stealthmodeclan

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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
Yes. And they do in countries which charge VAT. They should arguably be taxed on the profits they make in the territories they sell in, but that is much harder to do in practice without international cooperation. GP mentioned the Corporat
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
Which also explains why there isn't much of a "startup culture" in Europe. Europe doesn't reward winners. So Europeans move to the US for their startups. Do you know Europe is the largest buyer of the US securities? Th
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
If they can’t act in the larger national interest on a few of these occasions then they won’t have a population to sell to. Apple sells globally, should Apple also pay for the welfare of the countries where it sells its product? The corp
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
One of my friends who is a successful entrepreneur (bootstrapped, high double digit million yearly revenue) now recals that he never managed to find a job because he looks arogant. He also lacks apathy. (I think it's some medical condi
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
This is probably the reason why most valuable employees are transferred to Switzerland or United States or why big companies choose to develop IP in the US. Stealing your employer's trade secret can trigger federal investigation. It&#x
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What tech is currently available for augmenting singing voice?
1 points by stealthmodeclan 8y ago|0 comments
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
I am curious how many of them are first generation emmigrants.
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
After massive dispute with my partners I went into depression. I started sharing my penthouse with economically challenged students. We all go on hiking, fishing etc.. together. This is helped me come out of depression and now i am starting
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
If I'm making a $1M profit on you, I'll be willing to pay you up to a high fraction of this amount if I have to. Financially, even if I pay you $950K, I'm still making money. Where does the money come for dividends, taxes,
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
The crux of your arguement is that the same returns can be derived using different set of probabilities and different kind of companies which probably won't achieve hyper growth but still are profitable and nice bet. VC constraints: 1.
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What's the permanent solution against mosquitos?
4 points by stealthmodeclan 8y ago|5 comments
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
OT: I wonder why Bloomberg is Bloomberg LP instead of Bloomberg LLC.
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
It seems like this one is one of the better banks, at least they didn't ban it as a kneejerk without using their data to support this decision.
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
Great! I always wanted a subscription management tool which let's me add bitcoin, manual payments and stripe/paypal. Surprisingly, there aren't any options for that.
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
By all means he deserves more money, no problem. But why with a lower tax rate? Labor produces guaranteed income atleast in the west. But investing capital doesn't. How else do you incentivize risk taking?
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
When i chose a programming language, here is what i look for: 1. Amount of things I've to learn to completely utilized 100% features of the language. 2. Availability of well supported packages for stuff like elastic search, stripe, pos
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
My kids love video games, I thought toys don't give them enough kick.
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
As someone who also owns such vacant properties, loses can't continue indenfinately i believe. I sold my company (had a legal battle with my partners which destroyed me emotionally and now I find it hard to trust others, naturally i am
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
Incentivize him to make money for himself? You are talking as if capital gains don't increase efficiency the company, help produce more goods and services for the people or create/eliminate useless jobs via automation. He only g
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
One thing is that since people from not so reputable university get to have very few interactions with those from elite universities, we assume elite university students are lot better at programming. Today, you can directly take a look at
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
'capital investment creates jobs' is a completely outdated concept that will never, ever return to validity. Why look at it in isolation? Here we comparing taking a job and collecting a paycheck vs investing capital. Investing c
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
I will say, as an employee myself, I don't feel like my company cares about me and how well I do as a person. So why should I care about the company and how well it does for its shareholders? When you as an individual don't feel
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
By all means he deserves more money, no problem. But why with a lower tax rate? Low tax rate can be seen as a discount from society. So, how else do we incentivize him if not by lower tax rate? And if we don't, he will just take a la
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
Why should risking time and risking money get taxed at different rates? GP gets 2% in management fees. That's a guaranteed return for his time. Then 20% of the profits.
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
1. The higher the labor tax rate, the fewer people will work If higher tax rate pays for better infra and healthcare, more people are likely to work. 2. Higher labor tax rate makes for less efficient economics because workers will prefer
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
All that can be taxed as well. At the risk of increased compliance cost?
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
I don't have problem with rich people making more money. After all capital should go to people who can best use it. Did you also create as much as value as Mitt Romney? As many jobs created? If not then i think he deserves more money,
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Why most financial calculator apps suck?
3 points by stealthmodeclan 8y ago|3 comments
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Warrent Buffet used this loophole which doesn't work in the Netherlands(valuespreadsheet.com)
3 points by stealthmodeclan 8y ago|0 comments
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by stealthmodeclan 8y ago
I rent GPUs for deep learning (with android app frontend built in Flutter) from Hetzner and OVH. Maybe that's something you can test before buying one?

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