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>I didn't say science said anything about conscious.

Well you did say:

>If this "consciousness" stuff actually interacted with the physical world, then we would, in principle, be able to observe it. But if it doesn't, then it's irrelevant to us. Totally disconnected from anything you can ever observe or experience.

I mean, how am I to read it. It reads like you're denying what you yourself experience if it isn't registered with scientific techniques.

We are yet to receive an actual datapoint from someone's mind, and it doesn't even seem like we know how we could do that. So all of your talk about scientific and not scientific theories seems to me a category mistake.

There's no scientific support for dualism. There's no scientific support for physicalism. Science can inform them, but we don't have scientific datapoints supporting either one. We merely have rational, or, if you will, philosophical arguments for them. I think I have made arguments against physicalism, namely, that we have no scientific method of accessing the contents of a mind, and we have no idea how to go about doing it.

What I'm hearing from your arguments is just your intuition telling you that all things are or will be intelligible under science, and having faith is fine, but at this point you have to know that this is the most grandiose claim of all in this discussion.

And to be specific, if dualism is true then we can't study minds with science. Science is about corporeal bodies, minds under dualism aren't corporeal. We can study what they do to the physical world, and guess how and when they appear to be linked with it, but we can't pry into the actual contents of the mind, not with science at least. Because under dualism, they aren't physical.
Just from reading the article:

"the Commission says both companies should have been taxed by Ireland on the basis of their worldwide income."

"These profits allocated to the 'head offices' were not subject to tax in any country under specific provisions of the Irish tax law, which are no longer in force."

It seems it is not an Irish problem, but more a European one, and it appears that there are some technicalities that allow the EU to request Apple to pay taxes.

Let's not forget that regardless of Apple complying with local tax authorities, these laws may be against EU treaties... "[the Treaty] generally prohibits State aid unless it is justified by reasons of general economic development"1

Let's see how this pans out.

1: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/overview/index_en....
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The idea is good and the service seems well intentioned but there is a nit I have to pick. A god awful book (GAB) that a high karma poster (HKP) mentioned to talk about its god awfulness would also make to this list, and would be worsened if other HKP mentions in a discussion/debate. Of course, one could argue that a debate amongst HKPs on a GAB making that GAB appear on the list is a positive thing as it lets the reader decide the worth of the book, but I am talking about a degenerate case without such a debate or discussion.

Internet citizens are sort of programmed to attribute high value to items near the top of a list when no explicit negative context is mentioned. What I am trying to say is that it would be truly beneficial if there were a bit of context mentioned along with the book, but I guess it would have to use AI/ML for NLP which is by no means a trivial thing. But that would make this spectacular. If that is not feasible (for whatever reasons), I suggest there be a prominent message saying to the effect of "this is not a recommendation list but just lists top mentions made by HKP".
She can't reveal the patients to them, so Facebook wouldn't be in a position to give a specific reason -- only generically how the algorithm is calculated.
I didn't know about their new'ish Origin CA offering. Cloudflare should be pushing this more as it is clearly the solution to their Flexible SSL and non-strict Full criticism.
Did you get anything out of your experience there?
oh they were. it's actually quite clear: if you exempt some corp from taxes you are paying them the exempted sum compared to another business not receiving the exemption.

In my opinion it is highly unethical to construct such financial mechanisms with the only aim to reduce tax payments.
The Irish government were doing their job very well.

It just so happens that their job, as they understand it, is attracting multinational corporations by having much lower taxes than their neighbours.
Yes, it is Apple's problem and no, Apple is not a victim in this thing.

The EU treaty is Irish law as well and lawyers from all over the union (myself included) have been looking on at this blatant violation of EU rules for years wondering how long multinational companies would be able to keep the schemes alive.

The Irish people have voted for politicians who adopted the EU treaty which bans subsidies to large corporations. The Irish people benefits when subsidies to French, British or German corporations are curbed. Under EU law, Apple has been obliged to pay ordinary Irish taxes all along. The whole arrangement has clearly been illegal and it is hardly a surprise to Apple and its army of lawyers and accountants that sooner or later justice would catch up.

Competitors that cannot secure such individual tax agreements are hurt by this. I sincerely hope that other multinationals with similar schemes will be next.

Apple will likely bring this ruling before the European Court of Justice but it is very unlikely that they will succeed in changing the outcome. From a legal point of view this is a very simple matter and it is an embarrassment to the whole EU system that it took so long to do something about it and that other multinationals still enjoy tax subsidies in Ireland (and likely elsewhere in the union).
I hate it when people would rather impeach sources than talk issues. At the same time, a casual look at the site you linked shows quite a few advocacy groups who obviously have an agenda to push. http://higherednotdebt.org/about/

So I would check those stats with a careful eye looking for bias.

