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@LeoMars75 Supply and demand: “get an education” being the mantra for 30 years, now means there is an oversupply of uni educated people, and a screaming shortage of skilled tradespeople. When people realize, it will flip again in 25 years.

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@P_Kallioniemi Imagine being radicalized by an app you own.

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@LeoMars75 For software jobs, Switzerland has already been using the UK as a cheap offshoring location, and the US is starting to do the same. Pune-on-the-North-Sea.

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@DrEliDavid No jews, no news.

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@DrEliDavid @elonmusk That car looks like it just walked in on its parents having sex.

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@NoContextBrits "I'm just a boy, standing in front of an electorate, asking them to vote for me"

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My periodic service announcement on microservices Microservices solve almost no technical problems. They are primarily a solution to organisational growth: one piece of the puzzle to keep meaningful engineering productivity, when you have more engineers than what can reasonably

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@JUSTcatmeme Is that the P Diddy workout?

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@BladeoftheS He is an Irishman living in Ireland who pays tax in Ireland. This is how taxes work, same as a Brit living in the UK pays tax in the UK, not where ever their employer was founded.

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@Conservatives 1. Rule of law - making individuals, however heinous their crimes, stateless, is a breach of international law. 2. The UK allowed Begum to be radicalised on UK soil. Trying to wash your hands of any accountability is weak.

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@empireofthekop That’s like putting Spearing, Poulsen and Konchesky in a combine XI during our darkest days. Ferdinand must be high off something.

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@DaveOCKOP At least they won the Honorary @FabrizioRomano “Here We Go”-trophy. It counts as a title, right? 🤪

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@Noahpinion Theory: based on the evidence of their own imperial yearnings, many “anti-imperialists” in reality just want the empire of their own dreams/politics: * Soviet communist empire * Islamic caliphate * …

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@Birdyword It’s very hard to put the cork back into a wine-bottle, so it borders on alcohol abuse NOT to finish it. (I am Scandinavian).

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@JonJonesSnr Have they tried full fascism?

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@DrEliDavid Walking on big tractor tires is an important part of special forces warfare operations.

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@GergelyOrosz I suspect many loudly announcing hiring based on merit are in fact, tracing back to the opposite: hiring for "cultural fit", in other words "more people like them they can hang out with after work". Just nice to be able to dress it up as merit.

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@GergelyOrosz Remember 3D TVs, 3D cinema etc? Past evidence would suggest VR & 3D are not really things people want or need that much. Best use-case for Vision Pro I can think of is saving space by removing need for large external displays..

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@DavidSacks I’m not sure she is the one living in an alternate reality..

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@GergelyOrosz I wanted to cancel my Adobe plan. Signed up to yearly. Ok, fine. Turns out, it couldn't even be cancelled with <1 month to run through online self-serve. Had to contact customer support,repeatedly, to get it done. Feels like the dark pattern to keep billing goes deep.

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@chinesegon Are the interviews designed like university exams that require recall of random trivia? ..that might be the kicker.

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@WilcoFtbl Barcelona doesn’t have £100mn let alone £10mn, so no dice. If they offer it, they’ll have no intention to pay it.

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@thatguybg My son has a Paw Patrol backpack, and he talks to girls all the time!

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@Jason King Rurik the Wise, complicated matters in 886AD, when he married his sister-wife after going on a fishing-expedition down the Dniepr river.. ..no, sorry, there is no learning. Other than Putins revisionist view of history is a very roundabout way of justifying anything.

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@Grady_Booch I once spelled out logically mutually exclusive requirements by eventually drawing up a truth-table. I was told I was being "unreasonable", and the requirements were more important than "your logic".

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@Jason @PetitRetard You were an investor in Uber?! Never knew…

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@EmergMedDr You didn’t account for legal fees or the £5mn in damages each person will eventually get, once it has been contested in the courts.

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@GergelyOrosz I have never desired a touchscreen on a non-touch first OS. Cleaning fingerprints every few days, unergonomically stretching, no thanks. I think Apple got this one right.

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@buccocapital Nothing says management excellence like secret metric and secret plans no one speaks of.

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@BigHeadLeafs_ Tells me repeated head injuries are bad for peoples reasoning skills.

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@t3dotgg So modern web dev is the same as PHP in 2000.

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@DaveOCKOP Cash, upfront. No installments. Don’t trust Barca to pay up any later payments given their history of owing players wages and clubs fees.

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@sashayanshin “While he was fixing other priorities, some senior execs took their eye off the ball.” What would you say a CEO has done who has been away fixing other priorities?

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@LibertarianDuty there is regulation for.. bookstores?!

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@cremieuxrecueil Now do the same with the entire planets defense spending. US is 3X that of number 2 (China). 10X that of number 3 (Russia). This level of defense-spending will make for seriously skewed graphs.

