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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
Unfortunately the same is true for Facebook/USA. But that doesn't seem to stop people from using WhatsApp.
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
Alright, thank you. Now, if I were to earn, say a total of $1000 [please feel free to substitute this with a more trivial number, however you may define trivial] for the whole year on online courses sold to EU residents (considering its a s
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
>> Sounds pretty great to me. I see. Do you mind spending another 5 and tell the answer to this question: suppose someone sells online courses. And they don't themselves reside in the EU, but the have customers who do. Should the
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
The fine print around who actually needs to pay. A very simple example - say you sell online courses. Should you register for VAT?
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
This reminds me of a horrible tax I came to know of recently - something called the EU VAT MOSS on digital goods. Apparently, it is supposed to target giants like Amazon who route money via multiple countries to evade taxes. Not surprisingl
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
To counter your point, you might remember the React team's about face when probably their largest benefactor in terms of free goodwill, Wordpress, threatened to drop ReactJS for its ambiguous license. I would think it matters a lot to
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
The "most common outcome" is probably a superficial way to analyze this. Considering all this surveillance is being done in a pretty underhanded way (else why so many dark UX patterns?), and it is basically impossible to get the f
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
>> WWII was a thing, the Nazi party came to power and started pushing their agenda, and the holocaust actually happened Indeed it was, but many people act like the whole thing just sprung up from a vacuum. There was an entire history
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
As someone who neither resides in the US (or its supposedly adversary countries), nor works at BigTech, I don't think I have any bias here except I hope humanity doesn't end up obliterating itself with nukes. But your comment is,
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
"Oh, we actually meant advertisers/governments/Bing and other partners will have a tool which will provide a clear view of your internet history"
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
After seeing these comments, I think we have it all completely wrong (that is, the mental model of those of us who wish FB stopped existing). Don't ask people to stop using Facebook. Encourage them to use it more. We should instead cal
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by throwaway_9168 8y ago
>> Which country permits their citizens to disclose highly classified information with not repercussions, however unjust those repercussions may ultimately be? Yeah, its free speech, as long as it doesn't fall under some bullshit