Yes, this reduction of bank employees has come in waves during my life: credit cards replaced check books, online banking replaced paying bills at banks, ATM:s replaced handling cash at banks.
The only people left in a bank are negotiating loans or troubleshooting the situations when the machines don't cut it - yet.
People don't like Outlook because of email. (Or if they do, the feature they like is the view notifications.) Mostly however, people want to see everyones calendars to find a time slot for a meeting for 10 people. I don't know of any other software that allows people (= managers) to make meeting reservations to groups of people like Outlook/Exchange.
I don't know if you know this, but we have actually made our refugee immigration rules much stricter in the last 5 years. We are also very aggressive in returning people who do not get refugee status. You can always say that we are still too lax, but compared to 10 years ago, we are quite tough on the refugees.
Hmm.. I didn't remember this, thanks! This could actually be a problem, because now the pilot does not give us any information about effects of UBI to people with full time jobs.
If you are unemployed and in the UBI pilot you get pretty much the same amount of money as you previously got. The main difference is that you can e.g. start a small business and not lose the UBI.
What happens if you start a company that does not yet make any money? Do you lose all the benefits? What about full time students? At least our current system has all kinds of holes you can fall in to unless you are careful.
The participants to the pilot were selected randomly from the population of Finland. It is not limited to a region. This way they represent all social classes. After some years the people in the pilot are compared to others who were in the same situation as the pilot started.
The problems with immigration etc. already exist in our current system, so we most likely already have solutions for them.
I fail to see how that is not happening with the current system just as much as with UBI. With UBI you could at least study with the UBI, now you lose unemployment benefits if you study full time.
They are not charging based on the costs of each subject, they are charging based on the market value of the subject. Teaching law is pretty cheap for the university, while art is probably not.
The touch bar actually works a lot better in real life than in the ads. I saw a colleagues brand new MBP and the bar contains buttons for frequently used commands. Like function keys but so that the captions change from one app to another. I think it's semi useful.
But I was really disappointed that the machines did not gain any performance. That is what I was waiting for.
Sick leave with 100% compensation for about 2 weeks and a smaller pay for longer times. Complete with possibility of retiring due to health reasons at any age. (The pension from doing that is not great, but it exists.)
Actually, EU member countries do have limits on what their level of taxation is. Specific taxes have specific minimum and maximum values. That is all part of the EU treaties. In my opinion, one of EU:s main achievements is its work against tax competition of countries.
But, let's keep in mind that Ireland joined EU and those treaties willingly and they can also leave EU if they so choose.
Well, they already did discover one new particle. The one they call the Higgs.
If they never again find anything new with LHC, that will at least direct theoretical physicists to new directions by invalidating all the theories that rely on new particles.
Getting rid of employees here in Finland is actually quite easy. There is a process you are legally bound to follow, but it just takes 60 days and the end result is that you can let go any employees you have. If you just have a single employee and want to sack him, that can be more difficult, but these massive layoffs are easy. For long time employees, you have to give several months notice when getting rid of them, but OTOH if you want they will work for you during that time.
"The safety net" gives a person living alone about 10%-20% of the salary of a typical tech worker, so most people want to work.
This latest round of MS job cuts is not trimming, they are ending the design of phones completely. There will be nothing left of the Nokia phone division. (The rest of Nokia that was not sold to MS is actually doing pretty well nowadays.)
It says on the article that the rules are supposed to cover parers written on taxpayer money. I'm sorry if this takes the edge off your righteous anger and rage.
A well known event that happens every year in Europe is when people from Belgium and the Netherlands pack their stuff in their cars and migrate through Germany to southern Europe. This pisses of the Germans as their autobahns are stock full of cars... how will they continue to do this with cars that only move a few hundred km between recharges?
Obviously why? because percentages? Here's one for you: Muslims make up 23% of the worlds population. That's 1.6 BILLION. And here you are condemning them all because of statistics from a country that houses 64 million of the world's population. It's ludicrous.
