I started a repo [1] that parses the data. PRs welcome.
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For many in my generation (90s), the dream of leaving the country has been propagandized by parents who were never able to leave themselves due to the Iron Curtain. Many would attest getting the Serbian radio close to the border in a desperate attempt to hear something "western". As much as the nation longs for the old-times, it longs for the West. And the split is maybe about 50/50. However few would leave for the East and many, many would flood the gates once we entered EU 12 years ago.
12 years ago is when late 80s and 90s children were graduating. We didn't have much idea exactly what is bad with the country, as no teenager knows too much. But we all saw the opportunity and we've all heard the stories of the successful uncle who managed to "fix their life" abroad. So we flocked. Cheap flights accelerated the process, free education in some countries like Scotland and the Netherlands. So the "brain-drain" was accelerated. If people could leave before with hard-obtained visas or illegaly, now it was easy and free for all.
Yet, 12 years later we are still the poorest country in EU with the poorest overall north-western region which was once one of the most prosperous regions back when aggriculture was the main sector. Turism and services instead is now the main sector and sure, there are some companies that are succesful, the low salaries compared to what you can make abroad is worth a bit of home-sickness endurance. It's hard to get out of it with the open borders - it's a feedback loop as more "brain drain" happens, less innovation and money can come towards the country and corruption proliferates.
What are your queries usually? Take a look at your own Google history, find and try to group what you are looking for and what would you ideally find that Google/other search engines don't satisfy.
I understand your desire to do something "revolutionary". But most things are incremental.
The most actionable item (that is of course MUCH harder than not eating meat) is doing something to to convince the nations with most children per woman [2] to have less. But this is not easy - joining organizations that would educate women and doing volunteering or even dangerous work is insanely hard. Not buying meat, recycling and not riding your car seems hard for western people and so you FEEL like you are doing something, but you are not.
I will not have children but do 50 transatlantic flights this year, eat all the meat, hell, I'll even teach myself to drive a car just to show off how useless these individual actions are. You can't convince the world, stop CHANGING the world and change yourself, seek data and find the most actionable item. Jeez!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_action_on_climate_c... [2] http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/total-fertility-r...
Let's say it happens, hypothetically - maybe it never happens, maybe happens all the time. But let's say it has happened to a certain male. Now, what is this male to do?
If he stays quiet it is the same as females who don't report. That encourages the harasser to keep doing what she is doing and we already know that.
If he reports - nobody believes him, because women don't harass. Moreover, he becomes a point of ridicule because our society expects men to be strong and unharassable by women. They are physically stronger and they can always escape or fight. It's insane to think about that - like how? How can that happen?
Actually, can a man fight with a woman? No - it's also ridiculous - because if he wins, well obviously he won, he is a man, he is stronger. And he will get sued because he will get accused of harassment. If he loses - he loses from a woman. "Got beat by a girl" - have you heard that phrase? Do you have any idea how impossible it would be for a male to live in a world ridiculed in this kind of way?
So how can a study establish that at all - if men won't even admit due to pride even at study time? But just in case - do you happen to have any of this "plethora" of studies? Are you sure? People have been sure about many things that are right and then their minds are blown by scientific discoveries.
So please, think, provide evidence and please, consider men as human beings as well - we are not so different from women after all.
This has to stop, we are going into territory of assuming guilt because someone said so. Women can be bad as well. I know it's unpopular to say this today. I get that the problem is huge and I'm not defending true harassers, but you are losing valuable justice principles here. Assuming someone is guilty because they are a certain gender (male in this case) or innocent because they are another (female) is as bad as any discrimination over the ages. Humans are good in overgeneralizing and sending this survey to women only is not scientific and it's not fair. Assuming things are true because someone says so has led us to bad paths in history. Let's have a talk about what is the correct way to find a solution to the problem because false accusations can ruin a life as well as not speaking up.
Nobody's perfect, we all have some bad things in our personalities. But it's impossible to read this and extract the value that he tries to convey that Google as a company didn't accommodate him (dismissing the design of buildings or noogler's orientation) rather than he tried too hard to be liked and perceived as valuable member.
(speculative continuation)
> But if we do that and make people believe that containers - the massive, heavy, broken abstraction - are the future, and provide complicated infrastructure that will magically fix the problems of containers, and then also provide this complicated infrastructure managed - this will be our way to beat AWS. It will be difficult and clumsy to set it up on your own - you need many machines to set up the cluster so that it's "Google-scalable" and "fault-tolerant" so for most people and companies it will be way too much hassle and too expensive to manage their own cluster purely on VM or physical instances. We "just" provide you with the best managed infra, because c'mon - it will be open source and even given up control on paper - but everyone will associate it with us, we will make sure to have podcasts, and blogs, and marketing that talk about containers, the future and how G created this project. Best people will help us build it "out in the open" and then when we hire them, it will be easy to teach them this Borg monstrosity that we have here. So you know win-win-win - devs think they solved their Docker-is-shit problem with the magic of Kubernetes (yeah, I got a name for it already) so G is now savior; it's a win for GCP; it's a win for hiring.
> [Urs]: Now we talkin...
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I got suspicious. Took a look and stopped reading. Flagged the post. I don't know what else to do but GOOGLE you are reaching levels of EVIL.
$ apt list --installed | wc -l
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Now imagine a leaker inside your own brain. Every thought you may have could be displayed on the front page of The Verge or whatever. "Peter's internal thoughts hint he may be a pedophile".
I prefer Google having these internal discussions of highly disturbing concepts vs not having them.
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."