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What Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and most other big US company do is the so called "double Irish"[1]. Essentially is a clever way of using two quirks of some EU countries loopholes in tax laws, from treating IP licensing fees (of course the brand and intellectual IP is owned by a British virgin island tax haven, where else could this stuff be created/invented), and the net result is that Apple et al end up paying single digit cents on the dollar in EU profits.

And with another quirk - this time in US tax laws - the do not even have to pay taxed in the US on those earnings, as they have not repatriated the funds.

How to pay dividends/fund buybacks, without repatriating those funds? Easy: Just issue debt (which your own subsidiary in the British Virgin islands making a killing on IP licensing might want to buy) or have your BVI IP trust fund buy those shares.

Now why would other EU countries let Ireland and the Netherlands get away with these accepted loopholes is a mystery to me, especially since Ireland had to ask for a bailout lifeline, and was in no position to negotiate firmly.

Why the US would allow their truffle pigs to not pay taxes on oversea earnings is clearly the result of expert lobbying.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
Given the stakes, unclear to me why multinationals don't find a way to create there own country, that would be free of any non-member decent.
Perry Gripp makes all kinds of jingle tunes. My kids love em, and tbh I do too for whatever, twisted reason. From what I gather, they do real jingles on occasion.
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>> CloudFlare being "insecure" is much more nuanced ...

like different shades of beige, but in the end it's still beige ... [0][1][2][3]:

[0] https://scotthelme.co.uk/tls-conundrum-and-leaving-cloudflar...

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare

[2] https://people.torproject.org/~lunar/20160331-CloudFlare_Fac...

[3] http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/07/14/cloudflare-we-hav...

Specifically they:

- Inject javascript into your code while returning pages.
- It modifies the code of your pages.
- Modify the http headers of your pages.

They can block your site for visitors and of course track everyone on it.

Cloudflare is a pest. They hired smart people to do stupid things. What's worrying is that a smart guy like Troy (who I hugely respect and follow on twitter) doesn't see through their BS.
Apple hit with record 13 bn euro Irish tax bill
Maybe one of these:

http://uk.farnell.com/ist-innovative-sensor-technology/tsic-...
You can try, you'll probably lose. When the figure is so low it should be blatantly obvious it is wrong you won't get far arguing that you did what you were told and didn't realise something was wrong. When you pay 0.005% tax over a year when the corporate tax rate in the country is 12.5% who can you argue you thought you were paying what you were required? They will try of course and I think Ireland and Apple have both said they will appeal to the European Court but I don't think they'll get very far.
Not taxing someone is not the same as paying them! By that logic I am paid by the government every time I listen to Simply Red without them taxing me for the privilege? Why am I not rich then?

Damn me, the linguistic backflips in this thread are amazing. Tax is the taking of something. Low taxes mean you take less, not that you are generously paying people!
> What we really need therefore (IMHO) is to teach ethics to people

The issue with almost all organized teaching (as opposed to when you don't even know you are doing it, e.g. to your children, every day) is that it only targets conscious thinking. Do you already see the problem with teaching "ethics" (and empathy)? It's the wrong brain area. People will ace the tests but how they actually act won't change. Another big reason for why teaching ethics (the way it is usually done) is that much of behavior is environment-driven. So you can teach someone all you want, if you then place them in a cut-throat competitive "result-driven" environment you can see empathy and ethics quietly sneak out the back door.
Doctors have killed more Bonanzas than Bonanzas have killed Doctors.

For your NYC to Maine trip, you're going to need to have good weather to get there and good weather to get back (although the option to drive back might be handy). You're also most likely going to have to navigate out from under the NYC airspace on the ground.

Private (personal) flying is expensive, not always convenient, and is a bit dangerous. You're absolutely right, though you can mitigate the risk fairly effectively (>75% of the crashes are pilot-caused or pilot-responsible at least), the cost is variable (you can rent at least to start, though that adds inconvenience), and the convenience is variable (there are ways to trade money for convenience).
Thanks for the input brudgers, I think you're spot on.
After a few days there, it seems they are definitely in the first category.
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Do you have a story from a successful Oracle to PostgreSQL migration to share?

What did the existing stack do?

Why did you want to make the switch?

- Technical hurdles

- Useful tools in order to faciliate the migration

What did the business case look like:

- What was the cost of the migration?

- What were the savings in the end?

