24%

We are both German and in the 92nd percentile of the income distribution.

I think the old German writing system “current” also has very few pen lifts, but reading that stuff gives me a headache.

Tolls like this have the potential to make this so much worse.

Most countries protect their own much better than foreigners!

Death threats, insults and promises of rape can be considered ways to express yourself, but any opinion worth expressing can be stated without.

Sure, this can be the first step to the suppression of dissenting points of view.

The thing is: Before the nazis came to power, they made everybody else afraid to state their mind with open threats and violence. So it’s painfully obvious that unmoderated free speech can also be used to suppress dissenting opinions.

Point is: You can easily have a company in Germany in 24 h. An UG is affordable at about 4K and has limited liability. GmbH is a bit more fancye and hence more expensive.

Maybe file a trade mark for that name but I see no reason to actually change the name.

This costs about 28k€, 25k€ are deposited in the company.

That is called Vorratsgmbh and takes very little time.

Ok, we are an international collective of wealthy nerds obsessed with privacy:

How much money do we need to collect to get /e/OS to be suitable?

A few million? I’d pledge 500€.

It will probably be a small country, one that is known to give no fucks about big tech.

If you limit yourself to simple math, than you get this result.

Assuming linear growth into a market with competition and an unclear ability to absorb that growth is a gamble.

Sure some things are a hurdle, but in the end, being the first just means doing all the work.

But if the needed total revenue for an investment is so absurdly large, that we need to capture 5-10% of the labour market, being slow might mean not burning in the crash.

The US drove the CCCP to bankruptcy by investing in nuclear bombs. Maybe history repeats itself.

But can we still trust them?

I am not well versed in how their systemwide certificate issuance works: If they have to add this to their terms to comply with their government, could the same government use pressure to leverage let’s encrypt to do harm.

Once you have the job, it’s hard to fire you. So it’s a reoccurring pattern that people apply, work for the minimum needed time to get paid parental leave and then start to implement their family plans.

That is completely within their legal rights and for society as a whole it’s a good thing to have more kids.

At the same time it’s also bad for everyone else in the same team.

50% of this have to be paid back, free of interest and capped at 10k€. That is not much, but keep in mind that we earn much less than Americans and have much higher taxes.

So two kids during university would mean even the measly amount you have to pay back for an European subsided degree would be gone.

I do hope that will be put into effect.

I also believe that this will be better for gender equality than all the other measures taken so far.

I was in too many meetings, where the CV of a young woman was critically evaluated for her propensity to get pregnant as soon as the probationary period was over.