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931.
by mcv 2y ago
They're trying to play 4D chess, but they don't understand how the pieces move.
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by mcv 2y ago
Indeed. Taxation is as old as civilization. Civilization is built on taxation. The first writing systems, the first numbers, the first money, it was all invented to enable taxation. People should finally quit being so childish about this. U
933.
by mcv 2y ago
> If you are referring to taking wealth by force from people that earned it and giving to people that didn't earn it, yes it's 'communist'. No, that's capitalist. That's literally the core of capitalism.
934.
by mcv 2y ago
It's clearly the Bernie/AOC left who are correct here. The US forced this world order on the rest of the world, and massively benefitted from it, so the payback is not owed by the rest of the world who had this forced on them (tho
935.
by mcv 2y ago
> And supporting a whole family on a single income well was a very narrow window of time, and it required the US to have no real economic competitors. But then how were other countries able to have this while having economic competitors?
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by mcv 2y ago
There is most likely a deeper plan behind it. It's not 4D chess, or if it is, it's played by people who don't really understand it themselves, but there is a goal behind it: ending Reagan's neoliberal economic world orde
937.
by mcv 2y ago
And while it may be contemporary avant garde now, by the time the performance is finished, it will be a timeless classic.
938.
by mcv 2y ago
That's all in theory. As long as Trump has the support from the Republicans in Congress, from the Supreme Court, from the police, and from the many loyalists he put into various offices, he can basically do whatever he likes. What&#x27
939.
by mcv 2y ago
Absolutely. Trump is strengthening Russia and China, and weakening the US. Also weakening the EU for now, but if the EU gets its act together, they might well come out on top.
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by mcv 2y ago
Isn't Trump's treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, a Soros guy? I just learned that he apparently want to impose a new economic order on the world where every country basically becomes subservient to the US, but first they need craz
941.
by mcv 2y ago
Then don't tell them you're a techie.
942.
by mcv 2y ago
You can never get everything you want. Most programming jobs in NL don't pay much more than this. If you want to get paid what you're really worth, you need to work as a freelancer, but the tax service has just ruined that market.
943.
by mcv 2y ago
I think this is the case with real engineering companies. My wife works at Rijkswaterstaat, and there engineers bear direct responsibility for projects that are worth lives, and they can make important decisions about those projects for tha
944.
by mcv 2y ago
If I ever get in that position, I want an assistant to do all the paperwork, so I'll have time to code and talk to people.
945.
by mcv 2y ago
> everything will operate as if you never had worked there. Well, they wrecked my app after I left. It was blazingly fast, and we has a very fast moving team. Now the team and the app are slow. (I don't even work there yet and I alr
946.
by mcv 2y ago
This varies a lot per country. I know Germany is a lot more hierarchical, for example. They care about titles there. Here we don't.
947.
by mcv 2y ago
Even just the existence of a staff software engineer role is something. I don't think this company has that, but I think that would be exactly what I wanted to do. Especially at this particular department.
948.
by mcv 2y ago
I normally do too, but in this case I did want to work there. And apparently I do again. I negotiated my ass off, made a lot of good arguments, and everybody understood where I was coming from, but still wouldn't budge an inch. Maybe I
949.
by mcv 2y ago
Instead of loafing, you could also collect more context. Talk to various stakeholders to better understand the context of the problem. Read about company policies or market developments that made this necessary. Boring stuff, I admit (the r
950.
by mcv 2y ago
That's a really blatant lack of creativity. Even if obviously all of those prompts would make anyone think of exactly those iconic characters (except possibly a different version of James Bond or Lara Croft), any human artist could eas
951.
by mcv 2y ago
Netherland is actually extremely egalitarian. Managers are often just one of the team, you address everybody informally, we're all equals, etc. Except in pay. And especially in larger organizations. Managers and people on track to mana
952.
by mcv 2y ago
Techies can get into management, but they stop programming if they do. I've been told I could get into a higher pay scale if I took on managerial or administrative tasks that I'm bad at and have nothing to do with programming. I&#
953.
by mcv 2y ago
I try to write as little code as possible. I do love writing code, but I've learned to love removing code even more. The big problem in many companies is that often programmers are kept out of that context. Problems are discussed witho
954.
by mcv 2y ago
I wonder if the fact that we're not hired to write code, is also the reason we're not paid as much as some other roles. This is my big frustration: that senior programmers (in NL at least) are not paid as much as managers, POs, va
955.
by mcv 2y ago
Did he free his slaves? I thought he didn't. Washington did free some of his slaves when he died. Still not all, though. Imagine if these two political powerhouses had freed all the slaves, as their words suggested they should. US hist
956.
by mcv 2y ago
It is, but as with many founding principles of the US, they don't always live up to them. I mean, Thomas Jefferson said it was self-evident that every man was created equal and had the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happines
957.
by mcv 2y ago
Feels crazy that, in the middle of fighting an existential war for the survival of their country, they still have eye for this sort of thing. Completely unlike Russian soldiers, who even dug trenches in the radioactive soil of Chernobyl.
958.
by mcv 2y ago
I don't really think China is an option either. Maybe for the west coast, but I really don't think they can do much for the eastern half of Canada. Though EU+China might do it. Problem is, China might be happy to see the US invade
959.
by mcv 2y ago
This is why due process is essential for everybody. The moment you deny it to one group, you can deny it to anyone by claiming they're in that one group.
960.
by mcv 2y ago
That's also how the US used to justify torture in Guantanamo Bay. It wasn't US soil, so the prisoners there didn't have the rights and protections that US law and constitution would otherwise give them.

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