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by spoonie 10y ago
"Intermediate" dev using Ruby-On-Rails mostly with a bit of Python, JS, and Go: £41k for the first year and £45k for the second. EDIT: no stock, and only benefit was WFH 1 day/week, and 1% matched retirement savings plan.
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by spoonie 10y ago
What's wrong with not wanting the LuaJIT codebase to have a dependency on the C++ the runtime?
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by spoonie 10y ago
That article does some serious gymnastics. "It's almost as if Europe's refugee crisis was planned and prepared" follows from Soros's foundation seeing it as an opportunity to change immigration policies?
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by spoonie 10y ago
Not knowing much about the industry I have 3 guesses: 1) they do but the options are for fame rather than financial gain. E.g. working for small productions hoping to get noticed. 2) No, because actors usually work with agents, and the agen
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Ask HN: Does the film industry use stock options for compensation?
1 points by spoonie 10y ago|2 comments
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by spoonie 10y ago
So you only drive on toll roads and went to a private school?
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by spoonie 10y ago
SE Asia/Australia are 8-16 hours ahead of either Europe or the US.
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by spoonie 10y ago
It's a U-brew store like they have in every small city, except a bit more modern and much more hip because it's under a railway arch in London. But all of the founders and employees are very nice and they are doing well. :)
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by spoonie 10y ago
The only part of that documentary I don't like is that they purposely don't mention that they boil the pond water while brewing with it (like you would normal water when brewing). It would have been way cooler if they had shown th
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by spoonie 10y ago
AirBnB files an income statement with the IRS, so at the very least that avenue is covered. Proof: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/414/should-i-expect-to-r... It could be very different in other countries
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by spoonie 10y ago
There should be a service for those that believe this: "Battle an Underwriter". You walk into a room and write a financial contract with a pro; "I gave you a deposit today and you sell me your bike tonorrow" or some such
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by spoonie 10y ago
Regarding the personal allowance increase, I'm sad that the article glossed over this. I was really impressed that it was a tax cut for both the top bracket and "everyone". I wonder how the Danes would react if it was only an
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by spoonie 10y ago
Small correction, the council (municipal government) charges the occupant of the house, not the owner. As a renter in London I was paying council tax. Edit: The biggest downside to the UK system is there isn't an obvious end of year
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by spoonie 10y ago
E.g. recently, scripture and mass was mostly in Latin, so even most of those who were literate had to rely on priests to interpret it for them.
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Australian Capital Territory Report on Land Value Tax Experiment(macrobusiness.com.au)
1 points by spoonie 10y ago|0 comments
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by spoonie 10y ago
Someone who just drank the last 2nd last gallon. ;)
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by spoonie 10y ago
Expectations just need to be set accordingly. Either the employer factors in "learning" time for employees to stay up to date as they start new projects, or the employee is told they need to spend some amount of their own time on
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by spoonie 10y ago
I'm sorry but having higher costs is not a good reason to ask for a higher salary. You can be young and still have a family and mortgage. An employee would be foolish to ask for a raise just because they bought a house.
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by spoonie 10y ago
I don't disagree with the grandparent: there are people who would do it, but I think for engineers right now the incentives are aligned against it. And I agree with you, for employers it's definitely in their interests, they jus
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by spoonie 10y ago
We haven't even figured out a way to get people from home to work quickly and efficiently in Silicon Valley I'd say there is a rational reason for this. If the cost of living was lower in the SFBA, salaries would lik
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by spoonie 10y ago
You could probably argue that their resellers are earning money from Apple products' popularity. Resellers and broken screen repairers actually!
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by spoonie 10y ago
How are you saving for retirement then?
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by spoonie 10y ago
How do you feel about Canadians (and Mexicans!) coming into the US via the NAFTA program? My employer didn't even have to show that they weren't able to hire an American for my position.
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by spoonie 10y ago
I'm beginning to wonder if income tax should be done away with entirety in favour of Land Value Tax. Yes it's generally easier to track and measure income than land value, but maybe the tax could should do the hard thing rather th
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by spoonie 10y ago
I mostly like it too, it's a similar model to Canada Senate. Who needs to go are the current hereditary peers: they weren't elected or even appointed by someone elected. At least they abolished the hereditary system.
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by spoonie 10y ago
Taxes aren't necessarily higher (at least compared to California) if you consider things like healthcare costs and university tuition over your whole lifetime. But yes, goods costs and taxes will be higher.
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by spoonie 10y ago
About $90k CAD when starting I think (KW).
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Silicon Valley was going to disrupt capitalism. Now it’s just enhancing it(theguardian.com)
4 points by spoonie 10y ago|0 comments
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by spoonie 10y ago
But the profits in a co-op still go to the owners, hence it's not a NP. I'm sure a NP could be structured like a co-op though, where workers get input into decision making.
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by spoonie 10y ago
I also like how they have a variety of price points. I've been subscribed for a few years (paying annually) and vary my payment up and down depending on my budget.

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