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by 988747 4y ago
If you are contractor then you are a business owner, and you should bear responsibility for your own taxes. The upside of this liability shift is that your customers will be more willing to negotiate with you. Right now some of them are ass
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by 988747 4y ago
I guess digging 10-15 meters of that tunnel towards the Earth core with a shovel would be enough for an average person to lose 20 pounds :)
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by 988747 4y ago
Did you mean 740k EUR per person? I can't find the whole budget right now, but it costs EU parliament over 100 million just to move it back and forth between Brussels and Strasbourg (which is totally pointless and is only done so that
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by 988747 4y ago
Yes, but it's also a threat of further fines in future if they don't stop their shenanigans.
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by 988747 4y ago
The problem is: if you want to ban Nazi propaganda you have to develop tools to do it. Once you have tools in place you can use it to ban anything you do not like, not just Nazi propaganda.
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by 988747 4y ago
You are completely ignoring the fact that you can't always "just increase the tax". Tax increases have their negative consequences, at some point they can kill the entire economy.
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by 988747 4y ago
>> I rock climb or ski 3 times a week for exercise. That puts you in top 1-2% of most physically active people in the world. The rest of us dreads the thought of exercising 3 times a week :)
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by 988747 4y ago
If anything your wallet is lighter because of the push for "green" technologies, which are usually much more expensive than "dirty" ones. Just compare price of Tesla vs ICE car. Not to mention things like "carbon ta
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by 988747 4y ago
It at the low end of mid-level developer salary range. Some companies will pay close to that to a bright, promising Junior with 2 years of experience.
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by 988747 4y ago
Haha, just 5 minutes ago I read a story about Iranian 'hacker' who wrote a ransomware note in Microsoft Word, so the file metadata contained his full name :)
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by 988747 4y ago
Some sport events are live streamed by 10-20 million people in a single country. that means you need 3000-7000 such nodes to serve them.
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by 988747 4y ago
I thought "poor man's mind mapping tool" is pen and paper? and maybe cheap smartphone to digitalize it :)
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by 988747 4y ago
If you only make 7x minimal wage after tax then you are severely underpaid. 10-12x is the standard now.
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by 988747 4y ago
In Poland you can make close to $100k per year (as a contractor, not employee), and only have like 18% tax rate on this (12% income tax plus social security payments). So you earn like $6-6.5k monthly after taxes, and all your living expens
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by 988747 4y ago
Handling more than 1 client isn't doing you any good if you are still paid by the hour. What would be a game changer is if you can be paid fixed price for some well defined piece of work (writing an app module, creating cloud infrastru
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by 988747 4y ago
I thought that long COVID was proven to be a mental disorder, not anything physical? That's why even people who were never infected with COVID experience it.
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by 988747 4y ago
>> Did you expect French politicians to be all-knowing robots who can never be wrong? I would expect government members making decisions to consult expert virologists/epidemiologists first. The fact that they can make two contrad
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by 988747 4y ago
Does this "30-40% hit" includes taxes already? Because that's the whole point of ML, right? Pretending that money came from legal sources means paying income taxes on them. Your last sentence is confusing in that regard.
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by 988747 4y ago
Climate change might actually increase amount of arable land, by millions of acres, in higher latitudes: Sweden, Finland, Greenland, Canada, etc. It will also increase total rainfall. https://phys.org/news/2018-05-clima
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by 988747 4y ago
Because that's the one that actually can happen, unlike apocalyptic visions of "Earth burning", or "famine"
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by 988747 4y ago
They do not promote anarchy, they promote totalitarian rule. Put all those 'climate change deniers' in prison, force them to eat bugs instead of meat, deny them any human rights, that kind of thing.
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by 988747 4y ago
George is already nine years old, I doubt he will be alive in 2120, let alone 2140 (that would require him to live till 127 years of age). You have to rethink your math here. If we assume he'll die at 100, that brings us to 2113.
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by 988747 4y ago
Not giving tip might be interpreted like you come from the culture where people do not tip. Giving very small tip is clearly an insult :)
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by 988747 4y ago
What? SMS and voice calls are free in most plans. I agree that these times people communicate over Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp much more than through SMS but that has nothing to do with cost.
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by 988747 4y ago
I've been a programmer for 15 years and I've never seen it done for "job security". I think this is mostly about low tolerance for boredom of most programmers: writing code is exciting, documenting it is boring, so you d
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by 988747 4y ago
Steel is much stronger so you can build much bigger buildings with it. Imagine 25-stories apartment/office building with steel skeleton and wood for walls.
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by 988747 4y ago
We already tried that strategy... in Middle Ages. World has moved on to globalized trade for a reason.
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How precise is the gyroscope in Apple watch? Can you turn on constant movement in Quake, and then just use watch movements for turns/aiming, and the side button/screen tap for fire ?
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by 988747 4y ago
One thing about civil asset forfeiture is that it is an action against the property, not the person. So, the cash itself is a "suspect" not you. You can't even file a complaint, because you are not a party to the whole case.
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by 988747 4y ago
There are activities that produce significantly more than 2.5% emissions, like burning coal for electricity and heating (which is something like 20-25%, I guess). Also, coal-fueled power plants have clear alternatives (nuclear, solar, etc).

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