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I wonder how other aspects of compensation like paid vacation time play into this.

I've fielded interest from a lot of recruiters and interested companies. Moderate pay increases seem easily available - the sticking point is that they will all fight tooth and nail for anything beyond the bare minimum of vacation time. I'm in my late 30's with kids, and my wife is a doctor. There really isn't a realistic pay raise that is worth losing weeks with my family every year.

I wonder how many other people in prime earnings ages with families are running into this resistance from HR departments - it feels like a successful anti-competitive strategy to tamp down on turnover and wages.
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An informed citizenry is the bedrock of democracy?
Worst social engineering attacks of 2018, so far
Yeah up to 50%. Very rarely.

You don’t have to pay VAT if you don’t buy anything. You can just invest your money.

A new passport costs money. You need to pay for one if you want it. That shouldn’t be part of your income tax because nobody knows how often you will need one. Essentially those fees are on per person basis.

The NHS is very useable. I never used to pay for any private health insurance for about 5 years. It might not be convenient for you to wait but that’s your problem. That system works and saves lives... so it is usable.

I don’t even know what you mean by “lost”. Money doesn’t magically disappear. Maybe it’s a more complex system than you can imagine or haven’t thought about it hard enough.
>Then there's VAT syphoning an extra 20% of the remaining cash.

UPTO 20% of what you SPEND. In the UK you pay 0% VAT toward most food and child stuff. Then 5% toward essential goods and services. THEN full VAT on the rest of the stuff.

But that doesn't equate to 20% of your remaining cash unless you are only buying pre-prepared foods and furniture with your salary, and spending every bit of it.
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You get those incredible dueling headlines from the same media outlets of how wages are not rising fast enough, and how we need to have open borders allowing in unlimited low skill, low wage labor. Who will pick the strawberries if we don't import ten million low skill laborers in the next decade? The Koch brothers must have their cheap labor or their industrial profits will suffer. Wages must be carefully constrained or inflation might tick up a bit after a decade of the Fed proclaiming they desperately want more inflation (of course what they actually mean by inflation risk is that business profit margins will take a hit and prices might climb some - if the businesses have pricing power - due to the bottom half of workers earning more).

And that income stagnation at the median? It's amazing what happens when the middle class moves up [1], your natural population growth drops toward zero, but you import tens of millions of low skill, cheap laborers over 30-40 years: your median doesn't move up because you're treading water by offsetting everyone that moved up.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/IOgZLDc.png
> Well, you waste space, time, and energy making the compiler and linker do work that doesn't inherently need to be done.

You're suggesting that instead of a compiler wasting time space and energy, that we get actual people to waste their time space and energy by manually applying the transformation that the compiler is able to do anyway?
My moonshot: end capitalism & figure out how to give everyone what they need in a sustainable fashion.

Disincentivize exploitation. Capitalism never got my consent.

I'm working on this by developing an understanding of human needs, learning to reduce the financial cost of my life, and learning how to ask for what I need.
There are patterns to do with this: Saga Pattern and Command Query Responsibility.

In general the separation of the domain should be such that you don't need a transaction across services.
The mooneye-gb project is the one I've been checking the most to make sure I'm getting things correctly. His work is massive regarding the game boy.
I agree, its pretty close to slavery. Theoretically, they could sue you if you don't work, although what happens in practice is that if the freelance is really fed up and talks to the end customer saying they want out (which the hiring company does not want you to do), they want to avoid problems with the customer and they will replace you with someone else after a few months.

What they really don't want to do is to lose the billable position. In practice, a lot of people will just suck it up to the end of the contract and then leave, especially if the contract is less than a year.
Glad I'm not the only one : ) Thanks I'll go check it
> Let me rephrase my question: How do you suggest a profit driven company can justify employing people to create new knowledge if that knowledge and all its derivatives and representations are immediately available to everyone else without any restrictions?

I have two arguments :

1) The process of creating new knowledge alone won't be valuable once we have enough processing power to evaluate scenarii faster than a coordinated human effort. With vulgar words : AI will make the creation of knowledge a commodity, and my personal opinion is that it will happen before the next human generation, unless some people actively work against that idea to make sure it doesn't happen (because they try to defend previous investments for example.)

