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I've been with the company almost a year now and really enjoying it but my experience will be different to yours as I work with the team out of the UK developing some of the program visualisation tools. The Santa Clara office, where most of the jobs are based, is rather stunning, but my experience of US start-up offices is limited to just that one.
One of the pieces of advice I did not heed from my Dad was to try and save/invest 30% of your salary. This one is hard to understand until you are in your 40s and realise you are probably going to continue to work well into your 50s.
I love my job, but I'm now involved a lot more in the political arena, knowing I can make a difference there, but being held back. 'Having' to hold down a job is getting in the way.
I'm at peace with the choices I made but I also recognise I could not be working now if I'd been a bit more prudent.
>One of the pieces of advice I did not heed from my Dad was to try and save/invest 30% of your salary. This one is hard to understand until you are in your 40s and realise you are probably going to continue to work well into your 50s.
A single, healthy, 20 something SWE can easily save 60-70% and retire before age 40 if you really try. I’m right around 50% now. The key is getting over that mental hurdle to where you start enjoying saving more than spending. I feel infinitely more fulfilled seeing $1,000 in my bank account than anything an iPhone X could ever do for me.
Exactly. If you don't need the new car, new house, etc. you can save a ton of money. You really only need a room and healthy food and enough clothes for the week. Everything else is "cashing in early"
I watch what the USA is doing with healthcare, and I see this type of model being foisted upon the UK, and it's terrifying.
I recently got into a twitter spat suggesting that it was foolish of the Conservatives to be reducing spending in social services and the NHS as this was directly attacking their voter base as 70% of pensioners vote Conservative and a poorer NHS directly impacts pensioners more. There have been some articles indicating an extra 120,000 people have died in the UK due to austerity measures. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/tory-austerity-deat...
So the question is, is this a deliberate unwritten approach to try and kill off 'costlier' members of society? Is it better to encourage people to be fat and die off quicker, than to exercise, eat healthier, live longer, and create a long term social care cost?
I suspect epidemiological analysis the impact of this sort of policy has on a society demonstrates it kills the weak and infirm as well as the financially 'weak' members of society.
Think Norway got it right. Find a resource, tax it and place the tax in a pension fund. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor... Every resident of Norway is now a millionaire in terms of the social care available to each individual.
> So the question is, is this a deliberate unwritten approach to try and kill off 'costlier' members of society? Is it better to encourage people to be fat and die off quicker, than to exercise, eat healthier, live longer, and create a long term social care cost?
Social Darwinism has been a running trope with the Cs. The problem is, Social Darwinism is fun until you're on the chopping block...... and so we now see some odd backpedalling in the 2010s now that some have gotten old.
I'd rather pay more to ensure everyone's livelihood is okay.
Generally no, but it didn't start out that way. I just highlighted the oddity that a political party that relies on old people was implementing policies that were accelerating the death rates of their core voter group, and that this seemed to be an odd thing to do.
I was then accused of making a shameful statement. Data is data. Policy decisions have impact.
For example, when the government introduced mandatory seat belts, there was a rise in the number of pedestrians killed. People wearing seatbelts felt safer driving faster.
Prohibition is one of the most pernicious ideas within our society. It enables people to prey on the weak and vulnerable. Whether we like it or not, people will seek out chemicals to make their day better, be it chocolate, coffee, wine, or heroine.
Governments should be recognising this base behaviour and ensure that those chemicals are available safely and taxed appropriately. Treating drug addiction as a medical condition and not a criminal activity is the first step. Something many countries fail to even recognise.
be it chocolate, coffee, wine, or [heroin]
ensure that those chemicals are available safely and taxed appropriately
While I agree that prohibition has proven time and again to be a terrible thing, I'd also argue that some drugs are so dangerous in small doses that sale should never be sanctioned. Still, I would not argue in favor of strict punishments for sale nor use, especially. Issues of sale should come with punishments similar to improper business practices--tax evasion, fraud, etc--based on the scope and scale of the transactions.
As you point out, people often seek certain substances because at some level they feel it will make things better. The improvement they seek may be proportional to the strength of the substance, meaning those seeking out street drugs are probably also in the most dire straits. From that perspective, punishment seems quite cruel--kicking a person when they're already down.
Some people do drugs occasionally just for the fun of it, not expecting any improvement.
