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by paulluuk 5y ago
In case anyone else wants to try this from outside the US: dial 001 (or +1) followed by the number, including the part between parentheses.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
Apparantly they were big enough to offer a 500k executive position to someone who created a hobby project on a discontinued 50 dollar processor.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
First of all let me say that I do absolutely agree with you that the whole concept of taking "personal responsibility" for our CO2 footprints is insane and we should clearly be creating tougher regulations on an international leve
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by paulluuk 5y ago
I did play the game in october 2020, and from I remember there were no life support upgrades back then. And back then I don't think there were "hazardous systems": it was just that some systems were completely empty (no stati
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by paulluuk 5y ago
I really like the basic concepts of Astrox Imperium, but the fact that almost the entire game revolves around getting from station to station in a desperate attempt not to run out of air was a big turndown for me. It eventually made the gam
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by paulluuk 5y ago
I don't really understand the US systems very well, but I'd probably start with putting a maximum term in place, instead of membership for life.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
Of course, we'd have to change how many things work in the world, this specific example seems like a rather simple one to change.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
I'd definitely want immortality in the sense of stopping physical (and mental) deterioration. You can always just commit suicide if you're done. I discuss this with friends and family occasionally, and they all seem to have these
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by paulluuk 5y ago
Best: solve the problem, but also add the caveat that _technically_ there are edge-cases that wouldn't work. Worst: spend the entire interview explaining why you can't solve this problem.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
Ha, I had the same challenge and was actually annoyed to find out that Javascript doesn't have a builtin function like str.reverse(). I totally see your point, though.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
They don't call it "Computer Science" for nothing ;)
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by paulluuk 5y ago
So do you feel that anything other than 100% market share counts as a monopoly? Where would you draw the line?
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by paulluuk 5y ago
This is great, thanks for sharing!
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by paulluuk 5y ago
> I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. > Don't know how this will affect them on the long run. Now it's only my observation. I realize that yo
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by paulluuk 5y ago
But would it still be a "free market" if governments just go around splitting up companies once they get (too) big? Not defending the idea of a free market here, I'm leaning pretty far past socialist myself, but I know that t
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by paulluuk 5y ago
As much as I like unions, I don't think that they prevent companies from doing bad things to the public, just to their employees.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
I've heard good things about Valve
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by paulluuk 5y ago
One thing I did learn though, is that if you spot a problem and then report it to the relevant stakeholder, along with a plan for how you think it could be resolved, that's a really easy way to work yourself up in a large organisation.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
As a Data Engineer, I mainly use Python in conjunction with PySpark. So essentially I just use Python as an easy-to-read wrapper around Spark, and it works great when working together with Data Scientists, who are mostly used to Pandas, Ker
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by paulluuk 5y ago
how could taxes be only 27k over 1782k in gross profit? That seems absurd to me. Not implying that you're wrong, just.. how does this work?
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by paulluuk 5y ago
> There are many labor laws that hinder innovation and keep employment down I think it's fair to say that the huge majority of labor laws actually protect laborers, and have been won through blood and sweat over many generations. To
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by paulluuk 5y ago
Why should you be treated worse than a president or king?
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by paulluuk 5y ago
what other companies are on your list?
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by paulluuk 5y ago
are you seeing any prices? It just says "1 dollar" for each listing on my end.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
I've done psychedelics and a bunch of different drugs, and honestly I don't see how it's any different from getting drunk. Sure, being drunk is different from being high on acid, but that's also different from being high
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by paulluuk 5y ago
What's wrong with relying on data engineers for data engineering?
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by paulluuk 5y ago
I'd argue that the main point of banks is that they protect your money from theft. Given that most people who use banks are poor and don't actually receive any significant interest.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
There are actually a lot of different forms of wealth tax in the Netherlands.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
That's also a really weird way to describe it. It's just a form of wealth tax, nothing related to the government disapproving of your choices.
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by paulluuk 5y ago
I've tried mushrooms (both dried and natural) and LSD. In my case, "epiphanies" were basically the same as what you get when you smoke a lot of pot or drink a lot of beer: "the world is in 3d", "time is only a

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