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I'm in the US so didn't have a VAT ID. Plus, I originally wasn't trying to purchase it as a business, and the businesses I was purchasing from do sell to individuals, it's just that apparently they wanted even individual
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Yes, on paper VAT works out better, and it's a darling of economists. In practice, VAT requires more paperwork, accounting, and interaction with the bureaucracy. The end result is that even though the U.S. has the tax pyramiding "
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Not directly related, but note what is mentioned in the post about the purpose of individual object files for each function. What might be considered an anachronism is being leveraged for improved security. What's happening (IIRC) with
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> You are therefore I am Reverse solipsism?
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I've had similar questions like yours but AFAICT there's a real dearth of data and research that goes beyond broad, general trends. There is a lot of research (both value neutral as well as from conservative and liberal lenses) st
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On reflection, I think I'm mixing some concepts up. Regardless of the sex exogamy pattern (or related patrilocal/matrilocal pattern, where I think female exogamy correlates with patrilocal residency--living with or near the husban
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I suspect that's a reductive "just-so" story that happens to fit into some popular feminist narratives, though coming on the heels of some adjacent theories popular among men in the 18th and 19th centuries that misconstrued t
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Yes, in just about every large city across the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, especially in cities, and newer parts of older cities, that were developed since the 1950s. It still influences contemporary architectur
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I know Rust doesn't do "strict aliasing", literally speaking. But that's partly because Rust's borrowing rules change the framing of the term strict aliasing as used in C, etc. It's similar for terms like &quot
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Right, and while sometimes a lot of code needs to change in Rust, it's often largely mechanical, at least in typical contexts (e.g. user land development). But Rust won't automatically detect changes in semantics that happen acros
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That's a false equivalency. All of those languages are integrated through strong semantic and concrete abstractions (e.g. file system I/O or GCC interfaces) that evolve, if at all, very slowly. Some, like assembly, are necessary c
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Applied math in daily life, such as making change, also involves a lot of memorization, it's just that the person doesn't realize they're committing various formulas and equalities to memory. The problem with proficiency in,
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Although auditing rules have been loosened up in various respects, ultimately whenever code within the FIPS module boundary changes a new validation and certification process is supposed to be kicked off and tracked. For Microsoft itself it
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There's some evidence that livestock vaccination accelerates viral pathogen evolution, similar to antibiotics with bacteria. Even with vaccination, modern sanitation and isolation procedures would and should still be required.
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> maintain poultry health and welfare That's a little deceptive. The antibiotics widely used by the industry are used for growth promotion. I don't know how it works, but I don't believe it's because they're keep
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There are no artificial restrictions on residency slots. The Federal government funds a fixed number of slots, but states and hospitals also fund residencies. The "shortage" has much to do with geography and specialty--the money a
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Nature's currency is blood.
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> There's also a cultural difference between Japanese and American businesses, but that's far more nebulous. The abstract cultural differences might be difficult to articulate, but many of the effects are concrete: Toyota still
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For organizations like the NSA, a simple hack like this is the opposite of ham-fisted, though presumably they'd try to ensure the output would pass common statistical tests. The utility in quietly breaking cryptographic protocols is pr
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> I believe this request by Joan du Lee is more about making medicine a profession like carpetry, masonry and similar which were supported through masters, journeymen and guilds, than about hindrance based on sex. There's no transla
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Historically (as in past 100-150 years), the Deep South and West, though today probably only states like Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, etc. Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia now have rural/urban divides that are stronger (more p
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In California it's generally the county sheriff who issues carry permits. Apparently sometime in the past few years municipal police were also given the authority to do this, but for decades I believe it was just the sheriff. And it w
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> They usually have a lower dosage of everything than do single thing supplements. For example the iodine supplements I've seen are in the 225 mcg to 325 mcg range. The RDA for iodine is 150 mcg, so 325 should normally draw concern.
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Try reading, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World. It won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History, among other accolades. I certainly enjoyed it, though I read it on the heels of the 2008 financial crisis, which may have made it fe
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Inflation existed before 1913. What was different was that inflationary periods were counterbalanced by periods of deflation. There's a reason why the Federal Reserve has two primary missions--stable prices and maximum employment. Defl
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The 2023 incidence rate per 100k is 2.9. That's an increase from 2019, but also the same rate as 2014 and 2016. https://www.cdc.gov/tb-surveillance-report-2023/tables/table... (via https://www.cdc.
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> The resurgence of TB has been the big story in infectious diseases for a while now. It's been a big story since the 1980s, IIRC. I remember in college in the 1990s a biologist friend explaining that TB was the greatest disease thr
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> There is danger that people will send money on bogus requests It's a huge danger. This is why there are so many Bitcoin ATMs in convenience stores. Scammers call vulnerable people and induce them to send them Bitcoin. The number
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The problem with pushing payments is that the cost of fraud falls on the payer. In the pull model, if the payer says it was unauthorized, the rules favor the payer--restoring the payer account happens as a matter of course, and disputes are
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If it were a lab leak then the people especially fearful and distrustful of gain of function research would feel vindicated and try to use that to shut down existing research programs. I don't think that group of people is meaningfully

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