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From observing various internet forums, including this one, I noticed that people from the "first world" countries think Elon Musk actually cares about freedom of speech and isn’t just a bored billionaire throwing his weight around.

Regarding salaries, pick a number you’re a tony bit ashamed to say out loud and add 5-10%. Use that as a starting point and let them talk you down. You’ll probably want to try this out a few times on jobs you’re meh about to get comfortable saying it.

The iPad pros are USB-C only, so I think it’s just a matter of time

I went through this exact situation. I wound up telling them like it was - I liked everything about the job except my actual duties. Then I proceeded to describe to them what I’d like to do instead (focus on ops) and basically invented a position for myself. And they said yes!

My point is, don’t dwell On What you don’t want, but rather focus on what you do want and work to make it happen.

I’m in the process of starting up a side business for my wife, making and selling physical goods. I’m in Sweden, and the go-to here is Klarna. They have their issues, but integration with WooCommerce was a breeze and people have come to expect Klarna as the default way to pay online.

Write out the whole thesis as headers and fill all the sections with Loren ipsums until you have the page count you want. Then, start filling in the real text

I stumbled upon this when trying to get started with my master thesis. In frustration, I threw a bunch of buzzwords and random thoughts at LaTeX and then stashed it for a day or two. After that, I picked it up, looked at it critically and went "well, this paragraph is obviously wrong, here's what it SHOULD say..." and two hours later I had a very rough draft finished.

Not up to speed on the specifics, but don’t the insurances always have $x000 copayments?

Exactly. 20% ON TOP of your salary. It’s baked in to the US salary. Sure, it doesn’t account for the whole delta but it’s not nothing.

> I don't personally care about daycare and college savings as I'm not planning to have kids

Right. But you ARE going to get old and sick and someone else’s children are going to take care of you. You probably want them educated and doing stupid mistakes because they’re overworked.

I’m not, but GP seems to be.

edit: alright, it was a bit snarky, but he’s basically advocating government intervention so can get more time off from work to run the household

Not income tax, payroll tax, the tax the employer pays for having employees. Most people are not even aware of this existing. It the one marked “Employer” in this table:

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

Salaries in the US are pre-payroll taxes, post in EU. Also not included in US salaries: daycare, healthcare, college savings.

Is see this trope all the time, but it’s an illusion. Compare apples to apples.

Edit: Payroll tax != income tax. Most people aren’t even aware the employer is paying this. It’s the light blue bar in the chart in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payroll_tax

> What I’d like to see is the government doing more to make it possible for all working women with families to better balance their lives.

Or, you know, the dads could pitch in with running the household.

Any other third party with funding on the level of FBI

> It's not safe to grow veggies and grains with human manures.

Not true. My wife does research on this and post-sewage treatment dried sludge actually has better values than some of the food the used as reference samples.

So do you consider HN social media or not?

Man, I must be getting old, because more and more often something like this pops up and it strikes me that this has been done before.

In this case, I was flying through the file system like nobodies business in 1991 with Norton Commander[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander

I remember it as 1/12th of a Kessel Run, easy peasy

UK's at the verge of Brexit and my hunch is things like immigration are going to be super messy for years to come. Just a heads up.

Seems like a crazy amount of risk for $200?

It’s not a software system, but rather me figuring out and abstracting away stuff like payroll, taxes, bookkeeping, client acquisition, insurances , pensions and everything else that makes developers’ palms sweaty when they think about going freelance.

Right now this doesn’t eat up all too much of my time so all is done in Excel basically. But if we’re, say, 10 devs I’d reconsider building something.

Correct, curse you autocorrect!

Personal preference, I perceive Office as much more polished and integrated that Google Apps. Plus, I get the native versions as well

Where I’m located (northern EU) consultant is a fancy word for contractor. However, due to the shortage of people I can charge 95€/hour where the fully loaded cost for an employee is around 30-40€/hour.

We’re all run-of-the-mill .Net developers, but we all have a niece (mine is finance and pension funds).

I suspect this is wildly individual. I myself prefer down pillows while my wife sleeps on one filled with wheat. My second favorite pillow is actually the IKEA Kornvallmo.

I don’t know if I’ve “made it”, but two years ago I started a small consultancy which increased my per-hour billing to almost triple compared to when I was an employee doing the same thing. I use this extra cash flow to work 25-30 hour weeks.

Recently, I started to offer this setup “as a platform” to previous co-workers taking a 20% cut of their billing. If I get to five I can stop working all together.

1) quality pillow (upping my sleep game has been a life changer) 2) password manager 3) office365 instead of google docs

There are commercial license key libraries that solve this for you. It’s been years since I used them so I’m not qualified to make suggestions