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Just like governments have a monopoly on violence, they also (somewhat consequentially) have a monopoly on theft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
Weed control is perfectly possible using either mulching or superficial hoeing. Those are both techniques much used in British organic farming. Zero-dig is quite a popular method. However, if you're going to sow seed, you're going to need a decent tilth.
I used to be a monotheist and found the certainty it provided quite reassuring. It took a lot of time and contemplation in order to move beyond that, but now I'm quite comfortable to live with the uncertainty resulting from a non-faith outlook.

There are even some traditions that acknowledge the uncertainty of what we know e.g. [1]

But, after all, who knows, and who can say
Whence it all came, and how creation happened?
the gods themselves are later than creation,
so who knows truly whence it has arisen?

Whence all creation had its origin,
he, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not,
he, who surveys it all from highest heaven,
he knows - or maybe even he does not know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasadiya_Sukta
My proposal doesn't break anything. If site authors change things users will probably react against the sites. Currently browsing with cookies disabled works fine almost everywhere.

Moreover, a browser can easily differentiate an AJAX POST from a user submitting a form.
That argument only makes sense for informational websites with heavy focus on textual data. But the article looks at web apps like google maps. Good luck creating a static version of that.

+ I'm not saying 99.99% WANTS javascript, I'm saying 99.99% HAS javascript. And the economics of supporting the other 0.01% often don't add up.

So people can arrogantly claim here: 'If your site requires javascript, I don't want to use it'. But it's much more the website owner saying: 'If your browser doesn't support javascript, I don't want you as a user'. Since it probably costs more to have you as a customer then I will make out of it.
Learn an instrument.
Hey back phil
Theft is defined by law so no Tax is not theft. There isn't an objective definition of theft. No one owns anything by any other definition than what society or the strongest define.
This is called "charity", which is totally fine and also encouraged.
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If red is blue, then tax is theft. From a false premise, all conclusions can be drawn.

Theft is not taking involuntarily. Theft is taking illegally which is an important distinction to make. I take your watch. I want to keep it. It's taken from me against my will. That's certainly not theft.
In th natural/positive law debate, I am strongly on the natural side.
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Don't forget to claim the tax deduction though
A person owns himself or herself. Slavery is immoral and wrong even where it is legal or was legal.
Thank you sir, that helps
These laws are ridiculous. I've been looking for a cheap 5m² appartment for years, and couldn't find anything.

Some people just need a bed and a bathroom.
It's a small crime - the real crime is this web-site! These developers were the same ones who thought combining <blink> and <marquee> was a good idea in the '90s.
> > My (admittedly somewhat harsh) advice is to close your IDE and go interact - in person - with other humans.

> I've done enough of that.

I promise you haven't.
> I wonder what's up with all those MRI shortages in some places?

In Austria it's largely because the insurer wants people not to do MRIs unless necessary. So they typically sens you to an doctor first to confirm you need one, the approve from the insurer and then you get to wait a bit.

There are plenty of MRI machines in Austria because the place I got mine also takea publicly insured patients.
If false statements were made in order to exploit this loophole, I think it would count as theft under this argument.
Taxation is not theft in a democracy. If you don't like the taxes, campaign to have them changed. Or move to another country. We as a society agree to the taxes we have through our elected officials who represent us.
Its hard to keep up with those guys.
For me getting hooked to something else I am passionate about takes me away from work worries. I am currently hooked to Self-Driving Cars, doing a Nanodegree from Udacity.
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Partisan gerrymandering takes on many forms. There are also the convoluted voting blocs created to insure minority representation that can actually increase one parties representation over another based on how convoluted it is just so they don't run afoul of the courts; as in you don't make sure the selected group wins you are in court.

then the anecdotal bit, got a cousin who is in politics in a mid Western state following in her dad's foot steps. here is the dirty part, at county and city levels and even to state levels the parties negotiate who runs. sometimes they get a wild card but both pretty much work to stop that. she wanted a county seat moving up from her city district, one she got because the guy in both sides hated and no one else wanted it.

to get the county seat requires finding a way for the person in it to retire or get into state level politics. she cannot simply go up against this person because she won't have her parties help.

politics gets dirty at the earliest possible moment. gerrymandering only seems to be an issue to most when the wrong party manages to overcome it and take power. yet sometimes we need this type of distracting for the same reason how the House is set up. To prevent cities from overpowering the counties and other areas in the state.
Not to mention the discrepancy in the first graphic (which clogged up the screen with dropping money bags for 15 seconds):

> Total amount lost by the state due to the tricks: at least €3,100,000,000 (31.8 billion)

So which is it? 3.1 billion or 31.8 billion? It's not a minor difference!

