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by zimzam 4y ago
According to articles I've read polling indicates 80% support amongst the Finnish population
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by zimzam 4y ago
Some bad managers also want to be able to walk over to your desk, ask what you are working on, and tell you to work on something else. When things are remote this kind of sloppy management doesn't work anymore, which makes bad managers
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by zimzam 4y ago
I've never had a take home assignment that was "usable code" - they've all been toy problems.
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by zimzam 4y ago
Apple does include their supply chain in their labor & environmental reports: for example when they catch underage workers they get sent to school at the supplier's expense. Many companies outsource their externalities but Apple is
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by zimzam 4y ago
When it comes to differences in hardware prices between the US & EU, VAT taxes are often most of the difference: are there VAT taxes on app sales too?
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by zimzam 4y ago
Why bother? A calendar year is 365.242 days long... time is already off by about 3/4 of a day the year before a leap year, what does adding a second here or there really do?
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by zimzam 4y ago
Which "makes sense" since companies usually try to keep the team deciding who to lay people off very small for fear of leaks. So the n people at a small company making the decisions might know everyone but the same n people at a l
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by zimzam 4y ago
Isn't that the job of the cover letter to connect the dots and show how previous experiences & skills could meet the demands of the role being applied to?
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by zimzam 5y ago
40 hospitals in NY state we’re just forced to halt elective surgeries: https://abc7ny.com/new-york-hospitals-stop-elective-surgerie... That’s overrun in my book.
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by zimzam 5y ago
> don't have a burning desire to sit around with no activities for 5 days a week. Who said anything about “no activities”? They said they wanted to retire not go to prison.
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by zimzam 5y ago
This depends on the airport/airline: I’ve had gate checked luggage that was unloaded to luggage claim instead of the skyway.
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by zimzam 5y ago
FluentForever is based on this method - the initial product was actually a set of Anki cards.
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by zimzam 5y ago
Trader Joe’s has the same prices nationally, so in NYC they are very cheap. For example, their jarred tomato sauce, which is pretty good quality, is $1.99 - the grocery store closest to me has bad tomato sauce starting at $4.99, the pretty
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by zimzam 6y ago
“Should” is the key word. I’ve looked at COBOL job listings every few years and I’ve never seen one for more than $90k US. So maybe once people are on the job maybe they have more leverage but those job listings don’t indicate any desperati
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by zimzam 6y ago
Sounds like you might be burnt out rather than broken. If it is burnout there are ways to recover and enjoy developing software again
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by zimzam 8y ago
The idea that the U.K. was getting used is an interesting one considering they are the only one who get/got a rebate on their EU contributions: relative to their GDP the U.K. is/was objectively paying less than other members (when
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by zimzam 8y ago
You’re replying with a discussion of sovereignty in response to a parent that’s discussing trade deals. Braxit was generally sold on two main pillars: sovereignty and making vastly better trade deals. Sure, there are sovereignty issues that
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by zimzam 8y ago
That’s like saying any inflation is bad because if it were a million percent bad things would happen. It doesn’t tell us anything about reality.
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by zimzam 8y ago
The length actually varies by state and it ranges from 1 to 10 years.
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by zimzam 8y ago
It might not be worth doing: they now restrict tourists from entering until 11am, at which time most of the sellers have already finished selling, cleaned up and gone home. (The eart morning Tuna auction may be a different story however) Ho
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by zimzam 8y ago
As someone who lives in Manhattan, there are many buildings that have entrances on 2-3 different streets: having an address that specifies where the entrance actually is is a feature.
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by zimzam 8y ago
The jargon exists because the category is useful in answering the question "how is the economy doing". If we included people who are retired then we would see unemployment go up and down in correlation with generation sizes: when
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by zimzam 9y ago
Big brother already has all of most people’s tax information. Your taxes have already been withheld (for most employees). The current system is like having to write your own credit card statement, mail it in to the CC company, and getting p
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by zimzam 9y ago
Acres and acres of corn, soybean & wheat fields aren't natural landscape either.
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by zimzam 9y ago
The Berlin mention is a reference to the Brandenburg airport which has been under construction since 2006 and was scheduled to be completed in 2012. They are now hoping to open in 2020 or 2021. http://madridjournals.com/2017
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by zimzam 9y ago
What market? There are dozens of vegan food bars available in the US
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by zimzam 9y ago
Men, with the right hormones, are able to lactate and produce milk. (In some rare cases men lactate naturally without hormone injections)
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by zimzam 9y ago
They aren’t contracts in at-will employment states
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by zimzam 9y ago
The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian movement. (Not an affiliation: a full movement in that there are Salvation Army churches)
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by zimzam 9y ago
Apple collects very little user data. Developers have complained about the limits Apple puts on collecting data and Apple News partners have been quite frustrated. Even the people who originally developed Siri were frustrated by not having

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