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They don't have good reputation but I am Hetzner customer. I have run Windows Server and some smaller Linux boxes more than 2 years and I haven't had any problems. What I have understood from comments that you need to take care of everything yourself but that is really the same case in EC2 and Azure in the end of the day.
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I'm quite impressed by the following facts:

- The EU ruling finds that Ireland broke the law.

- The penalty is that Ireland gets a boatload of money.

- Ireland is appealing the ruling.
As far as what we know about these cryptosystems today, the passwords are no more accessible via this breach than they are when you send them over TLS. How is that severe at all?
Yes, they're solid. They exist for many years. I'm a customer since 2008 I think, but they're way older than that.
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Ok, that's a good point, but it is also true that functions requiring an oracle cannot also be represented in any Turing-complete programming language, right?

This seems trivial to prove: any function representable in any given programming language maps to a finite string of characters, and finite strings of characters maps to natural numbers.
They could have set a precedent by challenging it in an Irish court, to extend the benefits to all businesses in Ireland.

They instead challenged Ireland in an EU court.
As a business owner, I actually was in a situation where my local tax authority said one thing, then came back to me 2 years later, said they were wrong, and now I had to pay 2 years worth of taxes because of their mistake. It's BS and it can ruin your company totally. If a tax authority tells you how much you owe, it should be binding - so in this way, if Ireland charged Apple too little, they should be at fault here. If EC now rules that Ireland undercharged them and haven't collected 14BN in taxes, then Ireland should be to blame.
Is your position that Irish tax law did require Apple to pay more, or that it should have, but didn't?
That usually happens because the call for bids was sloppy.

Of course you can evaluate offers for suitability to your climate. It's just a bit late to try and do that when you have never put it down in the requirements.

Happens all the time, in every country.

Usually municipalities are more affected because they don't have as much experience and tend to learn only from their first big disaster.
Let's summarise:

1. Apple, like every other big corporation, uses a complex corporate structure in order to reduce taxes legally.

2. Irish government issues preferential rates and also advises Apple on how to do it, directly breaking EU law.

3. Five years later - Apple has to pay for the Ireland's preferential tax rates.

So let me get this straight - according to EU law if I get told today that Irish tax rate is 20% for example, 5 years down the line I can just expect someone to send me a letter stating that actually - I got preferential tax and I should repay another 20% on everything. Not to mention negative PR.

Can someone explain why people are angry at Apple when clearly they were allowed to do it?

It is interesting watching how emotionally invested people get in scorning corporations about legally reducing their taxes. Every small company owner I have talked to has tried a few ways of legally reducing taxes - I can't see why people hate on other people for doing the same thing.
We punish it because it's damaging to individuals and the social fabric that binds them.

The money that Apple is sitting on could have been used for many positive things for the citizens of Ireland. Their government and Apple robbed them of that money for 6000 jobs, the taxes they produce and probably some administrative income.

Corporations are not above society. They exist thanks to individuals and infrastructure built with taxes.

I think the idea is to have a level playing field, where everyone pays x%. There could be rebates for some categories of companies, but not for ONE company which is rich anyway.
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lol, does it even bother with analyzing the image?
That's true, I agree. If you just need cheap storage Hetzner is probably the way to go.

On the other hand, if you need 24x 1 TB SSD storage with a 10gbit RPN connection:
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i have used http://www.gistboxapp.com/ and it does a pretty good job.
The cost to Ireland in the long run is much greater than the immediate tax gain.
Well, in this case all models are quite abstract, and there's a very real computational complexity difference between them. The key, if I were to use your way of presenting the issue, is the recognition that some epistemological abstractions are more computationally costly than others. So it's true that you can choose either representation as a foundation, but the representations objectively and radically differ in their computational complexity.
The tl;dr: Shooting victims sued cinema for not having armed guards, alarm on exit door, and better camera coverage. They lost in court. Now cinema is billing those who brought suit for legal costs.
The penalty is that Ireland loses the ability to credibly offer dirty tax deals.
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I am a big fan of both Apple and Google and what sort of technologies and products they have created. However they are also major representatives of the problems with multinational companies which are able to pit nations against each other and gain grossly unfair advantages which smaller or local companies can never achieve.

Apple and Google both make great products and should beat the competition based on those skills, not based on their ability rally armies of lawyers and shift money around different sub-branches in different countries.

