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by larksimian 4y ago
I don't really see this as a downside to the German legislation. If anything it's ... good? It gives the employee a ton of control over whether they do overtime or not. Yes, it's a bit weird that it's technically illegal
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by larksimian 4y ago
Tax the shit out of these companies and use the money to fund more socially useful jobs in healthcare, caring for elderly people, writing code for public services and a million other things. The fact that luxurious living wastes labour is n
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by larksimian 4y ago
You're begging for money from the government to compensate you for your own personal failures. I think you need to re-read your Nietzsche if you think this makes the people saying no to that corrupted by ressentiment. They're just
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by larksimian 4y ago
Is it vim in all 3 categories?
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by larksimian 4y ago
There's also the fact that the kid who is enough of a dope(/trusting/rule and authority abiding) to not know he can lie on the form is also the most likely to be victimized by adults online. This is a similar selection effect
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by larksimian 4y ago
He's shown enough for the tech elite hive-mind to trample workers into the dirt for a few years. It's not like the amount of staffing SV companies have makes any sense anyway.
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by larksimian 4y ago
I think private options just cannibalize and parasitize public health services. I see it where I live in the UK and where I'm from in Romania. In Romania it's just outright graft: public hospital doctors direct patients for cheap
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by larksimian 4y ago
He touches his back foot while Di Maria is still running. BBC commentators all also agreed it was a clear pen(and I'm romanian just to dispel political bias hopefully). Di Maria just destroyed that flank this game.
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by larksimian 4y ago
Beautiful sentiments. Young programmers in the hottest job market in history don't need a union. Fortunately for your ability to empathize with the plebeians in the regular world, Musk has shown that software companies are probably emp
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by larksimian 4y ago
I'd add that old people still vote, so the state or more exactly some political parties will still have a massive incentive to keep people alive as long as possible. Regardless of age, healthcare scandals are a huge political risk so g
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by larksimian 4y ago
I'd love to play an RTS that was APM capped somehow. Maybe in a tiered fashion. As it stands the design of SC2 style RTS is just insanely stressful. I could see something like SC2 being fun with 2-3 people playing 1 player's role
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by larksimian 4y ago
The art isn't that good either, it's just less obviously wrong(plus there's subjective taste involved). The bad code is good enough to fool a code illiterate person and the art is good enough to fool artistically ignorant peo
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by larksimian 4y ago
Does it? Isn't that literally what being part of any well-functioning organisation is supposed to be like?
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by larksimian 4y ago
This is the sort of cargo-culty FUD criticism people often bring up about Rails. So many programmers would rather reinvent the wheel, badly, than learn how to use existing products and focusing on their USPs. What would your successor prefe
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by larksimian 4y ago
As a user, nothing has improved about the product in years. As a shareholder, they're losing money. Whatever all those devs were doing was not producing a profit and was not improving the user experience.
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by larksimian 4y ago
300m/month to deliver text, some photos and a bit of video to (admittedly tons of) people sounds insane. Then again based on the architecture sketch Elon posted https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15938
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by larksimian 4y ago
I think curation by paying users could work. At least it would make manipulation quite expensive. Let people downvote/upvote search results as an extra strong signal on top of monitoring what they choose to click on in the result list.
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by larksimian 4y ago
If these idiots hate climate change maybe climate change isn't so bad after all. (/s) There is such a thing as sabotaging the cause you claim to support.
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by larksimian 4y ago
My recruiter(in the UK) sends me contracting offers as well. Am I missing something about what a contracting agent does?
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by larksimian 4y ago
This method has 2 parts: lose money while creating a monopoly, then jack prices once consumers have no choice. However, none of the Uber style businesses have an actual moat, so they can never implement part 2. This whole set of investments
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by larksimian 4y ago
I sort of agree? If Son was succeeding with this strategy I would totally agree that it's a huge problem. But he utterly failed. All he did was redistribute investor money into consumer pockets(and weirdly distort some markets in ways
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by larksimian 4y ago
How is this meme of WeWork being a unicorn taken seriously?! They raised $22 billion and currently are valued at under $10 billion. All of that valuation is probably the real estate they bought. I can literally give you better returns. Give
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by larksimian 4y ago
Ublock origin alone would sell FF mobile to the masses. Side by side scroll a recipe website with chrome vs adblocked FF on the same device. Chrome one is slower, half the content is ads, some of them autoplaying videos with sound! FF exper
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by larksimian 4y ago
Just to offer a counter-point to the general mood of the thread: I've had ... no annoying bugs related to FF in the 2-3 years since I switched to it. I use FF on windows and in WSL2 Ubuntu and on FF Nightly on android. I do watch YouTu
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by larksimian 5y ago
Not op, but. SK demographics are only now starting to stagnate and are not decreasing. Japan has had stableish/declining population for a while. Different situations. China is not really comparable since there is still a substantial re
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by larksimian 5y ago
Eh, it's typical retrofuturism type stuff, extending current technologies quantitatively rather than trying to predict categorical changes in available tech. Also the issues of dyson spheres aren't that bad. they could for instanc
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by larksimian 5y ago
Loved Anathem both for the language and for the ideas in it. Rationalist monasticism has such a weird draw for me, despite being something I'll never do. If you like books with their own language, Hannu Rajaniemi's Jean le Flambeu
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by larksimian 5y ago
My problem is that the median driver is much much better than the mean driver and tesla os comparing against means. The damage done in a car distribution is heavily skewed towards people that get in fatal crashes or total a car. I'd ra
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by larksimian 5y ago
I liked Madame Bovary so much :( I did read it in my late 20s though. It's such a slick book, I loved the... style/aesthetics. True nothing happens in it, but still. I guess I was going through a more lyrically motivated reading p
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by larksimian 5y ago
Given the national nature of the increase, it's unlikely that a local measure caused it, it's probably pandemic-times related. That being said obviously a longer time scale is better for trend detection than a shorter one.... Oooo

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