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by puszczyk 6y ago
Serfs are (were) bound to their feudal overlord. Their children were bound as well. They couldn’t quit. They’ve had no political power. In many places they were even denied access to courts — they were forced to arbitrage through their lord
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by puszczyk 6y ago
Which companies do you believe?
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by puszczyk 6y ago
How are they occupying Germany? When was the last time they’ve intervened or even threatened to intervene? Don’t blow it out of proportion.
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by puszczyk 6y ago
I think school and day care are a reasonable assumption. It’s a bit unfair to say — _keep your spouse at home because there maybe once-in-a-lifetime pandemic and the schools will be closed_.
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by puszczyk 6y ago
It think Austria is proud of their Salzburg heritage and China (CCP) works really hard to tear down the Tibetan culture.
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by puszczyk 6y ago
Not sure why this got downvoted — a personal anecdote as a reply to personal anecdote. On the subject — I’ve learned the “classic” office but really like the ribbon. I’m not a power user though — just a doc or a spreadsheet every now and th
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by puszczyk 6y ago
In Poland there’s really nice pay-by-link (you’re being redirected to your bank website, log-in, they display the merchants data and amount and you confirm it) and basically all the merchants support it. There’s also BLIK, which is a paymen
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by puszczyk 6y ago
> let my customers .. install my software .. the way want to I generally agree with the sentiment as a developer. As I user I never want to side load an app though. I’m afraid this will e.g. allow my bank to develop a shitty app bypassin
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by puszczyk 6y ago
> And you don't think it's weird that you have to buy hardware to get the software you want? I think software needs hardware to run on. I don’t get the comment.
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by puszczyk 6y ago
Meta, but clicking on the article brings me to a page where I can’t read anything on the ledger iPhone — the top half is logo, ad and white space. The bottom half is covered by a huge cookie popup. And the bottom line is a floating chat but
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by puszczyk 6y ago
> You can't really get good advice from strangers on the internet I totally agree with this part, but I also think it’s valuable to get an option from the strangers because it may give you a different angle to look from or suggest t
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by puszczyk 6y ago
They are a very popular discount (I guess a bit like Walmart, but this is not a 1:1 analogy). The article mentions cloud for the retailers and 70 cloud specialists. It think this is far from AWS scale and judging by the article I’d expect t
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by puszczyk 6y ago
Maybe it’s English to English ;)
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by puszczyk 6y ago
Well, they likely need to pay income tax and social insurance in their own country. The burden has just been shifted to them. To be fair, I’m not 100% sure how this works in the US, in PL where I’m from and probably in all of the EU countri
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by puszczyk 7y ago
What would you instead?
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by puszczyk 7y ago
Does it look like a fact statement or opinion?
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by puszczyk 7y ago
> ... supported by Netflix, Amazon, et all So in case I'm stuck I can pay Netflix to help me?
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by puszczyk 7y ago
> someone needs to run an education campaign on what HR is and who it works for. HR is there to protect the business What I still don't understand is why the uber HR acted this way. I think people understand that HR is there for the
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by puszczyk 7y ago
Idk, anecdotally my iPhone 6s (ok, it’s 6a not 6) is perfectly usable 4 years after the purchase. I have the throttling on.
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by puszczyk 7y ago
Why? — serious question. A lot of the people I know and/or follow online have been saying that stock markets (and housing) is a bubble since at least 2015 if not earlier. Yet 4–5 years later we’ve seen massive gains. Also, the top comp
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by puszczyk 7y ago
Heh, like the president of Russia
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by puszczyk 7y ago
Whataboutism.
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by puszczyk 7y ago
I look forward to read “Meditations”[1] by Marcus Aurelius and re-read “Black Swan”[2]. On the _craftsperson_ front I’ve heard good things about “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”[3] by Martin Kleppman. Also hope to get some good recom
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by puszczyk 7y ago
I agree with your comment and feel similarly about the piece. The last paragraph though: > I really didn't enjoy this op-ed, and I wish people wouldn't bring it a larger audience by posting on HN. I think it’s good to have it h
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by puszczyk 7y ago
Twitter has a single app
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by puszczyk 7y ago
Your comment is an instance of whataboutism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism Coming from Poland some of the the post-war socialism Whataboutism is a meme here (check the polish variant https://e
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by puszczyk 7y ago
Maybe that firing pan is owned by a rockstar ?
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by puszczyk 7y ago
It was anglicized so that most of their readers can actually pronounce it. In the article they provide the original name. We do this all the time in Poland: Ludwik XIV instead of Luis XIV, Jerzy Waszyngton instead of George Washington, and
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Engineering Management Philosophy at Elastic(kupczynski.info)
2 points by puszczyk 7y ago|0 comments
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Elastic Partners with Tencent in China(elastic.co)
1 points by puszczyk 7y ago|0 comments

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