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by midjji 5y ago
Try dressing like a slob and borderline bum next time you visit the city next to where you live, then do the same dressed in an expensive tailored suit and matching watch(just get some gaudy knockoff on amazon, its not like anyone can actua
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by midjji 5y ago
So the why is pretty simple, effective wages after taxes(which are pretty much zero), are 3-7 times higher there. It does not matter if you are a Pakistani prostitute, or a silicon valley programmer, an Indian construction worker, or a Brit
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by midjji 5y ago
I think the worst part is that the British courts supported the UAE ones, I dont understand why at all.
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by midjji 5y ago
Sure it is, Its a question of which of the crimes, ... That said, civil asset forfeiture is just theft.
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by midjji 5y ago
With the money he made by making it free?
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by midjji 5y ago
Oh I expect the fraudster would quit if they are challenged about it, but people are insanely afraid of conflict around here. Hiring someone is pretty much a choice the section heads can make. Firing someone, pretty much no matter why, is a
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by midjji 5y ago
I'm not sure someone who did this could be fired in sweden, not without rock solid proof that someone else impersonated them for the interview, and even then it would be a long long process.
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by midjji 5y ago
Rationalization means to find a respectable explanation for some choice or behavior when acknowledging the true motivation would make you feel bad. Its irrelevant if the choice turns out better or not. The problem is that by finding an alte
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by midjji 5y ago
I vaguely remember someone complaining that a GPT-3 based text fantasy adventure generator, took a rather drastic turn when they wrote that the next sentence in the story was that they mounted their dragon. Which is pretty much comedy gold!
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by midjji 5y ago
Blackmail to me implies that the blackmailer requires something of the blackmailed, in exchange for the blackmailer to not take a specific action. In my example, the sender has already taken their action and given no indication that they a
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by midjji 5y ago
If you figure it out, there will be a lot of interest^^. I kinda miss the "just one more turn" till sunrise sessions, but half of that is me missing that the only thing that happened the day after was a slight headache.
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by midjji 5y ago
I wrote it because I find it fun, which is an end to itself, and because its a reminder to beware our rationalizations, which is helpful. I reject the premise of those expectations, but I do note its both productive, and on topic for the li
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by midjji 5y ago
Perhaps, in my experience reluctance to change, and laziness is more common than greed.
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by midjji 5y ago
Yeah, think I'm less assuming that people wont let it negatively affect their work, as much as assuming that the people for whom it does would have been playing something else with the same effect.
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by midjji 5y ago
Very cool you do this! Care to elaborate on why?
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by midjji 5y ago
A tech company focused on logistics has at least one boss or founder who really likes factorio, the game for and by programmers who like logistics? Who could have guessed^^ It is cool if they let people expense it though, but motivating the
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by midjji 5y ago
I make no reasoning or conclusion. My comment consists of an opinion followed by a statement.
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by midjji 5y ago
Its a reasonable stance, its also a common rationalization.
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by midjji 5y ago
Providing someone a nasty choice isnt neccesarily blackmail or wrong. Imagine you work as a prosecutor. Someone submits fairly strong, and actionable evidence, that your wife has commited a crime your office is required to prosecute. You ar
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by midjji 5y ago
Tons of companies have and are hireing people for little more than beeing able o download install and run the pytorch examples, and who have possibly managed to retrain an existing network architecture for a similar task on a similar datase
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by midjji 5y ago
Or more consizely, no matter where you go, the person most able to make you feel like shit will be there...
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by midjji 5y ago
I agree with the speed issues, but resilvering due to diskcorruption is faster than raid, which is left out, as is the problem with single redundancy ambiguity in raid that raidz fixes. The checksumming is also fantastic in very specific ca
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by midjji 5y ago
And this is why char should have been byte from the start.
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by midjji 5y ago
Yeah, people who read Heinlein and try to sort him into some political camp or other usually latch in to some surface level aspect they think make him side with their opposition. But in doing so must ignore huge conflicts the ideas presente
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by midjji 5y ago
They are absolutely awesome, and I would get one right now if I could afford it, and didnt expect customs to seize it on the way in. I'd use it to go to work if I could. People are mostly cowards about crashing, and they are illegal fo
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by midjji 5y ago
And yet, everyone will agree: void dothing1(Args..){...} //old version of dothing1 the programmer keeps around to copy code from later // which should never be used void dothing1_backup(Args..){...} is not clean. Peopl
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by midjji 5y ago
Your claim is that politicians prioritize global warming less than their constituents. If this was true, then in countries with multi party systems we would expect to see green parties become larger than parties which prioritize other issu
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by midjji 5y ago
The two party system of the US occlude the matter so lets look at the rich well functioning democracies of Europe instead. Better education means there isn't anything resembling the climate denial movement of the us, and on average peo
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by midjji 5y ago
I get that pain -_-' One of the things which I've seen but feel is rarely talked about is that the planet is sequestering a large amount of CO2 and this increases positively proportionally to CO2 concentration. Over longer periods
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by midjji 5y ago
Most farmers do just that^^

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