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by taway_1212 9y ago
Maybe they were more lucky. In case of my grandparents, they were children whose parents were executed by Nazis or sent to Auschwitz to die, or who themselves were sent, as teenagers, to a Stalinist prison.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> They had plenty of "traumatic stress" before the 21st century, in all parts of the world -- huge wars, conflicts, disasters, even genocide. But those involved (like older friends and relatives that have survived bombings and
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> Part of what killed wage growth was the demise of Communism. Also, communism was so inefficient that it basically took the countries under it from international competition - they couldn't develop anything advanced that would matc
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> Do you even realize that most of those in the gas chambers were Germans? Citation needed? Unless you were talking about the operators, not the victims... (it's not clear for me). > I choose death over murdering the innocent, an
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I suspect these are fringe beliefs though, as they are naturally eliminated via evolution of the human specie.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> I'd rather die than participate in mass murder. There were relatively few perpetrators of mass murders, while the murdered people counted in millions. In other words - not all Germans "pulled levers of gas chambers", whi
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Which industry is not morally corupt then? I can see maybe single companies in given industries not behaving like total assholes, but on the whole I think all industries are rotten.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
There's a big difference though. A country without a solid defence sector is not really sovereign - it has to buy its weapons from other countries, which can cut the supply at any time, or just refuse to sell you current-gen tech altog
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I never understood the disdain for working in the arms sector. After all, weapons are just tools, it's the politicians who decide what to do with them. You should despise the king, not the gunsmith.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I kind of see their point - under this defense, the only person you could really convict would be Hitler (everybody else was following orders). I'm guessing the logic here is that if you were for example a commander a Nazi death squad
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by taway_1212 9y ago
A duty to whom? In most armies and wars, insisting to refuse an order, moral or not, will get you in front of a firing squad (or, if it's a really civilized army, in jail).
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I think this one beats that: http://www.newsweek.pl/g/crop/0/-1050/newsweek/6360443584828... It's a photo of four young (in the 90-ties) Polish algorithmic contests competitors, chilling out.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
It's not a matter of renting vs buying. In many other countries, just paying off the mortgage for a flat will take 15-30 years.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I don't have any.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Also, it costs more to build and maintain a house (compared to a flat), and most of the other countries, even the developed ones, aren't as affluent as the US.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Similar story here, grew up in communist Poland, where you would get (at best) a blank stare if you told someone you wanted to "follow your dreams"... Makes me grateful for how much different Poland is now.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> No pressure sensitive touch-ID which fails to work with aging users (try to explain the concept to a +80 yo). It can just be disabled in the phone settings.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> The S-class Mercedes costs twice as much as the "Normal" E-class I think it's mostly because base E-class comes with way smaller engine than base S-class, not to mention less standard equipment. When you start comparing
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> This framing is insensitive to both call center workers Capitalism is a ladder (To paraphrase a certain GoT character). No one has to be a call center worker till the end of their days, it's just stuff you do until you can find a
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> If the DRM prevents me from doing things that would be trivial for a pirate, something has gone horribly wrong. The "solution" is to pay for the legitimate version and then get the pirate anyway. I often do that with stuff th
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by taway_1212 9y ago
s/port critical parts of it to/dump everything and rewrite from scratch in
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by taway_1212 9y ago
For languages/environments where REPL is not available, it can be helpful to create a setup where you get an almost instantaneous feedback from your changes. Nothing kills flow like having to wait 10 seconds every time you change a lin
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by taway_1212 9y ago
What? Communist party power dynamics are similar to ones in a gang - i.e. you have someone from the party who managed to seize power and lots of other top party members silently forming cliques and waiting for you to slip, so that they can
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I had in mind someone who's been in at least a couple companies (megacorps, startups, something in between in terms of size, tech companies but also regular "boring" businesses like a bank), has some tech lead experience (or
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Ask HN: Is any senior dev reasonably happy with their job?
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by taway_1212 9y ago
>> I sometimes wonder what would happen if some company simply offered to pay 3X the market rate and mercilessly filter the results. > I've always heard this is the Netflix model. Also, Valve. By some accounts, this creates te
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Arguably, you're still going to be better off when compared against $200k-$400k house in a "cheap" state.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Not really, since, if you take a mortgage to buy a house in SF/SV, you may have as much discretionary income left as someone in say, Alabama, BUT you're slowly building a $1m+ asset (that you'll be able to sell once the mortg
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Interestingly, my tinnitus IS that sound. I can hear up to about 17 kHz and it is still higher than that. Which sucks, since all the available retraining and masking techniques assume you must be able to hear within the range of your T.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> A) there is a risk as everyone can create a stripe account and buy a charger. Personally I would never notice. Personally, the convenience of: not having to wear a wallet at all (I just carry the card in my pocket) and not having to de

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