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My effective tax rate in London with a salary slightly higher than the OP was 38%.

My effective tax rate in San Francisco with a salary 4x what I was making in London is 36%.

Rent is comparable, with bigger appartments in San Francisco, buying is comparable. Quality food is more expensive in SF, other goods (electronics/clothing/etc.) is more expensive everywhere in Europe. Quality of life depends on wether you like the outdoors (SF), want a car (SF), or prefer city activities and/or dislike driving (London). London is also great if you like to travel, specially throughout Europe. The West Coast is particularly far from almost everywhere and there's a distinct lack of cheap airlines. From London you can have a $20 weekend getaway to, say, Prague. Admitedly, you do travel like cattle, but it is cheap.

In the US, besides what you're taxed, you must add all other fees that get added to almost anything you'll want to do, from healthcare to going out (the famous tipping), going through bank transfers (they're free throughout Europe, regulated markets, they charge you whatever the bank wants to in the US, only reliable way to transfer money here is to send cheques).

Overall, myself and my wife like it here, have made some great friends and don't really want to go (wouldn't cry for too long if we had to). We can save a ton of money because we have two incomes and weren't looking for the "2.5 kids house with garage for two cars and white picket fence", so we got a deal on both appartment ("small" for american standards, twice as big as our flat in London for roughly the same ammonut before the pound plummeted) and our car ("tiny" for american standards and manual transmission, it cost less than the anual insurance).

Every place is great to visit, every single place has things you'll complain about when you move there. Honestly, the thing that worries me is political, from the madman in power to the old lady that screamed at me and a bunch of other techies that "Trump won now so y'all will have to go back, I'm getting my city back." I didn't see the fallout from Brexit, but from my friends over there it is not as bad as here, but objectively bad regardless...
Is the editor of the Daily Mail the most dangerous man in Britain?
The difference here is that Qualcomm agreed (along with other contributors) ahead of time to license these exact patents to LTE implementors in a fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory manner: that is, to charge license fees which do not exceed their value in Qualcomm's own products.

Intel never made any agreement to any consortium that they would do anything like this, they applied fairly for patents on the considerable number of geniune inventions and design decisions which go into their silicon and ISA.

Many of these patents have long expired, and even when they weren't expired, manufacturers such as IBM, AMD, Texas Instruments, Harris Semiconductor, UMC, Acer, SGS Thomson, Cyrix, Rise Technology, Transmeta, IDT, VIA, and DM&P Electronics manufactured 80386, 80486, 80586 (pentium), 80686 (pentium pro), and Core competitors.

x86 being co-monopolized by AMD and Intel is a recent phenomenon, and I think it has more to do with the fatigue of trying to compete with AMD and Intel at making chips with probably the most complicated and unscalable ISAs to implement efficiently.

So in addition to seemingly breaking the agreement they made, they are being more predatory than most prominent patent licensors who didn't need an agreement to behave more fairly than they do.
Yup! I think that his complaints about taxes are also unfair-- that 40% marginal tax rate is going to pay for health care, which I bet his wife and baby are using a lot of right now.
What India needs is better public and mass transport and not improved vehicles/1000 people.

India has 4 times the population of US and 1/4 the area of US (approximately). If you consider those facts India nearly has way too many vehicles/square mile (considering 2 wheeler and 3 wheelers that run on gas).
If there aren't masses of people to disenfranchise, then the Republican foundation of social darwinism would be discredited, and thus the ultra-rich wouldn't get that extra special feeling of ultra-superiority in the grand game of conspicuous relative wealth.
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You're getting downvoted for being flippant but your point is valid. Turns out this family made a big life choice that they couldn't afford and now the reality is setting in, if you can't make ends meet on that salary your expenses need to be reduced, so move. No one deserves to live in London, if it's too expensive move or structure your life in a way that is affordable. Hence why I choose to live in the North East of the UK (and before people say "the salaries are lower" - no they are not for engineering)
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But who gets to pick who gets the nice rent controlled apartments?
If you make 50k your effective income tax + NI tax is about 33%. If you take other taxes (council tax, VAT, stamp duty etc.) Total effective taxation is around 50%.

Now the dividend tax is 15% (in the best case scenario you can always try funnelling money through Man Island or other tax heaven). There is no land tax and estate tax.
Xeon servers don't have AMT, but you might want to verify that your BMCs are firewalled and fully patched.
What's common sense for one student may not be for another. My mother who teaches at the local university, has seen emails that are very gracious, to emails that start off with Hey Prof,
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Sadly, Berlin ( although still cheap ) will match the same equation pretty quickly.

