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0%, with raises to capital gains to offset the tax revenue, would be better, but I can understand it's politically infeasible (because people are ignorant). Better than nothing.
Hasn't this sentiment been repeatedly disproven in practical applications since at least Reagan?
Im sure some have, but probably not to the extent.

At least the car world is more sane than the aviation world. Here's a fun little side story.

Piper aircraft company - they make small general aviation planes - have been out of business a few times from being sued into the ground over absurd stuff. Here's the best one...

Drunk guy shows up to a glider airfield. Hes been banned from said field already, but hes drunk so who cares, right? SO he jumps in a plane, a piper, and starts it up. Owner of the field parks a truck on the runway to prevent a drunk person from taking off... drunk guy proceeds to attempt to take off with predictable results... smashes into the truck.

Then he sues piper and wins enough to bankrupt the company. Because the plane, which was made in the 40s, did not have a shoulder harness, just a lap belt. Because there are laws that say if someone is hurt in something you make, you are liable. This applies to cars too, but the absurdity of it seems to prevent it from taking hold there... Thats why aside from Cessna, there are very few plane manufacturers on the GA level anymore who deliver fully built planes. Most now, sell "kits" which you can assemble yourself (with their help) on-site at their facility. This way, you build 51% of your aircraft, and its not their liability.

This also leads to some crazy stuff. Like, pilots who have done a 51% build and a few years later becoming medically disqualified to fly, DESTROY their plane rather than selling due to the liability since THEY made it...

Gotta love the world we live in sometimes...
So, the only way to leave the car in case of an accident is not documented in the digital version of the manual?

That has to be a major oversight, especially for people able to afford a driver it’s unrealistic to expect they’d read the manual (they’ve got better to do with their time), or to expect that they give the one single physical copy they have to a driver (instead, usually, the driver gets a PDF on a kindle – you might replace the driver a few months later again, and might not get the manual back otherwise).

So it’s not surprising that the passengers and the driver didn’t know about that.
I really hope that we can end the cult of the entrepreneur as well.

It's not some special thing to incorporate and start a company, and it's not inherently superior to any other line of work.
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Only a small percentage of companies are public and have CEOs making giant bounces off of tax cuts.

This worldview that Bernie Sanders esque people hold, where every business person is a rich multi millionaire, ignores the reality of business... where the vast majority are small and medium sized businesses.

The critique of George Bush's temporary tax credit was that it was used as bonuses rather than stimulating the economy. But a long term tax reduction is something you can actually plan for with expenditures like R&D. I've seen many people comparing the two disingenuously like they are the same. They aren't, that's not how business finance works.

There have also been a number of examples in history where reducing the tax rate has actually increased tax revenue as companies are much more productive and more capital is available to invest in industry.

The more revenue companies generate the more taxable income there is both from the company revenue and the incomes of employees they hire.
Same phone here. Also try to have as much turned of if not needed. Keep screen light at minimum. Also use:

Face slim,
Privacy browser,
Smarter wifi manager,
Dimmer,
Materialistic :D (writing the this comment)

All sorts apps, I just try to avoid the ones that keep running on background, or autostart. Unless I really need it.

My realtime communication availability is obviously sms and phone call.

The phone has 1 year. Charged it this morning. It is at 80%. Been on web, facebook, hackernews...
It may do so in the big picture, but number of reviews != number of quality reviews.

I'd much rather read reviews from people not incentivized to write them, and I'd rather not have to wade through all of the organic results from those that are affiliates to find the ones that are not.

Spammy review sites are also Google's problem, and they do a lot to keep them out of rankings. This won't hurt forums though where people candidly share their feedback on apps.

I'm not clear how people using CPI installs through shady tactics like malware will suddenly rise to prominence. I can't see an honest reviewer who is reviewing for the sake of it (vs. the paltry affiliate commission) saying "yes, I should review this scummy app that forced its way onto my device."

Instead, I think we'll see the rise of reviews from sites that monetize in other ways such as traditional display advertising, email sponsorships, other products, subscriptions, etc. Forums and social will also hopefully have less spam as it becomes less financially viable for the spammers in question.
> So why don’t we tell people why we didn’t invite them to interview? Because, paradoxical as it sounds, there often is no reason. The median application is usually pretty good. The reason it gets rejected is not that it seems particularly bad, but that there are a sufficient number of others that seem particularly good.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/whynot/
Not entirely sure what "the other type" is here, but that sentence of mine was quite a bit over the top. I hope I'm not coming across as a know-it-all in the rest of the comment and in my other comments.
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yeah, imagine all the dead trees that basically don't decompose because nothing can eat them. that'd be a sight to behold.
For my apps, I used the affiliate program to get back some of the Apple tax.

