nivenkos

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by nivenkos 4y ago
European wages are incredibly low, so this isn't so surprising. It is particularly low though, but something like 80k wouldn't be unexpected at all.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The main problem is the terrible rent control system - with a lucky few getting rent-controlled first-hand contracts, and everyone else facing a cut-throat almost completely unregulated market of sub-letting. Rent control never works.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Yeah everything is geared towards the aristocracy - like VAT and Income Tax are insanely high meanwhile there is often no land value tax, property tax, inheritance tax, wealth tax or gift tax at all. And even capital gains are taxed far les
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Is it really that bad now? 7 years ago or so I installed 32-bit Edubuntu (IIRC) on some old Atom netbooks for my little cousins, and it was very straightforward. But back then there was more 32-bit support still.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
We really need proper e-waste and obsolescence laws. I.e. once official support ends the company must release datasheets, schematics, PCB designs, a FOSS bootloader and firmware, etc. - so that old devices can be repaired and re-purposed. I
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by nivenkos 4y ago
This is a great example of why electronic voting is important and can help secure democracy.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
UBI is a half-measure, we need democratic, communal control of industry.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
It's not controlled by the CPC any more than Meta or Alphabet are controlled by the FBI/NSA/CIA, etc.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
That's a really American government/welfare-based view though. I'm in a trade union and here in Sweden we support the Left party because they support trade unions - e.g. in the 80s there were proposals for having union member
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Rust isn't magic, you can become reasonably proficient in a couple of weeks just as with any other language.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Easy usage over SSH and on battery-powered laptops, etc. Like I learnt vi originally because it was the only text editor on an air-gapped machine (since it had to connect to loads of obscure equipment) used for setting up psychology experim
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The street-level sales tax in the US is a nightmare. But the EU's 25% VAT is absurdly high, 5% would be more reasonable.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The US is doing fine - the Inflation Reduction Act will bring back a lot of industry and make the business owners even richer. Of course as the USA's economic dominance is threatened, it really ramps up the cannibalisation and exploita
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Europe is far worse for everything being designed to serve the wealthy though. Income tax is 40+% and VAT usually 25% so you lose so much income to the state. Meanwhile there is often no property or inheritance tax, and capital gains tax mu
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Everywhere has problems, I've lived in many countries. I never moved back to the UK mainly because of the cost of housing though, it feels like such a rip-off - like almost US-level prices, but nowhere near US-level salaries or Scandin
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Nurses in the US earn at least 3x their UK counterparts though. Same for doctors, dentists, etc. too.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
What is the alternative? They should do, or they should be automated so you don't need as many employees.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
You might want to check that intelligence - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/us/politics/nord-stream-p...
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by nivenkos 4y ago
The real issue is that Americans are too rich and pampered. If you reduce disposable income massively in line with the rest of the world, then they won't be able to afford private vehicles and the change will come naturally.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
> What happened to "personal liberty and freedom"? The first Red Scare. Eugene Debs was imprisoned for opposing WW1. But the US has only ever been in favour of free trade when it benefits them, they did similar things with tari
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Nothing in the article seems too bad and they recovered several times their budget from fraud. It's good that they use technology effectively though. But the real question is why they don't do the same for tax evasion?
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I preferred Clubhouse to JIRA - why didn't you like it? But yeah, JIRA is far from the worst of these tools IMO.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
A lot of the lay-offs were senior technical staff though, at least at my company. Like C++ Staff engineers, etc. It seems more like a realignment to shift those jobs to cheaper subsidiaries like India, Pakistan, Mexico, etc.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I interviewed several people that had switched from the travel and hospitality industries during the lockdowns.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
But credit scores and fraud risk analysis are "social scoring". And what's wrong with social scoring in general?
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by nivenkos 4y ago
When I was in Seattle it was pretty cheap lunch option. Although Whole Foods had better food for the same price tbh.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Whichever is higher implies no upper bound no?
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Seriously - this is the package manager's job. Unfortunately the EU has no understanding of technology, and is just trying to regulate to protect the establishment aristocrats from disruption.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
An automatic shifter - I was expecting 6 gears.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Not really, just don't let the company get taken over by lawyers and "diversity" types.

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