Germanika

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by Germanika 4y ago
>Look how cold some countries and regions get? As someone from said countries and regions, people living outside freeze to death here. Long before you get to that point your water pipes will freeze, leaving you without running water. The
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by Germanika 4y ago
Depends on where you are in Canada. In Québec where electricity is cheap, most homes rely on electric heating. Of course, in Alberta where gas is cheap and electric is ~2.5x more expensive it's not surprising gas furnaces are the defau
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by Germanika 4y ago
I interpret it closer to being pro-choice while hoping to not personally need an abortion. Unions form when workers feel they aren't being heard and aren't being properly represented. Having a union form at your own company is an
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by Germanika 5y ago
A) also doesn't work unless all other road users (bikes, scooters, skateboards, pedestrians, etc.) are also banned from the roads. The other option is limiting the autonomous cars to tunnels or dedicated tracks, but then we're jus
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by Germanika 5y ago
Agreed. That's my strategy for my road bike as well. For an ebike though? The whole point is to make getting places and doing errands easier. I use a cheap beater bike for this kind of trip. I think the only real solution to it right n
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by Germanika 5y ago
I imagine it would depend on the state. In California, I believe they can get away with putting "0" as the number of vacation days you are entitled to, so any of the "unlimited" days you take off are really at the whim o
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by Germanika 5y ago
They can't afford not to. The alternative is shutting down, no?
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by Germanika 5y ago
Is this supposed to be an argument in favour of the 2 hour commute? Because that still sounds like a miserable waste of time to me. I would take the pay cut, look for a new job, or move closer to work. No job in the world is worth putting u
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by Germanika 5y ago
I haven't tried it, it looks to me like it doesn't support N-key rollover out of the box which would definitely be a problem. You can try it out but if you wanted to put more serious time into it, I'd highly recommend picking
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by Germanika 5y ago
Both approaches can work, but lead to different outcomes. The market for "todo list" apps is absolutely big enough there's room for more than one company. The beauty of the bootstrapped model is you don't need to "w
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by Germanika 5y ago
> or the literal connotation makes you a little uncomfortable. How so? "The people's car" seems rather innocuous to me. My only guess would be that it could make some American anti-socialists uncomfortable?
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by Germanika 6y ago
Working through a problem out loud is definitely a bit of a different skill from just solving a complex problem on your own. I do find that saying something along the lines of "OK now I just need a minute to think through this next par
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by Germanika 6y ago
I can honestly say that SimpleTax has been life changing for me, and is a great example of just how important UX can be. My partner used to have literal panic attacks trying to file taxes, even with TurboTax/UFile/etc. Since we&#x
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by Germanika 6y ago
As others have mentioned, this post is about Shopify apps, not Shopify stores. I'd recommend doing a bit more research before deciding to boycott a company. They're absolutely not taking a 20% cut from sales of physical goods, thi
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by Germanika 6y ago
Chess matches usually involve multiple games, so you don't need to win every game to win the match. It's not uncommon to play trying to avoid a loss (going for a draw), instead of playing riskier moves in an attempt to force a win
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by Germanika 6y ago
Agreed that the jacket is great. Point is, as a Canadian I consider it a layering piece, not a winter jacket. :)
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by Germanika 6y ago
I get what you're saying, but I'd be very surprised if they added extra weight in these ones. They're made of solid metal and have magnets to hold the ear pads in. I imagine that's enough to account for their weight.
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by Germanika 6y ago
See, this just tells me that 3-5 sick days is completely inadequate. I've been fortunate to generally have virtually unlimited sick days, and I very much prefer that to having to use up my limited vacation days. It does point out that
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by Germanika 6y ago
You're not far off on your numbers, they laid off around 1900 people back in May, out of ~7500 employees. I would think the IPO is happening despite the pandemic, not because of it. They had been planning to go public long before the I
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by Germanika 6y ago
It's possible. Another factor is simply how air-tight the seals are. My older fountain pens tend to dry out faster than most modern ones. There are also some pens (Platinum 3776 for example) which are designed to virtually never dry ou