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by martin_a 4y ago
If Amazon is not "peak-capitalism" through and through, what else is? If they don't get these things right, who can, who will?
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by martin_a 4y ago
Amazon Prime has become a prime (haha) example of how capitalism is failing. It's not the best price, it's not faster anymore, it's not good quality and you can't trust anybody. Amazon is being flooded with the cheapest
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by martin_a 4y ago
In the summer they had lots of cooling issues due to low water, if I remember the news correctly. The article speaks of "ongoing or delayed maintenance, or corrosion problems" as the next reason for the problems.
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by martin_a 4y ago
> At the moment, half of the country's reactors are offline because of ongoing or delayed maintenance, or corrosion problems. The new generation of power stations has yet to be built. Meanwhile, in Germany, pushing renewable energie
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by martin_a 4y ago
> the leaders should have collected various ideas Oh, that happened, but only a quarter of people took part in it because of "meh"... Now they are complaining... We also got bicycle leasing now and some other stuff, not all is
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by martin_a 4y ago
I know that there's a passage in the "Hagakure", which was written from 1710-1716, where the author complains about how the youth is degenerating, not working like they should and not interested in the old values anymore. So,
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by martin_a 4y ago
Sounds like great material for a "Doing XY: What we've learned"-corporate blog post! Looking forward to that!
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by martin_a 4y ago
> (why is there voting anyway?) Meh, it's not the best word, I'm no native speaker. There are some very vocal people pushing against this initiative which are "inciting" (DeepL) others to stand up against this. > B
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by martin_a 4y ago
You've brought up good points here. Our "corporate climate" often isn't the best, that's probably why this leads to lots of upset people.
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by martin_a 4y ago
I wonder how many people will accidently nuke themselves with that, because they forget to set up their geofencing or whatever before activating it. You'll read it on HN first!
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by martin_a 4y ago
I don't think this is limited to America or healthcare. We're seeing these effects in corporate life, too: A charging station for EVs has been put up for the company and client EVs. I'm the first employee to have received &qu
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by martin_a 4y ago
I really think you shouldn't take the article, its conclusions and recommendations too serious.
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by martin_a 4y ago
Just minor "operational challenges".
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by martin_a 4y ago
> to enhance our machine learning capabilities, including personalization, in Pocket, a fantastic product that has only just scratched the surface of its ultimate potential. Does anybody even use Pocket? (yes, probably, of course) Do you
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by martin_a 4y ago
Eh, seems like CEO salary is more like > 3 million: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30665913
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by martin_a 4y ago
Expired SSL certificate warning for me. Nice.
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by martin_a 4y ago
I was just thinking about how many units for measurements are there in CSS. Thanks for providing the answer.
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by martin_a 4y ago
> Do you have any evidence she is lying about death threats? She lied about that picture and tried to deceive viewers into believing everything happened that way. Why should I trust her when she says she received threats?
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by martin_a 4y ago
I guess everybody is pendantic about something different. To you "It's absolutely fucking wild [...] that somebody would invest this amount of effort", but I can understand the point of that magazine, too. Besides a somewhat
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by martin_a 4y ago
If you're taking a once in a lifetime shot people will surely be curious.
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by martin_a 4y ago
> But going as far as sending death threats Did that really happen, though? Yes, it's the internet and there are lots of crazy people out there, but on the other hand "I've been threatened" is a quick and easy way for
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by martin_a 4y ago
Where do you get yours? I've been disappointed by some Currywurt dishes, too. I think there are lots of factors for a good Currywurst, but when you've got old friends and a cold beer at one of the parties in your hometown together
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by martin_a 4y ago
Most of our systems here are equipped with 8 GB only, where it's 15.75% as said by somebody else. With everything else that runs, you're out of RAM pretty quick: Our production software takes around 1 GB when running, Firefox&#x2F
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by martin_a 4y ago
Takes 520 MB right now for sitting idling in the background. That's how well it runs on Windows...
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by martin_a 4y ago
Also the scope is limited to schools. Headline is somewhat... hysterical.
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by martin_a 4y ago
This is inspiring and what I'd like to do, too. I'm working on downsizing and reducing expenses. I'll have repaid a credit fully next year, that allows me to increase savings etc. Slowly those things come together. Also tryin
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by martin_a 4y ago
As I didn't knew the word, I gave it to DeepL for translation and in German it translates to words which would be used for extraordinary and over-the-top things (herausragend, hervorragend, hervorstechend). If someone would have used t
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by martin_a 4y ago
You read the news that he cancelled working from home and then locked everybody out of office? Does that look like a plan to you? Does anything that happend in the last weeks look like a plan to you? The blue checkmark disaster for example?
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by martin_a 4y ago
The linked article quotes a mail where Musk asks to see "the most salient lines of code".
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by martin_a 4y ago
That's exactly the situation with my two teams now. Make teams of 4.

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