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by kspaans 11y ago
UK figures get kind of messed up by NI (National Insurance). It's basically income tax + pension payments + etc. rolled up into one, but billed separately from "income tax". For most people it's around 8-12%.
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by kspaans 11y ago
He even pays the same rate of tax as me! :D
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by kspaans 11y ago
I think the grandparent is playing a little loose with terms. By "working class", I believe they mean both: have to exchange their labour for money, and low social class (less respect from peers, say at a dinner party). Though obv
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by kspaans 11y ago
And if the whole project isn't consistently formatted enough for your team to turn on a linter, then considering doing it only for incoming patches!
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by kspaans 11y ago
Maybe if more towns had free PO boxes, then mail delivery wouldn't be interrupted by moves.
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by kspaans 11y ago
The amendment brushed off concern about future financial strain on the pensions, saying their investments were producing revenue twice what actuaries had approved, so the “measures won’t be burdensome.” I wonde
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by kspaans 11y ago
How much risk-adjusted-reward is there in loaning Vimes money for the boots? Or in loaning him money for an annual bus pass that saves him 10% over a monthly bus pass?
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by kspaans 11y ago
Oops, I was wrong! There are arguments that landlords already charge as much as they can, and as the supply of land can't be changed by LVT, they can't easily pass on the tax to their tenants. http://www.landvaluetax.o
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by kspaans 11y ago
Good catch! I didn't mean to say the landowners would be forced to earn rent on their idle land. I meant that if they didn't want to pay the tax themselves (equivalent of charging the tax to their tenants), they would have to do s
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by kspaans 11y ago
If you added an LVT on top of current taxation systems, probably. One way to make it more revenue-neutral would be to reduce some other tax, like sales taxes. But now consider idle land that's being held speculatively. The landowner ex
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by kspaans 11y ago
"Although her employers paid her in cash, Emma, like many of her friends, paid taxes, so that she would be in better standing if immigration laws were ever relaxed." How does this work? Do they apply for SSNs and then file? How do
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by kspaans 11y ago
Sure you could! If Land Value Tax was the only tax levied (i.e. no income or consumption taxes), it would unaffected by the anonymity of money.
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by kspaans 11y ago
Or between two businesses, or between two individuals, or by selling capital, or interest on loans, etc.
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Canadians may soon need a visa to enter the EU(cbc.ca)
62 points by kspaans 11y ago|91 comments
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by kspaans 11y ago
Tried `git grep`? It's a nearly full grep, and will ignore things that aren't tracked in the repo.
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Monkeybrains Wireless ISP in SF(monkeybrains.net)
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by kspaans 11y ago
Here on HN is a good bet, in the monthly "Who is hiring" posts.
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For banking and fintech maybe.
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by kspaans 11y ago
Or just ride a bike to work to save on transport costs! London has good enough weather that you can bike year round (with a waterproof jacket :P).
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by kspaans 11y ago
At a RoR/JS/Go shop in London I was making about that much with ~4 years experience, yeah.
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by kspaans 11y ago
The index-tracking-fund managers are well aware of this. There are comments elsewhere in this thread detailing some of the strategies they can use. This has also been going on for a while, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by kspaans 11y ago
I still don't know how I feel about crowdfunding. Is it a great way to give non-accredited investors access to more investment opportunities. Or is it a way to part more suckers from their money? Would it be easier to just change the a
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by kspaans 11y ago
Wouldn't Apple have to repatriate the cash to the US in order to pay it out as dividends? (And thus pay both corporate income tax and dividend tax on it.)
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by kspaans 11y ago
Idea: everyone gets free meals at work (not a taxable benefit!), use of company cars, generous travel budgets (not a taxable benefit!), etc. So suddenly your compensation has increased quite a bit, but your personal income tax bill is the s
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by kspaans 11y ago
I remember back in 2012 Sortable was offering $80-$100k for junior devs in KW. But they've been acquired now.
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Cameron Admits He Profited from Father's Offshore Fund(theguardian.com)
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by kspaans 11y ago
Who would pay the fees in this system, the vendor or the customer? And what kind of fees are we looking at, ~2% like other payment processors?
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by kspaans 11y ago
You aren't paying more than if you live inside of the US . The foreign tax credit means you only pay the difference in income tax rates between the US and the foreign country. You don't pay everything you'd owe in the US (sa
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by kspaans 11y ago
Wikipedia disagrees with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_taxation Specifically, double-taxation is when you pay taxes twice on the SAME earnings. Take the example of a US citizen living abroad in a country wi
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by kspaans 11y ago
Yes, that's my understanding as well (IANATA)! And it's still not double-taxation: if us_tax>foreign_tax, then you pay foreign_tax + us_tax-foreign_tax == us_tax. (Or foreign_tax, if it's greater.) The citizenship taxation

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