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imeikas··on Become Estonia’s e-resident
Dividends are taxed this year at 21%. And if I'm not mistaken tax rate is lowered to 20% next year, reinvested profit is not taxed.
imeikas··on Germany's Leading Technical University Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions
You may try to contact the authors in the papers directly. In addition to getting the paper you might even get to discuss the issues directly with the authors.
imeikas··on Ask HN: What is wrong with folders?
It's outdated only if you want to really push good search. At some point you will have so many tags, that you'd like to tag tags.
imeikas··on How to increase productivity per square inch of your screen
I use 2 FullHD screens where one is dedicated to code and the other is for console, project explorer, logviewer etc. All the other stuff is in different workspaces (Unfortunately I must develop on Windows, but I found mDesktop that allows to create virtual desktops).
imeikas··on The Day I Saw Van Gogh’s Genius in a New Light
Let me ask this in another way, why would you not use two different colors as one, if they look identical to you?
imeikas··on The Price of (Dev) Happiness: Part One
Also we have VAT ;)
imeikas··on The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress
Or if you cherish your time, you keep away from it. It's quite addictive and you can have a lot of Fun.
imeikas··on Should I present myself as a person or as a company in the about page?
I'd preffer the first one, you are a startup so your company won't have 4 years of experience in the industry, you have. Also clients will figure out that you are a one man startup anyway.

Jason Cohen writes exactly about this question in http://blog.asmartbear.com/youre-a-little-company-now-act-li...

imeikas··on Ask HN: Anyone else here struggle with the alcohol?
> Hire a trainer and pay in advance for 3 months so there's a penalty for not doing it.

Actually this is not a good motivator, find something you like, otherwise you end up with a 3 month (or a year :P) gym etc. pass and still not exercise. With this kind of forcing you might actually start hating exercise.

imeikas··on Remind HN: Vote
Hehe, luckily it's not that easy to get the ID-card.

You have to prove you are Estonian citizen (or become one) and the system is secure enough that people can trust their money and sign legal documents with this system.

Actually this is one weak point in the system. If some crook gets hold of your ID-card and your PIN codes, he can sign documents that are legally binding. (For example sell your house for a dollar etc.)

imeikas··on Remind HN: Vote
In Estonia you can vote from almost anywhere if you have ID-card and working internet connection.

It's really convenient and people are using this more and more. For example last elections 15.75% of votes were made using internet. Official statistics can be found from http://vvk.ee/voting-methods-in-estonia/engindex

Also there are talks that they want to enable voting with mobile phones (there are already solutions where you can log in to banks and other websites with mobile phones).

imeikas··on Fun with Fingerprint Readers
Mythbusters also tried some different methods for beating the system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA4Xx5Noxyo