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I'd prefer to learn the language to read it in the original form, but it's vice versa, people learn the language from translations of Homer.

Ancient Greek was not one language. Like any language, it had multiple dialects and evolved significantly over time. The big one is Ionic Greek, which was the source of the Greek of three time periods scholars care about: Homeric Greek, the language of Homer, named for him; Attic Greek, the language of the "golden age" of Athens; and Koiné Greek, the language of early Christian texts.

An analogy I've heard a few times is to compare Homeric Greek to Chaucer's English; Attic to Shakespeare's English; and Koiné to modern vernacular.

The usual approach is to teach Attic, since it has a large, well-understood corpus and offers the easiest path to either of the other two (in much the same way that it'd be easier to get to Chaucer if you started by learning Shakespearean English). That's how it was taught when I did Greek in college, for example; we started with simple contrived texts in Attic Greek, then moved into reading selections from Athenian figures like Plato and Aristophanes and Euripides. The very back of the book had short passages from Homer for truly ambitious students, but we didn't get into them.
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Spark Mail stores account credentials on and sends each email to Readdle servers
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Also, they make it sound like Cook could do anything.

If he would, the shareholders would simply replace him.
You forgot the small print: MailMate is Mac only.
> My switch was pre-vim 8 so the ability to have things (like plugins) run asynchronously was a huge plus, but now vim has that too.

My (perhaps uncharitable) understanding, as a dedicated vim user with no thought of switching, is that vim has that because of Neovim. (On rereading, I guess this is what desireco42 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15650991) means by the "kick in a butt that Neovim provides for vim".)
And, unless this has been fixed (does anybody know?) ..

Autocomplete is a security problem that can be used to get more information from users than they think they are providing - just ask for one field like email but put the other fields to be auto completed as hidden, and the browser helpfully gives the site all the other fields the user didn't realise are being autocompleted..
...I'm quite happy that Google stops my world view from expanding to include Chicago restaurants when I'm looking for food in Seattle.

I'm also happy it doesn't include information about swifts the animal when I search for Swift the programming language.

Even when it's about political stuff - I'm rather happy I don't get anti-vax information when I'm searching for health information. I'm also happy Google doesn't show me clickbait because it knows I'm not interested.

The idea of a filter bubble is definitely worth addressing, but I see no reason why getting more information music notes when I'm trying to search for information about C# is remotely beneficial. I can use Startpage or Incognito if I want to avoid filter bubbling, but for the vast majority of searches I do, relevance to me is useful.

But it's not best addressed through fear-mongering. Don't call it a child's imitation just because you don't understand how it could be useful.
I use Google Cloud. Love it's simplicity and design.

It's definitely cheaper on the lower to even medium end. But once you're spending six figures per month, it's probably only ~10% cheaper than buying the equipment and hiring three people to manage it. Not sure why anyone would be on Google Cloud (or any cloud really) and spend 7 figures a month, unless you got a sweet deal from them.
Maybe confused with Whatsapp? A used to be paid (is it now?) app bought by Facebook?
Just gonna throw our name into the pot, Venturi Ltd recruits for positions in London, NYC and Germany.

We're IT specialists recruitment agency that specialises in Big Data, Network & Security, Development and cloud & Infrastructure.
http://www.venturi-group.com/

As some of you might have seen to we also produce tech industry podcasts, we thought it was a great way to give something back to our great candidates and clients.

http://www.venturi-group.com/podcast/promoting-data-science/
The point about Apple hiring best graduates who got their education mostly free of charge cause of all the tax payers really shift my mind about the whole tax-avoidance thing.
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I'll also add that they've come quite a way making it more modular. It's clear GAE will eventually become more a collection of parts rather than a locked-in stack.

You can already run GAE in a Docker container using app engine flexible.
> It's not much different from making them more fun.

I've played quite a few games that were addictive but not fun. The difference is hard to spot when you're in the middle of it, but stark from the outside. Typically they start off being plain fun to draw you in, and then gradually segue into addictive after a few hours to keep you there.
"Such “tax optimization” – albeit legal – is only possible because specialized law firms such as Appleby devise complex company structures inaccessible to most other firms"

Maybe governments should simplify their own tax rules. Then you wouldn't need specialised law firms and simpler tax systems are harder to bypass.

To add, there is nothing 'moral' about tax - you have no choice but to pay what you're legally obligated to pay. Given the lack of choice in the matter, since when did it become a crime to do what you need to do to stay within the law?
Well I for one enjoy being on Tumblr. I curate the content I want to see by choosing who I follow, and (hopefully permanently), its timeline is ordered chronologically. The mobile clients are certainly terrible, and it's full of hiccups, but it's the only social media I enjoy browsing these days.
Countries can unilaterally have taxes based on the share of total company profit generated in the country, rather than just profit in the country.
You want a confirmation box for every website you access?
For anyone (like me) who was surprised by FF Beta upgrading from a point release to 57.0:

> Note that the merge from beta to release happens ahead of time (usually on the Mon/Tue a week before the release date).

https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar
Not some companies. All companies, including Google for Gmail, Yahoo for Yahoo mail, Microsoft for Outlook, etc have very limited support for HTML in their HTML rendering engines.

