ido

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by ido 23d ago
I live in Berlin and there's a ton of homeless people on the streets. As bad as most major US cities (SF is worse, or at least was - I haven't visited in a few years).
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by ido 27d ago
software engineering was one of the best ways for working- and middle-class kids to make a good living. I suspect it held a fairly large % of "good jobs available to kids without rich parents" (far larger than its % of overall job
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by ido 28d ago
The feelings are definitely influences by hormones. Doesn't make them any less real.
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by ido 1mo ago
I’d be ok reading AI-written stories if it’s only “AI assisted” (I.e. there’s a skilled human driving it). If it’s just a prompt and then the AI does all the writing, I know there’s just no intention behind it as LLMs don’t actually “think”
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by ido 1mo ago
> stopping most people in poverty is lack of access to a kitchen. No oven, no stove, no pantry, etc... A hot plate and a microwave if they are lucky. How poor are we talking here? The most nominally poor people I know live in depressed p
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by ido 1mo ago
It’s this way in the EU as well and it wouldn’t surprise me if this is EU regulation from pre-brexit that hasn't been repelled by uk govs post-brexit.
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by ido 1mo ago
Yes, there are good rule and bad rules (and rules that were once reasonable but changes in technology or society rendered them suboptimal). As an immigrant to Germany, I wish the authorities would think more about the chilling effect every
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by ido 1mo ago
salary cost to the company is a lot higher than gross salary (which itself is a lot higher than net salary). you can guestimate total salary cost to be about 1.5x gross salary, so for the lower bound: 100k / 1.5 = $66,666.67 = €57,813.
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by ido 1mo ago
I disagree with both your points. As an individual you have a very limited ability to change a whole country, and I see his saying as flowery exaggeration to make a point and not racist (he's not saying he's more deserving to be i
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by ido 2mo ago
It's usually a company owned by the city or the state, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Verkehrsbetriebe
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by ido 2mo ago
My opinion (immigrant for the 2nd time, currently in Germany since 2013- so I've lived in 3 countries when counting my native one): Basically, all rich/"western" countries are pretty decent. Some better than other, but t
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by ido 2mo ago
To be pedantic “BSD” is the name of the original distribution that FreeBSD is based on, and the license is also named after it (rather than FreeBSD being named after the license).
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by ido 2mo ago
The following anecdote doesn’t contradict what you wrote but maybe you’ll find it interesting- I worked for a daughter company of Phillips in the 00s (as an embedded programmer). I was working on mp3 players and set-top boxes but my boss ha
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by ido 2mo ago
To be clear I don't think the government of China is as bad as the Nazis were. I'm just saying "the average Chinese in China thinks it's fine" doesn't mean it's fine.
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by ido 2mo ago
The average German in Nazi Germany probably didnt think the Nazis were too bad either (of course the average citizen wasn't Jewish, gay, communist or other undesirables). That the average Chinese think things are “just fine” doesn’t me
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by ido 2mo ago
Sounds like you dodged a bullet and the coworker did you a favor.
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by ido 2mo ago
Some places don't get much rain (and these are the places that tend to get even more dust - e.g. deserts).
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by ido 2mo ago
Would be helpful if they'd define what a "mag" is. I'm assuming it's short of "magnitude"?
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by ido 2mo ago
Now? It's just a plain wordpress theme.
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by ido 2mo ago
In the 70s it was offshoring to Japan. China’s market opened to the west in the late 80s/90s.
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by ido 2mo ago
The best parody tends to converge with reality (see The Onion).
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by ido 2mo ago
I was super into vim in college (20 years ago now, jeez). I started off like that but then transitioned to basically using “default vim” (plus support for a few external tools like ctags or cscope). For basically this reason!
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by ido 2mo ago
Neat idea, very distracting with the incessant meme clips constantly inserted into the youtube video.
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by ido 2mo ago
That isn't worth the effort Maybe I'm too unambitious as a small indie, but "porting" my game to mac merely requires building that target (I use unity & have both mac and windows automated building scripts
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by ido 2mo ago
Thank you for the through answer! I hope I remember what to ask if/when the time ever comes.
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by ido 2mo ago
I don't know, that's why I'm asking! If I'm in that situation I hope this option is available to me, and want to know what to ask for. If the answer is that it's illegal I'd know I can't ask this directly&
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by ido 2mo ago
> administered to my mother opioid to accelerate death Isn't that illegal is most countries? Does it not count as doctor assisted suicide?
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by ido 2mo ago
He did, as is stated in the article.
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by ido 2mo ago
8-10pm for the supermarkets near me & well later than that is night not evening :) It's certainly not 5pm is what I meant.
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by ido 2mo ago
Supermarket opening times are definitely not that restrictive (these days, but I don't recall it ever being like you mentioned & I moved to Berlin in 2013). The ones near me are usually open early morning till late evening (8-10pm)

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