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I understand where your hostility comes from, but dismissing consciousness on the terms that there are so many people who use that term to make stupid claims and crazy theories is just taking the easy way out.

Has any materialist seriously considered what exactly is this material they so take for granted? When you really scrutinise it, you see that it can't be found. All you can find are models - mental representations of what it is. Does that mean that nothing exists? Of course not - you know that's not the case. This knowing is the hard problem, and you are right that it will never be solved by science, but not because it doesn't exist, but because the ability to do any science at all requires an "observer" and an "observed", and consciousness precedes both these concepts. It is the knowing in which all models can be experienced - how could something that includes all ever be explained by anything within it?

I find it quite ironic that materialists are so opposed to dualism, while at the same time being so entrenched in it. Not in the sense of "mind vs. matter" or "soul vs. body" (they managed to outgrow that naive philosophy), but in a sense of "knowing" that everything is matter while overlooking the fact that a distinct and separate knower has to exist in order to see this matter. That's as dualist as it gets...
Ireland's official corporate tax rate is only 12.5% on trading profits[1] anyway, which is one of the lower rates in the EU, not 20%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe
Wow, just skimmed through the PhD thesis that includes this work[1] and it's impressively thorough. The algorithm supports both vector and bitmap input, and uses Recursive Neural Networks and probabilistic grammars to disambiguate the symbols. Their open source implementation is in C++, under GPLv3 license.

[1] https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/51665

I've tried the web demo and for me it works quite well. In my case, definite integrals work except for the "dx" which gets interpreted as "d_x" for no apparent reason.

Some years ago I did some work in this direction which might be relevant: it only involved the formula structure analysis with an improved version of the DRACULAE algorithm from Zanibbi et al. (also cited in SESHAT's paper), starting from given characters (no symbol recognition except for hand-drawn fraction bars) freely positioned/scaled on the page.
It delivers layout/presentation markup (MathML, DRACULAE tree), semantic encoding (OpenMath), natural language (English) and speech output, all in Javascript:
http://matracas.org/tacto/

At the time, speech worked in Firefox, Chrome and even Safari, but nowadays only works in Firefox. I don't remember whether it worked in Opera but all other features did.

[Edit to add:] My application does not implement matrices either, just arithmetics including exponents, subindexes, and fractions.
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Try the 1810s. See my earlier comment.
Are there any big companies that still pay taxes in US? Interesting...
> I wonder how much Irelands payroll taxes would have been were the corporations not to have set up shop in Ireland, they would have just gone somewhere with a decent tax arrangement.

A better question is where the world would be if nation states wouldn't allow multinational companies to pay only negligible taxes by taking part in a race to the bottom.

With tax deals like this one you're just ripping other countries off.
> Read how Tim Cook publicly considers Nobel economist Joeseph Stiglitz as a one who do not know what he (Stiglitz) is talking about. Eye opening.

TC's answer was about repatriating money, not about tax reporting in Ireland. I'm not sure why he chose to answer that question, but the reporter let him get away with answering a totally different question.
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This is false. EU rules have to be transposed into members states' national law to be binding.

http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/scoreboard/performance_b...
I'm not sure what you see that helping.
>People who compare oil and tobacco ignore the benefits

That's wrong. This article compares the two because it seems both groups committed fraud via funding misinformation campaigns that had a goal of affecting legislation on regulation.

Extremists are the ones who cannot deal with the obvious negatives of oil along with the benefits.
What makes you think that 4k 60fps is even possible without hardware acceleration? That's 12.7 Gbps output bandwidth (assuming true color), barely possible even using just memcpy, let alone decoding.
Suspect Dublin will do quite well in the fintech sector if Brexit means passporting agreements are difficult to arrange for London based startups...
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The U.S. is slowly moving towards tying repayments to income, though with less generous thresholds than the UK model. As of 2015, people with direct federal student loans can opt into "revised income-based repayment", which caps payments at 10% of income for a maximum of 20-25 years: http://blog.ed.gov/2015/12/your-federal-student-loans-just-g...
I imagine a lot of technical people are or could be into zines: they mix DIY and maker zeal with principles of distributed information sharing. They're the OG artisanal local blogs ;-p

You can make little zine booklets -- which I find especially satisfying -- from a single sheet of computer paper using the following instructions: http://staycalmcomic.com/how-to-zine
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No. Nada. Wrong. False. Truth-through-repetition.

