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For what it's worth, IB is down for me too. I can log in, but the stock lookup doesn't work at all.

Please, please don't mention Factorio, it's too addictive. I bought it on Steam during Christmas 2 years ago and almost forgot there's a world outside. I spent 80 hours playing it in a couple of days and it was just one game. Later I found out that most people beat it much faster (https://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=17455) and it made the guilt of wasting time even stronger.

It is an awesome game though. Just don't start.

After looking at these numbers I realized Western Europe pays a bit better than I expected and US outside SV a bit worse :) The difference still seems to be there, but one part of that is USD/EUR being pretty high currently.

Because of using a rectangular ASCII symbol the snake seems to be moving much faster vertically than horizontally ...

From what I understand GDPR was supposed to guarantee opt-out by default and this is widely adopted. Instead of having stupid popups on every single website asking us to agree to their tracking policies, wouldn't it make more sense to enforce a law that says they should respect the setting expressed in the header and users must not be bothered?

Exactly. The usual way to deal with this would be to move the `where(:x => "y").where(:y => "z")` logic to a scope on the Model and test the scope in a unit test by checking if it returns the records as intended.

It seems you can't yet.

It seems grass is always greener on the other side. I'm from Eastern Europe and work remotely for a Western European company which is very beneficial from the financial point of view. Schengen Agreement makes it also very convenient to travel around and stay in different countries from time to time.

I do, however, always feel like the actual place to be for tech experts is USA. The European market seems too fragmented and too conservative. The VC money just doesn't seem to be there and most tech companies never grow that big as on the other side of the pond. I would love to spend some time in US, be it in SV, NYC or some other tech hub, but I don't really want to go through all the immigration hassle if I can pick any of the EU countries and just move there whenever I wish...

Could anybody explain why some people say the weather in SF is amazing and some others that it's rubbish? I've never been to California.

Semi-related story of mine:

1. Stumble upon some specific problem with a web framework we use.

2. Jump straight to stackoverflow.

3. Sbd had a similar issue, nice.

4. Sbd wrote a very concise answer, nice too.

5. There's my nickname under the answer. Oh, wait...

This is already happening: https://github.com/solid/solid-spec/blob/master/README.md.

Good stuff, thanks.

I'm wondering how one converts to a data scientist or ML engineer from a pure web development background without going back to school? I've been a backend developer for many years and I'm already a bit bored with working on software-only products. Would love to move on with my career to a point where I could have some more influence on what's happening in the real world off the web. Where did you start?

It seems their website at http://www.vugu.org is a demo as it contains some of those vg attributes in the source code.

I had exactly the same thoughts when I stumbled upon it wandering around the downtown late at night. It was dark, I was alone in the patio and the building front looked amazingly scary.

I love https://redis.io/documentation. It has a great UI too.

If you are buying a CPU for gaming you would be better off with i5-8400 which is half the price and performs equally well in most games. Oh, and it comes with a stock cooler (8600k and 8700k don't).

Most rumors say it can't.

Maybe it has something to do with the film being able to capture a larger spectrum of colors, the "analog feel" in general or the ability to scan it to higher resolutions in the future when technology advances? None of these seem to justify the costs though. There are probably some other reasons, I'm just guessing.

Why would you advise to mine bitcoins? If you feel it's a good investment just buy some.

Try https://github.com/wavesoft/dot-dom

It looks like tiny React and is just 511b gzipped.

Less sodium, yes. More protein? Of course not. Lean meat contains around 20-25% of protein. Do you know of any plant that could compare?

I envy your positive attitude. 3k€ of disposable salary per month in a huge European metropolis like Paris seems very low to me. That's roughly what a web developer with 3-5 years of experience can get in a mid-sized (400-600k) city here in Poland and the prices of virtually everything are way lower. 700eur can get you a nice 2-3 bedroom apartment in a very downtown of such city and transport, food, groceries, restaurants, cinema tickets are probably all 2-3 times cheaper than in Paris. I personally feel developers in big cities of Spain, France and Italy are getting screwed big time comparing with their counterparts in US or other places in Europe and even Asia.

Try this first: http://www.firewatchgame.com/ :)

1. Learn something that can help you to do stuff that people are willing to pay for. You already know some webdev, so maybe go ahead and spend a couple of months trying out some frontend frameworks. There are ample amounts of frontend jobs everywhere in US, EU and Asia.

2. Find a remote job in US. Even a junior position with a low salary would allow you to live decently in most European places (maybe except downtown London, etc.).

3. Pick a random European city you might like, get an airbnb and just go there for a while.

4. If you like it, stay. If you don't, pick another city. If you can't make the decision in 3 months, move to a cheap place in Asia and go back when you can. Flights are cheap. Places to stay are cheap. Just lower the bar. You don't have to live in the middle of Paris or London this whole time.

5. Travel a lot and profit. Unless of course your prefer to go through a routine of choosing a single place, finding a job in there, networking, making lots of new friends, etc. There's your tradeoff, but hey, you are 26.

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No offence, but how does physically coming to you and bringing your food justifies paying additional 10-20%? As mentioned above, I live in EU and almost never tip, because I cannot really understand this cultural thing. Why should I pay a special tip to sbd who brings my food and not clerks in a bakery or a garbage track drivers? I'm being serious here, I'm trying to understand why people do this. Is there any other reason than "the custom"?

Haha. Funny to read this as I have similar feeling most of the time, but the reason is that I almost never tip. I know I might be considered an a-hole, but I just cannot justify paying additional 10-20% for the "how's your meal" bs every time I go out to eat (and I go out a lot). If somebody agrees to be paid below the living wage it's not really my business and I think it's up to the owner and his staff to make these things straight.

Last year I have also visited Australia for the first time with my wife and we absolutely loved the fact on the contrary to other Western countries you are never expected to tip in there. From what I understand waiters get their reasonable salaries, the food is quite expensive, but if you see 38$ in the menu, you know you are going to leave 38$ on the table. Nobody has to waste their brain cycles thinking about how to tip the dudes. We live in EU and find EU and US tipping culture a major pain in the a.

Funny they want to start it in Milan which seems like a ground for the ultimate test of their marketing. If it can be accepted there by posh crowds who appreciate good design and gourmet food like nobody else in the world, they can make it anywhere. In other big cities though, like Florence, Rome or Venice there are so many Asian and American tourists that they alone can make Starbucks a sustainable business, even without a single Italian buying their coffee, ever :)

What's the evidence that results of such study could be generalized to the entire population? I mean, yeah, 2000 people seem like a big group, but one might have different ideas about what to do with free money if the society around stays exactly the same vs when everybody else is also entitled to UBI. When I'm unemployed and look around and see all my friends work I might feel quite ashamed of myself and willing to change, but if all of them "retire" at 30 instead this might not be exactly the case.

This post is a karma-bait!