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I don’t know where “here” is, but in the U.K. it’s perfectly legal. You can even give yourself (as a director) an interest free loan.

However if the amount owed is greater than ~£10k(?) at the end of the corporate tax year, you need to pay it back within 9 months or it’s treated as income and taxed accordingly (there’s also regulations about paying it off before the end of the corporate tax year and taking out directly after). Still 21 months for an interest free loan isn’t bad...
It's objectively awkward.

Just few examples from my use of a mac:

You open xCode, nothing appears, it just changed top menu.
You click on any other app in the meantime, and you need to go back to dock to do same action that opened it in first place.

You try to maximize window? For some reason it will move to other desktop.

You try to drag a window to the side, like in every other OS, to have it on half on screen? Nooo, users prefer long clicking on little maximize icon.
(and there's a ton of other hidden actions like this, looks like new users should just right click every control possible to discover them)

Mouse support is completely broken, looks like acceleration is optimized for touchpad, and you cannot fix it in settings.

And worst of all, I have to deal with this 'perfect UX' because, no you won't be able to develop an iPhone app on your Linux PC.
Or maybe that's the lie told in order to make the system more complex and harder to navigate, with more gates people won't be able to pass through, and an entire bureaucracy to administrate that — conveniently drawing even more resources from actually fulfilling the system's avowed purpose, ending with a system which keeps costing more and delivering less.

As long as you can provide a steady stream of anecdotes and scapegoats it'll go fine.

This can in turn justify cutting the system because it doesn't pull its weight[0], and the people who hate social support systems can pat themselves on the back over a job well done.

[0] not all at once of course, you by start cutting ancillary services like legal aid[1] in order to feed the ever-increasing gate-keeping machinery you keep adding to

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/legal-aid-cuts...
Same with Uber. IMO rebooting attracts people because regulation free allows for wild (easy, quick) gains, so lots of people will jump on the "opportunity" until the real cost reveal themselves at which point they will realize the losses. It's a bit physical, this crowd needed a way to unleash their energy and the official market was outside of their reach, providing another petri dish so to speak allowed for the reaction to occur, but it's unsustainable and transient. I think that America was the same in the 17th. Also the movie industry moved away from the East coast to the wild west to free themselves of regulations; only to create their own decades later.
I lived in London for several years.

I've met people that were very open about scamming the system.

I once knew a person, that went to London 17 years ago from another Country. He managed to get a not fit for work benefit and housing. His later then 'wife', they never got married but have a child together and live together, got some illness. Never met her, he was saying that was a genuine illness and not like his and she can't work.

So that person that I mentioned above, owned a car and a motorbike. Not sure if those items were under his name or not. He also worked at a car mechanic shop for money under the table.

In the 4 years I knew him, he was never caught, nor anyone went to his supposed house to check if he is there or what he is doing.

That guy was literally skimming the system for money without any control. At some point he and his 'wife' found out about another scam that they could run, if she gets evicted by her landlord (both of them were getting housing benefits, but they were presenting that they were staying at 2 different properties while he was staying at her house) she could somehow get a free house. So they decided to bring a dog home so that the landlord sends them out. They got send out.
She was put into a b&b with her daughter for a few months, while he was staying at the other house the benefits was paying for and then I've no idea if the scam worked or not.

To be very and completely honest, I did look into how I can report that guy, just because I didn't find it fair, that I am paying taxes and there are people like this person on the article that really need the money, and you get those people that just scam the system.
All I got from googling how to report someone, was that the reporting system sucks so much that the HMRC won't really do much about it.

That sort story is just there to show you whats wrong with the system in general.
I'm no expert on history, but this is where Nazi ideology seems contradict itself for me:

* They claimed that all development in Russia was led by people of German (Aryan) origin,
* Yet they focused their efforts on exterminating the social elite first, to make the society of Untermensh (slave race) fall faster.

Could someone chime in?
Learn to code. This will get you started on an MVP, and also looks good on an application.
I don't think anything other than ML will be funded like that for a while.

We are on the very top of that hype curve, a few of years from now we'll forget how absolutely stupefied we were when ML gave us models that "can X better than humans" and the enthusiasm will give way to a feeling of "I overpaid for this". It happened before with databases way back when, then with specialist systems, then ...

The only difference is now the layperson hears about it with an astounding frequency. I don't know, maybe that will make things different but I can't see it having any other effect than making that 'disappointment crash' harder
Or all the more reason to try to gain more users via a promotional ad like this one in order to stay relevant and not go the Opera route. In hindsight it backfired, but hindsight 20/20 is easy. Thing is, why assume malice?
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There are two actually statistics underlying the discussion here, and from my reading both points are right (though disagreeing that we're urbanizing is incorrect)...

