johnm1019

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Comment · 6 years ago

This is terrible advice, and simply wrong. I lived and worked in Germany as a self employed person with primarily one client for 2.5 years - along the way I properly maintained my business and taxes in a good and legal standing. I am not an accountant or a lawyer, and this is not professional advice. What the commenter here is referring to is a specific situation called "Scheinselbstständigkeit" which roughly translates to "fake/sham self employment". If you work as a contractor for just one company for a long time the tax office can audit and determine you're really an employee. This is not a simple decision however and many factors go in to it. Also, the decision is made by your regional tax office and they each have their own standards. In Hamburg for example, I was told it wouldn't even be a question until 4 years time. Even then there are a lot of additional circumstances which must be taken into account. Ideally the self employed would form a German LLC, (GmbH) and make themselves an employee of the company. The best advice, as always, is to speak with a locally certified professional! and not strangers on the internet.

Comment · 7 years ago

We’re building self-driving cars and they’re on the road right now driving around San Francisco and Phoenix. I’m an engineering manager on the Embedded Systems team which has a wider scope than you might first think. We work closely with the hardware, security, safety, frameworks, and fleet operations teams and span through FPGA logic, embedded OS, device drivers, first layer application code, embedded software deployment, vehicle start-up, and hardware-in-the-loop test rigs. Our code runs all over the car from custom devices (ECUs) to the high level brain handling higher level functions. We have many open positions which are funded by both real dollars (salary) and equity and want you to help us work on this rewarding and highly visible challenge. Your work will be the foundational software upon which the rest of Cruise builds. If you want to audio/video chat or have any questions you can reach out to me directly by email - [email protected]. If you’re ready to apply you can send me your resume or use the careers website http://getcruise.com/careers.

Comment · 7 years ago

We’re building self-driving cars and they’re on the road right now driving around San Francisco and Phoenix. I’m an engineering manager on the Embedded Systems team which has a wider scope than you might first think. We work closely with the hardware, security, safety, frameworks, and fleet operations teams and span through FPGA logic, embedded OS, device drivers, first layer application code, embedded software deployment, vehicle start-up, and hardware-in-the-loop test rigs. Our code runs all over the car from custom devices (ECUs) to the high level brain handling higher level functions. We have a ton of open positions which are funded by both real dollars (salary) and equity and want you to help us work on this rewarding and highly visible challenge. Your work will be the foundational software upon which the rest of Cruise builds. If you want to audio/video chat or have any questions you can reach out to me directly by email - [email protected]. If you’re ready to apply you can send me your resume or use the careers website http://getcruise.com/careers.

Comment · 7 years ago

Within the constraints of the technology (e.g. >2GB files) isn't FAT32 already this? I can plug it into my Apple, Windows, and Linux devices and it will just work.

Comment · 7 years ago

Reactors are often quoted in MW-thermal vs. MWe (electric). They also mention there are 2 steam turbines. Here's my analysis. 2x 380MWt. They have two for redundancy. Then 1x 380MWt, assume 33% conversion efficiency => 125MWe. 80k SHP implies after losses, guess 85% conversion efficiency, 80k/0.85 HP to MWe ~= 70MWe. Which leaves 55MWe left over. That's still a lot of power, but it puts this closer to realistic I think.

Comment · 7 years ago

I will ask the ignorant question, why Kaizala and not MS Teams? It also has groups, DMs, picture messaging, office integration, etc... I feel rather overwhelmed lately with all the various messaging options on the market with the same company often having multiple solutions.

Comment · 7 years ago

This appears to be a time-limited promotion.

> When we predict the price won’t decrease for select itineraries booked between August 13 and September 2, we’ll guarantee the price won’t drop, and we’ll refund you the difference if it does.

Comment · 7 years ago

Disclaimer: IANA kernel developer.

Is there any benefit to having those specialized developers create frameworks or libraries in Userland which other developers can leverage? This way they remain the interface to uncooperative hardware, but the code is in Userland so the bold folks can try their own approach.

Comment · 7 years ago

I wish there was more discussion about how society should recognize and handle this. Much of modern society is orthogonal to parenting and raising children, I would love to see it addressed more in the public discourse -- maybe even "disrupted" by tech so we can be thrice better parents, citizens, and workers.

Comment · 7 years ago

This is missing a few important points.

1. The 15% of income has a cap. It's something like after 60k EUR in wages you don't pay anymore. Also, only 7.5% comes out of your paycheck, the employer pays the other half. When I was there a few years ago I was self employed so I had to pay "both sides". It would've worked out to roughly 750EUR/month for health insurance which had _0 deductible_ and _0 coinsurance_ for doctors visits or ER care and would've covered my entire family no matter on my children I had. Compare that with a typical HDHP family plan offered in the US and you're looking at $400/mo in premiums, with a $3k deductible and max OOP of $6k. The final cost is comparable.

2. The 15% is only if you participate in the public system - the private is not tied to your income.

Comment · 7 years ago

His spellcheck works fine, the grammar check is broken. :)

Comment · 7 years ago

FYI O(10ms) means anything from 10-99ms.

Comment · 7 years ago

I mostly agree but I want to nitpick.

One of the areas I've heard should be improving with 5G is latency. On 4G we're talking O(10ms)? which on 5G, so says the marketing, should be O(1ms). If this is true, it will make a noticeable impact on the responsiveness of web driven apps (aka almost all apps) as well as video/audio chat liveness. Was this oversold to me (highly probable)?

Comment · 7 years ago

Google Music allows exactly this. You upload all the stuff you own and have ripped yourself. Then, you can listen to that without paying. If you subscribe, you can build playlists and what not that include any song either from your library or their global library. Pretty neat.

Comment · 7 years ago

I would not suggest pricing things in this way. The analysts should look at what competing products cost, and where is ours unique and what advantage does it give the airline. Convert that advantage over competing products to a dollar amount. Add that to the price of the competing product. Subtract some so you always win when the customer does their own cost/benefit analysis.

If you price your products based on your costs, you're either losing profit-margin or sales (sales, because you're making the wrong thing at the wrong price).