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> > today's children will die sooner than their parents

> Citations please?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/2449040/Children-will...

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr043743#t=article

(Yup, as mass produced food becomes the main and only source of calories people can afford then their health will decrease. Yup, it's linked to money you can or can't make. Yup, if I had not landed a job this year I would have stopped using some medicine I need (severe allergy) for an over the counter solution because our health minister decided to drop it from the reimbursed medicine. It's happening. http://www.ibtimes.com/healthcare-2015-why-millennials-avoid... . And the over the counter solution would have ruined the inside of my nose after two weeks than I would then need more expensive care.)
Its hard to feel that way for me when it takes days to get a government organization to respond to your queries (ie status of immigration or status of obamacare application)
I'd add to this list Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and "The wind-up bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Americans in general are not capable of discussing communism without conflating interface with implementation.
I was thinking of Central WA but the prices were still high. I haven't looked too much into Eastern WA. How are things there? Sounds like you are enjoying life, but it sounds like you might move to a cheaper COL? Is the COL in Eastern WA still high?
Not necessarily. Typically your contract will be with the company you co-founded. Your co-founder is entering your company into a contract with you by signing as an authorized officer on behalf of the company. If that contract assigns the IP to your company, your cofounder is stealing your company's IP. If the contract says the source code is your IP (and perhaps licenses its use to the company for some permitted purpose), then your co-founder is stealing from you.

Now, if you can show the sole purpose of him forming the business with you was to steal your source code, then that's fraud.
>"I'm not going to put the examples out there because I'm not going to engage in a tit-for-tat on what is compliant."

Well surely that's a great idea that will discourage the accusations of bias.
Deployment scripts can make automated changes to config files and need paths.

And proper deployment systems can handle this. Or it's templated and can be changed with a single variable. We're also not talking about every possible binary ever, we're only talking about /bin which is a limited and well-known set of things, for which symlinks will exist. It will not affect any piece of software ever and associated configuration files, the blast radius is very small and well understood.

And the package management system isn't off-topic if one of the reasons for moving paths is to become more standard.

That's not the reason. The reason the move is happening is because there is no real point in having /bin and /usr/bin separate. It's a historical relic which offers very little benefit to users and is largely confusing to newcomers. Debian isn't making the move to standardise with what other distro's are doing, they're doing it b/c it makes sense for their users. It just so happens that others have come to the same conclusion and since they've made that change before we can learn from how and why they did it.

then you have to wonder why the Linux community has not banded together on a single packaging system standard.

You should read up on how dpkg and rpm were created, and why every other package format and package manager ever has been too. Besides the history, every single one of them has their flaws and issues. If we had one that was perfect, that solved every single issue related to package management ever, in a platform independent way that we can all agree on I'm pretty sure everyone would be using it. I'm all ears for proposals though, but so far any time this has been attempted it hasn't gotten anywhere. And this is a completely different domain than moving /bin around.
Remember, many of those who are partying in the streets in the US are those who left Cuba (and risked their lives by doing so) - They are not representative of the average Cuban (some of which are actually very happy being there).

I think that those Cubans who fled are the most capitalist-minded of all Cubans; these are people who had a very strong desire for acquiring material possessions and wealth - To the point of risking their lives and leaving behind entire families. I don't think many people would do that - Even among capitalists.
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If everything is equally bad, would you prefer to be brainwashed in North Korea or South Korea?
I think it's a combination of both the tech and lack of demand. Bluetooth audio stuff is only now getting up to par (at least that's the feeling I get sniffing around /r/headphones and the like), and when the two primary audiences that care - gamers and enterprise - have reliable wired alternatives, there just isn't enough motivation for someone to really break out there.

I suspect on the tech side one of the big disadvantages a BT mic has to suffer from is how to balance power consumption with the circuitry you need to pull a good signal off. Looking this up[1] it seems that a MBP is much better positioned for that kind of hardware as opposed to a mic.

On another note I've seen some praise for the Skullcandy PLYR.

[1] http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/microphones/how-microphone...
Whoa, so basically what this article is saying is that our increased border enforcement efforts are working!?!

I guess walls do work.
Also, most people aren't employed by the type of giganto corporations people are mentioning in this thread, like Google or Apple. Most people are employed by the very long tail of small businesses, whose owners are decidedly not ultrarich demigods. From your small consultancies to the sort of cafe I'm sitting in right now, lowering the corporate income tax will have a huge impact on how many people they can employ and what sort of prices they can charge. All of the small business owners I know don't want to make themselves absurdly rich. They just want to have a comfortable, middle-class life and help other people do the same.
Because it doesn't happen. Employees are not going to be paid more. Shareholders are going to get more money, except that's it's going to be negligible if you're a small shareholder. Consumers are still going to pay the same price because they are already paying that price.

