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And what I was saying is that industry Y might save the government money as well. The net effect might be that the government has more money.

To continue using Uber as an example, not only do they potentially decrease the costs of operating the government (see my reasoning above), they're also still paying local employees. Those employees will spend their Uber revenue and pay taxes, just as taxi drivers would.

Further, Uber makes it easier to move physical objects around in an economy. That should generally make the economy more efficient, which could also help to swing the balance in favor of a net positive effect.

All I was saying from the beginning is that it's not always true that an international company replacing local companies is creating a net decrease in government income.
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Then you are a bit selfish. Without taxes I don't know how you expect things to... work.
> When people say they want higher taxes, they are almost always talking about higher taxes for everybody else than themselves.

No, they generally mean for everybody, in a fairly distributed way. Of course nobody is going to pay extra if they think that thereby they're subsidising a rich person who knowingly underpays.
I love the way folk are so enthusiastic about punitively extracting wealth to hand over to an organization (in one instance) that's able to run up a sixteen trillion dollar debt waiting to be met by the as yet unborn. And what do these governments have to show for it? Not that impressive.
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If that were the case, I would agree we would be quite far away from simulated human-level cognition.

My main point was that either we have the computational capacity, or we do not. If we do, the chances of overshooting the human-level mark by a large margin are quite high, hence the risk.

Another angle on this is that perhaps human cognition has an unnecessarily high degree of computational complexity, a degree that's far above the threshold required for an AGI to be dangerous.

The Paperclip Maximizer[0] is an excellent example of this. Perhaps due to low computational complexity of its architecture, the thing wouldn't even be sentient in any sense of the word, and yet it'd still be perfectly capable of destroying the world.

Why? Because its initial intelligence would be determined by the amount of computing power allocated to it. Allocate enough computing power, and assuming you've passed the magic threshold, it would start allocating itself computing power in short order.

Perhaps what we should fear most is not sentient AGI capable of thought similar to humans, but AGI that's a structured amalgamation of existing AI technology—if only because the latter is far more likely to be feasible first.

[0] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
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That's exactly right, and the article goes on to explain that. The scatter plot compares "UCAS Tariff" (A-level results etc) to unemployment.

I used to work with / mentor students who were somewhere in the middle to poor end of the scale. An apprenticeship is probably better, now that tuition fees are so high.
Does anyone know why American headlines are written in this way? It would sound more natural if it was "Signs of Insiders' Edge in Fantasy Sports"

I've seen this a few times before, so I'm guessing it must be a cultural thing.
Apple is a particularly difficult case, because they control every link in the chain of supply from manufacturing to retail and pay less than 1% effective corporate tax from their profits. From every step of the supply chain.

It is very difficult, if not impossible, to compete with Apple without having a similar end-to-end control of manufacturing to retail. If a company has to purchase their products from a manufacturer or sell their product to a 3rd party for retail, they are losing to Apple because that flow of money can't be hidden from the tax man.

Europe is currently facing major financial issues and a significant portion of this is that money gets funneled away to the US (or offshore accounts of US corps) without the fair share of taxes of their profits left here.
I'd suggest reading the Enchiridion first. It's arguably the most influential text of all, and it's a very quick read.

http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
> detailed and rigorously applied legal code

Not sure this one is a necessity. Uber is growing in China and India, and both of those places have legal systems and levels of corruption that shock those of us in the US learning about them for the first time.

I agree that Uber should contribute to the upkeep, but I was just doing an absolute comparison between Uber and taxi companies.
I'm a one-man-band and I paid about double the corporation tax Facebook did in 2014. My turnover isn't even high enough to register for VAT. Really makes you think!
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Ever tried Bolt CMS? I'm looking for a lightweight one right now and will check out Concrete 5.
Apple joins hands with SAP to support refugee crisis
I think there's a general conversation that people seem to be ignoring. We currently use general taxation as a way to discount certain behaviours. Tobacco/Alcohol duty more than pay for the costs that these forms of consumption place on society. We are even prepared to consider a sugar tax.

Yet the moment we ask the question, why cars do not pay for their costs, nothing happens. Fuel duty should cover road maintenance and the health costs (Killed or Seriously injured, obesity, and pollution related illnesses).
I get redirected to https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050 "Clear cache and cookies" when I click the link.
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It appears so! D'oh. Thanks for pointing that out. I fixed it.
Crash helmets? (a layer inside, not the whole thing, obviously..)
You have completely misunderstood everything I said.

