jschoe

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by jschoe 10mo ago
Self-hosting a VPN is not entirely straightforward. If you rent a server from Hetzner, for example, and your IP address is linked to Hetzner, it's obvious that it's not a genuine residential IP address. What you need is a VPN that
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by jschoe 11mo ago
I wonder if my face is even in their database. I have US citizenship + SSN but never lived in the USA. I do have a passport though and visited a few times for vacations.
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by jschoe 11mo ago
Europe does not have the same market conditions as the US. The continent is divided into a gazillion amount of small countries, each with their own rules, laws, regulations, languages, customers, pension systems, healthcare systems, and tax
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by jschoe 1y ago
It's quite easy for English speakers. Sh-less-wig Hole-stein or Shlayz-wig Hole-stein.
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by jschoe 1y ago
You don't get it.
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by jschoe 2y ago
And it still can't answer this: Q: "9.11 and 9.9, which one is larger?" A: "To determine which number is larger between 9.11 and 9.9, let's compare them step by step. Both numbers have the same whole number part: 9.
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by jschoe 2y ago
SAP also makes a lot of money. It's not purely related to how much a company makes. There are German companies that generate a shit ton of revenue, but they still pay way lower salaries. The mechanism how salaries come about are much m
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by jschoe 2y ago
Your take away does not go far enough. It's not executive compensations. It's compensation generally, it's all much much much lower than in the US. Many Germans consider 70-90k as already making bank and a high salary that yo
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by jschoe 2y ago
In the YouTube comments he stated nonetheless that he still bombed big tech interviews, specifically the technical portion, probably because of some ridiculous LeetCode problem he did not memorize beforehand. It just goes to show how these
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by jschoe 2y ago
If I heard him correctly he stated that it takes A LOT to just render a single frame. It's not playable. It can run DOOM, but you can't actually play it.
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by jschoe 2y ago
They write and talk in their group lingo so outsiders can't understand it without diving deep into their lore, mindset and community. It's a common thing. Seen it numerous times. Don't waste your time.
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by jschoe 2y ago
HN for economics or geopolitics could be interesting.
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by jschoe 2y ago
Europe has quite low salaries actually. While in the US you can very easily earn 200k++ as a completely average tech guy, that achievement is basically impossible in Europe.
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by jschoe 2y ago
You do realize that American salaries are not the norm internationally? The pay in Europe is far far far lower.