1) Our general trend is towards urbanization, humanity is now more urban than rural, and every quality of life index shows cities give more good to more people better.

2) Millennials, hipsters in particular, in American markets with crushing real estate prices have recently begun reverse-migrating away from the cities and to more rural areas with romanticized lifestyles creating some new demographic, and real estate, trends.

In terms of pure statistics we're looking at a sub-group with a different trend than the overall group. Most potatos aren't from my backyard, but those potatoes are only getting prettier while the many thousands at the market are getting uglier ;)
This sounds pretty logical ... the other big player is probably Oracle who will end up purchasing Pivotal, Rackspace, ...
there is no such server interval setting, and there never has been? i can only assume that this was the retry schedule doing exponential backoff, trying to contact servers that are down. currently we don't have the concept of shared retry hints (as deciding whose hints to trust would be hard), so every server has to work out which servers are available in the mesh itself. After about 10 minutes it calms down.
"It also violated the toy industry's standards: it didn't talk, whistle, cry, shoot, change clothes, appear in a movie, or require batteries."

And it absolutely will not stop, EVER, until you are dead.
The penultimate paragraph mentions that film.
There is a vast difference between emergent, organic, "in market" regulations and protections (voluntarily agreed upon reciprocal protection type schemes ala escrows, insurance, etc) and government financial and behavioural regulations enforced at gunpoint and threat of violence.

Libertarians, rightly in my view, argue that Governments only have the moral right to enforce, with their monopoly on force, the non aggression principle.

Maybe insider trading is bad, and the best exchanges would have internal arbiters who economically punish insider trading, but having a centralised government enforce that with threats to life, limb, and liberty is unjust.
> but they increased by 11% last year.

S&P 500 rose 23% last year, maybe you just invest in an index fund.
"Because they are mostly scam ads", haven't seen many non scam ads or highly incorrect/false usage of material on facebook for years. This is more of a thing for them to properly fix. They might as well ban most ads I was seeing at least.
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There are volunteers that perform this function. However, the hostility of the bureaucracy today is not an accident. It's a matter of policy. The intent is to make people go away without paying them money. The people responsible blind themselves to the fact that some of these people "go away" because they have died.
>rkt on the other hand is a dead project

Why is this? I've only recently started looking at it.
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According to Wikipedia's article on railroad diagrams one of the first appearances of it was in "Pascal User Manual" written by Niklaus Wirth in 1973. Hardly a new idea. It's been used in academia for ages when first teaching regular expressions and Extended Backus–Naur form to students.
I suppose making them pointy, like an elf, or with other custom, vanity shapes, was not in the scope of the initial research, but maybe soon...
I don't remember exact source, but I read American leaders didn't like allying with USSR one bit. It's just that it was necessary to stop the Nazis.
Haha, wouldn't a negative 35% discount be a 35% surcharge?
tangential-second-person-links:

http://adamcadre.ac/if/photopia.html

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/06/rule-34-...
Not sure what going public with this benefits anyone. They could have covertly leaked missinformation or gain benefits by being in control what is leaked.
Depends on the languages involved.
OpenShift is really good.
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I honestly believe religion to be mostly an instrument to convince people to follow a certain agenda. Which means, from my point of view, that there must be a real reason for the Egyptian religion to promote the construction of pyramids instead of more, let's say, practical goals.
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What a writer, and what a speaker. See her if you get a chance. Rather than dragging through some uninteresting confrontation with Taleb, spend that time reading her review essays at NYRB - http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/beard-mary/ . Some are subscriber-only, but many are open.
> I can't figure out exactly what corrections he wants made.

The UK intellectual sphere shouldn't misrepresent history to suit modern sensibilities.
Even IF ( a big IF) your explanation is true, it is of little help to most of people holding USDT.

So in the best case scenario to redeem USDT for USD:

1. You have to have a Taiwanese bank account.
2. You have to gain verified status at Bitfinex's discretion.
3. You have to have a balance over 50k USDT.

Bitfinex/Tether backers know that it is near impossible to trigger a serious run on their USD balances with such rules.

Thus it logically follows, they have very little incentive to actually keep 2.3B in USD EVEN if they received 2.3B in USD.

I can buy the explanation that originally Tether planned to have 1:1 USD for each USDT.

However the massive regular printing of Tether really strains the 1:1 claim.
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> Many professional endurance based athletes also do not track using GPS for similar reasons.

