dd_roger

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by dd_roger 5y ago
Honestly I find it pretty fucked up that someone would renounce their citizenship "for convenience". I can't really comprehend how their country could mean so little to someone, especially when that country is a democracy. Re
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by dd_roger 5y ago
>You are free to not wear a mask or party by yourself, in your house, away from society. Or you could frame it the other way. Instead of suppressing everyone's freedom, people who are too scared to resume a normal life could watch u
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by dd_roger 5y ago
>I would recommend looking into decoupling your social needs from your job. I absolutely hate that this is the standard answer that comes up everytime someone mentions not being happy with WFH. Not only it doesn't answer the questio
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by dd_roger 5y ago
The explosion in the number of sofware components in modern tractors and combines is inherent to what we expect from them. If your open source tractor is essentially a tractor from 20 years ago without the fancy new tech then there's n
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by dd_roger 5y ago
I don't understand how "not having to file a tax return" can work. How does it account for all the information a government might not reasonably have about your wealth and economic activities? How do you apply for tax credits
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by dd_roger 5y ago
> Not in the west, it doesn't. (edit: just realised that maybe you meant the west of the USA and not the western world in general, in this case you might be right I'm obviously not aware of local practices from the other side o
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by dd_roger 5y ago
> A pound of steak requires 4000 to 6000 gallons of water. People keep throwing this number around but it's at best voluntarily missleading, if not straight up a lie. 4 to 6k gallons is roughly what a meat cow (slaughtered at 18 mon
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by dd_roger 5y ago
> I think it's pretty widely acknowledged that speed limits are not effectively enforced on cars. No it's not, unless you have some study to back it up because it's not my experience. (edit: just to be clear, the spirit of
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by dd_roger 5y ago
I'm personally convinced that there's no justification for banning eMTBs (or any other negative sentiments toward them really) beside gatekeeping. There's nothing about eMTBs allowing people to venture in more difficult trail
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by dd_roger 5y ago
> It is also not really a viable large scale solution to "how do you move people around?" Not every solution needs to be large scale to be usefull. I think biofuels should be promoted and used as much as possible (obviously wit
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by dd_roger 5y ago
> many countries in the West should hire the Chinese to construct and build HSR in their countries with foreign labour under local direction There's absolutely no reason to do it, most (if not all) western countries are perfectly ca
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by dd_roger 5y ago
> Without workers in the office, middle management was left to spend additional time on pointless meetings, inhibiting their workers from spending their time on work tasks. You're just drawing meaningless conclusions based on nothin
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by dd_roger 5y ago
It's plain illegal in Switzerland regardless of CCTV signs. Even dashcams are in a gray area where it should technically be illegal but it has never been enforced before a court as far as I know (dashcam are extremely rare here anyway)
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by dd_roger 5y ago
I share your opinion (I particularily like essays; I follow along the arguments, think whether I agree with them or not, etc. but absolutely hate the "how-to" kind of books which I strongly associate with the hustle and self impro
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by dd_roger 5y ago
I work in OT security in an industry completely unrelated to Telecoms but which is also a matter of national security and everything in this blog post doesn't really sound believable from my experience dealing with sensitive infrastruc
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by dd_roger 6y ago
The argument about increased productivity is a fallacy. Only the primary and secondary sectors have a long track record of increased productivity, in services on the other hands -which represent an ever growing share of the working populati
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by dd_roger 6y ago
My bad, I wasn't familiar with this working arrangement and the vocabulary around it. What I'm describing is simply known as being salaried in my country (not hourly paid as OT is compensated with PTO rather than financial compens
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by dd_roger 6y ago
The premise of the article is incorrect to begin with: > The way it’s supposed to work is if you’re salaried/exempt, you’re getting paid to do a job, not for a specific number of hours. No, I'm paid to work 40 hours per week re
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by dd_roger 6y ago
The lack of offering for good students is already a major issue at every step of the education system as it is, closing these classes is a major step backward and "fuck you" to good students (especially with such a lame justificat
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by dd_roger 6y ago
There's no company policy mandating me to start that early yet I start between 7am and 7:30am, by 8am the office is mostly full. The earlier you start the more daylight left to enjoy at the end of the day. 9am really sounds awfully lat
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by dd_roger 6y ago
I just hope the home office trend doesn't lead to an urbanization of the countryside. I'm from a charming village that was overtaken by ugly and expensive developements during the past 20 years because people from the nearest city
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by dd_roger 6y ago
This is probably going to be unpopular on this forum, but why is everyone assuming that having more researchers is desirable / needed in the first place? I think scientific research is completely bloated already and there's no nee
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by dd_roger 6y ago
Is this an article or a novel? I lost patience before getting to the point.
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by dd_roger 6y ago
Beside being long yet void of any convincing arguments/ideas, this article completely ignores the fact that the majority of Covid vaccines are not mRNA vaccines, thus invalidating the premise that "we don't have enough vaccin
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by dd_roger 6y ago
I think most legacy users from WSB know very well what they are doing. I've been on this sub for 5 years and it has always been so that everytime the wsb hivemind finds a good deal it gets media attention and the number of clueless use
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by dd_roger 6y ago
Yeah that's a major issue that I bring up everytime UBI is discussed and that for some reason UBI proponents never address. If UBI isn't high enough to ensure that welfare as we currently know it isn't needed anymore, then wh
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by dd_roger 6y ago
> We don't have any evidence that there was any safety concern here; the FAA has not said that. That this particular violation didn't lead to any incident doesn't invalidate the need for licenses and the obligation to res
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by dd_roger 6y ago
In my opinion the usefulness of Stack Overflow is vastly overstated. It's nice to find a few examples to get started in a new framework that lacks documentation (when there's documentation at all...) but generally speaking non-tri
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by dd_roger 6y ago
What's most hilarious about this situation is that the EU getting cheaper vaccines than the UK was advertised as a major "Aha you shouldn't have left, see?" a month ago, but now the UK has already vaccinated almost as ma
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by dd_roger 6y ago
The problem is not using a GPL software internally, but using it in a product that you'd want to sell and at this point be forced to opensource your entire product. Despite what some people like to pretend there's basically no sc

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