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by ptr 5y ago
I'm coming to the same conclusion; it blows my mind how people can just run off and confidently implement something vaguely related to what was talked about. People seem very sure about what's supposed to be built, its context, an
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by ptr 5y ago
We have quite a few ticks. After a 30 second walk in the forest, I can easily have 10 of them crawling on me.
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by ptr 5y ago
The socioeconomic group that had the most deaths were people of foreign background aged 65 or more. Maybe Sweden just has a proportionally larger group of those?
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by ptr 5y ago
How would software get written if the people that write software don’t write software? Curious.
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by ptr 5y ago
It’s not as bad as you make it sound; top marginal rate is 55% and you pay 30% tax on a decent/higher-end salary. Yes there are costs for the employer, but that’s the case in other places too. A ~P75 software engineer can accumulate 1
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by ptr 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_... The median net worth seems to be higher in Western/Northern Europe than the US though. Eastern Europe pulls down the statistics quite a bit. Canada a
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by ptr 5y ago
Norway has a lot of fishing going on, it was their main export before oil.
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by ptr 5y ago
That compensation is on par with Stockholm, and that's in Europe. With a lower COL.
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European tech sector doubles in value during pandemic(businessleader.co.uk)
1 points by ptr 5y ago|0 comments
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Refinement Culture (2020)(paulskallas.substack.com)
129 points by ptr 5y ago|44 comments
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by ptr 5y ago
This isn't just for backwards compatibility, OutputDebugString is a crucial function and hasn't been replaced with anything afaik. We use it all the time. Why fix something that isn't broken I guess?
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained (2019)(fangpenlin.com)
298 points by ptr 5y ago|44 comments
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by ptr 5y ago
That’s the definition of a deprecating asset. The loan you took out to buy the car is the liability.
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by ptr 5y ago
Does anyone know when Coroutines are expected to show up in compilers without enabling experimental flags?
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by ptr 5y ago
Slack does it, and I had it happen to me once. It was unexpected and added extra frustration when I was already stressed.
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Updated Concept of “The Surgical Team”(codeproject.com)
53 points by ptr 5y ago|40 comments
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Refinement Culture(paulskallas.substack.com)
3 points by ptr 5y ago|1 comments
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by ptr 5y ago
My immersion was lost when the BSOD didn't hang the music
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by ptr 5y ago
Sweden's wealth Gini coefficient is the 4th highest in the world though. US is at 5. Asset distribution is very unequal in Sweden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq...
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by ptr 6y ago
That the appreciation was 0% makes a lot of sense since the dollar pas pegged to the gold. Maybe it just means that having a currency that increases in value by 7% per year was untenable since it doesn’t incentivize people to invest in more
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The Making of Age of Empires II (1999)(youtube.com)
2 points by ptr 6y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 6y ago
OK, I'll bite. I'm thinking about those, but I don't see the corruption. Care to elaborate?
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China Cancels H&M(jingdaily.com)
47 points by ptr 6y ago|41 comments
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Why in the World Would You Own Bonds(linkedin.com)
1 points by ptr 6y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 6y ago
If you include driving lessons, the full package can easily go for 3-4000 EUR in Sweden.
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by ptr 6y ago
But most of those screenshots are from Blood!
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by ptr 6y ago
One difference is that the student loans in Sweden are controlled by the government and have a very low interest rate (it's 0.05% currently). It'd be foolish not taking that loan.
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by ptr 6y ago
You can opt out/opt in of stock borrowing on Avanza, there’s a setting.
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Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny sentenced to 3½ years in jail(ft.com)
2 points by ptr 6y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 6y ago
Why single out Sweden? UK, who have/had more stringent lockdown rules than Sweden, are facing 1,540 deaths per million. Sweden is at 1,120 and roughly equal to France, Switzerland. Source: https://www.statista.com/stat

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