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On the other hand, a family makes you much more dependent on the job, which is what employers want too.

Did you notice a dip in your job performance?

In-demand devs do contracts instead, which pay very well.

If you don't aspire to be a pro player and just want to have fun, you can compete in limited only. I have friends who do that. I myself chose phantom sealed deck tournaments on mtgo, which, provided you don't suck, are basically free.

That is only true for constructed (I've known people who made a living out of playing 8-4 drafts on mtgo). And even for constructed, it is only pay to win up to a point where everyone has access to all the cards (by either buying or borrowing), which is where most competitive constructed players are.

Only in constructed formats (where you build a deck out of your entire collection). In limited formats (which are hugely popular), you and people you play against build decks out of a common pool of cards. There is an entry fee and there are awards for finishing in top spots. So, in the long run, if your win rate is high enough, you can play for free or even make money, but if you suck, you're going to spend a lot.

In Magic at least it's not pay to win - the better you are, the less you need to spend.

That's one of the points of code reviews - as you get feedback on how you should improve tests in your commits, over time you learn what "well-tested" means.

I though it was a short way to make a clear point. Let me write a longer version then:

Is it barbaric? Maybe, but, whether we like it or not, the world has a defnite component of barbarism to it. There are wars going on as we speak, and there are threats of much bigger wars constantly hanging in the air.

It not impossible to eliminate physical danger out of our lives and to dismiss it (because one does not witness it first-hand at the moment) is not very mature. I'm not even mentioning the natural calamities, fires, car crashes etc., where there's room for heroism as well.

> "In harms way"? Doesn't that seem rather ... barbarian.

Was your grandpa that fought in WWII (assuming for a second you had one) a barbarian?

I didn't listed to the podcast. Is there a high chance of being killed? Maimed?

These are not battles. These are just people/companies having careers and making money. Even the researcher is usually forgoing the well paid job to do the research because the research is interesting to him - he's just trading off one for of payoff (money) for another (job satisfaction). Meanwhile, there's no payoff in volunteering to go to a war with a high chance of getting killed or maimed.

Re: battles. There are still real battles in the world (Ukraine, Syria) where there's plenty of heroes.

To sum up, I'd say that it's a blessing that a lot of the world is so peaceful now that the meaning of the word 'hero' is getting washed down to literally 'people doing their (maybe slighly unpleasant) jobs'.

A hero is someone who puts himself in harm's way for the benefit of others. A guy in a desk job is not a hero.

There's a ton more variety in the US tech jobs. If you want to work in an interesting niche, such as computer vision, rendering, self-driving cars etc., I think US is the place to be. Not only there are many more positions, but they also pay decently (whereas in Europe if you want to do interesting stuff, you'll be making a third of what your Hadoop friends make).

Didn't he have something like 17% support? That's hardly minor.

A decision to start your adult life with borrowing large amount of money and spending it on studying an esoteric subject would be considered extremely irresponsible in most societies ( assuming the person does not have any assets or marketable skills to fall back on).

In my experience, the more expensive brands are no more reliable. Cotton t-shirt is a cotton t-shirt, there isn't much you can make to make it more durable. You could use a thicker fabric, but then it would not be the same t-shirt. The only option available that comes to my mind is using more resilient dyes.

> Some of the specific ideas for demonstrating high status included not moving your head when speaking, speaking and moving slowly, beginning statements with a long 'uhhhh' (a short 'uh' sound, however, demonstrated low status), and taking up space.

I hope this knowledge (regardless of whether it's true) does not spread - I'm sure there would be plenty of people who will try to "hack the system" and will act according to this list, which would be insufferable.

> Small business does not have the capital to pay employees properly. So really it should not exist in the way the economy is structured. So it won't exist if you take cheap labour out of the picture.

If the result is people renovating their houses left often or building smaller houses in general, then maybe it's a fair price to pay for more social cohesion?

How about blocking Google search? You can easily stumble upon some nudity/porn in the image search.

In general: lower wages, higher taxes.

Are there really hundreds of thousands of developers who make a living out of an app store?

Because: we understand that there is a relation, but we're having a hard time actually quantifying it (the models predict a wide range of possible future temperatures, and they themselves are super complex and change often so we cannot fully even trust those ranges). Without a solid prediction model, it's very hard to justify financial decisions - let alone global, trillion dollar ones.

That's old news, the civic proposal to harden the laws on abrotion was later overthrown in the parliament by the "extreme rightwing" ruling party. I wonder if BBC reported on that.

> When I go to a Polish festival, there is sausages and beer. It isn't broadcast that the government has gone extreme right wing, that womens right to abortion is being removed and criminalised.

Probably because neither of those things is true.

In the same way as an abused prisoner has a lot of similarity to its oppressor prison guard I guess...

> Scotland & London vs. Wales & the rest of Britain

How is Wales less coastal than Scotland?

> 95% prisoners are there on plea bargain

It could be because the people who know they are guilty take the bargain and save themselves some years, while the innocent go to court and prove their innocence.

> Really hard to see the defensible "moat" in the business models of these delivery companies.

Couldn't the same be said about a lot of the "unicorns"? For example Dropbox or AirB'n'B don't have significant network effects and anyone with some cash can copy their software and directly compete with them (the same way Lyft is competing with Uber). The likes of Facebook and Twitter are an exception.

> I could make the same argument about farm equipment eliminating farmers' jobs, and not leaving as many jobs for farm equipment repair.

This. 300 years ago, 90+% of population was working in agriculture - now it's around 2% in developed countries. And yet, there was no armageddon - we managed to develop all these new needs that keep people employed. People saying that "this time it will be different" ignore the almost unlimited growth potential of some industries, such as for example teaching (we could go back to the standard of one teacher per one pupil that rich people had back in the day), psychological counsel (potentially everybody could benefit from a shrink/coach), or human-based health care (more nurses -> better standard of care).