devcpp

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by devcpp 5y ago
Why aren't these payments taken from the employee then? In my country retirement and social security appear right in my paycheck. Why isn't it the same for freelancers (when they declare taxes)? If their wage is too low as you cla
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by devcpp 5y ago
I work at AWS. The service teams do own and write their CloudFormation providers, although if you've written a custom provider you'd see it is somewhat clunky, so it's sometimes considered more of an operational burden, and y
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by devcpp 5y ago
But why can't he quit? If the owning company didn't assign another guard that's their fault, not the guard. Imagine if a chauffeur was forever assigned to a car because it broke on a disabled parking place. It would just get
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by devcpp 6y ago
Then why not make impersonation illegal? If they enforce making reselling illegal proactively they can enforce making impersonation illegal just the same. This is overreach. I would be rightly pissed if I lived in CA.
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by devcpp 6y ago
You're thinking like a politician, whose law is a hammer and who sees every issue as a nail. Before regulating, let's see if the free market can't work it out way better by itself. And indeed it can, it's called competit
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by devcpp 6y ago
You could make the same argument about 346 deaths compared to 200 millions by the Black Plague. Of course everything is relative.
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by devcpp 6y ago
Don't forget being able to get high priority in the backlog if you need a feature from another service in order to launch. Former AWS engineer who launched a service here. That, access to source code and being able to setup an hour-lon
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by devcpp 6y ago
Firefox is so good for this even after e10s, it's not even comparable.
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by devcpp 6y ago
Are you deliberately missing the point? You follow a logical chain of building up a roughly coherent view of the world. Not as good as following the kind of thorough reasoning that goes into a research paper (since you always have access to
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by devcpp 6y ago
Back in Maimonides' time it would be difficult to provide things other than a lump sum in an anonymous manner. If you employ someone, teach them a job or give them a loan they'll get to know you. So I think step 1 drops anonymity
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by devcpp 6y ago
Brigade did not provide their service either. A lender provides the service of lending money over a certain amount of time. This money is like a contractor paid by the hour, working at the borrower's service. Brigade should not be enti
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by devcpp 6y ago
If people stopped buying the proprietary version, manufacturers would make open products. They don't really care either way, they just make a bit more money with proprietary licenses. So, the answer is: it's on you.
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by devcpp 6y ago
Why should he pay more? They signed a work contract. And if that contract says don't unionize, then maybe they shouldn't be surprised to be let go when they try that.
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by devcpp 6y ago
Capitalism says let people do what they want. If one guy undercuts all the others and says he's ready to do it on his own for cheap, let him, he's probably better at it anyway. This lets the other 9 figure out what they want to do
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by devcpp 6y ago
So as a libertarian I should be expected to pay taxes I don't want to pay AND build my own roads on my own? Should I also produce my own water? This is ridiculous. These things become impossible to do precisely because we're in th
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by devcpp 6y ago
It would indeed be very hard, if WhatsApp's own claim that messages are encrypted end-to-end is true. Either way (and I disagree that this should be a separate discussion) all methods of global speech control are eventually used for ev
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by devcpp 6y ago
You can be pragmatic and utilitarian and support privacy and free use of encryption. I would instead qualify his mindset of shortsighted.
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by devcpp 6y ago
Overall, your post is more a critic on investment in this period rather than against index funds. Except for the presence of tech, which I'm not sure is this bad for people willing to take measured risk. >there's too much cash
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by devcpp 6y ago
I don't think you need to expand so much on the reason why you're opposed to this business model, it's all understood and well-documented. The usual argument against this sentiment is that it's difficult to establish cle
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by devcpp 6y ago
Quite the opposite: the free market will deal with this just fine, giving a big penalty to companies that don't care enough. The government, on the other hand, imposes bad businesses, enables regulatory capture and has proven many time
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by devcpp 6y ago
To be fair you are comparing an adversarial job with a cooperative one. A crane operator won't feel unsafe, or confronted by someone he calls hostile. This is no excuse whatsoever for the multitude of outraging problems in the system,
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by devcpp 6y ago
How can I tell you don't work in IT? Almost all companies including mine have ONE site to choose from to do any one thing. If it doesn't work, they either ask their colleagues (which only works if it's not the first time some
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by devcpp 6y ago
If you noticed that people with a pimple on the left cheek performed significantly worse in interviews and you had limited time to review candidates, wouldn't you apply more scrutiny to resumes of this type of people? Well, this case i
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by devcpp 6y ago
To add to this, forget qualifications and experience. If a job pays well, that in itself is undeniable proof that it has greater value, no justification needed. Capitalism works not because it rewards on someone's definition of merit,
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by devcpp 6y ago
As an interviewer at a FAANG, this gets an immediate "I may not answer that" and a little disappointment in my mind. We do not assess resumes, only performance at the interviews. Resumes are only for screening. But this may be a g
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by devcpp 6y ago
Right? I thought it's one of the most popular Lisps.
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by devcpp 7y ago
Median income in the USA in 2017 was is $31,099/year.
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by devcpp 7y ago
Capitalism is the best we've got. It has no responsibility in this unless you consider authoritarianism a better outcome. This hysteria and panic is way overblown. We know this is a possible effect of travel and it's still worth i
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by devcpp 7y ago
AWS basically finances the rest of Amazon. It's 70% of its revenue (that is public info). Except for retail, the rest is all losses. So the discounts don't matter much, other branches just try to save money (frugality is one of Am
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by devcpp 7y ago
That's exactly my problem with him, he is always in salesman mode. He has the conclusion figured out and works backwards to find the arguments he wants to see.

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