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by sbacic 5y ago
I'm fairly sure I'll still be paying taxes when I go out to eat with my family or go camping with friends. It's just not going to be as much as if I had spent that time working.
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by sbacic 5y ago
I can't comment on the US in particular - I neither live there nor does my comment pertain to it specifically. Rather, it was an observation of two things: 1. That high taxes do not necessarily correlate to extensive and quality public
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by sbacic 5y ago
I intentionally didn't want to name countries because this isn't about Canada or the US - it's a global issue and taxes (sadly) do not correlate to the level of public services.
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by sbacic 5y ago
> I love this logic, if you're going to take some of my money away I will do nothing instead. Really? Bullshit. Is it? Why is it so hard to imagine that higher taxes on risky ventures might cause somebody to go "Eh, not worth i
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by sbacic 5y ago
> The idea is that people got rich in part due to all the nice infrastructure we have, and so we could tax some of the income they made off that infrastructure to pay for it all. This sounds solid until you realize that country B next do
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by sbacic 5y ago
Would your argument still stand if this hypothetical corporation had no employees but the owner? That is, do you take issue with the fact that one person, employing many, profits much more than the people he employees or that he profits muc
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by sbacic 5y ago
My main issue with Storybook is how much trouble it is to get everything else running with it. Need next-image? Routing? i18n on demand? Tough luck - you'll need to implement it for both the app you're building and Storybook. And
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by sbacic 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE Europe Front-end developer with over 4 years of freelance experience, mostly on greenfield projects but also occasionally with established codebases. Used to working alone with minimal supervision or in small teams. Ha
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by sbacic 5y ago
Balkanization had nothing to do with it - the problem was that communism valued loyalty over ability and promoted people according to that principle. After Yugoslavia fell apart, the new political parties, both ruling and opposition, simply
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by sbacic 5y ago
Sadly, nothing. Even if we were to elect a capable government, there would still be a large segment of the population that would resist any change as long as it conflicts with their economic interests. I'm afraid we're talking int
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by sbacic 5y ago
> I'm sure that can be alleviated with with and good leadership, however. I very much doubt it - one of the reasons we are in this mess is some 80+ years of human capital devastation - we have nowhere to draw experts or leaders from
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by sbacic 5y ago
> I remember the streets were so empty we would play football. We did this as well. There were a lot less cars and a lot more children back then. Now it's the opposite. I think that at some point we'll wake up to the cultural a
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by sbacic 5y ago
As another Croatian, I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I'd like other people to experience the breathtaking beauty of my country. On the other hand, considering all the negative externalities and the rampant devastation th
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by sbacic 5y ago
Yes - I was very close to pulling the trigger and buying one of the new M1 Macs. It seemed like Apple had finally delivered a device worth paying top dollar for. Then this fiasco with iCloud scanning happened. I don't mind the invasion
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by sbacic 5y ago
I'm not so sure. Obviously, more competition means lower prices, but software has proven very resistant to that bit of conventional economic wisdom, with a few exceptions of course (namely, places with very high CoL).
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by sbacic 5y ago
What's happening here is disintermediation - the employees in SEE and EE have realized that they can cut out the middleman (their local employer) and work directly with foreign clients. This makes the lower cost of living the employee&
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by sbacic 5y ago
Half of the modern web stack is there because it makes development <INSERT POSITIVE ADJECTIVE> to work with. The problem isn't SASS per se, it's that we have half a dozen tools with overlapping functionality because we can&#
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by sbacic 5y ago
I think it comes down to one of two things; the first is ignorance. If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. If you only know about React and Sass, any layer beneath that is a complete mystery and not so
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by sbacic 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE Europe Front-end developer with over 4 years of freelance experience, mostly on greenfield projects but also occasionally with established codebases. Used to working alone with minimal supervision or in small teams. Ha
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by sbacic 5y ago
Anxiety, mostly. It has gotten so bad that I woke up in the middle of the night and had to take a moment to remember what I was feeling so anxious about. Turns out it was - nothing. For perhaps the first time, I had nothing to be anxious ab
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by sbacic 5y ago
> My policy: OOP is like salt. Use little and that's great. I only allow a single inheritance layer, and ideally no inheritance at all. That's been my observation as well - there's no free lunch and DRY isn't free eit
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by sbacic 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE Europe Front-end and UI developer with over 4 years of freelance experience, mostly on greenfield projects but also occasionally with established codebases. Used to working alone with minimal supervision or in small te
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by sbacic 5y ago
They won't and I'd argue that that is part of the plan.
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by sbacic 5y ago
I'm not sure I buy into it - I don't think it's necessary that even simple use cases need to be complicated in order for the whole to be flexible. The simple use cases should just be plug and play. If you want a different sol
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by sbacic 5y ago
I think that the whole discussion around low-code is missing a pretty fundamental issue: most programming libraries suck. If I need, say, authentication, why do I need to install a library and then read a bunch of documentation on how to us
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by sbacic 5y ago
This is all contingent on said leetcode riddles actually helping with candidate selection. If they aren't, you've just limited your pool of potential candidates for no reason whatsoever.
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by sbacic 5y ago
> Do companies say "Right, I'm not going to make an extra billion this year because I'll be taxed at the EU average 20.7% tax rather than the US 21%" No, but their owners might go: "Given the risk, the potential
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by sbacic 5y ago
Because the rewards just aren't there. Amazon is a company started by some guy in a garage and less than 30 years later it is one of the richest companies in the world. Something like that just isn't going to happen in Europe - yo
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by sbacic 5y ago
I remember reading once that tech companies, on average, lobby less that traditional industries, such as fossil fuels and finance. I wonder if the lesson they will take from this is that, rather than reform, they should invest more in lobby
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by sbacic 5y ago
I find it interesting how all of these articles keep mentioning Ireland specifically when there are countries in Europe with even lower tax rates. I suspect that the reason is that Ireland is not only offering a very competitive tax rate, b

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