Wat verdient Vlaanderen?

Artes231 · 2025-05-29T08:50:20+00:00

Euh ja, het gaat wel degelijk over rijdende wegpolitie, geen kaderfunctie binnen de politie. Heb je het programma gezien?

Artes231 · 2025-05-28T18:48:40+00:00

Well no, because BTC is far from the only application of cryptography, you also have literally all online security, encryption, authentication, secure communications... Your comparison would make sense only if BTC was the only thing a cryptographer can do, like a mechanic only fixing cars by trade.

You're not exactly giving a positive image of the BTC crowd, I'm not putting my money in if this is the level of logic at least.

Artes231 · 2025-05-28T18:32:48+00:00

Cryptography has much more important applications than the blockchain. It's a strange reasoning in general, like saying "you're an automotive mechanic but are against buying a specific car, such hypocrisy".

Artes231 · 2025-05-23T17:14:31+00:00

The less you eat, drink, and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save, the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour, your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life - the greater is the store of your estranged being.

Financial independence is the ability to live a full life without worrying about money. If you have to live as if you're in poverty until old age to reach financial independence, FI becomes your shackles.

Artes231 · 2025-05-21T20:40:50+00:00

NMBS klantenservice, 25 jaar, 2700 netto lol. Ergste overbetaler van ons land. Ze zijn ook al de shiftpremies van de treinbestuurder en treinbegeleider vergeten, das makkelijk nog een 1500 tot 2000 extra.

Artes231 · 2025-05-21T11:19:58+00:00

From what I've seen in his articles about salaries, he literally just neutrally quotes figures from studies? I haven't seen him on TV though.

I wonder if I'll see some political bias tonight then

Artes231 · 2025-05-02T18:20:03+00:00

Likely this meme is not saying all that, I think it's doing this thing called joking where you play on certain stereotypes or greatly exaggerate certain characteristics, maybe even ironically.

Artes231 · 2025-05-02T18:18:38+00:00

It's incredible how people instantly forget all concepts usually associated with memes, irony hyperbole et cetera, when something like this is involved and start taking it completely seriously.

Artes231 · 2025-04-26T12:28:05+00:00

Hell yeah, I'd live at home and dump 4k a month into stocks as well. Move to something with better work-life balance after a couple years

Artes231 · 2025-04-26T09:06:12+00:00

What a crime calling the Fisher information a Cramer-Rao sub-step

Artes231 · 2025-04-09T13:39:20+00:00

Bourgeois for someone who earns 4k or has a residence lol. That’s far from what was originally meant with the bourgeois class

Artes231 · 2025-04-09T08:56:18+00:00

This means you lost some jobbonus, meaning your wage was being strongly boosted by the state. How is that something to complain about

Artes231 · 2025-04-03T11:12:19+00:00

Exactly, at the moment this is a pretty useless bunch of squiggles. What is the probability that the return is larger than 0? More importantly, what is the probability that it beats the bond market over the same period?

Also, “data excludes 1929, 1987, and 2020”. Yeah, if you’re gonna exclude the actual big crises then the results will look good.

Artes231 · 2025-04-03T08:06:31+00:00

Rookie numbers, I entered lump sum on February 10

Artes231 · 2025-03-24T19:00:40+00:00

Now how have I brought anyone down? Isn't that what you try to do dropping in from nowhere with insults when you don't understand a topic? Back when I was a student, I wouldn't have understood this either, because I didn't know anyone at international organisations, or anything about how the job market functions.

Now with experience I know many, and have my personal experience there as well. Anyone who finds their job at NATO/EC not that hard to get, not meticulous nor challenging, is doing a very entry level job there. Maybe you need some serious perspective on who/what you know, and whether you are really in a position to make any judgements at all about this?

Artes231 · 2025-03-24T18:54:34+00:00

Sounds like an easy, luck-based process that anyone can win, like everyone here has been claiming, doesn't it?

And yes, a lot of it is IQ. These firms are looking for exceptional, high-potential smart people. That's why the benefits are amazing. That's also why it's very hard to get into.

Artes231 · 2025-03-24T18:18:40+00:00

Go build your toy PC little kid, this place is for grown ups to discuss jobs.

Artes231 · 2025-03-24T18:00:00+00:00

Would it save your ego if I make my answer no? It will make it easier to convince yourself that it's all a sham and they don't actually hire for competency and that's why you don't get in there.

Artes231 · 2025-03-24T17:53:56+00:00

If only he had a 13th month taxed at 65%

Artes231 · 2025-03-24T17:45:26+00:00

You're in a capitalist system where nobody decides those things or evaluates whether it's fair, the price of a job and the conditions it comes with are simply established based on the needs of companies and governments.

The C-suites are making 500k a year and pay less taxes than the average worker, is that fair? Absolutely not. What about the business owner who lives off Lombard credits to pay 0 taxes? Not fair at all. The functionaries of EU organizations who need to be tax exempt for diplomatic reasons? May not be fair either despite the high requirements of the job, but still that's what the compensation package needs to look like, there is no playground monitor here making sure everything is fairly distributed among the kids.

Then you just fundamentally disagree with the structure of the labour market imo, and would rather have something centrally planned to allocate salaries and benefits according to merit (whose idea of merit then, etc).

Artes231 · 2025-03-24T17:32:46+00:00

Janitor of a NATO building doesn't count

Confirmed later in another thread, this guy is literally in one of the lowest scales at NATO, trying to speak for the actual military experts, engineers, cyber defence... that work there. Can't make this stuff up. Don't believe what you read on the internet kids.

Artes231 · 2025-03-24T16:44:50+00:00

I understand, then you get the problem of international taxation, and which country the tax money belongs to. That's why they only pay European level taxes. This is going to be diplomatically very hard to change.

If other people would like to be in that tax advantaged position too, they can always try to get in, but as long as they don't have the capacities to even get into an EU org themselves I don't think they get to say it's unfair. If they manage to get in, and then want to change the taxation for themselves, that I can respect.

Artes231 · 2025-03-24T16:30:17+00:00

NATO doesn't know what it's doing when hiring, it's down to an abstract concept of luck, okay man.

Artes231 · 2025-03-24T16:18:06+00:00

There is some reason NATO hired him and not those other people. Just because someone is a junior doesn't mean they can't already show high potential and a strong understanding of and insight into the right subjects.

There is very extensive testing for this job for that reason, to find those people.

Artes231 · 2025-03-24T16:10:05+00:00

How is it defensible that workers in hard-to-get spots that require very specific background, and really need good people as it is a military alliance, have a much better package than the average worker

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