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I think an open discussion of tax policy is important and thankfully organisations like the OECD are working to create frameworks for countries to use to make good policy choices. (especially in the international context) I recommend looking into their papers if you're interested.

That said I found the arguments in this document missing some important points.

They don't clearly separate the benefits of corporate taxes from a domestic vs international standpoint. These are two very different issues. On the international side they talk about the race to the bottom where counties are attracting companies through lower tax rates. They suggest this is a negative trend but don't offer solutions - because it's a complex issue with no easy fix. Sovereign countries can chose their tax regime and therefore there is an incentive for some to become tax havens. As an individual country it will hurt you to raise the corporate tax rate since there is a higher incentive for companies to move profits. So are they suggesting all counties agree to raise their corporate tax rates? It's not clear. Countries are obviously aware of this issue and are working with the OECD to draft solutions.

On the domestic side they gloss over the fact that most countries work to have an integrated tax system. That is, no matter how you structure you taxes when income flows to an individual the total tax paid on that income should be the same. So having a corporation (which usually has a lower tax rate than individuals) gives you a deferral of tax. This is to encourage businesses to reinvest.

They claim that if there is no corporate tax then companies will create shell companies and put income there. Tax authorities aren't stupid. Even now it would be beneficial to do that since corporate rates are lower than personal rates. Thats why if the company isn't earning business income (I.e. you just throw your personal wealth there invested in passive income) the tax rate of the corporation is bumped up to the highest personal rate on that income. So doing what the document suggests would be illegal.

The only real argument for changing the corporate tax rate should be (from a domestic standpoint) based on the deferral. That is, do you think companies should pay less tax to help grow their business faster and only pay tax when the owner stops reinvesting in the business?

Obviously this is a complex topic and I think that this document glosses over alot of that complexity. Just to note that I'm most familiar with the Canadian tax system so that's what I've based the domestic discussion on. However, all countries have similar tax policy objectives and should have similar rules in place.
> That doesn't make tools like induction any less useful

But philosophy isn't concerned with the question of utility. It is also not at all just playing language games (although philosophers have pondered both language and games). But if you're limiting your field of view only to that which is practically useful, you may be excluding other ways of looking at the world which you may find satisfying.
It would suffice to talk to ambitious people without wrongly contrasting them with people who go to school or college.

His words feel condescending to me.
It's an official tool. Also, most interfaces are very small (one to two methods) so it's pretty easy to figure out. I read/write a decent amount of Go every day and it's not often that I'm asking myself "what implements this interface?".
Not sure why you are getting down voted. It's a valid question.

Cheap, abundant energy makes in cheaper to produce and transport necessities for human life and allows us to invest more time into researching and improving the quality and availability of those necessities (food, clothing, housing, medicine, etc.).

Haven't read through all of this, but it seems to have some similar ideas.
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2009-04-20/peak-people-int...
Ask HN: Is it safe to update to Windows 10 yet?
I've been running Windows 8.1 on my laptop for a while now. I really dislike Windows 8, and from what I have seen of 10 it does appear to be an improvement.

I just want to know whether the initial day 1 bugs have been ironed out enough that Windows 10 is worth installing now?

(Cue the Linux is better comments)
Theoretically they would. However in practice I'm sure the people screening applications would be able to see that they're people who don't really need any special privileges, and prioritise someone else who does. Its not like applications are being selected by a random number generator.
This is almost certainly the ads that they're talking about in this post. They don't really have any control over what kind of trackers are included in 3rd party ads. I would wager that if you reload the site at different times of the day, you'll get different numbers.

It's a sad reality of the advertising world—the people building the ads simply don't care, and the ad networks can't (or won't) do good QA.
If you see this as ambiguous, then you are either seriously impaired or perhaps working for jpmorgan. After he quit and filed a complaint against jpmorgn, jpmorgan created three false complaints against the former employee. Then basically lied about it. They are about to pay a $200 million fine for what he alleged they were doing. jpmorgan is all wrong here.
I do wonder whether a certain amount of jobs will stay simply because of certain people's preferences for human made products. I mean, look at the markets for different types of food. We can genetically engineer stuff and use factory farming and all that stuff, but a significant audience just doesn't trust the technology or buy into the ethics of it.

Wonder if human made could become the next organic, at least among certain hipster types...

