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>the closest I guess I can get to the concept of revenue

I don't think that is actually the closest you could get, even ignoring that you're asserting two wildly different things should necessary be equivalent. But even so: Do you literally never take any deductions at all? Never expense anything? No mortgage or whatever? Have zero capital gains income of any kind an in turn never have any losses of any kind there? You just add up all income sources and simply pay the top rate off the sticker price and ignore all the rest? I mean, it's not impossible or illegal to do such a thing and pay more if you want to, but I think you'd be somewhat in the minority there. Even personal income taxes at least haltingly, imperfectly and politically try to take somewhat into account that there are certain expenses necessary for humans to live or that further societal goals and that if after paying those someone has little left over then the tax system should take that into account.

>why should I as a person be taxed...[differently from business]

Humans and businesses aren't the same thing, businesses (like government) are a tool composed of and serving humans. It is a structure for dealing with and directing flows of capital towards human decided ends, and all money that goes through it ultimately ends up in the hands of humans as income upon which it is taxed there too anyway. A "business" has direct societal costs in terms of corporate law and such, but it does not need to ever use an ambulance or get housing or food support or whatever. Taxes on business, separate from the humans that compose said business, should be for dealing with business specific requirements, cost internalization, and so on. It makes absolutely no sense to simply tax a business the same as a human, not even if you are simultaneously proposing not taxing any of the humans involved. If it's done be prepared for perverse consequences. If a business has high revenue with genuinely 3% margins that still represents a huge amount of money flowing from and too various humans (including all the employees, all suppliers and contractors, their employees, and on), "revenue" is still taxed somewhere. But if you then simply slap a tax on the revenue again and make the margin go negative now the business dies, simple as that, and all the flows cease. Is that actually your intention? Why not just seize it then and take it all for the government directly?

If you want to argue that the income flows going to humans are themselves ultimately not taxed fairly, that is not merely doable but I think fairly widely agreed at this point. And if you want to argue that specifically and properly assessed business income taxes should not be possible to evade as so many do sure, that too happily seems to be inching forward. But you seem to be going a lot more radical and just throwing out everything.
It's was the exact opposite for me when I was in Berlin last year. The only places that I found that accepted cards were tourist stops and Starbucks. None of the good, local restaurants I visited accepted cards and there were frequently lines on ATM machines.
Missing the Ninety-ninety rule?

"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time."

Tom Cargill, Bell Labs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule

NB There should probably be a 90-90-90-90-<recurring> rule... could called the Y-90 rule!
Hello, thanks for the reply. I do not think that the EE applications will die out so fast, because many applications in the field of authorities are still developing as an EE application. There will certainly come alternative, so my question on this topic. Further, I have thought about certifying myself in the direction of development processes, e.g. ITIL, Scrum, etc. Would that be better than the Java certification?
Cute, but no it is definitely far from illegal:
https://www.lyftbusiness.com/healthcare/?utm_source=google&u...

They should not be used for emergency transport, and that is part of the argument. Again, that is worthy of debate, but blanket statements about Lyft not being usable for "medical transport" aren't really useful.
> Is there something genuinely computationally harder about compiling Rust?

I'm not sure. Here's what I know: Rust has a complex type system. It also compiles whole packages (crates) at a time, and heavily uses monomorphization for generic code (that is probably less important for the type checking step but is quite heavy on the final compile-with-LLVM/link step).

If it was necessary, I'm sure it'd be possible to trade in some memory usage for CPU time (IIRC, a lot of memory is used for caching/memoization). But aside from outliners like that "10GB less memory usage" fix, rustc doesn't use that much RAM.
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> also IIRC, are partitioned between logical cores when HT is enabled.

A lot of things are partitioned. But my understanding is that L1 and L2 cache is competitively shared. Which means if one thread uses 512 bytes of cache, the OTHER thread can use the full 32kB for itself.

There are other benefits: Both hyperthreads can share L1-code cache for instance, if there's a tight loop that is shared between the two threads.

Lower-level things like the retirement engine (aka: shadow registers / out-of-order registers) are partitioned. I dunno whether or not the branch predictor is shared or partitioned. But... things like that.
>But my core argument here is that we have no starting point. If you want to call them axioms that's fine, but I'm not here to quibble about language.

And the rest of us are saying: you don't need a foundationalist epistemology to have an epistemology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
That's very good to know, thanks!
> EMT lobby industry

I think you mean the "private EMS lobby". Individual EMTs are equally opposed to most of the legislation being pushed by big EMS companies (notably Prop 11, being voted on today, which is an attempt by AMR to avoid having to comply with meal break rules)
Really?

