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Re: Cameron Sr & Blairmore holdings use of the Panama firm.

All of this is a perfectly legal tax avoidance scheme for the rich.

The company, legitimately, never paid a penny in UK taxes because it was run by various Bahama Islanders & decision making was done in Switzerland at a ski resort.

The Guardian article suggests there is evidence that the decisions & meetings were held in the UK - if that is true then Cameron Sr. illegally evaded millions in UK taxes.

According to the Guardian, David Cameron has answered these claims by stating: 'This is family business'.

Many will recognise this classic rejoinder from the Godfather movies.

Now we are told the firm is being run from Ireland, where Google and Facebook were working the, perfectly legal, 'Dutch Irish Sandwich' tax avoidance scheme - that David Cameron rightly criticised and both tech firms apologised and paid up.

So once again this is all perfectly legal.

Perhaps a bit hypocrital given Cameron's 'tough' stance on tax avoidance and trying to put the blame on comedian Jimmy Carr.

Of course, as before, if decisons were still being made in the UK, then the company would owe many millions in UK taxes and fines for evasion - but no-one is suggesting that.

Jimmy obviously should have used the Cameron Family firm.

The, probably perfectly legal, tax avoidance scheme for the super rich is called Blairmore Holdings.

It is named after the ancestral Cameron family estate which recieves tons of money from Europe simply for the amount of land it contains.

All perfectly legal, a sort of welfare for the gentry.

If this all paints a picture of corrupt toffee nosed twits
spouting lies about the poor while filling their offshore coffers then...

shurely shome mistake.

David Cameron is fully expected to give back the millions he inherited from all these decades of tax avoidance - cough or not.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/04/panama-papers-da...

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Don't forget computers have vastly faster response times than people. A car going 5mph with 10ms reaction times can stop in ~1 foot. http://www.random-science-tools.com/physics/stopping-distanc...
The average new car buyer keeps it for six years. 17 million new cars are sold in the US per year. So 102 million Americans (which of course grossly underestimates as most are bought by couples/families) are buying new cars in that lifespan. Of those people, the average price is $32,000 or so.

Again, the data tells us that an enormous number of completely normal, ordinary Americans buy new cars regularly, and that they spend a lot. Anecdotes or personal projections can give us a completely skewed notion about this (e.g. I know zero people who own a gun. Therefore no one owns guns), but if you compare the data to your anecdote, clearly they don't correspond.

And FWIW (which is little), every one of my neighbors has vehicles worth well over the average. In the exurb town I live in on the outskirts of major city, you never, ever see an older car, or a junker, or anything of the sorts. Burger flippers have shiny new Kias. The middle class have giant SUVs. And so on.
Between $1 and $1000.

How do I collect?
I agree with your idea of configuring stuff to an extent I'm a recent switcher to Arch and love it so far, but on my other laptop I use a Debian minimal install with i3wm and all my manually installed programs, and I find it is that fine line between easy to use (installing, drivers, etc) and manual configuration.

I love Arch, but Debian min install will always have a place in my heart for getting set up easily while still being extremely fast and custom.
I don't think there will be any significant differences.
> Problem 2: Rapid charging is actually not so rapid, highway re-charging stations will have to be much larger than current gas stations

Shift your thinking! Electric cars won't be charged at gas stations like gas cars of the past. Most electric drivers charge at home in their own garages or driveways. I have neither, but I still manage to charge my car in street parking with an extension cord, an exterior wall outlet, and a few of those little safety mat things so strangers don't trip over my cord.

-> I agree to an extent, however, I think you over estimate the discipline of the average person with respect to them always remembering to charge their car at night. The time it takes to recharge an EV to a significant capacity is still too long for people to easily transition, not to mention the massive current demands that would be required for such a quick charge. In an ideal world, people would plug their EV into an outlet every night when they come home from work, but we all know that the average person isn't as deterministic as that. How many people wake up in the morning and realize that they forgot to plug their cell phone in at night? This is why there's such a push for rapid charging technology in those devices.

In order for people to easily make the switch, I think we would need vehicles capable of charging to a ~100 mile capacity in under 5 minutes; similar to how long a refill for a gas vehicle takes. I’m not up to date on the latest EV news, so maybe we’re already there.

Nonetheless, I find myself many times in the morning on my way to work, glancing down at the gas gauge, realizing that I forgot to refill last night. This forces me to make a quick stop on my way to refill, which only adds about 8 minutes to my total commute. Waiting at an EV charging station for 30 minutes would require a significant change in my lifestyle.

People like the average HN user are generally responsible enough to make appropriate accommodations, but my 68 year old father wouldn’t go through the hassle.