I also wonder whether a certain amount of this 'technology will kill jobs' stuff overlooks a small business issue that a certain few people don't seem to get. Namely, that the businesses that do well aren't always the fastest producing ones or the ones that make the 'best' products in some statistical sense. After all, about 90% of sites online are simply made obsolete by other, usually more popular ones. But many of them still gain an audience, even without being the 'best' at something or posting about it the quickest. All these talks and articles seem to assume the equivalents to Walmart and McDonalds will win in all markets because 'robots do things better/cheaper' and completely overlook such things as customer loyalty, branding, location or anything else.

AI is going to be an issue, but I think it's a tad premature to say all businesses will turn to it, or that businesses that aim for a more niche audience and care about the service more than the price will somehow stop being able to do well.
Software quality is just not something academia optimizes for. It only counts whether you can get your paper out. The chances that somebody else actually uses your software are slim, so investing time that could be spent writing more papers into better engineering makes little sense.
Those percentages are total income, not population. You've got it completely wrong.
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To some degree, this is why some sites use services like archive.is to link to third party sites, because the archiving service will keep a cached version of the page even if the original source goes down. Maybe this could be the solution for certain cases? Okay, it won't be super popular with all site owners (they'd rather traffic came to their sites directly so their ads were viewed), but it's certainly more stable.
I considered running hydra briefly, but shyed away from the extra complexity and operational overhead. Most things are already available in the community hydra, and building the unique things is hardly an inconvenience since it happens once per machine. Instead of using channels, we maintain a fork of nixpkgs and occasionally squash it into a git subtree of our main repo. Our git history reflects everything you could want to know to replicate a working build of our software.

I've never done a gc on my /nix/store, and have wrecklessly added things to it while experimenting. It's 25GB and has 44k (!) derivations/packages in it.
I used the original version of this to teach my son to type. Not only did he love it, his friends are now impressed that he can touch type. Thank you for providing much more than a game.
Yup, correct on all counts.
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Why aren't the OS vendors such as Apple, Google and Microsoft protecting users against this?
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Good luck implementing anything that takes longer than three months to bear fruit.
The SNP are very much pro multiculturalism, the 'nationalist' agenda in Scotland is about the long and complex history with England/Westminster, not the rest of the world. It is about self-determination and it is difficult to get a handle on from abroad as the media fails in it's attempts to understand what the Scottish referendum is really about (as did many Yes voters). This could have something to do with almost all of the Scotland's media being controlled from south of the border, which emphasizes the point really.
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One example for a non-nationalist conservative party would the German CDU (Merkel's party): They were one of the driving powers behind the ECSC, EEC and later EU, and staunchly pro-NATO, even at the cost of German sovereignty.
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Having recently moved from Waterloo, Canada to London, I can say that some of it "just because" (market effects), and another part is the "benefits" you get here (compared to the US): free health care, cheaper university tuition, etc.

Have a look at banking/finance salaries in London, they are very comparable to SF/NYC.

EDIT: here are some highly scientific and factual polls on HN about London salaries from recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10498333
Where can I read more about this aspect of the Google car's programming?
Perhaps, but if the next session were for black and Latino founders, and Obama's daughters applied, would YC really pass up the chance to work with them ASAP?
Please notice how far afield you went to find a failure of inductive reasoning: Financial markets. Not a bad math proof. Not an incorrect physics theorem. Not even a civil engineering disaster. Markets!

Markets aren't exactly known for regular behavior. If anything, they are anti-inductive.[1] If you find and exploit any regularity in them, the regularity eventually disappears.

It's for these reasons that I remain unswayed by your claim.

1. http://lesswrong.com/lw/yv/markets_are_antiinductive/
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Tesco in the UK have Scan-as-you-Shop, which sounds similar to your Scan-and-Go, the prime difference would be that you are given a dedicated device for doing the scanning rather than requiring you phone.

I've used this regularly for the past few months and had no real issues with it.
Had a friend who lived in Japan for 35 years whose opinion of Japanese politics was basically that the ruling party were the largest and most powerful of the triad gangs.
No, but they can always be ...fired.
> “middle-income” Americans are defined as adults whose annual household income is two-thirds to double the national median, about $42,000 to $126,000 annually in 2014 dollars for a household of three.

$42k for a household of three seems very low to be considered middle-class. I suppose in rural areas that makes sense, but in most population centers that would be fairly impoverished.
I wonder the same thing, but I'm on Windows 7 (which I really like).

I'm mostly concerned about Virtual Box still working correctly, since I use virtual machines all day, every day, for school/grad work and hobbies.
I think that the Japan public debt house is starting to crackle and they do not want the public to know. Thus they are silencing the media.

Here is a graph of Japanese debt to GDP ratio
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-debt-to-gdp

Here is demographic Changes in Japan's population. It shows a top slope, population starting to fall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan#/media/F...

