arountheworld

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by arountheworld 8y ago
There is a decades-long study by Tashkin et al., not being able to find that smoking cannabis is significantly harmful. I am on my phone so don't have it at hand.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
But I am clearly not talking about lotto-winners, but someone who gets 2x salary, who may behave weird first couple of months and then becomes "normal". I fully agree about the lotto winners though. I had witnessed it actually as
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by arountheworld 8y ago
Why not just buy a second smartphone?
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by arountheworld 8y ago
You may assume that would happen, but unless you really have a thing to show off, you'll keep a similar lifestyle and just watch your savings account growing. I know very few people who permanently changed their behaviour after a sudde
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by arountheworld 8y ago
To be fair, people having unhealthy lifestyle - especially those drinking are feeling terrible all the time - may just think this is how healthy person should feel and miss any symptoms of the potential disease.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
That is a reminder - no matter how rich you are, you have exactly the same hours in the day as the guy sleeping under the bridge.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
You can get used to any salary in few months. You could be earning 2x as you currently are and feel exactly the same after a couple of months.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
This is the environment governments create and also proves it is in human nature. It would be like banning sex and then be amazed how much STD are around.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
Likely somebody paid for it. EU is creating the law for big corporations, so it seems like one of those would like to copyright telemetry data and EU just amended it to please them.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
What I was reading? It is easy to badmouth someone without knowing the context. It is not uncommon to end up with a flawed design if you find yourself in circumstances like short deadline, uncertain requirements, lack of resources, small us
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by arountheworld 8y ago
Have they not removed protected characteristics from the data? If they had, AI wouldn't know about gender and there would be no bias.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
I was looking at a couple of non technical friends browsing the Internet. Not one took time to read consent prompts, they just mindlessly click whatever takes the notice out of the way. GDPR is dangerous and doesn't fix anything.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
Right, but you want to impose it on the others. That is pretty selfish. If company paid for food in you salary you could have a choice. You don't want choice? Fine. Just don't force it on others because it works for you.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
But that removes choice, which diminishes your freedom as a person. I'd rather have a canteen where you can pay for food or go outside and be paid so I can afford that.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
I think there is something missing in your story. My Portuguese friends who fled Portugal to London paint different picture of their lovely country. Maybe there are different rules to foreigners there?
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by arountheworld 8y ago
Shouldn't company pay adequately instead of giving out "free" food? This is something I can't understand.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
The professionals in the UK work on a b2b basis because with current salaries and taxes it makes no sense to be an employee. Still you get taxed highly, but it is slightly better. Sadly the Tories are turning left and they look into taxing
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by arountheworld 8y ago
Do those systems really work? Civil servants always find a way to deny support because you miss X or Z (I am talking mostly about the UK). I learned that it is best to take care yourself of yourself and don't depend on the state. I vie
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by arountheworld 8y ago
It seems like they forget people pay for this crap. I wonder if there is a class action possible against them.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
My advice then would be to live frugally, do personal projects and save and save, then leave the company if you have 3-6 months of living covered. You can spend more time on getting your CV right and searching for offers. If recruiters and&
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by arountheworld 8y ago
I worked with a start-up where owner confessed he is just looking to get out as quickly as possible. We were not supposed to build processes that would slow down the development at the cost of huge technical debt - but that wouldn't be
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by arountheworld 8y ago
Don't agree to work for peanuts. Young developers are easy target for "startup" or predatory corporations as they can do mindless coding for hours and if you throw in free pizza on Fridays, they'll work day and night for
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by arountheworld 8y ago
I am not. I am sorry if that sounded ambiguous. By "By hand" I meant SSH into a container and then pasting raw query into SQL client. ORM will not always help you achieve what you want so writing queries is alright, but you need t
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by arountheworld 8y ago
I am happy to write SQL, but you need to write it in such a way that you have tests confirming your query does what you intend to. Then run a query as a short lived application on the cluster. You don't need to SSH even for low level s
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by arountheworld 8y ago
If you design your app properly you won't ever need to run SQL queries by hand. This is a bad practice and it is good that k8s discourages such behaviour. I agree with your other points though.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
The linked article is behind the paywall. From you comment I still can't take out _why_ this costs so much. It sounds like development cost X because phase of development cost Y. I find it strange that you can say that something called
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by arountheworld 8y ago
I think it this extremely difficult to incapacitate someone using a chloroform, so I find these stories hard to believe. Can you give more details?
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by arountheworld 8y ago
But chargeback is not legally binding, is it? So you just put yourself in a situation where you received a service and didn't pay for it. I am pretty sure Uber could do something about it if they cared.
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by arountheworld 8y ago
Is it known why that costs so much and that the cost isn't artificially inflated to justify the patents or other reasons?
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by arountheworld 8y ago
> drugs that hit the same brain receptors as cannabis but are more potent and addictive Okay, why there are using cannabis as an example and not other substances that react with those receptors, like chocolate? It is better as they absta

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