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Ukraine has special tax laws for Software Developers - even if they are working full time on-site for a single company, they can register themselves as freelancers and pay virtually no income tax.
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Only on Hacker News could an out of date 2 year old article about Facebook be the no.1. story. Less popular articles posted around the same time include Intel's announcement of a new processor, a new prototype operating system, and a p
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According to the developers of Mongo at least, it's not worth considering. You can't store more than 2GB of data on a 32-bit machine because they map the entire datastore into memory.
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I have no expectation that Apple will make iMessage available on non-Apple devices. My point is that in the context of the current debate about WhatApp's new T&Cs and the question "what can I use instead of WhatsApp that won&#
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For building infrastructure or manufacturing, probably yes, but not for innovation. Anyone being forced to work under the conditions you describe is probably too terrified to do anything more than iteratively replicate existing foreign desi
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So long as iMessage only runs on Apple devices, it's not going to be "beating" anything. There are several posts here pointing out that Apple's rating of it's own products credentials is a bit questionable. I don&#x
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Your idea of friendship is rather strange. It appears to involve other people arranging your social life for you on your behalf, and then presenting the plans to you for your approval via the communication method of your choice. Maybe it wo
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You're wasting your time. This is HN - any decision made by by Facebook or a Facebook-owned company is automatically evil.
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> possible tariffs the EU could apply to sales into the Eu. Isn't that what the 2000 page trade deal they just signed is for? > It tends to forget that the rest of the world exists. the EU offers unilateral zero tariffs on all go
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In Germany where I live, only 15% of the population own shares or indexes. I guess we're all really screwed then :)
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I can't believe they didn't use Kubernetes for deployment. What a bunch of amateurs - no wonder their product failed.
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I work for a company with a six figure employee count. Notepad++ is available in out internal app store... but with the poltical message in the About dialog removed.
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You seem to expect that rising Carbon Dioxide means people will suffocate, and if they haven't, then "Gotcha! It's all made up", but it doesn't work like that. You will never, ever see the water level rise in a way
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I think you've misunderstood what is meant when people talk about rising sea levels or temperatures. Yes, this is literally what is happenning. But the effects are not ones you would ever directly notice, i.e. people suffocate because
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They do host their own blogs, this is a cross-post: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet Possibly it's a sensible way of bringing it to a wider audience, since usually their blog content will be specific to UK-bas
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Did you actually read the article? "The Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit is the “Christmas morning” product, with the best possible out-of-box experience: a complete PC which plugs into your TV or monitor. The kit comprises: - A
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This is misleading. You have removed the first part of that sentence "Early on, the Raspberry Pi project leaned towards..." Whilst education is still important, particularly on the charity side, these days the RPi Trading division
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Boy, I don't even know where to start... You think you as a person that can work fully productively from home are representaive of the economic damage? What about all the industries that have had to completely shutdown? You remind of t
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I guess that's part of it, although in this day and age it's trivial to equip each branch with a laser printer and program which adds the local sales tax. However, there's a simpler reason: for psychological reasons no retail
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Because you bring them into the world in the knowledge that their lives will be somewhere between slighty worse and a lot worse than yours. I don't plan to have children anyway, but I've concluded for instance but there's no
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According to their pricing page: "We provide free Gold and Ultimate licenses to qualifying open source projects and educational institutions. Find out more by visiting our GitLab for Open Source and GitLab for Education program pages.&
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I don't know what "gimmicks" it may have which iMessage does not(although the in-chat polls are pretty handy), but IMO the big strength of Telegram is privacy. You can use it without revealing your e-mail address or phone num
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Well, I strongly disagree with you strong disagreeing. It's not condescending in the slightest, and debate around Brexit revealed that although theres's nothing wrong with being against european integration, a lot of people have a
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If what is written here is true then it's way beyond 'unfair' and on towards mathemtically nonsensicle: https://twitter.com/alexhern/status/1294200553661227008 It is claimed that in any class where
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Everybody seems to be celebrating the opportunity spend more time at home, but I have the opposite view. I live alone(it seemed like a good idea at the time[pre-corona]). My family lives hundreds of miles away on a different land mass. At t
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Often you start with a 6 month 'probationary period' when either side can quickly terminate the contract. The employer is supposed to use this time to decide if the employee is 'mediocre' or not. Apart from that you coul
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It's not quite like that. The three main commercial providers which have their own data are Google, TomTom and HERE(which Microsoft uses). TomTom and HERE would be more than happy to sell it to you for a fee - it's their main sour
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Yes, generally freight trains are not allowed to be longer than 740m, because there would be few sidings or loops long enough to put them in. So in practice the axle limit is unlikely to be the actual limiting factor.
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I see it like this: In large engineering companies doing embedded systems, software developers are seen as fabricators who produce an item according to a specification, like welders or painters. A web developer in a tech company has a much
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The status of Catalonia is an enormously controversial issue. In 2017 the government of Catalonia declared independence from Spain, resulting in the Catalonian government being forcibly deposed by the Spanish government, which is opposed to

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