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They won't have paid taxes in Ireland. that's the point.

Like Apple google negotiated a deal that only Ireland profits are taxed in Ireland but European profits are declared there but are untaxed.

The UK could reduce it's tax rate to 1% and they'd still have their Irish tax structure as that gives them 0% across all of Europe.

It's hard to go lower than 0.
Isn't modern dbus something that you can't restart without rebooting the computer? I think...
Yes, but we have a lot more experience and existing code for solving this on more monolithic systems, whereas the massively parallel architecture of a GPU stops having so many advantages when you have heavy dependencies between operations on different "cores" (e.g. needing to compose arbitrary-precision math out of smaller operations), and thereby end up needing to synchronize rather than letting the threads compute in parallel.
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Maybe because expectations of friendliness are higher when talking about space industry. It still feels more like few entities working towards the same grand goal than companies competing with each other.

The jabs Elon and Bezos are exchanging seemed funny to me at first, but now they seem kind of serious, which makes me uncomfortable. I expected they'll have fun together, not the resentment that seems to be flying between them.
The key issue is that Lumileds itself is organized as a U.S. corporation; its current ownership is inconsequential, whether it's a U.S. citizen or a Dutch conglomerate. CFIUS has had the legal authority to investigate -- and the president to block -- any transaction involving control of a U.S. company by a foreign national since the 1950s.

It's worth noting that while (as far as I'm aware) there are relatively few CFIUS-equivalent organizations worldwide, most countries have some kind of mechanism for similar actions. That they rarely use them is a different issue entirely.
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Because all apps are sandboxed on Android, it's hard for an app to fiddle with the settings. But desktop applications can fiddle with Firefox settings, so I can see why Mozilla don't want to allow even a setting.
I'm upset, but very little, and it's because of broken expectations - I thought better of both Elon and Bezos. Otherwise, as you said, both succeeding is a net win for humanity, so I cheer both.
I'm just a random reader of HN, but I'm curious here: was that comment edited after it was moved? As it reads now it doesn't seem far outside the tone of the rest of the thread. As always when I ask such things, I ask because I want to know what I'm missing, so I can see it in the future and/or avoid making similar mistakes myself.
Soros is a very manipulative gentleman looking exclusively after his own interests. When he says A it doesn't mean it's true, it merely means that saying A benefits him the best.
The Telegraph here doesn't name the man, but links to three other stories:

Paedophiles and rapists let off with cautions by Cumbria Police

Woman who laughed as she filmed sex attack jailed

Children forced to have sex with animals, court hears

In the UK context there are two things pulling in different directions:

Jimmy Saville spent years abusing girls. Many people knew this, and no-one protected the women. So, people are careful now ot investigate all claims.

But then we had the Satanic Abuse scare, where a bunch of untrained interrogators planted false memories of abuse in children, ruining many lives.

Chidren do need to be protected from abusers, but I hope the police and courts are careful to protect freedoms.
It's interesting to hear something like this coming from Soros because as I understand it he has himself caused the collapse of government banks in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros#Currency_speculat...
Afraid not - there are others with stronger grievances against him than I, who may even be able to substantiate those grievances, who could do that job far better than I.

I also fear retribution, frankly - he's a bojo type, and scarily machiavellian.
But what's the name of the game?
Pure awesome, I guess :).
I don't think we're there yet, but I think the EU could theoretically be a benefit. Eventually, I think the EU should be capable of limited direct transfers in times like this, but we're not really there yet. More immediately many young people stung by Spain's youth unemployment crisis are here (in Ireland) working and living for a few years, for example. Still close to home and planning to return. Flights are €40. They are not is Spain, but they aren't foreigners either. I like having them here and I'm glad they can get a job and live here as a right. Maybe one day I'll exercise that right in Spain.

An EU working as it should should be of help, in solidarity with our brothers and sisters. I think we'll get closer eventually.

Spain isn't doomed.
Most of the peace was achieved by having two superpowers use Europe as their high noon staring contest location. Most of Europe was exhausted from two generations of war at that point, so having another would be a fools errand.

