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by m12k 6y ago
It's hard to tell, since that data isn't publicly available. But I read this article, which makes the case that this is often the case, and that marketing departments are willfully ignoring this, because it's in their interes
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by m12k 6y ago
One of the problems with ads is that they try to jump in front of me while I'm going about my business trying to do something else - it's the wrong time for a product recommendation in any case. I'm happy to go on sites like
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by m12k 6y ago
Yeah, calling it the most popular requires defining popular in a rather unconventional manner... That said, as a data point, a handful of years ago I saw a report that the average iOS user generally had a quite a bit more purchasing power t
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by m12k 6y ago
No, I'd say it boils down to ads being a bad way to discover products you are interested in. I love sites like thewirecutter or similar for getting actual recommendations, when I want to seek something out. Randomly getting products re
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by m12k 6y ago
If personalized ads meant ads that were actually good recommendations for products I could be interested in and would be grateful to be informed about the existence of - maybe. The reality of it is that personalized ads are mostly just ads
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by m12k 6y ago
I mean, the whole world is becoming increasingly 'top heavy', with economic growth going primarily to those who own stock. Just owning successful companies isn't more difficult than pumping money out of the ground - neither r
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by m12k 6y ago
Yay, maybe the West can stop invading countries and propping up dictators once there's no valuable natural resources there. I just read that back, and I really wish I was kidding.
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by m12k 6y ago
The problem is exactly taxes and tax laws. These founders live in a society where if you structure your company one way, you pay 21% in corporate tax, and if you structure it another way you pay 0%, and both are legal - which one do you thi
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by m12k 6y ago
You know what - I agree, the tone here on HN is important to me, and I'll try to do better in the future. In my defense, the comment I was replying to had linked to a bad-faith site claiming the tax rate of the wealthy in the US has no
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by m12k 6y ago
If we fixed profit shifting, then the French bureaucrat could set a tax rate, and the US capitalist would be free to choose whether they wanted their company to do business in France, and thus the market would eventually find some equilibri
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by m12k 6y ago
How about 12.5% like all other Irish companies, not 0.005% like they managed to fiddle it down to?
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by m12k 6y ago
> Is it a race to the bottom though? It's a race to the bottom as soon as any of those other countries undercut your tax rate to try to steal the MNCs back. Most countries realize that isn't sustainable, so for now it hasn&#x27
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by m12k 6y ago
I agree that countries should be free to set their corporate tax rate to whatever they want to attract investment. But corporations should not be able to just shift their profits to any country, but sadly, using loopholes in international t
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by m12k 6y ago
The problem is that the current system for international taxation of trade among daughter companies was devised during a time when international trade consisted of things like bars of steel, for which there is a well-defined daily market pr
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by m12k 6y ago
I don't think anyone's really tried to solve this yet - can you reference any actual attempts? Also, if we need to fix a problem where companies are exploiting their access to a common resource (the purchasing power of the middle
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by m12k 6y ago
Unless we want international trade to be a one-way process that slowly drains the middle class dry, and triggers the next recession when demand drops to zero, then it is probably better to make sure that whenever a company makes money by se
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by m12k 6y ago
The danger of inequality is not something new, and the problem isn't that someone is super-rich, the problem is that median purchasing power is going down, because economic growth is not going into the hands of the lower and middle cla
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by m12k 6y ago
A quote from that World Happiness Report you just linked to: "Happiness has fallen in America The USA is a story of reduced happiness. In 2007 the USA ranked 3rd among the OECD countries; in 2016 it came 19th. The reasons are declining
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by m12k 6y ago
> The US had also emerged as pretty much the only unbombed industrial country after a global war, giving it a significant advantage Ding-ding-ding - you hit the nail on the head! The US' competitive advantage and special position in
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by m12k 6y ago
The US experienced massive growth in the 50s and 60s while having very high tax rates. The US, until recently had a higher corporate tax rate than many European country - the latest US tax cuts brought it down to the same 21% that my native
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by m12k 6y ago
Transfer pricing and tax havens are draining money out of the economies of most European countries, breaking the virtuous cycle where consumer spending also leads to salaries, taxes and more investment in the community, to keep the economy
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by m12k 6y ago
I think this should be looked at similarly to e-readers that came before Kindle or smartphones from before the iPhone. It's not 'there' yet, but it shows the directions things can go, and can help pave the way toward somethin
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by m12k 6y ago
No, the aristocracy didn't own the land before it was enclosed - the land used to just be commonly owned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
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by m12k 6y ago
> Trudeau did not specify the products to be banned, but said likely candidates include plastic bags, straws, cutlery, plates and stir sticks “where supported by scientific evidence and warranted.” I don't think legitimate medical u
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by m12k 6y ago
Does anyone know if Microsoft has (or is working on) something similar to Apple's Rosetta emulation system? It seems to me this is the critical component that allows a transition to ARM to actually go forward without having to wait for
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by m12k 6y ago
I'm currently reading The Divide by Jason Hickel, a book that explores the origin and causes of global inequality. This article reminded me of the book's chapter about the enclosure movement in Britain: Families used to just farm
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by m12k 6y ago
I disagree with the notion that making your code testable in isolation serves no other purpose than to write unit tests. It very specifically forces you to think about how and why each piece of code is coupled with other code, and generally
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by m12k 6y ago
I'm curious to hear what you mean when you say the entire market works in cooperation? I mean, strategic partnerships happen, and companies work as suppliers for other companies. But that's not the market - the market is where som
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by m12k 6y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. In economics, the value of competition is well understood and widely lauded, but the power of cooperation seems to be valued much less - cooperation simply doesn't seem as fashionable. B
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TL;DR First a performance bug was caught during rollout, and rolled back within a few minutes. However this triggered their auto-scaling of web apps to ramp up to more instances than a hard limit they had. This in turn triggered a bug in ho

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