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I use a pair of Plantronics BackBeat Pros. Some Mac software prefers me to use them wired in, which I expect to be true of all Bluetooth headsets.

The sound is really great, the headphones are really comfortable and I don't get complaints about sound quality from the mic -- coming from Plantronics I expect the mic to be good :).
You don't see the link between what's in your wallet and access to healthcare [0] ? http://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/how-poverty-related-access-ca...

[0] Wether you live in the US or in of the EU so-called welfare states.
I generally don't use a headphone/mic. I use a plug in puck style speakerphone.

I can do this because no one else is around when I'm working or I can close the door and be alone. The main reason that I don't use something with a headset is because I always had problems with headsets, especially wireless ones -- either they wouldn't pair, or they'd come unpaired between calls and I'd have to do the "can you hear me" dance, or I'd have something wired on my head and it'd be a pain in the butt, or ... well, the list goes on.

If you have something wireless, make sure you know how to use it really well and that you have a test or two that you can quickly do to ensure operation and that you have a backup you can quickly fail over to.

I spent four years working remote in a 24/7 operations position, and then another few years working out of a satellite office but from home at night in a similar position. Some of the marathon troubleshooting calls I was on would exhaust even the most serious of batteries.
"Double taxation" is a crazy argument anyway. What's the difference between a tax of 40% and two successive taxations of 20%? (compounding aside)
Isn't this happened with many of the forced sales like WAMU, merrill lynch, countrywide?
> which includes changes to the tax codes that have a unanimous approval of economists across the political spectrum

I seriously doubt the unanimous approval from the far the far left to the far right.
The corporate tax rate in Denmark is only around 23% (as far as I remember), a lot lower than the US tax rate.
I don't see why the naive approach to a possible implementation cannot be done in C, even if using extensions to ANSI C.
I said I would, that is correct.
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As a corollary to that type of fictional world view; anyone can die, at any time, even the protagonists, because the bigger story isn't necessary dependant on them. It helps create some freshness in story writing.

As it happens I am nearing the end of reading Brin's excellent Uplift series (spanning six books from the 80s and 90s), where the story often involves several groups of protagonists and antagonists acting in parallel. It makes for a nice change from the typical hero-driven stories that do appear to form the bulk of our fiction.
Food, healthcare, housing, land, education, etc. are almost always taxed differently from everything else, so changing the corporate tax reality should have no effect there. Also note that healthcare and food, (food especially) are heavily subsidized by the government already. While I personally believe that distorts the market and should probably stop, even in some doomsday tax-burden-shift scenario that you fear, a bump to subsidies could resolve the worst effects.

Really this is just like any other situation where the government due to structural weaknesses can't set/enforce policy effectively. Just like in the Prohibition or the War on Drugs, neither of which the government was equipped to make happen, the solution is to remove the problematic policies and take a more realistic approach.
Do tell, when is the last time a sitting US president has murdered his political opponents?
"If I were to stash trillions of income overseas to evade taxes"

Evade, or avoid? It's a big difference--as I'm sure has been said, tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance is not.
Yes, Cuba was a shitty place for gay people before 1981. Then the government declared that homosexuality was a valid variation of human sexuality and that previous attitudes towards it were unacceptable.

Keep in mind during the same period that Cuba was repressing homosexuality, so was the United States. Cuba did not ignore the AIDS epidemic that killed literally an entire generation of gay people. The Cuban government did not laugh and call it the gay plague.

I don't like Cuba. I'm not a state socialist. But I find it disconcerting that everyone is so passionately piling up their attacks on the Cuban government but would never scrutinize the US government in such detail. There are people in this thread who are bringing up actions the US have taken that would be considered objectionable by the same standards, but they aren't being addressed; they are being brushed aside as irrelevant or incomparable.

Imagine being that drunk on propaganda. As if the United States did not forcibly dismantle political parties it deemed dangerous in the United States. As if the United States did not repress its LGBT minorities. As if the United States doesn't bully the entire world in order to get its economic benefits. As if the United States doesn't torture and murder civilians. As if the United States and capitalism are completely blameless for the extreme poverty in Detroit or Flint.

It's really sickening to watch people deny or downplay the violence inherent in the perpetuation of their favorite system of government. Ironic, I guess.
Yes, that's exactly what it means.

When I immigrated to a rural part of Canada it was shocking to see WalMart, McDonalds, Tim Hortons, etc. all had rubber stamp approval from the government to bring in foreign workers.

Canadians won't work for the wages they offer, so they just bring in a foreigner instead.

Meanwhile all those companies post multi-billion dollar profits.

The greed does not add up.
Denmark's corporate tax rates don't appear to be that high. Their nominal tax rate is lower than the US tax rate.

