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Worth noting that he'd likely have netted about the same in the 1950s. Despite the constant assertions of those who fondly reminisce about the days of 90%+ income tax rates, there were so many more deductions that it all basically came out the same, while disincentivizing the outright hiding of wealth.

Moreover, the law enforcement that prevents him from being robbed is paid for by tax revenue, but not federal tax revenue, and the amount he's paid is in addition to the $593 million he paid in income tax (assuming that doesn't account for state income tax - the actual article isn't available for me to read right now due to server load).
Report: Theranos used shell company to secretly buy outside lab equipment
Was the flight test done at full weight capacity ? (Passengers and/or cargo)
If you're alleging a particular fortune traces its roots to an illegitimate acquisition, then prove it in a court of law, in front of a jury of your peers. Your statement is a sweeping generalization, and prejudicial indictment, and that is in my opinion not consistent with basic principles of justice.

I personally believe we have a natural right to our private property. Otherwise, why stop at our physical possessions, and not go to our physical body as well?
"Best travel hacks" is hardly "intelligent conversation." I used to post about my areas of expertise, but I've found the general level of discussion on Quora has declined steeply over the last few years. So, yes, if "best travel hacks" is the kind of thing you want your platform to be about, by all means go there. There are profits to be made, no doubt. But personally I'm not going to bother with a platform that's filled with bad travel advice, discussions about how to game the interview / college admissions process, stupid questions about what celebrity X thinks about topic Y, and so on.
The proposed system seems a whole lot simpler than the existing one to me.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167637
"In the absence of an actual 256-byte compo, it was submitted to the Oldskool 4K Intro compo at Revision 2017, where it ended up on 1st place."

:-)

(I hope the other contestants were suitably ashamed of themselves.)
They called and threatened his mother. Private investigators followed him. He had $400,000 in legal fees from the layers they hired to harass him.
It is Friday? Roughly 4PM on Friday, which means they'll likely be closing down shortly. Seems odd for them to do it as such a last minute thing.
Completely disagree. Google has far more data including mapping data that FB does not have. A key aspect is FB only has curated data where Google gets all your data.

I would never share my searches on FB. Google photos has all my photos and FB what willing to share. Then YT has over 1 billion hours a day viewed which is 19x more than FB video and growing faster.
50 km fully loaded in that thing would be amazing with present day technology. I don't think it can be done.
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I have a hard time believing the range. We have a hard time creating 300km range on cars, how would they do it on a freaking plane?
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I was curious and googled a bit. Relevant part:

> In the past year and a half, the grandson and grandfather have rarely spoken or seen one another, communicating mainly through lawyers, says Tyler Shultz. He and his parents have spent more than $400,000 on legal fees, he says. He didn’t attend his grandfather’s 95th birthday celebration in December. Ms. Holmes did.

> “Fraud is not a trade secret,” says Mr. Shultz, who hoped his grandfather would cut ties with Theranos once the company’s practices became known. “I refuse to allow bullying, intimidation and threat of legal action to take away my First Amendment right to speak out against wrongdoing.”

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161117/15475936076/thera...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14159963
We get fast performance when we need to, and there's a number of EC2 technologies that help with that.
That's not really true; anybody can sue you if they want, whether or not you're in the right.
I'm not sure how you can say that the rich keep their tax burden light when the topic of this thread is how Musk paid tax amounting to 44% of his income totalling over half a billion dollars.
That's what they claim they will do, not what they've demonstrated. This seems to be a modernized version of Moller International's "just around the corner" hype of the last, what, 30 or so years, only Lilium's hype seems more oriented toward potential investors/acquirers rather than selling pre-orders to aspiring individual owners of flying cars that'll never be commercially viable.
Sure, how should I name it?
Far better to have that conversation than to sit and argue fairness, equity, and justice. The alternatives are dumber.
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Why? I was providing a solution. There's nothing wrong with using winelib if you want to port Windows software to linux.
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This guy!
So you think when society around you is failing you'll still have enough infrastructure to be able to do transactions in bitcoin? Seems like a narrow scenario. Bad enough that there are no reasonably stable fiat currencies to be able to trade (whatever they may be because my value is in companies not currency so I can use whichever) and yet good enough there is still a working internet and enough miners for the blockchain to work.
Wow, how has this not gotten more attention?
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I have a minor doubt that I won't like the additional level of nesting incurred, but I'll attempt it regardless.
> However, there is a risk they would sit on zero days

Unlikely. They are still here to protect americans, in a sense. Stealing money from a bank or a regular business is not on their agenda.