Have a nice nice life distancing yourself from any responsibility.
To whom should a country and its taxpayers be culpable in this situation? What would be the appropriate form of punishment?
Okay, the EC is wrong in that lower tax burdens are a form of state aid. Higher corporate taxes also tend to cause all sorts of new ways to lower tax burdens which can mean even less tax revenue, let alone simply up and moving to a more tax friendly environment. The EU needs to worry about Africa soon scarfing up companies looking for a way out.

Then last of all, they are fooling themselves if they don't think EU based companies aren't receiving similar deals. This seems concentrated only on US based companies for the time being.

Finally consider this, countries which lowered their corporate rates found increases in wages and taxes. This includes Canada and Japan
The air hitting the top of the spoiler isn't generating anywhere near the suction created on the bottom of the spoiler with air underneath having to speed up (and hence have much lower pressure compared to the top).
Unless you wrote your notes digitally, it won't work: "the parser accepts input files in two formats: InkML and SCGINK". These are stroke based formats - the recogniser needs to know which points are connected, and possibly which order things were drawn.
> Companies make deals with governments __all the time__ for tax breaks and government subsidies. Governments want jobs and investment, companies want the best deals they can get.

And it's honestly one of the bigger problems of the world today. There was a Planet Money episode where they presented the data from jobs "created" in Kansas and Missouri through tax breaks. It was something like: Kansas stole 5000 jobs from Missouri through relocation of offices in Kansas City, and Missouri stole 4000 jobs from Kansas the same way. So millions offered to companies to get a net benefit of basically zero.
>Why can I not highlight the txt?

Running NoScript in default deny all javascript mode I am able to highlight the text with the mouse (although I do not do so while reading, so I had to go test to verify before posting).
So recently... not long ago.
Hollywood interests managed to get employment law changed in New Zealand. The law. They didn't even remotely try to hide who was doing it, either. The sad truth is, it probably actually is good for our economy.
My small business has to pay 47% income taxes. Why should Apple get away with paying 0.0002% taxes?

No need to discuss this. Rules should of course be the same for all businesses in the EU.

13B Euro is nothing. They saved multiples of this amount by using practices only known from the Mafia.
Disallowing the use of race as a signal in machine learning

That sounds like a great idea, but it isn't as simple as it appears. Most systems won't have "race" directly encoded as a feature, but that is insufficient.

See slide 22 from [1], further in depth discussion discussion from [2] or just this feature (which many systems could automatically discover):

Feature6578 = Loc=EastOakland && Income<10k

I don't know what the solution to this is, but it's a pretty hard problem, and even the best intention are insufficient.

Delip proposes in [1] to introduce a "fairness constraint" where the probability of a favourable outcome in the majority class is the same as in a protected class. This sounds sensible, but make optimising systems much harder.

[1] http://deliprao.com/archives/129

[2] https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/alien_intelligences_...
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Sure.

Call the sum of all assigned numbers N. No prisoner knows N, but they do know that there are exactly 100 possible last two digits of N, from "00" up to "99". Beforehand, assign a different last digit pair to each prisoner. When the prisoner guesses, he sums everybody else's number, then guesses the number between 1 and 100 that, when added to his partial sum, results in his assigned last two digits.
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Let's see - they are generating 10GB of data, but they have 144GB of RAM. I'd say those reads are coming from RAM. The writes are quite possibly waiting for disc though.
The whole situation is a fine line. Look at one of the criteria that Ireland ran afoul of: "the basis of profit determination for companies in a multinational group departs from internationally accepted rules"

Which of course is amusing because there aren't really any internationally accepted rules. Companies like Apple e.g. Ikea, Coke, Google etc all do this and many countries allow it in particular the US.

