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Think from the publisher side of view. You want to have an easy way to monetize content, and ads used to work well, but now you get very little or nothing from ads because most impressions and clicks are made by bots.
So instead of adding a "paywall" to see the content, you add a "captcha" and the users will be able to see the content for free along with some unobtrusive text ads.
I think it's already proven that users rather solve a "captcha" then use their credit card to gain access.
NYC has a similar meetup culture and a great tech community. I'd bet Seattle, Austin, and Chicago do to.

The difference is that other cities have diversified economies with multiple hot industries.
It doesn’t matter if corporations pay taxes because the money just flows to people who own equity in or work for those corporations, and they pay taxes.
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Not making money is not the same as making losses. You can carry forwards losses you've made on investments.
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The intellectual dishonesty of this from allegedly smart people continues to astound me. Amazon has little-to-no taxes mainly because they have such low taxable income in the first place because they spend so much in R&D and other things. They’re actually creating jobs and new businesses rather than showing massive profits and paying a ton in taxes. I have no doubt they take advantage of perfectly legal tax code items like accelerated depreciation, just like millions of other companies. At the end of the day, people of a certain mindset just want to take other peoples’ money and the more of it they have they more desperately people believe they don’t deserve to have it.
Sounds like an advertisement; I don’t believe one word.
Sure. But what is taxed does steer society. Imagine only taxing on pollution (so not on wages/sales/home ownership).

Currently we tax on wages/ sales/ home ownership and not on Amazon an little on pollution. Look around to see the result.
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I would use this.
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I agree that engagement and discussing policies is important. But it does feel disingenuous and aimed at provoking outrage (to trigger a knee-jerk reaction) when you just mention a fact like "look at these rich guys that don't share anything!" and ignore the context of why it got to be the way it is.

And I'm not saying that there aren't changes that could and should be made. Just that this particular article doesn't have the feel of a fair debate aiming to inform people, but more of an outrage-inducing propaganda.
This is pretty scary. Is there any way a desktop browser can mitigate against this sort of attack?
yes, I spent some time on google trying to find the article but I guess my googlefoo is failing me today. However I do remember it was the autoland system developed by McDonnell Douglas on the MD-11. They had to add some small randomization to keep if from always touching down on the same part of the pavement all the time.
> what impact it has on social development, interpersonal skills, empathy, sympathy etc.

Why is work supposed to provide for that? It's not kindergarden where, in addition to "activities" (ie. job assignments), you're also told who to play with.
what is your alternative please ?
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Time sortable UUIDs can be useful when you have many different data sources you aggregate into one table and these data sources all need to assign IDs to the events. By having a 128-bit ID with timestmap upper and random lower bits the risk for collisions is low and by having the first bits be a time stamp you ensure that inserts are quite often done in sequential order, which is good for btrees.

There are other solutions for this problem, and I do not think I would pick UUIDs or ULIDs myself, but it is a decent solution for this specific problem and does not waste much space compared to the other solutions.
I found it at http://jatodd.pbworks.com/f/The+Effort-Billy+Collins.pdf and I got a strange delight out of the irony seeing it dissected (on page 2) :)
I always though how silly it was for teachers to pretend they got the correct answer in a text analysis of a century old author. Apparently it's even true for authors that are still alive.

Some things seemed so far fetched, so random, so made up. And yet it was supposed to be _the_ right answer. When I offered another one, even knowing the official one but disagreeing, I was graded as failing.

Hell, I'm pretty certain most writers just wrote something, and never though about it more. Not all of them are pondering, rewriting every line. And even the ones that do don't necessarily do it for the result the teacher expects.

And as a kid, you certainly can't say a classic author is not interesting. You can't say the text is boring, that you don't see talent in it, that you didn't learn anything from it. It has been validated by society, hence it's good. Now you have to say why you think it is, even if you don't. Actually you have to say what you know what the status quo is, which means repeating something you read elsewhere instead of forming a opinion from that and what you think. The opposite of what's school is supposed to teach.

We wonder why fake news and bullshit work ? It's because we teach kids to repeat popular opinions and make up things because they look good. We teach them that not only there is a price to pay for not doing that, but that we are ok with being the ones making them pay it.

People that felt like that usually went the science road. It's not a bad thing, but it's a positive feedback loop. It means fields in desperate needs of honesty and pragmatism are only welcoming bullshiters and conformists.
This is why the UA contains "Edg/" not "Edge" to prevent issues like this.

It could just be there is a whitelist for Google Docs, like on Google Meet:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/26/18518346/google-meet-micr...
Go look at Amazon's 8k and 10k filings; If memory serves it wasn't until 2015 or 2016 they turned a profit after almost 2 decades. It's been illegal, under racketeering laws, to sell at a loss in order to capture a market for a long, long time, and that's the real story here.

