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by zimzam 10y ago
I've heard this, but whenever I've looked at job listings for COBOL they pay is much lower than for a similarly skilled Python or Java developer.
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by zimzam 10y ago
1. Not everyone knows what they love: what are these people supposed to do? Not get a job until they figure it out? For every one person I know who has a true passion and talent for their profession I know ten others who don't know wha
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by zimzam 10y ago
I generally like python's list comprehensions, but they have some ugly warts. For example, a simple comprehension looks like this: foo = [transform(bar) for bar in baz.list()] Adding an if condition looks like this: foo = [t
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by zimzam 10y ago
>You mean, selfish like everyone else is? Nope: everyone else gets vaccines, they are clearly more selfish in this regard
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by zimzam 10y ago
Your engineers are unwilling to use a dongle to connect to a monitor? Something that is so trivial to set up once and never deal with again sounds more like an attitude problem than a technical one.
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by zimzam 10y ago
This seems like a poorly thought out comment: the point of UBI is that everyone is signed up for it. Everyone gets it and that simplicity makes it far easier to audit. AFAIK, having only ever read about India online, everyone has a biometri
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by zimzam 10y ago
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by zimzam 10y ago
This is a sad story: 90-day exercise windows are employee hostile, they should be much longer, especially when the company isn't public. However, and I don't know how to put this more kindly, but I can't help but wonder if yo
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by zimzam 10y ago
This is a rant about an edge case: sure, it sucks for the author but even now few people move more than a few miles of where they are born. Expecting a Swiss institution to seamlessly support banking from Thailand is, unfortunately, unreali
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by zimzam 10y ago
You still can pay more for the bundled experience by: 1. Flying legacy carriers who are more bundled than low-cost carriers and/or 2. By purchasing business or first class seats, which often still include all the bundled goodies
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by zimzam 10y ago
This kind of pedantry provide no insight: Trump doesn't represent the small government wing of the party that opposed infrastructure spending
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by zimzam 10y ago
Russia has cut gas supplies the Ukraine multiple times: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–Ukraine_gas_disputes
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by zimzam 10y ago
The "them" in this sentence is the farmers not the drugs: the quote is arguing for giving the farmers a path to a legal livelihood. Similarly the parent is arguing for legal alternatives to poaching as desperate, starving people w
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by zimzam 10y ago
In many grocery stores the checkout lane have two people: the cashier and a 'bagger' who will bag the groceries for you and, if requested, will bring them out and load them into your car. The bagger sometimes gets a tip, especiall
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by zimzam 10y ago
The PE ratio of Amazon is catastrophically high (175.8) but Google & Apple are not. The S&P 500's average PE ratio is currently 24.22 [1]. Google/Alphabet is a little higher than average at 27.9, and Apple is solidly in b
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by zimzam 10y ago
Every eye doctor I've been to in the last decade has done an eye cancer check, I think that's standard.
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by zimzam 10y ago
Of course they were: Bernie wasn't a Democrat until he ran for the nomination, why would they want to help an outsider become head of the party (aka the nominee?)
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by zimzam 10y ago
Perhaps because, aside from when he was running for the nomination, Sanders isn't a Democrat! He's an Independent who tried to take control of the party (the nominee becomes the head of the party after all) - why would party insid
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by zimzam 10y ago
Some tasks aren't fit for a single person: why can't one post-doc do the prep shift and a second post-doc do the enzyme work? The way we structure our research institutions is arbitrary: we can and should restructure them if they
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by zimzam 10y ago
This claim cain only be made by somebody ignorant of the history of racism: racism almost always lives with a non-racist pretext. Here are a couple of examples, though many more exist: Lynchings were instigated by an accusation of a crime -
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by zimzam 10y ago
By the end of his career Robert Byrd was a repentant, former KKK member. Trump is being embraced by current, active KKK members. It is obtuse to pretend there's no difference between the two. From your own Wikipedia link: "In his