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by iguy 8y ago
No, it would, that's the point. If your subsidiary in the Bahamas sells something in France, it pays French VAT.
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by iguy 8y ago
Can anyone comment on how this interacts with the idea of the single market? Why can Google Ireland Ltd. be charged a special tax for doing business in France? In my (limited) understanding I thought this was not supposed to happen, and tha
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by iguy 8y ago
Yup. Tax things which really exist within a country, not accounting fictions (like precisely which arm of a multinational made how much profit). Although I'd also like everyone to stop using the term "income tax" for this. It
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by iguy 8y ago
Google thinks a shuttle launch cost at least $450 million, for comparison.
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by iguy 8y ago
But even if they all tried equally hard, it's possible that there could be recording differences which throw the stats off. When exactly is an event counted as a miscarriage vs. an infant death, that's a paperwork question not a
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by iguy 8y ago
Sure. But is it offensive in Brazil? I really don't know -- in english it is, obviously, but white/black are seen as fairly neutral. And these things shift weirdly with time. Ditto mulatto I guess (which was also in their list) --
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by iguy 8y ago
OK, thanks... probably I just added noise on this thread! Did not get to digging through CSO data... but probably a better idea than googling & finding only people counting advertised apartments as a measure.
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by iguy 8y ago
I get that the CEO doesn't know everything, but why doesn't bigger scale just mean more people below that? There must be someone who knows about each property, in or outside the company... there are agencies who hustle to rent out
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by iguy 8y ago
But you can have an agency manage it for you, for about 10-15%, in any city. Keeping it empty long-term means leaving on the table an amount of money comparable to the mortgage. You could fill it and buy another one! If they both appreciate
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by iguy 8y ago
Someone was quoting 40000 but I don't know the source. A 9% vacancy rate indeed sound very high, especially for a hot market... wait does "state" here mean the entire country? So that may include a lot of dying villages where
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by iguy 8y ago
If 40000 is accurate, that's a vacancy rate of 3%. Which sounds pretty low to me. That's one month every 3 years.
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by iguy 8y ago
Commercial property often has really long leases, like 10-20 years. So one reason it may sit empty is that an investor thinks a slump will be short & doesn't want to be tied to a low-rent tenant. (Or doesn't want to break up a
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by iguy 8y ago
I don't know, I agree that all the speculation about speculation sounds crazy to me -- the rent usually adds up to the cost of buying (via the interest rate, I mean) so not taking it is an "order 1" loss. One possible reason
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by iguy 8y ago
Indeed, good point. The dates there for Russia etc are accurate, but seem very late for the western countries -- in some places it essentially disappeared centuries before it was legally abolished. (I don't have a great link but e.g.
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by iguy 8y ago
But both "white flight" and "gentrification" are a bunch of individuals making similar choices. There's no pre-arranged conspiracy to all sell up next year & move to X; the only "homogeneous bloc" is i
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by iguy 8y ago
In the northern parts of the US, the timeline is not so different -- there were some black people there in 1940, but a large majority moved up postwar. To work in industries which are now dead, concentrated in certain cities, but not to the
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by iguy 8y ago
No first-hand experience either way, but this is a good excuse to recommend Thomas Chatterton Williams, a black American guy who moved to France and likes it there, and has many interesting things to say: https://www.penguinrando
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by iguy 8y ago
> food used to need to be heavily spiced because it was old/rancid This is often said but I really doubt that it was ever true. Nobody ate meat that was old/rancid, because (1) that was a great way to get ill, and (2) a cook wh
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by iguy 8y ago
I wonder whether pushing accessibility is another way forwards. Maybe the simple-browser should present itself as a screen reader for the blind, and automatically send threats of ADA lawsuits if a site isn't usable. I know for instance
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Or the source: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1104059
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by iguy 8y ago
I don't know if this counts, but there's picture of a truck driver which was doing the rounds: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1104059
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by iguy 8y ago
> And yes, Vitamin D is required, not UVB. You can aquired vitamin D by eating ... There is some debate about this now, while sunlight certainly produces vitamin D, that's certainly not all that it does. This article showed up here
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by iguy 8y ago
Indeed. I guess you're picturing two apps, where I'm picturing one app with much easier per-site settings, with much the same goal. My current plan is to make lots of Fluid-app browsers, for certain sites, and then leave JS off mo
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by iguy 8y ago
I don't know how perfectly you could do this. If there are going to be arbitrary mouseover effects then JS has to be able to see your mouse. If you want Jupyter notebooks to indent text & do tab completion then JS has to see text y
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by iguy 8y ago
There was indeed such a slant, in who got out. But whether this explains jewish success in the post-war world... you are in essence proposing a one-generation artificial selection event as the explanation. I haven't worked the numbers
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by iguy 8y ago
We do something much simpler, we re-distribute based on income. And periodically adjust up or down (via the ordinary democratic process) how much we do this. Would it be better to set up a separate parallel system to adjudicate precisely wh
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I believe these papers made some attempts to avoid seeing the effects of draft-dodging. For example one of them goes only by draft numbers, without looking at who actually fought, and finds worse outcomes among the children of the group wit
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by iguy 8y ago
Un-paywalled: https://outline.com/ZPBe47
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by iguy 8y ago
Would be interesting to know how they grow, and whether they open another office elsewhere, for this reason? It often sounds like what SV lacks is good ideas for what to spend all the money and talent on. Maybe the residents of Sudbury have
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by iguy 8y ago
There are many such programs, although wolves are controversial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_reintroduction#Europe Hypocritical seems a bit strong though. The extinctions in europe happened a long time ago, t

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