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Even french white immigrants are rejected for no good reason. https://nationalpost.com/news/french-national-denied-quebec-...

The CAQ is very anti-immigration on all fronts.
Based on that premise:

Should we, as a society, permit a select few to shift their wealth to tax havens or should those folks also join in with everyone else? Are those sheltering their taxes more privileged that they deserve being able skirt the rules others can't, even if others would do so given the same circumstances?
For me the change is ownership was just the last straw, their incredibly crappy app and the difficulty in downloading my data was a more significant factor.
Another big issue with US taxes is that tax dollars aren't well spent.

I'd be happy to pay the amount of taxes I'm currently paying in California if tax dollars were used well, but as it stands the public schools are underfunded, the highways are full of litter on the side, higher education isn't free, healthcare isn't universal, social security is underfunded, public transportation is dysfunctional, and so on.
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Surely you have an alternative method of funding government then?
The issue is nothing is guaranteed. What is put off til tomorrow may never come
My experience is that there is.

I tend to be really intense about my job, and as a result I've left almost all of my jobs due to burnout, usually related to frustration that my dept isn't prioritizing what I feel is important to be successful, and that my time isn't well spent.

I recently went through this at my current gig, despite having good pay, good manager, and as close to a non-toxic environment as I think is possible. In other words... I couldn't easily scapegoat the org. The problem probably had to do with me. So I tried a new thing: to actually salvage the gig and fight to get my needs met instead of throwing my hands up and abandoning the whole affair.

It took a few months of failed compromises before I resorted to being totally upfront about it. I tried to ask for things like "one sprint on, one sprint off" and hearing that "we don't have bandwidth" until I finally said "look, i'm not having a good time, my productivity is on the floor, i have no morale and things that should take 10 easy minutes take a miserable week. i'm gonna take a month, and when I come back, i'm gonna work on other stuff (with a large, thorough doc of what "other stuff" should be: the intersection of things i find valuable/interesting + would also be valuable to the team).

Management was on board this time. I think they could tell that I was pained enough to walk if I had to, like most of the people in these stories. We also have a new engineer that unlocked some bandwidth. They asked me to move my month off to December instead of November, but greenlit my new work effective the next sprint.

The turnaround was astonishing. Overnight, my output went from unusually low to unusually high. I wake up excited to work on stuff, and care enough that I can be self-directing without needing to be fed tickets or have a PM prioritizing goals. My demos hit heavy, I feel great about my job, and I haven't even taken the vacation yet. I'm still taking it, but it no longer feels like I'll have a breakdown if I don't.

Point is: sometimes burnout comes from feelings of helplessness, arbitrariness, lack of autonomy, and misalignment of personal and company goals. Then you get bitter, and fatigued by constant bitterness, and the hole deepens until you can't see a way out anymore.

But if you can recognize whats got you down, come up with a viable alternative, set and defend boundaries on your time, and fight for them with adult conflict resolution skills... that crippling dissatisfaction is VERY actionable.

"Burnout" is a catch-all term for many nebulous forms of psychological fatigue. The idea that there's no cure for any of those things is pretty silly to me.
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That is fucked up. We are human beings, not some machine to be measured by how productive we are.
I think most people would be down for paying taxes, however their main gripe, in my opinion, is that the quality of services (infrastructure, tax dollars being used for NSA spying on citizens, etc.) we're getting back for our tax dollars is dropping while taxes increase.
Funny thing is that before reaching final stage the body sends signs. Lots of them and often. Most of knowledge workers heard this word “burnout” and it’s nothing new. Burnout does not happen over night, it takes months and even years. Close people also see the changes, but the subject goes forward ignoring everything. Why is so difficult to slow down? Is it better to spend couple years recovering instead of leaving harmful environment immediately?
I was involved in a project to use Sunrays as terminals to
search the online catalog (OPAC) at a university library. I had two rays in my cubicle and also a tower SPARC server under my desk. (We were a Sun shop, the OPAC ran on a SPARC server, we even got x86 servers from Sun.)

What killed it for us was we could not get a modern (at the time) web browser to run on Solaris. Netscape was way too old, but we couldn't compile Mozilla on Solaris.

When I got my first legit Unix account the world revolved around Sun and you could count on any open source compiling easily on Solaris but the center of rotation had moved to Linux circa 2005 and you could spend hours figuring out how to build things for Solaris...
He got picked up in a country that the US can extradite from and they would actually have to look at the case now. This thing has been so transparent.

Stay safe Snowden and all you other possible whistleblowers/leakers out there!

To people downvoting me - check out the vox article on this earlier this year.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/4/12/18306901/julian-ass...

