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by axlee 5y ago
Poor people pay a lot more taxes overall in relation to their wealth and income than the extra-rich. We have a regressive tax system.
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colluding: to act together secretly or illegally in order to deceive or cheat someone. And please: capital flight being the results of abusive policy? Corporations and wealthy individuals will always try to avoid giving the fair share to th
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What is your cutoff in terms of time for what is traditional or not? I would wager that 300+ years is more than enough for any custom to be qualified as traditional.
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> I’d be surprised if even 1% of all Android TV users were HN Readers. Remove some magnitudes, and then some more.
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I'm curious if he will then complain about not paying Malaysian tax rates while living in Germany. You want to be protected by the EU's privacy laws? Live in Europe, it's that simple. Sure, he will find fewer dreamy beaches a
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This is precisely my point: there were numerous moments in the past when AMD was trailing closely Intel among enthusiasts because of a superior product, but ultimately it never led to AMD overtaking Intel in the overall consumer market: Int
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Is it though? There is historical data for that, and even when AMD was crushing Intel for years on all benchmarks including price/performance and early adopter usage, Intel ultimately ended up with a larger market share. Prescott was a
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*among people using benchmark software. There is definitely a selection bias at play here: your run-of-the-mill personal computer owner does not even know what a benchmark is. Interesting (but not surprising) trend among enthusiasts though
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It is, as always, an inequality issue. Sadly, the alternative is not acceptable in a neoliberal world: no european company is willing or able to pay up for a promising technology as much as Google, Apple or Amazon will, but nation-states de
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>How about actually supporting the European Tech industry instead of just adding endless bureaucracy? Why do you make it sound like they don't? The EU invests massive amounts in technology (in regards to its paltry investment budget
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These people have been convinced by the same yacht-owners that they hate that fractional banking and inflation (and definitely not proper regulation, taxation and redistribution) are the keys to a more equal society.
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How is that statement supposed to contribute to the conversation? We all know that Bitcoin's consumption and environmental impact is absolutely massive for what is essentially - currently - an online casino.
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> because it's not transactions that cost, it's security of those transactions. Logically wrong, but let's follow the reasoning. Let's assume Bitcoin transactions were indeed not secure (and thus, according to you, co
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Remind me the carbon footprint and transaction costs of Bitcoin again, and compare that to the costs from institutional payment gateways?
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Absolutely.
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There are far less costly ways for the environment to achieve the same results. This is simply unjustifiable, when thousands of people are actively running the planet to the ground to make a quick buck in an online casino.
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Then how about nationalizing that infrastructure, if it is so crucial for national security and the private sector is unwilling to spend enough to protect itself against threats? Let's not kid ourselves: this is first and foremost a ma
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This is where the threat of retaliation comes in as a deterrent, and the country should be equipped to do so. But publicly subsidizing private cybersecurity is both impractical (how would that work exactly?) and would encourage underspendin
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Should our society collectively pay for walls, doors and locks for every company in the country? How about paying for private security on every site? How about paying for personal bodyguards for every CEO? How about we all chip in to buy a
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Because proper cybersecurity should be treated as a cost of business, unlike the use of force which is an exclusive prerogative of the state. If large companies want the state to step in to absorb some of their costs, they should stop tryin
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I'd rather not see taxpayers have to foot the bill for the profit of megacorps neglecting proper cybersecurity while sitting on mountains of tax-evaded offshore cash, thank you. The industry should be magnitudes larger than it is curre
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>Why is there not a focus on countries such as Bermuda here? They are the "tax havens" who make this possible in the first place. There is. Two wrongs don't make a right. The topic at hand is Ireland. > Other countries
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Because they don't have to. They would go back to that in a heartbeat if they had to. It's about maximizing shareholder's revenues, post-tax.
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The definition of a parasitic economy. Other countries are well in their rights to pressure Ireland as hard as they can to end this theft.
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> Better yet, dump corporate tax altogether and simply enforce a global flat tax on all forms of personal income, both capital gains and salary. Fraudsters skirted that by keeping their corporation's assets on the books and expensin
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It is really not recommended to run (production) databases in Docker, unless you know what you are doing. https://vsupalov.com/database-in-docker/
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What do you think broadcast rights are? Why do you think companies sponsor sports players?
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The only reason she can play the sport professionally is precisely because of the media machine behind it. It is incredibly misguided for her to think that, as a professional sport player, her job stops at the final whistle. Who does she th
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You have to be a special kind of person to play the lottery in the first place. Definitely not good a proxy for the population at large.
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Preventing them from fucking it up for pennies. A planet is worth more than whatever they can get from cutting down those trees. I believe in property rights, but fuck property rights when externalities are so huge that they can put the who

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