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by jedrek 3y ago
> Any rational company would have standardized the parts inside a phone like IBM did with the IBM PC. Any company that is run by people who're capable of reading and understanding history books would probably not do that. IBM releas
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by jedrek 3y ago
Do realize that viewers are not YouTube's only "customer". They spend a lot of time and energy courting video creators as well, and their monetization program is one of the few that allows even mid-sized creators to record vi
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by jedrek 4y ago
Hey so fun fact: three month notice periods are standard in Germany because German companies like to have runway to offload and onboard employees. Germany is famously pro-labor, so you actually have two notice periods: one for the employer
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by jedrek 4y ago
Funny how the assumption is that robots have to save us. Worker productivity is at a never before seen, all-time high. The benefits of that productivity are going straight into the pockets of the largest holders of capital. We don't ne
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by jedrek 4y ago
The gatekeepers are exclusively capitalist companies. You realize one of the goals of capitalism is to replace all public services with private, for-profit ones?
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by jedrek 4y ago
100k/pa in the UK is 'ultra wealthy'. 120k/pa puts you into the 1% of top earners.
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by jedrek 5y ago
> Some people will never steal even to save their own life, because they have principles which guide them in that direction. Are you sure there are, or do you think there are based on a Disneyesque view of morality?
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by jedrek 5y ago
> A lot of experts in cars and rockets claimed that Tesla and SpaceX are terrible ideas and they were proved wrong many times. Can we see some references to these experts?
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by jedrek 6y ago
Hard work and grit are tied to millions more cases of folks being among the working poor.
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by jedrek 6y ago
They’re not an American but they’re also not from “other countries”, but from one specific country. None of the 27 countries of the EU have that level of corruption or hyperinflation either. My country has an absolutely horrible reputation
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by jedrek 6y ago
Imagine having well paid customers.
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by jedrek 6y ago
It’s us. I was the same, now when I have a fresh Mac (like at work) I like to grab my dot files, my ssh keys, and remove a few items from the dock and I’m good to go. I don’t even do the last that much since I mostly launch from Spotlight.
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by jedrek 6y ago
I'd love to read up on that not so specialist CNC tech, considering most of the CNCs brag about having tolerances of ± 0.0025mm.
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by jedrek 7y ago
When I tell people here in Poland that I have friends living in LA, SF or NYC, making six figure salaries and living with roommates to be able to both live where they want AND pay off their student loan debt, they are dumbfounded.
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by jedrek 7y ago
Oh, I didn't realize all people are Americans.
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by jedrek 7y ago
Still using my 2004 20" ACD.
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by jedrek 7y ago
> Because 40 hours a week are, if you remove vacations, holidays and sick leaves, on average roughly 4 hours per day. I'm sorry, but who told you this? The median amount of PTO in American companies is 10 days + 8 days of Federal ho
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by jedrek 7y ago
Being tired ("I don't have the mental or physical energy to do engaging things") and sleepy ("I want to sleep") are completely different things.
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by jedrek 7y ago
It's almost impossible to host any sort of event with 200-300 people for 3-5 hours for under 10k. Any venue that has room for 250 people + catering should not be doing it for less than $40 a person!
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by jedrek 7y ago
Taxing profits makes reinvestment a better strategy than profit taking.
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by jedrek 7y ago
Aldi Denmark is the worst Aldi I've ever been to.
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by jedrek 7y ago
The basic problem with processed foods is that they mimic the qualities of natural foods. If you leave kids to eat whatever they want with an abundance of food, they will create a perfectly balanced, healthy diet. They did a study of this i
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by jedrek 8y ago
Really? I feel the risk has grown. Based on numerous cases, cops have realized that getting filmed killing an unarmed person pleading for their life barely impacts their career, much less their freedom.
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by jedrek 8y ago
I'm tired of these kinds of big predictions because there is absolutely no penalty for being wrong.
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by jedrek 8y ago
Well, by doing that you go from maybe breaking an NDA to mail fraud, but w/e.
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by jedrek 8y ago
I've flown on more Bombardiers and Embraers than Airbuses or Boeings in the past 10 years.
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by jedrek 8y ago
Treating interactions with your child like it's they're a problem to solve means you're treating them like a pet, and I have real issues with that.
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by jedrek 9y ago
The device that connected the world is called the telephone, it's revolutionary force makes the WWW look like a fart in a storm.
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by jedrek 9y ago
It's called the telephone.
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by jedrek 9y ago
Except that I want to partake. I'm not willing to drop out of my hobbies just because of this, this isn't the hill I'm going to die on.

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