econgeeker

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by econgeeker 15y ago
Do you have a link to the green card program? Is it EU wide or germany specific?
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by econgeeker 15y ago
The nice thing for europeans is that if you're part of the eurozone, you can live and work wherever you like. A business doesn't have to be domiciled in the same location as its headquarters or employees. In the US, many businesses are d
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by econgeeker 15y ago
I'm dubious that Haskell is better for writing distributed concurrent systems, but I don't know much about haskell. Rather than bashing erlang like this, I'd have gotten a lot more out of an article that described how Haskell approached the
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by econgeeker 15y ago
I'd be interested in hearing some thoughts on backing up. Would rsync to S3 happening regularly be an adequate solution? Figure if it is on a cron and it fires every other minute, the deltas would be pretty small, and not much would be lo
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by econgeeker 15y ago
In fact, since repatriated capital will be deployed inside the US, likely to produce more profits which can then be taxed... taxing repatriated money is a drag on the economy and reduces future tax income. (I don't know if the effect is la
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by econgeeker 15y ago
Was able to find the "Dutch American Friendship Treaty". This means it is relatively straightforward for americans to set up a business in the netherlands. But not cheap. For a three person business, it looks like it would cost $15,000 in
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by econgeeker 15y ago
I don't really disagree with anything you said, but I have to laugh at the idea of moving to germany to escape some future police state in the Netherlands. I am part german, love germany and germans, but that idea is funny. Maybe you were
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by econgeeker 15y ago
I invested a lot of time on this site in the past, only to have my account unceremoniously hellbanned, without warning or cause. I've no expectation that this won't happen again, so I'm not planning to stick around.
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by econgeeker 15y ago
I never wanted to retire at 60, I wanted to retire young. I picked a date in the 1990s by which I wanted to travel full time. We missed the date by a year-- exactly the year it took us to get ready for this. Takes a lot of time to get rid
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by econgeeker 15y ago
We're not living like tourists, we're working, a normal life. It is essentially the same as if we'd remained in the USA and done a startup. Yes, it is true, we do take longer and more frequent "vacations" than others (but that's in part po
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by econgeeker 15y ago
We kept the insurance we had in the states before. Due to obamacare our previous plan was shut down (as it became illegal to sell lower cost plans like it) and we were put onto a more expensive plan. We're researching our options. But we
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by econgeeker 15y ago
We've been doing this for three years now. This couple seemed to focus on having a year abroad, we've made it our lifestyle, and we're doing a startup (rather than consulting). I started this as a response to the "how to keep productive" qu
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by econgeeker 15y ago
Do my coworkers need to know that I'm a fan of internet memes and exceedingly cute cat pictures? The presumption often seems to be that people are anonymous because they want to hide something, or be jerks. I want to be anonymous because
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by econgeeker 15y ago
You're right about the anarchy, but I don't see the burning world. I don't see hackers and cheaters "taking over" bitcoin. An account was compromised, and despite there being no government regulation, the exchange stepped in, protected the
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by econgeeker 15y ago
"Actually commonly accepted by modern economists" This phrase is the anti-science. No science operates based on "commonly accepted". Consider how absurd it would be for any modern economist to claim that a form of money, which was banned i
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by econgeeker 15y ago
I think I have a better way of making the point you're trying to make. You're rebutting the claim that reliance on the gold standard made the depression worse. However, in the early 1930s, the monetary use of gold was criminalized in the U