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If you're American, don't celebrate.

The US government came out against this ruling, suggesting that US corporations are disproportionately targeted by the EC tax rulings.

>The commission has initiated investigations into tax rulings that Apple, Starbucks Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV. received in separate EU nations. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew has written previously that the investigations appear “to be targeting U.S. companies disproportionately.”

>“There is a possibility that any repayments ordered by the Commission will be considered foreign income taxes that are creditable against U.S. taxes owed by the companies in the United States,” the paper said. “If so, the companies’ U.S. tax liability would be reduced dollar for dollar by these recoveries when their offshore earnings are repatriated or treated as repatriated as part of possible U.S. tax reform.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-24/u-s-treasu...
There are lyrebirds at the bottom of Bungonia gorge that accurately mimic the sound of people walking with racks of climbing gear. I've heard them many times. Only one point of anecdata, but I'm convinced they'll attempt to mimic any sound they're exposed to for long enough.

Edit: the article that you linked mentions that they have a range of metallic sounds in their vocab already, so I assume they've just copied the pitches and patterns distinctive to people walking with a trad rack. Still off-putting when you hear it for hours and the entire gorge can be traversed in about 20 minutes and is completely visible from a couple of pitches up a climb. You tend to assume that there's another climbing party aimlessly wandering in circles just out of sight!
Imagine there would be "docker engine for running in production" outside of control of docker inc, with backing from the rest of orchestration industry. It may be considered as a tool for compelling docker inc. to play more nicely, rather than the total fork.

- Developers interested only in the docker engine would consider using it for higher reliability, less breaking and rushed changes or force-bundling of things they don't want.

- If enough developers are using it, docker inc. would be compelled to maintain compatibility to avoid "mainstream" docker ending up as the tool only for dev/CI.
Even better question is, where the world would be if evolution wouldn't allow individual organisms to optimize their fitness by taking part in a race to the bottom?

That constant pressure to do more with less... deadly.

With "beneficial" (sic) mutations like this one you're just ripping other organisms off.
Only halfway done, but a good article so far. This coming from someone who is biased to skepticism toward the National Review.

> Alone among the countries in the world, it has attempted to construct not just a state of different tribes, but a nation of them — white and black, Christian and Muslim, and many others, too.

This perception of exceptionalism is amusing to me, since I'm currently sitting in South Africa.

Update: Just finished the article, and I remained impressed. Unfortunately for the author, he's probably going to have to switch parties to find an audience for his ideas. It's really, really tough to imagine the GOP being able to rebuild the bridges it has burned with minorities in the Obama era.

We're headed for a huge realignment in American politics. The GOP elite who have stuck with Trump have sealed their own fates. The Democratic elite are already courting them. But neither are doing much to appeal effectively to the poor, white or black.

It remains to be seen whether we'll see a movement that captures both, as well as grabbing some of the intelligentsia. The Sanders campaign came close, but what's needed is something on the order of a political party.
Or rather InfluxDB + Grafana.

Grafana is more mature and Chronograf is closed-source, I don't see any reason to go with it.

But yes if you want to display time series there are better options than Kibana, which has a focus on searchable documents.
I wonder if common boring languages/runtimes, say Java/JVM, are easily amenable to making use of on-die FPGAs.

Will we see a new generation of JITs emitting FPGA code?
Ah, I see. Yes, I agree that given that fact you get the desired inequality.

But this fact is, as you say, nontrivial. It's certainly false for various non-box-like shapes afaict, so there's something special to boxes that needs proving here.
Yeah it wasn't pretty.
Ireland was not allowed to default on its loans which was what they should have done.

It did not control its currency or banks which are effectively controlled by the ECB.

It could not repay some or all of its loans with its own currency by simply printing more of it and the only way of getting more currency was taking on more loans.

What people also don't understand is that the laws preventing incentives aren't protecting the weak they are protecting the strong.

Germany can set its corporate tax rate at 40-50% and while people would bitch and moan it would do nothing.
It's a huge market, it has a huge and highly developed workforce and it's one of the most industrialized nations on the planet with a highly developed and diverse industry.

It doesn't need incentives to lure corporations to set up shop and it doesn't need incentives to grow its own indigenous corporations and businesses.

If everything would be equal as far as cost of setting shop, employment and taxation between Germany and Ireland.
Neither Apple not anyone else would give 2 cents about Ireland when they have countries like Germany available to them.

Many of these laws aren't protecting the smaller nations they are restricting them and preventing them from being competitive forcing them to be effectively dependent on the bigger nations for loans/credit which they give out to allow their industry to keep producing in excess.

