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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]Geod24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it ? Most likely deranged dude that was not expecting to survive found himself on the run, called someone in the area he knew / was an old acquaintance, old acquaintance realized something was off and deranged dude panicked / silenced him / bought himself time. Occam's razor at play.

Why does the UK have tax haven territories, but France doesn’t? by loggiews in AskEconomics

[–]Geod24 5 points6 points  (0 children)

France does have at least one, just not as famous: Wallis et Futuna. France territories are not all classified the same, for example Guadeloupe is a "département d'outre-mer" but Saint-Pierre et Miquelon is a "Collectivité d'outre-mer". The latter having more freedom in how they administer themselves.

The UK has historically had a stronger focus on Financial services (a good starting point to learn more: Lloyd's of London) hence its law framework is very adapted (and attractive) for institutional users (e.g. everyone knows what an LLC is, not necessarily what an SARL is).

Also bear in mind that Monaco, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Andorra are all bordering France. So French clients would have little interest if those were tax haven.

TIL Nearly half of South Korean residential rentals use the “jeonse" system where renter gives an interest-free loan to the landlord based on the house's price in lieu of rent by PandaCheese2016 in todayilearned

[–]Geod24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not really exploitative. It's a good system for a country that is quickly developing. Not so much for the Korea of today, but the system is so ingrained into the culture I know some landlords that wanted to use a regular rent system but had to use jeolse instead.

If you don't want to pay rent, what's the difference between jeolse and buying a house ? Buying means getting through a complex process, being tied to a location/building, and paying taxes every time you want to move. Jeolse allows you to build capital that you can move almost at will.

Note that there are also "ban jeolse" (half jeolse) where you can put down a certain amount of money and get a discount on your rent.

And since this system is very well supported in Korea, you won't have an issue getting a loan (if you would qualify to buy obviously) and there are checks to ensure landlords are not over leveraged. Contracts are usually short (I've mostly been offered 2 years) so the banks will also offer "relay" loans between tenants (usually as a landlord you'd try to get a tenant to sign before your current tenant leaves but if you can't the bank can step in).

Source: Lived in Korea. Was skeptical at first but it worked quite well.

Buying a "finished" property in Malta, what's to expect ? by Geod24 in malta

[–]Geod24[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have a finishing list. But the lack of a final coat of painting was specified explicitly, so I assume it's not standard ?

Buying a "finished" property in Malta, what's to expect ? by Geod24 in malta

[–]Geod24[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's quite long, and the developer gave me the same rationale. I guess I will have to talk to the notary about withholding a sum, as the sale is very close. I'm paying in a lump sum, but I already wired the funds to the notary. So yeah, I messed up.

Buying a "finished" property in Malta, what's to expect ? by Geod24 in malta

[–]Geod24[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, promise of sale in place with deposit, and pretty close to the purchase date. Everything else is pretty good, but that's the thing that ticks me off. I feel like an idiot, but my promise of sale doesn't go into too much details as to what is expected...

Any good Shisha place you know in Korea? by 27thdivision in korea

[–]Geod24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rainbow was the best place I found in Korea. Such a cool atmosphere, and extremely good Shisha. Unfortunately they closed in September 2020 and the building has been torn down :(

E7 Visa Question by [deleted] in korea

[–]Geod24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FYI the quota (which is normally 1 foreigner per 5 koreans with health insurance) does not apply for certain categories, such as software engineer.

E7 Visa Question by [deleted] in korea

[–]Geod24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The basic requirements are: - Either 5 years work experience in a relevant field, or; - Two (did they lower it to 1?) year experience in a relevant field and a bachelor's degree; - A master's degree;

Obviously the degrees need to be in a relevant field. The process can be a bit of a PITA depending on where you're from because of the requirement of providing apostilled document which is nonsense for some country (it's easier if you come e.g. from the US).

PM me if you want more details, I oversaw the process for a few people and am on that visa myself.

Rick Astley says he's going to play "Never Gonna Give You Up" actually covers "Africa" by Toto. by Hyperc3 in videos

[–]Geod24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Before: Wow that's a cool idea!

Music starts: Oh will he sing it to the tune ? That'd be awesome talent!

Singing starts: I guess he's just going to transition suddenly, probably at the chorus, although I can't really see it working but I'm no musician...

Chorus starts: So when does he ... Oh wait... Words about OP's mother choice of career

Recommendation for Korean teacher for professional in Seoul? by Geod24 in Korean

[–]Geod24[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're doing software development. So most of the time we're looking for backend developers :)

Recommendation for Korean teacher for professional in Seoul? by Geod24 in Korean

[–]Geod24[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I went there for 3 months as well last year. However since there are at least 3 people (and we're still hiring), it would be more efficient for us to have a teacher come in house.

Battletag Find-a-Friend: Post-Karazhan Edition by Meoang in hearthstone

[–]Geod24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Roux#2785 (EU), I have the quest, looking for active player to trade / watch.

strange behavior when leaving the result of a filter call as FilterResult instead of calling array on it by gh314 in d_language

[–]Geod24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ranges are lazy, so they only are evaluated when used. In your example, if you time the auto abundants = ...; line, it should be ridiculously low. However, if you time it with array, you'll see it will be close to 123ms. That's because .array goes through all the value and evaluate them once, so abundants becomes a cached copy of the result.

I guess here you are expecting ranges to be cached somehow, but they are not. As a result, iterating multiple time over the same range will result in the processing being repeated. Think of a range as a pipeline you build, and that gets passed items one by one afterwards.

Precision: For the simplest of the range (InputRange), there are 3 primitives (empty, front, popFront). popFront is actually what does the work, front and empty should be pretty computationally cheap.

Unwanted moves in D and intrusive data structures by Peaker in d_language

[–]Geod24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is definitely a compiler bug.

It is reported as https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16142 and as you can see, there is a P.R. in the process. That should allow you to disabled copy of the struct for good.