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by restalis 9y ago
"Young people are all too conscious of the social and economic burdens they will have to shoulder. Over-65s already account for 28% of the population, almost double the proportion of 15- to 29-year-olds. By 2065 they are projected to
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by restalis 9y ago
Any conversation sits on the premise of quality interaction between the parties involved. This quality assumes competence and good will, each having to be over a certain minimal level depending on the subject discussed. When any of the invo
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by restalis 9y ago
I wonder how attacking individuals in court and casting doubt on the causes of their sickness could be of any use against the larger picture, i.e. against the correlation between leukemia cluster and the TCE contaminated area. I also wonder
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by restalis 9y ago
"E.g. what is the standard windows hotkey for getting info/properties of an object. Never found one." Alt + Enter (since Windows 95, at least)? You can find it in here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us&#x
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by restalis 9y ago
"Increasing fines for the 1% can solve at most 1% of the speeding problem." Incorrect. 1% on the income distribution is not necessarily 1% on the speed offenders pool. But I guess that is, nevertheless, an accurate thought model
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by restalis 9y ago
For me a populist is rather "one who makes attractive but unrealistic political promises" (needless to add "leaving out any related unattractive foreseeable consequences"). In this regard I think there are noticeable dis
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by restalis 9y ago
Yes, the system was capable in many areas (although that wasn't enough overall). The socialism is designed to please the majority, first and foremost, so it normal to see that in USSR they addressed a lot of the common people issues th
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by restalis 9y ago
pg. 33-34: "There is usually no point in using a Cadillac as a pickup truck. (In practice it depends a little on what commodity is being «picked up.»)" LOL!
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by restalis 9y ago
"No more “blanket” strategy, trying to force everyone behind a single mission. Every single human being has their own personal meaning and vision, and the organizations of the future will thrive on that." What a tendentious piec
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by restalis 9y ago
I wish I could say that people are lazy and Chinese is fine if only one can employ the right tools for it, but the thing is, the Chinese writing, through its inherent nature, imposes a heavy cognitive load on its users. In this regard it is
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by restalis 9y ago
"The only thing that's a bit more difficult in English as far as I can tell is the pronunciation." Add in there a greater load of multi-word expressions compared to other languages, and painstaking word order rules (like if
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by restalis 9y ago
ReactOS may have its issues, but the (Ms)Paint implementation in ReactOS that frik is talking about is pretty stable. And open-source: https://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/base/appli...
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by restalis 9y ago
3 years' experience may sound sufficient only if we're talking about something very narrow and/or confusing "getting aquatinted with" with "mastering" something, otherwise you don't have to go to 10 y
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by restalis 9y ago
There may also be a big project that takes years of development, with each completed part serving as a prerequisite for a new one. It's hard to judge one's career from a face value unless the CV explicitly states details like &quo
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by restalis 9y ago
"So why do you keep working for people who don't pay you what you're worth?" Worthiness may be a mater of debate and thus the related pay - a subject for negotiation. If the employers recognize your worth (or just yiel
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by restalis 9y ago
"Rather than spending money on failed products (remember Google Plus?) or managers’ pet projects, Apple has to face the disciplining force of large investors." So how would a large company stay innovative without testing ideas w
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by restalis 9y ago
I guess ponds require more upfront investment and more long term maintenance. Also, I'm not sure if ponds scale that well compared to pyramidal glaciers, which can be grown on a comparatively more difficult terrain.
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If "OS" isn't restricted to *nix then we have ReactOS that builds in around 10 minutes!
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The current state of things is not perfect, and the private healthcare probably has indeed the inherent problem you're describing, but it is also maybe the only thing that keeps the bulk of our medical doctors from emigrating to richer
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by restalis 9y ago
I am working with IPA annotated contents and I have linguists in my team. I understand your point (or at least I think I do), but I don't entirely concur. IPA tries to very accurate and thus covers all languages (even the click conso
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by restalis 9y ago
Accents can be (and many times are) specified in IPA scripts, so if the speaker carries an accent that isn't in the content he/she is reading or ignores any of the explicitly specified accents, then the pronunciation is wrong.
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by restalis 9y ago
"We have, in terms of nearby options, Venus, but Venus is a high-pressure—super-high-pressure—hot acid bath, so that would be a tricky one." That "acid bath" doesn't reach the soil, Mr. Musk! The temperature and t
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by restalis 9y ago
I've taken recently a row of interviews. I've had my first whiteboard exercise and it wasn't as bad as I've expected to be. It actually proved to be very useful, as I could abstract away details that I otherwise had to d
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by restalis 9y ago
The question may be to asses tech-savvy-ness of the candidate (i.e. if he/she knows the SI prefixes, what the range of the modern CPU frequencies is and how do those values reflect on computing performance). There is one kind of progra
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"Any approach that you think will take a half hour is the wrong approach." Unless the interviewers haven't given much thought themselves. "Hey Joe, we have to interview a guy in 20 min. and I can't remember where
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"quite a bit behind" ...for C++ 2017?
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I understand that there still are legitimate uses for keeping a cat around for utilitarian prospective but these are becoming less and less common. Majority don't rely on cats to fight vermin, the majority employ chemicals and keep cat
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Curiosity is one of appreciated traits for a cat and I doubt it would be left to disappear. I actually think it would be a trait sought after. I expect first to go to be traits less appreciated in modern environment, like their hunting inst
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My take from this was that that intern was worked like hell and then adding the sausages on top of that... This is the first bit of working for Tesla (or SpaceX, for that matter) I've ever read and the picture I was left with isn&#x2
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by restalis 9y ago
What I dislike most about a cubicle is the lack of natural light. (Open space doesn't necessarily mean that natural light is available, I know, but a cubicle makes it even less likely.) I am all for productivity but the cubicle setup f

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