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Price elasticity of demand (=sensitivity to price changes). If the seller is afraid that higher prices will significantly impact sales (people won't buy the product or buy alternatives), it might accept a lower margin in order to maintain the volume.

Also market competition can be a factor: if competitors are not raising prices (or by smaller amounts), you might lose market share.

Only for incoming email unfortunately

I would like to be able to just send an email from anywhere, eg my mail client on the phone, without any extra steps

This does not make sense. TSMC is from Taiwan, which is to all practical extent independent from China, politically and economically.

Look at hotels.com, which in many ways is comparable. It has around 1000 employees (one thousand). From wikipedia:

Hotels.com has 85 websites in 34 languages, and lists over 325,000 hotels in approximately 19,000 locations.

Going back to your comments, you could rephrase some of the earlier comments as: why on earth would you need millisecond performance improvements for a website/product listing rentals?

Had the some doubts for our first hire - he wanted to work 4 days a week. He seemed committed and enthusiastic about our mission, so we went ahead.

Best choice we ever made: any doubt about commitment, passion, etc were blown away after a few weeks. He is now a cornerstone of our team. He still works 4 days a week. Now several key team members work 2.5 to 4 days a week, and we're doing great.

Looking back: I should have asked myself: what is better, working 1 day a week more or passion and a good technical fit?

Other European countries are moving in the same direction.

The Netherlands is the one in which such a law seems likelier to be passed, also because of significantly less lobbying from the car industry (no major manufacturers, as opposed to Germany with Volkswagen, the second largest in the world).

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/neth...

Care to motivate? I am curious, I don't know ATS

Would you care to motivate?

He is spot on, but I find (and always found) his wording way too aggressive. Makes it kind of hard to have a constructive discussion on the topic, which by the way really needs such discussion.

From my experience, that seems to be the policy in Amsterdam. I am en EU citizen, but live in the Netherlands. If I fly to the US I can reliably expect lengthy and silly questions. Example:

Agent: why did you come the Netherlands six years ago? Me: to study

A: where's your student id? M: that was six years ago...

A: any other proof you might have?

and so on...

The arxiv is not refereed. I usually read those pre-prints with (extra) extra caution, especially if they are outside my area of competence.

You're implying that fora is the only acceptable way of writing the plural of "forum". That's nonsense, forums is perfectly valid English. My point was: why forum/fora? Why not creditor/creditores, or abdomen/abdomina?

By the way who really uses fora as the plural of forum? To me it seems at best arbitrary, at worst pretentious.

Thanks for the tip!

Which ones of those would be worth buying?

Indeed. You also keep your German or Austrian citizenship if you did not apply for the other citizenship (e.g. if someone was born from German parents in Australia).

In general different countries have (very) different sets of rules, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_citizenship