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I finished high-school in 2001 and started working straight away (before college, I continued working part time during my studies). Being cheap was probably a big part of why I got and kept that first job for 4 years! I was paid a little above minimum wage.
Interesting point-of-view. I never use Github/Google/whatever to sign up with another website in an effort to minimise their cross-site tracking. In fact if a site only offers FB/Goog/Github sign-in and lacks their own sign-in identity management, I simply refuse to use it at all and go elsewhere. (And there's always an 'elsewhere'!)
Many people map capslock to Ctrl or Escape. Or both, depending on whether the key is held or tappped.
Yeah it's weird. But there are t-shirts where it's understandable. For example, there's a t-shirt brand called wijld (in Europe), which:

- produce shirts in the EU and not in countries with child labor

- use 60%+ wood fibers for their shirts (which is more expensive, but ecologically better)

- feel great with high quality

So, while 30 bucks for a t-shirt seem expensive when you can get others for 5-10 bucks, they actually are better in many ways.

Of course, this isn't true for most expensive designer stuff ;)
what were trotsky's contributions to (or distortions of) marxist quack economics?
I didn't get the impression the article assumed pushing to master. It was more a case of you're working on a feature branch and another dev pushes to that same feature branch before you push your local commits.

I agree that even in larger teams you shouldn't face this problem in the first place if devs work just on their own branches instead of sharing. Rebasing is also a great way way to avoid merge commits.
Opening bank accounts is more difficult even for locals.

Money laundering scandals with Danske Bank and Swedbank have made it more complicated.

But I guess it is still easier than in other countries.
Were you introduced to the bank by an agent or did you go directly to the bank?
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I’m from Boise, where HP headquarters are. Many of my friends parents were laid off unceremoniously in 2008/9. There was a lot of resentment
Heh, it seems like being #2 on a scumbag top list is the worst place you can be; you don't even get to claim you're the biggest scumbag around.
the crash was not a singular event, 9/11 was at the tail end of it but it was crashing for a good 2 years or so from 2000-2002/3 (look at a graph of the NASDAQ from the 90s till today).
I find more intriguing/interesting than the whole actual Estonian e-id/whatever technological achievements, that the President of a country writes an article (of course not very critical on the way the governement administration is managed) on qz.com.
But at the same time having everything digital gives much more control on everyone to a State (if the laws permit it to do so... or maybe even if they don't)
The price correction is the point. If the externalities are internalized it makes better methods proportionality more incentivized and viable if say cotton fabric garments are only seventeen cents more expensive than a synthetic instead of the previous two dollars without environmental costs factored in. Demand would be shifted accordingly.
A lot is said about Estonia but Lithuania is better positioned and grows faster than Estonia.

It's interesting but to me Estonia cant quite compete with its neighbors to the point of becoming wealthier than they are now.
What value does a comment like this add? The question asks for the perspective of someone during the dot com bust and this was his.
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I didn't mean he contributed to it - he may have, I don't know. Only that he promulgated its tenets during his long career as a Marxist propagandist and socialist organizer.
I've been eyeing those designs for a while now, I really wish this sort of stuff became actual fashion. It looks cool as heck and it doesn't seem especially impractical or hard to produce.

I'm still too big a whuss to actually wear anything like that though, even if it was reasonably priced.
Before people start praising Estonia for its e-voting system, which inevitably happens on such stories, let me remind you that the system was indeed open to compromise:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/estonias-id-card-scrisis-how-e...

The timeline may also match the hack the GCHQ and NSA did against the Estonian e-ID provider, Gemalto:

https://theintercept.com/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/

So remember that even with hardware tokens used in electronic voting, which are supposed to be much more secure than using other forms of authentication, you still run the risk of having the election compromised, especially since an election is something important enough that more than one major country could be interested in manipulating at any given time.

It's not like the "well, I'm nobody, so why would the NSA/other spy agency target me?!" situation at all. We're talking about the decision of who gets to run a whole country, and sophisticated adversaries will be very interested in influencing that if it can serve their interests.

We know China hacks tons of countries, we know Russia has been meddling with all sorts of elections lately, and we also know that for the past 70 years the USA has interfered in about one election per year, on average. This is not just theoretical stuff that would never happen. And I'm sure there are many Middle-Eastern and other Asian countries interested in influencing their rivals' elections, too.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/americas-long-histor...
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I live between poor and rich neighborhoods, both of them throw a massive amount of stuff. It's true that you can find better brand / rarer stuff in rich places but the volume is similar.
I'm biased because I lived in Estonia and worked for their govt but why is Lithuania better positioned? Very rarely did we hear companies compare Estonia to Lithuania when they were making a choice for where to build their business
That's interesting.
I could try it but I have plenty of cases where I see clear causes that make me unnecessarily tired and this is going on with me for 2 decades now.