I understand that tax revenue goes down when Uber replaces local taxi companies. I'm not arguing with that.

However, Uber can possibly decrease the costs of running the government (police, 311, and possibly others). We can't know for sure without specific numbers, but it's possible that Uber saves a government more money than it removes by avoiding taxes.

And I wasn't saying that rich people pay more taxes. I was saying that rich people using Uber is a redistribution of income, since the rider is almost always wealthier than the driver.
Duh! I bet Hall is getting a ton of electronics interview requests now. I'm such a jerk. :) Thanks for pointing that out.
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It's certainly not a level playing field when competing against a multinational like Apple. It's also hard for countries to enforce competition rules (e.g. Anti-dumping)..
Just FYI, when you do need to register for VAT make sure you check out the benefits of Flat VAT, for us it was significantly more economical then regular VAT registration.

I'm constantly surprised how many accountants don't seem to even make their clients aware of this option.
I'm no economist, but from what I understand a lower valued NOK will over time help Norway's export industries (who have been suffering the last years due to high costs), which in turn will help the economy during a transition from oil and gas.
For those of you who prefer using a GUI (and are using a windows computer): A similar program to Ohmu called "Spacesniffer" displays the space folders and files use, as well as free space in a treemap. It has helped me a lot to quickly see how big some folders are.

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
> On the other hand, Naval is a celebrity, and it's more expected for a celebrity to get such requests - maybe not wanted, but probably common.

I'm not sure I agree. He might be relatively prominent within the SV startup community, but that doesn't make him a celebrity. The vast majority of people (heck, the vast majority of engineers) would have no idea who he is.
> "We have to ensure our taxes are simple to eliminate loopholes, and that taxes are low to increase our competitiveness, so that companies choose to base themselves here."

Pick one. You can't have both.
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Beds. I can imagine this would be awesome as a bedspring. Or on planes, seats.
yes.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/central-fi...
He only exercises 30 minutes every other day. I would try exercising 30 minutes every day before this fasting. As someone that exercises 1+ hour a day I gotta say I couldn't think without proper nutrition, even delayed a few hours.
Until we can easily send billions (at least) to other worlds, be it in Solar system or further away, death is +- necessary, like it or not.

This planet can feed many more people than it does now, without famines. But there is a limit, and looking how most people just don't care about these things as long as they get their paycheck and can watch their favorite TV show, let's be realistic.

Honestly, I don't see what's all the fuss with death - I am atheist/agnostic, so no hope for some eternal afterlife (but happy to be proven wrong :)). But in no way I find it disturbing or worrying, just human business as usual (there have been roughly 120 billions of human deaths already, and I am not special anyhow). It's actually quite nice to be perfectly OK with death internally, it brings peace with oneself and the world on more than one level.
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Actually, the Soviet Gulag was mostly about slave labour - they arrested people to make them slaves because they thought this would be efficient - which it wasn't.

If they thought you really were a threat you were executed rather than being sent to a camp.

I can recommend Anne Applebaum's book:

http://www.anneapplebaum.com/gulag-a-history/
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You should be able to display an existing DU dump; think xdu or xdiskusage.

That automatically buys you features like one FS, yes or no counting hard links, soft links, all sorts of exclusion nuances...

Your neat feature is a display; don't hobble it by strapping it to a slapdash scanner.
> I run my own business here in Germany and I'm all for getting every penny out of every tax loophole possible.

I feel that's a sad attitude when you're making every effort possible to contribute as little as possible.

At least you're honest about it, it feels like a prevalent attitude.
That's theoretical, whereas government and corporations deal with realities.

100% capitalism isn't practical and is unfair (e.g, to the poor and sick). What is a fair way to divide costs for road usage: time of use, miles driven, emissions, cost of vehicle, ability to pay? It's not an easy answer, and many are practically unenforceable. Hence, tax.

And for the record: I'm generally capitalist by economic viewpoint.
AngelList isn't using this money for their own operations, they're using it to invest in hundreds of other startups.

