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by nivenkos 5y ago
> In exercise: drop any gym memberships, use things like body weight to train. Run one day, do yoga the next. This is a bit like the avocado toast nonsense though - a gym membership costs about $50 a month which is nothing compared to th
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Inflation will wipe out that cash though. Honestly, it's hard to give advice since it's so specific to the region and job market, etc. Like many US engineers can easily afford to buy a house outright with $200k+ salaries, that isn
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Appeasement would have been to allow the LPR and DPR independence and cede Crimea before all of this even started. To avoid devastation, needless deaths and the mass exodus of refugees. Now even if the war was over tomorrow it would take de
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Were the CEO, COO, etc. punished at all?
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The salaries are lower before taxes though.
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It's public in many countries anyway - Norway and Sweden at least have public tax returns.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Why can't they just ban the crypto exchanges already? If Canada is willing to freeze the bank accounts of protesters, it's definitely possible.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I'm not saying it should be done for free, but they could do a much better job in funding engineers. It was awful when they let go the Rust and Cranelift engineers. Reminds me of Oracle - where the lawyers and MBAs have just seized con
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Got to pay for that 7-figure CEO salary and fancy San Fran office somehow.
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Look at Canada though - what is considered "criminal" can change overnight and then suddenly the government is freezing protesters' bank accounts.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I pay 40% income tax (56% marginal), 25% sales tax, 35% electricity tax. It means 80k doesn't go as far as it'd seem, especially with increasing interest rates. Considering Americans are on 200k+, it just doesn't compare.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Coinbase is centralised, Kraken is centralised.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Yeah, Sweden is anti-progressive. As a worker I pay ~40% income tax and 25% sales tax. Meanwhile there is no inheritance tax, relatively low capital gains tax (or none on ISK accounts), and low corporation tax. It's designed to preserv
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by nivenkos 5y ago
> a senior SWE in Europe will generally take around 80/120k € (non-FAANG) Nowhere near - I got 75k EUR at a FAANG (whilst the same position in the US paid ~$165k USD - the levels were public). I now get 86k EUR in one of the most ex
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by nivenkos 5y ago
It's a pretty similar system in Germany and Sweden at least though (I haven't lived in France). I moved from the UK to Germany right when I had to have surgery and the wait time was identical (scans were much quicker though as I l
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Salaries are far higher in the US in any professional field - engineering, tech, medicine, law, finance... even truck driving.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I was planning to move the other way before Covid - from Sweden to California. It's much less likely now as I have a stable position and my partner lost her job in the US. Mainly the US has many benefits: - Much, much higher salaries -
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by nivenkos 5y ago
But ARM was already sold to SoftBank (Japanese). It's not like it's still Acorn producing British microcomputers...
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by nivenkos 5y ago
"Sold their soul" - have you seen European energy prices? Up 300% in the last 2 months. We cannot afford a war, it'd make the COVID crisis seem trivial. US interference (see the Burisma board, supporting gas tariffs and oppos
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by nivenkos 5y ago
The Russian soldiers are still inside Russia... can't say the same for NATO.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Ami go home!
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A lot of US politicians are involved in the Ukrainian energy and gas industry since Euromaidan (see Burisma for example). Their support for increasing gas transit tariffs caused huge increases in energy prices in Europe recently, and is why
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Yeah, in Sweden it's about 60% (56% taxed as income, plus capital gains tax on the difference if the value goes up).
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Seems they're more likely to target the games than the engines though? They have so much money they could easily buy Ubisoft, EA and Take-Two and make all major games Xbox and Windows 11+ exclusives.
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I see it more as a reasonable way of shaping behaviour. Like taxing diesel, cigarettes, alcohol, etc. is fair enough if it helps create a better society. Taxing electricity whilst trying to encourage people to switch their homes from gas an
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Yeah, income tax is the real evil. I live in Scandinavia, and the high income tax (and no property or inheritance tax) keeps the class system intact for generations. You can't work your way up when the government is taking almost 60% o
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by nivenkos 5y ago
PostNord ever delivers things normally? /s
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Most of them are internal conflicts though. It's not such a crazy idea really, but I'd rather we just abolished NATO entirely. I'm no fan of Russia, but I don't want to go to war just because they shoot down a Turkish fi
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Ami go home. We should build up our own European industry like we had with Linux, MySQL and Nokia, etc.
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And you will rarely even earn $100k. Like I live in a European capital and am just below $100k after almost 8 years of experience. We're just colonised by massive US corporations which ship the profits back to the US (and avoid as much

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