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> I feel like all the people I'd like to talk to live in the US/UK/Canada, not here.

I know exactly what you mean. The internet means we become much more accustomed to associating with people with similar interests. I have had a similarly hard time, even having lived all over the US. It's just difficult, especially when your interests are things that are very "independent" -- computers, learning, music (at least for me, since it's not generally the type you can go to a bar and listen to).

The people I'm closest to are all purely coincidental.

Try software competitions maybe? It's really the only place I can think of where I've felt like I could get on with a large portion of the people, but even then I still feel like I have a very different personality.

It's a vicious cycle. I consider myself pretty extroverted, but I just am bored by most people. I'm sure everyone else who I might become friends with has the same problem, and thus none of us ever meet.
Just because information services have a near-zero marginal cost, it doesn't mean they have zero cost.

I totally agree, but equally we know that the company makes profit in both countries, regardless of how the figure is juggled. That leaves regulators with the puzzle of figuring out how to fairly tax them; a levy on revenue isn't an awful idea if it's correctly applied, but there might be better solutions.
Here is a meal from these ingredients by a Google chef: https://gsuite-developers.googleblog.com/2014/09/sudoku-line...

> Google Chef Anthony Marco took it as a challenge, and we’re calling the result Foie Linéaire à la Stigler
Right, but unfortunately for me I'm not taxed at 2-6%. More like an extra zero.
This is wrong. Taxation should happen where value is created.
I guess if a french advertiser pays Google Ireland to show ads to french consumers it pays Irish VAT.
I've been working on a small custom build system (of the "re-editable" kind) for my own software project, and have been working on a little writeup. It's not finished, and I think there was something in the implementation that I was still unhappy about. But I'll take this opportunity to jump on the bandwagon. I think for larger project it is worth it to just make your own system, so here are my notes: http://jstimpfle.de/blah/buildsystem.html
Not really, if it's a regional talent center

It wants workers educated by the State, who travel on infrastructure maintained by the State, who have healthcare provided by the State, security provided by the State, yadda yadda yadda. All the advantages, but none of the costs.
Why I regret getting straight A’s in college (2007)
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The sphere drawing in figure 7...
People seem to miss this subtelty, the spikeness is an artifact of the coordinate system. Rotate the basis vectors and the spikes move with them.
There is no right to equal economic wealth for all regions.
Just because it was legal and normal before doesn't mean it should stay that way.

If we decide that the double duct/Irish sandwich/etc are loopholes that are being explored and we'd like them closed, then it's entirely valid to do so.

Money made in the past does not mean that your are entitled or guaranteed to make money in the future.
from the article:
The volume of the unit d-sphere goes to 0 as d grows! A high dimensional unit sphere encloses almost no volume!

Maybe I'm nitpicking, but this interpretation is not accurate IMO. Volume of N-dimensional sphere is measured is different units than that of (N-1)-dimensional sphere. E.g. one is m^5, and another is m^4. Comparing values measured in different units is not the best idea. It would be better worded as : the ratio of volume of N-dimensional sphere to the volume of same-dimensional cube approaches zero when N goes to infinity. But this is not a counter-intuitive statement.
> Don't forget, most Europeans also speak English.

Just pointing out that's not true. The number is around 38% who have a working knowledge, second place is tied with German and French at 14% [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language_in_Europe#Oth...
I'm skeptical whether Hyperloop as described in Musk's original paper is practical. On the other hand, I think it's possible that some variant which is clearly Hyperloop-inspired might actually be feasible.

You can probably make the case that we're already in Hyperloop-inspired territory, since as far as I can tell everyone working on Hyperloop has dispensed with air-bearings and moved to maglev for levitation.
This is stupid and taxation for taxation purposes. It is all annoying. Why not have all taxes generated from sales Tax (VAT). For example, set the VAT for 30% and be done with it. No revenue tax. No profit tax. No capital gain tax. Just determine how much money you'r going to need, estimate the country consumption and then set the VAT.

Bonus point? No complicated tax reporting. No tax avoidance or evasion. Everything is simple.

But no, we gotta keep the system complicated to freakout new comers, terrorize the current small businesses and enable the big guys to get away with it however sophisticated it is.
> Also, I am told by industry insiders, a “blockbuster” study on media performance in the UK is coming in the next few days. It will make the digital ad industry apoplectic and have them screaming.

Hard to take someone seriously when they talk like that. Also it's hard to take the publication seriously when they write nonsense like that. It sounds like local car company or mattress company advertising. "These prices are so low that it will have you screaming!".

> Is 2018 going to be the worst year yet for digital ads?

Worst year yet? Digital advertising has been growing by at least double digits for the last 10 years.

It surpassed TV ad spending last year.

https://www.recode.net/2017/12/4/16733460/2017-digital-ad-sp...

