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721.
by mtgx 8y ago
VAT is a consumer tax not a corporate tax. VAT is always considered only after the company has considered all costs and profit for its business.
722.
by mtgx 8y ago
They should be taxed based on revenues they make from their users in UK. Loopholes such as shell companies and such should be well considered, too. I know revenue tax is far from ideal but it's also way more practical than profit taxat
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by mtgx 8y ago
It's also similar to how LDL cholesterol starts plugging damaged arteries and most blame it for heart disease.
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by mtgx 8y ago
I imagine Windows Defender has been and will continue to be (even after this) nation state intelligence agencies' #1 way to get into users' Windows PCs. I for one haven't trusted Windows Defender in a while, both because I do
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by mtgx 8y ago
If we're really looking to start from scratch with a modern protocol and break compatibility then HTTP v3 should be something like http://noiseprotocol.org instead. I assume the QUIC protocol also comes with some "happ
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by mtgx 8y ago
These back and forth accusations could stop if they actually implemented automatic (random) audits, so that all elections would be verified, without anyone first having to "call" an election stolen first, before the audit would
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by mtgx 8y ago
And didn't they promise the Cybersecurity Act of 2016 would help them - oh so much - in stopping these attacks and that it "was not another surveillance bill in disguise" ?
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by mtgx 8y ago
> A study from the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at New York's Mount Sinai hospital found that from 1997 to 2008, peanut allergies tripled from 1-in-250 children to 1-in-70. Someone who has more knowledge in biology correct me if I&#
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by mtgx 8y ago
Because 30% tax off a $1,500 a month salary is a lot worse for your chances of survival/living a decent life vs if you had a salary/income of $15,000+ a month.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Turning into? That's assuming Google didn't intend it to be that by design .
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by mtgx 8y ago
I remember when Nokia used the same defense against apple in 2007.
732.
by mtgx 8y ago
It's about power and the abuse of that power. It's probably thrilling to them, and this provides plenty of opportunities "right in front of them", instead of say traveling the world to find similar experiences.
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by mtgx 8y ago
This guy had dubious ethics right from the start by offering most users a free version with weak encryption just so they can pay for the premium version. The export control excuse is bogus as by then DJB had already won the lawsuit against
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by mtgx 8y ago
What do Spotify rates have to do with anything? Most YouTube users are not paid subscribers, or anywhere close.
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by mtgx 8y ago
They're trying to repeat that in the automotive industry, as well as IoT. It's why most automakers have been resistant to adopting Waymo software.
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by mtgx 8y ago
It would help if they decoupled the so-called "end-to-end encrypted" iMessage from automatic backups to centralized iCloud servers to which all governments have access.
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by mtgx 8y ago
The better question is - why are so many in such a hurry to defend billionaires?
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by mtgx 8y ago
First thought: "frictionless authentication" sounds scary. It usually translates to "less secure authentication." Second thought: "Why would the banks agree so easily to take on the liability for 3D secure V2? >
739.
by mtgx 8y ago
That was entirely Samsung's fault, made worse by the fact that Samsung didn't allow customers to change the batteries in its phones.
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by mtgx 8y ago
> They may miss a deadline, maybe two They've missed like at least 3 already. 10nm was supposed to be ready in the second half of 2015. Now their most optimistic schedule is late 2019.
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by mtgx 8y ago
The USA isn't democratic. And no, I don't mean it's a "Republic" either. It's a corrupt system that no longer works as originally intended.
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by mtgx 8y ago
> killed 6,000 civilians I assume those are the official numbers. But remember the U.S. doesn't count any male it kills with drone strikes that is over 16 years old as a civilian. The real number is probably at least an order of mag
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by mtgx 8y ago
You have no idea what journalism represents if you think a report on something like that should be qualified as "irresponsible." Daniel Ellsberg leaked such "major classified information" (the Pentagon Papers) about the
744.
by mtgx 8y ago
Still waiting for WashPost to disclose their owner's deals with the CIA whenever it publishes a post about the CIA...
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by mtgx 8y ago
I've always criticized Tesla for the decision to add the hardware to every car, even before we knew they can't seem capable of producing a $35,000 model right now or before we knew how far away we still are from safe full autono
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by mtgx 8y ago
This will hurt OEMs in the short-term, but it will also incentivize them to get together and adopt some alternative solution, thus escaping Google's rule.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Or maybe just a climate thing? I find I want to talk much less when my face is freezing. In the long term I imagine this could have easily turned into a habit/cultural thing. You also hear about Latin American people being much &quot
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by mtgx 8y ago
Fixing the climate change problem should have always involved systemic solutions - i.e. bans on diesel vehicles, high carbon prices, etc, not stuff like "use less water in your home." But since most governments are corrupt/
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by mtgx 8y ago
Ideally it would be a completely interoperable system/protocol - so nothing like say Paypal or Google Contributor that competitors would resist adopting anyways. Plus, the adoption from a single provider for payment services wouldn&#x2
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by mtgx 8y ago
We only know it affects Intel's fast and loose architecture so far.

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