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This is the first i've ever heard of the approach of selling down. Interesting concept.
You're not taxed on sales, you're taxed on profits and according to the opening paragraph of this article Apple’s pre-tax profits totalled up to £33.7m for which Apple paid £3.8m in tax - which is over 10%.

Now the article does mention Apple paid a £13m dividend to its parent in Ireland, which presumably is the money Apple is sheltering from taxes but even then that would only be roughly £1.3m in additional taxes, which admittedly would be a roughly 30% increase but still seems like a small issue.

Am I missing something here?
But then .onion - or at least the way it's done - is already there.
Hiring remote gave my startups access to amazingly talented people where they were, not where we were. It allowed the team to work in a space they felt was productive and comfy and our employee turnover was non-existent.

I'm a big proponent of distributed teams.
Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source
How do you decide which person get which name? This just gets you back to the whole ICANN problem. I can remember a couple of digits which makes my name unique. I cannot remember 1e873645-1f68-4b48-9eae-934ec717229b
They have many, many partnerships that undermine their own offerings. Their strategy is less about being the best at something but being your one-stop-shop to get something that works for everything.
I would think if -every- country changed to driving on the right, all cars could be LHD, and that would make vehicle design and supply chains simpler and lower cost? Depending, of course, if people are actually driving in the future, but having thought a bit about it maybe in the near future there won't be the need to have a physical connection to the steering rack or pedals so switching the driver's side will be easier and simpler in the future.

Buying a car from anywhere in the EU or wherever would be a lot easier, as it is a lot of 'grey' imports in the UK tend to be from Japan, I think, as they're RHD and have interesting vehicles in good condition.
I understand that. I was making an argument why government would want to keep meat production subsidized.
>I don't care about the OSS vs Proprietary argument at all. I care about my productivity and job satisfaction.

That's kind of like saying, "I don't care about voting, I just want politicians to represent me."
Because people don't click on links on twitter as often as they bother to read a tweet thread.

But also, I actually like this form of communication. By the nature of the medium (one thought per tweet), you are forced to discard all superfluous details. Instead each tweet/thought must be a strong point. This is compared to a blog, where the only thing holding you back from adding fluff is your own intellectual discipline.

Can you explain why you find this impossible/discipline to follow?
It's more of a problem if half the team is UK and the other half is NZ.

I think a project on my company was run along the same lines as you mentioned but reversed: Testers in UK, Devs in NZ

Worked well but occasionally Test manager would stay late for a call, I presume that it was early for NZ guys.
That reminds me of my two favorite interviewee questions:

"What's your company culture like?" - the way that the interviewer responds is a pretty good indicator of what their culture is like.

"If someone does something exceptional, how do you reward them?" works in a very similar way.
I have a 2017 MBP for work and a 2015 personal MBP. I love good laptop keyboards, my fingers tire out using heavy mechanical keyboards with long travel. I loved my 2015 keyboard. Until I got the 2017. Now the 2015 feels like mush, like I'm typing on silicone. The 2017 is nice a clicky and satisfying while still keeping the shallow travel.

I haven't personally encountered any issues of the keys sticking though I know people who have. That's a real and serious problem, although it sounds like Apple may have figured it out in later models. But personally I love the feel of the clicky short-travel 2017 keyboard. About the only thing I don't like is the arrow keys, I miss the cutouts above the left/right arrow keys to help find them easier.
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Well. Maybe I would like to live in the center of Manhattan. That doesn’t mean that it’s the city’s responsibility to make that happen.
Got a point there; a I forgot that this was also the time of the Vietnam war / Civil Rights.
There are also assumptions that everyone with a mobile phone will have the same phone number for a long time, never have their phone stolen or destroyed, could easily replace it and restore from a backup if it were, and pay their phone bill in a way that never results in cancellation (and thus forfeiting a phone number).

I know someone who works at a public library and regularly interacts with folks who've found hard times. From the stories I've heard, it's a fairly common situation for someone to want to reset their password, then be told by the site that they will receive a text message on a phone number "ending in ####". This is a challenge for those who had to get a new phone number since they signed up.
But it is not proprietary.

By that definition, C#, Go, Java are all proprietary.
The accounts are at the top of this list: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04996702/filing-h...

This applies to "Apple Retail UK Ltd" only. "Apple Europe Ltd" is a separate company. Both probably pay substantial "IP license fees" (not visible in the public accounts) to the parent Irish Apple (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/18/ireland-collec... ), which hangs onto the money to avoid remitting it to the US where it would be taxed.
I wonder how much of this mess is because people get introduced to these concepts(Generics etc) through wrong languages.

