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Very true. Coming from Quebec, Canada, I actually say that. It's more ingrained in our culture that what we are taxed for is services that benefit us all and that makes our societal environment more enjoyable.

Now in the US, I can't seem to find anyone who think this. My biggest issue is that I can't even find anyone who thinks that the government is the people. Everyone seems to think of the government as this black box that has a mind of its own and inflict laws and rules upon us. While I'm much more used to the common thinking that the people rule, and the government simply enact our rule. We elect it, we pay for it, and therefore it simply does what we elected and paid for it to do.

I'm not sure what makes up that difference, but it could be the bi-partisanery. It's a shame too, because it often fails to capture fine grain requirements. Like say I wanted a very liberal economy, while keeping gun rights strong and conservative norms in place? Or the other way around? There's no kind of choice like that. So you lysine end up for choosing based on your top issue only.
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Your conclusion does not follow from your the issue you outline. The unfair advantage could easily be removed by simply not taxing corporations at all. Taxing someone (or in this case, a whole bunch of people) just to keep them down seems like quite a bad motivation.
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> I would have made a very strange push for developing a simple RISC-V core

I assume that's just a typo/autocorrect, but it makes for a hilarious mental image
I'd considered doing that in Ad Limiter, but didn't want the headaches. I was considering replying to all ad links from an add-on to see where they ended up after redirection, so the final destination site could be rated properly. But the bandwidth usage is excessive.

I should try sending HEAD requests to ad servers, to see if they return a redirect. No idea what the ad brokerage systems will do with those.
With of those you're looking back about as far as 1815 and the Napoleonic wars, if you're counting backwards from today.
This is not really true in California, at least, where we've voted ourselves a bunch of tax increases via the proposition system.
In fact antimatter15, who made ocrad.js, is a coauthor of tesseract.js! Javascript OCR is a small world.
My son got Kapla for Sinterklaas, and I admit one of the first things I tried was to get them to hang as far over the table edge as possible. This article is very well timed.

I also allowed blocks to stand on their end, but in retrospect, that might not be a very effective strategy.
I know of no nurses that work this schedule, even voluntarily (overtime, swaps).

Nursing in many states is challenged by unsafely high patient:staff ratios, excessive documentation requirements (on extremely slow user interfaces), and the need to vigorously double-check physician's orders (dangerous drug interactions, over-dosages, etc).
No it isn't. There is no fiduciary duty for corporate directors anywhere in the world, and certainly not anywhere in the USA or Europe, to avoid taxes.

Nor is there, I wager, any duty to maximise revenue or profit or anything similar in any jurisdiction on the planet.
Hey have you considered a third party warranty like BestBuy? Or buying insurance? I've never done that and I'm curious about the pros and cons
The home page of the site hosting the webpage submitted here, "Mad in America: Science, Psychiatry, and Social Justice" looks to put a lot more emphasis on the social justice, as the authors published on the site define that, than on science in general or psychiatry in particular. This is more a site that advocates for a particular policy point of view than a site that neutrally reviews the latest methodologically careful research.

https://www.madinamerica.com/

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There is some talk of prosecution of these hackers. Does anyone else disagree with that??

Personally, I feel that a publisher of technology is responsible for ensuring there are no "holes". If someone finds a hole and pokes around and uses it for any reason, it should not be criminal.

If I found a way to methodically purchase all the pieces to win McDonald's monopoly game, would that be criminal fraud? Or would it be negligence by McDonald's? My view is the latter.
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(1) Nonsense.
(2) Trickle down economics doesn't work.

I would also like to add that a luxury tax is very different than taxing rich people. I am not a fan of luxury tax at all.
Education these days (specifically Tribal Community College and Vocation)
Bollards around events
the denier's statistic is closer to use U-5 for a starting point then switch to U-6 as an end point.
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I genuinely do not get Uber's strategy here. Even once self-driving cars are mature, they'll occasionally screw up and sometimes kill someone. And Uber's cars are so incredibly far from mature that operating without legal cover is... just insane. If they kill and hit someone, Kalanick is easily portrayed as a ready-made movie villain. Wantonly ignoring state and local laws in the hopes of getting ahead of the pack, sacrificing the life of cute little toddler Adam to the altar of Mammon?

And it's really not just portrayed: Uber'll deserve any and all punishment thrown at them for this, up to and possibly including the shut down of the company and criminal charges for the people who did this. And Uber'll be setting the cause of self-driving cars back years, maybe even a decade.

