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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Connecting bad traits with the same term as unchangeable traits makes no sense to. I am male and therefore have masculinity. Why connect demanding overtime to masculinity? It's super unspecific and not helpful. And no way you could eve
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Then don't call it "masculinity" and be more specific. Anything related to "masculinity" will be connected to males.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"I once heard it said that employee overtime was like morphine for employers, because it masks the pain of organizational dysfunction. It's important to let your employer feel that pain so that they can become aware of what is wro
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"toxic masculinity " Why make this a thing about gender? Abusers can be found in all genders. Making this about males is counterproductive.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
All Western countries (including the US) do some kind of wealth distribution and it clearly works. Societies without any form of wealth distribution don't work. Or do you have an example? I can't think of any.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
" Otherwise, the economy will be broken; it already is for some now." If we introduce UBI it would probably be one of the first times in history that society addresses major changes without war, revolution or other upheaval. My pr
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That’s what I am thinking too.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Not with UBI or it can't work.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I remember hearing a lot of people using the french pronunciation for a while.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I like the idea but I doubt this will be sustainable long-term. There is already a lot of pressure to reduce the social safety net and to have more tax cuts for the "job creators". Why would this be any different with UBI? The peo
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I love it when you look at something that clearly works and you think "How did this ever work?". Happens to my code often.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Developing an API and giving things names is definitely a very hard problem.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I don't know that particular name and the target market. Maybe it's really bad. But if you have a good product in my view the name doesn't matter that much. A lot of people struggle with "sqlite" for example or &qu
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I am not a marketer but it seems to me that people are too concerned about things like naming, icons and others. There are successful products with bad names (it took years to find consensus on pronouncing “azure”). Craigslist is successful
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I don’t agree with some : Rechtschaffen -> righteous Anständig -> decent Aufrichtig is not straightforward. Can’t think of a good word but “honest” is closer. But that’s just me. It shows that direct translation of words is risky and
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
This article would have been better if it had a little more humor. I usually like playing with national stereotypes because if you don’t take them too literally there is a lot of truth in them. But this article isn’t much fun. As a German l
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
They are also the people that keep crypto going. Without the promise if getting rich Bitcoin would have been a little curiosity and not more.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Big corps usually want people who do what they are told to do. An employee with startup experience has shown that, a lot of founders are probably not good followers.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I think it's pretty clear that for the tariffs to work you have to play a long game. It's not like the capacity is there immediately so it needs to be built up slowly. and it will only be built up if the investors have confidence
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
That’s an important point. Hurricanes and flooding used to damage cheap buildings. Now the most expensive real estate is right at the water.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Not an expert but I highly doubt they are building them so they can be used with them first level underwater. I am pretty sure such a building is a complete loss.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
They will make sure that the state will pay for their flood insurance and disaster relief.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Apple under Jobs, Google, Facebook, MS under Gates, lots of smaller companies. Probably the ones where a founder is still CEO.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
For me any kind of motivational posters on the wall are an immediate red flag. Usually it means that things aren't going well and management can't come up with anything better than hanging up posters. Well-run companies show their
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I work in medical devices and I am also always surprised how many "hacks" are in the system. We haven't had any field issues so I assume we are doing pretty well. I guess most shiny things of any reasonable complexity look pr
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"This really strikes a nerve because in 40 years of programming, most of my problems have not been with building code myself, but with trying to figure out what my predecessor had written. I bet I've wasted 20 years of my life ref
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
"You should ideally be able to take your hard drive out, put in a new one, install a fresh OS, run 1 script, and be completely up and running in less than an hour." this is great if you can pull it off but if you have a lot of dis
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
I also try to write reasonable code for even the smallest projects. It doesn't have to be perfect but it should be possible to add the bells and whistles in straightforward manner. A lot of people seem to spend time thinking about whet
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
There was a story about Steve Jobs seeing an overweight engineer in the hallway eating a donut. He glared at him and next day there were no donuts in the Apple cafeteria. I don't remember where I read this.
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by maxxxxx 7y ago
Or when a team works 6 weekends in a row, give them 3 days extra off and make it sound generous.

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