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i actively avoid sites that serve me captchas now, clicking through images of cars/bicycles/firehydrants is the most excruciatingly boring thing i've ever done
There used to be allowed. It was called "income averaging". But then the tax philosophies of the 80s happened.
I'm not a web developer, so take this with a huge pinch of salt, but, if floats are the problem, does that imply that with layouts that use CSS Grid or Flexbox, we could have a decent justification algorithm?
Sure, he's a racist troll, but as someone else pointed out the portrait of Andrew Jackson hangs in the Oval Office for exactly the same purpose. How to avoid "feeding" that one?
If Amazon was selling at a loss until 2016 (almost twenty years since their IPO) where was the rest of the money coming from?
Exactly, where's that delete comment button...
They're related. Suppose someone makes $100000 net over two years. Should the amount of tax they pay depend on what happened in the first year?
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Taxes are no end in itself, they are necessary to provide the infrastructure (streets, legal system, ...) so that people and businesses can thrive.

Not wanting to contribute to that is the epitome of free-riding.
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Most of my website is my personal documentation. I write on my blog because I want to save something or archiving stuff.

I don't write for anyone, or because I think I'm an interesting person. If it help someone, good, but the main purpose is to help myself.
I don't really write a lot and I don't think I should write on regular basis. I just write when I need it.

Of course you might not feel the need of doing that, but having that tool helped me a lot personnaly and professionnaly.
I love how they added “wireless” to the title, as if to imply there is a wired space internet.
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I'm lucky that I share a first and last name with someone who is a successful Social Media influencer, also with a professional photographer, a journalist and and an amateur model (Haha, I wonder if that is enough for an Internet detective to work out my name!). This helps because they all have very searchable content online.

I've tried to strike a balance between anonymity and retaining 'placeholder' accounts with my name. I can't rule out a change of heart in the future.

I removed all data from facebook manually by using Social Book Posts Manager. Clunky but it works. It took about a week of different sessions to allow it to work through all of my facebook content. My FB account still exists but is effectively private, all the settings are as locked down as I can make them.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m...

I deleted all my tweets manually and set my account to private where possible.

I stripped my LinkedIn profile back to basics manually because I didn't really use it anyway. I don't need it, I have a job I'm happy with that pays the mortgage, I don't feel the need to network myself.

I removed the content from my website (<firstname><lastname>.co.uk). I left it displaying my domain registrar's holding page because I figured Google would down-rate that. It appears to have worked because it never appears in search results for either or both of my names.

My domain is a .co.uk so I've taken advantage of Nominet's anonymity service and no details are visible via public WHOIS.

I haven't asked Archive.org to remove the archived versions of my site, if someone knows about it, they could look there. At present I don't actually have any publicly accessible storage to place the robots.txt so I keep procrastinating about it.

I submitted a removal request to 192.com which is a site that publishes UK telephone directory data. They honour removal requests.

I occasionally google myself (especially from new devices and new locations/IP addresses to see if Google is presenting different results for different searchers) to check.
I've started blogging on firstlast.com (using my online alias), but by now I've turned it into my de-facto online portfolio. Most of what I publish goes to firstlast.com/project or project.firstlast.com. I don't think there is anything wrong with this approach: I'm not the subject, but it is my project after all.

The only issue I've had with my domain name was chosing my default email address: I did not like first@firstlast.com, so I went for hello@firstlast.com instead.
I suspect both names are a pun on the old Marxist slogan "Capitalism will eat itself".
Timelock puzzles and timedrelease Crypto (1996): https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RSW96.pdf
Bloomberg publishes what thousands of articles a year. Some percentage of them are guaranteed to be wrong. That doesn't meant that the burden of truth should instantly shift towards them being untrustworthy based on a single article.

Journalism depends on the public trusting them and in the current environment in which that trust is being eroded to have comments like this that dismiss Bloomberg entirely is reckless and pretty disgraceful to be honest.
Can you prove that all the other businesses that didn't survive, either online or shops weren't has much jobs than the one Amazon provide?

Also, all the taxes that they don't pay needs to be paid by others. For each optimizations done by those companies, it's as much money that needs to be paid by others as each country runs on a budget that is mainly based on taxes. Them not paying taxes as a direct impact on taxes that needs to be paid by the one who pay taxes as well as the quality of service and infrastructure of a country. Infrastructure they uses a lot by the way, like roads to deliver their goods for example.
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It does actually. Cost of doing business includes all costs.

If amazon believes they need to spend money on R&D then that R&D is a cost of doing business, if its not turning a profit with that R&D spending then the business is not sustainable by definition.

Amazon was not doing R&D for shits and giggles. Just because the time horizon was long doesn't mean it wasn't any less of a requirement for their success. Amazon would not be in the same place it is today if not for that expenditure so claiming it wasn't a "cost" is just disingenuous.
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If we all followed your advice the world will be a truly awful place to live.

