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by nostromo123 4y ago
Twitter has been "dying" for months now, the meme is getting old already.
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by nostromo123 4y ago
I don't know about "insanely contagious". In my small company we are cca 25 people and we have very cramped quarters. However, it has been more than once that some colleagues have had covid but nobody else was infected, despi
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by nostromo123 4y ago
Sure hope Germany is not planning to build any windfarms on reindeer grazing grounds or whatever the current indignation of the week is for her! ;) https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/01/europe/greta-thunberg-win
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by nostromo123 4y ago
From "we only want to be accepted as we are" to "you'll be arrested if you disagree with us" within a decade...scary! Now downvote me and tell me how he deserves it because he is engaged in hate speech or whatever,
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by nostromo123 4y ago
You know what's great? You are already free to do that without imposing dystopian circumstances on other people.
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by nostromo123 4y ago
In Europe, contracts generally specify a number of hours per week. For instance in Austria, my contract says 38.5h/week - this is what people usually think of here when they say "full time". We have a time tracking system an
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by nostromo123 4y ago
I agree, but in a short time someone will reply here to tell you how they brought their kids to kindergarten in subzero temperatures with a bike, or how they bike half an hour in rain to buy groceries... For my family it's not even ab
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by nostromo123 4y ago
Well this has been basically CNN's whole "journalism" model for years. I'm old enough to remember how "Trump has small hands and I don't like him anyway" was basically given as the reason for all evils und
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by nostromo123 4y ago
Here in Central Europe there is a general tacit understanding that "of course it was the Americans". It just doesn't make sense to the people that Russia did it... what would it gain from this?
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by nostromo123 4y ago
The US runs no risk at all in doing something like this. They've been doing war and killing innocents ("collateral damage", sorry...) for decades, all in the name of some doubtful "freedom and democracy", and what h
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by nostromo123 4y ago
The political risk for the US is zero. Just look at any other similar situation, for instance where the US has killed civilians by drone as collateral damage: there's a bit of outcry, a bit of finger wagging and after a couple of weeks
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by nostromo123 4y ago
Get out of the FAANG bubble, at small company/startup level in EU I have not heard of any layoffs.
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by nostromo123 4y ago
On the contrary, it's exactly what said "major power" would do and has done in the past.
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by nostromo123 4y ago
No matter what the truth is, in EU there seems to be a touch of "of course it was the Americans", often justified by "that's just what the Americans do". Well, in hindsight, Russia does not seem to gain from it,
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by nostromo123 4y ago
Your experience is wrong. Source: I'm a "European techy".
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by nostromo123 4y ago
rt.com does not work in Austria.
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by nostromo123 4y ago
America "doing things in the long-term interests of EU citizens, despite causing them some short-term discomfort" is exactly why the US is seen as the baddy in a lot of countries. We are not your children to be nannied and taken d
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by nostromo123 4y ago
Well, as long as it's not our kids digging in mines for lithium, it's OK...
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by nostromo123 4y ago
Depends on your circumstances. I live in Central Europe, a bit outside a major capital and commuting there for work. This is a place with excellent public transport by any measure (metro travels on time every 2-3 minutes during the day, fo
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by nostromo123 4y ago
I understand where you are going with this comment and I partly agree, but it depends. For example, I'm in a startup producing hardware products for industrial use: who do you think got fired in the last few years, 1) the one guy who i
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by nostromo123 4y ago
Well someone has to keep the US weapons producers in business, so got to have a war somewhere!
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by nostromo123 4y ago
For some countries (like Germany), it's "zero cost" after you've been a resident for N years in said country.
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by nostromo123 4y ago
On the contrary, in my experience startups are even more wary of job hoppers, because the cost of finding people and onboarding is too high. At my company, we are spending months searching for people, so we are definitely not hiring anyone
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by nostromo123 4y ago
Oh, "we" are trying this in Austria! Especially in Vienna, the Greens have introduced harsh parking rules for commuters, blocking of new road infrastructure projects that have already been in planning for decades, and so on. But
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by nostromo123 4y ago
In a universe that does not specify LGBTQIA quotas upon hiring, for instance... counterculture nowadays equals not being a minority.
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by nostromo123 4y ago
In practice, diversity usually means "not white".
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by nostromo123 4y ago
Yeah, f*k other people, let's cram as many souls as we can in affordable dystopian high rises... that's the spirit!
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by nostromo123 4y ago
Yeah, massive click bait in title, I was half expecting something like "single mom makes 5000$ working from home" ;-)
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by nostromo123 4y ago
Absolutely! Or stuff like "describe a technical obstacle / bug you had and how you solved it" - it becomes clear in minutes who has no clue and who knows what they are talking about.
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by nostromo123 4y ago
"I feel that AI will do to ${insert-job} what Uber did to taxi drivers." I have never used an Uber, I have only seen one a few times, and I live in a huge Western European capital. Taxis I see every day. I fail to see what "U

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