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Chelsea doesn't have the best food options. You could go south to Meatpacking which is a bit better but I'd just walk east. Flatiron / Union Square has tons of food options that are open late plus solid bars. Walk even further to the East Village and you're golden, there's like two twenty-four hour restaurants within a block's radius of each other.
Corporate taxation is double taxation because personal income (and capital gains) are taxed. The problem with double taxation is that splits and hides the amount of tax. It's an anti-pattern that creates complexity and deadweight losses like tax accounting, etc. that could be used for productive purposes.
Netflix just hiked their prices up 60%. That's definitely high. But Nest bricked hardware that customers have already paid for. I have less sympathy for Nest here.
I also wonder how Facebook will monetize WhatsApp with e2e now.
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Site looks great. Loving that it's Polymer.
...or we could move to a sensible model, where software delivers on its promise and allows people to work anywhere.

This is a false alternative, since it's not something SF government can do.
I don't think it can be one single thing as we know all of our achievements are based on the idea of "standing on the shoulders of giant". I can suggest various vaccinations and medical technologies.
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We've just setup a new office for our company (https://raygun.com) in Seattle. We have a small office in SF, but going to building a much larger one up here (we're HQ'd in Wellington, New Zealand)

Seattle locals complain a little about all the cranes across the skyline. I see it another way - Seattle is absolutely going to eat SF's lunch if it doesn't change.

You already have Microsoft, Boeing, etc here. Google, Facebook and Space X have now opened offices too. This city seems to be fully engaged handling that growth and how to capitalize on it. We've been receiving flyers about developing the transit system for the next 25 years. A far cry from the sassy (and painfully accurate) BART twitter account calling out the lack of investment in it.

I'm not saying it's perfect, but there's some real problems with the inelastic supply of housing in the SF/Bay Area.
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Mutt is a very nice MUA that I use daily. The only thing that is bugging me is its slowness when working with large mailboxes.

Opening an IMAP mailbox with 100.000+ messages takes 60-90 seconds. And caching does not make things much faster. :(
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What would make legal tax avoidance unethical?
Worst case scenario, how many batteries alone would be required: https://youtu.be/NvCIhn7_FXI?t=4m47s

Surprisingly low.
I don't know if it's true for SF, but some cities have noise ordinances that pretty much shut everything down by a certain time.

As others have noted, people who have the sorts of jobs that put them behind a register can't afford to live in SF, and public transportation shuts down at midnight or so. If you were working a restaurant it would have to close by 10:00 so you had time to clean up with a little buffer to make sure you were on the last train.
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If you're talking about your aunt's primary residence, there is a capital gain exclusion of $250,000 (or $500,000 for married couples). Additionally, improvement costs, all sorts of taxes, fees, etc. can be excluded from capital gains, on top of the base exclusion. Obviously, in a high COL area, the sale price might be greater than the exclusion but it's pretty hard to argue that someone making a greater than 1,000% profit on an asset should not pay capital gain taxes on the gain above 1,000%.

See: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p551/ar02.html#d0e301

Your initial point still stands though. Capital gain tax rates are the same for everyone.
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Read it again. It applies if you spend time in the US or you paid above a certain amount in tax before you expatriated.
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Thank you for the dose of common sense here. The way that a free market works is that consumers effectively vote for certain products with their dollars. If consumers want a certain type of device, they will buy devices of that type and show suppliers that these devices are in demand, thus incentivizing them to produce even more of those devices.

You may not like it, but sometimes, the market moves in ways you do not like. All you can do is adapt or put your own product out there instead.
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From the article, markup that once looked like this:

<div class='questionCard'>
<!-- Contents of the card -->
</div>

Now looks like this after their refactor:

<div class='u-relative u-mt1 u-p2 v-bg-white v-bs2'>
<!-- The contents of the card -->
</div>

For a filesize improvement of 19kb to 9kb.

Personally, I feel like the new class names they're using are extremely difficult to read and scan. I imagine the mental parsing time from reading the classes to forming a mental image of the result goes up with the addition of each class and variation. I wonder how difficult it is to discuss design decisions using these terms?

I've found that semantic, component-specific class names make it really easy to reason about markup and discuss UI changes with designers and product people. This increases maintainability and makes it easier to prune classes used by deprecated components, and also decreases iteration time when developing a UI.
> To what end, though? Is there a good argument that shifting that money from a tax haven abroad to a de facto tax haven in the US will actually do something productive?

The question is whether you can couple it with incentives to either grow operations in the USA, or somehow reinvest in American companies.

