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by ThomPete 7y ago
That's not what I am talking about though. I am talking about the zero tax rate for holdning companies. it's an active strategy by the Danish government.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
I am Danish, I think I'll manage to know the difference between the country I was born and raised in and the country were a lot of my friends are from. Denmark is a tax haven for holding companies.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Not for holding companies. It's a well known secret and is a way for the Danish government to lure in large international holdning companies. No sure why people are downvoting me. I'm Danish and I do know the tax system pretty wel
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by ThomPete 7y ago
I am Danish so I think I manage to not get confused :)
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Denmark is a tax haven itself though.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
The irony of this is that Denmark is kind of a tax haven for international holding companies that can be tax-free.
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Ask HN: Have you realized you can live without during this pandemic?
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by ThomPete 7y ago
I am commenting on a comment about slave owners. Yes, I know what is meant by equity and yes I understand the context. Not sure why you think snark is a relevant method here. But each to their own of course.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Why? If you are making money when you sleep the chances that you are using machines to make money is quite large. I am doing that and I don't have any slaves working for me. If you can't see the slave analogy being what is nonsens
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Neither does it make sense to call people who work for you to provide for their families slaves.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
If machines are slaves then yes.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Many of them go back
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Its actually part of the problem. They make it harder for US students to get a proper education. Universities are acting like the housing market in big cities. Only the elite from the test world can afford going there and then they often go
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by ThomPete 7y ago
https://www.000fff.org Because its guaranteed to be unique perspectives about things everyone take for granted and its written for clearing up somE of my own thinking. Especially “The problem with Problems”, “Slaves of the feed
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by ThomPete 7y ago
their employees are paying plenty though.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
This is actually the case for new york kids in school allways.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Slack, like Dropbox and almost any tool in this category are great for a few people, and horrible the more you become. Dropbox for +100 people isn't fundamentally better than a windows network drive.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Only if you are building standard things IMO.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
RealWork | Full Stack Engineer / Potential Co-Founder | Brooklyn | ONSITE (MAYBE REMOTE) | RealWork™ gives field workers access to the same kind of productivity tools that the tech industry has been enjoying for years. 80% of the workf
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Not having enough for food. Not being able to pay your bills
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by ThomPete 7y ago
You tell that to the people who can't make ends meet. Absence of opportunity is poverty. If the opportunities go away so does the prospect of getting out of your situation.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Last recession was vacation compared to this. This is a very very different scenario. This is like being in war, business cant happen even if you wanted to, even if there are customers. I am not outraged, i just pointed to the consequences
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Sure, neither would a billion have been lifted out of poverty the last couple decades.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
You also like the destruction of the economy, the 30% unemployment, the lost retirements, the collapsing mortgage market? If you just think this is a short break before we get back to normal you are in for a rude awakening. This will change
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Well I think the analogy is not just not "not perfect" it's very very misleading IMO.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
These throwaway lifestyle items is someone elses business, someone elses jobs, someones elses ability to put food on their childrens table. I totally get the "war on plastic" tendencies when you see how it's hurting our ocean
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Plastic is an amazing product and it is responsible for saving much more lives than it takes. It's important to always think about both the positive and the negative impacts of anything we humans use, not just the negative or positive.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Even there wind and solar isn't projected to be more than 4% in 2030.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Are there competitors to DarkSky out there? One of my startups is looking for hyper-local real-time weather forecasting and unless they keep things running as usual then we would probably need to find someone else.
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by ThomPete 7y ago
Wind and solar is less than 1% of the worlds energy consumption AND they are unreliable. They will never be the solution to our energy needs.

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