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by mamon 8y ago
It's funny how you call 6 week paid parental leave "good laws" - come to Europe, it's typically 15-26 weeks, up to a year in some countries.
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by mamon 8y ago
So producing shoes or coat's in women sizes is also "demeaning" towards women? I can't imagine why producing smaller pianos would be any different.
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by mamon 8y ago
I really hope I'll live long enough to be in the Scrum project that's run this way. In all the companies I worked for Scrum with its sprint and daily stand-up meetings just becomes a tool for micromanaging the team. EDIT: My own u
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by mamon 8y ago
As a citizen of EU country: yes I want every country to be looked at individually. EU members, unlike U.S. states are sovereign entities and I don’t want anyone to mistake EU for a single country (as Americans often do).
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by mamon 8y ago
What's the surprise here? If anything I would expect animals to be even more emotional than humans. Emotions are something primal, something that came to be before conciousnes. Animals are emotional and all they ever do is act on their
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by mamon 8y ago
Also: Poland, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, pretty much every European nation. Edit: Seems that GP conflates "nation" and "state". If we're counting continuity of government, they probably only Great Britain is
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by mamon 8y ago
Really? I always thought the opposite is true: trading strategies work BECAUSE they get commodified. I mean, it's like self-fulfilling prophecy: if enough mutual funds managers look at the price chart, draw the same magic lines, apply
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by mamon 8y ago
Most European countries already recognize that, to some extent. "Sidewalk evictions" are illegal, you (or municipality/local government) have to first provide some replacement apartment before renter can be evicted. Most town
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by mamon 8y ago
Happiness, for all I know is basically the ability to ignore sad and inconvenient truths about the world around you. The smarter you are, the harder it is to maintain this delusion.
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by mamon 8y ago
There are new people born every day. I bet you can find many Millenials who don't know who Elvis was, or The Beatles. Coca-Cola would meet the same fate, if it stopped advertising.
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by mamon 8y ago
I would argue that most of modern engineering originates in USA, with possible exception of automotive industry :)
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by mamon 8y ago
ELI5: how will melting ice caps cause rising sea levels? Ice has higher volume than water it's made of, so the effect of ice melting should be sea level falling. At least that's the case of Arctic Sea, which is just this: frozen
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by mamon 8y ago
Is skipping breakfast really a good choice? If anything I would skip the last meal of day (dinner/supper whatever you call that in English)
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by mamon 8y ago
Original statement from the annual report was "Barring unexpected challenges with Gigafactory Shanghai, we are targeting annualized Model 3 output in excess of 500,000 units sometime between Q4 of 2019 and Q2 of 2020." So saying &
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by mamon 8y ago
Interesting read, although at this point the "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" should be regardes as afallacy, not a law, because: - noone reads open source code - those who read do not understand it - those who unders
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by mamon 8y ago
Here's how work supposedly looks like in a French factory https://www.cnbc.com/id/100474481
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by mamon 8y ago
... none of which needs to be real :)
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by mamon 8y ago
Some kind of anti-flamewar feature. if there are multiple responses added in a very short time HN will temporarily hide "Reply" link.
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by mamon 8y ago
After I moved to California (quite recently) I was shocked by the quality of food here, compared to Europe. In fact I think most of so called "American cuisine" are actually workarounds for that poor quality. They use enormous amo
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by mamon 8y ago
Offtopic, but regarding abortion: Whether or not abortion is a murder is not about definition of "murder" it is about definition of "human being". There's no doubt that abortion involves killing a living creature,
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by mamon 8y ago
Ok, so you've decided that being white supremacist is bad. I can agree with you on that, but still the question remains: who get's do decide what has a place in modern society? Who decides what "modern society" even is?
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by mamon 8y ago
Wait, the trains are also electric, aren't they? Does US still use ICE trains?
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by mamon 8y ago
I am against animal cruelty, except I don't consider killing animals for meat to be cruelty, it's just an animal fulfilling their life purpose. That's how virtually all wild animals die, by becoming a meal for some predator,
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by mamon 8y ago
Fortunately, my carrier allows blocking such calls on NETWORK level, so they don't ever reach my phone.
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by mamon 8y ago
Because, if you are a knowldege worker, even if you have the same job title you are not doing exactly the same job. There are really two choices here: - allow people with the same job title (e.g. "Software developer") earn differe
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by mamon 8y ago
But for whatever reason you cannot choose 1 TB SSD, capped at 512GB
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by mamon 8y ago
One possible rationale: companies tend to specialize in one specific software domain, so you would end up with your graphic design software under Adobe folder, your Quake games grouped under idSoftware, and your databases grouped under Orac
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by mamon 8y ago
Many things that are morally reprehensible are also legal, e.g. adultery, drinking. The goal of having law is not to make people more moral, it's much humbler: to maintain relative peace and safety. Don't mix law and morality. Att
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by mamon 8y ago
Thing is, the very existence of a company benefits society as a whole: it produces and trades goods that people need and want, and also gives stable source of income for sometimes dozen thousands of its employees. That's why we should
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by mamon 8y ago
I get the "global" part, but what makes you think the current climate change will be permanent?

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