Their behavior is undermining free trade. How do you get nations to agree to free trade if it just allows multinationals to rig the system. I've been a big supporter of free trade, but I am seriously starting to get my doubts. I am not sure if the advantages make up for the disadvantages anymore.

Of course I am not advocating that everybody is self-sufficient, but that international trade might benefit more from more restrictions than exists today, unless we can solve the problem of multinationals abuse the system by using tax paradises, tax loopholes etc.
> To turn around now and assert the later is a slap on the cheek and potentially the beginning of a slippery slope to a United States of Europe.

They are not doing that. And the ruling explicitly say that they don't have a problem with the Irish tax policy
How is showing that two representations are fundamentally different because they objectively and radically differ in computational complexity open to interpretation?
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Yes, such shenanigans suck.

But they are not the only ones (not that this makes it good)... Linode did the same to me, I asked kindly after their latest data breach and they refused to do so.
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For years Cook and others have been taking the stance that they are just following the laws and if people want them to pay more tax then they should get the law changed, and then Apple will happily comply. Now we see the hypocrisy: when faced with actual law saying they should pay tax do they actually happily agree to pay the tax? No, they turn around and say that they object to the law and argue the law is invalid. So what we have here is not a good corporate citizen just happily paying what taxes it is due. What we have is just like any corporation: an entity that will cynically seek to avoid and minimize its tax using any argument available and they have absolutely no interest in paying their "fair share" or contributing back to society under any tax system. So we have to just remember this next time they say "Well if you want more tax, change the law" because that is a completely insincere lie on their part.
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It's too long/complex a story. I'll write about it one day.
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I guess C# in depth by Jon Skeet would be the obvious answer. Any language would be happy to have such a useful historical guide to best practice. I'm not really a c# dev although I do use it a fair bit and I thought it was excellent.

http://csharpindepth.com/
I love how, as soon as paying money is involved, double think becomes a real thing and people loose their ability to think rationally.

When Tim Cook accuses the EU of pulling a 0.005% tax rate out of nowhere and then counters it with a $400 million dollars actually paid in "tax" I think he's being totally unclear as to what the "tax" he's talking about is and where it came from . Is it even the same thing the EU were talking about? I highly doubt they paid $400 million in corporation tax in Ireland.
I said theft, because tax evasion is ultimately a form of theft. Theft from us, because we pay our taxes and the government uses that to build infrastructure which allows companies like Apple to function.

And then they take that and give us 0.005% of their profits in return. Thank you for the generosity? No.

This form of aggressive, "everyone for himself" capitalism works, for a definition of works equal to making certain people rich beyond their dreams. Why should the common man support that? For a phone?

Good night :)
They're after every company paying the same tax in Ireland.
It's the exact reason for me why I'll probably never use speech recognition for anything more than trying it out. I neither want to be the weird person talking to their computer/phone, nor do I want to annoy people, nor do I have any interest in sharing everything I do with everyone in hearing range.
I am so glad to have learned the right word to describe this! I've tried to employ the "drunk looking for his keys under the streetlight" metaphor before but was met with confusion and blank faces. Maybe this is an easier to grasp phrase
Congratulations France!!! I hope we follow you in Norway, although I don't quite know what our current law on the matter is :-D

It is of big importance that large rich countries like France does this. It should have a strong influence on other countries. The ultimate goal is of course for the US to implement such a law as the US is the worlds most influential and important country, especially within research.
Okay, but understand that your entire comment can be translated to "I don't actually want capitalism." Do you understand my point now?

You can't have fair corporate expectations and capitalism. They are mutually exclusive and every case of corporate leadership trading value for moral causes can likely be successfully fought on fiduciary grounds. Capitalism is not aggressive. It just is. The incentives are created in a certain way. This is like saying you'd rather play chess if there was a third color; there's nothing wrong with wanting to play that game instead, but let's not call it chess any more. Dig it?

I don't even disagree with you entirely (again: liberal! Look at me typing this conservative wet dream!), I'd just rather see you make the anticapitalist case as opposed to appealing to morals.

If you ran a corporation in the United States and volunteered to pay more taxes on moral grounds you'd very likely be in breach of fiduciary duty if someone pressed the issue. That's what I'm saying. We have built a certain house and we can debate whether it's a good house, but we also can't be surprised and morally outraged when the incentives of the system are followed to their extremes.
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Ireland could either:

1) win and things continue as they are
2) lose, and leave the EU
3) lose, and Apple and 1000s of other companies leave Ireland and Ireland loses in the Long run.

