Anyway, the tax should of course be on short-term investments. The shorter an asset is kept, the higher the tax should be.
If this is too difficult to implement, then perhaps a tax per transaction will do, indeed. If a HFT trader makes a profit of 0.03% per transaction then this tax will make HFT trading unprofitable, while leaving long-term investments mostly untouched.
The effect will be that the frequency of trading will go down. The question is whether that will be sufficient. (Holding on to a stock for a day instead of a few milliseconds is not going to be a huge improvement in terms of long-term investment and long-term vision).
Ah, but you didn't consider the effect this will have. The result will be that share prices become normalized in a certain sense. Not too large to allow trading, not too small to allow reasonable trade taxes.
Then the question is: why aren't there services like facebook's, google's and twitter's that are honest and let you be the customer, instead of commercial third parties? I don't mind paying a reasonable fee, if the company treats me like I expect them to.
In a little while, when physicists have figured out the laws of the universe, everything might be mathematics... (not just symbolic stuff like computer programs)
In the future, submitters should be required to submit multiple photos of the scene as evidence that their photo is real. For instance, if the photographer could show a picture of the same group of people from a different angle (e.g., from behind), then that would add to the credibility of the photo.
Anyway, photoshop or not, it is still possible to "stage" a photo of course.
It also teaches you how laws of physics were found instead of just showing you the results. This is important if you ever want to get into the same line of thinking to find new laws of physics.
The whole point was to prove that antigun laws are as useless and counterproductive as the war on drugs.
Next up: downloadable and printable schematics for a uranium enrichment facility, because you know, what good are nuclear laws as established by the IAEA, when anybody and their grandmother can make a nuclear bomb in their kitchen?
Anti-intellectualism Unlike many European countries, New Zealanders do not have a particularly high regard for intellectual activity, particularly if it is more theoretical than practical. This is linked with the idea of 'kiwi ingenuity', which supposes that all problems are better solved by seeing what works than by applying a theory.
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Anyway, the tax should of course be on short-term investments.
The shorter an asset is kept, the higher the tax should be.
If this is too difficult to implement, then perhaps a tax per transaction will do, indeed.
If a HFT trader makes a profit of 0.03% per transaction then this tax will make HFT trading unprofitable, while leaving long-term investments mostly untouched.
The effect will be that the frequency of trading will go down. The question is whether that will be sufficient. (Holding on to a stock for a day instead of a few milliseconds is not going to be a huge improvement in terms of long-term investment and long-term vision).
Ah, but you didn't consider the effect this will have.
The result will be that share prices become normalized in a certain sense. Not too large to allow trading, not too small to allow reasonable trade taxes.
If the intent is to tax people on trade volume, then why not tax per volume traded?
Geez.
Time == money, after all.
...I'm calling 100.000 random people every month.
Sort that out, NSA!
This sounds like a task for open source. Any accurate clock projects out there?
If we're lucky Apple will realise that patent reform is in their best interests as well as ours.
You must be kidding. Apple is a law firm that happens to sell consumer electronics.
Encapsulate your entire machine in a VM and you can run the entire software stack if necessary.
Yes, but what about my Google doc stuff?
Can you run Google in a VM?
... you clearly haven't read the law.
Why does that make me feel enlightened?
... and protecting consumers with better protections against being sued for patent infringement.
How's that new? I thought consumers were exempt from these type of lawsuits.
Should I have been reading patents before wasting money on my iPhone?
you don't have to be best, you just have to be first
This apparently does not apply to telephone companies.
Why should it apply to Twitter etc.?
Then the question is: why aren't there services like facebook's, google's and twitter's that are honest and let you be the customer, instead of commercial third parties?
I don't mind paying a reasonable fee, if the company treats me like I expect them to.
My phone number is copyrighted. If they pull tricks like this, I'll send them a DMCA notice.
"Almost any software can be converted into a physical machine"
I think you maybe meant "virtual" machine?
Obviously, he meant something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BabbageDifferenceEngine.jpg
Remember, Google is involved here. Finally we can data-mine all the intimate details of all users!
No amount of physics, maths or theories of "everything" will cure cancer
Well, a sheet of paper on which a patent is written will not solve many practical problems either.
In a little while, when physicists have figured out the laws of the universe, everything might be mathematics... (not just symbolic stuff like computer programs)
That sounds strange. So you could patent "subtracting two numbers to calculate at what time you have to leave home to arrive on time"?
In the future, submitters should be required to submit multiple photos of the scene as evidence that their photo is real. For instance, if the photographer could show a picture of the same group of people from a different angle (e.g., from behind), then that would add to the credibility of the photo.
Anyway, photoshop or not, it is still possible to "stage" a photo of course.
It also teaches you how laws of physics were found instead of just showing you the results. This is important if you ever want to get into the same line of thinking to find new laws of physics.
McDonald's tells grads that cannot code to go flip burgers.
News at 11.
The whole point was to prove that antigun laws are as useless and counterproductive as the war on drugs.
Next up: downloadable and printable schematics for a uranium enrichment facility, because you know, what good are nuclear laws as established by the IAEA, when anybody and their grandmother can make a nuclear bomb in their kitchen?
Just like tablets didn't exist before the iPad.
Thus, a better solution would be that the device changes its ID every once in a while.
Might be a good idea for nonportable devices too, because that would screw up Google's wifi data harvesting practices.
OTOH, from wikipedia:
Anti-intellectualism
Unlike many European countries, New Zealanders do not have a particularly high regard for intellectual activity, particularly if it is more theoretical than practical. This is linked with the idea of 'kiwi ingenuity', which supposes that all problems are better solved by seeing what works than by applying a theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_New_Zealand#Anti-intellectualism