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So what you gonna do when you grow up? :-)

I disagree (and am European, and a union rep for many years). Subordination is what I expect from an employee and obedience from a dog. Subordination is a role you opt into. Obedie…

The EU is an alliance of shared interests and some very basic shared ideals. We are allies, not soulmates or lovers. That is not intended to defend people who speak ill of their ne…

Ok? Some military guy in Ukraine has a patch with a skull and... drumroll THE NAZI:S ALSO USED IMAGES OF (not-quite-the-same-looking) SKULLS!!! If you are into this kind of scary s…

I still prefer taking and giving traditional paper cards when meeting new business acqaintances. Need to order a new batch soon, actually. Any recomendations for high quality print…

Revolutionary is of course an extreme stretch, but they do add unique convenience to the checkout process. No user account creation, no entering of address and credit card number. …

Of course it is shallow. But it can be OK anyway. A bit of vanity is present in most of us. You don't need to fight it, it is fine to embrace vanity as a hobby or profession. If th…

Of course stay away from crowded, public, indoor spaces. But keeping your kids indoors is not considerate towards anyone. It is simply abusive to your kids. Let them out in the gar…

As a fan and random stranger from the Internet, your Anandtech byline and twitter handle are how your public persona introduces himself to me several times per months over the cour…

This is the way, that is naively sortable.

I maintain some code that rely on Python AST for finding and packaging modules with appropriate class signatures when building customer specific distributions. It works really well…

Extremely different. Sweden has 20% foreign born inhabitants.

Population density in the inhabited parts of Sweden is similar to the Netherlands, only slightly less than Denmark. Norway and Finland are much lower. It is no Hong Kong for sure, …

So, it is really easy and almost no one manages to do it right even after instructions? And after failing to do it right after instructions, it is the other people who are arrogant…

In Sweden the QR menues tend to be based on Facebook messenger. The restaurants that use this system also tend to push very hard for avoiding manual orders and payments. It is a co…

It's the blessing and curse of Dutch people, as a collective, that they really don't mind telling you what they think.

It's hard to jump straight to friend-level, without first socializing and making acquaintances.