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From a business POV I agree about using every means available to reduce taxes and companies must use every means at their disposal for the sake of their shareholders.

BUT as a small business owner I have no chance to get even remotely to the 1-7% tax rate that apple has, instead I look at my 32,5% tax rate and cannot help feeling angry, because I could really put that difference to very good use.

This practice of international tax scheming only benefits the already big companies, the ones that have the least problems of all entities to actually pay taxes.

bluecard is a very easy way to permanent residency in 1-2 years, but only if you studied in Germany or Europe.

not that your own servers are up 100% all the time. But the reserve in that case you could be smiling at the sysadmin guy while he scrambles for a fix, he is just happy not being at fault and having to fix it ;-)

That is the initial starting capital, not a fee. You can go on and invest or spend the money after court verified its available.

It is not a fee you have to pay, you have to guarantee this amount of capital, sort of as a signal to other companies in the market what solvency to except at least :-)

You can actually spend the money on things after the court verified the capital is present with your corporate bank.

There is always demand for a free tier, after all its free. Don't listen to this feedback, freemium is a marketing tool that requires a lot of capital for scaling and additional support, nothing available when bootstrapping. 2usd / month is hard too, because you will loose most of it to transacrion costs. Maybe a yearly or one time fee for up to x comments? The free version could be a trial of sorts, the first 50 comments free.

I think parents question is about if you have consent from your competition users to use their location data as part of marketing campaings as part of the ToS. While from a technical PoV this campaign is awesome, in Europe you might easily get sued for this kind of use of the data, especially since you make it quite obvious how you used the data (v.s. "hidden" data mining, which most companies can get away with).

I am putting my hope into Slack cloning this feature similar to how facebook cloned g+ circles or snapchat. Hopefully it will be usable and not like they added "Threads".

But mathematics is itself a science!

It uses a priori truths and deduction from it to arrive at new results.

Additionally several branches of philosophy and logic use a priori facts to derive results from it.

Praxeology is one of different ways of scientific reasoning. Just because you cannot get quantitative results from it, doesn't mean its unscientific. It cannot get you very far in predicting concrete human action, because in its view, humans act based on a subjective value "function" that has a discrete scale (you can only say: A is better than B, not by how much). and since every human is unique with their own values, which are simply not objectively comparable, there is just no way to make predictions or qualitative assumptions from this approach to science.

I think you are getting at a wrong conclusion.

Praxeology as defined by wikipedia, "is the deductive study of human action". Deduction is deeply rooted philosophy, mathematics and logic. A very valid way of scientific reasoning.

It is a different way of doing science, than the "scientific method", which uses observation and quantitative methods.

The Austrian school derives consequences from human action, allowing to describe what can happen in an economy, qualitatively. But their method doesn't allow to make quantitative statements, which makes it "useless" to politicians wanting to change the economy.

Wait, but this is exactly what modern macroeconomics does by making a huge leap from microeconomic fundamentals and aggregating this into the Solow, Romer growth models and many derived upon models. It got so crazy that Paul Romer critices this approach himself in a well regarded paper last year: https://paulromer.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/WP-Trouble....

The austrian economists in turn don't pretend to know that macroeconomics work this or that way, they can make assumptions of effects that can happen due to policies, but don't attempt to quantify them.

I think the austrian school is largely ignored for two reasons:

- from it derives a very libertarian view of the world, which many people reject because of political views. after the WW2 libertarian views were not popular, so Hayek and Mises where largely forgotten. - because its philosophical approach is exhaustively researched and you cannot add more fundamentals, leaving economists with the problem of not having much to work on.

If you read Hayek, Mises ("Human Action", very hard to follow) or later Rothbart ("Man, Economy, State"; easier to read), they all derived the same conclusions entirely based on philosophy rather than the "neoclassical economists" who use mathematical models. And all this was researched and known before math creeped so deeply into economics.

