skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bear in mind this is only income tax. If you put deductions like health insurance (mandatory, and also dependent on income level) my take-home pay was indeed less than 50%.
Income taxes tend to cover up to 50% of your income.

Then there's VAT syphoning an extra 20% of the remaining cash.

Then there are hidden taxes charged throguh other fees being levied, even to access mandatory state services.

In the end you get healthcare, but in general the service is practically unusable and you end up having to pay for health insurance anyway.

And by the way, a large portion of your taxes is effectively "lost" between your wallet and the public services provided to the population.
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Anecdotally, it doesn't seem so. Even straight out of University with 0 years experience, salaries among my cohort seemed to be between 30-40k GBP and this was some years ago.

Not to say that there isn't companies making terrible offers in London, but I don't know people working for them.
>The unemployment benefit is 400+ euros per month. So tell me who in their right minds would go to work for 500 euros

Is there a limit to how long you can collect unemployment? In Finland if you still haven't found a job in about a year, you stop getting payments altogether. And while getting payments, you still have to prove that you're actually searching for a job and not just trying to scam taxpayers.
Seems odd that you'd get things like ‰ and √ and not an interrobang.
>It's not being given away. How are the roads, police, schools, defense budgets funded?

Domino's streets,
McDonalds Police,
Facebook Schools,
Nestle Fire department,

The army is the only taxes they are okay paying

because they think their money goes towards punishing poor people instead of helping them
I have to assume that everybody who downvoted this post has never ever made a real cave tour. A tour that involves hours of climbing up and down, diving and walking over tons of bat shit. Submarine my ass.
The only reason RPM is still being in use is RedHat, the company, that did well to provide the very needed service for actual businesses.

There is no competition between package managers, there is only competition between distributions.
> they can't buy filet mignon for the price of hot dogs

I'm going to use this analogy in the future. "You want filet mignon, but you're only willing to pay for hotdogs- and you're blaming the meat".
To plug it here: If you want to build an RPM via Maven (or just want to build one with Java using the underlying lib)

https://github.com/ctron/rpm-builder
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KDE Connect allows transferring individual files or browsing the Android filesystem, in addition to all its other goodies.
My only complaint about my meatware computer is that it has a really bad ability to handle space complexity. With paper I can do OK with time complexity (although clockspeed is also an issue).
Surely they can't make you work, right? That's called slavery.
> we are also the collective shareholders (obviously not majority)

It's that 'not the majority' thing that's the fly in the ointment. I owe this claim a link, but most shareholders are part of the wealthy and/or the professional classes, skewing stock gains toward a few, and away from the many.

EDIT: Added link supporting claim. Per WP article, chart 'Stock ownership is heavily concentrated', top 20% of US households by wealth own 90% of stock, and even that's skewed heavily to the top.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/18/for-r...
That’s factually incorrect. For example the max tax band in the U.K. is either 40 or 45 %. So you don’t give more than half of your earnings. Also every country in Europe decides how to tax ppl in that country.
I've authored many RPM packages, it's dead simple. Have a spec file, tar it, and run rpmbuild on it.

I don't really know why this guy was freaking out.

I also like the fact that transient dependency and repo handling is separated from the package handler itself. We have rpm to handle a single package, and we have dnf (yum) to handle trees of packages.
With software, you donate your time and you get the final product.

With hardware, someone, at some point, is going to have to pay to press those chips into real silicon.
>Programming is not a write-only operation

A lot of people would take issue with that statement.

Most devs probably wouldn't notice that their backspace key went missing until they were fine tuning the phrasing of an email about why the best way to solve their spaghetti is to make the same spaghetti slingers port the codebase to $FAD_OF_THE_WEEK.

Edit: It should be obvious that this is a joke but if it's not you should probably check if your backspace key still works.
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The highest tax rate in the Netherlands is 51,95% (Note that this only covers anything you make over ~70k+ a year, 0-20k is taxed ~35%, and 20-70 is taxed 40%). 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.

