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by flexie 13y ago
No. That's only doable if you do individual sports such as boxing, tennis, golf, where you are free to take residence anywhere, or if you play for Monaco FC ;-)
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by flexie 13y ago
Yes. The tax is only on income exceeding EUR 1 million (USD 1.4 million). This means that the people usually associated with high income, such as medical doctors, lawyers, accountants, business owners, CEO's of small and medium sized c
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by flexie 13y ago
Cute little cabin and amazing what you can put into 20 m2. And it must be nice to know that you've built it yourself. But I don't believe for a second that this is the architect's dream house. Come on. It's like saying t
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by flexie 13y ago
Still, the real story here is that almost all small businesses depend on the mercy of one giant corporation. This Google monstrosity / police man should be split up into smaller, competing search engines.
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by flexie 13y ago
Lawyers should be responsible to their clients, not serve as an extra layer of tax informants. Governments already have hundreds of thousands in their employ. And please spare your hypocracy remarks for someone you know.
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by flexie 13y ago
I think it's to be expected that governments that live off taxes force companies, that receive large cash deposits or whose business it is to receive, store or transfer money, to identify those individuals and businesses whose money th
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by flexie 13y ago
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:...
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by flexie 13y ago
We don't know for sure: http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/fra/pages/search.aspx?i=001-... } Attorney-client-privilege is an English/American legal term with a lot of meanings to it shaped by the courts
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by flexie 13y ago
EU law is a term used for all regulation from the EU and sometimes for EU court rulings as well. Most EU legislation is issued as "directives" (such as the EU directive on money laundering), which are to be implemented by the memb
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by flexie 13y ago
Lawyer here. Every time I have a new client I have to obtain picture ID, check their share registers etc. Doesn't matter that most of my clients are entrepreneurs, startups or venture funds. Doesn't matter that all their transacti
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by flexie 13y ago
In the last 20 years several American tech companies have grown huge with very little challenge from European antitrust or tax authorities. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Apple, Amazon, Intel, Microsoft... Rules regarding abuse of dominant pos
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by flexie 13y ago
Maybe Saab won because they had a better offer. And maybe Boing usually wins these deals because they have the backing of large intelligence agencies. Who knows.
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by flexie 13y ago
Sorry to hear that you lost money. Bitcoins are up against some really big competitors called nation states and supranational unions. It's almost like trying to run a private army. Once you get big enough to impose a threat you will be
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World Births and Deaths in Real-Time (visualisation)(cdn.theatlantic.com)
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by flexie 13y ago
"Thrun is an elite academic. He has most likely never even attended a university that had to teach remedial math courses..." Thrun went to college at University of Bonn. I don't know how it ranked 25 years ago but today it&#x
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by flexie 13y ago
If the self constraint applies everywhere it's probably unhealthy but in some forums discussions on politics, race etc. are just not very fruitful and bringing up these issues could stand in the way of other discussions that have a bet
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by flexie 13y ago
Politics, race, immigration, gender etc.
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by flexie 13y ago
The avoidance of controversial topics when talking together is one of those things we Europeans are typically not so good at. I know from many Europeans who like me lived in the US for a while that they had to learn the art of talking witho
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by flexie 13y ago
There's nothing new in this. Publishing of laws and court rulings has been a mostly private industry for a couple of hundred years - also in the US. In fact, with Internet now is the only time ever that you are able to find most laws a
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by flexie 13y ago
I made an assertion and now it's my "job to support it"?! How is that for an assertion. Stating that everybody is not entitled to get a free copy of copyrighted material is hardly an assertion in the first place and I think y
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by flexie 13y ago
You are quoting an American ruling. This is a European case.
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by flexie 13y ago
If the law mandates use of (privately manufactured) safety mechanisms it doesn't mean that you are entitled to get those safety mechanisms for free. Similarly, if the law mandates that manufacturers comply with certain (privately manuf
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by flexie 13y ago
But it is so typical for the Economist to make far fetched claims. In my view it is one of the most overrated magazines. Their use of statistics or their pseudo objective way of juxtaposing views doesn't hide that essentially their art
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by flexie 13y ago
How many flights take off or land with all passengers and crew members in full compliance with the current rules? Close to none. Say commercial planes have 60 passengers/crew member in average. 5 don't have any devices (small kids
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by flexie 13y ago
Maybe at some point in the future you can actually see real time what companies sell and buy and with whom the transactions are made.
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EU has now made common cookie guidelines - here they are(ec.europa.eu)
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by flexie 13y ago
Not surprisingly it follows English language spread quite closely. The top 5 consists of English speaking countries and Scandinavia (where everybody speaks English as a second language). If the Netherlands had been singled out from Western
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by flexie 13y ago
Let's not exaggerate the crime in Sweden. The best measure for crime is the homicide rate (since death is harder to fake than for example theft, and since it rarely goes unreported as for example rape). The homicide rate for Sweden is
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by flexie 13y ago
Then you assume that less US residents have a desire to have their country of residence represented. Why?
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by flexie 13y ago
Yes, I thought the same, especially interesting because I would assume that many Canadian techies moved to Seattle or the valley. Also interesting that there are soon as many HN members outside the US as within (if this survey reflects the

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