2) Knowledge alone is not enough to accomplish or execute anything in the real world. Actually building car requires factories, materials and logistics. Of course, if we have an AI solving all sort of problems, we may ask it to find an efficient way to build car. If we continue the reasoning, we enter a world where the meaning of an human life is completely different than today, with completely different forces acting on it. We may don't even need the cars anymore.

Edit : I mean, the argument of "it gives job to people" won't stand forever. We will have to seriously re-think the system at some point.
> Note that this only covers anything you make over ~70k+ a year, 0-20k is taxed ~35%, and 20-70 is taxed 40%

Which means that you'd need an income over 480k a year to get an effective tax rate >50%.

I hope I calculated that correctly: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=solve+((x-70)*0.5195%2B...

> Then you pay 6-21% VAT over anything you buy, so yeah, in some scenarios you definitely lose >50% of your gross income to taxes.

If you count VAT, you'd also need to take into account all the benefits you get in return from the state.
Well that should be easy to fix. Just keep showing up at the office but don't do any work. It shouldn't take too long before your employer gets sick of it.
If you want a universal format, you have a compressed source tar-ball. Anything else will run into the whims (and on the ground circumstances) of maintainers and admins.
They sell to companies offering warranty extensions. They know exactly when you bought the car, so they extrapolate the best time to harass you about anything service related with your car.
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The issue is what the result will be long-term of these actions.

Currently we allow innovative firms to pay a lot of money for engineers who then develop unique and great products that carry a premium. This applies pretty much across the developed world.

If "IP theft" is allowed to occur at any decent scale, every market will rapidly become a race to the bottom, and premium products will simply cease to exist, with a lot of casualties in both the companies involved and the engineers doing development.

So what does it have to do with China, and Chinese nationals ? Well simple: the Chinese government has large-scale corporate espionage as a stated goal [1] and has gotten caught red-handed in more than a few cookie jars, for example [2] ... that is seriously at odds with the goals of, frankly, every engineer and company worldwide (even Chinese ones). Note that in most cases, this appears to be not "actual" corporate espionage, but it is actually the state organizing large-scale corporate espionage (and sabotage in some cases), then going out to Chinese companies and actually forcing them to use the stolen data.

The predictable response is of course that engineers, companies, management and even unions will start systematically boycotting anything to do with the Chinese state, and that includes Chinese nationals' job prospects. This does not reflect on them, except insofar as they support this disgraceful state policy, but there is no alternative.

The ideal solution would be that Chinese people start sabotaging and striking and ... until the Chinese state gets the message. That's what SHOULD happen. After that, trust can be earned again. When the Chinese state starts cooperating and imposing large scale fines on companies caught duplicating products with stolen data, then this can end.

Obviously the current situation cannot exist for any real length of time without ever more serious consequences.

Now I get it, the Chinese state is trying very hard to confuse acting against their spying with "racism" (funny that given their ethnic and religious policies in China that that is not considered disgraceful. This is Hitler berating countries for not treating Jews well (which, incidentally, he did do, hell, he even had a point))

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_espionage_in_the_Unite...

[2] https://www.pddnet.com/news/2017/10/video-day-four-legged-ro...
Perfect, thank you. I've been using this image but only to cross-check the opcodes values and what they meant.
I keep reading stories about how it's a puzzle that more jobs are being created but wages aren't going up. Part of it seems to be this new ingenuity at finding marginal workers and getting them to take jobs.

Paul Krugman has a theory that the recession has made companies averse to raising wages, because it's hard to claw wage gains back if there's a recession. So instead they are offering bonuses, because if a recession hits you can just say "we don't have money for bonuses this year" which is a lot easier than saying "everybody's salary is going down." I'd say, while the cause (recession) is right, the companies are doing even more than switching to bonuses: it's also aggressive recruiting, allowing remote work, making workplaces cool, inflating the job's prestige, etc.
Move north, maybe?
Paying health insurance is apart from the income tax. So in this particular case your income tax money is not getting you anything in return, healthcare-wise.

Worst in case of health insurance, the amount you pay is dependent on your income, not your actual actuarial risk. This means that, indeed, the healthy people working are subsidizing the costs of the ones "who don't give a flying toss".

And don't get me started on things like Künstlersozialkasse...
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People, please stop calling them Hawaiian shirts. Thank you.
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FWIW, I read through each of your links. They don't address cross-compilation at all, or the needs of software packagers.

