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by westiseast 9y ago
Ireland allowed Apple a loophole where they were incorporated there, but non-resident, and therefore no tax. It was a sweetheart deal and Ireland got jobs and investment. The EU said no, wants the back tax to be paid.
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by westiseast 9y ago
Technically the problem isn’t Macron or France - it’s the Irish and Jersey tax loopholes.
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by westiseast 9y ago
* French
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by westiseast 9y ago
I agree so much with this comment. Personally I think Bitcoin and/or blockchain could be the future, but the current value is 90-95% based on dumb speculation. It’s use as a practical currency are years away, and it’s still super ris
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by westiseast 9y ago
Running a business?
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by westiseast 9y ago
* bullion Just in case anyone thought they’d missed out on the French soup stock bubble ;)
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by westiseast 9y ago
My initial response is that the software industry doesn't actually do projects of that scale and with that kind of budget very often. Unless you're working at Google scale, what's the budget for your website project? $100k? $
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by westiseast 9y ago
It is getting a bit more of a pain, but the bottom line is that if you earned your money legally, you take your tax records and paperwork to the bank and transfer to your hearts delight.
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by westiseast 9y ago
Slightly off topic, but just in case you're being headhunted by Chinese companies, make sure you understand your legal position on compensation in China. http://www.chinalawblog.com/2016/09/the-china-stock-opt
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by westiseast 9y ago
I get shot down occasionally for my preference of Taobao over Amazon, but one of the key reasons is: taobao let's companies build their own strong brands on its platform On Amazon, independent sellers are an after thought, hidden awa
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by westiseast 9y ago
Same, went on a tour of a U.K. nuclear power plant and its all 1960s tech like this. I asked why and they said you can't afford the risk of bugs/problems for the efficiency gains you might achieve with new kit.
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by westiseast 9y ago
It annoys me too. The interpretation ignores all the obvious positive lessons in TtTE and only accentuates the post-modern and political interpretations as if they're the major themes. I remember one episode where the Fat Controller hi
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by westiseast 9y ago
I think a lot of people feel the same way and it somewhat feeds into the Trump phenomenon. For years the thinking has been that China is liberalizing, and it will eventually open up and that reciprocal sanctions or tariffs will spark unne
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by westiseast 9y ago
> It's much harder to create these derivatives without easy access to free flowing data. The data is free flowing enough within China though - that's the bigger point ;) It's not as if you turn off the access to Western i
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by westiseast 9y ago
I'm a China hawk, but this is what has been happening and what will continue happening unless something massively more drastic than blocking a single minority foreign app happens. I think there's a tendency for people to overest
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by westiseast 9y ago
* then you appear on state TV apologising for your tax crimes 10 years ago.
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by westiseast 9y ago
That means they can't go bankrupt; it doesn't mean the debt isn't a problem.
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by westiseast 9y ago
I think that's highly debatable; it's obvious human rights aren't a massive priority to China, and neither is transfer of wealth to those countries. Even if Chinese money does end up in a rush of trade and business, without s
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by westiseast 9y ago
The blog poster seems to be missing the critical point - maybe he's never smoked. It's an addiction. To your phone, to social response, to 'new'. The way way to give up is to treat it like an addiction.
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by westiseast 9y ago
Meh. This and any of the last few keynotes would have been magical if they'd shown something that actually did something new . What they've shown is just fancy new technology to do the same old things - great, now I can lock my s
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by westiseast 9y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but isn't a lot of the massive rise from ~200 USD up to ~3000 USD related to Chinese activity? And Chinese farms mine most of the bitcoins now?
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by westiseast 9y ago
Yeah, i stopped eating tomatoes in the U.K. after a holiday in Crete.
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by westiseast 9y ago
I think similar arguments have been made about the top 1 or 10% of earners - that there shouldn't be any effort towards curbing their economic activity because they are net contributors whereas low-earners are not net contributors. I t
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by westiseast 9y ago
Is your point that S.Korea does it, so it's OK? Or that we're all a bunch of hypocrites and shouldn't comment? This sounds like whataboutism - if you follow the link and read the wikipedia page, it seems like lots of people m
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by westiseast 9y ago
* would be * a good use case if it were reliable. I don't want to say I'll transfer $1000 to someone and by the time the transfer is complete the vale has dropped/I need to wait 5 days for confirmation/ the bitcoin excha
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by westiseast 9y ago
I agree. Evidence out there seems to suggest that trainers are bad by overcushioning the feet or placing the body in a bad position, but... For example, I'm sure our neolithic ancestors ran long distances because they had to. There&#x2
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by westiseast 10y ago
You can work 20 or less hours a week and earn a reasonable salary and have a pretty fun life - booze, travel, girls, culture. Or you can work 40-50 hours a week and earn a cracking salary, maybe save a whole bunch, maybe get exposed to entr
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by westiseast 10y ago
Good point - first things that come to mind: They interview lots of people with no problems, and they don't know which ones will kick off. They are reporters and their visas are journalist visas. There's no quicker way for them to
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by westiseast 10y ago
Yeah, plus what happens now is you get these almost garbled, code-like sentences with emojis, inB4 type abbreviations, truncated URLS, hashtags, @ references and its unreadable/unscannable. I would totally prefer a 140 character block
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by westiseast 10y ago
Fake web.

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