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Fuck. That.

Why do you think the planet's largest companies are still the planet's largest companies? Because they've gotten in bed with government. That's why there's no income tax, because of regulatory capture. Of course Bloomberg wants to just give up the fight. Sure, corporate tax right now doesn't contribute much, but there's no reason why it can't. Yes, it's hard to enforce laws on entities with ginormous amounts of resources, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try.

The audacity of these people...
10k over 50 years? Wow, that's a lot less than I imagined from how he is described as a mindless killer, and the dictatorship as drenched in blood.

For comparison Puerto Rico have had about 10k murders in the last 15 years alone[1], and that's in less than half the Cuban population.

From 1998 figures[2] and 2002 population numbers I guesstimate that officially about 820 murders occur per year in Cuba, and the 10k in 50 years evens out to 200 per year.

[1] http://www.estadisticas.pr/iepr/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=nf...

[2] http://www.sld.cu/sitios/dne/buscar.php?id=3297&iduser=4&id_...
To me it's equally funny how it's ok to group one side into wimpy liberal arts students (you forgot their MacBooks and lattes!) and the others into ex-pats.

These days it's like superhuman to be able to look at an issue from two sides.
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The urban parts of Cuba started out in a pretty good position.

> "One might best summarize the complex situation by saying that urban Cuba had come to resemble a Southern European country (with a living standard as high or surpassing that of France, Spain, Portugal and Greece) while rural Cuba replicated the conditions of other plantation societies in Latin America and the Caribbean," according to analyst Mark Falcoff. [0]

I've left off the bit about racism as that's already been much discussed in this thread.

[0] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/peopleevents/e_precastro...
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You can render SVG with foreign HTML+CSS to a canvas[1]. I did that in one of my apps (guitar fretboard diagram generator) to render PNGs from my dynamic React components. Worked like a charm!

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/...
Is there an end of life planned where they stop all updates?
What a repulsively regressive proposal.

The article would be more interesting it explored replacing corporate taxes with a wealth tax rather than an income tax.
> It may look unfair to tax consumers to compensate for a major business tax holiday -- but then such a move would give businesses a strong incentive to keep prices lower to avoid a drop in demand. Besides, liberated from corporate taxes, they'd have more freedom to increase wages.

We tried this with Reagan and everyone is still waiting for their increased wages.
Your concept of who illegal immigrants are and what they do is completely fabricated by media influences whose incentives are not your own. It is false. See here: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/03/26/chapter-1-occupations-...

Learning discipline and the value of hard work is infinitely more important than learning things that are easily Googlable in out-dated high school curriculums.
> Kids shouldn't be working minimum wage jobs at all. They should be in school, instead.

I did both, as did most people I know, and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect kids to continue to do that.
> The US government has been the primary proponent of progress, spreading free markets and democracy around the globe

Who would have guessed? The Iraquis, libyans, Chileans (after 1972), maybe the people of Zaire under Mobutu,or the oppressed blacks in apartheid South Africa , heck forget that look at the blacks in America!, and the native American Indians!!, how great their lot is; the list of people who have 'enjoyed' American democracy is long.

> Fidel was a brutal dictator and his memory deserves to be pissed on. Any who celebrate him are ignorant, evil, or fools.

I guess that includes me and many others on HN and around the world. Have a nice night :)
Apple headphones that comes with iPhone, the sound quality is really good and portable to carry.
Dictators that prosecute and murder their opponents, like Castro did,...

The US govt has done that too, so US presidents are no different from people like Castro, Franco, etc. We have just been brainwashed that our leaders are the good guys and the other guys are the bad guys.
Bloomberg being Bloomberg.
Indeed, I've heard the reverse argument, that with extremely high corporate taxes, companies find paying their employees more money a better use of their money than giving it away to the government, since at least they get something out of it, however marginal they think the gains might be.
I use the EarPods that came with my old iPhone 6. Any reason that wouldn't work for you? Planning to get AirPods for the wireless-ness once they hit the stores.
US is not part of International Criminal Court either. So what's the point?
This post, also on the front page right now argues to increase corporate tax

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13037810
It is different in the sense that restricting free speech is part of the communist theory/ideal, while not a requirement from capitalism. Was the restriction on communism inth U.S. in the 50s the will of the majority of the people?

My point was, restricting free speech is indeed part of communism, but be careful before judging the system in relations to other systems based on that small piece of information. It's easy to start spewing "communism = evil" because we've been told so many times, and just use any small piece of information to justify our position, rather than having a hard look, not only at communism, but all the systems in place, both their theory and applications.
"But learn the skill of forgiveness

Not for them but for yourself."

Then in the next sentence she says she'll never forgive "him".

