There's no silver bullet to make relationships work. Online can be an excellent way to meet the right person, but every relationship takes work, commitment and compromise.
More importantly, you get to focus on interests and personality before you even meet. In bars, you're more likely to focus on looks, on "I'd like to tap that ass", and that's not a great basis for a stable long-term relationship.
My wife of 5.5 years and I originally noticed each other because of our shared interest in sailing, foreign countries and religion (and indeed basic literacy), but it's when we started mailing, and then calling, and then meeting in person, that we discovered how well we matched in other, more subtle and intangible ways. The physical match is important, but so is the mental/psychological match, and that's so easily forgotten when you start with the physical match right away.
People don't advertise their mental illnesses in bars either. You usually find out that stuff by meeting them in person and getting to know them. And you're going to do that anyway, no matter how you met them, as that's the entire point, isn't it?
Back in the ancient days of 2009, Motorola Mobility earned considerable buzz with its Droid smartphone. Marketed as an iPhone alternative, the device featured a sliding QWERTY keyboard and a chunky black body that seemed positively Schwarzenegger-esque in comparison to its svelte Apple rival. But Motorola failed to translate that buzz into sustained momentum in the smartphone space.
No mention of the fact that they crippled their own devices by not supporting them with updates, and locking the bootloaders so users couldn't update them either? If Motorola wants to rule the smartphone space, that is the attitude they need to change. The Milestone (non-Verizon Droid) was an amazing piece of hardware, crippled by stupid policies and lack of software support.
So who was buying the goods the Dutch were exporting?
I think the best example of the Dutch merchant spirit at the time is the fact that we sold guns to Spain. Spain was fighting a war with us, so they needed guns. Meanwhile we needed money to hire German mercenaries to fight Spain. Some interesting profits were made there.
We also bought and sold lots of goods that never reached Europe. The VOC had a very lucrative trade triangle between China, Indonesia and India, I think. Or maybe Japan?
I think shrimp is the best comparison. They're similar in size, and they're all legs and tentacles, yet inside,there's stuff that a lot of people love to eat. Similar stuff is inside grasshoppers. They're more than just legs too.
It's a mismanagement problem. Mugabe is a very extreme case of mismanagement, but there's a wide variety of mismanagement in many very different African countries, and the intentional mismanagement in the EU and US just makes it worse. (Basically we pay taxes to drive African farmers into bankruptcy.)
It's not just in his head, but also in mine. I know eating insects makes tons of sense because it's healthy, efficient, environmentally friendly, etc, but I'm never going to, because they're "icky". I don't even eat molluscs for that same reason.
A staunch vegetarian is probably as repulsed at the thought of eating a medium rare steak as you are that handful of aphids.
I've been a staunch vegetarian for many years despite loving meat, including rare steak. Vertebrate meat is great despite being bad, whereas insects are icky despite being a lot better.
Depends on whether this time is for dealing with the physical aspects of giving birth. If this is parental leave on top of standard maternity leave for the pregnancy itself, then it's discriminatory. But in most countries, women get 16 weeks of maternity leave simply because they're physically unable to work for a number of weeks before and after giving birth. Time to spend with your kid comes on top of that.
In my country, fathers unfortunately get only 2 days leave: one for the day of birth itself, and one to register the newborn child. This isn't remotely enough, because you simply cannot leave the mother alone for the first one or two weeks after giving birth. So I'd say 16 weeks for the mother and 2 weeks for the father should be the bare minimum for simply dealing with the physical aspects of it.
On top of that, it would be great if they both got (equal) additional leave to take care of the child that's still way too young for any kind of day care. That's not something that should end up only with the mother, because then you end up with a situation where the mother is expected to sacrifice her career, while the father is expected to work.
It's a matter of corporate culture. Some companies have a really bad one, some have a good one, and some are working on improving theirs. I think some diversity (men, women, different ethnicities) is likely to lead to a better culture.
RTFA. They changed the way they reached out to candidates, and didn't chase away women right away with unnecessarily confrontational questions.
Also, It's not just about getting better individual people, but about ending up with a better mix of employees. Companies with more diversity tend to do better.
They don't hire women because they have to, they hire women because they're better. When a man is better, they hire the man.
Do those shops accept bitcoins at a set price, or is it the dollar price that's set, while the bitcoin price fluctuates just as much as the dollar-bitcoin exchange rate?
By the answer to that question, you can tell whether they actually accept bitcoins, or merely exchange them for you.
That doesn't mean that the demand for gold has to go up. We don't actually need gold all that much. The value of gold only goes up when everybody wants some and the population grows.
Because standards tell you that something will work and the current standard distributes light in a way that is useful in most cases.
Not really. That's why there are so many fixtures that try to send the light in one particular direction (often wasting half of the light), try to shade it or modify it in some other way. Almost nobody likes a bare light bulb.
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Can someone please mod parent all the way up?
There's no silver bullet to make relationships work. Online can be an excellent way to meet the right person, but every relationship takes work, commitment and compromise.
More importantly, you get to focus on interests and personality before you even meet. In bars, you're more likely to focus on looks, on "I'd like to tap that ass", and that's not a great basis for a stable long-term relationship.
My wife of 5.5 years and I originally noticed each other because of our shared interest in sailing, foreign countries and religion (and indeed basic literacy), but it's when we started mailing, and then calling, and then meeting in person, that we discovered how well we matched in other, more subtle and intangible ways. The physical match is important, but so is the mental/psychological match, and that's so easily forgotten when you start with the physical match right away.
