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by kspaans 11y ago
Not to defend these loopholes, but if you allow me to proselytize a bit... Why bother with those fancy tricks with your modest income when you can get tax-free gains anyway? OK, I exaggerate a little, but you can probably open a tax-free sa
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by kspaans 11y ago
Beat me to it! Haha! Here are some previous HN discussions on that topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10545626 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10600338
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by kspaans 11y ago
My company, also based in London, has a mix of remote and local workers. One thing that everyone gets, though, is 1 day a week of work-from-home time. This could be a way for you to get started with remote working, without requiring a full
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by kspaans 11y ago
Yeah, morality aside, it's very interesting to think about all of the taxes that Apple has already paid in various countries: sales taxes (and/or VAT), payroll taxes, income taxes for their employees, property taxes. (And that e
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by kspaans 11y ago
I guess it's probably closer to creative writing than debate on the internet, but I'd say this is pretty creative: http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
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by kspaans 11y ago
Writing fiction, writing poetry, translating fiction, translating poetry, debating things on the internet.
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by kspaans 11y ago
I believe using the squash command while interactively rebasing to turn your legion of small commits into a single one will automatically append all of the small commit messages into the final commit message.
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by kspaans 11y ago
Yup, saw the same thing happening at an infosec company in Toronto. Office at University & Adelaide, bought by BigCo AV Vendor, moving out to 404 & Steeles: 20% of workforce quits in the year between the announcement and the actual
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by kspaans 11y ago
Might be a good idea to start specializing in controlling your costs. :P Half-joking, but remember that there are two sides to financial security: your earning and your expenses. If you are making $200k but living paycheque-to-paycheque, yo
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by kspaans 11y ago
Started "French Immersion" in BC in kindergarten, then in Grade 4 moved to an entirely French school in Ontario for two years. After that, more immersion. Missed two years of French classes in highschool, so was catching up when I
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by kspaans 11y ago
VT[0]. <troll>A fund with ALL of the countries, because stock-picking is dumb.</troll> 0 - https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=3141&...
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by kspaans 11y ago
I once heard of a woodworking shop that would sticker parts & components with RFID tags. Each product as it went step to step along the production line could be physically tracked along the shop floor with a hand-held RFID scanner, and
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by kspaans 11y ago
You can pay your property taxes with a credit card?
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by kspaans 11y ago
Having recently moved from Waterloo, Canada to London, I can say that some of it "just because" (market effects), and another part is the "benefits" you get here (compared to the US): free health care, cheaper university
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by kspaans 11y ago
Yet Another Stockpicker. I wish people doing this kind of thing would also post a historic breakdown of their portfolio: buy prices and dates (no need for number of shares, I don't care how rich they are), sell prices and dates with P&
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by kspaans 11y ago
> A company would pay Ann $50,000 if it could. I've always wondered if this is even possible. Imagine you are a Trust Fund Kid who happens to be a skilled developer as well as a giant troll. You could under-bid on salary offers. But
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by kspaans 11y ago
I agree that your gross pay is higher, but I'm curious if your net take-home pay after "expenses" is still higher? I use scare-quotes because while it's easy to compare things like tax and rent, it's harder to compa
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by kspaans 11y ago
I think you mean unprotected anal sex, not "gay" sex.
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by kspaans 11y ago
That's my favourite argument for nationalized health care (insurance)! _Everyone_ pays the insurance and so the risks can be accounted for actuarially without leaving anyone behind.
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by kspaans 11y ago
The money you use to buy stuff also (usually) pays consumption taxes. Yet that money was income that you've already paid income tax on. Should consumption taxes be abolished?
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by kspaans 11y ago
> If you allow unlimited immigration, you will be flooded with millions of programmers. There will be a tremendous reduction in wages. I don't think this looks at the whole picture. Programmers aren't commodities. If there are
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by kspaans 11y ago
As a Canadian living in the UK on a temporary work visa I get to vote (LOL THE QUEEN IS ON THE LOONIE), and am served by the NHS for emergency stuff but my visa says "no recourse to public funds" which I'm pretty sure means I
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by kspaans 11y ago
There are a lot of assumptions there that may or may not be true. Are the incoming immigrants of equal skill to current local workers? If so, why shouldn't a company be able to hire an equally capable worker who is willing to work for
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by kspaans 11y ago
There could be other reasons too, like infrastructure. You probably can't house a dev team in a small town far away from a major city where the internet is slower. (To name just one type of infrastructure.) Or perhaps it's human c
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by kspaans 11y ago
The building is a good point. I remember when living at a student housing co-op we were planning (or had already signed a contract, I forget) to put solar panels on the roof. A developer wanted to put in a bunch of 25-story buildings in the
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by kspaans 11y ago
It's definitely a new skill on top of sitting alone and writing code. You can practice by doing some pair programming at your current workplace, with a friend, or at a coding meetup. Edit: it may also mean the company you are interview
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by kspaans 11y ago
From the Sept 2015 thread, someone posted some JS that will let you search all of the comments. They give an example using wildcards that makes it easier to search for numbers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10155220
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by kspaans 11y ago
To be clear, they are asking to lease >10 acres of land for 25 years, but only plan on using 10 acres of it for solar panels? Is the extra acreage for access roads and power lines? Are they going to start a competing farm? :P
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by kspaans 11y ago
You would probably be better off will an artificial-ignorance[0] kind of approach where you frequently measure what's running on your computer in order to establish a baseline, and after that compare against the baseline to look for ou
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by kspaans 11y ago
"Bank buys fixer-uppers and sells at a loss to prop up neighbourhood prices" sure sounds funny out of context.

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