If the EU wants taxes to be paid they need to fix local tax laws not chase businesses to pay. Fix why companies offshore this stuff to begin with. Taxes are too high.
If somebody says they don't mind if you pay them below minimum wage, it doesn't mean that it is legal. At some point in the future a lot of hurt might end up coming your way, and you could be forced to pay them the remainder, even if they say they don't want it because they might lose their job as a result.

Similarly, just because Ireland told Apple that they could get low taxes, doesn't mean that they were legally entitled to do so.
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So Apple/the bank/a warrant can return his name?
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Your case is very different and it sounds like you were treated unfairly.

Re Apple: I am ok if Ireland gets the blame. Probably should be split though, since Apple knew very well what they were doing.
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mma@duvel:(~) mtr -rwc4 93.210.14.100
Start: Thu Sep 1 12:45:41 2016
HOST: duvel Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 62.210.128.13 0.0% 4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.0
2.|-- 195.154.1.20 0.0% 4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.0
3.|-- 195.154.1.16 0.0% 4 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.9 0.0
4.|-- lag-online-1.dc3-1.rt.hopus.net 0.0% 4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.0
5.|-- lag-pop-dc3-2.dc3-1.rt.hopus.net 0.0% 4 9.1 2.8 0.4 9.1 4.2
6.|-- lag-pop-std-1.dc3-1.rt.hopus.net 0.0% 4 0.7 0.9 0.7 1.5 0.0
7.|-- 62.159.61.37 0.0% 4 1.7 2.8 1.7 4.5 1.2
8.|-- 62.159.99.230 0.0% 4 22.1 22.0 22.0 22.1 0.0
9.|-- 87.186.202.209 0.0% 4 22.9 22.9 22.9 22.9 0.0
10.|-- p5DD20E64.dip0.t-ipconnect.de 0.0% 4 48.5 119.1 48.3 329.9 140.6

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Oh, I get it, the sum of those two.

Are people complaining that when Apple sells a phone in Italy, Ireland taxes that at zero? Is that the complaint?
> Undefinable real numbers exist, whether you can compute them or not.

I agree with you, but as you probably know this is a deep ontological question. The meaning of something "existing" has been debated for many centuries, especially for cases such as this.

> A theory of computation that rejects the existence of things that can't be computed is like a logic that rejects the existence of FALSE because it can't be proved. Where does the busy beaver function sit in your conceptual model?

There is a difference between rejecting and classifying. I am not proposing a new computational model. Turing's model classifies the busy beaver function as non-computable. Correct?

I thought we were discussing Church-Turing. This assumes Turing Machines, and what they can compute. Of course you can break everything by assuming an imaginary machine that can compute functions that are not computable by Turing Machines...
Ah crap. I meant rencoded. https://github.com/aresch/rencode
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I live in South East Asia. With my current stable job and moderate spending, I expect to have a million dollar savings in 8 years. (don't need to pay for rent. living expense is low ,about 1000$ per month, Capital gains from my investment can fully cover my expenses. I can save 100% of my salary).

My country's economy is expected to grow very fast in coming years. Number of Internet/mobile companies are close to zero now. So there are lots of startup opportunities. If I choose the startup route , I might have 10 million (my target) or even 100 million in 8 years. Or I will just fail and become broke .

If I choose my stable job (I don't dislike it), I will always ask myself the question "Is that it?" and there is no way I can get 10 million in 8 years (my financial target) with my current job though 1 million is still pretty nice.

Other than financial considerations, I have always wanted to start a business and be my own boss. But coming from a low income family make me nervous about the risk of failure and opportunity cost of time & money. I am 31.

Which should I choose?
The EU believes the issue in question is a problem of State Aid[0] which originates in the Treaty of Rome and that the state aid is provided through company-specific tax breaks does not make it tax policy rather than state aid.

Basically, according to the commission Ireland's special deal gives Apple unfair advantage over other Common Market businesses, other companies in the same domain don't get to take advantage of a sub-unit corporate tax rate and keep an extra >10% off the top.

In that view, that this is provided through special-purpose tax breaks rather than direct subsidies or whatnot is immaterial and irrelevant.

[0] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:120...
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Whoa, I don't think they're saying that. "Apple Sales International" is not all non-US profits. It's a company buying Apple products from contract manufacturers in other regions and selling them in Europe. It would not be recording any revenue from sales in other regions.

The profits would then be the difference between the cost they bought those products for (+ things like the very substantial payments to Apple US for R&D), vs what they sold those products for.
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The EU has had a massive positive effect on former soviet countries.

