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When you are full-time employed, remotely, by a european company, and living in another european country, does anyone know :

— do you set yourself up as a freelance consultant, and pay your healthcare and retirement fund yourself?

— …or do you let the company pay that for you in the country they are based in, and somehow benefit from that?

How does it work exactly for these social benefits that are very important in the european welfare model?
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I'm confused. Is that an inclusive (AND) list or alternative (OR)?

I have been beaten up, but I've never been to Baltimore. Am I on that list?
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I know at least three top tier banks that have pretty much this exact setup. Small world, huh?
Hi, i´m a freelance web developer, small agency owner and instructor for six years now. Here´s my experience:

How do you get clients? (Comes before How do you price projects)
- Usually from connections from previous work. Any kind of work. I´m a instructor, for example. Some student's ask for my work if they can´t do it. Or old clients recommends my work. Friends usually indicates my work too.
- Internet Marketing myself and my business on Google Adwords and SEO.

How do you price projects?
- That´s hard. Too many ways. None is the RIGHT way, i think. Usually i charge R$75,00 to R$100,00 hour (like US$35.00/hour). It´s even harder to predict how much time will be spent in a project. Experience helps a lot here.

Do you buy WordPress template?
- Yes, for small projects or projects that don´t demands much customization.
- No, for bigger projects (because i can spend money with my team (i have a frontend designer, a backend coder and a marketing assistant). For projects that´s demand too much customization (startups, business ideas and like) it´s better to code your theme from scratch.

How do you price SEO and maintenance?
- The client indicates his monthly budget for the task (site maintenance, for example). My team works X hours according to their budget and our hour rate.
Statically typed scripting languages? Please let it be statically typed scripting languages.
non-flash version of the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP9TOX8T-kI
That is just because you have no idea what IWTYTBR is.

Ramit has high end courses on finding a job, negotiating your salary, freelancing, online business and more. All these sell for a very high price and have a high success rate among the students, that get extraordinary results. I spent myself thousands of dollars in their trainings and they were the best spent money of my life.

IWT is a multimillion business, with many employees, and their salaries and benefits are usually higher than the average. And it even allows you to work remotely. Looks like a very serious opportunity to me.
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Huge obstacle from using kelunik lib is PHP7 and need of external libraries.
By far the easiest way is to become self employed and take care of everything yourself. You could be "trading" as an individual, or through a legal entity. Your salary (i.e. a lump sum you invoice each month) would be a bit higher to account for these. If you'd make $8k as an employed engineer, maybe you'd get paid $12k to account for that.

You might also end up with more money in your pocket, since the tax situation can be different (but not always, depends on the country). One advantage is that you can deduct most tech expenses as business expenses (i.e. laptops/software/conferences/etc)

The alternative is that your employer sets up a local "shell" company that pays you for services performed, with you being the only employee.
It's not that easy to remove. To be completely sure all identification info including IDs and other generated differences are removed you would need two files sold to different people and remove everything that differs. I'm not going to buy two copies of a book just to get the clean file that they should be selling in the first place.
> You can't make decisions based on information you don't have.

You can't. But you can make decisions based on the information that your information is incomplete. A sort of 'bias towards inaction' in those cases in which the action would be irreversible.

Consider the death penalty. You may think that's morally right to apply the death penalty to, say, mass murderers. You may also, without contradiction, decide that this should never be done in practice. The reasoning being that it would require infallibility on the part of the persons deciding to apply such punishment.

So you don't even say "the highest moral imperative is that thou shall not kill". There might very well be cases where the best moral decision would be to kill someone under some 'higher' ideal you know nothing of. But you can still simply say "I do not trust my moral judgement to the point were I'd take another's life because of such judgement, no matter how righteous my judgement feels to me".

Of course, you are also unlike to trust any other person to make such determinations, either. How to try and dissuade others from taking actions that you don't consider acceptable, without resorting to actions for which you know you are not qualified to make the moral call, is a whole other matter.
And "real producers/DJs/artists don't use Fruity Loops", yet some of them are making quite a lot of money from it...

A "real" musician probably takes cues from other music, other sounds in the world. Why discriminate against algorithmically created sounds?
What is Let's encrypt exactly? I thought it was just free SSL so why do I need to touch my code at all?
Out of interest – on Windows? If not, would you share any details of how you test Windows deployments of your games?
That's the name of the business.
It depends on the country, but you will probably have to found some kind of legal entity. For questions like these you can ask for help on our slack community: http://europeremotely.com/community.html
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Why was this comment flagged? It contains factual criticism and provides even sources for why a statement given in the article is wrong.