Given how critical journalism is to the fabric of society I prefer to give them the benefit of the doubt wherever possible.
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"Margrethe Vestager, the EU commissioner in charge of competition, said Luxembourg’s “illegal tax advantages to Amazon” had allowed almost three-quarters of the company’s profits to go untaxed, allowing it to pay four times less tax than local rivals."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/04/amazon-eu...
If Bloomberg is going to make serious claims like that they NEED TO BACK IT UP with some evidence.

Not a damn thing came out of the Supermicro story. And now this story about Huawei where it's unclear if they're talking about bugs, vulnerabilities or deliberate back-doors--- three very very different things.

It's not that I trust Huawei either, but if Bloomberg is going to make claims like that they better be fucking true and verifiable.
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>Emphasis on “during your entire life”. Yes in the wild, cattle would be naturally inclined to bear offspring annually, but may not always. Also, would eventually stop and live on to help care for the calves of younger individuals in the flock.

Please link me to facts

>Wild cattle were likely also older when they first calves as domesticated cattle are both bred to calve earlier and also forced too. Basically inseminated as early as physiologically possible.

Please link , because I can't believe that a wild animal is in heat but decides not to follow the instincts, my cat got pregnant so freaking young I was afraid she would die. The animals do not decide this but if you have links to scientific paper where healthy individuals do not follow the natural instinct I want to see it.

I am not arguing for a camp or other, I want to clear up things when someone tells me things that at first glance seems as fake things people in cities that never seen an animal imagined. But I will change my mind if you provide the facts to read for myself.
Taxing profits (as opposed to revenue, value add, capital gains..) is the ultimate quixotic temptation for politicians.

On paper, it is a fantastic tax. Google, Apple, FB, Amazon... all the new economy winners are very profitable, 20% - 30% margins & fast growth are expected (and priced into market caps).

They're so profitable that money is just piling up, atm. They can't usefully invest it all. This means you can tax their profits without affecting the real economy. There's nothing google is doing that it couldn't do if they had to pay $10bn (25%-30%) as a tax on profits.

OTOH, unprofitable companies (eg Tesla), would have trouble paying extra taxes. It'd need to come out of investments in production capacity, R&D, etc. They wouldn't have to pay.

Corporate income tax is just a sensible idea, on the face of it. Unprofitable? Don't pay. Profitable? Pay. Minimum economic disruption.

But in practice... across many times and places... it's proved very hard to make a corporate tax scheme work.

Tax policy complexity. Accounting complexity. Multiple jurisdictions. The looping cascade of company ownership, partial ownership, contractual relationships, making up the legal "structure" of a google or amazon.

It all adds up to a reality wherein politicans cannot make a law that says 25% tax.. and have that mean something similar to what it sounds like.

This is a pill very few politicans or voters can swallow. Of course we can! We're legislators. We make laws. We have police, and tax authorities. Google finance said google made $40.42bn. The rate is 25%. Gives us $10.1bn.

Empirically, they generally can't. Changing things to enable corporate tax would require massive, difficult legal/bureaucratic reforms. You would need to consider insanely difficult changes, like heavy handed restrictions on a company's ability to own other companies, and the types of legal entities that can own legal entities. You'd need new accounting standards. The bureaucratic guts of the economic machine.
and here I was thinking Roco's Basilisk was the original
Yes, a lot of people mentioned that. Indeed I had the mobile version opened next to me while I pixeld it and tried to recreate this minimalistic style. The idea was that because I suck at pixelart I would probably be able to create a consistent and nice looking game in this simple style.

And I think especially in the sprite I took a little bit too much "inspiration".

I replaced the sprite now with something more unique. You can play the updated version here: https://joemanaco.itch.io/timezone
In many countries you are subject to civil and criminal penalties for slandering or libelling someone.

So no. They wouldn't be around if they were in the business of lying.
I think this is one of those cases where you need to take into account the intent of the Intel ME and whether or not you can consider it a backdoor. Surely it's a useful tool in corporate environments but to any other average individual it's definitely a backdoor. It's a "feature" of nearly every modern x86 CPU that undoubtedly has capabilities of a backdoor that cannot be turned off or disabled by regular means. If I wanted to be able to remotely manage my machines out of band then I would've asked for it, but instead I foolishly bought myself into a very easy way for vendors to maintain control over me and my data.
It doesn't matter if it's a deliberate backdoor or not. It's a door, and I want to be able to close that door if I'm not using it, and Intel won't let me. Reducing attack surface is a security best practice exactly because any software can have bugs.