The women were "vehement" about restarting the case. Reportedly were "willing to do whatever it takes to force case to be re-opened" The statute of limitations is August,2020.

But suddenly it doesn't matter according to sweden
Ah, sweden and rape, name a more iconic duo
I can’t say I’m a fan of the classism, racism, and sexism in this article. It creates and reinforces repeatedly the trope that burnout is an unavoidable but uniquely millenial problem; that “white men” from Gen X and before don’t get burned out.

Fuck that; anyone and everyone can and do get burnt out. Isolating yourself based on your race, class, and generation will not help you get better.

That said, I will take this article as it is - a release valve being pushed. I wish the author the best on her wellness sabbatical. I have been there, and I can only hope that she is able to find her way past this obstacle.
You are benefiting from the fruits of society and in some way should give back. Taxes are maybe not the best system, but not paying them is not 'honorable'
This might just mean that the work involved in "reaching your potential" literally wouldn't make you happy. I think you know that moving further would really suck in some way. So either let it go and do something else you're happy with, or work around this by figuring out what makes you happy/unhappy about this particular thing and work on refining your mindset around it.

Eventually you'll decide whether or not it's a good idea to keep going in that direction. You'll also get a clearer idea of what you actually want to do, and get rid of those weird "strong morals" that people tend to have, that really do limit their options (for example, "I'll never be able to leave this job" or when addicts feel there's no way out and they're too scared to quit, even though everything about their situation objectively sucks).

(i am only an armchair therapist, not a real one)
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Wow that is really a great competition but I guess TikTok really doing great because there are lot of funny and good content or videos uploaded.
for each milestone, there's a thorough description of what's the end of the deliverable, the 'specs'. It can be changed during the project's lifetime by any party if the other agrees to the change.

A client that rejects the demo has to justify in what regards it doesn't respect these terms, if not, it's a breach (of freelancer protocol rules and of the contract).

Maybe I should make this more explicit on the landing page?
I don't care if his voluntary embassy stay was "similar to a Nordic prison" because he was not made to stand trial and face justice for his crimes. Justice isn't "well I did a bad thing and locked myself in a comfy house with internet and takeout food for a few years". Could you even imagine?

His "freedom of movement" is self-restricted by his fear that he will have to face justice for acting as an agent of Russian military intelligence to attack America including laundering Russian intelligence into America to upset elections.

He got away with raping a woman completely. Zero justice, zero rehabilitation, zero punishment.

His voluntary embassy stay is related to his fear of facing justice for playing spy games, not for rape.

EDIT: It's disgusting how many people are justifying his lack of justice for raping a woman by saying that his unrelated embassy stay "makes up" for it. What happened to morality? He raped a woman and did not stand trial for it. He received no punishment.

If you did this, make no mistake, you'd have gone to prison. Because you're not an agent government playing spy games. Because protecting you doesn't advance a nations anti-west ideology. Because you're a regular person so you have to face regular person justice.
Thank you for going after primary sources.

The sample letter refers to the press. Executives tend to be general with the press. Investors make them talk specifics. That happens during quarterly earning calls. Which would be a good source. Seeking Alpha has the transcripts.

The SEC filings are another liable source. Though not personal quotes, they include perspectives on tech trends.
He chose conditions that were arguably worse in most respects but one (access to communication/internet) than a Swedish prison.

Prison sentences in Sweden are hardly ever longer than his stay in the embassy, except for the most heinous crimes.

His claim all along was that he seek refuge in the embassy were because he feared US extradition. Those claims were ridiculed by his opponents. They are now incontrovertibly verified as true.
Sweden is not U.S.
> * information gap on the customer side (doesn't want to cross shop)

From the article:

> Amazon has made buying stuff so frictionless and habitual, delivery so fast — and for Prime members, free — that many shoppers don’t bother checking prices anywhere else.

I do cross shop for most things. I usually check Ebay, Newegg, etc. But the majority of the time I end up buying from Amazon due to straight up better prices, or only slightly higher prices plus more convenience. I think there are enough of us that do that to keep Amazon's prices competitive.
Maybe the victim have moved on.

Rape without physical violence like this rely entirely on the victim testimony and even if there is a record and everything that will weaken the case terribly if the victim is no longer on board.
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There was also some chatter about the woman being a former CIA operative. The whole thing has smelled so bad right from the start.
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"Google could know which medications I take, and what any medical diagnosis's I have," Carpenter said. "It makes me feel sick to my stomach."