Can you please quote me the paragraph where he condemns all 1.6 BILLION Muslims?
"Then it is obvious that Islam has a real problem and is a real threat to the civilized world." is not condemning all 1.6 BILLION Muslims. The religion is not the same as the people. And further "Islam has a real problem" does not mean that Islam could not stop to have a problem.
Do you think 1.6 BILLION Muslims are unable to join us on the 21st century with equality and universal human values? As humans, they are fully capable of doing that.
For me, the Pi Zero is pretty much useless, because it has no networking. No wireless, no wired. Nothing.
So, if someone says they were not sure if people would buy them, I believe that. Looks like there are a lot of people that have completely different uses for their Pies than mine. Go figure.
I'm sorry, but you are just misunderstanding (on purpose?) and I'm not going to write another explanation to you. But no, income tax rate is not 80-90%, but 80-90% of the money given as basic income is collected back as taxes. There is a difference.
Because 80-90% of the amount is collected back in taxes, so the net expense for governament is 10-20%, or 30-60€ billion. Sounds like the amount you already use on welfare. The other 80-90% of the basic income goes to people with decent jobs and their tax rates are adjusted so that they only get about the same amount of money after taxes as they now get.
Currently an unemployed person in Finland can get about 500€/month in benefits and also aid for housing, something like 300€. If you add these together and we get a 500-800€ / month range that is the range proposed for the basic income here. The point of the experiment is to test some different amounts. Obviously, depending on the amount there may or may not be other benefits available and taxation also changes.
Like I said originally: the idea is not to give people more money, but to get rid of the inefficient and demoralising welfare bureaucracy that requires a lot of paperwork and does not allow the unemployed to take short term jobs.
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Yes, this reduction of bank employees has come in waves during my life: credit cards replaced check books, online banking replaced paying bills at banks, ATM:s replaced handling cash at banks.
The only people left in a bank are negotiating loans or troubleshooting the situations when the machines don't cut it - yet.
People don't like Outlook because of email. (Or if they do, the feature they like is the view notifications.) Mostly however, people want to see everyones calendars to find a time slot for a meeting for 10 people. I don't know of any other software that allows people (= managers) to make meeting reservations to groups of people like Outlook/Exchange.
But I have run VS Code on Ubuntu, so that is not a reason to switch to Windows.
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Doesn't that mean that more people will come from South America and in five years you are back to 11 million illegal immigrants?
I don't know if you know this, but we have actually made our refugee immigration rules much stricter in the last 5 years. We are also very aggressive in returning people who do not get refugee status. You can always say that we are still too lax, but compared to 10 years ago, we are quite tough on the refugees.
Hmm.. I didn't remember this, thanks! This could actually be a problem, because now the pilot does not give us any information about effects of UBI to people with full time jobs.
If you are unemployed and in the UBI pilot you get pretty much the same amount of money as you previously got. The main difference is that you can e.g. start a small business and not lose the UBI.
What happens if you start a company that does not yet make any money? Do you lose all the benefits? What about full time students? At least our current system has all kinds of holes you can fall in to unless you are careful.
The participants to the pilot were selected randomly from the population of Finland. It is not limited to a region. This way they represent all social classes. After some years the people in the pilot are compared to others who were in the same situation as the pilot started.
The problems with immigration etc. already exist in our current system, so we most likely already have solutions for them.
I fail to see how that is not happening with the current system just as much as with UBI. With UBI you could at least study with the UBI, now you lose unemployment benefits if you study full time.
Once we have the massive laser array for sending these things we can send one every week. It is not a one-off mission.
They are not charging based on the costs of each subject, they are charging based on the market value of the subject. Teaching law is pretty cheap for the university, while art is probably not.
The touch bar actually works a lot better in real life than in the ads. I saw a colleagues brand new MBP and the bar contains buttons for frequently used commands. Like function keys but so that the captions change from one app to another. I think it's semi useful.
