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by anomaly_ 3y ago
Wall Europe off and let them suffer their government regulated mobile phone. Anyone cheering this has a short memory.
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
Anyone funded a Treasury as a Service (TaaS) startup yet?
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
See you in five years. Good luck with the government intervention.
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
You need a reality check if you think life today for most people isn't materially better than 50, 100, 500 years ago thanks to improvements driven by capitalism.
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
Generally agree, although I've noticed a lot more normative language creep into articles ("unfortunately", "unluckily", "helpfully", etc) that really have no place in a resource purporting to be encyclopae
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
That iOS polish is largely a byproduct of the walled garden approach. Users are incentivised to spend within the ecosystem due to the safety, security and support provided by Apple.
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
That's not how banks work: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
Minor correction, not sponsor, own . Interestingly the tobacco company British American owned a team until 2005 (the team is now the Mercedes team).
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
If you seriously think is a majority opinion you need to get out more. The average person wants strong device security, look at the press and angst attracted by cybercrime in recent times.
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
Of course it is. Hacker news is full of “educated” nerds who think the world would be a better place if we just followed their direction (tm).
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
Do you know what a Ponzi scheme is?
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
Being US only limits your structure options. Start generating some international revenue and you’ll see how your entity/structure requirements increase.
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
Pranked by one of the “skinny girlfriends”. Nothing like a jealous hn poster who thinks people don’t recognise his brilliance.
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
Well, I guess you don't want unlucky people working for you!
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
You understand that the relatively low cost of living until the last 50 years or so was built on the systematic oppression of minorities and women, right?
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
>He's been selling vaporware for close to a decade Interesting, my Tesla feels pretty real.
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
Think it's probably more because unlike other Anglo jurisdictions, American lawyers can take matters on contingency, whereas at best UK/AUS/NZ lawyers can take them with conditional costs that significantly limit upside to th
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting that impression from, law (and many other professions that operate under partnership like structures) often have an up or out system that is significantly more brutal than this. No room for expert
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
We live in a post-joke world now.
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by anomaly_ 4y ago
HN, Financial Times, WSJ, the Australian, Ars Technica
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by anomaly_ 5y ago
No way man, didn’t you know OP has an advanced degree in math?!
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by anomaly_ 5y ago
Malthusianism lives on. Easy to wax lyrical about the Black Death when you haven't lived through the mass extinction of ~50% of your community.
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by anomaly_ 5y ago
It means that can't price discriminate specifically against Afterpay as a payment form. The merchant is free to set prices to whatever they want (as OP notes: the cost of the expensive Afterpay service will be borne by all customers),
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by anomaly_ 5y ago
Individuals are broadly taxed like companies in most western countries, it just turns out that most individuals don't actually incur many expenses in producing their income.
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by anomaly_ 5y ago
How well does an iMac work without that power brick? It’s functionally part of the main device.
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by anomaly_ 6y ago
Have you looked at the amendments? They are incredibly minor and don't change the basic operation of the law (i.e. to compel negotiations between Google/Facebook and news publishers). This is 100% face saving for Facebook. I would
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by anomaly_ 6y ago
Every large company has a corporate treasury function. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury_management
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by anomaly_ 6y ago
This treaty been publicly listed on the under negotiation treaty page on NZ Gov website for years [1] (Internet Archive link as its now obviously moved to a different page). This includes the guiding principles/objectives for NZ, key o
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by anomaly_ 6y ago
In addition to the domestic state payroll/income tax issues mentioned by others, it's almost certain FB is also talking about the risk of creating foreign permanent establishments of the FB US entity from an international tax pers
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by anomaly_ 7y ago
With sometimes janky emulation/WINE, or not at all?

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