That might need a citation. They might not be using Strava and posting them publically (although a lot of pro cyclists do) but instead use something like Training Peaks for communication with coaches etc.
It has for friends of mine in SH to the point they had to switch to other companies until EV engineers caught up with new restrictions.
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I had trouble reading the article because of adblocker-blockers - it was fun when I got there but if anyone else has trouble it's mostly a selection of highlights from this twitter thread and related hashtag #reviewforscience :
https://twitter.com/DaniRabaiotti/status/958227887915786241
Don't join clubs with people you cant't trust. Post your rides with week delay or make them public when you are back home from your trip. It is called "enhanced" privacy mode for a reason and combined with other privacy settings it can give you very good results.
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I have similar stories about acquaintance IT contractors using offshore tax schemes. Are they better or worse?

These anecdotes about complex systems only fuel peoples preconceived perceptions of systems that they fear benefit others more than them.
There were concerns with using Huawei equipment in New Zealand for the UFB Network (New Zealand's national fiber optic network) for similar reasons.

I can't remember what equipment they ended up using. But all I could think of at the time was that if Huawei and the Chinese weren't spying on us, then Cisco and the US government would be spying on us. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Of course, after Snowden, it was revealed that they were spying on us the whole time, with the NZ government being an enthusiastic participant as one of the Five Eyes nations. They had actually tapped the (only) submarine internet cable running out of New Zealand.
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Absolutely, I've lost friends over this very point - cheating the benefits systems makes me just as angry as people who don't pay their taxes. But which one is actually the biggest problem for the country?

"Benefits fraud costs the government £1.3bn a year, according to official statistics, while the gap between tax owed and tax paid is put at £34bn a year by officials."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/13/benefit-or-t...
Taleb also has a bit of a racial obsession with proving his own racial purity and distinction. He's not a disinterested actor.
Conversely I know a number of people who are not realistically able to work in the normal economy due to disabilities who have had their benefits cut to life-threatening levels. It's not unusual for these decisions to be reversed on appeal but then you have to find a way to stay alive for months while representing yourself legally.

It seems to me that the crackdowns make the system worse. As it becomes more bureaucratic the people who know exactly how to lie can still scam it but the genuinely needy don't know the magic words and get shut out.
> Let's keep the private parts to the implementation and only offer a reasonable public interface. That means a dedicated social worker who knows both the rules and knows you.

> An outsider can't be expected to chug along with the ever-mutating directives, laws, guidances, and rules that are part of the bureaucracy's own operation and related legislation. Let the bureau have people who take human descriptions of one's life and work out the best plan out of available benefits. The insiders have the knowledge of what works together and how to make the system work.

In England a "Decision Maker" looks at the details of your case, and applies all the relevant acts, statutes, statutory instruments, and case law you your case.

This person is an expert, employed by the Department for Work and Pensions and all they do is this.

If you think they've got something wrong you can ask for a mandatory reconsideration: they'll have another look. If you still think they're wrong you can go to lower tribunal. A panel looks at the decision. And if they're wrong you can go to upper tribunal.

Here's what a tribunal judge has to say aboutj DWP: https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilydugan/most-dwp-benefits-cases-...

Note that they are fobidden by law from awarding costs. Number 10 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

The figures for PIP are particularly bad: https://twitter.com/CommonsWorkPen/status/942773136390590465

If you want to look at the book of rules to see how bizarre it is, it's available online. Have a think about how many pages you're expecting, then have a count of the page numbers. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/decision-makers-gu...
So CoreOS's claim to fame is that it _only_ runs containers? How is that useful? You can run containers on any distribution.
Agreed 100%. Buying tokens from an ICO is akin to funding a project on kickstarter - and we all know how often kickstarter projects fulfill their promise..
I've not read "Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class", but from what little I know of it one (probably minor) thing that Jones tries to establish is that the very word "Chav" is a classist acronym for "Council Housed And Violent".

This is a retrofit for narrative purposes, invented by Jones, who seeks to demonise the word and in doing so police its use. The origins of the term are much older (before council houses in fact).

Having read quite a number of his columms for the guardian, he seems to represent a lot that I dislike about the UK left and their tendency to try to redefine popular terms in such a way as to demonise their users. It's straw-man fallacy writ large - you said "chav" therefore you are classist (Tory) scum. Actually I said chav because that group of loud, ridiculously dressed arseholes over there is starting to kick off, I don't give a shit what their socio-economic background might be.

I have left-leaning tendencies, I think the benefits system in the UK is a f*cking shambles, the NHS needs help and is an essential service, that there's a lot more we can do to help our people thrive and succeed. But this vein of pious language-warping really puts me off from identifying with the self-identified left or the Labour party.
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We're "horizontal".

