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by mamon 8y ago
>> Maybe I'm just stupid, or have worked on some limited subset of applications. It seems to me that Graham answers this question in the preceeding paragraph: >> I've done a lot of things (e.g. making hash tables full
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by mamon 8y ago
>> This does mean you have to plan your visit ahead by a day or two Actually, when I went to visit Sagrada Famillia I didn't know a first thing about its ticketing system, went straight to it, and then ended up finding their webs
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by mamon 8y ago
>> Now if I take the medicine and it's not better in a day or two, maybe then I will want that CT scan. That's what most doctors in my country would do. Are you saying that US doctors will send you to CT right away, just to
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by mamon 8y ago
Living in California recently I actually met a few software engineers that were driving Uber as their second job, because their SWE salary was not enough. This really shocked me.
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by mamon 8y ago
>> there are 1.5 million refugees in Ukraine with no place to go - EU will not take them Fortunately, Poland is issuing 200k job permits for Ukrainians per year, which helps a little. Not to mention that there're twice as many U
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by mamon 8y ago
I'm not so naive to think that FED's goal is restraining inflation. Also, I don't know why people think of inflation as if it was some force of nature - it isn't. Inflation is created artificially by central banks, as a
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by mamon 8y ago
The boom and bust cycle was actually a good thing: it gave badly managed companies an "opportunity" to go bankrupt before they grew "to big to fail". Now that FED tries to regulate market cycles it actually makes things
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by mamon 8y ago
Corporations are spending their own money, unions are spending someone else's. That's the main difference. To be clear what I mean: At least in my country it is a legal requirement for the corporation to pay salaries of union lead
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by mamon 8y ago
I always laugh at this obsession with early rising. Many factory line workers wake up at 4:30 am every day, because their shift starts at 6:00 am, and somehow that does not make them billionaires.
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by mamon 8y ago
You mean 3,168 across the US? Poland is like 9 times smaller population and we had 6402 approved wiretaps in 2017.
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by mamon 8y ago
I think the issue can be explained without conspiracy theories. US military can't win against guerrilla, because US public cares about their image as the "good guys". And to be good guys you have to avoid any civilian casualt
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by mamon 8y ago
GDPR requires you to state the reason why you collect the data. Re-purposing it requires you to obtain updated consent from the user.
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by mamon 8y ago
Yes, the best ones are mBank and PKO BP, the latter recently winning the award for the best banking mobile app in the world.
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by mamon 8y ago
I might be ignorant here, but wouldn't it suffice to prove that digits of Pi are random? Just check whether the distribution is uniform, the same way you would validate pseudorandom sequence generator for a programming language. Once y
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by mamon 8y ago
The most scary part was the claim that net neutrality will "raise the phone bill by 30$ per month". I moved to California a month ago and I find internet access to be one of the worst experiences compared to my home country, Pola
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by mamon 8y ago
Why I use Docker for everything? saves me from dependency hell, chasing down the required libraries. Plus, some more complex stacks, which normally would take like half day to install now take just one "docker run" command (or &qu
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by mamon 8y ago
And what exactly does this private insurance cover? In Poland private healthcare is fine for healthy young people that occasionally catch a cold, or have their ankle sprinkled, because it saves a lot of wait time. Treating any serious illne
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by mamon 8y ago
How exactly does Poland end up “outside of EU”? Polish government has no such plans, Polish society is strongly pro-EU, and there’s no legal way in EU treaties to force us out so the only way I can think of is if the EU itself ceases to exi
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by mamon 8y ago
To be „chosen properly” means that the sample must have similar age, racial, educational, gender structure as the 350M society it is supposed to represent. Recruiting 2401 college students as the only sample automatically makes any study u
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by mamon 8y ago
Except it only works when serial numbers are sequential, I believe the common practice today is to have serial numbers to be random alphanumeric strings.
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by mamon 8y ago
Ok, so maybe it is not against a federal law but still, making you leave the casino because you are too good at the game you're playing seems weird.
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by mamon 8y ago
Exactly, because they want business model to benefit them, not customers. Think about casinos banning players for counting cards in Black Jack: the only reasonable strategy of playing the game is considered illegal. In other words - you are
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by mamon 8y ago
From the linked Wikipedia entry it seems that it usually takes 2 to 5 hours, and 25 to 35 km chase. Not sure why you say "couple days". And hunters usually know the signs to follow to track a gazelle, so that's also non-issue
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by mamon 8y ago
>> Humans evolved to stand upright and outrun their predators Forgive my ignorance, but are there any predators that we actually can outrun? Pretty much every four-legged mammal is faster, except maybe elephants.
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by mamon 8y ago
...and the other 75% of the time pharmaceutical companies simply factor in the insurance payments into the drug price raising it to unreasonable level.
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by mamon 8y ago
>> because it has basically no syntax, so any program will be a direct representation of a programmer's mental model for how their program works That's actually a problem with Lisp, because every programmer would have differ
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by mamon 8y ago
That’s probably because, as said in the article, the inspiration and precedent for trial by combat was David vs Goliath story from the Bible. Non-Christian cultures had no basis to ever try something like that
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by mamon 8y ago
Maybe I’m missing something but it seems that this “bullshit sensivity test” is just a verbal IQ test in disguise? They basically test your ability to correctly parse an English sentence.
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by mamon 8y ago
Which makes the whole study bullshit because what they actually measured was effects of stress not of the lack of leg exercise
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by mamon 8y ago
Workers have a right to get paid for their work, but that’s pretty much it. They don’t have a right to influence company policies because they do not own it. Asking workers for their opinion is just politeness, but not something company nec

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