spugody

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by spugody 6y ago
Similar story to me. Academically fairly gifted from an early age, testing high IQ later (I know, I know) and was recommended to be placed in an advanced school. My parents were modest and didn't pursue this, nevertheless, everything w
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by spugody 6y ago
Aside from being in that area, did you wish you had a sibling growing up? Selfishly my partner and I want to stick with a single child but for his sake we are thinking of having another.
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by spugody 6y ago
I don't think that is an ideological aim of capitalism. It is just an emergent behaviour. In any case, it is a genuine question from someone living in a decent welfare state and happy to continue to do so. I don't really care to e
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by spugody 6y ago
Who defines what a fair wage is?
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by spugody 6y ago
Yes, it is clear that universal basic income means everyone gets it. If my post wasn't clear, it should be now. Thanks.
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by spugody 6y ago
We (Europe) already do give people a certain amount per month. We give them healthcare, pensions and various other tax breaks depending on needs. It is all very complicated. The idea is to replace the complication with a simpler UBI in as c
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by spugody 6y ago
In my experience, there are few of those type of valuable influencers around and they have a limited career path. Maybe a promotion or two above standard engineer, but that is it. Those that rise higher to the very senior positions are are
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by spugody 7y ago
I know you said "almost" but you don't have to re-write huge amounts to achieve zero gc and very low latency. There are open source tools, eg. agrona, aeron, that get you a lot of the way there.
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by spugody 7y ago
There are many prop shops using plain old java with zero gc code.