skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the problem space is too big to automate, and most loopholes only make sense at the scale where a large tax staff is both a drop in the bucket from a resources perspective and arguably needed either way just to stay in compliance.
The Bloomberg article is either intentionally misleading on where they pulled their stats from OR they used a different table. Regardless the stats don't match the chart you referenced so I am guessing it is a different source. I don't find a straight map for your numbers either.. can you clarify how you got those numbers?
Manipulating an Indian politicians’s tweets is worryingly easy to do
Look at this list of top lobbyists. Oddly they correspond closely with everything you listed. Our government is very active in these. They just arent doing a great job.

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s

>Healthcare

The government has been active in regulating healthcare for 30 years. Oddly during that time Physicians became 300k/yr earners, Pharmacists became 6 figure earners. Hospitals, Pharma and everyone between are growing.

>Education, job training

Highly funded k12 education, subsidized loans for college

>housing

Blaming real estate laws for this, but Im mostly out of the loop. Real estate is a top lobby

>Transportation

Maybe, but I feel like this could be bad for the environment.
Seems like they could just send a drone to go wipe off the solar panels...
Those laws were done because the companies corrupted our representatives. I hold both responsible.
I find it odd that they don't mention the data breach that happened in 2018. [0] You would think this would be the place to disclose this and their response in perpetuity as opposed to a reddit thread.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/93qnm5/we_ha...
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You are confusing it with a valuation cap. Return cap in that very same document is 3X of the investment.
It looks really nice.

It should be default for the TOR browser for sure, if just a few people use it, it decreases the anonimity set.
Kara lacks a certain subtlety (or is it dignity?) when it comes to journalism. She regularly puts her own esteem above her work.
Except that every municipality is trying so hard to recruit them that they're getting more in tax breaks and other incentives than they and their employees would be paying in taxes in the first place.
> Paying no taxes in that year would be reasonable.

I disagree. Make them pay taxes.
> The government says, through its tax laws, that it wants amazon to not pay taxes

This kind of statement that assumes big companies passively take their tax bill from the government is either exceptionally naïve or wilfully disingenuous. We're talking about a company whose executives sat down with representatives the Luxembourg government to negotiate a special sweetheart deal (subsequently ruled to be unlawful state aid) and then moved its European HQ to Luxembourg
They won't do jack, just like with China where they handed over
all of iCloud to a govt. owned company, while simultaneously making "privacy" a selling point of Apple devices. Instead, they'll patently lie, and go on a P.R. offensive on Apple's (fake) moral superiority.

And how could Apple ever defy the likes of China and Sauds, when their militant control of the iOS walled garden is modeled after totalitarian regimes, like Saudi Arabia?
> Most people do not have the resources to lobby for that sort of tax system.

EVERY argument about what is "morally right" w.r.t. paying taxes is a matter of perspective. To you, what Amazon is doing is immoral. To someone worse off than you, what you do routinely on your taxes (deducting mortgage interest, student loan interest, etc.) is immoral.
> I think onlyrealcuzzo suggested that problem would be fixed by "properly tax money as it LEAVES companies"

What if the money never leaves, but instead is spent by the corporation to benefit the individual?
Not really, because spam isn't done on the spammer's hardware. Not to mention, an expensive hashing function is precisely something bots can do but humans cannot.

If you're putting constraints on Tor traffic, it's not because of raw throughput. It's because it's extremely poor quality traffic.
I mean, I agree with your statement about ideology, but I disagree about everything else.

Even if Amazon is not paying taxes on its corporate profits, it's still generating a boatload of tax money through income & payroll tax. And I think it's good to reduce corporate tax rates, to encourage our amazing economic engine to grow as fast as possible!

https://taxfoundation.org/benefits-cutting-corporate-income-...
Not current but still interesting: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/10/congress-corpor...
Certainly none of us will "be" huge corporations, since corporations are not human beings. But many of us are part of huge corporations, both as shareholders and employees.
The implication is a smaller government and fewer public services. We could theoretically eliminate social security / medicare and immediately put extra money in people's pockets, but that would be disastrous for a number of reasons.
> almost every economists thinks we shouldn't have corporate taxes

Name names, please.
Buybacks don't "get around" income tax since buybacks in no way affect taxable income or tax rate at the corporate level. However, buybacks could (hopefully) boost the value of the stock, in which case shareholders pay more in capital gains taxes when the stock is sold, so indirectly, buybacks are sometimes effectively taxed already. I would also note that no other country in the world taxes buybacks.

