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> Why should the family I was born to determine wether I have clean water to drink or not, for example?

Because of this thing called reality.

If the circumstances of your birth are unfortunate, that's sad, but it does not have to be other people's problem.
He fully deflected the elevator and bounced the nose gear. With zero passengers. You put 6 adults and a co-pilot forward of the rear gear and I bet even bouncing will be out of the question. But we don't know if the ground speed was even representative of take off, so we're all just guessing here. With regard to cooling you can see an evolution here in the BBC photos: the first two images show no cooling ducts on either side of the TAC-003 engine compartment, but later images show several. I think geff82 is probably spot on about the design.
No worse than the pitiful connections I had over the course of 7 years in Austin. American internet is not a high bar.
To be fair a lot were clamoring behind Bernie Sanders. But Hillary bent the DNC to do some fairly corrupt shit and so you got Trump. The democrats are still trapped by this neolib-technocrat-west-wing fantasy-land where the best person at debating wins regardless of the fact they don’t actually stand for anything.
Interestingly this was the premise behind Brownback's tax plan in Kansas:

Small businesses were being held back by their tax burden. They wanted to invest more capital in their businesses, to scale up and hire more people. They had untapped opportunities in the market that they could not pursue because they didn't have the money that they would have if their taxes were lower.

Here's how that worked out: http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/336684-kansas-legisl...

Ratings agencies downgraded Kansas's bonds, forcing the
state to pay more in borrowing costs. Funding for state
school programs fell, and the Kansas Supreme Court ruled
the state government was not adequately funding schools.
Earlier this year, legislators grappled with a budget
deficit of almost $900 million.

In 2016, voters kicked out a handful of anti-tax
Republicans, in favor of challengers who backed higher
taxes, despite Brownback's opposition.
I do not quite understand what you want to tell us with such a comment? So what? If injustice is done, but we were not able fix it the last time it was brought up, we should just let it be?

(And honestly, I am also surprised that something like this shows up on hackernews. (In 2007:) Why does Apple come up with a touch screen mobile phone, those did not make profit the last time they come up. (Early 2010s:) Why does Musk invent an electric car, those things disappeared after the 20s for a reason.)
"But he borrowed 160 mln against the building"

This is where your argument collapses. The building dramatically increased in value - that's why he was able to borrow so much against it. That's the real estate game - and it's legit.
What a crock of shit. Hilary Clinton, John Podesta, and Robert Mueller knowingly sold 20% of Americas HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM to Russia and Barack Obama knew about it. Its high treason that would have gotten each and every one of them executed just 30 years ago, but now the msm and the shills want to still say trump is tied to Russia.

Trump before the campaign has almost zero ties to Russia, and even if he did it's not illegal for a real-estate mogul to have ties with Russia. Trump after starting his campaign has had zero ties with Russia. ZERO. Comey,McCabe,Clapper,Brennon,Yates,Nunes,Fienstien,Schiff,Burr, and even Maxine "dead horse" Waters have stated on record multiple times, "There is absolutely no evidence of Russian collision with the trump campaign during the election." That's 2 FBI directors, a director of national intelligence, a CIA director, an assistant attorney general, 2 highest ranking senators on senate intel committee, 2 highest ranking congressman on house intel committee, and a dead horse all saying no Russian collusion.

Multiple CNN executives have said (hidden camera) that the entire Russian collusion that they pushed for 7-8 months is 100% a nothing burger. Wikileaks emails show that the dnc used the Russian collusion narrative as a smokescreen since day fucking 1. Seymour hersh, one of the most respected multi-pultzer prize winning journalists confirmed it was Seth rich, not Russia that gave Wikileaks the emails of the dnc. Julian Assange, the creator of wikileaks hinted at seth rich being the source for dnc leaks on many different occasions. Kimdotcom has evidence seth rich was the source of the dnc leaks through his supposed contact with seth before the dnc killed him. IT specialists mathematically proved that the dnc leaks could have only been downloaded through a USB connection, and that it was mathematically impossible for Russia to have hacked and downloaded the dnc leaks with current tech. Trump and Russia collusion is a complete and utter lie. Enough is a fucking enough, how long are shills gonna protect the lying scumbags from the fbi (mueller, comey, mccabe), the clinton crime family, and the podesta crime family?
In small towns businesses are also often smaller and it's easier to get the boss or owner to OK a work schedule that avoids rush hour traffic.
As it has been said in another comment this should link to the whole playlist or the video with playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ASFxKS9sg&list=PLbg3ZX2pWl...

Otherwise it's just an intro.
He shouldn't share this arbitrage strategy because if others do it, its profitability will decrease -- like all arbitrage strategies.
I would say that technical competence is not one of the 2 things you need to make it in the business.

You only need to find work and get paid.

