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me_me_me
5y ago
> rather a sign of these countries dystopian work laws/ethics, where sick leave is apparently not a thing Oh yes, I too take sick leave when I have runny nose until its gone
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5y ago
YES! They did it in many asian countries before. When you feel under the weather you'd go to work/town in the mask not to spread. Also cold/flu cases are way down due to people masking up and cleaning hands. A lot of people c
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5y ago
> Wearing a mask is not a small ask. Of course it is, I have been wearing mask for 2 years now. And I am wearing glasses. Is washing your hands too much to ask too? > If it was, attendance at bars, restaurants, shows, etc. That was du
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5y ago
Taxi company is a taxi company. They dont need fancy tech only cabs, drivers, mechanics and minimal HR/PR. Uber must have huge overhead in HR/PR/Legal. They are trying to win the whole capitalism, and at that scale costs a lo
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5y ago
One could argue that Go from the design point of view is has no breadth nor depth. There are few rules and rules are very simple. Depth of the strategy and the gameplay comes out as emergent property of the game. But that's just splitt
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5y ago
OMG, that is pure genius forward thinking. This is one of those things university ought to teach but they don't.
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5y ago
> Isn't that width? That depends on the implementation. Number of different features/actions is the game width. Complexity of the features are the depth. A turn based strategy might give you 10000 units that vary slightly, but
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5y ago
Oh that's so sweet and sentimental. True romantics those taliban.
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5y ago
not to mention a moron with a truck can sabotage it catastrophically by merely piercing a wall. I recommend watching Train Derailment & Sabotage - 1944 - Charlie Dean Archives / Archival Footage https://www.youtube.com&#
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5y ago
Can we collectively agree hyperloop is a vapourware. It doesn't scale. Its too expensive, too dangerous and requires super-materials we don't have. It needs a straight tracks a near impossible scenario in densely populated eu. Ju
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me_me_me
5y ago
All of the quotes in the article read like a robot said them. Imagine being that guy... ouch.
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me_me_me
5y ago
Anyone who is for electronic only voting should be forced to watch few def con videos. Nothing is secure give enough resources and determination. Paper ballots are extremely hard to hack given the scale of the operation. Because it would in
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5y ago
This is not a zero sum game. You can be a team player in order to make your life easier and others that work with you. But laying down all of your cards on the table leaves you vulnerable to exploitation by less scrupulous people. What I wa
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5y ago
its NOT individual person's fault. Its large dirty businesses that create majority of the pollution. Only way to fight global warming is to target them to pay for their externalities. You can help, you can recycle. But all of the busin
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me_me_me
5y ago
> Today, when a project ends at one of these big companies, the people get laid off. And you just normalize this as something ok?
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me_me_me
5y ago
> This is a conflict between individual and organizational rationality I don't see any conflict here. I am not and 'the organisation'. I am hired by one to do a job. I lookout for myself first of all. I am not paid to prot
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5y ago
But Apple does it legally so its ok. And I am sure the hopeless can pull themselves by their bootstraps. If they cant eat bread, why don't they eat cake?? If you are homeless just buy a house! Its that simple. /s Jezz, I am readin
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5y ago
Consider this scenario (i back it up at the end with direct evidence) You don't have any education due to whatever circumstance, bad family, abuse, shitty neighbourhood that dragged you down. Doesn't matter. You have a kid(s) that
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5y ago
I wonder if this is secretly brilliant stunt. Blast on every channel message that your product will actively look for children porn store on it. Stir great debate. And then quietly drop the proposed feature. Your product will be viewed as u
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5y ago
> In the UK they have a 330ml can size. Well there are the new taller cans that look 'bigger'. even though it probably costs more to make those in terms of aluminium ammounts.
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5y ago
That evil EU goes after poor shady business' practices again. \s I also love this, you can actually quickly make a better decision on what is worth. It would be interesting to see if UK decides to drop this law as result of brexit.
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5y ago
> it does lead to "crafty consumers" using the unit price as their highest priority criteria for selecting products, and disregarding factors like quality and nutrition. That will happen no matter what. If you are poor you pay
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5y ago
That's exactly what big business PR are trying to sell. - Don't use plastic straws to save sea turtles. When nets are majority cause of sea life death, straws are not even a 1%. Same with oil, coal industry. Recycling, vegetariani
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5y ago
> over longer periods of time, he tends to be exactly right. Like he was with the faster tunnel digging, or rockets instead of planes, or hyperloop, or the tunnel thing that is not a subway because its different. All of his successful b
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5y ago
> perhaps it happened this way and jobs was overly caustic, but zooming out from that emotionality, the designated outcome was not necessarily a bad one. You walk down the street and someone you know in passing tells you: "Hey, you
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5y ago
Prominent figures in the biggest winners of the IT boom were toxic. What makes you think other ceo's of smaller companies are not going to look up to the winners. >A lot of bad behaviour was tolerated in previous decades across many
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5y ago
> He is emotional because he cares about changing the world for the better Unless you know him personally, this statement reads like a naive teen idolising a politician that will 'fix' all issues. You dont know what he is like,
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5y ago
there is a reason why he has those horns
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5y ago
I think I caught something just viewing that website with my eyeballs. People actually pay to read that thing?
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5y ago
less and less every year. The reality of game dev life are often discussed online and at this stage if you consider the career you'd hear about it.
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