ukoki

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by ukoki 3y ago
Mixing inside and outside contracts can be quite tax efficient but requires being diligent. For example, an inside IR35 contract that partially spans two tax years can be used to take the "reasonably cheap" first 50k of salary of
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by ukoki 3y ago
Your job isn’t to help the company make more money, it’s to convince people that you help the company make more money. Your boss / hiring manager / everyone else has the same job.
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by ukoki 3y ago
When choosing how to reward existing employees, companies have to choose a point between two extremes: Increase salary too quickly and you leave money on the table by wasting raises on employees who would stay for less Increase salary too s
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by ukoki 3y ago
What we really need is an email address like <my address>@usps.com and all physical mail that isn’t from a registered law firm or government institution to be rejected because I’ve “opted-in to electronic physical mail”. Emails to t
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by ukoki 3y ago
The artcle is bullshit because the performance of a doped athelete is going to depend on two factors: 1. The athlete's baseline performance (ie would they be fast clean?) 2. How well the athlete's body responds to the effects of d
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by ukoki 3y ago
This is the UK so our standard units for populist science writing are "Wembley Stadiums", "Wimbledon Tennis Courts", and "Royal Albert Halls"
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by ukoki 3y ago
I think the fraudulent route to solvency is even simpler than that: 1. Make Tethers out of thin air and sell for BTC 2. BTC price goes up because crypto boom 3. Sell enough BTC for USD to back the fake Tethers you made up in step 1 4. Balan
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by ukoki 3y ago
The law just needs to be: You can be the platform or you can be on the platform, but not both.
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by ukoki 3y ago
Just have the lottery entry application ask a name. Then check IDs on the door
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by ukoki 3y ago
it's no different from airline tickets
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by ukoki 3y ago
>avoid contract penalties I expect the maximum profit sweet spot actually includes a small amount of penalties. If you don't get any penalties at all, you are probably leaving money on the table re service cuts.
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by ukoki 3y ago
Looks very interesting but I would not try something without standard email + password sign up
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by ukoki 3y ago
I don't think the ad is asking for people who are willing to work three times longer hours, it's asking for people who can produce three times the output in the same hours.
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by ukoki 3y ago
We need to normalize tipping a flat rate. Forget percentages and tip $2 (or whatever) per hour per diner no matter where you are.
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by ukoki 3y ago
Yes the downside is the laywers get most of the money. The upside is there is a big incentive for law firms to punish companies that stray from the law, which surely helps keep these companies more compliant than they otherwise would be.
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by ukoki 4y ago
There are only two theories being seriously considered: lab leak, wet market. Therefore I think it is reasonable to expect a probability of at least 90% that it is one of these two theories and not a third theory that no one is discussing.
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by ukoki 4y ago
Readability is important if you're writing actual code, but for things like debugging a giant JSON blob from an API request JQ is far faster IMHO.
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by ukoki 4y ago
I would add jq to the data wrangling section https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ Being moderately competant at jq on a team that doesn't know jq is a super power.
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by ukoki 4y ago
How is it even legal to pay ransoms? Surely this is transferring money to criminal enterprises. If it is not illegal it needs to be made illegal.
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by ukoki 4y ago
You forgot the worst one! When you copy a message in Teams, it "helpfully" adds a header so you end up pasting "[Tuesday 12:54] John Doe" into random form fields / your terminal / your browser location bar ten
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by ukoki 4y ago
China wants a common enemy to distract their population from problems at home.
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by ukoki 4y ago
Terraform isn't for deploying infrastructure, it's for _converging_ infrastructure onto a desired state. Good luck writing a bash script that can deploy hundreds of different, dependent IaaS resources and deal with any or all of t
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by ukoki 4y ago
Step 2: Zoom detects what website/app you're screen-sharing and charges Google / Microsoft / Miro etc a fee to enable "Ultra HD" for Zoom users when that site is showing on the screen (or they can join the New
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by ukoki 4y ago
It should be illegal to bundle hardware with closed-source copyrighted software. If you sell hardware you can bundle it with open-source software that people are free to modify. Or you can sell it without software and other vendors can supp
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by ukoki 4y ago
Nice! When I was building a spaced repetition toy a few years ago I took a different 'bottom-up' approach, where I dynamically fit the forgetting curve to the user's actual performance on any given card to come up with a uniq
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by ukoki 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgtzZ-mOQo All together now, all together now All together now in no man's land (together)
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by ukoki 4y ago
My council tax refund from my previous council when I moved house this year could only be sent as a cheque. I found this so strange I made an FOI request to try and work out how much additional income the council was making from uncashed ch
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by ukoki 4y ago
I've never seen Solidity before, but it sure looks like `onlyOwner` is an arbitrary modifier name, and you could use _any_ modifier that contains a require(msg.sender == owner) assertion to restrict the caller. So shouldn't the an
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Do you think growing meat inside live animals is safer or cleaner? Live animals are known to be highly dangerous hotbeds of disease, bacteria, viruses, fecal matter, environmental pollution, prions and all kinds of other nasty things.
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by ukoki 4y ago
> Figure out which question would divide the set in two most closely; ask that question. This depends on the goal. One goal might be to answer all questions as quickly as possible, in which case partitioning the search space in two might

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