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> First of all, that's Facebook employees paying tax. Not Facebook. That's their money that they are taxed on and they pay it.

I'm reasonably confident that HMRC is entirely happy with corporations choosing to pay their staff more (and have those salaries taxed appropriately) rather than paying their employees less and paying corporation tax on the profits.
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One thing to keep in mind is that this is a manufactured issue used by people who refuse to accept election results they don't like, and they use to it delegitimize the outcome.

You'll find that the same people who go on about it are the same people who think George W Bush stole the 2000 election.
First time I hear W.T.Powers name but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_control_theory already inspires a lot.
Opposite experience here. Having learned Erlang first, I find Elixir's syntax to be a false friend for the semantics of the ERTS. Erlang's syntax also seems to me much better at getting out of your way and focusing on the primacy of patterns.
Surprisingly no, google claims cans have been getting lighter but 15 grams empty is realistic, lets assume water at a gram per mL, 12 oz water is about 350 grams, that is about 5%, I don't remember the exact specific gravity of aluminum but its less than 3 (not a very dense metal...) so 5/3% by volume, roughly? This is all engineering estimates done in my head so exact numbers will be different but its not going to be orders of magnitude off.

A significant source of error beyond 1 sig fig is going to be the weight of ink/paint and the weight of the pop tab on the top. Also cans are not filled 100% with liquid, so there is air space (it has 12 ounces of liquid, but its a 12.something volume tank)

Something interesting to think about is fluid dynamics, a foam like this would stop sloshing at almost no weight penalty. If you like the idea of tin foil thickness gas and water tanks, then this would seem to be a requirement for that technology.
You're not "supposed" to do anything. If you want to raise tax, raise tax. Just keep in mind that this changes incentives for anyone who has to pay that tax. That's not a threat, it's a fact.
Professors are never required to have a single teaching class. They themselves are not taught how to actually teach students. This is why so many professors are just smart but can't teach to save their lives.

They are ill prepared by their degree and can have huge communication or social issues that stand between them and their students.

Administrators usually push to give good grades for colleges with open enrollment. So the classes are easy and the test are easy. Make me sad and is part fo the reason I left working at a University.
And one more reason to avoid linked in! If this actually works.
Well I guess now we know which government provided the seed capital for Peeple.
People don't want every website they visit to automatically know their real identity. This would chase people off their platform.
you are correct re: the modern day Oprah culture, but at the same time it is pretty clear that stoicism is having "a moment" precisely as a reaction to the saturation of the "get joy now!" self help book-club glurdge.
Talking about ethics: this is good and this is bad

Talking about ethical positions: some people say this is good and this is bad; other people say...

I still think that what you call a strawman is just something you actually believe, and that you're interpreting it as a much stronger claim than it actually is. But I don't care enough to argue further.
Give every citizen a yearly vat tax credit?
But they are playing Corporation Tax. To put it another way... what additional tax do you want them to pay that they are currently not paying?
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I wrote a tool that scraped all of Fanduel's results so that I could experiment with different models and backtest the model against real contest results. I have yet to find a model that would be profitable at stakes worth playing in football or baseball, after more than a year of tinkering. The winning players are almost all using algorithms, I just wish I knew which one.
For right or wrong, the British tax code has long recognized that those putting their own capital at risk do not necessarily have the same safety nets of typical employees and taxes their rewards at a lower rate. This is why both dividend taxes and capital gains taxes are lower than income taxes, and also why Entrepreneur Relief exists.
But interest rates are low so if you see an opportunity to earn money, you can borrow to seize that opportunity.

This assumes that when you scale up your organization, your costs scale up linearly. If it caused marginal wage to shoot through the roof, that could be a reason not to do it I guess.
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Right now people are getting fuel by pulling stored carbon out of the ground and burning it, increasing the net CO2 in the atmosphere.

If a system like this worked, the level of CO2 would stay constant rather than increasing because you're recirculating carbon which was already in the atmosphere.

