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I agree, it's a massive undertaking and getting support for something like that is really, really hard. The way I see it, all of that anti-globalism rage that is currently being directed toward foreigners really ought to be directed toward fixing this, since this would actually help (e.g. have more money for a wellfare system to handle unemployment from outsourcing and automation). But unfortunately it's much easier directing rage toward 'weird people with other skin tones and religion' than something abstract like a broken international tax system.
They are losing less money though...in practice. ;)
Hey, I didn't know about that. That's great actually! Thanks.

Though this doesn't help with the 'feeling' for new users, as the normal setting is a default.
Thanks for the tip. I didn't know maximus. Actually, kwin does allow writing rules that do exactly that. However, this removes window management buttons, which I don't use often but do like to have. Extensions did that but are not compatible anymore ans never really had an integrated look. I recognize this is mostly feelings though
We have a global economy but not a global tax system or a global set of rules. That's the essence of the issue here I think.
What also happens is countries upping one another with lower taxes and exceptions to attract big companies hoping to get some (small) benefit from it.
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100% agree with the article. When an iPhone is sold in Germany, there is a VAT on that product that definitely goes to the government, right?

So the main question is the corporate tax and not the per unit? Perhaps it would make sense to capture the true tax for in-country sales by adjusting the per unit tax?
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I feel your pain on the tab groups extension. I find that extension really helpful too. I'm pretty optimistic that this will be a temporary pain though. My reading of that issue (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1384515) is that there are a lot of people interested in working on it, and they even have working code.

It does seem that a relatively senior Mozilla employee who has joined the discussion late is against the idea. But others have already chimed in with why their objections don't apply to this new approach.

I'd be pretty surprised if it wasn't fixed by FF59.
i just want to highlight a few scenarios to allay your gripe.

Not all deliveries come from the warehouse; think of liaise scenarios with dispensaries eg https://www.amazon.com/restaurants

Also having a special section for pharma products staffed with licensed chemists and thoroughly vetted delivery staff shouldn't be beyond amazon.

There are other vectors of implementation
I dont think authentication would be a problem
Logitech is one of these hardware companies that don't care anymore about their customers, the other is Microsoft. I would like to buy new Logitech mouse and keyboard, yet the discontinued the very popular (and best) Logitech MX500/518 and G400 series. The best form factor, the best sturdy robust mechanics, yet the discontinued those series. And they focus now on expensive shitty new designs that no one needs. The same dysfunctional customer experience is with Microsoft hardware, all the great mouse (Intelli series, 6000 series) and keyboard (cable based, robust, traditional key arrangement) products, all discontinued. So I had to locate new unused hardware produced by MS & Logitech many years ago from all over the world, just to have some backup hardware. And no I don't want your crappy new hardware that will make my hands hurt.
I have come the same conclusion after the YouTube app on my smart tv of 4 years old was bricked. I still don’t know the best way to avoid this issue going forward (chromecast, roku, other).
Monopolies are granted by governments

Sometimes, sure. But far from exclusively. Monopolies arise naturally in unregulated markets.

The free market has a natural solution to monopolies, it's called competition - startups.

That’s like saying that natural selection is the solution to hereditary diseases. Not so comforting for those suffering now.
I think they are often engaged in illegal activities but it is difficult to prove it. A company and its subsidiaries are different entities and when you do an IP transfer between them where a huge set of patent and trademark is exchanged for 1 euros and then used back for millions, one of the company has been wronged. Try to do the same shenanigan with a LTD and yourself and you will very fast see what the IRS (or equivalent) think of it.

A company is just a legal construction but we let people transgress the legal constrains that should rule its behavior.
That simply won't work if there's even one country (like the known tax haven islands) that don't abide by it. Unless international tax laws start charging taxes for every penny that crosses a border, things like that will keep happening. There's a huge financial incentive for small countries to become tax havens, they take a relatively tiny amount of money, which for them multiplies their GDP.
So if the carbon fiber body is going to be a capacitor, wouldn't there be a risk of electric shock in case of some damage to it?
Reserve Bank of India is still counting.
Humans already are tasked on a large scale with manually verifying reports for user-submitted content:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderat...

> When Dave Willner arrived at Facebook in 2008, the team there was working on its own "one-pager" of cursory, gut-check guidelines. "Child abuse, animal abuse, Hitler," Willner recalls. "We were told to take down anything that makes you feel bad, that makes you feel bad in your stomach." Willner had just moved to Silicon Valley to join his girlfriend, then Charlotte Carnevale, now Charlotte Willner, who had become head of Facebook’s International Support Team. Over the next six years, as Facebook grew from less than 100 million users to well over a billion, the two worked side by side, developing and implementing the company’s first formal moderation guidelines.
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Facebook? The company that maintains shadow profiles and does not delete anything that its users "delete"? That facebook?!