Another hurdle I see with overnight charging is the mess it would cause in cities like Philadelphia where you aren’t guaranteed to end up in the same parking spot every time. The people there can’t even handle shoveling out a parking spot without shooting each other, so I expect a few issues when there are extension cords in front of everyone’s house and you need your specific spot to charge your car. This could easily be solved with a universal charging infrastructure that includes chargers every 10 feet, but that infrastructure will only come when adoption reaches a certain rate where the _massive_ costs can be justified. This is the obvious catch 22.

Of course, these issues will slowly go away as EVs become a part of everyday life, but I’m specifically talking about the transition period.
With economies of scale I'd estimate about $1,000 per spot. As things stand right now I think it's more like $3-4,000 per spot, but the cost of EVSEs will come down, and the cost of installation will be lower per unit if you're doing a whole street at once.

That may still sound like a lot, but the parking spot itself typically costs $2,000 or so, and you're saving on the cost of the gas pump that this charger helps to replace.

Yes, you have to account for the cost of charging infrastructure when looking at the total cost of an EV, but it doesn't greatly change the picture.
Officials would tell her to use both or she'd have to go to European Court of Human Rights to have that simple right. A woman attorney did go ECHR iirc
If everyone had a horse these days, the environmental impact would be massive, from the infrastructure required to generate the food for them (there probably isn't enough land area in the world to grow enough grass), and the amount of methane they emit.
Given that now we cannot trust the identities of any Turkish citizens, I'd like to suggest we start by banning Turks. Sorry guys.
More HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10979352
I suppose that says more about Fedora than Arch :) (context: happy with Arch - haven't tried Fedora)
I don't think these companies "hide" any money there. I am sure they are reported in their financial statements. The fact that they are legally out of reach of the US IRS doesn't mean it is hidden.
Debian 8, about 560MB of 4GB with no apps (but for system monitor), and about 760MB of 4GB with Chromium open, with one tab (new tab).
> sound/graphics/sleep/projection/skype/internationalization on the Linux distros

Paper Cuts

HFS+ problems are a disaster. I lost 2 10 hour days of video edits and work and my backup were also garbage.

> FS bugs are not a huge factor

You know you are not seeing things clearly when you say statements like that.
Typically the bootloader/BIOS for microcontrollers are very simple, and are really only needed to allow for easy software updates without needing JTAG or other vendor specific updating hardware.
What's impressive about it?
But in most cases it is very easy to arrange charging when you are not running your electrical dryer or air conditioning, mainly in the late evening or night. It would be trivial to control your charger such that the total electricity drawn by your house connection never exceeds a set value.
I am encouraged by the progress made so far. I point to the documentary "Who Killed [GMs] EV-1?". That movie had a laundry list of the technological and political obstacles to EVs in the 1990s. Many of those have been reduced in the 2010s.
Isn't that exactly what Quantum particle pairing solves for?
Arbitrage the accuracy of your prediction against the oil futures market.

There's an implicit requirement for a useful prediction of the price in the GP comment.
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Isn't the real lesson here twofold?

1. Governments can't keep this kind of data secure.

2. Massive troves of information that identify individuals are a very tempting target.

This sort of breach argues against big centralized (e.g. NSA's "sniff it all") data stores. They're just too easy to get into the wrong hands.
That may be, but it seems that Akamai CDN is still giving them a data feed. From that press release:

"As a result of the pixel-free technology partnership, MediaMath's clients will gain access to more data for audience segmentation, retargeting, and optimization, with quick and easy activation."
Depends on if they are looking at you threateningly...
You don't need to limit yourself to one type of EV. In the US, a J1772 charger can charge every EV on the road. In Europe, the Mennekes connector does the same.

Fast DC charging has a bit of a standards war going on. There's CCS, CHAdeMO, and Tesla Supercharger, which are all mutually incompatible. But for routine AC charging, you can install one charger and work with every car.
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I recently drove in freezing storm. Whole frontend was covered in icy-slushy mixture. Parking sensors were freaking out and working totally randomly in such conditions.

If I ever get an autonomous car, manual driving is a must-have feature :|
Thank you. It's refreshing to see someone walking the walk, not just talking the talk. Too many people get above 6 figures and decide that taxes are suddenly the worst thing in their life.
More like this? https://youtu.be/rF1vfMM3W08?t=133
There are already draft regulations in California [1] for exactly this. I expect that at least some states will have cleared the way by 2018, though obviously not all. Autonomous driving will likely be location-restricted to start with as a result. Remember, there is a lot of pressure on politicians from many companies and people to get autonomous vehicles on the road as soon as possible.

