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Something else to consider is that while a person may die while having COVID-19, it does not mean that is all that they died from. People in general may have several health problems, which is especially likely for an 80+ year old person. Some healthcare activities have also been postponed since the outbreak, by the patients and also the hospitals, which may have led to less healthy people.

That's a huge exaggeration. In what other field can a bright kid take a 12 week bootcamp and get a job that pays $80k?

They did specify "outside of a couple of tech giants in the USA". Here in Europe, €30K would already be a good starting salary. Personally, 10 years in, I don't expect to reach €80k.

I find it amazing how many different software development frameworks are out there. After all these years I still haven't bothered to look up what React is, and I probably will never need to. I will probably never get to maintain a codebase that uses it. So if being 'up-to-date' isn't something I will go for, how do I measure myself as a developer? I think I will go for something like 'having made a lot more regular people happy than I have frustrated'.

Facebook and Twitter are social media companies. I don't think they count as technology companies the way i.e. a company that creates water purifiers and solar panels and such are a technology company. And those products are made in many countries other than the USA.

From the description I'm sure that is the correct painting. The title in the original language is "De Gierigaard en de Dood". A simple modern translation would be "The Greedy Man and Death", there is no reason to translate it as "merchant". Apparently there is a book devoted to the subject of accountants in the arts from 1400 to 1900: "Art & Accounting" by Basil S. Yamey.

Edit: This article contains a list of such paintings, and there is a link to the PDF which contains images. https://www.accountant.nl/magazines/accountant-2016-q2/boekh...

There is a thin line between bold statements that lack nuance, and plain lies.

Order of events are relevant. It is important to know how he ended up in Russia in the first place, long before this asylum. And was declining the asylum really an option?

I get reactions of surprise or even disbelief when people I work with find out that I also enjoy painting and martial arts. This gives the signal that there is something wrong it.

I really dislike this sort of comments and thinking. It perpetuates the idea that people who want to work in tech must always be focussed on tech and cannot diverge from that. Not all people want to be that one-dimensional.

You took that out of it's context. The "that" in that sentence refers to the previous sentence. The poster is mentioning US and Israeli companies as places where quality is held to higher standards.

I feel cheated.

You were cheated by yourself then, surely.

The only thing stopping one's ability to connect on the internet is a failure to actively branch out. I am ignoring language barriers for a moment.

Nothing stops you from using different search engines, blogs or news venues.

the UK needs to trade with Europe, so they cannot ever really leave. Any deal done will end up looking like Switzerland

Thse statements are seemingly facts to you, but personally I am not sure how either could become reality.

I believe that the UK will have to leave, because the referendum is said to be binding. Going back on that would not be good for future voting or agreements. Swiss politicians did not, as far as I know, behave in any way similar to how some British politicians behave when it concerns the EU.

Bob Dylan's Archive 10 years ago

The poster was talking about 'jobs like this' , not about this specific job.

Even if there was an answer to your question it would not really be that informative because we are talking about a future with more automation, not the current state where most people do not have as much free time or energy.