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by skissane 2y ago
Europeans doing this is something new to me. Where in Europe is it common?
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by skissane 2y ago
> Is this a valid study? It’s a very American study. Who puts cream in their coffee?! And what about cappuccinos? (Almost all of my coffee consumption is cappuccinos…)
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by skissane 2y ago
> but I don't think anything they're doing is worth making Musk more powerful than he already is A lot of Musk's "power" is simply the fact that Trump listens to him. Trump may at some point decide to stop listen
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by skissane 2y ago
I think a valid question is why is California so big... There's North Carolina and South Carolina, North Dakota and South Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia – why not North California and South California?
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by skissane 2y ago
> To be fair, though, in the US, the House also has unfortunate proportional-representation anomalies, too, because the total number of Representatives has not changed in over a century. See Wyoming vs. California for an illustrative exa
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by skissane 2y ago
> Wow, USA is indeed turning into a caricature of the USSR. I don't think NASA astronauts 20 years ago would have said anything different. Any NASA astronaut is going to talk up their respect for the President, regardless of which p
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by skissane 2y ago
> Previous Windows versions were for 8088 or 80286, which caused serious limitations for how memory was allocated and used. No, this is not true. Windows/386 2.0 (and 2.1 and 2.11) were specifically for the 80386 only. The other edi
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by skissane 2y ago
> by whom? Well, both by the majority of the drafters of the US Constitution, and the majority of the drafters of the Australian Constitution. And the authors of the German Constitution – the German upper house, the Bundesrat, represents
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by skissane 2y ago
> Here's a fun stat: literally 40 states have a population that is less than the population of Los Angeles county alone. Why doesn't Los Angeles itself have 80 senators? Because in a federal system it is often considered import
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by skissane 2y ago
> However it isnt framed with the term slavery. That seems to be a western fetish, and its due to the relationship the US has to slavery I think “slavery” has much higher salience in the US than in the Western world in general. How many
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by skissane 2y ago
> Windows 3.0/3.1 offered a 386 Enhanced mode with significant benefits: Which was a follow-up to Windows/386 2.0 released in 1987. I guess the big difference is few people ever used Windows 2.x, even in its 8086 variant, and u
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by skissane 2y ago
> unauthorised access and unauthorised alteration of a computer system (which I gather to be judged criminal in UK & USA at least). I doubt it would ever be prosecuted. It is important to remember that the law doesn’t mean what you t
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by skissane 2y ago
> They also might want to consider that the sales could potentially be later determined to have been part of an illegal liquidation of a government agency - or even treason - and find themselves with nothing. You really think that’s goin
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by skissane 2y ago
> Professional as in paid tools, not desktop publishing businesses. What I’m calling “professional” tools (so not Publisher) aren’t only used by desktop publishing businesses. Only time I’ve ever been professionally involved in desktop p
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by skissane 2y ago
> I thought the point of office was to be paid tools for professionals? Desktop publishing professionals don’t use Publisher - nowadays mostly they use Adobe InDesign, 20 years ago it was mainly QuarkXpress. Also Adobe FrameMaker - InDes
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by skissane 2y ago
I think the Ukrainian hope is the war eventually becomes so unpopular in Russia that it endangers Putin’s rule. Then political instability strikes Moscow - Putin is removed in a coup or assassinated - and faced with the chaos in Moscow, Rus
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by skissane 2y ago
I once had a job where my job title was officially “Team Leader”, and my job spec was both to do development work and manage a team of 2-3 people doing the same work. (Except my team never existed, because they were all vacant positions and
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by skissane 2y ago
> And how are you going to do that? Russia has been gaining land. Currently, Russia is winning. Winning, but winning very slowly. Unless Ukraine collapses, Russian victory is likely years away (depending of course on what Russia decides
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by skissane 2y ago
Yes… but from my point of view, if there is an alternative solution without those restrictions, I’ll go with that. I’d only consider a solution with such restrictions if its other advantages were so compelling as to overcome that (and even
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by skissane 2y ago
What happens at a lot of places: Elastic license not on legal’s approved license list - need to get special approval from legal to use this. Legal’s license list says AGPL needs case by case legal review - so need to get special approval fr
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by skissane 2y ago
Assuming those extra dimensions really exist (it is unproven), I think we are centuries or even millennia away from being able to make technological use of them-if we ever will be at all
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by skissane 2y ago
> Isn't it more structural than that? The first-past-the-post system can only support two parties in the long run. Canada and the UK have first-past-the-post too, yet lack the hard two party system the US has. One factor is both Can
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by skissane 2y ago
> I recommend reading this paper about the differences in Administrative Procedure legislation (which includes federal employment rules and norms) in Germany versus the US [0] No, administrative procedure law (US APA, German VwVfG) is no
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by skissane 2y ago
You suggested Australia and Canada have something in common with the US in this area that Germany doesn’t - but when challenged you can’t actually name anything specific, you just fall back on vague generalities > IMO, the only large fed
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by skissane 2y ago
Not just VA, I also believe DOD civilian physicians DOD and PHS uniformed physicians get base pay per military pay scales, but allowances/bonuses/etc push that significantly higher, although still not as high as civilian pay rates
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by skissane 2y ago
> but the American administrative structure is very different from Germany's, so it's an unfair comparison either direction. > The only countries remotely similar to the US might be Canada and Australia. Like the US, Canada
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by skissane 2y ago
Government employees have greater legal rights to challenge their termination than private sector employees do.
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by skissane 2y ago
> Federal government employees cannot make more than the VP ($235,100). So if you know a role that pays more than that it pays less in the federal government. (There is some hand wavey-ness around locale pay and stuff but we're not
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by skissane 2y ago
I think many of the factors which can make public sector entities less efficient - e.g. harder to get rid of underperforming employees, fewer institutional rewards for reducing unnecessary expenditures - apply broadly across countries. I th
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by skissane 2y ago
> There will be inept people, waste, corruption, people stealing, etc. but there will also be the vast majority trying to do a good job and feel satisfaction in their work. It doesn't matter if its the federal government or a privat

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