lgieron

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by lgieron 10y ago
In the UK (and also in, for example, Poland) self-employed people pay much lower taxes than the employees - hence we're all very happy to trade away our rights.
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by lgieron 10y ago
If your data is only eventually consistent, then DB node A can have your bank balance at $x for some time still, while it is already $0 at on node B. Then, if some operation (say withdrawal) is checking the balance with node A, then you hav
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by lgieron 10y ago
I'd say the reliability the bank is looking for is much higher than what's acceptable for web companies (i.e. web companies are fine with eventual consistency, which would is obviously unacceptable in a banking system outside of t
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by lgieron 10y ago
Once they start to feel confident in their domination, there's nothing preventing them from going the Microsoft way, i.e.: 1. Introducing incompatibilities, forcing closed standards etc. which block any potential competition. 2. Stop s
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by lgieron 10y ago
> There is literally no goal set for me. Will I get a pension when I get older? WHO KNOWS? Will I ever get off working even when I reach a very old age? Who knows, most likely i'll be working for the rest of my life... There is an u
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by lgieron 10y ago
> My actual areas of expertise (for the last 10 years) are 3D graphics and computational geometry. If I may ask, what put you off your former field so that you decided to move to the server-side world?
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by lgieron 10y ago
I think the media are almost always owned and ran by people who either heavily believe that one set of values (and hence, one side of the debate) is right, or are just plain corrupt. I suspect it's because a common motivation for creat
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by lgieron 10y ago
> "Get paid. Go home and do what you enjoy. This is all a huge joke anyway." Would look great on your employer's (if you have any) "Our team testimonials" page :)
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by lgieron 10y ago
Yeah, the land is not free, but, outside of metro areas, the land can be dirt cheap. You certainly don't have to toil for years to buy a piece of it. Plus, in places like Siberia or Northern Canada perhaps, you can live for decades in
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by lgieron 10y ago
That's just how the world is, you know. Back in prehistoric times, you didn't just happen to find a free shack and live in it - you needed to build it and maintain it. Right now, landlords take care of that for you - for a price.
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by lgieron 10y ago
Is there any advantage in practice to using these loosely defined types (char, short, int, long) vs their precise counterparts?
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by lgieron 10y ago
> I can't imagine a significant number of people switch between ecosystems deliberately -- in either direction. When my current 5s dies, I'm almost certainly buying an Android phone. From what I've seen, with the right pho
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by lgieron 10y ago
As an non-USAn, I'm always suprised how much emphasis is put on this in the USA ("look, these office visualisations have only white people in them, that's unacceptable!"), while at the same time very little is done to re
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by lgieron 10y ago
I'm Polish and live in Poland, funny to hear my name doesn't sound Polish though :)
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by lgieron 10y ago
You've missed "within the scope of personal use" at the end of point 1 - which (IMO) means that you can only watch the video if it was posted by a friend/relative.
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by lgieron 10y ago
In Poland, it's free (i.e. covered by your taxes) as long as you have a taxable income. If you don't pay any taxes, you can opt-in for around $90 a month.
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by lgieron 10y ago
> (...) there is no easy and accessible personal payment solution (Paypal sucks for non-us citizens) due to "anti-terrorism" money-control cretinism. What's wrong with bank transfers?
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by lgieron 10y ago
> Without people you can also do tricks like electrifying the chassis, so anyone who tries to touch it gets an electric shock. Or a computer vision system connected to a machine gun. (sarcasm)
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by lgieron 10y ago
The fare is computed by the central system, so you can't be scammed by a cabbie who secretly puts on the night fare etc. Although, I was once scammed out of a couple pounds by an Uber driver who said I need to reimburse him the entranc
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by lgieron 10y ago
> Google is famously more selective than Harvard (both places have self-selected applicant pools, but Harvard admits 5% while Google has "millions" of applications and only tens of thousands of programmers hired over multiple y
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by lgieron 10y ago
> That's why I believe that this can't be a sufficient explanation. A far better explanation is that there is a trend that vast amounts of people don't see any future for them in this society and the decline in formation o
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by lgieron 10y ago
> almost nothing is manufactured anymore in the West It's a myth. See this for example: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-manufacturing-dead-outpu...
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by lgieron 10y ago
I think we're already there - stand on a corner of your street and yell ALL BUSINESS IS EVIL!! and you're pretty much unemployable in nearby businesses. Do it publicly and under your own name on the internet and you're unempl
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by lgieron 10y ago
I actually didn't meant the language only. I think white collar workers (well developers at least) are pampered. Almost every boss I had paid at least some attention to my wellbeing on the job. I don't think that's true in bl
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by lgieron 10y ago
On the other hand, I've recently seen a wall painter balance on a thin and wobbly piece of wood stretched over a stairway (if he falls, it's going to be about 4 meters down and onto concrete stairs). That was apparently necessary
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by lgieron 10y ago
> Exactly, in fact I think that if you want to stay healthy then working as a construction worker is great: you get physical excercise, fresh air, low stress level. Risk of injury is pretty low, and wages are pretty good. There's a
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by lgieron 10y ago
US is manufacturing more stuff than ever before, with just a fraction of workers that would be required to achieve the same output 100 years ago. I'd say technological progress has way bigger impact here than shipping jobs overseas.
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by lgieron 10y ago
Austrian, not Australian.
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by lgieron 10y ago
> The thing is that that you can't do much against someone who has root access for a living. In banks, significant decisions (like personally authorising multimillion dollar transfer) require two signatures (of two senior officers),
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by lgieron 10y ago
You might not be aware of the fact that there ARE godless religions - for example buddism.

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