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by mcntsh 1y ago
In Germany, access to health care is becoming a major problem. I have two young kids and I’ve experienced on multiple occasions not being able to get appointments with specialists for them. Sometimes you offer to “self pay” - basically payi
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by mcntsh 1y ago
This argument really breaks down when you consider that it requires a lot more training to become a teacher than an investment banker, and there is a massive shortage of teachers, and none of these factors makes teaching a lucrative career.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
> working hard at creating value does, and that is still true today This is the point that the parent was making. How you define "value" is the topic of discussion here, which in my opinion has become so abstract that it's
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by mcntsh 1y ago
> working hard at creating value does "Creating value" is such a subjective phrase. Societal value? Fiscal value? Someone who drives around your city for 12 hours, rescuing and resuscitating people in life-or-death situations p
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by mcntsh 1y ago
Instead of relying on people actively checking the git-blame for all of the code they're reading, why not just put a clearly obvious comment within the code itself?
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by mcntsh 1y ago
I wish tracking took 20 seconds. In my org (big tech) a JIRA ticket has 10+ required fields.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
How would that be discovered? If I inline a TODO comment calling out some tech-debt that I (we, our team) had to take on, then in the future when the next person touches that logic they will see that comment and might address it. If it&#x27
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by mcntsh 1y ago
To me this brings the phrase to mind: "perfect is the enemy of the good." Ideally tech debt or code-smell encountered like this would be captured/tracked/described better but often-times this means context switching or e
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by mcntsh 1y ago
Claude doesn't look at advertisements.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
Why would housing be built in the first place if the price starts dropping?
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by mcntsh 1y ago
fwiw, las vegas is one of the most water efficient cities in the world.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
Sure but it’s not something you could ever expect to do in the US.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
Culture. You probably don't have to take PTO for sick days, you probably get a lot of vacation days and won't get pressure not to take them, you probably won't get called past 5 o'clock or on weekends, etc.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
My favorite is the right to go to part time work after 6 months. People don't realize the 4 day work week already exists in Germany if you want it.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
I've worked for major US companies in the Bay Area/NYC and German companies here in Europe so I feel like I can weigh in here. In Germany I make way less, it's true, but I have a much higher quality of life and feeling of sec
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by mcntsh 1y ago
Rollerblading, cycling, swimming... there are plenty of lower impact cardio exercises to running. Walking isn't true cardio exercise.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
My take is that walking is good for the mind and soul. I don't really think it's a good physical exercise, but it's definitely better than nothing.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
"in san francisco it costs a million dollars to build a public toilet. ergo, we should not build public toilets, because the cost is too high" or, we should try to figure out why building costs so much money. 90% of the current NY
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by mcntsh 1y ago
sort of a reductionist argument, in my opinion. obviously it's going to cost more to build and maintain nice things but we should want to do that because it makes our lives richer.
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by mcntsh 1y ago
Is it really banned in Europe? I've seen quite a few of them in Germany
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by mcntsh 1y ago
If they all rose the same equally everywhere you'd have a point, but that's not really the case. If your home in Palo Alto goes from 750k to 3M and a house in Arizona goes from 250k to 550k you benefit by selling your house in Pal
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by mcntsh 2y ago
When auto manufacturing jobs got shifted overseas leaving hundreds of thousands of people without a source of income did the government come in and provide for them? No, of course not.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
That's never going to happen... when has that ever happened?
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by mcntsh 2y ago
It's our only chance at quickly solving huge complex problems like how to cut expensive labor costs.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
An indexed shifter can also perform perfect shifts for thousands of times, and after that time you don't need to change out a battery you just need to maybe turn the barrel adjuster a few mm. The chainring thing is cool but front-geari
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by mcntsh 2y ago
> The reliability of this e-shifter in the X3 and S3 has been argued as the cause of the failure and eventual bankruptcy of VanMoof I always wondered what exactly the problem e-shifters were trying to solve was. Is it the "ugliness&
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by mcntsh 2y ago
I think these days companies are just scared to innovate. It's all about doing small cash grabs that move the needle but don't fundamentally disrupt anything.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
Ideally yeah but does it ever take "only" 4 hours? Usually take-homes are pretty unguided and leave room for personalization, plus there's an element of pressure to them to make it "awesome," do all of the best prac
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by mcntsh 2y ago
Now imagine you are a candidate interviewing with 3 companies and they all give you a take-home assignment and each one takes a weekend to complete.
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by mcntsh 2y ago
Interesting perspective. I wonder if you yourself take part in the exploitation by purchasing things made/grown in poor countries due to cost.

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