Me & gf pay ~900 Euro for top-central ( Rosenthaler platz ) 2 rooms apartment and that's because we took it 3 years ago. Now, since we also talk about kids, we will probably have to pay 1.5k for 3 rooms located ~40 minutes from Mitte. Still not bad, but that's if we hurry up. Rent increase is around 10% per year, which does not match at all the salary increase rate.

Talking with friends, we are wondering how people such as bakery-owners, taxi-drivers, delivery / DHL employees work it out!
If you want to stay a generalist at a bigger company, convince the bosses that they need to worry about the Truck Number of each of the competencies in the company, and then participate in improving it.

The problem I've always had with being a generalist is defending your existence. If there are constant fires to put out, people will see you fighting them. But if you prefer to prevent fires instead, you have to work all the harder to be seen.

It's easier to be recognized if you let or encourage management to label everybody and you carve out a nice niche for yourself. It's easier to make something more complicated so people leave it to you to work on. Managers who know how to run an effective team know and push back against this, the ones that are just trying to look good often don't.
I guess these shallow cover people could be followed or bugged to find the deeper agents.
I'm in Stockholm at the moment so Berlin half-ticks my 3rd box :)
It's that expensive. If you want to work normal hours you'll need to put your kids in private nursery. In London that's about £75 per child, per day.

We were paying £1300 per month to get 2 days per week for our kids at one point. As you can imagine, working just 2 days a week it's hard to make that back. And of course, you're paying out from income you've already been taxed on.
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> Formal etiquette was not aimed at ensuring respect for all. It was, in part, a system to enforce boundaries of race, class and gender at a time when the growth of cities and mass transit forced Americans into close quarters with strangers. Codes of behavior served “as checks against a fully democratic order and in support of special interests, institutions of privilege and structures of domination”

Hence the argument for a uniform mode of address. Oh wait, we already have that: the email address itself. Why does anyone need more than that?

> You will never offend or annoy someone by being overly formal and polite.

You'll offend all the anarchists, and libertarians, and hippies, and probably some other people.
I haven't done movement profiles, but I used something similar to track smartphone locations with a bunch of Raspberry Pis scattered around. [1]

[1] https://github.com/schollz/find-lf
Lisbon, Portugal is pretty great if you get NHR status and land a remote job. Local wages are, unfortunately, not so great but hopefully this will get better over the next few years (for tech at least).
>Put simply, Eco is telling us to finish what is on our plates before we get up for more. Make sure you master what you have before moving on.

Everybody has their own angle on how to handle information overload. That said, I'll offer a different mental model of managing the never-ending reading list. The "reading list" includes the 50+ open webbrowser tabs of "stuff to read later", the digital magazines on iPad, the printouts of pdf files (tech whitepapers), and of course, a pile of traditional books.

For me, finishing what you already collected before starting on new ones is not optimal. I don't think of a reading TODO as "food" such that you should eat the old food before the new food. (The old food will expire so it makes sense to consume that first.)

Instead, I think of reading as a Priority Queue[1]. I let go of the idea that the various reading piles must be finished in the order I added them to the list. Many times, a more interesting article or book will go to the top of the queue pushing back a bunch of stuff I added weeks or months ago. The priority queue is in a perpetual state of being unfinished and constantly adjusted. That's ok. It's the same idea as a priority queue for leisure traveling. Even if I owned a $75 million Gulfstream private jet, I still couldn't travel to all the places I wanted to in my lifetime. There is no sense of being "done" with my "travel destinations collecting" and I apply that perspective to reading.

The above doesn't apply to work email inboxes. I do get anxious if there are unread items there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_queue
Since this happened over the weekend I am sure there are many business in for a nasty suprise on monday, as well users getting in contact with their "Technical Help" monday

So I bet their plan was to infect as many as possible over the weekend, and see money roll in come Monday once the Business Decision makers are in play and IT has had time to say "Yea our backups are fucked so we either pay or lose all data"
The problem is more about not having customers expect the blanket to cure their psychiatric problems. Such language makes it easy to take advantage of someone who isn't in a mentally strong place at the moment - and puts their hopes of being "normal" into such products when the evidence isn't there.

I don't think the product itself is so bad: I like the weight of blankets when I sleep and like them to touch the bed on both sides of me. I'd completely understand a lightweight but weighted blanket during the summer, and I'm guessing it would make some folks feel comforted and so on. I'd much rather them have this sort of honesty in their advertising than the language they had.
LTE is a standard created by a standards body of which Qualcomm is a member. The standards body requires by contract that for things added to the standard that are covered by its members' patents, those patents are licensed under FRAND terms. This was not done here.
See, I would have said that with Windows 2000. It came out only two years earlier and was pretty similar. I definitely am still holding on to my install cds.
I assumed they had deals with the cellular companies to get aggregate location data to estimate traffic.
That's a good point, but it's maybe a nitpick when you consider the context of the whole thread? AndrewOfMartin's point was just explaining the trade off that London gets you.

