twobyfour

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by twobyfour 9y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of bad ones out there. The best way I know is through networking. Chances are that someone in your network has worked with a good recruiter; or worked with someone they liked who was incidentally hired through a recrui
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by twobyfour 9y ago
How is that "baggage"?
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Ah. Set yourself a price ceiling before the call. Develop a habit of applying a skeptical attitude towards anything you hear, especially from someone you know has motive to persuade you. Ask to be put in touch with current clients with simi
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by twobyfour 9y ago
The ability to run entirely different operating systems from the host, for one thing.
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Find a good recruiter. Make a practice of taking the occasional personal day / mental health day even when happily employed and not looking.
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Yeah, except the effect only lasts past the next good night's sleep for 5% of patients. And I can't speak for about anyone else, but having experienced moderate depression, I'd rather be depressed than chronically sleep depri
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Empathy, self-awareness, and self control.
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Your description is way too vague to even begin to evaluate and respond to.
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Former member of Freelancer's Union here, though the only service I ever used was the health insurance. A decade ago it was pretty solid, and certainly better and cheaper than you could get on the individual markets. AFAICT these day
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Most of the "gig economy" is not contracts like a freelancer negotiates. It's tons of tiny jobs at non-negotiable rates like Uber or Fiverr pay their "contractors". I agree that they're terrible jobs that one
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Because rail never has to sit in traffic. Also, someone did a calculation that for buses to carry the same volume of passengers and NYC's L train alone when it's shut down for repairs, you would need to run them essentially bumper
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by twobyfour 9y ago
When my grandmother became too old to drive safely, we sold her car and had her use the proceeds for cabs to where she needed to go. When that ran out, her kids and grandkids covered the cab fare. It wasn't all that much more expensive
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by twobyfour 9y ago
That assumes the customer is the one who chooses. With most Americans getting insurance through their employers, they don't have the option to choose a less crappy insurer even if they trusted the claims of better service.
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Protect yourself in what sense?
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Join a pen testing firm?
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by twobyfour 9y ago
That's a good point. There's probably a way to highlight unexpected characters. I wouldn't use "Unicode" as a criterion (that's an encoding, not a character type that excludes ASCII). Perhaps the browser could
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by twobyfour 9y ago
That seems to me like a rather anglocentric view. How are people who speak Arabic, Hindi, or Greek supposed to use the internet? And believe it or not, not everyone's keyboard allows for easy input of ASCII characters. Besides, it&#x27
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by twobyfour 9y ago
I prefer a newsgroup/Google Group over either of those.
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Anecdatum: lack of protected bike lanes. My commute is a perfect distance for cycling, but the idea of sharing the road with drivers terrifies me.
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Additionally, as that quote points out, we tend to have higher sanitary standards for spaces where we clean ourselves.
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Yes. Some blue collar workers and most white collar workers get Christmas Day off. A fraction get Christmas Eve off or a half day. Many white collar workers get New Year's Day off. In between, you work unless you want to spend vacation
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by twobyfour 9y ago
I would hypothesize that we measure our free time in boredom. With smartphones in our pocket and the internet always available, we're rarely bored out of our minds any more - there's always a distraction to be had. So we feel like
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Taxes formulated like this tend to be regressive, since people with lower incomes tend to spend a higher proportion of their income than people with higher incomes do.
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by twobyfour 9y ago
What are you planning to do with the money when you return?
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by twobyfour 9y ago
But by that logic, Germany makes zero sense.
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Maybe. But then why would there be more in Germany than, say, the U.K.? Or Italy?
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Switzerland and Japan, maybe. What is now Germany was not particularly stable during the Middle Ages. Or the Early Modern era. Or the 20th Century for that matter.
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Right, obviously they're not going to be in the New World. The question is why those countries, of all the ones in the Old World? There's very little in France, the UK, Norway, Albania, India, Syria, and a heck of a lot of o
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by twobyfour 9y ago
The older tiers of this list seem to be heavily dominated by Japan, Germany, and Switzerland. Is that reflective of something other than the demographics of non-"New World" contributors to Wikipedia?
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by twobyfour 9y ago
Those clamshells are now recyclable. Do you not recycle your cardboard? BTW, landfills aren't great environments for decomposition even for paper and cardboard - the weight and compression make for a hostile environment for aerobic mi

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