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I am not too familiar with the PG-TimescaleDB adapter, but the storage engine rewrite in Prometheus was definitely the most important improvement in Prometheus 2.0.

There are other changes than the storage though that are outlined in the migration guide: https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/migration/

* Minor PromQL changes (mainly removals of deprecated features)

* Staleness handling (not sure if the TimescaleDB storage handles this correctly, as it relies on storing a special NaN value bit-wise correctly for marking series stale)

* New rule file format is now YAML and supports per-group evaluation intervals and serialization of rule executions within one group (in case of data dependencies)

* Other minor bits
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I can't answer for the heavier weights, but lighter font weights can look dreadful on low PPI displays (e.g, desktop computers).
I'll quote the first sentence from your post, "I think tax avoidance is morally justified."

But more broadly, laws are not always moral. If you equate laws with being moral (or equitable which is hopefully a subjunct matter), then personally I think your view of the world is far more black and white than reality.

In my view morality (and part of which is equality) should lead to legality not the other way around.
Do the right thing. Paying no taxes on generated revenues is obviously not the right thing. Pay taxes. Care about how these taxes are spent. Become an active part of the democracy that empowers a government. If you are not happy with a tax system, argue. If you feel not represented, vote with your feet and leave the country. Though don't play tricks. Don't pretend you are a proud part of a country that you betray.
I remember websites. I miss them dearly.
I'm really waiting for someone who makes the tax evasion system scale for small companies and regular people.
Well, i feel its moral for me to pay all my taxes, and even though i also give money to charity, i don't use this fact to reduce my taxes, because i feel a lot of people need this money way more than me. This is socialism.
A+ on critiquing social media, but I have bad news for you: provincialism is a normal facet of culture because humans are shallow.

The internet of old was also preselected, towards the people most likely to have early access. It did not transcend borders, it was a new country. That country has vanished, and we should mourn it, and figure out how to bring it back. But that doesn't change the fact that real life is highly compartmentalized, and people want and need it to be in order to function. As real life bled into the virtual, this was inevitable.

One of the most instructional things is to move to a completely different place and culture. People's experience of the last couple years will be entirely different, because everything that's been reported has been implicitly filtered by the question of "how does this affect our tribe/region/nation". Famous personalities won't be known, landmark events will be vague footnotes, and instead there's a whole parallel universe of facts and people. Everything you thought you knew is wrong.

The internet is a poor fit for humanity. Good luck in getting away from that fact without feeling alienated from everyone around you. They don't like Cassandras and they don't like reality.
It is in Canada, Europe...
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It depends on the definition of efficient. Apple's et al would be obligated to invest for the benefit of shareholders; a small minority of the broader population.

On the other hand, in theory, the government invests - and often simply spends (read: little concern for any sort of return) - for the broader good.

On a personal note: What confuses me is when outfits like Apple complain about the quality of workers, yet avoid taxes. Taxes that could, at least in theory, be used for edu. That's hypocritical, and (to me) counter productive.
I've met and helped provide food for plenty of homeless people. Not in a shelter or similar, but out where they are at night when they're going to sleep on the concrete, sometimes we'd wake some of them up so they know we're there to help them however we can. Many of them accepted our food, a small enough number refused and kept asking for money. Sometimes we went out of our way to buy them a bus ticket if they asked for money for the bus ticket, and never found them again after that. Other times it was obvious what they'd do with money if we gave it to them because they spoke as if they were drunk and smelled like it. We did more than just provide food but the point is, sometimes the people helping the homeless have known them for over a year and have noticed their habits, and know when not to give money.

But the bigger point is most people assume money to be the only way to help someone, sometimes offering food and water is helpful too. We've ran into families that asked us for food when we were not even out feeding the homeless as well.
ZZ is way faster than either, especially on Dvorak.
My Midwest school does, but it's usually rated as one of the better ones in the state.

Someone up thread seemed to think the average student of another country would blow away the average US student. I don't think this is true. The US pays lip service to universal education more then most other countries. Unfortunately we don't follow through on it and this leaves a large enough number of substandard schools to make a significant impact on US test averages. The sad fact is the tail end of these averages are so bad they bring down the score, but the "average" for the majority of US students is much higher.

This stratification of education is probably a significant contributor to the stratification of wealth in the US, and it's not OK.
I can see echoes of Bodoni in IBM Plex Serif. Bodoni looks way classier though, and imho doesn't look dated at all.
But as an US citizen you still use some US benefits like the army and international protection, right?

(I'm not from USA or currently living abroad but i think that is "fair")
The US is the only major country in the world that has such a ridiculous and distorting rule for corporate taxation as the repatriation rules. This single rule drives a very large portion of the global tax avoidance industry. It drives economic behaviour which results in misallocation of resources via situations like companies borrowing onshore US against their overseas cash horde and using the proceeds to return to shareholders.