There is a 10% of vulnerabilities that might have re-use for intelligence purpose, but it shall be alright for the bulk of it.
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It's 2017, and I still have online financial accounts that are "secured" by short numeric PIN, so count yourself lucky that you can at least use some letters in your password.

C-mp-t-rsh-r-: your website's trash and you should be embarrassed with yourselves.
6x your salary is pretty high. I've stuck to 4x personally.
Just today...? Chase Bank has been case-insensitive for several years now. I even contacted them about it when I found out and they outright told me they had no plans to fix it.
How would this compare with the TriFan 600?
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I'm not a pilot, but the fan pods are flaps, so I think there's some steering there.

Also, it has a full aircraft parachute as a last resort.
Imagine you ran a small, successful business. Imagine, as part of that business you killed someone every year.

Now, we could look at your tax returns and see that you have a successful business. Or we could "invent" some figure to represent the lives you ended.

Is it really crazy to imagine that the total we invent would be higher than your yearly, or even total profits?

Just scale that up to the point that you're starting wars, causing a crime epidemic with lead poisoning, overheating the planet, etc.
Fun coincidence I was just reading about SuperCar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercar_(TV_series)
And they probably would've done much worse if he wasn't the grandson of one of the board members at Theranos.
Maybe the engineering community as a whole be better for it if so much duplication of work wasn't going on behind closed doors.

Sure, you don't want to publicize things which could be a competitive advantage to your company, but I bet these banks of yours wish weren't sitting on huge heavy custom-rolled COBOL codebases right now...
I use the same thing. I often get an error for forgetting a field or something when filling in the information from the W-2.

First, let's ignore that the government already has that information and having to enter it again is dumb to begin with.

But aside from that, you'd think it could catch something like that immediately when filling out the form, instead of having to wait several hours for the IRS to process and reject it.
> This is actually an issue with any qualified patent attorney who might take on this case.

Why?
Thanks to the author for all their work. SVG is becoming a little more connected to some of the work I'm doing and I'm hoping a way can come up for her to be supported to continue her work if she loves it. Someone who supports a technology this selflessly a few years ahead of those who will come to need it.
Does "not surviving" generate a Non-Survivorship Bias ?
For me issue is "or by using materials, tools or knowledge made available through your employment"
when you combine it with "whether during or after the termination of your employment" and
"shall remain in full force and effect following any termination"

So basically, let say I do not know Scala and I learn it there or I use GoDaddy to register domain, according to contract I will never be able to use those anywhere else, and if I do I will need to handover things I have done?!
Asserting your right to the fruits of another person's success is super easy! Why bother providing anything but the assertion, I say. And apparently you as well.
Missing why? Linux free and very efficient. Why?
So what happens if you find a zero day vulnerability in a Russian bank? Not everyone on the internet is from the US.
I think you've got this backwards. Sometime in the 15th century, the Mississippi's course drifted westward and crossed with the Red River (now called the Atchafalaya River) at Turnbull's Bend. From that point forward, according to the laws of hydrology, the Old Mississippi was inevitably doomed. The ACoE's ORCS acts to prevent the Mississippi from being completely diverted along the Atchafalaya.

It's the parts of the delta which are fed by the Old Mississippi which are disappearing, and this is a totally natural process. The same river is what serves the port of New Orleans. The natural course of the river can only be temporarily stayed; it will find a way around the ORCS eventually. If the river is allowed to flow naturally, the majority of Southeast Louisiana, including New Orleans and Lake Ponchartrain, will disappear under the ocean.
I'm confused how you got to this interpretation after I listed a bunch of cool languages that (I think) have made many improvements to CL based on CS research.

There is only so far you can go with an "everything is mutable -- but you can do anything you want with syntax" model. Common Lisp 2.0 is not Common Lisp, it's lessons learned from Common Lisp plus new ideas rolled into something completely different.

Just as an example, Julia's take on CLOS is far more powerful, it preserves compile time macros, and takes SBCL to the cleaners on any benchmark you can find.
Why not? 4.5 million people without SSNS filed last year.

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523634144/tax-filings-seen-dip...
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And yet the roads in WA are still better than most of CA.
Funny enough, the IRS won't take a check that large. He'd have to write six of them. Definitely a problem I wish I had.

> No checks of $100 million or more accepted.

