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by nearbuy 5y ago
To start with, how do you figure out how much profit this completely Australian company made in France? It's not their revenue from France, and all their expenses are in Australia. Does the company calculate expenses according to Austr
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It's fair that you don't pay tax when don't make a profit after taking depreciation into account. Depreciation isn't a cheat code that lets you avoid tax on profit. If you depreciate the building more than its actual mar
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean here. You can't write off a mortgage. You could write off interest, but not the value of the mortgage. Real estate tends to appreciate in value, especially in cities. The company would have to get unluck
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I get a tax rebate for rent. Maybe it depends where you live. For a house, your net worth hasn't decreased by the cost of the house. A company wouldn't be able to deduct that. They can deduct for assets that depreciate.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
So if you had a completely Australian company selling stuff online, they'd be subject to US corporate tax for profit earned from American customers, French tax for customers from France, etc? This seems complicated because unlike sales
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Yeah, Arrival fits well and I enjoyed it. There are a number of lower budget films you could add to that list like Primer, Moon (2009), or Gattaca. Ex Machina is sci-fi + drama. I'm sure there's plenty more. There's just a te
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I think the author is saying that if there's no variance (e.g. all schools have 10 students), then our school is as big as all the other schools, and as you increase the variance, the odds of you being in a larger than average school i
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by nearbuy 5y ago
The author of the article makes some assumption about the distribution of alien animal sizes to come up with their estimate. But they use loose bounds, saying intelligent life can probably vary in size at least as much as the great apes (50
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That corollary is known as the Doomsday Argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument
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> For instance: "you are more likely to have attended a school with more pupils than most other schools" Isn't this statement still true in your example? (Assuming some small variance among the small schools just so it&#x2
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Incidentally, France is a pretty high population country. It's ranked 22 out of 195 in population. If you chose Iceland and used this logic to conclude you're in a high pop country, you'd be wrong. But of course, most people
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I see the similarities for Klingons and Borg, but I don't see much similarity between Vulcans and elves beyond the pointy ears. Vulcans are more like androids: logical and outwardly emotionless, but not necessarily wise. The human capt
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Any fantasy movie in a futuristic setting (even one that's technically in the past, like Star Wars) would be widely considered science fiction. Granted, that is a common definition of science fiction. But science fiction can also be so
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The book shows Joe having a crush on Wendy and Wendy likes Joe. We can theorize they were married and Pat undid their marriage. That just makes Pat's behaviour even weirder. Either way, Pat (described as "obviously no more than se
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Yeah, I think adults bully too under the right conditions, but we don't often call it that. Instead, we call the same behaviours harassment, abuse, or assault. Perhaps the worst bullying involves many people ganging up on a victim. You
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by nearbuy 5y ago
Yeah, Pat's powers were incredible. Just as a casual demonstration, she altered the past so that she had been married to the protagonist for a year, and made it so Runciter's Associates had lost a major contract. Then, at Runciter
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by nearbuy 5y ago
The scene with Pat is early in the book, when she is first introduced, before they're in a dream world (half-life). Of course, Pat's power lets her change reality (in the real world). Still, I think creating (imo) poorly written c
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I was disappointed with Ubik. (Some spoilers ahead.) I was excited to read it after seeing a humorous excerpt of the protagonist arguing with his front door, trying to convince it to open. As you said, the book is bizarre. The central premi
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by nearbuy 5y ago
It's not surprising the nuclear power with the largest military in the world could have won against half of a smaller and much poorer country under the right circumstances.
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I am a minority hated by the KKK (more than one, actually). The condition I specified, "if they aren't causing problems at work" is important. If they come in wearing a KKK t-shirt or espousing racist views at work, of course
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by nearbuy 5y ago
> tolerance is the price of principles, and they're only principles when they are hard to keep. I like this line. I might steal it.
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by nearbuy 5y ago
> But what if the employee had been in the KKK, and had argued for white supremacy, and that other races were lazy and poor workers? Would you still think an employer would be out of bounds for firing that employee? I'm going to go
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by nearbuy 5y ago
I completely agree. There's an additional aspect, though. Voters will vote against new restrictions for themselves, but will vote to keep existing restrictions that have been around a long time. A fun example (quoted from https:/
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The U.S. did ban alcohol once. It didn't go over well.
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> Signal itself has no knowledge of which files constitute evidence (it applies this completely indiscriminately), so I don't think you could argue that it is knowingly spoiling evidence. The article, written by a legal scholar with
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You're still going to have a very hard time convincing the jury that Signal booby trapped your phone to download child porn at random from the dark web. Law enforcement doesn't confiscate and use Cellebrite on phones at random. If
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Cellebrite, the company, wouldn't be the one getting hacked. It's the police agencies' equipment that could potentially get hacked.
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What type of evidence are you thinking of? If they found something like child sex abuse material, or chat logs with gang members about trafficking drugs, how would the defense attorney convince you Signal might have planted that?
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by nearbuy 5y ago
You're not supposed to sympathize with Cellebrite, according to the article. > If you work at Cellebrite, on the other hand: get down off your high horse, stop it with the “we’re the good guys” shtick, quit selling to authoritarian
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Isn't it kind of a given that the copyright industry supports pro-copyright legislation? > That there is "only" $4 million/year doesn't show that Disney has a small effect, but rather how unbelievably cheap it is

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