So a retiring Japanese population is going to pay for rising public debt. Sustainable in the long run?
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I think this article is very fair and probably on the money. The Pixel C is a tablet I really, really want to like but the fact that Android is very ill suited to being a tablet OS plus the fact that the keyboard connects via bluetooth (and, as they always do, suffers from input issues as most reviewers have pointed out) is just a bad idea.

One thing to point out however is this article and many others continue to say how odd it is for the Pixel team to develop Android hardware but I think many forget that Google positions Pixel hardware as hardware designed and manufactured in-house versus Nexus which has hardware designed and manufactured through partners. The Pixel C did a reddit AMA just two days ago and one of the answers made this distinction https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3w3x7p/hi_im_andrew_h...

Though I'll admit that distinction isn't always black and white considering things like the Nexus Player.
MD here. The vast majority of soldiers are fit and healthy and will have completely normal labs 99% of the time. The times when they are not normal will be insignificant 99% of the time (had a few drinks last night? your GGT level will be slightly above normal briefly). This information is worth next to nothing to anyone.
I was super excited about this possibility
(the build quality and complete lack of branding is just .s.e.x.y.)

However the dealbreaker is that the keyboard is lacking a ton of characters (like brackets and the backtick and the pipe) which is a complete deal breaker
It's nice to see an article that explains that too much animal protein can be bad for your health, without advocating a 100% plant-based/vegan diet. We humans are apes, and when you look at other apes, they eat mostly plants, but not always only plants. For example, chimpanzees eat small amounts of meat.

I'm a bit skeptical to the claim that whole grains is a nearly perfect food, though. Think about it - we apes have not eaten huge amounts of grains for most of evolution. Also grains contain various anti-nutrients, otherwise they would have been eaten by insects. It does not seem inconceivable that some of these insect-harming anti-nutrients could also be harmful for humans.

Many dietary studies are done with rodents, but I think (I'm not an expert here) rodents have eaten far more grains than apes during most of evolution. So studies with rodents showing that high-grain diets are healthy, are perhaps showing just that - that high-grain diets are healthy for rodents (and not necessarily apes).
Actually Elixir and Erlang are totally interoperable with zero overhead. They both compile to BEAM virtual machine code. That "runs on Erlang" part is a selling point IMO.
Is there a controversy? Eating more nutrious food and fewer calories (assuming a previous diet of too many calories and poor nutrucian) typically benefits people whether it's paleo, vegan or just a regular healthier diet.

Paleo's basic premise is loosly based on the malnourishment seen when we transitioned from a diverse hunter-gatherer diet to a much less diverse agricultural diet (largely caused by iron deficiencies). Its a misunderstanding of history. We ate those foods before, but they weren't the ONLY things people ate. The result is ultimately still restricting diet to healthier foods which means it's nutricious, but still unnecessarily restrictive and without a realistic premise.
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Glad you asked; I've been wanted to share.

The simplest approach is to just use the default nix channel. For a team and production environment, this isn't ideal because you don't control when changes are made to your dependencies. So, we fork nixpkgs and rebase on our own schedule. This is also nice because it gives us an easy avenue to contribute upstream. Changes that may have community value go in this fork, nothing private.

The fork is then squashed as a git subtree into our main repo. That way it's part of our history like everything else. You can even git-bisect with confidence in the face of many dependency changes!

In addition, we have a tree of our own nix expressions for dependencies that are unique to us or that we haven't bothered to contribute back to nixpkgs yet. Sometimes this includes copying an expression for a dependency into our tree with a patch until the bug is fixed in an upstream project.

The final result is one or many nix files reference our private nix expressions and nixpkgs subtree, intended to be used with nix-shell.
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Oh .. and another thing.

I do point of care needlestick blood testing on people every day. I check haemoglobin and blood sugar levels. When doing a needlestick test for Hb I always do it twice because these results are often spurious (especially when you "milk" blood out of the finger). The Hb/liter figure can vary by as much as 20-30% routinely. If this is the case I then do a proper venous draw to find the true result. These tests are marginally useful in screening for really low or really high values, but they are pretty much inadequate compared to a proper venous draw for clinical decision making.
Sign up for rewards credit cards and "make" some money. $500 bonus cash back if you spend $4k. The processing fee on $4k is about $95, so you get a ~10% discount on your property taxes.
I think news paywalls need to be bundled in not with other newspapers but other subscription services.

