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Post by CalRobert » Mon, Jul 07, 2025, 8:41 AM UTC

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #375

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Yeah, we tried to hack this by buying a cheap place in Offaly near the train and working remote, and it was kinda-sorta OK except that our neighbours were hell on Earth. Gave up and moved to the Netherlands which has been great for our kids' independence. I do miss a good snug though.

Aren't Netherlands wages lower than Germany except for US big-tech and HFT? I got a 70k offer with 10 YoE last week from a recruiter to move to NL and it felt like a ripoff. So I don't know where these fancy NL wages are outside the top 1%.

Post by ethbr1 » Mon, Jul 07, 2025, 10:43 AM UTC

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History says that would be a dumb bet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_Stat... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/40th_United_States_Congress#... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/74th_United_States_Congress#... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/76th_United_States_Congress#... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/89th_United_States_Congress#...

I don't think this tells us much. The present distribution of supporters is rather unique in how strongly it correlates with population density, which means that Dems are going to have a major structural handicap in Senate. I don't think there was ever anything similar historically. And it won't change unless and until the coalitions change, which, sure, will happen eventually - but then it'll be a completely differe…

Post by margalabargala » Mon, Jul 07, 2025, 4:21 PM UTC

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> (Fun question with not-so-fun answers: why isn't the filibuster gone already?) Because both parties are scared eventually the other party will be back in the majority.

I don't think Republicans need to worry about Dems retaking the Senate anytime soon.

Post by FirmwareBurner » Mon, Jul 07, 2025, 10:15 PM UTC

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I dunno, I live in NL but work remote for a US company

> Aren't Netherlands wages lower than Germany except for US big-tech and HFT? Generally you want to work for US companies, see the pragmatic engineers trimodal compensation article for details. The US thing works as you're cheap for them (relative to the US) but the wage is better than you can get locally.

Post by ttul » Tue, Jul 08, 2025, 12:12 AM UTC

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Honestly, this is a not true. If you work with a decent accounting firm like KPMG’s Vancouver practice, and maintain a decent dev task management system like JIRA, you will be fine to hand over your payroll register and a CSV dump every January. A few weeks later, you have your claim. Once in a while, you have to sit there and talk with the CRA’s auditor.

> Honestly, this is a not true You have a conjecture that all companies keep good jira task tracking and payroll, AND that all companies contract out big accounting firms like KPMG. From my personal experience I have been at two Canadian companies who didn’t claim SR&ED and therefore your conjecture is disproven with counter examples. Some companies don’t keep good enough task tracking, some companies don’t know abou…