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I am less concerned with the taxes, and more concerned that Amazon/Google/etc happily pay ten times that salary. It's literally an order of magnitude difference, and contracting hourly rates seems like a similar story.

I would happily pay 3-5x the taxes for a similar salary to emigrate, but if you offer me 1/10 the pay? That's tough. It makes me feel like there isn't a big market for my services across the pond.

It's a shame, because I love tech and I lean heavily left. But this has been the case for at least the past decade, and it shows no sign of stopping.
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I've definitely also written a big chunk of something like this (including JSON) for an internal tool.

Just didn't get to realising my folders were generic tables.
Can you pay for private dentists, or similar, if you need more immediate service? And is the wait similar for major things like cancer, brain tutor, or heart surgery?
I understand the desire to tinker and learn. And still do a lot of it. But for my household infrastructure, I want it plug & play. A couple of Synology NAS, one for storage, one for backup & failover, a hardware firewall/reverse proxy/pihole container/wireguard container on a separate, hardened box. I sleep well at night and I don't have to explain to the wife why email/calendar/file sync/backup/notes/etc/etc isn't working today.

I won't say it is for everyone, and if the OP is happy with his setup, so be it, but I wouldn't say it is a path that most should wander down if they place any kind of value on their personal time.
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This interpretation of this "obligation" is true of any "obligation". "Obligations" are inherently a social capital forcing function conception. They can always be violated so this point is pretty moot.
that way, you can launch your missiles and conventional torpedos from the same launcher.

torpedoes are generally more survivable than antiship missiles.
I haven't taken the course yet. It is very new, I doubt many gave. From the intro, it seems that it's more conceptual than technical, the goal seems to be to understand how technological innovation leads to financial innovation.
Yes, but if you're starting a family, essentially free child care and schooling up to and including university is pretty nice. Hell, if you're accepted for full-time studies at University, the government pays you to keep studying (opintoraha).
Papyrus?!?!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
The GP is not supporting violence, but is underestimating the consequences of a surprising percentage of the population having mental health issues (over 1% of the U.S. population has Schizophrenia, for instance) and 10% of the population is at or below 10th percentile intelligence. Most of us understand the hyperbole, but for those who don't, the consequences are deadly.

Bannon wasn't calling for violence, but way too many people would clearly interpret it as such, and that has serious consequences.
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Anyone with hardware on the network path can do it... Or anyone who can inject BGP routes can do it too.
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Actual data from OECD is available, so we don't have to rely on anecdotes.

It is by far not "one of the weaker health care systems".

https://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/health-care-quali...
Let's say you take home around 3k, you keep it.

You can get an apartment in the (actual) city center around 50m^2 for 900-1000 of that, food expenses I'd guess are around 500 (never tracked it) and that leaves you with 1500 to enjoy on life each month.

I purchased my place after about 5 years which is 5mins by subway to the center, and I pay around the same for my mortgage as I did on rent, except I am investing in equity now. I'm also set to make a large profit when I sell this place. I'm very happy with my entry into the property market here. It's completely infeasible to do this in cities like London or any major metropolitan area in the US.
Amish do not avoid tech, they test it and see pro/cons and then they take a decision if it will get adopted or not. They have a lot of tech enthusiast that will try new tech and then the elders will decide to keep it or not. And they strive for self-sufficiency 100%.
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As for taxes, I recommend this Harvard video series on ethics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY&t=13s&ab_channel...

Note: Taxes appear way after several videos though...
I have a lot of ideas (or rather, one idea) about how to fix my CI problems and "fancy build system" is pretty apt. Bazel is the closest thing I've seen to what I want.
You can often go further than that with some database trickery.

We once needed to cache a list of objects that was unacceptably slow serialize the JSON for. We needed to cache them in memcache, but also needed reliable cache invalidation without having to instrument every ingestion point with the logic. Here's what we ended up doing.

1. Every record gets an int field titled "index" or similar.

2. Every time a record is inserted or updated, index is changed to the next value from a sequence

3. The cache key for memcache includes the number of records and the maximum index from all the records returned (including any intermediate objects if joins are involved)

4. Infinite TTL for all cache keys, but the entire cache is LRU guaranteeing that stale records are eventually removed.

This setup works because any conceivable operation done would change the cache key. If new records are inserted or deleted, count and index change. If a record is updated, then the max index changes. Even deleting and adding a new record will change the index, meaning that no matter what happens you'll get a new key and the system will continue to cache appropriately.
It's at least a 95% reliable solution, which seems to be about the same as a real user sees.
This particular problem you mentioned can easily be solved in ways that do not involve Kubernetes, for example, having a linux image w/ prometheus daemon running and some sort of service discovery (consul) that prometheus hooks to to discover the infrastructure.
I believe those are generally only taxed when “realized”.
There is a wonderful apocryphal quote by Otto von Bismarck

"God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America."