Google already knows what diagnoses people have, simply because people have been searching their symptoms. Remember when Google several years ago boasted about predicting epidemics faster than the health care system, based on searches?
Worth mentioning that Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, visited Assange and described his treatment as psychological torture:

> “It was obvious that Mr. Assange’s health has been seriously affected by the extremely hostile and arbitrary environment he has been exposed to for many years,” the expert said. “Most importantly, in addition to physical ailments, Mr. Assange showed all symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture, including extreme stress, chronic anxiety and intense psychological trauma.

> “The evidence is overwhelming and clear,” the expert said. “Mr. Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years, to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the cumulative effects of which can only be described as psychological torture.

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...

This article by the UN expert is also well worth reading:

Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange - https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian...
This is true, but relatively insignificant. Things in tech don't tend to evolve smoothly and predictably.

I think anyone who remembers the 'Do not buy the 2015 MBP, Skylake is right around the corner and it will bring such improvements you should definitely wait' knows that it's senseless to tell people to wait for Apple to release a 16 incher with 10nm processors if they want a new laptop.

There's multiple reasons why: 10nm higher powered chips are not ready and we all know about how much Intel is struggling with 10nm, Apple's release cycle is rather unpredictable, what if the switch to ARM is next year, should we wait longer...?

Something "Newer, Better, Shinier" is always around the corner and unless it's very close to release or the current product has genuine flaws, it makes little sense to wait.
For an anecdotal story, my finacee just went from a Fitbit to a Soleuos Fitness tracker. The change in ownership was one reason, but the reason was that the one she had broke 3 times within the first year of her having it. The first two times she sent it back, and the third time she gave up on it and didn't want to buy another Fitbit.

But I think seeing how Nest turned out is a great reason for not wanting to buy a Fitbit after being bought my Google (forcing tighter integration to Google, depreciating APIs to make it useful for other integrations, no really new innovation).
Bricklink.com is a lot like that. They have a large catalogue of set inventories and a database of sellers' stocks of bricks.

Here's a how-to video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IGytOTiZJg
The notion that a new law does NOT retroactively apply to acts done before the law was enacted is not called a 'statute of limitations'.

A statue of limitations serves a few purposes.

1. At some point closure is better than justice, or at least, that's a theory. Better to get a crime on record because the committer of it confesses to it than not. The idea being that after, say, 10 years, the odds that the criminal would get caught have drifted off to as near to 0 as can be.

2. Records eventually get shredded if you wait long enough; eyewitness recollections in particular slowly mutate into conjecture (whilst said eyewitnesses will believe what they remember is accurate, there's plenty of proof out there that given enough time what they remember is not at all accurate and it gets worse over time). This makes it easier to accidentally convict on flawed evidence, and makes it harder for the defendant to defend themselves.
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I am with you too - I need my canceling headphones to be able to work. And I also listen to music that is not in my language so I can focus better.
? Law is almost never retroactive, especially not for criminal law.
Have you forgotten about apple credit card/apple pay? apple has already gotten into payments but they own the whole hardware platform, they don't need to shoehorn a tab into iMessage like WeChat has to
The problem with that is the expenses are already arbitrary with international businesses. It is Hollywood accounting of making movies "never turn a profit" writ large and arguably more honest. If say Amazon UK "rents" their branding, storefront, and similiar from Amazon US the value.

Essentially unfixed value goods + deductions = massive loophole. Unfixed fuzzy values are also very valuable to money launderers.

It is nastily entangled with other issues where a fix would carry major side effects. It is a metaphorical lodged bullet against the heart wall - its current existence is problematic but just yanking it out would do way worse damage.

Removing all deductions wouldn't be viable from many other business models.

For simpler amateur closes I can see a simple close being an explicit "your own external owned subcorporations never count as expenses" or "if you sell these exploitable things they must be open market bid and are transaction taxed" which would lead to lots of weirdness.
"tamil tiger terrorists" the article says. I dont believe I am a terrorist at all :(

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It's a different issue, but yes, I can totally see how people would be less happy about paying taxes when those taxes are wasted on stupid crap and not used to improve the situation of them and their fellow citizens.
Not to stray into politics but in general terms, I'm wondering if decided views on the topic (either way) would be altered for folk living in a country which then democratically elected a government with a no-bones-about-it Marxist agenda. Interestingly enough, I believe such an experiment might take place shortly.
It's not torture if you can leave at any time. He wasn't being held in the embassy, he was hiding there.
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There's chatter that the Queen of England is a lizard shapeshifter. The claims that one accuser was a CIA operative appear very, very thin.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/07/rape-claims-ju...