Instead of using floats and margins, you have to revert to using <table> for layouts. Otherwise, your emails just won't render correctly, much of the time.

It's not possible to support HTML fully in Webmail clients, either. Even without scripting, you could write an HTML email that overlays a malicious button on top of Gmail's web interface itself, and it would be too easy to phish people.
>Google "takeaway pizza [place of residence]".

If I search "takeaway pizza [place of residence]" on a non-localised search engine, I get nothing. If I search "takeaway pizza [nearest large town]" I get a bunch of places that don't deliver to me. Google gives me what I want, which is a list of the dozen or so pizza places in the patchwork of villages and towns in the surrounding area.

Google could give me that sort of result without any personalisation, but it would need to do another contentious thing - fuzzy matching. It needs to understand that when I search for [place of residence], I actually mean [place of residence plus everywhere within a certain radius], but only in some contexts. It needs to search the index not for the exact words in my search term, but for what it predicts will give me the most useful results.

Again, this stuff is literally Google's job. I don't want to do the mental work of figuring out all the towns and villages within a five mile radius, I don't want to perform a bunch of different searches, I just want to see where I can get a decent pizza. Google shows me all the local places on a map, complete with reviews and opening hours. If I search on mobile, I can choose a place and call them or get directions with one tap. If I ask for directions, it'll warn me if there's traffic and offer me an alternative route.

If you can't see how 2017 Google gives far better results for this query than 2007 Google, then I can only assume that you're being wilfully ignorant.
Dear Herr Krach, thank you for your letter.

I think you misunderstand how business works.

Apple is a profit seeking corporation. Profits we make, we hope to distribute to our shareholders. Paying taxes is an obligation with which we comply, both to the letter and in spirit. We meet such obligations, but not nilly-willy. Our shareholders would not look kindly upon executives who pay more taxes than necessary.

Avoidance of taxes is not illegal. We even enlist the help of tax offices in many countries, like the Netherlands, Ireland and perhaps some countries internationally deemed 'tax havens'. We pay what through mutual understanding with tax offices worldwide is necessary.

If you conclude that you find tax evasion a problem, this would be a political problem, not one of enterprise. No enterprise would knowingly pay to much and no construct of 'corporate social responsibility' could make paying too much alright. We should seek to minimize cost, and we do.

Governments should fix tax evasion, not corporations. It's not my role to point out the obvious, but if you find the VAT customers pay on our products insufficient and were hoping on a larger slice of our 'foreign income': fix your tax code.

Kind regards,
TC ;)
I think it might be possible that the subscription fleets that already exist in many cities can be used to "summon" (like teslas can be summoned) a few blocks ro a few miles, autonomously, because they know the area.

That makes these subscriptions much more convenient than having to pick up/drop off a share car in a fixed spot.

The user uses the car for a while in semi-autonomous mode (car can drive 90, 95 or 99% with user supervision) and then the user can return it by letting it drive back. If the car is stuck it just stops and a driver from the fleet company comes along to drive it.

I think a scenario like that could be viable in small scale for some metropolitan areas (good climate, limited user base etc) within 5 years.
maybe they aren't familiar with this tool. perhaps you could email them and suggest it to them, and then they would improve their site.
> having a better modal editor than what evil is already providing

FWIW, after using Evil for 1 year and generally liking it, it still fell a bit short for me since you are still in emacs and still need emacs keybindings some of the time, and some other modes will conflict with Evil, so it was a bit hard to maintain. I switched from Evil to God Mode which gives you modal editing in emacs but using emacs key bindings. I have found this to be a good compromise.
people avoid tax all the time, when VAT goes up do you buy that new TV or do you wait for the next budget. of if it's a laptop do you wait to buy it at duty free?
Wasn't there a large lawsuit that stopped that one?
Calling negative comments hate mail speaks volumes about you.
should people who make enough money to hire an accountant be punished? because i'm sure they'll avoid/reduce some taxes?
Tax evasion IS illegal, tax avoidance is not. That's a legal point that's worth keeping in mind.
Why do they do that (consider a good thing)?
In these situations they always say, "everything we did was legal". But the problem is that powerful individuals and companies get to make the rules. They have lobbying power and a legal budget that allows them to influence the rules themselves. They get to decide what is legal, and use the legality as a shield.
I wonder if you could prove something like Arrows theorem for taxes. Who knows if it's even possible to design a tax system, with the properties we want, without enabling cheating?

