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@autovate
Automate, innovate. Problem solver & solution artist. I̶n̶t̶e̶r̶g̶a̶l̶a̶c̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶m̶e̶m̶e̶l̶o̶r̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶e̶r̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶s̶h̶i̶t̶p̶o̶s̶t̶er̶.
Ida-Virumaa Katılım Eylül 2020
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Golden handcuffs are the most expensive trap in the UK professional class.
You take a £120K job. The salary feels life-changing for the first 6 months. Then the lifestyle catches up — the mortgage on the bigger house, the kids' private school fees, the car finance, the holiday cottage in Cornwall, the partner who's also stopped earning to look after the kids.
The £120K, once a luxury, has become the minimum required to keep the life running.
The job becomes impossible to leave because the entire structure of your life depends on it. You stop questioning whether you actually like it. You start measuring everything against the salary you'd be giving up.
The lads who 'made it' in the City, in law, in tech management are the most trapped people in the country. Their version of freedom is being able to afford to retire by 55, after 25 years of work they couldn't escape from. The lads with no salary and no fixed costs have more genuine freedom at 27.
What looks like the prize from the outside is actually the bait. The salary holds you in place better than any contract could.
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Cualquier persona debería ser capaz de responder correctamente a esta pregunta al terminar la educación secundaria.
Wikingenieria@Wikingenieria
Quién quiere ser millonario en Bulgaria. Vaya panda de frikis 😂
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@samuel_hayden_ Yep, 640x512 @ 60hz for sub-1000 if you know where to look on *.cn
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You can literally go buy ITAR free cores that are above 9hz. People just don't understand how to buy them or what they can buy.
Scott Manley@DJSnM
It's bizarre that US government rules make it impossible for US companies to compete with foreign manufactures because of ITAR. The US invented the technology and Chinese companies are selling better hardware because they don't have to follow US laws.
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All it took was a bit of skin in the game to get researchers to finally start caring about the trustworthiness of the publishing process
Impressive it took this long.
Luca Ambrogioni@LucaAmb
Note that any of my coauthors can submit or update something on arxiv without my direct consent Minor edits are submitted by one author routinely with the tacit approval of the PI and collaborators With this policy, it becomes a huge risk
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@NapierHolland @aswren @DanicaPriest UK is a giant daycare for lazy people. Even the police is just a welfare scheme for humanities grads.
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@autovate @aswren @DanicaPriest In hindsight, I'd have left the UK immediately after uni.
I can't complain, life has worked out well: I have a remote business and have lived in a bunch of countries.
But the UK is a total waste of time for lifestyle optimisation.
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No actually ‘send the “undeserving” to outer London’ is NOT all well and good what’s wrong with you? Did you think this was a progressive take? 😳
Cllr Alisha Lewis@Alishacmlewis
*Send the undeserving to outer-London* is all well and good if there are enough council houses in outer-London. There aren't. Massive wait lists meet acute need profiles there too. You’ll fall off the end of John o' Groats before you find somewhere *without* those conditions.
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@NapierHolland @aswren @DanicaPriest Yep.
I left the UK after uni, a friend stayed back and tried to live there for a while before giving up and leaving.
He's still paying for that mistake.
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@aswren @DanicaPriest I worked hard in tech to buy a £330k apartment in Cambridge.
My neighbours included drug dealers given identical apartments, for free. They trashed the place.
I solid it to a Chinese investor and left the UK.
I will no longer pay UK income tax.
That’s the UK in a nutshell.
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@McNolf @Madcyril2001 The left considers anyone in employment as greedy
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@Andercot I've been into VR since early 00's and I didn't expect Vive / Oculus / Index / Vision to succeed.
First three too expensive and complex for normies to use, lacking killer content.
Vision same issues but even worse.
I know a few normies getting Meta headsets though lately.
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The absolute non-takeoff of VR and AR is probably one of the big upsets in consumer electronics history
Pretty much everyone thought this would be huge and it sort of just isn't
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The real world: Dan saw an opportunity to damage the reputation of the biggest threat to Starmer and gleefully jumped in with both feet; discovered he’d massively overstated his case but got the media pile-on he was after so would now like to move on.
Damage done. ✅
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
The real world: Polanski apologised and admitted he lived on the boat. It’s over. But back in toytown:
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@DanNeidle How long until you get sued by someone who it turns out later, wasn't actually the subject of the article they sued over
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New idea. Next time we publish a report on a politician, I’ll keep the politician’s name blanked out for a week, and let everyone take positions before they find out who it is.
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@MyLatinLife No split year treament + then not tax resident while in a foreign jail?
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@realnews42069 @zerohedge @Swingtrader It's both. I'm 50% up YTD on a Euros account trading mostly US stocks.
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@zerohedge @Swingtrader This is the dollar going down not the market going up. Unfortunately.
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Any idea how someone could theoretically start a company while having to give 0 fucks about EU and British regulations?
E.g. a Delaware LLC with ownership in Switzerland or shit like that?
I want to be like my role models the AliExpress seller that work at a company's called Xinxeudbeujfbrxer Factory
> 0 tax paid
> Device breaks every FCC guideline in existence
> Metal casing is sometimes energized and shocks the user
> 5 dogs killed
> 0 consequences
How to start a company like that while theoretically sitting in Europe
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Yep. I’m in Europe alright…😎. What EU Commission genius thought of this?
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@IlvesToomas Perhaps we can move the TalSinki tunnel plans and bypass Latvia
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Taking shape in Estonia, yes.
Meanwhile, Latvia is trying to delay the project because the EU funds earmarked for Rail Baltica seem to have gone into other efforts. But no one’s saying where.
Marten Kokk@martenkokk
Cranes dominating the skyline at the Rail Baltica construction site in Ülemiste! Estonia’s 🇪🇪 European 🇪🇺 rail link is actually taking shape fast. Future-proof connectivity.
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