Source: the last fifty years. At the very least.
AKG K240 studio headphones ($70). Super comfy, amazing audio and fully over ear. Open back so your can hear some ambient noise.

Aphex Microphone X ($200) USB mic with boom arm. Sound like the golden god that you are. They make amazing pro audio gear and have condensed that from a rack of gear to a single mic and USB interface.
> Wealthy individuals who make most of their income on capital gains rather than wages would then pay the same as the rest of us. I remember during the 2012 presidential election, when Mitt Romney finally released his tax returns, he paid less than 50% of my family's tax rate, on 100 times our income. How does that make any sense?

It's not an entirely accurate/honest picture. Romney's tax rate is lower because the income from his capital gains has already been taxed as corporate profits (well, assuming no tax evasion). I.e. the double taxation you mentioned affects him too, but it's not contained in his tax rate.
What kind of issues have you run into with Python 3 that make data science more difficult? I use Python 3 as well, and I don't think I've run into anything that fits your description...
Irrelevant; the United States did assassinate domestic political opponents and agitators.
Why would taxes be passed onto customers? The goal of the company is to optimize pre-tax profit, regardless of what kind of tax is slapped on top of it (as long as that tax isn't 100%).
I would not call freedom of speech and free elections "western democratic prescriptions". If that is what you meant.

But I would (honestly) like to thank you for your response.
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2011, Osama bin Laden was murdered.

Hell, the US has setup a prison where we send people we don't like to be indefinitely detained and tortured without trial.

Make no mistake, Obama would love to get his hands on Assange or Snowden and imprison them for life as well.
This is outrageous.
Fred Hampton is the most recent in my mind that isn't (in my view) ambiguous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
> Think about the possible uses for blockchain technology in third world developing countries

This! So much can be done to combat corruption and bureaucracy.
Given the market caps of Google, Facebook, Apple et-al it makes me wonder why nobody has bought out Intel.

They'd over time lose the ecosystem advantages that an independent Intel offers. They'd probably also lose a lot of money since an in-house Intel would become much less competitive. Apple also doesn't need or want what Intel has to offer (highest performance but very much not the lowest cost to manufacture chips), unless my impression of Mac vs. iOS systems sales is way off.

It's hard to imagine Intel being in such dire straights they can let Google and Facebook blackmail them in such a market damaging way, although as noted by t0mas88 other big customers like AWS might be getting their own custom numbered parts. Or, who knows, might not need exactly these types of chips (I have no idea, not familiar with the market beyond what I buy, low/near lowest cost single chip Xeons for my personal workstation class computers).

But pissing off everyone else who buys these class chips, unless contrary to the article they do have a capacity issue, seems breathtakingly unwise, an inflection point indeed.
The Dutch don't tax overseas income or profits, though, do they? Only America and Etriea do that as far as I can tell.
I'm sure there are many who live in New York who want to move out but can't because of the work. Certainly that's the case in London.

Desires change through life. Sure when I was 20-something I'd be happy living in manhattan, but in my 30s I want somewhere in the country with a nice small school for the kids. When I'm in my 50s I suspect a house by the beach would be good, maybe even abroad. When it comes to my 70s and I've got grandkids I'll want to be near them.

How many people want to live in Ny to live the "friends" lifestyle, find out reality doesn't meet expectation, then want to leave but can't due to work?
They may be on the wrong side of history on this. Fake news and hate speech are on the rise, and by 'on the rise' I mean now popular amongst double-digit percentages of the population. Networks can try to step above, but that will only cede ground to other ad networks. The people want to see this stuff and advertisers want enthusiastic young eyeballs.
> 'repulsively regressive' is an uninteresting cliched opinion.

Note that "regressive" is technically an accurate description of the suggested policy.

> The money could go into a pot of course but it's used in the same ways ultimately.

It is not necessarily used in the same way. One reason why progressive taxation is both socially and economically beneficial is that poor people spend a larger proportion of their income, and thus generate demand. The same money, given to the rich, will largely end up as savings.
All taxes are regressive in that sense of the word. Taxes on income have the exact same problem. The net result is "higher prices" (in terms of % of your monthly paycheck).

Every single tax. Every last one.

The problem is that rich people cheat "legally". They control the companies as well. What companies did in the years of those very high company and personal taxes is to have "executive perks". Now those exist today (and to some extent are defensible, e.g. I understand why the CEO of IBM needs some security). The costs for those were then costs of the company.

So companies would lure shareholders in those days by making sure a 1% stake in the company would guarantee a director-level position in the company, which came with free use of a company yacht, plane, very low rent on company-owned housing, ...

