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by namelost 9y ago
The point of overtime pay is to incentivise employers to employ extra workers instead of overworking the ones they already have into the grave. It doesn't matter whether it is expected or not, unless the job intrinsically requires over
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by namelost 9y ago
To be honest I'm not really sure how it works in the US, but in the UK if a doctor has passed their exams to become a registrar, they are by that time reasonably competent to practice their chosen speciality (except for surgeons). Obvi
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by namelost 9y ago
If you want to know just how hard programming is, try teaching it to someone. Programmers have to remember a vast amount of domain knowledge. Consider the basic task of choosing where you are going to store some data, well first you need
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by namelost 9y ago
Europe has wider variation in political corruption (less corrupt in Germany, more corrupt in Romania). Whereas US politicians always seem to be moderately corrupt, wherever they come from.
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by namelost 9y ago
> - distrubute a native (electron?) app that interfaces with my device and trusts my cert, and disallow direct browser access. This is the most secure choice, using something like websockets to transfer data only. Unless your product is
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by namelost 9y ago
That same year, the AAP and Elsevier also supported and lobbied in favor of a bill that would have prevented the government from requiring agencies to make research published through a journal Open Access at any point I realize I shouldn&
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by namelost 9y ago
The future is heterogeneous computing. Intel's chips already include a GPU, the next step will be FPGAs.
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by namelost 9y ago
Unless it has been edited, the original comment doesn't say memory safety, it says "so many restrictions and problems are likely to provoke people to rely on whatever option happens to work, which might not be the best/safes
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> > The most ironic part is that so many restrictions and problems are likely to provoke people to rely on whatever option happens to work, which might not be the best/safest one > Programs written in Rust are empirically safe
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by namelost 9y ago
It's not the early adopters that will be hit the hardest, it's the people around the early adopters. So, anybody who lives in an urban area.
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by namelost 9y ago
Apple does not expect you to use a case, though they will certainly sell you one. Virtually no Apple promotional media features people using iPhones in cases (they are always au naturale ), and Jony Ive certainly does not use one.
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by namelost 9y ago
It has public, private and protected members (checked at compile-time), which is a bit of a mess because ES is gaining an independent notion of private fields (checked at runtime).
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by namelost 9y ago
When the EU decided that Apple had not paid enough tax to Ireland, they made Ireland collect the extra tax. Giving tax discounts to favoured corporations is anti-social, and has long been punished at an international level (e.g. via counter
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by namelost 9y ago
If you think that's bad, just wait until you hear about the word "sanction"!
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by namelost 9y ago
Yes and when the rights of states clash with the rights of individuals, there are often nonsensical consequences. For instance, in 2005 the US was one of the last countries to abolish the death penalty for children, not by passing a law, bu
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by namelost 9y ago
The problem the US has is that the constitution has two roles. Firstly it specifies the relationship between the federal government and the states (a kind of treaty). Secondly it specifies the rights of individuals. While the treaty between
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by namelost 9y ago
Unfortunately there are even young Europeans who have been witness to genocide. The Srebrenica massacre was 22 years ago.
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by namelost 9y ago
"Rivals" is just it. The whole point of competition law is to restrict actions which would be legal in a competitive environment but become illegal when a company has a monopoly.
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by namelost 9y ago
> It does things like track where the mouse is moving on the page, whether someone is copying and pasting information into the fields, whether they’re making typos, how fast they’re typing, and many other factors. By analyzing customer b
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by namelost 9y ago
If you hadn't pointed it out I wouldn't even have noticed. The CBC is the last place you expect to find Turkish propaganda.
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by namelost 9y ago
At least where I live, parking is sparse and therefore expensive. That's a good thing, because parking space is a waste of land that could be put to a more productive use. So yes I still prefer the train. Buses are cool too!
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by namelost 9y ago
Where good public transport systems exist, people use the hell out of them. It is so much nicer to travel by train from point-to-point and not have to worry about parking.
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by namelost 9y ago
Unfortunately for Apple, there's even more people outside of Apple who just wish Metal would die.
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by namelost 9y ago
Hitler was perhaps one of the stupidest people to ever grace the history books, and managed to wipe out vast numbers of his own people, including himself, in a completely pointless war of his own making, wherein he managed to make enemies o
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by namelost 9y ago
Shareholders care about more than profits. Just ask one! Many shareholders care about stability, There is the whole distinction between "growth" stocks and "income" stocks. Some investors prefer low-growth companies that
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by namelost 9y ago
If your spouse asks you do something ethically dubious (like enter into a tax avoidance scheme), does that make it OK?
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by namelost 9y ago
So tipping is just another word for what we might in other contexts describe as low-level corruption. When I give a tip, it's a gift. I don't expect anything back from it.
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Which is exactly the point of fire drills, to teach people to leave the building calmly.
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by namelost 9y ago
If nuclear war is that close to happening, then we are already too far gone to address it. Who is going to be the one to convince Trump to decommission some of America's nuclear weapons?
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by namelost 9y ago
> And what prevents greedy people from forming Bitcoin to remove (or increase) the maximum coin count and getting enough other geeedy miners to go along with it to be the majority fork? The nodes define what a bitcoin is. So long as they

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