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by spoonie 10y ago
My understanding is that you may have taken a lot of equity in exchange for salary, so much so that you literally can't afford to exercise any significant portion of the options.
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by spoonie 10y ago
Why can't you exercise and move on? Are you an early employee with lots of equity at a low strike price and a low enough salary that you can't pay the tax to exercise? Are you risk averse and don't want to pay to exercise unt
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by spoonie 10y ago
If you are lucky enough to live in an area with any kind of competition, choose them over the incumbents. You should choose them even of they provide worse speeds or less comprehensive customer service. Ideally you should choose a fully ind
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by spoonie 10y ago
My rental agreement (in a 4-storey apartment building) in SF forbids me from subletting (without consent), or from having overnight guests for more than N days a year. Are most other rental agreements more lax or do many Airbnb hosts operat
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by spoonie 10y ago
They're a very niche interest for experienced investors. Experienced investors who are crowding for the doors based on the ups & downs of the market? Sounds pretty amateur to me.
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by spoonie 10y ago
No, it's a reason not to panic-sell when there is fear mongering. Or better yet stay out of equities in the first place if you're worried about the value of your fund ever declining.
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by spoonie 10y ago
"In any sort of market, you want the experts making the decisions, not some technocrat or bureaucrat," Seems to me the use of "technocrat" here is contradictory? Or are business/marketing "experts&quo
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by spoonie 10y ago
I haven't seen many stop to give consideration to how Northern Ireland will have to deal with the fallout of this. I don't doubt that there was thought behind Leave votes, but many of them seem to ignore NI. Hopefully the peace pr
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by spoonie 10y ago
My friends recommend signing up for the Nexus program to facilitate speedy crossings. As I understand it you are effectively re-applying for your TN at every re-entry and could be rejected. That said, my friends all go back to Canada many t
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by spoonie 10y ago
So NAFTA means Canada, the USA, and Mexico are more likely to go to war now?
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by spoonie 10y ago
I went to the US first to get my TN, before returning to London, UK where we were living. We then applied at the US Embassy for my wife's "pre-TD" if you will. The consular officer there told her she was approved and would ge
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by spoonie 10y ago
Yeah we had to apply for permission for my wife to enter the US to ask for her TD status. It was supposed to take 7 days but we are still waiting.
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by spoonie 10y ago
I'm in a similar situation, except Canadian. Did it take you 6 months to get your wife's TD status? I applied for my wife back in March and we are still waiting for her TD (she is not Canadian). :(
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by spoonie 10y ago
You distrust Scottish politicians to run a Scottish Parliament, but you trust English politicians to run Scotland?
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by spoonie 10y ago
I saw it once at a small computer store in Ottawa in 2008.
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by spoonie 10y ago
Same.
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by spoonie 10y ago
I listened to a MoneyBox radio programme about this. The "financial expert" said that it was effectively a tax-deferral program, just like a pension plan. Any gains inside the fund were tax free until the money was brought back in
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by spoonie 10y ago
I've seen London rental advertisements list weekly prices as a way to conceal their cost, but I've never heard of anyone taking payments weekly. Do council-provided flats have weekly bills?
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by spoonie 10y ago
Arguably it was largely workers performing R&D inside of the US which resulted in the creation of these products. So there is at least a bunch of income, payroll, property taxs, etc. paid already inside of the US. Now, if the company we
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by spoonie 10y ago
The grandparent was making an analogy, but... Use a "non-dom"! BVI or Jersey/Gibraltar/Mann, etc. My understanding is that it's similar to money left outside of the US: with a UK non-domicile you can defer paying ta
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by spoonie 10y ago
It's probably a marginal issue, but would decreased living costs reduce salaries? Presumably if living costs were lower companies could pay less while still offering a higher net-income than other areas. I guess what I'm asking is
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by spoonie 10y ago
> The collective bargaining that would go on would be force multiplied in either direction. But I thought HN hated the idea of unions!? How is this any different.
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by spoonie 11y ago
Would reduced housing costs put downward pressure on salaries? Or could some combination of growth/competition keep them where they are?
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by spoonie 11y ago
I'm not aware of the CRA disallowing you from doing business in USD/EUR/GBP? And you can open bank accounts in those currencies right inside of Canada (have done it myself for GBP, USD).
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by spoonie 11y ago
I would argue the lower salaries are for societal reasons (health care, cheaper university tuition, etc) more so than Europeans coming to work in the UK. Consider AmaGoogBookSoft salaries in London: lower but not scandalously so.
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by spoonie 11y ago
With 3-5 years experience (was at the job for 2 years) I was making £46k, so it could be worse. ;) I was getting 20 vacation days a year, plus public holidays, plus some number of sick days. I talked to my friends at FB and Google in London
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by spoonie 11y ago
Does having a bunch of vested, 10-year-window options on the books of a startup affect its valuation? Would a potential buyer look at that and think "That's a liability!"?
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by spoonie 11y ago
Is that the same kind of "deported" that most Canadian devs get when they apply for TN status at the border?
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by spoonie 11y ago
The main point of stock options is a tax hack: it's a way to give someone something (a promise) that has a face value but no taxable value. Generally speaking, you pay taxes on stock options when you exercise them, not when you earn th
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by spoonie 11y ago
But won't someone think of the bats and the spiders!? :O

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