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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
As a VP from Microsoft described it to me privately many years ago: “warm GULAG”.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
One person’s “lack of work ethic” is another’s “having a life”. Just let it go, everything will be fine. Consider this your secret weapon for talent retention. Nobody actually does even 32 hours of real, actual software engineering work in
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
This needs to be transitive or it won’t work. It’s trivial to set up a front which complies and subcontract everything to the old (but perhaps renamed) company that does not.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
You know what else you will not find in Germany? Successful software companies. There’s basically SAP (which is a multinational that hides its revenues abroad) and hardly anything else. Hmm, I wonder why that is.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
500 and 700k is about the level of comp of Google’s Staff and Senior Staff levels correspondingly, assuming a high yearly review rating. Let me assure you, there are a lot more of them than you think, at Google and elsewhere. It is true tha
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
Obviously this depends on the field and on your baseline in the US. I suppose if you made $100k/yr here, then making 60k euro there would not be that big of a deal, even though taxes are much higher. But if you made $500-700k/yr h
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
I don't doubt it, but for the very best the multiplier is greater than that, and not moving becomes harder. The difference is between lifetime wage slavery and financial independence at that point.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
The salary of a skilled German software engineer in this field is about 1/4th of the US counterpart. So I wish the German government luck in their endeavor, because they’re gonna need it.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
He’s one of the very few journalists I still read and trust. Everybody else (including all other journos from The Intercept) has gone off the deep end after the election.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
Most of the world (and especially China and Mexico) cannot withdraw from the largest market for their goods without their economies totally collapsing. That’s why Trump is going to win his trade wars. Money talks, bullshit walks.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
>> Except flood insurance doesn't appear to be economically viable in those areas That’s by design. They don’t want you to build there.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
Actually start worrying when insurance companies start refusing to insure properties there against flooding. Estimating risks is their bread and butter, they will know. I’ve actually discovered (from the Yale “Financial Markets” MOOC) that
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
Take a look at Tab Wrangler extension. It closes tabs you haven’t used in a while.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
I'd strongly prefer a non-violent solution.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
>> previous employer termination service I would pay pretty good money to terminate one of my previous employers.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
Oh they were defending it all right, when it gave the Obama campaign the complete US social graph, which helped Obama to secure his second term.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
Because OP wanted to "switch" to European socialized insurance, without also "switching" to their levels of incomes and taxes as well. Of course their cost of labor is lower: they socialize a bunch of costs that would ot
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
Doesn't have to be higher taxes, that's my point. It can be solved by lowering the cost through technology and regulation, which Obama chose not to do, because that would eliminate a ton of jobs. Switzerland has essentially Obamac
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
>> But you would save more I wouldn’t.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
Once again, US share of taxes in GDP is 26%. Denmark: 50.8, Sweden 49.8, Germany 44.5, France 47.9, UK 34.4. So weighted by GDP it does cost quite a bit.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
That’s why I deliberately did not say income tax rates. They ream you in other ways. Canada’s taxes as percentage of GDP are 31.7%. US is 26%. And on top of that I was referring to Western Europe, where they are close to or above 50% GD
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
>> I'd switch immediately a well I doubt it. Someone needs to pay for it, so this switch would have to imply a 20% tax increase. Unless you’re paid peanuts, it’s not worth the tradeoff.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
I don’t think that phrase by itself would be problematic if it wasn’t for everything else that’s going on there. I mean, the dude was legit proud of his “just the tip” T-shirt and “suck my dick” jokes in the workplace . That’s pretty dam
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
OP was referring to diffing changes between the original and modified version of a legal document (typically a contract).
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
Such a thing doesn’t exist and it doesn’t need to, because humans have much lower accuracy than that. You don’t need to run faster than the bear, you need to run faster than the other guy, and that’s not hard to do if you pick the right tas
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
What are you talking about? It’s ridiculously easy, to the point where my 14 year old can train a classifier. For classification in particular you don’t even need to do anything: just clone, point it to your dataset in one of the establishe
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
Sure, but that’s DARPA, it’s by definition for stuff that won’t be practical for the next 20 years, and it’s orthogonal to what they are pursuing in the near future. In the near future the goal is pretty simple: do the same things as they d
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
Silicon Valley doesn’t have to help. At this point a regular nerd like me can do AI in my basement as long as the Pentagon provides a labeled dataset. Data is the hard part, but Pentagon can handle it: just have a bunch of soldiers label st
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
It does seem to offer sync, too. Not sure how well the sync works, but the app says it will sync.
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by h4b4n3r0 8y ago
There’s now a free app that seems to do the same thing.

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