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Can't recall the link, but a few people said they were rehired at lower pay on contract for their old company (imho I believe they will be severed again when the integration gets better)


I will disagree with that from experience. I'm from a small (under a million) country with a surplus of lawyers... it's corrupted them in the sense that there's not enough work around to make money from being efficient, so they legendarily drag out the cases they can, and there's near-monthly trials of cases of theft from trust accounts. So, no "actually".


>"they legendarily drag out the cases they can, and there's near-monthly trials of cases of theft from trust accounts."

This goes on in the U.S. too, at least in my state.


Again the business demand for legal services has little to do with "cases" as such. Your experience is irrelevant and you're probably ignorant about how business and the legal/regulatory system works in the USA. The vast majority of work done by corporate counsel never has anything to do with trials. The real world isn't like what you see in TV legal dramas.


So we are the Romans of crypto, doing cool experiments? And it won't take off until the equivalent of worldwide deforestation and peasants freezing in the wintertime?


Depends.

Cryptocurrencies are (or at least the famous one is) deliberately inefficient. Most of the times I've brought this up or seen someone else bring it up, a bitcoin fan insists this is a selling point. If so, it's only going to get worse unless it's banned.

OTOH if you meant cryptography, then quite possibly yes.


My sort-of-joking-conspiracy-theory is that "Satoshi Nakamoto" was a clandestine sentient AI who invented cryptocurrency as a way to incentivise the hairless monkeys networking together as much processing power as possible.


No because crypto is a useless scam on the whole.

The exact opposite of an Industrial Revolution.

Actually it’s more of a virus or a parasite upon our industrial society. Adds no value, consumes gigawatts.


That's some food for thought. My issue with programming courses is they ask you to memorize the commands then use them; most programming is about creating the logic then QA'ing with some data. Excel is data-first and becomes more like a game, trying different approaches with a clear picture of the end in mind. It's easier to persevere.


Quite true, and too often developers are not aware of how important data-first is for their own work in the exploratory part of programming.

Programmers have powerful interactive shells and debug environments, yet most courses center the teaching and communication of how a program works around the concepts in the finished product (a working program), more than how you arrive piecewise to the full solution by iterating small parts of the concepts in the domain problem and finding the correct parts of code to handle them.


Faster growth = less nutritious plants bc they are slow to take up minerals from the soil. But they do produce more sugar. On the other hand the heat may make some plants shrivel, there was an article about the impact of heat on grapes. Tropical pests may persist in cooler climates bc the seasons won't kill then off and the ecosystem doesnt have enough predators yet.


Long titles are the recommended tactic of all the "Make money fast on Amazon!" courses I've seen. Keyword stuffing for the algorithm.


Unfortunately it appears to work well. Though it also has the side effect of cluttering up search results. I need a bunch of small drawstring pouches for a project. So all the resellers have stuffed their titles with "bag pouch sack" and the actual size of the item is irrelevant to the title.


That's what the UL or CE mark is for


Unfortunately I can't comment below this point, in the thread I started.

You're making the point I'm making. While I don't (to the best of my knowledge) purchase counterfeit items, I don't pretend that certification is anything other than certification. Hopefully certification comes with standards, and aren't self-reporting... but that's not always the case.


Too bad so many of those marks are fake on Amazon.


Are you aware that at least CE is 'self certification' ?

Only when a case goes to court, it will be determined if the certification was rightful or not.



That's just a joke that arises from self-certifying 'CE', like 'QC passed' it's just a label that doesn't mean anything but makes some consumers feel good, just because you get used to seeing it and it looks like it must be good even if (or only if) you dont actually know what it means.


jaclaz, that's interesting, but Wikipedia alleges it to be somewhat of an urban legend:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#%22China_Export%22


Disagree, because I've got a hand full of these from different brands in operation right now. One even from the major CPE-equipment manufacturer in Germany. I know because they looked 'fishy' to me when they arrived, and I researched into that.

I opend some of them non-destructively to check them out, and deemed them sufficient. They barely get warm at all.

Nonetheless I put them in some closed rack where they only could produce some stink, but no fire.

I'm too lazy to unplug them right now to upload photos to Imgur, or such, because it would disrupt some services.

Anyways, no urban legend. Just the usual bureaucratic disconnect from reality, saying otherwise.

Meanwhile another bureaucratic entity, the german customs really likes to hassle you because of exactly that sh..! :-)

edit: Some of them in continous operation for just over a decade, some others about 5 to 6 years, YMMV. (shrug)


One could say marketplace is a category of game field where the rules and objectives are different for many participants. I want to sell my apples for the maximum possible profit today; she wants to sell both her apples at max profit and lettuce at max speed within its shelf life; the customer wants a decent lunch. Different measures for success, different time limits, different strategies in the common marketplace.


Maybe the firefighters, nurses and restaurant staff who work in cities will be able to afford a shorter commute if city housing prices fall?


Rent will fall, I doubt home prices will fall that much though.


Many companies tried and failed since the 90's, because most coampanies' software dev is a core group of skilled people using vague specifications to build a product for their first time.


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