The United States has been extremely lucky through her history. We somehow had the right leaders show up at the right time:

* George Washington not only lead the country to independence, but more importantly, he resigned after 8 years as President, when he could have easily been King for life.

* Abraham Lincoln who saw America through her darkest time when brother was literally killing brother on the field of battle. He kept the country together and also ended slavery.

* Franklin Roosevelt: Kept the country from being split apart by the Great Depression by pushing the New Deal and successfully led America through WWII

* Harry Truman: Ended WWII, and laid the foundation for 70 years of peace in Western Europe by establishing the Marshall Plan, rebuilding Europe and Japan, and instead of returning to isolation, committing the United States as the champion of the international order.

The United States has seen many dark days, and we have pulled through. I have confidence that we will pull through this current crisis as well.
You can, but what is the point of high taxes then?
Most parts of the city I've been to have patches of green at least. I guess the core CBD doesn't have much but even a little bit outside (River Valley, Tanjong Pagar) are quite nice. What area are you in?
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Obviously there are also plenty of private practices, but they cost a lot.

Cancer treatment, etc, there will be a waiting list as well on public sector. Wait time depend on the severity and where you live.
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> I would happily pay 3-5x the taxes for a similar salary to emigrate, but if you offer me 1/10 the pay?

Are you calculating the cost of living?
if landowners are a minority of the city, then how do laws pass that benefit them so much at the cost of the majority?
SSS?

In my circles, That’s instructions forgetting away with murder: “Shoot. Shovel. Shut up.”

Does it mean something else in this context?
Another great point, it is entirely likely that happened in SF since I’ve heard the homeless population quoted as 20,000 a couple years ago. As the commenter above also pointed out, my original math was indeed misleading.
> Can you pay for private dentists, or similar, if you need more immediate service

If you need immediate service, you get to a fast track queue and can get free dentist care on the same day. If it's non-acute, you can go to a private clinic which is highly subsidized but does costs some money. But nothing like in the US.

> And is the wait similar for major things like cancer, brain tutor, or heart surgery

If you have serious acute illness, you will not be stuck in a queue. Such a situation would probably be grounds to a lawsuit.
Sure, a "normal" torpedo that blew the front off an "unsinkable" sub, and then Russia declined foreign help and let their sailors (who were banging metal from inside for days) die to not let anyone close to the site.

I was in Russia at the time. They were testing supercavitation torpedoes, this was even reported in newspapers and on Russian TV shortly before the incident. Here's a contemporaneous slashdot post, referring to one of the top Russian TV channels, NTV: https://science.slashdot.org/story/00/08/22/1857222/kursk-de...
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Regarding dentisty: Yes, but they can be pricy. I think I had some minor filling work done once and it ended up being around 200-300e.

There is absolutely no issue if your issue is acute or serious with the public healthcare. But as mentioned, if your issue is complicated (e.g. i have an undiagnosed hip issue for a year) it takes ages to get scans and such.
Ultimately GUI vs CLI is false dichotomy.

GUI refers how information is represented to the user, and CLI refers how user interacts with the application. If not quite 100% orthogonal, they are two different aspects of the total UI, and there imho is plenty of room to go further and explore the space instead of fixating on some age-old patterns.
What time do the stores close in Helsinki? I heard in Sweden from a friend who lived there briefly that everything was dark and closed early like 6-7pm. The opposite of a place like NYC or even here in downtown Toronto where it's normal to find plenty to do until midnight.

They said it was some sort of strict cultural thing. Everyone wakes up early and you got to get used to that early schedule. And I've been a life long night-hawk.

Not talking just about bars either. I have multiple 24/7 convince stores and gas stations near by. And Uber Eats shows quite a few options at 1am on week nights.
As extra for the language. Even in tech you should just accept that you NEED to start learning Finnish. You don't have to be proficient speaker, but for normal office chat you need to be good enough to interrupt and step in with English if you want to participate.

I've seen many foreigners quit because they felt like they were intentionally left out of casual conversations, but you really have to understand that speaking in a 2nd or 3rd language for just casual stuff takes a lot of mental effort and if you are already working in a field that requires that effort lowering everyone's productivity to keep you in some nonsense about lawn mowers doesn't make sense.
Why didn't Elon start SpaceX in Canada or South Africa?
As he has hundreds of posts (some of them about Shopify) and almost 4,000 karma, I'm not sure you can really call him a lurker!
Isn't it amazing how we're suddenly being educated on this special case in American history. Trump and his goons want to use this as precedent to pull, essentially a coup. Precedent that goes right back to a time when racist slave masters were "losing value"... imagine that. How utterly depressing.
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Wait, so you are saying there are no long queues after all?
It's nowhere near that simple. Broadly speaking, Singapore is more classist than racist: moneyed expats of all colors have it pretty good here, and locals of all colors are treated much better than workers doing menial jobs. Yes, there's currently a backlash against Indian immigrants in professional middle-class roles, but not long ago there was a similar backlash against mainland Chinese.
The private health care is basically for skipping the line and most employers provide it for you so that you miss no time from work.
Not even experts can agree whether Benford's law is useful in the detection of election fraud [1].