My stance is that I would like to see most drugs legal to consume, it is stupid and evil to put people in prison because they put something in their mouth (oversimplifying but it is what it is). As for the selling part of things, I would like for state to sell the drugs with 100% purity, at high prices and with some kind of programs to go along with that that handle addicted users (they would be addicted in any case, this way you can at least track them, and do something humane and not put them in prison). But if that would be the case, that you can buy drugs legally, I would enforce even stricter punishments for illegal sellers.
Depending on the way drugs are sold, penalties could, and probably should go as high as involuntary manslaughter.
Dealers often misrepresent what they sell, cutting with toxic chemicals, lying about purity or even selling an entire different product. With drugs as potent as opiates, it could mean death. In fact, I think this is the leading cause of death by drug use.
These practices should be much more penalized than just selling the drug, even if both are illegal. Just like armed robbery is more severely punished than shoplifting.
I see a need for a government to facilitate access to clean good quality drugs, taxing them, and providing the support mechanisms to enable people to come off those drugs.
Just to emphasize, Portugal didn't legalize any drugs. It decriminalized drug use and possession.
Which mean you are not going to be judged and sent to prison, but you can still get fined, especially if you refuse the treatments they suggest.
Drug trafficking, defined as possession of more than the average dose for 10 days is still a crime.
> The thing is you can make it illegal to sell without being illegal to consume.
If they make it illegal to sell, then the state must sell it. Otherwise it just doesn't work. Why should people acting legally need to buy from criminals?
If you look at Portugal, who has had the most success in reducing drugs, they decriminalized drugs. Which meant they kept them illegal, but if caught it was equivalent of parking ticket fine, but also if person hit a threshold of too many fines, there was drug addiction therapy required. Decriminalization removes the excessive fines, time in jail, and removes the criminal record black mark.
Atlanta GA has decriminalized marijuana this year. If caught it's a $60 fee only. Previously it was $1000, up to 6 months in jail, and a criminal record.
This decriminalization should be applied to all drugs. This has been proven to work, everywhere it has been tried.
> Whether we like it or not, people will seek out chemicals to make their day better, be it chocolate, coffee, wine, or heroine.
And most importantly, whether we like it or not has absolutely no bearing on whether it's acceptable to limit somebody else's right to put whatever they want into their own body.
The war on drugs is a massive success for the people who profit from it.
It's not just drug dealers and cartels who profit from illegal drugs, it's the law enforcement industry as well and of course shadowy groups like the CIA who need money for black ops.
Honestly this is now the way I see Ikea staff. Benign and friendly, encouraging you to spend your money during the day, malign and evil after the store closes, hell bent on murdering you. It's probably what makes those Swedish meatballs taste so good. :D
I've been told that in some design seminars, IKEA explains that one of their targets is people undergoing a crisis such as divorce, job displacement, recovery after a disaster... situations in your life where you suddenly need to fully furnish a home as soon as possible. Makes sense, but it still felt a bit dark at the time!
Unsure I'd agree. It looks like Amplify is providing you with all the components you need to build on top of all AWS cloud services.
I particularly like their approach which makes it easy to use AWS but the ability to move away from AWS should you want to.
"AWS Amplify is a JavaScript library for frontend and mobile developers building cloud-enabled applications. The library is a declarative interface across different categories of operations in order to make common tasks easier to add into your application. The default implementation works with Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources but is designed to be open and pluggable for usage with other cloud services that wish to provide an implementation or custom backends."
I have a habit of playing a F2P game to understand how easy it is to advance. They really do understand how to get you hooked, and then put you up against players/AI where you either have to grind for the next 10 weeks or handover money, and even then I suspect you'd hit another wall every 10 or so levels. I usually end up uninstalling very quickly at this point.
More interestingly that is simply a maturity issue. React told people the official API and people still used hidden features as it was easy and clever. Thankfully Facebook did the right thing, kept the API sacred and refactored all the hidden APIs breaking the world.
People got bloody noses and red faced and the React ecosystem is a better place for it.
I've been making the point that fuel duty and car taxes (if your country has them) need to be removed and road pricing brought in.
Price per litre of diesel in the USA is about $0.75 vs $1.64 in the UK. Given that Tesla stated that the truck would pay for itself within 2 years ($200,000 in diesel savings), we're talking 11 months in the UK.
The implication is that eHGVs will radically reduce the tax revenue of countries that have focused on fuel duty creating a significant problem for road maintenance.
Dynamic road pricing, based not only on time of day, but also vehicle type, is probably the only way forward.
Like what happened after every American "big tax cut". Reduction in income instantly exposed massive waste in government, and the tax cuts were found to be deficit-neutral! /s
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