vanekjar

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by vanekjar 5y ago
This article is totally misleading. They compare top 500 CEOs (S&P 500) vs average worker. How about comparing apples to apples? What's the compensation of an average CEO from some random small company? Also total compensation is m
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by vanekjar 5y ago
True, a lot of fun with signaling right while leaving roundabouts. Oh wait, nobody does that anyway
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by vanekjar 6y ago
How is the ban implemented? It doesn't sound realistic and the article doesn't share technical details.
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by vanekjar 6y ago
I've been using MacBook Pro with various Linux laptops in parallel for couple of years. Apple hardware and design are indeed exceptional. Great HDPI screen, awesome trackpad, like the keyboard despite all negative rumors. But when I wa
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by vanekjar 6y ago
FATCA sucks, cannot believe EU accepted something like that into the legislation. Recently, one of the banks in EU falsely flagged me as a potential US citizen. I had to file tons of forms to opt out. I couldn't figure out why, there w
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by vanekjar 6y ago
Do you really believe that the biggest region is used for testing?
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by vanekjar 6y ago
No position is so strong as it seems. Remember Yahoo, Nokia, Motorola, Kodak. Invincible leaders at some point. Look at today's Intel or Boeing decline. Apple is also not as nearly as strong as it seems. There is Android competition in
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by vanekjar 6y ago
That doesn't mean it's regressive. It's just a demagogy. Low income people buy less things and pay lower sales tax proportionally. Wealthy people spend more on luxurious goods and pay way higher tax in absolute numbers. Every
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by vanekjar 6y ago
How is the sales tax regressive when there is a fixed percentage? Like the more I spent the less I pay in sales tax? I don't think so.
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by vanekjar 6y ago
> mother and children live in Canada while the father works in HK.The family doesn't declare the foreign income in Canada. Why would the father pay taxes in Canada when he lives and works in HK (or anywhere else) and (likely) is not
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by vanekjar 7y ago
> The company does OSS and my side-project is also Open-Source. What does it even mean to "keep the ownership" in this case. You have never had an ownership when it's open-source. Probably they can take you're code, f
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by vanekjar 8y ago
I would like to see the same statistics for Europe. It would be very different. I am afraid the result is biased. Most of the people in US keep Japanese cars because most people actually buy Japanese cars at the first place and some of them
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by vanekjar 8y ago
I would extend it to - avoid transfers anywhere in North America (including Canada). US and Canadian airports are pain in the ass regarding customs and immigration. Better to transfer in Europe or Asia and fly directly from there.
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by vanekjar 8y ago
Care to elaborate? Why AWS?
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by vanekjar 8y ago
I am afraid your math doesn't add up. Influx of foreign capital can never be bad because it fuels the local economy. It brings new jobs in construction and other related services, transtively bringing more money to government because e
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by vanekjar 8y ago
It depends if the TLD registry is reputable organization. Obviously Verisign (.com, .net), PIR (.org) or Google (.app) seem to be more reputable than Indian Ocean Territory (.io) or Montenegro (.me). But there is a bunch of other ccTLDs I w
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by vanekjar 9y ago
I have recently bought a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad X220 for about $200. For that price it is the best machine you can have. It can be upgraded up to 16 GB RAM, I use two disks (SSD in mSATA slot + bigger HDD), awesome connectivity (3 USBs
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by vanekjar 10y ago
That's true, but instead of empty ad being server (as in case HTTP), HTTPS request timeouts and increases loading time for many pages, because the page waits until all JS loads. Another problem is that some browsers will retry failed r
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by vanekjar 10y ago
Cool project! Great idea and nice UI. I have tried recently and it works fine with HTTP. The problem is with ads served via HTTPS and since today most of the pages are using HTTPS protocol pi-hole is kinda useless. For reference on this top