Also, i don't think Merkel has much say in any of this. Its her finance minister and his buddies at the ECB that is running the show.
I'd love to see an experiment with 1% revenue tax.
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I'd say it's a hazard, but not necessarily a given. The current cultural and economic interconnectedness of the globe is profoundly unprecedented in all of human history, no reason why old patterns should repeat themselves.
But if he didn't think it would be true he'd bet the other way. Of course he's going to put his money on what he thinks/thought was going to happen. I can see how it's not true but I think it's likely he believes what he's talking about.
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There's also this fragment of the article:

> When you do a vertical landing, you’re solving the classic inverted pendulum problem, and the inverted pendulum problem gets a bit easier as the pendulum gets a bit bigger. Try balancing a pencil on the tip of your finger. Now try it with a broomstick. The broomstick is simpler because its greater moment of inertia makes it easier to balance. We solved the inverted pendulum problem on New Shepard with an engine that dynamically gimbals to balance the vehicle as it descends. And since New Shepard is the smallest booster we will ever build, this carefully choreographed dance atop our plume will just get easier from here.

It could be read as a jab at SpaceX.
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> >Could something like Xen be more secure than the Linux kernel? Maybe. That's a good question, and one I haven't seen the answer to.

> It ought to be, because the attack surface is zillions of times smaller (x86 spec vs all the system calls offered by linux).

Bullshit. Either your Hypervisor is a user mode program (it uses syscalls) and therefore requires a full kernel underneath all of the other abstractions you've got (which makes it slower). Or it's like KVM, where it's kernel mode and thus doesn't need syscalls to break the host (does the phrase "floppy driver local root" mean anything to you?).
(I do not work for Mozilla so this is speculation):

As far as I can tell, side loaded extensions require a full, non-automated, review http://i.imgur.com/r070Grv.png and it wouldn't surprise me if side-loaded extensions were the worst offenders.

Upon discovering a malicious extension, Mozilla could look through all extensions they've signed and blacklist (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/) all extensions with a similar signature similar to how some anti-malware databases work.

There is probably not all that much stopping you from writing a malicious extension that passes the AMO automated review (example: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/i1058), but the cost for malware writers is going to be significantly higher since it will be far easier for Mozilla to shut them down via their blacklists.
You're probably right (and you'll remain right if "Soros" is replaced with the name of many, many people), but I don't think you're the kind of source the grandparent asks for; I think they wanted evidence that Soros shorted the euro or something similar.

Even if he's short the euro, it kinda seems that no single famous, connected billionaire can make or break the euro. It's, like, a really, really big, erm, thing. He ought to believe his bet to be correct rather than hope that him talking about it will move the market very much. So if he's indeed short the euro, I'd guess you're hearing his true opinion (which doesn't make him right, it's not like he's never lost money, it just probably means he's honest in this particular instance.)
Could it be the other way around? Could it be that he sees the bleak picture, and bets his money accordingly?
Is there really a strong anti-EU movement? Admittedly I don't really follow the nationals politics of the other member states, but at least from my position - living in one of the PIGS - what I see is mostly a movement against the Euro. I mean, sure, Merkel, Schäuble and Juncker are demonized quite a bit, but I think the argument is for improving the EU, not leaving it.
This is slightly painful reading. As someone on the periphery of coding I've been stuck in that loop for years that are rapidly approaching a decade.

I think more than just doing these things it's vitally important to have people around you that you can ask questions to. While I'm sure there are some autodidacts who can make do with an IRC channel and google I've only ever had things stick when there's a real life person in the room I can keep on asking dumb questions to.
Does those 20% include Spaniards employed in other countries?
... except those that are still around. I'm not sure how that logic can work. You're essentially saying "immortality is impossible because the people who are dead aren't still alive".
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This is not only the UK I believe, it's just the UK is the only country where citizen will have their opinion heard about the EU, the sentiment is shared by other countries. On my case in France, they won't do a vote because they are really afraid of the result, the anti-EU movement is going stronger every year and I believe it's the same in Germany, Spain and Italy. As much I as love the EU myself, it's currently not very democratic I must admit.
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I detest Merkel generally, but her refugee policy was the right thing and earned her some grudging respect from me. Unfortunately it could very well be her undoing if she doesn't pull it off very well.
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> Rather than an intelligent abstract policy of allowing Greek to make their own decisions.

I think the point was that Greece needs to change and arguably are incapable of making the decisions that need to be made. Germany felt that there was an need/opportunity to impose that change. Whether it was the right move or will be successful is a completely seperate discussion.

The rampant tax avoidance, the unsustainable pension system, the very low productivity and the culture that allowed Greece to lie their way into the EU all need to stop if they are going to be a successful part of Europe.
Well I meant, do you happen to have a link stating that? :)

> When they bump the version number Nightly turns into Aurora turns into Beta turns into Release.

