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by richardknop 7y ago
That's an expensive car in European standards. 20k is what most people pay for a car here. 45k car is a luxury imho.
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by richardknop 7y ago
It's been some time since my Bible studies but isn't there something in the Old Testament against loans / lending money with interest?
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by richardknop 7y ago
Rents are cheap in Singapore. Way cheaper than they are in London. When I worked in Singapore few years back I paid at the time an equivalent of 1 thousand pounds for a brand new condo in a nice gated community with swimming pools and stuff
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by richardknop 7y ago
Was going to say this. Lot of devs invested time and effort to learn and master Silverlight platform and it turned out to be a bad investment.
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by richardknop 7y ago
Similar here.
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by richardknop 7y ago
They were supposed to move it to China and shut down the facility in Texas. But they reversed after I assume tariff threat from White House? Not sure but that's what I'd imagine.
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by richardknop 7y ago
In case of major disaster such as meteorite hitting a metropolitan area, just in time logistics systems mean most major cities such as New York or London have enough food to survive for 2-3 days. If something happens that disrupts the suppl
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by richardknop 7y ago
Recessions come and go but it's good to remember that historically not all recessions are like great recessions in 2007/2008. Normal recessions can happen and if there is no systemic risk such as with mortgages in 2008 then the im
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by richardknop 7y ago
Nope, anybody from developed world (UK, Europe, Japan etc) can buy or sell US stocks. You just need a proper broker, something like Interactive Brokers, IG etc
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by richardknop 7y ago
How do you know he was stretching himself financially? Perhaps he was rich and 1000 euros was not much money to him.
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by richardknop 7y ago
I’d suggest not quitting your job until you have a new one secured.
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by richardknop 7y ago
Palantirs were created by elves if I am not mistaken. Sauron has stolen / acquired palantirs in battles but originally they were used by people like Gandalf or Elrond for communication. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong.
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by richardknop 7y ago
Europe has no army or military capacity. You have UK/France with some military capability but rest of Europe has in essence no armed forces, their tiny militaries are mostly only used to help during natural disasters or with humanitari
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by richardknop 7y ago
I would suggest finding a job at a medium/big tech company with market rate salary as compared to this if you will only get 1%. You are risking quite a lot and you should get much higher equity.
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by richardknop 7y ago
> Well, he's gotten bored now and has decided to stop developing/maintaining it. You can still pay the person to maintain the software or even outright hire him/her if the software is useful to your company.
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by richardknop 7y ago
I enjoy Go and Python the most.
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by richardknop 7y ago
Change phone number and open new WhatsApp account.
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by richardknop 7y ago
Yes you need passport also. Some form of ID and proof of address (phone bill or council tax are fine).
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by richardknop 7y ago
Of course.
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by richardknop 7y ago
Getting business bank account is not that difficult. There are lots of new challenger banks that give business accounts easily, you just need virtual office and proof of UK residence (council tax for example). I have opened business bank ac
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by richardknop 7y ago
It's slow feedback loop when developing / testing / debugging. This of course depends on your tech stack, with dynamic language such as NodeJS it is actually quite good as you can just mount your code base to the container an
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by richardknop 7y ago
That's why they log out of the app / turn off their phones instead of canceling rides. So they are just not available in the driver supply and then when they log back in they get surge price.
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by richardknop 7y ago
> In this case Uber offered you $x. You agreed to $x. This is not true. Uber and drivers did not sign any contract specifying set rate. Every ride that is offered to drivers has price based on supply/demand. Drivers are free to canc
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by richardknop 7y ago
Contractor here. Well you are not obligated to accept the contract if the rate is too low. These Lyft / Uber drivers do the same thing, the rate offered by Lyft/Uber for a ride is too low so they decline and only accept if they ge
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by richardknop 7y ago
Well, Lyft drivers are supposed to be contractors, it's normal for contractors to set their rate so I don't see how this is fraudulent.
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by richardknop 7y ago
Working remote doesn't mean working from your living room. You can go to some shared office place (rent a desk at nearby Wework or something). It's much better than working from your house.
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by richardknop 7y ago
Pretty sure it is negotiable based on experience on your previous compensation. At least from my experience working in London, you can always negotiate.
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by richardknop 7y ago
If you know the secret handshake. You need to call and spend couple hours on the phone with Tesla trying to upsell you to a more expensive model. Then, perhaps, if you are lucky, you will manage to order it. They don't even show it on
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by richardknop 7y ago
Doable by companies like Apple/Google, the issue is why would they do it? Their shareholders would not approve such transaction as it's just throwing your money into a furnace.
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by richardknop 7y ago
I would like to see a proper SUV as model Y. What they revealed was just hacked model 3 with some custom plates at the back (the door gave it away). I don't believe that's what Y will actually look like (it won't sell if that

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