Let's stop broadcasting conspiracy theories about "widespread fraud". Well... fraud in, you know, only the states that it looks like Trump narrowly lost (we'll see once all votes have been accounted for).

I understand the desire take these absolutely nuts claims and try to rationalize them and shrink back down into something that is easy to work out like math. This is easily one of the most uncertain periods of time in our life and conspiracy theories are well known to be a natural response to that fear of the future. But, the cold hard truth is that fraud detection like this isn't a hard science and experts have a hard time making robust claims. Random people on the internet applying statistical techniques that they learned about a few hours before making the leap to go around screaming "Fraud!" isn't real evidence. It's conspiracy theory and no different than all of the detailed mechanical engineering assessments people warp themselves through to believe that 9/11 was an inside job.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political-analysis/a...
That’s on par with what you have to pay in the US.
They're not taking mushrooms, they're taking raw psilosybin sans any of the other active components in the mushrooms such as the bits that act as MAOIs. That seem to help reduce the chance of having a bad experience while tripping. This is why the therapist needs to be involved. If you start seeing demons or negative other hallucinations and can't calm yourself down it can be a traumatic experience.
Yes. We've got decent private insurance and health care.
Take home alone is a meaningless number if you don't compare it against cost of living. This is a bit like asking "how much to fill up your car" without asking how big of a gas tank it has first.
Can you expand on that?

For me, :wq closes the current buffer.
For me, :e works as expected.

There might be a built in alternative to :set nu. How do you expect that to work?
I agree here. I feel in the places I've worked though, people have generally been welcoming and I have been able to get enough out of the "casual" side to enjoy it :)
I thought their launch post was this https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/welcome/ back in 2004.
Employers are required to provide occupational healthcare, which at least in my experience - of IT workplaces - provides quick access to care, dental or otherwise. Actually this is one of the pain points of the healthcare system here, the long wait times for patients without occupational healthcare.
No offense but OP is right and you are wrong. Health care in Scandinavia is great in many ways and not so great in others. People do suffer, even die, waiting in line for public treatment, and health care lawsuits aren't really a thing.
Is this really a quality of life thing? Are you going to make your decisions about where your live because you have to run your errands before a certain time?

That said, there's no issue in Helsinki. Big shops and malls are open until 8-10, some smaller shops might close around 18 but they have to go home to feed their families.

The 24/7 lifestyle might be convenient, but I've never thought I might need it.
> living with roommates to save 10K a year does sound like one step above poverty.

Sounds like every college student and recent grad I've ever known.
I liked this piece in many ways. But can't help but notice that the neoliberal economy is missing from his picture. Gurri mentions it once:

>The usual economic explanations explain nothing, in my opinion.

Pretty sure Sanders disagrees.
I heard an anecdote where he received a technical briefing from a security team about a product in about 2003 and asked them meaningful, challenging technical questions in reply.
My point is that you are also paying taxes for that free healthcare while attending private.
AWS still is CLI-first.
I remember the first generation imac, but i dont remember them being that bad.
Hey. I started with git since the beginning but wiped out the repo history just before making it public. The commits were all "wip" anyway :D I wasn't sure I'll make it public as I was mainly doing this to generate my eBook.
Ah my mistake the brokerage account is to Chase, not the checking.
Yes, it's mostly about purchasing power. Rent/property tax/insurance is expensive, but everything else is cheap and there's no VAT. Some states don't even have income taxes. We have insanely painful income inequality, but as shameful as it is, you can usually clear the hurdle prices with a 6-figure income.

I'm not an aristocrat and I oscillate between working hard and going off into nature for random periods of time, so I'd sure like to live somewhere with a stable safety net. But for now, the US seems cheaper even with its ridiculous baseline CoL expenses. I can buy vehicles on a whim and mess with them and bum around for years on 5-10hr/week gigs even after $Nk monthly expenses, which would be difficult in the EU. And if you can pay the exorbitant health insurance rates, the medical care is actually quite good.

I do feel bad sometimes, but it's not exactly easy to change your citizenship, and the whole political situation sure isn't my fault.
Thanks you, @xchip :-) For me, to be honest, I don't know if there are other ways that can help me to value and appreciate one's family.

