skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also not to forget is that sometimes companies make "deals" with countries, to pay less taxes than what was owed in the first place: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-apple-tax/apple-to-p...
Because usually what makes a society work is not really seen. I hate bureaucracy but an iron-clad property system and a lot of check and balance to reduce corruption are needed. And this can take decades to put in place as it requires a change in people's mentality.
> This is pretty dangerous thinking.

Dangerous thinking? It was just an answer to a claim about the wealth they create as if they are exempt to be taxed because they create wealth.

> Over time, these companies will make infinitely more from developing nations outside of the EU than they would from the EU.

Over time, but I bet that any of those companies wouldn't trade the profit of one of the greatest markets in the world now for an hypothetical

> especially if the EU is taxing them heavily.

EU is not taxing heavily
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I like to think that countries that are rich have figured out things about themselves that they have and are really needed by the rest of the world, and so they provide those services to the rest of the world for a price and use the proceeds from those services to develop the infrastructure and well-being of their country; for instance a very important well-being improving task is diversifying their economy, this they do to protect against unforeseen shifts in the global market.

The summary of this is that rich country figured out low hanging and easy fruits of services(for them that is, as if it was easy for others they could not hope to sell such services.) they could provide for a fortune and use those proceeds from those services to chase after high hanging fruits of services they could deliver to the world as those one's usually require intense capital.

Poor countries therefore either have not figured out services they could provide for the world or they have figured it out but are not investing the proceeds from it in the infrastructure and well-being of their country, being a Nigerian I would say most poor African countries are poor not because of the former but the later due to corruption,tribalism,e.t.c.
I'm not sure what you think I suppose to mean. The economic impact of colonialism is already an active area of study. I'm just pointing out that it exists.
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Why? I see why it might be a good idea depending on what problem you are trying to solve, but I don't see why anything has to have any references to its children in order to be a tree node.
> Live example (will crash due to memory leak): https://s3.amazonaws.com/chromebugs/memory.html

Happy to report that no crash in Nightly.

Edit: No crash in Edge either.
Are you ... wow. You're right.

She really had me with the "imagine PowerPoint in Linux without a VM!".
That's definitely a valid concern.

> “Twenty per cent is a large sum of money, and if your competitors are avoiding the 20% you can’t compete,”

Twenty percent is huge in retail trade. Many sellers have single-digit margins. Having a huge player engaged in such behavior on a massive scale means effectively eliminating all competition. They should compete, but on equal terms. They will probably still win, but at the same time contribute to the well-being of the society by paying taxes (just like everyone else).
> incurring the wasted bandwidth of this header to my users

Can you attach a concrete number to this? I think I found the example header and it's around 91 bytes, right?

How many requests do you need to service before this becomes a real issue?

You could also just build it from source...
> My other understanding is that the tax laws of all the EU countries are not controlled by the EU, but by the individual countries?

This is partially but not 100% correct. Tax laws are controlled or "administered" by individual countries but overseen by EU directives. This means that while individual countries apply the law, their application must comply with EU guidelines. The Irish government has been found guilty in EU court of violating EU law in a tax deal they made with Apple, and this is following on examining tax deals Ireland (or other states, I'm not quite clear on that point myself?) has(/have) made with other large multinationals, and what they would/could be found similarly guilty of were it brought before an EU court.
> Firefox always clicks when starting and stopping each tone. I think that's due to a longstanding Firefox bug and not the Web Audio API. I could mostly elminate the clicks by ramping the gain, but the threshold was different for each computer.

You sure it is not due to the sound files you are using not having a normalized start?
Not a reasonable conversion for mainly two reasons:

* Ireland is a stepstone to not taxing most of their profits at all. Read about the double Irish with a Dutch sandwich (expiring in 2020). Google for example was (is?) an aggressive user of this technique.

* Ireland has made (according to the EU) illegal custom agreements with multinationals. These erode the taxable base in a way that has no link with reality whatsoever. That goes against OECD and EU principles.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/technology/apple-tax-eu-i...
That would be Scala. (http://www.scala-lang.org/)
Anything left in space will likely be destroyed or stolen. Anything in stations (ships, parts, materials, etc) and your cash will still be where you left them. If that's a player-owned station that changed hands while you were out, or you get kicked from corp for inactivity, you won't be able to dock to get at them, but you can try to firesale them (post a contract offer to sell the lot cheap), and likely someone with access to the station will buy.

Often people who are leaving will either have their assets moved somewhere they'll certainly have access to later or just liquidate (generally on better than firesale terms).

