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Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Markoff »

pjmlp wrote: post #287
bengale wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some tax incentives for remote employees may help, would be good on for workers carbon footprints too.

It is already working, but not as you suggest. As I mentioned on my comment, instead of allowing their own employees to do remote work, they outsource the work to consulting companies that actually do support working remotely.

i think this has more to do with tax optimization than location of work, many companies outsource everything to avoid taxes, otherwise they would not be able to provide competitive salaries for direct employee doing same work

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by Markoff »

pjmlp wrote: post #287
bengale wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some tax incentives for remote employees may help, would be good on for workers carbon footprints too.

It is already working, but not as you suggest. As I mentioned on my comment, instead of allowing their own employees to do remote work, they outsource the work to consulting companies that actually do support working remotely.

i think this has more to do with tax optimization than location of work, many companies outsource everything to avoid taxes, otherwise they would not be able to provide competitive salaries for direct employee doing same work

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by petre »

path411 wrote: post #355
staticelf wrote: post #164

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The money is still going to an american company.

Yeah, but American companies leave and hide as much income and money offshore as possible for tax reasons so buying something outside the states is rarely going to give money to America.

Companies are private enterprises who's main purpose is to make a profit. They don't hide money offshore, they move money wherever it's not taxed as much. And the EU is pretty rough about that stuff anyway, especially when it comes to US corporations.

Car manufacturing is also a rather tough business to be in today - definitely not the money hiding type, but rather the "we build a factory in if you give some sort of tax break for a couple of years".

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by wdb »

rurban wrote: post #80
shpx wrote: post #34

This is a political statement highlighting the current legal uncertainty of refusing to unlock your devices at the US border[0]. By default iphones and macs are encrypted when you completely power them down, so the right way (assuming you have a good password) is to shut down your computers at the airport and only turn them back on when you've passed the border. Nothing interesting here tech-wise, effectively just a…

They closed this loophole a couple of years ago, by explicitly demanding that your devices need to be powered on and have enough battery power when entring the country. So powering off your device, putting out the battery or encrypting it is all forbidden.

So they expect you to have your phone and devices charged after a 21 hours of flying to the US? Guess you need to charge your phone before you can queue up at immigration? :)

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Post by ibejoeb »

wil421 wrote: post #219
8draco8 wrote: post #10

I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I'm Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost…

Quit believeing everything on the internet. I'm sure those things happen but are so far off the norm. I've been to Europe twice this past year and I don't think it's any different. In Italy there was military everywhere in Rome and Florence. At every monument and Big site there were military with guns looking at everyone. Sometimes stopping people. I've never been patted down and searched as bad as I was in Frankfurt…

Europe, indeed. Try going to a museum in Paris. Not even New York has that level of military presence.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by ibejoeb »

bloomca wrote: post #160

So, many comments here target US or Trump in particular. But in fact, as many noted, there is not real connection – it started long time ago. Also, I bet, there are quotas (e.g. number of people) to be detained, so they have to fulfil it. Also, US is just an example here (because many conferences are held in the US), but also there are stories from the UK, for instance. From my point of view, the problem is that with…

The UK border is far worse. Surprisingly, the easiest border I've ever crossed on an American passport was Russia's. No questions, not hassles, neither in nor out.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by [deleted] »

pyvpx wrote: post #202
dx034 wrote: post #193

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Then Bush? Because most of what Trump tried to change in terms of border security has been sacked by judges. Travelling to the US now isn't harder than a year ago (except for the laptop ban).

it is vastly different and more difficult because of the way border agents are performing their job, not because of any change in law.

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Post by szatkus »

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #347
loco5niner wrote: post #322

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And others (such as myself), voted for Trump only because he was the only alternative to Hillary. (Better option than Hillary, but not by much. There were other options of course, but they did not have a chance at winning). I should also specify that I voted for someone else in the primaries.

I don't know what it's going to take to break the 2-party system in the US, but people continuing to vote for "the other" candidate just because they hate "the one" certainly isn't going to influence change. I've been voting Libertarian in (almost) every race I can, for at least 15 years now, and I'll keep "wasting" my vote to send the signal that I want more parties in the system. (As in, I want to see BOTH Jill Ste…

We also have 2nd turn of election in Europe. Basically people need to choose between 2 candidates. I'm under impression that most of libertarian voters would vote for Hillary if they had to choose between two options.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by mtempm »

silverbax88 wrote: post #348
mtempm wrote: post #269

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Trump is not that much worse than Obama, it's mostly the media, politicians, people in power that are able to convince you of that. Remember, Obama droppee 26,000 bombs on Muslims last year, but I bet you'd never heard about a single one. Climate Change is mostly about politics, just like the War on Poverty and War on Drugs. Yes it's real, just like people have real problems with poverty and drugs, but people starve…

Well, Trump's economic policies are much worse, significantly worse, and climate change is not 'mostly about politics'. This is why we ended up with a reality TV star as leader of the free world. You just sat down at a computer and wrote multiple things that are easily proven false, proving complete ignorance of those subjects, but you chose to type them out anyway. And no one will be able to explain to you why that…

>"you are wrong, way wrong, and stupid, and I cant explain why because you are not capable of understanding. Basically, I just want to write on the internet how poorly I thinknof your character simply because I disagree with your political opinion"

I am glad you feel that way.

Since you are so righteous without reason, I hope that today you set out to contribute something concretely good to humanity.

Re: International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

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Post by boomboomsubban »

tertius wrote: post #337
SimbaOnSteroids wrote: post #286

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A presidential candidate can win the election with only 21.91% of the popular vote. Something closer to that might be enough. However, I don't think that the electoral college could be changed because the parties responsible for changing it would be decreasing their electorates influence in the government which might be unpopular with said electorate.

> A presidential candidate can win the election with only 21.91% of the popular vote. That's great and might seem scary to some, but nothing close to that has ever happened.

From John Q. Adams' 31% win to Clinton's 43% win, it depends on what you call "close."
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