- Any new possibilities post-migration that opened up?
Or just disable location access for the Facebook app.
Dude u use modern medicine, modern computers and other POWER stuff. You are willing sell ur effort for it, U WANT POWER not money, money is opposite of power its to depend on people, u want to fly to cure people and neber die and have food and all always with ease....
It depends on what you're doing?
If you raised VAT even more they would just pass on the cost and make a fuss that it's the governments fault everything is suddenly more expensive. Politically it wouldn't work. If there was a way to globally set the price of a good at one level (iPhone = $400) and then each country could add tax after that so it's clear the company isn't passing the price on to the consumer in various countries with higher sales tax/VAT it might work well.
or maybe they were in a cult.
additionally you might want to check what other domains are sitting on the cloudflare IP. last time one of my sites shared the IP with an adult content & gambling site.
Check out Kraków https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w

It's a great historical city to live & work where I've been staying for almost two years and still loving it =)
there is still something more human, more humanly-terrifying about human-created terror and destruction
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But low tax rates are not "state aid", "aid" is an English word meaning giving something to somebody. "Tax" means the opposite: taking it away.

The rose by any other name is still as illegal. Semantic arguments don't help you when the definition is provided.
Not wanting the green padlock in the URL bar when traffic is being sent unencrypted and unauthenticated over the open internet is not unhealthy absolutism. It's a basic necessity if the green padlock is to mean anything at all.

It is of course theoretically possible for any site operator to pass information that was submitted securely, insecurely over the open internet. It probably happens, and we should look for ways to eliminate that possibility. But the fact that we can't eliminate all the possible ways that might happen is not a good reason for CloudFlare to make it very easy for site operators to do.

"Flexible" does prevent a small class of attacks that are possible against plain HTTP. But it does so at the cost of completely invalidating HTTPS URLs, padlock icons and so forth. Making it easier for small site operators to get a bit of security against the most simplistic attacks is not worth making it impossible for users who are serious about security to have good security. Worse, the benefits accrue to CloudFlare and their customers, but the costs are shared by all internet users. It is an antisocial practice and it needs to stop.
>And with another quirk - this time in US tax laws - the do not even have to pay taxed in the US on those earnings, as they have not repatriated the funds.

This is not a 'quirk' as you think. No country in the world, other than the US, tax their corporations on already taxed profits in a different jurisdiction. This actually ends up hurting the US because corporations cannot repatriate already-taxed funds without being taxed again.
Obviously. All algorithms come from human judgment. There is no such thing as "AI". It is all human intelligence (or to be more precise, developers intelligence), after all.
I was once at a tech-presentation where the presenter drew/wrote everything freehand like this on a tablet, almost similar to how one would use a blackboard. I really liked the way she presented compared to a static slide-deck, as she could adjust/add examples based on questions and feedback from the crowd.
But do you bill considerably more than the 10-15 hours you actually work? If so I would find that unethical
Their individual contributions to various distributed computing efforts, most likely.
I see so many potential ways of aggregating this kind of information in massively privacy intrusive ways on a day to day basis. And it's terrifying how many of them are just stopped by my lack of willingness to sacrifice my morals over it.

Because I know very well how easy it is for people to think "oh, well, but that one little thing isn't so bad, when faced with bills to pay, or a raging boss. Many of which really aren't all that bad in isolation. Except it doesn't take all that many "one little things" before you have a total privacy disaster.
https://copperhead.co/android/ too apparently -- a hardened open-source operating system based on Android.
The finding by EC is that multinational corporations is taxing much lower that corportations in Ireland. If all Irish corporations payed 0.005% in taxes instead of 12,5%, then the EC would have nothing to complain about. However, if Irland did this, I doubt their budget would survive.

Equal treatment of everyone is a critical aspect to prevent corruption and an unfair market. Selectively lowering taxation is illegal, and I don't find that wrong at all.
The US smacks Volkswagen - the EU smacks Apple.
All this talk about what CF should do, I'm surprised they didn't mention the most obvious step to take: offering an SSL mode that lets you configure what host name to validate the origin as. This would work perfectly for anyone using GitHub pages, cloud front, hyperdev, etc etc etc, all of which have valid ssl Certs, just not for your origin but for theirs.

Am I missing an obvious reason for this not being an option? It must have crossed their minds at some point..?

(Edit: come to think of it, iirc cloud front does support wild card ssl for your own domain these days?)
well it is outlawed, which mean illegal.. its illegal because it violates some aspect of freedom, liberalism or human rights..

so it is not hypocritical.

It is hypocritical to claim liberalism but outlaw a person right to wear clothing of their choice in public areas...
https://www.beyond.com/articles/nasa-consults-us-navy-for-mi...
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/company-tax/ha...

EU has held for almost two decades that "an effective level of taxation which is significantly lower than the general level of taxation in the country concerned" constitutes "harmful tax competition". The most logical way to undo such unfair benefit is to rule the company to return the unfair benefit it gained with interest. I don't see anything but a welcome measure to level the field for competition.
"This seems concentrated only on US based companies for the time being."