That’s most definitely "contributing to discussion".
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Do you also apply this sense of morality onto yourself and the damage you might cause other people? Because in that case, get. the hell. off. my planet.

It's only the right thing to do.
Thanks for the feedback, I try to keep GoRethink up to date and to the same high standards as the official drivers. That being said I can understand why you would want an official driver.

Regarding the json support the driver actually uses the native package however due to RethinkDBs use of psuedo-types an extra decoding step is needed and that is why GoRethink doesnt let you use json tags directly. Regarding your other ideas it would be great to discuss them.
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Modern Perl book was first released a few years before P6, which isn't even released yet. The companies that currently use Perl (at $work, even) are not going to switch to P6 any time soon, but can, and do benefit from the more recent best practices using Perl 5.
No; "choose sensible defaults"
It's in the bottom left corner and in light gray text. Not much of an issue. Plus, the author and publisher are doing us a favor by letting us have the ebook for free.

Thanks, chromatic and PragProg.
It's in the bottom left corner and in light gray text. Not much of an issue. Plus, the publisher and author are doing us a favor by letting us have the ebook for free.

Thanks, chromatic and PragProg.
There may be a moral concensus on lying, but that's probably more because the word itself has a negative connotation, not the act. The lies that are permitted are called "white lies" or "plausible deniability" (insert many other forms of political speech here).

As another example (from what I've understood about some Asian cultures), "no" is considered rude in some cultures. It's quite acceptable in those cultures to end a business conversation with "I'll get back to you on that" and then never do. They wouldn't even consider it lying, they would consider it "the right thing to do".
Also I've found Live Movie Maker is a remarkably useful tool for taking files recorded off the TV (using the now discontinued Windows Media Centre - how about open sourcing that too?) and turning them into MP4.
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That's a good point, even though 1100 is really not that much of a competition when you think about it. Five or more jobs per week, each requiring different skills, it really adds up in job opportunities. But I get your point - it makes a negative psychological effect, I'll consider removing it. Thanks!
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The codebase of the billing system might very well be separate and require updating.
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The old lucasarts games had aMuse for this kind of effect.
This sounds very illegal. Working more than 8h overall a day, no matter in how many jobs, is highly illegal.

I wonder how they suggest to handle that.
Most peacefullness in the world is motivated by moral sentiments.

Isn't this valid also?

Moral (of majorities) -> Law -> Peacefullness (status quo)
Disclaimer: I am not an accountant nor an employment lawyer.

Anti-disclaimer: I run a company in Spain, and pay people in other countries money to do things for the company.

My understanding is that in the EU your income tax, social security, etc, must be paid to the government in the country you are "tax resident" in. Typically, you are "tax resident" if you spend more than 180 days per year in a country. (Note: that doesn't mean that if you split your time equally between three countries you avoid being tax resident at all. If only avoiding tax was that easy...)

The company employing you _might_ be willing to help with the necessary headaches of abiding by the employment law of the country you are in. But they would more than likely prefer that you are self-employed/freelance/autonomous in the country you are in. Abiding by the employment law and tax law in your country of resident becomes your problem.

How exactly that works for your social benefits depends on the country in which you are tax resident. For example, here in Spain, a freelancer ("autónomo") is not automatically entitled to state unemployment benefits ("paro") if the work ends. But you are entitled to maternity leave and retirement pension. You'd need to talk to an accountant in your country to understand exactly how exactly being a freelancer affects your social welfare rights and responsibilities.

There certainly are some tax advantages to being a freelancer: eg. being a freelancer in Spain entitles you to claim a VAT refund on any business-related expense. That new computer you want to buy? Expect that in a year or so the tax department will refund you roughly 17% of the total purchase price (21/121 of the retail price).
It varies from country to country. I think most of EU countries require you be more than 6 months in the country to be an employee. Usually people have LTD for more flexibility and lower taxes.

US based companies can hire remote workers as 1099 contractors.

https://github.com/tadast/switching-to-contracting-uk/tree/f...
https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
I've been wanting to get rid of VS ever since I started coding in C#, but I haven't yet figured out a nice way to build, test, and run my applications in Emacs. How did you handle that sort of stuff in vim?
In my Google Apps control panel I can declare a "gateway" where mail will come from which avoids this: https://support.google.com/a/answer/60730?hl=en
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Let's Encrypt has a public API for managing certificates. One use case where this is handy is for creating/modifying certificates for each customer-controlled domain/subdomain of your multi-tenant web service.
No, it isn't. It's a strangely-constituted local authority. Combined with the "Guilds", which are effectively trade associations that hold dinners and occasionally public events in historical dress. It's a very cliquey environment, but that doesn't make all the conspiracy theories true. When people say "the city", they often mean "the UK financial industry", in the way that Americans say "Detroit" meaning "the US car industry".