[1] https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auto
...said somebody totally unacquainted with marriage.
This is a good debate, Purist vs Practitioner. The Purist point of view is Autos are horrible, Cities designed for autos are horrible etc. But for the Practitioner, the world we live is not our choice, we are given a shitty hand, so lets improve it 10% at a time, in that world PHEVs and EVs are a solution working towards improvement.

edit: I do not mean, Purist in any disparaging way, the actual cost of roads (and their maintenance) is enormous. Please read Purist as one who sees the Core or Central problem.
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True, but like Snowden and the NSA, there's still a difference between cynically assuming "of course the NSA spies on everyone", and being confronted with the reality.
Chilly market? We're less than 100 points off the all time high in SPX (which was set last year). You could say the bull run is in its last stages, but it's far from chilly.
DoD outsources most a lot of that work. Though, they'd probably prefer a machine gun.
A hatchback
Yes, tech curves will take care of some of these. But an all-electric future is something that I don't see happening any time soon. It's interesting that most of the comments here seem to focus on the situation in the developed world but the world is actually quite a large place with a lot of different levels of infrastructure development. Rich countries and countries with easy access to vast amounts of hydropower will take the lead here, poorer countries, countries with aging and strained infrastructure or countries that have less favorable conditions in terms of population density and such will have a far harder time converting and will quite possibly and up with an even larger gap they need to bridge to achieve parity.

It's not exactly as if I started looking at EVs only recently, I've spent quite a bit of time on keeping up with industry publications, owned one of the first hybrids when they first rolled off the line and try very hard not to spout nonsense. Tech curves definitely will play an important role in mitigating these issues but are in and of themselves probably not enough to allow for a complete electrification of our transport needs.

> the true problems are going to be far different.

Such as?
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Exactly. It's the marriage that costs you half your assets, not the divorce.
I would submit they have not figured out how to make it profitable, lest we would not be in the situation that we're in.

Clearly there is a dissonance between the product your consumers want, your content, and the product you're willing to offer them: your content mixed with advertisement. That's an unfortunate situation.

Why does the advertisement make you money in the first place though ?

Someone out there with an actual product or service, want's to sell their product.
To increase sales, they pay you an amount of money that they think represents the amount of sale they will generate from the buyers that buy based on the advertisement run on your site. Whether it's through the proxy of some ad network or not.

If I am not willing to buy any products in the first place, I don't have to be factored into the amount the company is willing to pay to advertisers, as it will not increase their sales. If, based on just viewing the advertisement, I still am, that price is slightly inflated.

All what I am doing by blocking ads is bringing that price closer to it's actual value. Now, that's not in your interest as a content producer, but you don't have to be all moralistic about it and try to make me feel bad.

You might argue that that's incorrect, and after viewing enough advertisement I might be persuaded to buy a product that I would not have wanted to by before, but I am not willing to give you that power over my mind for mundane stuff like deodorants and beverages.
>And there are no gauges directly in front of the driver at all, which has been confirmed to be like that for production

Is that how you read it?

Because I read it as Tesla feeling the pressure to get something tangible out there for people to see, so they demonstrated a car that wasn't finished (just like the battery swap tech, or "off the hook" Powerwall demand). It got huge hype, now it'll be two more years of "wait and see what we have planned!" Smart, I guess.

I wish everyone would stop framing this as Tesla vs everyone else, instead of rooting on the EV industry as whole. There'd be less pressure on Tesla to take over the world, which ain't gonna happen.
The US grid is currently about one third coal, one third natural gas, and one third zero emissions (mostly nuclear). I doubt diesel is cleaner than an EV given that, even if you don't account for the fact that coal emissions happen far away from most people, while diesel happens in your face.
Seems like it might need GPS at times, or some other means to know where it is at certain moments. Once it establishes where it is then I could see it no longer needing GPS, as it should be bright enough to keep track of location by itself using a map.
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I don't see why anybody is anxious to board early unless they are jockeying for a bin for their carry-on or have a seat in a luxurious first or business class. First class already gets to board early, so I'm not sure what appeal this policy is supposed to have.
It used to be something like that. It now appears to be based on the number of votes as well as the amount of time.
Hardly. The data was originally leaked to Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). They then asked ICIJ for help because they can't deal with 11.5 million documents by themselves. Details at http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56febff0a1bb8d3...
If you disagree that strongly with his attitude but aren't doing anything different than he is, you're a hypocrite. What makes you better than him? What puts you in a position to judge him?
Why AI development is going to get even faster. (Yes, really)
"Feels like a spaceship" sounds weird to me. piloting a spacecraft isn't all that easy.

