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by phphphphp 4y ago
Low Cost Of Living
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The quality of life in the UK for someone on £100k is very high. There’s no sympathy needed for people on £100k in the UK!
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The reason for the pay discrepancy is less that the UK is an outlier, and more that the US is an outlier. Salaries in the US for software engineers are the highest anywhere in the world: salaries in the UK are very good nowadays relative to
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by phphphphp 4y ago
The caveat is that he was located in Nottingham for most of the history covered in the post, so this isn't necessarily comparable to SF -- more like, say, Colorado. That said, the most recent London (edit: sorry, Remote) salary is what
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That's for a patient in hospice care, i.e: end of life. I believe the parent comment is describing on-going healthcare.
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> Do you have the luxury of choosing in your country or does the government choose for you? I'm unsure where this belief originates from, but it's not true that state provided care is the only care in countries that offer it. T
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GoDaddy's entire brand presence was based on objectification of women for their early life. After GoDaddy's founder Bob left, it got better. Bob was a character and arguably the entire reason for the insane brand -- strange, stran
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by phphphphp 4y ago
I think you're reading the parent post the wrong way around: in many cultures, paying for your relatives is an honour and obligation. i.e: Paying a lot of money for your grandmother's end of life care is the bare minimum, not some
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I disagree with the framing you’re using: if the only protection today is policy, then a new technology (the digital pound) is immaterial. The government doesn’t need new technology to be able to change policy. Anyway, to answer your questi
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I’m fine with that, because I’m responsible as part of the majority. The majority don’t care about any of this. There are far greater issues facing real people, and getting lathered up into a froth over something that has no material impact
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I guess that's strictly true in the context of reddit but not really true in the spirit of the behaviour. Samsung wanted to allow people to ask questions which they could then answer: it's only because we're so used to re
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No, the parent poster is referring to cameras that are positioned at self-checkouts. Self-checkout is problematic because of theft, and so cameras are a great way to discourage theft, in the same way that (fake) cameras have been used for y
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My point is that it's hyperbolic to describe a digital pound as terrifying. A person may take issue with modern day banking granting the ability for people to be surveilled, and they might take issue with the UK's PAYE system whic
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The government already has high degrees of insight into and control over the money of most people in the UK. Most people in the UK (in my experience, at least) couldn't care less about the day to day privacy implications of banking, it
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by phphphphp 4y ago
Given how quickly they were deleted, it’s almost certainly AutoModerator. Either Samsung configured AutoModerator to require manual approval on all questions — and they just only approved ones they intended to reply to — or it went a bit ha
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Your son might not have an entrepreneurial desire but you probably know some young person in your orbit who would be interested in the experience. If you offer them the opportunity to run the store (selling through the remaining stock) mayb
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I agree with your broader message (stimulus checks were important to a lot of people's survival and they weren't just "free money" for people to play with) but consider that the American population is huge and even a m
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I don’t mean this as a slight against you because there’s a place in the world for every type of developer, but your description of work and collaboration is very cynical. You could be the most unlucky person in the world and thus you’ve ne
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Remote is high risk, high reward. If you’ve built a great organisation filled with talented, motivated and trustworthy people who have autonomy then remote work can be a fantastic boon to productivity because it’s an extension of the auton
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Pick any WeWork in a populated city and you'll find people there 24/7 and at least a few of them as will be kooky enough to engage in this performative nonsense (I say that mostly without judgement). Or pick any office building, r
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The point being made by myself and others in this thread doesn’t contradict yours: all software development is not R&D, R&D is a specific activity related to speculative work. A bunch of people churning out code to support a revenue
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Have you read this article: https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/ch... ?
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My understanding is that only applies if you're claiming that your expenditure is R&D, that is, it's saying that all software development costs are permitted as part of R&D not that if you spend money on software devel
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I am not a tax expert but my understanding is that a business would claim expenditure as R&D because of the beneficial tax treatment: it's a choice you make to categorise expenditure as R&D, you're under no obligation to
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A challenge many startups face is undervaluing their service. You started out by saying that their service was too expensive — “that's a lot of money to the vast majority =(” — which is the sort of complaint that induces founders to
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Very difficult the way you’re describing it but there is an easy-ish approach: take a UK based job with an American company (e.g: Facebook) and then after you’ve worked there for a couple of years, ask to relocate to the US. There’s a speci
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The situation you’re describing is exceptionally niche and one in which you can simply reach out to the company and ask for accommodation: there’s thousands of open-source projects sponsored by for-profit companies by granting access to pai
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You work for a billion dollar company, are you speaking from your perspective as a software engineer or... something else? Price sensitivity as an individual is understandable but when you're talking about a team I struggle to understa
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Sorry, ambiguous comment: yes, always PDF. My phrasing was intended to communicate: PDF (good) vs other formats (bad).
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Sorry, by examples I mean links to the job board posts for the positions. There’s an art to determining if a job posting is even worth your attention, it’s entirely possible you’ve applied to dozens of jobs that there’s zero chance of being

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