- Turn off wireless signals like Bluetooth (I keep WiFi with low emission setting which isn't as bad as BT but 5Ghz is worse than 2.4Ghz, so I only use 2.4Ghz frequency.)

- Many of recent phones. (Bought iPhone X, Pixel 3a and those I can't keep close to me no matter how I tweak their settings, so they're away from me kept in boxes but I still need them for testing for my work.)

- LED displays keep me uneasy. I use fluorescent ones.

- IC chips used for credit cards and passports. I keep them minimum in my wallet.

These are from what I've bought and sold just to find what might feel better for me. I wish I could just keep what I want.

(Also not EM but chemical substances, just to say I've been living with hypersensitivity.

- Keeping clothes on after coming back home from outside. So I quickly wash and take shower.

- Need to clean wall every few weeks before I feel kind of choked, maybe due to glue used for the wallpapers.

- Very small amount of mold. I have to clean my air conditioner from a professional service every season.)

I can keep going but those are some.
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I was working in Lisbon straight out of college in a consulting company, and we were 300 people occupying 3 floors in one of the city's major office areas.

Things were already going downhill, but then 9/11 came, we had a building evacuation etc. and then in the space of 3 months we had downsized to less than 100 people and a single floor, the other two floors where closed.

A lot of people were sent back to their home offices (Spain, Poland and all over Europe) and then laid off there, as major support contracts were not renewed.

The salaries back then and even before in the late '90s were actually about the same as they are now in 2019. The same goes for the consulting rates, they have remained largely unchanged in the past 20 years or so.

If you add up 20 years of inflation, you will see that back then being a software developer was a very interesting option and a job much in demand.

A lot of people went from development into testing, production support, sys admin, business analysis, etc.
When EKRE rules over, it will change dramatically to opposite direction.
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It's not an Apollo era OS though, any more than a new car is a 50 year old car.

They're both recognisably the same thing, but worlds apart - and have grown hugely in weight, power and included extras. I'm quite happy to find I don't have to keep relearning the basics of either. Whether car pedals in same place each time, or ps switches.
None of the big firms are well respected. The problem here is that if you are outsourcing software development, then you view it as a cost to be minimized rather than as something you care about. That means most of your projects are not interesting to work on, so these firms tend to have big turnover problems with talented staff. A lot of their work is keeping products alive in maintenance mode, for example, so that the vendor can claim that something is still supported in order to meet contractual commitments, but really they don't want to keep investing in the product. Consultancies are the hospices of dead product lines.

Real engineering innovation doesn't happen in this space, and there is so much innovation going on right now that if you are a talented developer you can do a lot better than work for one of these firms. If you are an overseas developer, you are much better off getting hired directly by a tech company to work on their products with an H1B than by going the Infosys route. There just isn't the surplus of talent claimed to staff these companies, and if you are unlucky enough to be a smart, driven developer working for one of them, you will end up bored out of your mind.

But at the same time, there are some excellent boutique consultancies, mostly small sized, with truly talented people, who decided to strike out on their own or in small teams. But again that's not a business model that scales to create massive consultancy behemoths. I know of a few, but they are colleagues who decided to work for themselves, it's not a brand you would have heard of.

This is true even for blue chip firms like IBM, whose consultancy business also has a terrible reputation for overcharging customers and not delivering what was expected.
That's actually a very good analogy.
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Do you need to control how every engineer works?

If you don't want to work for a corporation, don't work for a corporation. Why do you need to tell the entirety of engineers how to do it?
Important to note that this 20% corporate tax is applied to the taxable payment (e.g. dividend payouts).

There are no taxes to pay for the yearly profit, which makes it much easier for companies that do plan to reinvest the income over the years or just hold it.

Also, one should probably have employees or customers physically in Estonia, otherwise the company tax residency might change into other jurisdictions.. IANAL.

I'm curious if there are any other EU countries with a similar flexibility (corporate income tax not applied until the "payout event")?
then what do you mean by the tenets of marxist economics? what's quack about them?
Tsinghua University has an interesting history. When the republican party lost the civil war against the communists, some scholars (including the university president) left and recreated the university in Taiwan.