This whole buyback debate in the last few days is frankly bizarre and just shows how many people are financially illiterate.
There are tradeoffs when designing for first time use vs repeated use. And also between simple and powerful. Like a GUI vs a Terminal. Or keyboard shortcuts vs Menu. A user configurator vs a cad program. Or when it comes to game design - first time vs replay vs endgame. Maybe Ux designers can be inspired by games - designed for engame (multiplayer) but with campaigns with a progressive difficulty ...
It’s a deliberate pig to delete but the pretence of deletion is there.
Well if corporation are people then why not tax them like people. have marginal tax rates with no loopholes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee
I wish they would list the requests by user and by sub. Would be good to see which tend to draw the Government’s ire.
I guess you could read it that way. Most of the time if you're the least bit guilty then "no comment" is the lawyer's comment. Obviously this comment is nothing of substance but it's certainly more upbeat than "no comment"
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My 315k mile 2005 Prius agrees. I got it, replaced the traction battery, got new struts, and bam, new car. I've had it for 60k miles, and I've spent more on oil changes than any repairs besides the initial outlay.
How does that follow? You're assuming what kind of government services he votes for.

He probably also favors less government spending.
The best example is probably research. Research is the most valuable use of our resources. The more of our resources we put toward research, the more our productivity increases and the more sustainable resources we will have available to us. As a society, we spend too much effort on exploitation rather than exploration.

The US government only puts about 1% of its budget toward research. It also offers the Research & Experimentation Tax Credit, which is a tax subsidy for companies that perform research. Software companies make extensive use of this credit. Since the US government only spends 1% of its budget on research, the amount of research done under the credit far exceeds the amount of research not done because of the credit’s impact on government finances. This seems like a clear-cut win for humanity.
Lobbying is not some magical salve you rub on every problem to make the laws say whatever you want.

Of course it's not magical. It's money. No magic needed. Amazon spent a lot of money and effort to lobby against allowing states to tax internet sales. Then when it got big enough it lobbied for them because at their scale it became a competitive advantage against small players to have everyone charge sales taxes on internet orders. Amazon lobbies for tax break where they build warehouses and other buildings.

The reality is it's more convenient to pretend you have no power because then it excuses your inaction.

The reality is that I have very little power in comparison to Amazon. This is not disputable. I do have some power. Just nowhere near the amount of power that Amazon has.

Firstly, prove Amazon, specifically, lobbied for the tax law they're benefiting from here. Let's start with that.

I trust your Google skills. I trust your common sense too on this matter.
In a way, software engineers are constantly automating their own jobs each time they improve code-reusability. The reason they haven't driven themselves out of work is because in software and especially in games, as soon as you automate something, your ambitions immediately expand to fill the void. I think the uniquely creative + technical nature of games means the industry will be more resistant to automation...however, it is also the source of crunch.
They always seemed well made but weirdly designed.
That’s a complicated question I don’t have a good answer for. There is definitely a racial component to it though.
It's sanding down a barrier to entry that was already fairly low, in my opinion. They haven't really made it much lower either.

Integrating RES into the main site would've been most of what they needed to get going...
Could you elaborate, what possibly looks like a pyramid scheme?
I like the antifragile definition more. Go ahead and try to kill a 2008 Crown Vic. :)
The effects can be monitored in a lot of different ways - that is definitely one I had not thought since I was a schoolchild. Very effective propaganda went into this standard American framing of nonprofit orgs.
Just for clarification, assuming you're referring to the Mike Ward case, these charges stemmed from the Human Rights Tribunal of Quebec, not the Canadian Federal Government. This type of thing (to my knowledge) is fairly unique to Quebec at this point in time, and is not a common occurrence in Canada. Appalling nonetheless.
If you start a business. Should you be able to deduct eligible expenses? I don’t know any sane person that would suggest not. If you make $100 and spent $100, then you have no profit. But you’re suggesting that this is a tax “dodge.” So that means that you’d tax the $100 of revenue even though there wasn’t any actual gain. If you applied that to all businesses, you’d destroy economic activity.

How much extra did you pay on your taxes this year above the required amount? I would bet you paid exactly what was owed. Under your logic, you are dodging taxes.
If I knew the answer to that, I would also be paying 0 in tax.

I'm allowed to be upset at the fact that it's possible, without knowing how they do it.
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Seems like you might not understand how hard it is to get to Mars, and land safely. (Hint: it's very hard.)
its been effective on niche policy issues within states, but at the federal level the representatives simply lie about what they have "heard" from constituents.
The companies lobbied for the laws. The companies aggressively pursue every break they can get.

Amazon is in the middle of taking a fortune in tax breaks from NY. They killed a tax on large employers in Seattle. They fought against cross state sales tax until they were so big it only hurt their competitors. Bezos owns the Washington Post, and media overall is controlled mostly be a handful of oligarchs.

