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Ireland is a special case because its economy revolves around tax avoidance. As a multinational you credit your Irish division with all your European profits in your financials and claim the German operation is making a big loss - moving yo
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The example given is fridge cleaning, but tasks outside your narrow job spec can be very useful. For instance, if you are hired as a software tester, and snag a task setting up the automated build system, you can turn that into a higher pai
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I think there are legitimate reasons why a business might need to restrict employees from having second jobs. However, if those circumstances apply, they should include it in the contract and it should impact salary negotiations. For instan
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Another option in the UK is the "knowledge transfer partnership"system. Sometimes you have an academic level problem that needs a year or two of work to solve. KTP partners you with a university, which recruits a graduate to work
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When you use a meta headset, the cameras on the outside film the environment around you. In order to use for example the gesture recognition feature, you consent for that video to be sent to meta as an AI training input. Although your boss,
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The headsets have cameras on the outside your vision can "pass through" and you can see the world around you - just with virtual objects in it. This gives you a mixed reality experience rather than a virtual world. So for example
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Depends on local laws https://www.sallymorinlaw.com/bicycle-accidents/riding-your-... My point though wasn't really about the legalities of cycling - this is a business and technology site. It was about the disadv
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Here in London we have cycle paths, but it's also the reality that cyclists will as a normal thing cut through pedestrian areas they are not really allowed in whereas a motorcyclist doing so would be quite likely to get tracked down vi
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E-bikes are interesting because they are a hack. The way most people use E-Bikes is as an unlicensed motorbike. Every city is full of food gig-workers who need a super cheap motorbike they can ride on the pavement. That's what they are
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Presumably a lot of these are content moderation staff, often much cheaper than engineers. Facebook claimed to have made good progress in the last year automating moderation, but could also just be backing off on moderation to reduce costs
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So what, they have a zoom info subscription? I'm deeply worried about CPP + Tiktok, because it's potentially a huge database of people doing things that they can be blackmailed for. Your resume content is basically public informat
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To be fair, this is probably a guy going to jail because he used a text message sending API that used tencent cloud somewhere in their backend or something...
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One of the main use cases today for VPNs is to pirate movies or access geo-blocked content. That and dodgy hotel wifi. The adversary is netflix or a IP rights enforcement company, and the user doesn't care what their ISP or a state cou
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Good point
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Remember that buybacks are another way of returning money to shareholders, and Meta bought 10% of it's shares this year. A 10% yield is pretty significant and reflects its high PE ratio. However, they took on 10bn in debt this summer,
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Do you mind explaining more clearly the difference between your understanding of what the article means, and what the GP wrote? They seem pretty similar?
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The other thing going on is... the system is such that they have to spend the money on something, sooner rather than later. These VC funds made a lot of money last year, and if they can't make up a reason to re-invest it they have to r
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Sorry for the slow response and thank you for the long one
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I read this like "DoD tried to do quite a complicated semantic layer over tables project but failed because the RDF cluster of technologies is horrible. It would have been easier to code from scratch with SQL and python". I think
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However, when it comes to contracts with european companies, it has more to do with fundraising. Energy and even margins are not hitting game studios and SaS products, but it is harder to close funding rounds. Why? Because asset prices in e
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There are lots of publicly available databases and coding systems for healthcare / life science, but many of them are complicated for normal people (even normal developers) to use and understand. For instance, SNOMED is an ontology. A
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Maybe what I wrote comes off a bit one sided - I'm really urging people to do what actually makes sense in their specific context - which can be both!
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The related problem that I see actually more often is the "you don't have big data" problem. You know, in data science, you see people spending hours writing pandas scripts that replicate a few clicks in excel for a one of an
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I don't know how realistic the data is as it's from ad scrapes but this site provides good stats for the UK market https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ Probably very varied by geo / industry as well - from my exper
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Do we want FAANG employees? From what I'm reading here great people started these companies and we've had 20 years of sleepy civil service style meeting people. They sound like they might fit at a bank but not at any company that
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Sure, but are they self driving? A number of european capitals seem to have managed to do driverless high capacity underground trains. Here in the UK, we've got a number of automated trains but for union reasons they still have drivers
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I took a look at your site as a potential customer - it sounds like you are building something I'd find useful. Just FYI, your webpage has a bug scaling past 1080p-ish in chrome.
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Tasks specific books age very quickly, and are easily replaced by googling. Books about learning programming for beginners or just about a language have a longer shelf life. Some people like to work through them chapter by chapter as a cour
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I read a lot on online fiction platforms - AO3 and Wattpad are popular platforms but I mostly read Royal Road which seeks to copy asian web novel platforms. Most of the writers are amateurs but they have diverse means of getting paid - some
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Some people are always pessimistic and some people are always doomy. Let's look at some of the factors causing inflation: * Office workers move from cities to poor / rural areas - suddenly they need to drive more, serving their ne

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