An allegory: imagine if an OS ran an SSH server and there was no way to turn it off or to control the keys it accepts. Maybe it has no bugs (you can't see the source code). Maybe it has no malicious intent or backdoors. As a security conscious computer owner, I still view its existence as a negative. I would like to be able to provably turn it off or control the keys it accepts.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the feedback.
https://yihui.name/tinytex/ is a pretty cool minimal tex distro with nice utilities for finding dependencies, if of interest :-)
Ashes of a dying star's hold clues about solar system's birth
I agree, jitter bigger than a synchronization time is worse than high latency. When player have high latency (and I was in top3 on NA Solo ladder in League of Legends while playing from Urals with 220ms), he could only predict the moves of the opponent because what you see is far behind the server state, but with stable latency he knows the exact delay between an input and registering it on the server which puts less pressure to mind to deal with desynchronization between the picture on a display and the actual state.
Have you seen the harness ? [0]

You might be able to strap a gps or a camera on it, but a weapon ?!
What's up with all the articles "russia/china bad" popping up recently ?

> In 1980s Soviet Russia, a programme saw dolphins recruited for military training

Yeah, just like any nation with enough defence budget. Dolphins/sea lions [1], dogs, rats [2], &c. are used all the time.

[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-whale-wearing-strang...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/5-animals-that-serve-in-the-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APOPO
I wonder if the same mechanism applies to other things that we develop expectations of like relationships, careers, success?

To me Paris syndrome seems much like the old adage of "never meet your heroes" neither will live up to your idealised expectations.
Your argument seems to boil down to this. Only empirical disciplines count as valid scholarship. Interpretive disciplines in the humanities are not empirical in the same way as engineering and scientific disciplines. Therefore they are not valid scholarship.

Unless you're prepared to budge on the first premise, there's nothing much I can say to persuade you.
A backdoor is a deliberate remote-access vulnerability that the creator intended to use for illegitimate access.

The same code, but intentional, is a bug and vulnerability, but not a backdoor. Same security implications, but a big difference wrt. culpability, appropriate punishment, and expectations of future behavior.
There was no "TeamCity build chain", just normal maven dependencies. We raised the issue with their official support (we had a commercial contract) and they couldn't fix it either. Whereas Jenkins did the right thing by default. Shrug.
US is a democracy with an independent judiciary. China isn't.

Google, Apple etc are public companies. Huawei is state controlled.

So it only makes sense if you completely ignore the basic facts.
That seems like a great kickstarter you should make then.

To avoid the need to go through FDA approval, don't label it for humans. Label it for animals. Label it for lab testing.

Buy sensors from reputable names, plug them to a chip that support uPython, and make it hackable.

Even better, you may be able to recruit an engineer from one of the original providers to secure the pumping system, just for the sheer human aspect of it. Geeks are often moral driven persons.

Soon you'll have an affordable, community driven device.

There will be problems, and some people will probably pay it with their life thought. But how many lifes can be made better ?
> That doesn't meant that the burden of truth should instantly shift towards them being untrustworthy based on a single article.

How many very high-profile articles need to be complete bullshit before it's time to start questioning the integrity of Bloomberg?

The Supermicro nothing-burger was supposedly the culmination of a year of effort by top-shelf journalists. They knew what they were doing, they had NOTHING to show for it and published anyway. I think that's irresponsible at best and more likely had ulterior motivations.
So, I regret posting this... sarcasm isn't even my style, and I don't like to be negative. But I do think the approach is wrong... I just don't believe you can make a language easy to learn by shoe-horning a "familiar" syntax onto strange new semantics. And you're not likely to create an expressive, concise and readable language that way.

The motivations behind this language are interesting to me... a strongly-typed functional language focused on cross-platform GUIs could certainly have its niche. That's why it made me sad to see the approach to syntax they decided to take.
Ask HN: Has anyone successfully relied on advertising for revenue?
It seems like advertising might be the worst business model to have in 2019. Any success stories?
I said insulin and meant insulin. Insulin prices have skyrocketed over the last decades beyond any point of comparison without any significant change in the quality or manufacturing process.

As you say though, this is not true of all drug pricing. However, given we're talking about insulin pumps for diabetics, it's reasonable to assume they'd be priced based on the same philosophy as insulin, no?
Be careful. You might leave a trace of yourself by searching for yourself on new, and perhaps even non-trusted devices.

