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I don’t believe conversion from fiat in home country + transfer fees + conversion to fiat again in Chile costs less than 5-8% except for very large transfers.

Where are you importing to?! To Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia I’ve never had anything take more than 24hrs

World record night temperature is 42.6, so no, there aren’t.

What kind of monster doesn’t like fries?

Reading your comments on this thread, you seem to be interpreting the article as advice, rather than an explanation of how the rich avoid tax.

> Vetos baked into things because of the first rejection of the Nice treaty

$5 imaginary internet dollars says the EU find a way around this.

Nice try Richard

I can't think of a better place to launch an attack on the US than the US's geopolitical enemies, can you?

I suspect the Russian ones are up to plenty that's "interesting", but not in a particularly positive way.

Right, except SpaceX has put humans in the ISS.

…yes? I’ve seen articles openly critical of Bezos in the WashPo and ones supportive of Amazon workers unionising.

> noöne

As much as I also love the The New Yorker diaeresis, “no one” is two words, not one, so no need for one here.

An Elon / Jeff space willy-waving contest about who gets to be Space Bro Alpha seems like a net win for humanity

> except that strictly necessary to be compatible with other natural rights

Sure, and that’s exactly the basis for it in most rich free countries. You’ll find some social and historic wrinkles, but there’s very little you can’t say in Canada that you can say in America.

The Canadians don’t make a whole dog and pony show over MY FREE SPEECH RIGHTS though, which is why Canadian politics is a little less completely beholden to special interests, why hate speech is illegal there, and why you don’t get direct-to-consumer pharma advertising there.

Right, apart from incitement to violence, words liable to cause breach of the peace, threatening speech, obscenity, defamation, invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, campaign financing, speech by government employees, many forms of national security related speech, and instruction on how to make weapons, what speech is banned?!?

> I'll continue to defend the US model. Speech should have no legal limits

And honestly this is the weirdest fucking thing: there’s _plenty_ of legal limits to free speech in the US, and yet there’s this loud section of Americans who believe the particular lines drawn in the US were etched in stone or something.

Singapore? Yes, obviously: Temasek and GIC own more than 60% of market cap on the Singapore Stock Exchange and 80% of people live in public housing.

Sounds like you’re advocating for removal of all laws?

Yeah, just imagine if Chinese internet users were prevented from accessing websites that exposed them to a diversity of opinions

> It's not racist in China to say the truth

mmm, I have had a number of Chinese people explain to me the “truth” about people of various races over the years

America is a weird outlier in lifting worship of freedom of speech far far beyond where other rich, free countries do, so that’s not all that surprising.

Or, even better, no passwords and just sensible pki

"So is rest of the earth" ... when taken as a whole, though. Switzerland is not flat as a pancake, for example.

How is it a huge step forward? Note that no prices are denominated in Bitcoin in this arrangement.

His Wikipedia is interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Figgers

For example: “Figgers also has a license spectrum band from FCC”. The citations there are a student-run uni newspaper in Ghana, and the news site of a Florida State University radio station.

If the guy isn’t all he claims, he’s done an excellent job of layering together successive Wikipedia-credible sources and then using those as a springboard to more and more credible news stories, culminating in coverage in WashPo and the BBC.

I am pretty skeptical, but if I’m right to be, also pretty impressed by his press coverage game.

Description of fixing a broken Mac

> "As I was looking in it I saw capacitors that were broken. I had soldering guns there and I had radios and alarm clocks, so I took parts out of my father's radio alarm clock and I soldered them into the circuit board."

Were computers that repairable back then, that you could swap in bits of old alarm clocks to make them work?

And yet tax receipts locally will be up.

What’s the mechanism by which poor countries will get even poorer exactly here?

I think you are misinformed about the level of corp tax in most poor countries. Twenty countries have corp tax less than 15%, of which about half are poor. 15 have no corporate tax and are either rich or are just unambiguous tax havens.

Average corp tax in Africa and South America is 28%, Europe and Asia are 20%.

https://taxfoundation.org/publications/corporate-tax-rates-a...

Short-term whining from Ireland and Hungary, big words and little action from the true tax havens, and everyone else should be pretty happy with it?