Shaanie

India will as far as I'm aware get hit pretty hard by climate change too, which will be an additional hurdle for them to clear.

How do you suppose that would work? The only predictions possible are things which are virtually impossible to influence, like atmospheric events?

It's quite impressive to quote the guidelines to someone when your first post breaks a whole bunch of them.

If it loads pages, then it clearly works. Nobody claims it's a practical, competitive browser.

More choice as in more content available to choose from on Netflix?

The top 20% consumers consume a large majority of the alcohol, which means there are many Germans who consume reasonable amounts.

They don't criticize it, but believe UBI will "almost pay for itself" by not requiring aa much overhead. Which it won't, not even remotely close.

It's entirely possible there's no longer any single person in charge in practice, but rather a bunch of more or less individually operating cells - each with their own leader.

Did we though, or did we make a calculated decision that in a place with limited resources it'd be better for us to eliminate the competition?

FED is owned by private corporations?..

There's no problem getting a refund for apps in my experience, I've done it a handful of times when I've changed my mind and it was easy and fully automated.

I suspect it's not quite that simple. First, is there actually enough demand for ad-free TVs to make the option worth including? I personally probably wouldn't pay $20 to avoid ads in the home screen since those kind of ads are just a minor nuisance, which makes me question the size of the market for the ad-free option.

Second, what would the pricing be for the option?

If it's $10-20, that'd probably be fine, similar to what Amazon did for Kindle. But if it's more than that, then I bet the negative PR they would get for including the option outweighs the potential benefit to customers. "I would never buy an X, they're extremely greedy and want $50 just not to show ads. Crazy. I'll buy Y brand instead (which has ads but no 'corporate greed' option to not show them)".

I believe you may be conflating opinion with fact, unless you add some qualifier like "based on potential throughput" or some such.

If I buy something for $10 and it's worth $10,000 when you inherit it, you should (obviously?) be taxed on the increase in value from $10 -> $10,000 if/when you sell. The purchase price shouldn't be "reset" to $10k.

It'sutterly insane to me that the step-up basis exists in the US, it's such an obvious loophole that can fairly easily be closed without many adverse effects.

In my country (Sweden) if you don't know the purchase price, you can use an approximate purchasing price (e.g. for equities you are allowed to assume that it was acquired for 20% of the current value, so you'd be taxed on 80%).