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by mmarq 5y ago
> if "productivity" is the sole metric of an employee's performance, just wait until your employer decides to try and optimize it. Productivity is the sole metric of your performance, it is the job of management to come
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by mmarq 5y ago
No, apart from Alto Adige, which is an Austrian region occupied after WWI, still inhabited by Austrians, nobody has any exposure to German. (I honestly don’t know if they consider themselves Italians or Austrians, but they usually are nativ
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by mmarq 5y ago
Of course you can replicate all sounds, I can pronounce Friedrich, but an Italian speaker with no exposure to German (which is 99% of the population) will inevitably butcher it, because both the R and the “voiceless palatal fricative” do no
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by mmarq 5y ago
I find it very annoying when Italian speakers pronounce foreign names using sounds that do not exist in Italian. Pronouncing “Merkel” as a German would, makes it impossible to write and unrecognisable to 99% of Italian speakers. It is not r
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by mmarq 5y ago
The existence of coaches and scrum masters is the result of decisions of management, that see agile as a way of getting daily reports from the team through the daily standup. I don’t think that people who don't write or never wrote sof
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by mmarq 5y ago
Or not collect it in the first place. For those newspaper blocking traffic from the EU, it may be enough to remove all trackers
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by mmarq 5y ago
You asked: > IANAL, but can't they just word a disclaimer and checkbox? The answer is no, as far as GDPR is concerned, if they want to process and/or sell data of EU citizens or residents they have to follow some rules. I’ve no
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by mmarq 5y ago
If you are not doing anything with the data, you should just not collect it. A newspaper doesn’t need to collect my personal information. Besides if you don’t have a regular client base in the EEA or you process and collect data only occasi
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by mmarq 5y ago
Which is like saying “this building doesn’t follow engineering best practices, it may fall on your head at any moment” and expect to get away with that.
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by mmarq 5y ago
Having worked on and lead 3 GDPR compliance projects, I can say that the cost of GDPR compliance is close to zero if your business is not tracking users or selling their data without consent. This assuming you are following best practises f
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by mmarq 5y ago
That may or may not be a problem. For instance a career manager may be better suited to make strategical decisions than practitioners. I don't necessarily have a problem with a non-technical leadership or with non-technical people coop
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by mmarq 5y ago
I don't want to get into a debate on the "true scrum", but in my experience non-technical scrum masters/POs/PMs who don't write code (randos in my previous comment) are generally detrimental to the productivity
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Your non-techie peers just don’t get it, no matter how many times you try to make them understand In my opinion this is more common to software development only because software developers, at laest in Europe, do not have the same soci
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Lots of people would like to choose "caring" work. Teaching, healthcare, policy stuff, knowledge stuff, etc. Something meaningful and rewarding. > With rising inequity, only people who can afford higher education, who don&
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by mmarq 5y ago
And yet it doesn’t look like highly educated but low paid people are the main source of instability. Kids wanting to take down statues do not cause more instability than football hooligans, and as such can be easily handled by the police. T
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by mmarq 5y ago
We should go back to a world where users are paid to test a product, rather than expecting everybody to accept being tracked and to participate to experiments.
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by mmarq 5y ago
Outside of zone 1 and 2, London stops being a European city and becomes square miles of single family houses, just like US suburbia but with a horrid weather.
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Yes, as it should be. This is why official translations suck and fansubs are superior works. It would really surprise me if it were the case. Being a good translator requires years of studying and it’s not just a matter of knowing a fo
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by mmarq 5y ago
I agree on “carte d’identité”, which is easily translatable as “ID card”. But outside of France there’s no concept of “grande école”, so you can't translate it. It’s arguable if “mairie” can be translated as “town hall”, because as far
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The stock market speaks: How Dr. Alchian learned to build the bomb (2014)(sciencedirect.com)
78 points by mmarq 5y ago|25 comments
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by mmarq 5y ago
A full time job on minimum wage will pay ~18500£. £20K pa is the salary of an entry level not qualified accountant in London (my partner’s first salary some years ago) or of a bar tender. In London, a decent developer may earn in the low 6
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by mmarq 5y ago
> I think the more likely approach is that companies are going to be more open to remote contracting in places like Eastern Europe, South America, India, and Southeast Asia. There are a lot of examples of this not working so well in the
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.NET Loop Optimisations(twitter.com)
1 points by mmarq 5y ago|0 comments
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by mmarq 5y ago
Admission essays are a literary genre of their own, like the weird language used by some state bureaucracies. Knowing how to write these essays is a splinter skill. Anyway, so you should not have been admitted but you succeeded anyway witho
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by mmarq 5y ago
The CEO of BioNTech was told to attend a lower level school, which wouldn’t have allowed him to go to university. He claims that if it weren’t for a German neighbour he would not have gone to a gymnasium. This is a form of discrimination.
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Is this what the evidence suggests or what you wish to be true? Yes, evidence suggests that blacks and Indians and whatnot are not dumber than whites and that foreigners are not dumber than the locals.
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by mmarq 5y ago
> It sounds like you’re arguing about who deserves the prestige of going to Lowell rather than who actually benefits and contributes to the experience of attending classes at Lowell, which is the most populous school in San Francisco and
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by mmarq 5y ago
Maybe it didn’t get worse, but it still demonstrate what’s the result and maybe the objective of these strict selection criteria: that discriminated minorities end up being excluded. Let it be children with foreign origin in Germany (which
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by mmarq 5y ago
In Germany, when you finish primary school, your teachers give an advice on which school you can attend: Gymnasium, Realschule or Hamptschule, depending on how good they think you are. First of all you don’t have to attend the school your t
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Your question was “Do these 10 year old not care about school because there is something intrinsically wrong about them”. > My indirect answer is not necessarily, although there may be some for whom the answer is yes. I suspect the

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