skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ireland's corporate tax rate is 12.5% which is in the lower half of the table of EU rates but that's no basis to brand it a "tax haven".

People get riled up because of an exclusively American twist to their corporate tax rule which allows American companies to defer paying US corporate tax on foreign earnings until the money is "repatriated". This is why you never see UK, German, Japanese, etc. companies use Ireland as a tax "haven".

Ireland follows international law in taxing multinationals on the profits generated in Ireland. When you hear a claim along the lines of "Apple only pays 2% on its revenues in Ireland", it's because the vast majority of the profit is taxable in the US not in Ireland but payment is deferred because of this US tax loophole. Just because the cash hasn't been handed over to Uncle Sam, doesn't mean it isn't due.

It's perfectly understandable that the US government is unhappy at this attempt by a foreign government to grab corporate tax which by all international standards belongs to the US treasury. If the EU (and I'm a proud European) wants a share of digital tax, then they should grow their own profitable tech companies to tax instead of selectively eyeing up US tech companies. The US doesn't get to impose corporate tax on German car makers or French wine producers - nor should the EU get to impose a corporate tax on US tech companies.
They would probably choose to get out without our program. The system works better for people with money. We are trying to bend the arc of justice but it is still bent.We are working with a population that is incarcerated because they cannot afford bail.
I second this. uMatrix is my go-to add-on to prevent the vast majority of connections I do not want. However, I pretty much always use my browser in privacy mode no matter what (for several reasons), so the bootstrapping process never ends for me, but that's a price I am more than willing to pay.
It still doesn't sound that innovative to me. Are we not allowed to criticize things anymore?
Except in a small number of locations, the US doesn’t exactly have a land shortage. Nor a particular shortage of small liberal arts schools with sketchy financial situations.
Not in my opinion, but maybe the question should be asked to the parent comment you replied to.
I always make sure to "like" political opponents from across the aisle. I liked Donald J Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders...

But I only did that to see what they were saying, given primary sources are often better than the media. It doesn't mean I "like" them. Do all of Trump's twitter followers like him? I don't think so...

Really, it's the "likes" of more obscure pages that provide demographic signaling. I can infer a lot more about someone who likes a bike repair shop in Portland than I can about someone who likes yahoo.com. For that reason advertisers are unlikely to be targeting people who like a top-200 website like yahoo.com; the top 200 websites are already noise. Someone liking one is meaningless.
Either lost control or donated it to FSB in secret. He's not exactly a knight in shining armor, judging from all that 'Facebook cloning' affair.
you're getting downvoted because 1 you're rambling 2 this isn't the time or place for this.
> What software actually parses /etc/hosts, at least on Linux?

glibc resolver

A good entry point for reading more about it:

$ man nsswitch.conf

If your /etc/nsswitch.conf file's "hosts" line contains the keyword "files", then it potentially uses /etc/hosts. If "files" is first (typical default config), it looks there first, before the other places listed.

This is done under the hood when programs use resolver functions like gethostbyname or getaddrinfo.
Interference with major news sources is always newsworthy. The absence of a customary explanation of a correction is particularly noteworthy.
I don't see any indication of Promise being a non-profit. It seems to me that you're just trying to break into the prison-industrial complex. I am doubtful this is much better than current for-profit prisons considering you still require prisoners in order to make money. Come back as a non-profit or not-for-profit and then maybe you can change something.
Haven't used it but it looks like a syntactic improvement even if some of the underlying issues like difficult debugging may remain persistent. Though really, I shouldn't really answer with a gut opinion. I haven't even toyed around with it.
I have uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger. Would uMatrix replace those?
> once you pass French Laundry and couple more places in Napa isn't Chicago either, just more expensive

We can just agree to disagree on this one. The SF food scene alone is pretty vibrant and constantly evolving. However this isn't just a Chicago vs SF or Napa. It's hard for Chicago to compete against the entire SF Bay Area in terms of food. Also, you may be confusing the cost of Bay Area food with NYC.

> Weather is nice, but the second year it became incredibly boring

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but most people don't like dealing with nasty slush and ice for months on end in their daily lives. Moreover, if one climate in the Bay Area gets 'boring', there are plenty of micro-climates. Also, as I've mentioned before, it's pretty easy to get to Tahoe or go to the desert if you want something really different every weekend.

> Certainly, if you get into a startup that actually makes it, gets acquired, or something like that, you have a better chance of striking it rich than in Chicago.

Ignoring the SV lottery, the Bay Area is just a better place professionally for techies than the Chi Metro.

> But then, I've moved here for personal, not professional reasons.