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_33
Lots of people do exactly this, as least for some portion of their finances. Buying houses through an llc and renting to oneself is not uncommon. You lose the tax benefits of interest deduction, but if you're paying cash that doesn't matter anyhow. Other large purchases like cars and boats are owned in similar arrangements. When you are financially independent (not working a W2 job), many of your financials are easily categorized as business-related, with all the tax benefits that incurs.
That's a circular argument. You're just assuming that these models have intrinsic meaning.
Yes, when the Soviet Union collapsed Cuba went through a huge economic contraction including food shortages. Without virtually no international trade whatsoever, they had to become completely self-sufficient for all the goods and expertise they needed.
I want to have time to think over and compare offers instead of being pressured to make a decision before they explode.
What site does these days?

I mean, does:

http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/21051/cia-and-long-history...

.. or:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-cia-has-attempted-to-assass...

.. or:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/mar/21/usa.davidpalli...

.. seem more or less trust-worthy to you? Perhaps there is a site that lists all the people America has not assassinated ..
I guess they wouldn't be allowed to call it "Python"?
>healthcare and food, (food especially) are heavily subsidized by the government already. While I personally believe that distorts the market and should probably stop

If you want to see riots in the streets because people literally can't afford food and healthcare, yeah, sure, go for it.
Considering that in corporations only a few people have a real say giving corporations political speech gives those few disproportional representation. They still can speak as much as they want but as individuals.
Thanks for the TL;DR. She does call it a "brain dump", but I was unprepared for that amount of incoherent ramblings and self pity.
If you mean for citizens living abroad, then you are correct (although I do not know about Etriea).

If you mean for companies... I don't exactly know. But I do know that we aren't exactly clean in the global playing field for tax havens, and I wish we would change that.
One reason Europeans tend to misunderstand America is that they come from comparatively more homogeneous and therefore higher trust societies. America is overall better at integrating immigrants, but a solidarity deficit remains. Result: we don't get the nice socialized benefits. It's not the government as much as the polity.
"In 2015, the average wage for roofers was $17.65 per hour, according to the BLS. Mr. Braddy says he has already raised wages twice this year, putting most of his workers above $20 an hour."
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Are you sure? What rate did those corporations pay? Remember, the article that triggered this is about how difficult it is to collect corporate taxes, how little revenue they really generate, and how they lead to tax-sheltering overseas. I think it's fair to say that Romney's effective tax rate, including the corporate taxes, do not rival the taxes my wife and I paid as middle class wage earners.

And even if they did, what's wrong with my solution? It would be fair, and visibly fair, without the whiff of "Oh, you're just ignorant" to the naysayers.
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Not shopping on Black Friday at all.
I recently got spam that looked very similar, through a shared iPhoto album invitation. Seems some spammer have gotten quite inventive recently.
I am disappointed that human beings can be so bored as to find money and time to do that useless nature massacre.
I used to use a Jabra freestanding mic/speaker, and it's still a great choice -- they have excellent separation and no echo problem at all.

I recently upgraded to a Logitech BCC950 freestanding conference camera, and it is also excellent.

Note that both of these solutions are much more expensive than an ordinary headset or webcam (~£200 range).

https://secure.logitech.com/en-gb/product/conferencecam-bcc9...
Sennheiser earbuds with inline microphone
If what you say is true and you believe it, then surely you're for deporting all illegal immigrants who artificially deflate wages by working for less than is legal.
If it's a Jeep with the 4.0 you'll be waiting a long time for that engine failure.
Well, it says in part. News Corp is of course facing threats to its very existence, and Breitbart is certainly part of that threat.
AppNexus has nothing to do with Google, it seems.
I agree that deficit spending can be useful in some circumstances, but I think it should be more like a last resort rather than a first port of call. Otherwise, how can you argue against the reductio-ad-absurdum that all spending should be deficit spending?
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Totalitarians cannot tolerate any dissenting information or ideas. They can't just run an ad business, they also have to use their business to squelch ideas they disagree with.

The accusations of racism, etc, are just a cover for what they've wanted to do for a while. It doesn't matter that there's no evidence of such racism.

I can't help but think that this just points to the fact that they must not have much confidence in their ideas that they feel they must muzzle others.

Edit: yep - bots are definitely out in force
Hah, downvoted for simultaneously pissing off libertarians and liberals. Gotta love hackernews.
Companies aren't just groups of people. They're groups of people that are specially organized and granted limited liability and other privileges. I don't mean to claim that companies should or shouldn't have political voice, but let's not pretend that there's something sacrosanct about incorporation.
Perhaps your wording was metaphorical, but the cash does not sit in bank accounts.

