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> Why do people earn only 5k after tax ?

It's not clear what your point of reference is. If you're wondering why it's much lower than in the US (where the 90-percentile household is probably around 170k USD pre-tax or 9k-10k post-tax), there are many many factors that contribute to the difference. The most important ones (unordered) are IMO:

- USD is probably overvalued by 15%-20% [1].
In the past 10 years, the EUR/USD rate fluctuated between 1.05 and 1.55, currently it's 1.12. It's unlikely that the relative living standards between the US and Germany fluctuated as much as 50% in this period, so a lot of the nominal incomes differences are not real.

- Americans work 30% more hours than Germans [2]

These two factors can explain most of the pre-tax income differences.

The net difference is a bit higher still, due to higher taxes/mandatory payments. I don't have references at hand, but at the €100k level, take-home pay is around 60%-62% of gross, while for an American at $112k it's closer to 70% (federal, state and payroll). No comment about justness, proper accounting for transfers, subsidies, other taxes, mandatory insurances, etc. This is a huge sprawling debate topic, but it's indisputable that disposable income at the same gross is higher in the US than in Europe. IMO, the first 2 factors accounting for differences in gross incomes are more important anyway.

A fairly mainstream economic theory is that the higher European (marginal) taxes are actually a major cause of the lower working hours (and hence lower personal income) [3]. The highest marginal rates actually don't differ that much (typically around 50% in Europe, 45% federal+state in the US), but in Europe the higher rates typically kick in at much lower levels: US marginal rate at $100k is probably around 30%, whereas in many European countries it's already in the 40%+ bracket.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-11/trump-has...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_annual_labor_h...
[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109830788286551061
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That sounds like a ponzi scheme, not an investment.
It's still a critical piece of the financial gateway into China.
As society becomes more polarized and extreme, introvert vs extrovert is probably the most harmless identity topic to discuss.

There are vast swaths of identity people used to diversely discuss, that are now either completely off limits for discussion or only one extreme view is currently permitted. We are witnessing the death of multiculturalism, where the only "multi" allowed anymore in public is extroversion vs introversion.
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The Texas power grid is isolated and cannot routinely import power. It can in very temporary and emergency situations, but they do not as a matter of course to avoid federal oversight.

So while the US Western grid can time shift one hour in the way you describe, Texas is isolated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Interconnection

https://www.texastribune.org/2011/02/08/texplainer-why-does-...
This is what I was interested in learning about.
>Would I trust anyone else touching my Mac anyway? The answer is no and I plan to buy a Huawei replacement laptop with 5G.

This reads like satire.
> Is there any cost that an ISP company has related to the amount of data transferred? All the costs that I'm aware of are related to the bandwidth, not the total transmitted data

Bandwidth is strongly correlated to total transmitted data, as the amount of time in a day isn’t changing any time soon. It may be reasonable to offer some kind of off-peak pricing for customers that can time-shift their internet needs, but the complexity is apparently not worth the benefits.

In particular, if the usage over time of a high-data customer generally looks like a scaled version of the same chart as a low-data customer, there won’t be much effective difference in the two models, and consumers understand quantity billing much easier than bandwidth-percentile billing, which is how the wholesale market is priced.
> Make it a single piece that can be neatly removed like your would-be concept image and you cut battery life in half. Customers would revolt, and far more noticeably than over mere keyboard problems.

According to other comments further up the thread this is incorrect, as the XPS has proven it can be both a single battery, with more capacity, and be thinner, even faster.
Welp, the final vestiges of privacy feel like they are being removed.
To me it seems overwrought. We have Chinese philosophers who are experts in Classical Chinese philosophy who study these things and labor over them. And we have expert Chinese-English experts as well as philosophers versed in both modern languages.

So I can’t immediately see how it’s more difficult than looking into Classical Greek philosophy.
The executive compensation looks interesting.

I wish they publish the ceo salary before 2018. Is that more for a public perception?

And we see only CFO/Legal and no one else.
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Rivian, an all-electric "luxury adventure vehicle" (imagine Tesla for trucks and SUVs) plans on doing just that: https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/14/rivian-second-life-batte...
> Is there any cost that an ISP company has related to the amount of data transferred?

Data caps allow ISPs to run oversubscribed networks, which are very profitable. If you're streaming 24/7, then that bandwidth isn't available to sell to your neighbor. In that sense, cost is indeed directly related to amount of data transferred.
HN really seems to like these stories. Previous discussions:

8 months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18593407

4 months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19463225

4 months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19491763

8 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20615403
Actually they don't have free lunch, which is quite strange for Silicon Valley companies
It’s obviously way more complex than that, though. The ISP isn’t going to make sure that all of their peering links have enough bandwidth to carry the full advertised bandwidth of all of their customers connections simultaneously, in case everyone tries to download at full speed from the same website at once. On their end, the bandwidth is under provisioned. Data caps are a way of managing that that give customers higher peak speeds in exchange for limited data transfer.
I really hate that there's some whiny wiki editor complaining that those Angolans are exploiting their fundamentally exploitative zero system. I'm all for it, good on them.
"Financial debt isn’t universally reviled in the same way. Your friend takes out a mortgage to buy a house and what do you say? Congratulations!"

