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by crc32 17y ago
It was clear to me. He means laws regarding tax issues that cross national boundaries, for example "transfer pricing". He is saying that it is easy to exploit such laws. (Whether it is intentionally easy or not)
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by crc32 17y ago
The whole point of economics is studying the allocation of scarce resources. Individual economists might not believe in peak oil, but to expand this idea to say that neoclassical or chicago school economic models ignore the physical const
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by crc32 17y ago
Yes, but he means "Apple never considered those patents at the the time of developing the iPhone" therefore meeting his definition of "un-wilfull". This is also possibly a reason why Nokia have waited to sue - they have been spending the ti
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by crc32 17y ago
The single number does not have to be 100% accurate to be useful. The end result is that though we disagree about the value of the Microsoft stock, it nonetheless has been assigned a price by some invisible hand.
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by crc32 17y ago
The relational model has a formal definition given by E.F. Codd that is founded in mathematical theory, more information about which can as always be found on Wikipedia. "a relation is a data structure which consists of a heading and an uno
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by crc32 17y ago
Are they software patents? It's not clear from the press release.
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by crc32 17y ago
have margins on hardware ever been that high in the world of the commodity PC? Given that most netbooks now run XP, (and shortly should be shipping with Windows 7 given the focus on performance) how can they be "cannibalizing Windows PC sal
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by crc32 17y ago
I don't think this is an axiom of capitalism. It might be an axiom of some models of capitalism. It would be very hard for an analyst to reason about a transaction if you were required to take imperfect information into account. Interesting
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by crc32 17y ago
I think in most circumstances, nobody would want to buy the voting rights. This was an unusual situation in which Theiss paid for the voting rights to vote against the interests of the share holders.
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by crc32 17y ago
it is not true that the "reward [is] entirely given to the private sector." the royal mail is owned by the government, so the profits extracted from selling the postcode database could be viewed as subsidising other services. (post in rural