I absolutely blame Amazon.
With so much of the planet to explore, it may not be worth it compared to sending a new vehicle somewhere else.
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>>If you watch them you see that what they mean is (dramatised!)

Not necessarily dramatized... I've seen almost identical behavior in some places I've worked.

Basically: you can't take anything users say for granted. You need to actually see them work.
But other places have other price tags.

Sure, there are problems - for example there is a frequently referenced study by one EU oversight institution from 2013. And it turns out that highways built between 2000 and 2012 sponsored by the EU were cheapest in Germany, where components were more expensive, than in Spain (where everything from labor to land and concrete were cheaper, including compliance to environmental regulations).

Of course that's corruption. But the US has probably a different problem. Cost inflation, because the market bears it. Supply and demand. States pay a lot, so suppliers ask a lot.
Most corporations don't pay taxes... it would be simpler to just remove the taxes as a whole and remove incentives around holding onto underutilized and unutilized capital. That would lead to either an expanding economy or payouts to those who then would be paying taxes.
Nah, it was released back in 2017. I've seen it discussed periodically ever since.

The issue with just doing memory-consuming work client-side is that it only marginally slows down spamming. Spammers tend to use compromised machines they don't own. Unless you can make it prohibitively expensive to calculate something using machines you don't pay for - perhaps not a trivial ask - you wind up needing a different set of tools. This is why Google tends to look at things that will exhibit human variation rather than pure computation.

It's not that your ideas aren't good. I'm sure ARGON2 has a use here! It's that this might not be a problem easily solved by consuming more resources.
Are you suggesting that those hundreds of thousands of shareholders all have a proportionate amount of input in determining how Amazon lobbies? I own stock in Amazon and have zero say in how it lobbies government or spends its money to influence the writing of laws.

The legal person known as Amazon has far more say and sway in U.S. elections than I do. The legal person known as Amazon is controlled by a few people. Transitively speaking those few people by virtue of their control of Amazon have an outsized influence on American elections.

Someday the U.S. will amend its Constitution to abolish the Electoral College and just let the CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies elect the President. It'd be a lot more honest that way.
Senior director at apple is considered a very senior executive? Isn’t the director level the entry point for what would be considered an executive?
I worked on this as well - here to answer any questions!
> almost every economists thinks we shouldn't have corporate taxes.

Almost every economists graduated from harvard or other big profile university, which happens to have heavy corporate sponsorship and ties.

Jeeez wonder why!? Listen I hate the expert bashing as much as anyone, but when you give a context of late capitalism corrupting everything, well...
They could just announce a new HQ in NYC instead of faking competition to try and bleed communities for money.
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Do you have more information on this? My understanding was that you couldn't use the same credentials, instead registering a phone number for this.
I paid for GCP support. It was laughable. I’d send a question like: I’m using feature A to do XYZ. The documentation <here> does not include corner case XYZ. Please advise.

They would reply. Please see documentation (same link I just sent). After the second or third try I just stopped bothering.
We do indeed have a deficient prosecution. The Republican Party has been slashing the budget of the IRS to investigate tax dodging and malfeasance. The Republican Party campaigns on eliminating the IRS.
That's not how capitalism works. It's all about the individual. The entrepreneur has ownership over the means of production, and the workers have ownership of their time. Of course everyone plays a part (and the leader definitely creates value unless you think companies run themselves) but workers are compensated under terms they agree to.

What you're proposing is just socialism that takes away power from the individual. That never works. You have no way to judge what the fair share is or what contribution someone actually made and thinking that you know how to value someone's life better than they do is just attempting to place a moral to be morally better than they are.

Also you might want to talk to the early employees of Microsoft who are millionaires, or any employees today who are highly paid with stock grants that give them a piece of the company, and most importantly talk to the billions of people who are living a little easier after the eradication of Polio thanks to the Gates Foundation.
He could have hedged with options. In such a liquid stock, probably less likely to get noticed - although - even 10mm isn't much. Does the SEC review insider trades?
Turn off javascript, mostly. To hide your ip you need to use a VPN.
He wants heated and cooled seats. You're not going to find that in any fleet vehicle.
Reminds one of:

Amazon's electricity rate discounts have pushed up utility costs

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/amazon-is...
If you dislike how Amazon does business why are you invested in them? That is one way to have a say, divest, forgo the profit and if possible make some noise on your way out. "I'll keep the profits but wag my finger at the behavior" isn't a reasonable stance to take in my opinion. As it is today you are directly funding the lobbying you claim to oppose.
I’m a current CS student. When I walked into my school’s CS computer lab, there were about an equal number of female and male students.

