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by tjansen 5y ago
"...you're going to be competing with 28 year olds who can write CRUD apps in the shiny new frameworks better than you at 2/3 the salary. Which is why many corporations don't really enjoy keeping on 40+ year old develope
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by tjansen 5y ago
"People will pay, just indirectly." Exactly, but indirect payment doesn't add friction. It depends on what you want to achieve, but limitless use of public transport isn't all good. For example, in many cities public tra
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by tjansen 5y ago
I think that very few people are actually paying with cryptocurrency right now. As long as it's as volatile as today (and in the case of BTC, transactions are so expensive and slow), it's mostly speculation about which system may
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by tjansen 5y ago
And Bitpanda (+Bitpanda Pro) is down...
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by tjansen 6y ago
It remains to be seen whether they are just paying less rent, or there are other disadvantages. Beside the obvious maintenance issue (will landlords invest more than legally mandated?), a german-specific issue is that it is quite common in
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by tjansen 6y ago
Maybe the quality is still the same, and your skills improved? Sounds like 10 years ago you blamed yourself when something went wrong, and now you can see when it's the library that's broken. 10 years ago you may have not been abl
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by tjansen 6y ago
At least where I live, Tuesdays have the lowest numbers because that's when Sunday's results are reported.
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No, at least in Germany the laws depend on the context. You can't use a racial slur to insult someone, but pronouncing it to talk about the word with students would be perfectly allowed (and how else could you explain to them that they
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by tjansen 6y ago
I don't need to be seated, but when they seat you, the staff already knows that you there. If you just sit at a table, it often happens that they don't even notice you. Especially if they didn't clean the table yet and it loo
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by tjansen 6y ago
I understand (and generally agree to) the arguments that people should be paid a living wage, and tipping after the transaction doesn't have any effect on an individual level. But I wonder what's the effect on service quality on g
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by tjansen 6y ago
I applaud any initiative to make life safer, but given that most accidents happen at home, why should you ever take your helmet off? They are literally killing people by telling them to only wear them outside!
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I would assume that if you wear two masks, and the lower mask doesn't fit properly, you make things worse. Air will take the path of least resistance, and the more resistance there is in the filtering layers, the more air will leave us
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by tjansen 6y ago
NanoVMs ( https://nanovms.com / https://nanos.org ), a Linux-compatible unikernel for virtualized environments. You don't need to deploy a whole Linux distro, no binaries but your application, only the librar
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by tjansen 6y ago
I know, I just wanted to outline what a possible solution could look like without nationalising companies. It would be to offer 230-like protections only under certain conditions.
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I think there can be a middle ground. One approach would be, if a company claims section 230 protections, it must have a fair and transparent process when blocking someone. And it must apply this process to everyone equally, with the possib
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by tjansen 6y ago
Whenever I read about stuff like that, it reminds me that a simulation would probably have some kind of 'lazy calculation' mechanism that only calculates something when it is actually needed. It makes no sense to simulate every pa
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by tjansen 6y ago
Thanks, didn't know that.
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by tjansen 6y ago
I am just watching this unfold from a few thousand miles away, but if you ask me, big tech is helping the democrats block all opposition. Even before Trump was blocked, what I found really scary was blocking Unity 2020 ( https://
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by tjansen 6y ago
Yes, Germany has laws against some speech. But, even though I am no lawyer, the last tweets I see on thetrumparchive.com should be legal here. The only one I am not sure about is "Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd" (insults can be illegal in
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by tjansen 6y ago
The EU engineer living in a city apartment probably won't even have the money for a Tesla. They are really expensive on an EU salary.
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by tjansen 6y ago
I think this demand is dangerous for people in the West, because it will accelerate the (inevitable) global pay harmonisation. An average Polish software developer gets about 27000 USD per year. In the US, it's 108000 USD/year. Do
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by tjansen 6y ago
Nanovms ( https://nanovms.com/ ), a Linux-compatible unikernel for cloud deployments.
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I think the next step in evolution will be when we lose the notion of smart devices and local data, and just think in terms of screens and input devices. The closest thing we have right now is Google's Stadia: your games run in the clo
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by tjansen 6y ago
"Because technology alone won't solve the problem." Technology is more likely to solve the problem than reducing emissions by a certain percentage, which is guaranteed to be insufficient. Transatlantic flights are certainly a
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by tjansen 6y ago
It's true, but why would you put your focus on reducing your individual emission by (rough estimate) 30%, instead of demanding solutions that can get your emissions down by 100%? There's this urge to self-sacrifice and then look d
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by tjansen 6y ago
Maybe not, but that's probably not a fair comparison. Given same age, length and width, an SUV will be a bit heavier and have more air resistance than a vehicle with less height, so the energy use (and emissions) will be maybe 20% high
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by tjansen 6y ago
Are these actually successes? I don't know how you can become carbon neutral by avoiding flights, SUVs and fast fashion. You can reduce CO2 emissions a bit, but won't come even close to 0. I think they are distractions.
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by tjansen 6y ago
There seems to be a random distribution of what's acceptable and what not. Driving an SUV? Sinner. Owning a dog? Acceptable, despite higher CO2 emissions. Getting a daily newspaper on paper? Perfectly acceptable. Eating takeout? Irresp
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by tjansen 6y ago
You're right, thanks.
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by tjansen 6y ago
edit: sorry, misread the OP.

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