shivasaxena

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by shivasaxena 1y ago
> But that was done by regulation, wasn't it? Would have been nicer to see that come as a result of competition. Bill Gurly has been crying for years now about how US banks have been bocking/not-participating in equivalent serv
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
Curious if anyone know any implementation where they would be automatically updated? Now that would be awesome! EDIT: come to think of it, it would require going through CDC stream, and figuring out if any of the tables affected are a depen
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
Thanks for letting me know, I'll try to get my hands on it.
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
No, in populations which traditionally use mustard oil heart problems are common. So it's time tested to cause heart failure.
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
I don't know what time-tested means but mustard oil is banned in EU/US for edible uses due to high erucic acid. So you parents were right!
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
> Some would probably get into blue-collar work, others will try their hand starting a business (that will also compete with AI), but all of them? Yes, that's exactly what will happen and you can even now see examples of unemployed
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
I would rather argue for the following - No PIT on dividend income, which is fair since CIT has already been paid on the money earned by the firm(and paid bt by you as a shareholder in that firm) - CIT payable only on dividend distribution,
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
I'm 36, but to be fair even in late 90s when we were kids we had 1) Forums like askanexper(can't remember the exact name) 2) great books like sams teach yourself in 24 hours and a habit to spend time in library 3) most importantly
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
Yes, many just distribute the shares down to their LPs who then decide whether to sell or hold. I would be surprised if that didn't happen in this case.
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
Thanks for your comment and for sharing your experience. > Having been at a company that tried this: The number of poorly-behaved or outright abusive clients is a huge problem. Having a client become popular with a small group of people
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
In case your haven't noticed, with remote work and globalization we do compete with people from developing countries, and even westerners nomading in asia. In most of my jobs I have had team members based out of eastern Europe, Ex-USSR
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
Fine, but I also gave the example of 12 EUR for a wine opener that I can get for 2 EUR on temu. Lots of people in this thread pointed out how Temu doesn't pay VAT and/or other taxes etc which were plain trumpian style misinformati
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
ah, what's the 12.50€ processing fee? Is it the DHL processing fees? > But now I need to warehouse those 1000 items in Germany and re-package them into local parcels for each customer Yes, it would be infeasible to ship such a low v
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
I'm vocally defending our consumers including myself that are being bled dry by our retailers. Instead of raising doubts about my character, it would be wise to consider my argument intellectually and see how you can justify a 10 eur m
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
> The reason we have these laws are: companies try to maximize their profits. Getting your house burnt down, your kid lead-poisoned, or getting a broken product without any course for replacement just sucks. So we make companies responsi
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
I don't think it's correct. The 150 eur exemption on custom duty on small packets has been revoked for years now, and now EU is also introducing some more tariffs. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq699y
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
Good point, but custom duty on a 2€ wine opener is no where close to 10€. As far as I know on such goods it ranges for 0-30%. Most of it is just outrageous markup since there's no competition in europe(save again for 1€ mom and pop chi
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
Sure, but I also gave the example of 12 EUR wine opener at Esselunga in Italy which I can get for 2 EUR on Temu.
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
> 50 years later (aka now for most of the west): "Why did we lose all our industries ? Why is it so hard to find a job ? Why is all the know how in China now ? Why is China buying our ports/airports ?? Why is our social model c
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
Customs rules have already changed and the 150 EUR exemption has been revoked for a couple of years now. I'm all for forcing Temu and other Chinese retailers following our regulations if they want to sell in Europe.
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
> Also, Temu is heavily reliant on infrastructure which was paid for by the taxes paid by local companies. The trick how Temu can avoid paying is by lying on the customs forms and declaring business transactions as valueless gifts. I’m n
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
No, but then they should issue fines to Temu and force it to comply. I would whole heartedly support EU commission then. However their actions till now have been about shutting down competition(changing custom rules on international package
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
Yes, disguising this regulatory capture as a concern for consumers on health and safety grounds is a great digression. I have also seen people raise concern about Slave labour for example. This of course ignores the fact that European retai
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
I work for a Swiss POS firm. We buy all our peripherals like tablet stands etc, and merchandising from Temu since it's 5-10x time cheaper and is same or better quality. We are competing with well funded companies like lighspeed/to
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
> Infamously in the US, the IRS knows all. In India, the IRS runs blind. Here, tax evasion is the norm with only 2.2% of the population paying income tax. That's not true. Every year you get emails to file IT returns, and they have
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
If I may ask, why didn't you just use any available emacs config with python support? There are plenty on github, and ofc there's doom emacs, spacemacs, and probably others. I can tell you in my case it was because I did want to p
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
Then your friend is free to not buy these goods she deems "dangerous". Why stop those of us who want to buy it?
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
> To your point: stakes in your _own_ company are not taxed as assets, but as income, precisely to avoid the ridiculous situation you point out. Enlightening, so you mean this policy isn't for the so called "1%"? Only for
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
I would like to know that too. I would have never thought it was 50% I would love to see some innovation in this space like India's ONDC and more Direct-to-Driver apps. https://nammayatri.in/open?cc=
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by shivasaxena 1y ago
Happy to be corrected. I see now that most countries do tax worldwide income, just that most of the time they have DTA agreements so you can offset tax paid in other countries against your tax bill.

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