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by spacko 5y ago
In my country people are being forced into the stock market by having to pay interests to the bank for already small amounts of savings. Also politicians are pushing for building pensions on stocks. This is going to pay off big time - but n
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Ask HN: Why doesn't HR take a look at your GitHub account?
15 points by spacko 11y ago|13 comments
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by spacko 11y ago
This strategy would only work if "bad employers" (in this context those who will lie during the hiring process) are in the minority. Even a lying employer can still end up being a comparatively good place to work - but nonetheless
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by spacko 11y ago
> Wealthy, powerful women with a broad spectrum of choices do not typically choose prostitution. Wealthy, powerful men with a broad spectrum of choices do not typically choose cleaning the toilets at your office.
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by spacko 11y ago
Parkinson's Law states that work is expanded to fill the available time. The law I refer to is that the time itself with work to be filled is expanded - for the purpose of requiring more human and non-human resources - which again requ
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by spacko 11y ago
Maybe HR tends to complicate the process to expand its power and justify its existence. There is this "law" that proclaims this is what happens in bureaucratic organisations - hierarchies tend to be grown for that purpose.
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by spacko 11y ago
"Congratulations, Herr Schmidt, your 2014 taxes have just been spent on a chandelier for the rebuilt Berlin city palace!"
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by spacko 11y ago
But ... would the right reaction really be to call it "terrorism"? The question arises in context of every bearded muslim killing somebody will be referred to as "terrorism" while a white a hole killing nine people is j
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by spacko 11y ago
Taking half a litre blood from somebody suffering hypertension obviously solves that problem ... ... so great - now we have the solution to social phobia! </irony>
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by spacko 11y ago
Germany for example
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by spacko 11y ago
This report is characteristic especially when considered in contrast to the (overly?) thoughtful justification of the sentence given by a German court in the recent case around the killing of a Turkish girl named Tugce . This report is als
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by spacko 11y ago
Seems to be a great project - but it is intimidating being required to be awesome . Evokes pictures of myself stuck in a group of awesome people making it obvious to myself how not-awesome I am ... so I am not going ... :-(
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by spacko 11y ago
"Now I'm a believer ..." [1] Sources: [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuBREMXxts
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by spacko 11y ago
Schneier's Password Safe is the real deal: http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/ I use it on: - Ubuntu - Windows - Android Synchronisation of the password db files is accomplished by storing a master file on Google Dr
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by spacko 11y ago
How do we know if that is true? I'd trust the article's diffing history, though. But that is gone - just as the text of the article is nowhere to be found.
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by spacko 11y ago
Is there any proof that this Wikipedia page actually existed for a significant time? https://web.archive.org/web/20130321015446/http://en.wikiped...
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by spacko 11y ago
Just watching documentation on people in none-1st-world-countries or even on wildlife animals clearly shows that we are eating wayyyyyyyyyyyy to much for the energy we are losing - that's one reason why I got into intermittent fasting
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by spacko 11y ago
> When you hover your mouse over a title, you will now see a slideshow of images from that movie or show. We hope this slideshow will give you a better feel for what the show is about than reading the description alone. Well, this is a s
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by spacko 11y ago
Stanford study finds eating reduces hunger (2016)
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by spacko 11y ago
Not just interesting and relevant and well written ... ... also plaesently concise
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by spacko 11y ago
so all the husbands in the world have weak muscles and mental fog ... ? :D that's why I wrote my comment precisely as I did. the article is not about low T levels but comparatively low T levels (comparing to single guys)
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by spacko 11y ago
I second this ... I actually even encourage my gf to flirt with other men - it keeps you mentally fresh and vital
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by spacko 11y ago
It's odd that "low Testosterone levels" (as in "lower T levels compared to ...") is automatically considered to be something bad (by male readers). High T-levels are connected with higher susceptibility to inflammat
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by spacko 11y ago
> ... names of neighbors and close friends. Why for christs sake do they even collect this data in the first place? This is not a database on felons or potential terrorists ... why does the government care about the neighbours of their e
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by spacko 11y ago
That would be true if at all times meant 100% all times. But I doubt that this rule exists and is assumed to exist to keep the pilot himself from causing harm. But rather to notice medical conditions as soon as possible. So from this psycho
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by spacko 11y ago
> It is followed by a more advanced spark course (Scalable Machine Learning) Is it really more advanced regarding Spark? The requirements state explicitely that no prior Spark knowledge is required.
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by spacko 11y ago
Which again was a reason for why Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz could undisturbedly let the plane crash for committing suicide. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525 )
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by spacko 11y ago
Well, Escher's pictures are sophisticated and "beautiful" - I guess that's why
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by spacko 11y ago
Escher? Why not Gödel ... or Wittgenstein ... or Kant? Then again Bauer, Müller or Becker would be just as appropriate, wouldn't it?