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hosker4uon G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

Biden did not invent this. Its been in the works for years pushed by other countries. USA just agreed or some will say conceded.

hosker4uon G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

Established Companies love regulations, it hinders competition to eating market share.

hosker4uon G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

SmallCo are excluded.

hosker4uon G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

Both. USA wanted minimum tax another countries were more competitive.

Other countries are pissed at Google charging for day Adverts but paying no tax in there country on services they sell.

A compromise was made.

hosker4uon G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

UK was the holdout that forced this Two Pilar compromise.

hosker4uon G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals

This was all pre-biden, just could not go forward with Trump. With Biden it was possible again.

Give him credit for agreeing. Don't give him credit for creating.

hosker4uon Bank of England to explore a potential Central Bank Digital Currency

I'd take it over the Euro.

hosker4uon Ask HN: Presale Tool?

If its an online service, Why not set up in another country? Who don't have such tight restrictions. You can try e-residency in Estonia.

hosker4uon Ask HN: Using BSL (Business Source) License as a Dual License?

It makes sense to me.

hosker4uon Cloudflare keeps sending emails over a year after account was cancelled

Yes, if they cant unsubscribe people. I could not care less, it bothers me more this guy crying about getting an email.

hosker4uon Cloudflare keeps sending emails over a year after account was cancelled

GDPR does exist but should GDPR exist so people can cry about an odd email. No.

hosker4uon Show HN: Mortgage calculator using discounted cash flow

For some inspiration. These are UK Calculators but they work with Javascript, live updates. (well Laravel Livewire).

https://cyborg.finance/mortgage-tools/buy-to-let-mortgage-ca...

https://cyborg.finance/mortgage-tools/loan-to-value-calculat...

https://cyborg.finance/guide/types-of-mortgages

hosker4uon Ghost.org deleted my website

When two petulant people meet.

hosker4uon Show HN: Pingr – Spent ~800 hours for a product with 170 competitors

You did. Any USP to shout about?

hosker4uon Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores

Maybe because im based in the North of the UK, I've never been or should I say seen a Microsoft Retail Store. Walked past plenty of Apple Stores.

hosker4uon Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation

Well - he will certainly be charged in the UK for breach of bail conditions if he steps out of that embassy.

hosker4uon Voten.co, a Real-Time Reddit Alternative Launches Public Beta

Tried to sign in with Facebook but did not work (and the login button seems odd looking).

hosker4uon Mini.css – Minimal, responsive, style-agnostic CSS framework

It is 28 times smaller? (mini.css 7KB, Bootstrap 199 KB)

hosker4uon UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU

On those negatives: "higher prices" our food prices are rather high due to EU Tarrifs from none-eu countries. Food Prices can fall as the UK free to make trade deals with others. (Specific meat and Australia)

"lower employment" we have low-unemployment and a plan to reduce immigration. Employment will perhaps rise which may not be a good thing.

"lower standards for UK workers" labour opposition myth, its a good one "nasty tories". If they lower standards we elect labour in again to raise them. yey democracy

hosker4uon Build a Vue.js Website in 4 Steps

Website is hosted with GoDaddy - many GoDaddy websites are down today.

Though that does not give me confidence, as Cosmic JS seems like a hosted database/api layer.

Which highlights reason why I could not use them on a project. Can not build a service that is reliant on another service in such a way.

Open Source or go home.