I’m also a transfer student. At my previous university, at which I was also a CS major, there were maybe like 5 women to every 15 men in a class.

This isn’t reflected at the tech companies I’ve worked at. There are far fewer women. This article, and articles like these: https://hbr.org/2016/08/why-do-so-many-women-who-study-engin..., point out that the number of women graduating do not match the number of women who choose to go into the tech sector, or who remain there.
They do avoid a failure mode associated with seals. I'd think modern seals shouldn't leak that much - they don't - but it's still better to have it eliminated in design.

Full-flow scheme has 2 gas generators - with different fuel:oxidizer ratios, and 2 turbines, each driving one pump of the same propellant which constitutes the main flow through the turbine. Staged combustion has 1 gas generator and (usually) 1 turbine with 2 centripetal pumps, so one of the pumps has the flow of the propellant opposite to the main propellant of the turbine. Here is the danger, if seals don't hold.
Tax/Legislate the issues directly.
Right, not even “My client has been a strong advocate for insider trading compliance at Apple for x years. These allegations will be proven unfounded.” Just “I look forward to doing the job I am being paid to do.”
Put another way: basically this is another Google tool to track user behaviour that validates the fingerprint Google already has. Sneaky!
https://www.eff.org/alice
It's not about old vs new, it's about strong vs weak. WAF was too weak to be your primary line of defense against SQL injection when it was first popularized and it's still too weak now.
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He was a senior director and corporate secretary. Corporate Secretary would be the "very senior executive" function... though interestingly not senior enough to be listed as an "executive officer" on Apple's proxy statements.

Since he wasn't an "executive officer" he wasn't required to file a Form 4 with the SEC.
1. Corporations typically "invest" in multiple candidates - I wouldn't be surprised if they funded both Clinton and Trump.
2. Amazon owns a major publication that directly influences voters.
3. Amazon employs lobbyists who actively work to change laws that will help Amazon's bottom line.
4. Amazon and other tech giants absolutely have the power and profit incentive to heavily influence voters for or against particular candidates. It shouldn't be surprising, then, that we ended up with two candidates in the general election who are extremely friendly to large corporations.

Amazon elects politicians in a more substantial way than voters do.
You and I have done this specific dance many times, in case you haven't realized. You've failed to convince me that native wins on this for most devs... we've gone pretty in-depth on this before re: macOS, too. ;P
Capital gains should be taxed as normal income.
The example where the author takes a row of address data and merges the columns, with the caption: "easier to scan"

No, its really not. Anyone with a hint of dyslexia or similar will not forgive you for merging cells together.

Its just not easier to scan. What would have made it easier? first name first.
So does this make it trivial to input a source portrait, and then visualize different hair styles?
A great many more people run businesses with fewer sweetheart tax deals than Amazon...
They were "not accurate". That's a deliberate choice of words. There's a ton of ways to say "BuzzFeed's story is wrong", and they went with the phrasing that could mean "BuzzFeed's story is 99% accurate but there were some minor errors", and then declined to elaborate on what about it was wrong even when BuzzFeed put out a public statement standing by their story and calling on the Mueller investigation to explain.
How is it broken? If Amazon pays less taxes, that means the products I need are necessarily cheaper. A tax cut for Amazon is a discount to everyone that buys their products. That discount is more valuable for lower income people, which means that cutting taxes for Amazon means more disposable money in the pockets of their customers. I’m not sure how that’s a bad thing. Corporations don’t pay taxes: their customers do.
Even 1Ghz on one x86 != 1Ghz on a different x86 CPU.
I think you are partially wrong. Maybe Google is not doing this intentionally but it also doesn't happen just because traffic is coming out of a tor node. I am using ff with some of the recommended extensions from https://www.privacytools.io/ and I get to fill in traffic signs all the time. And yes I am logged into Google.
Can anyone think of a good reason why you would want to run Windows 10 on the Raspberry Pi? I'm not trying to start a Windows/Linux debate, I'm just wondering if the wealth of Windows software is largely unavailable on ARM anyway, why not just run Raspbian anyway?
I'm sorry that some people have such negative connotations towards that word, though I can understand to an extent.

We're certainly going to make this as easy as possible to use rather than targeting just blockchain enthusiasts.

Perhaps in the future we'll rebrand our website to not focus on the blockchain aspect as much.
Monopoly = IE6, closed source, controlling the web.

Monopoly != multiple large vendors contributing to Chrome/Webkit/etc.
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So jokes aren't protected speech because he marketed it wrong? Sorry, that sounds crazy and draconian frankly.
This issue is covered in this Two Minute Papers video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ct_P3IZow0 (relevant section around 2:27)