I think it's fantastic that this precedent has been set. But it is a precedent none the less.
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The symbol recognition is really good, but it does not handle positioning and relative sizes that well: http://imgur.com/7FCr6TD
WHAT the punishment would be could be a matter of discussion. My point was there SHOULD be some punishment. I can't imagine a case where Ireland walks out of this unscathed.
The link text is something of a garden path sentence... At first I thought it was a handwritten parser for math expressions, not a parser for handwritten math expressions!
What is in the interest of the German economy seems to be what determines EU and ECB actions, whether it's setting interest rates, applying rules or deciding what 'deals' to investigate.

The EU, did it go hard after VW?
But when it comes to the small fry, rules is rules.
Who committed the "fraud"? Apple, the Irish government, or both?
Yes, the way I imagine most people will take this story is that Apple avoided taxes but really Ireland allowed them to contrive a tax structure that resulted in a lower tax bill. Apple must have known this would happen some day, I'd imagine they would have taken advice on it at the time and someone somewhere calculated that even if this happened, it was still worthwhile. So Apple isn't completely innocent but it's really Ireland at fault here.

There is no direct impact for Ireland e.g. a fine but it will create uncertainty for others already operating in Ireland and those considering investment. This uncertainty can be very bad for Ireland for years to come, so there will almost certainly be a penalty, albeit an indirect one.
Yeah, which is why I'm so surprised people are surprised about Brexit. It wasn't some full-on racist rant. Many people just wanted sovereignty for real, including a large number of Labor voters who voted quietly, fearing retaliation.

When you can't write your own laws, and you don't get to elect who does, you're not really sovereign.

http://www.newsweek.com/brexit-eu-leave-democracy-immigratio...
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To the European Union, I would think. Other European countries which are abiding to the rules are losing companies to those who countries offer unfair tax benefits.
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You can’t compare recent fines against Volkswagen with these fines for Apple. Investigations against Apple, Starbucks, Fiat and more started already 6 years ago. It’s not an act of revenge, war or something else, it’s just pursuing criminals.
While you might be right in the US (I don't know), it is illegal to have fiscal deals with the government in the EU, which is the very ground for the court action in the first place.

From my perspective (as a EU citizen), it is the right thing to do (no allowing special deals). How is that a fair landscape for competition? It's not. If you want to do business in the EU, you have to obey EU laws, just like everybody else.

Furthermore, government officials agreeing to tax cuts should be tried for abuse of public assets, in my opinion. That's however a separate issue in this case, Apple does no obey EU law no matter how guilty politicians are.
The bigger players then avoid even more tax without the expensive accountants, with the burden falling upon everybody else, not least private companies whose owners are based locally and rely on taxable dividends for a living.
Why do people buy stuff from Adafruit when they can get them from eBay for a tenth of the price? Shipping speed?
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The navies do not share any of this information.
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 EU Commission is now engaged in a rather grotesque power grab in which despite having no mandate to interfere with member tax policies they are attempting to gain control anyway, without treaty change, by redefining low tax rates as a kind of subsidy.

There is no real precedent for this kind of legal abuse - to claim Apple should have anticipated it is absurd.
>Part of being liberal is the freedom to adopt any legal practices that makes you happy. //

Yes, sort of.

Let's take a slightly extreme example - liberal societies outlaw slavery. Suppose I come to France and want to keep slaves; how hypocritical of the French to talk about liberté and not allow me to keep the slaves that I wish to keep.