I don't feel that you're disproving my point that mostly locals like the MidWest better than elsewhere. Besides my main point isn't just that the SF Bay Area is more appealing than the MidWest. If I wasn't very clear, my main point was that there are many other metros in the US that are more appealing overall than the MidWest at large. Of course, different people like different things so not everyone will agree with me.

EDIT:
> Crime in Chicago is very much concentrated.

Unless the data is wrong or I'm misinterpreting it, crime in Chicago doesn't look concentrated like it is in most places or in the Bay Area . It looks pretty well distributed.
I still don't get it. I mean - when you're talking about power supplies, there are welding power supplies that are light. A power supply is lighter by default these days because they can be made with mosfets instead of big, heavy transformers.

As for hardware cryptography modules - again - you can buy an ARM chip that's the size of your thumbnail that's basically a full blown computer.

I'd be interested to look at the insides of one. I wouldn't be surprised if making them EMP hardened would be a big component of where the bulk comes from.
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Didn’t know about this. Thanks for the link!
Related - how to delete Google from your life: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3199204/data-center-cloud/ho...

It's not a good idea to just demonize one player. If you don't like Facebook, switching to Google isn't better. Same goes for Twitter...
Perhaps repeat criminals on Promise are not eligible to use it in the future. All a repeat criminal in this case does is lower the governments trust in the product.
> still being a part of the continent

Sorry, I understand that this is most likely just figurative, but it very much gives impression that you haven't looked at the European map for a while.
FWIW, a NYT article undergoes many changes from the time it was originally posted to whatever its final state (usually, the next day, after the print edition). The story in question was just a few paragraphs when it was first posted, and then more details were added. You can use newsdiffs.org to see the various changes:

http://newsdiffs.org/article-history/https%3A/www.nytimes.co...

Here is the specific diff where the Sandberg reference was changed:

http://newsdiffs.org/diff/1652560/1652801/https%3A/www.nytim...

That said, if the explicit conflict between Stamos and Sandberg was a prominent detail, then many folks would argue that the NYT should have a clarification or editor's note explaining the change. However, it's worth noting that the reference to the conflict between Sandberg and Stamos is not omitted from the final edition.

Original:

> Mr. Stamos had been a strong advocate inside the company for investigating and disclosing Russian activity on Facebook, often to the consternation of other top executives, including Sheryl Sandberg, the social network’s chief operating officer, according to the current and former employees, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters.

Final:

> Mr. Stamos joined Facebook from Yahoo in June 2015. He and other Facebook executives, such as Ms. Sandberg, disagreed early on over how proactive the social network should be in policing its own platform, said the people briefed on the matter. In his statement, Mr. Stamos said his relationship with Ms. Sandberg was “productive.”

The latter reference seems to be just as damning to Sandberg when it comes to her complacency in policing the FB platform, though it doesn't say that her disagreement with Stamos was specifically about the Russia question.

You could still argue that this merits a clarification, i.e. A previous version of this story stated that Ms. Sandberg disagreed with Mr. Stamos in his advocacy for "investigating and disclosing Russian activity on Facebook". However, Mr. Stamos said that he and Sandberg disagreed in general with how proactive Facebook should be in policing its own platform, but the two never specifically debated the issue with respect to revelations of Russian interference.
The last time i tried Wire its UX was about as stable as what a 12 year old would cobble together with old ducktape and string. Constantly exhibiting glitches and bugs and lacking even the most basic UI amenities as well as being a heavyweight browser app.

Does Wire have a light-weight and solid desktop client yet?
He's been super busy dumping a whole lot of his Facebook Shares before the Sh*t hit the fan.[1][2]

Sources:

[1] Zuckerberg has sold more Facebook stock in the last 3 months than any insider at any other company =>
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/zuckerbergs-facebook-stock-s...

[2] Zuckerberg saved tens of millions of dollars by selling Facebook stock ahead of Monday’s decline: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/zuckerberg-saved-tens-of-m...
That not important.

My point is that you could unknowningly store illegal data, without blockchain being involved.

Anyone sharing the data by torrenting an apparently legal file, reposting an image, or quoting a text could redistribute potentially illegal data.

This problem is not constrained to blockchain.
Why would Facebook making a major newspaper stealthily edit an article to their liking - as confirmed by one of the authors - not be worthy news? Do you think this is normal behavior for a newspaper?
Is it unexpected that that one company asked for a newspaper to change their article to remove references that make one of their C level execs look bad? No, not at all.

It is somewhat thought provoking though that said newspaper may have felt compelled to comply with the request because of Facebook's power (for instance not wanting to lose favorable placement in feed or trending sections).