There's an implicit assumption there that your friend can afford the purchase. If banks did no credit checks & your friends were impulsive & broke you might try to talk sense into them instead.

Maybe we need to store PM's technical debt for 10 years and perform a credit check when they say "I don't care, just ship it & we'll clean it up later"!
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Tethered. Just like the Moller car forever ago.

And you now someone will stand underneath this thing as it's landing and get beheaded. Just saying. If it can happen, it will.
Also, the suggestion that John Lennon's 'Imagine' was written before the rise of the 'modern nation-state' is complete and absolute rubbish. By the time John Lennon wrote that incredibly asinine song, India and Pakistan had already clashed at least three times over Kashmir. Israel had already fought wars against the surrounding countries five times, and the Soviet Union had already violently annexed many of its neighbors.
I'm attacking this so vehemently to combat the risk that anyone might be tempted to believe such foolishness.
Even if your statements were in any way factually correct they would be meaningless in the context of today's world.
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A clear definition for introvert/extrovert certainly exists, but the term has drifted. This happens pretty often, since most people enjoy talking about personality types. "I'm so OCD!" seldom means "I have to keep checking the fridge to see if I locked my cat in there, even though I know he's not in there."
It's not bad nor exceptional. 70k in Berlin allow for a pretty comfy lifestyle though. Depends on your skills, the company you're joining and the impression you made during the interview(s).

I know a few devs working for big companies or successful startups who earn 65-70k with less than 4 years of exp.
The only difference between those two concepts is malice.
Sheesh!

I think I found a company, label it tech and mention in the prospectus my potential customership of 8 billion people.

Do investors actually buy into such bullshit?
And he bought those with money he pulled out of the company.
I would much rather have a conversation about Liu Cixin's dark forest idea than to learn about someone's snotty kid.

I guess color me immature with an inferiority-complex bigotry.
I like music from many genres, though what I like is usually not very popular. But I like shpongle too, for example. I just prefer it, if the music has something handmade to it, like a didgeridoo (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GLTOTN0OrBU), or in general, I prefer live concerts, over a dj. Live playing allways brings variations to this exact moment, the bands can change the speed according to the vibe of the audience. (but a good dj can do this probably, too)

But the music I had in mind, was something like Piniol. A crazy french band, but the genre is hard to describe. I heard it described as Zappamusic (from Frank Zappa), or psychadelic rogressive, but that does not really say much. Also, so far I never liked that music to just put on speakers, just enjoyed them, or similar bands, live in concert.

Oh and, yes their music is also somewhat predictable, it is just that the complexity seems to be higher.
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Isn’t that like a trend these days? Unless I’m missing something, can you please explain?
This is the spot price in an extremely seasonal futures market. This article is clickbait garbage.

I have a few clients in this space. Texas, through ERCOT is a deregulated market. The “electricity company” or REP (retail electricity provider) merely purchases futures from ERCOT (the market maker) and bills you for your usage according to the pricing plan you have with them. In the end your provider must purchase from ERCOT at least as many MWh as their customers use.

Distribution and maintenance is handled by various regional companies and factored into the price by ERCOT

The market price is like a futures auction, of a commodity where demand peaks in August. This is why the spot price can be so ridiculous.

The thing is, nobody pays the spot price. If a REP must pay the spot price in August (because of inadequate hedging) they almost always immediately become insolvent. It’s the “third rail” of this industry, touch it and you die. At that point secondary measures kick in to ensure those customers are not without power.

If you have more questions please reply.
Isn't it normal to send passwords over HTTPS? This is usually how login and password reset work. Obviously you have to be careful they don't get logged.
Are all of your kids simultaneously streaming hours of video every day?
Exactly, which is why I'm a little concerned about the knee jerk reaction to promote mental health as a solution to problems we have in society (mass shootings, CP, suicide, etc).

As you said, you need the patient to want to change in order for progress to be made, and mixing punishment and therapy makes that nearly impossible.

What we need is a fundamental shift in how we view mental illness and discipline. Instead of just punishing people for doing something wrong, we should be looking at why the mistake was made and try to work with the individual to fix that and use punishment only if more effective methods don't work.

