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by robjan 5y ago
As a contractor you also have to pay for most of your overheads, most notably insurance, training and any certifications. The company is also paying for the convenience of a flexible workforce and specific expertise. It's also relative
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by robjan 5y ago
This works until the interest rates rise resulting in falling house prices and possible negative equity.
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by robjan 5y ago
It's basically doing what happened to AMC and GameStop a couple of months ago
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by robjan 5y ago
You own the stock in perpetuity, not just for a year. As long as you don't expect the company to go bust any time soon that's not a bad PE ratio.
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by robjan 5y ago
Plant UML was pretty widely used. The interface is very 2000 but it's still maintained.
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by robjan 5y ago
It's obviously different. And this is an example of why politics is a dangerous subject in the workplace. I haven't challenged your belief, in fact, I don't even know your belief and you're already on the attack. If you
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by robjan 5y ago
I think there a difference. A statement of indisputable fact i.e. "I went to the park with my husband" is different from an opinion or belief such as "I think x should be y", regardless of how accepted it is in the workp
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by robjan 5y ago
You said sats, not btc. It's a pointless argument.
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by robjan 5y ago
Not sure what kind of expertise I am buying with those sats. 1btc = 100million sats.
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by robjan 5y ago
0.0037sats is currently US$0.00000197. We have a deal but I'll transfer another currency since the transaction fee is several orders of magnitude greater than your quoted price.
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by robjan 5y ago
When you are an organ donor in the UK, they still ask your family and follow their wishes. The family can override the default or even the wishes of the deceased if they really want.
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by robjan 5y ago
Most people in "meatspace" are not involved in crypto in any serious way
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by robjan 5y ago
Ask about their typical engagement model. Usually it's either Time and Materials or fixed price. Fixed price contracts can sometimes be stressful and encourage hurrying just to meet the requirements, whereas T&M projects can allow
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by robjan 5y ago
The whole point of UI/UX is to provide a good experience for users. Users know when they are having a good experience and part of the role of a UI/UX practitioner is to collect and synthesise this feedback. A practitioner who igno
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by robjan 5y ago
Most countries include some kind of arbitration when something is disputed e.g was the damage caused by negligence or wear and tear? The smart contract can't settle disputes like this without a trusted party.
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by robjan 5y ago
> The last _3 months_ saw $1Tn of new money poured into crypto from all sides. Market cap is based on the price of the last transaction multiplied by the number of coins. It's not related to the total capital flow.
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by robjan 5y ago
I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but I don't find the Netflix algorithm useful. With a few exceptions everything is a 97-99% match
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by robjan 5y ago
Those are fine. PHP has just been tainted by its past and low barrier to entry. I hate to say it but my company now just filters out candidates who have PHP as the majority of their experience because the signal to noise ratio is so bad.
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by robjan 6y ago
I'm saying that a broker will offer little or no margin on a meme stock
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by robjan 6y ago
Meme stocks cannot be traded on margin by any sensible broker
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by robjan 6y ago
That's old news and not applicable anymore
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by robjan 6y ago
This is one of the reasons that HSBC are so strict now.
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by robjan 6y ago
Thing is you don't even need to liquidate in order to get that yacht. Many are taking low interest loans collateralised against these paper assets.
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by robjan 6y ago
Now you have to keep patching a server for a static site
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by robjan 6y ago
Cryptocurrencies will not remove the need for a military. Anything that can be bought by a Bitcoin can also be "bought" by force, often more effectively. As an example, how could bitcoin being the reserve currency fix the South Ch
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by robjan 6y ago
Hong Kong is inside China and a lot has been happening in recent years as we become more integrated with the mainland. Also, SCMP has been owned by Alibaba for the past five years and since then has been a lot less editorially independent.
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by robjan 6y ago
Covid definitely did have an impact on some dev work. I run a consultancy and business development is a lot harder when you can't have face to face meetings with potential clients or prospect for new clients at events.
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by robjan 6y ago
As long as they can grow their userbase they make $4 per person. That's potentially billions of dollars to burn before they have to think about charging yearly which is probably what they will eventually do. They also have an enterpris
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by robjan 6y ago
What I was saying was if everyone wants to sell and nobody wants to buy, the value is zero. This is true of all markets. The market cap is always determined by the last matched order, not the total that you can sell the whole market for.
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by robjan 6y ago
Probably using people to market and, in some cases, donate to their non-profit then essentially selling their user base to a friend. A perfect example of crony capitalism.

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