Every time I think I met the Peak Stupid, Internet proves me wrong.
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That sounds a bit like the plot from the show Ozark, but there they do it to launder drug money.
> For pretty much complete nonsense NIH and standards-lawyering reasons.

You consider the fact that there is no spec other than "how the current implementation works", so no way to know if the code than works on version n will continue to work on version n+1, and no way to produce an alternate implementation, is a "complete nonsense reason"?

I also believe that it wasn't just Mozilla, but also Microsoft that scuttled this. Mozilla was the louder voice, but Microsoft never supported it either.
They are just random internet points and this thread adds nothing to the discussion.
Is there a way to get the best of both worlds? Can I run my custom code snippets into the overall no-code framework of the apps and templates listed?
David Mitchell on Tax Avoidance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2q-Csk-ktc

Makes some good points.
According to a Reddit user [1] they sent the following email to all device owners:

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1: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7bg8gi/logitech...
Show HS: Tiny Tour – A really small JavaScript library for creating tours
True. I didn't know that that setting exists. That could be part of the problem, ofcourse.
A while back I was using a tour library in ways it likely wasn't meant to be used (I wanted steps to go in and out of an iframe embedded on my page). Being frustrated with the difficulty of customizing this library, I decided to create my own. The goal of tiny-tour is be easily extensible and not collect feature bloat. Anything fancy should be left to the programmer, because he/she will most likely want to override my features anyway.
> the new dev tools are missing things like the network response preview

Do you mean the content of the response or something else? Because I'm on FDE and they're definitely there ("Response" tab when selecting a network entry)
"My business partner and I purposefully pay normal taxes, avoiding accountants' crazy tax reduction schemes, because we think it's the right thing to do. We're a tiny speck compared to Apple, but the principle still applies. If the big players made it the norm, their investors would suck it up and deal with it."

I suspect that you and your partner have significantly more control over your enterprise than the officer of a public company does though. If you didn't your investors wouldn't suck it up, they would do as they see fit, which may be agree with your position or may be replace you.

Public companies are controlled by their share price more than they like to admit. Even if you are like Zuck and maintain complete management control of your public company, if that share price takes a huge hit it becomes very hard to attract and maintain talent/future investment/etc. Everyone has some authority to answer to.
Yes to this: "corporation tax, as it is structured today, is unfit for purpose in a globalised economy".

Where Apple sold its computers is well-defined, you can count each one and tax it. Where their employees work is also well-defined, they have desks, and beds.

Where they made their profits simply isn't well-defined. How much was due to the software (California), the marketing (let's say London), the assembly (China), the logistics (in between)? These question don't have sharp answers. Sure, Apple's accounting guys write down some numbers. But once you attempt to tax them, you discover that they have great freedom in what column they write those numbers in.

I increasingly think the correct corporate profit tax rate is zero. Tax the goods they sell. Tax the salaries they pay. Tax the capital gains when shareholders sell, if you must. These things all involve actual people and take place in particular countries. The rest is an abstraction.
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There should be an add-on that just basically stops one from even opening a website with this kind of practice.

I left as soon as the video started playing.
Here is counter measure 1: "Don't upload".

Though I, personally, prefer counter-measure two: terminate everyone who approved/supported/championed this project
One does not simply change the laws, just like you're indicating. You need a majority vote in a government or international thing to change laws, and those are easily influenced if you have more money than the GDP of many countries.

Actually that makes me wonder when we'll see the first companies starting their own countries.
Hopefully the FTC will take notice of this one.
Motherfuckingreat style guide! Thanks for the laugh - for which partially the wording is responsible and partially it‘s the hopelessness of a „so true, but it will unlikely ever change towards the better“...
They don't break a letter of the law (probably), but they break spirit of the law. Laws do not exist like a puzzle challenge to be beaten by clever lawyers with a reward being factual exemption from the law. They are usually intended for everyone.
There is also a project called UnQLite for UnQL (unstructured query language) designed to be an embedded document store, announced in 2011 [1]. Looks like it's now maintained by another company. [2]

1. https://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08/UnQL

2. https://unqlite.org/
just don't lie, for god sake

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/money-and-banking/indias...
Part of the scheme is to have a special deal with the government of Ireland (if you share the view of the European Commission) or to have a corporate structure located in Ireland but at the same time not be a tax resident in Ireland (view of the Ireland government). In 2010 Ireland also added a new law which partially forbids this, except for all existing companies such as apple.
So what you're saying is as a small business owner you'd like to evade taxes too? Seems like a great startup idea- "offshore accounts for everyone!"
I think what you say makes no sense at all.

