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> "I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist."

> - John Steinbeck

Reading some of the comments here which rationalize, justify, and even defend corporal behaviours such as Apple's nauseate me. How (and why) can you, YOU as a mere individual (or the owner of a small start-up if you'd like to think that way) who pays taxes for nearly every single transaction, can justify these kinds of "tax optimizations"?

Speaking from experience, this is how things (countries, organisations, etc.) corrupt: when people start rationalising (and then justifying) the behaviour of those who are breaking the rules and sitting at the top. The corruption happens when ordinary people looks above and thinks that "I would probably do the same, why would one obey the rules where it can be evaded?". Since everyone except those at the very bottom is above some others, corruption spreads like a bushfire and everyone starts breaking the rules s/he can.

It would be naive to think that only top 500 companies evading tax. Those at the scale of Apple break the rules at their own scale, and smaller ones break it at a smaller scale. Whilst, here I am in the UK, have to pay 10 GBP for a pack of 20 cigarettes because of the taxes.
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It is a perfectly valid reason to flag the article.
The way apple has stood up for consumers through built-in Safari features is straight up inspiring, with autoplay disabling and tracking disabling.
The user, in the only way that is significant to the license, is someone exercising the rights granted to them by it, i.e. whomever entered a license agreement with the copyright owner to put it on their black box. I never did. You can at best call me a user in the sense that I may be using nginx or apache when I access a website. That is not what the license concerns.

That's strictly speaking, but what does being a user entail, by a commonly understood definition? I certainly can't operate the MINIX derivative running on a different CPU than the software I actually do use. I never made a conscious effort to start or stop it, in fact I didn't know about it until the other day. It is unclear what it does, but it's clear to me that I am not personally using it. Maybe its use benefits me somehow, in the same way a break pedal might benefit me while I'm riding the bus. Maybe it's used for surveillance.

> 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?

Not too keen on sitting here guessing what purpose Tanenbaum's letter had, but maybe to provoke a discussion? Maybe he's sincerely proud that his software is now so widely deployed? It seems beside the points I am making.
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I was curious what this is, so I clicked on it. I spent around 30 seconds scanning the homepage and this is my observation: Uses data to make insights.

What kind of data? I have no clue.
How? Not the faintest.

Anyway, you might want to add a portion to describe what it is for us scrubs that haven't a clue. Possibly a demo page?
Scrolling the mousewheel while hovering the mouse over the tab bar to switch between tabs I guess?
What you are describing is a perfect storm of two economic fallacies -- the theory of marginal productivity and regressive taxation. The former describes how increasing pay will correspondingly increase productivity and the latter describes gradually decreasing tax rates as the amount being taxed increases.

Executive productivity is notoriously difficult to quantitatively measure and it is generally determined by compensation committees, whom are staffed by executives themselves and/or those with a vested interest in voting to raise executive pay. Such incestuous planning structures are almost always subject to graft and corruption.

Regressive taxation (including generous deductions hidden to those unable to afford the best tax planners) may be touted as necessary to reduce capital flight but the naked and bald-faced wealth inequality is simply unconscionable. Relatedly, Trump's tax plan is most definitely a bone throw to the rich as it includes repealing the estate tax. Democracy and progressive taxation have gone hand-in-hand since the end of WWII and it must go hand-in-hand in the twenty-first century.
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No you are missing the point of the EU. No company should be forced to base in a country to sell there. Apple pays huge amounts of taxes in Germany despite not being based there. It just doesn’t pay much “income tax” because it’s not based there.
There are large companies which do take a moral stance on this and pay taxes as normal, so it is certainly a valid strategy. An example is bet365 in the UK who (according to the little knowledge I have, I used to work there) don't engage in tax avoidance schemes. The irony is that a gambling company takes a moral stance on tax whereas these big Silicon Valley companies who try to portray a liberal image are the most aggressive tax dodgers.
FDE is presumably Firefox Developer Edition. What you get by downloading from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/

"Compact" is the built-in compact styling. Right-click (or otherwise context-click) on the toolbar, select "Customize.." and near the bottom there is a "Density" selector that you can set to "Compact". Note that this is somewhat independent of the color scheme used.

I'm pretty sure that the "Compact" layout is available in beta 57 as well, not just developer edition. It's not in release 56, though; it was added for 57.
Actually, why do so many people still use :x? Vim has ZZ which does the same thing and saves a keystroke and saving keystrokes is what Vim is about, right?
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TOS doesn't win over the law.
We need a smarter internet that caches content-addressed objects in a CDN dynamically (based on number of users, or age).

