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Are you trying to cite Singapore and Hong Kong as countries that aren’t neoliberal?

On the internet “neoliberalism” simply means “stuff I don’t like involving capitalists”

China’s tax rate is considerably higher than 15% and they also don’t want their industries to be competing against companies who are cheating the tax man.

I think your choice of words here is confusing the issue a little, and would propose “incentive” for a tax break the government would like you to take (employing felons), and “loophole” for tax avoidance the government doesn’t want you to take (eg: sending all your profits to the Cayman Islands).

Given that, if min tax rate is 15% and standard corp tax is 20%, the government is happy for you to get to 15% and would like you to get to there with incentives, but not happy for you to get any lower however you do it. The incentives are generally not powerful enough to get you there anyway

Irish are gonna be pissed. Also and not ironically, what a huge win for the workers over capital.

> a solid stable coin … established lending platform

I think we are probably eons apart on the meanings of the words “solid”, “stable”, and “established” here.

Are there tools that will take a paper, do a tree of citations, and find ones that have been debunked

> Worst case you get banned

Worst case is they call the local PD who are having a bad day and want to point a gun at a black man

> but compare that to 0.5% earned at Goldman Sachs or traditional FDIC insured bank accounts

Why on earth would you compare it to those rather than an index tracker?

I’ve been very impressed with fastText and React

Recently I tried to set up some pretty basic Office 365 stuff, and in the end I had to pay someone from Upwork to run a bunch of PowerShell commands because the admin UI simply ignore or timed out when I tried to set stuff. Between that, the absolutely dreadfully confusing product URLs and so on, the chances of me ever trusting MS enough to run servers for me is slim.

It's in fact the inverse of: "The bad guys need to get lucky every time. The good guys just need to get lucky once."

Can we modify the title to specify this is USA 7-Eleven only? There are three countries with more 7-Elevens that the US in absolute terms, and 10 with more per-capita than the USA including Norway and Australia.

> One of the trips across the English Channel encountered a Force 6 gale and the plucky little Amphicar and her probably not fearless crew found themselves dealing with twenty foot waves.

I am pretty sceptical, looking at pictures of it? It sits very low in the water, and presumably is very heavy

> Few things are more American than drinking heavily

This sounds like particularly weird Americentrism, but fine

It's much better when you use it than when you look at the pictures, imho

> It will be interesting to see what the solutions to this are.

I imagine that battery prices are going to be driven down by the cars, and come into their own in terms of supporting old grids

> but plenty of people make the opposite mistake of trusting authorities

In almost 40 years, my heuristic of trusting the government and ignoring anything being sold to me as “THEY don’t want you to know this!!” has worked out really well for me.

> According to a poll released in 2019, some 54 percent of Americans between the ages of thirteen and thirty-eight would, if given the chance, become a social-media influencer. A whopping 23 percent believed that this term already fit them.

EDIT: Jesus, this article is the gift that keeps giving:

> Later, when I ask Chase [about the veracity of the video he] explains that the video must be legit because “it’s gotten deleted multiple times off the internet, which is insane.” Epistemologically, this is where we are as a country: when content gets expurgated because of blatant misinformation, it is taken as a sure sign of that source’s truthfulness.

also the whole post apocalyptic vibe is lit:

> It is raining ash while we play basketball.

> I have donated to Wikipedia several times and feel violated now

You need some perspective.

Worth remembering that visiting there (or Iran) will mean your ESTA privileges are revoked, and you’ll need a visa to travel to ‘merika.

> Unlike East Germany there's no HUMINT apparatus in the west or in China.

I think I wouldn't want to rely on that assumption

The Five Eyes have built a sufficiently valuable asset that the security services of other rich countries all want in.

Denmark is in Nine Eyes, so they’ll happily sell out members of Fourteen Eyes (like Germany) to get closer into the circle.

Exactly. An excellent recruiter will build up a pool of candidates and clients who want to work with them, and will start their own agency where the compensation is usually a multiple of what they'd get in-house.

In-house recruiters tend to be one of:

* HR professionals who do some recruitment as part of their job

* A surprising number of people who end up taking on some recruitment responsibilities as part of their secretarial or admin work, and then end up doing it full-time

* Agency recruiters who didn't enjoy or could cut it being agency recruiters

I know a small number of excellent internal recruiters, but they're really the exception not the rule.

> How do you know if you have a good [recruiter]? If they've been a third party recruiter for more than 3 years, they're probably bad. The good ones typically become recruiters are large companies.

That's ... that's not at all how that works.

> This has already been done by ISPs in several countries

Nah, that’s not even a little bit the same. With the ISP versions they’re using _their_ bandwidth, not yours and they own every part of the user sign-on (making them, not you, responsible for abuse).

> Also depends on your reputation as a buyer on Amazon I think

Probably. There’ll be some people who can rely on their reputation with their CC company too to do a chargeback.

Absolutely zero because it’s a tiny stream to Amazon’s servers and not sharing of internet

This headline is entirely clickbait

> the banking sector in the City of London

There’s no difference in regulations in or outside the city

> their institutions that isn’t there with some bank in a random backwater

It’s the exact same banks. Here’s a list for Jersey although the same is true for most Crown-controlled tax havens: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_in_Jersey