A huge part of being both independent and successful is to constantly be moving forwards. Forgiveness is in fact emotionally "for you", but you need to actually let go. I see no indication that this author has actually broken free of any of the entitlement she lamented early in the piece. But maybe a whiny piece on failure is good for views? Everyone come and see the train-wreck so I can get some impressions!
Never heard of them before so thanks for the mention.

Anyone know of similar ones like Paddle.com?
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well take a simple case. divorce proceedings are messy, with this in mind when you met your next great love, suppose that you wanted some kind of simple prenup with them, given that you and they are both great partner and very cooperative. if you did think it a good idea to sign a prenup, you wouldn't both agree to mediation/arbitration below any explicit terms about what you both intended going into it? It seems cheap and a whole lot better than the all or nothing of a full court proceeding being necessary in case of any disagreement - don't you think?

I mean that this is what I understood the purpose of arbitration to be. for both parties to say, "fine, let's go to a neutral third party and we'll agree to whatever they say" versus a full lawsuit.

Within your comment I don't see any positive aspect or defense of arbitration at all -- it seems like for you it is the same as "kangaroo court" and, for example, if you yourself had an arbitration clause in a prenuptual agreement it would be the same as a kangaroo court clause for you?

I guess then that I am not seeing the whole purpose of arbitration anywhere in your comment.
Why has this been submitted? It's not a new release (Release Date: 2016-06-25) and it's just a link to the download page.
Apparently this is the quality of rhetorical logic that's taught at university?
I like Perl, but I don't see why it would be any more "symbiotic" with Docker than any other language.

This is really just a talk on one approach to do microservices with Perl.
Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth
There's no need to assume anything because the article states the kind of workers needed: "hospitality, construction and agriculture, "

Agriculture is mentioned, of course, but it's seasonal. Two months out of the year? What jobs do you do for the other 10 months?
You mean the times when they were standing in line for toilet paper and bread or the times when millions of Ukrainians died from hunger.
I tried to find a good wireless headset for my remote meetings. My discovery was:

- Bluetooth microphones are of general terrible quality. After recording and playing back my different attempts at a nice wireless mic, the build in omni directional mic on my MBP always shockingly came out ahead. It really didn't make any sense to me.
- Long pair programming or brainstorming sessions with co-workers can outlast the headsets.

In the end, I just plug in my earbuds that came with my phone, which give me audio, and the built-in mic pics up my voice.

That being said, appreciate this question, maybe someone else has found something better.

I tried various Logitech and other bluetooth headsets made for cell phones, I also tried Beats Powerbeats. So maybe I was just going in the wrong direction.
I just use my laptop built in mic (hp 6470b). Headphones are Sennheiser hd 380 pro or Panasonic RP-HJE125-K.
TL;DR: corporate taxes can not be collected effectively due to off-shoring, and so should be replaced with taxes on private income or on consumption.

It doesn't make a very compelling case. Consumption taxes slow spending, and private wealth can also evade taxation.

EDIT: corrected, thanks rectang
That makes sense. If the government were able to do all of that super fast it might be been fine. I just don't get all of the hate for the bailouts. I know it feel's like to many people the banks sort of "got away with it" but the bailout both stopped any bad effects from failed banks and the government made money off of it so it seems like a win-win for society in my perspective
I'd be on board with this if one thing resulted: corporations would be prohibited from making political donations, or any sort of political activity. Not being a tax paying entity, they should have no "voice" in politics as a corporation.
What the article doesn't do, is make the economic case that less corporate taxation will increase investment. Credit for that, I guess.
The top five tech companies Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Cisco and Oracle had a total of $504bn of cash by the end of 2015. They have more money than they know what to do with. Lowering their tax rates will create exactly zero jobs and have no effect on wages.
When you initialize your HSM, a key is created which is owned by you and stored in a smartcard/token. If you buy an identical HSM, you shoud need the token to restore keys into it.
They tend to be 15" or 17". The new 15" Macbook Pro also has better 3D graphics (Radeon Pro 450). It's not as fast as the gtx 1060, but it uses 35W of power in comparison to 120W, and needs less active cooling. Apple generally don't compromise on noise and battery life.

I'm sorry for the snarky nature of my previous comment, but in my experience, all of the suggested alternatives require compromises which Apple are justified in not making. I'm not sure why people think that Apple are obliged to make laptops to suit every use case. If you just want a portable desktop, there are plenty of other options.
Fidel Castro leaves behind a nation awash with tears and blood from thousands of executions, tens of thousands of political prisoners, concentration camps for gay men, labor camps for those who thought differently, listened to jazz, or even just had long hair.

These are facts I learned only after doing more research, after listening to friends who are gay and who did years of research.

