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by jellicle 9y ago
What "investigation" are you planning to wait for? Who's doing it? What URL will the final report be published at? Do you apply this standard in other areas? If someone tells you they had chicken for lunch, do you say, &qu
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by jellicle 9y ago
You know, if Uber employees started going to jail when they lied to the government, the culture would probably change pretty fast.
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How one votes is secret. Whether one votes is typically compiled by the government and made available to political parties and often the general public.
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by jellicle 9y ago
The US most definitely does think it is okay. Every political party and many corporations and non-party entities will have similar databases. If you wanted a list of every Jew in the United States, with their current address, and accuracy
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by jellicle 9y ago
If even one person that has access to it makes a non-decaying copy, the decay has failed...
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by jellicle 9y ago
That one language, in Quebec, would be French, so.... be careful what you ask for.
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by jellicle 9y ago
When she took over, there were numerous articles about how Yahoo's core business had negative value (the business plus the Alibaba investment was worth less than the Alibaba investment). Since then she's given a lot of cash to sha
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by jellicle 9y ago
Great article. The point can be distilled down to information asymmetry - the company wants FROM YOU something that is relatively straightforward and clear (your time) and wants to give TO YOU something that is complex and hard to understa
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by jellicle 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
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> vigorously but truthfully defended. Indeed! And the climate-deniers being talked about are very far indeed from truthful or scientific, so there's no point in doing anything to aid their campaign of deceit. They'll lie abou
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by jellicle 9y ago
That sort of accuracy seems like about three orders of magnitude off from what would be useful in the field. Unless you just basically want a drug-sniffing dog, for guns. That is, something to "scienceify" something that would ot
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by jellicle 9y ago
I would describe the distinction like Gresham's law. Suppose we have two units of currency, each with identical face value: a real tulip bulb, and a certificate worth 1.0 tulip bulbs, or a silver coin marked $1 and an iron coin marked
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Yeah, the anonymous accused get sent straight to the gulag.
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If telling your ISP about something you sent causes you "real financial harm", perhaps you shouldn't have sent it. Perhaps you are responsible for the "real financial harm" to yourself.
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Why is it "none of the BBC's business" when you send hate mail to the BBC? Haven't you made it their business?
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by jellicle 9y ago
Universities are doing price discrimination. They want to charge rich kids a lot, middle class kids something, and poor kids nothing. That requires a high sticker price for the tuition, plus discounts. It's hardly a perfect system bu
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by jellicle 9y ago
That's a snapshot in time. Yes, some people who have been out of college for twenty years have paid their debt down to less than $10K. Also, a sizeable percentage of homeowners have mortgages of less than $10K, at this instant. But b
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by jellicle 9y ago
Not at all, no. Throughout the world, unemployment is correlated with the local minimum wage - as the minimum wage increases, unemployment decreases. Somalia (no minimum wage) has an unemployment rate of over 60%. Increasing the minimum
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by jellicle 9y ago
Why is it that giving money to rich people increases their motivation, but giving money to poor people decreases their motivation? This "motivation" thing sure is hard to understand!
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by jellicle 9y ago
Again, please understand that the NSA uses a non-English definition of the word "collect". The NSA calls getting data and copying data to its datacenters "interception". It calls having a human NSA employee read that dat
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by jellicle 10y ago
The NSA calls getting the data "interception". It calls LOOKING AT THE DATA BY A HUMAN WHO IS AN NSA EMPLOYEE "collection". It considers there to be no limits whatsoever on "interception" and permanent storag
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by jellicle 10y ago
A corporate tax rate of 100% wouldn't have any real effect on your personal business. You could still run a business, paying yourself a handsome salary and making a good living for yourself, without ever running a business profit year
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by jellicle 10y ago
The IRS is not stupid, but their budget gets cut every year and at this point they are nearly completely ineffective as a tax-compliance organization, lacking the manpower for any sort of real enforcement.
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by jellicle 10y ago
The loophole allows self-dealing transactions to move local profits offshore. Apple US buys iPods for $10 from China and sells in USA for $100. $90 profit, taxable, right? Wrong. Apple US licenses the Apple name from Apple Ireland for $8
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by jellicle 10y ago
Here you go: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Clausing2012.pdf "At the end of the searching, I find some evidence that suggests that corporate taxation may lower wages, but the preponderance of evidence does n
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by jellicle 10y ago
Money that a corporation spends on hiring, buying new equipment or anything like that is completely tax deductible and always has been. Not a cent of corporate income tax has ever been paid on such things, and reducing the corporate tax ra
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by jellicle 10y ago
> Climate change takes quite a long time It really doesn't, when you have 7 billion people working hard to make the climate change as quickly as they can, and unfortunately we've already spent half a century knowing about the p
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by jellicle 10y ago
Products sell for what the customer will pay, no less, no more. Studies show that taxes tend to come out of the owner's share - they're paid by the owners of the business. If people are paying $1 for hamburgers today, and the own
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by jellicle 10y ago
Your tax knowledge needs a lot of work. The point of Apple's tax evasion strategies is that despite selling a lot of product in the USA, Apple's paperwork shows very little profit in the USA and therefore pays no taxes. Apple has
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by jellicle 10y ago
Alternately, just crack down on Apple's tax evasion.

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