Digital ad spending is going to increase. It's where the young people are.

It might dip as the corporate elite try to control social media, but for it to have the "worst year yet", digital ad spending would have to drop by 99.99% of last year's spending to get to 2000s level spending. We already surpassed that the first week of january.
Ireland is soon to be the only English-as-first-language European country. I would think that is a large factor.
The Irish are free to Exit the EU like their British neighbors. Then you can keep your taxes as low as you want.
It is wrong, but Tech companies failed to learn restraint. Had they been less aggressive at tax optimization this wouldn't be happening. Since its not possible for the EU to agree on harmonizing income tax this is the only viable solution.
> I have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University

I should refer to this article the next time there's a thread on HN insisting that a college degree imparts useless knowledge.
I wonder if companies have a fiscal accounting and an economic accounting. The latter would be used to base economic decision on.

That accounting should show a nice profit in EU countries.
Opera never stopped inventing new features and was (for me) the fastest browser especially on slower hardware, nevertheless, compared to IE and FF (there was no Chrome in these days).

I remember the F9 quick configuration menu which allowed you to quickly turn on or off certain features, or the custom CSS bar to change the style of a website. Opera was also the first browser with a useful zoom function. One feature which was never adopted widely but was also quite useful were graphical tabs (today this is widespread in Windows and KDE for regular window previews). The list of opera features is kind of endless. It's such a pity this great browser was no further developed.

I wonder why the developers did not open source the code/old engine in a way Netscape did it with Mozilla.
I mean, people have been convicted based on completely BS forensic 'science' that's little more than eyeball pattern matching with little to no basis in statistics.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...
Was the Far Left for or against Google Fiber?

For. However they are against actual Free Speech unmolested by censorship from corporate giants, and they would not have such power on their side, had Google Fiber succeeded.

More residential broadband (last mile) competition would have saved online advertising?

It would have let Tech kill off old media, or at least kill it off sooner, which would have changed the market power of old media's ad money.
Do you subscribe to any digital media as an alternative (or I suppose, as an alternative to the ad blocking alternative)?
The article you provided mentions that his parents were encouraged to marry.

> The two were encouraged to marry in a system with undertones of eugenics, the controversial gene-pool manipulation espoused by the Nazis and previously trumpeted by Beijing.

> It wasn't a national breeding program, it was a desire among Shanghai officials for them to get together," Larmer said. "But when Yao was born, everybody in the sports community in Shanghai and nationally knew he was something special."

While I agree that's unsavory, that's not what most would consider "genetically engineered."
Oh, yeah, that stuff is abhorrent.
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Conceivably the local competitors would be paying more in taxes and this should be calculated to be as close to neutral as possible for them.
Backpropagation is based on linear optimization (aka calculate the maximum or minimum of a function based on the derivades of that function, this is taught before university in my country). And also in the chain rule to calculate the derivades of functions (first year of university).

But I meant, if you see the equations and the steps without understanding completely the insights, it is a joke of an algorithm. It just does some multiplications and applies the new gradients, move to the previous layer and repeat.
Providing the Taoiseach holds the Brexit line throughout, it wouldn't be that surprising if the EU backs off a bit.
Except this is a GOP agenda...You are just accusing anything involving regulations as "Leftist" without acknowledging it is the standard banners of your own party that enable it.

I am not a Republican. I've always voted Democrat.

When your expectations are 180-deg out of whack, it's time to re-visit your world view and assumptions.
It might have helped me get my first job. After that, I don't think anybody cared. (But it was on my resume for decades, just in case...)
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Interesting little piece of trivia. I'm on vacation and just finished reading The Sun Also Rises 2 days ago and I'm now reading "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin and just encountered this passage:

"They became intimate and friendly by imperceptible degrees, and then by leaps."

Which reads very similar to the Hemmingway passage. Maybe he stole it ;)
It amazes me that P and G pays outside agencies huge heaps of money to agencies that sit between them and the advertisers. Seems like a slam dunk to move in House given the incentive issues.
Hbase is going offheap as much as possible. Voltdb uses java for management and c++ for low-level.

They will write c++ in java eventually. Depending on how much performance you REALLY need.

The same for elasticseach, if you want performance you need to do the same thing scylladb did to cassandra (per-core-sharding, skip filesystem across cores etc)
The real surprise here is that there is anyone left who thinks that RT scores aren't basically paid marketing for whatever film is in question, and are real organic reviews.

