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by dx034 6y ago
At home I really appreciate the NAT. I'm glad not every device has a public IP and gets hammered with attacks 24/7. It's not fail-safe but it definitely adds some security.. As for cloud, no idea what the benefit should be th
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by dx034 6y ago
Not sure if large car companies or clothes manufacturers (just two examples of large companies) were ever able to ignore legal rights of their customers. This has only become possible with digital services where companies refuse to acknowle
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by dx034 6y ago
It's really frustrating. I've been trying for months to get access to a suspended twitter account that was suspended without informing me or giving a reason. The tickets get ignored and their support doesn't respond on Twitte
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by dx034 6y ago
Are you based in the US? I found them really bad for localized results outside of the US, even when local mode is enabled (although that's annoying to do manually). In the end I used !g for so many search queries that I switched back a
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by dx034 6y ago
uBlockOrigin already blocks FLoC in their privacy list and there are ideas to integrate it further as I understand [1]. So for all of us using that extension, there's no need to install DDG as well. [1] https://github.com&#x
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by dx034 6y ago
That means your family can't communicate if your server is down?
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by dx034 6y ago
Most of my groups went to Signal. But until they support live location (something I use frequently, albeit less during Corona), I won't uninstall Whatsapp. For all their privacy faults, it's still the app with probably one of the
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by dx034 6y ago
> No, with FAAG in Bay Area you can easily have 2x-3x the median national rate for developers. That's not what I wrote. I said they pay as well as others in the area. Yes, not everyone pays exactly like Google or Amazon, but other t
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by dx034 6y ago
That's what police is for. There are enough situations outside of the digital world where it's better to call the police and let them help instead of getting too involved yourself. I believe it's good that not everyone can ap
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by dx034 6y ago
It's actually not uncommon for police patrols to notify people if they see unsecured property. And that can be hard to do if no one is home and they don't want to alert actual criminals. To enter the property they often need a cou
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by dx034 6y ago
Congrats! It's an amazing story that shows that a sole developer can create a product on par with paid products from big companies. I think many people assume you always need a big team to create something great, whereas often a sole d
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by dx034 6y ago
Making enough money to live comfortably in a place you like is key. It doesn't matter how much it is, if you have family and friends in a low-cost area, even $30k can be more than enough. I believe most people are happier if they can c
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by dx034 6y ago
But they pay Irish salaries there, not Bay Area salaries. Which is fine, FAANG developers in Ireland are still doing well. And not everyone wants to live in the bay area, just like not everyone wants to live in Ireland, Germany or any other
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by dx034 6y ago
Because in the Bay Area they also pay standard rates. Stock comp has been very supportive over the past years but base salary mostly reflects high living costs. Developers in Europe are still paid well compared to median income. The 80-90k€
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by dx034 6y ago
Moving away from home is just not something many people want to do. I don't think many Americans would move to another country with different language and far away from their family, just because they'd get a higher salary.
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by dx034 6y ago
To be fair, living costs are also much lower. I'd estimate living costs in the US to be on average at least 30-40% higher, plus high property costs in the Bay Area. Germany has some expensive areas but most parts are still relatively c
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by dx034 6y ago
Is that a US think? I've worked for employers in several European countries and have never heard an employer telling me not to discuss pay. Once a manager told me not to tell everyone about a pay raise as it was out of schedule and he
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by dx034 6y ago
I think you misunderstood my comment? I don't think it's useless. It's annoying and not perfect but airport security has improved safety of aviation by a lot in my opinion. The lack of any successful onboard attacks on aircra
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by dx034 6y ago
But most merchants didn't operate in separate legal entitities. There were very few companies, for the longest time just major trade, railroad and banking. Dutch East India is so famous because they're an exception, not the norm.
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by dx034 6y ago
A country as large as the US has plentiful ways to ensure tax compliance by citizens. It's small countries that are forced to remain competitive. People won't flee the US by the millions just because you raise taxes.
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by dx034 6y ago
For the longest time companies didn't exist. Any business tended to be associated with a single person who paid taxes. Companies as a separate legal entity are comparably young. So the tax didn't exist because there wasn't mu
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by dx034 6y ago
HQ is really just a name. You can call your smallest office the HQ if your CEO sits there, it has nothing to do with the number of employees. What's interesting to the government is where taxes are paid. But for large companies that go
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by dx034 6y ago
I already wrote it somewhere else but can you really compare Bezos and Gates? Microsoft wasn't really popular back then (many people here will have hated it) but Gates was never really unpopular as a person. His treatment of workers wa
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by dx034 6y ago
Because as an executive it's not your place to have a strong opinion. You're hired by the owners (i.e. shareholders in case of public companies) to make money, not to voice your opinions. There's a strong case that ethical be
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by dx034 6y ago
I don't see the parallel to Gates. Bill Gates wasn't always popular because many people hated Microsoft at the time. I don't think there was ever concern that he treated workers wrongly or abused the tax system to get rich. I
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by dx034 6y ago
I do agree that charity is often overplayed and many billionaires give away so little that they barely notice. But Bill Gates definitely is an exception. Of course they don't spend all their money in a few years, that wouldn't all
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by dx034 6y ago
I think a lot of it is not by design. Writing laws is hard, especially tax laws. Companies have incredible resources to find loopholes they can use. If they get patched they'll just find another one. The problem is that you'd pref
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by dx034 6y ago
As much as I hate queues at the airport, I believe that TSA and Co. are effective. Sure, they cannot catch anyone but people demonstrating that in tests tend to be much more knowledgeable than would-be attackers. Just knowing that you could
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by dx034 6y ago
But those are travel restrictions, not restrictions of entry. For Australia it doesn't make a big difference but they still cannot turn away citizens at their borders. They can detain people or quarantine them but not send them back. I
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by dx034 6y ago
Maybe in the US. That's not really what you learn in Europe. Talking to police doesn't get you in trouble. Lying to police also isn't illegal (unless you make up stories to damage others). I've been in many European coun

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