~30 people, including several employees have been killed by private garbage haulers unsafely operating in NYC since 2014. That's a pretty serious workplace safety problem that affects the public, but lacks the Tesla clickbait factor and associated hand-waving.
A low end 2-port version, yes.

They ignored those for the 2018 MBP refresh, probably because the new Macbook Air was coming. I'd bet on the full keyboard MBP getting discontinued now that it's out, or best case having the 2017 hang around while the touchbar models continue to see updates.
I'm just pointing at a problem, not exploiting it. I made a program for repeating my commits across repositories for being more productive, but those commits have a purpose, I'm not making them for the sake of it. Should I update my extensions once a year because the Marketplace is stupid?
You're operating under the assumption that there is a base that basically supports one of the provided candidates, and they are just too lazy to get up and cast their vote. This might be true for some people, but there are a lot of people who don't vote because the candidates suck. Also, if I didn't vote for someone because I don't believe in them, the fact that they have to spend more time "energizing their base" and less time "governing" is a good thing, it means less chance for them to do stuff I disapprove of. Inaction is generally superior to wrong action.
> The more lines removed, the better

I programmed Perl for a while so I like to make this more about _characters_ removed rather than lines :)
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nah, replace unemployment benefits with the summed salaries of the employees, since it's probably fair to assume employees spend most of their salaries in the country where they live.

also, you seem to imply a scenario where the company is kicked out of the country. That does not recoup any taxmoney to the state. It also likely doesn't make the infrastructure cheaper to maintain or any less desired, so the correct equation is just that you'd loose whatever taxes they do pay (surely they don't dodge all of them),and the sum of the salaries of their employees, plus whatever service the company provides, and you gain nothing.

"you do the math"

edit: missing "don't"
I knew an EMT who called himself a "Medicaid chauffeur". Said people would call for headaches. The thought of NOT advising another person on whether or not to use an ambulance when they ask for one is unimaginable.
Real life Will Hunting...?
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Whitted published the first paper applying recursive ray tracing to the problem of rendering an image. Quibbling over this is like saying no one invented compute graphics because Renaissance artists knew how projection worked.
Probably because you've never heard any one suggest that we not require IDs to vote.

Identity is determined, confirmed during the registration step.

Identity is reaffirmed at the poll site, with both ID and signature verification. (Address and signature for postal ballots.)

The manufactured outrage about "voter fraud" is used to justify ratcheting up the voter id requirements. Specifically, requiring voters have government issued photo id. Which costs money. Which makes it a poll tax. Which is unconstitutional.

Provide government id for free and everyone who supports democracy and enfranchisement is totally on board.

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Those of us who understand election administration also oppose the unnecessary bureaucratic gatekeeping imposed in places like Georgia. For example, if your drivers license says "chris co255" and your voter id says "chris-co255", even though everything else matches, your registration will be purged.

Cast opposing such kafkaesque draconian measures as partisan if you wish.
> Except that everyone else in the Java space

I think these days, people are comparing to everyone else in the programming space. Lots of comparisons on past work (and existing ecosystem), present work, and future work can be done but we shouldn't rest on history when evaluating. The days of making real money on the language/runtime alone are probably gone.
I would be astonished if the next client gets it for free. The next client might get it for less than it cost the first client, but Engineer.ai has to pay back those investors.
MemSQL is an "HTAP" (hybrid transactional-analytical processing) database. They have an in-memory row store table engine for the transactional queries and a disk-backed column store table engine for the analytical queries.
We also looked at MapBox but ended up going with local tile server from OpenStreetMap data. We are using the geofabrik.de data bundles, mod_tile and renderd to serve up the tiles, and we pre-generate the tiles so all our requests are served from disk rather than being rendered (which really slows down mapping). We are lucky that we are only dealing with one state, so our data is around 25GB for map tiles and another 10GB for "street overlay" tiles that we lay on top of aerial tiles that we generate from NAIP data.

We customized the CartoCSS a bit to get the maps closer to the way we wanted them. For example, we took out building outlines, and reduced the frequency of highway shields, which required removing exit numbers.

It's a good solution for us, but we already had some mapping experience and lots of system deployment experience, so YMMV.
The revolution isn't as long term storage, it's as a closed cycle, carbon neutral, solar-powered energy capacitor with relatively high capacity per kg.

Long term storage is just nice to have.
So they setup a business outside of the EU's jurisdiction and move the profit their? So all of the business in the EU is done at net no revenue (sales - costs - 'licensing fees' == 0).

What accounting standard means that business is making a profit in the EU?
> Sure, big old U.S. Steel is behind the times, but that's true for any industry.