> The IRS can’t accept a single check (including a cashier’s check) for amounts of $100,000,000 ($100 million) or more. If you are sending $100 million or more by check, you’ll need to spread the payment over 2 or more checks with each check made out for an amount less than $100 million. This limit does not apply to other methods of payment (such as electronic payments). Please consider a method of payment other than check if the amount of the payment is over $100 million.

https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040gi/ar01.html#d0e35370
General flight planning guidelines do not take into account VTOL capability!
Just having hundreds of millions of dollars wouldn't be particularly exciting once the novelty wore off. The exciting part is earning hundreds of millions of dollars via the immense success that it implies/requires.
This has a beginning that you may find interesting.

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Issue here is they saying: "we are to big company, it is our standard contract, we will not change contract just for you ... at least that is what their HR is saying"
Real world policy aside, if you're taking off and landing vertically, would the 45 minutes of reserve fuel really be necessary if you're not constrained to use an airfield?

Also, if they could magically double it, would it then be useful for a high-end taxi service?

Don't get me wrong, even with a working prototype, I see this moving really slowly unless the company is commanded by an exceedingly talented team that understands how to influence governments to update policies.
Or they call the FBI and bust your ass and you have to file bankruptcy and get probation.
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So, putting huge numbers of small electric motors on your wings has big efficiency advantages. But is there any reason this has to be stricktly battery powered? This seems like a situation very well suited to hybrid electric power with a internal combustion generator providing the power for level flight.
Well said. I'd add Soylent to that list -- they started with sustainable food and now they are pushing Soylent Drink which is basically a throwaway bottle for every 400 calories.
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Restaurant chains are a bad example. They're going to be using local labour and ingredients.

And India does often block companies from serving the Indian market if there isn't enough perceived benefit. For instance Apple isn't allowed to open retail stores because they don't want to meet guarantees about percentages of made in India goods available in store.
I'm not in the aerospace industry, but couldn't it deploy a parachute in the case of power loss? Or are the batteries too heavy?

Also, what about helicopters? I guess the pilot might still have control after losing power because the blades would still be spinning?
That is indeed the point of the tax. For businesses all up and down the supply chain to figure out how to do what they do, but with less carbon production.

There's a whole lot of businesses where that's relatively easy, but since carbon is effectively free, they'll happily squander it for no real gain.
Theranos and Boies teamed up to make his life hell.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161117/15475936076/thera...

One might imagine what they'd attempt if he wasn't related to a boardmember, or if his parents didn't have $400K for legal fees...
The top bracket is 52.9% in California. Of course, the Netherlands' tax brackets are much less progressive than those in the US/California; the top bracket is around ~$80K vs. ~$1M.
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> There have been several battery-powered human carrying aircraft. Most are scaled-up quadcopters

Umm.. wat? Afaik most serious attempts for electric (battery-powered) aircraft have been fairly conventional fixed-wing designs. As you seem to like youtube videos, here are couple:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uoy3Efsxp3o from Airbus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiu8TFnXYFY Siemens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiADDbeFanU Pipistrel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1g1JrRRkY Electroflight

I think the Pipistrel one is actually already shipping today.
I laughed at the thought that you might one day use a ride sharing app and forget to specify that you wanted a car.
Patent law =/= contract law. They're not referring to non-competes
I personally think that after the first 1.5 million that they tax rate should be 100%. That's still an incredibly large amount of money. After that we need the resources to tackle problems and we can't if people hoard them.

I know that it sounds simple, and lots of people on this site will disagree, but I'm having trouble justifying this kind of extreme wealth to myself anymore.

There are so many people in poverty and ignorance. What's it for any way if people are starving and illiterate?

I'm really not looking forward to some of the responses to this comment, but I find myself thinking more and more about the morality of letting people accumulate massive sums when the resources that wealth could muster go unused by the people that need them most.

I don't know. I'm genuinely interested in hearing what other people here have to say if you can keep from being condescending or mean. Please be nice.
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By what metric is it "good enough"? Appears to me to be not good enough by a long shot. VTOL is especially energy intensive.
At UBC CS a few years ago they made a switch in the opposite direction, from Java to Racket for their intro course. I think this was a very good decision because it allowed them to spend less time teaching syntax (which in racket is very simple) and more time focusing on fundamental topics such as graphs, recursion, functional programming, and test driven development. Compared to the equivalent intro programming course that was taught to engineers in C I think students in CS learned a lot more than the engineers whos most complicated curriculum involved arrays and procedure calls. What's interesting is that I believe the inspiration for teaching functional programming as an introduction came from MIT.
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I was an executive at a SW firm in Toronto for almost 9 years (I'm originally from the US).

In order to hire relatively talented people, the salaries were (even in 2007) no where near what you are describing.

When I resigned in 2014 the lowest paid developer on a 30 person team might have been making around $80k. Typically salaries were between $88 and $110.

