There is a decades-long study by Tashkin et al., not being able to find that smoking cannabis is significantly harmful. I am on my phone so don't have it at hand.
But I am clearly not talking about lotto-winners, but someone who gets 2x salary, who may behave weird first couple of months and then becomes "normal". I fully agree about the lotto winners though. I had witnessed it actually as my school friend's parents won. For lack of a better description - they have become like animals with unlimited money, but money ended quickly though.
You may assume that would happen, but unless you really have a thing to show off, you'll keep a similar lifestyle and just watch your savings account growing. I know very few people who permanently changed their behaviour after a sudden change in their earnings. This is of course just anecdotal evidence.
To be fair, people having unhealthy lifestyle - especially those drinking are feeling terrible all the time - may just think this is how healthy person should feel and miss any symptoms of the potential disease.
This is the environment governments create and also proves it is in human nature. It would be like banning sex and then be amazed how much STD are around.
Likely somebody paid for it. EU is creating the law for big corporations, so it seems like one of those would like to copyright telemetry data and EU just amended it to please them.
What I was reading? It is easy to badmouth someone without knowing the context. It is not uncommon to end up with a flawed design if you find yourself in circumstances like short deadline, uncertain requirements, lack of resources, small user base, no QA and so on that are outside of the developer means to change.
I was looking at a couple of non technical friends browsing the Internet. Not one took time to read consent prompts, they just mindlessly click whatever takes the notice out of the way. GDPR is dangerous and doesn't fix anything.
Right, but you want to impose it on the others. That is pretty selfish. If company paid for food in you salary you could have a choice. You don't want choice? Fine. Just don't force it on others because it works for you.
But that removes choice, which diminishes your freedom as a person. I'd rather have a canteen where you can pay for food or go outside and be paid so I can afford that.
I think there is something missing in your story. My Portuguese friends who fled Portugal to London paint different picture of their lovely country. Maybe there are different rules to foreigners there?
The professionals in the UK work on a b2b basis because with current salaries and taxes it makes no sense to be an employee. Still you get taxed highly, but it is slightly better. Sadly the Tories are turning left and they look into taxing professionals too. I would be looking into leaving the country if they do.
Do those systems really work? Civil servants always find a way to deny support because you miss X or Z (I am talking mostly about the UK). I learned that it is best to take care yourself of yourself and don't depend on the state. I view the extra tax for the stuff I can't use as a theft.
My advice then would be to live frugally, do personal projects and save and save, then leave the company if you have 3-6 months of living covered. You can spend more time on getting your CV right and searching for offers. If recruiters and/or companies see you have a company known for paying peanuts, they'll unlikely to hire you unless they are the same predatory company. Nobody wants a burnt out employee that won't respect him/herself. That's why you wouldn't put such company on a CV and should have a good personal project to show instead for that time frame.
I worked with a start-up where owner confessed he is just looking to get out as quickly as possible. We were not supposed to build processes that would slow down the development at the cost of huge technical debt - but that wouldn't be for him to worry. He did have a number of hires so that on paper it would look nice to investors. We had an experienced and old CEO whose job was to smile and drink with investors, number of developers to fiddle with code, two senior devs that were doing actual coding and a devops guy who spent time on Reddit and baby sitting juniors so they don't break the app too badly when deploying to production and marketing team that was making up ideas what they could shoe next to investors. Company was paying "customers" to use the product. I left early when I realised the equity package is made up. I'd say run! Not worth your reputation.
Don't agree to work for peanuts. Young developers are easy target for "startup" or predatory corporations as they can do mindless coding for hours and if you throw in free pizza on Fridays, they'll work day and night for almost nothing. Once you get burnt out you get replaced with another young wannabe developer. But you'll have damaged health and no savings. If offer is low and you think you'll get experience - you won't. Just look more for something that respects you.
I am not. I am sorry if that sounded ambiguous. By "By hand" I meant SSH into a container and then pasting raw query into SQL client. ORM will not always help you achieve what you want so writing queries is alright, but you need to have tests too. You can create a command for your app (like a Django command for example) that performs the query, but you also create tests that prove it is doing what you think it is doing. Then you run this command in the cluster. This way you can replicate it to different environments etc.
I am happy to write SQL, but you need to write it in such a way that you have tests confirming your query does what you intend to. Then run a query as a short lived application on the cluster. You don't need to SSH even for low level stuff. I am sorry if I didn't make it clear.
If you design your app properly you won't ever need to run SQL queries by hand. This is a bad practice and it is good that k8s discourages such behaviour.
I agree with your other points though.
The linked article is behind the paywall. From you comment I still can't take out _why_ this costs so much. It sounds like development cost X because phase of development cost Y. I find it strange that you can say that something called "phase 2" costs precisely $40-50M+. What does it involve that it cannot cost $1M or $100k? What's so hard about biology that makes it expensive? What I am seeing is just words but no substance or maybe I don't understand something? I would love get more insight.
But chargeback is not legally binding, is it? So you just put yourself in a situation where you received a service and didn't pay for it. I am pretty sure Uber could do something about it if they cared.
> drugs that hit the same brain receptors as cannabis but are more potent and addictive
Okay, why there are using cannabis as an example and not other substances that react with those receptors, like chocolate?
It is better as they abstained from using the term "synthetic marijuana", but you can still sense an agenda.
Things like this put me off from reading news pieces. If I see so much foul language and twisting things to put a certain angle on the topic - on the topic I am fairly knowledgeable, then how much propaganda is being served in the topic I know little about?
This is a disgrace to journalism. Apologies for my rant.