gonvaled

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by gonvaled 8y ago
It will for sure comply with local tax rules, unless it is doing something illegal. As it stands, Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, ... do not pay adequate tax rates in the EU. If we had local companies, we would not lose billions
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Let me continue that for you: - or when you apply illegal tariffs n steel, cars and whatnot - when you apply sanctions to a country respecting the commitments it signed and so forth ...
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Could you clarify?
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Google left China because it did not want to abide by local legislation ...
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Which, to be fair, seeing how this megacorporations are behaving (data, taxes, ...) makes a lot of sense.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
How would this work in an ammonia-powered battery?
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by gonvaled 8y ago
"liquid hydrogen"
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Probably because ammonia production is using a waste product from natural gas plants (hydrogen). This just means that one of the inputs for ammonia production has esentially zero cost, on those plants. But it does not answer any of the foll
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by gonvaled 8y ago
I am not sure how Amazon grew, but it is a fact that, nowadays, they are paying low wages, and that they are paying very little tax.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Which is related to Amazon paying taxes ... exactly how?
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by gonvaled 8y ago
In Germany no beer bottle is discarded. It has .08€ deposit. Around bars, those bottles left on the street are collected by people with bags, or whatever. Bottles bought in the supermarket are cleaned, kept and returned. I don't know t
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by gonvaled 8y ago
what with ios?
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by gonvaled 8y ago
> As every country should It is tiring to hear continuously what an exceptional country the UK is. We are all exceptional, but we all abide by the same rules. That's kind of the point of having a union. > The Guardian or [Russia
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by gonvaled 8y ago
I would pay for some extra features. From the top of my head: - several accounts (phone numbers) managed in a single WhatsApp installation - auto-forward messages from one number to another - integration with other services (gmail, gdrive,
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Economic foe. No signals of military tensions, and I do not expect this to change. Still, having the 6th economy of the world as a tax heaven in the shores of the EU is not very reassuring.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
As a member (one would assume a "remain" country), the UK has been getting the best deal of the lot, and has been complaining for over 40 years, asking more and more. It has consistently used the EU as escape goat. Not particularl
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Let me further specify my request: provide a documented example of any religion (existing or disappeared) that introduced a new moral value which was not present (and documented) in the society where said religion appeared (absorbed moral v
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by gonvaled 8y ago
But not on the same terms: it is questionable if access to Galileo for example will continue, and if it does, what kind of access level the UK will have. As a EU citizen, I worry that a fierce competitor (and in some aspects a potential foe
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by gonvaled 8y ago
In hindsight, it is clear now that he was extremely prescient. What an accurate analisys of a major geopolitical event!
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Yepp, lots of feedback loops will start kicking in, some of human origin, others of natural origin: ice-free seas absorve more heat than ice-covered seas, for example.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Anec-data: in Germany we are having unusually high temperatures. If this continues, working in the summer makes no sense anymore (AC is not widespread here), and I will have to revert to taking summer holidays again.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
The daughter has some genes from the mother, and some from the father. Which genes are selected from which progenitor is random. To have a big pool for recombinations, inbreeding is to be avoided and populations must be big enough.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Monthly salary?
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by gonvaled 8y ago
It is noticeable for a scientist or for anybody interested, but for a creationist a slightly different mote or bird will never be a proof of speciation: it is anyway very similar to the original species, and it will be explained away by say
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by gonvaled 8y ago
The problem is more that the evidence they would accept is pretty much impossible to happen in the real world: something like a jiraffe giving birth to an eagle. Black-and-white worldviews are, by definition, not nuanced, but evolution, but
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Maybe you could provide an example moral value which was introduced by religion, and not appropiated from the already existing society?
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by gonvaled 8y ago
regarding yubico: they talk open, global standards, but then say security can only be met by producing in the USA (and Sweden!). Why should I trust USA produced products?
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Human values are not derived from religion; religions are built around existing value systems - to the point of misappropriating them.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
> The bulk of that wealth transfer is reliant on the coffers of US companies. Please share your sources. And, just assuming you are right, those coffers are full of untaxed revenue from EU markets.
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by gonvaled 8y ago
Given enough time [1], all solid objects become perfect spheres, no matter their size. [1] 10^65 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

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