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by jseban 5y ago
In Germany, health insurance is also tied to your employer. If you're a freelancer in Germany you pay out of your own pocket every month (around 500 bucks). It's a very similar system, the real difference is that it's illegal
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In that case, why should your home be tied to employment status? Food? It's at least as important for your survival as health insurance.
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It was also very successful to stay neutral in ww2, you get a lot of market share if your competitors destroy each other while you manage to stay out of it.
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> Humans cannot stop a contagious respiratory virus any better than they can stop a hurricane, tornado or earthquake. Yep, and these actions of trying to stop the virus with border closings and lockdowns was 100% ideas from china and nor
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> This is why it's absolutely insane that the free world followed the Chinese playbook at the beginning of the pandemic, even for a minute. A stark reminder that Germany was also a communist dictatorship until only 30 years ago, and
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> As far as I've heard China hospitalizes everyone even cases that don't need actual care. That's what I heard too, so it's a catch-22. Similar issues in Sweden in the beginning of the year when they introduced the ru
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> Knowledge doesn’t obviate responsibility. This is true, but the fact here is that you do not have any responsibility of choosing your employer according to some moral standard of "making the world a better place". This is j
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Yes, exactly. Because the venn diagram is the two circles of: things I love to do, and things that I do on someone else's terms. If someone else is telling you what to do, you won't love it, no matter what. Freedom is a prerequisi
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I also did this, but it's so hard to find lasting stable relationships, within 6-12 months it's always a different team somehow. In that case you feel double screwed if you compromised on salary and then the awesome team disbanded
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Yeah but why entangle your need of helping others, with your employment? That just seems like making your life unnecessarily complex, especially when altruism is fundamentally opposing the goals of your organisation.
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> I don’t see the link between thinking it’s a bit sad that money seems to be the only driver of a growing part of the population Because it's not the only driver, it's the most important driver of the money making part of yo
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I mean: the highest job that you can possibly get, not the highest paying job in the world, obviously. And, it's not a lottery.
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Yes, you like it when you are lucky to end up with people you work well with, but it only lasts until that one guy leaves and that other guy starts. Now you don't like it anymore. Wouldn't it be kind of the same thing but just mor
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I think it would be correct to say 99% of people. Only tech is suddenly under this type of scrutiny, and if you generalise like this over whole companies and whole fields of work, you can pretty quickly come to the conclusion that everythin
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The real reason why teachers make "little" money, is because their job is repetitive.
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Yeah and this is a perfectly healthy and normal view to have, which really should be the default considering that it really is what the definition of a job is. What is strange is to actually assign other vague emotional needs to a job whi
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> only meaning gives you a reason to get out of bed in the morning. The sooner you start finding avenues for that in your life, the sooner you'll realize you don't need to focus completely on some distant exit strategy like fi
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Sports, hobbies, reading, writing, side projects, volunteer work, travelling, friends/family, culture, music etc. The same things that a rich person would do? Do whatever you want and/or find stimulating and worthwhile. Being free
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The experience of trying to use S3.
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Haha there are crackpots in moral philosophy too, not only physics
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> It’s not selling your soul. It’s called being disillusioned with your impact on the world, a feeling that more and more people are feeling. Not even this, it's just seeing a job exactly and only for what it is. As opposed to havin
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> Write tests for code that could actually be wrong, or where you need to prove to yourself or others that the invariant is maintained. Yes, what you need to do in the end, is to use your judgement. But you will get a surprising amount o
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> we need to learn to just trust trustworthy software engineers Absolutely agree, and when we have identified trustworthy software engineers, we also need to give them authority. This doesn't work however, because it puts the middle
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Nothing cements the uselessness of unit tests more, for me, than not surfacing bugs in new code and having wasted all that time preemptively debugging code that works.
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> and that is one of those things reported to management. Yeah unit testing as I see it is just optimising for the success of middle management, at the expense of both the organisation's goals, and the developers. You are making pre
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> Then I showed that a unit test can discover this Yeah but the catch is that in order for your code to be "testable" you have to rewrite it completely in a way that comes with large sacrifices, making it much more confusing, a
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Use os x built in night shift feature, there you can set the schedule.
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> Unfortunately in northern latitudes, our sunset can be as early as 3PM or as late as 10PM, so it doesn't quite work for that purpose here! Yeah, that makes it totally unusable for me, it's ridiculous that they don't let
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No people should not run on public roads, why would you do that? I've never ran on a public road. Parks are made for recreation, not transportation. You don't do pushups on a busy sidewalk where people are trying to walk
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Doctors and lawyers have way more integrity and status, because they are well rounded people as well as experts. They can put their knowledge to the best possible use. In the software industry there is a lingering stereotype of the eccent

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