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@GergelyOrosz I literally just wrote a long rant about how microservices are first and foremost a solution to engineering organisation growth, not a solution to (almost) anything technical. 😅

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@AaronBastani The UK hastened the downfall of the high street with its punitive Business Rates system, giving online only retailers a massive unfair advantage in ability to undercut prices.

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@TheStalwart I prefer Zoom, but how defensible is their business against Microsofts bundling of Teams and Googles of Google Meet?

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@davefarley77 Waay too common: Opinion and solution before listening and fully understanding the problem.

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@terryflewers It took Ferguson 7 years to win the league, which was the qualification criteria back then for the European Cup (Champions League precursor). So the UEFA ban had very little impact.

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@ThePrimeagen Imagine doing that 20 years ago because auto-complete is going to make software engineers superfluous. Current AI is quite literally autocomplete on steroids, and that's it.

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@Carnage4Life Notice how some of the “in-office” scenes are clearly filmed with virtual backgrounds? Really pushes home the tone-deafness.

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@Noahpinion It’d make more sense if he had it on during take-off and taxi: Air-quality is risky at these times. During flight, with the air cleaning of modern planes, it’s probably the safest crowded space to be, unless you sit within a few feet of someone infected.

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@Kloppholic Corners for the opposition used to be Liverpool goal scoring opportunities. Good times..

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@JustLuai People want the better life associated with the west, but the backwards rules of their old home. Saw the same thing in the early 2000’s with immigrants to London from the old Eastern Block, being full tankies despite escaping poverty of their old home countries.

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@Jason @TuckerCarlson The questions will have been pre-vetted and edited by Putins people as a condition for the interview. No chance it will be an ask-anything-interviewe, even if both sides claim it.

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@RTodKelly Can’t believe it. And the hookers/blow/hobo fights budget is so frugal, to say the least.

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@Cornubot Som utlandssvensk är det lätt roande att höra hur svenskar vurmar om ”Sverigebilden” som ingen utanför Sverige vet något om eller bryr sig om.

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@AJT_1980 Check your eyesight. Yates flying karate-kick with studs to Konate's head. Lucky it's not a straight red card.

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@UtdFaithfuls Looks more like Casemiro is a lucky boy for not seeing red for that lunge.

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@johanknorberg The big kicker is housing costs: pre-2000s, houses were, what, 2-3x yearly earnings? Now they are out of reach for most. Disposable income matters little if the primary thing that will make you feel rich, a family home, is not possible.

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@lfcdzn11 what’s the angle?

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@Kloppholic I‘ve said long before this: When he needs a break, give him a year sabbatical, let his assistant take the reigns, then welcome him back the next season.

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@LeoMars75 I saw someone on LinkedIn saying a senior developer contract role had been offered at 175GBP/day. Rates were 450-600/day 20 years ago. When offshoring to India, you'd expect to pay about 400-500/day on the bargain-basement end.

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@aziz0nomics Same thing as most on the internet: he gets angry with everything he disagrees with. I was also blocked years ago when he was on a tirade against people with multiple citizenships ”not having skin in the game”, and I asked the value of tying your destiny to a failing country.

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Unpopular opinion: the modern splitting of Software Engineering into evermore sub-domain specializations is a bad thing. frontend, backend, devops, data, analytics etc etc. Silo expertise causes suboptimal behaviours and choices. You don’t have to be an expert in every domain,

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@NoContextBrits One of my best friends got nicknamed “Gargamel” at 6, because he had jet-black hair, extremely pale skin, frequently dressed in black, was bigger than everyone else and was mean to smaller kids (“smurfs”). We are now mid-fourties, but the nickname stuck.

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@LeoMars75 8 years decline? More like 16. No real wage growth since 2008.

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@dhh After almost a year of using it, I maintain my early assessment: It’s auto-complete and stackoverflow on steroids. Certainly impressive, productivity boosting, but not skilled-human replacing by a longshot.

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@MichelleMone @RishiSunak The level of whataboutism and deflection is pathetic. No amount of implying others are corrupt is going to clean off the stench of your own self-made situation.

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@teortaxesTex @GrantSlatton Doing nice things for others is colonialism? Who dropped you as a baby?

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@RobertKennedyJr Former colonies of Russia are aggressively joining a self-defense pact against their former overlord, who are peacefully constantly threatening re-invasion. Why is that?

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@empireofthekop United having a better team and better individual players is why they are 23p behind Liverpool, clearly. 🙄

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@DCWale_CFC Harry Maguire, presumably.

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@TheRedmenTV Manchester United. They need midfielders. Have a thing for old, washed up stars. Always overpay. Hendersons reputation already in taters, so..

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@forgebitz Also, most European VC's: former bankers & management consultants. Zero experience in startups, or even small business.

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@TPGRoberts @functionalcore He has been in power for two months. Inflation typically lags policy 6-9 months. Does anyone even half serious think we can judge the outcomes of his policies yet?

