namdnay

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by namdnay 4y ago
> I (an American) was temporarily living in Argentina. They wanted to pay me in Argentina pesos Well .. yes? If you were Japanese in the US would you expect to be paid in Yen? It’s not like you were working for them in the US and they se
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by namdnay 4y ago
I’m not sure tailored clothes have become more expensive at all. You can have a tailored suit for what, a couple of thousand? So 1-2 months of the average wage? That’s peanuts historically
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by namdnay 4y ago
I think you’re romanticizing the past. For 99% of human history, 99 of women had to make do with one I’ll fitting “dress” from teenage to death, including pregnancy
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by namdnay 4y ago
you just said > Or let's put it another way. The Dems are for purple cars, the Reps are for yellow cars. We all get to vote on what we get! Is that freedom? What if I want a purple car, and the vote went yellow? What if I want a red
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by namdnay 4y ago
So what’s your alternative? At the end of the day, certain things can only work if we align everyone. You can’t have half the electorate paying 10% tax but no police service and half the country paying 15% tax but getting police
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by namdnay 4y ago
I think it's just a question of media visibility. Aviation outage = queues in airports = easy article to write
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by namdnay 4y ago
> If the government does not play at least some lip service to the desire for retribution, then more people will take it into their own hands. They'll seek vigilante justice. If that were the case, we'd see significantly higher
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by namdnay 4y ago
I get the feeling you're projecting a bit? "co-opting someone's pain" means using someone's (inferred) pain to justify something you believe in.
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by namdnay 4y ago
> Think if your daughter/son/mom/dad got slaughtered, do you think the pain would be less acute even two decades later? Yeah it would definitely be less acute, still there every day, but less acute. Like most trauma. Would
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by namdnay 4y ago
Maybe it can help people humanise them a bit? Given another 20-30 years of small things like this, maybe the US could even follow the rest of the developed world and stop executions
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by namdnay 4y ago
from what i followed, the whole thing was more of a publicity stunt by a politician than anything else, seeing as the last meals were only prepared using prison ingredients anyway
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by namdnay 4y ago
I don't find it more sickening than the death penalty itself, it's just another weird dichotomy in american culture. executing convicts but censoring nipples on TV. I guess every culture has their share of these
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by namdnay 4y ago
The crime was when he was deeply addicted and drugged out of his mind 22 years earlier. I don't find it shocking that he's had another life since. Killing him in 2021 just seems so... pointless
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by namdnay 4y ago
A texas roll would incorporate smoked beef in some way
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by namdnay 4y ago
That’s the thing isn’t it? Is the risk of the vaccine higher than the risk of a future flu? I strongly suspect it isn’t
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by namdnay 4y ago
I don’t think the law on tracking cookies applies to your work tools on your work computer
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by namdnay 4y ago
my question was more on how this is tracked/labelled. if something is sold in the UK with the vegan logo, does that mean it is also free from human exploitation?
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by namdnay 4y ago
So a tomato picked by a trained monkey would be plant-based but not vegan? What about canned tomatoes picked by quasi-slaves on some mafia farm in calabria? Would they not be vegan then?
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by namdnay 4y ago
Those are really edge cases. What is certain is that if everyone were vegan, our CO2 emissions would be way way lower
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by namdnay 4y ago
I personally like the “plant based” term, because for me “vegan” was always defined as a negative (vegans dont eat this and dont eat that), whereas plant-based just means what it says. In my experience in shops in the UK at least, there
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by namdnay 4y ago
There are two parts to the IT: the airline backend and the distribution backend. For the airline backends, Sabre used to build custom single-tenant ones per airline, on mainframes. The SWA one was very old, hence their inability to charge f
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by namdnay 4y ago
Regarding the employees, keep in mind that neither SWA (nor any other airline for that matter) have big software engineering departments. It's all outsourced to either generalist bodyshops for custom/peripheral systems (IBM, Accen
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by namdnay 4y ago
> How much are they spending on system modernization A fortune, they only just finished an 8-year migration to Amadeus
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by namdnay 4y ago
You can. But did they?
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by namdnay 4y ago
I don’t see that working across cities/countries. Lyft/Uber have a powerful network effect in that with one app you can get a cab in nearly every major city in the world
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by namdnay 4y ago
Nah, no one believes that in Denmark or Germany either It’s a nutty evangelical thing, not a mainstream Christian thing
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by namdnay 4y ago
I assume you’re talking about London? I doubt that 70k£ is top 10% in London
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by namdnay 4y ago
I don’t see what religion has got to do with it? Europe is hardly the most religious part of the world Maybe Europe is just rich enough to be willing to sacrifice some of that to help others by reducing their emissions (or at least not harm
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by namdnay 4y ago
It’s really specific to certain SV companies. Everywhere else I’ve worked, the “career mgmt” side is maximum 10% of your time
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by namdnay 4y ago
The performance review process at Meta and Google is so exhausting… It eats up a good 50% of everyone in the EM structure, without (in my and my colleagues’ experience anyway) any tangible benefit.

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