Author: Rauf Aliev

There was news that the Swiss, oh the horror, voted against a universal basic income for all citizens amounting to 2500 francs per month. Nowhere is it mentioned whether this is before or after taxes. Let’s assume it’s tax-free – if I’m mistaken, then all the calculations below need to be adjusted downwards by the value of the tax, 5-10%.

So how much is 2500 francs (168,000 rubles)?

Google tells me that the average salary in Switzerland is 7500 francs per month net (90,000 per year GROSS). If this is the average, then why on earth is half the population earning three times less – I can’t understand.

Let’s try to calculate what it would be in Russia. The average salary in Moscow is 60,000 rubles. In Russia – 32,000. Therefore, if the referendum were held in Moscow, all Muscovites and other Russians would be offered to earn three times less, that is, 20,000 rubles and 10,000 rubles respectively.

If converted to rubles, then 2500 francs (168,000 rubles) = five times the average salary in Russia (32,000 rubles). A Big Mac in Switzerland costs $6.44 (6.50 francs) = 420 rubles, while in Russia it costs $1.5 (90 rubles) – a difference of 4.6 times. I assume that other everyday prices in Switzerland are also about five times higher than in Russia. However, this comparison is inappropriate since there’s no equivalent of the Russian hinterland in Switzerland, and it makes sense to compare it with Moscow, for example, where the average salary is 60,000 rubles, which is roughly twice as much as the average across Russia. Thus, with 2500 francs, you can buy 384 Big Macs, while in Russia you would have to pay 34,000 rubles for that. Therefore, by this calculation, the Moscow equivalent would be 34,000 rubles, and for the rest of Russia about 17,000.

What do you think, is there even a slight chance that the majority of Russians would vote for a uniform salary of 10/17 thousand not in Moscow and 20/34 thousand rubles in Moscow? Big question.

Very interesting about patterns in movies and cartoons.

The English original here:

Masha’s typical school set. A wide thermos – for the “first” course, a plastic container – for salad, colorful plastic cubes – that’s ice. Almost every student carries such a special bag.

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In a typical store, the men’s underwear department in the U.S. is quite different from what we are used to seeing in Russia.

Here, there’s a wild variety of tank tops worn under shirts. At the pool and the sea, people swim in shorts—rows and rows to suit any taste.

And socks – the photo shows men’s “no-show” socks with skulls and socks with a special thing on the heels to prevent chafing and slipping off.

In Homeland s05e11, there is a funny moment. There, a Russian spy and double agent is threatened that she will lose everything she has earned over ten years, if she does not act foolishly.

Then you forfeit your millions of dollars, the renown of what you’ve accomplished. Your dacha on the Black Sea…

Significant event. I have started a blog dedicated to SAP hybris development in English. It’s like a micro-hub on a specific topic.

From the major topics, I already have a couple of them about search improvement, one about a new promotions engine. There are no less than ten interesting posts in preparation, which I will be finalizing and posting over the weekends. Almost all of them are about hybris architecture and development.

The posts consist of the following sections:

* Situation – an introduction to the topic,

* Complexity – it’s not all that simple, known obstacles,

* Challenge – the single problem I’ve taken on to solve,

* Solution – the solution concept,

* Video – a video where I show how it works,

* Technical details – what has changed in the code and why.

So I hope everyone will find something useful for themselves.

All who are interested in hybris development – welcome.

English is not my native language, so if you see any mistakes, please tell me about them, and I will correct them.

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Oh how interesting. I needed to extract a video from PowerPoint, and I discovered that all Office documents—XLSX, DOCX, PPTX—are stored as ZIP archives with folders inside, where media files and XML configuration are neatly organized. To extract all media files from any of these files, one simply needs to unzip the archive and peek into one of the folders.

This immediately opens up huge possibilities—for instance, one could transfer styles, footers, and headers from one document to another in one fell swoop, by simply copying. There’s also a separate ‘numbering’ file; it’s always troublesome. Word can do it too, but it’s somewhat glitchy there.

Today was a day of agritourism. Visited a couple of farms, picked some strawberries. First time I ventured into real rural countryside.

Our location is conveniently situated: an hour east to the beach, an hour west to the mountains, half an hour to Washington, and half an hour to a mountain river. And now I’ve discovered that there are plenty of farms around, and within the same half an hour, you can find yourself in wild rural areas with dusty dirt roads.