Now, there is a very similar problem with concepts like recursion. Even Algorithm, DS and problem solving in general. You never get to learn this stuff well because you get drowned in syntax juggling, type headaches, absence of good features to do recursion, first class functions, mutability, closures, pattern matching, and data handling etc well.

I find learning these things in ML or Lisp languages simplifies the problem to a great extent. You basically learn to how to solve problems and then how to use the right tools to solve the problems. Instead people chose tools that send them solving infinite sub problems to arrive at solving the real problem. Most people tune out, and rightly so. Efficiency comes after correctness in any approach. And you should never optimize for speed to begin with.

Most people getting introduced to programming in Java/C++ are generally digging through layers and layers of code trying to do what should be done simply in a straight forward way. This is often made more complicated by addition of frameworks and opinionated way of forcing people doing things in a way that requires them to go and read and work through an entire history of software literature. All the while you could just write code to solve the problem.

Design Pattern abuse is very common in OO world. And people for some reason like to write a lot of code sometimes for something as simple as writing a few lines of code.
What I want from a gist document: Markdown, so I don’t have to scroll horizontally
Beyond uptime, what should I be monitoring on my web site?
I have uptime monitoring in place, but I’m worried that there are other things I should be checking regularly to make sure my site is working as expected.

What would anyone recommend I monitor?
I think you forgot to log out of your account.
Really the aspect which taxes in theory should be "biased" towards is accounting for externalities positive and negative. If mines, banks, or any other industry risks needing expensive public remediation they /should/ be taxed more than mere profit margins. If they cannot afford it - well that is the point neither can we. In practice it is a complete mess of special interests paying money to insist that the government's highest priority should be getting people to drink more Ovaltine.

The issues of that tax code are systemic but that level of abstraction is seldom understood.
This is all very true but they're also a company that wants to push their API since that's where most of their stickyness comes from as a business.

IRC definitely has stability going for it but it also means it has been unable to adapt to user requirements changing over time. The most usable IRC client right now is IRCCloud which is good, but it doesn't inspire much hope because it's only usable since they completely plaster over the protocol in their UI.

In this model there's nothing special about IRC except that it's a common denominator protocol for a few networks that use it. If we were choosing a inter-network protocol I don't think anyone today would come up with IRC.
How is an "incorrect understanding of the tax code" built into that statement? Are you saying that the average layperson doesn't understand the numbers shuffling that goes on to get the biggest deduction? All tax preparation advertisements I see on TV tout their ability to "get you the biggest refund". Why would it not be a safe assumption to apply that same thought to corporate taxes?
in fact, most of those things are possible in c++ of all places.
> "Which is paid by Apple customers, not Apple."

VAT is paid by businesses, who collect it on behalf of HMRC on any sales they make.

Yes, it adds 20% to the price of goods sold. But you could say this of any tax: if Apple was paying £200m in UK corporate taxes then it's a fair bet that prices would increase to compensate.

What is unfair, however, is the way that multi-nationals can shift profits across borders to low tax countries, putting them at an advantage relative to domestic competition who pay full UK corporate tax rates.
Completely agree. I use this extension to always redirect to the "old." reddit design:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

The slowdown of the new design is really noticeable whenever I visit reddit on another browser or computer.
Unfortunately I have an awful home situation so if I were to work home the only way to be at all productive would be for me to go somewhere else and work; the local library is ok but the bandwidth is disappointing and certain ports are blocked.
> You can't tell how compliant with food safety standards a manufacturer is when you're standing in front of a supermarket shelf.

How can you tell any better how compliant they are with local law? The penalty can be the same for misusing the seal of the standards organization, it just gives you the choice of whose standards you're willing to accept.

> It's better to just know that every juice on the shelf met some minimum food safety standard.

But that isn't what happens. It immediately goes from requiring that the food is not rat poison to prohibiting donut holes and restricting hamburgers on Sundays and requiring apple pie to be served with cheese.
If I buy an iphone via a shop who gets to book the vat, the shop or Apple? If its Apple why do they have a greater claim over someone else further up the chain?

If I buy an iphone as part of a Vat registered business I can claim that vat back. So does that Vat get booked twice?

It is paid by consumers because they are the ones that ultimately pay it. Businesses that pay vat can claim it back so that the 'value added' only gets taxed once. Apple has added value, but so have others.
You'd be surprised how many companies have a sink or swim mentality. Many people are just in it for themselves and don't really want to help others, or they just aren't cognizant enough of their surroundings to bother to offer aid. If those that don't want to help need to, it's often full of belittlement.
I've been in situations like this, and let me tell you, it sucks. I feel like I could've grown a lot faster if someone just cared enough to work with me on some things I had difficulty with.
Makes me have a greater appreciation for culture and communication.
Potentially yes.
Really interesting stuff here. The little cluster in North Carolina is "Amazon Wind Farm US East".

