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Im at an age when people talk of my age group like that, and my age group talk of young adults like that. I started working at 14 carrying furnitures on the weekend and im a pampered millenial :D

In fact, I read a little essay wrote during the 18th century by a grumpy old guy that, if modernized a little bit, could pass for your little essay.

I think your reaction is an effect of aging more than an objective view of the world. It's probably very similar to what a pre WWII adult would say of the pampered boomers born around the 40s: children are treasured by their parents, fathers want their child to surpass them and parents are disappointed by the new path their offsprings carved, on average.

Basically, your comment is as useless to trigger change in the youth as it is interesting to study aging. Instead of wondering how to whip the youth into aging faster, I d ask you: how to comfort the elders into aging slower ?

Did the cavemen finally rewind all of history to finally rediscover while we organized around justice, legislation and law enforcement or we're still waiting for a few more fortunes lost ?

You also maybe navigate a larger web with different needs.

What knowledge cant be found with appending "wiki" to any keyword, what person cant you find with linkedin, what movie cant you find on a private bt tracker, what news cant you have from reddit ?

I think people over estimate what the web was before Google and under estimate how much easier it s been to find anything.

Name me one thing you struggled to find on google and Ill probably be able to describe you the nightmare it would have been 20 years ago

Singapore is as much of a tax heaven as Hong Kong is. When you live there, it's not.

Now if you re a chronically over spending under budgeted country and look at Singapore you're like "how can they be so rich with so little tax, they re robbing us", but that may hide a few things you could try on your side.

Instead he rotted as an actor of change, represented his citizens, protected his country and solved sudokus.

I dont know if he's good for Singapore but I mean, he did one of the most noble thing a human can do so I wouldnt blame him. I hope to do 1% of what this politician tried to do in my lifetime.

We have no category given by nature that's for sure. What s important is not to look beyond our category, it s waking up to the fact there is none.

It s very american, for some reason, anyway. They were so hung on not mixing up with the slaves they had to draw a line. But stop thinking you're white or black: you re very different from a Russian and a Portugues, or a Malian and a Senegalese. Focusing on skin color is stupid.

My daughter for instance is more franco-chinese than she's whito-yellow (and even that has so many variation that no two french and no two chinese think perfectly alike), it has no meaning, no more than hair color or eye color, at least.

Nothing... it means nothing and your inability to define it precisely beyond vague concepts proves it.

Races have a precise meaning in domestic animal breeding, there is a rule book, you cull the offspring that mutates too far away and aim at purity of attributes as defined in the standard. You get certification for your animals by various standard association who measure shape, color and size.

It makes no sense for humans. You can say gene X produce problem Y if you want, but there s no discrete segmentation in humans.

I put Mix: Normando-French in the "Other" category when Im asked at the census in Hong Kong giggling at their expected confused looks. What the fuck is a race, I look a bit different from a guy in Marseille and a lot different from a guy in Beijing but it's all a gradient, why make it discreet and give names (they split between western and viet for instance in HK... but isnt Vietnam west of China too??), do they also have a guide book so we cull impurities ?

It s insane to use races as a concept for humans when clearly we fuck just as dutifully as stray cats in a gutter. Racism is to talk of races.

His compliment of Ariane 5 tingles my French pride. So annoyed when watching the launch live to see all the ameritards in youtube chat saying "what why is it not spacex" grrr. And we did it for free to boot.

Elon "Electric Jesus" Musk only does it as a business model. He'll never do important national stuff that go beyond budget efficiency.

I learned it myself while at Uni because we only did C and Java.

I d say it s important to learn a bit just for the C with classes aspect. Sometimes you want to do a moderately complex C program that Java dev will have to help with, and it helps knowing C++ (as in: I did a 3D engine in it, using no overly fancy language feature, for me that s good enough to get an ability to produce something useful enough).

It's a bit sad Rust and Go are so far from C. Might as well just go to Java, a paradise for team work and problem solving.

Very interesting "article", so good in fact the author couldnt pay for hosting and used a free service to split his discourse in multiple mini messages. Science on SMS.