That's still not as good as actually pulling carbon out but if they can make the numbers work, it's to see how that's not a noteworthy improvement.
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I'd prefer taxation on land value, property, and especially a property tax on valuable IP.
If this caught on all mathematics departments would lose funding and no longer be able to fund research. It's a strange conflict of interests.
Tax evasion is a crime. You're describing tax optimization.
EMC/VCE tried that already. Didn't work so great outside of niche markets.
I just worked on a PC this weekend, and all the internal USB connectors went to sockets on the front panel. But it should be possible to put a socket on the back of the power supply and include a 1 foot cable. This is doable!
For what it's worth, this technique used to work by loading profiles as a 1x1 pixel image. That technique may still be effective.
Its not weird to be completely, categorically opposed to remote work when you've found, e.g., that remote work usually doesn't work well in your environment and that, even where it does, allowing some people to work remotely and not others impacts overall morale in a way which offsets the advantages from the limited circumstances where remote work is useful.

Wanting diversity doesn't mean having unlimited willingess to sacrifice quality of work to get it.
His lectures are up on Vimeo, eg:
https://vimeo.com/140890185

From what I can see, he's a talented lecturer. He's articulate, genuinely interested in his students' understanding, and has some uninhibited dramatic enthusiasm that keeps the audience engaged.

He's doing a start-up centred on teaching skills for lecturers/professors; I wonder if behind the scenes the issue is simply about that?

Not sure how this particular argument will play out (yikes, it's quite public now though) but he's a smart chap and should land on his feet.
Given Dell's experience with buying LeftHand networks I was surprised when the WSJ indicated they were thinking of doing this. I would have expected someone like NetApp to buy EMC (or perhaps Hitachi) but the enterprise storage business has been banged around lately. When I was at NetApp, EMC were the folks everyone wanted to be, the turn around still amazes me.

I guess at the end of the day its hard to be a successful storage company in a world dominated by things like S3.
Tax policy, but not just tax policy. Companies also place their operations based on cost (total operating cost, including logistics costs and whatever). For instance, it is not a surprise that so many computers and smartphones are made in China.
and when it comes to lobbying, politics and religious rights... Corporations suddenly become people.
Yes, but are you assuming that all tax districts had the same thinking? The situation I'm referring to up in the Northwest US, as I recall, was not considering that. Plus I'm sure there are other examples of budgets being based on taxes that didn't pan out, leaving a deficit in the budget.
Standard Oil? If you're going to call that "crony capitalism", we're well into the same delusional territory as "true communism has never been tried".
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Now at least they can't then decrease his budget to less than $10.

Another way to do it is to provide for a certain percentage of "overhead" costs, as with e.g. NIH grants. So if for every $10 that goes to Professor X, $6 goes to the university to use as they please, they can't then fire Professor X without losing the extra $6 as well. (Naturally this only works with relatively larger amounts of money.)
> Why not finance helping quadriplegics from increased VAT?

Because VAT, beside being a very effective tax (it's the biggest source of income of most countries), is the most unfair one.

Say a country have a 20% VAT

Low income household need to use the entirety of their income to survive (food, housing, etc). So effectively 20% of their income is collected as VAT.

Now a upper class household, let's say they save 25% of their income each month as retirement plans etc, and spend the rest.

They've been effectively taxed at 20% of 75% of they income, so their effective VAT rate was 15%.

While you often see very high income people advocate for flat rate tax instead of progressive tax, none of them have the nerve to propose a reversed progressive tax like VAT is, where poor people pay proportionally more than rich people.
Pedophile and child molester aren't the same thing. Looking at pictures of naked children is something parents and doctors do all the time but pedophiles go to prison for it. "kill, enslave or otherwise harm" is OK for animals according to current popular opinion - ask any meat eater or dog owner. Consent is not required for animals (by our current standards) because we freely allow them to have sex with each other without checking for consent.

My point is that things really aren't as black and white as they seem to people when everyone they know agrees with the same ideas.
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I think that generalizing from your own personal experience is probably a bad idea here. I personally learn syntax very easily probably because I place very little emphasis on syntax and far more on semantics. However I have met people who place a lot of emphasis on syntax. For them the syntax of a language is a large hindrance.

I suspect there are people for whom syntax has a large impact on productivity. Especially when first getting familiar with a language. I don't think downplaying that is wise.
or Daisy Disk[0] which uses a sunburst representation[0] rather than a treemap.