Anyone who thinks that Germany loaning money to Ireland so they can go around and buy Volkswagen and BMWs isn't a subsidy are blind or clueless.
We are working closely with the Tor project. We made a large number of changes to reduce impact and improve the experience.
"What’s happening right now, if we are not careful, will fragment the container ecosystem, and it make it impossible for single containers to target multiple runtimes,"

UNIX had this problem and look how long it took before things settled. Linux was the result. Maybe this is a good thing?
If the US government makes all Chinese business pay $50 in tax per item but does not impose this demand on domestic businesses, are they giving aid?
Here's an example, and the study cited here has been replicated in many American cities.[0]

For the petty fines and eroded trust, this is from an advisory letter sent from the Justice Deparment to the judiciary of all fifty states:

“Individuals may confront escalating debt; face repeated, unnecessary incarceration for nonpayment despite posing no danger to the community; lose their jobs; and become trapped in cycles of poverty that can be nearly impossible to escape,” Gupta and Foster wrote. “Furthermore, in addition to being unlawful, to the extent that these practices are geared not toward addressing public safety, but rather toward raising revenue, they can cast doubt on the impartiality of the tribunal and erode trust between local governments and their constituents.”

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/nyregion/new-york-polic...
The one that springs to mind for me is terraform. We made the decision to use it in production and it is costing us a lot of time and money. It feels like it will continue costing us a lot of time and money for a long time. It 100% feels like alpha software, yet it's being hyped and overhyped by the tech community.

I personally think using it was the right call regardless (the alternatives are worse in the long run), but it's such a massive upfront investment, I couldn't recommend it.

One thing though:

> tools that change their behavior based on files in one of the parent directories

You mean like git? I agree with your general sentiment but you're backing it up very weakly, with essentially irrelevant things. Terminal interactivity is not a bad thing; TUI software is built for humans as well as machines and well behaved components will detect when they are not in a tty.
eh it's a very cheap way to go around delivery speed problems - just know what the tradeoff are and you're golden.

using subdomains one can easily partition bulk traffic which needs caching from secure traffic that requires end to end encryption, and benefit from having a tenth of server hits

sure everyone can host his caches and be better off. but that cost money, and localizing traffic to reduce latency costs even more money. hard to beat free.
Can Deviare handle rewriting RIP-relative instructions over 5 bytes long starting within the first 5 bytes? E.g.:

0:000> uf python27!Py_GetPath
python27!Py_GetPath [c:\minonda\conda-bld\work\python-2.7.12\pc\getpathp.c @ 688]:

688 00000000`1e1054f0 4883ec28 sub rsp,28h
689 00000000`1e1054f4 488b055dc51d00 mov rax,qword ptr [python27!module_search_path (00000000`1e2e1a58)]

That second mov instruction will get trampled if you overwrite the `sub rsp,28h` with a jmp, so you need to relocate it as well, which requires re-calculating the RIP-relative IMM32 address embedded within the instruction.

I've found a lot of hooking libraries couldn't handle that.
I guess we could try running the resulting images through sixel...

https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel
It is not accurate to conceive of Silicon Valley as a geographical place.

It is really the intersection between a collection interesting memeplexes. Culture basically.
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> There's nothing "unhealthy" about the absolutism here: you either have end-to-end cryptographic security, or you're vulnerable.

I'm not sure why he talks about absolutism, where this usage basically invalidates the whole point of TLS. This seems like an after-rationalization on why he chose to use CloudFlare, there is much more reasons not to use them. In the end of course it depend on what type of site you use it for.
The history of Artificial Intelligence goes back much further than the "early 1980s". It goes at least back to the conference at Dartmouth in 1956, if not back to Turing's 1950 paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence".
A message to Apple from anyone who doesn't have rocks in their head:

You shift profits to avoid tax, don't play coy.

The era of tax being optional for multinationals is drawing to a close. You make your profit, you pay for access to the market, no exceptions.
Beats me. We might have to wait 20-30 years for somebody's memoirs to be written to finally hear the rest of it. With this much at stake I seriously doubt there will be a simple narrative.

What I am sure of is that anytime the company with the biggest market cap takes a hit like this? Ten thousand other companies are paying very close attention. Even if Apple took a gamble and lost, other folks have to ask themselves when it comes to regulatory issues in the EU, what kinds of gambles they are taking without even knowing it.

Of course, I simplified the story to make my general point. In the version with more details, Ireland even had their own investigation and worked everything out with Apple. But the EC decided that wasn't good enough.

It's really quite breathtaking. They had to pay 11 years of taxes. How many companies would be able to do that?
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it kind of sucks that cloudflare can't check the servername for the certificate he wants to use. i haven't used cloudflare but I assume there are three ways it might be checking the cert at the backend:

1) using the real hostname of the website

2) using the hostname of the backend website - assuming you supply a url with a hostname to cloudflare. however, this hostname in the backend url is used in the Host header which ends up causing lots of problems.

