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sdf131

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    Comment #31525798

    The capital being invested has already been taxed at the source. Capital gains shouldn’t even be taxed. I earned it, paid taxes on it; what I do with it beyond that is no one’s bus…

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    Comment #28855782

    This isn’t about the billionaires. What is an immense amount of money for individuals (100 billions) really isn’t that significant for a Western government like the United States. …

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    Comment #28855750

    I think we’re ignoring scale here. Is there a country with similar population levels that provides all that? I’m Canadian and I am thankful for our benefits but our public services…

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    Comment #28793341

    There’s a huge gap between the game industry and the rest People do it out of passion, I guess. It’s funny too because the work is usually significantly harder than the much better…

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    Comment #28793305

    Stock options aren’t a thing in the game industry

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    Comment #28790868

    They’re likely earning ~40-70k so the shift isn’t very significant The real question is: are they changing the deadlines? Studio already suffer from crunch and all the meetings you…

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    Comment #27626691

    In my experience, having an up to date LinkedIn profile is more than enough. I have no presence online, I don't do open-source, I went to an absolute no-name regional school, my wo…

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    Comment #27599949

    The renters got to live somewhere for free for a year. It's not a bailout for the landlords, it's paying what's owed to the landlords. Of everyone involved, the renters are the onl…

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    Comment #27468145

    That's true of most companies. Saying that you care about your people doesn't make it true.

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    Comment #27003210

    You get paid what you're worth, not what you need.

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    Comment #26951838

    Without RSUs/stock options, it's misleading. They might be paying a competitive _base_ salary but stock is frequently > 50% of Senior employees compensation package

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    Comment #25463115

    120-150k is closer to the average I would say if you work for a public company or a well funded start-up Top of band for Senior at Shopify is low 200s (varies a bit depending on US…

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    Comment #25462278

    I make 300k in Montreal and know tons of people in the same range. I don't know TC for Mindgeek but 60k is not even close to the "typical" Montreal salary

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    Comment #25426657

    What misfortune? They made a 100b requests and used 16k CPU hours because because they were careless This cost money to Google, they're the offended party here

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    Comment #24267711

    This would be pretty short-sighted. Shopify benefits from the app store ecosystem (and can generate revenue from it) while allowing developers to invest in the platform in exchange…