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If I’m employed in my home country, earning money there and paying taxes, what difference does it make if I happen to sit in another country?

Why does "home country" have tax priority over "sitting in" country? How does that make sense vs having the taxes paid in "sitting in" country instead of "home country"?

with perhaps the strongest argument being jurisdiction. What gives "home country" the legal right to claim taxes on income earned in "sitting country"?

and that's where things get complicated. In order to pay taxes in "sitting country" you need a "sitting tax ID number" and other admin, also if the taxes involve wage withholding, who does the withholding and ensures compliance, etc, etc.

How does this align, in the US, with state-level taxes? If you were born in MN and moved to FL, do you pay MN or FL state income taxes (noting that FL does not have state income tax)?

Is "home country" the state with the home office of the company which employs you, or the state you live in? Should employees of a California company pay California state income tax even when working remote from Texas (another no income tax state)? Or the classic Washington/Oregon divide?

You get an archer with extra mobility AND the ability to focus on hitting his target while someone else does the steering AND armor AND a bigger carrying capacity (more quivers of arrows, ...)

yes, I know the stories of the amazing accuracy of horseback archers (mongol, native american, ...). Just saying that the 2-man thing may be more efficient than you give it credit for.

how sure are you that library genesis will remain available?

I seriously doubt there's very much highly relevant old knowledge locked away somewhere.

Interesting take on what "knowledge" means and what makes knowledge valuable.

If I understand "knowledge" as "information directly relevant to a technical problem", then:

- the knowledge which remains relevant to that problem will stay available to practitioners (i.e. the properties of a Gaussian distribution, from Gauss, 1809)

- the knowledge which is no longer relevant to that problem will probably be lost (how to compute the integral of a Gaussian using a slide rule. Slide rules first developed circa 1620, last used circa 1970)

In other words, yes, your point is profoundly true. Knowledge relevant to a specific task stays available, not relevant gets pruned quickly.

My question would be if we want to use that definition of relevant and that understanding of what drives value. i.e. I'm not asking if you are correct, I've just shown that you are correct. My question is if the assumptions/values which make this correct are assumptions/values we are comfortable with. In other words, is is wise?

and where the information you are looking for is plastered with ads.

yes I know adblocker, pihole, etc.

fdisk or mount?

Friend of mine worked for BMW in Germany. The 35 hour work week was strictly enforced.

It's the law, it's the system, so of course that is what they are going to do.

And this is why capitalism will always win over communism :)

obviously you've never had children.

That car is signaling an intention to merge into your lane once it is safe for them to do so.

Only under the assumption that the driver was trained in the US, to follow US traffic law, and is following that training.

For example, in the EU, you switch on the indicators when you start the merge; the indicator shows that you ARE moving.

or speech-to-text systems. The person might not be typing the text.

"a" vs "the".

"The" supreme court, if one assumes a US-centric definition, comes with a lot of assumptions on the nature of law and the power structure of the various government branches. Which generally do not hold outside of the US and certainly not in France.

So yes, it is "a" supreme court, but that doesn't really help understanding, because it is not "the" supreme court.

yes, but... if you invested 1K USD in gold and 1K USDin a SP500 index fund in 1971, both of those investments would be worth the same dollar amount today.

perhaps that's an artifact of gold's recent spike in price, but perhaps the SP500 is also in the middle of a giant bubble.

https://www.macrotrends.net/1437/sp500-to-gold-ratio-chart

Go ahead, cherry-pick some other dates to tell the story you want!

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieva...

The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps'

Your view comes up every time. Basically you are claiming "Taxis sucked, so it was ok that Uber broke a lot of laws and social conventions to make the situation better".

And who knows, your view might be right.

I'm wondering what insurance companies are going to say. I have a feeling they will be the driving force at least in the US, since they are the ones picking up the bills.

I would be willing to read a few chapters just on spec. There is real value in understanding how people used to think about a problem, and where the source ideas came from.

I see this alot. Has always struck me as very unfair.

Under US law, the debts die with the person. You are under no obligation to repay your parent's debts. Now if the debt is tied to a house (mortgage) or a car (car loan), you might lose the house/car if you don't pay, but you do not have an obligation to pay. Likewise failure to pay will not impact your credit.

So if I die in debt up to my eyeballs, and if I am sole signatory on those debts, I have only hurt my creditors, not my family.

caveats-- if my family was counting on the house and I have an unaffordable mortgage, then yes I have caused them harm. Likewise other irresponsible debts.

-- at the end of the chain, creditors are also people. It is their job to loan money at risk, so their loss is their problem, but this assumes I was dealing in good faith when I took the loan.

often forbidden from doing the thing they were trained to do for a variety of reasons

you forgot to add `insurance company rules` to your list.

need to get the electricity from somewhere. Need to feed the people who work there.

https://xkcd.com/1205/

and

https://xkcd.com/974/

The argument would be that if you hire for diversity, you are no longer hiring for capability first

And a counter-argument is to question the assumptions that:

current hiring practices actually select for capability. See discussions on live coding tests for one example.

In most work, where output requires a team, the output of the team is simply the sum of the capability of the members (i.e. team dynamics/composition/morale do not influence team output).

The world is bigger than NYC, and even New York is bigger than NYC.

you are right about Uber bringing accountability, but Europe solved that through regulation. NYC could have done that-- the right to run a cab is linked to owning a government-issued medallion-- but regulation is not the US way.

Wait, what is the nuisance-- the roundabout of the lack of education? What happens if we replace "roundabout" with "stop sign" in your statement and assume a population that was never trained on what "stop sign" means? Would that work better?

Zebra crossing at roundabout entry-ways, and social norms which encourage drivers to respect these.

The roundabout forces drivers to slow down in any case, so they are already reducing speed.

Social norms is another thing, but if every driver is in asshat mode you are going to have traffic problems regardless of infrastructure.

Want to see it work? Visit Carmel, Indiana.

1911 is still a great design. yeah, single-action trigger, but there are draw techniques which rack the slide and the gun is designed to enable these-- and double-action requires a heavier first trigger pull, which can throw your aim off both for the first shot (heavy pull) and second shot (massively easier pull but you are expecting heavy).

Yeah, small magazine compared to 9mm, but that's because police tactics have changed; the 1911 was not designed for "fire and maneuver" tactics. 1911 is more "one shot stop", something which 9mm doesn't do reliably.

the number of state prisoners that have had 15 or more prior arrests is over 26%

So one reading of this statistic is "incarcerating people turns them into criminals"

which suggests that maybe the better way is something else than locking people up and giving them a black mark which prevents them ever getting a viable job?

What would feel like something that should be regulated to you?

Keep in mind that things like hurricanes do happen occasionally, and the car's AM radio might be the only working communication medium...

we also mandate that cars come with first aid kit.

This is standard in Europe. Yes, we should. Small, light weight, low cost, and "it's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it".

And tire jack/spare tire, and a reflector vest.