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by user32489318 1y ago
There’s a difference between “knowing how to”, “been able to” and make financial sense to do it. What you’re describing is a “society”, ie everyone has a dedicated purpose, that’s similar to yours “knowing how to” and “been able to”. Do yo
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by user32489318 1y ago
Deviating from your argument, but 10y battery life is a EU regulation. In some EU countries, you cannot rent out a living space without smoke alarm that has a 10y battery in it, even if it’s wired in. If you’re looking for a high quality sm
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by user32489318 1y ago
The contractor is at the end of the chain, hence is the one paying the VAT. You’re right that there’re measures to reduce the tax load. At the end of the day, any company expense will also cut into the profit/ margin of the contractor.
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by user32489318 1y ago
You’re making very rooking mistake of thinking that your salary = expense to the employer. Employer already pays at least 40% over your salary for “social” taxes. Excluding all the stuff you mentioned earlier, you can safely assume that you
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by user32489318 1y ago
I feel your frustration, but please read up on Dutch corporate taxation. Basically put, your 30€/h (I assume came from 60.000€/year salary), is factually 110,000-140,000 €/year cost for your employer. It does not take into th
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by user32489318 1y ago
Researchers will seek other opportunities, there are other non-US grants and support structures. While studying in EU, I knew quite a few PhDs who secured substantial financial aid from the industry directly, on their own. Yes, it will get
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by user32489318 1y ago
Dude, no. Aging is literally a series of bursts in realization of priorities of your life. Checks and balances of all the things you always wanted to do, the person you wanted to be, and never will.
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by user32489318 1y ago
As long as funding/economic benefits US offers remain, companies will be attracted to US and no brain drain will take place. EU just cannot offer anything comparable at this moment of time. Higher salaries, more opportunities and seemi
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by user32489318 2y ago
Insurance for sure will invalidate his claim indeed
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by user32489318 2y ago
Basically the restaurant owner now conducts a large scale osmosis experiment
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by user32489318 2y ago
source: trust me bro
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by user32489318 2y ago
Probably no one’s really getting fired but moved to a less fortunate, careers dead-end position.
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by user32489318 2y ago
Like putting HQ in the Netherlands to avoid corporate tax of all other EU counties
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by user32489318 2y ago
not to put cobol engineers in a bad light, but, the most bright engineers I have had chance to work with always seek ‘more’, they grow. Consider who would be willing to stay and work on the same project, doing the same for extended periods
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by user32489318 2y ago
His argument makes sense. This of someone who is exclusively working with cobol and a specific version of a very specific mainframe. If he is staying there for 5-10 years, where would he go? Are these skills transferable? Would he become a
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by user32489318 2y ago
From the economics perspective you might be right. But, keep in mind that you will be working with 60-70 yo, who have been working and maintaining the same code base for the past 30 years. With age, neuro elasticity decreases, comprehending
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by user32489318 2y ago
Oh really, pull up your savings/investment portfolio and compare YTD results
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by user32489318 2y ago
Feel you, but, drop in Tesla stock caused quite a chaos elsewhere. Triggering mechanisms put in place causing systemic risks to be re-evaluated and what not. Probably tax payers world-wide will feel the effects long term, I must think direc
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by user32489318 2y ago
Depends on the setting. I have built python ETL pipelines for some of my customers, it’s slow, not efficient but, every data scientist can read the code and make it work for their changing requirements. At the end of the day, if you’re run
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by user32489318 2y ago
Calm down or this poor fellow would start designing own CPU architectures soon.
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by user32489318 2y ago
Paper to draw the conclusions yourself: https://wes.copernicus.org/articles/10/451/2025/
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by user32489318 2y ago
My one-off experience. Parked my car once for a long holiday (two months). Mice chew through the main wiring loom behind the dashboard and urinated over electronics (urine is slightly corrosive). 1) no mechanic has time to repair single wir
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by user32489318 2y ago
Exactly what people said about stackoverflow in the past
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by user32489318 2y ago
I wasn’t clear, even if American middle class would make a change, by that time, developing countries would be at the stage where they could and would have our luxury lifestyle. And that population outside US/EU is much much larger.
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by user32489318 2y ago
It’s amusing to read that in your head the American middle class will cause a change in global warming, I’ll give you that.
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by user32489318 2y ago
> such a great work, so much to learn Is this doge meme in a political setting?
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by user32489318 2y ago
I’m not disagreeing with you but let’s ask the question “experience for what”? Is it making a couple of dashboards, extract data from legacy systems into something more queryable, or generating a couple of expense reports? Or will they be m
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by user32489318 2y ago
how is someone’s age relevant? Is a 55 y.o. Software engineer who spent 20 years in a bureaucratic wheel any better than a bright 20yo mind? They both suck in a different way! Writing an entire article with ageism as a center piece is trul
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by user32489318 2y ago
World wars wiped young males effectively. Or less morbid, hikikomori in Japan and Korea.
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by user32489318 2y ago
Ah yes, the classic disjointed graphs with unknown y-axis scales.

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