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You're totally right, it's too hard. And companies in first world countries are completely unaffected by law, so lobbying your representative would have zero effect. As would public awareness campaigns to help push the issue politically. And god knows that countries should only pressure each other for important things, like forcing extensions to copyrights for movies and music.

Let's just give up and go home, since apparently the only option is war.
> Do you believe Google is or isn't a US company which would keep the most interesting stuff to itself/NSA/US-TLA's?

They are a US-based company.

They absolutely would fix and/or publicly announce any vuln in a library that they rely on, rather than keep quiet about it or -far worse- sell the vuln information.

Do you have a credible example of an instance where they've acted to the contrary?
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"The only solution to the current tax system is to make more rules, so it's more convoluted than ever." — every politician.

No, what we need is to trim down the fat that your liberal arts degree decide to fluff in there for the sake of your ego.
But the money still goes to charity. Essentially person A is just indirectly donating to their pet charity using political capital. As long as the charity is legit, I don't see the problem.
No, any idea you can't do, is an idea you can't do. That doesn't make it good or bad. It just means you can't be the one to enact it.
Microsoft? "It's not working, all our users seem furious all the time."
Don't forget about all the people that have apparently not ever done their taxes before and think that 'tax deductible' means 'discount' in some weird way.
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They claim it's got no dependencies though - so somehow they've got their own sockets implementation crammed in there.
They always blame the teachers, but if the parents and guardians are not helping out with homework and support the child won't learn. If the child grows up in poverty, has emotional and psychological problems, has family issues, etc that can interfere with their learning.

Which is why teachers are against standardized testing, because it punishes them for low scores.

It is sort of like working as a programmer and having no support from management or your coworkers, being given projects that others have failed at because of how hard they are, and then being punished when it takes too long to finish or you can't get results.
Did Ballmer ever do any programming?

If not, why?

Did he just have no curiosity or interest?

Sounds like he had far more capacity for maths than Jobs.
Cobalt’s Valkyrie
"My ad­vice for split­ting eq­uity is prob­a­bly con­tro­ver­sial, but it’s what we have done for all of my star­tups, and what we al­most al­ways rec­om­mend at YC: equal eq­uity splits among co-founders."

But, it seems a lot of the highest performing companies except for Google & AirBnB in the past 10-20 years seem to have unequal founder stakes:
Amazon, Facebook, Snapchat, Uber, Dropbox, SpaceX, Tesla, Pinterest, Slack...

Even Microsoft & Oracle from an earlier era had unequal founder stakes...

Got some of these names from:
http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/
This article is an interesting narrative depicting the exact sort of nuance that the term "reasonable doubt" is intended to elicit once criminal prosecution reaches jury deliberation. As others have noted, this seems a somewhat comfortable result, albeit at a human cost. Justice delayed/served.

The author touches on it, but another interesting aspect of the criminal justice system is the funding, politics and police practices that motivate the prosecution of minor crimes that never see a court room. Many unnamed players in this story had vested financial and political interests in particular outcomes. In this case, the stakes were large enough that the jurors lost sleep and distressed over the details. One wonders if softening the charges to lesser charges would have weakened his resolve.

It's poetic that at trial, the defendant, the witnesses, the prosecutor, the defense attorney, the judge and the jury cannot lie. Police, however, are trained to do so during investigations as a best practice in pursuit of justice. That fact probably contributed to the author's initial distrust in the system, sewing the seeds of this mistrial.
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How the heck would a modern society function without some sort of compulsory taxation?
I certainly agree with progressive taxation, and that Mark owes a lot to his upbringing, and that luck plays a role. I was reacting to the claim that wealthy people have "undue influence on public spending." They should have outsized influence based on their outsized success.
Okay, I may've been wrong about exactly when the auditing started, but do we agree that the number of security vulnerability announcements in the past year is somewhat predictive of the number of announcements coming in the next? For me the main worry is attacks from people who aren't doing their own research but just exploiting the window between the public announcement and when I get the patches installed, and I really wish there were fewer such windows.
But then the money doesn't get the protections and shelter as part of the LLC which may very well likely invest as a for-profit entity. In other words there are other reasons to create the LLC that aren't about avoiding taxes. And my point still stands this way there is no capital gains paid [edit] on shares donated to charities. Yes there may be taxes paid on shares donated to for-profit entities or liquidated by the LLC. There's multiple scenarios here my capital gains comments only refers to donations of shares directly to a non-taxable entity.
"Well everything is fucked so we might as well not bother."
It's very interesting that you think the best way to give back to the public is through...government discretional spending?