> What has most engaged the conspiracy theorists and Assange's more excitable defenders, however, are a few key incidents in Miss A career, in particular that she is said to have worked in the Swedish embassy in the US, and wrote her university thesis in 2007 on a vision of Cuba after the death of Castro.
Yes but eyewitness testimony is first written down, their testimony in court is based off that specifically for this reason. This is also why police use notebooks. Neither of which are very reliable anyway, but courts don't rely on a witness making his/her testimony unsupported.
I had recently begun considering a smart watch to replace my original Pebble, and was considering Fitbit, but this is exactly why I won't be going with them. I'm slowly De-Googling and spreading my digital life across multiple providers instead of being at the mercy of a single one. I don't expect my total privacy exposure will be significantly less, but it's more about not having my email, media purchases, phone integration, and more all tied to just Google.
Thanks, Mark. Yes, the $49 plan was really needed as the step from $8 to $149 was just too big of a leap.
They are not doing this anymore [0] and I assume there is a reason for that.

UDPATE: Here is the reason: "And then, GFT failed—and failed spectacularly—missing at the peak of the 2013 flu season by 140 percent. When Google quietly euthanized the program, called Google Flu Trends (GFT), it turned the poster child of big data into the poster child of the foibles of big data. " [1]

[0] https://www.google.org/flutrends/about/

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/10/can-learn-epic-failure-google-...
Your definition of sexual assault is dangerously lacking in nuance.

Most people who have had long term sexual partners have had a time or two where they "didn't really want to participate" but did anyway without much/any complaining for the sake of their partner. Are all all those instances "basically sexual assault"?

Watering down the definition of sexual assault to include instances where nobody felt assaulted in any way does not result in it being taken more seriously.
Lived there for about 2 years while that was going down. Constructions cost was offloaded to consumers in the from of energy cost increases. It was very controversial. I dont recall the details of why it failed, but iirc, it was also around the same time as the Westinghouse bankruptcy and it ended in the only F500 company headquartered in the Columbia area being bought. I knew a few people working there as contractors who lost a job.

It's kinda sad we cant seem to finish projects like this. Nuclear energy seems one of the best bets at transitioning to renewable.
"Melzer was accompanied during his prison visit on 9 May by two medical experts specialised in examining potential victims of torture and other ill-treatment."

Are you saying we should take your word over theirs?
That's different that wearing a tracking device ok your arm.

People are really upset because google started acting politically. If they weren't concerned about Google's judgment they wouldn't be worried.

But they're right to worry.
It was a case of an over zealous employee following rules. That individual was lucky that she is white & French. She has also friends in Montreal CBC media. Hence the outcry."How dare you reject one of us"

There are many unlike her, who is not white & French whose applications got rejected in Québec immigration department's cherry picking. We will never hear their story.

The CAQ is pandering to its 37% of voters. Makes one wonder whether rest of Canada is ok with this openly racist policies of a provincial govt.

"Immigrants Not Being Able to Read Their Hydro Bill Won’t Save the French Language"

https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/immigrants-not-being-abl...

"Anti-immigrant sentiments hurt Quebec"

https://www.mcgilltribune.com/opinion/anti-immigrant-sentime...
This is coming from a lady pitching for redistribution of wealth and universal healthcare. She also takes her time to attack men as the only ones who can receive a cure from something most everybody faces at one time or another. I'm sorry, I've been burned out for years but this sounds more like a mental illness than occupational burnout.

My thoughts while reading this are... can you imagine if she had a family to support?

I think the cure for burnout is time off and thinking about all the things you do have and not about how unfair the world is. It's always been that way and always will be. Millennials are burned out at a much higher rate due to the fact that they are the most entitled generation entering the workforce.

If it's truly occupational, I think one should find a new job. To quit with nothing else lined up except a dream, that's just irrational behavior. The world owes us nothing and our ancestors had it much much worse.

Also, she hasn't even had 3 months off. The general rule is at least half the time you've been burned out to truly recover. At least that's what I hear from people who we're actually able to recover, the ones without children to feed. For this guy, it's not a reality. I have to grind and it's just the way it is.
If not extradited to the US, he would most likely end up being deported to his country of origin (Australia) directly.
Please don't confuse income taxes with taxes on profit. Income tax is like a tax on revenue - you pay it where you get it, you can't deduct costs. You can tax corporations on revenue or you could tax consumption (by VAT or sells tax) and that wouldn't be evaded either. The problem is with taxing profits and elusive concept of "profits in specific market". The concept doesn't really makes much sense though.

It also isn't a just concept if you think about it. Why should France (for example) get more tax just because Ireland made it possible to produce things cheaper? If they feel you should pay for access to the market tax that. It's really is not your business how much I spend in my country to produce goods I sell in yours. Trying to police that across borders, varying accounting regulations, labor laws etc. is just insanity.
It is something that is within the lawmakers’ power to do.
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