mamon

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by mamon 7y ago
I refuse to use self-checkout on principle: I am not doing any unpaid labor for some corporation, I already have a job.
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by mamon 7y ago
>> fathers income HAD to be included in my application even though he didn't contribute anything to me and my mother was on disability, they were divorced and I hadn't seem him in years. I don't know how that works in U
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by mamon 7y ago
> I can see the argument against this being freely publishable. If I wrote a textbook which explains some badly written and archaic laws really well, and lawyers and judges started to look to it as the de facto law, should that void my c
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by mamon 7y ago
Actually, the threshold to be in top 1% income bracket worldwide is $32,400 https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/05061...
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by mamon 7y ago
Also, noone really cares if some lone Chinese sailor "discovered" America, or some other land, if the knowledge about this discovery was lost. The reason Columbus is considered the one to discover America is because him landing on
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by mamon 7y ago
Doesn't that mean that Captcha as a concept has run its course? Original idea was that humans are better at this kind of tasks than machines, but it seems it's other way around now.
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by mamon 7y ago
Actually, I, as a native Polish speaker have a hard time learning English pronunciation because the phonems are much different from the ones I am used to. Languages like Spanish and Italian are much easier for us, because all the basic soun
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by mamon 7y ago
Why not just burn them on the CD? This way they are safe from hacker's attacks, and still in the digital form. There are special types of CDs that will last decades. There even is such thing as "1000 years dvd" :)
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by mamon 7y ago
I agree with your reasoning, but I think that's not really necessary to ride both Lyft and Uber to justify "independent contractor" status. The fact that Lyft riders use their own cars and choose their own working hours (i.e
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by mamon 7y ago
Does it come with official Docker image? :)
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by mamon 7y ago
And where is that mythical place that actually has free market for housing? Most countries/states have building codes and other regulations that mess up simple supply/demand dynamic.
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by mamon 7y ago
In similar fashion people that are deaf and cannot hear their own voice eventually start speaking with strange manerisms, too loud, to quiet, weird intonation, etc. But I don't think that's about predicting what comes next, it&#x2
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by mamon 7y ago
Google has been using different trick for the same reason with their own employees: that famous 20% of working time that can be dedicated to personal projects. You might think they did that to increase employee satisfaction, but the real re
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by mamon 7y ago
You skipped that day at school when they tell you that Earth is round? :) Also: how would you feel about starting your shift at work at 4:00 AM? because in UTC that's already 9:00 AM :) (assuming you're on east coast. On west coas
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by mamon 7y ago
Better idea: what if the whole US adopt either Central or Mountain time? There are two important points to consider: 1. Whole country gets the same time. No more confusion 2. Each state is at most 2 hours off of it's natural timezone,
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by mamon 7y ago
Ok, so Edward Snowden runs off with few terabytes of NSA data. He briefly stops in China, before finally going to Russia. Now NSA hacking tools are used against US and we are supposed to believe that "Chinese did not steal the code but
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by mamon 7y ago
But isn't one of the Bird's selling points that you can park the scooter anywhere, after the ride? If you want locks you'd probably end up with docking stations, like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped
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by mamon 7y ago
The world is bigger than just California, and I thought that SV startups target "world dominance" by default :)
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by mamon 7y ago
There really isn’t a good solution here: poor quality scooters will break fast, good quality scooters will get stolen more often. And there probably never be a safety lock good enough to prevent that.
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by mamon 7y ago
Except the stated goal of European Union is free movement of workers. You can literaly go and work in any EU country, no visa or work permission needed. But that's not really the situation here: it's a business providing services
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by mamon 7y ago
It was explicitly stated by French president Macron, that the goal is to end Polish dominance in truck freight :) Basically the law change is this: Now, if you are Polish truck driver employed in Poland, you are subject to Polish tax and la
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by mamon 7y ago
Adding to that: one of the fundamental EU rules was freedom to do bussiness anywhere in EU. That worked in favor of Western countries which had their corporations opening offices in Poland, and making huge profits here. After some time Pola
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by mamon 7y ago
There's a difference between "I dont want to listen to token conservative talkinghead A, so I won't come to his lecture" and "I don't want to listen to token conservative talkinghead A, so I think he should be
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by mamon 7y ago
According to Wikipedia [1] Stalin actually came pretty close to arresting everyone. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag#Brief_history
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by mamon 7y ago
Long shelf life might be desireable, but the UHT process has a really bad effect on taste. I prefer buying fresh, short expiration date milk.
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by mamon 7y ago
It seems that beating Tesla in range game is quite easy[1] I think BMW or Audi don't do that simply because they do not care enough - they optimize for different use case, i.e. daily commute, not 1500 miles road trips. [1] https:&#x2F
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by mamon 7y ago
We are definitely living in different universes. ICEs do not get any subsidies, quite the opposite: in many countries, e.g. the whole EU gas is so heavily taxed that more than half of the retail price is tax. Also, Tesla is an easy target t
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by mamon 7y ago
Better power efficiency, mostly.
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by mamon 7y ago
Ok, but FANG is a different matter: those are established, respectable companies. You shouldn't do the same for small, no-name startups that try to use those take-home assignments to extract free labor from you.
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by mamon 7y ago
Coffe Lake Refresh == boooring! Wake me up when they finally drop 10nm CPUs. I'm actually postponing buying a new laptop till then.

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