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[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sunburst+graph&t=osx&iax=1&ia=imag...
water also distributes pressure uniformly, so it will be like trying to crush the egg pressing all the surface points of it with the same force. Which is not easy to do.
Why not just send Coward a check directly?
The more interesting guy is Zeljko Ranogajec [1], who has made himself into a billionaire with horse racing betting algorithms. It's pretty incredible to think that it is possible to beat a game with a ~20% rake so badly that you become a billionaire. Bill Benter [2] is another horse racing billionaire. Both of these guys started as low-stakes blackjack card counters and pretty much worked their way up from nothing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeljko_Ranogajec

[2] http://www.gambler-profiles.com/bill-benter-the-richest-of-t...
An alternative point of view: if your one-man-show consultancy was not IR35 compliant, paying corporation tax instead of NI and PAYE (i.e. salary) would be a sign that you're avoiding tax.
Then the taxman can get them. They just need proof. If the case is clear, why don't they go and get Facebook for breaking the law?

Most likely because the case is not so clear: it is far from clear that they engaged in any transfer mispricing.
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Debian single sign-on (SSO) recently switched to using client certificates.

See https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSingleSignOn
...he was talking about net income and personal expenditure. You're talking about income tax. They're different things. 1 person will buy less than 100 people.

Incidentally, the top 1% pay more tax, in absolute terms, because they earn more than everybody else. What's your point? That's how percentages and progressive taxation works.
So did they actually do the egg eggsperiment with this micro lattice material?
Looks interesting! I'm all in for writing secure code. Sadly, Zend said that they don't want PHP to change a lot because of backwards compatibility, and that's why we are still stuck with different bad ideas that appeared in its first versions...

PHP 7 will help to speed up Wordpress sites twice, but it doesn't help with code itself anyhow. I haven't looked at it for a long time, but back then its code was pretty bad. Drupal 8 built on top of Symfony 2 components is terrifying, as PHP's main selling point (and Drupal specifically) alwasy was simplicity.

This article gives some details on the future of the language: https://blog.amasty.com/php-7-and-script-languages-future-in...
I tried to be a skeptic reading his commentary, but I definitely drank his kool aid. That being said... as a healthy dose of realism, nobody will care next year. The administration can easily just ignore this.
It seems obvious to me that IA is where the tremendous benefits to society occur. Imagine a world where everyone has the equivalent of a genius IQ today. A lot of problems suddenly disappear.

AI, on the other hand, while very useful, doesn't change people. And frankly, most problems we have are because people lack understanding. I don't know about you, but I don't actually want to replace mankind with something else, I just want us all better.

Of course, what "better" is--is highly debatable, so that definitely gives pause as well.
I upvoted and I also want to say that your response was most convincing/seemingly logical.
> The average UK salary is £26,500 on which employees pay a total of £5,392.80 in income tax and national insurance contributions.

Whoa, what? That's some hefty tax for the 26k bracket!
But those are shares. They have no monetary value until you try to draw a dividend or sell them, at which point you have to pay tax again.

The pre-tax loss is for the UK operation, not the global entity as a whole.

It seems that the real question is not about what Facebook UK's corporation tax bill should be but how we want to deal with global corporations as a whole and how we want to benefit from that relationship.

My gut feeling is that if you are dealing with the tiny arm of a very successful US company, you are not in much of a position to negotiate.
Thank you for sharing that. She sounds like she was an incredible inspiration to the people around her.
That's just your insecurity speaking. My remarks were very benevolent and highly beneficial to the commenter.

The question was NOT "how do they spend it". The questions was very clearly "why do they need it" and as such is NOT a legitimate question (unless you're the one giving the money).
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This seems like a pretty terrible idea. As a driver, it is almost impossible for me to understand the complex implementation details of a "partial" autopilot. The car will stop in this situation, but not in this. It reads this kind of signs and not that kind of signs. Autopilot has to be an all or nothing proposition. Either I am in charge or the autopilot. Incidentally, the perception of who is in charge will be crucial for any legal action arising from an accident involving the autopilot. I can imagine the case now:

Driver: "I thought it would stop"
Tesla: "You should have read the manual, we do not detect this sort of hazard and you did not listen to the warning to take the wheel."
The headline "Boeing releases ...." led me to believe that this research had been done at Boeing. Is my assumption unreasonable or is the reporting disingenuous?
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Fucked by Cloud and Fucked by Mobile are also apt terms to describe privacy...
Why not reduce corporate income tax and add 1% revenue tax? If you can't afford 1% you are gonna go bust anyway.
>the only professionals who remain ignorant about prior work in their field are software developers

