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by ed_balls 10y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if a good developer in Romania makes $40k a year (net salary) which is equivalent of $70k ($130k gross) in SF? The market is working.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
You do auctions for 64k and 500 for startup founders. Then you set up an extra pool of 10k for startup employees. The company has to be younger than 6 years, raise at least 1 mln from venture capital and only 30% of the workforce could be o
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by ed_balls 10y ago
https://canny.io/
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by ed_balls 10y ago
The coup was most likely staged to get this vote.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
Do you know was the effective tax back then? (it was much easier to hide money and the deductions were greater)
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by ed_balls 10y ago
Depends what he/she does with the money. There are many things that government won't do and there is no market for it e.g. Polio vaccine. You have to have wealthy individuals to fund these ideas. Never mind that. You cannot design
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by ed_balls 10y ago
because that's one of the greatest incentives for people to create wealth. Why would I work and create wealth if I can't give it to my children or to charity that I created? Let's consume all of it.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
and how would you implement that?
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by ed_balls 10y ago
The thing is that the whole debate is skewed. As a politician I want to capture the political capital, but I can't do it without providing solutions. I think the job automation is the major contributor to this, but no one is eager to t
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by ed_balls 10y ago
A friend that works for Emirates managed to get this way to home on Christmas. There are usually 2 spare jump seats. You put 2 pilots there and 2 where the couple was. The flight is quite short.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
Why not use the jump seats?
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by ed_balls 10y ago
That depends how it's implemented. If this is a low pass filter that can tell you if the event happen then the abuse will be close to zero.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
>> In 2010, British women got their state pension at 60 and men got theirs at 65. By October 2020, both sexes will have to wait until they are 66. By 2028, the age will rise again, to 67. >How do people who think a feasible UBI fut
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by ed_balls 10y ago
>Australia is close to seizing the global crown for the longest streak of economic growth thanks to a mixture of policy guile and outrageous fortune. It's the same true for Poland and a few other countries.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
Keep in mind how small USA was 240 years ago. In 1910 it was 90m comparing to Germany 62m.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
And also the delivery of goods.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
Moving to Switzerland.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
After Turkey shot their plane?
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by ed_balls 10y ago
And you base that on what? Tesla is doing 10x improvements in automations and will force BMW/Audi/Mercedes to do it as well.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
Doesn't matter. It's not the "source code" that runs in courts.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
Law written in English is a huge advantage.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
I don't think he approves or condemns. He says that monopoly of craftsmanship(product so good that you don't want to switch) like Google is not that bad. It seems the antitrust action is inevitable. May first happen in EU.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
Netflix recommendations are quite bad. You've seen this standup? How about watching it again a day later.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
Unless you are prosecuted by accident, news papers write about you and charges are dropped. You apply for a job, someone googles you and reply with "Thank you for your time. Unfortunately..."
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by ed_balls 10y ago
How come? I thought WebAssembly was designed with GC in mind.
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by ed_balls 10y ago
What if we discover a tumor in his brain that caused this and after removing it he will be a perfectly sound and reasonable person? Should we keep him in forever? What about death penalty?
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by ed_balls 10y ago
Yeah I'm really surprised that they don't do something similar to https://buffer.com/salary or stackoverflow. I applied to Gitlab, but then I noticed the calculator. London is below market rate. In Warsaw is half
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by ed_balls 10y ago
It's much better if you isolate yourself than do nothing. https://www.troyhunt.com/going-dark-online-privacy-and-anony...
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by ed_balls 10y ago
Peter Thiel - Zero to One
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by ed_balls 10y ago
I'm above the average looking guy. When I added my picture to LinkedIn the amount of spam increased substantially. People are really biased creatures. Usually the intent is not malicious, but rather caused by tribalism, evolution, empa

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