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> it would have taken a year to fill our existing open headcount Maybe open an office in a different location or hire remote?

Even having a Github profile and some open source contributions is networking in my book.

> he makes about $300 a day works like a dog 12-14 hours a da Is this profit, revenue or in transactions?

Uber did not destroy his industry. Industry is flourishing. It's state's fault for not providing a good social safety net. Imagine if we all had to use horses, because the government did not…

Maybe that was just an excuse to reduce labour costs? Senior people are expensive and if you can replace them with cheaper workforce, which incidentally is younger, is one way to skin a cat. When I wa…

> Also, the UK wasn't a democracy in any meaningful sense in 1776. One could argue that UK is still not a democracy now. House of lords, Queen's hard and soft power, traditions, no legall…

It's much more nuanced. Compare hybrid Lexus and Tesla model S. Factor in electricity that is produced from coal plant, a lot of energy and pollution that come from extracting Cobalt and other su…

> Or any ideas how to become well off in Europe? Start your own company. Work remotely for a US company. Or do both - the company doesn't have to be a startup.

- create a company in the Man Island - You pay yourself the minimum to have ok life style (dividend allowance + progressive tax could make it somewhere around 15% + NI). You move for a year to Singapo…

I don't think that's good enough. Dividend still have a connotation that you are getting a handout.

Prediction: UBI won't go anywhere, because it has a branding problem. If we rebrand it as a Negative Income Tax it may actually go somewhere.

FF is good on my mobile. I use it as well as Brave. On my laptop I use mostly Chrome and sometimes FF. I'd imagine Apple will team up with Mozilla, so we would have two major browser engines.

Yes, but the improvements are substantial. At city speeds the EVs are much quieter. Air pollution from the rubber and brake dust is much lower (regenerative braking, special tires, tree resin compound…

> As each generation grows up more and more ingrained with the use of a car the likelihood of this happening decreases. I doubt it. > Traffic counts suggest that the number of miles cycled in 20…

That's why I have a second "fake" G account.

I've been working there for over a year and the company was already distributed - this was critical. I've used https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job to fin…

Not really. Some loyalty programs could give you tax free value e.g. booking a hotel with points. A company can negotiate a better price for a given service, since it will be bought in bulk.

I'm forced to use Paper as a wiki now. Search, discoverability and extensibility is so bad that I miss Confluence....

Where I live: Government pay for it if the company has fewer than 20 people.

Does it? Most European countries offer 1 year paid maternity leave (quite often it's almost 14 months because PTO is still applies) then you can take another 1 year of unpaid leave. The employer …

How much can you save from it living in Dallas?

You can do 30 miles all electric in a new Prius (with a solar panel on roof). If you drive very little renting a car could make more sense.

Prius drivetrain is quite complicated. > that have a turbocharger, It's not only Toyota. I think this is an instance of you get what you measure. European car automakers jump into turbocharged…

Why wouldn't you buy plugin hybrid Prius then? It cost 30k, range is not an issue and I wouldn't be surprised if your total Co2 would be similar to Tesla model 3 (it varies by location and h…

>$2581 in Norway, while I get the same model for $1999 in the United States. Norway tax is 25%. You should compare the net value. > I'd rather have the choice to decide myself if and how mu…

It's not perfect. It's implicit.

Pretty much my go to list. A few minor points: - Pick Vue if you don't care about older browsers - if the app is not complex apart from skipping Redux you may skip Typescript as well (but linter …

I must have confused it with the local elections result or a poll.

Hasn't almost 1/5 of German voters voted on them? It's quite far from "Nobody takes them seriously". UKIP wasn't taken seriously as well, but it caused the biggest politi…

Is it really 1 in a million? There are other pseudo democracies that are doing well e.g. Liechtenstein