This is all incredibly obvious too, and I don't think Uber folks are idiots. Maybe they're getting desperate, and they're willing to eat the risk of the company being destroyed because their business strategy for survival is sensitive to getting to production-ready self-driving cars a year earlier than they would have otherwise?
Nurses, quite frequently yes. Physician reimbursement can be incredibly complicated depending on type of work.
For people doing any kind of deployment at scale, there are lots of enterprise options out there that are often cheaper to host yourself (think 100TB+). For a startup with a small storage requirement I totally get the appeal of starting out on AWS though.
sorry missed the rate of change over time.
The fallacy of working your way out of structural adversity
SC lawmakers eye measure to block pornography on new computers
Yes, companies will act in their own self-interest. No-one is denying that.

The issue here is that a small hardware startup competing with Apple cannot use shady tax-dodging techniques. Thus they are at a disadvantage.

> Likewise if a government charges too much tax businesses change their tax nexus to somewhere else.

Apple still want access to European customers. So it's fair that they follow the European law. It would be fair if Apple ceased selling in Europe and also didn't pay taxes there. But they don't want to leave the worlds second largest economy.
Printing out or otherwise saving the QR code (somewhere safe) is also the only way to have a backup code in case the device is lost or broken, because they don't provide one-time backup codes (unlike pretty much everyone else).

Then again, it sounds like it's really easy to disable 2FA with just a simple phone call, so...
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Other than miles, the UK doesn't use imperial measures for anything serious.

Yes, some people talk about their weight in stone or their height in feet and inches, but almost anything official will be in metric.

And yes beer is sold in pints, but in that context it's not really a comparative measure, it's just "a normal sized glass of beer". And bottled beer is usually 500ml these days.
To clarify, I mean that the percentage of macros which are usefully anaphoric is small, not that any given anaphoric macro isn't useful in practice. A macro like `aif` is useful quite often in practice, but there aren't very many macros like `aif`.

You're right that it's a personal preference. My own preference is to always be explicit (which also explains my relative distaste for Perl...). With my students, I'm constantly emphasizing that "programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute"[1]. I feel as though explicity goes hand-in-hand with legibility, while I'll admit it's really just a matter of learning what `aif` does, the same way you have to learn what anything else does, I'd argue that a programmer who has never seen `let-if` before would be able to decipher its meaning from the context, whereas a programmer who's never encountered `aif` will be wondering `wtf`.

[1]: Preface to the first edition of SICP.
I was taken aback when I realized just how few people understand the United States progressive tax system and how income tax brackets work. That misunderstanding is so pervasive (in my experience) that I can't even imagine people having a general understanding of how deductions work at all.
These tests don't seem to specifically test GC, so it doesn't seem to be a good comparison.

Comparing Go and C# as languages don't seem to be the goal of this exercise, either. Instead, the article was making the point that the garbage characteristics have generational components. This is true of C#, so I would expect it to be true of Go as well. If that is the case, whatever Go's current performance numbers are, they could probably be made better by a generational GC.
The source isn't just a bit biased, it's hugely biased. Mad in America has an open editorial viewpoint, which is opposition to "the current drug-based paradigm of care" in psychiatry [1]. It's headed by Robert Whitaker, probably best known for his book Anatomy of an Epidemic that questions the routine use of psychiatric drugs [2].

Of course, that doesn't mean the article is useless or not addressing real phenomena. Antidepressant withdrawal is real, and IME it's something you're more likely to hear about as a horror story from a patient (especially if they tried to stop Effexor cold-turkey) rather than as part of standard descriptions of depression treatment and its risks/shortcomings.

[1] https://www.madinamerica.com/about-us/

[2] https://www.madinamerica.com/robert-whitaker-new/
This was also an optimization you could do in Objective-C on NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/macOS. Allocating methods took an optional "zone" parameter (`allocWithZone:`, `copyWithZone:`), which was basically an arena.

In this case, the bigger benefit wasn't the allocation/deallocation – but the fact that you would be working with memory on the same virtual memory page, IIUC.
It's really appalling. I'm guessing most of Dell's sales come from other sources (other websites or actual retail stores). Otherwise they'd be out of business with a website that terrible.
I will jump on this project as an example of PWA using ionic2, thanks
To add to the sibling answers, crop rotation is a basic part of land management on farms. Solar panels could be rotated between fields, undercropped with shade-tolerant legumes.
This. I believed the WTO agreements prevented the governments from changing their laws retroactively. If it's not WTO, it must be IMF, but it is probably forbidden somewhere in international trade agreements.
Corporations generally don't do their own bombing and waterboarding, but they sure hire OTHERS to do their bombing and waterboarding for them. Cf Pepsi's role in the Chilean coup https://www.theguardian.com/business/1998/nov/08/observerbus... or the United Fruit company's role in Colombia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_massacre or Guatemala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo_Árbenz

And of course, in their regular operation, many companies routinely pollute the environment: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/05/10722/koch-industries-to...

