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Do surgeons purchase any od they equipment they use on the operating table, or does hospital provide it all?

When I use usem, I mainly do that on the job and Jetbrains IDEs provide value to my employer, not to me.

I had to basically memorize a particular academic book for a tough university entrace exam. I created around 50 pages of dense hand-written notes on it, and could recall all the ar…

Let's not forget about putting kids on the PIP.

In my city in Poland (one of the most destitute ones in the country), until very recently, there used to be regular coal train robberies. On segments of the track where trains were…

Trading firms are paying $500k a year to people who just graduated from college?

At least in Poland, for whatever reason, the communist apparatchicks mostly didn't get rich off of their power. They had a higher standard of living - but that meant a house and a …

There's struggling, and there's "grab Starbucks on the way to work" struggling...

I agree. Tom Cruise was also well-cast for that. He typically plays hot-shots, and here he again is a hot-shot upper-class doctor, but one who by happenstance brushes with forces i…

The classes got wiped out in all Central and Eastern Europe countries which went through communism. Pretty much all of their wealth was confiscated and they were persecuted to a va…

I think it's ok to cash out once your career is over. It's bad to do while creating, because the money people will inevitably influence your works. But, if you're not creating anym…

We even stopped trying getting to cheap nuclear energy, which seems to be a vastly simpler problem.

> Microtransactions required to activate heated seats in your car. I'm sorry, but the fact that this is the first thing you list under "grim" is just comical to me. This isn't even…

In my city, there's maybe a parking meter for every 20 spots. Plus, most spots are in non-metered areas. PLUS, the meter does not require a very high voltage power line...

There'd have to be charger every 5-6 meters or so along most sidewalks where I live to make electric viable. Certainly not impossible, but sounds like an absolutely massive investm…

Saving the world would still happen if these people got 20 vacation days. The main difference would be the small decrease of ROI for the investors.

Sounds like an addiction almost. Addictions are often a signal of something being wrong or off-balance in life.

I've had pretty similar path (minus the long exotic trip). I've also pursued personal projects and interests very seriously, only to find out that I don't know why I'm doing them r…

A job is a prison. Yours is just very, very comfortable, compared to most jobs (and prisons). It's not wonder you still yearn to be out.

Quite the contrary, you can and should blame Germany for hiding their head in the sand for the past 10+ years, while a massive threat was growing next to them. It was obviously a c…

They "succeeded" because every ride so far was subsidised by investors. It's not a level playing field for the cabs, which have to make a profit.

...and I thought this is somehow about squashing commits in a toxic way, e.g. rewriting the commit message to seem that you've done all the work yourself. Was surprised that it's a…

Wait, what is MS doing with python?

Telemetrics and sensors data could (at least theoretically) produce billions of row per hour per single sensor.

Jordan Peterson always says that, when it comes to predicting success in life, IQ has the highest predictive value of all the traits that we can currently measure.