You question is equivalent to asking "Why does KPCB need so much cash?" to which the obvious answer is "so they can invest in interesting companies where are likely to generate substantial returns for their partners."
It's always funny when Brits complain about foreign tax havens. The UK is a massive tax haven, with oodles of little overseas territories, or Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands.
I Danish there is an expression called "grundforskning" (fundamental research).

It's research done to create new knowledge but without any specific application in mind.

It's the foundation of future applied technologies just like quantum mechanics was for the laser.

When the government stop putting money into "fundamental research" it hurts everyones ability to maybe come up with revolutionary solutions for problems in the future.

Integral Research used to give their researchers a decade to find a way to make their research applicable I remember in the beginning of the zeroes it was down to a 3 years or something like that.

The question we need to ask ourselves is not whether it's corrupting research but weather it's corrupting our future.
This would make sense as a counter argument if his students who took Math 1A from him didn't also do better on other math courses than students who took Math 1A from other professors.
Unfortunately I only get timouts when I try accessing http://esp8266.solusipse.net/

Is the webserver example from Github running on your ESP8266?
> What would happen if you replace all (most) tax with VAT?

The poor would pay considerably more of their income as tax than the rich.

And yes, there are ways to do tax evasion with VAT. There was a court case in the UK about whether Jaffa Cakes were a cake or a biscuit (because there are different VAT categories)
In this case, Facebook did pay the full whack of tax. The article implies they avoided paying corporation tax by paying out large bonuses, causing them to have been operating at a loss (on paper). If that is the case, then I don't think that's such a bad thing. All of their employees will still pay tax on their bonuses, so it's not like the tax payer is being completely robbed. At least their workers are getting a cut of the profit, rather than having it all go to Facebook's coffers and the government (in the form of corporation tax).
Congratulations on preserving a horselike fossil from 48M years ago while pregnant. It's difficult enough to preserve a horselike fossil from 48M years ago without the encumbrance of pregnancy. Doing so while pregnant takes grit.
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Abusers make new accounts, and they search you from public computers. Abusers are human, they can think around incomplete protections. Honestly I'm personally of the opinion that the best way to deal with abusive people is to shoot them, several times, and possibly stake and burn the corpse, but the law gets grumpy. So second best is taking a new name and making a new life, and I don't agree that people ought to have vanish themselves from the internet just to preserve Facebook's fetish for government-issued names.
Same here in Portugal (though they're optional), for logging in to the IRS website and others.
There can still be VAT for things poor people buy. Is there chocolate on your biscuit? Then it's "luxury" and you have to pay VAT.
Reminded me of Worst Place to be a Pilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jFsVRQyhlg
And the arms race between freedom and control goes on.

“All that behaviour will be integrated into one comprehensive assessment of you as a person”

The ultimate simplification, condensing a human being to a simple number. Gods have always been used to rationalise entitlement to and application of power. This one is electrified and fully programmable.

As a concept, this is so predictable that it's already boring (was only a question of time until machines become capable of implementing this nightmare). There should exist a ton of science fiction literature that explores this scenario. How dumb would people have to be to not see through it? We already had a period of enlightenment that disposed of the “old gods”. And they seriously believe an electrified god artefact would fare any better?
Not donations. The university will either have to accept the terms or refuse the gift. I've given restricted gifts specifically imposing that the money be used on pizza for the programming team.
First time i saw it was on the london underground:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/litost/15113770968
> all are located in Ireland where they pay so much less taxes

Another reason for Ireland was that there was a very lax view of European Data Protection law there.
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My only guess would be that it more quickly gets you to the subject. If you don't care about fantasy sports, you're unlikely to care regardless of the predicate used.
"It means Facebook's UK corporation tax bill was less than the tax the average UK employee paid on their salary."

"The average UK salary is £26,500 on which employees pay a total of £5,392.80 in income tax and national insurance contributions."

Corporation tax and personal tax are not the same thing so I don't see how they can be compared. In fact, in terms of taxes paid to HMRC, they would have been paid more tax overall.

However, considering they made a pre-tax loss, they should have probably reviewed those payouts of which I assume was shared amongst those on top.
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Thanks for the advice. I was pretty close to the threshold last year and it's looking likely I'll have to register this year so I'll certainly look into it. I'm actually between accountants at the moment, although HMRC's own PAYE RTI app at least makes that side of things ridiculously easy for me. I certainly wasn't looking forward to dealing with VAT on my own.
Well, how much Apple money stays outside of the US because it was paid there?