Potentially, this could be one of the conditions of the tax holiday, somehow.
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"Eventual forward secrecy"?
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But can we still be sure of our privacy if we combine two or more such semi-secure systems? TOR does such a thing with the Onion Routing protocol by using intermediaries.
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I agree. Carl Icahn, activist investor, is trying to change the rules with a show of force but companies only keep it overseas because they believe they'll get their way soon.

If you make it so it isn't an option, then they're forced to reinvest or lose to competitors and/or piss off shareholders with no growth.

I'm all for low corporate taxes but small businesses get hosed and they create jobs and innovation despite their disadvantages.

Want to start an LLC in California? You'll have to pay UPFRONT sales tax and an annual $800/yr license. People on this board complain about SaaS products that are $20/mo. What do you get from the state? Nothing.

The upfront sales tax is completely ridiculous. While it's a credit - you start your company with thousands of dollars in the hole when cash is king. Then you have compliance costs and the state income & sales tax is not competitive. At least other states like Nevada and Texas can capitalize and steal talent to try and keep other states honest. That's refreshing.

I have 2 successful LLCs in California but the current situation irks me. I'm closing another startup because the costs and time involved with keeping it lukewarm until I can free up time from the other 2 is prohibitive. And the cost to start it back up after I close it is prohibitive too (business tax, new sales license, distributor, etc.).

Eventually I'll probably sell the 2, move to Costa Rica and start a new New-Co up. :)
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Greetings from another WV refugee. Austin by way of Elkview. I have tons of relatives from Greenbrier County.
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Both of our teams at MacStadium and Macminicolo are looking forward to the new opportunities this offers. That's a fairly vague statement but isn't that what everyone says in these moments?

Here's a press release we just released with a bit more info: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/macstadium-secures-n...

We'll also both be sharing more info in the next few weeks on both[1] our websites[2]. Another vague statement, but true nonetheless.

Obvious disclosure: I work at MacStadium.

[1]: https://macminicolo.net/blog/

[2]: https://macstadium.com/blog/
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I agree. The system we have right now is ridiculous. We should harmonize our corporate tax rates and rules with the rest of the G-8 and then tax capital gains more like income.
You're misrepresenting your case here. The law stops you from tinkering with the software of the tractor. You can tweak, repair, replace, or light on fire any part of the tractor you want, so long as you do not reverse-engineer the software inside the tractor. So technically, the law does not stop you from repairing any of the mechanical parts of your tractor.

I'm not saying I agree with John Deere's attempt to prevent people from playing around with its tractor software, but I am saying that you're exaggerating here.
Thanks for that. I'm in Denver also looking to buy in the best future. Do you have a recommendation for a real estate attorney? My email is my username @gmail.com if you don't want to say publically.
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Most people have probably encountered a book of say a few hundred text pages on cheaper "regular" paper, with a bundle of a few pages of color glossy photos in the middle. Does this technique have a industry name? Is it commonly called something? There are a several variations. Sometimes you see the same type of paper, but the line drawing figures are all in the same few pages.
Between working and freelancing, I am building an app alongside myself learning a new language. I found that lots of the current apps for this specific language are total crap. So I figured I should build a high quality one.

Also I don't really "enjoy" learning the language so doing something I really enjoy makes it quite nice.
I don't think you can compare anything Raspberry Pi with a polished consumer product. The ideal world does not exist for those who already spent $300 on the hub.
This is not accurate.

While many companies avoid taxes, they end up harboring cash overseas which has its limits. Most of them need to bring that money back to their primary market in the US - either to re-invest in more employees, factories, R&D, marketing, whatever.

Carl Icanh is basically threatening Congress with Super PACs.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/carl-icahn-to-invest-150-million...
The gas station near my house in Toronto got a "Costa" coffee machine which makes a better latte than the coffee shop next door to it. It has a touch screen and can make anything from americano, cappuccino, hot chocolate, drip coffee, etc. It also has the same cane sugar offered at Starbucks.

The price was also 30%+ cheaper than the coffeeshop and it was ready relatively fast.

The machine also plays music and ambient coffeeshop sounds when it's making the coffee. Nice UX touch.

It's pretty amazing that availability of quality coffee is becoming so widespread now. If more of these machines start spreading it's going to add ever more competition to small coffeeshops.
So exactly how do group chats work in Signal Protocol?
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Why is racial profiling wrong?

Aren't you just making statistical inference based on past experience?

if that is wrong then all learning is wrong.
How would we go about verifying Whatsapp's claims? It seems to me that they can easily be lying and we have no way to check. Also, they can just make a client that simply copies the unencrypted text displayed on-screen and leaks it to wherever they want.
Maybe store it in electric car batteries? The ppl already buying Tesla Model 3 at scale.