So from my perspective, this is just the latest in a long line of developer hostile developments from Apple.

Sidenote- I tried deploying an app to testers on Testflight for the first time, and the app was rejected. What a complete waste of time. It was rejected for not running on iPad properly and not working with ipv6. Not exactly too frickin helpful when I needed to get the app out to testers/stakeholders asap. Fortunately Tryouts.io don't want to waste my time.
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Even at the original (3x higher) rate, the volume required seems pretty high to make ant real money.
Maybe not perfect English, but I'd expect a significantly higher level of English than that quote demonstrates. Add in a stock photo and why would anyone think that that is real?
>I don't understand how someone can "have enough experience and knowledge to not need the site".

If you've been programming for a couple of decades and you don't follow the trends du jour it's actually quite easy (note: I'm not at that level myself).

Seasoned C and C++ programmers, for example, don't have much to learn from Stack Overflow in the same way a (1) new programmer, (2) 0-20 years programmer who constantly juggles languages, APIs and frameworks etc depending on the job and the fads of the season.

You think someone like Linus checks SO to get his answers?

There are tons of programmers with such levels of experience (even if somewhat less so than Linus).

Let's put it another way: before 2008 NO programmer checked "Stack Overflow" all the time. Before 2000 they didn't even have Google, and before 1995 or so they didn't have much (if anything) in the way of online documentation and similar resources.

That's not ancient history: a 20 year-ish programmer has managed for 10+ years of their career without Stack Overflow.
Genuine question: What value proposition does your company offer? Can't I get these same questions answered from a variety of different sources?

Additionally, some of the mentor responses lack a certain level of professionalism to be called a mentor. Example: "Question: Hi I am applying to NYU this fall. I have never visited NYU before because I live all the way in California. I was wondering if you could share your experience starting at NYU? Also any background info like where you came from, how was the transition, did you have to move far, etc.? Any extra information you want to add would be rlly helpful. Thanks in advance!

Answer: Absolutely! I'm from Chicago, Originally. (not the actual city, the suburbs. Fucking Suburbia, man.) I hope it makes you feel better to know that I'd never visited NYU before actually ..."
> but if it were a hydraulic door and the hydraulic motor was destroyed in the crash, it would be reasonable to expect it to be unable to be opened by hydraulics, right? Same for electric.

The "reasonable expectation that a door will open if it is not visibly damaged" applies no matter what the underlying mechanism of the door is.

> but thats an RTFM problem, not a car problem.

Even if people did read the manuals for their cars- which no one does- people frequently forget things like this in emergency situations when they need to get out quickly. Hence things like big red signs for fire doors. Passing the responsibility onto them for doors that don't work is absurd.
More details about the event in the NASA press release: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronaut-to-star-in...
Sure, but why this instead of a 32GB SLC SSD?
Lower corporate taxes can also help create structures which allow wealthier people to avoid taxes.

For example, if you can create a structure in which all of your consulting income + capital-asset income goes into a C-corp, and you pay most of your own expenses through the C-corp (e.g., Trump tower home office), then you can keep most of your income taxed at only 15%. The C-corp holds it forever, and pays your expenses, and pays you a small salary for non-expensable items. The C-corp can purchase things like corporate cars, boats, airplanes, and real-estate, and pay for trips as well.

Obviously, there is administrative overhead in setting these things up; you can't be earning 150k and trying to pull this off.

There cannot be a gap between C-corp taxation and individual taxation rates if you want to avoid creating more loopholes for wealthier people---especially those who earn mostly from their capital assets.
pragmatic*, placing stress is less a problem of word meaning than it is of speaker adaptation for listener comprehension, emphasis, and prosodic tendencies.

Even then, I don't believe the issue is with stress. I believe that the voices sound robotic because they are using, and also admitting because it makes their results impressive in some sense, very few samples, "less than a minute" they claim. Triphones are usually what speech systems are trained on. The amount of triphones (3-phoneme-grams) to cover a language's phonemic inventory is huge (50 phonemes = 50! triphones, which could mean a few hours of audio, although many will not occur within the language given the phonotactics of the language).
Yeah, and I feel there's not much point contributing answers either, because it seems most situations are either:

1. Simple and quickly snapped up by other users who are aggressively trying to grow their reputation on the site (perhaps with more free-time than I) and there's a first-response advantage that crowds out later answers.

2. Duplicate of something else. Why bother making a good answer when it'll get closed because somebody else happens to think a different question is the "better" one?

