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by badpun 3y ago
> Have you thought about relocating somewhere else in Europe? Ukrainian men are not allowed to leave the country.
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by badpun 3y ago
I don't think it's economies of scale. Top money in US is paid by tech companies (FAANGs and similar) who have virtual monopolies on their markets, and thus are printing money. They overpay for programmers to make sure they'r
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by badpun 3y ago
Knowledge is easy. In most places, the pretenders don’t pretend to have knowledge, but pretend to have a much larger impact that they actually have. This is how you get a promo, or don’t get fired if your actual output is miniscule.
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by badpun 3y ago
As long as „getting screwed good and hard” means making merely $300k and not $400k or $500k you’d get with a promotion. Not to mention, higher levels in a company involve a ton of working with other people, so somebody with social anxiety o
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by badpun 3y ago
Not neccessarily. For example, all companies are seeking profits, but some are actually losing money. Such companies still have to pay wages, in which case they're partially paid out of owners' pockets.
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by badpun 3y ago
> the US is a relatively libertarian project where "high taxes and free healthcare" are anathema. Isn't that just the last 4 decades though? Before that, US had very high taxes and was not against spending on social progra
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by badpun 3y ago
> You live in a country that is either 11 million or 6 million people with fully enforceable border controls and immigration controls. It's the opposite, actually. Denmark is a part of Shengen zone, which means it has no border cont
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by badpun 3y ago
Also, since USA is a Union of States, it's weird that no single state managed to set up a state-wide socialized health-care. Is there some reason why it hadn't happened?
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by badpun 3y ago
Slick generic websites are cheap and easy to make. Had web technology was available 50 years ago, I'm sure both Apple and Microsoft would have those, even without any income and customers - Gates and Jobs were too shrewed a businessman
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by badpun 3y ago
There's a theory that our economies are so fundamentally dependant on fossil fuels that, if you limit their extraction, you don't get fossil fuels price increases, but rather proportional GDP contraction (as less f.f. means less e
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by badpun 3y ago
AC could be cheaper than the cost of a move, not to mention you wouldn't have to uproot your life?
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by badpun 3y ago
Places without decent soil (i.e. Northern Russia, or high mountains) can only grow food in meaningful qualities if you bomb the soil with copious amounts of fertilizer. Fertilizer production requires fossil fuels and advanced civilization,
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by badpun 3y ago
> We can't colonize Greenland or Antarctica due to the lack of fertile soil, and it would take thousands of years to develop it. I wonder if it would be possible to rip soil off places that are no longer habitable and transport it t
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by badpun 3y ago
Is that wrong? Is only one narrative allowed in a discussion (it's not a discussion then is it?).
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by badpun 3y ago
This makes sense. In software, there's fairly small amount of really interesting work, and an endless ocean of mundane drudgery otherwise. Giving the interesting work to your high-performing veterans as a non-monetary reward is your be
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by badpun 3y ago
My understanding is that there's a ton of overtime in construction work. The projects are on a fixed schedule (a Gant chart made in MS Project), but unpredictable things happen all the time, so overtime is necessary to catch up.
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by badpun 3y ago
I worked in a large bank (top50 globally) who literally couldn't tell you how many customers they have. It was an impossible task, and when the new CEO asked, he was told exactly that.
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by badpun 3y ago
> whatever your reasons for hating the idea of rust, you’ll have so much leas hatred if you go and learn scala first. Sounds like a lot of work for someone who does not want to use Scala, though.
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by badpun 3y ago
I'm merely pointing out that the argument that India grew and civilized itself much slower than Finland because of its larger size has little merit.
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by badpun 3y ago
A lot of that was reversed in Western Europe after the western part of Roman Empire crumbled. Plenty of regions became pagan again, and only later became Christian, this time under their own accord (which means - under the accord of the cur
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by badpun 3y ago
This plays to India's advantage - it could be a very powerful nation, while Finland is small and easily bullied.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Which means every mosque or church that was built on top of a demolished temple stands as a monument to colonization and conquest of a people and a festering wound on the face of the nation. Not neccessarily, most nations in Europe con
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by badpun 3y ago
The government needs to raise a certain amount of money every year, and the rest is pretty much details. So, if wage workers could deduct expenses from pre-tax income, the government would just raise tax rates to compensate.
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by badpun 3y ago
It wasn't just learning (although I've learned a lot from them). They were just bundles of pure energy and talent. Clearly above anyone else in the team.
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by badpun 3y ago
99.9% of people are in that group. You're just normal, there's nothing wrong with that.
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by badpun 3y ago
Perhaps most people laid off weren't software developers.
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by badpun 3y ago
I don't. A couple times in my career, I've worked with someone who was clearly vastly better than me. They're the cream of the talent pool, I'm just adequate.
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by badpun 3y ago
It depends on the stage of the startup. Once they've taken enough VC money and have a yearly budget of say $10m, they often just need a certain number of bodies to flesh out whatever idea they have already implemented in their PoC. The
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by badpun 3y ago
It is already being equalized to some degree. That's what's public schooling or child protection services are about.
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by badpun 3y ago
How's that relevant? Or are you thinking Dacia is Chinese?

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