That's why there is today the Tsinghua University [1] in China, and the National Tsing Hua University [2] in Taiwan, with really similar logo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_University

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Tsing_Hua_University
> I would imagine big tech stocks in general would start to see a loss in confidence and a reversion to more normal P/E ratios.

Most of the big tech companies have not particularly strange P/E ratios.

> I would imagine at that point softbank would be such a dirty word that it would have to firesale as well.

What's the mechanism here? Uber takes a large writedown leads to Softbank declaring bankruptcy? I don't follow the reasoning.

> Do I have an overly active imagination? Does anyone else worry about this kind of stuff?

Yes and no.
>here is a Facebook group that might have better perspectives, or 'Coffee Twitter', but neither of those are easy to discover through Google
I'm seeing this as a growing problem, more and more content exists that is not accessible for Google and therefore not searchable
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All these images are terrible, but it doesn't match my understanding of radioactivity. I thought the lessons learned from Hiroshima and Nagazaki was that radioactivity was causing very few mutations (far less than expected), but instead was causing mainly sterilities. I am not an expert, but teratogene effects are generally caused by chemical products. If uranium is similar to lead, it should cause neurologic diseases, not this kind of pictures.

I do not want to minimize the consequences of war, but this article has no plausibility.
I had a chance to work for the Estonian government for a brief while (headed up business development for e-Residency). While a few things may be overblown about their e-gov initiatives (I'm thinking some of the blockchain hype that foreign journalists didn't really fact check) they really have done an incredible job making their business environment accessible for foreigners. There really is a strong mentality of delivering government services with the end user as the customer mentality rather than the usual bureaucratic nonsense I was used to running businesses in the U.S. and Germany.
Taking the govt. services online is generally a good idea, but there are a lot of minefields along the way and is inherently tied to the country in question.

I can only speak from the context of India where many things have indeed moved online, but are not exactly accessible. For one thing, they are essentially restricted to a small class of English speakers - which is expected since the English-speaking elite have a monopoly on education and thus technological literacy. This has meant that all the small shops which are now forced to file GST invoices (3 times a month ?) need to hire touts of some kind to get their work done. There are touts for everything, since very few people have computers or the necessary skills to use them - touts for filling in passport applications, for filling in DL forms etc.... and frankly it's all very frustrating, since you'll have to take a printout of the online application and visit some Indian Babu anyway.

Since "Indians" have been decided by the rulers to be essentially corrupt, it has also meant that there is no escape from the inflexibility of the straightjacket that is the Indian bureaucracy. Classic case of extremely poor people employed as manual labour being denied food rations because their fingerprints don't match that on record, or simply because the cellular data is patchy has quickly been covered by the UIDAI and their cronies in the government.

The language issue also shows up often because, after 70 years of so-called independence, the country has yet to create a unified transliteration scheme to go along with its "destroy all Indian languages" policy... and different transliterations of brahmi (for instance "sri" and "sree" are both the same श्री) often require absurd name-change announcements and numerous "letters" to random officers (and the usual palm greasing) in order to get access to services.

For much of India's "independence" a extractive state run for a handful of elites generally kept away from governance while its elites enjoyed vacations abroad and went to hospitals in Vienna (other than passing insane, unenforceable laws). I'm generally afraid what the deeply rooted colonial mindset will give rise to, now that it has also has access to technology. UIDAI and its sister schemes was and remains a rather scary venture with what appears to be a view of replicating China's draconian policies.
So did Flickr. Same guy behind it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Butterfield
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The title says nothing, we need KPIs, average life span, mortality rates, unemployment rates, health indices, education indices, overall quality of life indices. Fancy titles are meaningless.
The idea of a blogring is great - we need more of that imo.
Not to rain on the parade of MyNoise, but my preferred ambient audio experience is https://tabletopaudio.com
You can get these infos from the json the compiler provides you on errors, that's also what all editors will use to show you errors, so they are aware where the error acually is.
As a Norwegian I can relate to many things written here. Estonia is clearly ahead of us but this thing of not being the innovator but still using off the shelf technology was something I was forced to reflect upon while living in the US 15 years ago.

It was surprising how the country behind so much technology innovation was so bad at using it. It was noticeable both in the private and public sector.

It was something that I was later reminded of when reading guns, germs and steel. The author Jared Diamond remarked that the technological progress of any society is not primarily decided by your ability to innovate but by your ability to adopt and use the inventions of others. As he remarks, most innovation happens outside your own country, so it is the ability to learn from others which matters most.

A thing I think people should be aware of when obsessing about having the most cutting edge researchers rather than a technology literate population.
70000 servers in 23 datacenters – sounds awful. Why have it spread out so much?
350 million capex for 70k high end server DC setup may make sense.

