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by derriz 9y ago
There is no "favourable tax rate" in Ireland - around 1990 or so, the EU ruled against selective favourable tax rates. Before that, Ireland used to have a 10% rate for exporting (largely foreign) companies and 25% for non-exporti
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by derriz 9y ago
Ireland's corporate tax rate is 12.5% which is in the lower half of the table of EU rates but that's no basis to brand it a "tax haven". People get riled up because of an exclusively American twist to their corporate tax
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by derriz 9y ago
I’m on my phone now so excuse sloppiness in my reply. Also I’m the very opposite of a tax lawyer but my understanding is that the salesman’s added value is determined by transfer pricing rules. It works as if he bought the good or service
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by derriz 9y ago
Maybe :) but if you're going to provide numbers like that, then I'd be interested in hearing, for example, how much foreign corporation tax was paid by French aeronautical companies on their 50B worth of exports? Or German car co
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by derriz 9y ago
I should have made clear that I was discussing corporation tax where the principle is that where the value is created determines how the generated profit should be subjected to tax. This is the principle behind the current international ta
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by derriz 9y ago
Is it really relatively more straightforward with physical goods? With modern supply chains, components and raw materials are flying around the globe in a complex dance before they end up on your local store shelf or in an amazon warehous
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by derriz 9y ago
I don't see an actual EU angle in this? It seems like a proposal that the French want to present to the EU council of ministers. At which point it will be dropped as it is simply a tarif in everything but name and has almost zero ch
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by derriz 9y ago
"Where do I get that mad notion?" From personal experience, that's all. Your personal experieces don't refute it - they just demonstrate that people's experiences can differ. I'm old enough to have been to man
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by derriz 9y ago
Interesting. I've never been to a wake in a town or city - any funerals I have experienced have used an undertaker's parlour. I guess I was generalizing from personal experience but I reckon the author of the piece did a lot mor
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by derriz 9y ago
Most Irish never experience a wake. I know which island is being discussed in the piece ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achill_Island ). My grandparents lived there and I attended their wakes and those of other elderly
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by derriz 9y ago
I understand that no one likes being painted as the bad guy, but this is a very odd claim: "Americans movies will certainly never paint America as the bad guy, despite the fact that millions have died at the receiving end of American
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by derriz 9y ago
I think religion is a better comparison or at least an aspect of religion. Climate change denialism strikes me as having similar features with creationism. Both require believing in a vast global conspiracy of compromised academics - moti
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by derriz 9y ago
Thanks. I'd love it if the first comment on every post was a link to a wikipedia article or other reasonably dry/authoritative source describing the substantive subject of the story. Often (but not always) I'm just not int
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by derriz 9y ago
I've gotten used to typing CTRL-[ instead of reaching for the Escape key because of the inconsistencies in its size and placement on various keyboards I use. Yes it's two fingers but you have to use CTRL in vim to get any benefit
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by derriz 9y ago
There's a classic Peter Kay clip on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ukn2YT5jeM - which exploits how succeptible we are to suggestion when it comes to mondegreens. Warning: Kay has a strong Northern English a
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by derriz 9y ago
The point that public transport can be more efficient than private does not necessarily reflect public investment although the Swiss do invest in subsidizing transport infrastructure. But what's suprising is that much of the public tra
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by derriz 9y ago
Hi Eric. My question doesn't make that assumption. It questions the size of your target market. You are proposing to "reward" certain investor behaviors but I am suggesting that the numbers indicate that the vast majority p
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by derriz 9y ago
Most of the value of the US equity market is held indirectly - through ETFs, mutual funds, pension funds, etc. This suggests that direct ownership is not particularly valued among the vast majority of investors. Have you calculated the si
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by derriz 9y ago
That brings back memories. I was involved in trying to build webapps on Illustra in the mid/late 90s. We (a small dev shop) ended up with it because it was sold to our non-technical manager on the basis that it was the future for the
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by derriz 9y ago
Eh? The volatility is a HUGE problem for bitcoin as a currency. If I run a small business, accepting payment in bitcoin just creates risk. The state of my business not only depends on the quality and success of my product/service but
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by derriz 9y ago
Sorry to be negative and this comment probably doesn't belong in a discussion about a specific parsing toolkit but I've become unconvinced that parser generators are useful. My experience is limited to Yacc/lex back in the o
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by derriz 9y ago
Thanks! I never knew about the + terminator.
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by derriz 9y ago
Interesting but I was asking about -exec?
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by derriz 9y ago
Why is this a problem? Except in terms of performance, it's completely invisible to the user as xargs will run the command multiple times to ensure all the arguments are processed. In the most extreme/unrealistic case, if xargs
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by derriz 9y ago
I'm curious why you (or anyone) uses -exec? It's often painfully slower than piping through xargs and I find the syntax (the semicolon and braces and the required quoting/escaping) uncomfortable. I haven't used -exec i
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by derriz 9y ago
In what way is the term "service facade/interface" overloaded? I've never encountered confusion (or been confused) by its usage in the context of discussing software development. On the other hand, "port" is a
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by derriz 9y ago
The use of a bow and arrows is also unique to humans (as far as I know) but I don't see that as a compelling argument that humans have an innate, unique and specific bow n' arrow faculty. Neither is the complexity of human languag
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by derriz 9y ago
I lived in a country that recently required IMF support, Ireland, and have a positive view of the IMF as a result. Of course, there were conditions attached to the loans but given that nobody else was willing to lend money to the state und
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by derriz 9y ago
I would challenge you to explain what is exceptionally protectionist about EU agricultural policy compared to say the US, Japan or any other large economy. CAP is a product of its time (sixties and seventies) but has been and continues to b
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by derriz 9y ago
Regarding EU bureaucracy, isn't it clear that some is required? Otherwise how do you replace, for example, 28 different national systems for classifying bananas with a single classification without a certain amount of bureaucracy? You

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