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by mmarq 5y ago
> We really want to reduce this to a littering problem? We really are pretending that if there’s an opiates epidemic in some areas of the USA, then the whole West has a severe drug problem? The person I replied to claimed western cities
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Rome, London, Berlin, Paris and Milan in the past 2 months. I haven’t seen a used needle in decades (I saw a needle only once when I was a child)
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> What would you say to them to convince them that they’re wrong? That the West is not littered with needles, so their severity is a massive price to pay for a minuscule gain.
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by mmarq 5y ago
All you need to learn to program is a computer, an internet connection (a 56kbps dialup is good enough) and certain intellectual aptitudes (such as motivation, an average intelligence, etc...). Almost everybody who has these characteristics
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https://blog.codinghorror.com/meta-is-murder/ :)
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I don’t see Rust becoming mainstream in the enterprise layer anytime soon. 90% or enterprise software consists of a REST API getting JSON payloads and saving them in a DB. The most complex part is often managing the “bus factor”, rather tha
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The Guardian is one of the few good news sources left in the UK, after the Telegraph and others went full tabloid. Op-eds are often written by insane SJWs, but if you skip them the articles are often very good.
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This is feasible as long as your expertise is recognised in the organisation or you are in a position of power or your organisation is open to this kind of behaviour (quite often it isn’t the case). A junior asking this kind of questions in
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by mmarq 5y ago
If anybody could work in tech or law or medicine, programmers and lawyers and doctors would be paid no more than cleaners, which can be replaced by a rando in a matter of days if not hours (read: the population is absolutely fungible). What
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I tend to think that almost everybody who can work in tech, where almost everybody is self-learned, already does so or will do so once they get old enough. It's not law or medicine that have high barriers to enter. I'm not saying
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We would be lying to ourselves if we pretended that we could turn all the Jobseeker’s Allowance material into software developers with some training, just for the sake of not hiring a Mexican or a Rumanian.
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Tourism is for the largest part an extremely low value added activity, for which location is the most important factor. So the owner of the hotel makes millions and everybody else makes peanuts. The very last thing we should work hard to ac
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by mmarq 5y ago
> so what is the alternative? The alternative would be to detain them respecting their human rights and eventually deporting them, if they don’t have a right to stay. > By intentionally conflating the detention camp with a concentrati
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by mmarq 5y ago
> How is a detention Center the same as concentration camp? Because a valid definition of “concentration camp” is: > A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result o
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by mmarq 5y ago
Setting up a VPN on a PIX or on a Cisco router is so insanely complicated that there was an entire Cisco Academy course devoted only to that.
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British Home secretaries have been proposing insane ideas for a decade. Patel alone proposed to: - build a wave machine to stop (drown?) immigrants coming from France - build a floating wall in the Channel to stop immigrants from Fran
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by mmarq 5y ago
Tourism has nothing to do with national airlines. Mass tourism in Europe is due more to Ryanair than to anything else. The Irish national airline would be Aer Lingus.
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Alitalia used to be very expensive and much worse than Ryanair. Personnel was extremely rude and unprofessional, they were striking more often than not, they were as unreliable as EasyJet if not worse. I stopped using them when they destroy
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by mmarq 5y ago
Sometimes all it takes is an adblocker that breaks some tracking functionality that interacts with the payment form. An event handler throws, and the whole thing falls apart. Sometimes it’s a bug, sometimes it happens by chance and the PO d
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by mmarq 5y ago
This woke vs anti-woke thing reached the tenth level of meta, where we have anti-woke people criticising woke people that criticise anti-woke people and so on and so forth. Some news outlet went that route and reading their articles feels l
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by mmarq 5y ago
My pet theory in high school was that Spinoza lived in a time when being an atheist could get you arrested and killed, so he came up with this Deus sive natura thing, which is a good cover and in practice is not too far from atheism.
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We already knew that: everywhere in the West, bar English speaking countries, you must show an ID to vote.
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by mmarq 5y ago
Would the gym threaten litigation to a former member who writes blog against fitness? I'm fine with Facebook closing this developer's account, I'm not fine with the developer being forced to make his tool disappear, under the
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by mmarq 5y ago
For me Twitter is a bit more than an RSS feed, I block everybody who ends up in my timeline for no good reason. A while ago I told Twitter I live in Germany, because I was told they have to censor nazis down there. It's way healthier t
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We need somebody to write: “Considered harmful” considered harmful
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Do you find it easier to learn something new from pictures and bullet points or from a long-form document? That kind of documentation is not necessarily bad, but it depends heavily on context, which is not always shared across readers. So w
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> As I've said, job retention is an even stronger political topic. > nobody here wants to lose consent over cutting jobs. I think there are a lot of misconceptions on workers protection in Italy. While older workers are protected
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These requests are not unreasonable in organisations that only need to run some simple (from a mathematical standpoint) operations against a complex (from an IT perspective) dataset. Quite often you don't need a full time statistician
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> - in Italy workers protection laws are very strong and it is an even stronger political topic, there are entire regions depending on the production chain of luxury Italian brands. Reconversion is not as easy as it looks. The main probl
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In my experience, many people prefer meetings over asynchronous communication because they can't write. I'm not referring to grammar or to spelling, but to being able to communicate effectively without a continuous feedback from t

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