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I think it should not be added. There are so many US-only news and we’re not adding the “in USA”. Please do not assume default = USA.
by michpoch 4y ago
I think it should not be added. There are so many US-only news and we’re not adding the “in USA”.
Please do not assume default = USA.
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- ipaddr 4y agoI doubt most people think that way. There are so many english speaking countries that make up what an average tech forum is nevermind english speakers from non english speaking countries. Now a German tech forum it's easy to identify with one country
- noyoudumbdolt 4y ago>Now a German tech forum it's easy to identify with one country Sounds like you’d be disrespecting Austrians, and Austrian and German diaspora all over the world by u/michpoch’s logic.
- fragmede 4y agobecause we're better than that. I'm saying this from inside the USA, mind you. It cheapens our interactions here to be the same bland boringness of big box stores and strip malls of America. do you fly to Vegas or Boston or New York, just to visit their Best Buy? There's interesting things within - there's many an article about the intricacies of 401ks - but to hear from outside about a totally different system and how it works? I'm here for interesting and "default USA", isn't
- dymk 4y agoThe default assumption on this USA based site run by a USA based company is "USA" unless otherwise stated.
- michpoch 4y agoThen it should be news.ycombinator.us .com is an global domain.
- catiopatio 4y ago“[.com] was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense … and remains under ultimate jurisdiction of U.S. law“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com
- gggggg5 4y agoThat hardly seems relevant? Literally all TLDs are ultimately under US jurisdiction, given that the ICANN is under US jurisdiction.
- catiopatio 4y agoUS government built it, a US company runs it, and US law applies to it. It’s silly to complain that US companies and US-focused sites shouldn’t use it.
- gggggg5 4y ago>US government built it, a US company runs it, and US law applies to it. All also true of .ie and .fr and .eu and whatever other TLDs you might want to choose. >It’s silly to complain that US companies and US-focused sites shouldn’t use it. Nobody complained about that.
- unethical_ban 4y agoYour first paragraph signals US is the default. I discovered today that stripe is half based in Ireland. It would add valuable context to say which of its two countries this story refers to, since it involves country specific pension setups.
- fragmede 4y agoRegrettably, due to USA's brand of capitalism, these days, the word pension means it's probably not a USA thing.
- ghaff 4y agoThere are pros and cons to defined benefit (i.e. pension in US speak) and defined contribution (e.g. 401-k) plans. Among other things, defined benefit plans--when they were more common--were mostly oriented around people staying at the same company for a decade or more. Usually if you just stayed for 2-3 years you got nothing or almost nothing.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoThere is almost no value to paying someone else to manage your retirement funds when you can do the same thing they do for 0.03% to 0.08% expense ratios with a target date retirement fund from vanguard/Schwab/fidelity or mix and match the various broad market stock/bond funds.
- ghaff 4y agoThere often seems to be an implicit assumption that the money funding defined benefit contributions came from a magic money tree somewhere (or at least did so until it turned out that the tree wasn't producing enough). I know in the years that I was earning into a deferred benefit plan, I barely gave it a passing thought. And, had you asked me if I would prefer cash or for the equivalent to be funneled into some opaque benefits system that would hopefully pay out someday, I'm pretty sure what I would have chosen. Are some people better with defined benefits? Almost certainly. But at some point you're being pretty paternalistic to say you should much less must take that option.
- medellin 4y agoYou just argued why you should be the country in the title but then somehow came to the wrong conclusion
- michpoch 4y agoI just have realistic expectations what I can achieve in this calm Sunday evening.
- zdragnar 4y agoThe news is really specific to Ireland due to Irish tax laws. Why shouldn't this very relevant context be in the title?
- Nullabillity 4y agoStripe is doing it despite not having to. Where it's happening is irrelevant.