michpoch

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by michpoch 2y ago
> To quote an article: "The truth is, if it was not for the Yellow Ribbon Program I would not be going to law school." That's not DEI. This program is about helping ex-military to find new employment. DEI is about "w
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by michpoch 2y ago
> send whatever bits you want, and I’ll render them however I want > If a site is really persistent about circumventing my adblocker, they are basically hostile to me and I should just leave You need to pick one of these. You either a
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by michpoch 2y ago
It died after Google announced layoffs. The local IT market is quite small and Google is a very large employer here. Two things had happened then: 1. Other companies froze hiring, because they got scared of „what does FAANG know that we don
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by michpoch 2y ago
In what conditions are these eggs being produced? Are these also codes 0 - 3, similar to the European ones, with different classes of the chickens living conditions? $2 per dozen eggs is cheaper than in the poorest countries in Europe.
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by michpoch 2y ago
> Last week, the average price of a dozen eggs hit $4.95 per dozen That sounds.. pretty cheap? Here (Switzerland), 10 eggs (instead of 12), cost at least 4.20 CHF (almost 5 USD): https://www.coop.ch/de/lebensmittel&#
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by michpoch 2y ago
> I wouldn't call it cheap The moment someone sues your customers, or some European agency will gets onto them, that 8000 euro opinion is all you're basing your company's legal security on. In that context, yes, this is be
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by michpoch 2y ago
I am not sure I follow - when you hire you search for someone who has 100% coverage of the tech you're using and also already works for your direct competitor? Let's say you're hiring manager for a company that compares fligh
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by michpoch 2y ago
> You can say that about all forms of hiring process Yes, but there's a significant difference between spending a few hours on a take-home assignment and dropping your current employment to spend 4 weeks potentially in another city
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by michpoch 2y ago
> unless you're trying to make the non-tech parts of the role too interesting. Unless your role is trivial to replace with an LLM, you need to understand the business. Maybe not for really junior role, but everything above - you nee
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by michpoch 2y ago
> Candidate would be compensated, obviously. That's why it's expensive Ok... take me through it. I apply to your company and after a short call you offer me to spend 4 weeks working at your place instead of an interview. I go b
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by michpoch 2y ago
> can't start contributing after a week. Because you have zero context of what the org is working on.
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by michpoch 2y ago
> Also, the best (albeit the most expensive) selection process is simply letting the new person to do the actual work for a few weeks. What kind of desperate candidate would agree to that? Also, what do you expect to see from the person
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by michpoch 2y ago
Right, but giving someone stocks instead of money will be an income, not a capital gain?
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by michpoch 2y ago
> This did cost us about 8,000 € in Germany. The apparently extensive legal assessment you just described costed just 8'000 euro? I am sorry but that had to be some hasty review at best. Do you take the full legal risk in case any o
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by michpoch 2y ago
Dacia costs ~14k USD here (Switzerland).
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by michpoch 2y ago
Am I very naive expecting the payout to be significantly higher?
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by michpoch 2y ago
The western ones are much better, e.g. VW ID3.
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by michpoch 2y ago
Yes, and that list includes almost no cars under $200 a month. Just go and check it. They’re not including the downpayment.
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by michpoch 2y ago
> Why exactly have China been successful in reducing costs? Reducing price != reducing cost
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by michpoch 2y ago
> I believe these are all very reasonable prices Sure, as reasonable as offers from Western manufacturers. You can get plenty of EVs for 30k USD.
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by michpoch 2y ago
> Without all the trade restrictions, you could buy a BYD EV for 10k. No, you couldn’t. In Switzerland there are no EV trade restrictions and no, we do not have 10k BYDs. They cost roughly same as any other Western manufacturer.
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by michpoch 2y ago
> changing the vinyl advertising on a London bus took something like 3 days That sounds like wrapping a whole bus with an ad. Hardly something an LED or e-ink display could replace.
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by michpoch 2y ago
Last day of the week? Weekend is only two days long, so it's not like you have a lot of options.
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by michpoch 2y ago
> Especially given that local compute, RAM, and storage are often orders of magnitude cheaper than cloud He uses old, much less efficient GPUs. He also did not select his living location based on the electricity prices, unlikely the clou
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by michpoch 2y ago
> I pay $0.06 per kWh That is like, insanely cheap. In Europe I'd expect prices between $0.15 - 0.25 per kWh. $0.06 sounds like you live next to some solar farm or large hydro installation? Is that a total price, with transfer?
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by michpoch 2y ago
> And then govt decided to stop for brownie points with church. Sundays off are about workers rights, little to do with religion. And you can still work on Sunday - in businesses that are allowed to be open (gastro, petrol stations, cert
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by michpoch 2y ago
> In Switzerland everything closes Sure, because there are worker rights and we do not keep people working at night unless there's a reason. > Japan is notable because there’ll be people everywhere and things will still be clean
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by michpoch 2y ago
Looks pretty similar to what I'd expect to a regular European town. What are you comparing it to that you see such a drastic difference?
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by michpoch 2y ago
It’s not. The West = Europe, US and their the allies. Japan is in the West and last time I checked they were still Asians.
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by michpoch 2y ago
> You can build out of concrete and use fire resistant materials like metal or tile for the roof and your house is nearly fireproof Just like exactly the rest of the world? We, the non-USA folks, are looking yearly at either fires or hur

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