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by vanusa 5y ago
But while the intelligence flights have transited German airspace—the most direct route between Britain and Ukraine—the weapons flights have been making detours around Germany. Britain’s Defense Ministry played down the detours, confirming
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by vanusa 5y ago
Does your new technique solve any ... business problems? With an appreciable market? May be worth taking a stab starting your own company (or at least a consulting business) rather than wait for one of the big companies to suck you up into
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by vanusa 5y ago
I think it's because while he certainly wasn't the first to come up with spatial / furniture-y music - with Ambient 1 he officially coined "ambient" as a genre name (as a brand, as it were), by all accounts. That
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by vanusa 5y ago
To put it mildly, it's very hard to have a respectful professional relationship with someone who "should know better." Then leave. That's your only recourse. Even if you think all the people around you are fuddy-duddi
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by vanusa 5y ago
This is a straw man (and basically pretty silly) argument, of course.
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You can also "create" (i.e. start) one on your VPS if you happen to know how. Which takes about as long to figure out how to do as anything on your control panel. Plus, you learn how things actually work. Not saying there aren&#x
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by vanusa 5y ago
I don't see how this new war is in Putin's interests. Clearly it won't be in his interest. But if the West does not provide him with some major concessions -- will he do it anyway ? To protect his image, or whatever? Tha
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by vanusa 5y ago
Well, there are other topics besides CS one might want to get a PhD in. Also, this is more than a bit hyperbolic: Imagine you had a million dollars of cash right in front of you. Just because you don't get a PhD doesn't mean yo
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by vanusa 5y ago
Food: Various sources. On this one, I am a bit of a spiritualist, so I generally wait for acceptable food to appear before me or be given to me and only then eat it. (If someone offers to buy me something, I generally refuse.) I believe in
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by vanusa 5y ago
Sounds nice and self-affirming, and of course it's a free planet so in principle you can ask for anything you want (including that they calendar you in to speak with other team members whom you hypothesize to exist)... But in practice
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‘I’ve already sold my daughters; now, my kidney’: winter in Afghanistan’s slums(theguardian.com)
3 points by vanusa 5y ago|4 comments
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Trust me, you'll definitely want to read this. Archived version: https://archive.fo/UQYPY
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13,000 Pounds at 118 Miles Per Hour(nymag.com)
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From their point of view, it probably goes something like this: "The worker is supposed to work extra hard, but now they are resting, AGAIN! Now I'm gonna say something so they finally start working again" without considerin
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I'm glad you understand the gut revulsion aspect, at least (which in my view applies to the 'A' companies as well, but that's a side topic). Meanwhile your data points on 'N' and 'S' are appreciated a
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29998522
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Title edit for length
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The super-rich live on a different planet. Hear their thoughts on US salaries(theguardian.com)
7 points by vanusa 5y ago|1 comments
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The operator of the Uniqlo chain of casual apparel stores will pay midcareer hires up to 1 billion yen ($8.8 million) a year I don't see any possibility that this is accurate as reported.
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Steve's behavior at Apple in the 80s should force you to return your iPhone. So we're going in circles now. Any and all issues raised about a company's ethical behavior in the current day (for example, outsourcing to suppli
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I'll go with a "very large fraction". It was this resorting to made-up numbers that I found to be kind of weird.
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The founder's destructive behavior wasn't the only factor mentioned - in fact it was the least of all factors mentioned. ... acted like a sociopathic in some people's opinion? What's with the attempt at dissimulation h
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Google (and all the other companies with similar net hiring ratios) use multiple factors to narrow their pre-interview pool; including standard techniques such as resume and phone screening. And then there's in-person interview itself
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I'd say it's a combination of factors, based on: (1) Most chiefly, the egregiously unethical behavior of nearly all of the "big" players (the rest being merely moderately unethical) (2) Reports from close friends of the
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More like you gradually come to a realization that your time in this world is extremely, extremely precious. And that you just don't particularly see a need to cater to other people's made up (and sometimes downright farcical) rit
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from 7,000 -> 70 Do you have any hard data behind that ratio? Or are you just kind of ... making those numbers up? Because they, you know, "feel right"?
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by vanusa 5y ago
Archive: https://archive.fo/9TzuW
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Germany Blocks Estonia from Transferring Weapons to Ukraine(wsj.com)
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Interesting graphs. What's interesting in particular is that for several categories (such as ischemic heart disease) the relative risk does seem to go down rather decisively for up to 6(!) standard drinks per day (which they note is &q
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by vanusa 5y ago
Sounds like it might be a negative thing to have on your resume now though? Rather than focusing on how an association with FB would be viewed on your resume -- you may want to ask yourself whether that company lives up to your own mo

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