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A lot of people I know have multiple remote jobs. I guess, when you have multiple jobs mentoring juniors is just an unnecessary chore which you want to avoid as much as you can, si…

Why would a company acquire the other one just to shut it down?

Gold and Value producers reminded me of the Galt’s Gulch from Atlas Shrugged. But I could not fancy this imaginary community to scale up to even millions

> but, by constitutional law, nobody, not even the king himself, could put off their turn indefinitely. I'm not sure that any real-life moral imperatives could be based on made-up …

5 year's ago I've bought a 2-in-1 Dell Inspiron laptop. 2-in-1 functionality turned out to be useless and annoying in Ubuntu environment, so I almost never used it. 1 year after th…

Exactly

Absolutely not. Proof Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Back_Alive Facebook page with 3 million followers: https://www.facebook.com/backandalive/

No, it's not! Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Back_Alive Facebook page with 3 million followers: https://www.facebook.com/backandalive/

You can use GitHub pages with Jekyll. Easy to setup and run, there are a lot of custom Jekyll blog themes available online. Custom domain with private repo costs few dollars per mo…

Once made DuckDuckGo my default search engine in all browsers. Ended up switching to Google every time I needed to search in Ukrainian. I like DuckDuckGo, but its inferior search q…

10 EUR per tile? Shouldn't such maps be in public domain already? It's odd how differently countries treat their cultural heritage. Poland, for example, has published a lot of arch…

Even if it turns out to be a loss for the majority of players, I am still happy for the creators that got a chance to monetize their work. I think Beeple truly deserves the fortune…

In fact, it wasn't. Just a regular distant village in Carpathians. I guess the main motivation to return was that his wife and kids stayed there.

My great-grandfather was traveling to USA for work back in 1912. He came back after 6 years and settled in his village becoming its head. Almost everybody in my family knows this s…

There is a beautiful video by Kurzgesagt. It makes a similar point and I feel better every time I watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRqu0YOH14

Fast fashion is a vivid example of overconsumption, and planned obsolescence would be a good example of overproduction. Regarding person's "needs" - I believe they are endless up t…

Despite loving such projects, sometimes I have a feeling that concentration on recycling shifts attention too much from the real causes of waste pollution, such as overproduction, …

Here, in Ukraine, we usually try get rid of the soviet legacy and I’ve never heard about anybody collecting soviet books. They are filled with communist propaganda and are not fun …

I’ve never understood what’s the point of giving a lecture nobody except you can grasp. IMHO, It could be justified only by the novelty of topic discussed, otherwise it’s just a wa…

I remember one mobile operator in late 2000s charged for a call only after first second. So we used to call each other, saying something really fast and hang up to not get charged.…

This story makes me wondering whether Wikipedia has any means to defend against possible malicious foreign campaigns carries out by non-democratic countries (Russia/China) to discr…