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by shaqbert 10y ago
Agreed. Vanderbild, Rockefeller, Morgan, and all the other robber barrons went Scot free. So will Zuck, Larry, Sergey.
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Mark my words: Just as the robber barons a century ago has lead to antitrust law, today's "data" robber baron tech giants will lead us to data competitive law 15 years from now.
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by shaqbert 10y ago
The gist: have your content folks work with a CMS, while having your devs work with an API. So that the content folks don't mess up the email templates.
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by shaqbert 10y ago
"Post Apple, Ireland's new tax structures are the most competitive in the world.... For more information call Ireland's Embassies." Yupp, that is an official site advertising the virtues of Ireland the tax haven. (1) Ge
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Ireland has now helped financial institutions save €20B in taxes(taxinireland.com)
1 points by shaqbert 10y ago|1 comments
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Oh, that makes me quite sentimental. All the time I wasted on Google Earth exploring lonely islands, Antarctica, and Kamchatka volcanoes... Panoramio, you will be missed.
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Settlements are there to reduce the workload of an underfunded legal system that is incapable of coming to terms with the byzantine amount of federal and state regulation. I wish the judge would prevent a settlement here and have the case t
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Yes, you are right, Apple does not use the Caribbean tax shell company shenanigans most other tech giants using the double Irish do. But why bother, when Ireland gives you the sweetheart deal even BETTER than what the Caribbean tax cheats h
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by shaqbert 10y ago
You got this wrong. My point is to not allow to sell IP from the US Inc to the British Virgin Island subsidiary Ltd for a handful of dollars, and deprive the US taxman of billions of earnings. That "ground breaking product" was de
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by shaqbert 10y ago
"those already engaging in the scheme have a five year window to wind down." The correct way of saying this is by 2020 the loophole will be gone for real. Happy tax saving in the interim...
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by shaqbert 10y ago
"A company’s profits should be taxed in the country where the value is created." "In Apple’s case, nearly all of our research and development takes place in California, so the vast majority of our profits are taxed in the Uni
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by shaqbert 10y ago
The US tax code is a huge mess, agreed. But you gotta pay your dues (aka taxes) somewhere, and here Apple et al goes essentially Scot free. That is not cool.
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by shaqbert 10y ago
How to counter this: Just regulated the transfer of IP rights. If you sell say a patent portfolio for $50m to your British Virgin Island subsidiary, and then make $20bn in profits in the decade thereafter on that BVI sub, it appears the IP
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by shaqbert 10y ago
What Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and most other big US company do is the so called "double Irish"[1]. Essentially is a clever way of using two quirks of some EU countries loopholes in tax laws, from treating IP licensing fee
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by shaqbert 10y ago
How can Squarespace even exist in a world that Wordpress supposedly had won? The answer is by winning over the average Joe, who is not a developer or webmaster. I don't get how wordpress.com never became something more attuned to the n
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by shaqbert 10y ago
What asset does Jet have that it is worth anything close to $3bn? Loyal users? Nope. Their version of "prime" is the proverbial pig in a poke, as you need to buy that one before you can actually figure out if you like to become a
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by shaqbert 10y ago
23andMe biz model in a nutshell: - you give us your DNA (spit) and consent to do whatever we goddamn like with your DNA - we give you some dozen of mostly uninteresting genetic marker worth of analysis (wet earwax anyone?) With genetic fil
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by shaqbert 10y ago
With heavy regulation in Germany preventing a true Uber like model, MyTaxi has become nothing but a more convenient cab hotline that is powered by an app. Not much going on in terms of innovation or user acquisition. Seems reasonable to red
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by shaqbert 10y ago
In a nutshell: "You artist are not famous enough, so we, big co, are okay to blatantly rip your designs off"...
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Fashion hacking or how the biggest fasion company screws indy designers(thefashionlaw.com)
1 points by shaqbert 10y ago|2 comments
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by shaqbert 10y ago
The thing with the dream of fusion power is how truly far out it still is, and how thousands of engineering challenges will have to be tackled. The neutron challenge: Fusion creates A LOT of neutrons bombarding the vessel - that is also why
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by shaqbert 10y ago
No, King was trading at super low multiples. Like steel mills that are about to go bust. My point is that King is a MUCH better business that a steal mill about to go bust, so financial markets were dead wrong.
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by shaqbert 10y ago
In the meantime, some smart scientist notice that the exhaust from fracking is pretty poisonous and sometimes even radioactive... (lots of fracking wells release more radioactivity than highly regulated nuclear power plants). Thank god the
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by shaqbert 10y ago
1- GM, Ford, Chrysler lobby congress to enact the strictest NOX limits in the world. While at the same time having lenient limits on other exhaust fumes killing thousands of people every year, so that we can continue our gas guzzling SUV an
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Typical case for botched leadership transition. Arora held executive positions at Google, Deutsche Telecom, and in a fund mgmt group, is the poster boy of a leader Softbank could wish for. Don't think he would have come over without a
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Tencent benefits from insane price-earnings multiple inflation in China. By buying a profit-rich gaming company, they can play the multiple game, and lower their P/E multiple in China, thus looking "cheap". In general, gaming
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by shaqbert 10y ago
And what the author handily omits: Since the Thorium fuel cycle is based around transmuting Thorium into U-233, which is fissionable, Thorium reactors can be a less complicated that Uranium enrichment pathway to the bomb. True, not the one
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Parents always worry. Big surprise...
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by shaqbert 10y ago
- 11.8x 2015 sales - Company was growing around 50%/ year - With -18% opinc margin - Customer base mostly mid tier and less savy ecommerce customers, read: future Amazon victims => Extremely steep price
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Hydrogen fuel is indeed really difficult to manage. The Hindenburg accident come to mind, or the weight problems of fuel cell cars...

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