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by rapht 3y ago
> We're certainly setting a record at destroying this planet. In the grand scheme of things, I'm tempted to say: if that's the price to pay to expand beyond it, then so what? It's not like it's the only planet in
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by rapht 3y ago
I especially like the bits about : > 1. [...] You want to postpone a task? Please enter the exact date to postpone this to. Which project to add this to? Tags? Subtasks? The amount of things one can customize is really large, but making
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by rapht 3y ago
You can think of it in even broader terms: being/staying lean, re-using tried and tested things, adapting your requirements to widely available solutions rather than developing custom solutions to fit your requirements, making everythi
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by rapht 3y ago
Hello, "limited liability company".
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Ask HN: Universal Organizer?
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by rapht 3y ago
> IRS knows all the income data only in simple cases like salaried employees with W-2 forms. If you are business owner or contractor the things can be more complicated If you already can avoid the trouble for 50% (?) of the people who ar
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by rapht 3y ago
The Beato Book ! https://beatobook.com/
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by rapht 4y ago
Ah, financial gravity comes to unicorns. 20x EBITDA starts looking reasonable, instead of the previous 40x.
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by rapht 4y ago
Meanwhile, in normal countries: - salaried income is automatically submitted to tax authorities - capital income going through financial institutions is automatically submitted to tax authorities - the deductions that concern most taxpayers
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by rapht 4y ago
To me, this relates to a broader subject: the way prices are displayed. In Europe, laws basically mandate that what you as a customer see on a price tag or price list, is what you ultimately pay. You don't have to do any guesswork, lo
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by rapht 4y ago
> I don't know why here in the west it's common practice to actually not pay employees enough and rely entirely on tips It's really mostly the case in North America. In most of Europe, tipping is more an exception than a r
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by rapht 4y ago
I'm not sure I agree. You chose to require an SMS OTP for your customers. It is not straightforward at all that the burden of filtering your customers would fall on your provider and not on you -- actually, if the provider you chos
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by rapht 4y ago
"Calling a cat, a cat", as we say in French: I really do not see what anyone would lose just putting the right words on each action -- and it's not even very difficult to define. Can the user use the thing mostly without the
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by rapht 4y ago
There's a language issue which has not been tackled by regulators and which is actually the mere definition of what happens when I choose to "buy" or "purchase" something. This is because until recently (by the time
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by rapht 4y ago
Your private property is what it is, private. Your business place, assuming a public business, is indeed that: a place open to the public by default. In France (and, as far as I'm aware, most European countries), there is a very clear
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by rapht 4y ago
> So companies can flout the law for years, making massive profits, and continue to do so for as long as they can string along an appeal process? Seems like a pretty nice loophole. Actually, they may yet receive a hefty fine. The court r
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by rapht 4y ago
Exactly. Also related is the definition of "net negative outcome": is that relative to a prior situation (i.e. could be a very good situation becoming a little less good) or to a value framework common to both groups allowing for
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by rapht 4y ago
My company is in the process of buying out a German group. To do that, we needed to set up a new holding company which would own the target group's shares. Without exception, ALL our advisors/lawyers (both in Germany and out) re
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by rapht 4y ago
I know little by way of the crypto world, but I have to say that calling platforms like FTX, Binance, and others " exchanges " strikes me as very much misleading. In traditional finance, the "exchange", as in "the
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by rapht 4y ago
All this just shows one thing : copyrighting / licensing "code" is meaningless... but of course that was already known by all those people who think that the US laws about copyright should not have been propagated to the rest
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by rapht 4y ago
Aren't the costs of the US healthcare system largely driven by the cost of the healthcare workforce - basically, not enough trained personnel leading to the absence of competition, leading to doctors getting paid much more than they sh
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by rapht 4y ago
An income is something you owe to your shareholders. So if you think of what you own as (+) and what you owe as (-), which is how debut/credit is conventionally shortcut, an income is a negative number.
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by rapht 4y ago
This resembles to what we do in a very different field (finance) at my organisation for positions with less than 10 years of experience-- only the prep is time limited, at our offices,
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by rapht 4y ago
If successful recruiting is not worth some of your best employee-hours -- which by the way should be the same people in charge in their respective fields -- then what is?
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by rapht 4y ago
Teaching someone finance on a tight finance team is not easier -- finance (the real kind, not the automatable kind) is just as technical a field as programming. What I think is different is that it's not so much deep, like programming
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by rapht 4y ago
From an employer's point of view there are many good reasons not to state a salary range, the 2 most obvious ones being: - once you state clearly what your max is, why would your preferred candidate settle for anything less? - why wo
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by rapht 4y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. I may add one thing though: it's probable that it is not only measurement bias for a simple reason: demographics. The generations that currently are the most numerous and have the highest purchasing power are
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by rapht 4y ago
Yeah well... or just have parents requiring lights and phone off at 9pm.
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by rapht 4y ago
Call me an elitist but this is where I like the French "Grandes Ecoles" system: - public educations gets you a 2 year intensive training leading up to a competitive exam with one branch towards engineering schools and one branch
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by rapht 4y ago
As usual, the solution lies in peer-to-peer apps where there is no centralized provider that will have any responsibility or oversight. Wait... isn't that what infringers already use?

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