Not exactly. I guess you intentionally (over-)simplified that? Firefox actually follows trainspotting for their different release channels: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/04/trainspotting-firefox-37-d...
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Says the guy who has put his money to keep the Eastern European countries heads low.
An alternative (complementary) explanation might be that news organizations like NYT keep tabs on popular CEOs and write about them at regular intervals?
>I personally suspect there are a lot more human corpses in orbit than anyone knows about.

I wouldn't be so sure, since we kind of have to know about them so we don't crash into them.
Didn't Kim Dotcom say you can't trust Mega anymore?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/31/kim-dotcom-me...
It sounds reasonable? If anything this highlights the problem with all the new encrypted communications options, even highly technical people can't really know how good it is from a cursory look. Just because it says end to end encryption and uses some nice ciphers it doesn't mean the implementation is not critically flawed.

I use Signal right now (from Moxie Marlinspike/Whisper Systems) and would only really consider alternatives if they were endorsed by other cryptographers I know because I really just don't have a strong enough grasp of how all the machinery interacts.
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Nobody is against the EU except far-right political partys and their supporters. edit: so far left, too, sorry!
>I also appreciate her refugee policy. My grandparents (like many's) were refugees in WWII

Unfortunately it looks like she'll need help from Cesar Millan with these migrants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKu6Y7FtgF4

Comparing the honest hard-working refugees that came into Germany during WWII to these beings is a damn joke.
I'd be cautious about an in-depth article about the state of the European Union where the protagonists never bring up the subject of France. Not once. Kind of strange.
One of the founding principles of the EU has really been to try and avoid a repeat of the world wars that are still (just about) in living memory. In that respect it's been a wild success, I'm not sure we've ever had such a lasting amount of peace.

As someone with a mixed UK / Greek background it's been interesting and often painful seeing the current woes of the EU. Greece has had a lot of problems, many of which really do benefit from outside oversight. I've seen a large amount of corruption there, be it deliberate or just letting things slide. Having input from outside to try and stamp out some of the more rampant stuff is very much a good thing.

However this isn't always a good thing, the rise of the far right 'golden dawn' can very much be attributed to old stirrings of anti German sentiment, much of it based on inflammatory second world war tub thumping (although ignoring the fact that many of the particularly right wing areas now were Nazi sympathisers, go figure).

The UK has, in contrast, been much more high handed. I think a lot of the Greeks are worried but ultimately they really do want to stay in the EU, where as I'm not sure that's the case in England. There's this air of superiority, both from the colonial past and the nature of the UK as an island that lends itself well to always expecting to be treated specially for some reason.

Rather than forever going towards a broader union I can't help wondering if a more hazy framework would work better, rather than having an authority in Brussels/Strasbourg could we not have representatives from sovereign governments that debate these issues when they affect areas larger than countries? Much of the current legislation seems as though it doesn't really need to be done on such a sweeping scale.
The whole world today is based on countries and their respective borders. When you want to travel between countries anywhere in the world you must have valid passport, to prove your identity. Countries can issiue or choose not to issue visa, so not everyone can pass every border. Things are working this way, and have worked this way for very long time. A very basic principle. Why is that? Many reasons, and the main is national security.

EU opened borders between their own countries. This is a good thing, it allows free travel and flow of products and money between EU countries. But EU still borders countries that are not in EU.

Now they are allowing everyone without valid documents to pass EU border in Greece and Turkey. You just need to say that you are a Syrian refugee and that you are going to Germany. Sane countries like Poland and Hungary are only reacting to this insane situation. Racism is not involved here, only logic.
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> Europe has been at peace for a logn time

I think in terms of peace it's useful to distinguish between the EU and Europe. There have been a couple of wars in Europe in my lifetime. Not to mention a few military dictatorships (which had a kind of 'peace' I suppose - but not a good one), assassinations of leaders etc.

Maybe (hopefully!) we'll get through this without it imploding - maybe end up with a more Hanseatic League kind of set up, maybe more like the US. 'May you live in interesting times' and all that... ;-)
I think that pressure would be healthier if directed at a real path. The combination of EU as scapegoat and fear-based counter-politics by the political establishment is unhealthy. I don't think it's possible to really poll opinion in this environment.

Look at Scotland. They wanted an independence vote from the UK. It would have been historically peaceful and safe independence. They would have joined the EU, maintained close ties with England. But, when push came to shove, Scotland didn't want it, mostly because of anxiety. That's a real pressure valve. If Scotland really wanted independence (like Ireland did 100 years ago) it would have passed.

