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by ponector 1y ago
I'm from a country where university degree can be easily obtained for free. As a result: 1. Students usually are not interested in attending classes, like at the middle school. 2. Bachelor/masters degrees means nothing as everyone
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by ponector 1y ago
Free education means no one will value it. Education should not be free, just cheap. However there should be help and assistance to people who wants to get an education but cannot afford it. Same with food. Subsidize it for everyone. Cannot
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by ponector 1y ago
Is it? There are situations where it makes sense to avoid a rise and stay in the tax bracket. Like if with 5k rise you loose a 10k childcare benefits provided by local municipality.
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by ponector 1y ago
Chatgpt very useful for adding softness and politeness to my sentences. Would you like more straight forward text which probably will be rude for regular american?
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by ponector 1y ago
> right-wing echo hall But it is the result of new agenda of new owner, not the result of mass layoffs. I'm sure the result would be the same without layoffs.
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by ponector 1y ago
Twitter example shows it might not be true.
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by ponector 1y ago
> Nobody grows headcount if they don't have to. From my experience in corporations this is a false statement. The goal of each manager is to grow their headcount. More people under you - more weight you have and higher position you
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by ponector 1y ago
Silent approval of Putin's invasions to Georgia and Ukraine doesn't look like "good moral judgment, fair systems"
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by ponector 1y ago
Don't forget they started world war together with Nazis.
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by ponector 1y ago
I went couple times through fully remote projects. No in-person interviews, no team gathering during the project work. However, there was a background check done by third party agency. Basic check: criminal record, education and employment
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by ponector 1y ago
We are working on backend for life insurance. They have a separate pricing team who creates calculations for different insurance products. The results are usually presented as excel files with heavy scripting inside. Really heavy! Have you
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by ponector 1y ago
He also promised to end the Ukrainian war in 24h. You cannot take any of his words seriously, only signed documents.
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by ponector 1y ago
Usually teachers are paid poorly, so some of them are putting little effort into the job simply narrate book/slides for their class. If they are replaced with latest chatgpt it will be beneficial for everyone.
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by ponector 1y ago
AI is not hurting jobs in Denmark they said. Software development jobs there have bigger threat: outsourcing to cheaper locations. As well for teachers: it is hard to replace a person supervising kids with a chatbot.
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by ponector 1y ago
You accept speed as a huge factor in the severity of an accident but cannot understand the war against speeding?
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by ponector 1y ago
And then they blow up the dam which supply water to Crimea assuring no water will flow through the mentioned canal for decades. Russians tried to occupy Ukraine and destroy Ukrainian culture and identity for centuries. That is the real goal
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by ponector 1y ago
But Ukrainian invasion is not caused by scarcity.
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by ponector 1y ago
The truth is birth rates are down almost everywhere, not only across rich countries. Economic issues? Loneliness? People spend time in TikTok instead of dating? Modern high standards of living makes it hard to rise children. That's why
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by ponector 1y ago
Never heard about tip sharing with kitchen and especially with cleaning staff. Usually they share only with people working around the tables. Poor latinos are working overtime on minimal hourly wage as dishwashers, basic food prep, etc and
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by ponector 1y ago
>I wish more servers would be more subtle Why would they change their behavior if you tip anyway?
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by ponector 1y ago
For me ridiculous is the fact you are tipping only person who brings the plate. You dining experience is affected more by other people: person who actually prepared the dish and person who cleans the toilet. Their poor work can easily ruin
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by ponector 2y ago
Apparently not enough, as USA has quite cheap fuel. Add 100% carbon tax and people will start to pay attention to MPG ratings. With x2 price increase gasoline in USA is still cheaper than in Germany.
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by ponector 2y ago
If it is an issue - then option is to have less driving. Take a bus once in a while. Or bike. Or switch to another old vehicle. Take old Golf instead of RAM, etc.
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by ponector 2y ago
I think the best way is to tax fuel itself. This way worse mpg result in more tax. Tax diesel more than gasoline, LNG less.
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by ponector 2y ago
I love IT because it is a way to earn decent money, a way to escape from poverty. Hate everything else, though.
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by ponector 2y ago
I hate IT, will pick literally anything else to work at, but the money is an issue.
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by ponector 2y ago
From my experience up to 50% of both resume and job posting is a lie.
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by ponector 2y ago
Race to the bottom. The next stage: people use automation and LLM to make up resume that pass through your tool.
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by ponector 2y ago
I had a job with an education budget listed as benefits. However, to use it there are constraints: 1. The topic should be related to technologies used by company. Cannot get a Google cloud certification as they are using aws. 2. To get it y
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by ponector 2y ago
What I found crazy is the worker is screwed anyway. Fee years ago there was a choose to be a direct employee of the bank or through the famous body-leasing company. From my perspective both offered employment contract covered by labor law,

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