US corporate tax rates were once 52%, and it was in that context as well as very high income tax rates on top earners (i.e., the business elite) that this argument appeared to have generally been made.
Sorry but...

> People are healthier and living longer than ever.

... such a bold statement call for a `citation please` even if it's not from a report or a study (that's even more the point).
It's not crazy. Just self-serving. It makes total sense if your goal is to get out of paying taxes by convincing people you're getting ripped off.
Only if they let https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_dollar_(private_curren...
Ask HN: How to actually apply for VC funding?
I am in the process building a Fintech startup, most of the technical aspects are sorted.

Now I want to upgrade to the next stage, but it is very bureaucratic and expensive.

My question is, how do I raise money?

Do I email a bunch of random VC sites with my business plan, pitch deck? Or Do I hunt down some known guy to recommend my startup to a VC firm?

How did you do it & how do you advise me to go about it?

What things will increase my chances of getting funded?

I am based outside the US but would love to partner with VC's abroad.
I was about to check out Kleppman's book on Amazon, but it's not available there yet :(

I hope it comes to Kindle soon.
It sounds like they fixed the RHEL Update infrastructure, but they didn't fix this:

"Additionally, if you duplicated a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual hard disk and created a new instance from it all billing association seemed to be lost but repository access was still available"
Good thing we got an expert to chime in and set those economists straight.
1stinseo pulls giant scam on America
Streisand effect tactic from 1stinseo… and it’s working!

A company called 1stinseo has made national headlines because of a blog post that told all clients that were trump supporters or registered republicans they are no longer welcome as customers. The CEO Matthew Blanchfield was interviewed by local news and then he was with fox news Tucker Carlson, where he stated he was willing to risk his business in order to resist a dictatorship from president elect Donald Trump. The companies social media accounts are lit up with backlash, most are pointing out what a stupid business decision this is and how the company will soon go under. This is true, if you had a company with hundreds or even thousands of clients and you worked so hard to get them as paying customers, it wouldn’t be a smart move to tell most of them to just leave because of who you voted for.

But what if you didn’t have any customers to begin with? What if you only had a handful of friends you were doing SEO and marketing work for, and you was risking nothing by coming out being so controversial? You might get news coverage, exposure, links, and you might even get thousands of Anti trump business owners that would be interested in hiring your company because you share the same believes. This appears to be exactly what’s going on!

I wanted to learn more about this ceo and his company. I figured he must be really successful because if things don’t work out and the business goes under, how will he live? and what about the employees, maybe he has money put back but what are the employees to do if the company collapses, did he not even think of them? I can tell you he didn’t care about employees because there are no employees. He’s not worried about losing customers, because there are no customers.

read full article http://travissummerlin.com/post/153647271804/streisand-effect-tactic-from-1stinseo-and-its
If you are interested in this you may like the Mosh project.

https://mosh.org/
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Extremely high taxes don't work because it forces companies to move operations over seas.
The lure of an IDE! I am having a hard time making up my mind on IDE v/s basic tools that help debug, compile, test, etc.

On one hand, IDE provide the ease of development, especially if you have used one in the past.

On the other hand, not using an IDE (in favor of basic tools) results in simpler and neater solutions.
America (as a whole) needs to shed its sense of superiority and its traditionalism.

For the record: I'm Dutch. I have free healthcare, good infrastructure, fast and cheap internet, sensible employment law, no police abuse, etc. All for ~40% tax (http://www.expatax.nl/tax-rates-2016.php).

Why? Because our government actually works. Why? I don't really know. It's a compound of hundreds of little effects.

The solution isn't 'less government', it's 'a working government'. Every time I learn something new about how the U.S. government is structured I shake my head a little. First-past-the-post voting of a single president that holds way too much power. A congress with life time based assignment that interpret a 200 year old document to their wishes to structure law. Case based law with uninformed juries, where the selection of the jury is optimized for maximum disinformation. It goes on.

On top of that there are financial taboos with origins that as a 199x er I do not understand: 'socialism', 'communism', 'higher taxes'. These ideologies (just like a free market) do not work on their own. Both ideologies have good ideas, and you need to take the best of both to make it work. But the American public is brainwashed.

I'm rambling a bit. There is no easy solution from what I can see. The U.S. government is structurally flawed and only massive changes can fix that. On top of that the public is misinformed and does not have its own best interests in mind.
Just a set of mid-range earbuds with inline mic, and a clip on the cord to attach it to my collar and keep the mic near my mouth.

As long as the mic is clipped there, I've never had anyone complain about audio quality. I doubt it'd be difficult to find a similarly decent Bluetooth set.

