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by jazzyk 10y ago
Software development is not coding only. For quite a few roles, proximity does, and will always, matter.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Not to take anything from Martin Fowler, but the "do not distribute (unless you absolutely have to)" rule originated at Sun much, much earlier. I have a hardcopy of the paper somewhere, it was a conclusion drawn from acknowledging
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by jazzyk 10y ago
I am not being smug, just genuinely curious - can you provide contemporary examples of a major nation without border security?
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Remember ShirtGate? I don't think it ended this guy's career, but it was a close call. "What should have been the best week of Matt Taylor's (Rosetta project scientist) professional life ended with him weeping on TV as h
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by jazzyk 10y ago
At my daughter's high-school, there was a lot of societal pressure for girls to be interested in tech/science. Most of them remained uninterested in math/computers, though quite a few went into life-sciences.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
You may be missing a lot of just regular folks (including educated ones), who will be holding their vomit bags while voting for Trump, because they can't bring themselves to vote for the ethically challenged, "extremely careless&q
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by jazzyk 10y ago
You understand the distinction between Islamic veils/headscarves (which clearly imply religious affiliation) and clearly non-religious , headscarves worn by many style-conscious, but secular, women? Your misunderstanding may come from
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Please see my edit above: you can wear a head scarf, as long as it does not imply (any) religious affiliation.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Not head, face .
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Everyone take a deep breath. The ban in France is for face-covering only, and it applies to anybody (male/female). There are serious reasons for this, both cultural- and security-based. Head scarves are allowed in France, to the best
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Yes, two numbers may not be enough - that's why I followed up to show the debt/GDP _ratio_ over the years to show historical context, which disproves a couple of your points.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
1. I agree that Obama inherited the financial crisis, but he failed to implement unpopular financial decisions (balancing the budget, etc.), choosing instead to kick the can down the road. You may argue about the first year, etc. but he has
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Yes, gay marriage is a big step forward. But, in the meantime: National debt when Obama started (1/20/2009): $10.6T National debt now: $19.4T Almost doubled.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Completely unlike the other party </sarcasm>
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>"They wanted it all; they didn't want to pay for it." The above happened on almost every project I have worked for over the years. Q: "Can we take feature x out of the plan?" A: "We can't release the p
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by jazzyk 10y ago
I am in the US and I would be happy to chip in to help pay for health expenses of a poor person, who has no family, etc. What I am NOT willing to do, however, is pay enormous overhead to the the insurance/healthcare/bill-processi
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>The median student loan for all people with student loans, is a mere $13,000. = The student loan debt is close to 1.3 TRILLION in 2016, almost TWICE the credit card debt (already substantial at 700 BILLION) = With a delinquency rate of
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Of course most Americans are paying for their health insurance - just indirectly. This is actually a very smart system designed to keep people in the dark about how much things cost. If people had to pay $2500/month for a family of 4
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by jazzyk 10y ago
I don't have the link handy, but The Economist had a cover story a while ago about how Europe (Nordics in particular) has now much higher social mobility than the US.
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>America: one of the highest median household disposable incomes on earth. 25% higher than Norway, 30% higher than Germany and 50% higher than Sweden. Careful here... You need to subtract: - cost of health care (even if you are a W-2 emp
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Yes, the Economist has an article on this relativity every two years or so :-) There are two reasons for why people invariably choose 2> - people are competitive and want to feel superior to others (or at least above average) - the price
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Why is the above downvoted? The inflation taking place since 1970s is a fact, not an opinion. See for yourself, here is the graph (from BusinessInsider, but the source is Bureau of Labor Statistics) : http://www.businessinsider.c
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by jazzyk 10y ago
The usual action for lawyers, bankers or other professionals who were "careless", is to ban them from performing their jobs for a few years. So perhaps she should be banned from holding a government job for a few years?
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by jazzyk 10y ago
Eventually, business thinking will overtake hurt feelings. The UK is a big, affluent country and the EU (read: Germany) needs to export its upmarket products (read: BMWs) somewhere :-). Not as many customers for expensive cars in Greece or
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by jazzyk 10y ago
1. Free travel != immigration policy 2. Referendum > Representatives (the only reason we use representatives is because referendums don't scale)
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by jazzyk 10y ago
>The EU will make the UK pay a price for Brexit. Last time I checked membership in the EU is voluntary. Why should there be punishment?
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by jazzyk 10y ago
The only way to force the government to reform is to vote out the party that screwed up. Unfortunately, in the US, both parties colluded to work for their corporate sponsors, not the people who vote for them, so they both need to be disru
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by jazzyk 10y ago
How is this "raw emotion", though? Leaving the EU has been discussed for a few years now, quite widely. Also, "raw emotion", direct democracy (in Switzerland, for example) can work very well. Direct democracy may not sca
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by jazzyk 10y ago
China is very protective of its market, especially services. They have their own stuff - Baidu instead of Google, Alibaba instead of ebay/Amazon, etc. Most foreign companies are forced to pair up with local Chinese companies. The tra
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by jazzyk 10y ago
The question is - what is the dream exactly? I am as cosmopolitan as they get, but I also abhor central planning and elitism. And, unfortunately, this is what EU has become.

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