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Why Sweden Is Shifting To A 6-Hour Workday - The eight-hour workday hasn't changed much since Henry Ford first experimented with it for factory workers. Now, Americans work slightly longer - an average 8.7 hours - though more time goes into email, meetings, and Facebook than whatever our official job duties actually are. Is it time to rethink how many hours we spend at the office? In Sweden, the six-hour workday is becoming common. (Ed.note: Damn, my average is 13 hours)
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last 10 comments:

Csimbi

(06:54 PM CEST - Oct,05 2015 )

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Microsoft Acquires Havoc
Sad news. RIP Havok

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Apple updates iOS to v9.0.2 - fixes unauthorized access
So they say

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Why Sweden Is Shifting To A 6-Hour Workday
Probably because it's going to be a more efficient 6 hours and less stress on the body (ergonomic-wise) -> win for both.
Personally, I think I do the same amount of work in 4 hours that my colleagues do in 8.

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NASA Reports flowing water on Mars
Interesting non-gaming related old news.

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The Taiwanese Animators Take On The Mars Water Announcement
Anything for fame.

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Stephen Hawking: Aliens Could 'Conquer And Colonize' Us
Erm... First off, if anyone comes here from a place we don't even know about, they surely are more advanced. Why would a more advanced race want to come here for anything else but to conquer us?
But wait. How does a physicist come to that conclusion? This is typically a topic for philosopher. Did Mr. Hawking find the Philosopher's Stone?

Tom	(07:18 PM CEST - Oct,05 2015 )
That's Havok, not Havoc. I'm actually surprised Valve didn't buy them up seeing how they use a form of Havok in their games. A lot of the news is old news..

Csimbi

(07:53 PM CEST - Oct,05 2015 )

Havok's best built into DirecX. MS is a logical 'home' for that.
Unfortunately however, MS is screwing up things lately, so I am not sure how that will span out.
MS will most likely kill Havok over a year or two and release some dumb library based loosely on Havok (but marketed as the next best Havok engine).
Intel should have built new instructions into their CPUs that support Havok.

BTW, you might want to disable auto-update for Adblock - the new owner allows ads.
Another good extension down the drain. Anyone feels like coding a new one?

Tom	(08:07 PM CEST - Oct,05 2015 )
Stopped using adblock a long while ago or at least since uBlock came out.

Csimbi	(08:56 PM CEST - Oct,05 2015 )
Tom> Stopped using adblock a long while ago or at least since uBlock came out. Thanks for the recommendation! I don't look for new things while the current one works... Edit With the same filter set, there's a 0.5 sec delay on page load when using uBlock. I want my browser quick. Back on AdBlock. Other recommendations?

Tom	(04:59 AM CEST - Oct,06 2015 )
Csimbi> Tom> Stopped using adblock a long while ago or at least since uBlock came out. Thanks for the recommendation! I don't look for new things while the current one works... Edit With the same filter set, there's a 0.5 sec delay on page load when using uBlock. I want my browser quick. Back on AdBlock. Other recommendations? Haha, ya because uBlock blocks better and more than ABP ever did!

lorcro2000

(09:07 AM CEST - Oct,06 2015 )

Just for the record, a 6-hour workweek in Sweden is far from common. In fact, it is limited to a very very minimal trial. 8 hours is the norm and virtually no company is entertaining ideas of a 6-hour day. And if it happens it won't be 6 hours with the same pay either, I suspect.

Sure, we should be down to a couple of hours a day if we'd actually taken the efficiency increases over the decades and put them towards freeing humans from wage slavery, but not surprisingly the rich took those efficiency gains and converted it into increased cash for themselves and left the workers with longer work hours and less money. And the workers are the jackasses who let them.

Csimbi	(04:45 PM CEST - Oct,06 2015 )
Tom> Haha, ya because uBlock blocks better and more than ABP ever did! Blocked everything I wanted it to. Might not be that advanced, but at least I don't have to wait for stupid apps.

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