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derickr

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    Comment #13113728

    See also: http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansa...

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    Comment #8687365

    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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    Comment #8682579

    Certainly, but I doubt it's very enforcable.

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    Comment #8680381

    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 i…

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    Comment #8680256

    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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    Comment #8680251

    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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    Comment #8680248

    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 imple…

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    Comment #8680222

    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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    Comment #8680220

    "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 …

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    Comment #8329056

    Über-pedantry: It's "you're" and not "your".

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    Comment #4448331

    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.serve…