Especially with the recent virtue signaling olympics that movie critics have been going through to evaluate movies on anything but their actual quality.
Would it be counter intuitive though, that the ratio increases until dimension 5 (I think) then starts decreasing?
Rotten Tomatoes is an aggregator of published reviews for a given film. While they do expose an "audience score", that's not what people are talking about when they say something has e.g. a 95 on Rotten Tomatoes. It's the percent of e.g. well-known newspaper, internet, and broadcast film critics who react positively to a given film.
Took a little while, but I think this is what you are looking for: https://blog.0day.rocks/abusing-gmail-to-get-previously-unli...
and capitalization
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I don't think it's babies, but rather how we handle population growth.
If that becomes a trend, wouldn‘t that increase the amount of poor quality, even malicious ads as ad companies have to lower prices and be less selective about their customers?
> Especially with the recent virtue signaling olympics that movie critics have been going through to evaluate movies on anything but their actual quality.

What the christ does this mean?
> For a long time the megacorps have argued they create a lot of jobs

Plus I don't get this reasoning to start with. Isn't it inherently more efficient to provide services as a large corporation? Thus, lots of smaller companies would probably employ quite a bunch more people to achieve the same.
For Stream's feed tech we also moved from Cassandra to an in-house solution on top of RocksDB. It's been a massive performance and maintenance improvement. This StackShare explains how Stream's stack works. It's based on Go, RocksDB and Raft: https://stackshare.io/stream/stream-and-go-news-feeds-for-ov...
If you don't fear being looked at like you have a third eye or people thinking you are a weirdo, then by all means do this.
It’s not realistic to expect the countries in the EU to be “more united” than the states in the US.
I'm American so I don't fully understand how VAT tax works but aren't these sorts of sales taxes generally regressive (i.e. poorer people pay a larger share of their income). I think the tax code can be simplified but I don't think a pure VAT system is such an obvious winner
In a sane world: $0B

But we don't live in a sane world. All these multi-country tax schemes effectively mean that corporate profits can't be trusted to be reported accurately. It's easier to just stick the tax on revenue and then corporations may finally have an incentive to lobby to live in a sane world again.

Another option I can think of is for countries in the EU to set guidelines and impose harsh provision (a doubling of the tax rate, say) if a court finds that the guidelines have been breached.

It isn't right if Wall St is overjoyed at EU earnings, but the EU hasn't collected a dime of profit.
Ireland, The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Those are the countries where you can easily find fluent English speakers within the European Union.

With the tax equal anywhere in the EU, Ireland would be clearly the #1 place to locate the jobs for large international companies - particularly American ones.
>Heterosexual men do not have that same option.

Not true, I know a bunch of men who dropped out of the workforce due to laziness once they got married and had kids.
> people who don't even have that $100 to spare?

This country does not consist of 1% super rich and 99% who do not have even $100.
You have just described a race to the bottom fueled by a tragedy of the commons. The textbook solution is exactly what has been suggested: coordination among players so that the overall welfare is maximized.

Sure, if Ireland chooses to pass on this revenue it should be able to do so, but this should not stop France from taxing a Google that is doing business in France from an Ireland PO Box. The philosophy of the common market predates the global digital market and is no longer adequate.
The problem with just VAT is that it effects the poor disproportionately due to the fact that the poor usually use a larger part of their money on things that charge VAT (living expenses)

A general “money changing hands” tax would be more fair but would wreck the economy.
Opera did a lot of great things, but introducing tabs was not one of them.
Tabbed browsing is a bug, not a feature.
(At least in all os' ive used, there is already a "tab bar")
VAT only applies to consumption by citizens of a country. Not enterprises, not foreigners. If anyone were to sell services to foreign companies or individuals, they wouldn't generate taxes. If they were made mandatory, then their services would be at a serious competitive disadvantage because foreign companies couldn't get a tax refund in their local country.

In short, this plan is very very bad. Taxes are somewhat complicated, but they're designed this way for a reason, and there's a reason why nearly all countries have somewhat similar systems.
Totally agree, I'd group that in my #1 above.
And in that case, both the company and the employee pay substantial income taxes.
Many businesses were destroyed by abolishing slavery as well. Just because a business exists currently doesn’t mean it should always deserve to continue existing.
Wealth is not subject to zero-sum reallocation like that, at least not in the long term. If you prohibit the activities that create wealth in the name of reducing inequality, you don’t get to reallocate it others, it just never gets created.

This satisfies the emotional need to know that no one is doing better than you, but doesn’t make you materially better off.
Yes, but if you can put your 2fa manager behind something like samsung knox it gives you some level of separation.
Social media makes us depressed, because it makes us compare our behind-the-scenes blooper reel to their highlights of the season reel.
Boaahh, what a crap article. Is this supposed to be some kind of crypto satire?
> The key question is how much is "too much," and more importantly, if the proposed fixes for that are worse than the "problem."

Sure. Let's make a change to normalize wealth and measure the outcome. We'll tweak as necessary.

> I don't think the situation is as clear-cut as this, at least in the US. No matter how wealthy you are, you still have only one vote, and both sides have no shortage or rich benefactors.

