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by tdubhro1 10y ago
Local subsidiaries are not usually resellers, and even if they were, the parent company can set an arbitrary price, so they just say that every iPhone cost $1000 and is sold at $599 locally, so the subsidiary makes a massive loss - there ar
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by tdubhro1 10y ago
Eh, no, not quite, Apple has set up several companies in Ireland. They do some assembly and some customer support, and some sales and administration. Generally, a multinational has to set up a company domiciled in any country that they have
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by tdubhro1 10y ago
OK, let me give you a simpler example. BMW is domiciled in Germany. It builds cars there. When it exports a car to the US, it has a US subsidiary company that employs people and helps to sell the car in the US. BMW doesn't sell the car
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by tdubhro1 10y ago
US companies holding cash offshore is a separate issue. Not the same. Different. The top 50 companies now hold about $1.5 trillion offshore. This is a US tax loophole that the US govt can decide what it wants to do about it. It does not mea
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by tdubhro1 10y ago
>> They pay almost NO TAX over their profits unlike 99% of the companies, and that's the problem. What companies that are domiciled outside of the EU pay corporation tax in the EU? Corp tax is levied by the govt of the country of
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by tdubhro1 10y ago
Corporation tax is supposed to be a tax on the profits of a company levied by the government of the country that the company is domiciled in. Apple is not domiciled in the EU. It has to have subsidiaries to employ people in those countries,
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by tdubhro1 10y ago
I've been compiling some notes on exactly this topic for the past few weeks, your question prompted me to post them here: http://dubhrosa.blogspot.com/2016/07/how-to-dive-into-largec... TL;DR: don't &quo
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by tdubhro1 10y ago
Recently I decided to do something about my handwriting, and I went from barely-legible scrawls to being able to write in any of a dozen fonts in the space of a few weeks (less than an hour practice a day). If you want to fix your handwriti
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by tdubhro1 10y ago
I never click on a rollingstone link since about 2 years ago when opening the site on my android handset in the UK resulted in a malware popup that managed to charge something to my phone bill via payforit.
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by tdubhro1 11y ago
I went straight to the video and about 1 minute in I was sure it was some kind of college humor parody. I guess startups are under a lot of pressure to conform to type expectations and PR companies will make them look a certain way in these
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The dollar hedge is used throughout finance, and it's a bad idea(blog.otastech.com)
2 points by tdubhro1 11y ago|0 comments
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How to invalidate a backtest(blog.otastech.com)
1 points by tdubhro1 11y ago|0 comments
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by tdubhro1 12y ago
Leaving aside the gimmicks in some of these examples, it is a fact that when you need to communicate quantitative information machine generated text is a great solution. Our company builds analytics and dashboards for fund managers and trad
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by tdubhro1 12y ago
> ""almost certainly an underestimate", because a number of climate-health relationships are not measurable due to lack of adequate data". How can the very lack of evidence and data logically support a claim that any
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by tdubhro1 12y ago
Interesting that you mention HA/replication, reading the article I was swept along with the pg evangelism but I fully expected at least a grudging concession to mssql on replication. We use both pg and mssql, I was surprised the articl
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Accelerometers, false positives/negatives and fall detection(telecareaware.com)
9 points by tdubhro1 12y ago|0 comments
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by tdubhro1 12y ago
Buddhism: Not Always So, and anything else by Shunryu Suzuki, What Buddha Taught, by Rahula Smarter: A Mathematical Bridge by Stephen Hewson, it will make you grok the real structure of mathematics even if you're starting with fairly b
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by tdubhro1 12y ago
We'd always love to have more types of data, but we haven't yet prototyped anything that uses additional sensors. At the start we really thought that reliable heartrate and bloodpressure sensing watches would be on the market very
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Show HN: KeepUs, a free app to help you watch out for your aging parents(keepus.com)
2 points by tdubhro1 12y ago|3 comments
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by tdubhro1 13y ago
Deosn't RAID usually at least give some warning if you watch the syslogs? (Genuine question, I am not a sysadmin, we have linux servers with hetzner on software raid 1 and a couple have had single-disk issues which we spotted straight
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by tdubhro1 13y ago
I'm not participating but I can understand the backlash - over the past few years I've had plenty of junior developers arguing that we should all be using mongo for everything, because it's "web scale" and it can ha
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by tdubhro1 13y ago
"As soon as he started drinking, you could see a little smile on his face. That's when he could talk to people, or tell a joke." Coders in general are susceptible to alcohol for these kinds of reasons. Add in flexi hours (hey
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XVoice: speech control of Linux desktop applications(dubhrosa.blogspot.co.uk)
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by tdubhro1 14y ago
Very cool. How about a bunch of these located in places like the Louvre, the British Museum, that become available to rent when the museums are closed to physically-present tourists? The timezones work out great for people in the US, and th
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by tdubhro1 14y ago
great to see anything that helps finding property in London easier. Any reason you're only showing flats and not including houses as well? I'd imagine once you go outside zone 2 houses will be in the majority.
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by tdubhro1 14y ago
A good starting point for more rigorous evidence: http://stoppredatorygambling.org/category/research-center/lo... I've been interested in the topic for a long time as I have a relative who spends most of his income on lottery tickets. An
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by tdubhro1 14y ago
Lotteries are a tax on people who are desperate, not ignorant. Even if you understand the math, your utility function changes so that you're willing to trade a small expected loss for the long shot chance of solving all your problems. I don
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by tdubhro1 16y ago
If you don't have the required visas for entry to the destination country the destination country will charge the origin country the cost of sending you back. Apart from the cost it's just a lot less hassle all round if a passport problem i
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by tdubhro1 16y ago
I can see both sides on this one, you should certainly be self-aware enough that you periodically reflect deeply; I think the danger is that far too many guys in their 20s get into a rut, paralysed into inaction through over-analysis; your