> "the effect of the Pandora Papers is to, deservedly, trash a suite of non-US tax havens"
> "Who benefits? The US and the Big Four"
I'm a bit confused as I read this article as my understanding was that the Pandora Papers, for once, shed light on how the US is becoming the place of choice for the super rich seeking to escape taxation:
According to the article the ICIJ is just releasing parts of the leaked papers that do not mention the big four or people that avoid tax within US boundaries. Therefore, the big four have some kind of immunity and are the only safe place for the mega wealthy to avoid tax.
It’s not even a case of “for once”. It’s made abundantly clear if you’ve read or watched The Laundromat which was written by a core contributor to the ICIJ that significant tax evasion is happening in America.
It would be wise to support https when publishing content that may be security sensitive. Both OP's site and the site used for the extension run on http.
It may be useful to remember that the author lives in France and has spent his whole professional life in France.
As a French having worked in Germany, Canada and New Zealand, I can say that the recruitment process is very different in other countries, where side projects and open source contributions are really valued.
In my opinion, his article should mention the geographical setting of his experience, and his advice should only apply to people living in France (and writing the article in French may have been more appropriate too)
Hi marijn, thanks for the great work. From what I can see on your repo, you've written your front-end modules in ES6. But what about the back-end? In which language has it been written? nodejs?
The collab demo's backend is node.js. You could get collaboration to work by just relaying JSON between clients, but if you want to do intelligent things with the data (keep a snapshot of the current document, for example), you'll need an implementation of the document model, which exist only in JS and would be a bunch of work to port.
Yes. And most of that magic happens client-side, so server implementations can be thin (there's currently no general-purpose server, but I'll definitely open-source the demo).
> "Who benefits? The US and the Big Four"
I'm a bit confused as I read this article as my understanding was that the Pandora Papers, for once, shed light on how the US is becoming the place of choice for the super rich seeking to escape taxation:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/04/pandora-papers-...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/boo...
Not sure exactly how these revelations "benefit the US"?