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by brisance 11y ago
Some professional photographer is calling Taylor Swift out on her hypocrisy. http://nextshark.com/an-open-response-to-taylor-swifts-rant-...
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by brisance 11y ago
Before everyone brings out the pitchforks, I feel we may not have the full picture. According to her tumblr post, it's unclear if it's non-payment or deferred payment for streaming her songs during the three month trial period.
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by brisance 11y ago
Disagree. The GT Advanced Technologies debacle is a concrete example. Sure Apple lost money on that one, but it would have been a bigger hit on their bottom line had they full invested in their own sapphire plant and tooling. In the big sch
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by brisance 11y ago
Because owning plant and equipment and capital assets is very risky; everything gets obsolete within months and now you're stuck with illiquid items that you have to amortize.
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by brisance 11y ago
Samsung is a direct competitor and its headquarters is in South Korea, which does not have a similar tax regime (handicap?) compared to Apple which is based in the US. So it is relevant.
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by brisance 11y ago
Issuing debt in the form of bonds means having to pay interest, but interest rates have been low for some time now. It's not delaying "the inevitable". It's delaying until there is tax reform, hopefully with better condi
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by brisance 11y ago
If you're a foreigner in Singapore and you are not: a) a tourist, b) a spouse of a Singaporean, c) a student enrolled in a Singapore school, d) gainfully employed by a Singapore-registered business Chances are pretty good you are an il
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by brisance 11y ago
You are right. As long as you can demonstrate an ability to generate income for yourself and thus by extension taxes for the government, you are welcome here. Needless to say, this one-dimensional measure of a person's "worth&quot
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by brisance 11y ago
As of 2014, about 55% are from other South-East Asian countries. But the government has a policy of maintaining a stable "ethnic mix" which means that there are now a lot of mainland Chinese. And while I'm also Chinese by eth
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by brisance 11y ago
As a Singaporean, I laugh at these low immigration numbers. 150K per year out of 9.8 million residents, that's a drop in the ocean. According to the government, the total population of Singapore is 5.26M. Out of this, 3.27M are citizen
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by brisance 11y ago
Nice, I'm learning Swift from your site. The kerning for Chapter "10.4" is killing me though. Other than that I'm enjoying going through it. :D
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by brisance 11y ago
Relevant: http://www.edn.com/design/automotive/4423428/Toyota-s-killer...
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by brisance 11y ago
I bought the PDF version of this a few weeks ago and it is pretty straightforward. Doesn't really teach you anything about classes/object-oriented programming. It really has a strong focus on getting sh*t done and is well-suited f
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by brisance 12y ago
Is your paper available online? I would like to read it.
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by brisance 12y ago
What is your assessment of BitTorrent Sync?
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by brisance 12y ago
Actually, a lot of medical doctors and "professionals" do not really know how probabilities work. For more on this, refer to Gerd Gigerenzer's Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions. http://www.barnesandnoble.com&#
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by brisance 12y ago
She could be mistaken for Taiwanese with that accent. In other words she's 100% naturalised.
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by brisance 12y ago
You are talking about tech for its own sake. The target market for this segment is vanishingly small. But to address your point more directly. Do you already know how to make a wearable device of a similar size that offers all these feature
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by brisance 12y ago
Apparently that's how the stock market values Apple's cash position.
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by brisance 12y ago
It makes sense. Anand built a site which became a brand and a community that rallied around it. Angela Ahrendts built Burberry as we know it. Dre… beats. Who is next, Alex Ohanian? :D
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by brisance 12y ago
OS X Mail does this for quite some time.
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by brisance 12y ago
What's going to happen to all those existing videos which currently generate views? Discovery is important; personally I have stumbled into quite a few videos with a fair amount of "views" which led me to follow a band. If th
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by brisance 12y ago
The person who wrote it is Stuart Cheshire, who invented Bonjour. I think he knows what he's talking about. For example: say you need to send a message from Earth to Mars, currently it is 0.794 AU away. This means it takes light 6.603
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by brisance 12y ago
Amazon conveniently sidesteps the fact that eBooks from Hachette are not subject to supply chain constraints. Or that deliveries were purposely delayed due to contract negotatiations, which Amazon itself admitted. Citation: http:/&#x2
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by brisance 12y ago
Duolingo's translation bot seems to do a much better translation job than Google's "public" tool, at least for Spanish.
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by brisance 13y ago
The first paragraph is correct but the second is not quite right, and is a common misconception. Beta is a lagging indicator and by itself cannot explain a stock's movement or lack thereof. There are much better guides to stock volatil
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by brisance 13y ago
The headline is wrong but I wouldn't put it past some rogue Google employee who does have such powers and has abused them. Case in point: David Barksdale, ex-Googler. https://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engine
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by brisance 13y ago
Digressing a little, but since you are talking about jurisdiction then yes it's a fair point albeit splitting hairs. But from a morality point of view isn't it incompatible with the parent's view that certain values should be
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by brisance 13y ago
>>It's pretty simple. It's illegal for corporations to get together and decide the price of things. << Is this not how LIBOR or the Fed rate is determined?
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by brisance 13y ago
That's not a typo. It really is that expensive because of taxes. That does not include the cost of running the car; fuel, road tax, road pricing, maintenance, insurance and so forth. And you get to use the car only for up to 10 years

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