That would solve the whole font service problem.
I'm not sure if you could work out from a genome what the cell should look like - probably not.

An important point is that cells are always born of other cells. In other words, a cell replicates by dividing itself, building the parts as it goes along.

So there is never such a thing as a 'naked' genome in biology. There are things like viruses, that hijack cell machinery. There are sperm cells, that carry some DNA into an egg and use that. There is the DNA in mitochondria that rely on the host cell for some proteins.

If you trace backwards, the genome and it's substrate (the cell) have co-evolved to work together. The existing cell acts as the template for the organisation of a new cell, while reading the genome for the structure of its parts. Of course, the genome contains information about when to make the parts, and how to regulate them.
I swear by the MX Master. I guess some of it has to be subjective, but the MX Master has just been so incredibly comfortable.
Corporate income taxes are already too high, it’s better for society if they were zero.
The problem is that you just traded one large shark for another. Small companies still get quashed just by another behemoth.
They can share the data across organizations without sharing it with everyone in a publication.
In Chrome, the more tabs you open, the smaller they get (infinitely). They all remain on the screen. Once they get tiny enough, you can no longer tell what any given tab is.

In FF, after a certain point the tabs stop getting smaller, and instead you scroll through them left to right, either using little arrow buttons on each side of the tab bar, or using your scroll wheel.
Web search is literally the wrong place to try to find something that geographic databases were designed for. When you don't know where you are or what's around, you go to a map.
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This. This was the feature I missed most when I moved away from Firefox.
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I still think Safari has the best implementation of any browser. Coincidentally this (maximizing) is also why bottom tabs is a much saner choice.

Normal window: https://i.imgur.com/WMfJMPC.png

Fullscreen: https://i.imgur.com/4iVPNzQ.png

Fullscreen with mouse at top of screen: https://i.imgur.com/hjC7Qgk.png
This is going to be tough. I think a big advantage of something like a board or a committee is the diffusion of responsibility. I'm not going so far as to say these constructions are immoral, but they definitely make it easier for their members to distance themselves from their decisions.
Damn.

That's a shitty way to do it. The better way would be to give them a two year notice, with the discount. By the end, most people would probably have upgraded.
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Apple pays the full tax. It pays huge amounts of taxes in Germany.
> But at point it has perf issues that I don't have with chrome.

Would you be willing to either file a bug report (and cc "bzbarsky") or just describe steps to reproduce here?
I agreed on this part:

> to make people use less JS and simpler JS on their websites
I don't think Apple and Google can flee to Bermuda or Ireland and that's not what I was talking about. The employees aren't going to move.

I was just pointing out a simple loophole in the specific rules the you proposed as a rhetorical tool: it's very, very hard to write a loophole free tax code in light of the inherent complexity of having many nation states and multinational corporations. At the very least, it should become a cultural norm for companies like Facebook, Apple and Google to report tax loopholes even as they exploit them.
Harmony Hub w/ simple remote is the best universal remote out there hands down. I can stand in the kitchen, leave my remote in my pocket while cooking, and just reach in and blindly adjust things like volume, play/pause, FF/RR, all without looking at the remote or taking it out of my pocket. After dealing with a logitech with a screen on it for years this was an amazing change. Also the battery last for like forever.
> I strongly disagree that metrics and logs are different toolsets, or that you would need both of them in order to properly observe your systems.

And from the link:

> Logging can be useful for some purposes. However, it’s rare that they’re the only tool for monitoring your code. And it’s even rarer that they’re the best tool.

Metrics are a tool that take a different approach to logs, once you get beyond small systems you need both. I talked about this earlier in the year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBGyLRJ1qo
I wanted to say the same thing. It is.
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Yeah, I think web sites that insist on having their own fonts are being a bit narcissistic. The user should have the fonts that are pleasing to their eyes installed and their browser should use them. Web sites insisting they know better have too many people doing design. Go ahead and cut that cost, we won't notice.
Sure, but I don't see how that relates to my intended point that things we say as teenagers probably shouldn't be held against us indefinitely.

If you want to say "Zuckerberg is selfish because he refuses to affect Facebook's bottom line to stop harassment" that's fine with me, and I won't disagree with you.

If you're saying "Zuckerberg stole someone's lunch money when he was 12 therefore he's a sociopath" I dunno, that's less convincing to me.
i would blame the parks department more than the employees. My 8 year old has had this happen to him (we live in Dallas) and his friends. Poor communication about reservation availability and who has reserved what and when is always the issue, especially if a YMCA is involved heh. If the employees were being jerks about it though is another thing.
"afford to create offshore companies"

You can setup an offshore "shell" company in the virgin islands for $1500. It's not something you have to be a big super rich company to afford.
Vandalism.