3) using the hostname of the backend website - but the hostname of the real site is used in the Host header.

4) explicitly let you choose the servername you want to verify

imo. it would be nice if cloudflare gave you the option between 1) and 3) or 4).

EDIT: oh. just noticed the cloudflare reply with the link to: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-ca-encryption-origin/
Very nice solution.

I wonder if it can be made not rely on randomness at all. The 'standard' solution just required that every prisoner would be taken to the room infinitely many times. As long as this was the case, the warden could try any devious sequence they liked.
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As a European, I don't have the feeling that contagion (of any kind) was contained (at any level). So it didn't work and no, I won't take your word for "if we didn't had done XYZ it would be a lot worst"... It's already as bad as it gets.
Well there is webrtc, so the cooltalk idea came back to roost.
Humans still make decisions about what data to include, how to model it, how to interpret the results and what to do about it.

I firmly believe in the power of data to help people make better decisions, but decision making is always a human process, even if much of the work is delegated to a machine.
I can't say I approve of corporate or tax inversion, and I'm not sure what to think of this article. I've read countless articles saying the opposite http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11604704/apple-tax-evasion-...
> Ireland makes a loot of money from exports to Europe

That's the crux of the overall matter, from a political point of view. Ireland benefits from the European market disproportionately more than the EU benefits from Ireland. This is why Ireland ends up being "a scapegoat" - because nobody is particularly happy about their status as the onshore tax-haven of choice for healthy US multinationals, so every time they end in a pickle, they have very few friends (and with Brexit, they effectively lost their biggest one).
I am an Apple shareholder. I pay my taxes on capital gains and dividends from AAPL. That's enough tax. Everyone else can STFU TYVM.
Is this really that simple? Is the EC actually trying to apply a retroactive law?
It's about the American dream, not about Hunter doing drugs in the desert (or a bit about that too). It's still not dated and it's very much hitting the target. Read his other work and you'll see that he is very good at picturing the current mood and what's going on around him.
The average income of the richest 10% is US$93,000

The minimum income to be in the top 1% is US$493,000

I'd love to see these figures broken down to 1% or .1% level to see if what you point out holds true
That's fine - sounds like an incentive for companies to bring money back to the US.

The reduction in tax liability happens when the earnings are repatriated per this quote. If these companies are storing this cash overseas in a bid to avoid paying taxes on it with no intention of repatriation until a tax holiday then why should we care?
I really want to buy a Tesla. Like really bad.

Out of curiosity I had a look at the current pricing of a Tesla in Australia. My jaw just about dropped when I found that a new P90D costs $255,000 AUD. That is a difference of $50,000 if you convert the US price to Australian. Ouch.
"The European Commission has launched an effort to rewrite Apple’s history in Europe, ignore Ireland’s tax laws and upend the international tax system in the process."

Wow, strong stuff.
A Message to the Apple Company in the US: sorry, we can see through your shabby PR piece.

Pay.
Perhaps says more about the news pages.

HN is like 9 kb.
> CF issues tend to be browser-related, tor-related or configuration-related

Have you ever used CF? They've constantly got local downtimes, that's not caused by any of those.

You mention "tor-related" issues, but Tor users don't even get most of the captchas (or even visit very many websites). Most of the captchas are shown to normal users on "bad" ISPs (i.e. not big enough to warrant whitelisting, so smaller local ISPs and business ip ranges).

And blacklisting sites on the IP level is nothing out of the ordinary in your typical BigCo.
That's addressed in that very section:

> Moreover, an adversary can try to increase a number of necessary rehashes.

It seems to me that the section is a bit too dismissive, though, as there are hash tables and hash functions that mitigate these concerns. In particular, collisions can be replaced with trees, like in Java, limiting the worst case to O(log n) again.
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This was really fun and informative. Like a good comic book.
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US corporate profits as a percent of GDP are near their all-time highs. Take a look at this historical plot:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=6ThF

I wonder how much of that is due to tax avoidance, whether legal or "unexpectedly illegal" (as in Apple's case).

If governments around the world follow the lead of the EC, I would expect a noticeable decline in corporate profitability over the next five to 10 years.

Note: I just generated the plot above as a png at the St. Louis Fed's FRED website, and I don't know how long the image will remain available. To recreate it, plot the "Corporate Profits, Adjusted" series divided by the "Gross Domestic Product" series, using the same units for both series (e.g., nominal billions).
Actually you hop on one foot, that way the current path does not go fully across your heart.
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Close. They did something that WAS good and perfectly legal. It was a perfectly valid agreement between consenting adults. Then other countries got jealous and intervened. These are the types of attitudes that are fueling the current separatist movement.
>The thought that the US is not biased with its domestic brands just made me chuckle.

