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by tici_88 4y ago
Foreigners, especially the billionaire type, can and have been setting up shell corporations through which to purchase Canadian real estate. The proposed measure will do nothing to stop this practice. The measures proposed by the Canadian g
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by tici_88 4y ago
I completely agree, except I think trains have a much higher competitive range, possibly up to 1,000 km . With a plane 1,000 km trip including all things you mention like arriving at the airport in advance, boarding, finding your way back
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by tici_88 5y ago
Other countries should probably follow suit. Where I live the levels of Russian financed misinformation is intense and surreal. I don't mean just social media trolls which FB is awash with but also paid operatives working on the ground
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by tici_88 6y ago
Where I live (south of Europe) you can tell very easily what fruit or vegetables are in season: 1. They taste orders of magnitude better compared to when they are not in season (e.g. oranges when sourced from nearby Greece or Turkey, as opp
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by tici_88 8y ago
Maybe the goal of the Russian government was to block the Amazon and Google APIs in the first place, and they used Telegram as a convenient excuse. Just a thought.
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by tici_88 8y ago
I have a feeling the wealth distribution in the years prior to WWII was pretty similar to where we are or are headed. I wonder if there were comparable data/studies done back then.
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by tici_88 9y ago
It is not just the US. Canada in recent years signed a $15Bln contract to supply the Saudi Arabia rulers with weapons. (I was going to say 'government but 'rulers' feels more appropriate in this case). Saudi Arabia is at war
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by tici_88 9y ago
Maybe this is because, as someone once put it, Americans don't see themselves as worse off. Rather, they see themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires"?
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by tici_88 9y ago
It feels like the ruling is essentially stating the obvious.
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by tici_88 9y ago
Well, we can all argue one way or another about how relevant a CS degree would have been. The fact though that the profile was altered and other data deleted remains highly suspicious, if true.
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by tici_88 9y ago
There could be a basic minimum income level that is tax free. This would be very similar to what we have right now. For example, income under around 9,000 (or was it 10,000?) in Canada is not taxed federally.
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by tici_88 9y ago
The idea is to have everything taxed at the same rate: income, dividends, capital gains, whatever. So every source of 'money coming in' gets treated and taxed the same way. By having a flat tax it doesn't make sense to shift
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by tici_88 9y ago
"The problem is that no tax code can close all loop holes because you just can't foresee the creative ways people will out maneuver the tax code." I disagree. I simple flat tax rate where everything is taxed at a single rate
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by tici_88 9y ago
This has probably very little to do with porn and is most likely the first step in the UK's government attempt to track more closely who is accessing what on the internet and even have the power to blacklist and make inaccessible areas
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by tici_88 9y ago
The article mentions 'increased competition'. Is Boeing facing a hard time competing against rivals say Airbus? Are Boeing's latest planes less competitive or is there less orders in the pipeline all across the industry, incl
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by tici_88 9y ago
Travelling in the US or with US airlines is not looking very good right now. Not just the United incident(s) but also TSA, Trump travel restrictions, flights constantly overbooked, massively late etc. I wonder if it will start impacting tra
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by tici_88 9y ago
Yes, hoaxes especially like this one that end badly should be punished accordingly. At the same time the SWAT team is also responsible. After all, it was them who fired the bullets. Note that in this case it was multiple bullets not just on
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by tici_88 9y ago
Back in my Econ classes we were taught that Libor was this atomic-clock-like gauge that objectively and impartially measures interest rates with absolute precision. Turns out that isn't exactly the case. We know that some commercial ba
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by tici_88 9y ago
I think we should let "the people" decide what is good for them, and not us doing it for them. Italy is a democratic country with a government and legal system that is upholding the laws. The court ruling appears to be in line wit
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by tici_88 9y ago
The law should apply equally to everyone, regardless of how 'cool' you are considered to be. If the law in Italy requires taxis and taxi-like services to to pay for certain operational licenses and to comply with certain governmen
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by tici_88 9y ago
As a side note, the term "Byzantine empire" does not reflect how people called it or thought of it at the time of its existence at all. They referred to it as the (Holy) Roman Empire of the East and they considered and called them
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by tici_88 10y ago
"But that's a moot point if the light isn't there in the first place." When I said "traffic light" I meant the entire set of traffic lights of the intersection. You can't have just one lane without traffic
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by tici_88 10y ago
The set up described in the article is actually equivalent to "come to full stop, then right turn only". You cannot replace the light with a sign because by law traffic lights have higher precedence that traffic signs. This is f
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by tici_88 14y ago
The article makes the mistake of talking about France and Germany and maybe Spain and then of generalizing it to mean "Europe". There are in fact lots of other countries in Europe, 30+ or so in the EU alone where the reality can be very dif
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by tici_88 14y ago
If iOS has 17% of the market, having 12-15% is not something to be ashamed of. It still represents billions upon billions of business every year. Sometimes its better to set realistic but achievable goals than to aim for the sky and flop.
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by tici_88 15y ago
I am not sure where the scandal is here. Playbooks were selling for $499 in Q1 and Q2, and that was for the basic model. Now they get marked down to $199, so the $485M writedown represents about 1.5-1.6 million Playbooks written down by $30
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by tici_88 15y ago
This sort of advise works great until they actually do sue. One of my biggest clients got recently sued by a long term client of his - a Fortune 100 company with all kinds of legal resources. My client had to shut down his business and then
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by tici_88 15y ago
The simulator has had the ability to reload an edited and recompiled app without needing to do a full reboot. This feature has been there for about 1.5 years (if you count the beta period). Good points on the older OS 4.6 devices. Right now
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by tici_88 15y ago
I know, but it has been like that since BlackBerry OS 5 which came out years ago. It is the older devices especially the ones that came out way before the iPhone did that don't have this ability.
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by tici_88 15y ago
It honestly hasn't been that much of an issue for me. Sometimes the server is down for a few minutes, an hour max but then things are back up and running quickly. The signing server is part of RIM's security system. It basically allows RIM

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