I'd be more concerned about Bluetooth range and reliability than the quality of the mic. Audio hardware for this sort of purpose is basically a solved problem. Usually connectivity or software issues interfere more with communication than audio hardware does once you reach a certain (low) baseline for hardware quality.
When financial catastrophes are "bailed out", the main effect is not the money gained or lost by the involved parties. Rather, the main effect is the inevitable identical-but-larger financial catastrophes that will result when rational bankers compare speculative upsides to presumably bailoutable downsides.
Age 17 in 1977, a IBM 1130, which I'm sure was pretty much the standard configuration including a hard disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130 We students had hands on access since by then the model had been out for a dozen year and real users were using faster machines (it was leased by the local college for exactly this purpose, they had a 370/115 for the main computer), we loaded our punched cards (FORTRAN), broke it out of a loop if needed, etc.
Excellent strawmen you've got there: how about you address the points I stated after the half-sentence you've selectively quoted? You consider it a dilemma because you refuse to admit your 'team' were not squeaky-clean angels and the opposition were not cartoon villains.

I clearly stated that there are no clean hands: you are the one who is pretending like nothing bad was done by the west or their colonial allies/puppets by playing the communism card.
Which follows through to the point that legal and ethical are sometimes two different things.
Tertiary education. (Or post-secondary.)

College is tertiary, high school is secondary, grade school is primary.

We already have secondary education mandated, obviously. (And it makes your case stronger if you use the right term!)
I never claimed it was okay. I just said it was human.
I've never understood the logic of silencing companies (banning political donations, participation, etc). Companies are groups of people. People are free to speak (legally enshrined in many locales). Restricting how a company speaks seems to be restricting the decisions of a group of people to speak, and thus an individual's right to speak.

With regards to the statement about being a "tax paying entity" or not to have a voice, that is an extremely dangerous road to go down. See "poll taxes".
Microsoft's LS-6000. I liked it so much I bought a second for my spouse. The outgoing sound quality is very good, the ear cups are tolerable for hours, and it doesn't keep me from hearing a phone ring in the next room.

For use with my phone, QC-20i's.
Sennheiser PXC 550 WIRELESS -
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Ironically this entire podcast series is about how it's impossible for politicians to have an educated conversation with the public about certain policies, due to the prevalence of knee-jerk comments like yours.
That's a pretty brutal opinion of Guy Kawasaki!
Yes, but it will be forked and maintained by other people anyways.

Python 2 is forever, best get used to it.
Corporate taxes will be abolished soon by smart governments and replaced by (higher) personal income/wealth taxes. It's the only realistic solution to global tax competition because corporate entities are much more mobile and flexible than individuals (including shareholders). It's either higher taxes on dividends and lower/none on corporate profits, or diminishing tax income overall.
Can you summarize why economists support abolishing corporate tax?

AFAIK, corporate tax is optional anyhow. Any company could organize as unlimited partnership and not pay corporate taxes. But most companies chose not to, and I think that extra tax is a perfectly reasonable way of paying for extra protection (that of a limited company).
Look around for a browser extension that disables meta refresh tags.
Historically, 4 or 5% appears to be a reasonable expectation over a 30-year timeframe after 1940 if you consider each year as an independent random variable and expect that the future will look mostly like the past.
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I guess that's one grim argument for e-books.
This presumes that deficit spending is necessarily bad. When your borrowing rate is sub-inflationary, you'd have to be a dope to spend today dollars.

The UK is still servicing debt on perpetual bonds from the 17th or 18th century. They carry a low interest rate, so it's cheaper to make payments rather than paying off the debt.
It is not disproportionate with respect to stock invested so non-rich people can invest in stocks.

I do not see why rich people gaining disproportionately is a problem.
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That's a political decision. You could simply enact laws that prevent or dis-incentivise that. But unfortunately, most politicians aren't paid to do that...
They are paying those who craft them with the money they gain by avoiding?

The ultimate irony, the criminal paying the bail with parts of the bank robberys spoil.
Just a set of urban ears I got "for free" when I bought an iPad. Works like a charm
The only problem I see with abolition of corporate taxes, is that it allow certain people to store their wealth "by proxy".

advantages of zero corporate taxes:

* lots of advantages for small business, too much to list.

* big business don't need to shuttle cash offshore.

* big business have more cash to worth with, if that is their intention...

* less government money wasted on trying to collect those taxes.

And probably several other advantages... but at least US have a major problem:

stock ownership is counted as part of someone assets, but the value of those are only taxes if the person sells it or get dividends, with zero corporate taxes, it would be an incentive for CEOs, founders, etc... to just accumulate stock, never pay dividends, don't pay high salaries to themselves, but still throw their weigth around using their total assets as a hammer, for example by having their corporation buy stuff they want, or by taking loans to use the cash with the stock as collateral.

