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by gcp 9y ago
Women find it easier to take the family route and possibly make a career change post child rearing According to the original article, this is only 1/3rd, so it doesn't go very far as an explanation.
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by gcp 9y ago
In that other study they also made the point that men felt exactly the same way about their job This rather completely flushes over the issue that the extent of those conditions may not be the same between men and women. I mean, a key fin
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by gcp 9y ago
As opposed to Rendering-Engine Dependent Apps?
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by gcp 9y ago
You are confusing storage requirements with write amplification (which is another downside). They're totally different.
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by gcp 9y ago
> it allows the filesystem to implement some interesting features (e.g. snapshots) in a more efficient way. Interesting features are worthless when reading and writing data is prohibitively slow. Or when there are documented cases where
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by gcp 9y ago
They don't. Unless you want to claim API's are copyrightable, but there are some downsides to that :-)
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by gcp 9y ago
As for the significant technical issues, one thing is the core decision to make it a CoW system, which has fundamental performance issues with many workloads that are exactly those used in the server space. You can disable CoW, but you lose
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by gcp 9y ago
Red Hat has a lot of core Linux contributors on their payroll. Their status is, AFAIK, not undeserved.
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by gcp 9y ago
Yes. They got bad advice, probably from an accountant without enough experience in this matter.
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by gcp 9y ago
Dumb from whom? It makes a lot of sense, unfortunately it's more of a hassle which hurts small businesses relatively more.
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by gcp 9y ago
Chrome currently has the largest amount of extensions, which is an advantage for that browser. Standardized WebExtensions dilute that, because they allow easy ports to the other browsers.
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by gcp 9y ago
That's what VAT deferred transactions are...I'm giving up on your dear sir.
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by gcp 9y ago
It can. But it can't keep XUL compatibility and do major overhauls of the browser. If XUL compatibility doesn't even get you a clear advantage in the add-ons area, should it block modernizing the browser? Firefox can't be the
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by gcp 9y ago
The add-on ecosystem of Chrome currently dwarfs Firefoxes. Firefox extensions used to be more capable, but there's just more and certainly more NEW ones for Chrome. (I'm sure this was an important consideration for Mozilla as well
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by gcp 9y ago
Mozilla has given this a lot of thought, and realized it is extremely valuable . But the value does not dwarf the downsides. XUL extensions would block most of the Servo work, as an obvious example. You can't rely on the browser int
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by gcp 9y ago
That's a fair point. Still won't be easy to actually come out on top when litigating, though.
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by gcp 9y ago
What you say is (or used to be) false for deferred VAT transactions, but anyway. If you understand the nuance, why are you saying they're dodging taxes? The VAT on the freelancer is related to their business, so it is intended to be re
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by gcp 9y ago
The EU VAT system was overhauled very recently (VAT rate of buyer, not seller) exactly because many businesses were "moving" to low VAT countries like Luxembourg.
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by gcp 9y ago
Do you even understand what VAT is and how it works? They are and were collecting VAT on their sales. This part is unavoidable regardless. For the stuff they buy, they're not avoiding VAT. There's no point in avoiding VAT because
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by gcp 9y ago
Involving a party outside the EU. I bet the latter is what really threw your first accountant off: nonprofit + suppliers outside EU. Most accountants never have to deal with something like this in their entire career.
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by gcp 9y ago
Maybe you should read the original article first. Just saying. They spent months, got a lawyer involved, and got the fine reduced, a bit.
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by gcp 9y ago
From the article it sounds the Foundation is run by other (Dutch) people working on Krita who may or may not be paid from it as well.
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by gcp 9y ago
It depends. Goods from inside the EU: you'll pay VAT (and recover it). Goods outside EU: you pay import duty (which might include VAT - but you don't actually pay that VAT as a company, because it's VAT) If this wouldn't
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by gcp 9y ago
Yes? You have to declare this. You don't physically pay of course, it's just taken into account for the VAT balance.
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by gcp 9y ago
They would need to prove they suffered loss (and an actual error!). That's not clear in this situation. Not paying taxes you were due isn't extra costs due to your accountant, although fines and interests may be.
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by gcp 9y ago
This is EU wide so it would apply to the UK, for now. Note that the rules for intra-EU B2B transfers may be different (deferred VAT).
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by gcp 9y ago
No, you must pay VAT at the point of import if your supplier is outside the EU. Not doing so would allow unfair competition from suppliers outside the EU. Note that for goods, these are import tariffs.
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by gcp 9y ago
Getting accounting correct in this kind of situation is just very hard, and sometimes people get it wrong even with due diligence and advice from trained professionals in the field. Saying this is "supporting bad practices" when t
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by gcp 9y ago
Not sure what you mean by this, but this (like most modern web standards, and I'm not even sure of the modern part) is just documenting what the implementations are already doing . Mozilla and Microsoft are specifically re-implementin
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Krita Foundation in Trouble(krita.org)
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