A couple thought experiments:

1) If public sector spending was a good vehicle for increasing the public welfare, why don't people donate money to the USFG over other charities? Surely the Effective Altruism movement would be very interested if this were the case.

2) In 2015, the USFG spent $229 Billion on interest on all of the debts it owes, over 6% of its total budget. What makes you think paying off interest of the bad decisions of the legislative branch takes priority over any good-will private sector philanthropy, no matter how ego-fueled?
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and so did I.

to3m is absolutely correct with sheeple term for them

and yes, it's not my native language indeed
Sometimes I use http://librarything.com
In fairness, when Ballmer was CEO, he and Gates controlled enough shares that Microsoft could pretty much ignore Wall Street analysts' quarterly noise. Or to put it another way, when someone said "I think Microsoft should do X", Ballmer could say, "Microsoft doesn't care what you think." Nadella doesn't have that luxury.
Nauance is really serving all those blacks in jail for fabricated evidence.

Nauance has done wonders for the people of Syria.

Nauanc as in "disposition matrix" instead of targeted assassinations.

Sometimes things are so nauanced hospitals filled with doctors without borders get bombed, so nuanced we may not even consider it a war crime!

But do on about how much more nuanced the world really is, how incredibly morally bankrupt, what weak moral fiber to defend torture through the weasel words of nauace, the millions of dead surely are glad for such a reasonable and nauceced view you present.

Again, debating people who condone torture and mass murder is a waste of time.
So, not a total expert on this, but I'm pretty sure that 17% is the DoD budget, which is (by some estimates) about half of the actual total military spending. By other estimates maybe more than half - it depends what you consider "military spending."

For example, iirc, a significant portion of NASA's budget is for military applications - spy satellites and such. Similarly, the DoD budget doesn't consider veteran's benefits owed to former soldiers, which is a large portion of the long-term obligations comprising the national debt. It also leaves out most of the national security complex (DHS, NSA, FBI), military applications in the Department of Energy, and so on.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
Why do you assume the defendant is guilty? What if he's innocent, but your refusal to help provide a strong defense causes him to be found guilty? Why do you presume to do the judge and jury's job for them, but with no access to the facts or judicial procedure?

If prosecutors can ensure that a strong defense is impossible simply by accusing someone of an appropriately heinous crime, then the criminal justice system has failed. Please don't be complicit in that.
Yes, these are all examples or tentative examples of the sort of thing I'm talking about. (I don't know much about what they're eating up on the ISS, though, so I don't know if they're applicable.)
>Also, Occam's razor. People have a tendency to be selfish.

That's not Occam's razor. People being selfish isn't a less complicated hypothesis than their being altruistic, regardless of how likely it is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10671657
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We're so conditioned to be afraid of evil we can't recognize the true "evil".
I share that experience. I use Go whenever the service is simple, requires better performance than Python, and cannot use too much instance resources.
"Edith looks up from a game of solitaire and casually mentions that she actually thinks the murder was committed by the accomplice, who was never found and is not on trial. But since the defendant’s lawyer did such a poor job exonerating him, she concludes, she’s going to deliver a guilty verdict. My jaw drops. No one questions her obviously flawed reasoning, because she’s on their side."

This, for me, was the most terrifying bit in the article. To convict a man of murder, and to send him to life in prison or perhaps to his own death, when you think he's innocent? It shocks me what people are capable of sometimes. But this article doesn't shock me, because I know what people are capable of. Kudos to the author for sticking to his moral compass in the face of adversity.
> Again, everybody is square in the deal.

Only if you take the surrounding system as given.

The original question was this:

> Put another way, if you founded a company, created thousands of jobs for families and individuals, and made a fortune, why should the state be the one who decides what happens with your money?

And the answer is that the state gets to decide what happens with the money, because if not for people banding together into nations, creating a state, taxing people, and using those taxes to enrich their nation over centuries, eventually reaching a state where a large part of a continent on this planet is occupied by some 300 million people, speaking the same language, using the same currency, having computers, wanting to connect, and therefore creating a niche for a social network to grow so big that its founder could employ thousands of people and amass a fortune.

No deal is ever squared in our society. We are continuously using the amassed production of the past, and paying it forward.

> This thinking is so poisonous and destructive and pervasive that I'm starting to wonder if it is either due to some natural law of human nature or some grand conspiracy to destroy modern society.

You have it backwards. If modern society is destroyed, it would prove the point, because we wouldn't have twenty-something computer-whiz billionaires for a very long time, not until we've rebuilt all of this again.
Seconding slackstation -- small/tidy aside, there's little impetus to to have enthusiasm for this product over Bootstrap or competing libraries. You haven't differentiated yourselves in any way past what your older internal processes were. Even if this only had one whiz-bang component, that would be something. But this is just a lesser version of already existing products.
Does that possibility hold less weight with you?

