- Bissnesshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriation_tax
- That OkCupid was allowed to be sold to the Match Group was yet another massive antitrust failure
Founders selling out should also be viewed more critically than it currently is.
- What role do ETFs play in this?
- Check if your browser hasn't just switched to a different/new profile
- wrong place and people (tech and finance bros) to ask
- Scamming is partly intense psychological violence, and its financial and psychological consequences are far reaching, and here at an unfathomable scale - an entire city of people! In this sense they terrorize people. And they should likewise be relentlessly pursued and sentenced as a consequence. That city would go to war against them if they were one.
But yeah, i don't know, maybe we need a new word for such criminals. The superlative for murderers is "mass murderers". "Mass scammers?"
- It's much more than people "just losing some money", anyone who ever had anything stolen from them, or have been broken into can tell you that.
I'm speechless that they were able to reach that number of victims without consequences. Reeks of a lack of oversight, will, power or coordination on behalf of the investigators. I wonder which reasons they give.
Gifting a bit of existential fear to those scammers might not hurt, since they force it on thousands of others.
- Electric cars do not make sense to own if you are not also owning a garage where you can charge them overnight. Also, if you are unwilling to add 1+ hour(s) to your travel time on longer distances.
- Have you seen/what do you think of the following?
https://isaacmorehouse.com/2020/04/08/sociopaths-clueless-lo...
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
- For me it was this, generalized to "Ultimately, no one, nobody else, will be able to or willing to care about your best interests except yourself."
People, families, groups, systems and institutions act primarily through their own structures and in their own best interests, are able to forget, misinterpret or simply not care about what you want/need/desire/expect/(feel you) deserve from them, and can never care about you as an individual as much as you can care about yourself.
This can apply to small or big things. This even applies to formal, specific, contractual obligations others have to you. That's just paper. It can be at best ineffective to expect others to act in your (best) interest while you are not there supervising and understanding everything they are doing. Trust, but verify, and be ready to protest for and enforce your rights.
The world is full of minor and major bullshit many have given up on to change, to care about, or feel powerless to change anything about. If anything moves in this world it is through the stubbornness of dedicated individuals. Since you yourself have only limited time and energy, be ready to endure this bullshit which makes life seem insufferable and unfair.
Also, today's society has no effective mechanisms to punish misbehavior at small scales, and repeat offenders who move between communities.
I may have been childish, naive, too hopeful or entitled to expect otherwise, but nowadays I know that at any time, people or the universe can metaphorically say "fuck you, i don't owe you anything" and fuck your life and feelings over, regardless of how conscientiously or nice or supposedly selfless you acted. But so must you, if people expect more from you than you can and are willing to give, even if it hurts them, else they will drain your joy and energy and potential out of your life.
Also, this is useful to learn: https://www.raptitude.com/2022/01/everything-must-be-paid-fo...
- Best of luck finding an apartment
- Bravo!
Bürgerämter are most of the time a fucking joke. My registration in Berlin took months after I already moved there, the waiting times are just that long, and this seems to apply to many cities. I live in another city now, and my ID card has been expired for months now (which, legally, is a misdemeanor). There isn't a single free appointment anywhere, citywide. You can attempt to go personally there in the early morning, yet here is what I encountered: arriving half an hour early to the Bürgeramt: THIRTY people waiting there, squatting in the hallways, all the way out to the door. On another day, arriving an HOUR before it opened: 12 people already waiting. It's all a joke. And this isn't a recent phenomenon - it's mismanagement for decades, the people responsible should all be fired (but of course that isn't possible).
There should be a "Minister for Time", who has the authority to crack down on such bullshit, not only in the German state bureaucracy, but also in the medical system (good luck getting any quick care here!). Both have taken to a level that is undignified, and wastes person-years of sitting in depressing places. Waiting should be an exception, not the norm, and there need to be metrics against that which have consequences.
- Public chargers usually have very low power (e.g. 11kW), are as of now not common enough and typically limit the parking time to a few hours (that are not even sufficient to fully charge), requiring one to go back again and find another parking space after that (which, later in the evening/night, is even harder).
- The problem is that many (most?) people won't be able to charge at home. Living in apartments, using public parking spaces. Owning an EV in that circumstance sucks.
- Similar visualization: https://finviz.com/map.ashx?t=sec&st=w4
- Ah yes, "full" self driving
- Good choice, I deeply regret having fallen for the words of this petty, childish, intellectually dishonest techie con man.
- Speaking for Germany: A culture of risk-avoidance, a different attitude toward money and (by) those who have it (distrust instead of veneration), a terrible bureaucracy afflicted with paper document fetishism, significantly less venture capital per capita, lack of spaces to experiment - no "garage startups" because especially young people don't own/live in a house here, a focus on degrees, not entrepreneurial achievements.