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Airbnb's argument against tax doesn't fly — Special pleading is “a form of spurious argumentation,” Wikipedia explains, by “someone attempting to cite something as an exemption to a generally accepted rule, principle, etc.” — For example, San Francisco's Airbnb, the online …
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Today it’s my first day as official US immigrant, I entered customs through the new immigrant line as a future Green Card holder. I have been living in the US for 4.5 years under an investor visa and the main reason why we asked for a Green Card was getting the kids into College and allowing my 16 years old to keep his ranking as one of the top junior fencers in the US (he needs a Green Card # to keep fencing the nationals). It’s not been easy, it’s been about 1.5 years that we have been waiting for that interview, prepared a full application and asking many friends their written recommendations to help my case (thanks, it helped). Oh and I think we paid $15k in immigration lawyering fees, too.
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Merci a Olivier Ezratty pour ses billets très complets sur LeWeb 2011, je viens de les lire. Dans l’un d’entre eux il suggère qu’un intervenant d’Apple soit sur scène, cela fait des années que j’essaie sans succès, Apple ne parle que dans ses propres événements, les fameux “keynotes” et Steve Jobs n’a fait que de très rares apparitions en dehors, comme a AllThingsD ou j’ai eu la chance de l’écouter en personne. Le compte-rendu de Korben est lui aussi tres intéressant, surtout ses rencontres en dehors des scènes plénières, plus des startups et entrepreneurs participants. Comme quoi LeWeb est aussi utile quand on s’intéresse moins aux “stars” internationales de la technologie.
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Tonight I’m getting message after message that friend after friend has joined Highlight (the photo above is of Paul Davison showing it off to some of its first users back in December on the day it launched into a closed beta). What is Highlight? Well, two weeks ago, in the Next Web, I named it as one of two apps that will “win” SXSW .
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