Marshall Plan (which was actually fairly short-lived relative to what many people seem to think) was a US program t
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A big part of the "German Miracle" is that while Germany got less money than Britain or France they assumed they'd have to pay all of it back and when they didn't, that created a massive windfall that was used to provide
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The US and its Cold War allies wanted to use West Germany as a strategic partner against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union wanted to stripmine East Germany for reparations. Before the end of WW2, the Soviet Union had received large amounts
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In a way it's also simply a network of trust. Sure, you didn't have many masters but journeymen carried the reputation of their master and that transferred when seeking employment elsewhere as well as when eventually becoming mast
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I'm not sure why you're bring Luddites into this. Ludd and his followers were opposing the industrialization of their professions because it meant they were losing their jobs to machines while the factory owners were continuing to
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That used to be the idea. University used to be much more broad with students often being encouraged to join courses in other disciplines to broaden their knowledge. Then came the Bachelor/Master system and suddenly you had to take exa
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I'm not entirely sure what you mean. Computer Science is Informatik in Germany. Prior to the Bachelor/Master system it was a Magister study meaning you'd usually have to take a second major and a minor or two minors along
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It's funny they mention Germany for size given that until recently there had been a push for popularizing the idea of a 4 day work week (of 8 hour shifts) and it seems only earlier this year there's been an increase in news storie
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I think there might be a disagreement about what "big" means. Google can easily afford to sink millions each year into pointless endeavours without going out of business and they probably have. Alphabet's annual revenue has
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To spell it out: leap years happen less than every four years, so the average birth rate over four years is actually closer to 2,616 - quite outside the range of 6,574 - 12,301.
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Some cultures (not the US apparently) consider wishing an early birthday bad luck so I'd expect them never to celebrate on Feb 28. I know this is a thing in Central Europe, not sure how common it is. It was a big culture clash in a com
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If you are able to "just do it" by putting your mind to it, I'd say you didn't have a problem to begin with. If you can literally walk away from a habit of heavy drinking and stop forever, were you actually an alcoholic
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Also, here's a thought: if 60% of people are "too weak-willed" maybe it's not a question of being weak-willed alone. That's more than half. In other words, if you pick a person at random, they're more likely to
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So in other words, the US would have to change (or limit the scope of) its laws? Then yes. But the implication was that the EU could do something to make such a treaty work and other than repeal and replace GDPR I don't see any way as
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I've had cashiers in Germany balk at my debit card because it says "Visa" on it and tell me "we only take EC" or sometimes even "we only take EC or Maestro". The joke is of course that EC hasn't exist
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If people are surprised by this - and clearly a non-trivial number of people are - then even if the behavior works as intended it should be indicated in the UI at critical points. GitHub is not simply a UI to actual git repositories it host
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Congratulations, you developed the right intuition. However in UX/DX the question isn't whether users can develop the right intuition based on how they interact with software over time and reading through the documentation but how
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What the replies seem missing is that books are not just the thing Amazon started with but also subject to regulation around pricing in places like Germany, which Amazon sells in. The reason they seem to have good and consistent data on man

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