vanekjar

This article is totally misleading.

They compare top 500 CEOs (S&P 500) vs average worker. How about comparing apples to apples? What's the compensation of an average CEO from some random small company?

Also total compensation is misleading measure, it's not money on the table. Often just stock options that may or may not vest in future.

True, a lot of fun with signaling right while leaving roundabouts.

Oh wait, nobody does that anyway

How is the ban implemented? It doesn't sound realistic and the article doesn't share technical details.

I've been using MacBook Pro with various Linux laptops in parallel for couple of years. Apple hardware and design are indeed exceptional. Great HDPI screen, awesome trackpad, like the keyboard despite all negative rumors.

But when I was looking for another laptop recently, I obviously ditched Apple and picked ThinkPad instead for following reasons:

Only two USB-C ports, in fact only one usable since the other one is occupied by charger. Compare that to ThinkPad having multiple USB-A and USB-C, full HDMI, SD card reader, even Ethernet and docking station. Not sure how Apple can be considered for professional use.

MacOS is not great. I've been using all operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and I miss package manager the most in MacOS. It takes a couple of clicks (or a single command (`apt-get install`) to install trusted software on Linux. In MacOS world it's still pretty normal to visit a random website a download unverified DMG installer. That's like being stuck in 90s and I feel very unsafe doing that.

FATCA sucks, cannot believe EU accepted something like that into the legislation.

Recently, one of the banks in EU falsely flagged me as a potential US citizen. I had to file tons of forms to opt out.

I couldn't figure out why, there was no reason for that since I've got no ties with US and I've visited as tourist only couple of times. Then I realized my phone number I used in communication with the bank is Canadian (live in Canada, but EU citizen). Please note that the country code for Canada and US is the same (+1). What a joke.

The problem is the EU banks are forced to be compliant with this thing, but they have no clue who is US citizen and who is not. So they can just guess.

Do you really believe that the biggest region is used for testing?

No position is so strong as it seems.

Remember Yahoo, Nokia, Motorola, Kodak. Invincible leaders at some point.

Look at today's Intel or Boeing decline. Apple is also not as nearly as strong as it seems. There is Android competition in software and many bigger brands in hardware.

Things can change anytime even without a regulation.

That doesn't mean it's regressive. It's just a demagogy.

Low income people buy less things and pay lower sales tax proportionally. Wealthy people spend more on luxurious goods and pay way higher tax in absolute numbers. Everyone is hurt the same.

On top of that, necessities (food, medication, books) are usually exempt from the sales tax.

How is the sales tax regressive when there is a fixed percentage?

Like the more I spent the less I pay in sales tax? I don't think so.

> mother and children live in Canada while the father works in HK.The family doesn't declare the foreign income in Canada.

Why would the father pay taxes in Canada when he lives and works in HK (or anywhere else) and (likely) is not a Canadian tax resident? It doesn't make any sense.

After all they pay local taxes in Canada while spending (GST, PST, property tax etc.)

> The company does OSS and my side-project is also Open-Source.

What does it even mean to "keep the ownership" in this case. You have never had an ownership when it's open-source. Probably they can take you're code, fork it and use without your approval, depends on the license used.

I would like to see the same statistics for Europe. It would be very different.

I am afraid the result is biased. Most of the people in US keep Japanese cars because most people actually buy Japanese cars at the first place and some of them keep them.

I guess in Europe we could see very different brands.

I would extend it to - avoid transfers anywhere in North America (including Canada). US and Canadian airports are pain in the ass regarding customs and immigration. Better to transfer in Europe or Asia and fly directly from there.

Care to elaborate? Why AWS?

I am afraid your math doesn't add up. Influx of foreign capital can never be bad because it fuels the local economy. It brings new jobs in construction and other related services, transtively bringing more money to government because every human activity is taxed.

By banning foreign investors you're basically saying: "nah, we don't need more money, we have enough".