Maybe we need psychologists to work with parents/communities so parents know how to approach deviant behavior in a constructive way. I firmly believe that if parenting is done well, people will be better equipped to deal with problems later in life.
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Time to get more conservative with your investments. Just moved my retirement accounts from 100% in a 2050 lifecycle fund to 75% in a 2030 lifecycle fund and 25% in just government bonds.

Not all investment vehicles have a "lifecycle" fund but its intent is to be appropriately conservative for a target date. As the date grows closer, the fund gets more conservative in order to lessen the risk of sudden swings right before you retire.

I don't recommend day-trading, or liquidating all your investments, or anything like that. However, if there's a professionally managed fund with the specific goal of being stable along the timeframe of 11 years, I'm gonna take it.
Hot take: I watch almost no HD video, and I practically don't download anything. Why should I have to pay the same money than someone who spends all day streaming 4K Netflix from 5 screens?

"Just buy a lower speed" is not feasible since ISPs keep pushing the lower speed that you can get higher and higher. Overselling. If all you get is fibre, here the minimum is usually 100 Mbps, which I evidently don't need. Same about data caps in mobile connections.
It's right about half the time historically iirc. Which is better than most indicators, but still just flipping a coin.
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Any evidence that it doesn’t work?

In the UK most ISPs will instead perform traffic shaping where they will slow down your connection during peak times after a certain small amount of data transfer. This still seems to be disliked by consumers just the same.
Simply Difficult definitely maintains the wordplay. Simple and easy can be synonyms in some contexts, such as when contrasted with difficult.
Why would a judge in a nation that separates state and religion care about someone calling himself Jesus Christ? Jesus is a common given name, and Christ a common enough surname.

(Or Kris Kringle for that matter.)
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Yet somehow the Japanese tested the far superior "Long Lance".
There is some cost to transfer between ISPs or to higher tier ISPs, though generally that cost is negligible. They always pay for accepting traffic and generally they have agreements that only the difference between out-in is paid. At my current host, the peering cost of data is about 5€/TB outgoing transfer, though recently they removed this altogether and cover it from other profits.

The real world cost of a TB of data is basically the cost of the energy moving it, which is increasingly cheap.
This is news, since it is the 2-10 year.
Are you running any crypto seeds, torrenting, gaming, have an unsecured network, etc?

According to this article https://www.androidcentral.com/how-much-data-does-streaming-... Netflix 4k is 7.2gb an hour, if you have a 1TB Comcast cap and they're counting that as 1000gb you should be fine for at east 130 hours (giving an allowance for phone/app/os updates and random browsing).

Also, why 4k? Small room, massive display? Many people can not even detect a difference between 1080p and 4k at normal couch distance. https://www.experienceuhd.com/blog/can-human-eye-see-differe...
These corporations work very hard at regulatory capture and lobbying to keep the "pseudo" firmly in place and the capitalism to a minimum.

The ironic part is that local governments usually end up repairing the distortions in the market and externalized costs caused by these monopolies via social programs. The whole thing ends up more socialist with an added layer of inefficiency and graft than just working out a socialist solution up front.
More than that in some cases - oil pipelines through areas basically regarded as burial grounds.

"Son, this is where your ancestors were buried, but we're not quite sure what happened to their remains after the oil company scraped the top few feet of soil in the 2026 oil spill cleanup and 'remediated' with clean soil imported from somewhere else."
Is it? I was under the impression it does not own land for the most part.
They help demand management because if they're set low enough, people can't use the highway 5 times a day, they have to limit their usage to just once a day, or maybe a few times a week.

In Australia the bandwidth caps used to be specifically set up with a different peak and off-peak cap to help with this even more.
No where in the article does it mention New Guinea island. New Guinea is also not a country but an island with 2 countries. The eastern half is PNG (Papua New Guinea). Whilst the western half is owned by Indonesia.

What makes you so sure they are talking about New Guinea island with the term stupid savages?

Cargo-culting happened in all of Melanesia. I can't see any reference to cargo cults in west of New Guinea island. A few mentions of it in PNG, etc.
Hasn't it been right 7/8 of the last recessions?
Not quite - they spend $2 for every $1 that comes in, so they lose $1 per $1 of revenue
All the things you mentioned, any exchange student from India will also tell you same and India is a democracy.

You can't hold USD in your account, government ration shops have corruption issue. Quality is also questionable.

It just tells you one thing that the US seems far better from their perspective.
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Which I'm not sure I understand fully since I was under the impression that Green Recorder was pretty much created for the singular purpose of supporting GNOME+KDE/Wayland.

I'm surprised that GNOME and KDE dropped the ball on this since all they had to do was provide a stable dbus API and any app would be able to consume it with very little fanfare.
> An unpopular opinion that I'm sure will garner negative reactions because everyone likes to self diagnose themselves, but I find the introvert/extrovert dichotomy quite weak.

