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by UVB-76 10y ago
Taxing capital gains on properties is fraught with difficulty, particularly when properties are owned by offshore entities, and even the Land Registry do not know the identity of beneficial owners. Taxes on property transfers (capital gains
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by UVB-76 10y ago
Add new bands for higher value properties. Reduce payments for everyone in the existing bands, and hike the payments dramatically for the new, higher value bands. As with income tax, have the most wealthy paying the majority of the tax. Thi
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by UVB-76 10y ago
Yet it's almost entirely regressive. Even to middle class households, it's a major expense, but to those in multi-million pound properties it's a rounding error. That's before you even get into the fact most properties a
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by UVB-76 10y ago
> My view is that agglomeration really is valuable, that the high cost of housing and office space in London reflects their high value. To an extent, but the current London property bubble is fuelled by the treatment of London property a
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by UVB-76 10y ago
In an office situation, especially when doing rounds, it makes sense to have tea over coffee. Unless you have a nice coffee machine, you're left to deal with a French press (too much effort, difficult for large rounds), or (gasp) insta
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by UVB-76 10y ago
The "get yours" mentality is flawed because all you end up doing is imprisoning large sections of the population for poverty-driven crime, and you end up paying for their imprisonment. What do prisoners get while in prison? Basic
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by UVB-76 10y ago
This only applies to our global economy if every country were to implement UBI, and with similar amounts.
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by UVB-76 10y ago
Purchasing power will still be increased through imports.
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UK ploughs ahead with plan for 10-year jail term for online file sharing(arstechnica.co.uk)
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by UVB-76 10y ago
Never heard of Getaround, but ZipCar is a very different business model. This is about people subleasing their own vehicles, not a traditional car hire service. ZipCar is like a hotel, and this proposed service is like Airbnb.
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by UVB-76 10y ago
What's the crux of this concern? If it's environmental, we can assume cars in the future will be all-electric, powered by nuclear or renewable energy sources. If it's congestion, firstly we should see a dramatic reduction in
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by UVB-76 10y ago
Granted, but a human guard nevertheless presents a problem for robbers. Do you take the guard hostage? Do you kill them? Will they themselves be armed? Will they put up a fight, training or no training? If you try aggressively to bring thei
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by UVB-76 10y ago
Trucks routinely carry cargo worth many thousand times the value of the average household's possessions.
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by UVB-76 10y ago
Even if we remove all the facilities for a driver, i likely you would still need a human guard. Although thinking about it, the guard could travel in a separate vehicle, and could be responsible for overseeing an entire convoy of trucks at
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by UVB-76 10y ago
This is one of many reasons we will still need humans present, if only in a guard capacity.
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Such an unbelievable number of ways in which this could go wrong. Renters could mess up a vehicle in any number of ways, from making a mess with food and drink, to damaging parts of the interior, to getting in accidents and causing serious
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by UVB-76 11y ago
> The other issue is it's harder to capitalize on the reputation of online personas in the real world, if you care about that sort of thing. That's the trade-off, and it's why I don't sympathize too much with people w
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by UVB-76 11y ago
As I understand it, this only has to be done when accessing your Apple ID from a new device.
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by UVB-76 11y ago
I hope the next Mac line-up includes Touch ID
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by UVB-76 11y ago
I think I had this happen to me as well. Wasn't an issue until I wanted to change my Apple ID password, for which the security questions are required. Phoned Apple Support, and they took me through a dazzling array of security steps, i
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by UVB-76 11y ago
Surely it's referring to the temporary pass code which is generated and presented to the relevant user on your Mac?
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by UVB-76 11y ago
Aren't pranks called "social experiments" these days?
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by UVB-76 11y ago
None of the overheads I'm thinking about lend themselves to economies of scale. I'm talking about things like: * Admin costs (contracting, etc.) * New tenant costs (marketing, agency fees, reference checks, credit checks, inventor
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by UVB-76 11y ago
People are only going to have trouble selling when the bubble bursts. Until then, there is always a greater fool.
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by UVB-76 11y ago
There are very few investments that have outperformed the average UK property over the last few decades. Let alone investments that you can live in.
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by UVB-76 11y ago
I find the inverse to be strange, i.e. the notion that the rental value of a property should be less than the cost of a mortgage. Not least because landlords incur overheads over and above those an owner-occupier does. There is a large &#x2
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by UVB-76 11y ago
Homeownership has been glorified because, over the past few decades at least, it's been an unbeatable investment. There is no need to pay off a mortgage before retirement. You can sell up (likely for a huge profit) and use the proceeds
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by UVB-76 11y ago
Perhaps this explains why Apple have been so slow to get their Skylake MacBooks to market. I was disappointed other OEMs had beaten them to it, but it looks like they just dumped hardware on the market without suitable software. Apple obvio
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by UVB-76 11y ago
It depends how you look at things. You can look at it as mere circulation of money. And let's be clear, this is circulation of money, not redistribution of wealth (as they are merely exchanging one asset for another at market rate) Alt
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by UVB-76 11y ago
It can be more nuanced than that. Some of these "rich kids" are brought up in an environment, or culture, where they simply don't expect ostenentatious displays of wealth (even by those who have apparently not earned the weal

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