Technical competence is just a bonus that may improve longevity, sometimes.
> Do you as a citizen strive to minimize your tax burden to the most extent it makes sense and is legal?

The problem is that regular citizens do not have access to means of minimizing their taxes to the extent that the wealthy have. It's been shown over and over again that corporations and wealthy individuals can shrink their tax rates to be as low as 2%. Nobody else can get that low. That is the fundamental problem: that in practice there is a law for the rich and one for everybody else.

This is not unlike the sort of privileges European aristocracy used to enjoy up to the XVIII century. It took a number of violent uprising to change that state of things, let's hope it won't be necessary this time.
Oh sure, Columbus is way more progressive than just about anywhere else in southern Indiana, save Bloomington (home of Indiana University). But still, my high school graduating class of 350 had one black kid and a couple Hispanics. There were more Japanese than any other minority, and that was because Cummins had hired their parents from the manufacturing powerhouses there.

Several of my friends had lived their entire lives in the area, the type of family where both of their grandparents lived within 30 minutes, and they had no will or desire to leave and explore the rest of the country. Most of them grew up in racist and homophobic families, so making remarks and jokes was commonplace. It didn't seem so at the time, but now having left I realize just how rampant it was, and I'm actually a little ashamed to have taken part in it.
I often wonder how birda do this (because I have one at home). Their eyes are on the side of their head, pointing in almost completely opposite directions.

Yet they’re able to accurately land on things and generally exhibit behavior that indicates they have pretty good 3D vision. Then again my bird often sticks his foot out to step on my finger when the finger is still an inch away. So maybe not as good at depth perception as humans.
I don't really get the hysteria.

I work for an American company in San Francisco that has Tencent (practically an arm of the Chinese government) as a major investor. The number of times our CEO came in and told me that we need to implement features that benefit our geopolitical competitor is exactly zero.

What precisely do all the commenters that are panicking here think happens at companies where the investors are people who became rich with the help of the governments of Russia and China?
Terms and their meanings evolve over time to match usage.
Should we expect a right to “privacy” w/r/t a large-scale international conspiracy to support money laundering, tax evasion, bribery, embezzlement of poor countries’ budgets, illegal arms deals, and the like?

This seems substantially different than breaching attorney–client privilege. Unless the attorneys involved were actively helping their clients to plot ongoing or future crimes, in which case I say haul the bastards in.

There might be isolated rich people who did nothing strictly unethical or unlawful, and get caught up in scandal by the mere appearance of shady dealings. I can’t bring myself to feel too deeply sorry for them though. Nobody forced them to park their money in secret offshore banks famous for extralegal activity.
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Revenue is revenue. Profits are profits. In this case, I'm guessing, it was revenue over $1m.
Clearly you just fly it off. Trial by fire!
I don't think a drama about a historical event is called a "remake" :)
Do you leave the standard deduction on the table? Because this is what you’re asking corporations to do: not take the opportunities to reduce tax liability that we provide them.

How about let’s raise taxes instead.
The most painful parts of the Go ecosystem are directly tied to the fact that the Google is making Go for themselves first and foremost and the community is an afterthought.
If we say, 'others are doing wrong; therefore I must do the same in order to compete', then we always will do wrong because there always will be people like that out there. If we say 'this system can be gamed by people willing to do bad things, therefore I must do them or I'm at a disadvantage', then we always will do bad things - every system is vulnerable.
... and so the cycle continues :-) Seriously though, this is how the JS community ends up changing tools every 2-3 years. What about joining in and improving what exists? A non-trivial amount of work must have gone into webpack. As an outside observer, I see so much wasted effort.
Two things: it relieves me to see that you are in the minority with that kind of repellent thought. Second, I'm almost 100% sure that you would sing a very different tune if you had drawn the short stick in the birth lottery.
No one likes paying taxes but calling it theft is intellectually dishonest and hyperbolic that attempts to paint taxation as immoral for people who like to think emotionally rather than rationally.

I mean you happily use the services that taxes provide. Police, the legal system, roads, schools, libraries, anything created using the legal system, roads, schools or libraries, fuel exploration subsidies, research, etc. To use your hyperbolic analogy, using them without paying for them would be theft, therefore trying to mark taxation as immoral is trying to get out of paying for the services you use, which is in itself immoral and attempted theft.

Finally, if you don't like paying taxes that much, you have a couple of options: a. you can not make any money, or b. you can get a boat and live in international waters. Ironically, you would still be benefiting from services provided through taxation, namely sea lane protection from piracy provided by the US Navy, paid for with taxes.
Or Walmart could just dump the stuff back into their own fulfillment system.

