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by taway_1212 9y ago
I think the vision you described is already a reality. Thanks to technological advances (incl. automation), a day or two of unskilled labor (in developed countries) earns you enough money to eat for a month. Compare that with the lives of f
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> Capitalism fails for many. It succeeds for a very few, with most stuck in the cycle of "Work to live, live to work" As long as the goods required to survive (food, housing etc.) don't materialize out of thin air, it make
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Big Data stack (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka etc.)
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by taway_1212 9y ago
For example - I can respect my neighbors (with the same default respect I give to all human beings who aren't assholes etc.), but don't like the fact that they can't speak the country's language.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Don't liking multiculturalism and respecting people different than you are two different things. You can be respectful and still wish to live in a more homogenous community.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Actually, damage going through the stack was introduced around 6th edition. Back in the old days, damage worked the same way it works now.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
5 years goal: save enough money to safely retire. 20 years goal: find something to do that I will enjoy and get really good at it.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
It surely depends on the size of the room. In my father's flat (50 m^2, one bedroom), there's enough room to expand the table without taking any major furniture out. The table needs to be moved to a different spot though. I haven&
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by taway_1212 9y ago
My tables are expandable - normally, it's a smallish table for 4 people, but it can be made longer to accomodate more. These tables easily fit into a standard one-bedroom flat.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
There's lot of software written in non-tech firms to support the company's core business. The whole finance industry is like that for example. In my experience, they care a lot about quality and architecture (for example, in some
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by taway_1212 9y ago
There's plenty he can do - for example, place a warning message/banner on the website. Of course, he'd only do that if he cared about Facebook users.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> The sharing economy always was about exploiting workers Define "exploit". Depending on the definition, you could argue that all economy is about exploiting workers.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Yes.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I think it's just that the things you want don't translate into a good return on investment for the owners and so they don't get implemented. (i.e. customers would like them, but it would not translate into a increase in shop
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I am not an architect, but are malls suitable for this? It seems to me that most of the space inside is too far from windows to get daylight. It would be more like storage for the elderly instead of housing.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Are you aware of the fact that Sillicon Valley was created by the US Government?
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> Mediocre Japanese student can remain in Japan and be relatively OK. Mediocre student somewhere in talent concentration point is screwed - he's where the top talent of the world is, and has to compete with them for any nice opportu
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by taway_1212 9y ago
You never really work for yourself (unless you're a self-sustaining farmer) - you work for clients/users, and they can be even more fickle than the corporate overlords.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
"The map and the territory" by Michel Houellbecq. It's hauntingly beautiful depiction of life and loneliness of a man obsessive about his field of work - a visual art in his case, but I feel the book could just as well be abo
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I think it's less applicable now that the world is getting more homogenous - i.e. you can go to almost any country and spend most of your time in your American hotel, drink coffee at Starbucks, shop in American-style mall and even spea
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by taway_1212 9y ago
You forgot high taxes and low salaries.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Some people argue that US government’s generous spending on sciences is in big part for security reasons - so that, if the next deadly weapon is to be discovered, US will have it first. In such case, sharing code and data is be counterprodu
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by taway_1212 9y ago
You need top scientists to get publications in Nature, Science etc. These scientists (and the equipment they need) cost a lot, and it's unclear whether it's actually a reasonable investment for a country where so many basic needs
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by taway_1212 9y ago
They do click on job ads.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
1. Cake pattern (now considered more of an antipattern I think). 2. Extending existing class with implicit conversion.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
We’ve had AI winters before, who knows if the next one isn’t coming.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
In my experience, even in those places (I've worked in two so far), it's still a pain in the ass.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> The risk takers earn the rewards, and even if they fail, the journey to failure almost always leads to meeting tons of people, tons of opportunities, and a future path that leads back to the cushy high-paying job they tried to avoid. A
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Well, that’s the reason a large Scandinavian company I work for is moving a lot of its massive IT to Central Europe. As for firing at will, it’s not neccessarily easy or cheap to fire someone in CE as well.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I (at least partially) wish I didn’t spend so much time looking for my „true calling” (which I didn’t find), and just ground my way to early retirement in high paying jobs. The search made me a more interesting person, but without it, I cou

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