Also, does anyone else have extreme difficulty reading text while an animated gif taking up 1/4th of the screen constantly loops? I usually scroll until the gif is off-screen so that I can continue reading. In this case it's impossible because there are multiple gifs per page so I can't scroll in any direction.
Maybe related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
If, yes, then I totally agree. But that's up to a judge to decide whether it was a false statement and/or claim.
Having numbers start at zero and count up to the actual value isn't an infographic - it's a cheesy animation and one that annoys fast readers.
It's already been submitted and discussed over here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14510270
So you're thinking that kind of technical mark-missing is the startup equivalent of the typos and other glaring errors in email scams? They're to weed out the people smart enough to be a problem?
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> Employing every legal trick to minimize taxes is moral and encouraged.

That's your opinion. Many people disagree that minimizing taxes through tricks and borderline "optimization" is moral (see: tax avoidance [0]).

Not everybody shares the same moral compass, as it is linked to many factors, including your political beliefs, country, education, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_avoidance#Public_opinion
Sometimes it feels like Node moves too fast. I mean.. there is some value in not releasing new stuff every week even if this update mostly seems to be bugfixes :P

I like when there is a relatively fast update cycle. But it also makes it so much easier to fall behind. Node 8.0 was released like 9 days ago.
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I don't get the number of people here commenting 'this isn't theft' and they're just exploiting legal loopholes.

Yes, you may be able to justify this legally, but it is a morally highly questionable behaviour nonetheless.

I mean jesus, aren't many people on here some kind of intellectual elite? And these are the people that argue FOR the ones fucking over the general populace for their personal gain?

This kind of shit has to stop and we should be the people stepping in for the little man. Unless of course you dream of one day profitting from the same anti-social tax-evasion bullshit.
it's actually due to a missing 0 and a misplaced comma.
From the Hacker News Guidelines:

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
> What the state could have done with €31.8 billion

If we start with these sorts of calculations, why not set the tax rate to 100%? Apparently the taxed populace doesn't ever do anything worthwhile with their money.
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Would this start you growing food at home?
The Bulgarian form is the same as the russian чай (chay).
Which relates to the Greek word used as a base for lepidopterist?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidopterology
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Yes, you may be able to justify this legally, but it is a morally highly questionable behaviour nonetheless.

Same goes for taxation itself. Many in this thread will argue that it cannot be theft since it is legal, which is absurd.
I think the person you're replying to is more just poking at potential holes in the parent's post or pointing out common mistakes. I find the incredulousness that the parent would miss on a tiny detail rather odd, since it happens to people even with the best laid plans, or simple items we simply overlook. These would be pretty common and easy to forget task if you think in a mode of "in operation" versus "out of operation", and even if you are "in operation" all the time, mistakes still happen.

I've re-read the parent's post a few times and it doesn't sit quite right with me as being as secure as they make it out to be, at least not to the point that you can "[sleep] quite soundly knowing [your] location was untraceable even with government-level resources aimed at tracking us down."

Operating on two assumptions that the government was both interested in finding you and willing to spend resources, I think that the majority of the above is just security theatre. The transaction at the POS associates the pre-paid cards, the phones, and the pre-paid plans for the phone. Even if they don't buy data for the phone, if it's 3g enabled, as far as I know, this is easily traceable to some accuracy.

So even if the invidual isn't directly linked, a location, time, and purchase are all associated. This gets you CCTV of the store and a general build of the person, even if they're bundled up. From there, the blanket surveillance cameras are likely enough to get a general direction of where the individual went, and probably enough to think to check local taxis or ride shares, etc. Plus, activating the phone itself is a potential threat as there is some degree of tracking available via cell phone signals. [1]

Honestly, even if there's not a direct link, I think there's enough to get you in the ballpark for where to be looking if the assumptions about who is looking for you with what resources, and this even avoids having to use expensive and out-there methods and techniques; these are already used readily in day to day police business, and even by private corporations. Just look up stories about lost children at Disney World and see how fast they could find children with just cameras and staff on the ground during the 90's. It's even easier now with all the technology Disney includes in the experience, but with just CCTVs recording to tape, they usually had a resolution within an hour.

Seems to me it'd make more sense to just have a patsy do the errands for them and pass it along so that it goes from buyer through some agents ultimately to the user.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking

Edit: Included the wiki link I forgot :p
Is your arrogant and condescending tone really necessary here?
If you tried to double count R&D spending with a subsidiary and request both tax credits in excess of your liabilities, then yes... I'd say you still owe taxes, interest and penalties.

