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That's somewhat of a misrepresentation of what Marx wrote. When Marx lived in 19th century England, he saw first hand the effects of laissez faire capitalism: workers working thems…

This idea was completely alien to me until I experienced it first hand. The F in FAANG puts emphasis on putting things like weekly/monthly status reports, incident investigation (e…

This is why I get my general news from the likes of Reuters and Associated Press. I've found that these have more facts and much less opinion. Then, when I want someone's take on s…

You picked a small fragment of the OP's argument and turned it into a strawman. For example, you dropped the whole "making an informed assessment of the risks" part, which is prett…

It seems to me that, if negotiation leverage is the crucial factor here, then wouldn't the US and EU be in a similar spot? The EU's economy is roughly the same size as the US's[0],…

> I currently work at Google, previously I worked at Square. Of the two, I generally prefer the OSS and off-the-shelf tooling at Square. I wrapped a 2-year stint at Facebook recent…

> Also, why is US hegemony a good thing? What good is it for the 96% of the world that is not the US? To paraphrase Churchill: "The US hegemony is the worst hegemony for the world,…

> Listen, personally I would recommend you visit countries abroad for a change - like China, Russia, India or Europe (pick any they are all nice) and leave your US bubble. Russia i…

SEEKING WORK - remote - expat in GMT+1 Hi, I'm Matt and I help people out with their legacy Python application problems. I squash bugs, refactor code to increase development veloci…

Django does have some really clean code and it is very easy to navigate. I feel like I only grokked Django after I started going through its internals. I also highly recommend givi…

I had to fill out this form: "Fragebogen zur steuerlichen Erfassung" and I have to report my VAT using the Elster system monthly, even though my VAT is always 0 (my clients are all…

Well, my "self-employement" form was actually 8 pages long and it featured a lot more items than address, name, purpose and processing it took about 4 weeks. To be fair, I could st…

It's actually 25000 euros. This was somewhat fixed with the introduction of the mini-GmbH (GmbH - something like Ltd.), but a mini-GmbH comes with some extra strings attached, so i…

Good points. I'd just like to add two more points: FNV's storyline is a lot more morally ambiguous and there's a lot more humor in it. This moral ambiguity is present in most Obsid…

S. Lem - The Tales of Pirx the Pilot. I was all of 12 or so when I read it and I was expecting the usual sci-fi hero-space-disaster-monsters-ingenuity-victory thing. About a third …

SEEKING WORK - remote - US expat in GMT+1 Hi, I'm Matt and I help people out with their legacy Python application problems. I squash bugs, refactor code to increase development vel…

I too would like to know of a modern equivalent. Magazines are able to deliver something that blogs often can't - like pieces of work that have been refined, and then refined again…

I think it's bad, mainly because it was built at the end of the 19th century and since then it's calcified. It's like having legacy code and instead of refactoring it when you need…

Elixir has _something_ similar: Behaviors - http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/typespecs-and-behavio... While this isn't exactly what you like, I thought I'd throw it out there…

Thanks! I'll look into that! I'll still have to take care of taxes locally here (tax residency, grumbles), which are the biggest time sink. Maybe I should hop the border into the C…

> I suspect the community might become more Europe-oriented, because it’s more difficult to get funding here and there are more bootstrapped businesses as a result. It's also a lot…

I feel like this is a part of a trend that reflects how github itself is changing - slowly making access to things harder, then finally removing it. Github used to have an awesome …

SEEKING WORK Remote: Yes Relocation: No Location: GMT+1 (US expat, traveling) Python/Web Developer Hi! I have 3 years of mixed Python (Django/scripting), Ruby on Rails, and DevOps …

SEEKING WORK - Remote Location: GMT+1 (US expat, traveling) Python Developer / DevOps Hi! I have 3 years of mixed Python (Django/scripting), Ruby on Rails, and DevOps experience. T…