Or maybe it's only possible if all countries in the world agree on a tax code. But what are the chances of that?
But then it would turn into a slow government entity, all the talent will leave, and our economy would lose a great innovator.
Same with languages. It's incredibly annoying when pages try to guess what language I want by my location, I rather be asked.

Same with marrying the language to the country, if I want to buy a flight from Germany, don't change the page to German!
"Evasion of taxes is not illegal"

Yes. Yes it is.
Not to mention all the captchas we solved to train their OCR and self driving cars. https://xkcd.com/1897/
It would be far cheaper for me to take Uber to work every single day than pay for my car + fuel + maintenance + insurance. Like....half of what I pay a month if not more. Yet having the car for my own personal use whenever I want is still worth the premium IMHO.
People said the same about slavery. Change _is_ possible, but it requires a lot of patience.
"The iPhone not only changed the world, it did so faster than virtually any other technological innovation in history."

This seems a little over the top.
Intel is software vendor. Or a "developer". They also use it, of course, but there are a number of magnitude more other users than Intel. Such as you and me, probably.

But anyway, that BSD is more permissive than GPL is a very obvious point. Why would Mr. Tenenbaum need to write about that? Why would he need some news to "reaffirm" it?
Why Linux/Gnome forget copy/pasting when the source app is closed?
Hiring an accountant should not be a crime. Especially not while tax laws are so horrendously archaic.

However, look at countries that have flat-rate taxes [1]. They are much harder to skirt and the level compliance tends to be higher.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_tax
do you have a cat?
Should we stop using the Google font service and host on our own?
It goes both ways, the hired graduates also benefit from this relationship: a salary used to live and buy goods, and incidentally pay taxes.
Wheel theory
The box should only appear when I try to toggle Markdown for the first time (which I would only do for web mail).

If I understand it correctly, as it is now the extension has access to everything on every website I visit.
Static sites without maintenance are not a problem, they remained readable all these years, and I guess they'll continue to be so. (ACID test and all.)

And there are non evergreen browsers for those environments.

I agree that unilateral moves are bad for the web, but the reality was always that. Vendors have their own agendas, and usually the overlap is large enough.

Plus the change was always there too. Framesets work just as 'fine' today as they did back in '96, and the same goes for tables, divs, and falling snowflakes in the background DHTML snippets. The churn we see today is because the web became a lot more diverse, a lot of things were and are still live on the edge, some are in terms of performance and creative expression (just think about CSS Houdini, giving even lower level access gradually to the rendering pipeline), some in terms of security (because they depend on some implementation detail of browsers - such as CSRF protections, that took a decade to get sort of right with the Same Origin policy).
If your accountant was structuring your finances so it appeared your income came from countries other than where you worked, then yes, he should probably be punished.
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You are confusing the purpose of the demonetization. You might think it is to improve the economy. False. You might think it is to make payments more fluid and fast. False. Modernization ? No. You might even think it is a corrupt measure to make the banks richer. False.

It is to get the people making the decision reelected. It is to give the government party control of the spending of other political parties that might replace them [1].

This decision had a very specific aim, and achieved exactly that aim. In very predictable fashion it did a ridiculous amount of economic damage to the country in the process, but that shows nothing more than what the priorities of Mr. Modi are.

It was very well received (judging by voting afterwards) and further cemented the current party into power. That was the purpose. That aim was achieved. Why was the timing what it was ? It was election time ... [2]

Immediately before this "make or break" (dixit BBC) election BJP suddenly made itself the only party capable of doling out cash and other direct political favors in that state. Coincidence ?

No.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/12/17/this-is-...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39228615
I'm not sure what your argument is. Is it (a) that tax avoidance is morally justified, (b) morally justified only in the business context or (c) not of concern, because the business and the moral are two separate contexts?
>> If you've ever used Google Maps for directions and come up to an accident or something you know it will suggest a better route as it becomes available.

So, extremely poorly then? Maybe it's different in the US but Google maps is extremely poor around EU, with roads leading nowhere, zero knowledge about no-turn signs and one-way roads. Traffic only works in largest cities and even then poorly. My TomTom dedicated satnav beats it by every measure possible.
Tim Cook doesn't always act at the whim of his shareholders, though: http://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/01/business/la-fi-tn-ap...

> Danhof had spoken earlier in the meeting, criticizing Apple's connection to trade industry groups that believe people are causing global warming. Later, Danhof asked Cook if he would promise to commit to projects that help the environment or fulfill other social justice aims only if they also help Apple's bottom line.

> Cook seemed to be trying not to jump out of his seat.

> "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI" (return on investment), Cook said.

