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by suction 5y ago
Yet how many people, even well-educated ones, have this balanced view on salaries? Most people see the bottom line on their pay statements. They "conveniently" forget that they still have to pay for health insurance, pension funds
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by suction 5y ago
By well-working system I mean there are still enough checks and balances in place to make the rise of a figure like Trump or Putin very unlikely. And this of course is tied to economic well-being.
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by suction 5y ago
This applies to all public pension systems, not only the German one.
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by suction 5y ago
VW AG isn't based in Brandenburg.
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by suction 5y ago
You could be right. It's Tesla, so the thinking was probably more along the lines of "Germany will do whatever we want because we're Tesla."
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by suction 5y ago
They don't have to buy politicians, because every politician knows that Germany's economic fate is directly tied to them. Which isn't the case for Tesla and never will be. German auto manufacturers long know that the real com
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by suction 5y ago
"net" is the keyword here.
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by suction 5y ago
I asked this exact question in Japan. The usual answer was "because it is safer" - when I asked to elaborate what "safer" meant, I was met with annoyed stares. Questioning things isn't really known in Japan, if some
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by suction 5y ago
Keep in mind that for a high-profile engineer or lead who expects to make 400k at least per year, the company would actually have to pay him 800k to make that much net. Labor cost in Germany is sky high. That times a thousand is not insigni
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by suction 5y ago
The Tesla story had two sides - Tesla was aware about the high standards that would be applied to their factory, but somehow thought "we're Tesla so they'll create all kinds of exceptions for us if we pay the right politician
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by suction 5y ago
Might be true, but in Germany, the salary you pay to your employee is also about 1% of all the labor cost for him or her. Which is hyperbole, of course, but Germany is one of those countries where the actual net payout is usually significan
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by suction 5y ago
How can it be wrong, when I've observed it with my own eyes, for years now?
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by suction 5y ago
But where do you actually see that prosperity? I don't think the average American has a better lifestyle than the average German or Swiss or French person.
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by suction 5y ago
In most areas of the German economy, IT is still seen as a necessary evil to be able to run "real" businesses like auto manufacturing. With the success of big American social media companies like Facebook, the public mindset has s
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by suction 5y ago
This could be a reason, yet it would be strange because in all other areas of Japanese life, there is almost no stigma attached to erotic content or even hardcore porn. Ride the subway in a big Japanese city, and every other man in there wi
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by suction 5y ago
I don't think this and many other myths about Japan have been debunked nearly enough yet. For instance, the "there is zero crime in Japan" myth which I still see and hear repeated almost daily both by Japanophiles and the Jap
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by suction 5y ago
Their phones are fully suitable for 2nd hand markets as-is. I sense a bit of a an Anti-Apple dogma here, so please excuse me not coming back to this.
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by suction 5y ago
Wrong - Apple built a system where their devices need to be taken out of the cloud before selling them on. Which takes about three taps and less than minute, so I'm asking you again, why blame Apple here?
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by suction 5y ago
You do understand that second-hand Apple devices are being sold and bought every day? Only those where the previous owner was too blasé to turn off the cloud lock can't be sold on. Which is not Apple's fault.
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by suction 5y ago
How's that Apple's fault, though?
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by suction 5y ago
By "gave up", do you mean the shared-folder idea, or the whole thing, i.e. using a Linux VM for dev from a Mac / Windows host? I'm seriously pondering not having to deal with re-installing my dev environment on the Mac
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by suction 5y ago
At least then they'll be aware of the deal they're agreeing to.
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by suction 5y ago
Sega also runs Sega-branded arcades in Japan. They even have virtual horse-racing games where the patrons can game real money and watch the "races" on a huge screen. Actual video games are about 50% of all the machines in there, t
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by suction 5y ago
When I lived in Japan, I was really surprised what the average Japanese person thought about Arcades. There are Sega-, Taito-, Konami- and other branded Arcades in the bigger cities, but "normal" people wouldn't go near them,
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by suction 5y ago
Would it be possible as an alternative to remote editing to use the VM's "Shared folder" functionality? Running an heavy IDE like IntelliJ inside a VM when you could also run it in the outer OS seems like stretching this set
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by suction 5y ago
Do with Docker available for ARM architecture, that means it will work with no emulation layer needed. Or am I missing something?
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by suction 5y ago
That is absolutely not true.
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by suction 5y ago
I lived in Japan for three years and would always prefer a (classy) hotel. As would most Japanese.
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by suction 5y ago
You're so close to the realisation, so close.
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by suction 5y ago
Interesting topic - but the synopsis leads to the assumption that the "divide by zero" problem in computer science is the only actual example of an "dangerous idea" related to zero explored in this long book - so I recko

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