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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
That's just condescending exceptionalism. The vast majority of trains in Europe cover short distances in densely populated urban areas of which the US has plenty. Also, I don't buy the "Americans love cars" argument. Ame
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Everybody has the answers, nobody does the actual math in terms of costs, or the testing in terms of safety. F1's biggest problems right now are A) costs, and B) the number of people pissing on F1 without the slightest knowledge of or
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
It sounds terrifying, and it certainly isn't pretty, but it omits all relevant information. The height of those "meagre" pensions (insanely high compared to even the Greek economy before the collapse), the age of those reti
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
In my experience, that still leaves 99 other things that need handling on a daily basis. Usually external factors. As a manager, you should set yourself the goal of making yourself superflous. Just don't ever have the illusion you&#x27
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
What makes musicians sound more greedy or unreasonable than most is the generally passive attitude towards the innovation necessary to sustain their own income. They expect Apple, Spotify, Pandora etcetera to take all the risk (including th
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
With my current employer, hiring the "most enthusiastic" people instead of the finding people with the necessary skills backfired hard . We're now stuck with serious inefficiencies in the organisation and people that under l
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
The European Parliament is pretty f-ing far from a democratic institution. Just because it has an election attached to it (for which the turn out is so ridiculously low they might as well not bother) doesn't make it a democratic instit
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
In other news: not single person who rips their own CDs in all of Europe will give a crap. Also, the only people still buying CDs don't rip them, and the rest of us have ripped their last CD over a decade ago. The actual impact of this
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
There simply are no valid arguments for voting machines. Speed is irrelevant, there's no reason why tallying the votes desperately needs to take a few hours less. There are only two motives for voting machines: commercial interests and
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Seriously? I politely object to you pissing all over any country that isn't the US with false claims and I'm being gratuitously negative?
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It's impossible to compare absolute numbers because the tax and benefits are so different, but the Dutch minimum is well above entry level. In fact, it's well above what companies that don't value top talent are willing to pa
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Non-protectionist would be free traffic across borders like within the EU. Any immigration policy is a form of protectionism. BTW, I find your naive notion of the US as the promised land rather unsettling. Personally, I don't know anyb
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
7. If you get into an accident, you're screwing your passenger(s). Yes, the valuable you're transporting is another person's life, and you're doing it in such a way that circumvent all regulatory safeguards to protect th
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
I find it very hard to recognize a new model if it has the same look, same name, and 95% the same features as the old model...
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Any immigration policy short of opening the borders completely is "protectionist". Just waving the word "protectionism" around is a non-statement that doesn't say anything about what may or may not be wrong wit the
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
I believe the US, or any other Western nation, doesn't produce enough professionals to satisfy the needs of our businesses. (Source: I'm a hiring manager.) I also believe however that this situation is being abused to suppress wag
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Or simply prevent the problem. In the Netherlands, similar visa have a minimum salary requirement. As a result, we have tech workers from all over the planet, but no herds of cheap labour from India. The Indians that are here are well paid
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
I know a newspaper who's IT guys very early on brought their major classified section (used cars) online, back in the 90s. It was a very low budget project, but it worked well. Management pulled the plug on that project (because of cou
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
A centralized store is however unavoidable if you want to share and manage passwords inside an organization. Although I share you discomfort, looking at it rationally I prefer to trust a specialized service, who's very existence and re
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For my personal use, I feel more comfortable with 1Password and having full control over my data. For company wide use, LastPass Enterprise is a better fit. Centralized management is essential when dealing with larger numbers of not particu
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Isn't the same kind of thinking not just dominant in the US foreign policy, but also the same thing that explains much of it's internal issues? From militarized police, the massive prison population to the proliferation of fire ar
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
This kind of thinking scares the crap out of me. There's not even any point in arguing with it: you see me and mine as a threat because I exists. Or in your words: we "are also playing this game" . That's terrifying way
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
It is true in Europe. However, the effect is strongly dampened given all of the social and job protection legislation in most European countries. This means the extend to which an employer can profit from preferring younger employees is ver
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
The denialist culture in tech and especially Silicon Valley is so absurd. Even in this thread people are scrambling to come up with excuses. There are many industries around the world where agism is rampant, and there is only ever one excus
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
That's the complete reverse of a guarantee. The person with the gun can stop met from going to a polling station. Hence, in a true democracy, the only free way to vote is at a polling station, in a voting both constructed in such a way
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Gamergate has nothing to do with "promotion of journalistic integrity". That is just the excuse du jour of this scum. It's 100% bullying and misogyny mixed with some extreme right wing politics. I'm a strong critic of Is
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Utter BS just to be contrarian. This says enough: > "I have no research proving you’ll find as much benefit from a single monitor as I did." But, the author does call upon a "professor", who then states: > "Bu
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This has always baffled me about the US. Always complaining about the bureaucracy and lack of freedom of "socialist" countries, yet maintaining this absurd professional licensing that defies parody.
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Gamergate bullies complaining about ethics is hilarious. Especially given the recent developments over at Reddit.
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As much as a think most of Gawker's publications are thrash, it is one of the few independent publishers that doesn't bow for the powerful and influential. Unfortunately instead of speaking "truth to power", it often jus

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