> "When I think about doing the right thing," he said, "I don't think about an ROI."

> "If that's a hard line for you," Cook continued, "then you should get out of the stock."
Agreed, a good backlash is way overdue at this point.
And they think index db is better..
As consumers, we can use the market to pressure companies into paying a fairer amount of tax. As voters, we can use the government. As wealthy citizens, we can do both.
Examine your premises.

We are. And have been for a while now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_arguments_for_the_elimi...
That sounds a lot like the people saying "wow, you knew you were going on that part of town with that sexy dress and you got harass. Blames on you.". Errr... no.
Thank you for offering this middle way. I am doing this now.
It's interesting how this entire thread was spawned and derailed by the original essay being a bit too imprecise.

You all are taking this one argument out of context. He wasn't talking about restaurants. But everyone here is.

Obviously restaurants should be personalized. But no one was saying they shouldn't.

You have to take the argument in the essay and try to think of the most persuasive possible interpretation. Is that "If I search for something in Seattle, it would be stupid to return results in Chicago"? Probably not.

My webdev friend was excited that her personal site was being returned in her search results whenever someone searched a project she had worked on. I suggested that google was serving her personalized results. She searched in incognito. Her site was still being returned. Pretty good, right? She was getting exposure.

When we used a VPN, she was not in the results. Google knew that our searches came from our IP address, and that searches from our IP should include her site, since she mostly visited her site from our IP. Or something along those lines. Either way, it was a misleading worldview.

I'm going to be harsh for a second, but I mean this lovingly: Stop being naive. It's important for us to be skeptical of Google. They're the thousand-pound gorilla, and the moment they do more than wink and nod at their "Don't be evil" philosophy then we should start getting scared.
Bruh. Just adding another app to 'counteract' the effects isn't going to suddenly clear you of ethical issues. It's the equivalent of mcdonalds selling salads...
I love the reveal effect on the landing page. Genius.
Are universities an egalitarian force?
I think that analogy is pretty apt, given that Koine is readily understandable by modern Greeks. Priests in churches today read the original passages from the third century BC in sermons.
> What a terrible move.

The more terrible thing is the whole system's design made this actually
possible. An electronic soap dish lying under the TV should not depend on
internet access to just do its work. Though nobody thinks about it nowadays
and everybody is happy to switch songs played by music centre with their
iPhone.
Darn, I mixed them up. Fixed it.

Local news in the Netherlands is that our tax office gave Proctor and Gamble a few hundred million dollar tax windfall, by error. I don't look angrily upon P&G. They asked for a deal and got a super sweet one. It's the tax offices that mess this stuff up. One European tax office that coordinates these taxes and ruling could solve a lot. Then the mess would be, which country gains the taxes / profits and all hell in European government rightly ensues..
So, should Apple start selling cigarettes if that raises the profit rate? Perhaps move into prostitution in countries where it is legal?

Legality is a red herring.
Dear Tim,

You don't understand how shares work. Shareholders can only benefit from shares in two ways: through speculation about the share price or through dividends. I'm kind of disappointed that I'd have to explain to a man of your stature that money that Apple parks abroad will not benefit the shareholders except in the most indirect ways.

If Apple brought home their overseas funds then it would benefit the US and Apple shareholders in general in two ways:

The taxes paid would go towards infrastructure, education, health care and other items that benefit all people in our society, and by extension also to us shareholders.

Money left over could be used to pay dividends to shareholders or to do tech acquisitions or long term investments in Apple projects which would benefit the shareholders in a more direct fashion.

Having money parked abroad waiting for a tax amnesty that may never happen does not have these positive effects and essentially ties up a lot of Apple capital in ways that are not beneficial to anybody except for the banks that get to lend this money out at prime rates while not paying Apple much of anything.

best regards
Everyone wants to be like John Oliver or Rush Limbaugh these days. There is no waiting for the EU lawmakers or the tax man to react.
If history is to repeat itself, Waymo will dominate on the whole planet excluding China, where Chinese self driving companies prosper but cannot reach outside.
Perhaps Google Maps is poor in the EU, but it's clear that Google does know how to make good maps, as they do elsewhere. If that's necessary for autonomous vehicles, that's what they'll do.
There's only a relatively small number of astronauts, so it seems the concern here is that the medical condition of individual test subjects is at risk of being disclosed by the paper.
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There's maybe an interesting illustration here of the difference between morals ("do the right thing") and ethics ("follow the rules"). A lot of people like to emphasize that they've "acted ethically", knowing that people will misunderstand that as "I did the right thing" when they actually mean "I did everything I could technically get away with".
The irony of the VC firm backing this venture imploding due to the dopamine-seeking, short-term thinking, failure to contemplate consequences behaviour of its principals is ironically ironic.