There's plenty in the political arena that can be bought, such as votes, minds, and territory. That's the entire point of political advertising.

> I don't think it is, though. If someone has 1000x my assets but cannot use them to make his lifestyle notably better than mine, that in no way makes me "relatively impoverished." His additional zeroes in his bank account can only make me feel bad if I choose to feel bad about them (and many do).

Those 1000x assets can be used for loan collateral. Assets aren't really assets if they don't do anything. You are relatively impoverished.
A movie’s quality will always be criticized in he context of the culture it’s viewed in. Objective quality is not the most relevant metric in art.
I don't see where I said it did. You didn't answer my question.

EDIT: Forty-some percent of Americans don't have the cash on hand or free credit to handle an unexpected $400 expense. [0] That statistic is almost 3 years old. I doubt it's gone down in that time.

[0] http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/jun/09/...
VAT is an extremely regressive tax that hits the poorest hardest, as they tend to spend a larger proportion of their income on taxable goods and services.

As a result, systems with high VAT rates tends to need to compensate in various ways, such as zero rating essentials, and higher benefits payments. It quickly ends up not being so simple.

> Bonus point? No complicated tax reporting. No tax avoidance or evasion. Everything is simple.

What makes you think VAT reporting will be simple, and that nobody will conduct fraud related to it? That's not my experience at all.
Seems fine to me. When I make a loss for a year, I still have to pay income tax. And by making it apply to all local business regardless of where the company is located, they can't hide from it if they want to do business with the market in the area. And if they don't, someone else will.
The first time I really enjoyed celery was organic. (Same variety as conventional.) I was expecting the same nasty aftertaste and was pleasantly surprised.

Take that for what it's worth, but do suggest you give organic celery a try, see if you notice the same. Do it double-blinded if you must.
VAT is non-progressive and thus unfair with the poorest
Mainly because sales tax is a regressive tax. Rich people spend a smaller percentage of their money are are hence taxed at a lower rate than poor people. Also the sales tax would have to be way higher than 30% if we got rid of other taxes.

https://www.citylab.com/life/2015/01/how-local-sales-taxes-t...
Roughly, that he thinks that movie reviewing has become about signalling allegiance to a political cause, to the exclusion of other considerations. I'm not sure I see the relationship to people being paid off, though.
There's a difference between food good for survival and food that is good for you.

You can buy modern high calorie food bars that will last ten years and contain 3000 cals in a tiny package, but they're mostly carbs. Again, great for survival but not something to live off of while on a fun trip in the backcountry.

I usually pack precooked meats (frozen if needed), dried meats, firm biscuits or crackers, and some nuts and fruit. Granola and oats are good too of course.

If you have conveyance (a canoe or kayak, an atv, etc) then you can afford to bring much less dense (and usually better tasting) food.
exactly, the someFactor is the error of the next layer calculated with the derivades of the functions (as you would calculate the minimum of a funtion using the derivades). The tricky part is to calculate the derivades, but since auto differentiation we can do a lot of cool stuff.
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I stopped using that site after realizing I barely ever agree with them.
I get the sentiment regarding Saudi-Arabia, but the not what you actually mean by it being a game of Sims. Care to elaborate?
But that land is probably not suitable for farming - because if it was, someone would probably have a farm on it. So then you're comparing soil-not-great-for-farming from then and now, which is something, but it's not what we really care about (soil-used-for-farming).
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They won't leave. But they will raise price to battle off the revenue loss. After all, they don't want to lose money. Would expect Amazon to raise price universally in EU. I mean that is inevitable anyway.
I was using the term "argument" in the more broadly applicable but also literal sense of the word. Your explanation is correct but you've either misunderstood what I was saying or I've misread your reply.
Yes it does, I have a comment on that very thing and how it relates to the drug epidemic [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16449876) you might be interested in.
its all about perspective. I live remotely and hardly interact with anyone and I'm very happy. It helps i am INPJ but it really shouldn't matter. You just need to change your view of life. For me, it was reading and practing CBD books. Also you need to get rid of people that are negative or resent you. That being said I have 1000 plant starts going today and need to transplant 300 more. THen I need to clean the greenhouse out and build raised beds. I'm to busy to be lonely. You need to get engaged with your own life and forget about what others think of you aka get rid of your want for peer acceptance.
> a team of four guys with heavy equipment have spent the last three hours trenching fiber 50 feet through my tiny yard. That's the second visit, and there will be one more, and that's not counting running the fiber down the main road which required months of permitting and surveying. I strongly suspect that's why Google pulled out of Fiber.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was a huge factor. Everyone likes to blame regulation for fibre failures, but the "last mile" of fiber to the premise, like many wired broadband technologies before it, is often a nightmare.

Reminds me of this story, where one Norwegian ISP started asking customers to dig their own trench:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/05/norwegian-isp-di...
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