peteretep

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by peteretep 5y ago
I don’t believe conversion from fiat in home country + transfer fees + conversion to fiat again in Chile costs less than 5-8% except for very large transfers.
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by peteretep 5y ago
Where are you importing to?! To Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia I’ve never had anything take more than 24hrs
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by peteretep 5y ago
World record night temperature is 42.6, so no, there aren’t.
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by peteretep 5y ago
What kind of monster doesn’t like fries?
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by peteretep 5y ago
Reading your comments on this thread, you seem to be interpreting the article as advice, rather than an explanation of how the rich avoid tax.
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by peteretep 5y ago
> Vetos baked into things because of the first rejection of the Nice treaty $5 imaginary internet dollars says the EU find a way around this.
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by peteretep 5y ago
Nice try Richard
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by peteretep 5y ago
I can't think of a better place to launch an attack on the US than the US's geopolitical enemies, can you?
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by peteretep 5y ago
I suspect the Russian ones are up to plenty that's "interesting", but not in a particularly positive way.
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by peteretep 5y ago
Right, except SpaceX has put humans in the ISS.
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by peteretep 5y ago
…yes? I’ve seen articles openly critical of Bezos in the WashPo and ones supportive of Amazon workers unionising.
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by peteretep 5y ago
> noöne As much as I also love the The New Yorker diaeresis, “no one” is two words, not one, so no need for one here.
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by peteretep 5y ago
An Elon / Jeff space willy-waving contest about who gets to be Space Bro Alpha seems like a net win for humanity
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by peteretep 5y ago
> except that strictly necessary to be compatible with other natural rights Sure, and that’s exactly the basis for it in most rich free countries. You’ll find some social and historic wrinkles, but there’s very little you can’t say in Ca
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by peteretep 5y ago
Right, apart from incitement to violence, words liable to cause breach of the peace, threatening speech, obscenity, defamation, invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, campaign financing, speech by government empl
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by peteretep 5y ago
> I'll continue to defend the US model. Speech should have no legal limits And honestly this is the weirdest fucking thing: there’s _plenty_ of legal limits to free speech in the US, and yet there’s this loud section of Americans wh
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by peteretep 5y ago
Singapore? Yes, obviously: Temasek and GIC own more than 60% of market cap on the Singapore Stock Exchange and 80% of people live in public housing.
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by peteretep 5y ago
Sounds like you’re advocating for removal of all laws?
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by peteretep 5y ago
Yeah, just imagine if Chinese internet users were prevented from accessing websites that exposed them to a diversity of opinions
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by peteretep 5y ago
> It's not racist in China to say the truth mmm, I have had a number of Chinese people explain to me the “truth” about people of various races over the years
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by peteretep 5y ago
America is a weird outlier in lifting worship of freedom of speech far far beyond where other rich, free countries do, so that’s not all that surprising.
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by peteretep 5y ago
Or, even better, no passwords and just sensible pki
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by peteretep 5y ago
"So is rest of the earth" ... when taken as a whole, though. Switzerland is not flat as a pancake, for example.
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by peteretep 5y ago
How is it a huge step forward? Note that no prices are denominated in Bitcoin in this arrangement.
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by peteretep 5y ago
His Wikipedia is interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Figgers For example: “Figgers also has a license spectrum band from FCC”. The citations there are a student-run uni newspaper in Ghana, and the news
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by peteretep 5y ago
Description of fixing a broken Mac > "As I was looking in it I saw capacitors that were broken. I had soldering guns there and I had radios and alarm clocks, so I took parts out of my father's radio alarm clock and I soldered t
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by peteretep 5y ago
And yet tax receipts locally will be up.
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by peteretep 5y ago
What’s the mechanism by which poor countries will get even poorer exactly here?
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by peteretep 5y ago
I think you are misinformed about the level of corp tax in most poor countries. Twenty countries have corp tax less than 15%, of which about half are poor. 15 have no corporate tax and are either rich or are just unambiguous tax havens. Ave
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by peteretep 5y ago
Short-term whining from Ireland and Hungary, big words and little action from the true tax havens, and everyone else should be pretty happy with it?

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