The idea of AJAX/SPA was to provide interactivity and a less technical UI that caters to the average Joe. AJAX/SPA moves some of the computation from the backend to the frontend so the service scales better for millions of users.

This forum is not going to be fast for millions of users (it might not even be for hundreds of simultaneous users) because the server has to render everything again for everyone.

Server side rendering is good for response times, that's why the SPA world went back to it (Google: react ssr). SPA is good for scalability and average Joe UI.

...and AJAX is there so we don't need to do a full page reload all the time. Again, not because of response times.
Assuming they are hashing the images or videos and only comparing the hash in practice, why doesn't Facebook implement a client side JS method for the hash generation. Only thing uploaded is the hash.

Use standard ML Algorithms to validate if the image includes nudity and confirm the hash overlap.

Also need to be hesitant since people at FB will be able to see these images (as recently mentioned in another post on HN where some random folk ended up viewing a Google Doc shared via Messenger)
Thats besides the point. It doesn't matter what the actual bonuses are , point I was trying to make is that it doesn't make sense to approve H1B based on something uncertain like bonuses.

Are you suggesting uscis " can lookup the Juniper bonus packages on OFLC " before approving h1b ?
I'm puzzled by that - if it's $400m/yr then cost per user should go down as you have more but they seem to be reporting the opposite. ("Hosting costs per DAU were $0.68 in Q3 2017 as compared to $0.64 in Q3 2016")
Its never going to work like that for the web, because web browser/client producers aren't interested in parcelling out pieces of the pie - its an all-or-nothing approach in the client wars, and we, 2nd-tier programmers hoping to profit on top of the platform, simply have no control.

So, its kind of cannibalistic in my opinion - as soon as an approach rises to the level of adoption, it becomes cannibalised by the very providers of the resources required to sustain itself - the web client vendors.

I, also, look for the same things you do. I don't think its going to happen with the web - we're lock-stepped into fooling ourselves that 'one standard will fit all' when really its 'one standard will deplete your budget, and then you will be left to fund the other standards if you want to ship - otherwise, gtfo and die'...

The only hope is that a model of software development emerges that is not dependent on the client software wars producing a clear winner. Perhaps the more people build their own custom clients, the more we're likely to gain the "component-izable ideal" you postulate. One can hope ..
Welp, that's pretty shitty then!
But then you just buy from overseas. Or if you have many land-borders like Germany, you just drive across a border.
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People are downvoting you, but I think you actually make a good point here.

I'm just not sure which one is which. Is Dopamine Voldemort or Umbridge?
With a smart TV there's at least the option to just switch to an external device and ignore the entire smart part of the TV. You're not really in a worse place than if you had bought a non-smart TV (unless the smart TV software actually breaks in some way that interferes with regular operations, which isn't entirely unrealistic).

But in many other cases of smart devices where the core function relies on external services, they'll be entirely useless.
here is what the average American does not know...read?

US collects $2.5 trillion in corp taxes...guess how much revenue is earned by US corps? $27Trillion...US corp effective tax rate tan is exactly 10%...contrasty that with China where the effective tax rate for corps counting corruption is at somewhat 45%...

Somewhere there is something wrong with US corp claiming they need lower taxes when they cannot increase the number of those hired..at leas that was the former social contract they were operating under when getting those lobbyist tax breaks in the first place.
You can't use "small details" to logically arrive a higher focus point. What use would humans have for intense detail, at a time when the world was far more dangerous at range? And even then, 3,000 years ago is less than a blink of an eye in terms of evolution. Without more examples of humans actually "needing" intense, closer focus, there's no way (even with a 3,000 year evolution window) they'd evolve closer focus just for... art.

Occam's razor is rather applicable here. Magnification would be way easier and more available. Even a polished bent sword magnifies.
First, yes, there are several countermeasures that can be implemented. That is no indication of the fact that they are implemented. There are some relatively easy countermeasures you can put in place to avoid any security incident, and yet hardly a day goes by without reading about one in the news.

