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by jitix 4y ago
I see, my status changed from US tax resident to student in Canada so the taxes now apply. I stand corrected. Still I feel it’s unfair in a globalized economy considering it’s reducing liquidity, as in you have to be a tax resident of some
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by jitix 4y ago
Yes, above 10k USD. So if you need access to your investments above 10k USD you’d have to pay 5% on the extra amount. I was shocked when I found out that my forex transfer for buying a car in Canada was cancelled and I had refill an A2 for
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by jitix 4y ago
I have direct experience with this as an NRI. Indian govt charges outbound INR to USD conversion at 5% for amounts above 10k USD [1]. So apart from the rupee depreciation you’d have to account for that if you ever need your money out. I see
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I believe the idea is to spin new servers on AWS and and connect players directly to them instead of hopping via their own infra. That’s way your profit margins on the AWS servers is lower than self hosted ones but at least you’re making mo
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by jitix 4y ago
Agree, equity at workplace could easily be highjacked for nepotism and tribalism since the criteria for “opportunities needed” is often subjective. IMO it’s best addressed via governmental and social programmes. However, kudos to them if th
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When talking about unions the focus is generally on hourly wage jobs where the skills are quite transferable and thus workers’ leverage is less. A factory worker installing bolts on a panel in some car isn’t gonna get opportunities to show
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by jitix 4y ago
> other 3rd world countries Which countries? I’m super curious since I have work/school friends from all over and afaik it’s mostly just a US thing due to federal minimum wage set to less than $3. And Canada just follows suit. Yea t
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by jitix 4y ago
Considering the massive shareholder value creation post covid, if everybody’s salary doubled tomorrow across the board the shareholders will hardly notice anything. Stop being brainwashed. As of 2023 if you’re experienced you shouldn’t even
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by jitix 4y ago
One click temporary recovery of self hosted infra on the cloud. I self-host NAS and Bookstack (adding more) but my anxiety spikes whenever I leave town knowing that it could go down any time. I'm planning to create a secure webapp host
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by jitix 4y ago
I think the main determinant is the last part. For me, Senior/Single/ADHD/prefers-non-work-social-circle: REMOTE GOOD But the issue raised in this thread is very real, with full remote I've see both junior training as we
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by jitix 4y ago
Yea and EU is wrong too. Malta, Cyprus and the UK dependencies are some of the worst offenders. I am also a big proponent of open borders and free movement but that needs to be done on a foundation of uniform global taxation laws. Humans ca
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Isn’t that a good thing? Tiny sovereign entities providing loopholes to the rich and the criminal needs to stop if we’re to build an equitable world to deal with upcoming demographic and environmental challenges.
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by jitix 4y ago
“Ugly” and “suck” are highly subjective and depend on people’s personal tastes. You could say that MacBooks are terrible for upgradeability but “keyboards suck” is pretty generic. Older MacBooks did have issues but Apple generally delivered
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OwnCloud Infinite Scale is released for general availability(owncloud.com)
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by jitix 4y ago
Really love the concept, will definitely try it on my raspberry pi. I’ve been trying to keep notes on likes/dislikes of acquaintances and this is way more organized. However I’m bit curious why it’s not deployed as a standalone desktop
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by jitix 4y ago
Congrats! I’ve recently started the journey towards more decentralization and kagi seems to be the next logical fit. So far I’ve self hosted backups with s3 replication and next cloud over tailscale has been amazing but I’m still trying to
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by jitix 4y ago
I had been a Firefox user since 2009 but over the last few years general sites like news and blogs slowly started breaking layouts and events, with JavaScript heavy sites sometimes crashing, esp on m1 air. I found toggling JavaScript and in
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by jitix 4y ago
As a silver lining, because we’ve normalized firing, we’ve also normalized jumping ship frequently. Get hikes and save up during good times, skill dev/change course during the recessions. But tbh it’d be better if things didn’t swing s
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by jitix 4y ago
If this move proves profitable (likely will) shareholders will pressure Apple to move further into ads. I wonder what an alternative ecosystem would look like. Does anybody have experience with Fairphone/PinePhone/Librem as their
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This is true everywhere tbh. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos all came from families that were upper-middle class or rich. It's not a bad thing imo since families should strive to improve their situation with every generation, b
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by jitix 4y ago
I grew up in a state capital and lived in 2 metro cities and honestly the infrastructure was better in my home city in terms of electricity, water and flooding. But there are very few tech jobs, which gives the 2-3 employers there huge leve
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by jitix 4y ago
This is something that is really concerning to me. If everybody is pushed towards a STEM job the market becomes saturated affecting salaries (and the associated "prestige" in Indian society). And to top it off young children are f
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by jitix 4y ago
I worked in the US and felt that H1B status was very insecure so I tried to start my own company in India in 2020, and also explored the job and housing market. I agree 100% with all the great financial and work-related competitive points
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by jitix 4y ago
Many countries operate like this. It's the downside of having a parliamentary system (which IMO is better than a presidential one). Greece and Japan are good examples. Canada to a certain extent too in the past (with the LPC). Also fo
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I agree 100%. While I personally would love all these features as a tinkerer, I'm afraid my retiree parents are gonna click on malicious links and install malware. Because this is what they fall for on Windows and Android. Then the sol
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But isn't the alternative to take home assignment leetcoding on whiteboards? Last time I was interviewing in the US market was in 2017 and it was literally just these two options. And the assignments tended to be long - like a week lon
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Yeah, everything shared is on 1password. Everything else is Okta with 2FA. But the authentication flow is made very simple so you don't get frustrated. My personal benefit was that the convenience of using password managers finally pus
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Exactly! As a SWE pursuing MBA, I was surprised to learn how critical marketing is to the existence of a business, and that it's way more logical, quantitative and data driven than people realize. You can write a hugely popular app wit
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by jitix 4y ago
I generally agree with you, having had to debug nasty Clojure code because somebody thought it was the best fit for the problem (it actually was) but then left the company. I think prescribing languages should be somewhere it between - sett
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by jitix 5y ago
As an Indian millennial, my journey was a bit different: 1. Yahoo messenger (2001/2 - First internet experience) 2. Yahoo messenger + Text (2003/4) 3. Text + Skype (2006/7) 4. Whatsapp + FB Messenger + Skype (2010) 5. Whatsap

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