Not only that mate but the government itself needs to find alternative to where might get additional income generating market as we knew that Gambling businesses is one of the biggest tax paying in the world.
they even generate 20% of the GDP from gambling operator itself not counting the illegal activities as well.
But regulation will do better i guess and proper implementation of laws regarding those regulations. I just want to say one thing. There are certain sectors like gambling, weed, alcohol, porn, prostitution.etc that have existed for thousands of years. Semitic religions consider them as taboo, and try to ban them. But they have existed much before these religions came into existence, and they will continue to exist no matter who tries to ban them. Those who try to ban them are just not able to admit the reality. I can give numerous examples. Iran, which has banned almost all of the professions/hobbies mentioned above has one of the highest rates of drug abuse and prostitution in the world. The same can be said about Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and most of the other third world nations. |
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I second @Vishnu.Reang because good coaches can only advice, but if the player’s fail to execute the coaches plans on the the pitch then the team is destined to fail. Also Srilanka will need a miracle to qualify, because in their current form I don’t have any hopes from them and may consider wagering against them if I get good odds.
They should be able to qualify. The other teams in the group are Ireland, Namibia and Netherlands. These three are in decent form currently, but still defeating a test nation (which receives ICC funding of $15 million per year is going to be really tough). Ireland struggled against Zimbabwe recently and the Netherlands hasn't played against quality opposition for a long time. And I can't remember the last time when Namibia played against a test nation (that was in 2003 ODI world cup?). So it is going to be an uphill task for these teams. |
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Women are always the biggest supporters of left-liberal and LGBTQ propaganda. Now they are getting the taste of their own medicine. Personally I don't care, since I hardly ever watch any women's sport other than beach handball, beach volleyball and waterpolo. But if someone asks my personal opinion, then I would say that these trans athletes should compete in men's category rather than women's. They may consider themselves as women, but their physical attributes are still similar to those of male gender.
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For the Indian government, the number one concern is the usage of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies by the freelancers to receive payments from foreign employers. Every now and then, they try to crack down on freelancers (because the regular IT companies pay around 70% of their profit in the form of various taxes and currency conversion charges, and with freelancers this % is much lower). PayPal and other payment processors was forced to stop its operations in India due to continued harassment. But with Bitcoin, the government is really powerless. They can't track how much money is being received by the freelancers. This is the reason why they came up with a very authoritarian law a few months back. But due to widespread protests, they couldn't table it in the parliament.
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Benefit to the general population doesn't necessarily mean that the government is profiting out of it. If people use cryptocurrency as a mode of payment, then obviously the purchasing power of the national currency will go down. And this will make it harder for the governments to take loans, and to repay the existing loans. Less than 10% of the world nations are operating on surplus budgets. The remainder need to take loans to cover the fiscal deficit. Under such a scenario, weakening of the national currency is the last thing that they want.
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A very good but difficult question ...
Nominally, for the last 5 years we have not had noticeable inflation (fluctuations in the range of 25-28 UAH / dollar), and in the last half of the year there has even been deflation (a drop in the exchange rate from 28 to 27). At the same time, there is also an increase in the minimum pension, the minimum wage - from 2014 to 2021 it increased from the level of UAH 1,218 to UAH 6,000. But you probably know that our companies often pay salaries in 2 parts - the first part is "official" (usually at the level of the minimum wage or slightly higher) and the second - "in an envelope", unofficial and most. The first, smaller part is the tax-generating part. Yes, this is a systematic tax evasion, but this is bad ... There was also a period of fairly active economic growth (2015-2019, the previous president) and the filling of state funds, now there is deflation, but most likely it is "manual" because under the new President, the economy began to "slide to the bottom", state revenues fell dramatically, but so far they are trying to manually create the appearance of "stability". If we compare prices for basic food products, medicines, then prices in 2019 were about 1.5-2 times lower than now .. Plus, the new government again untied the oligarchs' hands, who again monopolize the market for heat carriers, electricity, which led to a noticeable increase utilities 1.5 - 2 times. True, we have a system of state compensation for low-income people, which allows low-income people to level their utilities. In fact, the state pays for these services ... But as we know, "There is no" state money ", there is only taxpayers' money" (c) Margaret Thatcher.
In total, it seems to be not bad, but if you look at it, then there are problems on the horizon and significant ones if we do not take measures.
PS Oh! Singapore! I traveled a couple of times towards Indonesia / Bali, flew both times through Singapore, always stopped for a couple of days - Sentosa Island, Orchid National Park, architecture, ... A very interesting country!
Interesting that you mentioned that most of the companies pay income in two parts, to avoid taxes. I have heard about this from Russia, but not from any other country. Here in Singapore, doing so is not beneficial for the company. Because salary paid to the employee is exempted from corporate tax. For the employee, it may be beneficial, because he doesn't need to show the amount in the tax return. Are the income tax level extremely high in Ukraine, for the employees to resort to such practises? I did a quick search, and it shows that the top slab is only 18% (which is around one-third of the top slab in the US). |
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Interesting sentence you have written: "Non vaccinated people are becoming a threat". Can you prove that? Actually there is a little difference between unvaccinated and vaccinated. Are you 200% sure that vaccinated people are more safe thanks to vaccine, and not thanks to their immune system? Yet both have sad similarities as being virus carriers, a must to wear masks everywhere, keeping social distancing.