There are companies that (supposedly) implement various such countermeasures, and have a very strong incentive to do so, as they handle private, and potentially damning data of important people with millions of dollars to lose in case of a data breach. Just look at Panama Papers, Paradise Papers and the like. If that sort of data can be treated carelessly, I find it somewhat unrealistic to expect better treatment (even from Facebook) of private data belonging to terrified teenagers who effectively have no recourse against misuse of their pictures.

Second, it took considerable time for the fact that former NSA employees used the agency's surveillance tools to spy on their ex-lovers, too. The fact that we haven't yet seen any stories of employees abusing backend access to the Facebook servers does not tell us much. In fact, given how much information is publicly shared (sometimes unwittingly) via a Facebook account, it may be hard to tell when such an event occurs.
But overhaul can't happen like "now". It need some initial impulse, an outrage bigger than average etc. Apple case may help this.
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Have you used that API? According to the documentation, this is the JSON response:

"responses": [
{
"safeSearchAnnotation": {
"adult": "VERY_UNLIKELY",
"spoof": "VERY_LIKELY",
"medical": "UNLIKELY",
"violence": "UNLIKELY"
}
}
]

How is that useful for efficient detection of what the OP describes?

edit: "useful" as in, how would that be granular enough for what FB would need? I don't mean that FB literally uses Google's API/endpoint response, but that FB isn't trying to detect and prevent adult content, but malicious content that invariably happens to be adult content.
>Obviously restaurants should be personalized. But no one was saying they shouldn't.

>>I'd much rather type "takeaway pizza chicago" than have google mind-read where I want the pizza delivered.

Some people are saying that restaurants shouldn't be personalized.
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", the cash component of undeclared wealth in India was estimated to be only about 6%. In other words, the policy instrument was aimed at the wrong target: most undisclosed wealth is held in noncash assets. " And this is not only true for India.
Ask HN: ELI5 Can I sidestep twilio/trumpia/nexmo sms api?
I am a non technical founder can someone please help me understand. Seems like twilio leases the numbers/shortcodes and resells it to us. IF, I go directly to the provider such as Telus will they sell to me? What do I need to build to sidestep twilio/trumpia/nexmo ?
Would that really be effective? A lot of very large companies may just own very little land.
I'm highly skeptical about it. Everyone has motivation to avoid getting hacked or have employees/contractors do bad things, but it happens.
>A mea culpa about the messages, and how you've changed personally in the meantime would have been a change.

The value of mea culpas is under-appreciated. We all make mistakes, and you can't change that in life. But you can change course after recognizing a mistake has been made.

I personally find that the worst people I have interacted with in life are also those who cannot assert a mea culpa.
Ironically, this sort of pigeon-holing is mostly a problem with treating query text literally (or syntactically.) Language is full of shibboleths, and people indicate their worldview by the words they choose to use. The more naively a search engine treats the query, the more likely they are to find pages that only agree with them.
I'm super curious about how this works in practice. What's the bar something has to meet before being reported? Do decisions made about how to do accounting count? How about decisions when filling out tax forms? (US example: itemizing deductions vs taking the standard deduction).
Ask HN: How to encourage code review?
I work in a small development team where each developer is considered a specialist: we develop and maintain code based on our field of expertise, in the programming language of our preference. However, the resulting bus factor is usually exactly one. It is currently not desirable to enforce code review as a formal part of the process because the company is still in a phase of product validation and time to market is the primary concern. However, software quality is growing in importance.

How do I gradually implement a culture of collaboration through code review without hurting time to market and agility too much?
Yes, sorry, but it's really good, I wish Thunderbird were like that.
It's the customers who pay the VAT, not Apple. That's why electronics bought in US where the sales taxes are generally much lower than VAT rates seem cheaper from the European perspective. A higher VAT also hits more the less privileged and effectively crowds them out of the market. For goods like these you can think of the VAT is 'the price to be able to buy' and corporate tax as 'the price to be able to sell'.
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>- What if people don't want to pay for the extra bandwidth?

Bandwidth costs nothing. Unless you're doing something really weird the HN traffic shouldn't cost you a cent.

>- What if your site contains lots of bandwidth consuming content? (read: large/many images)

Bandwidth still costs nothing, come back when you're streaming lots of 1080p video.
> The menu bars are enormous even on a compact theme. Bigger than on Chrome. I only have so much vertical space to spare.

This is what I get on OSX, latest Chrome v FDE Compact: https://i.imgur.com/TA62OAN.png
There is a Firefox legacy extension that does just this. Hide Caption Bar Plus. It might not work with this new Firefox as he APIs to control the UI are not exposed as they once were. I use it all the time on my laptops
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