Meta: I actually prefer opinion pieces to news articles. In an opinion piece, the author has to state a thesis, then defend it with facts and an argument. Makes for honest reading. What I don't like is the proliferation of persuasion pieces masquerading as news items -- and it is by no way limited to political action groups. Even the MSM gets in on the action.

So as far as I know these guys may have a point. But they also carefully choose what to present with an eye on influencing public opinion. This is not the site that would ever have an article saying "Ooops! Turns out ITT Tech wasn't so bad after all!"
Note that everyone's favourite privacy-respecting app (mine too!), Signal, also does contacts-sharing, although it doesn't do friends discovery (so the server knows one's contacts, but one's contacts don't). If Open Whisper Systems wanted to be evil, though, they could do this form of analysis.

Back in March I laid out how they could use a private set intersection protocol to enable any pair of users to privately share their contacts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11289223 (I'm not posting this to shame them or something: March wasn't that long ago for developing a feature like this, and of course it's open source; I could develop it myself and submit it to them).

I think it's something they care about; they've just not found a solution they're comfortable with yet.
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Not sure if this is something actually worth working on... I threw this page up on a wix.com template to see what the response would be but it seems to have got the attention of a lot of people.

Not a lot of signups though.
Companies try to pay the taxes by the "legal minimum" principle: pay what is required, but not more. If you have 2 parking slots in the downtown next to each other and one of them is cheaper, you will park where is cheaper... Why pay more if not required?

Question is: Did politicians, who created such laws, received bribes?
The difference is that we have a better control on what is being done when using a statically typed language. Of course it is always possible to create a vulnerability too.
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one could argue, that corps that get that bug must be cut down to a manageable level to not endanger states and thus the democratic order.
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Where do you get this idea?

When lighting is kilometers long, half a meter more is not a lot to cover.
> It is a problem but unfortunately not a solvable one.

It is solvable through international agreements between countries. Unfortunately those tend to defend companies more than individuals.

But hey, maybe the recent TTIP backlash and apparent failure is part of a positive trend.
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There are two things to keep in mind:
* Tax laws are (not theoretically) changed retroactively, i.e. even if no taxes were due at the time of filling, that may change.
* Law interpretation and/or leading acts may change (again retroactively), i.e. taxable amount, various exemptions, etc..

Some countries may pat you on the back for finding loopholes in the law while other may simply order one to pay hopefully without calling that criminal offence. We have no idea how this will turn out
Or just tax the product through VAT for consumer facing companies.
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>Questions: 1. how far is this from extortion?

As you put it, it doesn't sound like extortion at all.

It sounds like a business negotiation.

Like negotiating for a place you want to rent or whatever. If they don't accept your terms, you take your business elsewhere.

Extortion necessitates an actual threat of harm.

"I'll take my business elsewhere" is not that, since Apple's business wasn't Ireland's in the first place.
> Full: Still HTTPS from CloudFlare to the browser but they'll also talk HTTPS to the origin although they won't validate the certificate

This isn't true anymore. I would consistently get SSL invalid errors from them when trying this setup. You have to have a valid SSL cert for CF <-> Your server now it seems.
Typically you and your users are rarely going to say "I wish this data had been deleted" you will run in to situations where you and your users will say "I wish that wasn't deleted" I rarely design an app to delete anything.

Soft Deletes are pretty standard in development and I would recommend going that route unless sensitive data is involved and there is a reason to worry about data being retained as a bad thing.

For Rails:
https://github.com/rubysherpas/paranoia

For Laravel:
https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/eloquent#soft-deleting
> A new landcruiser would probably cost twice as much, but a 10 to 20 year old won't break the bank. It actually makes sense buying an older vehicle because they're much simpler, mechanically.

Of course, you are right.

Remember though I can't get a diesel.

> But the good thing is that any mechanic in even the remotest African village can fix it. Good luck finding a bush mechanic who can sort out a CANBUS-error in your Jeep...

Of course it adds to the complications if and when something breaks down, but that's all part of the journey. I have friends in the USA that can send me any part I need, and I'll kick back for a few weeks while it arrives and I install it, or have a mechanic do it for me. That's perfectly fine, I don't have a timeline. Waiting a month somewhere is not in any way a problem, it will just allow me to learn the language better and get involved with the community.

