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by ptaipale 9y ago
In Sweden, the deduction is more limited; a deduction of 30 % of interest up until 100 000 SEK, and 21 % over that amount. As nominal marginal tax rates are somewhere in the 40-50 % range, this typically means <15 % actual reduction in t
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Or more accurately, you cannot avoid paying for it (as it is collected in employment taxes). The employer has to pay 4,35 % as sjukförsäkringsavgift , as well as other payroll taxes that total 31,42 % of nominal salary (2017). https:&#x2F
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by ptaipale 9y ago
For me, the thought I spare is "good riddance". Yes, heartless, but when daesh kills its dedicated own, I'm not shedding much tears. What I care about is stopping it from killing and enslaving others.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Class is much more than income (or wealth), and enforcing income equality won't get rid of classes.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> It is not OK if the only presence they have is a mailbox and the actual act of operation is done somewhere else. As I said, the very point of EU (free movement of goods and capital) is that it is perfectly OK to have just a mailbox pre
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yes. People who disapprove "tax avoidance" or "tax optimization" should reflect on the idea a few years back: High-earning professionals like medical doctors in a North European country had a very high marginal tax rate
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Most of the criticism (of Nike and Apple, for instance) isn't for breaking even the spirit of the law. Most often the companies are acting precisely as the law is intended to work, and criticism is based on a misunderstanding of what i
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by ptaipale 9y ago
There was a FCC regulation limiting the transmission power sent on the line; this regulation did not exist elsewhere. It limited the speed to 53.3 kbit/s.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
On the other hand, isn't quite a lot of the code in Linux kernel for the same thing, handling hardware complexity?
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by ptaipale 9y ago
However, strong consumer protection rights generally only protect consumers. Professionals writing commercial software and working for a company are not consumers. (At least this is how it works at the neighbour, Finland, and I think it is
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by ptaipale 9y ago
This changed long (10-15 years) ago. When I (resident in Finland) buy stuff from web shops in Germany, I pay tax at the higher Finnish rates, and it is withheld by the seller. (When I buy from e.g. China, I pay VAT at the customs, including
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Google has plenty of non-VAT-collecting consumers as customers. For instance, anyone who purchases apps or makes in-app purchases.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> VAT is a tax paid by the "last" link in the chain, the user, not by the supplier. Not quite. As Wikipedia puts it, VAT is collected incrementally, based on the surplus value, added to the price on the work at each stage of pr
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by ptaipale 9y ago
What? In EU, Google is taxed for each ad income, as well as app sales, based on the country of where the sale takes place. It's called Value Added Tax. Countries can set the rate. Mostly the rates are in the order of 20 %.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I think it is not massively disingenuous to use the newest data available. I did not find much better figures for 2015 or 2016. Another source suggests that Ireland has been net contributor since 2013 and continued so in 2015. http:/&
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Agree with this - cheap Android phones are what they are, but mid-range hardware is astonishing and if you don't install clutter, you don't get clutter. (I even remove/disable any Facebook clients etc, only use Chrome to acce
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The difference in construction cost may be not very significant compared to the rework cost needed to fix houses that have problems due to structures and arrangements that turn out to not work quite as intended.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
All of EU, but in my opinion it's mostly a scam. Companies that perform this certification lobbied to make it mandatory whenever selling a house. However, the certificate does not tell you the real energy consumption. The calculation i
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by ptaipale 9y ago
And anyway, fighting is not where the injuries happen. Ugly tackles to the head are the bad thing.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Perfectly valid point. It's not a technical limitation that "normal" recordings are spoiled by compression, but it's a commercial limitation (or whatever you call it) that has a very real impact. You cannot buy good reco
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I disagree who is playing a word game here. When I read "stop alienating conservatives" with the explanation that they should not "need to stay in the closet to avoid open hostility", I read that as saying that people sh
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I don't find that call for discrimination in the text. Are we reading the same document? When I read it, he mentions conservatives only in the section "Suggestions / Stop alienating conservatives" where he says: In high
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by ptaipale 9y ago
> In his tl;dr he said hiring more women would be bad for business. He did not. The TL;DR said: ● Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I think you don't understand it correctly, and I wonder how you can interpret it that way. I read the point that being "professional" is also about being able to do good programming work and take responsibility for what you d
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yes, that "they think cars are just big harmless animals" is of course what everyone says. But still I somehow felt it wasn't right.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
You are right of course, a safari is not that expensive once you have traveled to the place. I myself was 3 weeks ago on a one-day trip from Johannesburg to Pilanesberg. The cost was USD 250 for a trip for two people, with pick-up from hote
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Safaris are a great experience, but if everyone starts doing them, there are certainly some ecological problems. It needs to remain the fun for the few rich and privileged.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
No,the "anti-fascist" movement has other uniting purposes. For instance, opposing capitalism or market economy. There was nothing fascist, neo-fascist or racist about the G20 meeting in Hamburg. The black-clad antifas still attack
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The G20 riots had absolutely no element of "violence in defense". Same applies to many cases. I find it obscure how people go on justifying violence when it just happens to feel good with the political agenda.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
To me, antifa looks very much like a violence-dependent ideology.

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