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by pracer 4y ago
I think the point missing is that food that get wasted could not arrive where it is needed before getting rot. Letting aside the expenses to do that. The problem is not that we waste food, as it would not solve starvation, the problem is th
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by pracer 5y ago
If the plan is to live off the savings, probably not. The idea is to make some investments, either stocks or real estate (for renting, for example), and have the money work for you. It is not easy in any case, that's for sure. Besides,
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by pracer 5y ago
There are already problems with this written in a comment above. I recall it would be like: do residents get it too? How long they need to be in the country to get the UBI? What about expats working in the country? and their kids? Should th
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by pracer 5y ago
Totally agree with this. Otherwise, I don't see UBI solving anything, but creating new problems.
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by pracer 5y ago
No, is the other way around. You claim UBI would work and the problems some of us said are not real problems because it could be solved. So now, it is your turn to explain which mechanisms would avoid those problems. Otherwise I could say &
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by pracer 5y ago
Of course! government intervention in prices and supply and demand! How nobody thought about it before? Well, they did. And it failed spectacularly, as central planning of prices doesn't work due to the impossibility of getting all the
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by pracer 5y ago
I'm confused too. How is that engineers here talking about UBI as a solution to this pressure to keep your job don't talk or consider how to pay that? Besides, when everyone has a base level of income, inflation came in play (as a
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by pracer 5y ago
Oh man, if you see it like that, is probably becoming true. In other industries or jobs it could b, but in tech? Companies are the ones looking for more developers, and if you made it to senior, you have a lot of power. ABI or rich parents
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by pracer 5y ago
I think it may be about expectations. It is a game and, no matter what people or company say, they are NOT your family. Face your job with that in mind, avoiding the cynical views/attitudes. You go there to make money and if you learn
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by pracer 5y ago
As mentioned above, I think it is due to the fact that SPF may be too broad, as in softfail SPF (defined here https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7208#section-2.6.5 ). Based on the RFC, for the rest of possibl
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by pracer 5y ago
I would add that SPF alone may not be enough, and that's why some of the other mechanisms are needed. AFAIK if you have a softfail SPF (a record ending in `~`), you would need DMARC or DKIM. But the SPF is needed always in order to sp
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by pracer 5y ago
Yes, life sometimes sucks. It is also bad to have to commute for 1 hour or more when you're a junior and have no car, so what? When you're young you will struggle with things, we all did. P.S.: if you are mostly doing videocalls i
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by pracer 5y ago
Actually not true. That is the typical environment of big corps in my experience. And also for companies who didnt adapt correctly to remote work. I work from Europe with a NY based startup and these problems were resolved. If some work may
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by pracer 5y ago
That is true. But the problem here is not the remote work, is the company workflow. It will be the same problem in the office.
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by pracer 5y ago
That is also the case when studying, and people may go to libraries or other places. That's an option too. The bright side is that a junior eng. is young, motivated and full of energy, so it can be done for a while until the salary hel
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by pracer 5y ago
"But personally the late night hours is a time when the world seems to stop and I'm able to be in my own space." I think this is exactly what the definition conveys. I had this "night owl" schedule when I was busy a
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by pracer 5y ago
Being myself a big advocate of remote work (and being working remote for the last 3 years, before pandemic) I agree that usually people underestimate the downsides. The thing is, in my opinion, that the key should be, does it really works h
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by pracer 5y ago
> But I would imagine it's far slower than doodling on a napkin with a colleague during break. I think you overestimate how much relevant these napkin innovation situations are. Talking with some coworker and drawing something over
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by pracer 5y ago
It doesn't need to be so. I started in my actual company 3 years ago, NY based startup and I was based in Europe. The first months we had every day meetings with one of the senior engineers in USA going through the changes we implement
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by pracer 5y ago
"I am not employed to write programs for other users or to be read by programmers. Every user is different." Well, unless you are the only programmer that company will ever has, you should write code that others can read and under
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by pracer 5y ago
"Rich people mostly ignore poor people because visible poverty makes them uncomfortable so they look away. They hate themselves if they see our humanity so they try not to." It has to be amazing having such a simple world model. O
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by pracer 5y ago
In regards to finding a project to start practicing, coupled with buying a dev board, I can recommend this course https://www.edx.org/course/embedded-systems-shape-the-world-... I did it some time ago, the board they u
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by pracer 5y ago
Spain. There are levels of taxation that provokes the following: your small company (1 to 10 employees) is doing really well so you try to increase the number of employees and business. And what happens is that when passing some threshold y
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by pracer 6y ago
This is, in my opinion and experience, the main gist of the problem. Management work doesn't take full time and people get bored or scared they can lose their jobs if someone finds they didn't do much. So you end up with a lot of
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by pracer 6y ago
I would agree with that. But the problem (already mentioned) is: how could a manager help you grow in the technical field if the manager is out of touch with it and didn't do coding or dev work for years? In any case, if I have to choo
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by pracer 6y ago
And this is the perfect example of why so many companies are doing it wrong. Managers that truly believe they are the ones pulling the weight and making projects possible (without any mention to technology and eng. knowledge) and if not, it
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by pracer 6y ago
Well, but that's what actually happens everywhere. The estimates are not for the team itself, but used for managers and the company. Even in the comments here it was justified as "the company needs to know that to sell it to custo
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by pracer 6y ago
>but a high performing team requires excellent communication and this is one way to achieve that. This is the problem: that sentence is backwards, as it is scrum. A high performance team HAVE excellent communication. So Scrum tries to fo
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by pracer 6y ago
> the sprint is meant to reassure management that they'll get at least *something (even if not a full X) in a predictable time I would rephrase it as "sprint is meant to make management to believe that they'll get at least
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by pracer 6y ago
In my experience, when you see scrum, you will see an over-bureaucratic company with way more managers that engineers and, usually, those managers (call them product owners, project managers whatever) are the ones calling the shots which le

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