Citadels (like the keepstar that changed hands) work differently: you can get everything in a citadel moved to the nearest suitable npc station at the cost of 15% of its value and a 20-day wait, worst case (google "eve asset safety" for the full details).
Ad spending ultimately comes from sales revenue from physical goods and services and is intended to drive those sales.
> It rarely works well with any multinational.

how many multinationals have left any big market just for taxation?
> CBP agent can stop, search, and detain anyone within 100 miles of an International airport.

This assumes a sequence of events that never occurs in reality.

CBP / LEO attempts to detain you > The Law pops it's head out from behind a bush and wags it's finger > CBP / LEO sees this and thinks 'oh, of course, silly me, that's not allowed' > you go about your day.

In reality: CBP / LEO believes* they have sufficient reason to detain you > your day is fucked. They'll probably rough handle you, stomp on your head, and generally be degenerate asshats. There's no one present to advocate for and protect your rights.
The reason I thought RC Plane is because of the cool factor and you can get the polystyrene starter kits that can survive a hefty crash plus it's a change to teach him about electronics and we can attack a camera to it.

He also wants to build a robot so I'm thinking something tracked with camera's and sensors.
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Chris Rogers started implementing his API in 2009, about three years before Chrome for Android was first released.

And do you seriously think in 2009 some corporate overlord said to Chris Rogers, "Android is going to be big, and so is Chrome for Android, but we've decided Android will have a crappy audio stack for several years, so you need to design around that"?
I think it just happens randomly, and here is the answer about the mechanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyHVwUe66qw
I watched my patients die of poverty for 40 years
Equifax hacked using two month old vulnerabilty
Google Docs is centralized. Maybe you meant Google Reader ?
It doesn't just have to be tech companies, but the interesting thing is the abuse of 'intellectual property' (a thing which governments literally imagined in to existence) being used to transfer around wealth through agreements that, without it, wouldn't hold any water.
Funny because I used to be a "Linux developer", if there is such a thing, for a long time. But nowadays I consider myself a developer who has invested my time and energy into the Microsoft ecosystem.

Why? Because never before have I felt so productive on Windows and together with my dissatisfaction with desktop linux it was an easy choice.

With .NET Core, the console actually gets usable and today Powershell is simply a fantastic tool. Stuff that used to be a pain to setup is already there when you install Visual Studio. Things like git used to be hard to have to handle (I prefer the console) but now it is no longer true. I don't even run git bash.

If you want to run stuff that usually is hard/annoying to run on Windows, for example Ruby or PHP it is today a breeze with the linux subsystem.

I use .NET nowadays and together with Azure it's just unbeatable IMO. I get start a new project and have it deployed withing minutes complete with a database. It's super easy to setup git push deploy and you can deploy from the IDE as well. Node is setup with a click, it feels like it's almost better implemented on Windows than on linux. With both VS Code and the normal VS, setting up stuff like task runners or to compile typescript is now simpler than ever.

I don't really know what devops you're talking about because I think .NET Core is much easier to run in production and you can still run it on the .NET Framework if you want that.
Mastodon is not successful by any metric compared with even the smallest social networks, let alone the giants
Yes, there was. It is literally called "The Great Divergence".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Divergence
Unfortunately the macOS version still has really annoying issue for virtual desktop users: the editor windows are not restored to their previous virtual desktops after restart/reboot. Instead, all windows will open on the current desktop.

If you wish this to be fixed, please comment the related forum post: https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/macos-window-restoration-to-...
VC investors are just as human as you and me. Manipulating people into parting with their social-economic power is essentially a solved problem. What Magic Leap says their gonna sell isn't.
That is absolutely not true.

If you send coins your wallet generates a new key for the remaining coins.

At that point your old backup is useless - it has a key that no longer works.

And yes, people have lost coins because of not knowing this.
That is a major on-the-desktop constituency, though: company standard builds. If companies struggle to do it, that reflects badly on the system as a solution. There is a difference between something being technically feasible, vs a realised outcome.

I have had a shot at building a standard desktop on top of ubuntu. My situation was easier than most in that we only had two desktops to support (a thinkpad and a dell laptop). still, making driver setup work seamlessly is hard. Imagine a company with twenty variations and an audit directive to not give root to users.

