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by flexie 10y ago
I didn't pretend anything. Even if your property is taxed at €500k although it's worth €250k, you are still paying very little compared to Denmark. And actually, it is close to zero. Many of my friends, all middle class, pay €5-10
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by flexie 10y ago
It's really hard to say these days. Often it's lower, of course, sometimes it's higher.
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by flexie 10y ago
I didn't pretend to describe all the rules in detail. In Denmark, property taxes are also calculated based on values that are not the current market value. Currently, 95% of Danes pay the state property tax based on a 2001/2002 va
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by flexie 10y ago
Let's get facts straight: The state property tax in Greece is 0% for property up to €200K. Then 0.2 to 1% from €200K to €5M. Then 2% above €2M. Property taxes are hardly killing the Greek economy and especially not for the poor or the
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Radioactive leak reported at Norway facility(thelocal.no)
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Why the Tesla Model X’s doors open and close automatically(theverge.com)
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by flexie 10y ago
Production capacity is the most important factor for data collection. The Teslas sold in October 2018 don't need to have the same sensors as the ones sold in january 2018. As you can see, the car is designed modularly. No other mass ma
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by flexie 10y ago
Google's cars are not iPhone 1. They still just have a few dozen or a few hundred, who knows, and they have only been driving 2 million miles until now. They are not even for sale and will not be any time soon. Oor ever, if they don&#x
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by flexie 10y ago
I really like Nissan Leaf and I love the fact that Nissan is out there as a competitor. But the reason anyone buys Nissan Leaf is that it is for sale already and that the price is only $29,000. Otherwise it's inferior to Tesla model 3
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by flexie 10y ago
And they do drive Teslas outside the US as well. And should there be places, terrains, urban conditions etc. that Tesla doesn't cover, they will see it and can hire a number of chauffeurs to drive around there. Even if they hired 1,000
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by flexie 10y ago
"Data collection that would take years can happen in weeks" I think that we are talking days, not weeks, or probably that Teslas can have multiple teams testing various hardware and algorithms at the same time: Tesla plans on prod
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by flexie 10y ago
Are the cars going to look like Google's and Uber's self driving cars, then? I never cared that much about self driving capabilities - I like to drive myself - and I certainly don't want to shell out $35,000 for a car with wh
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by flexie 10y ago
I am looking into space every night. Let's wait giving them credit for manned space flights until they launch someone into space.
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by flexie 10y ago
He may be in need of attention but his organisation performs a task that is - sadly - critical to our democracy. They have leaked information that mass media would otherwise not have been anywhere close to exposing. I too doubt that they ha
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Danish tax auth. get info on 2,000 Danish Uber drivers from Dutch tax auth(b.dk)
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by flexie 10y ago
Additional material on the plumes found: http://www.nasa.gov/europa-activity
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by flexie 10y ago
The rationale behind is sound but the trick is to design the rules so that all gains aren't lost in the cost for administering the rules. Differentiated VAT and/or deductions are notoriously expensive and prone for cheating. It is
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by flexie 10y ago
Any country bound by that treaty can withdraw from the treaty with a notice of one year, considerably shorter time frame than necessary for terraforming Mars, I suppose. If the US won't withdraw, then other countries would. And there a
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by flexie 10y ago
Imagine the wealth a company could amass if it succeeded in terraforming mars. Rare metals, sale of land etc. This is one of those markets where you have rather high barriers to entry.
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by flexie 10y ago
I agree that mastering board games requires intelligence. I also agree that good chess players are usually intelligent, even quite smart. But it's not like people's abilities in chess are directly proportional to their intelligenc
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by flexie 10y ago
I was about to write that you are wrong because how could Facebook and Amazon be on that list. But you are right. All oil and gas, conglomerates, pharmaceutical, financial services, electronics, retail, commodities, telecommunication, utili
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by flexie 10y ago
That quote is from "Notes on the Next War: A Serious Topical Letter" which was published in Esquire in 1935 and was about war (based on his experience from WWI), not about surveillance or about standing up for democracy in times o
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by flexie 10y ago
Your comment puts Snowden's actions in perspective. He risked his liberty, if not life, so that we could learn about the scope of US mass surveillance. You worry about the risk of being registered as a Snowden sympathizer if you voice
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Tesla Hacker reveals impressive ‘off-grid’ home powered by Model S batteries(teslarati.com)
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by flexie 10y ago
Taxes are very complicated in Denmark. I don't know anybody who can calculate their own tax without computer systems, and I say that as a lawyer who talks to accountants and tax advisors regularly. Nobody just pays 50 percent. The tax
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by flexie 10y ago
I hope Volvo's autopilot is not a finished product. The whole point of ML is to keep improving the product from what you learn. Also, do you have any source for Volvo's current system collecting data and sending it to Volvo? We kn
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by flexie 10y ago
Tesla offers more than that: https://www.google.dk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/2... And better yet: their 100,000 (soon to be 500,000) autopilots will gather live information from roads from sev
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by flexie 10y ago
How would that be a better position than Tesla's? 100 vs 100,000.
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by flexie 10y ago
You need a source on HN when quoting childhood memories?
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by flexie 10y ago
Not everybody likes wooden panels, leather seats and all the bling bling. I really feel good in the model S.

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