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by bitcartel 13y ago
Google's tax strategy is legal, but disguising UK sales as Irish sales is not. "Google vice-president Matt Brittin insisted he stood by evidence he gave last year that all the firm's advertising in Europe was sold through its offices in Ir
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by bitcartel 13y ago
25 USD w/ free shipping at FocalPrice :) http://www.focalprice.com/MH0408W/14_Children_Card_Bar_Phone...
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by bitcartel 13y ago
Rather than cutting your ring into small pieces, check out this credit card sized gold bar which you can tear off into 1 gram pieces. http://www.combibar.com/products/50g-combibar-gold/
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by bitcartel 13y ago
Exactly. Gold is a universal currency, you can use it for barter pretty much anywhere on the planet. Gold coins (British Sovereigns) were supposedly part of the emergency survival kit given to US and British fighter pilots during the first
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by bitcartel 13y ago
Do the classes teach "Modern Perl" e.g. Moose, DBIx, Critic ?
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by bitcartel 13y ago
> Even the KMT (國民黨）has long given up that stance. Are you sure? Just a few days ago, the President (and leader of the KMT party) said: No matter where we are, here or abroad, we’ll by no means push for ‘Two Chinas’, ‘One Taiwan, one
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by bitcartel 13y ago
Here's something few people seem to be aware of - Taiwan agrees it is part of China (aka 'One China' [1]). While we often hear about the government in Beijing claiming the island as the sovereign territory of the Peoples Republic of China (
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by bitcartel 13y ago
Wow, $71.4 million in funding! Edit: Privco predicts company will fail soon http://www.privco.com/privcos-2013-private-company-predictio...
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by bitcartel 13y ago
Create a new (viral) software license, the Ethical Public License (EPL). The EPL is linked to the oath and forbids use of the source code in any project or system deemed to break the oath. This might result in an economic incentive for comp
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by bitcartel 13y ago
It would be interesting to combine this with an open source license which links to the Oath, and forbids use of the code in any project or system which breaks the Oath. For developers who have undertaken the Oath, the challenge would then b
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by bitcartel 13y ago
That's a decision for each individual developer to make. Some folk tried to create a pacifist version of the GPL[1]. Others are using the RMPL (RobotGroup-Multiplo-Pacifist-License)[2] - basically a MIT license, but with a restriction that
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by bitcartel 13y ago
We need to nip this in the bud. Maybe it's time to create a Hippocratic Oath for developers to publicly commit to? A future Path developer could then refuse to implement an unethical "feature" by pointing out that the company had hired them
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by bitcartel 13y ago
What on earth are you talking about?! Someone else[1] first mentioned that the original poster once worked for CME. Anyone who has been following the LIBOR rigging story can see the irony. You've now accused several people of defaming the
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by bitcartel 13y ago
> the CME is almost completely irrelevant To call CME irrelevant is strange - it's the world’s largest futures exchange! The CME decision many years ago to link futures contracts to LIBOR may have inadvertently kick-started the entire
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by bitcartel 13y ago
You worked for CME right? Quite ironic given we're discussing LIBOR rigging which has its roots in a decision made by the CME, subsequently exploited by traders. "In late 1996, Marcy Engel, then a lawyer for Wall Street heavyweight Salomo
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by bitcartel 13y ago
Is it really though? Registered developers can already submit code level problems[1], there are official developer forums and bugs can be filed with Radar. Meanwhile at WWDC, it's a developer scrum to get a 15 minute slot with an engineer a
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by bitcartel 13y ago
What did your revenues look like? This acquisition doesn't really tell us if Parse, based around a proprietary SDK, had a viable business model or not.
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by bitcartel 13y ago
At the very least, make the food better!
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by bitcartel 13y ago
If Apple wanted to, they could offer free tickets to everybody. For example, 5,000 tickets at $1,599 each is just under $8 million, which is a drop in the ocean when you consider Apple has around $145 billion in cash. While shareholders are
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by bitcartel 13y ago
Perhaps the most important thing to remember from today - the CFO said that Apple, for the first time, will take on debt. In a nutshell, a company with around $100bn in cash (and equivalents) held offshore[1] would rather raise debt and pay
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by bitcartel 13y ago
> Bitcoins will attain their true value of zero sooner or later, but it is impossible to say when... Bitcoins are the most demonstrably valueless financial asset ever created It looks like John Quiggin is basing his views upon his exten
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by bitcartel 13y ago
Apple has the public's eye, which is why they're getting picked on, just like Nike was a few years ago. The fact that Apple enjoys such fat margins makes them look, at least to some people, that bit more egregious than their competitors. I
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by bitcartel 13y ago
The NYT just won a Pulitzer[1] "...for its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers." [2] [1] http://tech.fort
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by bitcartel 13y ago
A key argument for offshore outsourcing is to take advantage of a lower cost base so you can price your finished goods more competitively. Apple have managed to keep prices high and thus maximize profit. If Mac manufacturing returned to th
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by bitcartel 13y ago
The headline is misleading. A pie-chart from the underlying data[1] shows that the author somehow forgot to mention 21% of the profit from "Other" PC manufacturers. What isn't in dispute is that Apple charges more than its competitors for w
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by bitcartel 13y ago
What worries me is that the guy who couldn't see the potential of the Internet is the same guy who thinks that five years of quantitative easing is "temporary" and that printing trillions of dollars of funny money is just "fine". > The
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by bitcartel 13y ago
> So do we need a new form of money? I guess you could make that case if the money we actually have were misbehaving. But it isn’t. We have huge economic problems, but green pieces of paper are doing fine — and we should let them alone
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by bitcartel 13y ago
If Bitcoin is outside of his comfort zone then he should do some research first! Seriously, how long would it have taken him to read up on Bitcoin and learn about the publicly distributed transaction ledger? > "Unlike credit card trans
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by bitcartel 13y ago
Don't forget the Bank of Japan has also joined the party. Having held interest rates at 0.5% or less, for 18 years now (since 1995) they are also going to conjure up $76 Billion/month of funny money to buy government bonds, on a mission to
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by bitcartel 13y ago
> "Let’s focus on the two huge misconceptions — one practical, one philosophical — that underlie both goldbugism and bitbugism. The practical misconception here — and it’s a big one — is the notion that we live in an era of wildly irre

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