They should abolish this silly rule and go with what everyone else does: either tax US corporates on global earnings and allow deductions for foreign taxes paid, or tax territorial earnings only.
2 wrongs don't make a right.

I can't tell you exactly how to solve it. Perhaps a close look at Japans "Tax Haven Counter Measure Law" could be a part of the solution: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/dennis-howlett/japan-shows-how-...

But playing by different rules once you are big enough sure as hell ain't right.
I guess that, as small village in an economically depressed landscape, didn't have resources for hiring full time enough professional firefigthers. Moreover, all remaining people with houses in the area would be very interested in stopping the arsonist as soon as possible.

"Invisible" systems that just work flawless in normal circumstances, get out of the road and crash in unexpected ways on crisis times or even after the crisis has recovered.
http://www.accademia.org/it/esplora-il-museo/le-opere/i-prig...

These are the ones I was thinking of.
Ethical issues in research using datasets of illicit origin
How Can [SNAP] Once Worth $30B Lose $443M on Just $208M in Revenues? Here’s How
OpenStack’s next mission: bridging the gaps between open source projects
> Right now the economy, by most all of the normal metrics, is doing extremely well. Yes real wages are flat, but the stock market is hitting record highs and accelerating ...

When stocks are up and wages are flat, it means that those with wealth get wealthier and a faster rate than those without wealth. Inequality worsens, and advancement is based not on what one is doing, but on what they started with. Not exactly equal opportunity.
You are welcome to give up your American citizenship if that income tax becomes too burdensome for you.
I am speaking for the tax rate in EU countries, what is quoted in the related article. Regarding revenues in EU countries and moving expenses/royalties between countries to benefit from the lower rates.

I think that the same cases exists in the US, between states themselves (Delaware ?). Where you create companies in multiple states depending on your activity to split your revenues. Again, a small company can't afford such tricks.
You can still live with choosing to not buy any iphone or mac book stuff.
> where I grew up a single school bus cost the district over $1m

What? Per year or once? If per year I wonder what amounts of corruption must be going on. A simple 31-seater bus from Mercedes costs approx. 285.000€ to buy new (https://www.busplaner.de/omnibusmagazin/omnibustest/10035/Me...), which means over a 5y life it's 57k/y... add the same for insurance premiums and the driver, and still I can't get anywhere close to that figure of 1M/bus per year.
FWIW, I am not trolling. FB domains are deliberately blocked via my hosts file, and my business has nothing to do with consumer ads. I am just a skeptic of intertuption advertising effectiveness in general, and curious to see how rigorous the defense of FB advertising will be. I am still not convinced that click tracking is effective, but I’m willing to be wrong.
Yes, it is like wholesellers vs. retailers. Governments don't like to spend time talking with zillion of companies when they can talk with the few ones.
they could store that info locally and send it when you submit the tweet. you would lose information on any non-submitted tweets though
A Family Who Sold Their Belongings for Bitcoins
They may have access to a magnification technology but what would be the objection to the idea that human eye had a closer focus point 3000 years ago?
Wow, the situation is even worse than I imagined - I thought fingerprinting was theoretical, not that there are actual practical examples in the wild. Jeez.
Those with wealth will always try to capture the system - whether its formal or informal. The natural state of any business is to try and become a monopoly because that maximizes rent taking ability - NOT competition.

Practically the ONLY power able to stop monopolies from forming is the government. In absence of the government's ability to "meddle", businesses can and will cut deals with big competitors and squelch smaller ones through anti competitive practices to dominate
Playing devils advocate here:

> What annoys me the most is that, as a small company, I can't evade from my country tax system. I pay the taxes. All of them, at full rate.

How about a startup providing "tax-optimization" for the masses? Keep a cut of the money saved: win-win. Or win-win-lose, if you include the state.
Trump's score for 'getting things done' is not such that I really worry about this. Maybe if he stopped alienating everybody that this would change but I do not believe he is capable of changing himself in such a fundamental way.
> Paying taxes is an obligation with which we comply, both to the letter and in spirit.

No. You're following it to the letter only, and that's the problem.

> Governments should fix tax evasion, not corporations.

Globalization has ensured that multinational corporations cannot be dealt with by national governments. You know it well, since you worked hard for decades to make it so, Timmy.
>but they do pay in those other countries

No, they do not. That is, they have optimized their rates so well as to pay next to nothing.

