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by 99052882514569 7y ago
A cap of 1 TB seems completely reasonable to me. edit: After reading some replies, let me modify it and put it this way: the concept of a cap of n TB, where n is such that 99% of users don't ever reach it, seems completely reasonable t
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Consistency of laws across jurisdictions is not exactly what comes to mind when one thinks of the US legal system.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Companies are allowed to fire you for things that are not illegal.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Here's a better map, because it breaks down the US by state and is more up-to-date: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis#/media/Fi...
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
>The reason that even minor crimes (stealing a bicycle) are taken seriously is that letting small things slide is the beginning of an erosion of the rule of law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory#Cr
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
>I haven't had to unclog a toilet in years. I too haven't had to unclog a toilet for reasons other than deficient toilets and/or excrement size for years.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Surely I can pay for my own anything that my city provides through my taxes, including roads and safe drinking water. I live in a place where I don't, and I like it that way. I much prefer it to dirt tracks and wells. Others may not pl
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
It is absolutely (not just, but also) about numbers, just not nominal GDP in USD.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
My point is that in this case, it is one and the same, because you chose to denominate it in a currency whose value went up, a lot.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Meh, I'm no fan of Erdogan, but statistics like that should be used with caution. This precipitous decline does not show what you imply it shows. This is what happens when your currency tanks, numbers like "GDP in USD" get al
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
>Throwing toilet paper in a basket and taking it through the garbage route is a very sensible solution. Have you lived where this is commonplace for any length of time? Have you done this in your own house? Having been born in a country
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
>fMRI, which is what I first associate when somebody says "MRI" and "brain". That's an odd first-association. fMRI is not used much outside the brain, but neuroimaging relies on structural contrasts (i.e. "n
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Tax avoidance via jurisdictional arbitrage is certainly not the essence of EU.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
>Are you sure it's "an unfair advantage" and not just "an advantage"? Doesn't your position presume that the brick-and-mortar business model deserves special protection? If so, why? Because it employs more p
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
>It's really not that simple. They don't use any of the country infrastructure or workers. They absolutely do. They implicitly use courts, police, customs, trademark/contract enforcement, etc.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Customers buying from local businesses that compete with them also pay VAT, so the consumer side of it is fair. But local businesses themselves pay much more in corporate taxes, which is not. You are free to argue that the playing field can
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Rather than focusing on a particular company (Amazon) or even a particular industry (retail), they're addressing a more fundamental problem - digital businesses using arbitrage to virtually "move" profits around and minimize
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
> If your goals is having a more progressive tax code or increasing income equality, the much better strategy is to combine high LVT/VAT taxes with a UBI, rather than explicitly try to target poorly designed tax schemes at rich peop
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
>I disagree with that framework but applying taxes arbitrarily hardly seems fair or the best way to raise revenue. There's nothing arbitrary here, in fact they're attempting to partially address a perverse incentive to take all
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Taxes make sense to pay for the court system that's enforcing contracts, just to name the first thing that comes to mind.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Let's say it is. Why would that change anything? France's government isn't trying to target or punish anyone (whether Ireland or Google), it just wants to stop the corporate tax avoidance it sees as unfair.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Taxing digital companies based on digital presence certainly makes sense to me, as a layperson. A company that's selling ads to a French company that wants to show those ads to French users is doing business in France, end of story. Ta
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Counterpoints to "being bored made me awesome" that spring to mind immediately: You would be in a different place, and whether it's better or worse is unknowable. For every person inspired to greatness (or okayness) by boredo
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
There are 3 huge dams like that on the Dnieper river in Ukraine, with similar ecological and population displacement impacts. Gotta tame that nature, comrade.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
But what is left of Carthage? A modest number of average-preserved ruins of a later Roman provincial town. There are probably 10 of those in Italy alone, if not more. If I can get that in a non-touristy southern Italian province, why go to
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
The entire city is most definitely not a tourist trap. There's literally a beaten path, and you can literally walk ~10 min from it and be in a modestly touristy area, akin to most modestly popular non-top-50 tourist destinations. And
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
It's worth it. Away from San Marco, Rialto and the main drag between them, Venice is not the overtouristed hellscape that it's made out to be by sensationalist media.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Definitely agree on the snobbery - it is amusing that some tourists think they'll fool someone into thinking they're a local by dressing less comfortably. You're not fooling anyone. Just be yourself and dress 'politely&#
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
Tips are cool, but a browser-based micro-payments setup will create a more consistent alternative revenue stream.
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by 99052882514569 7y ago
>France, Germany, Japan, Chile, Turkey Not a single one of these was ever a stable democracy before becoming a dictatorship. Unless maybe you're referring to Vichy France, but that's more of an occupation.

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