> Having said that, I have to admit I'm just an armchair warrior

It's interesting you acknowledge that.

I spent 2 years driving 40k miles through 16 countries. I created and moderate wikioverland.org, and have attended and presented at Overland Expo. I'm a moderator on multiple overlanding forums and fb groups, and I've personally met hundreds of overlanders, and "met" thousands more online. I've spent years of my life researching and planning and talking to people. I've watched and learned from literally hundreds of people that have made the same journey I'm making. Even one in a Wrangler!

I did do a tiny bit a research here, you don't need to "convince" me of your opinion that a Toyota is "better"
I don't use Facebook at all and don't miss it.
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This seems like the right way to look at it. If the EU wants to scare off multinationals and signal that this tax haven's days are numbered, why punish Ireland? Its unnecessary.
There is a lot of interesting research on the societal impact and the (potential) problems caused by the use of large-scale data analysis and artificial intelligence, e.g. by Kate Crawford at MSFT Research.

Last year I gave a talk on this at 32C3 where I tried to elucidate some of the problems that can pop up when using data analysis to automate things that were previously done by humans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRY9IceaVig

Personally I see a lot of potential in data analysis & artificial intelligence, but like all technologies they pose significant risks as well. What we really need therefore (IMHO) is to teach ethics to people that work with data, and establish organizations and methods that ensure data analysis isn't used to do harm (deliberately or not).
I had already sunk waaaaay too much time and money into the conversion, and it was far from finished. I was burning money much too fast.

Even if the engine didn't blow up, there was still months of work to iron out bugs.

After the hard miles I've done here in Africa, I'm actually immensely happy it didn't work out, and that I have a factory drive train in my Jeep now.
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Thanks.
Yes, it's effective - at least for some of us.

You may find the common 20 or 25 minute sprint lengths too short to get into flow. But on a day when you're having trouble getting started at all, they're a good way to get your butt in gear. If you're focused, nothing forces you to stop at the end of the sprint.

When I'm ready to buckle down on a big chunk of work, I'll more often set myself a 50-min sprint, though. And if you do work through the "break" period and into another sprint, just make sure you take a nice long brain break once you hit a stopping point. Part of the purpose of those breaks is to keep you refreshed so you can continue to concentrate.
Lower taxes for specific companies is the issue though, not lower tax rates across the board.
A CDN is effectively part of the developer's infrastructure. One could also take data from their endpoint and publish it on a public log somewhere with the compete traffic dump. The green lock can only tell you that your connection from your network to some endpoint not on your network is encrypted, not that the connection is secure; trying to force CloudFront to display "past this point things are less secure" will, if anything, train users to believe the lock means something it can't ever mean: that your data is secure in general, as opposed to just being secure on your network. If the developer has another proxy (maybe nginx) behind CloudFront managing connections to an application server over HTTP, should that also send this header? If the web application is using an unencrypted database backend connection, should common web frameworks start returning that header? At what point do we start only giving websites green lock icons when they pass an independent security audit? We need to be downplaying the overall importance of the green lock icon, not reinforcing it: users already think it means way way more than it ever could (specially, "it is safe to give my credit card number to this website", which is almost totally unrelated to what the lock icon is for :/).
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You might want to discover the full Pareto frontier to gain some insights on the structure of the trade-off.

I think the best methods to explore the Pareto frontier are based on the concepts of evolutionary computation like NSGA-II and SPEA-2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-objective_optimization#A...
Talking about what? Recovery ships, yes, oceanography, yes, astronaut candidates, yes please; but in all the documentations about NASA's long term habitation studies (even back in the 60s, when "long term" meant "a few weeks") they never seem to mention the obvious possibility of knowledge transfer from the submarine forces. Where'd you find anything about it?
I am not too sure how I feel about this. On the one hand I do think Apple (and many other companies) should pay more taxes.

However on the other hand Ireland enticed many big companies to their country on the promise of lower tax. You can't blame Apple for taking advantage of such an offer. They followed the letter of the [Irish] law as far as I can tell (unless someone can correct me?).

I think this could end up being terrible for Ireland in the longer term. Then again perhaps the EU knows that they can't really go anywhere else now so will just have to put up with the new rates or not do business?

It is far from a cut and dry situation IMHO.
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I also dimly remember that sparsity in the random fixed backward connections still works. There is actually a figure about that in the paper you've linked to.