So we all need to be careful not to repeat the trope "but healthcare and education were good and free and available to all". I for many years allowed those reports, parroted so often, to soften my judgment of Castro. But now learning of the extent of the horrors of oppression, those outweigh any social welfare "results".

And now I have had cause to question even those results as I read and learn of a healthcare system where critical operations that were performed only after agonizing waits for eight months and then by doctors and nurses so starved of supplies that they sometimes operated with bare hands.

Castro should be remembered for the suffering he caused - all of it preventable. The best way to him sum up is to consider that he created an island prison where nobody was allowed to leave without his permission - and for an unbearable number of years most of the world applauded him. I hope you will remember this and hear the cynical trying to tie themselves to a "distinguished legacy" when politicians comment today.
Bloomberg L.P. would definitely love having to pay no taxes. So do I.
While I find this an interesting experiment, after nearly 18 years of Objective-C dating back to NeXT I have no desire to go back after switching to Swift. The future (at least some part of it) belongs to modern languages like Swift, Rust, Clojure, etc.
End of life is 2020, and this release is from June, so it's a bit surprising it shows up on HN now.
Anticommunist propaganda? You realize that the man killed thousands, imprisoned tens of thousands for their beliefs and condemned the entire island to poverty.

What is misleading about anything I've just stated? Because that is one of the requirements for something to be propaganda.
> Only a US embargo. That leaves more than 80% of the world GDP to interact with.

Nope. The US brutally punished countries which traded with Cuba. The best and most macabre example of this would be the 1974 Bangladesh Famine, which had a death toll of 1-1.5 million, and was almost entirely preventable.

After the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation war, when Bangladesh achieved its independence from America-backed Pakistan, US initially refused to recognize Bangladesh as a country and trade with it because Bangladesh wanted to prosecute Pakistani war criminals, responsible for the worst genocide since the Holodomor(and committed using American arms). Infact, Nixon and the US refused to condemn Pakistani actions, and actively worked to suppress evidence of their crimes.

When the famine started in 1974, the US initially promised food aid to Bangladesh, but refused to deliver because Bangladesh exported jute to Cuba(Cuba was one of the first countries to recognize Bangladeshi independence). By the time Bangladesh agreed to stop all trade relations with Cuba, and US aid finally arrived, the famine was pretty much over and had claimed its 1,500,000+ victims. Now, to make it clear, the US had 2 million+ tonnes of grain pretty much ready to deliver, but held back at the last moment while hundreds of thousands were starving to death. This was also while US was giving huge amounts of grain as food aid to surplus food producing South Vietnam, which the Vietnamese traded for weapons.
It could be collected, by prohibiting company's unwilling to pay taxes to access the market of a state.
I went to a brick-and-mortar and tried on several. I went with skull candy aviators. Comfortable for hours. Has a cable, which is a downside. I can't do the Apple ear buds, they ache after half an hour or so.
Paper voting is still done in many, many, many places in the US. It's still a substantial fraction of US voting.

It is true that counting paper ballots in the US is a more time-consuming process than elsewhere, because it's perfectly normal to vote for thirty different elected offices in the US and say, five referendums.
I use this: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/stereo-headset-h390?cr... (Logitech H390). It's quite good.
"liberated from corporate taxes, they'd have more freedom to increase wages"

Really? Wages are a business expense, taxes are paid on profit. Hence wages have nothing to do with corporate tax.
You just said you would. Clearly, if you aren't going to do it you wouldn't. Now you have your entire life to prove me wrong.
Interesting how you did not address his/her first point...
Agreed. They would have the freedom to increase wages, but without any incentive to do so they won't. Instead they'll just increase dividends which are taxed at a lower rate than income. Hence the rich get richer. Simple.
Im inclined to agree; the US market is too valuable for a corporation to ignore, and there's no simpler solution than rigorously pursuing collection.
There are literally two arguments in this waste of ink:

1. Enforcement is undermined by international competition and tax optimization

...which is like calling for the abolishment of the criminal code in the face of a rise in crime.

There have actually been major advances in corporate taxation in the last decade or so. Switzerland is basically gone, so are Panama, Luxembourg, possibly Ireland and the Caymans as well. If the EU and US managed to cooperate, they could easily make the rules watertight.

2. liberated from corporate taxes, they'd have more freedom to increase wages

...which is complete BS because (a) it's never happened, and (b) only earnings (after costs such as wages) are taxed. If anything, the money could be better spend to lower associated costs of employment, such as health insurance. Or, you know, basically anything else: education, infrastructure, a decent life even for the less fortunate.

His best argument is actually the counterargument he cites: you don't want corporations (...are people...) to sit on endless amounts of cash. It creates a power imbalance equal to that of billonaire dynasties.

