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New comment by eclat in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

eclat — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:37:53 +0000

While that’s also true, the EU varies widely. The tax wedge is very low in places like Czechia or Lithuania and very high in France and Germany. If you add other European countries you get some of the lowest taxes on earth in places like the Isle of Man or Switzerland.

Having said that, the lack of proper integration is a huge problem, like imposing tarrifs of over 100% on ourselves.

New comment by eclat in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

eclat — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:17:06 +0000

EEA applicability might be less obvious than you imply however.

New comment by eclat in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

eclat — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:15:16 +0000

The problem isn’t incorporation - it’s having accountants in your jurisdiction familiar with the structure. You can incorporate in the UK for £50 instantly but you might have trouble finding an accountant in Italy that is willing to sort your accounts out.

New comment by eclat in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

eclat — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:11:32 +0000

It’s the 28th regime. Look up societas europaea.

New comment by eclat in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

eclat — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:09:46 +0000

Estonian fiscal law doesn’t apply if your company operates from Croatia. The only reason you can’t do this in practice is because you’ll have a hard time finding a Croatian accountant willing to work with your Estonian company. That’s something EU-inc aims to address.

New comment by eclat in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

eclat — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 10:46:41 +0000

Seems to fulfill the same role as Bundler has done in Ruby for years.

New comment by eclat in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

eclat — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:30:13 +0000

It is indeed. The arguments are so poor and obviously ideological. To give one example, it would necessarily imply that every war is an example of genocide.

Experts aren’t taking it seriously, but then again the UN has not been a serious organisation for as long as I can remember. Some serious scrutiny needs to be made of that organisation.

Genocide is a very particular crime, I’m not sure what the obsession with it is. It’s evident that there are examples of war crimes.

New comment by eclat in "Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured"

eclat — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:56:11 +0000

The first promoter of this is actually a Swedish social democrat who was a socialist a very long time ago. I guess she kept the knack for a nanny state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylva_Johansson?wprov=sfti1#

New comment by eclat in "Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform"

eclat — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:45:31 +0000

I feel like strong strikes the right balance of simplicity and features. It has everything one needs and no bloat.

The sign up flow on workout cool is really strange - I just want to input my regime and record sessions.

New comment by eclat in "All Kindles can now be jailbroken"

eclat — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:11:19 +0000

TIL…

New comment by eclat in ""Homotopical macrocosms for higher category theory" identified as woke DEI grant"

eclat — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:22:30 +0000

Such a cliché comment.

New comment by eclat in "Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?"

eclat — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 11:48:32 +0000

This was a great read, thanks.

New comment by eclat in "Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?"

eclat — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 11:38:40 +0000

Please teach me your ways. How does one find an opportunity like that?

New comment by eclat in "Tell HN: I have the perfect job, why is it not enough?"

eclat — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 21:53:04 +0000

Which job is that, so I can get one too?

New comment by eclat in "Ask HN: Tesla is making us move or quit. Would I get severance?"

eclat — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 16:12:49 +0000

Yet another organisation built to shaft everyone that doesn’t belong to it.

New comment by eclat in "Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken"

eclat — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 15:11:39 +0000

Abort

New comment by eclat in "Google’s AI-powered ‘inclusive warnings’ feature is very broken"

eclat — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 15:10:56 +0000

It’s such a non issue but these are the same people that wanted to change the name of Rubocop because it makes reference to policing. Or motherboard, whiteboard or blackboard because they’re patriarchical white supremacist heteronormative neo colonial etc etc pomo fashionable nonsense. There’s really not an iota wrong with making reference to these terms. It’s really an insult to everyone’s intelligence.

New comment by eclat in "Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize"

eclat — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:08:52 +0000

This is not true at all in the case of unions. Salaries are much higher in the US than in other equivalent economies with higher levels of unionisation.

Now worker representatives in boards, that would be very beneficial.

New comment by eclat in "Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite to power market"

eclat — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:32:27 +0000

And on top of that it’ll heavily contribute to a huge reduction in electricity prices from €70/MWh to €45/MWh.

New comment by eclat in "Heuristics that almost always work"

eclat — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:15:21 +0000

Not black swans but another and related topic he writes about called ergodicity.