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by capisce 11y ago
Maybe it's less of a problem in Europe as American work culture is more demanding and stressful: http://lifehacker.com/5751875/five-traits-low-stress-happy-w... And everyone screws up from time to time, organizati
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by capisce 11y ago
If his skills were that good they should be able to afford to sponsor him with a new suit.
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by capisce 11y ago
And Idris even enables a type-safe version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVBck2Zngjo So if you mismatch the types you'll get a compile time error instead of a run time error.
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by capisce 11y ago
> If you take it from me, I am left with what? Panhandling? Prostitution? ...??? Is there no welfare for people who aren't able to make a living in your country?
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by capisce 11y ago
Codifying a 45-50 hour work week really doesn't help.
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by capisce 11y ago
I'd recommend just eating some C vitamin pills instead. At least eat oranges directly instead of drinking juice.
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by capisce 11y ago
It might just be that they are positively biased: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
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by capisce 11y ago
> how many people are stuck in a jobs they hate just because they have to pay the bills? If you give them basic income that covers all their basic needs then first thing they will do is they will quit their jobs. Sounds like slavery. Is
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by capisce 11y ago
I love this essay by Bertrand Russell. It's just a shame it remains a utopia for the typical person.
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by capisce 11y ago
Maybe this reduced metabolism is good for longevity?
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by capisce 11y ago
Most people do not put higher education in the same category as retirement, they see it as a means to an end.
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by capisce 11y ago
Countries don't just compete on taxes by providing the same service more efficiently, but also by providing a _worse_ service to their citizens. It's a race to the bottom.
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by capisce 11y ago
Accidental complexity is one of the biggest enemies of productivity in the programming world.
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by capisce 11y ago
Your boss should pay you handsomely for the extra overtime and responsibility involved.
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by capisce 11y ago
Did the authors take the expansion of Norwegian glaciers into account? There's a glacier arm in Norway named after the farm it swallowed during the Little Ice Age: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigardsbreen#History
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by capisce 11y ago
> it sounded way too controlling/strict Indeed. "Engineers will work during the preferred hours of the clients." "For example, if the in-house engineers start their workday at 11am PST, our Eastern European Toptal eng
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by capisce 12y ago
I'd recommend you read this article: http://open.salon.com/blog/kent_pitman/2012/05/27/corny_econ... And to point you to this comment in the same thread: https://news.ycombinator.com
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by capisce 12y ago
We are adaptation executors, not fitness maximizers: http://lesswrong.com/lw/l0/adaptationexecuters_not_fitnessma... Also, evolution doesn't care about life span, beyond what is necessary to ensure the surviv
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by capisce 12y ago
> nothing prevents him from either finding another more endearing programming job or working on his own thing. Risk and lack of a safety net prevents people from working on their own thing.
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by capisce 12y ago
> Frankly, yes. I would be literally the only person I know who has such an arrangement. Yeah, I guess the norm is too strongly ingrained, and employers like to keep it that way. If there was a "free" labour market you'd e
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by capisce 12y ago
> My problem is that I have a full time job The tyranny of the 40+ hour work week. Why is it that so few people are willing and/or able to negotiate working fewer hours in a week, for example 6 hours a day or 4 days in a week? Is it
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by capisce 12y ago
How is your health?
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by capisce 12y ago
If you have an expensive computation task and you're paying for computing time, do you really want to be using JavaScript for the purpose?
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by capisce 12y ago
Democracy seems to be struggling in some African countries: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-return-of-africas-strongmen-...
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by capisce 12y ago
By random you just happened to pick the country with the highest average life expectancy? :) "According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Andorrans' average life expectancy is 83.5, officially the highest in the world."
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by capisce 12y ago
Tried to create a new account via Twitter and got a "Internal server error [500]". The concept sounds useful though.
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by capisce 12y ago
Yes, I'm not saying the TypeMatrix pure grid layout is 100 % ideal, maybe there should be just a little bit of stagger to account for the angle of the wrists - but there should still be symmetry of course. I think the TypeMatrix is far
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by capisce 12y ago
The standard staggered keyboard layout not symmetrical. If the layout of the keys were optimal for the left hand for instance, the "u" key should have been slightly to the right of the "j" key in order to have the same e
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by capisce 12y ago
The system would also need to be global, through international cooperation - otherwise one who spends the same amount in one country would end up in a higher tax bracket than one who spends the same amount divided between two countries.
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by capisce 12y ago
So we shouldn't attempt to disincentivize countries from building up a nuclear arsenal, as long as they haven't nuked anyone yet?

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