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by namdnay 4y ago
> If people had to pay inheritance tax on their family home, how many could not afford such a tax bill and would have to get rid of their family home to please the tax man. so if they can't afford to pay tax on the windfall, they&#x
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by namdnay 4y ago
when there's a gold rush, there are a lot of successful hardware stores :)
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by namdnay 4y ago
Really? What type? Here in Europe they’re invariably Japanese heatpumps (Daikin, Hitachi etc) - crazy reliable
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by namdnay 4y ago
It’s very common in major French cities. The workaround is to stick a traffic light on the input lane that gets too busy
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by namdnay 4y ago
Office Mac is pretty awful, I really wouldn’t recommend it for anyone who needs to use the full feature set
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by namdnay 4y ago
Office web is fine for day to day use, but not appropriate for anyone in finance/accounting/project management who will need to use Excel heavily
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by namdnay 4y ago
yup, basically Git + a PR submission system
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by namdnay 4y ago
> Some of the "better" arguments i've seen are obsoleting/maintaining anything that is quasi public record. Think all sorts of land/legal transactions where it's basically "once x and y and z have said
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by namdnay 4y ago
now that ebikes are becoming common, I'd say we're getting closer to an automotive attitude. nobody is going to junk an ebike, even an entry-level 800 EUR one
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by namdnay 4y ago
the PSA and Renault EVs look perfectly normal. So do the Kia/Hyundai ones apart from their two flagships
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by namdnay 4y ago
I don't think so, insurance is high, it burns a lot of fuel, and it's so complicated that repairs will be costly. The idea that an old luxury car is "better" than a newer economy model is something that sounds nice, but
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by namdnay 4y ago
The Sun or the Daily Mail are far more "popular" than the Guardian. The Guardian is more prestigious, you won't see the top students in journalism studies saying that their dream is to work for at the Mail on Sunday :)
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by namdnay 4y ago
I'd say the NYT has an "educated big coastal city american slant", not sure it's a question of left or right. I seem to remember they were pretty gung-ho about invading Iraq, hardly a left-wing position
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by namdnay 4y ago
indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32320295 european salaries are usually quoted "semi-gross" (or semi-net, according to your optimism). there is an arbitrary distinction between employer contributions a
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by namdnay 4y ago
Sure, Because it’s not your core business
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by namdnay 4y ago
It would be illegal in France to do it without declaring yourself as an employee, and therefore paying contributions . “Illegal” as in if you get caught you’ll get a fin and back-taxes, not jail or anything
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by namdnay 4y ago
I completely agree with what you say, it depends on the specific setup (specifically, whether a judge will consider that it was an employment relationship). My statement was in response to someone who was clearly describing an employment re
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by namdnay 4y ago
In France (and Germany too apparently), if you are found out - usually by a random tax audit - they will ask you to back-pay employee and employer contributions on the money that you received (so about 60% total) the issue isn't really
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by namdnay 4y ago
ah yes of course, if it really "one of many" jobs it's fine in France too. What I understood from the conversation was people trying to do this for a "100% job"
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by namdnay 4y ago
There are two legal ways to do this: 1) The company opens a branch in France, with as director and sole employee the person in question. Employment contributions are collected on the money that the French branch pays to its (sole) employee.
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by namdnay 4y ago
that's just basic human decency, no? are we now to respect someone who believes it's completely normal not to see any black professors in a country that's 15% balck?
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by namdnay 4y ago
if there are 894 candidates for a position, there's going to be somewhat arbitrary weeding out somewhere down the line
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by namdnay 4y ago
> It is often very political and propagandist I don't get the "political" angle - what's political about getting people to think about others? maybe it's a bit heavy-handed in a corporate-do-goody-virtue-signalin
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by namdnay 4y ago
> being forced to profess beliefs you don't hold I don't understand what beliefs you're referring to? I thought they were asking people to promote diversity, what "belief" is there in that?
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by namdnay 4y ago
it depends on the EU country. this would be illegal in france for example, considered a "hidden employment contract" (which it is)
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by namdnay 4y ago
the problem is that the majority of active voters are using real estate as an investment vehicle. convincing an investor in X to ban investment in X is pretty tricky ...
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by namdnay 4y ago
Yes, that’s why I said attributed to, rather than “Voltaire said”. A quick search seems to point to various economists and commentators in the 18th century.
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by namdnay 4y ago
It was Bush - if it hadn’t been spent on Iraq it would have gone straight to tax cuts for the upper brackets. We’re talking about the guy who managed to tank the worlds healthiest budget
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by namdnay 4y ago
Ah yes, it’s a sinister plot by the evil “environmental lobby”… No, it’s just that the roots of the green movement are mixed with the nuclear disarmament movement, and the rejection of nuclear unfortunately got carried on to civilian power
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by namdnay 4y ago
Is this uncommon in the US? I’ve seen it pretty much everywhere across Europe. Usually they’re managed by the town council and reserved for apartment-dwellers

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