Republicans and Democrats have let that one go; blaming political parties is a straw-man argument. They expect to utter the words and hope you believe it and not fight what they're doing.

In 2008 after the crash the retail industry switched to hiring part-time jobs only; Wal-mart, Meijer, Kroger, almost everyone and a lot of that was due to pricing pressure from online retail namely E-bay and to a larger extent Amazon. People began working 3 or 4 unstable part time jobs to piece together 60+hr weeks in order to make ends meet and still living in destitution (not having savings for a car or house repair). Many turned to drugs and alcohol to deal with the trauma of being in a sitaution where that looked to be a permanent state of affairs. Today, Wal-mart has stopped drug testing new hires, they've implimented a drug rehab program for new hires because they drug test 100 people and literally 99 fail. Other retailers and employers are doing the same.

Any company that views it's customers as the product ultimately is looking to do what anyone does with a product once they are done with it; throw it into the garbage. CNBC is filling your head with garbage and turning you into garbage just like Amazon and the retail industry did to those retail workers I just mentioned; now they get to clean up their mess. Those people get to lose a good 15-20 years of productive live due to this. You have literally nothing to gain by listening to them whatsoever; take a news literacy course and invest a little bit of money on real journalism.
If one mistake tarnished reputation forever then after Iraq war none of CNN, Fox, NYT, MSNBC, WaPo should be in business, specially since all of these were accomplices in and not victims of falsehoods.
I must admit that my knowledge is lacking in this area. Can someone offer a high-level explanation to one of the people who don't understand corporate taxes in the US?

As far as my understanding goes, the bulk of taxes are paid on profit (to be more precise, operating income), and not revenue. As far as I understand, big companies do everything possible to make it seem like they are not profitable from an accounting perspective. As an example, this might mean that they'd pay some subsidiary in Ireland, where corporation taxes are smaller. What am I missing?
Similarly for SQL Server sequential UUIDs can reduce fragmentation, which can save some IO, storage space, and memory load, particularly if the UUID used a table's clustering key (most cluster by their PKs by default).

Unfortunately without a bit of a hack NEWSEQUENTIALID() can only be used in TSQL as a default constraint, which can be an irritation.

And you are often better off using something else than a UUID for a table's clustering key, to help common range queries and reduce clustering key size, even if it isn't the PK or otherwise particularly unique.
What you suggest is something completely unrelated.
> Well, the problem here, while looking for a job is that your interests should not bother them and the other way round too.

You're correct. In my situation the interviewer asked "you're idea of an ideal company to work for". That is where the whole saga started when I mentioned I like my down time and hobbies.
Wait, what? Are you planning to put your game server in orbit? Because otherwise I don't understand what you're asking - a server on the ground will always be "geostationary" - it's the satellites it talks to that will change.
You forget about the decoding tone signals and telephone exchange load. Long distance calles have a very big latency for a reason.
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This comes up all the time. The issue is not the companies. The issue is the loopholes that their highly paid tax accountants are taking advantage of. Change the law not attack the company for acting in the best interest of its shareholders.
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Infertility, conventionally always considered as woman’s problem. According to Indian culture man is always fertile & can make children at any age. Not true at all. Studies shows it’s true that man produce sperms after puberty to throughout life. But this fact not gives conformation for fertility. Fertility depends on amount of sperms generated. World Health Organization states, men who have fewer than 20 million sperm per milliliter of semen with each ejaculation may be at risk for having infertility issues. About one out of every three cases of infertility is due to man alone. Male infertility one of hardest challenges man can face. After all, necessity of reproduction is one of few things on which both Darwin and religious books agree. Not being able to father is like failing at one of most primal responsibilities.
Not turning a profit does not mean or even imply selling at loss at all.
I can understand biases in a specific test (e.g. cultural biases), but those can (and should!) be corrected with better design and specific accommodations. Do you think that testing as a general method of evaluation is biased though? Because the objection I typically see isn't "we need better test design" it's "there's a component of student ability that cannot be measured by a test".
I mean, you could have a separate "prep test" which is an entirely different purpose and would have to be really super secret on questions and answers including timing.

Essentially, this checks if you bribed the right people to have the answers for previous tests or even this one, connections and decent enough memory.

Welcome to America's latest educational scam.

A test to gauge progress is supposed to be almost fully secret and unpredictable to not bias for people cramming previous answers.
I'm very sorry to hear that, I hope you're doing well now.