Throwing that much salt will be useful for my journey on the S.S. Reinventing The Wheel, thanks!
Great article - Millennials are getting a bad wrap when it comes to cyber safety - we all need to keep our work places better educated
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So the problem is existence of the book of tricks. Apple did not write it.
Doesn't seem a good protection against your head hitting a sharp edge - due to its elasticity.
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How many of your teachers focused on efficient learning ? I can't remember one. Even the handful of teacher that left a deep trace in my memory never mentioned 'learning'. They were just so well aware of their subject, they could be the catalyst to bridge gaps in my view of things, triggering inspiration and desire.
The point is Erlang's syntax is something of a joke for whatever reason, so I figured I'd offer a counterexample.

Honestly I see it as just slightly less juvenile than "Lost In Stupid Parentheses".
This was 10 years ago.
Stoicism is basically Christianity minus God / Jesus when you really boil it down. With us watching a cultural trend of people rejecting faith regularly, yet at the same time watching a lot of the bad decisions that come from the "focussed on me" aspects that often come from it, Stoicism is a fairly expected non-theistic reaction.

In a lot of ways, the concept of the tiny house movement is sort of a reflection of Stoicism if you think about it.

The general idea is that if you lessen your needs, then what you have becomes abundant. It could also be considered a bit of a reaction to the debt crisis that individuals face on many levels.

As your expenses approach zero, your income approaches infinity.
"Best backward compatibility of any browser". This is a reason not to use IE11, but thanks for reminding is that you're the best at implementing the various broken standards implementation you inflicted on everyone.
My experience is that people go on about it all across the spectrum, including lots of people who not only don't think George W. Bush did steal the 2000 election, but who would have thought it was a good and justified thing if he had.

Gerrymandering is a real issue and a real thing that really effects election results, and, simultaneously, an effective distraction from the more serious problem of representation caused by FPTP in single-member districts. So, not only is it a popular target of the disaffected, its something the disaffected are redirected to vent their anger at by both sides of the partisan duopoly in different times and places, because while it is a real thing, none of the methods used to attack it fundamentally change the structures reinforcing the partisan duopoly, and in any given condition certain of the methods for fighting it will reinforce the position of one side or the other of that duopoly against the other within the basic duopoly-reinforcing structure.
I read somewhere that the cloud is just someone's else computer. At least in the business I am working with that would never be allowed so if there is a cloud to be had it will be on premises, which may keep these so-called walking dead lumbering for quite some time.
Perelman? He's brilliant, but certainly put off a lot of engineering and other students who were just there to fill recs and expected to be handheld through the course.
The £4,327 tax is only talking about the UK subsidiary, right? Because from their income statement [1], they paid $1.97B in income tax on $4.91B income before tax for a rate of 40.12%.

I might be misinterpreting something, but I think we should be careful to accuse them of abusing loopholes if they're still paying such a high rate overall.

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=FB&annual
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Some disagree.

https://mises.org/library/100-years-myths-about-standard-oil

Crony capitalism is not at all "capitalism". It is an beast created by the state, through military spending, stimulation, infrastructure or the means of social wellfare. The more "militaristic" or "social" a government becomes the more leaches appear.
I'm wondering: can it measure force also for different presses simultaneously? And how far apart do the presses need to be?
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Low interest rates solve the funds issue, but it's not the only limitation to scaling.
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For a healthy dose of realism... regardless of the publicity, nobody will care next year. The administration can likely just ignore it if they are actually comfortable with the status quo. If they had already wanted to make a change, this is just a nice springboard for them.
"If they thought you really were a threat you were executed rather than being sent to a camp."

True, but the threat of deportation was nonetheless one of the Nomenklatura's weapon of choice. Someone's death was, even in the aftermath of the WW2 mass carnage, perceived as brutal mean of "solving" problems and could spur further backslash/dissidence. Someone's separation from their social circle however, was a much more safer method and the perpetrators were able to sleep at night because there could hardly be any retribution for such a thing.
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So, the generic answer for why we favor income or value-added taxes over revenue taxes is that (1) we want to encourage investment, so marginal business expenses are essentially tax-free, and (2) revenue taxes limit the ability for competitive middlemen (who can lower transaction costs) and give massive advantage to vertically integrated semi-monopolies.
And that by itself is inconclusive, as all the lazy students looking for easy A's know to sign up for Coward's class.
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