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Re: Europe's Software Problem

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Post by mnouquet » Fri, Jun 18, 2021, 9:53 PM UTC

hef19898 wrote: post #516

rad_gruchalski wrote: post #429

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> Germany (and many other european countries) has the idea of a trade school, in which one learns a trade. And that is a problem. Want to be a plumber? 3 years education. Want to open a bakery? 3 years education. Want to work at a bank? 3 years education. Want to be a hairdresser? You guessed it right - 3 years education. Handwerker? No luck, 3 years education. Car mechanic? Forget it. It’s ridiculous.

Yeah, so rediculous that having that kind of vocational training basically gets immigration visas on its own in Canada and Australia. Having proper training apparently increases quality.

You really don't need any quality to immigrate to Canada (unless you are white).

Re: Europe's Software Problem

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Post by mr_gibbins » Mon, Jun 21, 2021, 2:48 PM UTC

mmarq wrote: post #575

mr_gibbins wrote: post #573

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Not to be a dick but what's your source on that? I understood it to be 40% up to 150k, not 60% as per https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-and-thresholds-for-employe...

In the UK you don’t pay taxes on the first 12500£ you earn in a tax year. This is the income tax allowance. For each 2£ you earn above 100K, your income tax allowance is reduced by 1£. At 125K, your allowance reaches 0. The result is that between 100K and 125K your marginal tax rate is 60%. At 125K it goes back to 40%.

Wow - thank you for this, TIL.

Re: Europe's Software Problem

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Post by jkingsbery » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 8:26 PM UTC

kaba0 wrote: post #327

jkingsbery wrote: post #289

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Right. Last I read, Hacktoberfest created a huge amount of spam for Open Source contributions, and all that was on the line there was a t-shirt. You seem to be suggesting that real money should be involved - do you think the outcome will be different than Hacktoberfest?

Yes? Like donating money to a well-established project is very different than sending a t-shirt to whoever creates a repo with 2 commits or what..

If people are willing to create a ton of spam for a t-shirt, I would imagine that a lot more spam would be created if contributions were rewarded with more money. Or at least, it's not immediately clear what mechanisms would exist that would prevent spam pay-for-contributions that also wouldn't work for t-shirt contributions.

Re: Europe's Software Problem

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Post by CRConrad » Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 10:20 AM UTC

mannerheim wrote: post #309

whimsicalism wrote: post #292

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50% of all wealth in the United States is inherited by the top 5% wealthiest families. 60% of all wealth in the United States is inherited.

Not particularly relevant. A significant chunk of that inherited wealth comes in the form of housing. The US has a total wealth of $105t, $36.2t of that is housing, which then ends up getting inherited by homeowners' children. We're talking about how billionaires make their wealth as a proxy for entrepreneurship. It makes no sense to talk about how many billionaires Sweden has as a measure for their entrepreneurship…

> > 50% of all wealth in the United States is inherited by the top 5% wealthiest families.

> Not particularly relevant. A significant chunk of that inherited wealth comes in the form of housing. The US has a total wealth of $105t, $36.2t of that is housing, which then ends up getting inherited by homeowners' children.

Feels utterly relevant; what's irrelevant is your fact that much of US wealth is bound up in housing: The top 5% wealthiest families are hardly likely to live in 50% of all housing.

Re: Europe's Software Problem

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Post by CRConrad » Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 11:16 AM UTC

nickpp wrote: post #563

GekkePrutser wrote: post #548

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You don't have to click it every time. Just once. The choice can be perfectly well saved in a cookie because it's a cookie necessary for site operations. They don't even need approval. Only unnecessary ones do.

So you can save the user's "No cookies" preference in a cookie? Right.

Yes, right. As in, absolutely nothing wrong with that. What's so hard to understand about this?