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by timwaagh 7y ago
You convince yourself of that. With male parental leave in place there won't necessarily be less children. Guys like sex after all. But we can be sure there will be less doctors available at any given time, because some of them will be
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by timwaagh 7y ago
The reason is regardless of how much 'leave' you have its easy to get fired. If you fear for your job then it's better not to take too much leave. And managers have reason to make sure people fear for their jobs. For another
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by timwaagh 7y ago
When I read the title, I was thinking there is another tool. That tool might be homelessness. The homeless do not care after all whether they sleep in a posh uptown or a run down ghetto. If there are enough of them opportunity levels would
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by timwaagh 7y ago
interrail and train in general is becoming increasingly irrelevant for international travel with the advent of reasonable airline prices and bus companies like flixbus.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Against: in my romantic view after watching way too much 'Suits', being a lawyer is mostly about convincing the other party to settle. By becoming a coder instead you may end up becoming nerdified and hence less capable of making
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Well I guess cloud is just the new reality now. There's no point fighting windmills really. If it's crappy, but fashionable, it's still fashionable.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
> If not, the reviewer can quickly dismiss it as a false positive This is were you could be wrong. We would need to give a reason for dismissing it and then the risk officer would need to approve it (or reject it). False positives can be
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by timwaagh 7y ago
> Countries like the US and Australia are low-context cultures where people generally say what they mean and mean what they say. Ever heard an american woman talk? everything is just always amazing and awesome. 'customer service&#x2
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by timwaagh 7y ago
I don't think devs should be shamed into not selling their software. That's some questionable 'white-knight' ethics. If you sell something, great. if you don't, also great. if you use ads to monetize or sell data, a
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by timwaagh 7y ago
when i was in school/college i could not afford this by myself. it was my parents who took me on trips or the students association subsidized it.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
we, as humans, define needs. air is most essential. water is second. food less so, but not having it will still kill. then there is housing, which isn't strictly necessary. healthcare, which will expand your expected lifespan. and this
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Let me congratulate you. I'd be very yealous of such an achievement. You probably had things on your side, like being able to ship/deploy when you wanted and cooperative colleagues letting it pass review quickly. As for the '
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by timwaagh 7y ago
if having someone rent the equivalent of a garden shed is all legal in the US, then they only need a few 'fools' willing to forgo 50% of rent to get rich. It is really quite cheap to build a shed (a few thousand in materials and
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by timwaagh 7y ago
i personally dont like them very much as they tend to force the pace and you might miss quite a bit. im a slow reader who tends to process everything. unless its boring then i just skim. you can't really do that with audiobooks. plus t
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by timwaagh 7y ago
A lot of economists consider sales tax to be the best way to tax. The reason is it doesn't hinder savings and investments
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by timwaagh 7y ago
any sufficiently complex OOP program is indistinguishable from black magic. OOP tends to encourage going through more layers of indirection than necessary or helpful, which makes the flow hard to follow. E.g. instead of just calling a libra
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by timwaagh 7y ago
I'd say so. although it markets 'comfort' as well as stiffness and low frameweight, i dont expect it to be super comfy. might be it's more aimed at granfondo riders (which are still timed events) or group riders racing f
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by timwaagh 7y ago
these are racing bikes meant for racing. A racer might want 5% more aero, because that's the difference between winning that race or not.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Stating the obvious, but: if nobody in your team is leaving and or forced to leave, you are likely to have a good one. If a lot of people go, you have a bad one.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Google home just took on a whole different meaning
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by timwaagh 7y ago
I did not get to contribute much to open source. I do think it is a privilege if you are able to make something you want to make and give it away to people who use it a lot. You get to put your name out there etc. And if you can really aff
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Usually the barrier opens up when you can make turns. So when cycling you look. if the road is clear you can make the turn easy otherwise you have to stand there for a while.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
In Holland, land of many onions, being a farmer usually means having over a million in assets. it's not a career choice for young people without significant assets. things will go in that direction everywhere and it means small farmers
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by timwaagh 7y ago
why are people so afraid of huawei? they are just a telco. they provide infrastructure. sure they can snoop on unencrypted traffic, but thats not their core business. so who cares if the 5g is american, russian or north-korean. if i were th
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by timwaagh 7y ago
They should make some kind of pop-sci summary and publish it as a magazine. Serious intellectuals will subscribe and will henceforth be more fun at dinner parties. "Did you know, dear aunt, that in 1992 a study analysed the relationshi
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by timwaagh 7y ago
C# is one of the very few modern languages that has kept goto. A similar comparison in most other modern languages does not make sense because you cannot even use it.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
It's worth it to have it on your shelf just as a cheap way to remind yourself that you are in fact a real intellectual. Don't read it though, it's barely understandable even with a heavy math background.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
i do not know what the espionage evidence was. it must have been a lot to throw a lot of european consumers under the bus like this. definitely an issue for diplomats, but it could in the long run lead to more competition on the software ma
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by timwaagh 7y ago
its supposed to be a solution for homelessness.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
it can be if you take into account the rent you don't have to pay. or the rent you might gain from renting it out.

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