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The assumption here is that being good at a job is what 'earns' a promotion. In fact, it can be the opposite; why risk promoting someone to a new role, when they are doing great at the current one? What actually marks someone for
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"Quantum Blockchain’s announcement that it can find these patterns with predictive AI also raised some doubts. " Why is the FT even covering this obviously scammy company's claims?
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SCR - SIBELCO on euronext in case anyone wants to the follow the pump.
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til
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Sure, but why stop at 'sexualization'. Surely mere good looks, for either sex, are an unfair advantage, or ripe for exploitation. An attractive, comforting voice? What about having something interesting to say?
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It seems obvious to me that there are more 'sexy' female streamers than male. You could argue that they are 'forced by the market' to be more sexualized. Or you could argue that they are taking advantage of the market an
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right here! lol
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aha, missing 'load', which isn't in the help? I tried 'run waves.pb' or whatever, but nothing. edit: no you're right, 'load' is in the help, my mistake. But I'd still say you want to make a lesso
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It's like that anecdote about a*holes When everyone you meet is an a*hole, maybe you're the a*hole
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Gave it 5 minutes and couldn't even get a demo to run. You either need a lesson plan, or make it more obvious what to do.
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"I for one wouldn't want an engineer who solves problems like that on the team. " I guess this is some high-handed attempt at a put-down. I think you have to consider what game job-hunting/filling is. IMHO it's esse
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Is this for real? Of course if only your expenses increase by 5% and you earn more than that, you may need less than 5% wage increase to cover the increase. But then your 'surplus' is less of a percentage of your wage, and what th
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The problem as an applicant is that after sending, say 30,40,50 carefully considered applications, spending up to several hours on each, and getting almost no response, you change tactics. There's no point crafting a love letter which
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"Part of the trick is realizing you don’t really need The Best People. Find somebody who you’ve got reasonable confidence can do the job well and make them an offer." Right, the whole industry seems to focus on Hunger Games winner
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Spotify is used as a case example in scrum training. No correlation implied.
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But not too senior, or you'll be almost completely ignored.
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Any open positions there?
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It is for me!
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Wealth will also accrue to long-term owners if there's a steady background of asset-price inflation over a period of decades due to monetary policy.
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I found the first book at least to be just a cacophony of ideas, some interesting, some just weird, and all barely hanging together well enough to make an actual story.
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All of this is from the mid 90's I think, so 30 years ago. Before that, computers were generally not networked at all, or if they were it was netware (A world of suits), to share printers and storage, or possibly some telecom standard
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It sure does. And it's still a problem today.
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"being very very thorough in its various settings. " Perhaps that's the key. I don't have time for that, linux just works, though of course some apps aren't available at all on linux, hence the windows boots.
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huh? They mostly use linux, and maybe Windows once or twice a week at most, to maybe every couple of weeks. So for your stats, last year we re-installed the windows partition of one machine 4 times and another I think 2 or 3. Could be hardw
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I get a similar thing teaching a coding club. I'm not sure how the machines are set up, as I have an aversion to Windows from my time as an NT 'certified professional', but at least one machine will spend 10 minutes 'upd
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The problem isn't so much that economists don't know what they're doing. There are many questions which economists can answer quite clearly. The problem is that economics has become the center of the entire operation of socie
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Standardization and modularity are really the keys to making things that last and reducing our material impact, as opposed to the semi-disposable manufacturing we do now. But the current financial/capitalist system does not incentize m
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News is something someone doesn't want you to know. Everything else is propaganda or advertising.
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I would think a 'fleet' or swarm of lifting vehicles, airships, drones, etc would make more sense than pioneering an entire custom airplane of such scale.
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I'm fairly sure the oldest of professions will be relatively immune to AI. But also teaching. AI might be better at teaching actual subjects, physics, maths, and so on, but a good part of school is socialization beyond the family, and

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