Not that this isn't a reasonable concern, but it has nothing to do with Amazon. Most of their revenue is in the US and Germany and they're following the corresponding laws.
Don't know why the parent is modded Funny, it's just correct. And it's not even loopholes, they are using the tax system exactly as it was intended to work. There's no Cayman islands or Irish double shit here.
I don't know nearly enough about the mess that is the US tax system to be able to investigate and explain it myself but it's basically down to R&D and equipment deductions and stock-based compensation. So they are spending in areas the government encourages them to spend and making the corresponding deductions. This article explains everything pretty well: https://www.vox.com/2019/2/20/...
You can't draw conclusions about a UBI by testing it with a limited number of recipients. If 2000 participants receive a $630 UBI, then each of Finland's 3.5 million working adults is chipping in 36 cents every month to support the UBI. If 235,000 people receive a $630 UBI (Finland's 6.7% unemployment rate), then each working adult is chipping in $42.30 every month If a UBI is implemented nationally and (say) 1 million people elect to receive it rather than work, then each remaining working adult will be chipping in $252 every month. And you're likely going to see a lot more dissatisfaction with the program.
2000 participants is a plenty big sample, you don't need to put more people in a study to learn that it would cost more.
Canada did a larger scale UBI experiment in Winnipeg and Dauphin in the 70s.There the working hours decreased by like 1-3% so a million people would not just decide not to work (not on Finland scale, anyway).
If you really want to test it, pick a small city and implement it there, with it being funded entirely by only the city's working population. And even that won't be a truly accurate test since the people will know the test will end, and will be reluctant to quit their job for fear of having difficulty finding a new job when the test ends.
And what would that prove? Cities don't collect all taxes or pay all the services locally. A rich financial or tech city could afford it but a depressed post-industrial town wouldn't. That's why this kind of things are done on national level.
Lol Venezuela is an example of UBI, are you fucking kidding.
EU's been bitching about this for a while. Supposedly identical products being actually different (i.e. worse) and sometimes even more expensive in the EE markets is a pretty common thing.
It's still surprising that despite living like 200km from Germany, I can't buy most of the products available there, huge global brands excepted obviously.
You don't even need to do any fancy calculations with volts and amps, according to TFA it takes 17 minutes to charge hence it's charging on average at about 4C.
Which is indeed quite high, and while pushing this over USB PD shouldn't be a problem, I'm really curious what the long-term implications are for the battery.
Well trucks are work vehicles, they also track and limit driving time by law and probably location(?). Of course it still causes a lot of issues when a truck doing 80.1km/h is trying to overtake another doing 80km/h.
I agree that optional speed tracker/limiter is a great feature because sometimes you want to relax a little and not have to watch and keep track of the constantly changing signs. As long as it can be switched off easily, I'm fine with it.
Even if it's not... oh well, this will only apply to new cars not even manufactured yet. There's a reason I drive a 15 year old Miata and not a newer or fancier car that I could afford, and lack of any nonsense is one of them. So worst case scenario I'll just buy a 2021 Mustang with gazillion horsepower and drive it until all the dino juice is sucked out of the earth.
"They want to remove all of those people and have a country that is "whites only.""
Have you ever stopped to consider why they feel this way? What has driven the (ridiculously tiny) portion of the population to these extreme ideas?
Absolutely, I think it's important to look into what brings people to that point, and sadly people often do skip that and just try to cover up the symptoms.
That said, often you'll find that it doesn't make sense. Like with ant-vaxers, who the fuck knows. And we're trying to understand the nonsense, children will be dying from easily preventable diseases.
Nobody is advocating imprisoning or even fining people for saying stupid shit, but facebook and others are under no obligation to provide a platform for this kind of bullshit.
"Why do you think that those people can possibly be reasoned with?"
How can you make a statement like that without realizing it is an assertion that you can not be reasoned with?
Have you ever tried it? In most cases you can't use reason and logic to change an opinion that they didn't arrive at in that way.
There's this flat-earth documentary where they set up a proper experiment to prove that the earth is flat and. obviously, fail to confirm that. They guy says it's "interesting". Do you think this convinced any of them? Of course not, because if it did, so would flying in an airplane or climbing a tall mountain.
Nobody gives a shit about flat-earthers because it's pretty harmless (except that one guy that launched himself in a self-made rocket I guess). But vaccine paranoia and of course racism is actively harmful and should't be provided a free platform by facebook et al.
This is an outrageous slur. There are HUNDREDS, possibly even THOUSANDS, of Republicans who are not white nationalists or white supremacists or in any way supportive of fascist or fascism-adjacent ideologies.
Bullshit. You can absolutely still joke about pretty much everything as long as it's actually funny. Have you seen Bill Burr or Louis CK? I mean at least before it turned out he was a giant creep, which isn't funny at all.
Nah this one is just a fixed 125mm-equivalent telephoto lens. So 5x isn't really accurate in the traditional sense but since the phone also has a wide-angle lens (and sensor), that's what it's relative to.
