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by kioleanu 4y ago
Ah yes, the old organ switcharoo.
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by kioleanu 4y ago
This is what some services in Germany do. All banks of course, but also my health insurance too. Also some parking app did it. This works well because the post is reliable, but has the disadvantage of being quite async. Also not entirely s
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by kioleanu 4y ago
Would probably do what all other companies do: still provide the service and then based on the owed amount, they would send 3 warnings and then: 1. If the amount is small, just send them to Inkasso/Schufa, which will hinder their abili
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by kioleanu 4y ago
Mind you that the company still receives the money regardless, the only change is that they have to enforce the contract (not the other way around). Here in Germany, you would probably mandate them to charge your bank account directly and t
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by kioleanu 4y ago
I almost broke my neck on that slippery slope there. Could you explain how that makes the ticket cancellable and most importantly how it would delay the boarding process since the money is taken at checkin? You would not be paying cash, mos
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by kioleanu 4y ago
To be fair it’s expensive to use with monthly tickets also. I saw an interesting discussion today on /r/de with people having to ride 1 to 3 stops and having to pay 90 to 120 euros per month. You have to be in a very privileged po
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by kioleanu 4y ago
As an insider point of view, although it may not seem so, I am optimistic we’ll see a lot of changes in the near future. The main reason is that there were many measures taken to make the government be a desirable employer and I am seeing m
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Show HN: Browser extension that finds HN and Reddit threads for any link(github.com)
6 points by kioleanu 4y ago|1 comments
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by kioleanu 4y ago
That assumes that the government of Albania _wants_ to hire competent software engineers
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by kioleanu 4y ago
Ha! I worked on that, nice seeing it here
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by kioleanu 4y ago
The price seems… hefty for a tool that only imports transactions, especially when tools like YNAB are 100$ and importing transactions (also with Plaid) is just a small feature in sea of other features
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by kioleanu 4y ago
He said that bikes with >250W motors have to be registered as mopeds, not that they're illegal - Netherlands has hills too. With the registration, there are others rules that usually come, like a minimum age of 16 and having passed
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by kioleanu 4y ago
More important, Apple reviews all new apps going into the App Store. One of the rules is that you're not allowed to request more permissions that what the app actually needs. A loan app requesting all this info would never fly because
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by kioleanu 4y ago
OP spent 6 hours of his time on an assignment requested by the company. This goes beyond basic human decency, so he is OWED that someone puts 2 minutes of their time and sends a short e-mail. Asking someone to do so much work for you and di
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by kioleanu 4y ago
Taxes. You can be employed by a company in another state, but they/you would have to pay taxes according to your country of residence. Even though it is certainly doable, nobody wants the headache of calculating the proper amount of ta
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by kioleanu 4y ago
Lucky for them that they’re not a public service in Germany, otherwise they would get sued for unfair competition (and lose): https://www.deskmodder.de/blog/2020/03/12/kostenlose-warnwet...
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by kioleanu 4y ago
I’ve heard a similar story in 2018 and I have done this myself. The article was promptly deleted but it sparked an wonderful discussion here on HN[1]. In the article, the original poster was let go in his trial period after he 1) started fi
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by kioleanu 4y ago
I am watching the markets in Romania and Germany and they are completely opposites: in Romania, most people I know went for a no fixed rate loan, meaning they change interest every 3 months. The banks are advertising this as the "cheap
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Is it illegal to ride a drunk horse?(law.stackexchange.com)
9 points by kioleanu 4y ago|1 comments
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by kioleanu 5y ago
Hey there HN, One day last year my son got something in the mail addressed to him. It was an ad, but it had his name on it. And we got letters every day (cough cough invoices), but this was the first one he got. He was over the moon with ex
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Show HN: Beautiful letters about wonderful places(thecompassletters.com)
1 points by kioleanu 5y ago|1 comments
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by kioleanu 5y ago
Oh my, that goes against so many EU regulations
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by kioleanu 5y ago
Not necessarily, it's aimed at parents as the main target audience. Thank you for the tip with the security conference!
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by kioleanu 5y ago
Great idea. Thank you!
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by kioleanu 5y ago
I have that! I completely forgot that I can check the server logs. Thank you for the tip!
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by kioleanu 5y ago
I am selling physical products that cost (quite a lot of) money to create and send. I need to sell them otherwise, I can't sustain the project
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by kioleanu 5y ago
It's a good idea to increase the budget and bid on Reddit, since I saw more results there - also 2 conversions (as opposed to 0 from FB). I will try it. Thank you!
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by kioleanu 5y ago
I am retargeting users that have visited the page, based on the FB respectively Reddit pixels. It is the exact same add, but I change the copy slightly to say "Use the code X for 10% discount". This is the landing page: https:&#x
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Ask HN: Ads with small budget for personal project?
80 points by kioleanu 5y ago|67 comments
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by kioleanu 5y ago
I had to cancel a credit card because of Google. I tried buying 4 pixel phones from them. They cancelled the order 3 times after exactly 7 days, but didn't cancel the transactions on my card. I obviously didn't have that much mone

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