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by sbacic 5y ago
They'd need to grow to a certain size first and even then, they could just hire remotely. My hope is that these rules will only apply to large multinationals but somehow I doubt it - governments are unlikely to leave money on the table
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by sbacic 5y ago
> Maybe their tax revenues will rise? I think it will depend on whether these services will even _be_ supplied there. More likely than not, companies will just pass over the opportunity to provide services to smaller and poorer countries
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by sbacic 5y ago
If it's going to be anything like the digital services tax, then the answer is a resounding yes as the US is where your customers are. I see two things come out of this: 1. Companies selling their B2C services digitally will be paying
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by sbacic 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE Europe Front-end developer with over 4 years of freelance experience, mostly on greenfield projects but also occasionally with established codebases. Used to working alone with minimal supervision or in small teams. Lo
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by sbacic 5y ago
I wrote a frontend template for NextJS because I was tired of having to set up everything every time I started a new project. It includes i18n, Storybook, a test suite, some VSCode defaults, linters for code and commit messages and a code f
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by sbacic 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE Croatia, Europe Front-end developer with over 4 years of freelance experience, mostly on greenfield projects but also occasionally with established codebases. Used to working alone with minimal supervision or in small
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by sbacic 5y ago
> I personally don't think these sorts of strategies should exist from a perspective of principals (it encourages capital to copy, not innovative, and further punishes those who take on the real risks who are disproportionately awar
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by sbacic 5y ago
> Losing weight. I have had great success with the alternate day fasting method (I'm on it right now in fact). Probably because it doesn't require me to _do_ anything - no calorie counting, no tedious exercises.
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by sbacic 5y ago
> - Finding good freelancers who care (yes I pay well but still it is a hit or miss.) Care to elaborate a bit more on this?
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by sbacic 5y ago
I never had any notifications on my phone to begin with. I then went a step further and put it on a shelf behind me. Now the only time I notice I have a phone is when I need to recharge it. I also own an iPad - again, no notifications. I re
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by sbacic 5y ago
> I complain here and everywhere about the insane complexity in modern-day web app dev. As a frontend dev, I don't think complexity is the issue. I _love_ the new tools at my disposal and am grateful that time has done away with man
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by sbacic 5y ago
There's a funny joke about that. "Where do rich people hide their wealth in the West?" "In tax havens." "And where do they hide it in Eastern Europe?" "In plain sight". A free press won't do
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by sbacic 5y ago
> Of course, you’ll need the initial capital. Which is quite reasonable compared to say Germany or Switzerland (or hell, even Croatia) but still not $0 like in the USA.
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by sbacic 5y ago
Yikes! That sounds like it has "vendor lock-in" written all over it.
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by sbacic 5y ago
> I’m curious how European economies justify the high cost of starting a business? Short answer: they don't. Longer answer: countries in Europe don't want some guy opening a business out of his garage. They want somebody with f
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by sbacic 5y ago
What sharp edges are you referring to? I find that with new tech, I'm more interested in what it can't do rather than what it can.
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by sbacic 5y ago
I'm surprised to see Alpha Centauri mentioned only once. It was a real gem and truly ahead of its time with some of its mechanics. The storytelling (something Civilization never really bothered with) was also something special.
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by sbacic 5y ago
How dangerous is parkour? I always wanted to pick it up but was always hesitant due to risk of injury.
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by sbacic 5y ago
I do caving and scuba diving. Both are fun outdoor activities that have nothing to do with computers or IT. From talks with other people in IT, it seems outdoorsy, physical and low-tech activities are quite popular to get away from our dail
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by sbacic 5y ago
> The high heat nationalism in the ex-yu managed to distract the populace from the fact that their countries are unreformed socialist era dinosaurs. It's not so much nationalism as much as people _wanting_ their countries to stay un
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by sbacic 5y ago
Is the property tax higher than the yearly increase in value of that real estate?
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by sbacic 5y ago
How much of the increased housing costs is due to growth and how much due to lack of real-estate taxes? Real estate prices are going up everywhere - including places with negative demographic trends.
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by sbacic 5y ago
> Because at least old money understands the concept of noblesse oblige. Source please. > it's that this mentality of earned wealth completely rids the owner of any sort of responsibility. Allow me to offer a different view. If y
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by sbacic 5y ago
> In the 70s and 80s even 90s someone on a teacher's salary could own their own home in a major world city - say London. You can still have that. All you need is a real estate tax. But nobody wants that. People don't want chea
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by sbacic 5y ago
Honestly, the only two things missing in Tailwind for me are: 1. @apply as a JS function that I can use in CSS in JS. 2. Some way to override existing Tailwind classes with new ones (ex: Generic Button => Specialized Button => Unique
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by sbacic 5y ago
> It's not, because there's a system to it. I think what bothers people isn't _what_ it is but _where_ it is. I for one, don't want long sausages in my HTML elements, regardless of whether they are classes or CSS styl
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by sbacic 6y ago
Let me put it this way; I recently wrote a script to parse the output of last and format it. The Node version was some 90 LoC but if I included the dependencies it came to about 5 MB. Then I rewrote the same script in Python3 and it was 60
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by sbacic 6y ago
I'm a resident of Croatia. If you have any questions about living here, feel free to shoot me an email. My email address is in my profile.
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by sbacic 6y ago
"In Europe" in this case means "Western Europe". I'm pretty sure many would take the $15/hour over the social benefits in say, Bulgaria.
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by sbacic 6y ago
What are you doing with all this free time you have right now? If you're anything like the average person, you've probably filled it with _something_. Take a moment to assess if this "something" is worth the time you are

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