The problem is that a certain segment of society is passing laws insisting that everyone neatly fit into 2 distinct buckets. Also, insisting that the bucket you were categorized in at birth is immutable. They are using the phrase “biological sex”, where as this paper shows, that concept is both ill defined and messy.
Since the build page doesn’t provide much context, Fushsia has 3 different configurations bringup, core and workstation.
The workstation configuration is described as:
> workstation is a basis for a general purpose development environment, good for working on UI, media and many other high-level features. This is also the best environment for enthusiasts to play with and explore.
The YouTube show How to Make Everything. Did this. They started the tech tree from the very beginning by making simple hand stone tools and then building up tool by tool to more sophisticated technologies.
If all you have is a hand. Even getting the wood to make a handle for your axe is hard.
Seems to me like a lot of the difficulty would be that the natural resources you need, in the absence of civilization, are scattered all over the planet, let alone deep underground.
I vaguely remember reading something about how even in the earliest days of making flint arrowheads, there were massive centralized mines that archaeologists have found. It wasn't like just because you were in the stone age chipping rocks, every location was equally accessible to the resources you needed. Similar to now, where you need a particular type of sand for concrete, or for fracking, or...
Interestingly there's technologies we might not be able to replicate if needed, as we've mined out the purest resources that we know of.
Particularly nuclear technology, since so much early experimentation was dependent on ores like from the Shinkolobwe mine in Congo with 65% uranium. These days finding ore with 1% uranium is considered a good find.
You would know pretty quickly if Pinboard stopped being maintained.
Try the new Pins for Pinboard app, which just came out.
I'm hopeful that once I get the new API out, it will be a lot less painful to build on top of, and we'll see some life in the apps department. The current API is a calque of the 2004 delicious API and lacks a lot of basic features (like "tell me what changed since time X") that clients need.
By way of the Shortcuts app, every iPhone has a pre-installed Pinboard integration. I’ve taken to just using that to make new bookmarks, because you can make shortcuts that accept URLs from the share menu as inputs.
OMG, I had just been looking for this exact thing a couple of weeks ago and missed it! Thank you for this comment! I’ve become intolerably disappointed with Pocket and this should enable me to self-host my reading list and still be able to use the iOS share sheet without having to get a costly dev license (or device) from Apple.
Pins is new. Pushpin is my favorite Pinboard interface/client in any capacity. It tells me how many times I’ve used a tag when auto completing tags. I love it!
I’ve paid for both. Pins is available on Mac too. It’s still new.
In Croatia the total would be about 63%. If you go through capital gains (no paycheck just profit after corporate tax, capital income tax and VAT) it's 53%. It could go down if some company expenses can be used for your life expenses.
In Austria the total is 75%. In Austria going through capital gains would still be 70%.
I'm very disappointed at how much money Europe sucks out of my work.
"Capital gains" through GmbH is 25% KÖSt (Körperschaftssteuer) and then 27,25% KESt on Profit. The highest VAT rate is 20%, there are also lower ones. This results in 56.35% percent including VAT (1-((1-25%)(1-27.25%)(1-20%)).
If you go through income tax as a freelancer this is even lower when you claim the default deductibles (Pauschalierung), which is common in IT jobs, because you have very low expenses. The later is also cheaper if you factor in health insurance.
Well, having a GmbH does not really allow a clean profit extraction without having employees, so when you eventually employ yourself you'll get to around 70%.
Austria is one of the worst countries in the world to do any kind of small business. Self-employment is also taxed aggressively.
A form of self-employment in Croatia allows a fixed tax payment of about 5k EUR a year with an income cap of 39k EUR per year, leaving you with 34k EUR after taxes. Similar thing in Serbia but even more money.
In Austria there's nothing like that.
It would be nice if it was possible to assign a significant amount of life expenses to business but that also is heavily bureaucratized and regulated that even buying a 5k EUR computing machine has weird tax consequences (not immediately deductible as expense in the full amount or now, because expenses are higher, you might not be able to take that 12% of profit untaxed).
I mean, I guess I'm just miserably following every word of law and my accountant's advice and maybe other people just ignore a bunch of these guidelines and hope that inspection never comes.