The "author" reaches new hights of asininity with his proposal to increase VAT instead, fully knowing that it is the most regressive possible taxation. You'd need VAT increases to 30%, which means a 30% tax on the lower third to half of society that lives paycheck-to-paycheck, but results in a 5% tax rate for the guy earning so much he can invest 3/4th of his income – no VAT on financial transactions etc.
"Three Felonies a Day" is an interesting choice.
Microservices are rarely extraction or reporting ... seems like a horrible misuse of the language (CRUD).
They would probably return that money to shareholders which they don't feel they can do at the moment because it is mostly held outside the US.
It's not like companies are point blank refusing. They simply take advantage of the rules as they stand.
Flat tax, no tax deductibility of debt. Let's make the system simpler, easier to enforce and comply with and eliminate all loopholes.
I had a plantronic C210 for a while. It was getting worn (After 4 years), so I've recently upgraded to a Plantronic C310.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007JURP2A

Can't recommend it highly enough, and I spend at least an hour a day speaking on it. Some days I forget to take it off. For phone calls, Monoaural is fine sound wise, and it's IMO more comfortable for long stretches of use.
The article fails to point out that if corporate tax rates are reduced wages and/or shareholder profits have to increase—the money must go somewhere.

So, if wages are not increased, company will make more profit after taxes and thus shareholders will make more money.
As others have said, Bluetooth headsets are generally bad for consistent quality in my experience. I tend towards a wired gaming headset (turtle Beach) with a long cable just because it is simple and works with my phone or laptop. Of course most of the quality is dependent on the conferencing solutions your company uses.
Their argument for abolishing the tax seems to be (a) it's not a big contibutor to GDP, (b) businesses might raise employee wages, and (c) we can control corps with other regulations.

Reasons a and b seem to conflict. If corps already aren't paying tax, they have the cash ready to raise wages.

Reason c ignores that there are similar loopholes to safety and environmental regulations too.

Taxing corps is an answer to the problem that companies cost the government money (i.e. trucking companies use roads) while benefitting the state (employing people who consume and pay income tax). Maybe it's a good idea for the government to directly recoup the benefit of a company using state resources.
Sennheiser 363d, really comfortable to wear for long periods of time. Headphone sound quality and microphone quality are both great.
Imagine that you are concerned by anti-competitive legislation motivated by ethnocentrism. In a democracy such as the U.S., one must consider, when discussing whether or not to allow immigration that improves efficiency while also depressing wages, not just the direct economic effects, but also the political externalities caused by enfranchising those who may have rather distinct voting patterns. We must consider the likelihood that Mexicans will themselves pursue policies nativist from their perspective, when the shoe is on the other foot, so to speak. To do otherwise would be myopic.
> In Dallas, the King of Texas Roofing Co. says it has turned down $20 million worth of projects in the past two years because it doesn’t have enough workers.

Doesn't that mean that they aren't paying high enough wages?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13036890
Why stop at corporate taxes? Why not personal income taxes?

Maybe it's time to transform myself into a corporation. No more taxes, limited liabilities, easy bankruptcy (student loans), can't go to jail even if I make a real mess (financial crisis of 2007, Wells Fargo, BP), welcome at exotic tax havens, tax breaks to move to another region... The ultimate lifehack: forget cloning yourself, just corporize!
The OP probably meant summer jobs. I worked on farms and cut grass at a country club no where near my house. Saved enough money to buy my first computer and teach myself some code. I was hired because I spoke Spanish (took it in middle/high school) and could translate.
I use the Logitech H820e (DECT Headset) with 300ft range, so I can walk around while on the phone.
It's not so simple. How do you pursue collection of money that isn't owed?
No taxes; Just go and print currency;
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For audio I use the MEE M6 earphones with Comply foam tips (the tips really make a world of difference).

For video and microphone, I use the Logitech ConferenceCam Connect and consistently get complemented on my video and audio quality, but I wouldn't recommmend it to others due to the price – I only use it because I was able to get it for free through a promotion.
I'm currently enjoying the Thomson WHP3311BK wireless headphones. Their quality is superb and I feel comfortable wearing them for 15 hours at a time (they even don't run out of power!). For a headset, I actually use the Blue Yeti microphone, large (2/3rds the size of my monitor), but incredibly high quality (I can be 30 meters away yet can still be heard clearly by customers, helpful when I'm running around looking for papers). I used to own a ProSound YU-37, much smaller microphone and about 1/10th of the price, would highly recommend that if you work in a loud environment. It's uni-directional and doesn't pick up much background noise at all, downside with that is of course you can't run around the room and still be heard.
But non-rich people also invest in stocks.

> They would have the freedom to increase wages, but without any incentive to do so they won't.

Workers would go to the company with higher wages. And the company would be able to sustain higher wages as the tax is abolished.
It's extremely challenging not to read this article as satire.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-headset-h800