$2B = 40% savings means their opex was $5B and now it's $3B. That is high expense. Guessing most of it is licensed software costs? Like Oracle on every single core?!?
If you had a job, you had a job. But if you lost the job, it could be really hard to find a new one. I lost my job and spent a year unemployed. And then the slump was over and I suddenly had 3 jobs to choose from.
I don't see how that could physically work. To present a high fidelity bright, clear display has irreducible base power requirements, and I don't see any way to provision that amount of energy in the form factor. Signal reception would also be a problem, and then there's the issue of dealing with thermal losses. Thermodynamics is not our friend, especially for powered devices in physical contact with our eyeballs.
I also came to comment on Hasura. Without having looked into the code I can’t really comment on the quality, but certainly from the outside it’s rock solid.
"Lawyer" doesn't tend to be a protected title (with some exceptions). Mostly it is used as a colloquial term for the protected professions e.g. attorney, solicitor, advocate etc.
It seems obvious, but could have profound consequences on how you logically group things together. Most of us thinks verbally and if it has no distinct name you don't think of it as a distinct entity, so our perception would just box it with all other shades. You don't go around thinking this spot of grass is so Chartreuse green, and that over there is more Shamrock green - it's all one entity for you, "the green stuff". Now, of course, unless we talk about the color of skin, how you group colors probably doesn't create a huge practical differences for us now, but it has certainly influenced our perception of the world.
The alliance is since the time of the Greater Armenia and the source of the propaganda that I mentioned is even older. BTW, Iran is not independent for the last few centuries.
I haven't taken any blind tests but if the testing environment isn't causing me problems to begin with (chemically or EM), like at home where I control the environment, I can tell what's good and bad. That's how I decide what to keep and what to sell when I buy something.
Profit isn't surplus value generated by the worker that has been appropriated by the employer. Value is not an objective property that employers are attaining for below its true value to earn a profit.

Value is subjective. If I value my free time at $20 an hour, and you value my labor at $40 an hour, we will be able to come to an agreement where you pay me $30 an hour, and we will both benefit according to our subjective perception of value.

Profit is compensation for investors that drives, sustains and incentivizes the work of acting as a responsible steward of capital.
It has a pristine anti-brand for me. Seeing InfoSys involvement is a signal to "stay away".
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This is basically how the first transistorized hearing aids in the 60s worked.

Zero innovation, and an implementation that wastes lots of power. Why would you use a volume potentiometer at the OUTPUT of the amplifier? It turns most of the output power into heat.
And why would you use a stereo amplifier and short the two channels together to get a mono amplifier?

You can already buy (in ear) hearing aids for less than $3 from China. A little bit more money even gets you rechargeable ones.

Also: Even in developing countries, more and more people have smartphones. In fact it might be easier to get a smartphone there than a professional hearing aid. There are apps that act as a hearing aid, taking the sound from the microphone, amplifying and filtering it, and sending it to the headphone output. Unlike with this project, the use can individually adjust the frequency response to his hearing.
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It seems unlikely they would include all of that in one article - if you're interested the statistics agency has most of that data I believe https://www.stat.ee/en
See also, Erdogan on WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/turkey-is-stepping-up-where-oth...
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I think this competitevness is stupid and Baltic countries should stand together because of so much history.
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> You see the intrinsic problem with codifying anything out of the ordinary as a "disorder"?

Isn't that just the definition of the word "dis-order"?
Sandboxing is surely a thing, you just have to configure it.
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This could be a book but I'll do the tldr for this thread. We were a small scrappy startup with our own video compression and streaming tech. We had just gone public and raised 15 million dollars, and were pivoting to being a content company (because tech sucks and content is king if you are in the year 1999).

Our lead investor was great. He told me again and again that we were in a bubble, and to focus on the core technology as a backstop in case the bubble burst.

After the crash, our $40 stock went down to $0.06. I went from being a multi-millionaire on paper to being broke-ass for real. The CEO and I had to fire 110 people, cutting the staff down to about 25. We jettisoned the content portal and refocused on the core IP.

In the end amazingly, the company survived and was eventually acquired by Google.

It was tough letting people go but the alternative was for the company to go bankrupt and everybody to lose everything.
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Their products - including hardware - is for the young.

I don’t think that’s it.

Once upon a time a Rolex was a serious tool for professional pilots and divers but now it’s a status symbol. It still basically tells the time but no one buys it for that.

Once upon a time a Mac...