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  • The EU is where innovation goes to die.

    This is such bullshit. There are three principle reasons why the EU does not grow as many tech giants: 1. Venture capital is hard to cone by in the EU, 2. The language barriers and 3. The not-quite-finished-single market, with many countries not aligning their laws to the EU framework. 1 and 3 are actively being addressed and 2 is a disappearing issue as the younger generations aee all fluent in English.

    To your point however, innovation has always been one of the strong suits of the European continent, much more so than monetization which is not a synonym.




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    I once interviewed a guy after HR had already talked to him. Told him straight up the permanent job would preferably go to an internal candidate, but we still needed someone like him temporarily, even though HR had told him it was for a permanent job. He still took it and the internal candidate was promoted 9 months later. I’m still friends with the guy that took the temp job.




  • Nonetheless, this is the first time he has openly spoken about bringing the war to an end. Until now the narrative was that it will continue until complete victory. That’s why this acknowledgement is a much more momentous statement than the actual meaning of what he said.

    That being said, at this point I think the Ukrainians might keep the war going until they get complete victory. Although they are also incredibly war weary, so probably not.






  • Meh, you get used to it. It’s only stressful when the end of the maintenance window is approaching and you still don’t know whether you’ll wrap it up in time. The odd hours are more annoying though. Often late in the evening or during the weekend. Long weekends are actually perfect for large maintenance operations, but you (and the other people doing the maintenance) give up that long weekend in return. And I learned over the years that a compensation day during the week does not equal a weekend day, because you can’t do anything with your buddies for example or when you want to sleep in, there might be roadworks in front of your house.




  • That’s actually a very interesting question. Caesar was known for his luck throughout his life, and it certainly led to him having a larger appetite for risk than his contemporaries. But a lot of that luck was also created by him being incredibly skilled at just about anything.

    Another commander known for his luck, and gambles, was Napoleon. This worked out incredibly well for him (well, for a time anyway). He equally was incredibly skilled at just about anything he set his mind to and both were tireless workers.

    Gambling like that is something you can do when you are confident that whatever situation you get yourself in, you’ll be able to work your way out of it. Both got into very dicey situations at times. They had the skillset and the highly disciplined troops to work themselves out of these situations (example: Napoleon losing the first battle of Marengo, realizing there was still time for a second battle and crushing the celebrating Austrians. Another example: Caesar at the battle of the Sabis managing to rally his troops after being ambushed and eventually being able to push back the Nervii. Both turned out to be crushing victories where they really should have lost.)