burntoutfire

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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Do surgeons purchase any od they equipment they use on the operating table, or does hospital provide it all?
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
When I use usem, I mainly do that on the job and Jetbrains IDEs provide value to my employer, not to me.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I had to basically memorize a particular academic book for a tough university entrace exam. I created around 50 pages of dense hand-written notes on it, and could recall all the arguments contained in the book with detail. 15 years later, a
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Let's not forget about putting kids on the PIP.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
In my city in Poland (one of the most destitute ones in the country), until very recently, there used to be regular coal train robberies. On segments of the track where trains were moving really slow (like 20-30 km/h), the thieves woul
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Trading firms are paying $500k a year to people who just graduated from college?
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
At least in Poland, for whatever reason, the communist apparatchicks mostly didn't get rich off of their power. They had a higher standard of living - but that meant a house and a car, and not a small flat and a bus pass, like most of
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
There's struggling, and there's "grab Starbucks on the way to work" struggling...
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I agree. Tom Cruise was also well-cast for that. He typically plays hot-shots, and here he again is a hot-shot upper-class doctor, but one who by happenstance brushes with forces in the society that are way out of his league and whose exist
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
The classes got wiped out in all Central and Eastern Europe countries which went through communism. Pretty much all of their wealth was confiscated and they were persecuted to a various degree. From society's perspective, it's act
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I think it's ok to cash out once your career is over. It's bad to do while creating, because the money people will inevitably influence your works. But, if you're not creating anymore, then there's no great harm in it.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
We even stopped trying getting to cheap nuclear energy, which seems to be a vastly simpler problem.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> Microtransactions required to activate heated seats in your car. I'm sorry, but the fact that this is the first thing you list under "grim" is just comical to me. This isn't even a 1st world problem, this is a 0.1-w
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
In my city, there's maybe a parking meter for every 20 spots. Plus, most spots are in non-metered areas. PLUS, the meter does not require a very high voltage power line...
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
There'd have to be charger every 5-6 meters or so along most sidewalks where I live to make electric viable. Certainly not impossible, but sounds like an absolutely massive investment.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Saving the world would still happen if these people got 20 vacation days. The main difference would be the small decrease of ROI for the investors.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Sounds like an addiction almost. Addictions are often a signal of something being wrong or off-balance in life.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I've had pretty similar path (minus the long exotic trip). I've also pursued personal projects and interests very seriously, only to find out that I don't know why I'm doing them really. I found that I'm most satisf
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
A job is a prison. Yours is just very, very comfortable, compared to most jobs (and prisons). It's not wonder you still yearn to be out.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Quite the contrary, you can and should blame Germany for hiding their head in the sand for the past 10+ years, while a massive threat was growing next to them. It was obviously a catastrophic policy failure. They must have some intelligence
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
They "succeeded" because every ride so far was subsidised by investors. It's not a level playing field for the cabs, which have to make a profit.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
...and I thought this is somehow about squashing commits in a toxic way, e.g. rewriting the commit message to seem that you've done all the work yourself. Was surprised that it's already a syndrome though.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Wait, what is MS doing with python?
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Telemetrics and sensors data could (at least theoretically) produce billions of row per hour per single sensor.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Jordan Peterson always says that, when it comes to predicting success in life, IQ has the highest predictive value of all the traits that we can currently measure.
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> but I'm afraid that the EU is not that far behind the US on the path to corrosion, corruption, and ruin. What is happening in the US, I'm afraid, is coming for everyone. If that's how you see the US, then I'm affrai
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> Capitalism's "winning" of the Cold War was one of the biggest humanitarian disasters of our time. Whoa. You're completely ignoring the fact that USSR's collapse allowed a lot of nations, comprising of easily ov
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
Dollar is getting stronger because other countries either had similar irresponsible policies or are a shitstorm for different reasons. All things considered, the US, with its world-dominating and extremely robust economy, is the safest bet
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
I went into that calculator and it does not say anything about inflation... Do annuities get wiped out by inflation (i.e. they'll keep paying me the agreed monthly amount, but unfortunately it's not going to be worth much)? If, th
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by burntoutfire 4y ago
> 7. Your company felt very distant; like it exists simply to consume money and doesn't care if the customer succeeds or not. That makes sense - since probably a majority of their customers fail, it they cared about them, they'

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