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You should be able to find remote work that pays £50k+ relatively easily. Although the whole Brexit thing may make that harder. :\
To me, £70k was more a geographic / economic area issue. Under $50k/£50k you just have to get out.
Work less, get out and do fun things more.
Most people aren't primarily motivated by money once they are making a full salary as a developer.
PTO, Work/Life Balance, and Geography are more relevant to my life choices than how much I'm paid (to a point, certain areas I've noticed don't pay enough).
https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/profit_margin
Alphabet was running a 13.55% margin for its latest quarter.
https://ycharts.com/companies/WMT/profit_margin
Walmart was at a 2.59% profit margin for its latest quarter.
Which of these companies do you think are providing better PTO, Work/Life Balance, etc.?
The reality is intangibles mean more to developers than another 10% salary bump once they are making $150k.
In reality, they are likely to trigger a backlash that increases piracy instead.
https://geekalabama.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/500x1000px-l...
That is what Media companies like Disney want. People always blamed the Cable companies for it but in reality it was the big Media companies pushing Cable and Cable not caring. :\
> Netflix, however, I'll keep paying for gladly because of the library size. For the streaming price, it is well worth the value.
To a point yes. However, the balkanizing of streaming services is growing at an alarming rate.
Quitting generally has more to do with:
A) "You (the employer) Waited Until The Exit Interview To Ask What’s Wrong"
B) "You (the employee) Waited Until The Exit Interview To Convey What's Wrong"
Leaving my last job, I told them what I wanted 1-2 years before I actually left (for more money, but that wasn't the primary cause). The CEO basically told me in the exit interview if it was about money, he'd give me another 30% to get me to stay (and they had countered with that before, back when I told them what I needed to stay long term).
Money isn't necessarily the cause. Its the lack of willingness to communicate and meet the other person's needs.
The purpose with patreon being to fund her "journalistic activities" which included the legally dubious action.
Your posts come off as an extrovert who doesn't understand why introverts find socializing with random strangers a draining and unpleasant process.
> There's also the problem that, even if the infrastructure were there, that doesn't mean people will take advantage of it. Loneliness is tied very closely to the pride part of the brain, nobody wants to admit they have a problem and seek out help for it.
For some people, maybe.
I don't care about random strangers, pride, and a number of other things people (like you) expect me to. People seem to think I'm lying or confused when I say this. My accomplishments in life (outside of work) have been as anonymous as anyone could make them.
I've still had times I felt lonely but it has more to do with the fact I realized a group of people I thought were trustworthy were not. As a result, its transient until I'm done pulling the knives out of back and addressing the wounds.
As such, a large number of interactions with strangers isn't useful to me. I wouldn't trust them because most people are too selfish to be trustworthy. And trust is necessary to deal with loneliness and form connections.
> Click on the link and boom you're suddenly redirected to https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/39586278660282777....
> Okay, never fear! In that case I will provide you with irrefutable proof.
> Happy?
https://twitter.com/TouchMyMalware/status/893243147580473344
You proved he is Donald Trump?
I'm not trying to pick a fight here so just chill and move on. We aren't going to agree.
Yes. And I've had a hostile fellow once upon a time put my RL info in the whois and post a bunch of shit on it. I generally give people the benefit of the doubt when its random online public stuff until they are convicted.
The internet "evidence" is way too flimsy to be considered reasonable standards of proof imho.
That might help.
And now you understand why they booted Lauren Southern. Money is fungible and she fund raised for an activity that was legally dubious.
1) You are arguing now that journalists should have legal immunity.
> Patreon had no liability in this situation. Patreon doesn't support the sale of software, and software as speech is a much murkier area than... actual, literal speech.
2) She was taking actions that physically prevented other people from taking actions. That isn't literal speech and is much further from speech than software is.
> This is taking a political stance; anyone on either side of rescue missions for refugees is funding something that is likely to cause loss of life. One is just politically en vogue.