WSL has huge potential to this market. You get a linux ui and kernel api, and it complements your existing standard build strategy.
wondering the same
Hear hear!!
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In 2009 NVIDIA wouldn't give Geoff Hinton's group the time of day, let alone a single free GPU to try out to see if they wanted to buy more. Geoff Hinton spoke at a NIPS keynote in 2009 and told 1000 people in the audience to all go out and buy a specific NVIDIA card if they wanted to do work in this area and still NVIDIA didn't bat an eye.
Economists can sometimes be the equivalent to the priests of the past--basically making justifications for the ruling class.

I was once passionate about economics and public policy... If we are to be honest about it, at some point you just realize that the world is much less nice than I imagined, and it's that way because of people's greed.

That's not to say there aren't a fair good number of decent people out there, but those people are rarely found in powerful positions; and if they are, they are still susceptible to being corrupted.
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Did you talk to hiring managers before to make sure this is something they would like?
IMO Kik messenger is a classic case of a company that had 5 funding rounds, never really took off, and are now jumping on the blockchain bandwagon with a 'feasible' idea for a coin use case just to please their investors. I've been following them for a while. They claim to have a lot of users but not once they released DAU or MAU, only "Users" which they claimed to be 500mm (registration with no verification). + They've had a range of different scandals (child pornography, pedophila, just google it) which they are not planning to solve.

*https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kik-interactive#/ent...
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No, just do 8-bit clean, don't SCREW with the encoding if you weren't asked to.
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Japan and Germany were completely devastated after WWII, on a scale we have never witnessed in our lifetimes, yet they rose out of the Ashes.

So no, it's not colonialism.

It has to be something less visible. Something that a country like Afghanistan for example severely lacks.

You might point to dictatorships, but I would point to South and North Koreas.

South Korea was ruled by a brutal dictatorship for decades, in a way not so different from Egypt today. Yet that did not stop it from developing.

Even North Korea fares a lot better than many third world countries that have little to no enmities with their neighbors. I suspect the only reason North Korea sucks is because of the pressures/blockades imposed on it by the US (mostly for historical reasons).
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Except not really, since in Swedish, it's sorted xyzåäö, not aåäbc. Also, it used to be that w and v were equivalent sorting-wise and you'd mix them together.
my knowledge of finance

... apparently does not include knowing that "principle" and principal have different meanings.
Correlation, causation... Tomahto, tomayto...
Ireland is only able to charge such low corporation tax due to the generous subsidies it receives from the EU too.
Cultural differences and tendency for bigger cultures to push theirs onto smaller cultures.

Source: living in a country that run away from bigger brother few decades ago.
Obligatory XKCD to remember: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cells.png
The impact of colonialism is studied
under the institutionalist approach
to growth theory

What is the institutionalist approach? What is growth theory?

authors being Acemoglu and Robinson.

Who?

The submission doesn't elaborate on it,
but the literature is out there.

I'm not trying to be a smart-ass, but I'd like to know more after reading your comment than I did before.
And really, who isn't looking to raise at a $6B valuation that hasn't released a product yet ?
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I really hope a new tax bill comes through, I am tired of US companies (and others) that can simply avoid paying tax while small shops pay a lot of taxes in the EU. They use our well developed infrastructure for their own benefit and does not pay anything back.

I hope they get a fat bill.
The callout quote is particularly useful to me in framing the discussion:

"The existence of the power [of Google and Facebook] is a problem, independently of its exercise. As the benevolence of a despot does not remove the despotism, so it will not remove the power of the big brotherhood."

Also h/t /r/philosophy on Reddit for surfacing this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/6zwh0j/princeto...
> As an additional bonus, besides being formally verified, the HACL Curve25519 implementation is also almost 20% faster on 64 bit platforms than the existing NSS implementation

Bravo! Looking forward to that.
If you feel strongly about the cause, maybe you can just donate to the EFF and ACLU rather than possibly causing yourself a bad day.
Blueberry costs are about 50% labor.
Ireland has sovereignty over its tax law to a certain extent. For VAT for example there is an EU minimum standard rate of 15% (with an option for a reduced rate).

One of the biggest loopholes is _finally_ expiring in 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement .

Something else Ireland is limited in is custom tax deals/rulings with individual companies. As an EU member state, one can not just decide to apply an individual tax base or tax rate reduction without basing this in reality, hence https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/technology/apple-tax-eu-i... .
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In the time it probably took you to type that comment, I compiled caddy from source. I've never even used it before, but in general Go programs are very easy to build.
I wonder what would happen if G/F just upped and "left" the EU? Ensuring to close every physical location as they did so. I wonder how much of a bind the politicians would be trying to remain in power as they would be in the position of trying to add Google and Facebook to the ban list or just continuing like normal except with less tax revenue.

