tsotha

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931.
by tsotha 12y ago
Why has wage growth been slow for thirty years now? Employers are paying more to retain workers, but at least in the US that extra money is getting soaked up by the health care system instead of ending up in peoples' paychecks.
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by tsotha 12y ago
That tripped me up, too. A colleague "pressured her into an affair"? She might have a beef if it was someone with power over her, but a colleague? When women don't want to have affairs with colleagues they say "no&quo
933.
by tsotha 12y ago
I'd rather not have everything I own connected to the internet. My appliances do everything I want them to do already. It's not just about hacking, either. It would be pretty easy to chart someone's routine if you knew ever
934.
by tsotha 12y ago
I would think very seriously before taking a job at a place that blocked stack overflow, both because it's saved my ass more than once and because, well, I don't like places with white lists. I'm okay with a black list - peo
935.
by tsotha 12y ago
>... no one should be publishing someone else's content under their name without their continued consent. I disagree. That's the deal when you add content to one of these kinds of sites - you don't own it. And you know
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by tsotha 12y ago
Actually, the game is pretty much up when the sub is detected. Destroying is the easy part.
937.
by tsotha 12y ago
>Their missiles don't have the range to hit launch sites that are far inland in North America or Eurasia. This is just wrong. We're talking about ballistic missiles here, not cruise missiles. There isn't a spot on the fa
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by tsotha 12y ago
Personally, I think we should ban the burning of coal (unless the peak oil doomsday guys turn out to be right and we need it to keep society from collapsing). But it needs to be done over a relatively long time period so people have time
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by tsotha 12y ago
Friend of mine took over a team which had a guy with the opposite problem (though he was a pretty nice guy too). He had the skills to do the job. Indeed, he'd been doing it for three or four years. Then one day he just decided he di
940.
by tsotha 12y ago
First off put the thought that the law makes sense out of your mind. It doesn't. Basically the outline of the suit is going to be "You always wanted to fire me because I'm black/Latino/gay/old/fat/th
941.
by tsotha 12y ago
>You can pretty much assume if "they" won't tell you why you're fired, and you can't obviously figure it out, then it was some illegal thing like above and they're smart enough not to provide lawsuit fodder
942.
by tsotha 12y ago
>As a manager, it's your job to do that BEFORE you have to can them. Absolutely. And I did so in every case. The problem is the sort of person who's clueless enough to actually get fired is the sort of person who going to i
943.
by tsotha 12y ago
>"Look me in the eye when you fire me, see if you can stare me down" is really just machismo bloviation, as far as I can tell. Not to me. To me it's a question of respect. To do it by email even over the phone sends the
944.
by tsotha 12y ago
Yeah, pretty much. If you're gonna do something like that you should first make sure you're not going to make life worse for people than the current system.
945.
by tsotha 12y ago
You're probably right that the whole thing was vetted by lawyers, but it's still lame. I've never been fired, but I've fired other people, and I've always believed it's something you should do when looking some
946.
by tsotha 12y ago
>The fired employee will likely never receive what's most valuable: a thorough and actionable analysis about what went wrong. Your use of the word "actionable" is pretty appropriate here. When I was managing people my big
947.
by tsotha 12y ago
Not if you're basing taxes/charges on it. An order of magnitude?
948.
by tsotha 12y ago
That's nice in theory, but the problem is nobody has any idea how to quantify those externalities.
949.
by tsotha 12y ago
I think the sweet spot for a brand new developer is a company with about 50 people. That way there are other, more experienced developers you can learn from and yet there aren't so many people you're doing someone else's job
950.
by tsotha 12y ago
I think it's a bit worse for some people, but yeah, I doubt it rises to the level of nicotine for anyone but the very edge cases.
951.
by tsotha 12y ago
Actually a small percentage of people (the government says 9%) can become physiologically addicted to cannabis. Withdrawal is pretty mild, though, compared to other drugs.
952.
by tsotha 12y ago
>Why would a company make them launch without recovery? Because recovery reduces the capability of the rocket. If you look at SpaceX's web site you'll see they plan to have two versions of the Falcon 9 and Falcon 9 Heavy. One
953.
by tsotha 12y ago
You think that, but in my experience the "well know, documented, tested third party libraries" try to be all things to all people. So when you just need something to cut your steak with what you get is a Swiss army knife with t
954.
by tsotha 12y ago
I'm on the other end of it with my current project. The "architect" managed to wire about a dozen third party libraries and frameworks together to create a Frankenstein monster that's quite literally unmaintainable. Ev
955.
by tsotha 12y ago
All I can think is your time must have very little value if you can read nontrivial books 100 times.
956.
by tsotha 12y ago
"Hung" is a pretty common name. You'd think it wouldn't be on the list for that reason alone.
957.
by tsotha 12y ago
>I'm sure they'll show up on ground-based artillery soon enough... No it won't, not unless you're going to postulate the existence of some magical power source that fits on a truck and delivers megajoules of power in
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by tsotha 12y ago
>Are you claiming it is 100% the debtor's responsibility that a loan was granted too? Yes, of course. >If the lenders had acted responsibly, they would not have faced the risk of non-payment, because a lot of these loans would no
959.
by tsotha 12y ago
>So you agree the creditors have a big part of the responsibility then? Nope. It's 100% the debtor's responsibility that a debt is repaid.
960.
by tsotha 12y ago
That's 27% of the budget, though. This is not a problem of "crony corruption". It's the same problem you see in Central and South America - voters who think they're entitled to Northern European levels of services

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