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Ask HN: US sales tax for ecommerce “platforms” (not sellers)
1 points by alfredallan1 8y ago|1 comments
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
This is probably a very simple question, buy will someone please clarify: $100K in sales - does that mean: 1) $100K worth of (3rd party, for an ecommerce platform) product sold via the platform, or 2) $100K revenue accruing to the platform
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
>I'd rather it be Google than Northrop. So would many of us here, but not Google itself. It is just terrible PR for any company that wants a decent public image. It is one thing to get grilled by senators, but entirely another for
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
We ought to realize that we ARE the market.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
How does that blend with the garbage problem the world seems to be having since China stopped importing trash? Is it economical enough to recycle the used machines?
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
How does it work - can people actually report violations to this enforcement agency? How hard/likely is it for a company to simply buy their way into these agencies?
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
So what means exist for consumers to seek redressal in the event of wrong doing by a corporation? Or should they just write to the relevant agency and hope that it picks it up? I know that the EU competition commission does some solid work,
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Here’s an article from as late as 1997. “Why Human Cloning Is Immoral” https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?rec... 2001 - "Catholic Church Condemns Human Cloning" https:/&#x2F
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
I think it’d be a lot of (evil) fun to form a crowdfunded entity with the sole purpose of suing companies that egregiously violate privacy norms. Given the level of support for the GDPR in many quarters, I think funding goals can be easily
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
If I may be so bold, I think that line will get pushed farther out every generation - who will simply accept past work as the then status quo ante. Just a hundred years back, cloning would have been considered morally reprehensible. Today,
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Probably a really bad idea in the age of GDPR.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Yes, and it lets you be better at whatever you want to be better at. It also lets you figure out what you really want to be better at, rather than arbitrarily pegging that down to be one's job. And isn’t one’s work really part of one’s
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
That, precisely, should be the COO’s job description. Like, almost literally. Consider the alternative: the CEO is a professional “manager” who can run the shop, but may (or more likely, may not) understand what the shop is all about. Then
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
I don’t usually try to deliberately ask stupid questions, but I can’t help myself in this instance. What counts as a EU publication? The author residing in the EU? Someone with a special “publisher” license? The author possessing EU citizen
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
So does this mean *this HN post is illegal because it links to a news article?
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Whose productivity? The individual’s? If my needs are simple, and easily met by working 2 hours a day, what reason do I have to toil 18 hour days? To enrich someone else? My skills and talents are for me to decide what to do with. What righ
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Maybe. Maybe not. >Why aren't they generating awesome works of science or philosophy or literature or something with all that clear-headedness Maybe they don’t want to? Maybe their motivation is towards intrinsic goals, while scienc
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Yes, you’re right about all of that. But it is critical to understand/remember that those (racial motivations) were Not the underlying cause of the war. Had Hitler not started off with the lebensraum gag, nobody would have given a damn
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
True… a scumbag in one area wouldn’t hesitate extending their scumbaggery skills to other areas if they stand to gain something.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
If you do a quick google search for “human resistance to antibiotics” you’ll find a number of good results. Any evidence I would cite would be from the more reputable sources, such as government agency websites, wiki, known scientific publi
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
That was in fact a bribery case - they were convicted for bribing docs to prescribe their meds where it wasn’t necessary. But you’re right that phrama company execs are slightly more liable to be actually convicted (Martin Shkrelli is a ver
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
If your point of contention is that corporate crime is not as common place as regular felony, you’re right, my statement might have been better phrased. The point I was trying to make is the percentage of convicted felons getting jail time
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Let’s look at some other biases - so one exec from VW (a foreign company) was taken in. How many from GM who are just as guilty? What about the Equifax lot? Wells Fargo? The banks pushing crappy MBSs and ABSs on pensioners?
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
>presuming the powerful and guilty will walk free By and large, they do. The fact that this incident makes to the top of the “news” is testament. If things were different, an exec going to jail would be as commonplace as a convicted felo
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
That strategy won’t work against a sufficiently determined adversary, if they’re willing to eliminate all potential enemy combatants (= civilians) and capture all the resources of the defeated entity for themselves.
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Although it should be pointed out that many modern royal families still have a tradition of sending their sons to serve in the military for a period of time. I don’t have any figures on whether they go to actual combat, and if so, if they l
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
It is not necessary that mutation would cause the loss of a previously developed resistance. It is not just the bacteria that grow resistant to drugs, but the human body itself starts to develop resistances. One of the major factors behind
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
The latter is more of a root cause than (also, of) the former, which is nonetheless a large contributor. The latter - measuring growth/success of an economy by redundant items bought, is a direct consequence of applying the same princi
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
Bright new startup idea: Meditation as a Service. MaaS. A solid alternative, for the modern non-believer, to the more traditional Mass services. Mission statement: Beware the risks of over-meditating! We aim to offer the (scientifically det
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by alfredallan1 8y ago
What it does, among other things, is stop the meditator from running around like a headless chicken, chasing notifications and like counts, gasping at every clickbait-ey title, and pursing meaningless trivia, in addition to making 3 impulse

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