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by tsotha 11y ago
Security is a hard thing for large organizations. Much of the time they simply don't have the expertise they need to know what their vulnerabilities are.
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by tsotha 11y ago
It's only a criminal matter if the IRS thinks you broke the law deliberately. If it's the result of crappy record keeping or something you didn't understand they'll usually tack on some penalties and interest and call i
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by tsotha 11y ago
If you've held a position for long enough it may have been purchased before brokers were required to keep track. Your broker may not have enough information to provide the cost basis. I have a couple small positions I've held for
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by tsotha 11y ago
Heh. When I went to college one of my professors told us cosmic rays made computer systems with more than four megabytes completely impractical. Oh, and get off my lawn.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>And I looked up what the applications of them were and couldn't find anything significant beyond cryptography. Cryptography is a pretty big deal, though. You can't run a modern economy without it.
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by tsotha 11y ago
On the west coast Amtrak is more of an amusement park ride than a practical transportation option. If you want to go from San Francisco to Los Angeles the Amtrak trip planner has you on two trains and two buses before you arrive after nine
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah, something like "average highway speed" would be a better metric.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Most companies will make plans to deal with associated problems, though, particularly when the company dictates the timing. I would expect problems if an employee suddenly quit without notice or became somehow incapacitated, but reddit see
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by tsotha 11y ago
The fact that Greece didn't meet the required criteria was well known at the time. The decision to let Greece (and others) join the union was a political one. I think the larger countries reasoned a country so small could only have a
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by tsotha 11y ago
A little nationalism is healthy for a country, though I grant too much is a problem.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>If a debt were a guarantee, then there would be no basis for charging interest. That's going a bit far. The borrower would still pay interest for the use of the money. Just not very much.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Because how the Greek's debt conflict is solved will have a severe impact in global economy. I'm not sure that's true. Greece is a tiny country with a tiny economy. In and of itself it doesn't matter that much. Wh
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yeah, it's more the rise of China than the downfall of the US.
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by tsotha 11y ago
There are just some things you're not supposed to notice in the US.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Uh huh. And who makes that decision? Once you give someone that kind of power they're going to decide criticism of themselves "can't do any good to anyone, but rather the contrary".
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by tsotha 11y ago
There are all sorts of things you can't say in the US.
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by tsotha 11y ago
You're not going to build a business selling to janitors making minimum wage.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Amazon "yielded" to that pressure because they intend to have same-day delivery in every state. There's no way to do that without a presence in every state. So Amazon was going to be paying sales taxes anyway. Since they&
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by tsotha 11y ago
I'm not sure extra taxes and restrictions really make it harder to run most businesses. You just pass the extra cost on to your customers. That customer in Manhattan has enough money to pay $4000 each month for rent. He can afford t
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by tsotha 11y ago
But Netflix isn't paying the tax. The end user is paying the tax. Why would Netflix bother doing anything at all?
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by tsotha 11y ago
I cringe when people say stealth doesn't work because [whatever]. The point of stealth isn't to make you invisible on enemy radar. It's to make the detection range smaller. In air-to-air conflict that means getting the jump
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yes, and that was fifty years ago . Let's put this into context. Fifty years before US involvement in Vietnam Manfred von Richthofen was on the cutting edge of air combat.
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by tsotha 11y ago
There are already several of those types of aircraft to choose from. My favorite is Embraer's Super Tucano , of which the US is buying 100 for the Afghan government.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I think this is a big issue. You would have wanted to ship alcohol instead of grain for the same reason you want to ship pig iron instead of ore. Transportation costs can eat up all your profit.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>I don't think so, quit the opposite actually. He can't give the Greeks what they want, it's not within his means, not without breaking promise he made earlier on. Arguably he may have made promises that where perhaps neve
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by tsotha 11y ago
My religion? What religion is that? Who cares how long the planet was here before humans? The planet isn't going anywhere no matter what we do.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Of course he wants a referendum. That way whatever happens people can't blame it on him. IMO that's the sign of a weak leader.
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by tsotha 11y ago
"Disgusting and ignorant"? Because I don't share your religion? That's pretty narrow minded.
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by tsotha 11y ago
People look at Japan because most first world countries are going to have the same sorts of problems in 20 years. There's no reason to bring in terms that don't fit.
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by tsotha 11y ago
The way I see it the environment exists for people. Otherwise it has no use at all.

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