mrcartmeneses

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by mrcartmeneses 3y ago
One problem is the ore deposits contain radioactive elements, so it would need specialist processing otherwise the workers would all have radioactive dust in their lungs
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by mrcartmeneses 3y ago
It’s I my broken because our electoral system favours conservative outcomes. If we had proportional representation then many of the issues that seem impossible would suddenly become easy to solve. Edit: in before anyone asks for evidence of
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by mrcartmeneses 3y ago
And if the mental health of employees isn’t part of aircraft safety then why not?
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by mrcartmeneses 3y ago
The anger in these videos is palpable. He’s doing us a great service by championing right to repair and consumer tech rights. But he needs a three-week holiday to Thailand before he snaps
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by mrcartmeneses 3y ago
“…those living within an hour's commute to a major Dell office should come in for those minimum three days.” Time for any Dell employee to dig up the highway leading in to town
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
It is unproven whether genetic “improvements” to intelligence or other traits would make a society like China’s more robust. Conversely there are very few countries with average incomes above $15k per annum that are able to survive as dict
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
All knowledge workers are completely screwed. The only way out is UBI and a maximum three-day work week.
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
This is how we all die. Considering how humans treat other animals don’t expect an AI made in our own image to let us just happily carry on surviving.
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Just wanted to say I am personally feeling super emotional about this. The scary things for me are: A, this happened once before with my career path, I started my working life in journalism and the bottom fell out of the market in 2008 and
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Whether or not any new police force is better or worse is by-the-by. The current department isn’t for for purpose and needs to be disbanded.
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Unfortunately the last time we had a publishing revolution we had two world wars before we got the press properly regulated. We’re now having two publishing revolutions within 30 years and are only in early stage fascism
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
40-year Londoner here. The truth is that commuting costs compensate for cheaper rents. And where there is a difference you can also factor in the extra “work” time from spending 3 hours commuting every day. This changes when you work from h
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Larry vs Harry Bullit rider here. my wife and I even rode it from London to Berlin (cheated with the ferry and train a lot) when we moved in late December. We have 2.5 kids. No car. I use car sharing when I need a van or wanna drive to the
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Hate to break it to you but upper management is usually the main driver of bullshit jobs. They know what’s going on
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
I made a resolution to just close my eyes instead of going on Reddit/HN. Went well for about 20 mins...
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
This is in some ways deliberate from management. They’re often not really needed and are making busy work for themselves at the expense of the company’s goals
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
You’re one of these special lucky people who only needs 4 hours sleep. I have a friend like that and he uses his extra time to complete video games and be a dad/husband. I’m more of a 8-9 hours person myself so I’m super jealous
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Shouldn’t matter in the grand scheme and it will probably be clean after 5-6 passes
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
I just hate being “employed”. All of the politics and incompetence in other people’s businesses reminds me too much of the Russian communist party. Every large capitalist company ends up like a low-stakes episode of the Netflix series Chern
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Thanks. Looking forward to it. I’m so done with England!
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Do you have any advice for freelancing in Germany? I’ll be moving to Berlin in January, aber ich spreche nur Englisch und ich lerne Deutsch. Ich habe die EU-Staatsbürgerschaft und meine Frau kommt aus Berlin. I am a senior front end dev who
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Which fucking idiot minister banned the Oxford Comma?
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Your point is moot
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Came to say the same thing. Could be the start of a decent 3.5k word feature.
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
> Perhaps a more accurate description would be “houses built using giant house-shaped balloon walls that get cement pumped into them.” Surely it would be better to call these injection moulded homes?
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Yes and I’m compelled to rob a gas station because the government has compelled me to pay property taxes /s
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
House prices in the UK have been rising continuously for how many decades? And have doubled how many times in that time? I don’t think anyone would have predicted the next PM would be about as bright as used coffee grounds but, that’s what
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
No, steel is harder. Titanium is lighter and very strong for its weight and also very heat resistant, but not as hard as steel
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
The answer is simply that the “wasted” rebound is wasted deliberately. In other words this isn’t “waste” it’s dampening
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by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
It was several million years

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