Why utilities should pay for storage, when they could just offer cheaper electricity when there is excess of it. E.g. charge your car when we told you to and save %30 on your bill!
It might be worth it in unstaffed commercial settings where ditching the charge wire means one less thing to break.
Right now that old lady on social security is likely paying property taxes that are 1/10th or less of what someone purchasing a similar house with the same market value would pay. Is that fair? If she has any children, she can even pass ownership of her home to them, and they will continue to pay her low property tax rate.

(based on your username, I assume she lives in California)
> And a lot of armchair commentators seems to underplay the amount of sheer engineering effort or cost involved in these sorts of things - it's not a case of spinning up some AWS instances, and hacking together some PHP on your weekend and deploying.

I see this all the time with people that know zilch about technology, but it really disappoints me when I even see my fellow technologists underestimate the amount of engineering effort it takes to get something simple like a server up and running reliably.
So my thermostat stops working when the internet connection goes down? No sale.
I am guessing making money is important for you, may I know what kind of company did you work for? There are lot of companies in Canada now that have made some mark in last few years like HootSuite, Shopify & Slack(?). Also I know lot of Canadian tech workers (educated in Canada?) have founded startups in USA, which makes me think it's more of a ecosystem problem.
"To me, $129k isn't surprising since it is only going to be bought by researchers with big budgets" Yeah, this is essentially "Big chunk of a computational researcher's startup budget" or an infrastructure grant.
"Aren't you just making statistical inference based on past experience?"

Yes, but if your behavior in the past was also biased, going off of arrest records or something like that won't get you better / less biased results.
This is illegal in Australia. A customer can reasonably expect that if they pay $300 for an electronic thermostat then it will function for a reasonable amount of time, otherwise the manufacturer will repair or refund/replace. The reasonable amount of time in this case, particularly for a $300 thermostat, would be at least 5 and probably at least 10 years.

There was a case that passed through the courts yesterday, Steam tried to exclude these warranties. They didn't get far with that. Source : http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/03/australian-federal-court-f...
We're trying different things, I think. I was doing notepad i:/whatever on the command line and you're using the file open dialog within notepad, which doesn't work. Sorry for the confusion.
The software is an essential part of the tractor. The tractor isn't just the mechanical parts.
I'm confused and am not sure if you're thinking of something else or if I'm quite misinformed about Lojban. I don't think lojban has suffixes at all (prefixes, on the other hand). For -j specifically, the only words in lojban which are permitted to end in j are names, but there it's not obligatory. Names are required to end in a consonant, but there are at least a few that are more common than j, I think.
What about signing and verification?
It's bad enough that you prosecuted a nitpicking argument to the point of hounding, but adding personal insults takes this way over the line. Please don't do this again.
How much did Pfizer pay in US taxes between 2010 and 2012? Zero.

That's because Pfizer reported a net loss in 2012. I don't know the exact details, but Pfizer is headquartered in NYC and most of it's R&D is US based as well.

And Pfizer had several major settlements with the IRS based on audits from previous years. That's right, the gov't audited Pfizer's returns and gave billions back.[1]

[1]http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/features.nsf/Articles/8A8A34F...
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Racial profiling works to some degree, but it means that innocent people who match the profile have to put up with a lot more intrusion into their lives. It's similar to the moral question about where to draw the line: would you rather imprison an innocent, or let a guilty person go free?
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Visited Seoul a month ago and there are indeed a crazy number of coffee shops. Quite expensive and very chain-dominated: Starbucks and various clones, I assume because of the prestige factor of being American (completely the opposite to where I'm from, where Starbucks is regarded as undrinkable watery garbage). You have to look a lot harder to find a non-chain shop.
Along with many others, I feel that the law is currently misinterpreted.
IRC, GOPHER and NNTP all use CR LF as well.
It doesn't exist.
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raise the top income brackets to offset the loss.

The only way that would work is if the "top income brackets" started at $75,000 per year.
Yes, this is one of the classic suggestions for overnight or at-work charging: cars which choose to charge depending on the owner's goals and energy prices.
What a peculiar pascaline.
If you have say an LLC as a disregarded tax entity, or an S corp that earns honest buck, say $1m/yr in 2015, prepare to pay $500,000 tax, even if you intend to store money in the corporation to re-invest all of it in 2016. At the end of the calendar/fiscal year, the income will be taxed, regardless of your intent to use it for business development in the later years. Note, it is not taxed when you take it out of the corporation, it is taxed before that.

If you create a C Corp, it will be taxed about $300,000, but then taxed again at about 40% if/when you take it out.