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I love the Linux app, and the integration on browser extensions and Android app, but the Android app is very limited on features. I love projects like this, and support them as a paid member, just like ProtonMail.
Take the files to office max and print on heavy cardstock. It makes very reasonable quality games. I design board games as a hobby and this is what I do. 100s of games played and good enough quality to pitch to publishers.
IT seems now, it's much easier to create lasting end marks, not exactly a symbol, but for example if I end a post on reddit with /s everyone knows I mean sarcasm (almost everyone).
How many people are experts in a non-JS server language and CSS at the same time? Assuming anyone even falls into that category, how many of them want to work for someone else as opposed to just doing their own thing?
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Which is a joke because you have some damn good coders in Estonia. And the salary is even lower than in France.
Sure, and they're a) subject to European regulators and b) have a largely European audience.

The same is not true for the LA Times.
Freelancers are not legally employees (they are contractors), this employee protection laws do not apply.
Low wages are not a problem per se.

In the situation of low wages what is supposed to happen is the best workers either (a) move to competitors or (b) just strike out on their own and start their own business. If businesses are colluding on low wages (and it's very clear they are) then eventually we should see people starting new businesses.

This dynamic by the way is absolutely clear in East Asia and China, in particular. Wages are rising fast and the best workers aren't afraid to bounce away for higher salary or, if it comes down to it, to buckle down and strike out on their own.

But this dynamic has been completely lost in the US. Even as the economy "improves" we are seeing labor market fluidity has collapsed the US [1]. This has been going on since the 80s. Entrepeneurship and new firm formation have been declining for the last 40 years [2]. The end result: lots of people stuck in jobs they don't like and businesses, knowing full well that their workers are stuck and won't go, offer essentially zero wage increases.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2016/files/2...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/business/economy/startup-...
Why would they pay more, if they just hold out long enough, someone will take the job. If enough companies do this, a new wage rate is established.

We are in a strange time with globalism, companies are in a race to the bottom in regards to employee pay. Employees are losing negotiating leverage as their employer can simply turn to emerging markets to hire talent for half the price. Granted that talent may not be as good but they also save on benefits.

There is also a critical level where if enough companies are paying low wages, the employees cant just threaten to go somewhere else and make more, there is no where else. So they have to eat and take the lower salary job, setting a new lower median wage for the market place. Meanwhile the cost of basic goods continues to rise.

Communism is nonsense, but Marxism has a very important point in that the primary driver of world power is not countries but classes, those that hold the means of production and money against everyone else.
Because it’s not US law yet. In the past they’ve talked to the Chinese government about why they think possible policy X is a problem too.

But once it’s a law they lose the choice.
I do contract webdev work for a multi-national in the middle of nowhere in Connecticut. The london office posted a job that is exactly what I do but is paid 5 times less. At the Edinburgh office, 7 times less.

Same company, same upper-upper-upper management, but VASTLY different pay scales. Its nuts to think about, especially when I can rent a full 3 bed/3 bath house with basement and garage for about 2 times less than a 1 bedroom flat in London.
> Why do I need ... assumptions about system paths?

> what is the rationale for a build flow that involves:

It solves problems.

https://cr.yp.to/compatibility.html

https://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/studies.html

https://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/finding.html

https://cr.yp.to/slashpackage/sharability.html

> Would it really be that much harder to give us a git repo and a ./configure or a CMakeLists.txt?

Yes.
The Great Recession caused a huge disruption in the labor market for 7 years. Companies got used to having all the bargaining chips.

My company my brother works for put in place a lot of policies during that time frame that no longer make sense. Things like making it hard to give employees raises. And setting Byzantine salary ranges based on job title.
Right, but that money isn't used for the benefits of "people who don't give a flying toss" - you'll get a value out of it (health insurance).

Furthermore you'd also need to take into account all the costs you can set off against tax liability.
I get intensely vivid 'stygian blue' hypnagogic hallucinations right before I fall asleep. It's an intensely dark/bright blue. Very hard to describe. It usually manifests as a blob of color that pulses from the outer-edges inwards.

Humorously, Negativland, the amazing decades old plunderphonics group, had a whole prank site[1] and a Over the Edge[2] radio show[3] regarding the 'fourth primary color', Squant. This was also the only color with it's own smell as well. Negativland also had a plugin for web-browser that allowed you to 'see' this magical fourth primary color.

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[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Edge_(radio)

[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt8biSTQ7wk
Thanks for giving the correct term.

(I think that you might not be talking about the same kind of link as the comment you replied to, though.)

