130 karma · joined September 27, 2018
You can withhold taxes by dropping your income below the minimum threshold.
Face the truth. If you want no killing, Your enemy isn’t Google, it’s your neighbour.
They aren’t scammers, though, because most people want this. Of course it is unfair to you, but most countries have their laws originate in their dominant religious culture and consequently favour that culture.
For instance, the San Francisco MTA legalized parking along the median on the street for church services. It’s just the way that people want it to be, and in democracies, they will inevitably get their way so it’s best to take advantage of the laws they make. Being upset is less profitable than playing the game.
I don’t think this is interesting because any conservative trend. It’s a cool business hack that allows you to make money without taxes.
Still agree with the monitoring, though.
Wrote something small like that for a random data generator for an in-house properties tester in Java a short while back. It makes it easier, in my opinion, when you have all the code available in a single screen than if it’s spread out.
Analogously, code is cost, infra is cost, only our sold product is revenue.
A thing I did not understand for a long time is the effect this has on value. Something that produces a low value over a long time may well have been value-negative over the period because of the hidden carrying cost.
I’ve never found myself backed into a corner and I suspect this is part of its success: some people have codebases where it’s a problem (branch names which are files, for instances) but most people don’t encounter this sort of thing and it works just fine.