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Exactly - no big deal, at all - but Kubrick is responsible for several really big deals.

you are argumenting from an optimal-employee-perspective or what you might choose to call it. Fact is - even supervisors are humans and 90% of them will be hesitant to have somebod…

As the line manager is employee herself, the strategy only works, if she is applying it herself, too. Otherwise her salary might not be competitive and you as her sub-employee are …

Hamburg, Germany Yieldlove GmbH Web Software Developer (PHP / Symfony) ONSITE https://www.xing.com/jobs/hamburg-web-software-developer-ham... jobs[at]yieldlove.com This is what you…

> People forget that the cost of a new iPhone is almost the same as the average yearly wage in Cambodia. Good point! From a thieves perspective it is probably not just the value of…

> Young people are better-educated that's a pretty bubble-thing to say ... leave your bubble for a while and you'll see that only some young people are better educated - most are t…

what you described is essentially a global ponzie scheme. and that's what it is at the bottom line - the growth feeds on itself - no more growth - everything crashes. is that susta…

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3212568/ It's a documentary about Wolfgang Beltracchi - an artist who made millions forging paintings and eventually went to prison for it. You just hav…

okay - but what if frequency increases to three files and beyond within a year, the file size doubles and the expected latency of processing needs to be reduced? Also compressing d…

thanks to global economic growth those people no longer have to live in huts but are allowed to sew bags - they can buy Nikes and Coke!

very good point! just think about it - all the panic and then nothing - but then we are stuck with solar power, more vegetarians, less pollution in the ocean and on and on ... terr…

well - at the end of the day my message is that the perspective of the article is misguided. the problem is not too many baby boomers - the problem is unafordable and unavailable s…

> Raising small children in an apartment can be pretty stressful this is precisely the entitlement I was hinting at - I was raised in an apartment - lots of my friends have been ra…

Why do Millenials need a house? How about a flat? And when they can afford it they just build a house for themselves.

> Yes, they have. How would you do it otherwise? How about a thin client based on Linux receiving the raw data wireless and then simply displaying it formatted as a table? And if t…

I don't think that is true at all. It is neither unachievable as many people have achieved this already* - I don't see any reason why it should alienate me - I believe this state r…

I switched to Fastmail from GMail a month ago and I have no reason to complain. Spam filtering is indeed not as good as at GM but good enough. It receives mail and sends mail. Ther…

Many of those photos show real time connections / schedules for trains of the Deutsche Bahn. I'm wondering ... does this mean they have a dedicated OS installation (virtual or not)…

I'm getting more and more convinced that one of the most important goals in live should be to mature to a level where you are simply comfortable with dying. Being able to simply co…

two thoughts: 1 - does sun light have no physiological/psychological value for blind people? the sun light might still be captured on the skin or even in the eyes and trigger relev…

Very good analogy!

This guy is so full of himself - almost disgusting how he tries so hard to come across as a humble and reflecting person.

> Research suggests the density of pain receptors in the cornea is 300-600 times greater than skin and 20-40 times greater than dental pulp,[14] making any injury to the structure …

HN is not just tech stuff - it is anything discussed by techies. This absolutely belongs here.

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