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by kakacik 6mo ago
Twint is in Switzerland for more than 10 years, hardly a new idea
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Yeah Switzerland has rather few poor people and very strong middle class. And poor ain't some US version of homeless/trailer park living, just lower income, less fancy clothes, shopping in cheaper supermarkets, less/no vacati
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by kakacik 6mo ago
> Now you only have to deal with that group of bullies who slowly build up resentments, and might end up paying your school one last visit. Very american concern, albeit not completely unique to that place. With that kind of logic, nothi
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Its a choice - work hard with minimal securities, get better salary. Heck, one can do that in many EU places when working as self-employed on contract (if legal), and be paid by just billed days, no vacations or sick days. Its actually pret
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by kakacik 6mo ago
I dont think you are correct. In many parts of Europe, dark folk tales told kids from early age were the norm till very recently. I read and heard such, and they were brutal. Did they prepare me better for life? Nobody can answer that witho
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by kakacik 6mo ago
The place I come from in eastern Europe has tons of similar dark folk tales for kids. Every single one had something properly dark. Brothers killing each other (or kids their parents, or reverse), canibalism, envy and greed getting the abso
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Chrome ain't better in any meaningful way for >99% of use cases. Heck, I am a dev and I use FF with ublock origin only, for past... 10 years? Same with my wife, after I've explained things to her and she understood how differen
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Most of the software engineering field ain't no startups, however distorted the most vocal representation on HN could be. Neither are they code sweat shops churing one quick templated eshop/company site after another (knew some pe
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by kakacik 6mo ago
This site is fascinating place for me, especially comment section. Sometimes, visibly smart folks end up shooting their own feet with things like oversized egos, unwillingness to entertain any idea contrary to their already-held beliefs and
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by kakacik 6mo ago
You don't have to do anything, nobody cares about individuals when you have 8 billions. The masses, on average, want cheap simple fun, cheap stuff and so on. Market responds. Good luck trying to change that. Sure, there is some market
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Anytime you hear such wild claims, imagine a typical code sweat shop (not just crud apps but templated eshops/business pages etc), not a system that will evolve for another 10-20 years beyond initial implementation and is backend corne
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by kakacik 6mo ago
It would be a reasonable, even logical expectation, but everybody does sometimes less-than-logical things, takes some risks etc. Most of the time it works out somehow, sometimes it doesn't. I've done my share - after buying one sm
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by kakacik 6mo ago
You guys just didn't discover the beauty of fermentation and distillation, one can process rather large quantities and all you need is bunch of vats. Private smaller distilleries I believe work as a service in US too (as in you bring y
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Well its the only winning strategy currently, thats for sure. But good for us, more visits of these folks who have very negative image in rest of the world. Any corrupt entrenched a-hole would be nice, what about Fico in Slovakia? Orban&#
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by kakacik 6mo ago
I haven't seen it here much (apart from proper rednecky comments equating carrying gun everywhere with some actual personal freedoms but those are rare). But most US population ain't HN, at all. Most don't travel, get their o
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by kakacik 6mo ago
One would expect that system would learn and change, and we wouldn't have trump fucking up half of global economy so beautifully on his morning whims just to get rich as a side business of being potus (or reverse, probably). Something
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Exactly, throwing hands in the air just because 'this is the way I am, deal with it reality' ain't going to achieve much, certainly not in engineering. It may feel good about giving up too early, I can understand that.
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Do you work in my company? :) I kept saying this since Day 1 of llms - even 99% of development reduction means almost nothing in our company in speed of delivery of whole projects. And we are introducing generator of code that semi-randomly
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by kakacik 6mo ago
2014 BMW 5 series F11, still nothing just good dumb assistants (like laser HUD so I never ever get speeding tickets) and bad dumb ones which can be turned off (keeping lane doesn't work at all in any construction zone and interfering w
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Maybe a little consolation but still - you are doing an amazing and wonderful thing that you can be proud of for rest of your life. Extremely hard and taxing, no doubt there. Think about some nice moment from childhood when things are rough
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Yeah, not buying this entirely. People love slacking off in their free time, after some intense period its the easiest way to relax. Hard manual labor should have mental exercises as resting and reverse. Its completely on people. Who the
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Nono too radical, parents dont have time, they need it to scroll some shitty social media cash grab to feel themselves even more shitty about their lives. ... and we would like to call our generation 'smart'. While knowing deep in
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Sounds like you guys need some very basic regulations we have here in Europe - companies have to take care of folks, provide food, accommodation and replacement flights (and up to 600 euro in case of overbooking depending on distance). Not
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by kakacik 6mo ago
very current, elegant yet simple to appreciate - everybody can find some reference there
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Untrue, where are all the after-90-days-hacked AAA games? Nowhere, denuvo lives on as long as publisher is willing to pay continuous licence, which is usually years. And users complaining because denuvo messes up their Windows, sometimes ga
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Thats playing with statistics and you know it. Why such game? If they would release only the paid game, there wouldn't be 93% + 7% of the gamers playing, far from it. Cost is almost irrelevant to pirates, either its free or its not, li
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by kakacik 6mo ago
It can speed up some aspects of work, but please don't trust some llm with variable quality of output more than professional. If you don't like current doctor try another, most are in the business of helping other people. If you h
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Marketing beats quality, also a valid approach. Also a reason why suvs and their more ridiculous variants picked up so well. People don't need cars that are worse to drive, but sure as hell they want one because others have them.
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Is the behavior the same with other unknown words? Certainly doesn't seem so from other comments.
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by kakacik 6mo ago
Well yeah but if you don't have some critical mass which is very vocal/influential, at the end 'nobody cares enough'.

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