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by sceptical 5y ago
Household debt is a bit more complicated than you present it. https://www.nationalbanken.dk/en/publications/themes/Pages/H...
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by sceptical 5y ago
I recently (~6 months ago) retired from engineering. I was rather unfit and had also gained a bit of weight. I started running 30 minutes in the morning every 2nd day. It is painful in the beginning and you probably have to alternate betwee
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by sceptical 5y ago
For staff+ level engineers many SV companies do pay comparable salaries in Europe. I worked for one in a smaller Scandinavian city and had a base salary of $300k and approx. $1m stock yearly. It is hard work though especially due to the ti
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by sceptical 6y ago
In the current climate it is impossible to determine if this is serious or a joke. This is in itself hysterical.
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by sceptical 6y ago
Rename of master branch is happening at the company I work at. I find it rather pointless but the company is paying for my time so if they want me to spend time on this then fine by me. I will still call it the master branch though.
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by sceptical 6y ago
Not barbaric at all. This is normal for almost all larger companies. Pay is based on the local geographic market. Only at higher levels L6+ does the span diminish. It is basic supply and demand, < L6 is easy to replace.
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by sceptical 6y ago
If the company can get an equally good hire at half the cost, it can and should replace you. As a shareholder I would not only expect this, I would demand it.
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by sceptical 6y ago
How would that help? If a company loses 80% of its revenue over night adjustments will have to be made, union or no union.
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by sceptical 6y ago
> Now it does seem that if you were to pick a country that would have the largest % of people happy, and that was your ideal, you'd be a Dane. But if you believe in individual liberty, high achievement, competition, and diversity, t
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by sceptical 6y ago
Not only was it not losing money. It was actually quite profitable pre-covid.
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by sceptical 6y ago
> I don’t use Uber cus of ideological reasons. A lot of people, even in this community, are the same. Uber/Lyft marketshare in all US markets tell another story. This community is a small echo chamber and thus rather uninformed.
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by sceptical 6y ago
In this particular case it is mainly the value of the investments in DiDi, Yandex.Taxi and Grab. Once those will bounce back, Uber will have a very profitable quarter. Of course then it will be ignored as just increased value of investments
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by sceptical 7y ago
How can Uber pocket this surcharge? Clearly Uber pays for background checks, insurance as well as the investigators mentioned here.