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iujhygfbh
17y ago
How much do you know about Icelandic privacy law? How many test cases are there? How many Icelandic IP lawyers can you hire tomorrow? There is a reason for basing your company/data in the US/London and it isn't just that they speak English.
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iujhygfbh
17y ago
It's also a risk of instability. What's the chance of a far-right/far-left government getting in next time and screwing you business process?
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iujhygfbh
17y ago
Interesting idea though for a small country like Tuvavlu - just sell the country to the highest bidder. If say an online gambling company wants to be sure of favorable treatment it could just buy the government wholesale instead of having t
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iujhygfbh
17y ago
Italy is in a typical 2-generation pattern. The first generation of women to get the chance at education, real careers etc = birth rate plummets. A generation (or two) later, there are women in politics and at the top of companies, introduc
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iujhygfbh
17y ago
The problem is when this is used to give eg. Raytheon the details of payments made to a European company for eg a radar system in some 3rd country - which lets them put in an advantageous position to bid for the next bit of work.
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iujhygfbh
17y ago
Not since Suez, the last time the UK got to play at soldiers against the US wishes was the Falklands. The UK has a huge amount of investment in the US, if the US were to treat the UK like it did France after they refused to join the 'coalit
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iujhygfbh
17y ago
But bankrupt means you don't run the company/country anymore - they call in the receivers, and KPMG or whoever sell off the assets for scrap.
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iujhygfbh
17y ago
What exactly does it mean for a country to go bankrupt? Do the creditors get the assets? If a chinese construction company is owed money for a government project do they get part of the country?
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17y ago
If you don't have a treaty then you are part of the axis of evil - or at the very least they don't let your soldiers play with their soldiers and your politicians don't get to stand on the Whitehouse lawn looking like a world statesman.
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iujhygfbh
17y ago
Research libraries are the only ones that DON'T need books. Research libraries are about timely access to journal articles. Journals are available, indexed, abstracted etc online. By the time a paper makes it from Arvix to dead tree and the
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17y ago
No it was very deliberate on the UK's part. The concerns were that there are a few members of certain Irish cultural organisations happily living in the US and it would wreck the peace process to extradite them, while NOT extraditing them w
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iujhygfbh
17y ago
In the real world - you don't really see 3D very much. Your eyes are only 0.1m apart so anything more than 3-4m away isn't really in 3d anyway. Everything in the distance is handled by your knowledge of it's relative size and position - whi