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by jq-r 5y ago
The sky is not falling for those government employed workers yet. First the private sector will degrade and government will try to squeeze every last cent out of it to pay the public sector workers. So when that dries up, then you can expec
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by jq-r 5y ago
What a load of whitewashing, relativistic horseshit! Tell me again who leveled Croatian city of Vukovar, who dropped cluster bombs on the civilian population in Zagreb? Whose boots were all over Croatia's eastern territory murdering ci
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We just have a guy in the team (he's smart, but very abrasive) who instead of using the word "wrong" uses "antipattern" for everything. And usually those are mostly his unfounded opinions on something but taken as a
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I think slashdot went down with users when they introduced the massively unpopular "web 2.0" redesign. It was unusable in that layout and they never reverted it back. I think the only users there are the ones using the old layout
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In my previous company we had around 15K instances in a EC2 region and the EC2 GUI was unusable if it was set on the "new gui experience" so we always had to use classic one. The new one would try to get all the details of them so
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A minor nitpick from the article as the author writes that amphorae were used only for liquids like wine. That's incorrect, it was used for all kinds of unpackaged bulk good like grains, seeds (say olives), even sea shells. If you&#x27
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Had m105, still have the same endearing handwriting style.
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Yeah, but similar. Both were built on mountains of promises, lies, and investor's money.
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Sounds like Theranos.
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That's a very wrong way to describe what happened. Let me describe you what the phones scene was looking like just before iphone was released. They were fine for making phone calls, sending texts/e-mails (in blackberry case), and
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by jq-r 5y ago
You're right. I have a Pi Zero W which runs Pi-Hole over wifi. My mobile devices use it as a DNS server.
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I have a lot of those white ones, and they work great for years now. They're a steal.
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Also mentioned in the Expanse book series as region which was colonized by Texans (IIRC) so they have that nice accent.
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You've answered your own question. It is going to be a war. War is a great mallet which destroys most of the power structures and shuffles the cards a bit. But the price to pay is atrociously high. After the war everyone will swear &qu
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> bitcoin incentivizes the search for cheaper energy, and allows for the instant monetization of once wasted energy. This is just like saying: let's burn as much coal and oil as fast as we can, so we can accelerate the need to devel
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> Both Estonia and Croatia also have the digital nomad visa which allows you to come and work remotely from there for a whole year tax free, they hope that it would attract some talent that would like to settle and start companies there.
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Exactly. And this "IC" thing is a good example of something they call a negative externality. Negative externality in this sense is when you have to pay/are affected by something you don't want like polluted air. The ori
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by jq-r 5y ago
Not sure what is your ideal small mouse, but there are some good small "gaming" mouses though: Xtrfy MZ1 Coolermaster MM710 Razer Viper Mini I'm currently using the first one and it is a great mouse. No special software, no B
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by jq-r 5y ago
Something similar in Croatia too. Some years ago they've introduced freelancer laws and pretty much everyone in this industry who was paid by foreign firms was using this. But relatively recently the government changed their minds and
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Your service(s) going down and pagerduty going fully down is very unlikely to happen. Even if it does, you're probably going to get called by customer support because users never go down;)
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Basically it is. Just with a nicer face. EU (especially Germany) tolerates us because they want their villas on "our" absolutely beautiful coast and islands, and a hard border to stop the immigrants (our police is pushing them bac
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Easily. Speaking for Croatia's situation but I'm sure it is similar to Serbia. Say you have general elections. You have some regional politicians you can vote for etc, and maybe some of those people get into parliament. Some get i
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Actually that is an excellent map, thanks!
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Oh definitely. Worked in a large company with so much money they didn't know what to do with it. But the number of experienced people leaving weekly was staggering. People would just burn out. And the management didn't give two sh
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by jq-r 5y ago
Have a similar story: was working in a very toxic team and wanted to get out of it. They had openings in other teams but for new hires. I've applied anyway on one of those to either get in one or at least talk to somebody (my superviso
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Just like the facebook and it's Messenger application "forget" that you had your in-app sounds turned off and turns it off now and then.
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That's actually called living in a civilization.
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Agreed completely. I was (and still are) on couple of different companies and teams practicing "Agile" and those daily standups are more like daily blamefests. God forbid you get stuck somewhere and need someone's help. Then
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My whole point is that "EU-talk" is just a convenient scapegoat. It even doesn't matter if EU exists or not. Those crooks like Orban don't need a solid boogeyman, everything is good for them. Be it EU, "Communists&q
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I'm glad that I'm not the only one seeing this effect. And economic colonialism is a succinct way of putting it as you said. I mostly blame the government for it. If we had a better economy we could compete and the prices for us l

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