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Stephen Rees :verifiedgreen:

From Taras Grescoe

There's More to Speed than Meets the Eye

High Speed Rail, Done Right, Is About Moving People Efficiently, Not Breaking Records

The smart reason is to increase the capacity of rail lines: in other words, to transport more passengers per hour between stations. The origins of HSR lie in Japan in the 1950s, when rail traffic between two massively populous cities, Tokyo & Osaka, was reaching its limit.

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An overhead shot of a modern train An L0 Series maglev being tested in Yamanashi Prefecture in 2020; the Chuo Shinkansen has topped out at 603 kms (375 miles) per hour.
#Transport#transportation#trains
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Massimo Luciani

#astronomy #cosmology #DarkEnergy #JWST #HST

An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal" reports the results of a new measurement of the universe's expansion rate obtained using observations conducted with the James Webb Space Telescope that confirms previous results obtained with Hubble. A team of researchers led by Adam Riess verified that the so-called Hubble tension was not due to limitations of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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english.tachyonbeam.comNew confirmations of the universe’s expansion rate leave open the questions about itAn article published in 'The Astrophysical Journal' reports the results of a new measurement of the universe's expansion rate obtained using observations...
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Massimo Luciani

#astronomy #galaxy #NGC2090 #JWST #HST

ESA has published an image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope that portrays the galaxy NGC 2090 in the near and mid-infrared. This allowed to obtain an unprecedented amount of detail on this galaxy's two spiral arms. For ESA, NGC 2090 is at the center of the scene these days because the choice for the Webb image of the month follows by a few days the choice for the Hubble Space Telescope image of the week.

english.tachyonbeam.com/2024/1

english.tachyonbeam.comA spectacular combination for the galaxy NGC 2090ESA has published an image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope that portrays the galaxy NGC 2090 in the near and mid-infrared thanks to the combination...
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#Etsy:

1. They blocked my account, insisting I add my "taxpayer ID" to my account.
2. I don't have a problem with that, *but* when you do so, Etsy stops collecting and remitting Canada's #GST and/or #HST from buyers. It's now Your Problem. However...
3. They do not provide a way to let sellers add the taxes to their prices/transactions. You just have to take it out of your item price. Which means...
4. Because #tax #rates vary across Canada, from 5% to 15%, you would have to set your price differently in each #province or #territory to account for it. But ...
5. Etsy does not provide a way to do that. So ...
6. You have to add 15% to your prices, charge everyone that, and then back-calculate the "real" item price differently for each province and territory, for every sale. Which is bad enough, but ...
7. Etsy does keep collecting the *#PST* from buyers in 3 of the provinces. So it effectively charges PST on the GST/HST you've included in the prices. Back-calculating from *that* is more painful. And you're lying about the amount of tax paid on the receipts Etsy generates, which is a *#crime*.

TL;DR: Etsy makes sales impossibly difficult, and makes you complicit in a crime while doing so. Fun.

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Another post on my current issue with operating an #Etsy store in #Canada.

I want to explain exactly what the issue is, and see if any #Canadian #sellers know how to deal with this problem.

1. If you hit a certain sales threshold, Etsy demands you add your "taxpayer ID" to your account. This is your GST registration number, usually.

2. Once you add this to your account, Etsy stops collecting all sales taxes on purchases in Canada *except* the provincial sales tax from B.C., Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. It doesn't add GST or HST to sales. They tell you to submit it yourself from the sale proceeds.

3. Etsy provides no way to set #prices differently for different #provinces. Tax rates vary across Canada, from 5% GST in Alberta and the territories, to 15% HST in the maritime provinces.

4. So you have to pick a price that will allow you to take ~15% off each sale to remit as #taxes without losing money on each sale - but this higher price will be higher than it needs to be for provinces with lower tax rates, and even worse will have PST added on top for 3 provinces, jacking the price up even higher.

I ran into this over a year ago, and managed to convince them to take my GST ID off my account (they generally refuse to do this) so they collected the tax again, but they're now demanding I re-add it, which will trigger the above problem again.

Any other Etsy sellers in Canada know how to deal with this problem? Boosts appreciated.

#SalesTax#GST#HST
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