NZ’s Active Investor Plus program is more like EB-5 than this. AIP requires that migrants invest their funds, not donate them.
The Growth category requires fewer residency days and a NZ$5m (~US$3m) investment in “growth” companies or funds, including VC funds and companies that VC funds invest with.
The Balanced category requires double the investment and has a wider range of asset classes, but also a longer duration and higher number of days of residency required.
If you copy the generated url and put it into the entry field (and repeat) then you end up at a bitcoin site. As Bubblerings has pointed out that has malware.
> If you copy the generated url and put it into the entry field (and repeat) then you end up at a bitcoin site.
Uh, what? I just tried it a few times, and it seems to just follow the redirect each time, always ending up back at the original target URL I entered. How many times did you have to "repeat" to make that happen?
> As Bubblerings has pointed out that has malware.
No, that's not what BubbleRings said. BubbleRings said one site on VirusTotal reported it was malware. That sounds like a false positive because the URL is fishy, which is the entire point of the joke here.
I clicked and there is absolutely is content that is not acceptable, to me, visible on the front page.
Everyone has a different opinions of what’s acceptable, which is why we have ratings systems so society can draw a line.
If a platform doesn’t curate then governments or the legal system, or lobbyists targeting payment providers will step in.
I see a lot of violent stuff, which I think many parents wouldn't find acceptable. I also see a little bit of weeb shit, which again may be unacceptable. I don't see anything which is obviously pornographic; the closest I see to that is an ad for Witcher 3, which I know to have nudity which could reasonably be called pornographic, however nothing in the ad hints at this. It is clearly a violent game though.
And again, studies have shown violence in video games does not increase violence in kids as they grow, in fact it tends to be an outlet, so it should be up to parents to control what they see as acceptable for the kid they are raising.
This push for governments to restrict EVERYONE's kids because a group of parents dislike something is insane, if you don't want your kid to play/watch something, the enforce some damn rules on your own kid.
If you are a US citizen then US tax will apply to you wherever you are. People form other countries switch off their home tax if they do not meet residency requirements.
There is no capital gains or wealth tax at all in New Zealand, but only for domestic investments. For offshore investments there is a deemed return that you treat as income, so if your wealth is tied up in illiquid stock then it can be dire.
> If you are a US citizen then US tax will apply to you wherever you are.
I just learned about this fact this year or so and it's absolutely bananas how people are just accepting this as a normal thing. In what world does it make sense to pay taxes to a country based on citizenship rather than actual location/residency?
Look at London. Draw a line west. Compare climates. Now do the same for New York and go East. Ocean currents are what keeps London warm and NYC cool.
So this is a huge deal. I’ve been down to the Southern Ocean, lectured all the way by scientists.
North of the Antarctic is the only place on earth where the sea can rotate completely around the world without hitting a land mass, and it is deemed the engine of the world’s oceans. Those oceans are what have absorbed most of the excess CO2 that we’ve emitted, and a lot captured has been buried in deep ocean. But the ocean warms, and can capture less CO2, and bad days are ahead.
This news signals not just a slowing in that absorption for an area, which not just sends more CO2 into the atmosphere, but has more terrifyingly unknown downstream implications for other ocean streams.
How do ocean currents keep NYC cool? I thought it was perturbation of atmospheric circulation by the Rocky Mountains, which causes higher latitude air to sweep down over eastern North America.
For that matter, the subsequent northward return of the air also causes some warming in Europe, not just warming from the Gulf Stream.
The Gulf Stream actually warms the eastern US, btw.
BYD is moving so quickly - the ones I’ve seen recently in NZ are surprisingly innovative, superb quality. Obviously not all markets are getting all vehicles, and the best are yet to leave China.
Check out the EV Shark and Denza D9.
Im NZ too. BYD Tang L is pretty impressive technically (coming soon).
I almost want even larger, more powerful vehicle than my Model Y. But can’t imagine dealing with its software and uncertain future. Also I’d rather support Musk than Chinese.
I drove Atto3, which is older vehicle now. UX is nowhere close to Tesla, but I’m keen to try newer ones.
Hyundai/Kia are overpriced here and had some major failures so they can't be trusted (tho I do like Kia EV9 a little bit). Germans are overpriced by solid 2-3x. Japanese EVs are a total joke. Am I missing out someone?
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Why is it lol? I'd make a comment about "kids these days .." but even more than that, I'm amazed by the lack of curiosity or even the shamelessness in making this comment and expecting others to agree with you.
People don't occupy space on roads, vehicles do. They should absolutely be paying by vehicle count. It's their problem if they can't fill the vehicles.
The market exists - I have a product from another company - Bluetti - (1).
The Pila is a beautiful device, but that beauty comes at a price - it's a lot more expensive than, say, Bluetti's range of portable power stations and others too. They are also expandable, connect to solar panels and so on, and apparently the German market has embraced batteries like this with solar panels to give your home a degree of independence very easily.
These are everywhere. You can even pick them up at Costco, Best Buy, and other retail electronics distributors. They're a lot cheaper than the linked product, too.
I think people are getting misled by the Powerwall comparison. This isn't a powerwall competitor. It competes with all of the other battery power stations on the market, of which there are many.
EcoFlow, as best as I can tell from chats with Ukranian folks, has become a generic term for such battery backups. They are very common given the load shedding.