Moving to a rural area, or even farther out into the suburbs, would absolutely help OP's financial situation out. Hopefully he can find a new job or work remotely. Or, if he wants to stay in London, he'll realize the value of things he would miss.
> isn't incorrect

Agreed

> isn't inappropriate

I Disagree. "Inappropriate" is relative to the situation. Your entire point is that students should learn to recognize the appropriate register for the situation and switch into it.
You don't pay any tax on the first 11500 either.

So on 44999 You'd be paying 20% of (44999 - 11500) so 6700 on 44999 (effective rate been 14.8%).
Yeah, it might be a tshark issue? I don't know. My Dell Latitude Ubuntu 16.04 is the same - shows monitor mode but doesn't capture packets.
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And then I get downvoted 5 times for pointing it out! Is that the number of Mods at HN?
"Correct" is context-specific. You can - and should - use language differently when you're hanging out with working-class friends than when you're trying to advance your white-collar professional career.

Like, rap albums have some incredibly clever use of a vernacular dialect of English. It's not "dumbed down" by any stretch of the imagination. It just doesn't conform to the expectations of certain groups of prestigious white-collar professionals and executives.
> Worse than the text abbreviations was the level of informality, with no address or signoff.

I some times avoid giving signoff or address so-as to avoid wasting a professional contacts time. I assume my contacts may have information overload and will appreciate a short, to the point, email rather than long run-on emails where the point is hidden somewhere between all the syntax. Email isn't an academic paper after all and brevity is typically welcome.
> Women who behave like their male colleagues may be disliked for being “pushy” or “bitchy”, but these penalties are offset by the fact that they are also likely to enjoy more power and greater financial rewards. When men adopt the jobs and behaviours associated with women, however, they typically experience a loss of status with fewer perks and more social sanctions, especially from other men.

I think older (straight) men do not care about loss of status or social sanctions from other men. They care about loss of status from women. Especially when in long term relationships, there's the fear of an incorrect narrative where their partner often says that adopting feminine roles is appreciated, but subconsciously leads to less attraction. (with acknowledgement that the reverse is sometimes true for women's perceptions in the eyes of men)

[edit: it's actually in the article too ~3/4 of the way down, I should have been more patient]
How real books have trumped ebooks
Yes but let's put that in perspective.

To get one rocket into LEO currently costs about $100m. That's equivalent of digging up about 1M tons of iron. Obviously it's a lot less for more valuable materials. It looks like platinum is about $1k/oz and Google tells me there are 32,000 oz to the ton so that's about $32M or 3 tons of platinum.

Now obviously if you were living in space you wouldn't need to get things onto or out of the Earth's gravity, which is where things get really expensive, but the launch cost puts things in perspective about just how expensive it it to do anything in relation to space.

So take that platinum. Where is it coming from? The asteroid belt? How expensive would it be just in fuel to go and get it and possibly refine it (assuming you don't find a solid lump of it)? What energy source are you using?

People tend to think too simplistically about energy. Like the holy grail is viewed as getting more energy out of fusion than you put in but fuel is only one cost component of energy. Let's consider:

- How expensive is a fusion reactor?

- How big is it?

- What is the energy output?

- How much does it cost to maintain?

Add all those things up and there is an amortized cost to even fusion energy.

So start adding all this up and the delta-V required to get all of this to and from wherever it comes from and it's hard to come up with an economic model for how this can possibly work.
Tech Executives share the greatest thing they learned from Mom
I went to a (very small, very odd) college which took the other route: all participants in the class - teachers and students - addressed each other as Mr. or Ms. <family name>.
It reminds me of Beavis and Butthead from the 90s--both the style of the artwork and also the fact that they are rebellious teenagers.
Yes, exactly. Get one, or don't. But the seller shouldn't tell people that their blanket cures these disorders, unless they have some proof.
I think this question is more interesting if you talk about underemployment or people who are worse off than their parents at a given age.

Both of those numbers are already creeping up, economically coerced crap jobs aside.
For most HN readers, learning COBOL syntax and conventions would be a trivial task. If you want to be productive in a corporate mainframe environment, you will also need to get up to speed on operating system APIs, file systems, database interfaces, user libraries, and probably much more. Then you can start learning the business logic of your employer's applications. During your training, don't bother trying to find answers to your questions on Stack Overflow or examples on GitHub.

Not much fun.
$1M is not twice the value of £500K.
There is so much negativity in these comments! This project is really cool!

I really appreciate the trend to rewrite C/C++ libraries in Go. It has always been really frustrating that hacky library wrappers for other languages leave performance and features on the table because they're either incomplete or just too hard to implement in the host language. For most of the languages out there, it is always better to have a native implemention.

