kmonsen

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   by kmonsen 6y ago

   So you are right on the general principle (at least I think so), that healthcare should just be available for everyone etc. That is not the case in the US. But as a software engineer in the US it is not a worry. Like not at all.
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   by kmonsen 6y ago

   You are mistaken, in the good plans all they do is serve as a middleman that pays most of the bills, and all the bills after a certain number. Having lived in London, NYC and SF and broken bones in all locations I can say if I could choose
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   by kmonsen 6y ago

   Not sure why parent is downvoted, as a European that has lived in Zurich, London and Oslo + NYC and SF healthcare cost is a non-issue for those of us lucky enough to work at a company that provides healthcare. This applied from what I under
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   by kmonsen 6y ago

   I think most countries have some form of student sports as part of universities, just not the kind of professional ones like in the U.S. students study better if they have something else in their lives. The problem is that it is really hard
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   by kmonsen 6y ago

   Also the driving test is a joke in the first place so there are a ton of unsafe drivers.
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   by kmonsen 6y ago

   I'm not vegan, but I always pick the Beyond/impossible options when they are available. I hardly taste the difference and one less cow had to die for me having a tasty meal. And greenhouse gasses I guess, but for me animal cruelty
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   by kmonsen 6y ago

   This is just silly, US military dominance is not anywhere close to up for grabs. They US might not have total dominance anywhere on earth anymore due to asymmetric weapons, but in a big fight the US is far and away the biggest dog still. It
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   by kmonsen 6y ago

   Sure, in that sense it’s “fair”. It’s also meaningless, as this example shows most people will not make a really great product if there is no upside for them so they will mail it in. So sure you can try to squeeze your employees but maybe i
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   by kmonsen 6y ago

   I guess they mean latest hack we have been the target of? Stuxnet was custom written malware targeting Iran, so yes I would agree with you but perhaps what he was trying to say is still true.
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    So? Your original comment still say hit piece when it was in no way that and you seem to acknowledge that in the follow up.
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    This is true, but also misleading. There would not be more vaccines made if every country were overbidding, Israel is just moving ahead in the queue. It can do this because it is rich and is really tiny. The Israel strategy would only work
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    For sure, but they need a few of those and a lot of average engineers with leadership skills to maintain everything. At least that is what I think having mostly working in very large FAANG's. The really hard part is in starting new pro
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    I mean I like it, but I don’t think that’s very relevant as I don’t have a few billion dollars. There is just so much money splashing around in investor driven companies right now because of cheap money that I don’t see it working out. I al
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    Yeah, I feel we are a bit in an inverted world. Startups in my opinion need better engineers as they are in the hard part of making them product while the large companies mostly need people who can follow existing processes and do as they a
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    I mean it’s, but if you don’t take location into account then suddenly you can only hire from low cost locations where the talent does not exist. It’s really unfair whatever you do, and right now there is no good solution. Partially because
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    Regardless of your view point, there is still has freedom of speech, mostly free information and elections that matters so if the people dislike the policy they can change it. Not saying it’s all golden, but these are very meaningful differ
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    Although disagree with almost everything about trump, I think he was in some way right about China. I don’t think it has anything to do with the Chinese people though. Also, I don’t think he went about it in an effective way at all, it seem
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    This is also why dictatorship always have corruption. They cannot have transparency which means there will be corruption. Of course democracies are just as vulnerable to all the bad stuff as they are run by humans, but transparency is at le
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    I kind of find it the opposite? They run concentration camps and acknowledge mass rape but the western media mostly shrugged. I find it hard to find anything the media take seriously these days. We are all so easily distracted, myself inclu
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    I mean for sports that’s a given. Most sports requires a very special body type. A short person cannot win Olympic gold in swimming or basketball. A large person cannot win cycling over mountains. I’m sure there are tons more but I don’t ha
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    I think that is a questionable statement. Without agriculture there is no modern medicine which provides a lot of life quality, also there is very little starvation in the world today.
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    I am no longer at Google so I guess I can say my opinion (after ~10 great years). I believe there to be close to zero discrimination from higher ups, except the random sexual harassment of course but I think that will always happen in a pla
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    Thanks, I didn't catch that part.
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    That is true, and maybe most likely what’s happened. Just realized that DTCC changing the deposit requirements seems completely non-transparent and arbitrary (I agree it was a plausible reason in this case), abs could be used to help their
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    For me incognito/private mode works fine
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    Yeah, then why not fire everyone? Reduce salaries to 0, all the work is hard to measure. Or why have we all not been remote for a long time, instead of squeezed into high cost locations? When it comes to their core business companies have a
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    Also a cold place which matches their color scheme. Either they are aware or very lucky coincidence.
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    I think the problem is more that null exists but we like to simplify and pretend it doesn't most of the time. Null is just an extra state that can be useful, but sometimes it is so uncommon that we pretend that state is not there. Back
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    If all you have is a hammer you will eventually come across things that are not nails, but close enough you try to approximate them as nails. As the abstracts get more and more leaky you get the "biggest mistakes". I don't th
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    by kmonsen 6y ago

    I started to take d vitamin when Covid started and was wondering if that is why I have not had a cold this year. But most likely it is the social distancing.