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  • Germany's Left Party wants to halve billionaires' wealth

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  • Evaluating a publicly traded company is pretty easy. Stock price times the amount of stock = value of company.

    However evaluating other forms of companies is a lot harder. Using the same formula is possible (if there is stock) and otherwise you can still look at the equity value, but it will only say so much. Generally looking at future cashflows is a pretty good way of evaluating a company, but there are loads of things you can have discussions about regarding this method (called the discounted cashflow method). There are also others and I have been part of evaluating a company and it's a fair amount of work. So it's not something you can really do on a yearly basis for tax reasons.

    There are other things you can do like looking at how much wage the major shareholder has or how much they have lent from their company. Both to themselves and to family/friends. In NL we kinda limit the amount you can loan from your own company.

    Luckly for the whole situation most billionaires mainly have stock in publicly traded companies. Either directly or indirectly so that is taxable.

  • I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand

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  • Because most people don't need a 3mm jack anymore, I prefer to use a USB-c dac anyway the sound is better.

    And I offload the data to a NAS anyway so the storage is irrelevant anyway.

  • I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand

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  • An external DAC is better anyway, just put that on your headphones.

  • I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand

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  • Just get a USB-c dongle and let that sit on your headphones. These days nearly everything has USB-c anyway and the sound is way better. The last phones I had with the USB-c jack (RedMi Note 13 Pro and iPhone 4 before that) all sounded worse than me using a cheap DAC. Getting an expensive DAC will improve the sound even more.

    Personally I say that most would need to get a NAS before they need a SD card or you need to get a dedicated Camera or MP4 player if your pictures or music exceed the 500GB max and streaming isn;t an option using a NAS.

    The rest of your points are valid.

  • I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand

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  • I am happy with the size of my iPhone 16 and pretty sure there are other brands that don't have these massive phones as tablets.

  • Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging

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  • A CPA is required to use experts in fields to they are no expert in, but the proces part of the entire situation is very import as well so that’s why I suggested a CPA do it. (Plus a signature from a CPA means more)

  • Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months

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  • Yeah they are and they need to act like seperate businesses to each other. But Google is just going to loan YouTube money when it needs to. Google is basically playing the game with infinite money.

  • Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months

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  • Or you can setup RSSFeeds direcrly and also include news articles and other stuff

  • Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months

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  • Youtube started when hosting video’s was way easier. The files where smaller, the bandwidth of most people wasn’t that great either. Storage was more expensive though.

    These days everybody wants 4K footage and everybody was 100-1000+ mbps internet and we have 4K screens so we can also watch it.

    The competitors who host it are either paid up front or porn sites. Because there is no real way to start up a competitor to YouTube. I decided to accept that and I have RSSfeeds of all the creators I like to watch so I bypass the algorithm

  • Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months

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  • Safari in itself also blocks a lot of ads, but if that is not enough IOS users can also install Firefox. There is no reason to watch ads anymore

  • Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months

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  • Sadly I still see that ads benefit a lot of my clients. The more advertising they do the more revenue they get, but this is only for small to medium sized companies. However if every company in the world spends 100k on adverts on platforms like Google we would easily surpass the 10b.

    Dropshippers are the best example of this. No ads means no revenue.

  • Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months

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  • Dutch is way worse than English regarding inconsistencies it’s not even funny.

    Sadly Dutch is adapting to make some thing “proper” Dutch which where never proper Dutch and sound wrong to every native Dutch speaker. Like “groter als jij” instead of “groter dan jij”.

  • Doordash deserves it's fate

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  • They should show me the invoice, but North American companies generally fuck that up as well

  • Doordash deserves it's fate

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  • You can ask for an invoice. O wait companies in North America cannot make proper incoices for some weird fucking reason.

    It should just all be included in the price (excluding shipping and the fee when paying with a creditcard or paypal instead of a bankcard) and people should make more trouble out of them not doing that.

  • Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging

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  • A CPA is required to higher other professionals when their knowledge doesnt reach to the subject in question, so yeah they would get a security or privacy specialist to help them. The upside of using a CPA is that they would look at the entire process. The rapport of a CPA is going to be a lot more expensive though.

    In the US people defend that companies don’t publish their annual reports, plus some people also defend these companies regardless of what they do. It’s almost religion. But if you would require companies to at least publish some figures and require bigger companies to have a statement signet by a CPA then more of these companies would have issues. Since a CPA can generally get in a lot of trouble if they mess up (at least here in NL)

    They don’t need to be hostile audit’s, heck that’s probably the worst way of doing it. Work together with the company and help them to pass the audit and they will be more transparent .

  • TIL that not only is Measles very dangerous in itself but it also strips away and resets much/most of your immune system.

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  • People should vaccinate and daycares should have the option to ban kids. Yes it can then transfer at school, but there is no good alternative for that.

  • Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging

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  • Iirc Proton has been audited for security and for privacy as well.

    We have systems in place to help with it

  • Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging

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  • There should be a difference between using Whatsapp while in a county with good privacy laws (like one of the EU member) or one without.

    As far as I know Meta only collects and abuses data it get’s from people where there are now laws in place to prevent it (so why wouldn’t they do it).

    We should normalise the audits on security and privacy that are done by proper accountants. It doesn’t help that a lot of people call bookkeepers accountants which isn’t correct, but a signature from an accountant (CPA/AA/RA or whatever) should have some impact to prove the services are secure or private.

  • Doordash deserves it's fate

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  • “Estimated taxes” what is that for bullshit? You can just calculate how much the tax should be.

    I know it’s not how it works in the US, but if they advertise it for 13$ they should sell it for 13$ including tax.