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by mamon 8y ago
Just because Trump lost popular vote during last elections does not mean that the result would be the same if there was no electoral college. The way elections currently work is discouraging many voters from participating: if you are a Demo
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by mamon 8y ago
I wonder what's the metric used to call those other tools better, if not productivity?
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by mamon 8y ago
Only in the US things like giving your kids proper education and saving for nice retirement are considered luxury goods. In Europe they are treated almost as human rights :)
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by mamon 8y ago
If you mean: some weird tribe that has a population of 10 grown up women and one grown up men then yes, any TFR > 1.1 would mean population growth. But in normal circumstances you assume that there is an equal number of men and women in
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by mamon 8y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but black holes are quite common in the Universe, right? Why couldn't we simply take a photo of one that's closer to us?
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by mamon 8y ago
Then do not tax income, tax revenue. If company makes, say $10B in the US in sales, they should be required to pay at least 1% of that, i.e $100M in taxes. And before anyone starts complaining that some companies have very thin profit margi
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by mamon 8y ago
The problem is that EU bureaucrats are too impatient to wait multiple generations, therefore they try to speed up the process by schemes like inviting few millions immigrants from Africa and Middle East and then forcing member states to tak
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by mamon 8y ago
First of all, they cannot force you to give them your current salary. My standard answer to such question is a slightly more polite version of "it's none of your bussiness". And if they don't want to provide a salary ran
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by mamon 8y ago
My personal best was a 100% pay increase, when I went from being young and naive to "know your worth and negotiate aggresively" attitude :) That was almost 8 years ago, I changed the jobs few times since then, for additional aggre
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by mamon 8y ago
And that works in Google's favor currently, since they are small player entering the PaaS market, and they need to compete with AWS on price, because their offering is less mature and they don't have counterparts to many of AWS se
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by mamon 8y ago
Poland is a pathological case, because where communism fell we inherited one thing from it: obligatory two-year service in the army for all men of age 19 (except those with health issues, obviously). And one of the only few reliable ways t
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by mamon 8y ago
Off-white paper is there for cost-saving reasons, used mostly for cheap romances and thrillers typically sold in airport bookstores. I don't think they even consider readers comfort when choosing it.
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by mamon 8y ago
Yes, being forced to hit back button 5 times equals 4 additonal page views :)
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by mamon 8y ago
My understanding is that unrestricted immigration has the opposite effect: rich countries taking advantage of poor ones, via “brain drain”. That’s why the average age of medicine doctors in Poland seems to be around 50: all the younger ones
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by mamon 8y ago
>> Also, only 7.5% comes out of your paycheck, the employer pays the other half You might delude yourself that this "other half" is paid by the employer, but in reality your employer takes that cost into account when employi
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by mamon 8y ago
No, he had written himself into a corner at the end of the "Dance of Dragons", and then waited for the tv show screenwriters to help him figure out how to proceed from there - that's the most probable explanation I can come u
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by mamon 8y ago
>> The best writers write much more slowly than everyone else, and the better they are, the slower they write. By that metric George R.R. Martin is on track to be the greatest writer of all the time :)
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by mamon 8y ago
With the exception of sexual harassement charges, where your guilt is assumed (based on the fact that you are male) and you have to prove your innocence.
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by mamon 8y ago
Suppose that's the one of the real reasons of Brexit :)
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by mamon 8y ago
Except in the movie it's only part of the joke. They keep naming famous historical figures this way, until one of the men shouts in frustration: "Yeah, and who else? Curie-Skłodowska?" :)
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by mamon 8y ago
As someone else already noted in this thread: employees were the only ones who actually made money on this company, in form of their salary received over the years. It's only the equity part of their compensation that went to $0.
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by mamon 8y ago
So, are those sounds really that quiet? I noticed this before, that sometimes subtitles mention a sound I haven't heard, but I always assumed it's due to my slightly impaired hearing. I wonder if this happens to people with good h
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by mamon 8y ago
My take on that is that any standup attended by project manager is not a Scrum standup anymore, it's a status update. What I've seen in few companies is that after such morning meeting with PM, the development team, would hold the
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by mamon 8y ago
Exept borders (and anything within 100 miles from it) are basically a zone where US Constitution does not apply. You can be detained and sent to Guantanamo for made up "terrirst threat" and there's no really a legal recourse.
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by mamon 8y ago
Some people become vegetarian for this exact reason, but then why stop there? is there a reason to declare life of the plants that you eat less valuable? Stop eating them, these apples or carrots they all have families, dreams, plans for th
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by mamon 8y ago
I think it was Netherlands, not Poland that had religion listed in national census, but I agree with your other points.
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by mamon 8y ago
Once again, Americans are "discovering" things other civilized countries knew and implemented for a long time :)
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by mamon 8y ago
It all comes down to the level of self awarenes and emotional development demonstrated by species. Some primates come close enough to young human children in that regard to cast at least some doubt, but mice? Yes, we probably shouldn't
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by mamon 8y ago
You're really misunderstaning the power balance here: when you go to a doctor or a dentist you are not a customer buying their services, you are a supplicant begging for their mercy :) That's why they work the hours they find conv
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by mamon 8y ago
There is such thing as too much communication. In my previous company the whole 10 person team sat together on the open space. The result was that my coworkers (sitting 30-40 ft from me) would shout a question to me, because they were too l

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