What the "city" may well get is favourable interpretation of complex ambiguous tax arrangements. That's the argument against e.g. Vodafone. What the "city" is afraid of is changes in EU law that seem highly technical but have the effect of damaging its business. The Tobin tax is one example.

(London in general benefits from the stupid way property tax is done in the UK with finite "bands", so a family house and a multistorey mansion pay the same annual tax, but that's a separate issue.)
> a drop or two will make you violently sick

can we please stick to the facts?

a drop of nicotine will kill you. it's easily more than the above stated lethal dose of 6mg.

and before you think that proves your point, it actually just proves that you can't properly keep orders of magnitude apart.

if you consider "a drop or two" as "very small quantities" then I have some news for you: there's essential nutrients your body needs to survive, that would be lethal if you ingested "a drop or two".

how much mg nicotine is there in a whiff of second-hand e-cig smoke?

how much whiffs are there in "a drop or two" of nicotine?
If your employer has a branch office in your country of residence, they could make you a regular employee of that branch and take care of all the legal/tax issues for you.

But you're just employed by the branch. You're not working for them. You're still working remotely with your colleagues elsewhere.
If I understand "annealing" techniques (1) correctly, they are fast as they combine randomness with hill climbing. So they are not exhaustive, and thus not guaranteed to find the globally best answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
Ah, Chaucer. Appropriate, considering this is about Perl.
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In France it's risky to be self-employed and have only one customer, that could be re-qualified as a disguised employment.

I don't know exactly how that works with foreign companies.

edit: my remark on foreign company is that, by having no nexus in the country of the consultant, going after them seems difficult
No, OSx. I don't have any interesting details... Usually I test it out on a dedicated machine I have next to my development one. I haven't released a game yet.
Illegal where? Labour regulations are very country-specific. The EU directive covering this is... flexible.
What we're doing wrong? Why are people not converting?
> Working more than 8h overall a day, no matter in how many jobs, is highly illegal.

EU working time directive? You can just opt out of that, and it doesn't apply anyway to lots of jobs like doctors, military etc, so it certainly isn't simply 'highly illegal'.
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>The farmer in your example doesn't normally have the time to keep up with everything going on in the market

That is really the beauty of it though. The market, through speculators and algorithms come up with a risk adjusted price, and the only decision the farmer needs to make is to accept or reject the deal.
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> You didn't select cable channels with the tuner,

That heavily depended upon what the CATV provider did in your area. In many areas, TV channels 2-13 were transmitted verbatim on the coax, and could be tuned by a NTSC TV just by hooking up the coax (usually via an impedance matching transformer) to the antenna inputs of the TV.

This, of course, did create a 'leakage' problem. If the coax leaked somewhere, people without cable got ghosting. But worse, if the TV picked up some of the over the air signal (quite common actually) that was on the identical frequency, you got ghosting even with CATV.
How about this:
you use an AI to play your side, speed chess, 30 second time limit length of time for your move is a letter- 1-26, anything over 26 seconds is punctuation.

Then arrange an instant messenger software to interface with the chess playing AI so you type up the message and it plays the move using the right length of time for each letter

Then you can translate in real time, or save the moves with times and convert the whole message at once.

Play multiple games to send longer messages...

Then you could use a different shifting cypher for each colour to fool breaking the code, or even implement some kind of one time pad.

Example here:http://www.chessbymail.com/score.htm
funny, because it works both ways either you find the number big or small: "I'm competing against too many people" or "there is nobody on this half dead site".
> What someone does in their own homes is fine

Why?

Vaping e-cigs in your own home is merely a bunch of orders of magnitude less harmful than doing it in your face.

And according to your reasoning so far, several orders of magnitude less harmful, means you should only be mildly less concerned about that.

Quickly, I hear someone's burning plastic in China.
As an European I still don't understand this fascination towards weapons by people in the US.
Apple doesn't want you weighing things with your iPhone just yet
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I did not mention that the demo video was with a raised barrier crossing. It seemed strange to me because I allow for less clearance when the railway crossing has a raised barrier (I look at it as a normal crossing with green light). Google's AI was more conservative than I would have been in the same situation.

