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by ponector 1y ago
Gambling market in US has $100bn+ revenue. Tobacco sales in US is $70bn+ People starve and (almost) no one cares.
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by ponector 1y ago
And Qatar is sponsoring and hosting Hamas. Everyone looks the other way, where billions of dollars are.
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by ponector 1y ago
For a personal coach version there should be a module which can deliver electric shock to the owner in case rules have been violated.
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by ponector 1y ago
Cannot understand why ultra rich people not building luxury zeppelins instead of extra yacht.
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by ponector 1y ago
Or rather not buying laptops as often as phone. 2015 Mac or other premium laptop is good enough for internet surfing.
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by ponector 1y ago
Also every one of them has hundreds of thousands of external contractors which are not reported anywhere. And offshoring is also a huge cost-cutting effort everywhere.
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by ponector 1y ago
>> sell more gas/oil to everyone else Not really they can sell gas to anyone else. One cannot simply ship natural gas overseas. LNG is a thing, but export facilities have limited capacity.
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by ponector 1y ago
Just a reminder: Obama and Merkel are real enablers for putin. Weak response to multiple russian invasions enabled all kind of dictators around the globe.
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by ponector 1y ago
One can argue what people wants is to be ruled by old convicted felon dictator.
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by ponector 1y ago
And then with distributed team you realize DST change dates are different around the globe.
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Intel has cut 35,500 jobs in less than two years(tomshardware.com)
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by ponector 1y ago
As well as legal immigrants, green card holders and even citizens. ICE detains all of then.
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by ponector 1y ago
Why do you think mercury blob is going to the mouth? Those are usually rectal thermometer, with 0.1°C precision or better. Also sometimes used to measure body temperature in armpits.
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by ponector 1y ago
Typical russian whataboutism. EU countries with government infiltrated by russian agents are buying russian oil.
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by ponector 1y ago
But the point is to hurt producers of other country, to motivate them to argue to their government about original tariffs. There are no winners in the trade war.
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by ponector 1y ago
>> My computer today is 10-20x more powerful than the 2010 one, yet somehow everything is slower, uglier, and less reliable. Imagine how miserable will be the experience to use 2010 computer with modern web and modern software! I reme
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by ponector 1y ago
It takes decades to destroy economy. Even Brexit or Trump or putin cannot destroy it overnight.
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by ponector 1y ago
Is it a democracy if there are only two parties? Is it a democracy if people vote to chose electors, not for the actual candidate? One can argue China is a democracy, they have elections as well.
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by ponector 1y ago
I never had an issue connecting Bluetooth to the car. Android auto, apple car play on the other side is quite unreliable.
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by ponector 1y ago
I remember how date math is special there. A simple question: 30-01-2024 plus one month - what is the result date?
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by ponector 1y ago
How about your pension fund to write off some of the debt it is holding? Would you be happy with such move?
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by ponector 1y ago
>> 85% of voters approved the constitutional provision on the debt brake in 2001 Impossible to imagine this in any other country. Compare to voting where 50% of Brits voted to destroy their economy.
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by ponector 1y ago
How often do you receive security patches for your Bluetooth speaker? A cordless drill? Cordless vacuum cleaner? Cordless shaver? Sex toys...
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by ponector 1y ago
Here, on Hacker News.
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by ponector 1y ago
But then it also works. Managers can scapegoat engineer who is asking for forgiveness. It's a total win for the management: they take credits if initiative is successful but blame someone else for failure.
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by ponector 1y ago
How mini is a luxury vehicle? They are relatively cheap
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by ponector 1y ago
That is the American way. For some reason they often need huge truck for single person to commute to the work. I had for a few years mini cooper 5d - amazing vehicle. Fun to drive, quite reliable. Of course, that mini will not be comfortabl
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by ponector 1y ago
>> My employer isn't buying 8 hours of my time , they're buying the outputs that come from expertise and judgement I'm pretty sure your typical managers don't think so.
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by ponector 1y ago
>> you would only be paid for doing something someone else needs doing Right, like drinking coffee at the kitchen in the office.

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