Hacker News: lexs

New comment by lexs in "FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign"

lexs — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 07:20:46 +0000

As an employee doing your taxes is optional in Germany as taxes are already deducted by the employer.

New comment by lexs in "COP26: Germany fails to sign up to 2040 combustion engine phaseout"

lexs — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:11:53 +0000

According to official statistics [0] the Golf is still selling more than twice as many units per month and the ID3 is selling 50% more than the Model 3. The Model 3 is more comparable to the BMW i3 numbers wise.

[0] https://www.kba.de/DE/Statistik/Fahrzeuge/Neuzulassungen/Mon...

New comment by lexs in "GitHub Issues-only project management"

lexs — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 21:44:44 +0000

Scoped Labels (extended Kanban basically) and different boards for planning and development is our approach in gitlab

New comment by lexs in "Tesla’s $16k Quote for a $700 Fix Is Why Right to Repair Matters"

lexs — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:27:01 +0000

Electrical fires, mold, etc etc there is enough things can be dangerous and harmful in an apartment.

New comment by lexs in "Lachlan Morton completes 5,510km Alt Tour, beating peloton to Paris by five days"

lexs — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:02:34 +0000

The argument is probably that people enjoy it, does everything have to be in the name of result maximization?

New comment by lexs in "Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna"

lexs — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 21:26:02 +0000

Wasn't the USSR first in space? First ICBM , first artificial satellite, first man in space etc?

New comment by lexs in "Apple-Epic judge asks why offering iOS users a choice is bad"

lexs — Mon, 17 May 2021 22:30:15 +0000

Apple didn't buy the apps from the developers, they provide a marketplace. Don't most supermarkets own their inventory?

New comment by lexs in "Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama"

lexs — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:53:36 +0000

Especially in that region, I would take this vote rather as an indicator of the lack of alternatives. Amazon is so large that they could simply scrap that location without being that bothered, yet the workers do not have that freedom. The choice is between taking what you can get even if it is tied to bad working conditions or having nothing at all.

New comment by lexs in "Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round"

lexs — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:01:09 +0000

It's a shame that the third way to spend the money is totally forgotten now apparently. Yes you can re-invest, give back to shareholders, but why not increase wages?

New comment by lexs in "Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked"

lexs — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 11:04:52 +0000

A hosted Nextcloud with OnlyOffice/Collabora and a Mail Server? There's quite a few providers for that.

New comment by lexs in "Saudi Arabia applied for diplomatic immunity for ten security guards in Norway"

lexs — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 09:55:37 +0000

Selimchan Changoschwili was shot in broad day light in Berlin Tiergarten, allegedly by russian agencies.

New comment by lexs in "A follow up to Coinbase being a mission focused company"

lexs — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 07:12:29 +0000

So Individualism? That's pretty clearly a political philosophy / ideology.

New comment by lexs in "How tech workers at Kickstarter formed one of the only unions in the industry"

lexs — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:13:48 +0000

Since we are exchanging anecdotes, this also happened at my non-union job.

New comment by lexs in "Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store"

lexs — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 11:27:31 +0000

They like the hardware maybe?

New comment by lexs in "Mackenzie Scott Gives $1.7B to Historically Black Colleges and others"

lexs — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:23:14 +0000

What is a pseudo-degree?

New comment by lexs in "Google faces €600k privacy fine in Belgium"

lexs — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:47:36 +0000

At least in Germany that is due to the fact that taxes and afaik fines are not directly used for such things but are added to the budget which then in turn is used to fund these things

New comment by lexs in "I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors"

lexs — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:06:15 +0000

indeed.com puts the average software engineer with 10 years experience in silicon valley at $141k [0] I think you have a very skewed view of "easily"

[0] https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries/Sil...

New comment by lexs in "Today’s developers don’t need what the App Store offers"

lexs — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 19:46:54 +0000

What exactly is the alternative for iOS devices?

New comment by lexs in "EU opens Apple antitrust investigations into App Store and Apple Pay practices"

lexs — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:51:29 +0000

Yes but I can't buy Prime Videos through the app, I have to do that from my android phone or desktop

New comment by lexs in "EU opens Apple antitrust investigations into App Store and Apple Pay practices"

lexs — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:48:56 +0000

Well you could go to Epic which only takes 12%, Windows doesn't prevent you from doing so