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by kartan 8y ago
> It's going to be depressing if we get to a point where the next generation is vastly superior both in intelligence and physical fitness "intelligence and physical fitness" are overrated. Think of a generation without men
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I visited Nagasaki a year ago. I was surprised how open the city was historically to outsiders. After some reading I understood why. Previously I only knew the city in reference to the atomic bomb. European and Chinese influences are notice
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> Why would facebook suffer any consequences from this whatsoever? When has a data breach actually affected the company? Facebook is too big. It does not play against its customers or users, but against governments and legislation. Soone
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> you just can't beat that price That is interesting information. What is the limit? Free air to air missiles? The argument should not be that it is pricey but that it is dangerous.
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Around 2,256,508 books (data is not up to date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_pe... ) But I guess it will be fair to compare also with Movies. As some games have budgets on that scale. That is
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by kartan 8y ago
I think that historically law enforcement and intelligence agencies are strongly leaning to the right. They use the power granted by citizens to do their jobs and use it to pursue their personal political agendas. "The activist, Kate W
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by kartan 8y ago
> “Some students were driven to attempt suicide as a result, others broke down and simply vanished from science.” It is hard to evaluate how much talent and how much suffering bullying causes. In every company I have been there had been
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by kartan 8y ago
> Working for Facebook is a morally bankrupt position. Facebook offers a service that people wants. A service that is not morally bad, if any connecting people is a positive thing. The monetization of that business is what has proven pro
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> The financial industry showed its might in other debates, as well. In one example, Republicans in the Senate joined with moderate Democrats in 2009 to defeat a plan to allow judges to set new terms of mortgages, a measure that could ha
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by kartan 8y ago
> Would you say that I’m being foolish? No, it is not foolish. I know a few Swedish people that made that move over three years ago, and they have not come back yet. The best company in Barcelona or Madrid is going to be better than the
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by kartan 8y ago
Flater management helps. I have seen developers telling managers that they disagree with some requirement or similar in a way that was not possible in Spain. You will have been fired. Also, the mindset in Spain is that you are lucky if you
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by kartan 8y ago
This is why state welfare is so much better than random charity. People hate goverment bureaucracy, but it is there to make sure that money ends in the right hands. It is not 100% foolproof, but it is way better than this.
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> How can retirement funds survive people working for thirty years and collecting benefits for forty? One part of the answer is productivity. ( https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm ) You need more prod
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by kartan 8y ago
Yes. It's convenience and cost vs risk.
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An interesting video talked about in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
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by kartan 8y ago
> "A classic is something that persists as a background noise even when the most incompatible momentary concerns are in control of the situation." The article is more poetic than informational. I am so used to technical reading
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by kartan 8y ago
> The main reason the government wants data to be stored locally and is also looking at controlling companies is for surveillance. But unlike China, not all platforms have Indian created equivalents. Fortunately for the citizens of Indi
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by kartan 8y ago
It is impressive how design has changed thru the years. Just compare the 1996 Space Jam web https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/space-jam-1996 with its current design https://www.warnerbros.com/arc
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by kartan 8y ago
> assertAndContinue We had a similar setup. assertAndContinue will add a trace in memory. When the app crashes it will dump the trace to a file and quit. (similar to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8233388/i
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by kartan 8y ago
> They took down the song because I could not "prove" I was the owner. Because it is not about rights, it is about power.
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by kartan 8y ago
> A longer exclusivity term makes it possible to recoup more investment costs I go to the bank. I ask for a loan. I tell them that I will small marginal profits after 75 years. I do not get the loan. Even if in some cases this was actual
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by kartan 8y ago
> in one case it is a physical object, and in the other - immaterial. In one case or you live in the house or I live in the house. In the other, you can listen to music and other million people or 1 billion at the same time. Physical own
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by kartan 8y ago
> Requiring off-hour access is admitting project management failure. You are completely right. Management lack of competence is pushed down and transforms in extra working hours for everyone else. In this kind of company, people are alwa
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by kartan 8y ago
> This comment falls directly into the "things never change" fallacy. That sounds interesting. I looked for it, and I just found references to the "tradition fallacy" that only deals with resistance to change. Can you
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> I too keep travel pictures with stuff like tickets, flyers etc. The purpose is not to build a brand or show off but to better remember the experience later. That is my point. In the past, people did the same things, if that does not ma
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> “You can’t talk about overtourism without mentioning Instagram and Facebook — I think they’re big drivers of this trend,” Mr. Francis said. “Seventy-five years ago, tourism was about experience-seeking. Now it’s about using photography
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by kartan 8y ago
This thread is way out of control. Created by an anonymous account. And with a lot of comments written in bad faith. Can someone remove this so we can move on and continue with rational discussions? Please? :)
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> If you split the CEO pay across all the mass of workers, it won’t come out to much. I agree that if you split the CEO pay it does not affect so much the employees. I just wanted to highlight is that the CEO does NOT want the employees
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> And executives That is the key. Executives are taking the lion's share. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/22/heres-how-much-ceo-pay-has-i...
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by kartan 8y ago
> inefficiencies of government You misspelled lobbing.

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