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With 70% effective marginal tax rate at >60k all those cool things become 3x more expensive in time invested because you only keep 30% of your labor input above that amount. IDK ab…

Then why work hard if everything you need is paid by someone else? This may explain low salaries in EU and 30 day PTO. Then if people don't make a lot they have to tax them more to…

Europeans make around half of what similar roles make in US and pay up to 70% of their income in taxes (50% income + 20% vat). What are they spending all that money on?

I don't remember worrying about data usage. I got into wardriving and was torrenting from neighbors unsecured linksys ssids. Will never forget that warm feeling of hearing netstumb…

You OK?

I still use torrents to find lossless CD rips of various 80s - 90s music. Makes it easy to get multiple different releases and pick best sounding version. Buying used CDs on ebay t…

It took about 30 minutes to get 3.5 MB mp3 song over dial up. I would let downloads run overnight and could get a dozen songs by next day. I would do my bulk mp3 downloading in the…

When I was in Seattle I noticed youtube, facebook and maybe other apps load and run faster. I was on fiber internet at an apartment. Back in Miami I was on Comcast cable but recent…

DC in Miami, explains why Telegram app is snappy fast for me. I notice similar speed improvement with Meta and other big tech apps when I'm on the west coast. I guess latency matte…

> arm64 is an IP-locked ISA, namely it is not worth assembly writting Why is that a problem? Google search returns 3K page arm64 ISA manual. What else do you need to write asm?

It's not just X, it's Y.

I wish tech companies would stop shoving AI in my face everywhere. F off google i don't want to "ask ai" in maps. Get that ugly ai button off from messenger, meta. At least microsl…

That was on free Xfnity Wifi. They got called out for it.

What first world ISP does this?

I wonder if you could roll your own VPN tunnel that directly connects to your home internet IP and passes custom encrypted payload that your IT department cannot decode. Would they…

> Update 2023-11-05 Yeah, I've got an LE cert now. And I don't want to talk about it. Please do tell. I'm curious what forced him to join The Borg.

I guess it's legal because Spotify is a private subscription service and does not use public airwaves like radio so Payola rules do not apply.

Perfect! It has option to download original yt audio format without transcoding to mp3.

My CPU was at 27% (i3-4130) and 27 watts power use vs. 11w at idle. Added uBlock filter: github.com##div.signup-stars and CPU was back to 1%. Background stars animation is the culp…