I can 100% promise you that somebody packaging this library for any Linux distro (or for a Yocto/Buildroot system) would grind their teeth in frustration at everything in the those links.

The solution to having inconsistent packaging paths isn't to introduce _yet another_ packaging path system, but this one specific to djb stuff. It's to use a standard build system with overrideable paths, and not to assume the author knows better than the packager.
I am skeptical of anomaly detection since in my experience anomalies are common and diverse and don't actually matter, so I expect these systems to basically inundate people with false positives.

Their offline training accuracy is garbage: 16% precision, so all of the real work is basically being done in the online training portion, which gets it to a respectable 82%+ precision.

But they don't tell you how many alerts they had to label to get those numbers. Maybe over the long run you get those numbers, but you really want to know if it takes 10 or 10,000 examples to get there.

Also, their dataset distribution is very different to reality: they have 7% of their dataset annotated as real anomalies; I don't think anyone in the real world wants 5% of their log entries to get flagged as anomalies. So I expect their precision numbers to be far worse on more realistically distributed logs.
In my opinion, this is a hard problem and not one that we can expect Arch Linux to take on or solve. We're talking about how we establish that a software package (source code, build script, binaries, etc.) can be deemed trustworthy such that we feel comfortable installing it onto our machine (which may hold important data, personal, financial, etc.) I don't think anyone has a good solution, with the Apple App Store at one extreme and (in my opinion) something like AUR at the other.

Arch discourages tools like yaourt because it makes it so easy to install some an unvetted package and that opens you up to the very real risk of installing malware. As you point out, downloading the package and building it isn't any safer if you don't read through the script. It's easy to make the argument that a casual read through of the package file will only catch the most obviously bad packages and a clever person could easily find better ways to hide their malware payload, so why bother looking at all?

If you aren't going to read the package files, you may as well use a tool like yaourt; there's effectively no difference. In my own experience it's rare that I have to install something from AUR so I can take the time to briefly scroll through the package files and check where the source code is coming from, easy stuff like that.

In the back of my mind, I understand I'm taking a risk; I think that's what Arch is trying to accomplish by discouraging tools like yaourt.
Do you have any tips or anecdotes on finding remote US work as a Canadian?
In the UK the marginal tax rate between £100000-£123700 is 60% as you gradually lose your tax-free allowance, so even though the tax is technically 40%, you're losing another 20% at the other "end" of your income - https://eqinvestors.co.uk/library/avoiding-the-60-percent-ta... .. Admittedly this never means 50%+ of your entire salary is tax (you keep 59.6% net of even a £1M salary, for example) but is a real pain point for earners around the £100K level.
Steve Chandler has a great piece on "How to versus want to" that is somewhat relevant. People will say they don't know "HOW" to find talent, when in reality they just don't "WANT" to find it.
Other than the remote work (which I imagine can be isolating and leave you feeling less effective), that sounds like the perfect set up.
So then, the basic premise here is:

Employers: "We can't find good devs/workers!"

Devs/Workers: "Well, you don't pay enough!"

My advice to employers is what a lot of companies started doing when there was a gold rush of developers and people were scarce. Find a few average devs or newbies with little or no coding experience, train them into your "system" and then work to promote them up into senior positions and give them a reason to stick around.

My advice to devs is get a role at a company, get into the habit of being able to code on a daily basis, grow your skills, then jump ship, or angle your skills for an increase in pay. The important part is coding every day and getting better at your craft. Sometimes getting paid less and acquiring skills is more important for the long run than simply turning offers down because you think it's not a good salary or hourly rate.
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>To me, if a tech company claims in a newspaper that it cannot find competent coders, to me it says that they are uncapable of detecting talent.

Nah, you see the pattern in pretty much every first world country.

1. Government makes law protecting citizens saying companies must hire local unless as a last resort

2. Big tech companies post job listings with unreasonable qualification requirements, while offering wages so low that few people would accept

3. Nobody applies/accepts offers from those companies

4. Companies start whining to the government about how they can't find workers (at these wages) and that we need to increase the amount of visas from India/Bangladesh/wherever.

