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by valdiorn 3y ago
Engineered stone has been around for 60 years by now. Something tells me they weren't tracking silicosis cases as diligently back in the 1960s as they are today. Most likely, cases are up because they are better diagnosed and tracked t
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by valdiorn 3y ago
It never, ever gets my order wrong, though, which is something I cannot say for the workers with limited to no English comprehension that used to take my orders (accents are hard)
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Paywall :(
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Fatal crashes are prosecuted by District attorneys / Crown prosecution services, not insurance companies (which would cover property damage)
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by valdiorn 3y ago
You can pry uBlock from my cold, dead hands. I'll continue smashing that "Purge all caches" button for as long as I need. And I will not pay to watch content that was provided to YouTube for free.
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Uh, quite the opposite. Thermal mass is a thing. How houses are built in Iceland: https://youtu.be/7RuTizbnH4s?si=JxRjqzVFy4NLg3wa (Spoiler; we cast them from 1 foot thick concrete slabs)
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by valdiorn 3y ago
haha, you think the fact that Peter Thiel talks to the FBI is the worst thing about Peter Thiel? :)
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Uh, deja vu? Didn't Canon have a system very similar to this, and it famously got cracked over a decade ago? https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/12/03/2133218/canons-image-...
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Or he's quite capable of negotiating his own salary. I personally agree; I don't want a unionized job. It doesn't work for me . It's a net benefit on average , but I'm an aggressive negotiator, and I out-earn my i
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by valdiorn 3y ago
I've worked for 4 different quant hedge funds and interviewed with about a dozen others to reach final stages and comp negotiations. I can claim with full certainty that comp is entirely discretionary and is not beholden to any "p
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Is this PCBWay challenging JLCPCB and EasyEDA? Looks like it. I welcome it, EasyEDA and the super slick integration with JLCPCB is a killer feature and the reason I use JLC exclusively for all my boards. If this works well I might give PCBW
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by valdiorn 3y ago
> Ultimately the citizens of N Korea are 'free' to move elsewhere They literally are not. They are held in by landmines and barbed wire. Nobody is going to execute Brand and his entire extended family if he moves away from Yo
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by valdiorn 3y ago
I'm assuming you did the correct thing and engaged an an Office Space-esque penny-stealing operation after learning this? :)
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Wait until you read about this guy https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/27/innocent-andrew-... The maximum compensation you can get in the UK is around 1.1 million IIRC. They were going to deduct sev
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Yeah but, it's not like I have some god given talent the next person can't obtain. I went to a shitty university, and it took me 4 years to finish a 3 year undergrad. From there on, it was all about building skills, and making ver
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by valdiorn 3y ago
They sell them to recruiters
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by valdiorn 3y ago
FYI, this is a dirty secret, but the correct way to use Indeed is not to apply for the job per se; it's to get in touch with the people doing the hiring. Basically, submit your "application" for a job, get a call back from th
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by valdiorn 3y ago
wtf? The recruiters in your area sound horrid. A lot of the recruiters in London and VERY on top of technology and know more than I do about current trends, languages and frameworks and exactly where to find people to fill every niche need
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by valdiorn 3y ago
How come I keep reading these types of posts, hearing these stories, yet I've never experienced anything remotely close to this? Job hunting has always been the opposite for me; being inundated by sharks trying to aggressively recruit
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by valdiorn 3y ago
Literally everyone in quant finance knows about knight capital. It even has its own phrase; "pulling a knight capital" (meaning; cutting corners on mission critical systems, even ones that can bankrupt the company in an instant, a
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by valdiorn 3y ago
indeed - I would have thought a separate battery to run the cabin and safety features would be a good idea. I would only have to be 1/100th the size of the motor batteries.
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by valdiorn 3y ago
So, re-fitting all those converted factories and warehouses back into factories and warehouses, you mean?
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by valdiorn 3y ago
> And there is usually a provision prohibiting "artificial fractioning" of payment, i.e. in theory if you buy something worth 1,200 and the limit is 1,000 you cannot pay that with two invoices/receipts 600 Euro each. http
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by valdiorn 3y ago
If someone is paying for farm equipment, vehicles or livestock with tens of thousands in cash, you can absolutely be certain something very, very dodgy is going on. At the very least someone is doing some serious tax evasion. So sounds like
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by valdiorn 3y ago
can you elaborate? what companies? why did they get sued?
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by valdiorn 3y ago
I mostly agree. I'm not exactly a fan of Big Tech; Meta, X and co. are all pretty horrid companies, but it does feel like some EU politicians think they've discovered an "infinite money glitch" and they just lob random f
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by valdiorn 3y ago
A rather naive take that ignores a lot of history. I drive a diesel 2016 VW Passat. A very "average" car by UK standards. My car does not qualify for the ULEZ and I'd have to pay the toll. I don't drive a giant gas guzzl
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by valdiorn 3y ago
what even is an "AI generated game"? AI/ChatGPT/Copilot are miles off from being able to produce an entire, runnable executable, with all assets and code required for a functional game. So what does it even mean for a ga
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by valdiorn 3y ago
that's definitely not communism. Some sort of capitalist-imperialism, maybe, but definitely not communism.
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by valdiorn 3y ago
> SEO - meh, who cares. Do people really use these sites for googling. Given that I, and probably half of hacker news, preface most of my searches with "site:reddit.com", I'd say Yes. Definitely Yes.

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