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War against food :-)

Should I be? Go to India for a few months, and ask again :-)

Article is missing many details. 8 workers with $40,000 in owed wages, thats about 1 months work. Now get some accountancy tricks and you get MANY possible scenarios. That 120 hour/weeks could be overtime they accumulated in India.

Nobody here ever worked for $1/hour? Many people would love to do this, just to be in California for free for a few weeks (all expenses paid).

Anyway, I just feel I should pass different opinion.

In Europe it is common to provide car and petrol. However from some point it is perceived as a benefit and taxed.

There is someone who OWNS the estimates, usually manager. So I just tell him that his estimates were wrong, same way I would open new bug report on software. For my own customers I provide revisited estimate and plan B if they decide to pull the plug.

There is lot of stuff about honesty and so on. After being maintenance programmer for a long time, I would just say: Do not stress about it, and always inform relevant people.

I read that bug, highly recommend. It tells good story, while keeping with facts we found.

Being unsafe never stopped Ruby or PHP, while Ada is still nowhere.

In Europe (at least in czech rep) non-compete is limited to one year, and original company has to pay worker, if he is unable to find new job due to non-compete agreement.

Those billions are made outside of US. And I think that their Irish branches are separate companies, not american.

I started my own business after becoming stay-at-home dad. I know many parents with their own company, startup is good way to escape corporate cubicle, and spend more time with kids. Not sure why being parent as something worth mentioning here.

Just read basic economics, it is really simple.

VC ecosystem is insignificant. Easing will stay until its results are aligned with leaders priorities.

It is all related to quantitative easing, there are not savings, but easy money around. Totally different dynamics compared to last stock bubble.

epidemics are very common in european history

It goes both ways. For example Syphilis spread in Europe after 1495, most likely brought by Columbus from America.

Because too many men from continental Europe were slaughtered during WW1. In many ways Europe has not recovered until 1960.

All you need to understand this problem is better language.

All of this has been solved long time ago at Java Swing. Checkout Mig Layout.

He was planning to stay long-term, but had to change his job.

Just saying this system is not as super as it sounds.

No, but why to make it compulsory for 'visitors'?

He is EU resident. Imagine in US you would be forced to contribute to state pension, but would get your money only if you work for 30 years in single state. Moving from California to Texas == zero pension.

Article is just b*t. There is zero criticism, zero data, just naive adoration. It is sad to see something like that on NY Times.

My friend worked in Netherlands for 6 years. He lost 20% of his salary, he will get ZERO, because he is not local resident.

Why would anyone install flashlight app which requires access to contacts and emails?

I dont install app which requests excessive permission. My Lenovo phone has application firewall, everything is blocked, except two white listed apps. My /etc/hosts has 3000 lines...

It is not that hard...

When I was traveling to Russia 15 years ago, relatives warned me not to show any cash to police.

I guess the fuel could be poisoning (that was case for some soviet military rockets). Other option is just caution not to introduce dust particles etc...

With tea we do not have such problems :-)

I think I will stick with a Docker. DEB packages are very complicated and this tool does not really handle dependency conflits and so on that well. Plus it does not work with RPM and other packages systems.

> it is as complex as any machine humans could create up until the 14th Century.

Not really. Romans were quite nifty as well. Byzantine empire had many automatons. There are steam machines used by arabs...

People have to train and city road is not best of surfaces. So it is very possible that somewhere someone already ran faster than 2 hours, just did not care to record it or announce it.

Data would suggest that 2-hour marathon record was already broken, but not recorded.

> I pay 10 USD/month for this insurance

In EU it can be easily 1000 USD/month. Compulsory!

I know situation fairly well, my wife works in marine research. Organization with 150 people has 10 HR persons. There are no money to fund research, everything went into fancy office. McDonalds stuff are paid better than lab assistants...

My point is that people at such position can best serve science, if they funnel some money into actual research. There are many researchers, but qualified administrators who actually cares, are very rare.