And it kind of makes sense because the end result from the end-user's point of view is the same - they press a button and the image zooms in, it's just achieved by blending the images from the different cameras rather than physically moving some lens elements.
I always thought Spain would be in WET ? Maybe it's just is in the wrong time zone ? Why not take the opportunity and fix that too by switching from CET to WET and enjoy noon at midday ?
They should be, but some guy named Franco changed it to be the same timezone as Germany in 1941 for some reason.
You hook up the Reverb to a PC, this is a stand-alone headset on a Snapdragon SoC.
Now in my opinion it and the Quest are garbage but many non-VR nerds will find the self-contained experience appealing, even if it has 1/10th of the performance and will be locked down.
I've had my Etymotic IEMs for at least 10 years now and only had to replace the plug recently. And even that was mostly my own fault since I've been coiling the cable around the Zen (yes really back then) and phone, thus putting too much stress on the plug.It was like $1 for the jack and a few minutes to solder it on.
I have a great idea. What if you had headphones that didn't use a battery but instead plugged directly into a hypothetical Jack on a source of sound? I know it sounds crazy but it would work and could even be made universal.
But then, how do you sell someone $5 earbuds for $200, while at the same time ensuring they'll have to buy them again within a few years?
I bought some $9 BT earbuds off banggood in October 2017 and even though they sound about as clear s mud compared to my Etymotic ER-4 IEMs, they still work fine in the gym. Recently I stepped on them accidentally messing up one of the buttons, but was easily able to unclip the case and fix everything up. The battery is a standard 102040 LiPo you can get for $3.
A few hundred is hardly a significant number across a large organization like Oracle, my own company (a competitor) is cutting way more than that. What seems to be the difference is they're handling it absolutely in the worst possible way, for no reason kicking people out on the spot instead of relying on attrition, early retirements or at least providing a reasonable heads-up to those affected.
Completely agreed, GI is definitely the bigger deal. Less hacky reflections (and shadows) are nice of course but GI completely transforms how a scene feels. One could say almost night and day difference!
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Not that this isn't a reasonable concern, but it has nothing to do with Amazon. Most of their revenue is in the US and Germany and they're following the corresponding laws.
Don't know why the parent is modded Funny, it's just correct. And it's not even loopholes, they are using the tax system exactly as it was intended to work. There's no Cayman islands or Irish double shit here.
I don't know nearly enough about the mess that is the US tax system to be able to investigate and explain it myself but it's basically down to R&D and equipment deductions and stock-based compensation. So they are spending in areas the government encourages them to spend and making the corresponding deductions. This article explains everything pretty well: https://www.vox.com/2019/2/20/...
You can't draw conclusions about a UBI by testing it with a limited number of recipients.
If 2000 participants receive a $630 UBI, then each of Finland's 3.5 million working adults is chipping in 36 cents every month to support the UBI.
If 235,000 people receive a $630 UBI (Finland's 6.7% unemployment rate), then each working adult is chipping in $42.30 every month
If a UBI is implemented nationally and (say) 1 million people elect to receive it rather than work, then each remaining working adult will be chipping in $252 every month. And you're likely going to see a lot more dissatisfaction with the program.
2000 participants is a plenty big sample, you don't need to put more people in a study to learn that it would cost more.
Canada did a larger scale UBI experiment in Winnipeg and Dauphin in the 70s.There the working hours decreased by like 1-3% so a million people would not just decide not to work (not on Finland scale, anyway).
If you really want to test it, pick a small city and implement it there, with it being funded entirely by only the city's working population. And even that won't be a truly accurate test since the people will know the test will end, and will be reluctant to quit their job for fear of having difficulty finding a new job when the test ends.
And what would that prove? Cities don't collect all taxes or pay all the services locally. A rich financial or tech city could afford it but a depressed post-industrial town wouldn't. That's why this kind of things are done on national level.
Lol Venezuela is an example of UBI, are you fucking kidding.
How do you explain people going gaga over dogs?
I'm starting to think that nerds love the "mind control parasite" thing just because it sounds like a Star trek plotline.
Dogs are actually just cool and good. That's why people like them. Cats need the parasites.
EU's been bitching about this for a while. Supposedly identical products being actually different (i.e. worse) and sometimes even more expensive in the EE markets is a pretty common thing.
It's still surprising that despite living like 200km from Germany, I can't buy most of the products available there, huge global brands excepted obviously.
That mosquitos, too, are repulsed by dubstep?
Microsoft not wanting to be associated with outspoken nazis, the horror!
You don't even need to do any fancy calculations with volts and amps, according to TFA it takes 17 minutes to charge hence it's charging on average at about 4C.
Which is indeed quite high, and while pushing this over USB PD shouldn't be a problem, I'm really curious what the long-term implications are for the battery.
