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by kspaans 11y ago
Have a look at Waze (now owned by Google): people on the road ahead of your can put up warnings, and the system can figure out of a certain road has congestion in real-time and suggest alternates. Also maybe look at OpenStreetMaps for a sta
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by kspaans 11y ago
I know people who are hiring, send me an email (address in my profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kspaans ).
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by kspaans 11y ago
How about a Phusion Passenger-style "open-core" (aka freemium)? https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/10/30/bootstrapping-a-business-...
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by kspaans 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10545626 In that article it wasn't as clear that it was the documentary makers who approached the town's businesses about doing this tax stunt.
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“Offshoring” town in Wales is the idea of documentary film crew(ft.com)
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by kspaans 11y ago
I started at $70k CAD in 2012 in Waterloo, ON right out of uni. Admittedly I had "2 years of experience" due to my co-op work terms while studying at UW. Counting for cost of living and exchange rate the US offer is probably still
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by kspaans 11y ago
You have to consider the likelihood that: Given your MyPasswordSpace account has been compromised, will that help the attacker compromise the other services?
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by kspaans 11y ago
Yup, generally speaking in Canada self-employed people still can contribute to and get health care, (un)employment insurance, and a government-run pension.
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by kspaans 11y ago
Yup, don't hesitate to ask for help when you need it. Don't waste time spinning your wheels fruitlessly. If you are worried that you are asking for help too early (i.e. before you have explored the problem to the best of your abil
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by kspaans 11y ago
Woah, Estonia has a Land Value Tax! Baller! Reading about it briefly, I like the simplicity of it. I guess that's what you get when you can start relatively fresh like Estonia did (see also their e-citizenship and e-government efforts)
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by kspaans 11y ago
As a separate issue from whether or not America is too expensive for retirees, I find forced-savings versus self-savings to be a fascinating debate. On one hand you make people angry when the government takes their money and gives it to a b
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by kspaans 11y ago
Have you setup a network of computers at home? Do you run & manage a server somewhere (could be VPS, colo, or at home) with common services like SSH and VPN?
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by kspaans 11y ago
Doesn't Indiegogo charge 10% of funds collected?
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by kspaans 11y ago
> if luxury units only cost a fraction more to construct Now there is an interesting point. If it's true does it mean that "rich" people are suckers paying 4x more for a house or apartment that cost barely any extra to bui
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by kspaans 11y ago
I don't appear to be downvoted to oblivion, so I don't see what the poor reaction is. :P
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by kspaans 11y ago
I suppose if you are living somewhere where the market rate and the rate one tenant is paying have gotten that far out of whack, you probably have more problems than rent control. :)
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by kspaans 11y ago
Short explanation: capital gains, dividend income is taxed less than normal (wage, salary, etc) income. And I believe Buffett means that he pays a lower effective tax rate than his secretary, not fewer taxes in absolute terms.
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by kspaans 11y ago
Most of that money in the stock market is "on paper" and so the losses will mostly be on paper too. The people hardest hit will be those who are recently retired or soon to retire. Young people who bought in at the top will have d
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by kspaans 11y ago
Devil's advocate: you think your landlord should be allowed to double your rent at the end of your lease? (If they can choose to not continue the lease and evict you, I guess it's the same thing.) In Ontario, for example, there is
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by kspaans 11y ago
Sorry if this is naive, but what stops you from adding a 13.5% service charge to the invoice, or just bumping your rates to make up the difference? (Apart from pissing your clients off.)
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by kspaans 11y ago
Yeah for snacks and company-provided meals I can see it being grey enough to be "meh". But I remember back when I worked at RIM in Waterloo, I heard that a reason they couldn't sell parking passes to their underused parking l
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by kspaans 11y ago
Can't do business overseas, or would have to give your profits (and possibly more!) to HMRC after doing so?
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by kspaans 11y ago
Quite clever! I wonder if their plan really is easy enough for other small businesses to follow with minimal overhead. I couldn't find any other sources for this yet, though.
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by kspaans 11y ago
Various temples in Cambodia: http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/ngg/AngkorWat/ I also think it was Ta Prohm that had some plaques depicting the computer reconstructions they used to help rebuild walkways
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by kspaans 11y ago
Aren't perks for employees a taxable benefit? (Maybe the employer pays the taxes rather than the employee...)
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by kspaans 11y ago
Well that's a relief. :)
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by kspaans 11y ago
Agreed, I'm more or less positive on the physical goods free-trade aspects of TPP but all of the copyright and IP law additions worry me.
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by kspaans 11y ago
The EFF is a lobbying group, just like any that would work for oil&gas, tobacco, or a telephone company.
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by kspaans 11y ago
See the discussion on another link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532565 Summary: international trade deals involve a lot of tradeoffs in various sectors of a country: e.g. throwing textiles under the bus in order
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by kspaans 11y ago
Yeah the number I found must have been from back when we actually had inflation. ;)

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