Yes. Unvaccinated people are becoming a threat, to those around them. In the recent days, it has been observed that >99% of the deaths in all the countries due to COVID 19 are among individuals who are not fully vaccinated. These people are more likely to get infected by COVID and spread the infection to others (at least 4x higher chance), have higher probability of getting hospitalized and finally have a much higher chance of dying from COVID (upto 200x more likely when compared to the vaccinated population). |
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People complain they have problems accessing the wallet, withdrawing money from ATMs, and data verification... many of them didn't get $30 yet! So I guess you are right, they are in the phase of development, but they should test it before they started with it! I saw in the news somewhere that the wallet update is almost ready and soon it will work fine, that is a good thing, but I think they could do a better job before releasing it!
Well, we can only hope that everything will be fine soon! I believe that many eyes are on El Salvador now, watching what will happen with this!
Regarding the $30 airdrop, it is still being processed and I don't think that everyone has received it. The user need to complete his KYC and facial recognition, in order to be qualified to receive the airdrop. And regarding the other issues such as accessing the wallet and not being able to use the ATM, I think the problem is with the users themselves. They may not be educated enough to use the wallet app. Just give it some time. It has been only one week since Bitcoin became the legal tender. I am sure that these issues will go away in the future. |
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The epidemic has a relatively large impact on Bitcoin. At least, that's what I think. During the epidemic, many people lost their jobs. Because they couldn't make ends meet, they sold the bitcoin they had bought for a long time to make ends meet. Some people bought bitcoin and when bitcoin fell, they did not have enough funds to continue to cover their positions and sell bitcoin.
The corrections that occurred in the cryptocurrency market are very similar to those happened in the stock market. But the overall picture looks much better for Bitcoin. Ever since the start of the pandemic, the prices increased by around 500%. On the other hand, the stock market indices went up by around 40%. The catch was to hold on to the coins, given the high volatility of cryptocurrency. Those who were unable to do so sold their coins too soon, and suffered considerable losses as a result. |
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If we return to the question of 100% vaccination, it will not be! There is a noticeable layer of "lovers of conspiracy theory and chipping", there are people in remote areas who will simply ignore (go far, "the virus will not reach us"). It seems to me that it is necessary to strive for the maximum indicator, but the minimum is enough - these are megalopolises, large cities, cities that are ports (air, sea, auto) to / from other countries. According to my calculations, this is somewhere 70-80% of the population, which in theory will greatly narrow the possibilities, even mutations, to actively infect the population.
OK.. let's take the threshold as 80%. Out of this, 11% is already vaccinated and that means 69% needs to be covered additionally (two doses would mean 138%). The current vaccination rate is 0.3 per thousand. So at the current rate, it will take 138/0.3 = 460 days to achieve the target of 80% full vaccination. That means the herd immunity can be achieved in Ukraine only by the beginning of 2023. But there is a good chance that the vaccination rate may improve over time. If that happens, then I expect Ukraine to achieve this level by mid-2022. |
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Which is exactly my point, those that are not vaccinated are becoming almost second class citizens and this is not correct, we must try to encourage them to take the vaccine as I really think it is the best for them and for us but it is a completely different thing to force them to take it and if they do not to force such heavy consequences against them as there are many businesses that are not health related that are mandating their employees to get vaccinated or face termination.
Laws can't be one-sided. Individuals have the freedom to refuse vaccines. At the same time, employers and shops have the freedom to refuse those who refuse the vaccines. Infringing on any of the camps would be unfair. The anti-vaxxer brigade essentially want the freedom to roam around freely and spread the virus to those who are in their vicinity. No one in their right mind would agree to this. If you don't want to take vaccine, then you are a danger to everyone else and need to stay at home. |
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Maybe ODI matches are more important for Sri Lanka than T20. But, the T20 World Cup is ahead. It is not an honor to lose all the matches of the series against South Africa at the moment. This suggests that we will not see any good gameplay from Sri Lanka in the upcoming T20 World Cup. With such a poor performance, they will not win a single match in the World Cup.
No one is really expecting a strong performance from the Lankans, but they may surprise us. But first of all, they need to finish within the top two from the qualifying group. And trust me, this is not going to be an easy task. All the other teams in their group are in great form recently - Ireland, Netherlands and Namibia. And it will be interesting to know how the Sri Lankan spinners fare in the flat tracks of UAE. These surfaces will be very different from the ones where they defeated South Africa recently. |
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Without fully fit you cannot expect to perform well in the modern day cricket. Also if you are not fit, the team management would not let you play and this give chance to another player. Since the competition is so high these days, a player can't afford to take rest and give chance to another player in the playing XI.
