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by sgift 5y ago
> When the reality is: if you work in tech you're likely receiving good health insurance coverage from your employer, and you're simultaneously paying lower taxes than in Germany. As long as you don't get fired and as long
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The greatest ability of democracies is error correction. Politicians lied in the election campaign? Vote for someone else next time. All current politicians lie? Be a politician. That's not easy , but it is possible . I stand by my a
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> The governments are putting more and more strict regulations in place for last decades and they often don't care what the society thinks about those. Society votes for these governments. I know, we all would prefer to argue that s
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by sgift 5y ago
I'm not sure if the author does the article a favor by showing the most common representation of a diamond in line form as tattoos. Who did steal from who here when all of them are carbon copies of a symbol? Probably none.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgWHrkDX35o It's always shut the fuck up Friday. 7 days a week.
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And even for the same reason: If the browser was too good "no one" (very loosely defined here) would need to buy Apps anymore. :(
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And isn't Google Glass redirected at companies were it enjoys (a moderate) success?
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> I don't see a single dam aside from the GERD on the list that's on the Nile. So I don't see how you could say it's a lie. Are you suggesting a dam on any tributary river in Ethiopia is subject to Egypt's wishes
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by sgift 5y ago
A more likely answer: They thought they can just fix all of this later and no one will care. I still remember this one story by pg where he had the part how they did their startup and that they didn't do all the things they were requir
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According to what criteria? Tesla was allowed - despite not having any approval, only preliminary approvals - to start building as long as they guarantee to undo everything if the final approval is withhold. That's almost unheard of in
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https://www.uvp-verbund.de/trefferanzeige?docuuid=94AFADF0-9...
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The developer experience of web technologies is after all this time still far worse than all the desktop libs I've tried. It is even worse than Swing (for those who don't know: That's Javas GUI technology. From the 90s). Add
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> IMHO the Roman Empire was build on the back of its civil engineers, and not its legions. At least in the long run. An interesting aspect of this is that the legions were civil engineers. Every legion had craftsman as part of their wo
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> A $400m building burning down would have CEOs fired (see: Equifax CEO being fired after breach). I don't know what fantasy land you live in, but you're either delusional or lying. In what world does getting 90m $ to leave the
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by sgift 5y ago
> This principle can be applied to dynamic languages as well if you have some mechanism such as type hinting, pre-conditions etc. that are checked by a linter during development, even if it isn't, you can still use it at runtime wit
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Video Games Are a Labor Disaster(newrepublic.com)
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by sgift 5y ago
> Re-designing jobs to be less shitty is one way, of course, but the reason they were not already done is not because the owners are evil per-se, but because it is too expensive, etc Or simply because they don't have to. Too expensi
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by sgift 5y ago
> FWIW Ghaddafi predicted the mass-immigration problems that Europe now faces. Libya, for all it's faults, was the place to go for anyone born in Africa looking to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Not that I want to disregar
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by sgift 5y ago
> The Oxford English Dictionary defines conspiracy theory as "the theory that an event or phenomenon occurs as a result of a conspiracy between interested parties; spec. a belief that some covert but influential agency (typically po
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> Bellingcat is a great example of an outfit aligned with the 9 eyes intelligence community, Elliot Higgins will never go against what Nato or the Atlantic Council stands for (at least not in a meaningful way). And you know this how exac
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by sgift 5y ago
Nothing about these laws is specific to foreign companies. It's specific to data abusing companies and if those come from within Europe they get fined too.
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by sgift 5y ago
> especially if the work is such that he can work longer without a decrease in quality. So, nowhere in reality.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Policy_Research > The Swiss Policy Research site has been criticized for spreading conspiracy theories including claims that QAnon was a psyop of the FBI.[5] and theories relating
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by sgift 5y ago
> Germany blocking regulation of car emissions and it's control/manipulation of the Euro to ensure its advantage, I grant the first one, but how exactly does Germany control/manipulate the Euro?
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by sgift 5y ago
How would upgrading GCC help with the problem that they don't have SPARC machines available for building Illumos?
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Thought experiment: Let's assume we wouldn't depend on China for industry. What could we do in your opinion?
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by sgift 5y ago
I really hope that there will be a court case that tells the game companies to stuff their objections where they belong and makes it clear that every game I've bought on Steam can be played on Geforce Now. I bought the game. I play it
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> The middle ground is that most people are, in fact, professional. You say that is the case. People affected by it say it isn't (and have examples). Who to believe ...
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All this says is that the ramifications for breaking these laws are not big enough. I fully agree. More laws should state a percentage of global turnover as fine. Also, start sending managers to prison for this and you will see changes pret
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> Should people only vote out of short-term self interest, and to be sneered at if they don't? All people who voted in their long-term interest voted remain. There is no realistic scenario where a Brexit is better long-term for anyo

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