Incidentally, this is the problem with repatriating those profits to the US: the IRS actually does recognize taxes that have already been paid and will "deduct" (don't know the exact technical mechanism, but that's the gist) the taxes that have already been paid to foreign tax authorities from the taxes due to the US. However, due to the tax "optimization" that's been happening, the actual tax paid is minuscule, and so the tax due on repatriation is substantial.

So what Apple and other US multinationals would prefer is for the "tax already paid" to be a boolean rather than an amount. As in "we already paid 0.00004% tax on this, therefore it is already taxed and the IRS gets nothing", whereas the IRS says "well you paid 0.00004%, so we get (US rate - 0.00004%)".

Of course, the corps call this "double taxation" and rail against it, but in fact double taxation is not happening, or only in that very warped sense.
And then a certain Nobel Prize believes "nudges" will be used for our own good. Ha-ha.
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The only realistic thing I see is if enough employees at a company start an effort then maybe one of the large tech companies can be a leading light in exposing tax loopholes and try to inflict PR damage on other companies that use them.

We are not ants, the users of this board are often really important parts of the largest companies that exist today.
That may be what you and I mean by it. I've been to enough corporate ethics seminars to know that when corporations talk about "ethics," they mean something much narrower.
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Whole Foods also doesn't currently have a pharmacy, unlike many other grocery chains.
Well, it's more about familiarity with the system than work required to game them. I've met one-man operations paying effectively the same rate as Apple, they just know the legalese well enough to do it on their own.
It's key/value store, not key-value.
The US is also exceptional in how bad its bad schools are, this drags our averages down. While it's a tragedy for the kids who are not being served, it's a distortion to say all US schools are bad when most are not.
Well, they can but they can't really publicly admit they do.
But don't forget that those are third-rate (more like fourth-rate) countries, almost undeveloped brutes...

<sarcasm/> (as an EU-citizen)
Researchers propose a gaming solution to gerrymandering – Axios
Venture marketing. Build useful tools and platforms with your marketing budget
Streisand effect in 5..4..3..
I'm very impressed by Firefox 57 (have been on the beta for a while now). I never used Firefox really, but Quantum really made me move over.

I still do my dev in Opera simply because I'm used to the dev tools, but if you haven't checked out Firefox Quantum yet, I really urge you to. It's just faster.
The tax rules were simple.

Multi-nationals create mass webs of offshore companies to move money round outside of their primary tax jurisdiction and then bring it back sans-taxiation if they had just done the simple straight forward thing.

Multinationals made the situation complex to get around simple tax rules. So the tax rules were expanded to try and keep up.

And thus it is a never ending race with ever increasing complexity of tax law.

Yet somehow I think you would bitterly oppose a move to principle based tax law (as opposed to rules based) which is the only way of actually simplifying tax law and putting all companies of an even level footing.
Maybe they can do so voluntarily. If you exclude people from the program because they're not bending to the will of "my tax dollars" arguments you'll assuredly lose out on talented people in a small specialization pool.
While other posters have pointed out it probably wasn't true for Instagram, it is something I've experienced now with multiple video games: I pay for a game during its infancy which then becomes free-to-play and forces other income streams upon me. Today I'm no longer confident that a game I buy will be playable in the same form 10 or 20 years down the line. Meanwhile, the only thing stopping me from playing old consoles and handhelds is the odd dead-but-replaceable CMOS battery or the odd dry-but-fixable solder joint. It really has reduced my interest in them as a whole - not that the multi billion dollar industry will miss me.

As a whole, it seems being a consumer is becoming much more ephemeral. I can't access Facebook or Myspace with the design they had 10 years ago and I'm encouraged to repeatedly replace working products and assets on a stream of credit or leasing.

The benefit for the companies is obvious, benefits for the consumer are not.
Your tone is very negative, but such is the subject you state the truth. There is no incentive to build a tax world government.

There seems to be a similar arrangement in the makings when it comes to trade agreements. If the EU showed one thing, its that you cant form a multinational entity by unifying trade laws alone.
I think one reason this is tricky because it's not easy to define where an online sale is happening.
Yes but the moral burden is not on Apple, it's on those graduates. If you got your education for free and now you make a fat salary from Apple, it's your job to give back. Not Apple's.
It didn’t need to stated publicly to anybody who understands that businesses (maybe most particularly modern corporations, shareholders and investment firms) act on strategies that they believe will make them the most money with the least risk. I’ve never seen anything change that, especially a blog post.

The same goes for when “Tim Cook frames Apple’s business practices as moral/ethical”. You call this marketing and Tim Cook does it everywhere he goes, Congress or not, all day, every day, because he makes a lot of money for it.

If this letter were run on the front page of NY Times, WaPo, Guardian every day for a week, I cannot imagine could make any discernable difference in the business practices.

