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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Oh yeah, good times. I used to do chemistry experiments as a kid, with the occasional explosions. Good times. Of course my name isn't Mohammed so I never got in trouble for it. I have a NASA t-shirt exactly like the one that kid is wea
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
This is the coolest thing I've ever seen
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Really, you have never been rebooted?
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
If driving in NL was as affordable and enjoyable as it is in the US, I'm convinced more people would do it.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
I'm an expert on this subject. I have something vital to contribute to this discussion, but I'll post about it tonight. Or maybe tomorrow. First thing, I promise. After breakfast. Or after coffee.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Uhm, I didn't mean my post as an anti capitalist rant. I just wanted to point out that to me $400k is an enormous amount of money that I can't even begin to imagine making in a year, and the cost of living where I live is comparab
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
I'm shocked when people complain they can't make ends meet at a $400k income. A quick google search shows that the cost of living in San Francisco may be on the high side by American standards, but would be completely unremarkable
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Well, lawstudent2, I think you read more into my question than I intended. I really was, and still am, not sure what therapy is, and what makes it different from talking to someone else whose job it is to listen to your complaints and make
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
From talking with people who work or worked for the companies you mention: their complaint is never about being on call or about the work hours, but about the stack ranking system. This means that every manager has to rank the people that r
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Somewhat off topic perhaps, but what exactly does therapy do? Has anyone here had therapy? If so, can they explain how talking to a psychologist cures a medical condition? Is it significantly different from talking to a priest or a faith he
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
People in the US don't put their age on their resume, and many people past a certain age try to obscure data on the resume that would give their age away. It's illegal to ask in an interview, so perhaps they didn't realize un
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Well yeah, just add a wait loop somewhere else
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Without knowing your code, I can think of a performance hack to get the running time of f() down to less than 10% of the time.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Nuclear power is politically not feasible right now. People who don't want to see windmills are not going to be OK with cooling towers on the horizon either. An irrational fear of the word nuclear is one of the few things that unites l
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
> I find the Netherlands always quite pretty in comparision with surrounding countries Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but this is really not something I have ever heard before. There are many things to like about living
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
I agree, I'm quite fond of them. People who claim windmills have no place in the Dutch landscape probably don't like tulips and clogs either.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
The dunes as they are today are very much man made actually. The natural dunes are low and constantly shifting inland. People were tired of sand blowing over their fields and villages, and started planting trees and marram grass on them to
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Are you referring to Northern Germany? It has been a long time since the Netherlands looked like that. It's flat, but the endless "vinex wijken" of identical tiny "rijtjeshuizen" are everywhere. Instead of forests,
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
They are gigantic, they necessarily tower over everything (otherwise they wouldn't work), but once you take your gaze off the gigantic gray rotating blades against the clouds, and direct your eyes further down, you see [1] or [2]. Then
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
The energy situation now is: - A legal requirement to cut CO2 emissions - A ban on building new nuclear plants as well as a commitment to close the remaining one - A moratorium on building windmills because they scare birds and pollute the
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
I don't mean to be pedantic, but it's basic geography and history. Russia has been part of Europe ever since it was founded in the middle ages. It only built an Asian empire from the 17th century onward. Russia is European in just
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
He has a number of blanket statements ready about Europe, but Europe is a very diverse place, much more so than the US. Norway, Turkey, Russia, Luxembourg, the UK differ much more from each other than Alaska, Louisiana, Texas, New York, Ca
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
> If you take a 3500 $ Swedish salary with all the taxes applied, your life level might be equivalent as a 7000 $ salary in US. That really depends on your lifestyle. I spend a lot of time in both North Western Europe and the states. I f
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
Accepted as in recognized for what it's worth, or even recognized as a higher education degree at all.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
A word of caution: before you decide to study in Europe, make sure that the degree they are offering is accepted in the place where you hope to find a job. A masters at the TU of Munich from the article is probably not a problem, but some t
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
I thought it was a funny joke :|
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
"Call me crazy, but are there any studies that show exposure to genitalia during childhood leads to psychological damage of any kind?" The vast majority of convicted murderers and pedophiles have seen genitalia at least once durin
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
"You're a lot older than we thought you would be" Whether it's a snag you never know but you do end up having to talk about it every time
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
I'm not interviewing people, I'm someone with a suspicious hole in their CV that they still have to try to justify in every interview over 15 years later.
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by wobbleblob 11y ago
> Your first paragraph now is aligned with my own statement, which is either that it's deliberate or accidental overwork. No, your posts imply that burnout is entirely work related. > Your point is that people should keep this so

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