While there are a large number of Canadians that have gone to the US to work, I regularly encounter Americans in tech that have come here. Sure, it's anecdotal.

My taxes are only slightly more than I paid in Wisconsin, and likely on par with California. And for that I always have some level of basic healthcare, even if I lose my job. Plus, the government tries harder for its citizens here.
Hasn't this been known for ages now? (I could only read the start of the article)
Doesn't work at all with JS.

This is a big thing on many sites now.

Also, since that is the case, you could build this in a few hours using something like: https://github.com/bda-research/node-crawler. Yes, it would have no gui, so you lose that.
> Also, the primary reason that illegal immigrants file tax returns is to obtain refunds.

Could you source this statement? I haven't seen anything besides speculation about this subject.
FAA Minimum reserve requirement is 30 minutes. 50 ~ 150 Km is plenty to avoid most cities heavy traffic.
> I am taking what you say about historical events as you say it, but It still doesn't seem like the move is "anti-competitive".

It sure is when combined with Google releasing NaCl-based software, such as Google Earth.

> Google has demonstrated a willingness to go out of their way and fix things for most things not NaCl related.

Not with Dart, which followed a very similar trajectory (see my other comments). Not with -webkit prefixes. Etc. etc.

> Even per your recounting of history they weren't trying to coerce the standards body, they just asked for comments and then unilaterally did something else. They didn't force it on anyone else.

When you release software that only works on your platform that you aren't open to outside comments on, then you are forcing others to implement it, warts and all, or lose users.
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In the Netherlands, his bonus and income would have been structured differently, he'd have had a personal holding to 'catch' the money before it would have been taxed income or capital taxes, and he'd have paid next to nothing (yet). He could have delayed selling off stock to pay taxes for as long as he'd have wanted.

I'm not sure how entrepreneurs do this in the US, is Musk being patriotic paying so much taxes, or is there really no way to delay/avoid having to sell stock to pay taxes?
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Mind quantifying this overhead you assume containers-on-metal vs VMs will solve?
That's a good clarification. Who knows where all that bitcoin went after it was mined.
I recently dropped a credit union because they can't be bothered to secure their mobile app (in the official google play store!) to use anything better than TLS1.0.

TLS1.2 and proper crypto schemes should be mandatory at this point.
Canada is a large country. $51k in Winnipeg might be a really nice salary. In the greater Toronto area that would be low.
My position is not that "taxation is theft" though. I do oppose certain kinds of taxation, because of the rights that I believe we have. I thought the way I addressed the parent comment was much more on-topic than the response you insist I should have provided. It was within the context of what the parent comment's argument was, making it relatable and relevant. It also expressed exactly what I believed. I don't think it's constructive to attack me because I expressed my view in a manner you disapprove of.
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What do you mean by best? In a car race, why would you want to build the best car? I just want my car to cross the finishing line first.

Besides, there is no race. This is continuous evolution. The race has barely started, let alone ended
>You cant dead stick a cessna in an urban environment, and current ballistic parachutes aren't that heavy.

Except a ballistic parachute does absolutely nothing for you in the scenario where > 90% of accidents happen: take off and landing. Even the most advanced BRS systems on Cirrus planes require 1000 feet AGL. There's simply no getting around the basic physics of this problem.
It'd be tough to form an international legal entity anyways.
FBI? Also, who mentioned federal tax revenue or income tax? It wasn't me.
Fan subs are an enabler for promoting culture and stimulating tourism. So it goes without saying that the administration of Holland doesn't at all mind that someone outside of Holland is making subtitles for a Dutch TV show or movie in English, or Hungarian, or Spanish or what have you.

I suspect they are just caving in to pressure from outsiders. If I were to guess, English-speaking outsiders from America.

Hey, look who is a member of this "Dutch" BREIN group: the MPAA.

If Holland weren't in the EU, they might have the guts to tell them to go home. "We don't mind Dutch TV and movies being subbed in English by American fans, so we expect the same in reverse; have a nice day".
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How could that be? Suppose Musk controlled all the resources in the world. What motivation would he have to allocate them fairly?
What makes you say that? Plenty of evidence points to upper management at the FBI and other 3 letter agencies being more interested in power brokering than honesty and serving the public.
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All of Canada is single party consent for recording. If you're the person doing the recording, you've consented, so you are good. Don't assume everyone that speaks English is in the US.
> Except the compiler clearly knows that it does happen since it elides the code because of it.

That's definitely the opposite of what's happening here. The compile believes that it does not happen and therefore removes the code.