In general no, in this specific case, yes, because the evidence is so overwhelming. Think "twenty dead bodies found buried in defendant's basement next to bloody knives with defendant's fingerprints." I know this might be an unsatisfactory response, but I really can't be more specific without pointing to the actual case and I don't want to get into specifics in case I do decide to assist.
it is possible.
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This is my favorite quote from the post:

"You’ll still be able to purchase secure certificates through the DreamHost control panel... Functionally, they’re the same! Financially, they are fifteen dollars more expensive than free certificates. Up to you!"
However, if the Initiative ever liquidates shares, regardless of what it does with them, they'll owe cap gains just M+P would have.
"Presidents—and the rest of us—can’t get anything done anymore."

Only 54.9%* of eligible voters elected a President in 2012 and the author is dismayed about how overly informed, overly involved and reactionary due to technology.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_St...
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If you care about privacy enough perhaps Facebook just isn't the right social network to join?

Facebook is an advertising platform, and the best one at that. It's also a place people post intimate details of their lives for others to see.

I don't know that I find fault in their ability to use that data to better target you with ads or content.
The results seem to disproves both:

1. A quantum foam space-time.

2. A networked/graphed space-time in which the nodes can have plank-scale (or larger) movements and re-arrangements.

But I'm not sure if this experiment disproves a space-time of fixed-position nodes which have additional properties (such as a field of scalars / vectors / spinors / etc).

To test the above I think measuring the smallest possible change-of-angle that a laser can make off a reflective surface (compounded X times) would do well. If the arrangement is as above, rotating the reflective surface by the smallest amount will affect the produced angle in a non-linear way (compared to larger amounts).
Sales were still huge when it was first released though, and it totally changed the mobile phone industry.
Ever heard of it's 2015 and I'd like to be able to opt-in to specific mailings if necessary.

Isn't there a decent mailing list package that hybridizes a GitHub "issue" type system with a traditional "email firehose" approach?
That is bordering on the absurd. Kudos to Red Hat for what they do.
Your definition of Occam's razor here seems to be "my opinion makes the most sense to me therefore it is correct."
I agree with that, but if successful entrepreneurs want to do charitable works themselves, I think they should have that freedom -- if not tax-free, then certainly at a much lower tax than if they were buying a fleet of private jets.
I'm assuming that Satya's strategy is targeting Microsoft platforms only.

Satya's strategy encourages platform lock-in (which is good for Microsoft), but at this point Microsoft needs to encourage consumers to buy the thing to make it worth developing for; even if it's just a different front-end.

Ballmers strategy trades the lock-in for something that solves the chicken and egg problem and removes a huge advantage that android has over windows phone.
More generally I've never understood why charity is tax free. When I or others to give money to charity that is great and I support that. But why do so many expect they can take from the governments pocket when funding a cause they believe in? Dont get me wrong, I understand 'the logic' to encourage charitable giving this is a net positive.

In my home country charities are often abused by business and individuals. Given increasing sophistication and selfishness of individuals non-profits and charities should be taxed like any other organisation. Ideally real charities would have very low tax rates anyway. They typically distribute income to causes creating expenses against income, basically turning them into very low margin and subsequently low tax business. And those that abuse this structure or hoard income can pay tax like any other business. Little bit controversial I know but I find this tax-free relationship is taken as 'its the way it is' without further thought.
No, Taiwan is part of the mothership.
Why do you presume to do the judge and jury's job for them, but with no access to the facts or judicial procedure?

My other fear is that what happens when, with access to the facts or judicial procedure, I determine that the defendant actually is guilty.

Please don't be complicit in that.

We'll see.
Steve Blank and Eric Ries have great books on the subject. But if you want a step-by-step process, I'd read Ash Maurya's Running Lean. We pretty much followed it to a T and ended up with a validated solution that now has hundreds of paying customers.
I am firmly convinced, based on the overwhelming evidence I have seen, that Bigfoot exists. However, Dyer is well known in the community as a hoaxer, and that picture in the article looks way fake.

If you are interested, most Bigfoot-related news can be found at this forum:

http://bigfootforums.com/
Pretty much although don't say that here, half the links are basically advertisements wrapped in articles.
There are a lot of questions wrapped up in yours :)

Briefly: if you pare Government back to core functions, you don't need much money. In New Zealand, we (meaning the Libertarianz) estimated it at around $2,500 / working adult / year. That (back at the turn of the 21st century) would get you courts, police, Parliament, defense, embassies and the glue to run it all.

