LeanderK

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by LeanderK 3y ago
then maybe I am wrong! I just see those enormous SUVs all the time (probably small for americans), clogging the street and not fitting into parking spaces. With enormous, wasteful hoods. If you're family is big we have fitted in a van
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> run the company like Adobe (explicitly) what does this mean?
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I don't think you can drive a SUV in a city and fit 3 children in there. It's just too enormous, think about how massive it would be. We drove a van when I was small (VW sharan), which is the reasonable choice I think. I think SU
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by LeanderK 3y ago
this really is a nice straw-man argument. I stated that I don't trust your comment (even if you just plainly state you're an expert...an expert in what?). If you don't like it, don't try to deflect by attacking my person
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by LeanderK 3y ago
Random people proposing unrealistic solutions is something I personally am very tired of. It just really derails any intellectual discussion with baseless fantasising. For example it often happens for discussions on EV. So if you don't
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by LeanderK 3y ago
maybe it's cultural? I'm in germany for the context
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by LeanderK 3y ago
Not colleagues, but people outside his work (it's an advanced startup, so everyone still knows everyone). For example older relatives or random people who found out he works 80%. Sometimes it's really a random condescending person
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I've seen some strange criticisms after a friend of mine transitioned to a 4-day week. Like whether he has any ambitions, doesn't want to work etc. He is a very committed, good programmer really kinda keeping the company running.
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I really don't get how a blanket no union-policy is legal? Wouldn't this just deny the workers basic rights (to unionise)? To me it feels like "blanket no minimum wage policy" or "blanket no workplace-safety standar
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by LeanderK 3y ago
Not swedish but very, very uncommon in germany (I actually wasn't sure whether it's illegal but apparently not, it's just not common). Usually the company tries to negotiate with the union to stop the strike, so this is proba
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I wonder, how is "obamacare" viewed after those years? Was it a success? Ist there partisan disagreement and a realistic chance that it might get repealed?
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by LeanderK 3y ago
while some are negative effects of other activities (smartphones etc.), some are just in decline because their usage is in decline, which is ok. I haven't used the library to check out a book in years and I rarely write something by ha
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by LeanderK 3y ago
are they really hand-soldered? They look so small! Isn't there a machine that is cheaper for high volume soldering of those small connections?
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> Fitness is not a 1-D line I never thought about it this way but this is really insightful. I was assuming it will be an endless war but if the cost gets prohibitively high to maintain resistance we have a real advantage
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by LeanderK 3y ago
oh come on. I don't think "Germany is the best". In fact, I am leaving germany soon for a new opportunity in the UK. I wouldn't otherwise, right? But it's because it's a great opportunity in a beautiful city I
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> highly corrupt state germany is usually ranked as one of the least corrupt states. I know there's corruption happening but it's just not comparable to highly corrupt states, I've been in a few e.g. venezuela. I also have
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I bet it's a tax haven leeching of the countries around it. To be honest, I also don't accept the argument if only you are well off in a poor country where everyone suffers but you make big bucks with a low tax rate. Are they enjo
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I am sorry but you can not work in the company or build a company in the country and avoid taxes. Your taxes go directly into these things. All the rest of the society has to pay taxes, they can't avoid taxes on their car via an elabor
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by LeanderK 3y ago
you are not forced to live and do business here. Feel free to move to another country if you don't like the taxes. But you can't just avoid the taxes because you feel like it. I don't care how much you would loose by not avoi
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> People can move in from other countries, you know. You can also move away from germany. But you can't move to germany and avoid taxes while creating a company here (OP was literally: Bootstrapping a SaaS Business in Germany)
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by LeanderK 3y ago
why is this even the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the legal form? This is highly unethical in general and really just super selfish. F*k you if you avoid taxes, especially in a country like Germany where society paid f
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I don't know how to judge this comment? Is this essentially recommending dodging the taxes via a more complicated holding situation and the "do vacation in Germany", so essentially operate from germany? If so, I think this is
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by LeanderK 3y ago
it might be how you're using the computer. It shows by touching (not scrolling) the trackpad (and if I correctly remember also the magic mouse?).
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> Yes, MacOS Has them set as "Only Show When Scrolling" by default, which is probably the most ridiculous setting. I have used MacOS every day for 10 years and i've never, except in exceptional circumstances, used the scro
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> embracing dependent types (which are actually simpler than where Haskell has been heading) rather than building increasingly complex approximations of them very much second that! haskell has band-aid type-level programming that is so a
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by LeanderK 3y ago
germany, but in a more mature startup and not an old, big company
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> Middle income America has cheaper housing, food and durables with higher wages than middle income in Western Europe. Is food really cheaper? That's not what I heard but I don't know. But that's a weird take. Quality of l
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by LeanderK 3y ago
> We basically have two economies, they will certainly only further diverge. a very interesting take. Given that europe completely failed in developing FAANG-like companies, i wonder how the US economy with the FAANG-like top tech perfor
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by LeanderK 3y ago
but some of the EU members were literally communist countries not so long ago
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by LeanderK 3y ago
I can't access the text because it's behind a paywall, but at least in the visualisation you see at least europes countries. And it's a headline, it can't reduce the complexity without loosing something. > 1 million t

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