derickr

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by derickr 10y ago
See also: http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansa...
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by derickr 12y ago
I think the article on this, explains why a memory reduction by garbage collection also increases execution speed: http://derickrethans.nl/collecting-garbage-performance-consi...
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by derickr 12y ago
Certainly, but I doubt it's very enforcable.
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by derickr 12y ago
And on top of that, you can be audited by each EU country's tax authority as well... something I have not seen too many people worried about. I think it's an important thing that is being overlooked.
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by derickr 12y ago
I don't think this law was actually pushed for by the UK. And countries like Hungary where VAT is 27% have much more to gain by it.
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by derickr 12y ago
It doesn't matter. Any company selling digital services in the EU need to follow the new VAT rules. Including US companies, and of course Swiss ones.
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by derickr 12y ago
You can buy from a non-EU company just fine. But other than that, there are other allowed bits of information to proof country of consumption, it's just going to be a pain to implement in your check-out process :-/
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by derickr 12y ago
MOSS doesn't solve the difficult requirements for proving in which country a customer lives - providing they don't have a VAT number of course.
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by derickr 12y ago
"Amazon do not abuse it, they just run shop from an EU country with low VAT rate (Luxembourg) last I checked." They "abuse" it from the point of view from the countries where they don't pay the VAT.... f.e. the UK w
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by derickr 12y ago
Über-pedantry: It's "you're" and not "your".
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by derickr 14y ago
Actually, there is a lot of difference but not just because of the global lock to database lock transition. There is also a lot of work done on yield-before-lock: http://blog.serverdensity.com/goodbye-global-lock-mongodb-2-... And don't