I live in a former Soviet Union country and I can confirm that. Since we've joined EU in 2004 things have improved really massively in pretty much every aspect. Sure, we are still way behind the old western countries, but comparing to other former Soviet Union states that did not join EU, the contrast is staggering.
> If the EU wants taxes to be paid

Taxes are a red herring, the EU doesn't see this dispute as a tax issue but as a competition issue (which is why it's understood as state aid not as tax policy): by giving them special tax arrangements Ireland is unfairly advantaging Apple against other businesses of the Common Market which don't get to pay sub-unit corporate tax.
I am glad about my decision to switch away from the Apple smartphone. Now I'm also thinking that I shouldn't wait for their laptops lineup update as well. There's our little way of fighting for justice and for society's interests against money-making paperclip maximizers. :)
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I am trying to find out the common reasons for context switching. Please comment how often you face this issue and why. And if you have any trick to avoid any of these, please do write that as well.
It's worth noting that this decision was made by the European Commission, and that this is not merely a tax matter -- the tax discounts seems to just have been the way Ireland has illegally provided state aid.

Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: "Member States cannot give tax benefits to selected companies – this is illegal under EU state aid rules. The Commission's investigation concluded that Ireland granted illegal tax benefits to Apple, which enabled it to pay substantially less tax than other businesses over many years. In fact, this selective treatment allowed Apple to pay an effective corporate tax rate of 1 per cent on its European profits in 2003 down to 0.005 per cent in 2014."

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2923_en.htm
Yeah, its supposed to be "forum". I work in a form heavy industry and thought this was going to be a solution aimed at that :/ And I thought it was by Google for a second.
Interesting page here regarding Apple's employment (apparently 5.5k people in IE) http://www.apple.com/ie/job-creation/
"In the near future I'm fixing to do this ambitious thing" and he actually did... Good on him.

I on the other hand, personally negotiate with my alarm clock every morning.
@hellwd when do you face such situation generally, can you anecdote some instances of context switching you faced.
I was talking about the Hetzner network, not yours :-)
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Because it's asynchronous?
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Is there any evidence the developers aren't doing this themselves as a false flag attack on their own product to profit off of the malware?
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I have many times been in the situation of having paid to much tax (not my fault) and have received relatively large cheques automatically from the government as a result. This year they calculated that i have underpaid taxes (not my fault) for a year. The government have been automatically deducting a small amount over the year from me via the tax system.

So i have been happy to receive cheques from the government years later for over paying, and actually nonchalant about the deductions.

But what is important is that the rules to apply equally to everyone, and they should also apply to businesses large businesses and small businesses, and mega businesses.
ho sorry, misread you :)
Again, for the third time, this is not a tax issue.

Low taxes are fine. There are countries with very low tax inside of or in the sphere of influence of the EU (Andorra, Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Luxembourg, The City of London, ...).

If Ireland wants to keep this deal going, they have it easy: Change the tax to be 0.005% instead of more than 12%. That's for everyone, not just for Apple and potentially a few other big companies. This is purely looking after the free market and ending unfair state subsidies, it is not about low taxes.
if Ireland has a company tax of 0.005% they'll be competing and they'll also spur fair competition inside the country.

What we have here is Apple corrupting a government to go against their citizens and their neighbours, by effectively lowering their cost to trade in the EU compared to their competition (Android handset manufacturers as an example).
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>I am glad about my decision to switch away from the Apple smartphone.

All the big corporates do this, not just Apple.
I don't mean to provoke people to get downvoted to hell - I mean to understand why people are hating on Apple.

Your example is not applicable here since below minimum wages are illegal to begin with.

> Similarly, just because Ireland told Apple that they could get low taxes, doesn't mean that they were legally entitled to do so.

You are talking about the government here - not Apple. My point being - the Irish government was at fault when they broke EU law. Why should Apple be the one to compensate their error?
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Does anyone know how to avoid this anti-pattern in group discussions?

I don't think starting from the more important issues is always the answer. Assuming that:
* the time for discussion is finite
* discussions and meetings expand to fill the time they have (meetings expand to fill the time they have)

It follows to me that in many situations it IS good to start with the easy stuff, like the bike shed, to get it out of the way, and then spend the longer period of time all the way to the end on the more significant subject.

But what can one do to prevent investing too much time on the bikeshed? Timeboxing? And what happens if your box is over but no decision is made?
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