That is what the article is about, claiming the same tax rebate for the legal fiction that there are 2 simultaneous owners of a stock due to a short sale.

If you allow that, why not let me sell your short sale short, and then sell that short so that there are 8,16, or 32Billion rebates to be had.

Legal fiction is the key... and yes, they let lobbyists rewrite the law promising they wouldn't exploit the new one, but they were caught doing it again (on the excluded foreign accounts).
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It will be ignored. There is so much investment - financial and emotional - in the alcohol industry, that this study will be smeared, discredited, and buried, within months.
> Not British so genuinely asking - to what degree? Greater than "thing that bends"?

I'm Irish, not British, but the slangs are similar. "Bender" (on it's own) would mean a gay man. "on a bender" would mean a drunken thing. I'm not sure if people ever need a word for "thing that bends", since that rarely comes up. People might say "bendy bus" for an articulated bus.

As evidence, I give you Ofcom, the British state body which regulates things on TV & Radio. If you say offensive things on TV/Radio, they'll fine you. They did research in 2016 about offensive words[1][2] and have listed them and have advice. For "bender" they say class it as "Strong language, generally unacceptable. Seen as old-fashioned, but derogatory to gay men." [2]p10, and class it alongside: "dyke", "tranny", "homo", "lesbo", "muff diver", "he-she", "tranny", "carpet muncher" or "bum boy".

That should give you an idea of whether it's acceptable to use it now.

"Box" is not on that list, I don't know what that means. "Dick" is listed as "Strong language, generally unacceptable pre-watershed. Seen as vulgar and distasteful by many. Less problematic when used in a humorous context, and generally considered slightly milder than ‘cock’.", which is a similar classification to "bender", or "raghead", "negro", "kike", "slut", "cocksucker", etc

[1] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/91624/O...

[2] https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0023/91625/O...
Are 1 minute vlogs doable? Sure... it depends on you. You have to have a story. No story, no subscribers.

So, if you can tell a story in 1 minute or less... then I think it would work.
basing states' moral rights on the monopoly of violence (instead of secondary concerns like avoiding the tragedy of the commons and establishing a baseline living standard) opens the door to justifying pretty much any violent state action. Governments having a monopoly on violence means they technically have a monopoly on genocide too, but that doesn't mean it's morally acceptable.
i've got the same problem but the opposite way, i'm struggling on not bringing emotion from home to work
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This is presumably a folk etymology of the French or English word "chocolate", not of the Aztec word "xocolatl"
Notable changes: only a few bugfixes and minor improvements?

Or am I reading this incorrectly?
HN has a lot of extreme libertarians who are going to automatically applaud any subversion of the tax system. That's why the comments on this article are a trash fire.
How is that true, Oauth2 doesn't set any cookies, it uses query strings, https and redirects.

Maybe you are thinking about displaying the logged in state for things like Like Buttons or other social widgets that you'd be signed into such as Disqus or Facebook comments?
I don't want to start a political dispute over here, but the private pension funds scheme is a theft by itself. The country transfers money over to these pension funds, and by doing that it raises it's own debt. Now it has to sell bonds to cover that debt. That bonds are being bought by the very same funds. Country will have to buy them back, but with a loss. In the end: the profit on that pension funds is, in fact, funded by the citizens themselves. The only beneficiaries are the funds themselves, as they got the margins, and take a some sickly huge commission.

In short: it was an unpopular but wise decision by the former Polish gov to stop this scam. I believe that the current government is going further into that direction. Also a good move.
I am in the same situation as you, but without the savings plus I'm unemployed for 2 years now.

But why would you say such thing? You had nothing as a child and used that as your strong motive, you have managed to save some money and if God forbid you lose your savings, do you think you won't be able to make them again? I doubt it!

You sound like a strong person, so don't be afraid of anything. Everything and I mean it, everything happens for a reason.
I like the analogy to body maintenance.

I think we should just admit that therapists have two modes - an acute mode for treating the mentally ill, and a "personal trainer" mode. With the latter, therapists do the same for the mind that personal trainers do for the body: they teach you to feel and occupy your mind so you best know how to gain strength, avoid injury, and move with economy and grace. They catch bad postures and minor twinges before they lead to strain and injury. They identify and strengthen weak points in order to keep the whole thing in balance.

You can live without a therapist-trainer just like you can live life without a personal trainer. But those lucky enough to have one will live a life with less injury and hardship, and have accomplishment and contentment within easier reach.