I doubt it amounts to enough merchandise for them to care about though, regardless of the margin. They make money on low costs and volume.
The margins can be big! I've compared Walmart or Target products on Amazon vs. in the store. Sometimes they are 200% higher, however it tends to be on low priced products.

A bottle of vitamins on Amazon might be $9, but you can order them right now and get them delivered to your door. In the store it's $5. A LOT of people are willing to buy from Amazon evening knowing it's more.
Well, it's simple: the more effort you put at it, the better your results in this game. Effort == money (through using services of specialists), and so the more money you can spend on it, the more you can avoid taxes.

Sounds unfixable in general; the only thing you can adjust is severity of the phenomenon (e.g. less complexity in tax laws == less loopholes to exploit == cost/benefit curve on tax evasion grows slower).
I think the reason is that it's a local arbitrage, and it's limited in sypply. He is buying from his local stores, who probably have limited amount of such products on sale. So there's probably room for more doing the same strategy.
That's a splendidly clear demonstration of the double standard:

He believes that when people are trying to minimise their taxes, the only question is whether what they do is legal; "we" are supposed not to disapprove so long as that is the case.

But when journalists report information they have obtained, the idea of ethics is suddenly back. For some reason he doesn't expect "us" to think "We should expect journalists to publish things that will sell newspapers; so long as it isn't illegal we shouldn't disapprove".
That went pretty well in venezuela.
I don't think this is a new idea, but anyway it's not a proper "open source" license.
"how do we fund the things that are currently funded by taxation, which are actually necessary / desirable, without using violence or the threat of violence?"

Firstly, set up a gradually percentage-based system of mandatory contributions, based loosely on income, to be one's expected annual payment. Add in a unhealth dose of special-interest initiated loopholes. Next, split the whole entirely in half so you fall under an entirely different system if you earn your money working a 9-5. Finally set up a section of the government dedicated to enforcement of these statutes, with financial and penal penalties for violation.
"The Invention of Nature" about Alexander von Humboldt, by Andrea Wulf.

Very in-depth book about a naturalist who deserves to be much better known than he generally is. It also includes several chapters with mini-biographies of famous people who were influenced by Humboldt.
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Probably anything that is needed to ensure and maintain his status, such as property laws and protection against bodily harm, and not any thing else.
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At this point in history I'd argue that nation states have never been weaker. The idea that 'Russia' is behind anything is somewhat erroneous: powerful mobsters/oligarchs who have been enriched by looting Russia and other nation states and float their money offshore are 'Russia' in this context. That money is laundered into the western world.
The concept of a capitalist 'empire' that knows no nation state is often discussed by excellent journalists such as Abby Martin. The people who make up this 'empire' - a mix of Saudis, Zionists, Asian oligarchs, old euro money and various other oligarchs and mobsters arguably run the world....
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This "company" may be doing something else, additionally to these flipping schemes. Seminars are mentioned. Consulting may be something else. Or some other form of ecommerce.
You meant trapping but said hunting which is technically true, but makes people think of shooting instead.
When the general usage gets dumber and dumber, the terms should be avoided to retain precision in discussion.
Yup

The aspect of "VCs fine like him because he makes fewer requirements" is a very interesting one and I'm not in the least feeling sorry for the VCs
> The number of times our CEO came in and told me that we need to implement features that benefit our geopolitical competitor is exactly zero.

Why would anyone told you that? Clearly, someone would told you to implement X because Y when the real reason is Z.
> PLs arguments are very rarely falsifiable

You mean PL design, don't you? Performance work is very empirical. If my new type of inline cache is better then I need to prove that and it's falsifiable (using benchmarks, which I admit aren't ideal).
I suppose it's here I should make the customary Georgist call for Land Value Tax.
This is exactly spot on.

The article is just content marketing for him to sell his "get rich with an FBA business" course.
What a repellent atitude. "Fuck you got mine" in all its glory.
Then you're using "right" in a very different way from what we expect around here.
Yeah, but it wasn't plain land, there was a building on it.

the genius who downvoted this comment - please google how land value tax works.
It also means that said government has unfettered access to your books, reports and IP. They know everything you do. This can be significant in companies like Facebook, that are critical to propaganda efforts and are increasingly gamed in systematic ways by state actors. If they know everything about FB internal operations, they can probably exploit its weaknesses in very effective ways.

EDIT: to clarify, I used FB here as a generic example, I am not alleging that Milner got that sort of access at Facebook specifically - although it is possible, as others point out downthread. Corporate espionage certainly gets much easier when you have a seat on the board and/or you can do due diligence.
Sean Larkin's favorite game is to respond to every single Tweet containing the word "Webpack" and not help them in any way
Is the difference to Chinese and Saudi money floating in the valley that we expect violent repercussions for anyone that opposes some aspect of the financiers' wishes? Or is it just that Russia is the most outspoken big nation that takes a different stance on critical issues where, say, Saudi and DC are in agreement. And that this is a danger to post-WW2 US influence? Genuinely curious.

