qngcdvy

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by qngcdvy 2y ago
Seems to intersect with my experience. The best guys I've worked with had test...to some extend...especially in places that did some work you could easily get wrong by not thinking about a small edge case. Yet, none of them had or purs
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by qngcdvy 2y ago
Don't remember where I heard it, but I was told that Starbucks has actually decent quality beans that they overroast way too far. What a waste. Your experience seems to agree with what I heard.
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by qngcdvy 2y ago
I might have looked at what they wrote through the "Germany"-lenses. While increasing solar is certainly a success, falling short in wind, hastily getting out of nuclear years ago, heavily using coal, failing to even install a hig
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by qngcdvy 2y ago
I think its twofold. On the one hand, people don't like the CEO types that are present everywhere, hyping up anything and who always must give their five cents. The likes of Musk and Sam Altman. I include myself in this group, I for e
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by qngcdvy 2y ago
Wait, you guys basically have similar problems? I thought it was only our politicians who were incompetent. Well...I'm sure they are more incompetent than yours for sure, but at least we're in the same boat there!
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by qngcdvy 2y ago
For anyone reading this who has never been to Germany: Apartments can also be present in villages. Some rural ones only consist of single family homes, but there are also multiple-family apartment buildings in some villages (no high-rises o
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by qngcdvy 2y ago
To me, the opinion about nuclear power kind of feels like the subject of homeopathy in Germany. It feels like in the general population there is a whole that can only be filled by non-science and quackery. The most reasonable people that u
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by qngcdvy 2y ago
Fun Fact: Air traffic controller strikes also count as force majeur Actually, once my flight (to Europe) was delayed by like 4h because they had an air traffic controller strike in another country THE NEXT DAY and kind of shuffled their pla
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by qngcdvy 3y ago
Yeah or it's just the capital that has been there in abundance. Spawned from the defense industry, thriving through the money made in the 2000s and after by creating profits all over the world (ads!) and then evading taxation as much
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by qngcdvy 3y ago
That you should be forced to have a miserable commute, spend less time with your family and be a happy little worker drone. Oh and you'd thank management each day for allowing you to spend your precious little free time raking in profi
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by qngcdvy 3y ago
Can speak from personal experience: This seems true. I observed management following trends (both technology and HR) from the valley. One manager even said (while roaming the empty hallways on a a day where not many teams have their team-o
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by qngcdvy 3y ago
In my personal environment I have many people that don't live in the city they work in, for various reasons. They do, however, live in the range of like 1h-1.5h away. 1.5h on a daily level, speaking from experience, can really make or
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by qngcdvy 3y ago
You say that...I fear that myself. But it's like the prisoners dilemma I think...if that happens, then some places will indeed allow work from home and snatch those high-performers just off the market.
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by qngcdvy 3y ago
I have no opinion about measures to take or not, but what can be said is that this access to the markets was bought with industrial espionage, technology theft and questionable cooperation practices (cases where some company basically just
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by qngcdvy 4y ago
As much as the tracking I fear the access control. Made some stupid comment online while being drunk? We take your ability to by transportation passes/plane tickets... IIRC this is already happening in China.
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by qngcdvy 4y ago
You seem to argue strongly in favor of deception, but justifying that it's ok if all the other measures against false convictions are in place (lawyers, police who work by the book...). To me, it's like wearing a safety belt. I me
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by qngcdvy 4y ago
Sweet. That makes my bathroom breaks after the day I had genuine Mexican food a sport, too.
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by qngcdvy 5y ago
Did you ever find out what it did there exactly? Like, what it collected and what the "gifted person" wanted to do with that data? edit: Thanks for the write-up btw. Was a nice read, although a bit short (which is the story's
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by qngcdvy 5y ago
> How likely is that? Well, having been in Paris: There are many times and places when all the shared bikes are borrowed.