throwaway60722

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by throwaway60722 3y ago
They take A decade, not decades. You're the one spreading FUD. There are successful new nuclear projects built very quickly in EU. The only slow thing about nuclear is regulatory approval - hampered by EU that for many years didn'
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
Well, that's sad. What do they get from the state that people in Czech Republic don't?
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
I don't want "a" directly elected commissioner. I want a directly elected Commission. The same system would suffice - chosen by the elected parliament among its members.
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
The political solution is way too fragile.
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
No, they are members of the parliament.
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
In Czech Republic as self-employed ("živnostník") your effective tax+insurance rate for income up to 2M CZK (~ 80k EUR) is never more than 15%. I have SW contractor friends paying around 8-12% - including health and social insuran
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
There are not so many options you couldn't just check yourself... But to answer your question - Poland and Czech Republic.
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
Just over the border is a country with effective income tax for self-employed businessmen around 5-15%.
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
There are states with much lower taxes that also pay for education. Why should Germans pay so much? There are people who didn't go to university doing business too.
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
You don't need to go full nomad, just spend half a year + 1 day out of Germany.
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
Yes, most EU countries directly elect the parliament and the government is formed from the parliament members - usually the winning party/coalition, but not always. In some it's a tradition that the winning party leader gets the f
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
My country is one of the ones pushing for this to not be implemented, so I am very unhappy to have the EU force it.
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
Who cares? I don't live in UK or USA. They can have whatever disfunctional system they want, doesn't mean I will tolerate it at my home because of that. There are dictators elsewhere, should I have one at home too?
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
East of EU.
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
That is definitely how the world works. Import/export laws largely do not apply when it's the customer self-importing it for their own personal use. And that can include the seller sending it to them using FedEx or whatever, still
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
No, they don't need to follow the local law. I can buy whatever I want from anywhere in the world and the company doesn't need to follow anything other than the law of their home. These are very significantly different cases: 1) a
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
No. If I use services of a foreign company, I am the one who should follow the foreign law. I am the one who went out and used a foreign service, they didn't come to me.
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
Many self-hosted business apps require PHP and MySQL.
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by throwaway60722 3y ago
Anecdote: Both my parents and all grandparents have Telegram while none of them have Instagram. It's a chat app used by a much wider audience than Instagram. Instagram is predominantly used by younger people who want to live the digita