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@empireofthekop Konate starts for France ahead of Saliba, but whatever..

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@aziz0nomics you will find the perfection of both arts in Japanese toilets..

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@daboigbae That image vastly over-estimates the organisation and discipline of an enterprise.

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@ATRightMovies Isn't even a competition.

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@HugoScheckter I tried to find Youtube highlights of a game once on my phone and did this. Took me minutes to realise my mistake, because I wasn't wearing my glasses.

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@161phen @BriannaWu A history lesson: Jews were a significant minority in present day Israel before 1947, and majority in areas assigned to Israel in the UN partition plan. Many jews resettled to Israel in the late 19th century by _buying_ land legitimately from the then owners. Much of this land

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@DrSusanOliver1 Unlikely your antigen test would already be positive if infection occurred only 30 hours ago. When I had covid, I tested positive on day 3 of onset of symptoms, and 5 days after what turned out to be the time of infection.

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@DavidSacks It's still a bit more congruent than thinking former Russian colonies wanting to join a self-defence pact is an act of aggression towards Russia.

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@paulg @robneal28 I think there is a lesson in here.

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@mattyglesias I think this was the point. Hamas cares little for the civilian population of Gaza. But their suffering wins them international sympathies, so the more they suffer, the better for Hamas.

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@Bill42X @WindReign

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@alexogeny I bought a gaming PC with a 4090, installed PopOS (Ubuntu derived). Play AAA games all the time.. I don’t think people realise the progress made by Valve on Proton in the last few years.

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@GergelyOrosz The rebranding of Calculus and Linear Algebra to “Artificial Intelligence” is quite the marketing ploy.

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@GergelyOrosz * Don't do PR's. Do pairing/live review instead. * Encourage pairing at least 50% of development time. * Zero-tolerance for defects, they get fixed right away. * "You build it, you run it". * Religious about observability. * Culture of mentoring (through pairing).

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@aziz0nomics By “centralised distribution”, I assume you mean “UN gives aid to Hamas, who have first dibs on everything, then sell the rest at blackmarket prices to civilians”?

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@aziz0nomics With the amount of aid Gaza received, they could have been the Singapore of the eastern Mediterranean if they had used the money wisely: strategic position close to one of the most important shipping lanes of the world. Hamas chose another path..

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@Codie_Sanchez I live in Switzerland, know of several kids with no English-speaking parents who learned fluent English from watching Blippi. Viral beyond language divides, growing multi-lingualism.

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@rshereme Now that Sweden will be in NATO, they’d sink the Russian navy and clear the skies of Russian planes before Moscow knew what hit them. There is a good 60 year gap in their relative technological advances.

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Nike went back to the office 3 days/week in 2022 through mandates, increased to 4 in 2023. What magic will happen on a 5th that isn’t happening the other 4?

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Nike $NKE CEO John Donahoe today blamed remote work for the company falling behind on innovation, saying that it’s tough to be disruptive when people are working from home - CNBC

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@Codie_Sanchez A company with <$1mn ARR doesn’t need a head of prople, whether at $400K or $40K.

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@Carnage4Life This will just drive compensation ever higher in the long-term: As people with little to medium experience give up and exit, future shortages build up, and those who can survive will be minted 5 years from now.

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@AnfieldEdition Bit of a tempest in a teapot, don't you think? Could be any number of reasons, including just being tired of clapping for a long time and not thinking it's a bit deal. This is how players get driven to want an exit: they're not allowed to be human.

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@danbarker I sold my London flat in 2014 after I read the fine-print and realised 10 years after construction the management company could double the service charge every 2 years without justification. It was about £3K/year when I sold, 2 years before the doubling cliff.

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@adb0wen Making those claims unironically with a rainbow flag on the bio, adds a layer of irony. I’m sure the Houthis love everyone with rainbow flags..

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@AnfieldRd96 unpopular opinion: no. Title & Champions League are big achievements, but only one of each.

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@lindypatagonia $400k doesn’t even buy a shared garage spot where I live.

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@MrRBourne Comparing to UK: might as well compare to Romania. UK is not a serious, nor a developed country anymore.

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@Noahpinion They’re probably not used to dealing with anything that actually fights back, given their usual m o

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@aziz0nomics Not sure it correlates to lack of anti-semitism though: Sweden is one of the most anti-semitic countries around. People who are openly Jewish (clothing/whatever) are more likely to be victims of hate-crime than not.

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@paulg Living in Switzerland, it's an odd mix of traditionalism & Futurism. Behind on things digital, conservative in decision-making. But infrastructure, education, health-care & public services are world-class, taxes low. Culture, a strange mix of American & Scandinavian values.

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@levelsio I always paid in cash in Buenos Aires. No extra zeros. Just a very high risk of counterfeit exchange, so pay close to amount..

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@DarthPutinKGB US now has access to air- and naval bases on Russias northernmost border. Master strategist indeed.

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