Contast this not even with Pfizer, but simply with say a smallish public company with 1bn market cap that has gross $200m/yr and expenses of say $201m/yr (often deliberately in red, like AMZN, to pay 0 tax). Every several years they would issue $100m worth of new shares to remain cash flow positive (zero tax rate on $100m by the way), and use a large portion of these proceeds towards the executive compensation in options that is taxed at 20% as long term capital gains. I observed this up close, my ex was a corporate lawyer in such a typical company. But this was not all. In the end they split the company into two, (paying hiring bonuses in the shares of the spinoff to all execs), and incorporated the spinoff in Cayman islands, to make it an inversion target! I felt almost nauseus writing my own large tax checks for my domestic LLC!!
Yes, but it's NOT the -only- part of the tractor. The commenter who brought up this tractor example made it seem like the government outlawed people from tinkering or repairing ANY part of the tractor.

I also wouldn't be surprised if (much like cars), tractors generally only need mechanical repairs over the duration of their lifespans.
I'd argue that's a feature, especially with something as intractable as a commit history. If you sign a commit today, and the only place that stores your key is GitHub (where you can delete your key), I can't verify that signature forever.

I think a much better system is using keybase (with your GitHub identity linked to keybase), and then checking the gpg signatures using git locally. GitHub's setup has no tangible benefits (if you can log in to an account and therefore can push to your own repositories and make pull requests as yourself, you can also change the trusted GPG keys). The only case where it might help is to show that a commit on someone else's repo isn't you. But surely that's something people already assume?
They are also not owned by billionaires with agendas or have to pay lip service to advertisers no matter what they do. News these days is but a joke and mostly simply public relations and propaganda, listening to it in my opinion opts you in to being coerced by other people's agenda. It's good if you are an idiot and need coercing to behave, but for people who can form their own opinions have no need for this.
Also, can we please stop taxing the incomes over the exempted amount for US citizens living overseas? I would love to have the option to live elsewhere for some time without my citizenship hanging over me as a burden.
I find Lexus is a reasonable middle between Tesla's "less is more" interior strategy and Mercedes' "button or knob for every function". I've flown planes with simpler controls than Mercedes sedans' panel.
> Github has no way to authenticate which keys are good and bad if they only use the keyserver network. So they have you upload the key on their site to implicitly authorize the key as one that you (the person with the github account, or at least its password) consider valid.

Yes they do. It's called "the web of trust" and has existed for quite a long time.
I was interested in Nest devices, but will now never buy one.
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To me, the solution to this is simple: if you eol a product that renders it useless, open source it. Allow someone else to support it and perhaps at a profit. The same would happen if a phone or cable company decided to drop and unprofitable area.
A terminal does (kind of) emulate a teletype. Certain formatting operations would be easier if a line feed character meant exactly “line feed”. Ditto vertical tab. I agree it doesn’t really belong in a storage encoding, though.
Just got back from Vietnam (Hanoi and Saigon) and the amount of coffee storefronts/cafes is nuts.

It seems every other store is a cafe.

Highland coffee is the 'Starbucks' of Vietnam
Another reasons are language support and tooling.

CUDA had Fortran and C++ since day one and thanks to PTX was quite easy to add support for other languages.

Whereas OpenCL was stuck on "C only" model from Khronos, which forced everyone to use C or generate C code and be constrained to the device drivers.

This has been seen as such a big issue that SPIR and C++ SPIR got introduced with OpenCL 2.0.

Another very important one is debugging support. Last time I checked no one had visual tooling at the same level as NVidia's one.
No, square one would have been several phone screens if they liked my resume at all. So it got me to around square four or five.
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Not exactly storing energy, but a functional equivalent is load shifting. This means shifting demand from when the electricity supply is low to when it is high. An awful lot can be done with this.

This can be implemented by adjusting electricity rates in real time, and having loads that can be shifted monitoring the rates and turn on when they are low.
I don't think it's crazy. There's already over 60,000 units in the development pipeline: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/02/a-record-62000-un...

This timeline is measured in decades, but imagine if San Francisco was easier to get permits to build?

Large swaths of the city are built under their _currently allowed_ zoned height (there was a map that went around, I wish I could find it). Add a few stories to some existing buildings, build on empty/underutilized lots, reduce parking requirements, legalize in-law units, add in the affordable housing bonus program...you'd be talking about tens of thousands of units.

I do agree there is a strong argument that this wouldn't be enough (Bay Area-wide coordination is necessary), but it would slow the rate of increase. For example, after an apartment building boom, Seattle rents are now decreasing: http://cityobservatory.org/in-some-cities-the-housing-constr...