U.S. Steel operates integrated mills, which make steel from raw materials. "Mini-mills" make steel using electric arc blast furnaces to recycle existing steel.

If you need very high quality steel, you have to get it from an integrated mill. Everyone else can use the recycled stuff. The real benefit that you are talking about is the fact that recycled steel quality is improving enough to be useful in more applications.

PS - U.S. Steel is converting their Alabama mill to an electric arc blast furnace (they may have finished by now).
The Strong Free Will Theorem (2009) [pdf]
This also makes incremental compilation faster, doesn't it?
It certainly seems fishy to be talking about a somewhat-overlooked groundbreaking scientific discovery and then pivot to talking about the stock price of the owning company.

Not a biologist so I can't speak to the veracity of the content of the article but from an outsider's perspective it certainly does check a lot of pump-and-dump boxes.
As the sibling comment states, it was sharing endorsements, and not sharing photos of a marked ballot, as mentioned in your linked article.
Cerner millenium (a common and widespread EMR) looks like a 90s visual basic application.

Hell, it probably IS a 90s VB application under the hood.
That generally describes the US, except the propaganda has a larger budget.
The original post is about how to make a C++ program run on a GPU via relatively minor annotations.
>"This is such a glib response."

It's ironic that you have chosen to call my comment glib when you offer nothing but "___ can be expedited." You can't get any more hand-wavey than that. Your comment is the very epitome of glib.

No they can not be "expedited." The highest priority for the MTA right now is upgrading the depression-era signaling, which even under the aggressive rollout that Andrew Byford is advocating will take 10 years. The L train shutdown is already being "expedited" the line will be completely shutdown for almost a year a half starting in a couple of months. You can't really "expedite" much more than that now can you? And even after the repairs its still the same single track tunnel it was before.

My comment was actually thought out and based on decades of observing growth and change in the city. Maybe you don't understand the meaning of the word "glib"?
By this reasoning I should only be taxed on income once food, fuel and housing costs are taken into account, or am I missing something? I end up paying VAT on a lot of these things as well ...

I do get tax credits for some essentials but it's relatively speaking a miniscule amount.

There's an interesting formula for a progressive tax regime if anybody wants to take it up ...
Agreed. It's drifting around and rarely in sync.
I think his argument was that, as you said, it would be highly gameable. But it's also the case for companies and they're (ab)using it to the point of paying little to no taxes in some countries.
It's just basic horse-trading. A somewhat extreme yet very basic example would "all of the law" (for some specific jurisdiction). Assuming this isn't North Korea, you will probably find an overwhelming majority considering the status quo to be better than completely lawless anarchy, even though every single individual can probably point at some individual law that they would rather abolish.

International trade agreements make good examples: People often decry their incredible size, with thousands of pages and topics ranging from the legal system to GMO to copyright to cheese. Yet the size is the natural result of requiring the package to contain every signing country's pet issues. If Canada is mildly opposed to adopting US standards for turn signal frequency, just add a provision defining minute details for maple syrup classification and they'll be happy again. And on to Japan... etc.

Another example from US law would be the "sequester" that put caps on both military as well as civilian spending. If you want something broader, it's how the budget process used to work, and to some extend still does. Yes, these examples from the US require only majorities (or 60-vote supermajorites in the Senate), not unanimity. But the mechanism is identical.

That mechanism is, by the way, why there have been calls to once again allow "pork", i. e. specific grants of money to projects in individual congressional districts. While those payments had an incredibly bad reputation as being wasteful and borderline corrupt, they allowed for "bundles" of legislation to be tailor-made to get exactly the quorum required. Money happens to be perfect in that context as it is in others: it's fungible, meaning you don't have to start researching each districts' current needs when you want to make an offer. It's divisible, allowing the sum to be just right to get the vote without "overpaying" as often happens if you only have the crude instrument of actual policy.

And there's one advantage of money that's unique to this use: Nobody actually cares that much about spending. While yes, overall spending levels are somewhat significant, giving some 12-term Republican from East Nowhere, MI a million $ for whatever idiotic pet project they care about carries far less of a risk of losing you support on the other side of the spectrum as implementing their favorite policy (slightly exaggerated: vegan-only school lunches; or required heterosexual target practice in preschool) would.
because in the age of paper receipts, it was an undue burden on taxpayers to impose the detailed accounting needed to figure out your legitimate cost of living as an individual or family.

with our lives now largely tracked electronically, that’s becoming less true (but is still at least an undue burden for the ~40% of the population who are poor or near poor).
I bought an iMac last year and regretted it. The performance was fine, but I ended up disliking the fact that it was an all-in-one. The fact that you can get iMac performance without a display attached is a big feature of the new Mac mini for me.
I think nearly every budding ee has built a variation of this at some point.
Hacking elections is so 2000...
https://www.bitchute.com/video/4JV7r2In40A/
Yes but a lot of that is done by allowing large companies to offshore their profits.
> The "giant security hole" I assume you're referring to isn't particularly worrisome for your own hardware running trusted software.