5. Government falls for it hook, line, and sinker. More cheap foreign labor is approved.

6. The market value for all programmers in the region drops.

Repeat steps 1 through 6 until the average programmer salary hits minimum wage. If local citizens resist at any point, just accuse them of being racist.
thanks for the feedback, handbanana - I am definitely new at this, so I will take your comments seriously. UI is the next focus for us - I wanted to get as many integrations in place as possible before launch. I will take another shot at the music for the videos.
It's not the same model. Presumably the €400 are forfeited when earing €500 as a salary. One of the premises of basic income is that working more doesn't cancel out any benefits.
> Other modern Linux/BSD/UNIX systems should work with minor adjustments to the instructions.

I can report that I got it to build and run on slightly out of date FreeBSD by deleting all of the -m32 variants, and deleting all of the -march=haswell variants. I haven't looked into whether this is down to the version of GCC that comes in ports and the version of Clang that comes in base, or something else. No other changes were needed to the build process, though.

JdeBP /package/prog/djbsort % /tmp/djbsort/command/int32-speed
int32 implementation int32/portable4
int32 version -
int32 compiler clang -fPIC -Wall -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fwrapv
int32 1 72 72 72
...
int32 1048576 1979077401 1979993070 1983745962
OH, they're definitely Hawaiian shirts. They're not Estonian, for instance. Nor Japanese. Pure Hawaiian. There are also Hawaiian pants, and skirts etc.
As harsh as this sounds, it's a cultural thing. The Chinese generally don't believe in respecting IP, this is coming from someone who has lived with Chinese for many many years. To them, it's like a shopping basket, you just pick what you like. Unfortunately, for this guy, it seemed like he didn't understand how copyrights work in the US.

Also as a matter of personal experience, I've had a couple of my photographs stolen by popular Chinese newspapers who refused to attribute it to me.

P.S - I am not commenting on the morality of his action here, I'm simply suggesting the way their culture works is probably a big reason to him getting charged.
> How are the roads, police, schools, defense budgets funded?

I would assume the same way they're funded in America, but for a lot less and with better results.
I think you mean "autonomy", and at larger firms, you're going to have to work with others. The ideal is collaboration, but you don't normally get to choose what you work on, your management does.
Do you by any chance have concrete data or a source for the “by quantity and value” ?

I don’t doubt at all that it’s true, but I’d love to understand better what ARM’s exposure really is.
Web browsers:

> Avoid Opera and Vivaldi, as they use Chrome as their base. Brave is my secondary browser.

Brave is based on Chromium too, isn't it? (I don't blame the author for not knowing this; I'm not certain myself.)
> Well, no shit, because your pay is shit.

Or their definition of competent is unrealistic.
I still think it matters where data is stored because I don't trust most companies to not have back doors.

Since its all my own equipment and I have a background in this sort of stuff, I know what I am looking for when it comes to intrusions.
I think you’re wrong about most (seniorish) developers but I loved the way you said it haha.
The question is what are the percentages? Also, are they different by income level? or age? does addiction play a role?

The problem is UBI is a simple solution to a complex problem.
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Sorta, except when dark orange is dark orange and not brown. Your brain will decide between them based on context. The shaded half of a (fruit) orange may well have the same spectrum as the lighted tree trunk it's hanging on, but you will see two different colors.
Ya on occasion we'll run out and she'll go without. Without all things being equal (trip distance etc) it's hard to say really. If you have kids, you'll also know that they learn very quickly that if she says "I'm feeling sick" that she gets a mint, regardless if she is actually feeling sick. My kids are Pavlov 2.0 basically, or maybe it's me that is the dog!
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How about SUSE and Mageia?
I don’t think you are disagreeing with the person you’re replying to.

Your point that it can be discrimination without affecting all people of <x description> matches their point that one person of <x description> can’t speak for the experiences of all other people like them.
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That sounds like a stretch, and you probably need to define what you mean by "basic income not working". For who? Society? Employers? The worker?

Parts of these "youngsters" are probably off doing something related to self-development and fulfilling which might provide benefits for society later on.

In this case they (seemingly) aren't getting any more money from working extra, compared to not working either, since their social benefits are stripped away if they start working. If this was basic income, they would be left with something extra at the end.

In this case there's no incentive to work?
I tried this once. The client ran away with the wireframe, hired a couple of unpaid interns to complete it. Just saying.
It's not a question of motive, but of duty. Corporations, as creations of democratic government and not purely private property, should be held to a higher standard of public responsibility than individuals. Regardless of motive, corporations should not be permitted to put profit ahead of the public interest.
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