In fact, when we're criticising UX we say it's like the controls in the space shuttle.
I'm not sure I see your point. Of course Toyota is going to build EVs if they're required to by law. It's not like they're going to give up the entire California market just because they don't believe in EVs.
I took a few interviews recently and one particular coding test had me really questioning my involvement in the industry - not due to my own competence, but because maybe I really, really do not want to have to go through so much psychological screening and blah before I can get some work done. To be honest, it felt a lot like joining a scary cult ..
This is not correct, also from the Wikipedia link above, describing the Volt driving modes: "Dual motor extended – The electric motors are used again in dual configuration with increased efficiency at higher speeds. Additionally the gasoline engine contributes propulsion power via the planetary gear. While power is drained from the battery the amount is less than in mode 2 for the same propulsion power, thus extending the range."

Emphasis my own.
I am of the same mind. I make payments/donations to sites I enjoy regularly and block ads wholesale. If Forbes will not let me read their content w/ an AdBlocker, then I will just not read, nor cite, their content. Simple as that. I have weened myself off of much infotainment over the years and as sites bork/discontinue their RSS feeds I will read even less web content. My life is more enjoyable with less noise on the ine, anyway.
I think the key difference is "10 years ago"; Debian Stable today is a much more pleasant experience than Debian Stable a decade ago. I haven't used Arch so I can't comment there, but there's been a lot of improvement in hardware compatibility over the years.

Being any sort of early-adopter on the hardware front will, as always, get you punished with configuration file editing, though.
Why do you need to define a car company in a single adjective like "[self driving] car company" or "[electric] car company"?

Both are clearly the future. So what's wrong with doing both?

You say "pivot" as though these are incompatible goals, when in fact they're perfectly complementary paths to a future ideal of ground transportation.

To me, your point is like asking "Is Google a search company, or an advertising company?" They're both, in a fully symbiotic sense. You cannot describe it as one of these accurately, without the other.
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One of the main reasons speculated why Alaska is doing this is to make it significantly more difficult for another airline (primarily Delta) to take them over.
There is no similarity at all. These corporations don't hide anything, although they do exploit tax loopholes.
Getting MS-DOS games to run on Windows 95: Working around the iretd problem
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RISC-V protected mode is still being worked out.
NASA,Japan Make ASTER Earth Data Available at No Cost
The handset would be transmitting at 880mhz, the tower at 925mhz. The ISM band is 900-928, making the tower good, but the hadset not.
That doesn't work for longer trips however. So what's going to happen when EVs take over is that local gas stations will disappear, as people will just recharge at home or at work.

But for long trips, what we'll like see (well, it makes the most sense anyway) is highway rest areas where there's recharging stations and eating areas in one complex. Most people can't go more than a few hours in a car without stopping to go to the bathroom or get something to eat and walk around anyway; it's just screwed up now because we have these different functions separated instead of putting them all in one place together.

This isn't a new idea by any means. There's several of these rest areas on the New Jersey Turnpike now. They have a gas station plus a mini-mall with gift shops, fast-food eateries, bathrooms, etc. It's basically like the "quick-stop" gas station, like Wawa, where you get gas and then go inside and get drinks, sandwiches made-to-order, use the bathroom, etc., except at the Turnpike rest areas, you have the choice of several different shops to go to, all in the same building.

So in a future where many people are driving EVs that need 30 minutes to recharge, I predict we'll see more of these kinds of rest stops, catering specifically to people taking road trips that are beyond the range of a standard EV that gets charged at home.
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Yes, I was just wondering why they didn't use that? I reviewed that raft implementation. Looks decent and uses mio for non-blocking io, which was quite clean (I'm jealous).
I wonder how this will effect the Boom investment from Virgin?
I wonder what will happen with that letter of intent for the investment in that boom sonic plane startup. Was that investment announcement somwthing legally binding? (I didn't follow that closely)
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On the question of larger gas stations I present Buc-ee's in New Braunfels. An 18 acre lot with 60 pumps and 67,000 square foot building.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Buc-ee's/@29.726694,-98.07...

http://seguingazette.com/news/article_6dd61114-989d-11e1-b79...
It is true for AVX too. The entire crypto in OpenSSL uses AVX/AVX2, including RSA and AES-GCM, so for crypto heavy servers, it is unlikely to ever leave AVX mode.
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> I think its probably a hit job to smear Putin once again

I thought "smear" was the same as "defame". If he is actually tax-evading and stealing Russia's money, it's, at worst, exposing some of the skeletons in his closet.