It would also put pressure on the EU to improve. I want more democracy too. It wouldn't be bad to have countries demand it to stave off EU-exit politics.
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What's the difference? If somebody bets money on X, you can suspect he's more likely to work for X than against X.
He's essentially saying that historically the odds are vastly in favour of every empire eventually falling. The "American empire" is a historical shortlived blip compared to many other empires that eventually fell.
What empire ?

The idea that the USA is a superpower is antiquated and I am still surprised people think it is. It is unquestionably the strongest country but it isn't able to just unilaterally impose its will.

Obama's most notable legacy for me has been the acknowledgement of this and realising that the USA is far stronger and far more successful leading multilateral coalitions.
I agree, there has been conflict. It is far from a perfect peace. But, it has been more peaceful than ever before.
> We need a way for countries that don't want to be in, to get out.

Can you imagine a US state doing that? I don't think unions are reversible at this state in history. The national state is not exactly living a revival. This is majorly a financial crisis.

> This has left our national governments with a nice scapegoat, great for populists, nationalists and fringe politicians to use for their purposes

That is a very good observation. It's the reason Greece is suffering at the moment. But leaving the EU at this point would be even worse.
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Would you bother setting up proper permissions (i.e. have the separate user that only has rights to execute the deployment scripts and nothing else) or would you rather to set it up as quickly as possible?
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This is old news from 22 Sep 2011. They said there was a mistake and that these results are not accurate.
> They would devote enough resources to make sure that you and your accountant were sufficiently overwhelmed.

Is this strategy not extortion?

For freelance earnings, I've been offered similar accountancy insurance as well. I was told that if I was investigated (not because I'd done anything wrong, just from random selection) it could cost several thousand to pay an accountant to do the work an audit would require. This always struck me as a broken system.
I just read the PG essay and have to agree with the parent post. From what I can see, his argument boils down to this: increasing wealth concentration is caused by many things. Some of these things are 'bad' (e.g. rent-seeking, bribing politicians) in and of themselves, and should be addressed. Some of these things are 'good' (e.g. economic productivity varies from person to person, all other things equal), and it would be ill-advised to do away with these things by blindly optimising towards 'less wealth inequality' (as it would make everyone worse off, in an absolute sense).

Obviously an oversimplification, as the essay also hints at a 'undetermined' category. On this, the essay touches on two issues I've been thinking about for the past 5 years:

1) As capital (i.e. the means of production) becomes increasingly digital, it becomes cheaper to acquire and production can occur at a marginal cost of near 0 (e.g. it costs facebook virtually nothing when a person makes a new account). Cheaper to acquire means fewer people needed to pool money to attain capital. And marginal cost near 0 means more 'winner-takes-all' markets (e.g. natural monopolies, network monopolies etc.). All this will result in more wealth concentrated in fewer hands.

2) Digital capital is highly mobile. AWS instances can be moved to another country almost instantaneously and without cost. This makes it hard for governments to tax returns to digital capital, barring some global tax agreement. So governments have very little scope for redistributing this increasingly concentrated wealth.

We badly need to have a public (and probably global) conversation along similar lines as PG's essay: do we consider these good or bad things? are we ok with the resulting society? what should we do (if anything) about this?

Instead the conversation seems to be dominated by people who are fixated on remedying the symptoms, rather than the underlying disease(s). Supremely frustrating, and will eventually result in more extreme policy outcomes (i.e. expropriation vs. free-for-all).
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On the US:

The USA is ancient compare to the EU. The EU's first days were debated on the internet. The US' were debated by pamphleteers, distributed on horseback and had slavery as a side issue midway down a list of policy questions to debated later.

Could you imagine The US expanding its union? Could you imagine Mexico joining, the constitution being re-written?

I don't think we're bounded by what the US is or has done. Even the US isn't. Times change.

On exits

I don't think that option would be taken very often. (A) It would pressure the EU to be what it needs to be, a Union countries want to be a part of. (B) It would change the local political debate. At the moment, the anti-EU Trump^ can safely talk without it meaning anything. I think the EU should be built to withstand border changes, in both directions.

^Interesting how rarely EU politics is debated on HN compared to US politics. Hello brothers from across the Atlantic.
> In that sense, both of them do have problems.

POSIX thread scheduling implemented as M:N has problems. General M:N or 1:N schedulers don't necessarily have to have problems, as it is demonstrated in practice by virtualization. Virtualized kernels implement their own scheduler on top of the hypervisor (which also has a scheduler), and it all works great. Performance overhead of virtualization is usually in other places, not in scheduler interactions. But even when it is, people do use VMs, so it works well enough, certainly not "pathologically bad"