Back when Milner invested in Facebook I viewed it as potential money laundering and didn't think about it too much.
What does "manipulated into needing" mean, exactly?

The human race survived without computers for a couple of million years, so obviously we don't "need" them on an existential level.

In your scenario, who gets to decide what other people "need"?
Already the title has been changed to take his name off.
They clamor for justice behind anyone who will promise it to them, authoritatively, with or without merit. Trump is a symptom of the underlying problem.
Or. Why isn't it? Or might it be but we don't know, yet?

To me it seems like a combination of wild life and minimal - but enough - human contact with that. I mean, what's to stop deer ticks from something more than Lymes Disease? I would imagine it's nothing.

Yet, these things seem to happen in Africa nearly exclusively. What evolutionary context does this? This is, why?
Although I tend to agree with you, are you high enough up in the company to know how Tencent has influenced the company? Even so, much like you I'm skeptical that investing in startups is part of some illuminati scheme to spread political influence. I think people on the internet just love to jump on the bandwagon, and right now being associated with Russia is a controversial subject.

I think people with money want to invest in order to make more money. Unless people can point to Russian money somehow having an obvious pattern on startup investing, there just doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary (rich people trying to get richer).
I'd rather sum it as "live and let die"
How can you possibly believe that a society where a large percent of people are in prison is a healthy society?
I don't agree. Some rights are fundamental - the people who had their lives stolen by trans Atlantic slaving had their lives stolen. Their rights were violated. The fact that the social and political system of the time conspired to facilitate that doesn't make it less true.
I find later books in the series to be... well... a garbage. And it pains me to say that, because Nine Princes in Amber was jaw-droppingly impressive.
Gotcha. Perhaps REI? They carry a handful of brands and you can return anything you aren’t happy with.
Whether they're enforced exactions of voluntary contributions is not the Court's call to make. Some people are happy to pay their taxes, recognizing them as the perfectly reasonable cost of living in a functioning civil society (which, not coincidentally, is seen as the basis of their security and prosperity).

Others, for whom this connection may not be so clear, take a more exploitative view of the public sphere, in which their own role is all take and no give. They may see taxation as forced extraction, but that view is hardly shared by everyone. Moreover, were they allowed to act on this view freely, the public sphere would surely collapse - which a clear majority clearly recognizes.

In this regard, tax law is no different from laws against, say, murder. Most people are internally resistant to the thought of killing others. But the law still exists because "most" isn't "all". In cases of extreme anti-social behavior, the few - if allowed to run riot - really can secure tyrannical domination of the many (classic example: the mob in Sicily).
> I meant that even if Yuri's money was tainted in some way, it was being used as a counterweight to another bad thing.

Dammit, this is disappointing. I really thought pg was above saying things like that.

Between this, thiel, and some other things, I am quite bummed out.
Go and vim don't have "distributed package managers"; they just punt on package management altogether. The next step up from that is a centralized package management system, and if you care that much you'll probably build in some notion of versions (even if they're nondeterministic or otherwise broken, as in the case of pip, npm, and many Linux package managers). Building a distributed package manager is quite a lot more work.
Apple only exists because taxes - yes, including military spending - allows them to exist. You don't have high-tech corporations in failed states. Stable society, highly-educated people, solid economy - all of this is enabled and secured by a well-functioning state.
Would you consider the Iraq war a while?

Guantanamo?

Norriega?

Contras?

How long is a while? Or is only annexation considered the red line here?

If you want to blame Russians, you should blame the USSR for deporting the Crimean Tatars after WW2 as collective punishment. Being outraged at an annexation of a territory that was unilaterally given away 50 years earlier where not a single gunshot was fired while giving a free pass to an invasion of sovereign countries resulting a million deaths is not an argument everyone can agree with.
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When Saudis, Chinese or Russian individuals invest, they do so openly. When Uber took Saudi state money, they knew why the Saudis were buying. I think this sort of state-backed investing is fine.

The issue here is companies didn't treat Milner et al as an extension of the Russian state. They treated them as private individuals who made money in Russia. The difference is night and day. The latter want to make money like other investors. The former may want things other than money. Transparency allows one to be wary about suspicious requests, requests which may not seem suspicious without context.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Speak to a lawyer before accepting, or making, investments.
A lot of that is largely fictitious. If an employer health insurer doubles their prices, supposedly my compensation has increased a lot, but in fact, I'm poorer, because my share of the health insurance premium has increased and my coverage has not. The only one getting richer is the insurer.

Are we going to argue then that worker compensation in all the many countries with universal government-paid health insurance is also going through the roof? But my health insurance is identical whether I work or not...