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Tax Collection in Kenya, The Third Leg of the Stool kaboro.substack.com/p/tax-co…
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Tax Collection in Kenya, The Third Leg of the Stool kaboro.substack.com/p/tax-co…
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Great to see the Gujarat government has set 2 m as the minimum clear width for footpaths. Now over to @AmdavadAMC to put this into practice.
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All of the AirBnB drama boils down to the fact that hosts are running a >>norm arbitrage scheme to get better margin<<:
Hosts deliberately conflate two sets of norms:
1) socially, you're a treasured friend/family who tidies up after himself.
2) commercially, you're a customer who paid for housekeeping.
As a paying guest, you get the obligations of the first and the invoice of the second.
It has always bugged me. No bueno.
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Can we PLEASE normalize just hanging out at each other’s houses again? Why does every friendship meetup need to be a whole production, a restaurant reservation, and a $150 bill? I just want to sit on your couch, drink something, and talk for hours.
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Rwanda set to join the Formula 1 calendar! 🇷🇼
The FIA Formula One World Championship will head back to Africa for the first time since 1993, with a new FIA Grade 1 circuit planned for Bugesera, Rwanda, expected to host its first race in the early 2030s 🏁
#FIA #F1 #AfricanGP
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Just signed our first audit agreement for @ViFi_Labs guys. It’s happening!!
"We have not asked to pay a shilling less than that number. We have asked that what the State owes us be applied to what we owe the State. It is the same Republic on both sides of the ledger.
Money a court has ordered it to pay should be able to settle money it is owed. That is not a favour. It is arithmetic, and it is the right thing to do."
linkedin.com/pulse/response-… by @MikeMachariaSST
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AI is getting cheaper more quickly than any other transformative tech in history. At a given level of performance, cost has fallen ~47%/quarter since 2023.
That’s 4× faster than DNA sequencing, 6× faster than compute, 18× faster than lithium batteries, and (up to 1973) 54× faster than electricity.
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People in tax policy and finance - in a business environment — such as this one — with low trust, decreasing velocity of money and an inflexible tax authority - isn’t withholding tax, where KRA expects the actual money from the supplier, detrimental to a business’ working capital?
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We turn it into security, operational, and commercial intelligence, starting with our flagship product, TelemetriX, which filters and routes that signal to the tools already doing the work — SIEMs, data lakes, and the teams behind them.
Deep signal. Clear intelligence.
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Introducing Red Onion Systems — commercial intelligence from deep network signals.
DNS queries. sFlow and NetFlow records. BGP routes. Most organizations generate this signal and never use it.
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Aki whoever introduced Eucalyptus to Kenya should forever be attacked by a cloud of a thousand fleas.
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All proteins degrade quite quickly.
Never understood people that order sirloin/tomahawk steaks on a date/biz meal...with lots of convo.
Steak has an ~8 minute half-life. The piece of steak you eat after 8 minutes is considerably worse than the first bite.
Sizzle plate helps.
When Good Doctors Go Bad | The New Yorker newyorker.com/magazine/2000/…
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"A tourniquet left too long doesn’t save the limb, it cost you the limb."
Things we need to talk about more. And more.
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Entitlements and the Kenyan state kaboro.substack.com/p/entitl…
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@kaboro nails it; "We also need to reckon with the fact that the “imagined past” people long for was only possible because so many citizens were treated as collateral damage. We need to fix that."
open.substack.com/pub/kaboro…