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by jazzyk 10y ago
I agree the new government in Poland is an embarrassment. But you are mistaken in blaming the electorate. The "misinformation, fear campaign, memes..." have always been around. The primary reason people voted out the previous bunc
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This is like the "Java is slow" myth that will never go away :-) In 2014 federal civilian workers had an average wage of $84,153, according the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis [1].5 By comparison, the average wage for the nation&
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Racist? Yes. But in other aspects, he is actually not that extreme: - much less of a war-monger than Hillary, - has been gay-friendly forever, before it became politically expedient (see his press interviews from 2000). - he actually empl
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The 2010-present "growth" (under 2%) has been bankrolled by a massive increase in debt, rising rapidly from 2010. The chart below [1] shows the national debt of the US, but the overall debt of the population is just as depressing.
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So if I travel to Italy, France and then Germany, I have to learn three different languages, just so that I can find my way around? What if I want to see all the 40+ countries in Europe? In many northern European countries (and now even in
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I was talking about people in a local town not being interested in consuming , not producing items from other regions/countries.
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There is more to quality of life than just number indices. I have not spent enough time in Switzerland to form an opinion, but many people find Switzerland boring and overly strict/regulated - for example, if you take your trash to th
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Yes, I am always surprised how parochial most of Europe still is. Just came back from vacation in Italy - even in Milan, very few people speak English. Mostly regional wine and food, hard to find Sicilian wine in northern Italy (outside of
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A lot of the deadwood is management :-)
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Capital, which the government is trying to diminish by desperately printing money and forcing zero- or negative- interest rates to inflate the debt.
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Being fired lost much of its stigma in highly intellectual professions. Often, it has to do with disagreements over certain business/technical decisions, rather than incompetence. I have seen great people fired by terrible managers. As
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Agreed, and that's why it pays to have some fuck-you money set aside, so that you can survive a few more weeks while looking for another job. IT is so pervasive now, there is almost always another job.
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Yes, it is domestic (retirement savings) - but it is still debt and will need to be repaid. Due to Japan's demographics, pretty soon.
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There is no conspiracy theory here. Just one (quite stunning) fact/statistic: "In 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by fifty companies; today, 90% is controlled by just six companies" [1] Media outlets just act in thei
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This x 1000!. I can't believe how much my children changed me- and I am a pretty tough guy otherwise. Glad to hear I am not the only one.
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Your humble brag is not that humble. Try again.
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The Airline Fee to Sit with Your Family(wsj.com)
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Do you pay the oncologist $80-120M for a botched job? https://www.themuse.com/advice/negotiating-success-what-to-l...
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Really applies to all people, not just tech people.
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Not every request from the customer makes sense. “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” -- Henry Ford.
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I was just pointing out that public service can pay as well as private sector - if not better (pensions at 80% pay!).
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True. But there are also many cases when sales people force the product development team to implement the most idiotic "feature", because "we think the client is ready to sign the check and this is really important to them&qu
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Select "100 top salaries"
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Did we mention the perks like our "unlimited vacation policy"?
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Public service pay cuts? Not really. This is for CA, but other states are not too far off. http://publicpay.ca.gov/ And don't forget life-long pensions at 80% salary. How many distinguished engineers make anywhere clos
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The nuclear info should be secret because it protects us from our enemies. The info on population surveillance should be secret because? Oh wait, the government thinks we are the enemy...
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So what exactly was he supposed to do? The people "cleared" to see the info are the perpetrators who blatantly violated (and keep violating) the constitution.
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Sorry, but this is FUD. He didn't dump information on a random server somewhere. He worked with the journalists from The Guardian, The WaPo and the NYT. They said they reached out to the gov to work with them and were turned down. How
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But most people who are "familiar" with him don't really know the details - for example, many think he planned the escape to Russia.
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Counter-example: Jon "I simply do not know where the money is" Corzine. Why this man walks free is beyond me. [1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/corzine-cftc-duel-over-mf-global...

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