It's interesting to see already more than one comment using the wrong term, possibly because they don't think about the meaning of fasci vs entero + coli?
Aren't you agreeing with him? :)
Traditionally ligatures have been about abbreviation or aesthetics, not weird approximations in character sets: see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature

E.g. when I enable ligatures in Pillars of Eternity, it just makes all the prose look gorgeous.
The reasoning boils down to Google-ability.

sh is not a distinct enough term when googling for shell suggestions, because both cheat and cheat.sh will have sh in the results. That is very distinct from xterm.js where xterm-only results are very unlikely to have JS in them.

A similar debate played out when the gofish package manager was launched, which conflicted with the fish shell https://github.com/fishworks/gofish/issues/37

Anyway, the choice is not mine to make, it just seems like an easy issue that could have been avoided by choosing a name that wasn't already in use.
Is there any difficulty in working across the border like that? I work for a Canadian company due to having my roots here and find the thought of dealing with remote work in another country intimidating. Is it much hassle?
Which ISP is this? (interested)
> Now what's the dream for these workers? They can never afford to save up on their 500 euro a month. They can never get a loan to open their own business.

Work harder. Make more money if you want to do your own thing. Surely there are professionals in Greece making good money working as employees for others. What are they doing that the lazy uneducated worker is not?

Do more of that and less complaining that you're making 500 euro a month.
I've been doing the same thing, with the same .pdf, and hitting the same errors :)

http://gbdev.gg8.se/wiki/articles/Main_Page is my current documentation of choice - which seems to be based on the same .pdf but has a bunch of updates and errors corrected
@rglullis: Well. There is social security, health care, retirement funds and there are taxes.

Well: I gladly pay health insurance in Germany instead of having an American system. Could it be better - hell yes. There is so much bullshit being paid for and so much in the system is made to extract money. But first: taxes are not the culprit here. And second: Pay for healthcare in the US yourself and see what system you like better. Esp if you get older.
I have read this book and I would recommend as an alternative "The Richest Man In Babylon." It is more clearly a book of parables about building wealth and less about the route one person took to financial success.
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Academia:

Oh you have a degree, a masters, a PHD, knowledge in super-niche molecular technology techniques,
speak 3 languages and can code in a couple more...

Best I can do is 1200 per month
Do you have a citation for this claim?
I'd take C code sprinkled with assembly or bash one-liners optimized for fewest number of characters over Python, JS or PHP spaghetti that's partially documented by someone who can not write proper sentences in the whatever language they're writing documentation in. If you can't be sure your documentation actually reflects what the code does and how it does it then just don't document it or at least throw a disclaimer in the docs. This is even more important is "the docs" are your comments in the source and/or commit messages.

Edit: And why exactly is this opinion unacceptable? Being able to communicate what you're done (and hopefully why you did it) is an essential part of writing software that will be worked on and/or used by other people. Code that takes just as long to figure out how to use as it does to create from scratch is as good as no code.
Employer spends 4k€ on salary.
Gross salary will be 3k€ (Bruttolohn) due to social security the employer pays for you.
Net salary (Nettolohn) after taxes and your social security is 1850€.

This example is from 2010 back when I was a student. Since I only worked 6 monhts, I got back 300€ per month, so effectively received 2150*6 = 12,9k out of 24k paid by the employer.

Note that when you spend money, you'll most likely additionally pay 19% VAT, so out of your standard 1800€ another 324 are spent on VAT.

Hopefully you don't buy gasoline, electricity or products that are produced or transported using gasoline or electricity, because then the taxes paid will be higher.

;-)
>> and it could be employers who end up paying [their workers more]

What a bizarre statement. Who else would pay them more? And why is that framed like a bad thing?
I'm curious, but you do know that there's other taxes than income tax, right?
Not to mention the fact that the good coders in India are pretty quick to leave India.
Same-ish, but I'm in rural Texas.

I work 30 hours a week for a US firm, working remote and finishing up raising my kid. I could probably multiply my income by 1.5, but I'd have to work 15 hours a week more and come into an office.

I've had several interviews with people but no one seems to understand how much they would actually have to pay me to come into an office because they are used to discounting the time spent commuting as if weren't time they should pay for; they think I am crazy for calculating that as time for which I should be compensated.
There are some airframe advances, but they indeed are producing F-15 and F-16 still.

I don't know why I was downvoted with no good counterarguments.
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How and where did you find a US remote job whilst being/remaining in the EU? I'm a bit in the same street as you (freelancer, Belgium, previous experience with remote work).