We would not fit his definition of a vertical specific startup. (We have also been around a while though)
The bulk of what we do is time series.

Applications we do for real paying customers include:

Detecting theft of power on the raw grid

Online payments fraud

Detecting people stealing from the telco network

Detecting faults in assembly line machines

Detecting computers about to fail

Detecting root cause of dropped calls

Kind of researchy, but we've also done robotics with RL to teach a robot to learn an obstacle course.
I’m talking about the national trend. The Bay Area is broken on many levels.
> Many has business lines like, "The total market for car loans / social media advertisement / game currency is N trillion...

I've heard this called "Chinese math", a near-fatal flaw in business plans, because of the follow up to that framing: "... if we only manage to capture 10% of the Chinese soda market, we'll be forever rich!"

Turns out capturing 10% of Chinas soda market is hard.

Also you can only really set value on the things you can/will capture, not what you wish you could...
> If I had the choice of having a C++2020

Would be nice to just do a fork and you either pass -std=c11 or -std=c20.
The root of the problem is clear by the fact that simple statement “we were wrong” is nowhere to be found in Mozilla's responses. Instead, we get nothing but glossy corporate bullshit about potentially mismatching values.

People who don't get why it is important are leading Mozilla into the grave, no matter what expertise and experience in other areas they have. Unfortunately, the world has never seen a bureaucrat who resigns on his own will.
Never I would have guessed that "xi" is pronounces "gsai". I would pronounce it "shee" (like chinese) or "ksai" (english) or "ksee" (german).

Also, I don't thin we need another editor with a pluggable focus. It's not true that you need plugins to a text editor. It is plugged into an environment that also contains all the other things you need. It interacts via "open file", "read file", "write file" and "close file" with the other tools. It basically _IS_ the plugin for editing files.

And if you really want an editor containing plugins, then there's a load of it out there. You can start with all the IDEs, you can start with Emacs, you can start even with Neovim or Atom. This is not a feature that needs another project.
"Space age hiatus" would be a serious blow to our future as a species, though. It seems that over the last few years, all the necessary components required to bootstrap an economy in Earth's orbit / cislunar space have been coming together. This peculiar synchronization may completely collapse if we were to suddenly lose space access for couple of years (or decades).
I guess you could say that the fact it's using a block chain, any form of processing the transfer of ip/rights of the hash desired, can be out sourced. Bitpay, meta mask,. Etc

Side note I see no reason to use pow for this application, pos seams like a more appropriate security tradeoff
I don't know, but I write unit tests and my code is being written with them (Kotlin primarily). Every new feature starts with tests being written and by the time they're done the code is implemented already.
Lawyers will tell you if things are legal. They won’t generally stop you from doing dumb, legal things.
The concept is to make you see the world though someone else's eyes, to put you into someone else's shoes.

You are highlighting your inability to do this, and proving how you only want to consider the impact directly on yourself.
There's been plenty of effort spent into estimates of benefits fraud, and by all account it is a tiny problem. Yes, it should be dealt with. But currently, the problems universal credit and other defects of the benefits reforms are causing are outright killing people.

Benefit fraud is currently far down the priority list of things that needs to be fixed, and that even goes for cost: The government has pushed things so far that you can look forward to a lot of tax money going to cover legal costs as a result of the huge and growing number of lawsuits the government is losing.

The government is complicit in far worse breaches of legislation related to the benefits system than fraudulent claimants are.
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I'm no fan of that type of linguistic policing either (e.g. "neds" here in Scotland) - I don't think the argument around the term makes up much of the book though.
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Yes.

OP talks about independent medical assessments.

Imagine you're signed off work because of heart problems. You're invited to a medical assessment, and you have a heart attack during the assessment. The medical assessor calls an ambo, and the paramedics take you to hospital to treat your ongoing heart attack.

We might think this is clear evidence the person actually is ill and wasn't faking.

The DWP sees this - failure to complete the assessment - as a sanctionable failing.

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm13...

> Debbie Abrahams: [...]

> Again, I support the principle of a sanctions regime. If somebody consistently fails to turn up for work experience or a Work programme scheme, sanctions should be applied. However, I believe that sanctions are being applied indiscriminately. For example, one of my constituents was a beneficiary of employment and support allowance after they had retired on grounds of ill health as a result of a heart problem. He was required to attend a work capability assessment with Atos. During

> 19 Mar 2013 : Column 840

> the assessment, he was told that he was having a heart attack and the nurse said that she had to stop the assessment. He got a letter a couple of weeks later saying that he had withdrawn from the assessment and, as such, was being sanctioned. That beggars belief. I have other examples, as I am sure do colleagues.
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