mamon

My experience is exactly the opposite: I was eager to emigrate during Trump term in the office, despite him making it difficult. Now that Biden has won, I know that emigration should become much easier, but it also became pointless.

This tactic of lying under the desk can be easily replicated with any monitor handle, e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KZDJKWW?tag=georiot-trd-21&th...

It can quite easily point downwards, and you don't have to worry about the whole thing falling down on you. Add wireless keyboard and mouse and you're done.

There's no difference really. All "Big Data" (tm) tools are trying to capitalize on the hype, so Kafka adds database capabilities, while Spark adds Streaming. At some point they will reach feature parity.

Oh, I'm not afraid of reports of heart attacks a week after being vaccinated. I'm afraid of developing cancer 2 years later, which another 2 years later will be confirmed to be side effect of the vaccine. That's why normally clinical testing any drug takes years - to give long-term adverse effect the time to show.

And don't tell me there's no risk - Pfizer and others deem the risk high enough that they demand legal protection from liability before selling vaccine to anyone: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-pfizer...

In Poland there are two differences:

1. Healthcare is government-sponsored, so it costs you nothing

2. There are so called "first-contact doctors", who simply specialize in everyday things like treating common cold, and in more serious cases they would just point you to another, more specialized doctor. Getting appointment on the same or next day is quite easy.

> Not only that but how many people can get into a doctor the same day for the note?

No, it doesn't work like that in Poland. You can just call it in, saying "I'm sick" and then go to the doctor. Doctor's note can cover up to 3 days before the visit.

In Poland the number of sick days is unlimited but you need a form filled by an actual MD in order to claim it. Vacation days are separate pool.

In Poland we have a lottery that draws 20 numbers out of 80 TWICE A DAY. Other lottery is drawing 3 times a week. So a lot of drawings.

EDIT: Oh, the best part: we have this "lottery for the impatient" that has draws every 4 minutes :)

Another important thing: under US law should there be any legal dispute, or investigation involving your employer you might be required to submit your work phone for search. If you don't want court, SEC or FBI going through your private stuff then it's better to keep those things on a different phone.

It's a new take on the trick that many startups pulled off in the past: grow fast enough to draw atention, then get acquired. Now, since Tesla's growth has been beyond crazy, they might do the opposite: acquire some established automaker and then, finally, Tesla will get the much needed expertise in car manufacturing business. On the bright side: maybe Teslas will finally get some polish and lose the "overpriced crap" vibe.

>> Intel is still on 14nm

Why do people keep saying that? There's a variety of 10nm processors from Intel on the market.

>> as soon aa you leave the house to go to work or shopping, your neighbors will see you leave and attempt to break into your house

Really? In 21st century? seems like the Wild West to me.

Every organization will have leaders - that's just the human nature, most of us feel more comfortable if all hard decisions are made for us. The choice is between officially appointed leaders (managers), and unofficial ones - I guess it makes it harder to run an organization if you're not even sure who the actual leaders are.

> Nothing's ever enough for vegans.

The most funny argument used by vegans is: "we are closer to nature". There's nothing more natural than animals eating each other.

And no, humans are not herbivores. Some primates might be, but human evolution started the moment our monkey ancestors decided to get off the tree and eat meat. By promoting veganism you're trying to undo the last 3-5 millions of years of human evolution. Talk about Catholic Church pushing us back to Middle ages... /s

Another argument that I hate: by not eating animals you reduce suffering. If we take that to it's logical conclusion, the only way for you to not cause any sufferning is to die. That's why Buddhists (for whom "reducing suffering" is a religious imperative) came up with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu

Life is an infininte circle of joy, pleasure, sadness, suffering, death... If you try to eliminate one of them you are against the life itself.

EU also sets limits on how much farms can produce. No one cares about yield from unit of land, they care about keeping prices high, so that farmers get adequate profits.

EU will even pay farmers a pension if they retire and stop production.

offtopic: Article mentions people laughing at Columbus. What I have read before is that they laughed because he simply calculated the Earth circumference wrong: if his goal was really finding a way to India, then he would need much bigger ships and much more supplies just to not run out of food on the way. He was just lucky that America is so close to Europe :)

> Try reselling a year old Windows PC. Almost impossible. A year old Macbook? You can sell it within 15 minutes for a good price.

So the biggest advantage of Macs is that you can get rid of them easily? :)

The worst thing is: healthcare in my country is so focused on some bogus COVID "pandemic" that it starts to neglect other branches of medicine. Yes, there will be more deaths this year than average, but those people won't die from coronavirus, they will die from untreated cancer, cardiovascular disease, etc.

Possibly stupid question, but I'm really concerned, considering buying Librem 5 myself: what do we really know about Purism, and how do we know they are not NSA honeypot?

I wonder how much of that effect is because of this:

https://barbadoswelcomestamp.bb/

You can do those multitouch gestures on TouchBar /s

The problem is that taking the test before air travel or right after the arrival at the destination is like playing the Russian roulette. For example in my country you can take a COVID tests but:

1. you might need to wait for results for 4-5 days, while most destinations require taking it at most 72 hours before the arrival

2. if you turn out to be asymptomatic, but test positive, then you instantly get into at least 10 day quarantine (you cannot take tests anonymously). You have no time to cancel your travel plans.

Also, if you choose not do do it, but instead take test at your destination, you might get stuck in quarantine in the foreign country

So I would never travel to a country that requires tests. Only those which require just written statement, or location form, and maybe temperature check.

My condolences to all the Americans for voting Biden into the president's office. Please enjoy the remains your economic prosperity and peace while they last.

Also: sign up your children for Chinese lessons, they'll need it.

My totaly uneducated guess is: $2M base salary, and $20M in stock options per year.

My limited experience of European cafes is:

1. No place would dare to serve you tap water - it is basically considered a health hazard, and many guests would be offended by being offered it.

2. Bottled water is an item on the menu and will cost you money.

Minor nitpick: if there is cough involved, then those infections are not really asymptomatic, right?

It matters in which direction you go.

Going west, you'll be sleepy very early in the evening, but then no one is really stoping you from going to bed at 7 PM and staying in it for twelve hours straight until 7AM (you probably will wake up around 2-3 AM, but there's nothing else to do at that time, so you'll probably stay in bed just out of boredom). As the result you adapt pretty quickly.

Going east is much harder: you can't fall asleep at night, and then during the day you have things to do, so you end up sleep deprived for quite long.

Where did you get those numbers from? according to the article 6.1M miles was driven on the roads with safety drivers, and additional 65000 miles were driven without safety drivers.

"Simulated contacts" are when safety drivers engages, and Waymo investigates what would happen if they did not, so this is as close to the real life as it gets.

You've got to be kidding me. In Poland you can make 1.5x that. France must have very high taxes.

Funny, there is a Polish rhyme [1] for children based on the same concept: a person searching the whole house looking for glasses which they were wearing all the time :)

[1] https://blogs.transparent.com/polish/okulary-by-julian-tuwim... (scroll down for english version)