3) No. This is you attempting to frame outrageous criminal acts as "politics".
You don't get to go into other countries, break their laws, and expect private corporations to back you to the hilt. They are under no obligation to put themselves at risk for your beliefs.
That isn't a reasonable expectation by any stretch of the imagination. Using the logic you are applying, you believe Patreon should be compelled to support the sales of "software" in the US even if its malware on the basis of free speech.
If I was a bad man in the security profession who was certain he was anonymous, I'd point to someone else who was a security professional on twitter when I vanished too.
It just y'know, wouldn't have been me.
I opened my account awhile ago via OVH CA in USD.
And no, it isn't easy to do it in parallel because I'm almost always employed so my bandwidth is about one interview a month.
> If your dataset fits in ram, and when it doesn't you have to buy more boxes with more ram rather than just buying more disk, then I think you are making a very uneconomical trade off.
It is all in what lower latency is worth to the bottom line and how well you scale horizontally.
Yes but at least in my experience as things fit in RAM, InnoDB is still the correct choice.
TokuDB is great once you run out of RAM-related solutions but given the price point RAM is at these days, we are talking 100GB+ tables which probably shouldn't be one a single machine anyway.
That said...
> I will never understand this romanticising of free speech on private platforms. Why would a service that cares about its members _ever_ implement free speech policies? That's just asking for assholes. If anything, popular services should have _more_ filtering and removal of asshole users.
Realistically, we need moderation based on community standards the same way the US handles obscenity. (i.e. A jury of users declare content unfit and boot it with a very substantial majority being required)
"Heavy filtering" tends to result in being an asshole or creating an echo chamber. Both are undesirable.
Watching that little civil war was entertaining.
https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
> Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities. In addition, most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position. The following is a partial list of these organizations, along with links to their published statements and a selection of related resources.
When you have 97% agreement on a subject its difficult to guarantee the 3% is represented in every peer review. That isn't "gaming" the system. That is just the reality of how Science works across the board.
You aren't going to magically find a small, vocal minority has the bandwidth and numbers to be represented 50% of the time like you find in politics.
No. The fact the Right has moved so far past the center that they can't find facts to support their positions has resulted in the Right politicizing science and when that fails they ban information from being used and/or removing them from advisory boards.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/florida-has-seen-...
> North Carolina, whose barrier islands are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise, was widely mocked in 2012 when the General Assembly passed a law barring communities from using a report containing 100-year projections of sea level rise—up to 39 inches—in their planning. Three years later a compromise was reached; legislators found a new report with a 30-year time horizon less alarming, and agreed that was permissible.
> In the interim, though, coastal planning lagged. Under then-Governor Pat McCrory (R), climate change information disappeared from the state’s Department of Environmental Quality Web site. The legislature altered the makeup of the Coastal Resources Commission, which overseas coastal planning, to remove some scientists and conservation group representatives and replaced them with more business-friendly members.
https://github.com/openstack/python-openstacksdk
You'd need to use that to build it out.
On OVH you create an "OpenStack/Cloud" project -> They charge you $40 -> Then you have use of the cloud storage.
They can't because they'd need a brokerage in every state, real estate agents in every metro, and enough leverage to get the data out of the various regional MLS groups.
Its a tech company the same way Airbnb, Lyft, or Uber is a tech company. They have built alot of automation that is difficult to duplicate because you need national workforce buy-in.
https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ (S3-comparable performance)
$40/year minimum
Outgoing traffic: $0.011/GB Storage: $0.0112/month/GB
https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/cloud-archive/ (archival storage)
Incoming/Outgoing traffic: $0.011/GB Storage: $0.0023/month/GB
https://www.online.net/en/c14#pricing Storage: €0.005/Month
No traffic costs (because its archival storage)
The main downside is they are located in 1 physical area even tho they are labeled as multiple DCs.
But for high traffic uses, honestly, you can just double the storage costs (i.e. OVH CA and OVH France) to get redundancy while saving _massively_ on traffic costs.