quentindemetz

> His business could never afford to have a dev team that built and supported six different native apps

It’s his business decision to save on native app development costs to increase his (generous?) profit margins.

That the only nation which sent man on the moon uses acre-feet as a unit of volume blows my mind

Not at night

The world is not a zero-sum game.

Dassault has a cloud offering with 3DS Outscale

Adyen

Revolut

GoCardless

Shift

Vinted

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Paris-Lyon is more like 2h

Just have your CI run "pre-commit run —all-files"?

Reasoning about the price of solar power when the sun is shining does not take into account the intermittent nature of this energy source.

It’s the same in the Netherlands. Instead of counting how much you earn from your capital, the tax administration estimates that you earn about 5% and taxes you on that (about 30% iirc).

But hey, if you make above their estimation, you don’t pay extra. But if you don’t invest, you still pay...

I really like how simple it makes the tax calculation (at least when you know how to value your assets).

Not to say we have any real contenders, but it’s difficult to compete with Google when the French company pays 33% corporate tax while Google pays significantly less

Corporate tax in France was (until recently) 33%. The government was seeking 1.6B which means it’s estimation of Google’s profit for the years in question was closer to 5B.

Hopefully this kind of fine will void the tax shenanigans Google uses to offshore their profits to Ireland as well as its reduced tax rate there.

Make money in France, pay taxes there. Doesn’t seem like to much to ask.

Beijing to Shanghai is 1200km and and the high-speed link there seems to thrive just fine

« People in Europe » have elected politicians who have enacted these tax policies. Money is not being taken by force...