AnAfrican

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by AnAfrican 10y ago
THe quote is : >the west got better at the expense of the rest of the world "At the expense" means that there's a link.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
but the argument is that oligarchies are more prone to corruption because power corrupts.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
To be fair, that's mostly an American thing. compaign donations are tightly controlled in almost all the rest of the West.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
there is a penalty because the system is supposed to reduce costs by enrolling everybody (even the healthiest who may feel like they don't need it) WHILE the health insurance sector still is a for-profit competitive market (so there&#x
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
yep (with few minor exemptions related to income from tax heavens) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation#Individ... As a side note, the biggest difference seems to be how countries treat foreign income
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
density for countries is such a bad datapoint... (remember half of China is empty which lowers the national average by a lot)
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
But the worry about overpopulation has been damn near constant. Rebuked again and again and again each time we reached the previous "unsustainable" threshold.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
It has turned out well for a bunch of countries. But only as a transition measure, to rebuild trust.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
It's neither a good nor a bad idea. The point of pegging your currency to a foreign currency is to rebuild trust in your currency by guaranteeing a fixed exchange rate. But if you do that by pegging to multiple currencies that all have
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Actually Black outs happen in Europe. If I'm not mistaken, all of the Bundesliga games are available for free on Bundesliga's streaming service if watched outside of Germany.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Furthermore, in the US, local channels pay for exclusive rights to broadcast sports events for local teams. So while your New York-Chicago may be available on MLB or NBA's streaming service, it will be blacked out in Chicago and New Yo
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Blackouts in Europe don't happen because most right-holders are national. But basically, a particular sports event shown on one channel will not be broadcasted because another channel holds the rights in that juridiction. It happens a
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
My guess is also no.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
It's actually the sport teams/leagues that rode the gravy train. ESPN paid huge amounts because they had to outbid the competition. If sportsbroadcasting gets less profitable, sports will get less profitable.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
That quote is about Inventory and Just-In-Time production. Not product freshness.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
well yes. If the share was calculated by individual PC models and not by company, even in the PC business, there would be a bunch of Apple stuff ranking quite high. So they can scale on many aspects much better than their competition. (plus
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Communist societies are more prone to "favors" because Price discrimination (and other market mechanisms) do not exist. Actually, that happens in all sort of societies that are not Legal-Rational Liberal-Capitalist.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Swaziland is so much of an outlier that it's not even funny. It's like 4 times above South Africa which would be my guess for "highest gun homicide per capita" rate in Africa. There's simply no way this is even clos
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
You know what can be even better ? Car with a driver. Flexibility + you get to do other stuff besides driving. But I guess affording that means more work and stuff.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
because in many cases, the well-being of other conscious creatures is attained by reducing the well-being of some humans. it's also quite interesting that the humans who should make sacrifices for the well-being of other creatures are
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
ISP are ordered to do so. You can resist but then there will be consequences...
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
The interesting thing is that Gabon shut down the Internet right after announcing the results. In Congo, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, the internet was shut down right before the votes and stayed shut down for days after. Looks like someone was
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
none really. VSATs may be an option but : - they're highly visible (which makes a physical shut-down easier) - there has been some sort of crackdown (or rather, tax-up-until-it-gets-too-expensive) on the use of said technology. Going f
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Why do you think Apple set up a subsidiary in Ireland ?
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
That's because BMW sells to a third party. Apple doesn't. (or rarely does). Amazon doesn't. Microsoft does less and less.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
>Local subsidiaries are not usually resellers, and even if they were, the parent company can set an arbitrary price The main reason why subsidiaries are set up is to enter a market and sell stuff. The main reason tax is discussed is beca
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
>the fact is that they don't originate the product they are selling They are billing locally. They have local accounts in which local payments are made. so no, they have local revenue. Value is created there.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
>how they hell would they even do that, given that they don't have the full set of accounts covering all the company's operations, to even know whether the company was profitable or not. But they have the accounts of the local
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
Because there is an Apple-owned company in Ireland. And that company makes profits from operations that would be much harder (may be impossible) to setup as a US-based company.
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by AnAfrican 10y ago
VAT is territorial. You cannot refuse to pay VAT in a territory.

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