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by trosi 7mo ago
The "tips as compensation for your low salary" system exists only in the US and neighboring countries (Canada, Mexico) as far as I know. Now that they have started abusing it, it's even less defensible.
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by trosi 1y ago
> [...] there are zero specialized jobs in Pontevedra. Either you are a public state worker, for which you need to pass an exam to lock a lifelong job with no possibility of being fired regardless of how incompetent you are, or you work
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by trosi 1y ago
Audiences are increasingly distracted when watching movies and TV shows: the scripts have to be literal.
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by trosi 1y ago
They are not discounting the possibility that sociocultural factors play a role: > What explains the GAP? While evolutionary frameworks have traditionally been the dominant lens through which the GAP has been viewed— assuming its existen
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by trosi 1y ago
I was initially puzzled by the title of this article because a "sycophant" in my native language (Italian) is a "snitch" or a "slanderer", usually one paid to be so. I am just finding out that the English meani
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by trosi 1y ago
> Betting on Python a decade ago was a good use of my time. Would you make the same bet today? Or if not, what other language/technology would you bet on?
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by trosi 2y ago
Well, I'm also European and I am disgusted by our leaders as well. What have they been doing? Why are our soldiers not defending Ukraine already? Why do you assume that we are any better?
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by trosi 2y ago
> That should be "considered innocent by the legal system" Which is what matters when determining sentences. > People are still free to come to their own conclusions--and act on them People are definitely not free to act on
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by trosi 2y ago
Teens don't get addicted to Hacker News
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by trosi 2y ago
It is perhaps a narrow view, but not an incorrect one. You mention state funded projects, but the funding has to come from somewhere else. What the author is saying is this: it takes money to run a gallery (or a museum, for that matter), th
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by trosi 2y ago
If you include enough opinion pieces on highly controversial subjects and always from the same perspective your readers will start noticing. Just because they are opinions it doesn't mean that people can't deem them ridiculous.
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by trosi 2y ago
> Its not like I can take a holiday in europe and still collect. Last year I was vacationing in Sicily and I met a French girl who was doing just that: traveling Europe while collecting unemployment from her home country. I am in favor o
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by trosi 2y ago
Adjust the wages by inflation every year, it's pretty simple. I'm not against higher corporate tax rates, but that's a separate problem.
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by trosi 2y ago
A simpler solution to #2 would be to raise minimum wages.
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by trosi 2y ago
I don't know how it works in the US (and I assume it might be different state by state), but in many countries in Europe this is already the case. For example: if you get fired today you are entitled to a benefit if you have worked at
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by trosi 2y ago
You could have cited a hundred valid examples to make your point. You picked a stupid one.
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by trosi 2y ago
To some extent, I imagine that moderate alcohol consumption is an almost necessary consequence of having an active social life. If a couple tells you that they both drink, it's likely that they do so together and with friends, which is
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by trosi 3y ago
They like money just like everyone else does. And you can't build AGI without a lot of money. The board screwed up. They could have negotiated with MS on another CEO. Instead they went behind everyone's backs and thought themselve
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by trosi 3y ago
Kind of ironic of them to mention "improved transparency" while writing in the most possible opaque way. Just say it as it is.
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by trosi 3y ago
There are lots of places where you can work illegally without a contract and therefore without declaring an income.
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by trosi 3y ago
> Also, yes, sex practices have changed widely in regard to oral sex, many men considered it to be emasculating to go down on a woman and sex was pretty much just PIV until the man finishes and then done. It's always felt normal to
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by trosi 3y ago
He was specifically talking about physical money (cash) vs digital money only.
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by trosi 4y ago
Wow, I did not expect that to happen basically overnight. I guess FINMA and the Swiss government were really fed up with the CS shenanigans.
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by trosi 4y ago
Yep, I'd very angry at Yellen right now if I was a shareholder of a small bank.
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by trosi 4y ago
You could print that statement and hang it on the front door, cause it's been true almost every day of the past few months
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by trosi 4y ago
Or the opposite could happen. Bias works in both directions.
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by trosi 4y ago
Reminds of that part in the Three-Body Problem novel where the emperor of the videogame builds a CPU with soldiers as bits
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by trosi 4y ago
It's like noticing that McDonald's execs don't take their kids to eat fast food every day. Too much screen time can be dangerous for anyone.
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by trosi 4y ago
Best weather you can find in Switzerland
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by trosi 4y ago
"It's a fact...that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two sys

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