Well trucks are work vehicles, they also track and limit driving time by law and probably location(?). Of course it still causes a lot of issues when a truck doing 80.1km/h is trying to overtake another doing 80km/h.
I agree that optional speed tracker/limiter is a great feature because sometimes you want to relax a little and not have to watch and keep track of the constantly changing signs. As long as it can be switched off easily, I'm fine with it.
Even if it's not... oh well, this will only apply to new cars not even manufactured yet. There's a reason I drive a 15 year old Miata and not a newer or fancier car that I could afford, and lack of any nonsense is one of them. So worst case scenario I'll just buy a 2021 Mustang with gazillion horsepower and drive it until all the dino juice is sucked out of the earth.
"They want to remove all of those people and have a country that is "whites only.""
Have you ever stopped to consider why they feel this way? What has driven the (ridiculously tiny) portion of the population to these extreme ideas?
Absolutely, I think it's important to look into what brings people to that point, and sadly people often do skip that and just try to cover up the symptoms.
That said, often you'll find that it doesn't make sense. Like with ant-vaxers, who the fuck knows. And we're trying to understand the nonsense, children will be dying from easily preventable diseases.
Nobody is advocating imprisoning or even fining people for saying stupid shit, but facebook and others are under no obligation to provide a platform for this kind of bullshit.
"Why do you think that those people can possibly be reasoned with?"
How can you make a statement like that without realizing it is an assertion that you can not be reasoned with?
Have you ever tried it? In most cases you can't use reason and logic to change an opinion that they didn't arrive at in that way.
There's this flat-earth documentary where they set up a proper experiment to prove that the earth is flat and. obviously, fail to confirm that. They guy says it's "interesting". Do you think this convinced any of them? Of course not, because if it did, so would flying in an airplane or climbing a tall mountain.
Nobody gives a shit about flat-earthers because it's pretty harmless (except that one guy that launched himself in a self-made rocket I guess). But vaccine paranoia and of course racism is actively harmful and should't be provided a free platform by facebook et al.
This is an outrageous slur. There are HUNDREDS, possibly even THOUSANDS, of Republicans who are not white nationalists or white supremacists or in any way supportive of fascist or fascism-adjacent ideologies.
That's true, they might be just confused!
Bullshit. You can absolutely still joke about pretty much everything as long as it's actually funny. Have you seen Bill Burr or Louis CK? I mean at least before it turned out he was a giant creep, which isn't funny at all.
Or maybe giant corporations shouldn't play "pranks" on their customers.
Like nazis, yeah.
Nah this one is just a fixed 125mm-equivalent telephoto lens. So 5x isn't really accurate in the traditional sense but since the phone also has a wide-angle lens (and sensor), that's what it's relative to.
And it kind of makes sense because the end result from the end-user's point of view is the same - they press a button and the image zooms in, it's just achieved by blending the images from the different cameras rather than physically moving some lens elements.
I always thought Spain would be in WET ? Maybe it's just is in the wrong time zone ? Why not take the opportunity and fix that too by switching from CET to WET and enjoy noon at midday ?
They should be, but some guy named Franco changed it to be the same timezone as Germany in 1941 for some reason.
You hook up the Reverb to a PC, this is a stand-alone headset on a Snapdragon SoC.
Now in my opinion it and the Quest are garbage but many non-VR nerds will find the self-contained experience appealing, even if it has 1/10th of the performance and will be locked down.
I've had my Etymotic IEMs for at least 10 years now and only had to replace the plug recently. And even that was mostly my own fault since I've been coiling the cable around the Zen (yes really back then) and phone, thus putting too much stress on the plug.It was like $1 for the jack and a few minutes to solder it on.
I have a great idea. What if you had headphones that didn't use a battery but instead plugged directly into a hypothetical Jack on a source of sound? I know it sounds crazy but it would work and could even be made universal.
But then, how do you sell someone $5 earbuds for $200, while at the same time ensuring they'll have to buy them again within a few years?
I bought some $9 BT earbuds off banggood in October 2017 and even though they sound about as clear s mud compared to my Etymotic ER-4 IEMs, they still work fine in the gym. Recently I stepped on them accidentally messing up one of the buttons, but was easily able to unclip the case and fix everything up. The battery is a standard 102040 LiPo you can get for $3.
A few hundred is hardly a significant number across a large organization like Oracle, my own company (a competitor) is cutting way more than that. What seems to be the difference is they're handling it absolutely in the worst possible way, for no reason kicking people out on the spot instead of relying on attrition, early retirements or at least providing a reasonable heads-up to those affected.
Maybe they, like me, listed to this episode of Opening Arguments where an actual lawyer explains just that.
Thankfully, Britain will be able to easily import more water from their continental friends. Oh, wait...
Completely agreed, GI is definitely the bigger deal. Less hacky reflections (and shadows) are nice of course but GI completely transforms how a scene feels. One could say almost night and day difference!
You also need to consider life insurance however.