Because people could not find partners through any other means besides facebook? Maybe we should take a little bit deeper look into the numbers and see if there as actual causation vs. just correlation?
Without any benchmarks of any kind and a lack of data I remain skeptical but if it works this could be a huge breakthrough for the database management as data storage amounts continue to skyrocket. I am curious if it will be ported to Windows or other proprietary systems and if so what affect it will have on the speed claims. Because if the speed claims are true and it stays Linux I would think companies would have to consider moving to Linux to realize the speed gains.
Unfortunately it currently is not that simple. Tax areas are not zip code specific. I work with an ERP package and we had bought an outside software package to deal with state, county and city level sales tax. The problem is that Zip codes can span counties and cities. The only way to get completely accurate for all tax districts is to go down to the street level. This requires a ridiculously huge DB and constant updating. We pay dearly for this. I cannot imagine what this will do to mom and pop shops that ship and sell over the Internet. E-bay business would really be hurting. If they have to charge a tax just charge state tax then at most there is 50 rates to keep track of instated thousands and thousands.
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Let's hope that without your leadership the site does not cease to be worthwhile or relevant.
It wasn’t my fault I fooled around honey they all had a magnet so I couldn’t tell it was wrong. Honest!
I would be more impressed if they could agree on a way to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons!
When they find their hard work replaced the next day by a 12 year old who just made something up and posted it so his buddies would laugh it!
Because people could not find partners through any other means besides facebook? Maybe we should take a little bit deeper look into the numbers and see if there as actual causation vs. just correlation?
Without any benchmarks of any kind and a lack of data I remain skeptical but if it works this could be a huge breakthrough for the database management as data storage amounts continue to skyrocket. I am curious if it will be ported to Windows or other proprietary systems and if so what affect it will have on the speed claims. Because if the speed claims are true and it stays Linux I would think companies would have to consider moving to Linux to realize the speed gains.
After all "It does have side effects"
Because they could make a little MORE money if there was no second hand market!
Unfortunately it currently is not that simple. Tax areas are not zip code specific. I work with an ERP package and we had bought an outside software package to deal with state, county and city level sales tax. The problem is that Zip codes can span counties and cities. The only way to get completely accurate for all tax districts is to go down to the street level. This requires a ridiculously huge DB and constant updating. We pay dearly for this. I cannot imagine what this will do to mom and pop shops that ship and sell over the Internet. E-bay business would really be hurting. If they have to charge a tax just charge state tax then at most there is 50 rates to keep track of instated thousands and thousands.