Most psychologists don't view it as a dichotomy but rather as a scale with introversion on one side and extraversion on the opposite side. People are not either introverted or extraverted, they are somewhere on this scale. Which means that they tend to prefer introverted or extraverted behavior depending on their position on the scale. So even a very introverted person can display extraverted behavior, although it will be unlikely to happen often.

> Most people who I meet who proclaim they are "introverted" have just not invested any time into building their social skills.

The further people are on the introverted side, the more they prefer to be by themselves. Any skill you don't practice will not improve much, this is also true for social skills.

> Deciding which one you are by taking a shallow survey with surface level questions seems unintelligent.

> Choosing one to identify with seems irrationally limiting to who you could be.

You can influence the outcome of the survey, but the idea is to determine where you are on the scale, not to decide or choose. It is a model of personality/temperament and has proven itself quite useful over the years. But obviously it has its limitations.
It is extremely easy to use 100GB in a month. I have trouble staying below 1TB of usage. Some Xbox One games are over 100GB by themselves.
It is not exploitative at all to give people access to wikipedia (or even facebook) without giving them general internet access.

I can accept that it would be better for the health of the internet as a whole to give people full access or not at all. But it cannot be exploitative to give something of value for free to someone, just because that someone wants something more/something else.
It is actually unlimited? Several companies in the United States offer "unlimited data" but throttle speeds after you use 50 GB~ so much that it is basically unusable.
Since infrastructure is the same initial cost to everyone; I would guess that electricity is the main cost. Driving continuous max bandwidth should require more energy and thus cost more.

I say this without knowing too much about it; but I do know the cable line is separate from the power line... so the cable company needs to drive the bits through the coaxial with their own electricity, correct?

A long, sustain, high bitrate seems like that would use more, no?

Just speculating...
The analogy from my physics class long ago was we each hold one end of a broomstick, if I shove the stick, you'll feel the stick move at a delay consistent with the speed of sound (speed of sound in wood, different than air...) yet the stick actually moves physically a good deal slower than the speed of sound when it transmits the force that moves at the speed of sound. If I whack the broomstick you'll feel it vastly sooner than I can hand the entire stick to you. Speed of sound in wood is hundreds of miles per hour, but I can't physically move a wood broomstick faster than several dozen miles per hour.

Bulk material moves slower than forces move... usually. The physics of shock waves and supersonic stuff is interesting.
In all fairness AWS will charge you something like $90 for 1TB of traffic per month. I am all for cheap unlimited data plans but I can see why an ISP would create tiers of service and charge a premium to multi-terabyte users (and why non multi-terabyte users shouldn't pay for multi-terabyte users).
I'm probably still easily in the 80s WPM, and could practice back up into the 100s in a day or two. Input lag doesn't so much throw off my typing as it makes computing feel kinda remote and gummy rather than real and crisp. You lose the feeling of a direct connection between your input and the computer. Like you're poking the keys with a stick underwater, no matter how fast you type.

Even this text box, on HN, is noticeably disconnected compared with, say, DOS on an IBM PC-XT, or your average text input area on early Apple computers, BeOS on a first-gen Pentium, QNX on same, that sort of thing, and that's without applying the linked site's extra latency. Everything, just about, is a bit muddy on a "modern" computer. iOS is the closest thing to an exception and even that's gotten worse over the years.
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>Why do people earn only 5k after tax ?

As a side note, the 5k are not actually "purchasing power" or really-really "after tax" as it is usually intended in the US, in the EU there is VAT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax

which is similar to the "sales tax" in the US but that is usually much higher.

In Germany (Mehrwertsteuer) it is (relativaly) low at 19% standard.
I have Netflix playback settings set at Low quality, which is <= 300 MB per hour which is 10% of High or 5% of ultra HD.

Seems fine to me.
It’s also due to being able to take advantage of lower taxes on capital gains, which you can have if you structure the real estate part of the business to have income from “passive activity” versus “business activity”.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
In the UK it's even more liberal - you need a piece of paper and some witnesses' signatures. I knew Mr 118 Taxi back when he thought a name change might help promote his business...
It's a bit harder to see from the present, but the magic sauce they added 25 years ago was selling things on the Internet. Obvious today, and obvious in hindsight, but the road to here is littered with companies that tried the same but didn't make it.
AWS transfer costs have no relation to this at all. They are fantasy numbers entirely disconnected to any sort of peering cost.
That's sweet. I've been an occasional fan? (I would move to other genres and then back) of psytrance for the last ~13y now but it has been always seemed a bit hard (on last.fm) to find artists that are not complete rubbish and would actually do psytrance.