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by retube 10y ago
Horses were good at one thing: dragging stuff around. Humans are a bit more adaptable.
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by retube 10y ago
I dunno. But what happened to all the people that used to till the fields until tractors and combine harvesters came along? Thousands, literally thousands of professions have been made redundant by mechanisation and automation over the last
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by retube 10y ago
A lot of people quote this as the best place to start, but I'd like to respectfully disagree. I don't have a concise alternative, but I found that paper pretty much incomprehensible, and even now with a decent handle on bitcoin it
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by retube 10y ago
Britain tried something similar in the 1960s. It was a disaster. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-03-22/the-beatle...
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by retube 10y ago
As if any institution would remain in a jurisdiction that levied 90% tax.
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by retube 10y ago
The two situations and structures involved were very, very different. Cameron did not achieve any tax benefit from his investment: had the fund been UK registered his tax liabilities would have been no different. It was a simple investment
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by retube 10y ago
As someone with a lightweight acer I do exactly the same. Amazon for example literally brings my machine to a halt. Turn off JS and bam it's fast again.
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by retube 10y ago
They wanted to recover for 2 reasons: 1) Speed up post-death admin (insurance etc) 2) Unblock the route for future use, they did not want to see the system closed.
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by retube 10y ago
Legacy site/infrastructure that hasn't (or can't) be upgraded?
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by retube 10y ago
> but the blockchain isn't dependent on a gatekeeper Apart from a tiny group of devs and mining pools engaged in non-stop bickering and infighting
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by retube 10y ago
Yes but the bitcoin blockchain isn't just used for storing doc hashes
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by retube 10y ago
As a heavy excel user this is tremendous. I've always wanted to be able to run SQL queries against a Range. However: from much experience working in gigantic firms where Excel forms the core of a like a gazillion work flows and is the
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by retube 10y ago
> It might be a little error, but lack of understanding of deep technical issues lead directly to specious statements that bitcoin and the blockchain are going to solve world poverty, privacy, fix the economy and neuter the surveillance
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by retube 11y ago
Would you trust a code reviewer who had never written a line of code or deployed an app?
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by retube 11y ago
Is it fraud though? Repo 105 (and 108) were perfectly legitimate financing transactions and their reporting adhered to the relevant accounting standards. Yes they were done to lower the firm's reported leverage, but again this computat
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by retube 11y ago
Why do you consider a house "non-productive"? If you want to test how non-productive a house is I suggest trying to make do without one.
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by retube 11y ago
Given that GMG never make a profit I'd be interested in where that 29.4% came from. To my knowledge they pay very little tax as they're loss making. That aside they make well documented use of tax havens which per their rhetoric i
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by retube 11y ago
It's poorly elucidated in the article: "The aim of the Cabinet Office edict was to stop NGOs from lobbying politicians and Whitehall departments using the government’s own funds. " The idea is to stop organisations, specifica
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by retube 11y ago
Goddam these people trying to earn money for their hard work!
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by retube 11y ago
> If anything I think it's the sort of process that benefits majority of population while extracting a cost on a minority. If we look at total effect, it's certainly net positive. Absolutely. Otherwise we'd all be still li
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by retube 11y ago
Actually growth of BTL is not the reason for increasing house prices - although it is a result of the actual cause - low interest rates - which has meant that both buy-to-live and buy-to-let have been able to borrow ever great sums for the
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by retube 11y ago
What I want to know is where are the University leaders in all this? the board of guverners or exec committee or whoever who should speak up and tell these pathetic, entitled little shits to grow the fuck up and learn to deal with people wi
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by retube 11y ago
> I pay a far higher percentage of my income as tax to the society I live in than the people in the panama papers. Well you absolutely don't know that. And whilst no doubt some people _are_ avoiding tax, many are not. And btw overal
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by retube 11y ago
I disagree. A lot of people railing against the so called 1% are in fact 1% themselves on a global basis (e.g much of the Guardian readership). They tend to be very keen for people richer than themselves to share their wealth, but despite i
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by retube 11y ago
That defines a 1%er in the UK . On a global basis a much, much more modest income will put you in the 1%.
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by retube 11y ago
> Currently Google Chrome is giving a malware warning just because you have an .exe So how should one make available for download windows executables?
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by retube 11y ago
Has he actually done anything illegal? Avoidance is legal. Evasion is not.
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Virgin to partner with Boom in building new supersonic passenger jet(theguardian.com)
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by retube 11y ago
Yeah but who's gonna crew a tanker of highly irradiated water?
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by retube 11y ago
The FBI's position seems entirely defensible. The phone data may yield important information - accomplices, contacts etc. It also seems pretty disingenuous/hypocritical for Apple to plead "customer privacy" when the ENIT

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