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as mentioned earlier, setting boundaries is up to you
My wife's sister once said my problem was that I couldn't say no.
One of the most difficult but most empowering skills to learn, in my opinion
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Just like taxation regimes have scrambled to keep up with the fact that you can order something from abroad and have ambiguity of where the sales tax will be applied - this is the next big thing about to happen: High skilled, (comparatively) rich, healthy knowledge workers will leave the place they reside, move somewhere like Dubai (no tax, few free public services - doesn't matter they're not going to need them) to…
You raise great points. I think what countries would need to do is to lower taxes (potentially considered to be controversial by some) to attract talent from other countries and keep existing talent.
I think a lot of ageing countries would have a hard time with that. Germany for example, is constantly looking at new ways to generate tax income. For them, lowering taxes, especially middle-class income taxes, is completely out of the question.
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> lonely single guys like me Just like every other human being you can socialise with the people around you (unless you live in the middle of the desert with nobody around, in which case I apologise). If that's pathologically impossible due to fear or something along those lines, you need therapy. Working from home isn't taking a toll on you, it's the problems that already existed but that you have ignored.
That's unduly personal and crosses into IPD (Internet Psychiatric Diagnosis). Please don't do that here–the odds that it will land well with the other person are vastly smaller than you expect, no matter how helpful your intentions are. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a... What works better is to share some of your own relevant personal experience, if you want to. https://news.ycombinator.c…
Reading it back now, you're absolutely right. I'll strive to be better in the future.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
You raise great points. I think what countries would need to do is to lower taxes (potentially considered to be controversial by some) to attract talent from other countries and keep existing talent.
I think a lot of ageing countries would have a hard time with that. Germany for example, is constantly looking at new ways to generate tax income. For them, lowering taxes, especially middle-class income taxes, is completely out of the question.
That would/might push away many young highly skilled workers as well as push away any potential immigrants. Its hard decision no doubt
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What about lte connections? I live 40km from Berlin and I get 5G. 4G would be quite decent too.
You are lucky. Germany is the absolute worst for good 4G connection outside the cities and along some autobahns.
I posted a couple days ago my anecdotes about Germany's internet when visiting there, even inside big cities the 4G connections are spotty. I have first-hand experiences with Hamburg, München, Frankfurt and Berlin.
I still experienced many times signal drops from 4G to 3G in Berlin late 2019, it's baffling coming from the perspective of Sweden.
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#196I expect employers should offer an additional allowance for extra space to work in at home or (post lockdown) coffee shop/coworking space fees.
In Sweden (and I suspect the UK) there are tax exemptions for home offices. There are some requirements, you can't use the room for anything except work, it must have a lockable door, etc; There's some consideration too for broadband, though I don't speak Swedish well enough to be able to file this for myself.
There are tax exemptions but during corona Skatteverket has stated that most of those cases aren't eligible for 2020 [0] (answer to the question "Kan jag göra några avdrag med anledning av corona?"):
> Du som under 2020 har jobbat hemma med anledning av pandemin kan som regel inte få avdrag för exempelvis arbetsrum, bredband, möbler eller kaffe, även om du har haft de kostnaderna för att du har jobbat hemma.
Translating:
> Can I make deductions due to corona?
> If you have worked from home in 2020 due to the pandemic, you cannot normally receive a deduction for, for example, workplaces, broadband internet, furniture or coffee, even if you absorbed the costs by working from home.
[0] https://www.skatteverket.se/privat/deklaration.4.2b543913a42...
Re: Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere'
#197i read a lot of studies about how productivity increases when working from home. so i decided to superficially calculate this after a year of working from home for all of my very diverse clientele (fortune 500, small agencies, etc). i felt that a lot less work was being done, but i didn’t know how much. or why. since i’m a coder at heart i looked at tickets/features and commits. something easy to measure. what i foun…
What you failed to account for is that we are all working from home during a global health crisis.
I never felt burnt out before, but I do now. I haven't worked much more than if I was in the office, but conflating not having an office space for the usual water cooler discussions that helped shape architectures, having to schedule any kind of small conversation, be ready in your seat, etc. Having to be on during the expected office hours but from home, with no contrasts in life apart from the occasional walk, biking outside.
The drop is not necessarily due to working from home, more due to: working at home, during a crisis, while trying to build up completely new processes for working remotely, adjusting team spirit for that, adjusting means of communication to not be overwhelming (how many of us haven't already experienced Zoom/videocalls fatigue and started to give up on them? I know I have).
We are all mostly just at home, trying to work, I would hate to see this kind of data being misused to state that working from home is less productive. Working during a pandemic while loved ones are dying or in danger is less productive.
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Let me introduce you to my friend, --funroll-loop: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Ge... Well, that's just a fun detour, I meant manual loop unrolling: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/for-gotten-about-loops
I only had time to go through the gentoo one. Although I never used gentoo and think that minimal perf improvements like those mentioned throughout are silly in exchange for having to know all the incantations and borking your OS every other monday, vs having something that works out of the box, I don't disagree entirely with the binary/source idea. But it would need a different kind of OS and lib organisation than t…
It's a super old joke from at least 10 years ago, when computers were much less powerful and compiling everything was silly for a desktop OS. You'd get 1-2% increased performance and you'd have to spend tens of hours compiling everything :-)
A bit of a shame since Gentoo is quite a nice distro.
Read the second one, it's much shorter. It's just a joke about people "unrolling loops" manually, i.e. not using loops, so that their line count goes up (for people paid per LOC).
Re: Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere'
#199i read a lot of studies about how productivity increases when working from home. so i decided to superficially calculate this after a year of working from home for all of my very diverse clientele (fortune 500, small agencies, etc). i felt that a lot less work was being done, but i didn’t know how much. or why. since i’m a coder at heart i looked at tickets/features and commits. something easy to measure. what i foun…
I loved working from home pre-pandemic.
But currently I'm burned out. Living a groundhog day esque life. Getting up, sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours for work, sitting in front of a TV or a computer for 4-6 hours for "fun", go to sleep, repeat.
I'm trying to spend a few hour outside a day, but I have already seen every street in the 5 miles radius of my home at least twice.
I haven't been on a real vacation in the previous one and a half years. Taking PTO for sitting home is not relaxing.
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> I mean, nobody opens a Zoom call to just chit-chat about mundane stuff. Well, some do but I‘m sick of taking any additional video call beyond the 4h I’m enduring every day. Some indeed do, but for some reason it requires more effort than meeting physically did. I never did that, but I had co-workers who did it regularly even pre-pandemic. What more people do, though, is chit-chat about mundane stuff on IMs . Depend…
> What more people do, though, is chit-chat about mundane stuff on IMs. Depending on the company, your subordinates may already have their own #random / #offtopic channel. Of course, as a manager, you need to stay away from it and pretend you don't know it exists :). Why is that? At all the companies I have worked at the managers would join in with these kind of things same as everyone else (not all of them, but then…
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