Does anyone here really believe that any EU bureaucrat would ban Facebook and Google? Enforce a massive ban like China or some dictatorship? I think it's one thing to never have had. It's another to have had and then have it taken away. The latter is infinitely more painful.
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Or East vs West Germany.
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Exactly. Using non-portable formats when there are portable alternatives is simply stupid.
For the past century raw scores on IQ tests have been rising; this score increase is known as the "Flynn effect," named after Jim Flynn. In the United States, the increase was continuous and approximately linear from the earliest years of testing to about 1998 when the gains stopped and some tests even showed decreasing test scores. For example, in the United States the average scores of blacks on some IQ tests in 1995 were the same as the scores of whites in 1945.[61] As one pair of academics phrased it, "the typical African American today probably has a slightly higher IQ than the grandparents of today's average white American."[62]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

IQ is a culture thing not a brain thing
Or the alternative is that they've seen things we haven't. Who would miss the opportunity to build the next Apple?
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GitSavvy is a really thought-out Git integration for easy staging/commiting/stashing.
It's one of the things that make people say Wow when they see me work.

Also I use a small plugin to add terminal commands to the command palette which is very useful. Can't remember is name though.
This is a very fair point.
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Text styles used to do geometric layout.

A brilliant idea.
>> This is pretty dangerous thinking. The EU only has half a billion people. Thus, the truth is: Over time, these companies will make infinitely more from developing nations outside of the EU than they would from the EU. especially if the EU is taxing them heavily.

Disagree. Think about advertisers. A lot of products popular in the US are popular in the EU. When it comes to marketing the latest Hollywood blockbuster if they can't reach half a billion people through Facebook they'll go elsewhere. If half a billion people suddenly disappear from Facebook those people who have friends and family there will turn to other communication systems and Facebook may get used less and less.
is nftables production ready ? or is everyone still at iptables/ipchains ?
> "and then a miracle occurs"

In my understanding, this "miracle" is human general intelligence. I think that any dynamic pattern-matching and model-building entity will experience a certain degree of "consciousness". Conscious experience is the entity's internal modeling of its own sensory input [1]. And likewise, conscious thought is the entity's modeling of its own internal state and processes (including the modeling process itself).

[1] This includes things like seeing my friend walk down the street. This sensory input is incredibly more difficult to model than in an alternative scenario where I'm looking at a red apple resting on a table.
Perhaps exit == entrance.
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It's similar with European companies not using US-based cloud products or cloud providers.
Is that actually a bug? If you start a tone instantly without ramping the volume, the first sample should be relatively loud, which will click. It is reasonable to want and even expect a different behavior, but it might not be what is specced.
I'm also Turkish, and believe me, when you have a dictator with his troll army, sucking the life out of the whole country, you'll wish you had the typical corrupt but manageable government from the 90s. The types we have these times would stand next to a kilometer-long list documenting their illegal business and say "we did what needs to be done for our great country" and everyone would cheer while you make escape plans. Hi from Germany(the risk of being falsely labeled as a teenager won't stop me: I<3🇩🇪).
Well the issue is not the competition on tax, it's tax avoidance/evasion. You can't compete on tax with fiscal paradises that provide no infrastructure to operate a business.
Most of the corporations within EU simply create shell companies in Luxembourg and artificially siphon off their profits so that they can pay 1% tax there instead of aprox 20% within EU. Luxembourg doesn't contribute with anything(i.e. infrastructure) to their profit thus I believe this is not "fair".
If this[1] is not tax evasion I don't know what tax evasion is

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/05/-sp-luxembo...
This is exactly what I was talking about. It is not a camp, it is simply a normal state of mind, the baseline. Now religions will never ever agree with me and that is what makes us different.
I switched to JetBrains IDEs quite some time ago, but Sublime is still my favorite scratchpad. What make sublime so much better than other editors is how fast and usable it is. I don't want it to be as fancy as VSCode, I just want it to be fast.
As a citizen of a developing country (Nepal) which has been haunted by its unstable politics, I'd still like to (partially)advocate that even less-developed nations(at least some) have invaluable resources (mostly natural) that the urbane nations can't renew for themselves. For instance, here in Nepal, there's a massive open market for tourism due to the remarkable landscapes(mountain ranges, "Everest", geographically blessed I'd say) & ancient cultural heritages(sacred Hinduism & Origin of Buddhism).
Had there been a proper salutation of foreign indulgence in exploiting the resources over here, Nepal would have done much better. Hence, the political mayhem has led our country nowhere productive. :(