It is possible. How has the punishment for being caught with a bonfire in a place where it is not permitted changed over the last number of decades?
Or is it just the reduction in lead? That is what is oft cited as the reason for why crime rates have dropped substantially over a very similar period. Which may leave my framing of the kids being fearful to be a little off, rather the reduction in lead would suggest that they have better impulse control, but I am sure you can understand that the intent there is the same either way.
This is not true. There's a TCS of 20%, which is an advance tax payment that you can claim back in your income tax returns at the end of the year, and it not an additional tax. This is just a (bad) mechanism to stop black money from leaving the country.
Thanks I didn't realize that it was refundable, I guess "India makes people loan 20% of their foreign remittances to the government interest-free" would be more accurate.
> "India makes people loan 20% of their foreign remittances to the government interest-free" would be more accurate.
It wouldn't. The TCS can be offset against other tax liabilities. The government pays out 6% interest on excess tax payments. For reference, 364 day T-bills are currently yielding ~5.5%.
The idea is to force reporting and add friction. Not raise revenue.
at 250.000 users they're going to hit specific limits very quickly, and frustratingly, proper sysadmin skills are (I think) nearly completely eroded from our industry.
This leaves us with expensive offerings despite a pretty static load (a-la; cloud).
Back in the day, burgeoning sysadmins would have cut their teeth on projects like this, but sadly they'd need someone quite senior at this point to avoid major pitfalls.
I'm not even sure myself how I would prevent the abuse of uploaded images; both in terms of rate limiting new accounts and the potential harmful material that might be shared. -- And I am one of the sysadmin types who cut their teeth on problems like these.
For Element, I suspect they'd be best off using Element Server Suite (https://element.io/server-suite) which are the official helm charts for Element, Synapse and the various component parts. To scale elastically they'd need the Pro version, but we could provide them with a discounted license of some kind (but not free, given Element isn't profitable yet and we need the $ to actually work on Matrix...)
If anyone reading this wants to talk, hit me up at matthew at element.io (or @matthew:matrix.org on Matrix)
They haven't considered that, because until this week they didn't need to.
Some Linux Foundation projects use Zulip, and the team behind the project seem willing to host for free.
I think consideration may have been limited by the fact that (AFAIK) Slack only provided a week's notice of this change, which has left the Kubernetes volunteers trying to act quickly to avoid losing data which isn't easily archived (private channels and DMs)
That's $800 for a family of 4. With the median household income at under $80,000, it's ridiculous to think the average person can afford to spend that much just to skip a line a couple times a year.
But a family of 4 is not the value proposition here. They are explicitly targeting frequent flyers that stand in the queue so often that the time saves add up.
If you're only traveling once a year, you can handle a 45 minute wait twice (although yes, it still sucks). If you're traveling once a week, it's a completely different ballpark.
> it's ridiculous to think the average person can afford to spend that much just to skip a line a couple times a year.
Well, sure, it's ridiculous to pay that much if you only travel a couple times a year. It's like how paying $700/year for airline lounge access is ridiculous if you only travel a couple times a year.
But $800 for a family of 4 is much closer to the average person than, say, using a private jet to skip security lines.
Unfortunately, you don't always know if on-call will be involved until you start at the job. Often many companies don't even hire you with a particular role in mind, instead you are matched to a team after you're signed on. (Especially for new grads). And sometimes on-call is introduced in an existing role, it can be difficult to refuse, especially for people in more junior roles.
But definitely ask about on-call when interviewing, in case they say they have it you can bail out before you sign.
I ask about it repeatedly to all interviewers to the point that some companies disqualify me. Call it a survivorship bias in reverse. It doesn't always work, amazingly, but it always sends a strong signal.
