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by eecc 5y ago
Lots of assumptions in that statement, care to elaborate preferably with links to reputable data? TIA
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by eecc 5y ago
My guess the records are public but access is not anonymous; you'd need to identify yourself and leave a plausible reason on record.
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by eecc 5y ago
Or, anyone with significant enough wealth had already diversified to gold and stashed it in Switzerland. Not too conspicuously as you wouldn't want to draw the attention of the Gestapo on your "short" but enough to be in a be
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by eecc 5y ago
That's like saying a hitman's customer isn't committing murder. Try another
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by eecc 5y ago
To each it’s own Eternal September
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by eecc 5y ago
Couldn’t have said it better. Thanks
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by eecc 5y ago
OTOH megacorps rarely "innovate" from within, they're too bureaucratic and management stakes are too high for fast risk-taking. What they usually do is to buy out smaller entities that have somewhat proven the concept and pre
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by eecc 5y ago
Nope, you're surreptitiously adding a righteous "the people will freely choose what suits them best" twist to the parent's post. That's a rich assumption, history proves that "the people" just want their s
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by eecc 5y ago
Uh, really? I bet Prometheus would do a better job
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by eecc 5y ago
Wow, the internet. It’s like my meetings where everyone feels entitled to expressing their opinion, splitting hairs on the most tangential aspects of the issue. Thanks god for coffee, and nice views out of the window
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by eecc 5y ago
And the Decima (10%) to the Church, and another to the Landlord for the rent of their lands. So please let’s not hot-take it to the extreme
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by eecc 5y ago
The Dutch (notoriously not the most Socialist of the lot) tax office assumes that any wealth above a certain “pocket money” stash, your first house and lifelong savings (money you effectively lock out of your reach until you reach pension)
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by eecc 5y ago
this is devolving quickly into an r/something
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by eecc 5y ago
Right, the “cat our of the bag” argument. Also similar to the ones used in the Napster, Torrent, eMule file-sharing persecutions whereby any forgettable film shared would instantly tally as a lost sale for each-and-every participant to the
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by eecc 5y ago
I’m not the OP but I’ll tell you how I “deal”: awfully. Takes days if not weeks to get rid of an uncomfortable feeling of anxiety, some undesirable FOMO.
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by eecc 5y ago
Well, it’s relative: when discussing IT we’re still groping in the dark like in in the ‘800, when collapsing bridges and buildings or exploding locomotives were the norm and competence was viewed with contempt. So you might be arguing disas
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by eecc 5y ago
I guess as long as IT engineers are kept outside of the “adult room” and treated like gifted children coaxed with shiny toys. And besides, I only recently discovered - after proudly presenting myself as having a Masters in Engineering - tha
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by eecc 5y ago
How odd, I used to work with an Aussie (Sydney) expat and he was glowingly boasting how much better they are at anything because competition. It’s so much part of their culture he said, that they will out-do anyone, even at their core trait
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by eecc 5y ago
Well since it's a greenfield project for many countries it might make sense to build a continent-wide solution rather than let each country cobble together their own incompatible platform? Besides, it's not only for intra-EU Digit
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by eecc 5y ago
as a tax-paying resident with a valid working permit you are entitled to all sorts of social security benefits. The only limit I ever had (in NL) was "unemployment benefit" which requires a minimum employment history of 6 months.
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by eecc 5y ago
No because it just increases the price of stocks and real estate, while maintaining their value, while your cash deposit stays the same.
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Divisive Covid ‘lab leak’ debate prompts dire warnings from researchers(nature.com)
5 points by eecc 5y ago|2 comments
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by eecc 5y ago
I guess it’s still a question of borrowing money for a speculative investment, you just get a significant discount that makes profit more likely. Depending on your indebtedness (outstanding student loans, mortgages) savings and current earn
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by eecc 5y ago
That’s what Wiener suggests in Uncanny Valley, when she describes the windfall when Microsoft bought the GitHub shares she had the option to buy during her time there. It wasn’t life-defining, plus she noticed that many other employees didn
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by eecc 5y ago
Exactly, the problem is that they keep lowballing it because these ranges are somewhat not so much public knowledge
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by eecc 5y ago
So it' s basically a corporate boycott against labor laws favorable to employees?! I guess this will be first time a boycott won't be broken by a police charge and perhaps even becoming successful! /s
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Microsoft Authenticator extension for Chrome not Microsoft(theregister.com)
3 points by eecc 5y ago|0 comments
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by eecc 5y ago
I also thought the same, then I went to listen some orchestral performance at the Rome Auditorium. During an interval I was sitting in a shitty corner up on some balcony, pretty far; but I could hear the voice and discern the words of a gir
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by eecc 5y ago
More specifically: I'm also a cross-professional, having obtained a degree in Electronic Engineering and learned software engineering out of personal interest (obviously with significant knowledge gaps.) Yet, I still notice I'm pa
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by eecc 5y ago
> he respect that a lot of software engineers enjoys in US/EU And then you go on describing the average attitude towards software developers I perceived in the Netherlands… :)

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