SkippingRelax @ SkippingRelax @lemmy.world

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LOL they truly suck

I couldn't stand pop3 25 years ago, I can't believe it's still around

And they were giving you something like 1gb of space for free. At the time unwashed working for a big international company and employees quota for emails was something like 50mb!

I wish there were still players like Google was 20 years ago instead these days all we get ate short videos and same day delivery (oh and llms that create funny images with weird fingers)

There is only one approved method to take out fascists and it's using metal bars. Enough with this bullshit pro gun stance from the left on lemmy, leave that crap to the republicans

Yes!

Not familiar with belgium but in Australia they don't. It's linked to your payroll so they know if you paid more or less that it was due, plus they have linked your bank accounts so they know if you had any interest to pay taxes on. Something similar for investments accounts too.

If you want to claim any deductions (ie. You work from home and have home office expenses) you punch them in yourself

Sure they have all your info. I'm not familiar with Canada but in other countries where this happens happens, the site tells you that you need to check that everything is correct, and that YOU are responsible for the information submitted. When you confirm you have effectively submitted your tax return, albeit with the help of a number of automations.

I'm in Australia now, and that how it works here too. Yes it's just a couple of clicks for most people, but you are indeed doing your tax return.

I haven't don't it in Europe in a while, but that was the case when I was there (albeit less automated) and I'm pretty sure that's the case in most countries

Check the tax office's website of the country you live in, you might be up for an unpleasant surprise. Pretty normal to have to file a tax report if you are a grown up. There are exceptions in a few countries if all your income is from salaried work and you don't have any deductions to claim but not the norm

Facebook went public at a time when they were THE social media site and everyone's aunty was on it.

I've been on reddit for probably 12 years and know few people irl that use it (not usa mind you). Moreover they don't really have a plan and they do have competition. Ignoring for a second that 99% of lemmy users are probably disgruntled ex redditors. Why should anyone invest som ofnl their savings in reddit going public, besides playing wall Street bets? Is there anything there to believe in? Do they have a credible plan to increase users and monetise that increase? In other words, any "step 3: profit" to buy into?

Niche communities tend to have few users though, and it doesn't take long for people to get organised, pack their shit and move to another platform

What social media sites are we taking about? And Is it normal that they are all run by massive dickheads,

From memory all those were performing well, getting load of attention and be used by "everyone" at the time of their ipo. Particularly google was THE search engine and Facebook was THE social media site.

Reddit has been around forever, most of us left, what does it really have to offer? Keeping in mind that llms have had access to all that data for s long time, I can't imagine the last 8 months or so of reddit data to be that significant.

Usually companies go public because they have an aggressive plan that requires growth and a massive cash injection. What is spez's plan if he gets that? I'll admit I haven't really followed much, but I doubt reddit had this huge potential. And that's even if they didn't alienate their users and nods.

Reminds me those pet food companies going public in the late 90s during the internet bubble.

But they never do that. Musk could have been supping margaritas on a man made island with oompa loompas in a private ocean a long time ago

the assholes who ruined it for everybody else.

Politicians?

I could have written this!

However it's been a few tough weeks, we are both tired and a bit snappy atm. You reminded me to thank her when she comes home for what she did this morning around the house. And maybe do a bit more than the normal tidying up this afternoon, since I'm the one at home with the babies today.

The company is still using a person's material situation to pay them less. More purchasing power in their subjective economy is part of their material situation. They are still receiving monetarily less as is their country.

Less than what? Your personal belief that they should be paid a us salary because you say so? And if so, should that be a new York city salary, a Louisiana salary, or?

I directly covered your second point, while they do spend the money they earn from their American job within their economy they are not being paid the exact value of their labor because profit is being extracted so the amount of money they stimulate their economy with is not as valuable as their labor would be. I don't want to explain the entire labor theory of value here because it would take up too much time and space but you can look into it if you'd like. Put simply, the profit that company makes is extracted from that employees labor meaning that some of their labor is being used not to benefit their country or people but another's. Outsourcing is an extraction of mans most valuable resource from the less fortunate to the more

Again you have this imaginary number in your mind that you feel everyone should be paid regardless of circumstances. I keep thinking this is not ethical, but from an economic standpoint the Filipino employee is better off than working for less money for a local employer or not working at all because of unemployment. And so are his family and their government.

Stop comparing with the American salary, it doesn't make any sense. If the American company was paying an American salary, they would hire someone in the states.

We all agree this is not good ethically, but you are confused on how the economics work. Foreign money flowing in, and at a higher salary than local average? That's money that gets taxed by the Filipino government, that buys groceries at the corner shop, pays for a local nanny and overall improves the local economy.

Also what are you on about with the reduction of labour force in third world countries? They have unemployment up the roof and no employers by definition, it's a third world country the one thing there's no shortage of is people looking for work

Stressful mostly

Assuming the user uses the same OS that the developer runs, and that they release a statically compiled app for. In this example, I see the project is python and docker is mentioned in thrbdocs, while not 100% my bet is that the output would still not be the .exe file that thhis entitled asshole is demanding.

That guy is not asking, is demanding. I use lots of open source software and am aware that the developer is often stretched thin. If I can't help with the project (can't say I have in the past two decades) I want them focused on what is important and what probably keeps them motivated, writing code and adding cool features. If they have time, fix bugs. If there is more bandwidth, write documentation.

Not wasting time making an executable for every OS out there because some ingrateful asshole is too lazy to figure out how to read instructions in plain English.