3. Way outside my expertise and it's probably better for everyone involved if I don't try to answer when I'm not sure.

So in a way SO is a victim of its own success when it comes to lowered engagement.

P.S.: I've even had an answer I was proud of converted into a "community wiki" just for a few tiny wording changes, with the side-effect that I get no reputation from it. So yeah, it seems like a rat-race.
Awesome. Let's cut it down to 0%.

Why did you remove "snowflakes" from your post?
I believe it's VC or being a CEO that is a part-time mentor.
As much as I love software development, I also love marketing, design, business and networking. I spend a lot of my time connecting people in my local community, connecting companies I think are cool with possible customers and hires, mentoring juniors (both devs, PM's and more) and helping a few pre-launch startups focus their vision. Some of them have told me that I've taught them more than their college professors and incubators, which I find inspiring to keep on moving.

But at the end of the day, I just love impacting the world and providing people a chance at doing the same.
That is the ideal but that isn't reality. The big corporations have large departments devoted to tax avoidance. Where does that saved money go? Usually distributed as dividends to shareholders, executive bonuses, or enormous bank accounts where the money does nothing (e.g. Apple).

The best way to improve the economy is put more money into the hands of normal people so that they will buy more stuff which in turn helps those businesses. Lowering or eliminating income taxes for non-rich people would help far more than a tax break for the rich which includes companies.
> The django app will also need the ability to connect to the email server to send account registration emails

Beyond the technical/architectural issues others have brought up, you should not be mixing transactional email with work email for a business. Use a transactional provider like Sendgrid/Mailgun/Mailchimp to manage your registration messages, and run the employee email through something entirely different (a separate server or GApps). It's only a matter of time before someone marks someone's sales email as spam and you end up not being able to send registration emails because Spamhaus has blacklisted your IP.

This might make your solution easier, as you can use an email addon with Heroku for transactional, and then get to choose whatever host you want for employee mail without having to be constrained by needing Django hosting as well.
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I'm sorry I missed your comment earlier, but hopefully replying later is better than never :)

ChakraCore is cross-platform now so we no longer get the benefit of a single platform. However back when we were only Windows there were advantages, certainly, if only because all the work spent getting everything working on different OSes can instead be invested in improving performance.
> Right because GE builds roads and funds public schools.

I'm going to assume sarcasm so: http://archive.fortune.com/2008/06/30/news/companies/ge_phil...

https://www.google.com/search?q=general+electric+charitable+...
Can you show any proof of this connection? If the goal is to make money then why would they spend more to expand with a lower tax rate than with a higher one?

If anything it would have the opposite affect since the R&D and the salary of new employees would be tax deductible.
I was wrong in assuming any of the testimonials were fake. They're real.

That said, fake accounts on social media are legal. Fake testimonials aren't.

Reddit is one random success story and not indicative of whether something is ethical, where it concerns investors, or whether it's a good idea for a SaaS (a completely different model from Reddit).
There's nothing special about starting a company for sure, but successfully growing one takes a lot of grit.
Says in the article they had a chauffeur.
Then why insist on dividends, and not have companies reinvest?
Does the animal's lifespan matter? Intuitively it seems like killing something that will only live for a few days or weeks at most matters less. So I'm not sure it's all due to "cultural worth" (though I don't disagree that's part of it).
Perhaps I can answer your question. I catch flies and bring them outside when they are in my home. I also regularly go for walks outside. In doing so, I will step on ants, caterpillars, various plants, etc. Some of them surely die. In other words, I will show kindness to animals, but only to the point where it doesn't completely impede my life or my ability to find happiness.

When I think of abortion, I don't think of it as killing babies. I think of it as killing a collection of cells that some day perhaps might be a child. But it is not one. I don't see how one can say that a clump of 64 cells is a child, given that it has the potential to be one, but not also take issue with their sperm not fertilizing an egg. Isn't every sperm a potential child as well? On what point of the scale to you draw the line and say "this is now a child" vs "this is a collection of biological material that may become a child if proper conditions are met?"

I think the first trimester is a fairly decent cutoff.
The manual way to open the doors is behind a speaker panel that you have to rip off to pull: https://imgur.com/gallery/jqfdV

It's true that it exists, but its intentionally well-hidden, and if you were in a flaming car you probably wouldn't think to rip off the speakers to try to find a latch.
It's way more likely that somebody lets you use their words, and that they get published unedited, than that they let you use their likeness on your website. So I don't find it dubious at all. I guess I'm naive or something.
I have a sense of 'pressure' based on how many tabs and windows i have open. Every week or so, I'll go through them with a specific mindset (do I want self improvement, learn about math, new languages, etc) and read as much as I can stomach, and save off the rest in PDF form.

