sbarzowski

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by sbarzowski 4y ago
I wouldn’t generalize here.
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by sbarzowski 5y ago
I agree. Just wanted to note that there are systems which are not tax-paid and still avoid the problems that you have in the US. E.g. in Switzerland health insurance is private, but the variables that can be used to determine the price are
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by sbarzowski 6y ago
You could say the same about bakeries ("seeking to maximize their profits on other people's basic needs"). IMO the problem is more about (very) imperfect competition. Also medicine is very special in many ways (desperate buye
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by sbarzowski 6y ago
Yes it depends on a particular situation, but the net salary is what really matters in the end. It's better to compare meaningful net salary, even with some gotchas, even as a ballpark figure. Gross salary is kinda meaningless (from em
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by sbarzowski 6y ago
Well, actually Jsonnet is Turing complete. Anyway, thanks for the shoutout.
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by sbarzowski 7y ago
Not necessarily. You may just think that the costs of the discourse outweigh the benefits in some specific context.
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by sbarzowski 7y ago
It basically looks like an intro to a Black Mirror episode...
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by sbarzowski 7y ago
Seriously, people should not choose names which are already taken in the same general area of technology. Even if it "makes sense". The whole point of naming things is to refer to things more or less unambiguously.
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by sbarzowski 7y ago
1) Feedback (going both ways). 2) Anything that is blocking/bothering you. 3) How you feel about any recent developments in the team/company. 4) Long-term career stuff. What interests you, in what direction you want to be going.
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by sbarzowski 8y ago
The really surprising part is that after this incident OP still wanted to work with that company, even though from what I understand they didn't make it up to him in any way.