Funny how libertarians never seem to consider dumping millions of lbs of poison into the environment an "initiation of force", but god forbid government raise taxes by one cent.
They also make boatloads of profits. Somehow they argue that those profits are largely happening in the Bermuda's, not in the EU and also not in the US. How convenient for them, that there's no corporate tax in the Bermuda's, and also no transparency.

Everyone can see that these are all tax avoidance tricks that may or may not be legal, but they certainly are not based on economic reality, they are not in line with the intentions of law and can't be defended to public opinion. These companies get access to markets, use public infrastructure and get support of the US and EU governments. They should simply pay the taxes where they are due, mostly in the US and also in the EU.
Best of luck.

Note: https://startupsanonymous.com/
Thanks for starting this. It's a hard balance many of us are tackling, mostly by ourselves. Looking forward to see what comes out of it.
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Apache did the same thing in 1.3.xx (I'm not familiar with the 2.x codebase, it was not popular in 2000). You had a per-request pool to allocate from and once the request was done, the whole pool was free()'d. It was my first encounter with that strategy and it's always struck me as the sanest way to go for a long-lived process with C's memory model.
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As much as I would normally support this kind of cynicism, in the particular case of Trump's election, the media were as genuinely shocked as everyone else. Opponents and supporters, informed and not.

Almost nobody thought that was seriously going to happen. To claim otherwise is edgy revisionism.

Can't comment on the others, as I was not following closely enough beforehand to get any reading on the public zeitgiest.
AI is going to make it easier than ever to fake images and video
Hm... The element picker doesn't seem to work, and the default color-scheme is horrible. I don't see any way to change that. I like the premise though. Hopefully it will improve with time.
This is not true for everyone. I am glad to pay taxes in exchange for public goods/services like roads, schools, libraries, ...
I think the only point being made by the article is that their focus seems to be on pause times above all else.
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The translation of "slippery slope" to Arabic would be:

رؤية الكاحل المرأة

... i.e., seeing a woman's ankle

(Not really.)
> If you had cancer, everyone would be there to support you. If you have a mental illness, there's not much chance of getting support from peers

Because most people have no clue what to do about psychological illness, are afraid of doing more harm than good (not wrongly) and have pathology of their own that they're having trouble dealing with. And if mental illness as tied to family dysfunction as I think, then the people who would most want to help you are those you should trust the least to do so.
Who said microservices don't need large heaps? The prefix 'micro' means the share of responsibility and boundary of functionality, not any hints at memory size.

Of cause JVM needs to focus on large heaps. Now it still stucks somewhere at 32GB for performance reason. And for heavy-lifting application like HBase/ElasticSearch, that is currently OK, but still makes it quite inconvenient to utilize larger memory(you might need deploy multiple instances on the same box, etc).

You can't invent a new buzzword and tell other people they are solving the wrong problem.
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-rando...
By that logic, one could argue shoplifting is permissible if the store doesn't have video cameras on every inch of the establishment.
So governments should print the money they need instead?
It's amazing to me that with all the evidence showing that increased road capacity doesn't relieve congestion and often times exacerbates it these projects still happen.

I'm glad Los Angeles passed measure M (a public transit funding bill) and the disappointed over this road widening should only bolster it.
WiCub – An IoT temperature and humidity sensor for your home. (Hardware)
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Writing is geometric and calculation is pretty much mechanic.
Yeah it may suck for you, but it won't suck for the people that buy whatever this equipment is and then use it over USB-C once that company makes the conversion.

It's like if we had no common way of measuring things. Imagine having to walk around with like 10 different tape measures because there was no standard. It's stupid. All of these different port interfaces are just like that.
Cycling and pedestrian advocates are speaking against self driving cars [1].

It's so much easier to fix software for "right hooks" then it is to fix human drivers, who drive terribly in SF.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/19/uber-self...
That's a separate argument. Laissez-faire vs. government (or the optimal level of taxation).

My argument is that a set of tax laws exist today and as long as they do all companies should be treated the same.

> just to keep them down

As an aside, Ireland's corporate tax is 12.5%, roughly 1/3 of the US corporate tax rate (35%). So it's not like Apple is being horribly 'kept down' here.
Isn't that why the gas has a smell added to it?
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You must have never met psychiatrists then; never seen otherpeople take drug usage so lightly.
Thanks. I've known of this. What I'd like to bring is the personal aspect to it - knowing the people fighting the battles, a sense of real interaction and talk.
I always enjoyed programming, was fascinated with startups, technology and SaaS so it was something interesting so I started building websites and then web applications while working as a civil engineer.