AFAIK, Fiat isn't US based (http://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-rules-that-starbucks-fiat-ben... neither are FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, and several other Spanish football clubs (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2401_en.htm), or Amsterdam, Antwerp, and other ports (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-124_en.htm)

Significantly lower amounts, yes, but certainly not "only on US based companies"

Taking it broader than tax rulings, many other examples exist.

Meanwhile, I read that both Ireland and Apple are going to appeal this ruling, so one can see this as a shot very close to the bow that doesn't make the ones shot at surrender.

I hope the result will be that the ruling that the deal is illegal will stand, with a smaller payback. Reasons? I think it is immoral that large companies can negotiate such deals, and applaud the EU for standing up against their pressure when smaller countries do not have the spine to do so, but do not think all blame lies with Apple.
Every time I think of Docker recently, the image of huge container ship accident shows up in my head. This thing needs to be standardized, and things are not going that way at the moment.
As a nitpick, the proposed `x-cloudflare-crypto: full` header should simply be `cloudflare-crypto: full`, per RFC 6648[0].

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6648
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> Suburban housing developments with a shared airstrip do exist; there are about five of them in the US.

There are over 600 residential airparks in the US.
> "Flexible" does prevent a small class of attacks that are possible against plain HTTP.

Or as Troy phrases it: "protect against the 95% (or thereabouts) of transport layer threats that exist between your visitors and your origin"

Would you consider your use here of the phrasing 'small class of attacks' justifiable? If so then you should describe your threat model in a bit more detail.
It's quite simple . They wanted him to admit he should have never made brew and worked on pkgsrc .
Most developers (senior ones too) I come across only know the very basics of version control, how to check in/out and branch, but not merge.
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> Disallowing the use of race as a signal in machine learning / ad targeting could help intercultural awareness

Many a time, algorithms infer race from secondary or tertiary variables. This problem is compounded by two more factors - (1) Unable to explain WHY an algorithm has reached a decision aka interpretability and (2) Focus of algorithm building to maximize accuracy regardless of other valid costs. There is some pretty interesting work going on this area.

http://fairness.haverford.edu/
Makes sense.

Since the late 90's early 00's when Linux won the data center. Most people became really enjoyed the we don't break user land motto.

Once a kernel interface went live, it stayed that way. Ugly spots and all. Containers are starting to become a fairly important part of IT/Cloud infrastructure. Easily compariable to the OS itself. Logically those involved with maintainence would demand the same.

Yes I'm aware Docker is more a control program for interacting with Cgroups, setting quotas, installing packages, and isolating processes. Not the OS itself. It is an abstraction over the OS, hence for most developers it feels like part of the OS. So logically they'd demand it be as robust as the OS.
Can't reply to Zigzag, so I do it here:

It's not about lower taxes in general, it is about lower taxes for a single specific company. And that constitutes state aid which is (mostly) forbidden under EU rules, as it is massively uncompetetive.
No. Most people don't work hard. Most poor people don't work at all and are not looking for work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12382336

They also disproportionately engage in other behaviors that also keep them poor (e.g. drug use, beating their wives, etc).

Also, assuming you were right, EITC would immediately solve the problem of "the only jobs that are available...are ones that pay far too little to live on." EITC solves the problem of "I want to live at a western middle class standard of living, but the value of my labor is too low to support that". The only problem it doesn't solve is "I want to sit at home smoking weed and playing video games" (that's what BI solves).
> You do. But keep in mind they have way less parts, moving or otherwise. Spark plugs, cables, the entire engine cooling system, fuel pumps, all of that is missing.

My hybrid actually has two independent liquid cooling circuits: one for the ICE, one for the electronics.

But other than that nit, I agree with your argument.
Because they write a lot of software and tutorials on multiple platforms for the devices they sell and people are willing to pay a little more to support them.
Here's more coherent article.

http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal
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> In any case, we should be taxing land value. That's harder to avoid: you can't hide land.

This is already done, and depending on where you live it is quite expensive. It is also in addition to all of the other taxes someone is paying.
>if the green padlock is to mean anything at all.

The padlock doesn't mean anything at all and never has. It's snake oil from an era when e-commerce wasn't trusted by the general public. It only ever existed to encourage/trick technologically illiterate people into handing over their credit card details to websites when the pervasive public opinion was that entering your CC number into a website was dangerous. It was very successful in achieving that aim.

In 2016 it has no purpose and browsers should remove it.
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I switched from SourceTree to GitKraken, I don't know all the internal issues of what transpired at Atlasian on the SourceTree team, but to me it's just not the same product that the old Mac app was when they where independent.

