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by m11a 7y ago
I don't mean not putting in a 401k. The comment I was replying to was implying throwing $100k into a savings account is a good idea because you'll have a couple million when you're 63. I do not advocate throwing $100k into sa
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by m11a 7y ago
Self-study isn't what I mean. Nor am I referring to present alternatives to academia. I'm saying the higher education system is broken and this is something governments need to fix (and stop pushing people into university specif
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by m11a 7y ago
There's many viable routes that don't have to be academic. I hate the idea of universities being pushed down everyone's throat. They're higher education institutions and should be for people actually interested in academ
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by m11a 7y ago
What if you don't plan to start your life at 63? I'm not planning for retirement. 63 is a long way off. There's a lot of life between now and then, indeed the majority of my life is between now and then. These kinds of "
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by m11a 7y ago
More jobs? No. But 'more' doesn't really matter. It's hard enough to move to the US. It's easier for him to find a tech job in the UK (there are plenty) than it is to move to the US and get a tech job (for which he&
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by m11a 7y ago
> be in top 10% of kaggle or any other competitive programming site and I would bet jobs would hunt you, not the other way around I do wonder, is there an equivalent to Kaggle in other areas in software (not for data science)?
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by m11a 7y ago
Possibly. But you'd have to be using the larger, liquid exchanges with fiat support for these amounts. Surely you'd hit even the ID verified limits and they'd look into you manually if you're suddenly moving millions on
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by m11a 7y ago
Possible. Tax agencies open up random investigations, as well, all the time. They can open an investigation 5-10 years back, depending on type of return, country, etc. There's a chance they could've had such a random investigation
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by m11a 7y ago
Sure. But a computer can check/crosscheck this. If someone wins a lottery, for example, I imagine the lottery provider has to send an IRS form. A computer can easily crosscheck to see if a form exists with that amount. If not, manual r
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by m11a 7y ago
I don't think you could buy $100M of Monero, or even Bitcoin, quickly without being noticed or causing market swings. There's not enough liquidity. And even if you could you'd have some issue cashing out that cryptocurrency i
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by m11a 7y ago
Highly unlikely for a few reasons. 1. IRS and prosecution would've determined this and hence this case wouldn't've been brought forward. There's a case because both felt these were the ones that did it. Also, they were c
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by m11a 7y ago
> and as the founder he brings a certain level of trust to the operation He wasn't exactly portrayed as a symbol of trust in the media. I guess you could say, for PR purposes, his active involvement became a liability. I don't
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by m11a 7y ago
The two parent comments seem correct. The 8 is a negative. i.e. it turns N into S, and E into W. The last 5 digits are in DDM format, the first two being degrees, and the last 3 being XX.X minutes. You can verify this using https:/&#x
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by m11a 7y ago
> You make it sound as if this is new, but this was also possible under the DPD from the late 90s. GDPR didn't improve that. GDPR did improve it. Under the implementation by member states of the DPD many required that you can show &
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by m11a 7y ago
> Assholes like Google still do not ask for consent. Google do ask for consent where required, but consent isn't required. There's various legal bases for the processing of data according to the GDPR (including for the performa
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by m11a 7y ago
The GDPR is working as intended. For many of us software people, it isn't that revolutionary. These are things we should've been doing for a long time, and many of us have been doing. But many companies are massive and bureaucrati
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by m11a 7y ago
There are still many problems in payment processing. One I can think of is acceptance. Merchant fees are way too high especially for physical payments. I can't pay using card at my barber or local convenience stores here. I suppose the
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b) not true for everyone. the way different people want to live their lives is, well, different. his essays don't necessarily have to be relatable, they just have to be useful. he isn't a life coach (though I suppose that is argua
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by m11a 7y ago
You'll have to explain how it makes sense to you, because it doesn't to me. If they were going to do it they could do it already. They don't need to be their own ISP for iDevices to block content. They control the browser and
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by m11a 7y ago
Problem: Half of the time I'm not even familiar enough with the core features of the app, never mind learning the new niche features they just added in the latest version. And since many apps believe in updating a lot and often I see t
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by m11a 7y ago
It wouldn't bother me if it was one or two apps that I use frequently. It does bother me when it's every single one, and as you say, most of which are used rarely. Then it gets annoying on all of them. It's less annoying with
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by m11a 7y ago
The latter isn't free speech solely because there is no financial sale. It's free speech also because there's no entity that can really regulate the speech. And for politics, I think it's also fair for a party to come ou
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by m11a 7y ago
There's a difference between the two. I support both. Here's my thoughts: 1) In the former case, the question is: "Who decides what ads can and cannot be shown?" Is it Facebook? No, people don't trust Facebook to ha
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by m11a 7y ago
> I use it to remind myself that very few people think like me, and making things to my liking (straight and to the point) will get me nowhere. There are many people that like straight and to the point. Most people would actually say the
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by m11a 7y ago
In some cases it can be true, it's hard to tell which are true and which aren't. I don't think those alerts are bad if they're true (the opposite actually: they're super helpful then). I've had some bookings be
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by m11a 7y ago
Nothing to suggest that Apple is not in favour of net neutrality. > "We work hard to build great products, and what consumers do with those tools is up to them — not Apple, and not broadband providers," Cynthia Hogan, VP of pub
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by m11a 7y ago
Elon may not, but his followers do. And Elon takes advantage of his Tony Stark persona people have made for him greatly. I don't blame him for that, of course. For everything he does deliver, there's 5 promises that he didn't
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by m11a 7y ago
With point 4) I don't think Apple intends to ignore the ruling of governments in that way. Much of Apple's business remains in the hardware market, and indeed this service would require hardware also (perhaps even be limited to iD
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by m11a 7y ago
I had an Apple Watch Series 3 back when they came out and ended up returning it. It actually had a fault too, but I chose to take the refund rather than a replacement because I didn't find myself liking it so much. I initially went for
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by m11a 7y ago
Or you could be incredibly wrong. And it can be hard to differentiate between the whether you're ahead of your time, or just wrong. > I think there should be rewards for getting highly downvoted comments that aren't mean (but a

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