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by ptr 7y ago
Isn't the main benefit of Capitalism what striving towards that dream causes? Ie, there are incitements for improving for other people.
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by ptr 7y ago
Me too, I thought a “column oriented” file was a file where the data for column #1 comes before #2; ie, structure of arrays rather than array of structures. “cut” doesn’t work with that afaik. I’m not sure I’d ask for clarification here (as
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by ptr 7y ago
Same in Sweden, good developers definitely make more than doctors, especially if we consider total compensation.
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by ptr 7y ago
Hm, are you comparing a state of 6 million people with a country of 83 million that has existed for thousands of years?
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by ptr 7y ago
They might not even be lying: would it be classified as a "terrorist attack" if it's a mistake by the Iranians? A "rocket attack" wouldn't hit an airplane, you need guided missiles for that.
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by ptr 7y ago
For Stockholm, ~750 USD/day outside finance is common and easy to get. Baffles me that the rest of Europe seems so much lower, and even London.
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by ptr 7y ago
What’s your source on BMW prices? Afaik, cars are about the same price in Sweden and the US. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou... Check the VW Golf comparison. I also did a quick search for a
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by ptr 7y ago
I'd recommend reading the "classical" RFCs for TCP, including 1122 ("Requirements for Internet Hosts", https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1122 ). Learning the basics of Ethernet would be helpful as
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by ptr 7y ago
I'd start with CMU's "Intro to Database Systems", their lectures are on youtube. Highly recommended both for the depth and how Andy Pavlo presents the topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&am
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by ptr 7y ago
A spinlock is a kind of mutex (“mutual exclusion”) where in a condition is checked as fast as possible in a loop. This is useful when the expected wait times are short as you don’t have to pay the context switch penalty. Typically done when
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Soviet mini-submarine discovered in Jarfjord by Norwegian special forces in 1990(thebarentsobserver.com)
2 points by ptr 7y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 7y ago
According to the graphic, those are NATO bases. NATO != USA. Countries join NATO willingly because they perceive some kind of threat and want help from others if they're attacked.
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by ptr 7y ago
Wow, and I guess the same taxation is applied on cars imported from Sweden/Germany? But how do you enforce that within Schengen? Might of course be an automatic check during registration, but is there no loophole?
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Database of Databases(dbdb.io)
4 points by ptr 7y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 7y ago
This is quite easy to refute: https://www.redox-os.org/ http://menuetos.net/ And what does “memory can fail” mean? Cosmic rays? Those aren’t really good for anything afaik.
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Putin Pulls Russia Out of Convention on War-Crime Probes(bloomberg.com)
1 points by ptr 7y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 7y ago
Me too, in the tube – definitely not a myth. A friend even got his white dress shirt ruined by the stuff.
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by ptr 7y ago
It's such a shame; having a work/management culture like in the northern Europe would make the south unstoppable -- it might even cause a north-to-south brain drain. I know I'd move, and the EU makes that easy.
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by ptr 7y ago
When you enter into a partnership with someone, you usually have a non-compete and/or intellectual property clauses. If none of these exist it probably comes down to negotiation, but IANAL.
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by ptr 7y ago
I’m not so sure that a rate hike would be devastating for Swedish loan takers; banks typically don’t give out loans to households that can’t handle large increases. Real estate prices would probably come down a bit, but people would hardly
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Cloudflare Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering(businesswire.com)
3 points by ptr 7y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 7y ago
Is SOLAR_FIELDS actually the real Solar Fields (Magnus B)?
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Experience Doesn’t Predict a New Hire’s Success(hbr.org)
3 points by ptr 7y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 7y ago
What's your point? The Nordics have a relatively high contribution of "innovations", higher than other countries that don't work "half the hours". Examples: Linux, Spotify, Unity, King, the radio base stations
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by ptr 7y ago
I've got a very knowledgeable and experienced friend from Sweden that aced both Google's and Amazon's interviews, but they're only willing to employ him outside the US (Canada for example) due to the H1B issues. He did
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20-Year Mortgages Hit Zero for First Time in Danish Rate History(bloomberg.com)
66 points by ptr 7y ago|54 comments
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20-Year Mortgages Hit Zero for First Time in Danish Rate History(bloomberg.com)
1 points by ptr 7y ago|0 comments
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by ptr 7y ago
Maybe the metro explains why there are so many more cyclists in Copenhagen than Stockholm: the daily ridership of the Copenhagen metro is 200k while the one in Stockholm has 1200k.
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by ptr 7y ago
If Sweden can develop fighter airplanes, why can’t Norway?
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by ptr 7y ago
On the other hand, that's timing the market. But as the common wisdom goes, time in market pays better. Or does it? Do these companies know something that we don't? Is it different when you have piles of money?

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