Streisand effect came to mind, too.
If you select "custom" instead of "full" when installing TeX Live, you can select packages case by case.
Incorrect. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Indians

“Spanish explorers arrived on California's coasts as early as the mid-16th century. In 1769 the first Spanish Franciscan mission was built in San Diego. Local tribes were relocated and conscripted into forced labor on the mission, stretching from San Diego to San Francisco. Disease, starvation, over work and torture decimated these tribes.”
> ops-friendliness

certainly I love the idea of concourse as a release engineer but the lack of a nice UI for dev feedback/monitoring makes it a hard sell as a drop-in jenkins replacement
Are you suggesting Oklo is an old radioactive waste site from an ancient civilization?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
It all falls under the same umbrella, which as you accurately described as "rich guys who don't share anything" and as far as I'm concerned any amount of elevated consciousness around that is a good thing, even if strictly speaking taking money from Bezos the man and Amazon the company are two separate types of taxation and two different discussions. Bezos and his company Amazon both make almost unfathomable amounts of money and don't pay anywhere near what I'd consider a fair share of it back into society. As Amazon's PR people point out this is legal, naturally, but this article does a good job of contrasting Amazon using every tax trick in the book with normal human beings who aren't able to deduct their expenses for cancer treatment. Likely because the lobby representing the financial interests of individuals with cancer is not all that strong.

"Amazon doesn’t pay taxes, but I pay taxes" is a very good sound byte from this, even if the reasons why that's the case are obviously more complicated.
When I was at University all my spare time was taken up by running a student media outlet, playing sports, and volunteering my time to student run services.

I would argue that all of these things have been much more helpful when finding work and interviewing than having Github commits.

And when I'm the interviewer, I certainly don't care how many Github commits someone has. If a new grad can't show me that they have experience working in a team of some description then it isn't going to work out.
Re [1], you generally can't do fixed positions anywhere else but GEO. Trying to stay stationary at a lower altitude would require using amounts of fuel that are way beyond what we can put in space.

Note that GEO satellites do carry fuel with them for "stationkeeping" - between errors in navigation, variation of Earth's gravity (due to it's irregular shape and composition) and influence of solar radiation and other celestial bodies, those satellites do have to occasionally and very slightly adjust their orbit to stay stationary.
Both Humans and Software can malfunction. The hardware is identical. Also if the algorithm does small injections every few minutes then the risk of overdosing/underdosing is extremely low compared to a single big injection at midnight.
In my country, my company has to pay 21% VAT. For a dollar in sales we have to add 21% in taxes. But we deduct the VAT paid, so if we had to buy stuff for 95 cents, we'd get back the VAT paid on that, resulting in having to pay taxes only on the difference, being 5 cents x 21%, approx 1 cent. Hence it being called "value added tax".

I think this is a better tax than income taxes because it taxes consumption, not labor (although if you do work to add value this does get taxed).
Shkreli is just the only one dumb enough to say out loud what other pharma executives keep to themselves. His drug pricing strategy is not unique, unfortunately.
A pizza pan will not do. This service requires specialized active antennas with beam steering ability.
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>Vodafone said in the report that Huawei would need to remove or inhibit a so-called telnet service—a protocol used to control devices remotely—that the carrier said was a backdoor giving Huawei access to sensitive data.

This seems like a diagnostic telnet port left open by accident. I'm very sceptical at this point at any American government or media finding a 'backdoor' in Huawei.

A backdoor implies this is intentionally left open to later get unauthorized access.

Why would anyone build a 'backdoor' on an open telnet port?

This seems intentionally blown out of proportion to fit a narrative.
A dedicated ASIC based on MOS current mode logic (MCM) in normal 14nm should get at least 10x higher speed than that FPGA.
You'd probably be thermal limited to, say 100 Adders in parallel working on partial products (full-width) clocked to 10~20 GHz (power is basically linear in frequency and a 1GHz adder consumes ~ 40 mW). That gives you a base multiplication speed of 0.5~1GHz and 40~80W power consumption.
AFAIK their FPGA runs at ~65MHz.
The article implies more uncertainty than there is. To my knowledge everyone agrees to define the edge of space at 100km (about 62 miles), with the exception of the US where for historical reasons the edge of space is seen as 50 miles above sea level. There is no international agreement, but even though the line is arbitrary there is no huge variety of widely held opinions.
Coding wise the game is pretty simple. It has no real physics or anything involved and basically simple "Rectangle-Collisions". You can have a look at the source code (although it's pretty dirty with lots copy/paste involved during the hard time constraints).

As mentioned I did it in Monkey, but it should be also easy to recreate it in vanilla javascript, because all you need is a basic canvas you can render to, and there you go.

The real hard part was to get all the differents parts involved ready in time. For example the art took me alone around 10-12 hours because I'm really bad at graphics and I put a lot of effort and lots of trial and error in the animations.

The music I did in Logic Pro and Renoise, and it took only around 2 hours because I'm quite experienced in doing music (doing it since my childhood). But if you listen carefully you will find out that the arrangement is very simple, and it's also not mastered. Turning this in a full-blown-not-so-repeatedly track would take several days I think for me (I sticked to the 80:20 rule here ;).

The level design I did in Tiled, and I had the Tiled loader ready before the Compo started.