DominikR

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by DominikR 10y ago
I do not want to give away too much personal information but I mostly work remotely. (I meet with my clients once every 2 months or so) The only exceptions are heavily regulated corporations like banks that require everyone to work from wit
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Many people do not have the self confidence or social skills to be successful at negotiating a raise. Many don't even ask.
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If you have the experience, contacts and social skills (very underestimated by many professionals in our field) you can make much more as a freelancer/contractor. I'm now self employed for 4 years and I earn 6x as much as I earned
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> Its only a problem if you assume a supportive employer, one that is looking out for your productivity and success. When you find out your company is only in it for the money, it can be a shock. You know what really would be a shocker t
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Okay, so if I were to believe what this person wrote, in specific that no one is going to profit from accepting counter offers and that on top of that the relationship between employer and employee will alway get worse and that there will b
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I don't think so, it is surely within ISP's capabilities to log who had which dynamic IP at what time, and it is known that the government wants this data to be stored and available for it's own use. I've seen an article
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They themselves seed an already existing torrent and then just log the IP's that connect to download. With these logs they approach the ISP's to give them names and addresses which the ISP's are forced to do. So it's eas
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No, not even close to everybody. But most people do know someone who was hit by this.
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Yes, it is absolutely correct. It happens so frequently that I actually know several friends of mine who had to pay for downloading a video or a music album. (about $800 to $1000 - but there are limits now on how much you can be charged for
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If you don't like my viewpoint you can engage in a conversation, I'm not someone that ignores people with other opinions. But I am going to make my case that governments should stop manipulating the markets whenever I want because
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You know it's funny how Socialists complain about evil businesses and IT professionals with their high income/profit being the cause for the insane real estate prices in San Francisco and other places when it is really their belov
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> To reverse the gov must buy the bond back with money from general taxation, on doing so the bond is redeemed and destroyed, and the central bank erases the money it received back in tandem with the bond. Which is never going to happen.
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How do you withdraw the QE money that is already out there? Erase it from the books?
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> Yes that's not good, but there's been no inflation as a result and the bonds the fed buys are freely tradable on the open market. There is certainly an enormous inflation of the money supply but you don't see and feel it
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> It's also that the US doesn't play games with it's currency I would never consider buying Yuan over Dollars but I simply cannot agree with this statement. What the FED has been doing since 2008 and the ECB with the Euro
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Strange how Manning has to suffer without end but Hillary Clinton could be rewarded with the presidency for leaking state secrets all over the world.
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There is no doubt in my mind that the EU negotiated this in secret because they knew that society would be opposed. They likely would have tried to ratify this treaty afterwards in a stealthy way by suppressing media coverage or "encou
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Look I agree that some of that stuff in this article is complete and utter nonsense. For example where it is explained that women wash mens feet and then have to drink the water. Whoever believes this must be either stupid or ignorant. And
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> The argument here is that birth control is a factor that correlates to rising women's empowerment It logically follows that women are empowered if you give them the right to control their reproduction but that's not the argum
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I also can't believe that this is true. Even if you were someone that ignores the dignity of your wife (which I doubt Indians do) she still would suffer from all kinds of illnesses if she had to do this, so it doesn't make any sen
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by DominikR 10y ago
So if I say that the Saudi government and their practices which stem from their culture are bad because they kill gays, kill non believers and enslave women then I'm being racist? Well then I guess I don't have to care if I'm
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I greatly respect Christopher Hitchens but this statement is provably wrong. There was no control over reproduction by women before the birth control pill reached the market in 1960. Therefore it would follow that every society before 1960
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Chances are that even if you make $500k a year you'll still have lots and lots of social interactions with people earning much less. Even most of your friends and family will earn less. That's why it isn't surprising to me th
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Well as I see it there are only two possibilities: a) They let their people vote on it before ratifying the finalised treaty (maybe let them even vote multiple times until the result is right, the EU likes doing that) b) They know for some
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A trade deal has to be negotiated, and your position as a negotiator improves when you and the other side know that you can follow through on any commitment you make. Therefore it follows that anyone who can negotiate from a position of sec
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Yeah sure, everything that happened in British colonies was the fault of the British Empire. Even if it was a drought or natural disaster or if the country wasn't even part of the Empire. Let's just call it genocide because you fe
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Ok, so I guess that in absence of evidence the right thing for me to do is to simply imagine that the Brits built concentration camps.
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How is that relevant for this discussion?
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I have a different position on that. My perspective is that if a company doesn't act negligent, follows all legal procedures and industry standards regarding data security then why should it be made to pay for damages caused by a third
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In third world countries people historically got to use Internet services much later, with more limited hardware and in also in a very different way. (not on a PC, instead on a feature phone with a very small screen) So it's not surpri

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