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by Test0129 4y ago
That's why in fields where this isn't uncommon you drill and drill and drill your response until it becomes second nature. If you don't comply you are still an American citizen. CBP cannot deny you entry for any reason (yet).
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> Why artistic productions? Well, because it’s the most liberal business code for expenses. > As a software company, I can expense travel for some things, the most useful for me being conferences. But that means I need to buy the conf
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by Test0129 4y ago
Oh hey look its the "America backwards" trope again. How tiring. Sure. The IRS could change things. But you're also able to do a lot more in America that they can't track. Other countries (e.g. Sweden, etc) are far &qu
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by Test0129 4y ago
Property taxes are extremely regressive. Probably the first or second most regressive tax you can conceive. I, a lowly middle class worker buy a house in Cheapville. I can afford it, and the property tax, so I am happy. 20 years later I own
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by Test0129 4y ago
This is the primary reason housing is in crisis in the US. Tech workers and foreigners finding cheap but gentrifiable places and driving up the price of housing to the point no one can afford it but them. While OP is right in that these peo
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by Test0129 4y ago
I think OPs problem is going into management. Base pay is typically higher than an IC but a high flying IC can clear more easily. As you mentioned specializing is the key. Data engineering is the new hotness. Failing that, I can echo your s
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by Test0129 4y ago
You have a very funny definition of "fairly compensated" because both construction and medicine are 6 figure fields after 10 years in most occupations. I have a friend who is a journeyman pipefitter making 60k for all of 2 years o
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by Test0129 4y ago
Unions are popular in fields like construction, medicine, teaching, etc because of: 1. The field otherwise would be chronically underpaid 2. The field is dangerous, or has a history of encouraging dangerous behavior 3. The field makes movin
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by Test0129 4y ago
I got my original two vaccines. I refused pfizer and moderna on principle. I refuse to get any boosters. The signal to noise ratio is basically 0 at this point and I am having a hard time "trusting the science". You know the only
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> This post is solely intended to establish a common-sense argument (and ideally, general intuition) for statutory action by the U.S. Treasury. Every time I hear "common-sense argument" I am expecting to be greeted by partisan
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by Test0129 4y ago
I always questioned his openness to share his handle considering his association with cDc. But I guess there is enough plausible deniability, or his utility is so great, that people will look past it. I doubt anyone would be shocked a hacke
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Being in the "optimal zone" I think. The best dollar-value-to-expectations is probably at the mid-level. Senior+ you take on a lot more responsibility, need to know a lot more, and you're not always compensated for all that k
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by Test0129 4y ago
I joke with my friends in other industries about how often I have been laid off. For me, it's been uh...5 times? Maybe 6. I am probably forgetting them. None of them were very small but like usual characteristically overextended. One c
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by Test0129 4y ago
A single datapoint in a 12 year near non-stop bull run powered by free money. You can't refute a statement on an economic rocket ship with a single instance. You're welcome to post a little more about how I am wrong though instead
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by Test0129 4y ago
Why would you? License requisition is a real pain, they have to be factored into the budget, depreciated, etc. If you can instead simply pull in OSS and hide it behind a SaaS implementation (thereby complying with licenses) you can leverage
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by Test0129 4y ago
> So, if that isn't the competitive advantage, why go for it in the first place? At least blue collar languages have much, much larger pools of competent programmers to select from, which is an objective, convenient upside any manag
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https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/08/open_source_biz_sick_... Here's an article on it. Their logic actually makes sense. Not that I support gouging customers, but when you consider how there are massiv
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by Test0129 4y ago
> Maybe this is just me getting older (going to turn 40 soon). Maybe all programming is terrible. I’ve actually started to read Java newsletters, maybe Spring isn’t that bad, I’m also having affectionate memories of JavaScript and Python
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by Test0129 4y ago
Could you add a link (or explanation in parentheses) that BSL means Business Source License and not Boost Software License? I was confused for a few about why people would be up in arms about the boost license which seems to me like an MIT
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by Test0129 4y ago
I would like to see the numbers. I want to believe schooling really "changes lives" like the universities selling student loans want you to believe (I myself being a victim of this). However, I have a sneaking suspicion that if we
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https://news.yahoo.com/connecticut-ag-launches-probe-school-... Apparently the vertias video was good enough to get the AG to launch a probe. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/private-school-s
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by Test0129 4y ago
The buffett indicator and shiller PE are good indicators but it misses the point. What you're looking at is a "normal market swing" indicator and what we're standing in is a nuclear reactor about to go critical. It'
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This is only true on technicality. While the SEC is a regulatory agency they are more-or-less in bed with the FBI who, to my knowledge, has never said "yeah we're not gonna go after that criminal" when they asked. So yes, de
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> Here we are 25 years after Gatto gave this speech, our society has not "disintegrated" yet It really depends on how you define disintegrated. What he mentioned has manifested over the last 30 years. Slowly, and quietly. Now,
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I have nothing of value to add to this. This speech encapsulates my experience in school growing up America and my experience now watching the children in my family grow up. It sums up the cause and effect of all of it exactly as I had supp
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by Test0129 4y ago
Wow, flagged, killed, resurrected in a VERY short amount of time. This is spicy. Diversity is a trope that I've yet to see any evidence for other than using it as a kudgel to force a single viewpoint on a bunch of people by threatening
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Yeah this has also been my experience more or less. Senior engineers do get some tasks (scope the work, design the implementation, etc) but generally "building systems" is in the purview of the principals and architects. I'
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This would assume they are capitalized such that 4-5% ARR returns a living wage after capital gains. Most people don't reach this until their mid-50s or early 60s if they're lucky. Sometimes never.
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>I started investing in stocks couple of years ago. It is probably not what you wanted to hear but it makes me a lot of money and allowed me to retire in my 30s, as a minimalist. I am a long-term investor(I hold positions at least 1 year
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by Test0129 4y ago
Could you not argue the same thing about progressives? They are very big on the emphasis of so-called "social progress" even when they don't do it themselves. Most famously I could argue that this entire push for climate chan

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