C1sc0cat

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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
And pretty much all developed nations have subsidy programs for farmers who are a well organised political bloc.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
The benefit went entirely to the merchant the consumer lost out in the EU
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Be careful what you wish for the EU mandated reduced fees - the backs just stopped doing cashback cost me almost £20 a month. Of course the reduced savings where not passed on to the end consumer
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Called the Hamon in Japanese sword making. If you go to Birmingham Museum (the UK) One, they have an exhibit of swords from the late samurai period that have be re hilted by a guy who went to Japan and spent several years learning the trad
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
It is in the context of US salaries and rember a lot of folks on hn rightly complain how badly the EU/UK pays software professionals
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Neither does a CS degree, if it comes to it. And if your working on big clusters you will using a distributed software system MPI Map Reduce Hadoop etc
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Not sure where the rest of the world comes in this case. So your assuming that being a good little Ragged-Trousered Philanthropist" is a good idea, and we should touch our caps to the software mill owner.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
A lot of Mech/Civil Eng is done with computers these days and to be blunt working in CFD for example is higher skilled than CRUD webdev
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
So if they cant afford the going rate then the start-up should not have been funded or started.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
And the previous what 6 decades of other tech companies traitorous 8 and the Fairchildren.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
cough bed sores
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
And if those 4 competitors are the industry? and 12 months you where had mate (unless your a C level ) Your right about trade secrets though.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
"our town" FFS that attitude is why the USA needs one set of employment laws
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
NC and restrictive covenants are not "highly enforceable" in the UK, I do not know where you got that idea from. Limited NC for v senior people for short periods possibly - and by v senior I mean board level.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Its normally only "related" to your day job so in your example yes. But if say your an amateur musician your day job employer has no lien over your compositions.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
How so its a much much better measure than the arithmetic mean ?
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I don't think the average working week has declined in the last 20's years and a lot of salaried workers work unpaid over time now.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
MY ISA and Pension Funds are still down from where they where pre covid. 25 % of people in the uk have < 1k in savings
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
UK private pensions are similar but much more generous in tax relief (for now) and in the amount you can put into them -even more so if you do salary sacrifice. There is also a lot more tax advantaged savings for the better off i.e. 20k pa
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
And they have moved their partner and possibly kids to an area with lesser opportunities - and may have lost the ability to go back to a higher COL.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
GA is also moving to WCV reporting as is lighthouse. Personally I think GSC (google search console) is more useful. I have seen improvements from speeding up pages particular in mobile postmark is unusual in having so much many desktop vie
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
The contract would normally disallow working for competitors I know when the agency I worked for worked with Disney we signed an exclusivity agreement that we could not work with paramount MGM universal etc.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Elons probably not an employee, directors are different
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Straight up gross misconduct firing offence "total breakdown in trust".
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Does get you put on the sucker list
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I used to like the v loud VT100 key clicks but a bit distracting for others - not as much noise as a dual head daisy wheel printer or a real line printer
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Its not as if Horses and horse riding are not dangerous as well as the poop problem.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Politics by definition is activism.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I suspect its only some activists that Mr Armstrong want's rid of.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
FAST A March Version of "The Harder They come" by Jimmy Cliff

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