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If you make 50k your effective income tax + NI tax is about 33%. If you take other taxes (council tax, VAT, stamp duty etc.) Total effective taxation is around 50%. Now the dividend tax is 15% (in the…

It seems there is no official petition https://petition.parliament.uk/

You can brag in front of friends and family - people you care about.

Take into account the fact that Model 3 + battery pack + roof will cost 80k-100k in 10 years. In France electricity cost almost double and fuel is 50% more expensive.

Apart from people buying these for status there is another market - Hawaii and other remote places where prices are from 2x to 5x comparing to California.

They rewrite a lot in Go.

In that case I'd prefer to start a company in Poland. Much lower taxes, cost of infrastructure, legal, labour, capital requirement for LTD (25000 EUR vs 1200 EUR).

You can survive sure, but I'd be really hard and expensive to start a company. How am I suppose to read german law and fill government forms? Have a lawyer to everything for me? Thanks no thanks.

If you'd double my salary I still wouldn't move to Germany. Learning a new language is too big investment.

.Net recommendation is to use value types for values that has maxium of 128 bits.

How come Xamarin tag exists, but there is no python?

0.5% of revenue. I bet corporation spent more on accounting.

Many countries have that and CEOs don't set up this way. Illegal and bad for PR.

Source?

Thanks for that. Really helpful. Is there a great mid-size open-source project that was created with Create React App? Any input on UI frameworks? I'm currently using React-Bootstrap, but I'…

What React is missing is a set of idioms and patterns. When you inherit Angular or Django project it's quite easy to understand it and be productive if someone follows the philosophy. Create-Reac…

There is one thing that annoys me about http://www.bbc.co.uk/news I use VPN node in Finland. When I visit the news site the page loads very quickly, I start reading and after 3 second…

This is a completely different scenario than an average app. Curl is used in cars and other embedded devices. This things matter for this scale. >"RAM is cheap" Memory is cheap on servers…

People are scared of nuclear in Poland due to the accident in the neighbour country, but it will have to happen. It's sustainable to mine bituminous coal for 20 years. Lignite will stay a bit lon…

less CO2, NOX, sulfur dioxide, radioactive particles, PM10 and PM2.5

as a support for hills, not use it exclusively.

> Many household names, such as Slack, Hootsuite and Shopify — which may be mistakenly considered as U.S. products — hail from north of the border. They are Delaware corporations, aren't they?…

mirror neurons

get an electric bike

Try Icebreaker

Merino wool is really great, especially in a high humidity environment (e.g. Singapore). It's pretty comfy as well, not as comfy as cotton, though.

Because the outsourcing companies would set up a pseudo startup to abuse it. The solution is to make it expensive for them.

You set up a company with 16% corporate tax.

I wouldn't be surprised if a good developer in Romania makes $40k a year (net salary) which is equivalent of $70k ($130k gross) in SF? The market is working.