I hope you don't mind me asking a (maybe quite stupid) question. What if we don't have the account credentials of our loved ones, what would we do in this case? With all that historical data laying around when people pass away, I wonder if there's a standard procedure one can follow to handle those data.
You haven't worked for large companies have you? Intel ME is NOT a backdoor. It may have vulnerabilities, sure. But none explicitly put in there.

It was designed for a specific purpose- troubleshooting enterprise computers. And it does that job amazingly well. No more IT guy guiding me when he can just do all the clicks himself.
I don't get your point. Are you suggesting that Amazon alone should pay a tax on revenue (steering business to its competitors and reducing consumption slightly), that every company should pay a tax on revenue (steering business from more expensive and less vertically-integreated competitors to Amazon, but reducing overall consumption) or something else entirely?
Expensive both and you do have to handle making connections and socialization...
High revenue low profit is good. Surely Apple are a better target?
I'm fine with outrage-inducing propaganda against people who have tens or hundreds of billions of dollars since that class as a whole spends so much time putting out propaganda in their favor. I'm not particularly interested in the details as long as it elevates consciousness about the inherent problems with a society that allows Jeff Bezos to have more money than he could spend in ten thousand lifetimes while millions of people aren't entirely sure how they're going to afford food next week
Honestly I will be fine with bad latency if I can get reliable wireless internet anywhere on earth. If I need good latency, like for playing games, I will go to a location with fiber.

I really, really think SpaceX Internet can do a lot of good. It may force competition. It may give internet access to many countries where it's not an option. It may even help fight censorship, or open the door to an alternative to the current internet network.

Lots of potential.
You're missing that Amazon is reinvesting, not hiding profit.
More pics here

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27716/did-this-beluga-...

I agree they are making stuff up (it doesn't say "Equipment of St. Petersburg" for instance as you can clearly see from the pic)

But it's something.
The character sprite and animations look very similar to downwell: https://youtu.be/kY83H8BdxhI

Not a criticism, just an observation.
There is an alt-history story (whose title I wish I could recall) about an American time traveller who goes back to visit a young Alexander of Macedon and his tutor Aristotle. To disguise the origins of his superior science he pretends to be from a far province of the Persian empire. Upon his return to his own time he is shocked to find a largely agrarian US still populated exclusively with its indigenous peoples - the European invasion has not happened. The conclusion is that Aristotle, and by extension the entire classical intellectual movement, was so intimidated and overwhelmed to discover this visitor's vastly greater scienctific knowledge that their own curiosity was extinguished, and hence Western civilisation was stillborn.
Initially I too thought this was a bad idea, but if you think about it and set the tax rate really low - like a handful of percent, say 1% or 2%, not more than 5% - it might actually work.

Because even if the corporate tax rate is 30%, but we only collect it on profit, which ends up being only 5%-10% of revenue. So in actual fact, if the corporation was honest, we're really only collecting 30% of 5% or so, which is about 1-2% of revenue.

The thing which I think works with this "revenue tax" is that it removes the ability of the corporation to do clever accounting tricks to reduce the amount of profit. For example moving the IP offshore to a lower taxed country. It is something that could work for a lot of countries and would satisfy a lot of people.

The one place where it might not work is where margins are already razor thin and the business makes up on volume. But then again the business would have to charge more to cover the extra expense.
There are somewhat few notable people from MENSA... It is not a great standard for giftedness, more of a smart people club. People who do things are more often than not either too busy to join this club or see no point in it.
Ask HN: XPS 13/15 owners, how many of you got bent corners on the lid?
I think no ISP would connect to others with a huge coil of fiber to add that amount of latency.
Taking nutritional yeast (B complex) before sleep has helped my brain activity a lot. Better sleep, more lucid dreams, waking in a better mood. 1-2 hours before bed, 1 spoon, still experimenting.
> take advantage of perfectly legal tax code items

Nobody is saying otherwise. They are saying these legal loopholes are the problem that need changing.
As engineers we usually have a direct conscious intention for the details of our creation.
Art doesn't work that way. The art piece is a piece of the artist and her surroundings. Including her conscious intentions, the naturalized social norms, her deep subconscious urges and desires, And with today's commoditized art, it includes the preferences of the collective unconscious.
Literary analysis have plenty to work with. Diminishing art to the artist intentions does injustice to culture.
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Smaller companies pay their taxes and set their prices at a level where they can afford that. If Amazon are forced to compete fairly on efficiency/quality/... rather than on tax avoidance, that's a good thing for customers in the long run (and of course collecting tax to be spent on public services is good for citizens immediately).
It would be OK if corporations didn't pay taxes.

BUT there's more to the story.