Rocks thrown, sensors spray-painted over, side panels (and sensors) graffitied, interiors damaged, forced into stopping and their chassis stripped (or their occupants held up).

And while the police may be quickly notified, they will not be so quick to respond. Ask someone in a big city about the police's response time to their car being vandalized or stolen... Not to mention, all those fancy cameras? Ask a small business owner with CCTV how useful it is to catch robbers.
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A dedicated computer for this is quite expensive, and using your regular desktop is somewhat annoying in various aspects like switching screen configurations and often not possible if you don't have the PC near the TV.

Then there are the complications DRM adds, e.g. it's often not possible to get the best quality from Netflix on your PC in the browser, you only get that with the native Windows 10 app (and then not 4K unless you have some very specific GPU and drivers). The Apps on a smart TV or a FireTV/whatever don't have these restrictions.
That's wealth, not transactions. Digital could still bring to light "under the table" taxable transactions.
Or use normal fonts. I really don't want to have to download your custom fonts.
Apple is the biggest taxpayer in the world. It pays every bit of tax it owes. It should be taxed less, not more. Corporate income taxes are corrosive to maintaining our society.
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A little vague but I'm pretty sure I know what these guys do based on that.
This would mean that immaterial things won't have a worth in the book keeping way and can't be billed. In simple terms what happens is that Apple Europe, Inc. has to pay a lot for the license to use the Apple logo and trademark to Apple Paradise, Inc. Thus Apple Europe, Inc. doesn't have profits, while Apple Paradise, Inc. has all the profits.
Now the value of the logo and trademark are artificial ...

What's needed are international agreements how to handle those licenses, that you can't simply push them to tax heavens, but tax has to be paid where they are created or used or whatever.
The problem is that most of the system is disabled in almost all markets while Audi waits for "regulatory approval".
I wonder, does the author pay more taxes than he legally owes to.
How about forcing the car to stop and rob the occupants? Or stripping the car of all those expensive electronic components?
Re: vertical space
Oh you sweet sweet summer child (i kid)

Vertical tabs are the way to go. I use Tree Style Tabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...) and there is also Tab center, but the experiment has ended (https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center/). You gain a whole tab height in space and only lose a constant amount of horizontal space.

I manage a world where you can read the title of your tab as you open more. Long gone is the world your curiosity is punished! And the in the tree case, you can track where your tabs came from!
What about the internet? The highway system?
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The problem is (as you know) that single machines are in practice still too reliable and Prometheus is still too good at storing data for long times that many people have come to rely on it despite warnings :)
you're talking cyberspace but homelessness is a meatspace problem. No technology is going to solve homelessness, it's an "assholes and elbows" problem. It takes real, hard, physical and emotional work to solve.
> The Nighty version will always be the best version

Is that the version I put on just before I'm about to go to bed?
How would it benefit society? Reduced state income that could be used to invest in infrastructure and people? Will the companies invest that money with society's interest at best better than the govt would? I don't think so. What do Apple do with their money? They horde it, waiting for a windfall to bring it back to the States and pay low/no corporate tax on the repatriated profits.
Thank you for providing such a great tool, I'm excited to try version 2.0. I've also played around with Prodigy. SpaCy was my start in NLP, I really hope it is going to stay around.
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Tim Cook could be sued by Apple shareholders if he _didn’t_ pursue the most efficient organization for tax purposes. It’s actually his legal responsibility - not some evil thing he’s doing because he is a heartless capitalist.

If you don’t like what Apple is doing, don’t blame Apple. Blame government, and use the power you do have to make change happen.
Okay, let's start there: pass a law to require companies to report these tax loopholes.
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But even if you can see the work, how do you stabilize the microtremors in the artists' hands?
Thankfully Quantum is silky smooth (been using it on the Nightlies and now the web developer edition).
> Also, if this is designed to release dopamine or any other neurotransmitters, is there a risk that this will ever be classified as a drug? Or at least be treated legally like a drug?

This whole topic is gonna be huge soon, it's in the same vein as increased use of gambling style "loot boxes" in video games designed to be skinner-boxes.
Now that's an awesome idea! It'd be fine to actually just store that setting in memory, and reset with every restart: I wouldn't mind a half-second delay on my first window zoom after restart if I knew that it'd drop down to zero four zooms later.
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Oh well, guess we should stop all attempts at improving society guys. Apple can do it, so they should do it, and we should stop discussing the matter.

