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5y ago
Packetstream.io buys bandwidth from users and is cheap. I‘m a customer.
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5y ago
As there are some misinformation and confusion, I try to summarize a few points: What is it: Pillar 1 tries to tax the digital economy (FAANG etc., scope still under heavy discussion). The goal is to prevent a digital tax in each country. B
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Most Taiwanese fear that they have to re-unite with China. I personally don't think that China will invade Taiwan. If mainland Chinese people will see, that their government is bombarding other Chinese I'm not sure if they approve
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6y ago
Crypto was founded by a Swede and moved to Switzerland because of taxes. Hardly the Swiss would think of it as a Swiss company. It‘s quite easy to set up a company in Switzerland. Few questions are asked. Swiss intelligence knew from 1993 t
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6y ago
I applaud the US for its stance towards China. We Europeans are mostly cowards.
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6y ago
Just discovered your article “Introduction to web testing and scraping” and will try it out. Exactly had the problem of scaling last time I tried out to run several headless browser. Thanks for this!
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6y ago
I thought so as well until I got shipped a product I ordered from the Apple store from Italy. Then I remembered I got an English book I ordered from Amazon.de shipped from Italy.
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6y ago
1 USD/GB which is cheap
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6y ago
It‘s probably one of the best in terms of value/price as it is pay-to-go. The only commitment is USD 50 minimum top-up. It‘s also pretty fast. Negative is that some countries have few Proxies and they don‘t say how many exactly. They a
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6y ago
The slogan is the great reset. I wonder if it helps the elite to chose an authoritarian country. Makes them very trustworthy to find a reset.
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6y ago
Manufacturers won‘t produce more spare parts or bikes. They know it won‘t last long. A shortage of bikes was mainly for e-bikes this year.
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6y ago
Permanent residency (C permit) is only possible after 5 and 10 years of residency in Switzerland, so not comparable with Japan's fast track system for highly skilled professionals. Only option 1 is possible. Visas for non-EU countries
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Firstly, a councillor is supported by a party. If you don't have the support of your party anymore, you are gone. Secondly, a federal councillar is "above" the party. You are representing first the federal council and not the
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"My Swiss friend in town told me as far as he knew Switzerland still people keep fully functional assault rifles at home but those who have them need to show up for three weeks of training each year and show up at a shooting range twic
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6y ago
1. A Sturmgewehr doesnt' trigger police intervention. I see sometimes people carrying the military assault rifle on a bike or in the tram. Probably tourists/foreigners are shocked but no Swiss would call the police. 3. Not really.
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6y ago
Well, it's open source, so he volunteers his time. Maybe the feedback should have been filled to Github in the first place? Certainly he is not lazy if asking to do a favor but probably busy with something else.
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7y ago
Scraping is generally not illegal in Switzerland. He considers it a Persönlichkeitsverletzung. A violation of a person‘s privacy which are very strong in Switzerland. According to the tv report, the photos were uploaded without the consent
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7y ago
For German learners: It‘s a compound word. In German, and in English to some extent, you can join words to create a new word, e.g. Abstimmungsbekanntmachung (election notice).
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7y ago
I served 25 years ago in a unit with civil engineers (I’m not one). At this time, it was already a project in one of the yearly training courses, which infrastructure should be disarmed because a destruction would have impact on other infr
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7y ago
Absolutely, world-class universities (not just one), highly educated workforce, top rankings everywhere, largest companies in the world, high-tech companies etc. It's just that other countries narrowed the gap. 30 years ago, many count
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While uploading is illegal in Switzerland, we should also mention that it is not actively prosecuted by attorneys. Historically, it was always the case even during C64 times when swappers in Switzerland didn't have to fear anything.
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7y ago
It doesn’t matter which Freeport it‘s stored in Switzerland as customs law is on a federal level in Switzerland.
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8y ago
I had the same problem. The iPhone later even randomly shut off a few weeks afterwards because the battery started to curve. I went to the Apple store and got a brand new one for the cost of the reduced battery replacement. It‘s apparently
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Watching several documentation and seeing chicken farms, I Never buy USD 5 chickens anymore. I buy only organic (more time to grow) and if available from my preferred supplier from the farmer’s market (she only slaughters 5 times a year and
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If you move between Switzerland and Germany, you need to have a passport (or ID which was also accepted before Schengen) and will be announced when a train approaches the border. I have seen people being denied entry because they didńt have
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Second that. I moved my app from Elastic Beanstalk recently (just before the price hike) to Hatchbox. In the end, I was troubleshooting my Rails app on Elastic Beanstalk so much I could have probably just set it up myself on a VPS. Solution
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8y ago
If you are an EU citizen, no. If you are from elsewhere, then yes. But many of these companies have the possibility to get you a visa. The question is if you have very strong credentials, so that a canton (quotas are assigned by canton) giv
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One word of advice to everyone thinking about Stripe Atlas living outside of the USA: Please discuss plans to incorporate with an Accountant beforehand. You are still liable to pay taxes in the country where you effectively operate from.
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9y ago
Yes, it is separate. However, Ort der tatsächlichen Geschäftsleitung is Germany. That means you should pay taxes in Germany (if you do is another mattter, but if you don't and the Finanzamt finds out, you are in for a rough ride).
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Estate tax (most non-anglo countries have inheritance tax) is today promoted by left-wing but is originally supported by liberals. Therefore, you are probably not a communist.
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