Who suggested that, or for that matter who suggested that "VW is polluting more than US brands"?

I know I didn't.
Apple slapped with up to 13B euro tax bill
yeah right, when they pay the same taxes as I pay on my wage I'll eat a shoe.
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I like the way you phrased, "They're the OG artisanal local blogs," and I think of them the same way.

When I was in junior high and high school one of my best friends and I started producing a 'zine in Cleveland around the punk and hardcore music scenes. We interviewed bands, made crazy art work, she wrote some poetry, and it was a very fun, very satisfying collaboration. We used a mac at the time to do all of our layout and then went to Kinkos to assemble it.

Because of the relationships we developed we started producing concerts for the bands we liked. Basically, we were able to corral enough people to pay for a show we wanted to see by bands that weren't otherwise coming to Cleveland.
If it's that easy, why even have "strict" mode? Why not make the branding less misleading, and rename "Full" to "Weak"?
Well, at least they used a bit of those billions to hire a good PR team. I'm always surprised how often press releases are tone deaf.
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Best tip I have is to buy an actual hourglass that measures 30 minutes. There is something about actually flipping a physical thing over that puts me in a work mode. Even if I get just a couple of sessions in during a day I find that overall I accomplish more.

An unexpected benefit is sometimes I don't need to start a session. I can catch a glimpse of the hourglass out of the corner of my eye and immediately enter a productive zone.
This is where an [idealised] conception of communism wins, there's a local workshop with all the tools kept in common between people in the area. If you're away from home, you just go to the local workshop.

Strikes me as an idiotic waste of resources that a street of a hundred houses would have 50, say, power drills. Most likely they're inferior for costs purposes, they break because they're designed to (capitalism FTW), they're unnecessary duplication and so waste resources.

We've seriously missed the mark with design of our communities/society.
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I disagree that you can't afford it.

I've learned how that if you can't make a business that's generating 10k / month in 3 months it's probably the wrong market. You could keep iterating through markets until one of them sticks.

That's what I'd recommend, anyway.
Treaty of Rome and its state aid rules => 1957

Ireland accession to the EU => 1973

I don't think http://curia.europa.eu/ will be very impressed by those arguments
That is very likely, most of them started on November-December 2015, so they are on the transition from OPT to H1B.
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No, they're saying it has been illegal all along, even if Ireland pretended otherwise.
Of course they did (the loophole is now closed), but the point here is that this scheme was entirely legal. The EC is now saying that even though it was legal, they owe the tax anyways. That is not how things should work in a system based on the rule of law and fairness.

Imagine for a moment that your own government raised your personal tax rate and said that since they felt the previous tax rate was too low, you also owe taxes from the past.
The letter reads as a "But, but... I don't wanna pay taaax..." cry.
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Because all AAPL shareholders pay taxes on their pro-rata share of the company in the form of capital gains tax and dividends tax.

Also, because this is a valid and consenting agreement between Apple and Ireland, two consenting adults.
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No, that's an article about EU's ruling, this is Apple's response to that ruling.
I fear that the "instant" distribution and update via the net has resulted in sloppy programmers. This because they can always just push a fix by hitting a few keys.
As always, spoken like a paranoid narcissist with a persecution complex.
I'll bring that to the PM responsible.
Ireland is hardly a scape-goat. The commission has dealt in a similar manner with Amazon in Luxembourg, Starbucks in the Netherlands, and Anheuser-Busch InBev in Belgium.

Whether or not there is an agreement between Apple and Ireland or just an understanding that Ireland would not tax them on almost any income is irrelevant. The point of the matter is that the effect of the scheme has been that Apple has paid next to nothing in tax on all European profits in more than a decade, spanning from the sale of your first iPod to your newest iPhone. That income has been channeled through the Irish companies and Ireland has not taxed it with it's usual corporate tax (which, by the way is now merely 12.5 percent). It is appalling.
The most specific and IMHO damming allegation was how they avoided paying tax.

From the EU press release:

[Ireland] endorsed a split of the profits for tax purposes in Ireland: Under
the agreed method, most profits were internally allocated away from Ireland
to a "head office" within Apple Sales International. This "head office" was
not based in any country and did not have any employees or own premises.
[...]
The remaining vast majority of profits were allocated to the "head office",
where they remained untaxed [...] an effective tax rate of about 0.05% on
its overall annual profits.

So, at the advice of Ireland, Apple was able to attribute sales to 'Apple Sales International', which was not based in any country and thus was not subject to tax.