Apple is investing the cash pile in securities. (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-isnt-really-sitting-o...)

If corporate tax is abolished, Apple's cash pile would enlargen and thus Apple's investments would increase which would increase other company's stock prices or bond yields.
In exchange of what, what would you give up in order to avoid taxes?
I have no idea what those guys are making (they're not driving Lexuses home), but I do recall reading that roofing is right up there with commercial fishing as one of the jobs with the highest risk of fatality. (DOL keeps those statistics online)

Whatever they're paid, it's probably not enough.
Debatable @shshhdhs, I can confirm they locked down access but I'm not confident the certificates were actually rotated.
It would have meant they would have needed to push new SSL client certs out to every customer Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine.

I'm confident that duplicating the virtual disk, certificates or installing the documented RPMs will result in repository access without being billed accordingly. It is considered fraud and I would imagine if one took large advantage of one would be disciplined accordingly.
They have a FAQ for that:

"Is the hole bad for the environment?
No, this was just a bunch of empty land. Now there’s a hole there. That’s life."

Edit: Lol, I'm not endorsing their answer. Just pointing it out.
In what way is this a "nature massacre"?
There's also a nice API solution for Pandoc -> html/epub/etc conversion:
http://www.docverter.com
my bad. Some part of my head wants to always write 'google' when talking about ad netowrks.
I have spent last night laughing at this.

I have spent this morning depressing about it.
Why did you feel there's need for such a thing? :P
...reducing profits for contractors and increasing costs for consumers until a new equilibrium is found.
Waste of good topsoil.
This is from memory, and I have not been able to confirm it with a cursory search, but FWIW: In most of central London, the bedrock is far below (which allows for deep Tube tunnels), so high-rises do not rest on bedrock, and are at least partially supported by the buoyancy of large rigid basements.

Of course, London does not have the seismic risk of San Francisco. I would guess that buoyancy might be an asset with regard to support, but possibly a liability with regard to stability, in the face of liquefaction.
The bounty was paid out, leaving the amount as undisclosed but it was under 3500 USD.
Look I don't think Fidel was as black and white as most Americans make him out to have been, but people trying to just say "American presidents are worse" are just hilariously obtuse.

Like comparing Nixon and Castro. Nixon's most famous scandal was when he tried to wiretap his political opponents. It ended with his resignation. Castro outright killed his political opponents, and had the rest thrown in prison. He continued to rule for decades. There is absolutely no comparison.

Yes, I understand that U.S. foreign policy played a huge role in shaping the revolution. But let Castro's legacy stand on what he actually did, not on trying to throw shade on everyone else.
If you are a non-resident you don't get taxed on worldwide income. If you are a foreign company with US income you don't get taxed in worldwide income. And why should SAP pay less taxes than IBM...could IBM compete with SAP if they weren't held to the same standards?

You do have to report worldwide income to figure out your rate. Also, many countries have different tax systems, so does a fee count as tax paid or as a deduction to operating income? If a country organizes its burden purely as fees, then are you getting screwed on income?

For countries with tax rates less than the US, an expat can still get screwed by higher fees and cost of living to go with that. So much so that the usa introduced an overseas housing deduction just for people who work in Singapore, Hong Kong, Switzerland. Complicated, because most tax systems are not very comparable.
I'm not currently remote, but I do have a 6+ hour remote D&D game about twice a month. I have this cheap bluetooth headset [1], and have honestly found it to be just fine. I use it with Skype on my laptop. The battery lasts a good long time, it sounds perfectly fine, and it's not noise-isolating, so I don't get that weird voice echo in my own head like I do with my earbud headset. Plus it can pair with 2 devices at once, and sounds surprisingly decent when I'm listening to music.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/MEE-audio-Bluetooth-Headphones-Micr...
Two problems: 1) someone has to pay for the common roads, OSHA, FCC, etc., the things that enforce common consumer-business fairness, and 2) virtually no company pays this rate. Exxon, Facebook and verizon have paid 0% or close for years, so this is mostly a fake problem to disguise the real problem of tax loopholes.
I'm not fully confident that they have actually been rotated....
Burning gasoline for useless digging actually is bad for the environment. And it might not be amazonian rain forest that we're talking about, but an "empty land" is better left untouched than slaughtered like this.
Hillary expressed a wish to "drone" Assange, and Obama actually "droned" a lot of people (that the US has branded "terrorists").
> [I]t should be more like a last resort rather than a first port of call.

The obvious retort is that if all spending were deficit spending, people would stop lending us money. Rather than attaching unnecessary ideological baggage to tax policy, we should do the math. When deficit spending is cheap, we should exercise it. When it's expensive, taxes are wiser.