Then you need a way of raising the money. Probably, most working people can afford $2,500 per year to keep civilisation running, especially if they're not paying any other taxes. Maybe a poll tax? Seems reasonable that those paying also do the voting. Could simply solicit donations, or maybe run a lottery.

But no: you couldn't run a socialist country that way. Which is sort of the point :)
usually when people say this what they mean is revolting and difficult to read things.

(i'm not 100% sure this means you, but all of my experience tells me this is likely the case, sorry to have to be critical)

i've heard this sort of thing about

*a++ = *b++;

and variants thereof, which is the classic example of this.

a lot of the times i have seen this stuff it is in the middle of even more revolting code too... like some 1000 line function (which could be 10 functions and has comments inside of it that delineate the obvious splits) with a gigantic switch statement (which could be a class, or in C a function pointer), containing loops, where there are 20 lines like the above but even more difficult to read in a row (which could have been a nested loop with identical logic referring to some constant data) - to think of the most recent example i faced.

sadly i've seen this sort of stuff so many times for so long that i find it easy to read, but it is intrinsically difficult involving precedence and the post-increment gotcha, and it gets worse if there is even more being done than just a straight copy.
It's not about accusations of bias, it's about the fact of bias. Specialization tends to narrow your worldview and breed conformity. That's how regulatory capture happens even in the absence of overt bribery. Juries aren't just for show.

Now consider this: if the addition of the diversity of juries tends to improve the fairness of our legal system, it has to be due to the influence of jurors that don't think and act and decide according to the norms of the rest of the legal system.
An accusation does not make a criminal. Your dissonance flies in the face of your strong belief in a presumption of innocence.

Yours is more of a bias to believe in a presumption of innocence for certain crimes because of personal reasons.

A good attorney won't give you details of a case.
The problem with this is it is often not known how many other antibiotics might have worked. It might be better to measure drugs known not to work as a percentage of the drugs that work for that class of organism.

Getting this data is likely to be really hard to get and be very labor intensive.
The reasons are mainly historical, but the non-profit lobby (consisting of charities, 501c3 non-profit organizations, churches and university endowments) holds so much power, that stripping them of tax-sheltered status would be a third rail for any politician running for office.

The historical reasons assume that many everyday community efforts (feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, abused women and children, planting trees, sheltering stray animals) is better done (and financed) at community level by community efforts rather than by central government and sending money to Washington D.C.
i doubt it tbh, i bet he means no /3rd party/ dependencies other than the ones that came with the development environment.

the C standard library and the usual set of headers and os functions that you get in most C environments is not what people tend to mean by dependencies....
You're not the only one: http://www.economist.com/node/21556570
FlashFXP doesn't support simultaneous connections.
I don't understand these things at all. They're a hilarious toy, but they seem like a complete waste of time regarding their intended purpose. For example, when she says not to sneak up behind someone you're trying to talk to - why not just send them a message? Or the robot in the conference room - have they not heard of speakerphones?
true. although we would call it successor right?

shortening function names with abbreviations ought to have died when fortran relaxed that restriction. XD
If any of the shares the LLC holds are donated to a public charity, there will be no tax implications for the LLC, as if Z donated the shares directly or operated a private foundation, and without any of the freedoms of the LLC.

If any of the shares the LLC holds are liquidated by the LLC or granted to for-profits, situations where the "other reasons to create the LLC" are in effect, capital gains tax WILL be owed.

The LLC is as if he held the shares personally, when it comes to capital gains.

The estate situation is very different, not cut and dry, and that's what is being discussed in this article.
The first customer of IBM Research's System R relational database was Pratt and Whitney in 1977. [1] IBM didn't release a commercial relational database until 1981. [2] The article is from 1978. Anyway MUMPS is probably simpler since than an SQL database since its database is a key value store. The big problem is that it made it easy to write unreadable code and people wrote enough of it to give it a bad reputation.

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DB2
Because that would be a tacit approval of the severe imbalance of power between the haves and have nots. Shit's not right and you can't throw money (especially fake tax evading money) at it to make it go away.
> as concerned as he was by the possibility of a false
> conviction without also being concerned by the
> possibility of a false acquittal.

Isn't that a natural consequence of innocent until proven guilty?
I find it hard to argue that you owe anyone else in the U.S. because everyone receives similar benefits. Mark didn't receive "extra" benefits above and beyond any other U.S. citizen. In fact, the richer you are the less you benefit typically.
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There are two sides to every transaction.

Someone who owned fairly illiquid Hawaiian land now has $500,000,000. Perhaps they would do something with it.