kraigie

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by kraigie 7y ago
>Is like the supermarket, one day you find chocolates in one isle next week chocolates are in a completely different isle only The supermarkets do that because it increases sales. While your hunting around you will see other products and
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by kraigie 7y ago
>everyone is free to copy any design they want Copying text or pictures would be copyright infringement.
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by kraigie 7y ago
>The specific brands are usually country- or region-specific. It's just that you often don't notice the ones that have been genericized in your culture I think branding to generic really depends on linguistics of target market,
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by kraigie 7y ago
>rather “pop” or “coke” depending on where you live I think "pop" is a hold over from the older English fizzy pop
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by kraigie 7y ago
>There was a German VC firm that was, as I recall, very upfront about this. Clone a successful US company before it got to the European market. Rocket internet, clone then sell to the U.S. company when they expand. That's not the sa
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by kraigie 7y ago
>So, what are the experienced engineers with families and an expensive life style doing then? >or work outside the industry (and Silicon Valley) There are plenty working in the industry outside of silicon valley there are more bootstr
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by kraigie 7y ago
>This example certainly constitutes a "shortage", especially from the point of the employer. He has a demand which he can't fulfill. There are certainly localised shortages (hence the popularity of remote work) >they ca
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by kraigie 7y ago
>As an employer it is not my job to assess and pay an employee their market value Then how do you do competition market research? Are you okay with it if it turns out that the offer you make is either 3x or 1/3 The market rate? >
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by kraigie 7y ago
>I absolutely cannot afford to compete and hire at market rate prices You could if you were willing to take rawer unproven talent. You chose another option and that worked for you and that's great. You could have perhaps hired a stu
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by kraigie 7y ago
>6 year SAP programmer who wants to be a senior fullstack eng? No thanks. Which part of senior full stack are they missing? Front end, back end , API? https://cloudplatform.sap.com/capabilities/technical-asset-i...
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by kraigie 7y ago
>Are you really able to hire people at those rates? Not the poster,although I've found a lot of people will take 50% pay for fully remote jobs. I was suprised just how valuable fully remote is to so many people.
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by kraigie 7y ago
>In Denmark, very little room to maneuve About the only thing I could see you getting in Denmark is a cost of living raise or maybe something to the whole department or team. Some EU countries have a much stronger emphasis on sectoral ba
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by kraigie 7y ago
>The employer will therefore still know if you're making above or below the usual salary. Then again if it's illegal to find out, how will they check if your lying or not?
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by kraigie 7y ago
>And there is no fair and obvious way to divvy up the return How about x% of average revenue per employee. Usally around 100k to 300k. So ARPE minus expenses = average salary. Probably around 60k to 70k for most companies.
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by kraigie 7y ago
>don't know about the EU business culture It varies much more than the American one does.
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by kraigie 7y ago
>Well, a number of people use Eastern Europe location as a filter for 'cheap labor'. It's particularly hilarious when you realise that some eastern Europe places outsource to the US Midwest because it's cheaper....
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by kraigie 7y ago
>You can't go to a ferrari dealership and offer to buy one or $20k.. that's just not how it works. That's how employers work though. Next step is to whine about a Ferrari shortage and bribe (I mean lobby) the goverment to
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by kraigie 8y ago
This would also account for transgender and intersex individuals too. Why shouldn't the right person be hired just because they have both sets of genitalia? How does that fit in to the quota system?
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by kraigie 8y ago
There are much better options than quotas, but that doesn't make them inherently bad. The question is are they an improvement over the current system or not? However they should be at most a stop gap solution, a truly diverse system wo
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by kraigie 8y ago
At that point biomass becomes a better option to fill coals role.
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by kraigie 8y ago
In that case, biomass is the best renewable fuel source. Why not switch them over to biocoal? You'd probably need a larger workforce as relocating some of the senior people may be required and some more loggers,but that's a sellin
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by kraigie 8y ago
>He's trying to find a solution but it's too late for coal now. There's already good solutions that have had decades of use. Ship it (by rail) to stranded renewables, convert to coal gas and or use Fischer trope to convert
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by kraigie 8y ago
Also United States in 2006 but nuclear plants killed about 327,000 and fossil-fuelled power plants 14.5 million. In other words, for every one bird killed by a wind turbine, nuclear and fossil fuel powered plants killed 2,118 birds. You wou
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by kraigie 8y ago
Terrible not appealing, a synonym was autocorrected
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by kraigie 8y ago
I have, they are awesome. I've never been to a US city though. The idea of the inner city being the poor area or bad area is bizzare and culture shock. That's usually where all the good apartments are.
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by kraigie 8y ago
Some of the free market attempts in the UK ended up with Milton Keynes which is pretty much the American auto style roads come first. While others ended up with city of London which is highly walkable and dense being just over a square mile
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by kraigie 8y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=vauban+freiburg 5000 people in just over 0.32 miles, plenty of trees and Greenspace.
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by kraigie 8y ago
Because that is a fundamental point that seems to often be missed in density discussions. Cars are great for low density areas and appealing at high density areas where as mass transit is great at high density but awful at low.density this
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by kraigie 8y ago
Surprisingly, much of the Bitcoin community doesn't know this and think that the leading zeros are special. That's because most of the Bitcoin community is speculators and get rich quick types due to the frothyness of the space, w
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by kraigie 8y ago
This depends on how you define cost and benefit. Remember the cost of doing nothing is Rising waters (more flood defences or flood insurance going up) What is the cost when bayfromt SV property is flooded and cant be pumped out? What is the

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