My concern is mainly javascript or webasm running in the browser. Even if there aren't currently any unpatched exploits of this nature, that's no guarantee that there won't be in the future.
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> LOL if you wish to disprove me do your own research!

That's not how burden of proof works. You made the claim that "the country would literally be better off if those people were unemployed!", so prove it.

> But I'll give you a hint, if tax evasion was good for a country, why would that country have taxes at all...?

A "hint" is not what's required here.
I think you answered to the wrong comment. He never said all regulations were wrong, he said the monopolistic regulation around hotel and taxi are just made to protect hotel and taxi owners. He isn't talking about any other regulation from what I understands.
Has anyone figured out WHY Google maps did this double-digit multiplier price increase?

Were they vastly under pricing it before? Did they want to stop providing it so they priced it at a point that would make almost everyone go away?

I'm just curious about their motivation and surprised that this doesn't seem to have been figured out or even discussed.
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The difference is, that the Irish rate applies to any business taxing its income in Ireland. It doesn't have to be a megacorp, they do not have to have special relations to get subsidies or tax breaks. It may be your company, if your registered and operate it there.

That's not the case in other EU countries.
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Crushing injuries can result in life threatening issues even if someone appears stable. Clot or hemorrhage can go from everything looking ok to serious very quickly.

Ambulances are low risk and cheap somthey really should be used even down to ~0.1% chances of serious issues.
Both Apple and Facebook have announced that they are opening datacenters in Denmark, so that might be part of the equation.
On the site (https://mango.pdf.zone/), the above link is called 'Salty Hacker News comments'
"A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis
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>> Doctors have very little patience for computer issues; most don't enjoy using them.

It isn't just doctors. And it isn't just computers. Whenever an employee is forced to use a particular system, they will grow to hate that system. When there is only one cafeteria, the food is "horrible". When there is only one ferry, it is always late. When you have to use a particular set of software tools, they are always too slow. It is basic psychology: give people even a modicum of choice and they will feel better about the system. Deny that choice and all you will get is criticism.
So the criteria for this to work is that a word needs to be all of the following;

1. A proper noun representing a place (Buffalo, NY)
2. A verb (to buffalo, to bully or harass)
3. A noun whose plural is the same as it's singular (a buffalo, many buffalo)

Badger almost works but it's plural is badgers.

Moose almost works but moose isn't a verb.
Great comment. Thanks for sharing all of this knowledge.

> They loose screen time to mobile devices, they buy Snaptu.

This was acquisition for feature phones and not touch phones. Your comment implies that Facebook mobile app came out of this acquisition - which is not true.

https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/facebook-reportedly-acquir...
The opposite: It would encourage larger companies, because trade between companies is taxed but not "trade" within a company.
>the USA and Europe were dominated by left wing parties (arguably Europe still is).

Not by European standards. France has a centrist leader. UK, Germany, Italy, Austria, Spain and others have right wing parties in power.
That's not to mention the impact that the US tax system has allowing megacorps defer and arbitrate their tax obligations, which effectively lets them pay even less than that
Stupid politicians see low voter turnout as a sign of laziness and indifference. Smart politicians see it as a sign that the platforms being presented aren't engaging, and look for ways to change their platform to remedy this. Unfortunately, because we're "all in" on the stupidity of the two party system, a lot of smart politicians are being hamstrung by their party affiliation.
Can we change the title to "Denmark, Ireland and Sweden block Tax on tech giants" ?
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It would not select against size. It would select against low margins.

Google and Apple would be fine. Amazon would be toast. Your local supermarket would be toast (avg grocery store margins are 1%). Any startups that are just scraping by, no matter how small, would be toast.

You would basically crank up the difficulty level of business across the board. This would generally help successful incumbents by making life punishingly difficult for challengers, who have to climb up through a period of unprofitability.

It is a terrible idea.
The noise machine also conflates voter registration errors with election fraud.

For example, radical right wing pundit Ann Coulter was registered to vote in two places at the same time. (I don't recall if she also cast both ballots. Unlikely.) That is an error, not a fraud.

Such errors are inevitable in our state-based voter registration database administration. Worsened because only registered people are tracked. Versus listing all people and having flags for their eligibility.

The fix is nation wide universal automatic voter registration. Just like every other mature democracy.
The Danish corporate tax rate is within the EU average.