This would effectively allow the richest to accumulate untold wealth while paying no taxes at all.

The only way I can see zero corporate taxes working, is if you patch up some other areas first.

Now, something I think is quite brilliant in US that already exists, is that US tends to tax only profits, for example lots of people upset with Trump not paying taxes when he had losses (at least when he said he had losses...)

In Brazil you pay tax over your income, doesn't matter if you had profits with it, this leads to extreme price inflation, specially when production chains get longer, as people will charge for their stuff more and more to get over the taxes.

For example, once I talked with a guy that made YoYos (the round toys on a string). The toys are simple, and cheap to make, but on the store where I met the guy, they wanted about 5 USD for a simple YoYo, and a better YoYo suitable for amateur competition was about 30 USD.

The factory owner, told me that the 5 USD YoYo manufacturing cost was about 80 cents, but all the taxes summed when the factory sold to the distributor were in total about 40% of the INCOME, not the PROFIT, thus the factory sold to the distributor the YoYo for 3 USD, with 1.2 USD being paid in taxes, 80 cents covering the manufacturing costs, and 40 cents being their raw profits (ie: before paying employees, transport, dividends, marketing, whatnot).

The storeowner, also aimed to have about 50 cents in profit, but his taxes were about 30% of the income (not profit). If it was in US, he could charge 3.5 USD, get 50 cents in profit, and tell the buyer he had to pay an extra 1 USD in taxes, but instead he had to charge 5 USD, he would pay 3 USD to the factory, earn 50 cents in profit, and pay 1.5 USD in taxes.
for my mic, I use http://www.bluemic.com/products/snowball/ really good and takes care of the background noise for you.

then for my headphones, I use JBL Bluetooth headphones or mpow wolverine ear buds.

the combination works pretty well
How about abolishing income tax in general and just have a consumption and land taxes.

I live and run my company in a tax haven. I had to move here in order to be competitive internationally with other low tax jurisdictions. My only other option was to go out of business.

In addition to not having to pay any income taxes I also don't have to report anything to the government or worry about the government, bank, isp, phone company etc spying on me. No need to worry about going to jail over a misinterpretation of the tax code. I don't have to worry about immigration issues. Healthcare is completely private and very affordable.

Politics is a lot more boring when the parties are not fighting over who's in control over massive amounts of spending. Helps keep corruption down.

Leaving SF and moving to a tax haven was the best decision I've ever made in my life.

I'm culturally American, but I'm not a citizen. If the US were to adopt similar policies I'd love to move back. I'd bring money and jobs with me. But unless Texas succeeds I'm unlikely to see a western (anglosphere) country doing this in my lifetime.
"...work for less than minimum wage..."

Source?

(Paying your employees less than minimum wage is going to make your tax records look funny.)
Speaking as an American, I'm terrified of the "massive changes" that would be required to "fix" (replace, really) the Constitution. It could mean civil war or the disintegration of the nation into a bunch of probably-warring nation-states.

Moreover, I'm not convinced our current problems are purely local. Trump followed on the heels of Brexit, and right-wing nationalist/populist movements are on the rise across Europe. The world is going through some weird changes right now, an angry reaction to future shock, and recent US politics are just a symptom.
It's also just plain ridiculous. This would mean that most jobs are created by... sole proprietorships? If you're employed it's almost certainly by an LLC, LLP, 501(c)3, etc. These are corporations. The simple act of training an employee is itself investment. If you suddenly make the profit of this new hire less valuable, we're expected to believe that this won't mean a reduction in new hires, even at the margin?
This is the boat I'm in. I log onto Facebook about once a week on my phone's browser. I keep in touch with family via Whatsapp (sure, it's owned by FB, but that's what my family uses) and text message/email to keep up with others. It's unsurprisingly bullshit free.
There are settings in most mail and calendar apps to disable auto-adding events from email to your calendar if you don't explicitly accept the invitation.
What I don't get about the US is that when a US employee works overseas, the government taxes them -under US rules- anyway. Even if they don't work in the US at all. The same arrangement, as I understand it, goes for people who work part of the year in the US. You work 1 day in the US under a US work visa, you pay US taxes. On everything.

Why not do the same for companies ?

If you want to do business in the US, you pay US taxes. Not on what you sell in the US, but everything, all your earnings worldwide. You get to deduct local taxes as a cost, but other than that, there is no accomodation. If the rule is good enough for people, it is good enough for business.

And if your criticism is that businesses will go overseas, that's the exact same argument for people. People drop their US citizenship just to avoid US taxes for crying out loud.