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by cr1895 9y ago
While the term is loaded with baggage (vs. immigrate, for example) it doesn't make a claim with respect to citizenship gained or lost, especially in this context.
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by cr1895 9y ago
>The US is the only country that taxes worldwide income. Technically no, so does Eritrea tax non-resident citizens on their worldwide income. And it's frankly hard to make sense of the rest of your comment. It's difficult (or i
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by cr1895 9y ago
> If looking for a US company, the likes of Vanguard and Charles Stanley will freeze your account if they find you reside outside the US. Ugh, this is maddening. I had a Kafka-esque conversation with a Charles Schwab dude whose scripted
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by cr1895 9y ago
>Expats really get the shaft from the US gov. And worse, while you're still entitled to vote for your representatives in the last place you lived in the US, politically, why would they even give you the time of day? There are a lot
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by cr1895 9y ago
>US is one of the few countries that taxes its citizens who move abroad. More precisely it is taxation by citizenship, not residence. For example, the Netherlands will happily tax everyone on their assets worldwide, but you're not
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by cr1895 9y ago
>the rich have to give nearly all of their income back to the state High-income tax rates are high, but not that high.
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by cr1895 9y ago
>The US is the most wealthy-unfriendly tax regime in the world. [citation needed] The US has no wealth taxes like some European countries, and long-term capital gains tax is 15%. Just to pick a few counterexamples: Denmark has 42% capita
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by cr1895 9y ago
>paying 30%+ of your income in taxes worldwide This is a big misunderstanding of US taxation. Every US citizen must file their taxes on income earned anywhere in the world, even if not earned in the US. However , for most people, it is
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by cr1895 9y ago
Record cleaning machines have existed for a long time (dare I say as long as records have existed?). The best kind use vacuum and a surfactant to lift and remove dirt and grime. The cheapest manual ones just use brushes and liquid.
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by cr1895 9y ago
Hang on now...I thought only non-EU people must do the inburgering nonsense? Or does it also apply to anyone who wants to get citizenship?
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by cr1895 9y ago
Yeah it is quite different in the NL. Private space is much more limited compared to public space. Cities are dense, peoples' private gardens are small if they exist at all, public spaces are abundant. This isn't the land of spraw
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by cr1895 9y ago
Tangential, but: I'm wondering what the ratio of tiled-over private gardens is to tiled-over public spaces (sidewalks, streets, etc.) which are omnipresent in the NL. I'd guess that the poor drainage relating to the public spaces
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by cr1895 9y ago
Here's an English article. http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/07/brabant-villag...
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by cr1895 9y ago
>Why would the police be interested in destroying a legitimate business Lavabit comes to mind. I'm sure there are other examples too.
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To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software(nytimes.com)
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by cr1895 9y ago
>I could argue that the hoops to jump through aren't that great Yes, it might have been doable. But you must also remember that such an ability is a privilege, not a right- if you lost your job, quit school, or whatever granted you
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by cr1895 9y ago
>I hope a burglar breaks into your house and starts raping your daughters, cutting the throat of your sons, blows your head with a 9mm Did you read what you typed after you typed it!? Shameful, much less relevant.
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by cr1895 9y ago
>As someone who has lived in Alicante for a period of time Among intangible benefits was your ability to live in Alicante for a period of time, without having to apply for a work/study visa or whatever other hoops someone non-EU wou
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by cr1895 9y ago
>there is only complete Brexit which is what was voted for. The question voted upon was should the UK remain a member of the EU or not. There was no vote or understanding on how exactly that should be accomplished.
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by cr1895 9y ago
That was just the first one that came up. Critically, it's however the authorities (and it seems to depend on the state) define "operating" the vehicle. But more to my point, you can still be arrested for DUI while not lite
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by cr1895 9y ago
>We generally take excellent care of public places. This is a combo of culture and government services actually cleaning stuff up every once in a while. Ok, I've gotta take issue with this. Dutch people litter. All the time. Peopl
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by cr1895 9y ago
>For example, You cannot arrest someone for being drunk and having their car keys in their pocket, or even being asleep in the car while drunk. An aside, but this is not true. "According to Alabama state law, Hand was deemed to be i
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by cr1895 9y ago
>Is it also shady to walk into a store and look at things without buying anything? Not making a claim about scraping, but it's maybe more apt to compare to walking into a store and writing a list of everything for sale their costs.
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by cr1895 9y ago
>There are all sorts of ways to innovate "e-voting", and all of them are objectively improved over the current US methods Can you expand on the objective improvements?
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by cr1895 9y ago
2nd paragraph, FTA: "this scraping violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the controversial 1986 law that makes computer hacking a crime. HiQ sued, asking courts to rule that its activities did not, in fact, violate the CFAA."
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by cr1895 9y ago
>If everyone's vote is public then ...people can be coerced to vote a certain way. Your personal experience doesn't apply at large, as you rightly wondered.
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by cr1895 9y ago
In the Netherlands swimming instruction is compulsory for children. Is that also the case in Belgium? It's most certainly not the case in the US.
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by cr1895 9y ago
Neat! I'm learning Dutch and can understand some of what's in that old cookbook, still not easy though. Kind of surprised at all of the spices it calls for...must have been food eaten by the wealthy. The old Dutch in that book loo
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by cr1895 9y ago
> They were all old court cases, and the assignment was basically to look through them for a case that looked interesting, try to read it, and write a report on the judicial organization and procedural rules in it. That sounds like a rea
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by cr1895 9y ago
>believe the tolerances on Lego for it to be "just right" are fairly narrow As far as I'm aware this is quite an understatement. The tolerances and consistency of lego pieces is impressive, to say the least.

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