I'd kill for a Netflix/Spotify/choose-your-newspaper all in one bundle.
It's not a bad theory, but even the military medical establishment would demand that the tests are accurate.
You forgot to mention that Japan is the biggest creditor in the world and the one that possesses more foreign net assets than even China.

So even if debt is colossal, it has the assets to maintain it for a long time.
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>I don't remember George W. Bush being given credit for anything by Democrats. The "Republicans are obstructionists" argument is just so silly.

Cool, I'm not taking about that, and I'm not making that argument, at least not insofar as it excludes Democrats or other political parties. Most politicians are obstructionists, because appearances are worth much more in politics than tangible improvement. I make this statement as a general principle of politics, not constrained to any particular party or even any particular political system. It's true in both corporate and governmental politics.

>Now the argument has become "well, we don't care what he did, we'll move heaven and earth to get a soldier home." Should he be guilty of desertion, I think that's an unprecedented and indefensible decision.

I think it makes sense to bring our people home, even if they're accused of crimes and have to face court martial in the US, as Bergdahl may. It benefits the soldier's morale if there is a well-founded belief that the U.S. will fight to get back every captured soldier, no questions asked (at least until the soldier arrives home). Without this practice, it'd be easy for a unit to abandon someone they dislike in enemy territory, claim he was a deserter, and condemn him to POW status as long as he can live it out.

>Veterans find it infuriating that Susan Rice would use the term "honor and distinction" and then qualify it later along with the idea that all soldiers have honor and are distinguished. Here's why: it's basically saying that you don't really care what soldiers actually do, you only care about the appearance of supporting them.

I understand the frustration, but please be aware this is a macro-level thing, and as stated above, in politics, it is all about appearances. That can't and won't change.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bD...
I would add "The Formation of the Scientific Mind" by Gaston Bachelard. This text analyses the nature of the mental patterns that prevent from making actual discoveries (what he calls "epistemoligical obstacles").
EU Unveils Standing Border Force That Will Act “Even If a Government Objects”
I'd argue against the police escalating. The police should take evidence only in this case. The escalation should happen through court and the legal system since there is no one in danger here.
Remove a government monopoly and solve the problem with competition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycentric_law
I don't know about other places but where I live you can have up to several minutes between lowering barriers and train arriving. It's true that even this may not be sufficient in some circumstances.
Conversations and narratives are the new documents
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Padrino has a new home
This is sad for me, not exactly by the Microsoft "win", but by the Apple "loss". Yes, you can call me a devotee if you like.

What I feel is that the only company which cares (cared?) for design (bear in mind: true design, not decoration) and end-user experience has lost their edge. It's sad for me, on one hand because I'd rather see more - not less - companies being design oriented. On the other hand, pragmatically, it's also worrying because I don't know which laptop/smartphone I should buy when my current ones "expire".

I like/liked Apple because they had a fundamental vision; their devices didn't seem to be full of gimmickry or spec/feature-oriented. Now they are releasing phablets, hybrids, battery extending cases and operating systems full of new features.

So, the mobile computing dark ages begin? Jobs said the same regarding desktop computing in 1996. I think the web was obviously overlooked in his remark, but he was quite accurate regarding the desktop per se.
I can see how it can be creepy, however my house was burglarized recently, and I would have loved to have a device that could catch the IMSI of all the mobiles in my flat at that time. I can't really do anything with the IMSIs myself but I could give them to the police after a burglary, like a CCTV tape.
You misread the chart. It means the upper class' share of total income increased from 29% to 49%, while the middle class went from making 62% of all income, to 43%.
> the US was trying to do was stop the genocide

That's just how the West media presented the events at that time. In reality, the event you link to happened after the more years of war, where the victims of the mass-murder event renamed as genocide were the side which the US actively supported (Bosnian Muslims), and which had their own "kind-of-ISIS" fighters and committed enough atrocities before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_mujahideen

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33345618

The US supported these Muslims the same way they supported Mujaheddin in Afghanistan before

http://www.counterpunch.org/1998/01/15/how-jimmy-carter-and-...

and just how they effectively supported Al-Qaeda and other extremists in Libya later, or all the Islamic extremist "rebels" in Syria.

The US has a long history of using the Muslim fanatics to destroy the countries the leaders of which it doesn't favor, like Assad's now.

The Yugoslavia events were of course with more actors just like in today's Syria it's not just Assad and ISIS.

The basis of US foreign policy is the commitment to prevent the rise of powers capable of constraining Washington’s unilateral action. Washington is not opposed to terrorism. Washington has been purposely creating terrorism for many years. Weakening Russia is one of the decades-long tasks, read honest Brzezinski in the article from 1998 I've linked.
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