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by rcbdev 3y ago
The cognitive dissonance needed to believe countries with high unionization (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, etc.) and collective agreements are bad for their citizens while the US is touted as a gold standard is unbelievable.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
In Austria, ~98% of all employees are under union contracts and get a vote in the chamber of labor. According to you, the Austrian economy should be in shambles. Instead, Austria boasts one of of not the most livable environments on earth.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
It's not as unreasonable as you think - even in lower income / high tax burden countries like Austria an avg. net salary is enough to keep on travelling to all kinds of places. I know people who work for the state government who k
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Despite what some in the tech space might think, I'm not sure I can lay the blame 100 % on the lawyer. It's true that this is definitely malpractice and they should have known better, it's also true that big tech for years ov
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you think Tableau compares to data mining tools like RapidMiner for EDA?
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by rcbdev 3y ago
The often proposed EU with qualified majority voting and without individual veto rights would be exactly this kind of system.
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Vienna, Austria.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
It genuinely feels nice to live in a society where getting fired is not a big deal.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
There's also the Finnish solution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
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by rcbdev 3y ago
It entirely depends on who you think "we" is in "we should make X illegal".
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by rcbdev 3y ago
For the sake of brevity, read "countries" as "ministries of energy in countries" or "relevant public or privatized equivalents of ministries of energy in countries" - there's many modes of governance when
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> Unfortunately, we cannot pick and choose civilisational paths like a buffet meal. In more democratic countries the denizens can indeed pick if they want a government for or against nuclear energy. > We should make it illegal for sof
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Mere ~30 years after discovering the Greenhouse Effect we managed to split the atom, harnessing heretofore unimaginable amounts of energy. Yet almost 100 years later, here we are - Oil and gas dependent, boasting an energy and climate crisi
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by rcbdev 3y ago
In the same vein: 'Humans are glorified apes.'
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This is the most grounded take and what I think probably happened as well. For companies this size, with these valuations, everything the public is meant to see is heavily curated to accommodate all kinds of non-technical interests.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Considering the insane impact Altman's company had on the general global economy (S&P500, NVDA, AMD etc. performance being carried by the hype OpenAI created) I can see how he could justify these outlandish numbers.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Now to continue this line of thinking - if HR professionals all go to different colleges / schools / training centers with different curricula and are all taught to value different aspects of an applicant, then if someone passes y
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by rcbdev 3y ago
"its-fine" https://github.com/pmndrs/its-fine
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by rcbdev 3y ago
When it comes to digitalization and privacy in Germany, no good intention goes unpunished.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
"Kickbacks" is the term used internally at Siemens for this modus. They only document it well for their CEE subsidiaries but the fish rots at the head.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I've noticed the most effective managers I've worked with came from calm low-stress countries with similar work cultures - maybe the key to solving crunch and burnout is to create a regulatory environment where a worker's ent
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by rcbdev 3y ago
In Western Europe iSAQB seems decently in-demand for more senior architecture roles if you want something stack-agnostic. Otherwise I like the RedHat OpenShift Developer certs if you deal with their ecosystem. (i.e. EX288) At the end of the
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by rcbdev 3y ago
> How do you get in that system? Or is it reserved only for locals? Any EU resident that has lived anywhere in Vienna for two years "gets in". After that, you either have to be under 30 or be below a certain income threshold at
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Slack used to allow federation via XMPP.
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Gajim, at least in Windows, has terrible to nonexistent support for (video) calls.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Or just completely removed from the device. I've been using my phone without any GApps for almost 10 years now - no issues.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
IBM Technology people seemed like that, yeah. I'm talking about IBM Consulting, where most (if not all) hiring seems to be happening recently.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
What made IBM worse to me than the rest of the industry was the crazy crunch/burnout culture both in my project and utilization-wise. Also the absolute insanity of putting fresh out of college juniors on major aspects of multi-million
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This business - which they run under IBM Consulting in EMEA - they also bought off of PwC in the early 2000s.
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I'm very confused - isn't this how phones work right now? Sans the dynamic cost marketplace of course - usually the phone sticks to the network of the sim card you've currently got slotted in, except when Roam-Like-At-Home ki

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