People don't advertise their mental illnesses in bars either. You usually find out that stuff by meeting them in person and getting to know them. And you're going to do that anyway, no matter how you met them, as that's the entire point, isn't it?
From TFA:
Back in the ancient days of 2009, Motorola Mobility earned considerable buzz with its Droid smartphone. Marketed as an iPhone alternative, the device featured a sliding QWERTY keyboard and a chunky black body that seemed positively Schwarzenegger-esque in comparison to its svelte Apple rival. But Motorola failed to translate that buzz into sustained momentum in the smartphone space.
No mention of the fact that they crippled their own devices by not supporting them with updates, and locking the bootloaders so users couldn't update them either? If Motorola wants to rule the smartphone space, that is the attitude they need to change. The Milestone (non-Verizon Droid) was an amazing piece of hardware, crippled by stupid policies and lack of software support.
I find it kind of funny that one of your pillars is not something like "Make/Receive phone calls reliably".
Maybe that's why my Motorola Milestone has some trouble with that.
So who was buying the goods the Dutch were exporting?
I think the best example of the Dutch merchant spirit at the time is the fact that we sold guns to Spain. Spain was fighting a war with us, so they needed guns. Meanwhile we needed money to hire German mercenaries to fight Spain. Some interesting profits were made there.
We also bought and sold lots of goods that never reached Europe. The VOC had a very lucrative trade triangle between China, Indonesia and India, I think. Or maybe Japan?
I think shrimp is the best comparison. They're similar in size, and they're all legs and tentacles, yet inside,there's stuff that a lot of people love to eat. Similar stuff is inside grasshoppers. They're more than just legs too.
It's a mismanagement problem. Mugabe is a very extreme case of mismanagement, but there's a wide variety of mismanagement in many very different African countries, and the intentional mismanagement in the EU and US just makes it worse. (Basically we pay taxes to drive African farmers into bankruptcy.)
It's in your head.
It's not just in his head, but also in mine. I know eating insects makes tons of sense because it's healthy, efficient, environmentally friendly, etc, but I'm never going to, because they're "icky". I don't even eat molluscs for that same reason.
A staunch vegetarian is probably as repulsed at the thought of eating a medium rare steak as you are that handful of aphids.
I've been a staunch vegetarian for many years despite loving meat, including rare steak. Vertebrate meat is great despite being bad, whereas insects are icky despite being a lot better.
Depends on whether this time is for dealing with the physical aspects of giving birth. If this is parental leave on top of standard maternity leave for the pregnancy itself, then it's discriminatory. But in most countries, women get 16 weeks of maternity leave simply because they're physically unable to work for a number of weeks before and after giving birth. Time to spend with your kid comes on top of that.
In my country, fathers unfortunately get only 2 days leave: one for the day of birth itself, and one to register the newborn child. This isn't remotely enough, because you simply cannot leave the mother alone for the first one or two weeks after giving birth. So I'd say 16 weeks for the mother and 2 weeks for the father should be the bare minimum for simply dealing with the physical aspects of it.
On top of that, it would be great if they both got (equal) additional leave to take care of the child that's still way too young for any kind of day care. That's not something that should end up only with the mother, because then you end up with a situation where the mother is expected to sacrifice her career, while the father is expected to work.
That's why they're hiring Fox IT to do it. (Also top-level sponsors of OHM2013, by the way.)
Absolutely. If we can't all be happy, at least spread the misery around a bit, so nobody has a strong interest in increasing the misery for others.
There's a lot wrong with Dutch politics, but it's still a thousand times better than the rampant insanity of US politics.
Didn't they have a treatment a few months ago that used modified HIV to fight cancer?
I get the impression that medical biologist are deep into mad scientist territory now.
The sci-fi fan in me - horrified about the inevitable result of injecting radioactive bacteria into people.
Horrified? What about the new breed of superheroes that will have the same powers as bacteria?
No, people have to have two jobs because the govt takes 1/3 of their salary in taxes.
That's less than in most wealthy countries. I don't think tax is really your problem here.
Way to justify your chauvinism with a True Scotsman there.
It's a matter of corporate culture. Some companies have a really bad one, some have a good one, and some are working on improving theirs. I think some diversity (men, women, different ethnicities) is likely to lead to a better culture.
RTFA. They changed the way they reached out to candidates, and didn't chase away women right away with unnecessarily confrontational questions.
Also, It's not just about getting better individual people, but about ending up with a better mix of employees. Companies with more diversity tend to do better.
They don't hire women because they have to, they hire women because they're better. When a man is better, they hire the man.
Do those shops accept bitcoins at a set price, or is it the dollar price that's set, while the bitcoin price fluctuates just as much as the dollar-bitcoin exchange rate?
By the answer to that question, you can tell whether they actually accept bitcoins, or merely exchange them for you.
That doesn't mean that the demand for gold has to go up. We don't actually need gold all that much. The value of gold only goes up when everybody wants some and the population grows.
Why is the correct pedant modded down, and the incorrect guy modded up?
"By definition" gets abused just as much as "literally".
Because standards tell you that something will work and the current standard distributes light in a way that is useful in most cases.
Not really. That's why there are so many fixtures that try to send the light in one particular direction (often wasting half of the light), try to shade it or modify it in some other way. Almost nobody likes a bare light bulb.
Probably an approximation of that curve. I don't see why that wouldn't be possible, although I admit I don't know all that much about LED engineering.
But why does that have to remain the standard? You can get leds in much more varied and interesting shapes. Why should we stick to bulbs?
Who cares about the IR? It's just the visible light that really matters.