There are now a number of great embedded key/value stores for Go, which make it really easy to create simple, high performance stateful services that don't need the features provided by SQL.
This difference is that in any practical capacity if you are doing this you are almost 100% giving out trade secrets. It's almost impossible not to. Also, your analogy is wrong. It would be that you are a flooring company and one of your workers is working for both you and your competitor, and no doubt using any clever techniques or processes that you've come up with to help out your competitor.

The software industry is big enough that you can definitely find secondary employment at a company that isn't direct competitor. That you want to apparently game multiple parties for your own gain seems like a pretty terrible thing from the employer side of the fence.

Once the company I work for had an employee from a direct competitor apply for a job with us immediately after quitting. They were pretty forthcoming with offering us intel on the competitor, presumably within their contract. We still turned them down because if someone has that little respect for a working relationship with their previous employer you can be sure that they will do the same to you.

People here often like to paint the picture of the people versus evil corporations. In reality, a job is something where you should have mutual respect between employees and employers. To me and many others, this is part of being a professional.
> But once office functions gain special purpose software, it often locks in strong assumptions about workflows that translate into more, rather than less, "sorry but I can't do that."

Which just solidifies the demand for people to build more such software for other use cases.
Contrived formalities for more egalitarianism? Sounds like a good trade.
Range iteration latency is very important and might be limited by concurrency. I think you can only get 100K IOPS on Amazon’s i3.large when the disk Request queue is full.

fio [1] can easily do this because it spawn a number of threads

While working with Rocksdb we also found that Range iteration latency was very bad compared to a B+-tree and that RocksDB get good read performance mostly from random read because it's using bloomfilters.

Does anyone know if this got fixed somehow recently?

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/fio
An Ethnographic Study of Copy and Paste Programming Practices in OOPL (2004) [pdf]
This is a good point, and a relevant one when discussion Common Core with people. At the surface level, I don't see anything in the new mathematics curriculum that I would consider negative, but the biggest complaint I hear is that parents can't understand it, and some teachers barely do either. But that hints at a deeper problem.
This could not have come at a better time, I've been looking for a fast, simple, pure Go key-value store.

Few questions:

- Does this have a log file? If so, what does it log and can it be disabled?

- How is the data stored? (Single file, multiple files, etc.)

- How is the RAM usage?
Not necessarily true. I know that for me, and my friends, the social/cultural/diversity aspects of London mean we'd be unlikely to consider moving out. Yes, living costs are (much) higher here but it's still a great place to live.
> Why would it only feel fair based on some "arbitrary" rules you intuitively feel are right? Why not let people negotiate based on their personal situations, and let the market eventually sort out what combination works best?

Because the best solution from an economic position can involve screwing over people in more vulnerable positions?

From TFA we have manual labourers and QC workers in a factory being forced into non-competes. These are not people with much power in the free market.

> Wouldn't that just mean the bar for hiring new employees would be even higher, because if they don't work out, you're both wasting lots of investment, and also running the risk of them taking your methods to a new company?

I mean, if they sucked at following the methods to the point you let them go, surely their attempt at bringing them to a new company would likely backfire
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I think a big part of reckoning with these social pressures may be simply expressing them out loud. It seems to be a truism of therapy that "you should never be ashamed of your feelings," but the very real benefits that white men continue to reap on one level tend to preclude an emotionally honest reckoning on another level.

A lot of the negative effects documented in this essay seem to purely relate to cognitive dissonance. For example, the essay said that men would be more willing to accept certain "child-friendly policies" if they believe that it would not decrease their socially-perceived masculinity.

I can only believe that it would also help men to openly express these fears, to state out loud the dissonance in their self conception that (largely positive) social change has wrought.
Regarding "blithe informality", are we also incensed that I'm allowed to go to work in khakis rather than the classic suit-and-tie combo? On Fridays I even wear jeans! :)
Is one year paid maternity/paternal leave normal in the UK/EU?

In the US it's only a few weeks, maybe a few months if at a really good company.
exactly... its not that bad! includes free healthcare!
and in northern ireland, free prescriptions!
another good comparison would be the size of london vs the population of UK, compared to rents

e.g supply and demand, assuming demand is linear with UK population size
Wow, those ads convert well enough to be worth the clicks? Must be even shadier on the other side of the click.
Normalizing the concept of a wealth tax is productive even if it's unimplementable. The right has used the same approach by having think tanks promote flat consumption taxes and zero corporate tax rates.

If nothing else the absence of a theoretically desirable wealth tax serves as a justification for progressive income taxes and higher capital gains taxes.
Good. I feel sorry for the people who have already backed it; it's hideously expensive for what it is. A nicer finish I'm sure than a home-made one, but crying out for cheap knock-off copies to be on the market within 6 months.