So to me the newsworthiness of this depends on how likely it is that they changed it because it was simply inaccurate versus something more nefarious (such as above). I believe that may be too subjective to determine at this point so probably no fruitful discussion can come in trying to figure that out.
This sounds.. I don’t know, made up? Giving yourself MS by meditating? Isn’t it more likely that in such cases the vague nerve got damaged or a forgotten trauma reactivated? Do you have any references you can point me to?
On car makers or wine producers the US can impose import duties i.e. 25% on light trucks. There is no equivalent to import duties for online businesses, hence this tax plan.
Looks like this is already covered by the "Social" add-on to StevenBlack's hosts:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/extensions/...
Facebook has lost $50B in market value over the past two days
One time when I was in college I saw a guy be approached by someone who was collecting for charity "for MS". He must have been missing a context cue, in addition to being a huge nerd, because he said he didn't support MS -- thinking, probably, that MS meant "Microsoft" and not "multiple sclerosis".

I recall this anecdote now because of the inherent poetry: the essence of this treatment is to treat the immune system like a corrupted Windows installation -- wipe and reinstall from scratch.
I'm continuing to have issues with frames not displaying unless I completely disable the addon. It's extremely frustrating. I'm in advanced mode and all options are as they should be.
How are they storing this? I understand the links, there is enough bits to do that, but an image stored on-chain? How?

Over several transactions and you need to put it together, or will there be enough space to store an image in a OP_RETURN script?

83 bytes doesn't sound like it's enough to store any abuse image.
If they're an officer, they're dishonest.

Even if it may not be technically true, it's safe for the general public to assume this.
"Exponentially" means nothing here. Perhaps you are looking for "orders of magnitude"
> Currently, a certain range of Unicode blocks, including Basic Latin, are counted half as much as other blocks, such as CJK Unified Ideographs.

Has anyone made a Twitter clone where the "character limit" is simply a limit in the message's UTF-8 byte size? Seems like approximately where they ended up anyway. (Except, I guess, with Emoji being unwontedly cheap.)
There is no "favourable tax rate" in Ireland - around 1990 or so, the EU ruled against selective favourable tax rates. Before that, Ireland used to have a 10% rate for exporting (largely foreign) companies and 25% for non-exporting companies. As a result of the ruling, a single 12.5% rate was introduced. It's been like that since.
I expect people who dismissed the Cassandra of privacy to not act surprised.

10 years ago they dismissed people telling them about things like Google Analytics or other external scripts on website. They used the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" phrase. "You're paranoid no one want simple people's data".

Even better: doing it one week after complaining about how the GDPR and the Right to be Forgotten are bad EU laws.
The RPG we used was column based, Flag number in this column, command in that column and so on. We used paper to do the program and then keyed in on a terminal emulator running on a ps/2 that was connected to the central computer over a modem. When running programs they got put in a batch queue and we had to wait until it was our turn and then the printer started spitting out the resulting data. You made sure to think before running things :-)
The US doesn't get to impose corporate tax on German car makers or French wine producers

Yes they do, they are called import and excise duties, and they currently don't apply to services, which is what the EU is going after.
It is in Australia, where food supply is the hot commodity for foreign investment
If you want uMatrix like features in uBlock Origin, go to settings and just click "I am an advanced user".

The dynamic filtering matrix should be available after that.

Granted the defaults are not as strict as uMatrix, it's a good middle ground.
The outcome would be higher land taxes.
That's not what they said. They said that Jurors swore to tell the truth. Not sure how you interpreted it that way.
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Has no need? Did you just make this up?

We used MemSQL for real-time data for 2 years. All data is fully persistent, but the rowstore tables are also fully held in memory compared to columnstores which are mainly on disk. There's nothing fragile about it. SQL Server's Hekaton, SAP's HANA, Oracle's Times Ten, and several other databases do the same.

Timesliced totals is just a SQL query, and mediation or some other buffer from live numbers for customers is up to every business to decide, not some default proclamation for an entire industry.
Coloring my remarks is the fact that back in 2011, even I, at the time an ignoramus who didn't really understand much about "tech," could see that Facebook was a data mine and the experience was a sucky time-waster to boot. So I jumped out of the pot / slipped out of the noose / walked out of the room... etc.

The longer I live the more I realize that in a shitty situation the missing ingredient to make it non-shitty is usually not technology, or information, or time or chance or money or whatever other nuance... it's leadership. Which is the loose-fitting name of the bin in which I would also put something like quitting Facebook. Decision-making goes in there. Principles. Shortening the time interval between realizing Facebook is shitty, and getting out of it.
Do you concede that the definition of a human life involves philosophical reasoning?

You began by assuming something that nobody had said AFAIK. Then you started on another tangent about pregnancy and abortion rights, now you're onto something else. Sorry, I don't have the time to respond to your off topic comments.
I'd prefer a solution that does not just work for a specific browser, but instead blocks all traffic regardless of browser, application, virtual machine, ...

