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by badpun 3y ago
Interesting. In my country (Poland), pretty much most of the benefits and perks are taxed as income, so there is no tax advantage in paying employees with them instead of cash.
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by badpun 3y ago
> "Multiplayer voyeurism" wasn’t on my bingo card for 2023, but it was an interesting experience. Wasn't that more akin to watching a porn movie together with your buddies? "Voyerism" means you're watching a
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by badpun 3y ago
> I can sort of accept, reluctantly, that the Chinese have a different way to thinking than I do and that I can't necessarily apply my moral code to China. Do you really believe that Chinese are different from US in this regard? I.e
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by badpun 3y ago
> This is a very controlled market, and also one where the different niches are working in very different ways. Even in very different ways from other markets you would know about. Are you talking about making "art"? Because if
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by badpun 3y ago
Not all US Allies are NATO members. Neither Afghanistan nor South Vietnam were in NATO. Australia or Japan are not in NATO either. US was involved in Ukraine since at least 2014. There were gradually pulling Ukraine into their sphere of inf
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by badpun 3y ago
Last I checked, it was around 25k GBP per year. I've mostly checked the most prestigous universities, I guess others don't charge nearly as much, as you don't get the worldwide prestige assiociated with the diploma.
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by badpun 3y ago
Silesia region (near Katowice), Poland. Pros: - Very high ratio of software salaries to median wage. As a senior, you easily take home roughly 5x the median wage, or more. This translates into high standard of living (it's easy to get
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by badpun 3y ago
My understanding is that those international degrees in the UK, at 100k+ GBP a pop, are mostly for the well-off elites of "third world" countries - successful businesspeople, corrupt politicians etc. They can spend such amounts on
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by badpun 3y ago
> Europe must be either being morally destroyed via too much comfort I think it's this. Honestly (as a Pole) I was very surprised by how much support Ukraine has received from Europe and US. During the first weeks of war, as I was e
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by badpun 3y ago
Fried bacon (diced) is also extremely popular in Poland, basically as popular as fried onion.
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> My friend told me "ruskie" is used as a somewhat pejorative description of a "Russian". Like Brits say "Yanks" about the Americans. There was a joke which used that, during the Communist Poland era (where
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by badpun 3y ago
There's been an increase in some nasty parasite (can't remember which at the moment) among Poland's wild fox population. Foxes poop at wild blueberry bushes in the forests, and the parasites eggs get on the blueberries. A par
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by badpun 3y ago
Eastern Europe is one of the best place to live as a developer.
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> He became a general contractor because working on houses used the exact same principles but everything is way easier because it's at a far larger scale. There's way more lifting and carrying of heavy things when dealing with
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by badpun 3y ago
These guys aren't legit. It's usually just a guy fixing cars and taking money into his pocket in exchange.
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by badpun 3y ago
On the other hand, you have to work for a living, don't have a private cook, prostitutes/concubines if that's your thing etc. I think I'd very much prefer to be a king in 1890 than McDonald's worker today. There&#x2
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by badpun 3y ago
It's sad that we're at a point where you consider a washer lasting 7 years to be something worthy posting about. Not long ago, applicances routinely lasted for decades.
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by badpun 3y ago
There’s plenty of people who lose motivation to work hard and want to just coast while taking very high salary. Happens in professional sports teams, happens in tech.
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by badpun 3y ago
In most industries, software analysts are a thing of the past. Scrum has largely replaced them, and project managers, with product owners - the people who have to do both of these jobs for a price of one.
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by badpun 3y ago
There's plenty of situations where you can do things right, but it will be expensive, slow or otherwise inconvenient, or you can screw someone over (that someone may be the taxpayers, or local community whose environment you pollute),
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by badpun 3y ago
> Employment can offer you a better life Better in material terms, but worse in other metrics. Full time employment means you barely have any time or energy for your life outside of work. I really doubt a lot of people would chose to be
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by badpun 3y ago
Plenty of cowboys and prima ballerinas in tech as well.
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by badpun 3y ago
The dreams and idealism loses its luster after you've seen it play out enough times. The people in 50s should, on the other hand, have more mature and nuanced perspectives.
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by badpun 3y ago
Very easy - just don’t do it. Was never a problem for me. If I ordered food, it was because I didn’t have time to cook, not because I needed it to wind down etc.
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by badpun 3y ago
I did it by making a lot of money, compared to how much I was (and am) spending. Not splashing money around on lattes, expensive car, expensive vacation, a summer house etc. was a vital part of that.
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by badpun 3y ago
> security requires constant updates and updates cost money Security doesn't require constant updates if the software they shipped didn't have bugs in the first place. These updates are just fixing faults in software that I&#x2
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by badpun 3y ago
This is just helping out with trivial tasks, which sounds very much in scope of LLMs. The OP was talking about replacing "world class consultants", which I'm very sceptical of.
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by badpun 3y ago
I think we're in agreement. I wasn't arguing for becoming a no-life who is giving 100% of his twenties and thirties to his career. I was just arguing against quitting a career and "running away with a circus" (going on a
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by badpun 3y ago
That's what actuarial tables are for. Assuming you're a 27 year old male living in the US, your chances of making it till you're 40 year old are around 97%. This number is based on population averages, so, if e.g. you don&#x2
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by badpun 3y ago
> Also, equally important, you get one life to live. You are young, you have energy. When you are old, you will have more responsibilities, less energy, and your genetics could cause you to start having more health issues. Do all the stu

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