bogdanu

> Nothing at the moment beats the taxes, location and potential of Bulgaria in Eastern Europe :)

I wouldn't be so sure, haha. I live in RO and this year I've paid less than 5% in taxes (half of them being pension fund and 25% health insurance).

How is this even legal? Afaik in EU this kind of business practices are illegal.

You can look into laravel and maybe laravel spark if you're building a saas.

Yeah, that's the real system, there's also "norma de venit" which is quite different - you'll pay for a fix amount per year.

Also, the dividend tax was lowered to 5%.

Romania. I'm registered as a "persoana fizica autorizata" (PFA), which has 2 types of taxation systems: - real (which means you're taxed ~40% based on how much you earn). - norma de venit, where you'll need to pay taxes for a fixed amount of money, even if you make less. This system is only for persons making below 100k eur/year, after that you'll be moved to the "real" taxation.

In op case, he exceeds the 100k limit and he'll need to register a company instead where there's a 3% revenue tax plus a 5% income tax.

Have you considered moving to a EU country, especially from eastern EU, to pay lower taxes? For example, where I live, I only pay around 230 EUR per month for an income of 7k EUR/month (of which half of it is for pension and 50 eur for medical insurance).

In your case I think you'll be paying around 8% because you have a higher income and you'll need to start an actual company.

Just because you don't have allergies now it doesn't mean you'll never have one. Until a few years ago, I've never heard of ragweed alleries. Guess who's allergic to it now?!

And you can also use the new syntax:

$inc = fn ($number) => $number + 1;

  $x = [1, 2, 3, 4];

  array_map($inc, $x);

Not really nationalism in my case. Shipping to my country (EU) costs 115$, more than the keyboard itself.

Besides the shipping costs, there's also customs and VAT. So for a 100$ I'll probably end up with paying 300$. So yeah, not gonna happen, too bad Unicomp doesn't have a EU reseller.

> This really isn't available yet either. Who's going to pay for this? Really?

In Europe some retailers have this, sure, for 2 or 3 parking spots.

If the demand is there, I'm pretty sure they'll expand it, even as a paid/loyality bonus. I don't expect them to offer superchaging but 50-60 km/h charge would be more than enough.

It depends on the country, I guess? In Romania the professional attitude combined with mentioning the regulator (or filling a complaint to the regulator) works pretty well for consumer goods.

No, it's not, it's just rebranded.

Unless if you have a scottish accent.

Too bad Nikola Tesla didn't had a middle name.

Still higher than anywhere in Europe.

I don't think the stats are that relevant, at least for romania.

For example I pay 6 eur/month for a prepaid sim that has something like 2k minutes and sms, and 6 gb of traffic. The thing is that my carrier (Orange) always offers an extra 50gb of traffic for free. Afaik, most carriers have a deal like this.

The quality is decent, they have 4G coverage almost everywhere, maybe except in the mountain areas, but that's to be expected.

Not gonna happen, but you can always use Symfony's String component that has API like that.

Sure, it's not built-in, but I think this is the best solution for now given the size of PHP's language team.

Parameter order was somewhat resolved with the introduction of named parameters in the upcoming php 8 release from this year.

Hey, do you wanna be friends? :)

PHP developers always have had lower salaries, you can't argue with that.

Like in retail, it depends on location, location, location; a regular developer will never make that much in Europe - remote (for a EU company) or not.

Ha, tell me about it, I just got from a remote company an offer of 2.2k eur/month as a PHP developer. The drawbacks of being a PHP guy I guess.

I few weeks ago I saw two with 50k each...

Google has to step up it's game because their platforms aren't safe anymore.

Nope, but you can with a BEV. A SMB could afford to offer a low electric charging station; heck, software companies could offer the possibility to charge their employee cars for free as a perk; even a normal outlet would be enough, 8-9 hours would be more than enough for charging.

Maybe the local administration could offer some incentives to companies that have this.

My reply was mostly meant only for the first 2 sentences, except the trucking part.

I was trying to evidentiate that charging stations built by tesla supplement home charging or any normal outlet. It's a bit different than building a network of superchargers because the demand would be a lot higher because a hydrogen powered car will be fully dependent of those specially built charging stations.

The main idea is that a BEV owner doesn't need a supercharger station to use his car. Sure, it'll be nice, but not mandatory; let's not forget that not everybody lives in US or W. Europe where the network is more developed.

You can't charge your hydrogen car at home, not to mention without any special and expensive equipment.

How do you guys even manage to convince your client/employer to use a stack so young? Assuming it's not a side project, ofc.

20$/hour is basically what you'll earn before taxes for an outsourcing company in eastern Europe.

If you look at the job offers on linkedin, most of them have more than 50-60 candidates. That's my main problem with remote job interviews. How do you reach the actual interview stage when there are more than 100 candidates applying for the same position?

Not really... I've applied to multiple positions on linkedin and the only one that responded was a rejection because I was asking too much; their hourly rate that could offer was between 15$ and 20$. Hamburg startup rates, apparently, according to them.

I was asking 72k$ per year for a PHP position with 6 years experience working for a company and around 3-4 years part-time freelancing.

Unfortunately slavery hasn't totally disappered anywhere in the world. In W. Europe this happens with (illegal) immigrants or other vulnerable group exploited by an organized group.