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by mamon 7y ago
> I'm also confused, how does someone coming up to talk to you forces you to write anything down?? (seriously I don't get that part :) ) Because the most important thing in corporate environment is paper trail. If someone comes
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by mamon 7y ago
In my country lower income people usually save money first (even if they need to save for a long time, like a year or two), then buy expensive items, like furniture. Typically it works like this: people simply try not to spend their whole i
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by mamon 7y ago
But it is much easier to loose your money to hackers than it is to people muggers or burglars. Being a software developer by trade I have growing distrust to software in general and software handling my money in particular.
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by mamon 7y ago
Only in the beginning, when self checkout stations are being introduced and most of the customers go to cashiers, out of habit. Thing is: even a person that does self-checkout quite often is still much slower than a cashier, who has 100x mo
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by mamon 7y ago
>> We avoid deflation because it incentivises hoarding currency over productive activity. No, it incentivises reasonable spending on things you need and saving the rest over mindlessly throwing money on useless crap because your money
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by mamon 7y ago
We can’t because what some low paid contractors call “rights” others call “burden”. Self employment has its perks for those of us that have enough bargaining power
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by mamon 7y ago
This is so true, because people that are really good at something usually hold themselves to incredibly high standards (which is one of the main reasons they become master craftsmen in the first place).
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by mamon 7y ago
Ok, so if the guy actually tries sell the piece on black market and gets caught, will IRS be prosecuted for aiding and abetting the crime? By issuing $29M tax bill they are basically encouraging him to do that.
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by mamon 7y ago
even worse: sometimes kids actually do chase leaves on the wind, or butterflies.
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by mamon 7y ago
Cancelling show after two seasons is a blessing: original idea has usually already ran its course by then, and the story becomes more and more convoluted and boring. Very few shows remain high quality in third or subsequent seasons.
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by mamon 7y ago
It is true but not on individual level, on country level. There are countries that generate > 80% of their energy from fossil fuels and do not have enough money to invest at scale in nuclear, or wind, or solar. Rich Western countries on
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by mamon 7y ago
Also, Touch Bar is located above keyboard, so your own hands obscure the view. It would make much more sense to put lcd display in place of touchpad, like Razer did in their concept laptop[1], or Asus in theirs [2]. [1] https://w
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by mamon 7y ago
No, all we have are scientific papers. And while in theory they should be considered evidence, the current financing system basically turns climate scientists into grant-seeking whores, and the results of research are determined not by fact
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by mamon 7y ago
Ecology is a new religion, except instead of Apocalypse they have Global Warming, and instead of sin they have "carbon footprint".
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by mamon 7y ago
Some people are already fed up with Instagram "influencers": https://people.com/food/ice-cream-truck-owner-vows-to-charge...
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by mamon 7y ago
>> The vision is irrelevant to the customer. Having vision for a product means correctly identifying customer's problem and proposing a solution for it. Dropbox vision is: "Make user files accessible anywhere, by storing it
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by mamon 7y ago
Machine learning models for AVs are uploaded to whole fleet of vehicles, potentially causing thousands of identical accidents. No two humans have identical brains, so every human-caused accident is unique. In other words: human errors do no
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by mamon 7y ago
Ok, so Google is acting like Inqusition, banning some domains of knowledge... Guess humans haven't evolved much since Middle Ages.
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by mamon 7y ago
What deforestation? At least in my country there's more forrest planted each year than cut out for all the purposes, including paper production. And given that, the rest of paper production process is pretty environment-friendly compar
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by mamon 7y ago
I think this is because our memories are not videos, we do not store them pixel by pixel, because that would require huge amount of storage space our brains do not have. Instead we use the approach similar to 3d games: remember rough shape
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by mamon 7y ago
"Ecoterrorists" is actually pretty accurate term for all Greenpeace activists, that break and enter various industiral complexes, or chain themselves to oil rigs, etc. My personal favourite was recent event in Poland, when they &
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by mamon 7y ago
In dense cities you encounter another problem: with too many smartphones concentrated on the small area cell towers themselves can hit their bandwith limits. I actually get better LTE transfer speeds (around 40-50 Mbits/s) when visitin
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by mamon 7y ago
As someone put it: freedom is just another word for "having nothing left to lose". Homeless people are generaly most free of all, they do not have any obligations, bills to pay, work to show up, but I wouldn't consider that s
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by mamon 7y ago
In EU you have similar policy, but it is mandated by law, for all the things that you buy online. I know of people who bought new 55 inch TV only to watch soccer World Cup, and then returned it.
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by mamon 7y ago
Turns out it is: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steepy
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by mamon 7y ago
Dropbox took on a problem users have (how can I sync my files between multiple computers?) and provided a great solution to it. Slack takes a problem users have ("my coworkers keep bugging me with stupid questions") and makes the
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by mamon 7y ago
Venture capitalists are cashing their investments by IPOs - sure sign that the next financial crisis is starting soon :) Dotcom Bubble 2.0 is ready to burst. EDIT: I do not imply that venture capitalists poses some insider knowledge. It is
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But not every job has to provide it. Teenager working part time at McDonalds does not have to earn $100k, they just need to earn enough to buy them new pair of jeans, or few beers for Saturday night party. It is up to them to eventually mov
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by mamon 7y ago
Seems that even that doubled Redis performance wasn't enough.
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Upper middle class are usually not homeless, right now they occupy some pool of apartments in cities anyway. By building more luxury apartments you encourage them to move, thus leaving their old apartment behind, either by putting it on sal

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