But I was really disappointed that the machines did not gain any performance. That is what I was waiting for.
They should just download a new fix from internet to make it work again. Yawn.
Next year we will celebrate 100 years of independence from the Russian empire. So basically we are still a grand duchy.
Sick leave with 100% compensation for about 2 weeks and a smaller pay for longer times. Complete with possibility of retiring due to health reasons at any age. (The pension from doing that is not great, but it exists.)
Actually, EU member countries do have limits on what their level of taxation is. Specific taxes have specific minimum and maximum values. That is all part of the EU treaties. In my opinion, one of EU:s main achievements is its work against tax competition of countries.
But, let's keep in mind that Ireland joined EU and those treaties willingly and they can also leave EU if they so choose.
Well, they already did discover one new particle. The one they call the Higgs.
If they never again find anything new with LHC, that will at least direct theoretical physicists to new directions by invalidating all the theories that rely on new particles.
Getting rid of employees here in Finland is actually quite easy. There is a process you are legally bound to follow, but it just takes 60 days and the end result is that you can let go any employees you have. If you just have a single employee and want to sack him, that can be more difficult, but these massive layoffs are easy. For long time employees, you have to give several months notice when getting rid of them, but OTOH if you want they will work for you during that time.
"The safety net" gives a person living alone about 10%-20% of the salary of a typical tech worker, so most people want to work.
This latest round of MS job cuts is not trimming, they are ending the design of phones completely. There will be nothing left of the Nokia phone division. (The rest of Nokia that was not sold to MS is actually doing pretty well nowadays.)
It says on the article that the rules are supposed to cover parers written on taxpayer money. I'm sorry if this takes the edge off your righteous anger and rage.
A well known event that happens every year in Europe is when people from Belgium and the Netherlands pack their stuff in their cars and migrate through Germany to southern Europe. This pisses of the Germans as their autobahns are stock full of cars. .. how will they continue to do this with cars that only move a few hundred km between recharges?
Obviously why? because percentages? Here's one for you: Muslims make up 23% of the worlds population. That's 1.6 BILLION. And here you are condemning them all because of statistics from a country that houses 64 million of the world's population.
It's ludicrous.
Can you please quote me the paragraph where he condemns all 1.6 BILLION Muslims?
"Then it is obvious that Islam has a real problem and is a real threat to the civilized world." is not condemning all 1.6 BILLION Muslims. The religion is not the same as the people. And further "Islam has a real problem" does not mean that Islam could not stop to have a problem.
Do you think 1.6 BILLION Muslims are unable to join us on the 21st century with equality and universal human values? As humans, they are fully capable of doing that.
For me, the Pi Zero is pretty much useless, because it has no networking. No wireless, no wired. Nothing.
So, if someone says they were not sure if people would buy them, I believe that. Looks like there are a lot of people that have completely different uses for their Pies than mine. Go figure.
I'm sorry, but you are just misunderstanding (on purpose?) and I'm not going to write another explanation to you. But no, income tax rate is not 80-90%, but 80-90% of the money given as basic income is collected back as taxes. There is a difference.
Because 80-90% of the amount is collected back in taxes, so the net expense for governament is 10-20%, or 30-60€ billion. Sounds like the amount you already use on welfare. The other 80-90% of the basic income goes to people with decent jobs and their tax rates are adjusted so that they only get about the same amount of money after taxes as they now get.
Currently an unemployed person in Finland can get about 500€/month in benefits and also aid for housing, something like 300€. If you add these together and we get a 500-800€ / month range that is the range proposed for the basic income here. The point of the experiment is to test some different amounts. Obviously, depending on the amount there may or may not be other benefits available and taxation also changes.
Like I said originally: the idea is not to give people more money, but to get rid of the inefficient and demoralising welfare bureaucracy that requires a lot of paperwork and does not allow the unemployed to take short term jobs.