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by rprasad 15y ago
It wouldn't be very interesting, since this sort of stuff happens to hotels all the time. Really, the only suprising thing about the incident is that Airbnb got to 2 million stays without something like this becoming publicly known. Hotels
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by rprasad 15y ago
The purchaser has always been responsible for the sales tax. However, in America, almost all taxing jurisdictions implement a withholding charge on the merchant, so that the merchant collects the sales tax owed by the purchaser on the purc
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by rprasad 15y ago
That actually is how we tax international income. The issue is that nation-level taxes are in the double-digit ranges (i.e., 35% or above), so crediting foreign income taxes against US income taxes still results in a 35% (base) rate. Indeed
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by rprasad 15y ago
His statement is legally accurate. When you engage in a trade transaction (as opposed to cash), the "income" from the transaction is the fair market value of the items/assets/property exchanged, at the time of the exchange. The problem is t
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by rprasad 15y ago
Windows does have a password keychain (and has since XP), but AFAIK the only programs that use it are Microsoft programs. Internet Explorer uses the Windows keychain to store saved passwords.
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by rprasad 15y ago
All that you would accomplish by suing in state court is to waste a few thousand dollars securing an uncollectable judgment that neither the federal courts nor the Japanese courts will enforce. If Mt. Gox doesn't have the minimal contacts (
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by rprasad 15y ago
In the real world, patent trolls are an insignificant minority of patent holders. Patents are either left fallow (b/c the invention has no practical commercial use), or licensed out. The easiest way to "figure out a way through all of the
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by rprasad 15y ago
The taxation of non-cash income has been a settled issue for decades (in the US). They would tax Bitcoin receipts the same way they tax service-for-service or service-for-property exchanges. The government will calculate the fair market va
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by rprasad 15y ago
Short answer: Amazon does not own your apps . Long answer: Amazon does have a right to continue selling/distributing any apps you have provided to it for the duration of the "Term". So, this all depends on how the "Term" is defined in the
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by rprasad 15y ago
Which still brings us back to the fundamental flaw of bitcoin: it is a fiat currency without a fiat. If bitcoin transactions are only trustworthy in jurisdictions with laws governing such transactions (i.e., none), it is safer and more conv
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by rprasad 15y ago
None of that is required to be anticompetitive. There is only one fundamental requirement: that the company's actions be anti-competitive. It is not necessary for the company to have a monopoly or even a majority share of a market (though
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by rprasad 15y ago
The WSJ article gives a basic, but slanted description of how it works. Briefly: income earned by overseas subsidiaries is not taxable to the American corporate parent until those overseas earnings are sent back to America via a dividend.
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by rprasad 15y ago
Because you might pay more to get or rent your own copy of the movie? That's the primary logic behind BMI's stance.
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by rprasad 15y ago
It is a public performance, which is within your rights to control as the copyright owner....unless you assigned copyright to BMI.
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by rprasad 15y ago
The easiest hack: just clear your browser cache when you close your browser. I've read way more than 20 articles in the past 2 days, all of them accessed from the NYT homepage itself. Whatever it is that they're "doing", it clearly can't
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by rprasad 15y ago
Manuscripts come filled with errors, and it takes a lot of time to find all of them and correct them. Errors include punctuation, spelling, grammar, word choice and even style. It's not just something you can leave to a speedreader or a com
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by rprasad 15y ago
Whoops. You're right about the second extension. The law itself (Sec 1202) was not extended, but other code sections that interplay with 1202 extended (and expanded) the scope of 1202. That's what I get for commenting after midnight...
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by rprasad 15y ago
I've never heard of either the quote or the underlying case (might not be an American case?), but code is speech. A law directly solely at the code or content of a game would be struck down by the (US) courts. And indeed, nearly every (US
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by rprasad 16y ago
Ah, the EFF. Self-proclaimed defender of copyright, yet completely clueless when it comes to contractural rights... The post refers to a non-disclosure agreement, not a copyright assignment. The whole point of the business model referred
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by rprasad 16y ago
There's always the world's oldest profession. Or in seriousness, find a startup in the area and intern with them for the summer. With that under your belt, you''ll find a paying job by the time the fall semester starts. Alternatively, writ
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by rprasad 16y ago
Two different issues. The sale of a company is a taxable event to the owner(s) , not the company. It does not matter where the company is located, it matters where the owner is located. That's why Arrington moved to another state while he
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by rprasad 16y ago
I've got bad news for you: that tax program expired in January. It was only a temporary extension to a small business incentive program that ran from 2009-2010. The law still exists, but the tax benefits are significantly reduced, and it o
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by rprasad 16y ago
He committed the crime,and was successfully prosecuted for it. The personal favor was not the arrest, it was assigning an agent or two to investigate the case. This is not much different from asking your cop friend to give a ticket to your
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by rprasad 16y ago
Counterfeiting, mostly. The coins he made looked like normal US coins, except that the presidents were swapped out for Ron Paul or other anti-establishment figures.
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by rprasad 16y ago
Alternative currencies are fine, as long as they are not being represented as US currency. Most of the private currencies, including casino chips, are merely tokens of private contracts between the holder and the issuer. The issue with alt
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by rprasad 16y ago
The Federal Reserve does not print US dollars, nor does it have the right or power. The US Mint and the Bureau of Engraving (both part of the Deptartment of the Treasury) produce coinage and print dollars at the advice and counsel of the
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by rprasad 16y ago
Actually, the article specifically refers to the gift buy-back tax shelter which was prevalent before the 1986 tax code. In the most common form of the gift buy-back, a donor would gift restricted stock or ownership interests to a charity.
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by rprasad 16y ago
Not an invalid DMCA request, even assuming one was sent out. Copyright applies to original and derivative works, though multiple parties may own copyrights to a derivative work. In America, derivative works include software programs which
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by rprasad 16y ago
It's illegal only if it was intentional. A mistakenly sent DMCA request is okay, as long as the sender follows up with a disregard notice.
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by rprasad 16y ago
It is not a legal bar, it's simply considered safe corporate HR practice to automatically delete any resumes with picture attachments before they are viewed so that the pictures cannot possibly form the justiifcation for an employment di

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