fierarul

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by fierarul 6y ago
Developers are the toughest customers because we all think: "that's just a small script and a cron job" done in a weekend and basically worth $0. All the while staying each day in a meeting costing a cumulative $xx(x) just to
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by fierarul 6y ago
I have to say I like your replies on this topic here and elsewhere. Almost sounds like these tax avoiding entities are software and there's a big maintenance cost as laws change all the time. I've always thought that a big part of
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by fierarul 6y ago
This will not end until people will all "incorporate" and apply the same tax tricks as major corporations. In other words we need the revolution of the "personal corporation". The startup that offers this will be the nex
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by fierarul 6y ago
Timewarrior + a little spreadsheet that gets exported to a PDF. You are conflating a few things though: * invoicing per se. You should get the habit of doing this even if the customer only want to know the hours. Paperwork matters. * invoic
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by fierarul 6y ago
At what point is Apple's policy on these matters equivalent to IBM's involvement in 1940s Germany?
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by fierarul 6y ago
> And corporate resources dominate open source -- without them we go back to dorm-room side projects of questionable maintenance. How was that saying "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety,
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by fierarul 6y ago
You can nationalize companies.
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by fierarul 6y ago
AstraZeneca has agreements with all governments whereby they don't claim any responsibility for the vaccine. It's the national governments that will deal with any side effects.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Very interesting. But honestly I can't figure out if the membership price is per month or per year or what time division? But... do people join ACM? They seemed like a supreme institution back when I was in the University but rarely he
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by fierarul 6y ago
The cluelessness is just baffling. I wrote a much longer reply but there's no point in pursuing this further...
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by fierarul 6y ago
What does the height of socio-economic success bring you if you can't even help in any way your immediate family? If success means just the ability to buy stuff, the richest person gets the same iPhone, so why bother striving for more?
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by fierarul 6y ago
This just moves the goalpost. Parents will pay for something that improves the odds of their children. Should a society where that just does not exist or is allowed be preferable? I think nobody wants that.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Would you want to live in a society where a parent would definitely not pay for better education? What kind of people would those be!?
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by fierarul 6y ago
+1. These concepts are hard to understand for a hyper-individualistic person that lives in an eternal present.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Now instead of atomic individuals try to think in terms of bloodlines.
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by fierarul 6y ago
I dunno, how much should I be fined for, say, screaming on a megaphone while you try to enjoy your meal? I think they should be banned altogether in locations where non smokers might be. Putting a price on this seems the odd way to go.
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by fierarul 6y ago
... and I feel that less than $1 per cigarette so somebody else enjoys 2nd hand smoke doesn't come even near to covering it.
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by fierarul 6y ago
It's not a lie. They presumably allow you to spend fiat for crypto into their account, hold it there then sell it for fiat. By enumerating all the things you are tricked into assuming you might also transfer out the coins. But no, look
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by fierarul 6y ago
This is a perfect explanation why many political positions could be akin jury duty. What if the mayor election would be among 4 randomly picked citizens?
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by fierarul 6y ago
Were you discussing high politics in the 5th grade or something? Because there's little opposing views in school up to say senior high school years! So now school's purpose is no longer critical thinking but just socialisation wit
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by fierarul 6y ago
> School's purpose is not to teach obedience or even getting a job. It is there to teach us critical thinking, and consequently, how to be a good citizen. I'd say the plague of fake news shows that the current crop of educated
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by fierarul 6y ago
Is this a form of personality cult? > Marlinspike is the C.E.O. of Signal, the end-to-end encrypted messaging service, which he launched in 2014; he is also a cryptographer, a hacker, a shipwright, and a licensed mariner. What's all
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by fierarul 6y ago
I guess it's fair, it just seemed like such a random suggestion.
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by fierarul 6y ago
I often think it's part of the Western mentality to think what must be added to fix a problem. These EU folks can't take a step back to see what could be removed to get there? In an era of cheap money, when investors don'
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by fierarul 6y ago
+1 There's only the social safety tax which you get clubbed if you don't pay. Other than that you are on your own and will pay out of pocket for whatever thing you imagine the safety net should have provided.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Bless you, so true. And once you have a business set up then the fun starts. For extra sadism, try winding down your business! I wonder if Europeans know US companies of much bigger dimensions are capable of keeping their own accounting a
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by fierarul 6y ago
Of all the distros why would I try that one? I never even heard of it before.
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by fierarul 6y ago
... and, if it can crash the X server it might also be the gateway for an exploit.
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by fierarul 6y ago
Behold: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1887190
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by fierarul 6y ago
Well, all good things... I kept wanting to try Fedora or some other major distro but I'm too used to Ubuntu. Maybe plain Debian is the future?

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