Also, how much VAT and other taxes are charged in an iPhone sold in Europe

Same for Facebook, their ads generate VAT. Their employees there pay income tax.
I don't think it's advocacy of "aggressive taxation policies" to argue that the corporation tax bill for a profitable multinational earning millions in UK revenue ought to be higher than the income tax bill for an individual person on the UK average wage. YMMV.

How many of Facebook's 362 UK staff would be unemployed for any significant period if they relocated to Dublin? How many would instead be adding value to a company that paid 20% corporation tax, whilst paying similarly high taxes on a similarly high salary?
I thought 'no one is going to steal your idea'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9664174
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It might be a New York Times thing, or at least one that has perhaps spread to other American journalists: [0][1][2]

"The new-style headlines are a far cry from stereotypical Times headlines, which have been mocked for the prepositional phrases that often introduce them, like this one from last Monday’s paper, “After 8 Shots, a Quiet Officer Now Scorned.” Their frequency years ago once led to a Twitter meme in which book titles were rewritten in that style. (Among them: “Of Oz, the Wizard.”)"

0. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/public-editor/hey-google-c...

1. http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/193943/on-twitter-book...

2. Yes, the irony is that this is also a New York Times article.
maybe stupid question: do you expect a lot of fake contractors or there is another way? Because if they are contractors they wouldn't be part of those 362 in staff right?
Most of IE is part of the operating system and get loaded at boot, rendering such memory test moot.
I think the egg-drop challenge example is terrible. If the egg + protection impacts the ground at a fixed velocity, the most relevant factor is the /distance/ the egg moves before coming to a stop. So if it requires "three feet of bubblewrap" (nonsense number, per the video), then it will also require three feet of microlattice, unless the microlattice applies a more constant force on the egg as it compresses.

Bad examples like that make it difficult for me to trust such videos.
>What would happen if you replace all (most) tax with VAT?

I'd imagine a large number of people would form sole-trader companies and put every last expense possible through it.

A boon for accountants!
There is no evidence to indicate he deviated from the actual required content of the course, only that his lecturing style deviated from what the department wanted. (This is indicated by the department having reviewed and approved his final, among other things).

Also, I'll repost what I said earlier: there is no evidence he gave out A's more freely than other professors.

The grade distribution for one of Coward's classes (16B) is available online for you to check: https://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu/explore/courses/SP/2016.... It shows his class average was a B-, whereas most other professors around the year he taught had a B or B+ average.
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If the tax law allows it, they have no reason to pay more than they do. To do so would be not in the interests of their owners/shareholders.

If you have a problem with tax "loopholes" then fix the tax law. Don't blame a business for paying only the tax it is legally obligated to pay. Would YOU pay more taxes than you have to?
Looks like a typical perl based botnet from russia used to send spam. https://www.korelogic.com/Resources/Presentations/botnets_is...

I forgot where I read more about those previously, but my guess is definitely russia. maybe reddit /netsec has more info.

[edit] they did have. Spanish, not russian
Looks like a typical perl based botnet from russia used to send spam. https://www.korelogic.com/Resources/Presentations/botnets_is...

I forgot where I read more about those previously, but my guess is definitely russia. maybe reddit /netsec has more info
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> Today's 'big science' grant funding model is so far removed from the average citizen or constituent, that by the time they see or feel the impact, it's hardly recognizable anymore. Because it's behind paywalls, or is too technical, or locked in IP, or anti-collaboration.

To partially address this, those of us in the US should support the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research bill[0, 1]. FASTR would essentially mandate all journal articles resulting from federally funded research to be published in an open repository online after a short embargo period, as in NIH PubMed Central.

To effect real change, we'll need to see senior researchers lead the way in publishing in open journals, and there just isn't buy-in among that crowd in some fields outside of math, physics, and CS.

In addition, I think researchers need to do a better job personally engaging the public regarding their research. Fully addressing the gap between researchers and the general public may well require an educational component.

0: http://www.sparc.arl.org/advocacy/national/fastr/faq
1: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/779
Looks like all this does is cause people to waste time optimizing the score, and make the wealthy better off since they can hire the service of consultants specializing in this.