When there are no barriers installed we're already talking about a different situation and all cars should stop and confirm there is no train approaching.
"It could be that Apple [...] thinks such an app would be used for weighing drugs"

I don't know who comes up with these ideas ;) Let's hope they don't figure out someone could use an iPhone to call a drug dealer.
I think it's hosted somewhere that has automated tools for installing common software, and Mediawiki is what you get.
That argument only makes sense if you had a relatively precise idea (up to a factor of 3-5 at least) of how many concerts equate to inhaling second-hand e-cig exhaust, health-wise. Which you don't, at all.
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Mate, seriously, use composer and packagist.
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I'm doing exactly that, I'm self employed and take care of everything myself or at least I have someone taking care of it in my place.

Of course I charge much more than a normal employee would, I make around 20k Euros per month. (pre-tax)

Sounds like a lot - almost to the point where I sometimes feel like I have to excuse myself for it, but you also have to take into account that I have 10 years of all-round experience and I'm working harder and more focussed than most normal employees and spend a lot of time in improving my skill set in my spare time.

Not only the higher income is a good reason to be self employed, the other thing is that once you work remotely for someone, it's less likely that you will count a lot for that company.

So by letting that company employ you, you basically take a lower pay with less job security while making everything more complicated for that company. I'd rater be self employed and have a much higher than usual pay that offsets the lower job security.
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And right you are. Once you account for all the taxes and expenses that you have to pay yourself, you lose a significant amount of money each month.

Most people just read the 20k number, and think, "he's making 20k a month!!!1111".
The switching cost is considerable and not realistically achievable for anyone that has embraced the Google world beyond email.

I would have to migrate:

* Android app purchases.

* Android apps that use the Google account for identity.

* Data in Google Fit

* Data in Google Maps including reviews and ratings of restaurants and places visited (which I find useful when I re-visit a city)

* Data in Google Calendars

* Address that others use for Calendar invites

* Address that others use for Google Drive shared folders

* Google Drive data, including configuration of permissions on folder access

* Google Photos, including configuration of permissions. These are photos going back to 1996, 100k+ photos.

* Browser sync

* Browser stored data, passwords and autofill

* Android backup

* Google Keep

* Group memberships

* Group ownerships, and somehow move those groups

* YouTube videos uploaded, and preferences

* Android TV apps and configuration

All of that, is just what I have on my Google Account that is on a Google Hosted domain.

And even if it were possible to somehow migrate that... I would most definitely lose all of the history that so much of that represents. i.e. Google Fit history, Maps Timeline history and so on.

Others may have it worse than I, I haven't got anything in Google+.

All of this works, and it works really well. It's a great offering, and I'm a much happier consumer paying for this than not.

But... it's silo'd. Even intra-family every one of us has our own account.

We were really hoping that Google Hosted gave us a path to treat our family as an organisation and to share within... but that's not how it's panned out.

So we've been hoping that Play Music for Families represents the ability to create a shared group for the family, just a group with a couple of accounts, and these can share stuff. Starting with Music, but hopefully eventually reaching Photos, TV, Video, etc.

Instead it does look like the definition of "Family" is "Gmail accounts", not "a small group of immediately related individuals"... and in that latter definition, who cares whether an individual has a Google Hosted account?
By the name I would expect a VaaS product: Vi as a Service.

Once I clicked I found a really interesting service with a fair pricing.
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How Redmine is not a competition?
What do you mean and why did you leave?
Yep, I can agree with this.

They also send out a mail twice a day with headlining stories. There's almost always at least on story that interests me.

Blendle really is the ideal tool for me. I don't have a problem paying for quality content, but don't make me take out an XX$ subscription just to read one article every now and then.
> public function signDomains($domains)

Should this have an `array` type declaration? You used it on another function.
Also maybe a namespace. I doubt they're the only person to have ever made a class called `\Client` :)

http://phptherightway.com/

Though I notice that the README states "[i]ts goal [is] to have one easy to use PHP file without dependencies", and they point out there's already a proper package out there, kelunik/acme. If the goal is a single file with no dependencies, I can understand the lack of Composer, as it's not really targeted at that audience.
If it becomes an issue, you could change the project name to Ramit Sethi (the guy behind IWTYTBR). He's pretty well known and has personal brand recognition. I don't really recognise any of the other companies on the list, maybe Semaphore, but I was really surprised to see "Whoa, Ramit's hiring."
THANK YOU! For being the first in this thread to actually estimate the difference in orders of magnitude we're talking about here.