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1 points·by gerbler·5 years ago·0 comments

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gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
It was the initial incentive, but it's the only English speaking country in the eurozone (aside from Malta) and there's a huge number of companies who have massive capital investments (pharma/biomedical). Now there's a very active tech scene, it's tightly linked to the US so it actually feels quite sustainable.
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
This was true, it no longer exists
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
Spot on
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
I don't know what to expect exactly, but these numbers seem quite small. Wonder if bad actors are moving to other channels
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
Hahaha. Even better, the twitterer specializes in digital detoxes (a worthy cause, but counter to Twitter's goals). Maybe his secret plan is to turn down services in a volunteer capacity
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
>Aztec is on the cutting edge of zero-knowledge SNARK development. Built on PLONK — the paradigm-defining universal zk-SNARK used by leading zero-knowledge projects like Mina, Dusk, Zcash, and zkSync.

I have an open mind about this area and a technical background. I really struggle to understand what any of this means and what I can use it for. My experience with cryptocurrency (paying for things) has been challenging. As the whole ecosystem is very fragmented it's hard to know what to explore.
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
Comparing their personal lives is also interesting - Crichton, married 5 times, Grisham married once.

Not morally judging someone for getting divorced, but I suspect such an ambitious life (Crichton) left little room for personal relationships.
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
This isn't correct. You pay CGT on the difference between grant and sale

The one loophole is to sell with 4 weeks, that is CGT exempt.
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
This is country specific. The stock grant price and the vest or sale price are used in my country to assess gains, so you still have capital gains to pay even if you sell right after vesting
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
>Proximity to the university system breeds pro-EU attitudes because the EU enforces a similar ideology in Europe to that found in universities

That's an interesting claim - do you have evidence to justify it?

Not disagreeing entirely that degree holders benefit from EU membership based on the type of work degrees lead to, but in reality so do people without degrees if the economy is growing. There's really no economic argument for leaving the EU; it seems like it was purely ideological.
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
You could summarize it as fanciful brexit economics crashing into reality.

The dark irony is that it's from someone (Truss) who wasn't originally in favour of brexit.

The FT described her economic strategy as "cakeism" - getting to both eat and have your cake.

https://www.ft.com/content/f8f8d943-35e9-423a-9a9a-b6074a6cf...
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
I'm not sure that the electorate are educated well enough though - pro-brexit votes were higher in poorer, less-well educated areas (there was a strong linear correlation between the two published in The Economist).

Agree with your general points but would add that print media heavily influencing uneducated people allows any narrative to be justified.
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
Not sure if this is an option, bit I have a pixel 3 Android and have explored a few custom launchers to achieve this.

Currently I use "minimalist phone", I've also used Siempo. Both are amazing, cut down on phone clutter and allow you to aggressively manage notifications.
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
The article clearly outlines the conflict of interest
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
It's definitely not a perfect solution, but one approach could have been for the author to use a consumer Gmail account and to have set up the gsuite account as an alias.
gerbler
·4 years ago·discuss
Lots of capex
gerbler
·5 years ago·discuss
My feeling is that hard proof around wire-fraud will be sufficient for her to be found guilty.
gerbler
·5 years ago·discuss
I totally agree that English can be used entirely for businesses in other euro countries but for a US company it is attractive for employees/families to be in country where English is an official language.
gerbler
·5 years ago·discuss
Also it is (and was) the only English speaking country in the eurozone.

Tax was a huge factor in drawing some of the big names but the double-Irish (the worst aspect of tax avoidance) had been phased out. Corporate tax is 12.5% which is lower than the majority of EU countries [1] but the existing ecosystem of companies has also helped create an attractive labour pool. If it's purely tax everyone would move to Hungary (9%).

1: https://taxfoundation.org/2021-corporate-tax-rates-in-europe...