What I can say is that Jesus is the one who helped me in that matter ( and he still is, the good news). And to tell a story, I usually find an online meme saying "Jesus is the only answer" while the context is that the child in the meme cannot actually answer the question test.

Therefore, I have to agree that for my family life, the meme tells the truth, Jesus is the only (and for me, the last) answer I need.
> Both parties continue to self-sort in unhealthy ways.

I agree.

> the left is part of the Democratic party, but it doesn't have a strong-enough hand to play

If by "the left" you mean people like Bernie Sanders, I agree. But his hand isn't strong enough not because he's a leftist, but because he's an outsider. The insider policies of the Democratic party are just as leftist; they're just a different flavor of leftist--roughly speaking, New Left vs. Sanders-style Old Left, hardball power politics vs. "softer" socialism. That's also why the Democrats now are just fine allying with Wall Street and big business: power politics needs financing, and that's where the money is.

> don't be so hard on Hillary

You're entitled to your opinion, but I'm also entitled to mine.
Finland is not Scandinavia and its systems are not necessarily comparable. You have shortcomings in any healthcare system, but I'd take this and all its flaws in a heartbeat over the absolute shitshow that is the US healthcare system.
I went for the large fonts to make it easier for people to read. You can customize everything about fonts and styling while generating your own book.
Yeah wall clock isn't reliable. But if the server could send a global version/logical clock, then the client can say this is the latest version I've got. Which is essentially what tcp, git, etc do.
In the big picture welfare pays for a society with decreased social strife. For a working age expat this means not having to harden yourself and your family against homeless people on the streets, be afraid of getting mugged, and having educated & skilled coworkers because free education doesn't waste the potential of the economically disadvantaged.
I know an apple dev who thinks the same about their product, lol.
There are queues. If you have non-acute problems you might have to wait. Especially if you need a dentistry check up, you might get an appointment that's several months away. Though now with COVID the dentistry lines have become shorter
I wrote a tool that dumps a SQLite database out to disk as diffable JSON, precisely so you can easily record changes made to the database over time: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-diffable

I have a demo of it running against my blog's database here: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog-backup
I'd go for YAML instead of JSON, or "JSON with trailing commas", or else the diffs become messy.
haha. That's hilarious :D
Run it in a docker container so that it does the same in your computer and in the CI worker.

make prepare

make build

make test

make release

Working the same waylocally and in jenkins makes things very easy.

What it does is up to the team but make prepare usually pulls some docker image and install dependencies, make build builds something inside the docker image, make test runs test inside it and make release publishes the docker img
Doesn't having a popular black president in the US from 2008-2016 rather undermine the idea that black people are an underclass in the US? As opposed to being a group that on average have lower income than other groups in society?

Couldn't assuming that any individual black person has low income or is part of an "underclass" be considered racist, in the sense of making judgements about individuals based on their skin color?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underclass
And then wonder why the city's tax base dies and turn into detroit.
In Canada our wait times aren't so bad but the quality of service is much to be desired. A lot of the most talented move to the US for higher pay, which most 'average' people probably dont notice but as someone who takes pathology courses for fun online I've noticed we don't get the 'best'.

The major thing beyond that perception though is you get a ton of doctors offices who work like mills, they try to get as many patients as possible through each day as possible. Even 'family doctors' as a opposed to 'walk-in clinics' where you don't need to be a 'member' with a specific doctor.

It's because in Canada the get paid for 15 minute (or optionally 30min) chunks regardless if they saw you for 2minutes or 15 minutes. So there's always this underlying pressure to get you out the door.

You have to learn to really pressure them to take your conditions seriously and take them time to review your condition.

Don't get me wrong though, I'm otherwise a die hard capitalist for most areas and still think that public health insurance (not hospitals or doctors) is the moral and better choice. Healthcare insurance lacks many benefits of a market and places like the US meddle with them to death anyway where they aren't true markets, so they might as well be public. Just like prisons, some things should be run by the state, just very few things.
4-6k seems high even for Helsinki. For starting position you can expect 2-3k, then as you build towards seniority you can get to 4-5k range, but you can expect to work for 5-10 years before you get to that 5k/mo (before taxes).

Now all kind of exceptions will come out the wood works telling me how they are "easily" making 10k/mo by doing something and working for someone who they won't admit. Yes even I know someone who is (or at least was) making 10k/mo, but he was very specialized expert, actual 10x developer. Most people are making far less. 3k/mo seems like the most common salary (again before taxes) for generic tech job.
Guy Raz interviewed him on How I Built This last year, great listen

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/02/747660923/shopify-tobias-l-tk...