unity1001

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by unity1001 3y ago
> You didn't even use the word "BASED". What?! > The common law derives from the medieval !Anglosaxon! feudal law, which is based on contracts, agreements, negotiations and precedents This is the !very first! statement
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by unity1001 3y ago
> That's neat, the dead are welcome to their opinions. That doesn't change where or why it's used primarily by certain parties in their English facing media. How does this justify removing an actual historic term from the
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by unity1001 3y ago
> Contracts apparently don't exist in civil law This does sound like insincere debate. Where does in my comments it says that contracts dont exist in civil law. It says civil law is not BASED on contracts, agreeements and precedents
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by unity1001 3y ago
Nowhere in my comment it says that criminals in other countries do not lie. Or the admission of guild is not considered evidence. It clearly outlines the differences in the legal systems and how the competent criminals navigate the former.
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by unity1001 3y ago
> Long standing in what circles? Long standing in history, long standing in diplomacy, long standing in actual freaking Louis XIV administration communique, long standing in practically everything. No offense but just because you people
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by unity1001 3y ago
> Ignoring the "Anglosaxon" buzzword The 'Anglosaxon' term is a long-standing political science, history and diplomacy term. Its not something that can be ignored, especially because... > none of this is unique con
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by unity1001 3y ago
> Thank goodness that criminals aren't very smart No, the criminals are extremely smart. Its just that these were amateurs who didnt know that in Anglosaxon common law, you have to avoid being honest about anything and even deny any
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by unity1001 3y ago
And it wont work until California can stop what is called 'The Greyhound Express'. That's what some people in other states call the practice that some states have - offering their homeless a one way ticket to California or ja
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by unity1001 3y ago
Concentration also causes less energy to be sent to the digestive system because the energy gets diverted to the brain. Concentration is an evolutionary 'fight or flight' adaptation. Therefore when you are highly concentrating, it
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by unity1001 3y ago
> Gaming laptops are terrible and a bad deal... They will. Either cheaper or better performance for same price. I found them pretty competent. An Asus ROG G17 easily gives at least ~80% performance of what the components would give if th
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by unity1001 3y ago
Yeah, they dont. Contradictorily so, since the part of the Turkey that is geographically in Europe is larger than many European states both in respect to surface area and also in respect to population.
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by unity1001 3y ago
Depends. A lot of techies still use Windows (AMD or Intel, depending), including in Europe where the purchasing power is higher. Apple people seem to be a certain subsegment of computer users even in Europe, and they may not necessarily con
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by unity1001 3y ago
The non-technical people use PCs. Macs are extremely expensive for an overwhelming majority of the world population. So when someone needs a 'computer', its a Wintel laptop.
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by unity1001 3y ago
Climate is not the air that you have inside your refrigerator. Its a system. If one part of it changes, the other parts will change in different ways to keep the system stable. So something cooling off somewhere does not mean that it will a
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by unity1001 3y ago
Yeah. Like downranking Iraqi websites in a hypothetical 2003 when they said "We dont have WMDs". So much better.
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by unity1001 3y ago
What? You seem to think that offshoring/outsourcing => only hiring an external company to do the work. It isnt. Companies have been setting up local subsidiaries in offshoring countries to hire local talent there and offshore the wo
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by unity1001 3y ago
Your qualitative data refutes your own argument: Leaving aside that you are using the average wages as a comparison, so that the wages of the guy in Sao Paulo or Bogota cannot be directly compared to - holy hell - the salary of a guy in San
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by unity1001 3y ago
Because it is a non-factor: Moving to a cheaper location allows them to cut a major % of the salary requirement due to living costs. Companies are already saving billions by creating satellite offices in cheaper states and providing remote
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by unity1001 3y ago
> It hasn't really been a reality the way it is today Holy hell you seem to be spamming this around. It may not have been a reality for you and the company that you work for. It has been a reality for a lot of people and none of the
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by unity1001 3y ago
> [remote work] hasn't really been a reality the way it is today. During covid, we were forced to implement norms and tools for remote working (like Zoom). Sorry to break it to you, but those tools were around and the companies that
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by unity1001 3y ago
> If remote work is established properly, then your remote job will end instantly and will be shipped to Canada or Latin America (if bosses care about timezones) or to Eastern Europe or India That was already happening. Remote work doesn
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by unity1001 3y ago
> I don't think I've ever had a Logitech mouse die on me Likely you are not using the mouses heavily. I had many die on me. Especially my sweet, sweet G500 - the best mouse ever for people with large hands - actual large hands,
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by unity1001 3y ago
That would be dumb - now not only they are losing talent, but they are also marking themselves as 'no go' for such talent by shutting off remote work. In future they could have to work as hard as Microsoft to change that reputatio
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by unity1001 3y ago
Simply because it replicates the same inequality that was inherently built into the feudal system by companies that originated from industrial revolution copying it into the new production modes: The elites always had the right to 'wor
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by unity1001 3y ago
One could be inclined to think that in different circumstances. However large software businesses (especially German) are among the backers of the bloc that governs Germany and controls a significant part of Euparl. So you can easily conclu
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by unity1001 3y ago
> European here. If German SAP companies want to bankrupt themselves because of global cuts on ties on FLOSS, where almost every component has some dependency on these in one way or another, that's ok. Note how the legislation is dr
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by unity1001 3y ago
> Are you selling that software in the EU or are you merely making it available? What difference does it make... If small developers and software businesses risk thousands of euros of fines, decided arbitrarily by the courts based on civ
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by unity1001 3y ago
> it's possible for legislation to be terrible while conceived entirely in good faith This is way too fine-tuned to destroy small software segments, open source and private developers included, for the benefit of large companies tha
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by unity1001 3y ago
> I think (maybe after some adjustments) this will be a boon to open source How can arbitrary fines that will be decided by the judge and that can reach up to hundreds of thousands of euros from a few thousand euros per violation be a bo
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by unity1001 3y ago
> if the commute is no more than 15 minutes If the commute is no more than 15 minutes, you are losing 30 minutes there and back every day, which is 10 hours every month, almost a waking day every month. Its still lost time. This is witho

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