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by gaius 8y ago
LOL if you wish to disprove me do your own research! But I'll give you a hint, if tax evasion was good for a country, why would that country have taxes at all...?
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by gaius 8y ago
That’s quite the claim. Got anything to back it up? Pretty easy really. Multiply the cost of unemployment benefits * number of company employees in that country. Then look at the tax evaded by the company. "You do the math". JSA
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by gaius 8y ago
A company that leverages the favourable infrastructure and institutions of a country without paying its fair share is quite simply siphoning money from the taxpayers of that country into the pockets of its shareholders, the money that maint
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by gaius 8y ago
Just be honest and admit that this possible solution (fewer kids!) conflicts with your ideology or your reader’s The planet’s population has doubled in my lifetime alone, and I may see it double again, and it could be pure coincidence tha
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by gaius 8y ago
but I think he said he was opposed to VMs in the cloud. Lol. I am opposed to VMs in the cloud because if all you need is VMs there are much cheaper alternatives. Every seasoned cloud guy knows this! Generally in a “big 3” cloud I would us
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by gaius 8y ago
you cannot do anything to investigate the veracity of those claims Sheer nonsense. The Enlightenment, the greatest period of scientific advancement in human history, was driven by people who saw it as their sacred duty to understand God&#
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by gaius 8y ago
If someone is gay working for a Softbank-backed venture then they are quite literally helping to enrich and ensure the longevity of a regime that executes people like them. I am genuinely surprised that this isn't considered a huge iss
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by gaius 8y ago
I don’t think that’s true. When I arrived at college I was in a group where most, including myself, had coasted to being one of the top in their previous classes with minimal effort. Now we all had to actually work. My class of 80 was reduc
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by gaius 8y ago
You should talk to some ultramarathon runners. A woman I know did a 100K and slept for seven minutes en route. She didn’t win I know and train with plenty of ultra-endurance athletes in our MilFit group, and they’ll tell you the same thin
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by gaius 8y ago
gym teachers love to express the same set of beliefs I think that’s orthogonal. The SAS aren’t looking for Olympic level athletes in any given sport. They’re looking for people who will keep going in the face of exhaustion beyond anything
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by gaius 8y ago
Plenty of smaller companies cargo-cult those kinds of practices, and the matter wasn't helped by hyperbole from the likes of Spolskey saying one bad hire can destroy your company (while noone wondered why the top developers in the worl
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by gaius 8y ago
We have a strange double standard in the West. We want our own companies to respect workers, the environment and all that good stuff. And then we undercut them by buying from countries that don’t give a stuff about any of that, because it’s
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by gaius 8y ago
on one end, there's a "developers" shortage, but on the other, all companies are funneling potentially good engineers through processes designed for the "interview" experts. If there genuinely was a shortage could
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by gaius 8y ago
The candidate is barely a human being to these mega corps. They freely dispose of the candidates time without any consideration There is a reason companies refer to employees as “resources” these days. Well at least they’re honest.
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by gaius 8y ago
Every post-doc position is wildly over-subscribed and there is fierce competition for each one. So simple economics - the law of supply and demand - says they are not underpaid, in fact if anything they are paid over the clearing price for
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by gaius 8y ago
no time zone difference, just that recruiter communicated wrong time to him. As it happened, I was in the middle of my lunch and caught off guard. The interviewer wasn't happy That's a red flag too - a professional interviewer,
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by gaius 8y ago
Overhead on an employee (taxes, insurance, equipment, office space, etc.) is at least another 50% of that, call it $20k total. I think you are wildly underestimating that portion. It's at least as much again, and possibly a lot more.
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by gaius 8y ago
growth in advertising for Full Stack engineers are actually glorified Front End roles Right. People think I’m a hater because I say “full stack engineer” is just title-inflation for webdev, but I’m just telling it how the entire rest of t
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by gaius 8y ago
Not really “full stack” with no OS or DB...
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by gaius 8y ago
No, only a JS framework (or two if a senior)
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by gaius 8y ago
If as the poster above says they were using MongoDB then losing all the data probably wasn’t in their control!
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by gaius 8y ago
But for some reason they don't. Microsoft are adding headphones to the Surface range very soon, early reviews are very positive.
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by gaius 8y ago
Hikers typically wear the exact opposite of camouflage Photographers, hunters and people who's taste in clothes doesn't run to the garish?
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by gaius 8y ago
looking for brightly colored objects on the ground. At around 100 feet above ground level our success rate was around 60%. I've done SAR at sea and it is frightening how close you can be to who/what you are looking for and not
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by gaius 8y ago
Nice idea but it would only work if there were no ties at all between it and your real world identity, no connections that knew who you really were, because the usual method of harming someone via old social media posts uses screenshots, no
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by gaius 8y ago
Diaspora has been a comedy of such errors for the decade it's existed I think I had a Diaspora account in like 2011... Then they announced they were blowing away everyone's account to redesign the database or something... Never
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by gaius 8y ago
AI bubble, currently studying in Beijing and all EE and CS students I know focus all their time at either stats, ML or data mining Yes everyone wants to mine the data, but noone wants to generate or gather new original data in the first p
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by gaius 8y ago
Write negative articles for more clicks, virality The unofficial motto: "Enragement is engagement!" Actually it wouldn't surprise me if that was the official motto of some places.
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by gaius 8y ago
I would be pretty surprised if most of the MBA-bro management at any FAANG had even heard of TBL, let alone gives a stuff about what he might say.
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by gaius 8y ago
being able to operate a 1.2 to 1.8m size small VSAT in Xinjiang province Right; I think people are visualising this like a sort of Thuraya iPhone, which it very much will not be, because physics. I mean Thuraya is amazing if you in the mi

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