Like goddammit man, the moral outrage is not there because people fail to see the world the way it is. It's there precisely _because_ people can see the way it is now and it's fucked up.

And paying it's engineers a high salary is enough of a payback to society? Did that cover the roads they ship their goods on? The international Navy that protects their supply lines from overseas factories? The education system which produced their engineers? All the other inputs they rely on and externalities they offload?

No it didn't, because once you get rich you get your own set of rules. Paying back what you owe is for the proles
They are the biggest taxpayer in the world. By all rights they should pay less taxes, the current tax rate on Apple profits is over 60%.
I agree you need more tools around it to make it a full logging solution. Doing data visualization is more or less impossible without extra tools. But I've overall liked it.

Search is powerful enough to do something like say, "get me all messages with this trace GUID" and S3 exports can be automated[1] and you could probably use the "task-name" to associate with your ticketing system.

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/S3Ex...
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I'd argue that's more the point of the internet in general, these days. It's extremely hard to remove something from the internet.

We as rational humans though, can apply context to such situations and realize that teenagers often say insanely stupid things that they later wish they hadn't (and usually didn't mean).
Being angry at Apple can turn it into a value to behave "nice" If consumers decide to buy products of companies which don't play such tricks then we get the free market way of changing the behavior of those companies (... while it's unlikely to really have impact as along as everybody does it and consumers want cheap products)
I've always found logitech devices to feel sluggish, similar to KDE. Too much pizazz.
New accounts which post within seconds sometimes require an upvote (vouch) to be seen. I've click that now. That's my observation, I'm not a moderator and have no deep knowledge about anti-spam logic.
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You'd be surprised, when I switched to nvim my plugins just worked.
Prometheus is pretty popular in this community as a monitoring and metrics server, which is why this announcement got upvoted so much even if it lacks a general introduction.
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Precedent legal cases is the common law system in the former commonwealth countries and the US. The Napoleanic system is in-place in Germany and much of Europe.
I wish Google would have a clippy-style avatar so that when I put in takeaway pizza, it will tap my screen and ask, "did you mean 'takeaway pizza chicago'?"
Ahh, that helps me understand better. Hard to be completely clear in a global context though.

Nike, for example, has a company in a tax haven that owns the intellectual IP for "the swoosh". It receives payments from other Nike companies for the "right to use".

That loophole has to exist, as any company, in any country, could be an IP holder.
Which can be a pain in the rear. I was having a problem with my TV turning on randomly. It turned out that when my Amazon fire was waking up (no clue why it needed to), my TV registered the signal and turned on automatically.

Luckily you can disable the CEC stuff on the TV, which solved the problem.
It would be a good introduction to solidity and the 3rd party problem of smart contracts.

An example betting contract for anyone interested (note it was eventually refunded and not run):

https://etherscan.io/address/0xf4b8ccc5734ed7d2d8beb5fddd223...

And an overview with some reasonable criticism:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethdev/comments/6sd8hl/mayweather_v...
Yea, that one is definitely more readable - mine was a play on "The Clbuttic Mistake" - http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-
But I also need the horizontal space! I very often tile windows side by side to allow developing while seeing the results, or while reading documentation.

Maybe I'm just picky. I don't know. Chrome does the job pretty well though, even with the bookmarks bar turned on.

A vertical tabs bar would make it impossible to use many sites, like GitHub.
I've been in the computer industry for 30 years now. Back when I started we were all looked down on as underachieving losers who couldn't talk to 'normal' people, couldn't get laid and would never amount to anything in 'the real world'. Look at the world now, look at programs like The Big Bang Theory - the world has change and the geeks have truly inherited the earth. How they are behaving is as clear an example as you can possibly get when the originally downtrodden get power, wealth and influence - they use it and say 'F*ck you' to those who laughed at them and are now no longer at the top of the pile. Go figure.
Captains of industry.
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Great work - big fan! :)
> They aren't, for the most part, doing anything illegal though.

OK, but that doesn't really matter. Legality and morality diverge further the higher up you go in scale.

There was a thread on here a month ago about how, at the size of the Moon, solids don't behave like solids anymore. They behave more like fluids. The Moon wouldn't shatter into bits if you "broke" it, it would just stick together. It is a good analogy for law: the bigger you go, the more malleable and "un-law like" it is. It becomes a fluid.

Multinationals can bend law. They can influence it. Law bends around their gravitational pull.

(edit: I think you meant your comment slightly differently to what I interpreted, I'll leave it up.)
Yeah, I feel like everyone I worked with on that project (the original guys were long gone) who wasn't a dyed-in-the-wool Rubyist just really came to hate Ruby.