More on topic, I hear the same in Belgium, they want someone to work 24/7 basically for free and then they are surprised that the guy they hired isn't some kind of magical being that knows every language (for some reason this goes for both natural and programming languages) and framework and whatnot.
From what I can tell, spec files are just for source packages, whereas the author was analyzing (and trying to build) a binary package directly.
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Similar system in the UK, you have to demonstrate you're applying for jobs. If you're offered something and you refuse to take it your cut off.

I think they may even force you in to unpaid/extremely low paid work if you cant get something yourself.
Right, the bread and circuses are the bit that keep us distracted from the important bit, which is our disenfranchisement as citizens. Now it takes the place of shareholders/bankers/pension fund managers seizing all the power in society by buying politicians, setting themselves up as monopolists (and, for labor, monopsonists), and generally being in charge of every decision that citizens (as consumers and producers) might conceivably make in a way adverse to those in power.

The great thing about our system is that the ruling class even make money on the bread (farm subsidies, school lunch programs designed mainly as more farm subsidies rather than as a way to feed schoolkids healthy food, more farm subsidies) and the circus (monopolistic ISPs, cable companies, media holding companies, and content aggregators, now seemingly in the process of all merging into one by gobbling each other up) parts too!
Thanks. This reminds me of the part of "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" where a painter says you can mix white and red to get yellow and Feynman says it's impossible and it turns out the painter would use a little bit of yellow to "sharpen it up" [1]. Any way that is possible without yellow paint?

[1] http://blog.everydayscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/feynman...
Same here. It works for paywalls too! I wonder what their business model is though.
It's been completely painless because the company is using a Canadian company to handle my salary and tax info, and they got me Canadian extended health insurance.

It's actually kind of awesome. They bump up my Canadian salary to match their USD official salary any time the exchange rate goes bonkers. So the more Trump does Trump, the more I'm paid.
>That's kind of the norm at any job. I'm curious what alternative you propose, a commune where workers decide on their own what they'll be working on?

Pretty much all the software engineering jobs have worked at have given me quite a bit of autonomy. At least within software engineering organizations the purpose of a manager should be to make sure workers have the necessary resources and coordination, but they shouldn't be telling workers what to do.

I know someone that got hired at a company to answer the phone for technical questions from users. When she started they didn't have a phone hooked up yet so she asked for github access and started writing software. They never bothered hooking up a phone at her desk and she just wrote software for the next 2 years. The software she wrote was valuable to the company and was mostly self-directed. I don't think stories like this are that uncommon in the software engineering world.

Edit1: Fixed typo, thanks PaulRobinson

Edit2: Added Anecdote
Part of that cost of rental is location. London is a world class city, highly desirable by millions of people as a place to live.

Connecticut isn't.
>No data, but I believe that you can be extremely bright in a lot of things and dumb as a rock on other very basic things. Maybe arrogance plays a part too.

If there's any highly political threads on the front page the comment section would be a perfectly illustrative example of this.
My bet would be that the contract's early termination would lead to some heavy penalty that effectively forces them to continue.
Most shareholders (holders of the wealth represented by companies) are members of the wealthy class? :P You don't say.

I'm of two minds on this. Wealth and income are not the same. You get wealth by not consuming all of your income, and instead by investing it. Of course, if you have just enough income to survive, then you cannot accumulate wealth. But most people (in the US) are not in that boat. One of the phenomena that continuously fascinates me are the differences in wealth accumulation between people in the same income brackets. Sometimes there are good reasons for it (e.g. medical issues), but my sense is that in the vast majority of cases, there is simply a difference between the elective consumption levels of different households.

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/relationship-income-and-weal...

For example, I have a sibling whose wealth is in the 98th percentile for his age bracket. However, his income has never been above the 60th percentile, and has often been lower. This is an example of how a certain attitude about consumption can have a strong impact on wealth accumulation.

I definitely think that the rich (broadly defined -- both via high income or high wealth) need to be contributing more back to society than we are. But, as a saver, I'm biased towards targeting high-income more than high-wealth.
Interesting, would this be a case that shows that basic income wouldn't work?
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When I was living in NYC I paid 39% federal + 13.5% state/city - that’s over 50%. Healthcare and children education not included. I was not a home owner, and my other deduction amounted to almost nothing thanks to AMT.

It’s a myth that taxes in the US are low.