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by gyulai 7y ago
I'm saying TAXES are extremely high. Getting paid €80k/yr before taxes in Munich is a bad joke, but is unfortunately where the market is. Many people are living that bad joke. -- Stop disagreeing with me, please, when there rea
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by gyulai 7y ago
First off: I have lived & worked in Munich and done exactly what you describe (now live in the countryside working for a remote company) but it is still only a minority of people who [can] do that. It is certainly not the case that eve
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by gyulai 7y ago
The numbers in the article are country-level, and you're responding by saying things about cities. NYC, Seattle and LA are all in the U.S. They're centralized inside the U.S. at the city-level to Mountain View. They're cen
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by gyulai 7y ago
Infineon is a publicly-traded company. A part of Infineon was sold to Intel, who in turn sold a part of that to Apple. Anyway: The long-standing presence of Infineon and a whole ecosystem around it (business partners, educational opportun
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by gyulai 7y ago
5000 new jobs is not what the article is saying, but capacity to grow to 5000. I don't know how many they have now, and creating capacity to do something is not the same as actually doing it. Also, to put the number in perspective:
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by gyulai 7y ago
...we've been having these kinds of headlines from local media outlets pretty much everywhere where FAANG have created/expanded presences. -- But it seems to me that these companies are extremely centralized and only decentralize
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...also, it seems weird to me that workers representatives knew, before the project even started, that it was in their best interest to ask for this data to be anonymized. It was as if workers, collectively, knew the whole time that this s
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by gyulai 7y ago
The patterns my system noticed were literally things like this: There's an error entered into the system by the NOC operator as an intermittent error on the station. Field technician drives there. Enters something like "Station
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If shareholders were indeed "rich dudes", then why do you have a problem with rich dudes paying too much money to other rich dudes for being executives? With that logic, "normal" folk don't even enter into the equa
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Actually, executive compensation is usually subject to board approval. The board is answerable to the shareholders. Executive compensation hits a company's bottom line, and therefore shareholders' pockets. Shareholders are perf
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If they have seats on the supervisory board, then they have wide-ranging legal powers to know about everything that's going on in the company. And thanks for pointing me to paragraph 80 of the Betriebsverfassungsgesetz. I read it just
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by gyulai 7y ago
I certainly do not suffer from "privacy blind spots". As a matter of fact, I've worked for one company in the telco space doing industry-leading work on setting standards about how to properly anonymize call detail records.
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by gyulai 7y ago
This was the only company with worker codetermination that I've ever worked at, so I don't have anything to compare it to. Part of the reason is that, as the article says, companies will try at all costs to avoid it when there is
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by gyulai 7y ago
...the problem is that "worker codetermination" is not really about owners and workers pulling on the same string, but rather worker representatives often have a ridiculously narrow-minded focus on workers' interests while co
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...it doesn't need to be a huge company (or company of any kind) to run these things. Back in the early 2000s, a volunteer who knew about computers would set up phpBB on a church's website, or a radio station would allow one IT p
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by gyulai 7y ago
I really don't see the point of studying statistical correlations between cat videos and heart disease. The way I see it, these statistical correlations give you clues about where to start looking for mechanisms of causation, but as lo
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...a counterexample does not contradict a statement that starts with "Most people ..." Also, I've never heard anyone suggest "You are meaningless in life if you are not a creative savant."
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...I think a lot of this sort of feeling comes from the "builder versus creator" psychology. A "builder" is someone who assembles furniture like from IKEA by following instructions. A "creator" is someone who
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...I think "ownership" is the only thing in that mix that will give you freedom. Being technically brilliant does not automatically give you freedom. Being a business leader with a vision does not automatically give you freedom.
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The sample seems skewed towards expensive cities and high-paying companies. I realize that FAAAM are big companies, but I find it hard to believe that they make up for as much as 40% of the tech workforce. The same goes for those cities.
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by gyulai 7y ago
Nitpick: A navy doesn't necessarily need a harbour directly at the high seas. Austria has had a navy with patrol vessels on the river danube from which they could theoretically reach the high seas until 2006. Also: Military installa
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Element A: PROJECT ACQUISITION & SCALE. It's not true that, by running a "make customers contact you" strategy, your acquisition costs are zero, quite the contrary. In order to make customers contact you, you need to tak
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...also, as soon as you bring a network element or social element into it, it may no longer be this conservative/self-reinforcing thing. For example, if the algo behind spotify were to identify a "music taste clone" of yours