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And what if "middle" is a tribe too ;)

A reneval for sysadmins and devops in EU for the next few years? :P

It's both simple and stupid algorithm, though.

Ah, so like good old times in the Eastern Bloc ;)

My parents did certainly smuggle a fair bit on their trips. I'm so happy Americans can learn that experience too! :> (I don't. Why are you hitting yourself.)

Brown and all its hues is very underappreciated color.

I think the answer is simpler - if they draft young people, their demographic pyramid will be even more utterly devastated after the war ends.

Yeahhhh, Sartre political takes were something. As a Pole I do have distaste for him because he was influential person behind banning a French translation of memoirs from gulags as that'd "offend Soviets".

Still, at best I see him as a naive person, not evil.

Ah, but do you get to have fun at the cost of others?

That is the question.

Or as I've heard - in USA entrance is the hard part; in EU staying afloat during the first year is the hard part.

I certainly remember my first year being the hardest in term of rigour, and the others being more pleasant (still hard, though)

Uhh, why someone like Sartre or Foucault is on this list, equal to Lenin or Mao? It's hard for me to see how they as existentialists were on par of them; and if so, ought we blame Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky too?

I am asking genuinely on your stance because I don't see why you consider them to be evil.

From my experience, if a lecturer doesn't give slides, there are two possible reasons:

1) They are not theirs and want to avoid being caught; 2) They believe they are the only source of truth and need to show the insects, I mean students, their place.

Saw both of them.

And if there are no lecture notes, I am not going to be more engaged with it. Au contrare, I will be franaticaly copying everything from them to my notebook and not listening to the lecture itself.

I'm not American here - because "cushy" jobs require degrees. Any of them, but you need to have them. And because those jobs are often your bland office ones, they don't really require a lot of training/skill, so you're free to do them even if you were an below-average student at a bad major.

All that matters in paper.

(I'm not condoning it, in opposite - but that's a common line of thought)

I had a lecture, where my professor would read from PowerPoint slides - that commonly contained 50 lines of text.

He was surprised nobody wanted to attend his lectures.

EDIT: fixed a lot of typos...

Author in the start has said, that around 65% of students have skipped on getting a textbook.

And thus I have a genuine question to other people here. How common it was for students to actually read a textbook, cover to cover? I did my CS undergrad in Poland - and talking to my peers, I don't think a single of us ever did that. We used lecture slides at best and online resources for code.

I think you overestimate that. In the end, I'm sure there will be still a lot of people willing to go, who maybe ignore politics and so on. Salaries in USA are just that much higher, especially if you're an expert in your field.

I'm Polish.

This statement, I'm afraid, is false. "But that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with their variety of English or "accent"."

Yes, there IS a lot of wrong with my accent. I am not a native speaker and thus there is no leniency with that. If I have grammar issues, or my accent is heavy, that does not mean there's nothing wrong - on the contrary, it means my knowledge of English is not good enough. If I were a native speaker? Then for sure, by definition I could not have a wrong accent (whether it's understandable is a different question.)

I might have been mistaken on that one, I'll fully admit. I am not sure if it was Głos Ameryki or Radio Wolna Europa - but my comment applies to both of them, anyway.

Not being an American I've always had similar impressions. That taxes in USA are hated way more than anywhere else.

Are you interested in their opinion when you instantly dismiss one?

I am Polish; I didn't grew up during period of Communist occupation, but I've certainly heard of stories of people risking their wellbeing via trying to listen to VoA. It was very much a big crime.

It's a matter of time until some neo-Nazis get access into DNA databases to look for Jews, won't it?

Because on average your files on Dropbox are worth way less than your DNA.

Illegal for now. Do you have any guarantee it won't change in the future?

An American colleague of mine got beat up in Idaho for being gay :<

As a context because I see people downvoting it - that slogan was on a semi-famous picture of how the invaders left one of the houses. It was painted on there.

And then, the natural course of action is to ban them.

Laws no longer apply to them - laws bound people below. If you're interested what will follow, look into Russia or Hungary.

This technology should have never existed. Thank you OpenAI for being a contributing factor to destroying politics in future.

And I hope that people who worked on this know this. They are pure evil.

Journey, not the destination I'd say. I'm sure he must have enjoyed being CEO in the end.

You are a leader of one of the most influential companies in the world and most likely the most influential in Korea.

For me, it's just that being barefoot feels really nice - especially on a textured ground. But I'm on spectrum, so that's a part of that too.