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by misja111 4y ago
SVB UK was declared insolvent as well last week: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-10/svb-s-uk-... So I guess that the booked value of their assets was a lot higher than the actual market value,
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by misja111 4y ago
I think that another part of the explanation is, that most couples who do have kids, only have one or two. That sort of ticks the box for life fulfillment goal 'kids', you don't need to have three or more for that.
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by misja111 4y ago
This. I hated driving to the office as well, and I have done it for years. At some point I got a job closer to home so I started biking to work instead. And since then I don't mind coming to the office anymore. I even like it.
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by misja111 4y ago
In Scandinavia there is free daycare. It works great, gender inequality in the workplace is amongst the lowest in the world. There is no stigma on bringing your kids to the daycare, like in some traditional Western countries; it is actually
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by misja111 4y ago
Wow why was this article flagged?
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by misja111 4y ago
But isn't IQ supposed to be relatively knowledge-independent? I.E. the test should not rely on advanced language knowledge or knowledge of mathematics. How can poor (or good) education then affect IQ scores?
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by misja111 4y ago
Am I the only one who was still wondering what a 'zero energy ready home' is after reading the entire article? So I followed a link, that led me to this definition: > A DOE Zero Energy Ready Home is a high-performance home that
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by misja111 4y ago
The amount of denial on this forum is amazing. If it wasn't already clear enough earlier that the one party that did not have any interest in blowing up NS was Russia, by now it should be even more obvious. And it was even more clear w
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by misja111 4y ago
> The example with the airport and malls being overstaffed. The first part is that both the government and people would rather that people work, rather than rely on government/society, even if it means the enterprise is not operatin
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by misja111 4y ago
Odd that this is downvoted. The comment is true: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/03/politics/us-sends-plane-i...
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by misja111 4y ago
I can't answer for OP, but in my company we settle disagreements over code reviews by fist fights.
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by misja111 4y ago
This is what you get when leaving your money on a bank account -costs- money, due to negative interest rates. Even a startup with a highly dubious business plan might be better than leaking your cash away.
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by misja111 4y ago
> He also says the numbers don’t seem to add up: Dark energy is known to make up 70% of the mass-energy of the universe, whereas black holes are a mere fraction of the ordinary matter, which constitutes less than 5% of the universe So i
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by misja111 4y ago
True but not only management is to blame. Proper agile requires a certain amount of common sense and a willingness to spend some thought on improving the process. There is a group of developers that are either not able or not willing to thi
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by misja111 4y ago
> .. like that story to mimic Gates and Zuckerberg. In reality 99% of 20 year old CEOs that are handed millions of dollars are fucking idiots and nightmares to work for, lacking any professional and managerial experience .. You forgot
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by misja111 4y ago
Margaret Thatcher? I personally don't agree with all her ideas, but she has rescued the UK out of the mess they were in in the early '80s, and she managed to do it in an extremely hostile environment.
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by misja111 4y ago
Possibly you will end up with tech debt. But similarly to how most start ups begin with financial debt until their product generates enough revenue, it can also be a perfectly good strategy to allow for tech debt in the beginning. If this e
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by misja111 4y ago
> My gut was more that it is 2^(number of dimensions) that is important here. Yes, it's just binary search but applied to every dimension.
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by misja111 4y ago
A couple of years ago there was an avalanche of posts about projects written in Go. Today's hyped language is Rust. Give it another couple of years and some new language will have taken its place here.
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by misja111 4y ago
> 70% of those affected has a migrant background and yet they only make up roughly 1/4th of Dutch society You can't just compare the victims against 'Dutch society'. Not all of Dutch society has kids, and uses daycare
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by misja111 4y ago
Each stock is listed at some exchange. There are companies that have stock listed at several exchanges, but the stock tickers have a postfix that identifies the exchange they are listed on so you can still distinguish them. And for such com
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by misja111 4y ago
Since nobody has answered your question: I assume that China simply sent a balloon to spy on the US. Why a balloon? Because it's much closer to earth than a satellite and can carry a heavier payload. And why they were not worried if it
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by misja111 4y ago
I don't know why you are downvoted but I agree with your point that the shooting down feels a bit like an overreaction. For instance, the Pentagon has just reported that several Chinese balloons have been crossing US airspace in the re
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by misja111 4y ago
But weather balloons are typically much smaller. See e.g. https://www.stratoflights.com/en/shop/weather-balloon-3000/ , this is the largest one they sell and it has a bursting diameter of 45ft
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by misja111 4y ago
I guess your points are all valid, but it reads like selling your soul to get promoted ..
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by misja111 4y ago
You're not making it easy to get any answers, if you cut out 2 of the main reasons for people in general to change jobs.
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by misja111 4y ago
So you think that it's ok to traumatize and scar workers for life, as long as you pay them enough?
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by misja111 4y ago
ChatGPT's response to your prompt: > Heapsort: sort by building heap.
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by misja111 4y ago
With Lombok I always felt that it was trying to fix a symptom while it ignored the underlying problem. If you don't like to write out getters and setters in your code, then consider not to implement them at all. Just use value classes
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by misja111 4y ago
> I really feel agile has killed the happiness of our industry because it's met with a lot of back and forth, meetings, rituals, and meta-work and not actual productivity Agile was created to beat exactly those things that you are m

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