askonomm

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by askonomm 3y ago
United States is one country. European Union is not a country, it is a collection of many independent countries with separate laws, languages, cultures, governments. You can also live and work from any corner of the same country in EU if yo
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by askonomm 3y ago
Well yes, EU/Europe is a collection of many independent countries, unlike U.S which is one country. And you can't work in a country as an employee without having a residence permit in that country. The comparison to U.S here makes
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by askonomm 3y ago
You pay income tax based on where you live though. So I can earn money from Germany, but if I live in Estonia, my taxes go to Estonia. Most remote workers I know are set up as LLC's, and they simply invoice their clients for the work,
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by askonomm 3y ago
Most of the remote jobs I see from Germany also hire only those who live in Germany, so it seems to me that Germans don't even want EU citizens, just Germans.
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by askonomm 3y ago
It's bad in Europe as well. Spotify let lots of people go last year, Pitch recently fired 2/3 of their staff. Glovo, Veriff, Xolo are just a few others I heard about, but I'm sure it's a hell of a lot more. I'm thin
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by askonomm 3y ago
I opened my Wise account in 20 minutes. The ID verification is all automated so it's really quick. I haven't heard of anyone who is unbanked before though, what would be a reason for that?
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by askonomm 3y ago
Wise (previously Transferwise) can do international transfer within seconds. If you're in Europe then payments between any bank in Europe take seconds (SEPA payments).
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by askonomm 3y ago
Having horrible time management in a company eat your work time and forcing you to work overtime seems like such an american thing, and something I have not heard of in Europe (probably because it would be illegal). And firing me for not do
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by askonomm 3y ago
I thought it was common knowledge that politicians are crooks. There's even information out there on politicians trading patterns, and how they very often seem to buy or sell certain stock right before a huge news affecting that stock
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by askonomm 3y ago
I like it. Someone please make this into a Netflix series.
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by askonomm 3y ago
I have a 16GB MacBook Pro (M2 Pro chip), and my Linux PC (I don't use Windows) runs a lot smoother than my MacBook does for programming tasks such as running IntelliJ / Android Studio / bunch of docker vm's.
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by askonomm 3y ago
16GB really isn't enough these days. I put 64 GB in my machine for as little as 200 EUR. How much would that cost in Apple land? Extra 1000?
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by askonomm 3y ago
Oddly I haven't yet needed to work offline in my 12 year career as a software dev. But then again it's not common for internet to go away where I live.
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by askonomm 3y ago
I'm mostly interested in upgradeability and the cost of parts. With Macs I'll just have to buy totally new Macs every time to upgrade, but with a PC I can swap out RAM, SSD, GPU, etc however I want for a fraction of the price that
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by askonomm 3y ago
The M series macbooks are amazing machines. I don't want to take away from them at all, but I recently realized I can get the same power that a 3k Macbook pro has with about 1k when I build my own PC (excluding the screen), and with it
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by askonomm 3y ago
As far as I know, TPM can be disabled in the BIOS. Perhaps not on every motherboard, but I have yet to encounter one like that.
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by askonomm 3y ago
Location: Tallinn, Estonia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, NodeJS Resume/CV: https://github.com/askonomm/askonomm/blob/m
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by askonomm 3y ago
When I look at it from the perspective of having to work since 18 to 69 (which is when I can retire in my country), that's 51 years that I have to plan everything _around_ the fact that I spend the daytime of most weeks from mon-fri wo
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by askonomm 3y ago
I've asked a lot of people about the potential future of not having to spend 2/3 of our life working to be able to feed ourselves and have a roof, and I'm afraid so many people are what I could best describe as being "in
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by askonomm 3y ago
From what I understood Apple will allow third-party app stores soon due to EU regulations, and is already (reportedly) in process of making that happen.
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by askonomm 3y ago
My bad! I thought the Rich Hickey is a genius part was not meant sincerely, so I thought it came off as snarky.
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by askonomm 3y ago
The examples you just created are unidiomatic Clojure. Is that supposed to somehow convince me? I have yet to see anyone actually use `while` in Clojure, and redeclaring `def`'s is also not something I've actually ever seen, despi
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by askonomm 3y ago
This sounds very bitter. Also, having worked in multiple places where Clojure is the main language, I don't agree at all. Most places make their own coding rules / standards, enforce them with linters and custom formatter rules.
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by askonomm 3y ago
Nah, too many things break or are weird. I don't care if its because Google is a bad company and hates Firefox, I have no bone in this fight, I just want to browse the web without issues.
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by askonomm 3y ago
Not just Finland, Liero was big in Estonia, too! I remember I got Liero on a floppy disk from a friend early 00's and ran it on my Win98. Good ol' days. Terep2 was another great game.
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by askonomm 3y ago
I mean, my mom would not understand most of the stuff there, so I'd say it's technical enough, and saying "technically curious" seems an apt description to me, especially since RFC's would be for people who are much
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by askonomm 3y ago
I'm only a few articles in at the moment, but I really like it so far. Yes, it's not as technical as RFC's would be, but it's still quite enjoyable as leisurely reading.
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by askonomm 3y ago
As if Apple was some government provided service that you are entitled to because you pay taxes. It's not. It's a for-profit company of which you are not a board member. If you want F-droid, use Android. If you want App Store, use
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by askonomm 3y ago
Because SF is coming down in cost or rest of the world is going up? Or Both?
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by askonomm 3y ago
I mean, 99% of the world is lower cost than SF, with SF being in many of the top 10 lists of most expensive cities to live in.

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