unmole

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by unmole 1y ago
> get the money What money? Perplexity's latest valuation is ~18 billion USD.
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by unmole 1y ago
> Tariffs kinda make sense when you have a deficit in a widely available item. Big trade deficit with Bangladesh? Sure you can buy cheap textiles from Thailand or Vietnam or something. What exactly does this acomplish?
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by unmole 1y ago
A policy that results in a shrinking of the tax base is not admirable.
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by unmole 1y ago
The end result is a reduced tax take. Like I said, major policy win!
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by unmole 1y ago
> Yea... except they arent net tax contributors. They almost certainly are. Even if you assume they didn't earn any UK income, they were still paying VAT.
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by unmole 1y ago
> That means their official home for tax purposes was never the UK. They were still paying taxes on any UK income. > It also means the tax difference of them leaving is near zero surely? Only if you assume they didn't pay any VAT
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by unmole 1y ago
Even in this straw man hypothetical, the exchequer is better off having more VAT paying residents.
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by unmole 1y ago
Yeah, chasing away net tax contributors is a major policy win. /s
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by unmole 1y ago
You could just look up what primary and secondary markets meant without speculating and chiming in with irrelevant takes.
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by unmole 1y ago
I used to work for Huawei. From what I remember, vi was just vim.
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by unmole 1y ago
> Most Americans don’t have any substantial savings whatsoever. The median household net worth is ~200k.
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by unmole 1y ago
> "India makes people loan 20% of their foreign remittances to the government interest-free" would be more accurate. It wouldn't. The TCS can be offset against other tax liabilities. The government pays out 6% interest on
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by unmole 1y ago
> 3.5% remittance fees on sending money out of the US: The version of the bill that passed a 1% excise is applicable " only to any remittance transfer for which the sender provides cash, a money order, a cashier’s check, or any othe
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by unmole 1y ago
> the word for "subsidy" is something like "subvention" so native speakers of these language often reach for an unnatural word in English. A Google search for subvention turns up government publications from UK, Ind
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by unmole 1y ago
> They have everything to gain from a regime change Yeah, because that worked out so well in Iraq, Libya and Syria?
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by unmole 1y ago
> It's that crucial to daily life, it's get an exception by telecom companies. Isn't this because Facebook is paying telcos to keep its services free? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org
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by unmole 1y ago
> India's manufacturing has declined Manufacturing's share of GDP has declined meaning manufacturing grew slower than services. Manufacturing absolutely did not decline.
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by unmole 1y ago
> need to use it with a Max subscription rather than a BYOK Why is that?
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by unmole 1y ago
Sounds made up.
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by unmole 1y ago
But they do: > The part of the system that manages all this mess is called Windows Security Center - WSC for short.
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Pakistan and India have agreed 'full and immediate ceasefire'(bbc.com)
13 points by unmole 1y ago|8 comments
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by unmole 1y ago
I'd extend it to business news .
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by unmole 1y ago
> You can't live in India and think this seriously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Ahmadis_(Pakist... > unlike most states and people during partition This is complete nonsense. Nobody got a sa
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by unmole 1y ago
> Fascism is the actions you take Losing a majority after a decade in power seems like the opposite of what a fascist regime would do.
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by unmole 1y ago
The Weimar Republic wasn't fascist either. The Nazis immediately banned all other parties after they seized power. They didn't win outright majorities in two consecutive free elections, spend a decade in power and then lose. So, w
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by unmole 1y ago
> Windsurf is live and already has brand popularity with revenue stream OpenAI has a much bigger brand.
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by unmole 1y ago
So, a country where the incumbent party loses its parliamentary majority and has to rely on smaller regional parties is fascist?
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by unmole 1y ago
You say > Overstates the power China has over the Pakistani Military. And unironically follow that up with > If anyone has the power to force both to the negotiating table, it's the UAE and KSA The idea that UAE and KSA have the
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by unmole 1y ago
If you think Putin is going to kidnap someone's family to force a developer to hand over data that you put into a MS Teams wiki, you certainly have delusions of grandeur.
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by unmole 1y ago
Delusions of grandeur much?

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