Occupy Wall Street, which at least for the most part had it’s finger pointed in the right direction, made no measurable impact on, well, anything. We could speculate some long-shot correlations with fringe left political movements like Bernie Sanders but these things remain certain to be ineffective so long as this letter represents the public’s understanding of the problem.
A 'virtual wall' that improves wireless security and performance
> It's what they sell outside of the US that they don't pay, but they do pay in those other countries.

Except they don't. The open letter says "What these filings also show is that since 2010, Apple’s foreign-earned income has been taxed at a rate of between 1 and 7 percent" however in Europe most countries have a corporate tax rate around 20% (cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe).

For Germany it looks like Apple is paying at least ten times less taxes than it should.
This is incredibly stupid. A US citizen abroad gets very little additional protection from the "army and international protection" that the other citizens of the country in which they are generally resident get; i.e. a US citizen in Germany or Japan gets a lot and a US citizen resident in, say, China or Indonesia gets nothing. This is one of the dumbest arguments I have ever heard for this kind of wacky double taxation and I wonder at the persistence of its appearance.
While I appreciate the sentiment it is time to start taking a more global look at these antics of companies.

I run my own company in the UK and I know for a fact that apple makes a massive amount of money selling in this country.

Now as a small business owner I am taxed at 20% on corporate profit. (19% going forward now due to a tax cut in corporate rates introduced during the last financial year). You then also get taxed on any dividends you pay out to yourself as the owner of that company according to normal income tax rates, (Sure you get a £5000 dividend tax free allowance but after that you are on normal income tax bracket rates).

There is simply NO way for me to change this. I pay my taxes each year diligently, otherwise I end up in jail.

However massive companies that make billion in revenue from countries get to play the tax game and effective pay percentage wise a LOT less than small businesses in the UK while benefiting from the infrastructure provided and paid for by public funds that they contribute very little to. That infrastructure includes the Healthcare and Education system. Both which are under constant stress due to under funding.

I am not for high taxation but I surely am for everyone paying their fare share. The employees working for these companies pay many times more tax on their salaries compared to what the corporation pays on its profits. At some point this vampire squid behaviour of extracting out of a country without helping fund the infrastructure that helped make it be a successful market cannot continue. This behaviour also gives me VERY little hope that AI and Automation will ever lead to the benefit of but a select few. /<rant>
As far as I can tell, your essential complaint is that Google is sometimes providing results that are too relevant. You're OK with Google doing some amount of personalisation, but there's a line that they shouldn't cross.

How do you distinguish between "good" and "bad" personalisation at scale? How do their algorithms know what should and shouldn't be personalised? Do humans even agree on where to draw the line?

Google process literally trillions of searches per year, with each search taking a few milliseconds. You're asking them to make a complex tradeoff between providing completely irrelevant results for some queries and excessively personalised results for others. I don't disagree that they could probably do a better job of making that tradeoff, but I don't think that they're being malicious or negligent either. I think that they're making perfectly reasonable engineering decisions given the constraints of scale.

I don't think I am being naive. I don't blindly trust Google. I think that there are many important questions to be asked about how major internet companies collect, store and process our personal data. I think that America urgently needs to pass legislation equivalent to our General Data Protection Regulation. I think that there are significant concerns about the quality of information that people see online, but I think that publishers play a far greater role than Google in this respect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
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While writing code?
> Unfettered exploration is for dicking around when you have nothing better to do.

It's also very useful for learning new things.

Yes, Google probably does a better job than ever before in finding me the most relevant StackOverflow result, but for exploration usage it's become very useless.

I've had the theory that the growing popularity of "awesome"-lists and its likes is mainly due to Google's reduced explorability.
> Paying taxes is an obligation with which we comply, both to the letter and in spirit.

That is the problem though isn't it? Following the tax code to the letter and not the spirit. E.g. paying internal royalties to companies via Ireland and Cayman is not following the tax laws other than to the letter.

If laws can't be changed to actually extract taxes by the spirit of the law "Sorry facebook we don't like how you transferred royalties to the cayman islands via that double Irish setup, so that'll be $5B for your business in our country please", then we completely failed to make laws.
From the article, it sounds like NASA felt the author didn't respond promptly enough to their request for him to redact personally identifiable information (though he did redact it eventually), and is punishing him for it (by pulling both his research and the grant they gave him).
Honestly this point is so obvious but I hadn't thought of it myself.
I've always had good experiences with FreeRTOS (and friends).
It works well, is well supported, works on a wide variety of platforms.

The real security in Tock comes from the use of the MPU which can also be done in FreeRTOS.
The use of Rust is nice for application-robustness, but does not enhance security over the equivalent in C.