I'm not sure it's true hypocrisy; it's just a innate part of liberalism that there are limits to the liberties allowed.
A Philips screwdriver may or may not be used for a year, a multi bit screwdriver has much better odds. But the trade off is all about frequency. If you need to swap license plates not having the correct tool is not a major time sink. Rebuilding an engine and you need the right tools.
> So basically don't install Facebook or Whatsapp try to use the Facebook website if you can or better yet don't use Facebook at all on your phone if you value your privacy.

I've been doing this for years now, and you know what? I don't miss it at all. I use the Facebook website from my computer, and that's A-OK.
But no taxes were due, according to the tax collectors themselves.

Meanwhile the EU is not a tax collection body, it does not set tax policy and it does not issue tax rulings. It has no power to do this and I'm unaware of any countries that want it to have this power.
Imagine your country offers a tax refund for installing solar panels. Because of this, you decide to buy and install solar panels. Lateron, it is decided that your country shouldn't have offered this refund for this or that reason.

Would you feel that it is fair that you have to pay up, instead of the institution that wrongfully offered you tax refunds?
I recommend that we all add the office number of a health care professional we don't need to our phone book. It will muddy the water just a little bit.
Tax Apple revenues, not profits;
B-trees (especially Copy on Write B-trees) tend to be limited by the disk seek performance. The write performance of a virgin B-tree will also vary substantially depending on the keys that are being inserted. Random keys will lead to a lot of splitting of the tree which can be slow as it requires a lot of locking and allocation. Sequential keys will amortise the expensive part of building the structure of the tree.

This test uses a 10GB test size which is very small compared to the size of RAM available for the page cache. This will hide the seek penalties that the B-Tree takes on reads.
Over a much larger test one would expect the write performance of a well written LSM to flatten out to a constant, indefinitely sustainable, rate. A (COW) B-tree would be expected to gradually degrade over time as it gets more fragmented and takes more seek penalties for writes and range reads.

The seek penalty is relevant for SSDs as there are still only a finite number available: you can expect on the order of 100K/s rather than the 100/s you might expect from a conventional disk. You still want to be mostly operating those things in streaming read mode where possible.
In fact, they can expect very serious investigations throughout Europe if someone complains about it to their local information commissioners or equivalent here.

If they are in fact sucking in contact details from users phones and using them for matching and recommendations, that would seem to be something that would be serious enough to likely require express consent (in other words: users taking an explicit action, rather than being "opted in" implicitly by agreeing to a TOS or similar) under EU data protection regulations.

Not a lawyer, but I'd be surprised if there isn't one or more data protection violations lurking in there somewhere.
It is a problem but unfortunately not a solvable one.

It's the equivalent of paying everyone the same wage. Countries are going to aggressively compete for talent just like companies do. And whether it's offering them different tax rates, amending employment laws, building infrastructure for them etc countries are going to bend over backwards.
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Other navies, sure, but the USN?
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The main issue, which you and I both see, is the sheer asymmetry of the whole thing. We are in this weird situation where the individual, the typical cognitive miser who even on his/her best day cannot possibly take all the preventive actions, is up against tireless machines with perfect memory and ability to generate extraordinary pattern recognition working all day to mine just that little bit more information to then hand out to the advertisers.

But I see your point, and certainly would like to see more constructive suggestions than mine.
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NASA never seems to have tried to tap into that experience

How far have you looked? A quick google seems to confirm that NASA are talking to the Navy about this all the time.
I use it, not everyday, mainly only if I notice I'm not focusing or have a long task list to tackle that day.

I use an inexpensive mac app from the appstore that seems to help as you can look up and see how much time you have left. For the breaks I'll check email, news or play a quick round of a turned based game.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tomato-ticker-pomodoro-timer...

Or if I'm making progress on something I'll just keep going.

For being productive I've found knocking out a small task to get started in the morning or when starting back to begin a long stretch of development helps.

I also listen to upbeat music with minimal lyrics while I work.

And if you find a song that you're really productive listening to I'll even listen to it on repeat and that seems to help me stay in the zone.

Good luck.