I enjoyed civil engineering too, but there wasn't a lot of room for innovation, lots of things are cookie cutter in civil engineering, there is some room for creativity but not like developing web applications.

I did develop two software add-ons for Civil 3D that were released by Autodesk that gave me a taste of software development.

Oh yeah there was also the slight economic collapse where all development and construction stopped, civil engineering firms cut 75% of their staff and salaries stalled and shrank. So it wasn't really a choice I was just lucky I had the skills in place to make the leap over to software development. It wasn't easy but I'm much happier as a developer.
There's something called an Arms Length Test. Basically the criterion is that a business can not set up an arrangement purely for tax benefits if they wouldn't be willing to make the same arrangement with another company they didn't own.

It is designed to prevent abusive income shifting practices.

They might be able to make this case for Apple but it's really a subjective call.

Apple can argue that any other company would agree to the same Ireland IP licensing because they can make a profit.

It really comes down to a subjective argument of how much profit is needed to make it attractive to 3rd parties at arms length.
TAI seconds or UTC seconds? (-:
The Economist?
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So lets see I presented 6 real-life humorous observations and was downvoted?

Did someone interpret this as anti-American?

This was meant meant to be tongue-in-cheek. Please look at the items in the list - it's drugs, booze, sports cars and junk food!

Why is there so little for a sense of humor on HN? Must everything be so serious?

The main discussion is about a country changing its calendar Gregorian in the year 2017 after all, jeez.
"Common sense and general decency" my common sense and decency is pretty much at odds with yours.

You took a loan? Good, repay it. You're an adult, you made a decision. Don't expect any help from others.

My sense of decency says that we should probably not allow student loans, since so many people aren't mature enough to understand their impact and calculate the trade-off of taking one.

//EDIT:
So, my main argument is against the idea that we should use "common sense and decency" to make these decisions. That's stupid, because the majority of people don't understand economics and have a hard time guessing what the second and third order effects of a "nice" action would be.

My arguments are a red herring. We should throw out the "common sense" of kafkaesq and I. We're both being stupid when we just poll our values to see what our knee-jerk reaction is.

Let's just use a system that has the best outcomes. I'd like the policy that provides the highest outcome of: ("Grows GDP" x "Does not fail it's participants")
We'll never know the value of 3 overpasses being made more earthquake resistant or the other safety improvements (typical NYTimes that they don't even research the issue). I hate these articles because they're so weak in journalism.

http://dot.ca.gov/dist12/DEA/405/index.php#Technical
The linked repo is not a solution, single-file or otherwise. Speck is not only a weird and unusual block cipher to pick, it is more importantly only a block cipher. It does not let you encrypt more than a block size at a time, and it does not give you authentication! Both of those things are anything but trivial.

Furthermore, Speck has a variable block size between 32 and 128 bits. If you pick wrong, safe-looking things like CTR+HMAC-256 become unsafe (it's not hard to overflow a 32-bit counter).
Public perception:

In the first day their cars were caught running red lights on film. Either the cars are faulty, or cars and the human drivers for 'just in case' are faulty.

Oh, yeah, they've been turning across bike lanes illegally too, the kind of turn that causes most bike accidents with cars in California. They were told about this problem before launch and LAUNCHED ANYWAY. That's another thing they've asked their human drivers to take over for (you know, the ones who ran the light).

Honestly, if someone's job is to sit in an Uber for 6 hours and watch for the car to make a driving mistake... that's a lot of fatigue. They're going to get comfortable and miss A LOT of stuff.

Uber needs a huge slap for this whole thing. They're being very reckless.
Given that the blocks are connected only by gravity, how could that bottom block possibly help?
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I'm in the same boat. I still use my 2011 MBP for development work, and I will continue to use it until it falls apart, but I don't think I'm going to buy a new Macbook to replace it.

I love that I can open this one up and upgrade the hell out of it. It's got a better SSD than Apple ever sold for it, and more memory than Apple claims is possible. I doubt a processor upgrade is possible, but if it was, I'd be in the market for one.
great! happy coding
Taxes on profits don't hurt companies that actually reinvest. The problem here is companies that act like they reinvest the money and have no profit, while they actually have tons of profits.
People are understandably upset at this year's election, but this in no way should be grounds to dismiss a system that prevents the tyranny of the majority. Mob rule is prevented by the electoral college. I don't ever want to see a straight popular vote, because the people in fly-over country will always lose out with the coasts and major cities dictating trends.
> Personally, I feel that a publisher of technology is responsible for ensuring there are no "holes".

Isn't this the definition of victim blaming?