Not only do they not pay taxes, they also enjoy absurd political power through lobbyists and through being able to pump huge sums of money into politics thanks to the Citizen's United decision.

There is simply too much power in the hands of the corporations. I mean, Amazon literally had dozens of city governments falling over themselves to give up enormous tax goodies and red carpet roll out all for the weak promise of 50000 jobs and an HQ2.
I wasn't aware it's so different that western/central/eastern EU matters.
> while any primitive civilization will quickly figure out "hey this place is definitely cursed; we shouldn't stick around".

After a while, when quite a few people have died, and maybe their whole village and all their farmland is contaminated. This is exactly what we are trying to avoid.

See for example the Goiânia accident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
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I went with firstlast, except with the .me domain extension rather than the .com (too expensive).

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Until the day 100% of browsers support 100% of features with 100% correct implementations, or we have only one browser, it will keep working like this.
Amazon is not Jeff Bezos. Taxing him would be a whole different topic of conversation. Probably more on the topics of executive compensation, taxes for high incomes, and a bunch of other possible subjects.

Interesting discussion to be had, for sure, but not what the article is really about.
Firefox mobile already pretends to be Chrome for several Google websites.

Edge Chromium explicitly uses a new User-Agent string so websites see it as Chromium, not as Edge (it does not even contain "Edge", only "Edg").

And yet, Google intentionally works against any browser except their own.
But the bigger point is why are they even sniffing UA strings?

Google, who advocates for everybody else that you should use standards and proper feature detection, still relies on UA whitelists for their own products.

Then look at google.com homepage itself... not responsive, not in any way modern... many of their own sites perform terribly by their own guidance to other devs.

Google's hypocrisy is sickening and I'm tired of their "we own the web, do what we say" attitude.
South Carolina was founded as a rice-growing colony to supply food to the sugar-growing colonies in the Caribbean. They bought enslaved agricultural workers from west Africa because they had the skills to grow rice more effectively. Rice wasn't native to the Americas, so buying natives wouldn't have resulted in the significantly higher rice yields.

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sidenote: They also bought people who knew how to cultivate indigo for dyes. This meant that indigo was the dye most-available for the continental army in 1775.
I have both. No bent corners.
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Its easy to create plausible scenarios where things have UUID IDs.

For example, your classic customer database. Each customer has an ID.

Its hard to find a natural key for something as simple as a customer...

If you have a very narrow customer base then perhaps the company has a VAT number or something that seems natural. But get an international customer, or simply have problems getting people to enter those kind of details, gets unworkable fast.

And then I suppose the 'trading name' is another natural identifier, except they can change.

Hell, we've all experienced systems that have used the email address as a natural key, and all the resulting pain as those change.

Just today, in fact, I had trouble with a jetbrains subscription when I used my company's new domain name to register something and it created a new account for me. Ugh. Can't work out how to link them, just because I changed the email address on the pay page instead of the account page. Jetbrains, we expect better of you!

So, anyway, its normal to go with an auto-increment.

But, then, the modern web site you've just built exposes that id to the customer, and you've just leaked how many customers you have!

So modern best practice is to only expose UUIDs in public APIs.

And I'm saying, go with ULIDs instead. Your database will thank you.
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> I was initially dubious that they would be able to make their number goal but they have people working 6 days a week 16 hour days to scale up to this goal

If they have to make people work 96 hours a week isn't that evidence against them making their goal, not for it? If they were progressing according to schedule, with buffer for unexpected events, surely people would be working sane and sustainable work weeks?
> Not making money is not the same as making losses.

I have rent and bills to pay regardless of whether I'm making money, that is the definition of making a loss.
For me, I was using google docs with no warning, then I noticed Edge needed an update, and after the update I got the warning.

Not sure if it was MS changing something or Google changing something?
This means it is worthless for a multiple choice test and should be a write-up with argumentation. A miniature dissertation.

Like, say, maturity exam is here in Poland. They're a pain to grade, have to be very careful guidelines and alert examiners.
The big danger isn't individuals dieing from radiation, the danger is contamination of ecosystems with radioactive isotopes.

Above all, engineering and use of the site is to be prevented - nobody should dynamite it and release radioactive dust, nobody should lead a river through it or flood the site, nobody should use parts of it to build anything. Immediate proof that the site is dangerous, by people coming in contact with it dieing while not being contaminated with any kind of radioactive dust, may be a safe and universal isolation of it. Even animals may learn to avoid it.

The only problem is that it's probably impossible to have sufficiently high levels of radiation on the outside of the 'Keep' while still keeping the isotopes safe from any kind of disaster or environmental effects.