39k EUR a year in Austria is 33% tax+insurance+pension:
20% "forced savings" (Pension + Vorsorgekasse)
7% health insurance
6% income tax
But 39k a year is definitely not a freelance programmer in Austria.
80-120k is the average I see at my colleagues and enterprise customers for freelance programmers with regular working hours compared to regular employees (5 week vacation, sick absence, ...). I know people scratching at 200k, but they are senior consultants.
So a more realistic view would be 100k 40,5% tax+insurance+pension
15% "forced savings" (Pension + Vorsorgekasse)
6% health insurance
19,6% income tax
This calculation assumes that you do not really have significant expenses of business. Having those actually makes the picture look worse.
You can calculate here for yourself, no "cheating" required:
https://abrechnen.wko.at (official chamber of commerce calculator)
A GmbH is always better at 220k+/year. But there may be reasons you would want one earlier (liability, employees, IP, investments, ...)
Employing people in Austria is expensive ("cost of labor"). Beeing self employed is not bad, if you factor in benefits and costs of life and quality of life.
Well, 34k after taxes in Zagreb, Croatia is about 50k after taxes in Vienna. Given the increased cost of living and quite similar bureaucratic and regulation heavy state I'd say the self-employment is very aggressively taxed. For 50k after taxes you need to earn quite a lot compared to 39k in Croatia and the benefits are not that much different.
I do not own anything substantial. Saving for a house in the capital city would take about 15 years of frugal living as a programmer. I could also take a loan.
What I also dislike is the tax prepayments for business owners, which is basically legal theft. The government takes tax in advance and then gives you back the money if you overpaid after about a year. I wouldn't mind this if taxes were low.
Imagine being a business owner and there's a period of irregular income yet the advance tax payment arrives and bankrupts you.
The taxes here are just insanely high and everything is insanely inefficient. Healthcare, education and municipal services.
After moving from Croatia to Austria, it's much worse in Austria, a wealthier country but still, I see all of the same patterns of inefficiency and they are even worse because Croatia can't afford being so inefficient.
What you were possibly remembering was that Windows on ARM when it was first introduced only supported emulating x86 apps. Although x64 emulation is currently in preview.
That US oil self sufficiency means that it will get out of the Middle East is a key part of Peter Zeihan’s Disunited Nations. His premise is that the US will disengage from the world no matter who won the election and that will have far reaching ramifications for the world.
A major reason of the ability for the US to do this is energy self sufficiency.
This completely ignores the economics of commodity pricing. Oil is the ultimate commodity so the price of a barrel of a particular grade of crude is essentially the same around the globe. Thus if demand outside the US drives prices up, US suppliers will export instead of selling domestically until prices equilabrate. Thus the US protects oil shipping from Saudi to China in order to improve the stability of US prices (and to reduce the incentive for China to expand its military reserve in the Gulf — which has expanded over the last 2-3 years as the us has signaled its intent to pull back.
In fact the US is “net” self sufficient: the same issues (plus differing grades and the geography of shipping) cause the US to simultaneously import and export. Driving actual imports to zero would be more expensive.
Finally, fracking appears to “spoil” the wells: cheaper and faster but in the end you get less of the reserve than you could more conventionally. I say “appears” as this analysis has only surfaced recently (though I believe the big frackers knew this already)
"Finally, fracking appears to “spoil” the wells: cheaper and faster but in the end you get less of the reserve than you could more conventionally. I say “appears” as this analysis has only surfaced recently (though I believe the big frackers knew this already)"
This is incorrect. The oil that comes from fracking wells are stuck in the rocks because they have poor porosity. Conventionally this oil is not extractable on human timescales (less than millions of years).
I welcome citations to the contrary to update my geologic knowledge (PhD in Earth Science, 2010)
The military presence to protect oil supplies is not just to protect US supplies. Even before self sufficiency, the US did not import much oil from the middle east - 5x more came from Canada than all the Persian Gulf for example: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=727
The reason is to protect world supplies, not just US supplies. A cutoff in gulf supplies would have a huge impact on world oil prices and hence economies, and would also impact US oil prices since oil is a (mostly) fungible commodity. So there are still self-interest reasons to maintain a presence even if the country is self sufficient in oil.
Ask a trans person and they will tell you that changing your perceived speech gender is much more than just the pitch.