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by a3camero 10y ago
Here's a well-known Canadian Supreme Court case about transfer pricing that highlights the role of a Swiss subsidiary in a scheme to dramatically reduce taxes on income earned from selling pharmaceuticals: https://en.wikiped
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by a3camero 10y ago
They say later on in that document that you're not paying for tax advice and won't get any: "That said, we’re not providing tax and legal advice. Stripe Atlas users have access to a legal guide prepared by Orrick, a tax guide
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by a3camero 10y ago
It can be complicated to start a corporation in a country you're a resident of. Starting a corporation in a country you're not a resident of is usually even more complicated because now you have to worry about two tax regimes and
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by a3camero 10y ago
Thanks. I'm the developer.
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by a3camero 10y ago
Around 700k machine translated laws and 1.4 million laws from 62 countries. The search engine is run off AWS, database by Google Cloud and indexing instances by Azure. Pricing is done by purchasing power parity so the price is accessible fo
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Show HN: The Babel of Laws, 700,000 machine translated laws(global-regulation.com)
10 points by a3camero 10y ago|3 comments
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by a3camero 10y ago
Free till August 1st (with request limit) and then there'll be a free tier. Pricing is here: https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/pricing
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by a3camero 10y ago
Although it's a bit unfair to judge an entire software system by the actions of a handful of people. Although many people may have bought into The DAO, it's still software made and marketed by a small group of individuals.
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by a3camero 10y ago
You could try asking for a fixed price for the terms of service too. That sort of work is pretty easy for the lawyers to estimate so they might be willing to go flat rate.
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Kijiji (a subsidiary of eBay) dethroned Craigslist in Canada a few years ago. It's more popular here, although Craigslist still exists.
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by a3camero 10y ago
HN has a global audience. Might be worth noting that this advice is aimed at Americans. This could be very bad advice for non-Americans. I'm a lawyer who deals with startups in Toronto. Quite a few people ask about how to set up a Dela
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by a3camero 10y ago
The method for the paper that is quoted in the Wikipedia article can be found starting on page 2 (the full text is available for free): http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/11...
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by a3camero 10y ago
Losing your job << going to jail for your actions. From the Wikipedia article: "... estimated that approximately 59 premature deaths will be caused by the excess pollution produced between 2008 and 2015 by vehicles equipped with
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by a3camero 10y ago
"The dispute between Rogers Communications of Toronto, Canada’s largest cable television provider, and a telephone company in Atlantic Canada, Bell Aliant, is over the phone company’s attempt to cancel a contract governing Rogers’ use
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by a3camero 10y ago
Although the "proposals" themselves are Ethereum "contracts" (programs), the thing that the money goes towards doesn't have to be a program. The most popular proposal for The DAO to invest in is actually a German co
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by a3camero 10y ago
They have put hardly any of the paperwork associated with companies on the blockchain. Here's my brief comparison between The DAO and some of the features of regular corporations: http://www.cameronhuff.com/blog/sl
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by a3camero 10y ago
Although intended as a critique, a blog post I wrote earlier this week might help explain some of it: http://www.cameronhuff.com/blog/slock-it-dao-paper/index.htm... . And the original proposal for "The DAO&qu
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by a3camero 10y ago
As for completeness: it relies purely on laws that are published online, which is always not the complete corpus, even for advanced countries.
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by a3camero 10y ago
That's a really interesting point about detecting lobbyists, although my first thought is that most language similarities will be due to international treaties. I'd also be interested in seeing which jurisdictions have copied from
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by a3camero 10y ago
We translate them into English using Microsoft/Google Translate (which is what you need to do in order to compare between languages) so the meanings may not be quite so easy to compare (because it relies on the current state of the art
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by a3camero 10y ago
We've actually done some work about extracting definitions from laws. But the meaning is still providing using legal language so they may not help too much for the lay person.
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Ask HN: What would you do with 1.3M laws?
2 points by a3camero 10y ago|6 comments
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by a3camero 11y ago
Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders of global-regulation.com. The search is free but almost all of the technical standards aren't free. The reason for that is that the SDOs (organizations that make the standards) license them o
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Show HN: A technical standards search engine (IEC, ISO, etc.)(global-regulation.com)
4 points by a3camero 11y ago|2 comments
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by a3camero 11y ago
I implemented this over the weekend using a small VM instance from Google Cloud + PDFBox 2. I set up Apache, wrote a quick PHP script that takes in the URL of the PDF to be converted, downloads it, converts it to HTML with PDFBox and then p
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by a3camero 11y ago
In Canada (which I believe is very similar to the US in this regard) lawyers generally can't contract out of their own negligence and the advice they give has to be at the standard of a competent lawyer (in the specific area of law). I
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by a3camero 11y ago
Transfer pricing is not illegal. It's often an element of illegal schemes to reduce tax but the act of setting prices between non-arms-length companies is not illegal. It's necessary. The prices just have to be what an arms-length
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by a3camero 11y ago
I'm one of the co-founders. Here's a write-up on my own blog about the service, including a bit of details on the tech stack (runs on a combination of cloud platforms, about 12gb of laws in RAM): http://www.cameronhuff.
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by a3camero 11y ago
Annual licensing fees (state bar fees) and professional liability insurance are things that programmers don't pay for* but lawyers do. *Some programmers have insurance but not to the extent that lawyers are required to have it.
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by a3camero 11y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to buy into the modern idea that this prohibition was always aimed at criminal laws. Excerpted from a paper I wrote in law school on the topic (sources at end of post): Newly independent Americans in the late 170

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