People in "life-long therapy" tend to be the objects of ridicule. But IMO many of them (maybe unconsciously?) are actually onto something - that lifelong therapy is actually a pretty good idea. Maybe they keep coming back not because they are self-involved and enjoy drama, but because they've found that, even though they can do without just fine, they do much better with.
Groves originally pushed back against the very idea that the military wouldn't be the ones choosing the targets!
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The notion that tax is theft is absurd.
Well, you can always wait for a year before you check if they released a new version.
Yet to be determined I guess. Cum-ex wasn't explicitly mentioned as forbidden between 1992 and 2011, cum-cum wasn't forbidden until 2016.

In my absolute layman's opinion cum-cum trickery might have been legal unless forbidden, but cum-ex sounds more like fraud than exploiting loopholes - and the state has sued all the people and organisations involved starting from 2014 - looking for tax evasion and fraud convictions...
> And these are the people that argue FOR the ones fucking over the general populace for their personal gain?

You seem to assume that everybody here has (or should have) more sympathy for 'general populace' or 'little man' than the other side. Why? Have you spend considerable time of your life with 'general populace' and 'little men' at all?
Yes, which is also what the version number communicates: http://semver.org/
I usually would stop by grocery shop instead, and walk around looking for ideas to cook. But this is because I enjoy cooking and anyone in the house will not talk _heavy_ things while I am in the kitchen. I'm basically buying time for myself to be _not really at home_ for the first few hours.
> I mean jesus, aren't many people on here some kind of intellectual elite? And these are the people that argue FOR the ones fucking over the general populace for their personal gain?

Intellectual elite does not have relationship to morals - those properties are quite independent. Moreover, people who consider themselves intellectual elite tend to look down on general populace.
I was not just the oil shock; suddenly they had Japan with its more efficient industry that made GM cars look bad, in GB the the unions were a bit too powerful (too much power isn't good for any entity)
EU agriculture has extremely large dependence on soy from Argentina and Brazil. [1]

It's on a good path as in, it acknowledges the issue and is working through regulations to remove the dependence or drastically reduce the dependence.

[1]: http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/agriculture/soy/so...
I've never seen it on wired.com, because I use uBlock Origin and NoScript. You don't have to put up with that shit either, if you don't want to.
Since it's not a major version and Node is pretty good about respecting semver, you can either relatively safely blindly upgrade within the major version, or not care that much about "falling behind". Meanwhile, the fast movement means that people with good use for the changes in this release have fast access to them.
No, no, no. Fuck that. I cannot understand this kind of sociopathic attitude to morality, even on Hacker News. Theft is a social and moral concept. Right and wrong are not defined purely by what's legal. The law is just a (flawed) attempt to codify a society's moral consensus, not an excuse for individuals or organisations to abdicate all personal moral judgement.

If a child in a nursery grabs away another child's juice box for themselves, they haven't broken any law, but it's still theft. If an autocratic government passes a law allowing it to seize the assets of a minority group, it's still theft. If a bank exploits legal loopholes to take billions of taxpayer's money, it's theft, regardless of whether it's legal.
It's not like I tried to hurt anyone
I've gotten burned by this in my ember projects a few times (admittedly some of it was my fault for not consistently updating all the packages in my package.json), so I just stick to LTS releases (which is still node 6) with all these platforms and frameworks now. Don't have time to keep up with all these changes so often, and I suspect others are in the same boat.
The scientific name for garden strawberries Fragaria × ananassa. They are hybrids of F. virginiana and F. chiloensis (both of which come from the parts of the Americas referred to in their names). They apparently have a pineappley aroma in comparison to their native European cousins, F. vesca.
No they dont own themself there is no such thing in nature as owning yourself. It's something we have agreed upon over thousands of years but you don't actually own yourself.

If you are the strongest you can stand for yourself but there is no natural law that prevents someone from making you a slave of them.
It is interesting how people react when you tell them something that is not part of the script they are used to hearing. Some laugh things like this off because they are uncomfortable with what you are telling them and have no other way to deal with it other than to joke.
Yeah, but here it's not really about food, here it's about huge stockpiles of cheese, or about draining the water from the dry areas for cattle.

That's not food, that's luxury. Subsidies aren't necessary if you are seeking luxury, it's a waste.
Here is a github-hosted copy that isn't subject to the hosting rate-limits until we sort out what to do:

https://sashatrubetskoy.github.io/romanmap/

Edit: I am not the author, I'm too old for this :)
No, not because it's legal - because it's collectively agreed upon to be a necessary thing. That it's legal is a result of that - you're mixing cause and effect.
Ish, the map is for Britain (at least most of it), but the figures are for the UK as a whole as it covers all the 650 seats. I didn't have a good map I could swap in to cover NI as well.