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by xkqd 5y ago
Laborers, small biz folks, anyone who visits multiple sites a day with no set cadence, or people who just want to feel in control over their commutes - blanket statements like this miss large swathes of the people who actually power the cit
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by xkqd 5y ago
Is it? Can you share your internal source for this claim?
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by xkqd 5y ago
Ultimately if we need to pick sides, I’m going to apply pressure to the Russian citizens who will need to apply pressure to their own dictator. That’s kinda how war works. I think a lot of the folks criticizing you are in a position of priv
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by xkqd 5y ago
Historically, people just left for more rural parts rather than try and change behavior. I know your scenario is particularly egregious, but there’s other stories in this thread that make me wonder how someone can live in Manhattan or along
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by xkqd 5y ago
I’ve done this before at my last F20. I heard the whole story from the beginning. Increased collaboration. Flexibility. Variety. But at no point did they level with the staff that it was only about reducing costs. It was about maximizing s
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by xkqd 5y ago
Poorly, but why keep at the Haber process for another century of historic growth and record mouths fed when we can instead try our luck with legumes?
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by xkqd 5y ago
> This comment is disgusting on so many levels. “Disgusting” is a hilariously strong word to use against someone trying to hold a 100B+ company to a little heat and get attention to their cause. “Assume positive intent” is a facade for “
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by xkqd 5y ago
> “We can’t argue that quality of life is sooo much better when production is such a mess.” Not for nothing, but I’d bet my crispest dollar that our quality of life is still outrageously good. If you have to wait a few months for the $60
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by xkqd 5y ago
I gotta say, our Slack messages are retained for so long I don’t even know what our Slack expiry is set to. This makes our Slack our single best repository of information available, far more likely to yield useful results than Confluence or
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by xkqd 5y ago
> I picked fruit as a teenager. It sucked. I hated every minute of it, but it has to happen. And I dug holes by hand and loaded trucks with tractors. I've started to realize that when I share that fact with people, they either look
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by xkqd 5y ago
I read that remark as, "in the grand scheme of things, we can't all have it good." - not as anything marked with disdain. As for my own opinion? I don't think there's a stone software engineers are cut from, but I d
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by xkqd 5y ago
> Having access to documents but without the culture and the human capital to implement it is almost useless. I don't think I'd consider it "almost useless". Having source code, material compositions, trade secrets, e
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by xkqd 5y ago
I’m waiting for confirmation but I don’t think the comment thread is suggesting that all “work” is suspended after 40 hours. I think they’re saying that your obligation to your employer should float close to 40. I’m a big proponent of not r
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by xkqd 5y ago
I think you’re saying it but… You mean working for your employer 70 hours a week, right? As for me, I make it a point to give my employers what they’re paying for, but nothing extra. I spend a lot of extra time each week performing “work” f
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by xkqd 5y ago
Do you have any sources on the antiperspirant bit? I feel like this has entered the influencer zeitgeist, but antiperspirants have been around forever and I have yet to see any studies linking the two.
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by xkqd 5y ago
> if one is particularly stingy about fuel costs, it's popular to own cars fueled by LPG. I’ll add that it’s been popular for the last decade, up to 15 years. So don’t think it’s going anywhere, anytime soon!
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by xkqd 5y ago
As far as working culture goes, it’s refreshing because there’s little tolerance for indirection and common corporate “colloquialisms”. Certainly no song and dance to the way they do business.
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by xkqd 5y ago
Thanks for the chuckle! Yep. European’s view the perpetual grin dimly, and doubly so in Poland where direct communication is how things are done. It’s honestly nice because in general people there mean business and don’t care to save face.
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by xkqd 5y ago
Saying that here will be unpopular. But it’s important to keep in mind that in many countries “engineer” is a protected term with qualification requirements and not simply a job title.
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by xkqd 5y ago
> "are a bunch of incompetent, entitled brats who seem to think everything is owed to them" > "their unemployability is exacerbated by their attitude problems" I'm trying to remain polite about this, but with
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by xkqd 5y ago
I’ve always held a belief that a lot of America’s social and economic inequalities are fueled by the consolidation of good, high paying jobs around a few major cities. I’d get behind any party that tries to tackle this by incentivizing the
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by xkqd 5y ago
Probably familiarity with and the relative ease of Electron?
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by xkqd 6y ago
I could see why one would think bots, but it’s far more likely the group-think you’re feeling.
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by xkqd 6y ago
I’ve spent a lot of time in Czech and Poland, and while someone could argue they’re developed countries when looking at the wider gamut, it doesn’t compare well Canada, USA, UK, etc engineering talent. A lot of the engineering talent you fi
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by xkqd 6y ago
It’s more likely someone is unaware of your examples, because it requires a level of knowledge in corporate geopolitical actors that most people wouldn’t come across via normal news streams. Be polite.
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by xkqd 6y ago
I’m not agreeing with or disagreeing with you, but the tone of your message is pretty shit and berates OP for having their own opinion. Be kind. Either way, OP’s remarks are common sentiment. I’ve heard from plenty of home chefs that a gas
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by xkqd 6y ago
I'm a bit late in reading and responding to this, but do you reckon the average person is aware that they can acquire a HELOC as a technique to whether a hypothetical financial storm?
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by xkqd 6y ago
It varies a little bit from culture to culture, but for the most part no, it isn’t moral to kill dogs just because human beings are struggling too.