This mostly happens on my work laptop. I save these pdfs, or code snapshots, or whatever, into a nifty drive in the sd slot. Separate from work hardware. Usually I run minimum a 128gb drive. They're sorted into folders named by high level categories (ai, math, compsci, perspective, reference, etc).

Then I have a cronjob to rsync it to my home backup NAS (only when on my home net).

I do it this way because I've come to not trust the continuous availability of various online resources. Also, having done a lot of traveling in recent times, I like to take a nice fat archive of reading materials of interest with me wherever I go.
It also has the benefit of providing a pseudo-index of reading items when I want to dive deeper.
There is a way to manually open the falcon wing doors [1]. Granted it could probably be in a more visible location.

[1]: http://assets.teslastatic.com/2016_Model_X_Emergency_Respons... page 24
Not the guy, maybe he was rude, but the point remains. This is a service that charges you before you benefit from it. All Freelancer cares is to get their fee.

They take your money and that's it. Doesn't matter if the actual project is finalized or not or if the client closes his account.
Yes, the 'how' is similar between the two, but 'why' and 'to what extent' are not.

Like I said, in China primary motivator was improving literacy rate.

The number of simplified characters (3500 out of 7000) closely matches the number of characters necessary for almost-full literacy (most common 3500 characters cover about 99.5% of everyday written language).
Love it! Is there a way one could track how this is going?
I feel this statement could carry a lot of meaning about the original question as well. It was obviously not the feedback they desired, but one needs to be able to accept opinion once they as for it. Hopefully, they will pick it up this time.
If it were the only door, that would make sense... with 2 working doors and third rear door, i think its a little bit of a stretch...
\maybe they have a different safety standard in china lol
Then that is what the AMT was designed for, no?
The best defense against tyranny is an educated populated, not guns.

Look at what's happening in the US right now, despite it being brimming with guns.
There was a Planet Money podcast (or similar) recently that talked about tax cuts to small/medium size businesses. They looked at a few anecdotal cases and small cuts in taxes didn't result in enough money to hire someone or spend large amounts. They just simply weren't paying a ton in tax anyways, so a cut here or there wasn't a big change.
It sounds like OP's feedback is not that you shouldn't take risks, but that they think the risks you took may backfire with investors. (Or rather would backfire with OP, an investor, or someone taking that perspective).
They had a chauffeur who ended up in the hospital for 40 days.
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Different rates make sense to me because if you're going to buy a movie or a song, you can go to Amazon, Spotify, etc. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on those sales. If you want to buy an app for your iPhone the App Store is literally the only place you can get it.
"100% CSS and one tiny line of JS." ... and a GIF of the explosion!

Still, I love it!
Mine too! He would tell me that the spiders are helpful because they kill other bugs, and to leave them alone or put them outside. The more I think about these things, the more connected even the small things in our world are.
It would already be tax evasion to do what you propose. The beneficiary of the nice place to stay is supposed to pay taxes on that benefit.
So if I design a building and make all doors electric, you would be ok to have a small manual release lever hidden behind the middle hinge, as long as it is written in the building manual.
The IRS is not stupid. It's perfectly capable of distinguishing a real business from a dummy business set up just to pay personal expenses. There are all kinds of rules about this sort of thing.
Greedy companies are greedy. Lowering to 15% won't magically make them good corporate citizens. The carrot and a really big stick are needed. I don't see this admin taking a stick to corporate America.
That doesn't mean users wanted something else; I used it originally because it was a "localized 4chan". When they started adding usernames and whatnot, I uninstalled.

That was the thing users wanted, take it away and why use the app? There are hundreds of social communities I can join, so what is YikYak's MVP? From that perspective, you have to choose what battle you want to fight - maintain anonymity and deal with the ramifications or lose your userbase by becoming just another social app?
Copyright is the only reason the license exists at all. If we ignore copyright, then the license is completely meaningless, because Nintendo has no rights to the work.

The point is that the EULA does not give Nintendo absolute power just because you played the game. They can't, for example, stick "You owe 30 years of indentured servitude to Nintendo" in the back of the Zelda manual and expect to get a bunch of free work out of the deal.

Nintendo have a very aspirational view of how much control they get over people who buy their stuff, and the law may even bear them out in some cases, but you can't take their word as law just because they wrote a license.
I could try to explain, but this video does a better job than I could hope to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
Thanks everyone. I love all the comments below, and let me explain them one by one.