Interestingly, feedback alignment is also patented, but it is unclear that is actually helpful, except for explaining neuroscience. To my knowledge there has been no application of it in two years.
However, the nice thing about land taxation is that hiding the ownership doesn't matter: you can see from the land registry that it's owned by Shady Cayman LLC, but you don't care who they really are so long as you have a corresponding payment to the tax authorities. If they fail to pay that becomes a lien and ultimately reposession.
I think what he's trying to say is the best test for a valid email is to send them an email with a confirmation URL for the user to click.
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Since when does a linked list mandate unpacked, fixed-width pointers? Citation needed! I note they are not called pointered lists, and challenge the assumption that they even need use pointers - or do you think this abstract computer science concept is something different when applied to disk storage formats by using file offsets as the link? Linked lists as a concept date back to ~1955, when RAM was very expensive - magnetic-core memory being just introduced. Think punch cards.

Returning back to the modern era - one also does not need a packed pointer type, merely support for multiple pointer sizes within the same process, and the ability to dynamically dispatch to the correct one for the job. And multiple pointer sizes within the same process are a matter of routine:

In the 16-bit C era, vanilla "near" and "far" pointers very clearly weren't the same size. A very similar situation occurs under the hood when dealing with 32-bit processes on 64-bit windows via WoW64, which can lead to some interesting complications if you use a 64-bit application to create a crashdump for a "32-bit" process, where you can actually inspect the 64-bit side of things too (fire up WinDbg and dig in: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3... )

This is to say nothing of 20+ byte member function pointers on 32-bit architectures because C++ is only out-crazied by C++ compilers. Or dealing with the complications of multiple pointer sizes via shared memory. Or dealing with file "pointers" (read: offsets) of varying sizes.
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As someone who owns everything Cthulhu Wars (CW) I can support that suggestion. I know nothing about the Glorantha universe and will back it for the 450$ tier.
CW is gorgeous (amazing production those miniatures are the best board game pieces I have ever used) and the game play is great while keeping the game time reasonable (if you're experienced you can pump out a 4-5 player game in 90 minutes). I also met Sandy at the Spiel in Essen and he's a very cool dude :)
I'm not really sure why the proponents of this split don't just put their efforts into improving one of the alternatives which are already available (e.g. rkt). A split would seem to be a bad outcome allround (confusion in the market, divided resources, duplicated features), whereas competing products might bring out the best in each other.

Also it does seem a little odd to me to see people suggesting that Docker needs to be more stable and "boring" (from this article https://medium.com/@bob_48171/an-ode-to-boring-creating-open... referenced in the main link) to fit in with other projects in this space like Kubernetes, when it seems that most/all of these projects including Kubernetes are moving as fast as each other...
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It is well understood that retroactive changes to the law are one of the worst things a legal system can do, which is why so many constitutions ban it and why other countries (like the UK) have a strong convention not to do it. The US Constitution bans them explicitly. Yes, of course countries routinely do bad things and ignore convention and constitutional principles, but that doesn't make it suddenly OK.

The low rate of corporation tax in Ireland is not really a loophole, it is a specific strategy to attract employers to a country that might otherwise not have much to offer, and it has worked fantastically well for them. This policy has been in place for decades and it is (or was) popular - the Irish prefer the jobs to the corporation taxes.

What is the EU is doing here is trying to ban tax competition between countries on the grounds that if you don't charge much tax, you're offering illegal "aid". Beyond a strange interpretation of the word "aid" this is really a very serious problem - if the EU successfully forces countries to pick a single corporation tax rate across the bloc under the doctrine of illegal "aid", despite having no mandate to set tax policies, then what comes next? What if the French start arguing that countries with laxer worker rights than France are providing illegal state aid to their corporations?

Zero-rating corporation tax is a perfectly reasonable policy for a country to have, there are plenty of economic arguments for it, and even if other countries might feel the outcome is unfair, well, so what? Competition is about different people making different tradeoffs and seeing what happens: if the Irish prefer to prioritise employment over collecting corporation tax (one of the hardest taxes to collect anyway), why should they be prevented from doing so?
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What is the table with numbers they have in their signatures?
You're only talking semantics now. The net effect of normal taxes minus subsidy is the same as lower taxes. Draw your conclusions.
That sounds like a bad idea to me. I do agree that Docker rushed things a bit with Swarm (on the orchestration front) but I think that they're doing an excellent job with the containers themselves.

I don't think a fork will help - I think a fork would make sense if there were concerns about Docker's level of 'openness' but I think that's not the problem here.

Forking/duplicating a technology whose main premise is being "a single consistent environment for running apps" sounds like a contradiction to me.