These guys are desperate for our money, I suppose when finally they newest scam takes hold, they ll publish outside of twitter echo chambers.

I always use the 2FA and whatever happens it seems to allow me back in. I would think this happens with a phone number too.

Yes MTR here in Hong Kong is quite respectable: the subway works well, the price is cheap, the company redevelop a lot around stations, it's a model of proper corporate management of public infrastructure.

The only snag they faced in my 7 years here is when they were caught in the crossfire during the protest: at first they would help evactuate protestors during police intervention but then the police asked them instead to help them capture them which led to widespread destruction by protestors.

My own anti protest stance is mostly due to the wanton destruction of MTR properties which I found distracted from the original issue by the angelic democrats turned subway destructors.

I did a prenup with my wife. Wasnt easy because im an immigrant in China and she s Chinese, so when I proclaimed that a good mariage prepares for divorce, like we do now in France where separation of wealth is a trivial matter my family did for generations, I was met with defiance.

How big a fortune must I have for being so protective :D But in the end we did it, it made total sense to her: what she works for and buys with her money is hers, and vice versa.

Now we never have money issue or anything: she bought an appartment I have no stakes in nor claim to and she loves this financial independence. If we divorce, Ill prob pay an alemony since we have a child, but we wont tear each other over splitting possession: it s dealt with since the get go.

I think it helps mariages to do that. Especially multi cultural ones like ours where there's a lot of small traps along the way.

It s always been a bit fun, I think people at the market 400 years ago liked the bartering and choosing and spending as much the chicken they ended up with.

There's nothing wrong with mercantile pleasure per se. It's probably an incentive/reward mechanism in the brain to encourage comfort.

Being insured by the gov for up to a certain amount will not solve the default issue (this is what crypto.com is pretending with their eerily similar worldwide protection thing), it was made to save poor people from complete ruin, not protect your savings.

If you re retiring and expect the bank to be good on a million $ worth of some sort of instrument, you're fucked minus 250k.

And this is totally fine: you re compensated for a low risk of default when you lend to your "savings account" and must accept this could happen. There s no way to make money waiting doing nothing risklessly. Creeptards know that well, they all in on wind, there s no worse risk.

Easy: imagine one of the poor sobs decides to withdraw, hop a bit of creative accounting and your money is borrowed to pay for the withdrawal.

It s not each of the user individually seeing their balance go down, it s the company lying even more about its ability to liquidate all accounts.

Your number on their html page they graciously present to you will go unchanged. It s not a new phenomenon, every bank does it, except crypto.com does it to pay losses for a theft while banks would do it to lend to a baker buying a bakery on mortgage. If said baker screws up and cant repay, and many more others as well, clients cant all withdraw the pretty number.

Another interesting difference is that a bank pays you for lending to them with your savings account, at market rate (very low these days), while I dont think crypto ponzis do because you re suppose to just wait and moon.

I have an ex colleague working there as lead dev: knowing him, no, they re not at the apex lol

It's like if you were bemoaning children were taught by teachers rather than figure it out on their own.

A bad teacher is better than no teacher, a bad censor is better than your grandma telling my kid virii dont exist :p

No it's a higher level english word meaning "branch" or "group", we use an equivalent in French too.

If you had read the first two paragraphs it would have been obvious: Findings In this systematic review and meta-analysis of 12 articles including AE reports for 45 380 trial participants, systemic AEs were experienced by 35% of placebo recipients after the first dose and 32% after the second. Significantly more AEs were reported in the vaccine groups, but AEs in placebo arms (“nocebo responses”) accounted for 76% of systemic AEs after the first COVID-19 vaccine dose and 52% after the second dose.

Meaning This study found that the rate of nocebo responses in placebo arms of COVID-19 vaccine trials was substantial; this finding should be considered in public vaccination programs.

My own interpretation is that people feel tingy after an injection and report pain even if what they received contained nothing potent.

How do I get a pdf out for my Sony A4 ereader ? Libgen?

Cant you just not log in ? I do that now and only get irrelevant stuff

Im in China, yes. It s not Asian, it's not African, those people seem to live in the chistriano-muslim vector on the west of China, anyone here would say they're western.