I really like GitKraken and the team is taking feedback applying it constructively and putting out an impressive product. The part I really like is it's the same app on OSX, Linux and Windows using Electron to build it was a smart move on their part. My favorite feature has to be dropping a branch on another branch to create a pull request. I don't fanboy stuff much these days but I am a pretty big fan of their's right now.
We disabled -pie so we could get it merged in. We would like pie enabled by default (for the reasons you say) but didn't want perfect be the enemy of good here.
I can't figure out if Comcast/Xfinity is "in on the joke" by hijacking "Everything is Awesome!" Be a drone! Be like everyone else! Watch the screens!
Why this blatant falsification of facts? In 2014, Apple's earnings before interest and taxes was $53,483,000 and the income tax expense was $13,973,000. That's 26.12% effective tax rate. All data from Yahoo! Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/financials?p=AAPL. It's a similar tax rate in other years too.
> A CDN is effectively part of the developer's infrastructure.

Agree. If the CDN is compromised, all bets are off. In my opinion, CloudFlare Flex/Full are a lot more vulnerable to attack (because the resources can be obtained insecurely over the public internet) than others (where TLS is either terminated at the network boundary and encryption is only lacking thereafter, or where resources are pushed through secure connections over the Internet).

> as opposed to just being secure on your network.

I'm not sure it is a reasonable thing to ask end-users to understand how many networks are involved in serving their content. I also don't think the situation would benefit from CloudFlare (or any other proxy) announcing which parts of the connection they encrypt. Instead, I think CloudFlare should be more strict in their origin connectivity: only accept encrypted data, and if the origin certificate is not a CA-issued one, Trust on First Use and ask the site admin to verify updated certs. CF is also in an excellent position to adopt a perspectives [1]-like approach, if an MITM is suspected.

[1] https://perspectives-project.org
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> ... the attrition rate form an elite law or med school tends to be well below one half of one percent. Attrition rates form elite engineering and science PhD programs range from 35%-50%.

Many PhD programs offer full tuition, health care, and a yearly stipend with teaching duties. OTOH, there may be less incentive to give someone the boot if they're bringing in large sums of money by paying their way through, which is how most master's and professional degrees work (as I understand).
That's a solid theoretical argument. However, it is contradicted by the empirical evidence.

What usually happens is that the police issue fines so frequently that they become considered an occupying force by the populace. In turn, the populace withholds information from the police, and both violent crimes and petty violations rise.

Police statistics make quantitative conclusions difficult, since they are so often fudged for political purposes. They rise when the police need more funding, and fall when they need political capital. Murder rates are generally considered the only reasonably accurate figures.

On the ground, however, the reality is very clear.
Mess with our banks, and we'll mess with your tech firms!
It would be better if Facebook didn't hoover up data not explicitly entered into their app or website.

In fact I think that should be the basis of privacy laws everywhere: You can only use data that the user personally entered into your application or website. Data should only be available across your different "properties" it they are branded as being part of a single platform.

It would be much more in tune with the average persons understanding of something like Facebook.
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That is the entire point of this article though. Apple didn't follow Irish laws (where Irish law = EU laws + laws created by the Irish parliament). They followed a deal with the Irish government that was actually against the Irish law.
How do you get money? Savings or do you have income?
> 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?).

There's two separate issues. One, Ireland is cutting taxes far below the EU average to attract all companies they can. That's a dick move, but welcome to politics, it's fully legal. Two, Apple has received further tax breaks on top of that, reducing their tax rate from a crippling, communist 1% to an effective 0.005%. The European Commission found only the second deal to be illegal, and Apple just has to repay the tax difference to the regular Irish levels.

Ireland is still a tax haven, just slightly less unfairly advantageously to Apple.
It is easy to imagine that the people who build and maintain Facebook conceive of their behavior as immoral. I'm not sure it is accurate or helpful.
VAT is not a fair tax, as it favours the rich at the disadvantage of the poor. It's everyone paying the same rate on basic necessities, independent of their financial situation. Sure the rich buy more stuff and thus pay more VAT, but raising VAT doesn't hurt a rich person. It hurts poor people, though.
I can't shake the feel that the thunderstorms have gotten stronger in recent years.
Isn't land already taxed? I believe it is, so you must be talking about increasing the taxes on land while scrapping the rest. Or even further, probably taxing property (a skyscraper doesn't have too big of a land footprint). A few questions I have about this:

How do you tax companies which rent their office/production space?

Isn't taxing land punishing companies planning for growth? It is not uncommon to buy/rent spaces which you don't need now but you know will be needed in the future?

How do you deal with real estate investors?
The double irish is more like parking your car on the bicycle lane.