What about Hardik Pandya? He was a part of the Indian T20 squad, despite not being 100% fit. I guess the selectors don't want to drop him because of his celebrity status. His recent form was also horrible. And it will be interesting to see whether Mumbai Indians will also do the same, for the second leg (UAE/Oman) of the IPL. And it's not like MI doesn't have a replacement for Hardik. He is useless with the ball anyway. For batting, they can replace him with James Neesham or Saurabh Tiwary. |
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Today, in the last match of the series will hold, South Africa will play against Sri Lanka. Despite losing the ODI series, South Africa dominated the first two T20 matches and won both. In both the matches we have seen poor batting and bowling of Sri Lankan players. It looks like we will see the same thing in today's match too. South Africa will manage to win today's match.
ODI series was more important and Sri Lanka managed to get some valuable point there. T20I doesn't have a league system like the ODI. Every win from the ODI matches get counted in the ICC ODI World Cup Super League. With multiple wins against South Africa, now Sri Lanka remains in contention for automatic qualification to the 2023 ODI World Cup. South Africa is currently at the 9th spot. Wins in the T20I series may act as morale boosters, but apart from that I don't think that there is much significance. |
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Not so long ago I wrote that in Ukraine in recent months the vaccination procedure was perfectly organized, as a result it was not long in coming! Indicators for today:
Doses administered 10.8 million approximately 25%
Complete vaccination 4.88 million
% vaccinated (fully) 11%
On August 29, I published the indicators, and they were like this:
approximately 13% are vaccinated once,
slightly less than 9% completely
The gain is huge, and it is likely that in the next 2 months it will reach the level of 75% -80% of the first dose, and at least 50% of the 2nd dose. And this is with the use of certified, highly effective drugs
Check this: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinationsAccording to the information posted there, 11.24% are fully vaccinated, which matches with those given in your post (For comparison, in France it is 63%). And further to add, the daily vaccination rate for Ukraine is 0.3 per 100 (as of 13th September 2021). That means that it will take another 600 days to vaccinate the remainder of the population (since each individual requires 2 doses). So I have to say that your expectation of 50% fully vaccinated population within the next two months is overly optimistic. |
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Quite an obvious and normal state! Vaccination reduces both morbidity and mortality. This means that it minimizes the huge costs of the state for the maintenance and treatment of patients, payments of social assistance, support for families who have lost breadwinners, etc. The costs of "relations with Covid" are huge sums that kill the budgets of countries. If this is a serious burden for monsters like the United States, then what about countries with a lower standard of living and income? Therefore, vaccination is not only the preservation of the population, but also the real salvation of states ...
The death toll in US currently stands at 680,282 (>2 per 1,000). I don't have accurate numbers for those who got hospitalized, but I assume that it will be in millions. Given the inflated healthcare costs in the US, this would have created an additional burden of hundreds of billions of USD to individuals, as well as for the state and federal governments. And this time the pandemic has impacted all the countries, irrespective of their financial state. But I agree with your post. For the third world, it is going to be really hard. |
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I have been around for almost 10 years in the cryptocurrency sector, and I can say with 100% surety that this is not the first time I am witnessing such an incident. There is some sort of tolerance in the world of cryptocurrency towards fake news. I have seen established crypto-news portals such as Cointelegraph churning out fake news at a rate of 1 article per hour. Since they use fake news mostly for the purpose of clickbait, we don't usually complain about it. But here, fake news was used to manipulate the market. That is a different topic altogether.
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There is no doubt that Litecoin is a worthy investment target, Litecoin is the second coin I know after bitcoin, I used to make Litecoin as daily trading on bittrex 5 years ago, and now Litecoin is growing and continues to innovate so I don't hesitate to hold it long term.
Same story here. Litecoin was the second cryptocurrency in which I made my investment. And that was sometime in Q1 2013. I got my first BTC sometime in Q4 2012, and after a few months I purchased some LTC. I remember that when I sold them for BTC, I received around 5x profits. But then I made the decision to concentrate on BTC. I still had some LTC with me, but lost the majority of them when BTC-e/Wex.nz went down (seized by the FBI). And I lost whatever remaining when Cryptopia closed down in 2019. |
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Being a long term holder since 2012, I would say that I am happy with the results I got. When I invested, the exchange rate of BTC was $10 per coin. Most of the altcoins (perhaps with the exception of Litecoin) was not in existence back then. And my investment has given me ~5,000 times return. I am happy with this sort of returns. So why should I change my strategy? If I had gone with short-term investing or day trading, was it possible to get this much returns? I don't know the answer, but for me long term investment works.
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The cryptocurrency Litecoin is up more than 140% in 2020. In 2021, LTC showed very fast growth until May. however, due to some external factors, the situation changed significantly. The price of Litecoin has been through a lot since its launch and has been very volatile, up and down.
This contributed to a significant rise in price before a minor correction occurred. This price correction did nothing to counter Litecoin's strong price trajectory. As for Litecoin's long-term predictions, the outlook suggests that Litecoin has potential.
The price have been up and down, but despite that it has managed to survive in the cryptocurrency market. It can be said that the prices haven't increased as much as ADA or BNB, but still LTC has given good returns to those who invested in that coin. That said, some of the newer coins have managed to overtake LTC. Once upon a time, LTC used to rank within the top-5. After a few years, it dropped to top-10. And now it is at no.14 in market cap as per the Coinmarketcap list. Let's hope that it will stay there for sometime. |
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