That's just putting rules into /etc/hosts ?

edit - answered my own question :) Yes it will.
Nope. Tell the truth.

In my experience, the defense asked specific questions related to this exact topic and sought out jurors who agreed that police testimony is not guaranteed to be factual. I have to assume this is common. They had no problem filling the juror box with jurors approved by both sides.
You just pointed out that there are vast swaths of the population that it is likely true for and then dismissed it. Colour me confused!
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Fair point. This is far less likely.
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The FDA is notably snotty and humorless about wireless, in general.

I am deeply surprised that they would approve something that required a cellular connection to function. I have seen the FDA push back on wireless even when it was completely ancillary to the primary function or when the device had no ability to do anything to anybody.

I would be suspicious that a person did something--accidentally gave permission to the cell connection, for example. This is NOT an indictment of competence. LOTS of shit goes wrong when things are in crisis mode. Devices which are perfectly well designed for calm situations can be totally useless because the interface trips you up when amped on adrenaline.
Any examples? I have blocked Facebook for many years, and I can't think of a single time where it has mattered.

I run without JavaScript by default, so maybe I just don't notice those kinds of things after years of conditioning.
You're right, there have been companies plagued by meetings for a long time. The difference is the kind of work we do. Now it's mostly "knowledge work" and service work. Parkinson's law--work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion--is probably the culprit these days. As long as people can complete their jobs before the deadlines, they will also tend their virtual farms and talk about nothing with their coworkers at the virtual water cooler on Slack. It's no longer cool for employers to tell their workers to get back to work and stop talking and playing games.
For a long time e2e was optional in the messengers, not sure when the transition happened exactly. Jurisdiction user databases with contact lists, location data and like are accessible either way.
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Sure every country can just impose duties on imports. But it's an impoverishing move for the planet. The last time every country believed this was a good idea was in the 1930s and it lead to economic devestation and arguably contributed to WW2.
> (really instant, <5 sec) push notifications

Over here I get notifications before I even pull the card out of the reader, and sometimes even before the PIN terminal itself displays "payment accepted".

Also, getting notifications for SEPA transfers that turn out to proceed timely is kind of refreshing when you come from traditional banks with which you feel the cogs of a 20th century mainframe mindset that refreshes accounts (on workdays only FFS!) by performing nightly COBOL/RPG-processed EDI between AS400-or-something machines.

Also also, authenticating using a password of arbitrary complexity of my choosing to log in to my bank instead of an incremental account number and stupid 6 digit PIN that I have to type on a "randomized virtual pinpad" both vulnerable to shoulder surfing and a disaster of accessibility.

Also also also, why the hell can old banks only show me the last month or three of transactions is beyond me in the day and age.

> Can someone list the advantages of using this

That's why I'll skip over the direct advantages and go straight to the indirect one being that N26 & al. may make old banks move their collective ass that is hopelessly stuck in the '90s.
People are supposed to wear bright clothing when walking at night or biking. Maybe we can have an optional beacon..
if I were sharing the DB with customer - whitelist IP only - not just leave the ports open to the world. Thats insane.

The only reason I can see is for honeypot.
Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of two very high profile investigations in the UK this past week, which caused Facebook to take punitive action against the firm, even though the firm and its misuse of FB data was written about several years ago. One of the revelations this week is that Facebook's CSO had been critical of FB's lack of response to CA and is now leaving the company: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-alex-...

Sometimes newsworthy things become newsworthy after the actual time of events. Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse had been hinted at for years but only this past year did the amount of reporting and attention cause him to face real legal and business problems. Same with Bill Cosby.
It's a problem on its way out because of the rapid adoption of body cameras on police officers.

If you look at the next 25 years, not only will every cop have a camera running 24/7, but also all vehicle's including the suspect's will be recording events from multiple angles.

Most homes will have cameras at the front door, and throughout the home in some form or another.

Many witnessneses are already recording things through their phones.

People may be wearing augmented reality style "google glasses" that can retroactively record important moments. Meaning they won't even intend to record the things that they do.

Right now its possible for the police to intimidate someone who pulls out a phone and starts recording, but soon there will be just too many devices, and it will be impossible to tell what is recording.

And drones... Traffic and delivery drones, can easily be rerouted during police incidents to provide overhead video feeds that help the officer, or help the court determine what happened at a later date.
If you are going to benefit from the EU's consolidated market you can't complain about the benefits companies are extracting from that same arrangement.

Not to mention that taxing specific companies that happen to come from the same country while the keeping the tax rules unchanged for the rest of the economy isn't fair or free trade and would justifiably require retaliation.