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by freetanga 6y ago
But need a public license to operate which could be revoked unilaterally by a government
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by freetanga 6y ago
Shh, you don’t tell that to people scared of assuming their own weaknesses...
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by freetanga 6y ago
I think the correlation between what you put in and what you get out is much higher. I had to give up a number of hobbies and intelectual pursuits in order to be there for my kids. Building a caring, trust-based long term relationship is ha
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by freetanga 6y ago
A few years back I realized “Del” was the most valuable key while using my email client. Corporate is full of people looking to create friction as a mean to justify their existence. As we say in my home country, “if you want something you t
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by freetanga 6y ago
I try to have strong discipline of erasing and closing my digital footprint, and not relying on freebies like gmail to support my digital identity. News like these remind me how important that is...
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by freetanga 6y ago
2020: “Hold my beer”
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by freetanga 6y ago
I think the 150k is “the value you bring to the company” adjusted to “the location the company forces you to be at”. If they demanded you to be in SF, one can guess a part of your comp was to adjust for crazy costs of living there. If you m
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by freetanga 6y ago
Most likely a single specialization won’t span your whole career, so have a solid general base and then delve deeper into something you enjoy. A broad base will allow you to re-train much easier, plus draw parallelisms from your areas of e
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by freetanga 6y ago
Plot for next Ozark season?
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by freetanga 7y ago
I would say 20 meetings per week. 10x 45min 1:1 with my team 1x 120min weekly area steerco The remainder are not mine, forced to assist. Mostly 60 mins each. I try to join via Skype from my desk and shoot emails while people drone on. My ti
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by freetanga 7y ago
I do this, with the machine being a VPS on Linode, plus an IPad 4G connectivity with Blink app to connect via MOSH almost anywhere on earth. Logitech folio keyboard and Apple Pencil. Drawings also pushed to cloud. Local backup to my own NAS
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by freetanga 7y ago
Fully agreed. I was like this (overthinking what if’s) for many years, and the amount on energy spent on this left me spent to actually go and live in reality. The upside was having a plan for nearly whatever life threw at me - but discard
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by freetanga 7y ago
Chelsea Manning probably takes comfort that this does not happen in the US
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by freetanga 7y ago
I agree - and your point actually reinforces mine: your 50$ translates into 10$ of the authors utility bill. They probably need it more than you do. I don’t know why an author would get into such a unbalanced commercial relationship with a
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by freetanga 7y ago
Many authors also live paycheck to paycheck, and dropping 50 bucks on their utility or supermarket bill might be very important to them. You don’t need to make 500k at a FAANG to pay for a 50$ book. While I understand some people could be
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by freetanga 7y ago
Articles like this make me resent my kids (/s) and all the money and time I cannot dedicate to important life endeavors like this guy does...
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by freetanga 7y ago
It’s so our new Chinese overlords have your mug on file. Same government that has face recognition and cameras all over... Next time you step in China passport control, get ready for a grilling.
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by freetanga 7y ago
Let me add: + Big act of terrorism found to be financed through siphoning funds via Libra, sidestepping worldwide regulatory frameworks. Bot Zuck Mark V walks into Congress, says he will look into it, nothing happens as said Congressmen use
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by freetanga 7y ago
Yes. Fully licensed Bank in Luxembourg. No branches though.
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by freetanga 8y ago
I hire about 150 COBOL guys and gals (as full time employees) and they are making in average 100k€ (European Bank) incl. 1 month holiday. Big brand contractors cost us around the same. DBAs, Sys Admins, operators, a bit more. Having 30y exp