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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
IRS equivalent of the jurisdictions I fall under, talking to friends, talking to people who are into this, forums. I’m lucky to have a very good account who often gives me suggestions and who is happy to validate or invalidate my crazier id
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
It doesn’t. I’m in the EU. There seems to be a false idea that only the USA has tax loop holes. I assure you. It’s not the case. And tax heavens are also way easier to use as a EU citizen because there’s no global income declaration require
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
Quite a bit actually ( for me at least ) seeing as there’s progressive taxation. I’d reckon at least 30k per year. Probably more. I take out only 11k or so per year from the company as personal income. That’s the tax free bracket. The rest
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
We wouldn’t want those pesky commies, ahh sorry, that was the 50s and 60s, those darn uppity negroes, ahh sorry again, my bad, that was civil rights era, those blasted … err, commies again? They made a comeback in the 80s it seems. Ahh ther
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
One of my hobbies is tax optimisation and finding and exploiting tax loopholes. I’m a contractor, I work through my company. It’s way more tax efficient than being perm. But, it could be even more efficient. So, I did some research. Turn ou
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
No one is winning economic wars. Not even the rich who get to play both sides. They’re just avoiding losses, if you’re in the position to do war profiteering you would have made money anyway. I don’t understand why money is being funnelled
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
Know or assume what? That the email was automated? Yeah, I mean I don’t know 100% but I highly doubt a human analysed the situation and typed an email. What seems more likely to me is, a request came from my app to some bank server. The ser
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
At the start of this year, I was in Cuba. While in Cuba, I opened my bank app to check my balance. Just that, not to make any transactions. I am a EU citizen. I only have EU bank accounts. The app I used was of a EU bank. There are no EU sa
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
I found well written and maintained readme files to be useful. That and redundancy in terms of people who know the code base. The best readme files write in english what the mode does, a sort of heat-map of the code ( often some parts are m
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
One of the most interesting books in the Bible at least from my perspective is Job. Unlike all other books, it’s sort of a standalone. It’s time is not specified and the place is not in a usual biblical setting. Most people know it as that
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
Germany is a very bad example to follow. In many areas and especially in work culture and innovation. If someone changing jobs frequently is considered a red flag, that’s a failure of imagination on the part of the prospective employer. You
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
Yes. That was my point. There is no functional difference between you telling me “go read this and that” and a preacher saying “go read the scriptures”. The scriptures you told me to go read are irrelevant to my broader point. I am sure you
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
It’s not the best, far from it, but it was fascinating to me so I will share. I used to work for a large newspaper. Engineering wasn’t the focus of the business, it was only a means to an end, it was just something they needed to have a com
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
It's not about conflating freedom of speech and having a platform. It's about discrimination by businesses. We have laws in place preventing businesses from discriminating. A shop cannot say "we don't allow black people
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
You cannot have it both ways. We agreed as a society business are not allowed to discriminate. If businesses cannot discriminate, then your business should indeed be forced to host whatever content I put there, no matter how repulsive you m
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
Yes, I am sure I meant to reply to you.
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
Tell me, how would you respond to a fanatical preacher telling you to go read the scriptures? Would you do it? Would you call him outright insane? Would you dismiss him and move on? Genuine question, I am honestly curious.
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
> Or to be blocked from being able to say it out loud Proponents of hate speech laws and their silent enablers would be one answer. Certainly not the only one. > I think what you mean is that people are calling for internet platforms
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
I don’t think it’s urbanisation. In the west, the twentieth century had urbanisation and was far more open to free speech while many parts on the world didn’t and were more censorship prone. In fact, in the middle east for example, one coul
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
I think there might be a miss alignment of values here. It all depends on what you see the purpose of the company to be. Some people are dedicated to the company as an entity of it’s own and the product they build and the people working the
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
I share your feeling. I was struck by a deep sense of sadness as well. Maybe it’s silly, I don’t know, I sort of felt she was the grandma of the nation. It was a nice feeling knowing she’s there and a sad one knowing she no longer is. One t
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
Let’s say there’s a hamburger restaurant. Now, this hamburger restaurant has an interesting business model. They way it works is, they give out burgers for free. They do that because they get money from lettuce producers to put lettuce in t
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
> For example, youtube could require that you have a webcam, and run a trusted-computing-module DRM code which forces your webcam to be on and recording your face to view their videos? I propose a mandatory integration with Alexa devices
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
I think you’re the one being obtuse. That or you are profoundly ignorant and accepted the mainstream narrative uncritically. Kiwfarms was not driven off the internet because “they did terrible things to innocent people”. The did not. The eq
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
The false equivalence is you comparing a business relationship to an interpersonal relationship between two people in real life. Do you believe stores should be allowed to ban black people from shopping there? Do you believe pharmacies shou
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
The position I am arguing for is actually something the Cloudflare CEO appears to support as well. At least in writing since he did cave under pressure and instituted censorship. To quote Matthew Price: “it would have been appropriate as an
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
The homosexuals are not being persecuted for holding an identity, they are being held accountable for actions taken against public decency and innocent children. Nobody reasonable thinks, eg, “persons who engage in degenerate behaviour” sho
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
> Freedom of speech may protect against government consequences but it doesn't protect against social consequences. Whenever I see this line, all I can think is this is the exact same reasoning used by racists and homophobes and rel
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
I’m not disputing this is the case ( you fall under GDPR even if you put a geo blocker ) but, I feel like this is something absurd from GDPRs part. If you say “we don’t want eu clients” and actively try to keep them away, to me it makes sen
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by throwawayacc2 4y ago
I feel like we are using this word, intolerant, without an agreed upon definition. We are trying to measure something but we have no metric for it. To answer your question, we need a way to measure the level of intolerance, whatever this is

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