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by ragall 9mo ago
The car registration and gas taxes don't even pay for a quarter of all road-infrastructure-related costs. It boggles the mind to see free street parking in places like NYC, where a more reasonable cost structure would be something like
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by ragall 9mo ago
That would be a good idea, but one of the main impediments is the fact that heavy regulations make underground concrete structures (and hence underground parking lots) very expensive, a lot more than in Europe or Asia, where it's often
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by ragall 9mo ago
So that enhancements only be practical by hiring the original team.
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by ragall 9mo ago
Cargo doesn't work. I'm trying to use it in a monorepo and its cacheing story is horrible. The devs refused when I proposed to switch it to Bazel years ago and now they're regretting it.
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by ragall 9mo ago
> We're a US company with employees in Europe (not even an HQ in Europe, just employees there) I don't think that's true. You can't have employees without a local subsidiary. If you're going through an EOR agency
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by ragall 9mo ago
In the Zurich Greater Area, you can get this for example: https://www.immoscout24.ch/buy/4002631314 . Keep in mind that in most of Europe, real estate ads show the living space, i.e. surface net of walls, corridors, clo
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by ragall 9mo ago
Ex-Googlers in Zurich have no trouble finding other jobs. For people with the right CV, there are a lot more openings than that.
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by ragall 9mo ago
Numbeo shows averages, and the basket of goods that it considers is not what a well-off person would buy. I Zurich I could live perfectly well without having a car, just with public transportation, and French and Italian cheeses and wine ar
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by ragall 9mo ago
Considering the low taxes and lower cost of living in Zurich (yes, lower than Seattle), and the much higher quality of life, Zurich is a no-brainer.
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by ragall 9mo ago
That was true a few years ago, but not any more. Covid made a lot of US-based companies sack local developers and actually open offices in Europe. I have friends in Italy who, between 2022 and 2023, moved from local companies to US companie
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by ragall 9mo ago
> Imagine if Docker the company could charge AWS and Google for their use of their technology. The technology on which Docker is based, Linux containers, was developed by Google engineers for Borg, and later Docker adopted it when it piv
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by ragall 9mo ago
That's because in the US it's common to see pricing based on "value", rather than based on costs plus a reasonable profit margin. This is one big reason why US products don't have much success in the rest of the wor
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by ragall 9mo ago
It's a good thing that the commons are cheap. Imagine where we would be if all electrical devices were still covered by patents related to electricity, all owned by one company.
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by ragall 9mo ago
> Unfortunately even podman etc.. are still limited by OCIs decision to copy the Docker model. Which parts of the model are you referring to ?
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by ragall 9mo ago
I'm Italian and I was rooting for him all along. He's a good chap.
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by ragall 9mo ago
It's due to training (I suspect both OpenAI/Microsoft and Google have been training on their entire corpus of internal comms and technical docs). After almost 10 years in a FAANG I also tend to write like that.
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by ragall 9mo ago
What union ? In which country ?
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by ragall 9mo ago
> Interesting segue from claiming Europe is 20-40 years behind the US to claiming if Europe's policy choices have resulted in any better outcomes than the US its because they're enriching themselves by taking advantage of the &
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by ragall 9mo ago
> But it all depends on what you value, I'm not gonna say one is more "correct" than the other, we all have our preferences and so on. I wasn't talking about values. Yours or mines are largely irrelevant. 40 years ago
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by ragall 9mo ago
> A worker must be permanently hired after the first extension. After the first extension the worker will not be hired again. > Agencies can not be used indefinitely Yes they can. > A company is also not allowed to make an employee
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by ragall 9mo ago
Actually they're paying very competitive salaries. For example: https://jobs.bendingspoons.com/positions/67c6dc18c70c531d6db... .
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by ragall 9mo ago
Sure, but that's very different from saying that Europeans have would never accept it. It's already happening quite extensively, though not as much as in the US. Europe seems to be 20-40 years behind the US in various economic and
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by ragall 9mo ago
Various places in Europe already have what amounts to at-will employment. There are exemptions for companies under a certain number of employees (e.g. 25 in Italy). There's a wide use of fixed-term contracts (6/12 months). Many wo
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by ragall 9mo ago
What gave the US the power it's now throwing away was an array of successes that made the US an example of good governance for the entire world: New Deal, Bretton Woods agreeement, victory in WW2, Marshall Plan and NATO. There wasn&#x2
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by ragall 9mo ago
Most employees are incapable of rating their manager. They can complain or praise, but they're not competent to judge whether the manager is competent. There's an interesting parallel to the advice often given for "lean"
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by ragall 9mo ago
I agree that something like that is very unlikely in the US, which is why so many people in this thread (I presume Americans) were incredulous as to whether that was even possible, but elsewhere in Europe good software and electronic/e
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by ragall 9mo ago
Containers are too low-level. What we need is a high-level batch job DSL, where you specify the inputs and the computation graph to perform on those inputs, as well as some upper limits on the resources to use, and a scheduler will evaluate
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by ragall 9mo ago
No. Any forced runtime is bad because overall it will have few users. The ideal is a C library with the API described in some IDL that allows mechanical generation of bindings for all language runtimes.
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by ragall 9mo ago
I've seen that plenty of times. I suspect that you haven't seen it because you live in a place with high cost of living, which induces a high turnover in personnel, or perhaps you've been working in very dynamic markets such
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by ragall 9mo ago
> But it's never been the case that a dev could just focus on technical things and not spend any time figuring out the context they are working in, and behaving accordingly. This is factually wrong. Until a few decades ago in tech,

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