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Yes, canals. Not every country has infinitive supply of land. It is very difficult to find free land in India.
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Solar actually makes sense in India, it does not snow there :) I seen documentary where they covered river with solar panels. It reduced evaporation of water by significant amount. And it did not occupy any arable land. And big parts of Ind
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More accessible option is to pay former developers for consulting.
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My estimate is about 50% on 300k/year, just taxes no living expenses. But main reason is tax unpredictability. I would have to pay small fortune on accountants and it still does not guarantee, there wont be fines latter. If you are par
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How about taxes? In my East-European country I am paying about 10% net on taxes (including social and health, including expenses, excluding VAT). Nothing illegal or offshore, just normal accounting from local semi retired lady. In Cali I wo
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I seen study[1] that claimed similar results (early puberty, depression...) but from lack of male figures in childhood. Another study showed similar results in macaque monkeys. Evolutionary explanation was that group needs to be repopulated
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Top performers are like 5% of staff? They may have high attrition, but company wide it may be very low. And there is salary limit you may get as an employee. Most top performers will start they own business, and do the same job as independe
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It is pretty common in regular workshops. Compressed air powers drills, riveting machines, sprays guns, jack hammers... Tools powered by compressed air are simpler (no electronics), more durable and cheaper.
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It is really hard to tell if you are trolling. Anyway, it is all flat earth nut whack conspiracy, have a good day.
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Where is antifa when you need them :)
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> Let's skip omicron for now. Are you talking about omicron now or original Wuhan virus? Omicron stays mainly in upper respiratory parts. It does not go deep into lungs and body as other variants. That makes it less lethal, not bec
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Recently Mozilla decided it does not want donations :) Great for woke bs, not so great for actually funding and developing browser.
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It stayed in single person for months, and somehow it got more infectious in this person, without infecting anyone. It is perfectly adapted to stain airborne and pass lungs, but it gained that inside person! And it only gained mutations rel
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This "natural" origin theories kind of sound like conspiracy. Bats, mice, lemurs.. Somehow wildly different DNA parts combine, and virus perfectly adapted for human population emerges from cave with zero prior human contact... If
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Big part of Africa speaks French. Language is not related to culture. Look what CCP did to languages (other than Mandarin), ethnic identity (other than Han) and writing systems.
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...and also Chinese Wall and Kung-fu... CCP did everything it could to wipe out old traditions, and replace them with communism and cult of leaders. Latter they realized it is not enough to keep coherent national identity, and started promo
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I am vaxxed and done. I was told by doctors and by government officials, that vaccine will make me immune to virus indefinitely, and I do believe that. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar and antivaxxer for me.
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It was probably assembled by professional editor. It is great job for digital nomads, and many bright people in line for this type of work. And paper has a good budget, there is an ad on first page :)
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10 years used laptops are wonky. Maybe nice DIY project but definitely not as main workstation for travels. And if you want multiple 4k screens or newer peripherals... My current setup is Dell XPS 13 from 2015 and portable Deskmini PC with
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This! Middle man just adds risks and fees! Keep working 2 years for the same client via Upwork is not very smart.
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Not in bubble, but in saturation. So much money and not enough opportunities to invest. It is not going to "pop" bcos there are no other places where to store money.
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So most jobs will now be listed with salary range 10k to 999k/year, depending on performance. Great work!
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I read article from Israel. It wrote: "severe covid cases are low, but flu season just started". Pandemic will finish at spring, and hopefully will not start next winter.
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Privacy ship has sailed long time ago. Try to remove license plates from your car. Or refuse to share information about your health! Now it is about gate keeping. Young people and startups, need the same ability as govs and established play
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On some intel CPUs charger included with Macbook does not not satisfy CPUs power consumption. So if you ran CPU on 100%, it will use battery to get extra power, and macbook will eventually die, after battery reaches 0%. This is not how y
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Of course it is worth it. You can make very good living as remote-guru-consultant with total freedom. All while making similar money to FANG employees (counting stocks, high cost of living and taxes). OSS developers do not have to be unpai
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Most crypto companies are OSS first.
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I do not understand why persons worth is measured in personal income, without including expenses, child support, taxes and negative externalises such as damaged health. Company can include all sort of expenses and pay zero taxes, lowly empl
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Back in 2005 Ebay was served using single executable binary that had around 100MB. At some point they hit maximal number of functions allowed by compiler. Back than the best "practice" for large scale services was enterprise Java
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> DNA is not like C source but more like byte-compiled code for a virtual machine called ‘the nucleus’. This "virtual machine" gives feedback in 40 years, perhaps 1000 years. I am all in for fast innovation. But we should not
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