This is as coherent as talking of "black culture". There is no west, people who use it are chinese to dismiss everything not chinese (so Japan is western) and the US uses it to force us to join their stuff.

No because he wanted to take revenge on the "banks" after the 2008 crisis. He must be incredibly proud of the gigantic pyramid he built, knowing if he move just one btc out of his wallet he'll cause so much ruin people will suicide.

Yes dont you dare complain of your x2 rate, ours in France was 6.55957 (rmb it fondly, didnt even need to google it), so right in the middle of an integer multiplier, and go multiply everything by 6 and 7 and cut in the middle.

We had lots of anti-german grievances due to that mismatch between x2 for the DM and 6.5 for the Frcs :D

Some were saying we all got to see who our masters were, but I dismiss it as the simplistic german mind which saw an efficiency somewhere and forgot the price everyone else had to grudgingly pay hehe (and why not pull the rug to yourself when there s no global optimum after all)

You're right if juniors take over, but with experience I've learned to understand that things are done a certain way for a reason. Sometimes they didnt see a bigger pictures but many time they did and something blocked them from solving the problem Im trying to solve in maintenance mode.

Commenting too much in the code simply makes my work impossibly hard because I need to juggle with contradictory statements. I ve found that always committing with a ticket reference and keeping tickets forever allows me to go back sometimes decades ago to understand the problem they were solving at the time, for each layer of the code im looking at (each line having an history).

I read comments now with suspicion as sometimes the comment is a commit 20 years ago and the associated line is 5 years old. Should it have always been kept in sync ? Yes. Could it have been ? I've never seen it done properly.

Dont worry too much we've all been there. If you want it easy, work at a junior farm first (badly funded startup), that will both lower expectations from the top (you re cheap, nobody is experienced), and create contrast if you work a little bit better than the rest.

I joined a new industry with new methods and Im one of the youngest dev at 30+, and I can tell you all those years working with result first and insane deadlines because no money, makes me more comfortable: even if I dont know something they all do, Im the one pushing for doing it faster anyway and I know the tricks to use productively things you understand halfway while you learn the other half. And when I screw up something they never would have, it's management defending me "but at least he got it done in 2 weeks eventually when you quote us 6 months all the time", which is unfair to the perfectionist OGs (shortcuts were taken) but such is life.

Also accept, as we all do, that it's the job of some people never to be happy and to try the pressure angle on devs of projects slowing down just in case it does something to move faster. And try to stay on the cheap salary side for 2 years while you become useful, that tends to compensate for your lack of xp and their impression of juniors. In my company, the training material for managers to deal with "millenials" is that "they are impatient, they care more about their impact and the praise their receive than the company bottom line" so while that's exaggerated probably, it's also good to reflect on why you care so much about the kudos. Make the money, claim the money.

You're hitting at the only source of happiness/sadness for humans: success relative to their neighbour.

You either have to really accept other ways which I think is hard or get better than them which is probably harder.

I grew up in a small town of Normandy, from middle class parents, left home at 19 with a financial buoy from the State and my parents to get a 5-year degree and learned to be very slim in desire, since I was spending other people's money, then lived in relative comfort with my girlfriend when we found okay jobs in Paris.

I was sort of sad then, having like you little fortune to show. I did two things: I saved like a monster, for 3 years, up to 20k USD, and I dived into English, to reach my fluency objective.

After 3 years, I left my girlfriend, moved to Hong Kong, burned half my 20k savings working with my parisian salary there looking for a job. 7 years later, I have a Porsche, earn 4 times my initial salary with a local wife earning even more, and have a lot of money saved in various shapes. I feel I won so far, while I dont forget that it can just disappear tmr and it's okay, will just have to find another angle of attack.

Find a skill you can tune more and take a large wealth producing decision that not everyone takes (leave your roots for a rich place needing your new skill, for instance). If possible, tame the jealousy, it's really toxic: have fun doing something special like I have living in China, and use that as your worth-comparator. And find a working partner.

I loved it then I grew to love even more low effect, dark-style simple UIs as a result of the constant slowdowns, uselessness, desktop crashes that came with compiz. But god was it cool to brag.