There is a whole branch of econometrics that has endless methods of doing macroeconomic quantitative analysis using data. It just doesn't work on the macro level, the data is too aggregated, the system is too entangled with dependencies between collected data and incomparable between countries, results have only historic and not predictive value and even then they are usually more voodoo than anything else.

So I disagree: Macro economics needs less computation, data and abstract mathematical models.

The Hayek quote that CaseySoftware wrote into another toplevel comment sums it up perfectly: Only pretense of knowledge coming from this.

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Well they have no intrinsic value like gold. And the code could be considered a legal framework that acts as a contract for how BTC/ETC are valued.

you can assume that the bitcoin/ethereum code-base are the modern/digital version of a legal declaration.

But I meant in the sense that they don't have intrinsic value like gold.

market cap is worthless when we talk about fiat currency.

yes had the same question: https://www.gitbook.com/book/doist/twist-api

it looks a bit more complicated than the Slack one, because of the thread/comment difference, but the "Automatic URL Report" and "Loop in" email based input looks very powerful as well.

I will try this out with our company, because this is exactly how I wanted Slack to have threading.

But Twists API to create either thread/comment in an integration will be more complicated to do than Slack and their attachments are not very powerful (yet?), migrating our existing Slack related code might proof difficult.

It is an infographic encompassing an article, which sadly I can't find translated to english on the site.

I think No one disagrees with you on biology.

It is the socialogical and economic disadvsntages that mothers have as a result, if they exist and lead to the paygap, then it might be poasible to fix that.

At least minimum wage. You can aern a lot more as a computer science student and probably in other fields.

As an international student in Germany, you get an automatic work visa for so called student jobs, up to 19,5 hours a week, no limits on wage earned, no extra social security costs. Income tax starts at 8000 a year. As a student, you can get around with 500/mo in Germany, 750 may be the comfortable lower bound

The post never once blames human error, but always specifies that the tools were the problem.

Its probably their name for an automated admin task. The post does bot imply that this was merely a checklist of things to do. Ansible calls their automatiin receipts playbook as well.

I worked in consulting/training for 4 years now, but if this work would be 100% utilized, i would have quit after one year. So the rates must be high to allow for just 50% utilization or even less.

Being a solo-consultant (or small firm) is extremely taxing from my experience and I stopped after 4 years of travelling too much, sleeping in stupid hotel beds, having 5 days of uninterrupted 120% work with 4-10 people, never getting to see the finished thing, not getting much appreciation. its just exhausting even though it easily makes a lot of money, you learn a lot, the job itself just sucks.

Sunk cost fallacy at work here. Yes, side projects may never pay back dev investment, but if you have already written all that code and invested, then you should not use that as a cost factor to make decisions about the future.

I take around 10-20 personal trips to family and friends every year, for around 1000-1500€ of "standard" fares, but pay only half with the BC50. I don't own a car. The card would cost me 250€/year so its quite a big saving. Its mostly long distance, so just for regional you are probably right it wouldn't matter.

I can't comment much on the regional experience, especially when living outside a large city. I have 3 train stations in distance of different trams. So you can be right. Although here the National Express won a contract as well and their trains are bad compared to the DB regional ones, so maybe DB is running the old trains in your region, where here in Bonn/Cologne they have very modern ones.

DB internet changed providers just some weeks ago, they now have a multi provider approach and Telekom isn't the only one anymore. Its also free for everyone even in second class on the Telekom served ones and ICs are supposed to get internet next year as well. They are even talking about adding it to regional ones.

Like with Deutsche Telekom who was government monopolist before, the competition will push the DB in a 10-20 year change cycle and after that it will be on top again with the best service and offer across the board. That kind of investment and change just takes a long time for this kind of big company.

How exactly did you communicate with them? My wife had a very nice experience with Bahncard re-subscriptions that she cancelled after the fact.

But even then, you know what you get into when ordering the service. Yes, it is a subscription.