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ed_balls
9y ago
It's about time. This mass delusion was bound to stop with the development.
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9y ago
RolePoint Inc | Software Engineer | London | Full-Time | https://www.rolepoint.com/ At Rolepoint we help companies hire and retain talent with our SaaS product. We're looking for experienced engineers that will work wi
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ed_balls
9y ago
If you make 50k your effective income tax + NI tax is about 33%. If you take other taxes (council tax, VAT, stamp duty etc.) Total effective taxation is around 50%. Now the dividend tax is 15% (in the best case scenario you can always try f
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ed_balls
9y ago
It seems there is no official petition https://petition.parliament.uk/
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ed_balls
9y ago
You can brag in front of friends and family - people you care about.
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ed_balls
9y ago
Take into account the fact that Model 3 + battery pack + roof will cost 80k-100k in 10 years. In France electricity cost almost double and fuel is 50% more expensive.
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ed_balls
9y ago
Apart from people buying these for status there is another market - Hawaii and other remote places where prices are from 2x to 5x comparing to California.
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ed_balls
9y ago
They rewrite a lot in Go.
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ed_balls
9y ago
In that case I'd prefer to start a company in Poland. Much lower taxes, cost of infrastructure, legal, labour, capital requirement for LTD (25000 EUR vs 1200 EUR).
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ed_balls
9y ago
You can survive sure, but I'd be really hard and expensive to start a company. How am I suppose to read german law and fill government forms? Have a lawyer to everything for me? Thanks no thanks.
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ed_balls
9y ago
If you'd double my salary I still wouldn't move to Germany. Learning a new language is too big investment.
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ed_balls
10y ago
.Net recommendation is to use value types for values that has maxium of 128 bits.
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ed_balls
10y ago
How come Xamarin tag exists, but there is no python?
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ed_balls
10y ago
0.5% of revenue. I bet corporation spent more on accounting.
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ed_balls
10y ago
Many countries have that and CEOs don't set up this way. Illegal and bad for PR.
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ed_balls
10y ago
Source?
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ed_balls
10y ago
Thanks for that. Really helpful. Is there a great mid-size open-source project that was created with Create React App? Any input on UI frameworks? I'm currently using React-Bootstrap, but I'm thinking about using Material-UI.
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ed_balls
10y ago
What React is missing is a set of idioms and patterns. When you inherit Angular or Django project it's quite easy to understand it and be productive if someone follows the philosophy. Create-React-App is a great step, but what next? Ho
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ed_balls
10y ago
There is one thing that annoys me about http://www.bbc.co.uk/news I use VPN node in Finland. When I visit the news site the page loads very quickly, I start reading and after 3 seconds you figure out that I'm not in UK
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ed_balls
10y ago
This is a completely different scenario than an average app. Curl is used in cars and other embedded devices. This things matter for this scale. >"RAM is cheap" Memory is cheap on servers and desktops. SSD can be treated as slo
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ed_balls
10y ago
People are scared of nuclear in Poland due to the accident in the neighbour country, but it will have to happen. It's sustainable to mine bituminous coal for 20 years. Lignite will stay a bit longer unless solar or thorium will take ov
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ed_balls
10y ago
less CO2, NOX, sulfur dioxide, radioactive particles, PM10 and PM2.5
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10y ago
as a support for hills, not use it exclusively.
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ed_balls
10y ago
> Many household names, such as Slack, Hootsuite and Shopify — which may be mistakenly considered as U.S. products — hail from north of the border. They are Delaware corporations, aren't they?
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ed_balls
10y ago
mirror neurons
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ed_balls
10y ago
get an electric bike
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ed_balls
10y ago
Try Icebreaker
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10y ago
Merino wool is really great, especially in a high humidity environment (e.g. Singapore). It's pretty comfy as well, not as comfy as cotton, though.
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10y ago
Because the outsourcing companies would set up a pseudo startup to abuse it. The solution is to make it expensive for them.
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ed_balls
10y ago
You set up a company with 16% corporate tax.
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