I wonder if Amazon announces an electricity play soon, or if it's just related to sustainability efforts? Their use of wind is actually described more here: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/
My work schedule is shifted early, so I leave the office by 3pm. I think all offices should permit this to accommodate school pickups. A side benefit is that I never have to commute during peak times.

I do not need to be available at all times. There is an insignificant time-away-from-desk difference between going out for a coffee and having a short nap. A nap helps me stay unstressed, energetic, focused. I feel a headache coming on, a short nap nips that in the bud. Working continuously with no breaks is only a fine strategy for robots.
This was written by a loon who has been obsessed with his own conspiracy theories about Microsoft and Open Source for years. He had a whole thing going about Novell way back when they bought Ximian and SuSE. That's more than 15 years of creepy, obsessive blogging.
> Myopia is probably caused by lack of exposure to the extremely bright light of the sun during childhood and adolescence

Is there research on this? Just wondering since I ended up having issues with nearsightedness in my early 20s but feel like I spent a lot more time outdoors as a child compared to children these days.
I thought you were talking about Torvalds, then I realized you are talking about Microsoft.

Could have all the CoC and bad press on Torvalds been the start of a push to take Linux over? If I recall many of the people pushing for his punishment did work for large companies owned by or soon to be owned by Microsoft?
Agree about immutability (I would love to have “readonly” to be applicable to classes), but I like the current static classes approach.

It’s a single keyword, the language guarantee you won’t have any instance fields or methods in these classes.

Global functions pollute namespaces, and auto-complete index. Static classes provide local namespaces for these functions, they also hide implementation details. I sometimes implement moderately complex pieces of functionality as a static class with just a single public method, the rest of the code is in private methods. These private methods don’t show in auto-complete in outside code, even if they’re extension methods. If such class grows too large for a single source file, C# has partial classes.
Forgive my question, but is cscq the computer science career questions subreddit?
You don’t hear the name Joel Spolsky much any more, but he was pretty influential in software process thinking in the 90’s - not really for being particularly insightful or original, but more because he was one of the first people who thought of writing a blog about software design. One of his early “observations” about software project management was that “you wouldn’t buy a pair of jeans without knowing how much they were going to cost, why would you expect your manager to sign off on a software project without knowing how much it was going to cost?” The utter blithering stupidity of this perspective highlights how managers look at software design: the purpose of software methodology is to put a fixed cost on every software project. As long as that’s what they’re looking for, software methodology is going to continue to be a lost cause.
Same thing with the iPhone, to be honest. It wouldn't be nearly as popular if people had to pay sticker price on the first day.
Sleeper trains make so much sense for travel over land. They are often competitively priced with air travel, they pollute a lot less and the time saved can be huge when you consider that you spend time travelling when you would otherwise be asleep (although this is sometimes true for air travel, many/most people find it difficult to get quality sleep in economy class).

The London - Edinburgh sleeper train (Caledonian Express) has been running pretty much since 1873 and is an amazing way to get between the two cities. You arrive at the station in London between 10-12pm, depending on if you want to have a few snacks or glasses of wine, then wake up in Edinburgh around 8am the next day.
I think both of these are important problems (and number among the issues I alluded to in the conclusion of the article). I hope to see them improved in the future and will provide whatever support I can to IRC networks working on them.

However, if you're going to run your own IRC server you can also run your own bouncer service. Lots of authentication options exist as well. IRC is totally fine for an org who can stand up a server. It's pretty low-maintenance too.
>So they pay $0 in net taxes.

Working as intended? The tax code is designed to encourage this kind of reinvestment.
In exchange, you have gut-wrenching systemwide outages of Slack once in a while. The CAP theorem says you can't have it both ways. News from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20303479
how unimaginative. it's the golden pot for identity fraud. it's a prime target for marketers and scammers. heck, even if you only disclose income data and tax paid, by the amount of tax deducted from the total and comparing it with historical data there's a good chance to figure out if someone had large medical expenses.
I don't see any substance at all in the article. Just conflating Microsoft's admission to the security mailing list with an unrelated heated exchange between Linus Torvalds and Dave Chinner.
Wookiee.
How to build your own public health crisis
Merlins may have been tested at Stennis, but I believe that the Raptors are not.
Yikes, haha.
Step one of fixing bad laws, or abused loopholes in existing laws is demonstrating the extent to which it's being abused. That way we can equate the lost tax revenue into something more identifiable. Stories like this give us the evidence we need that something in our tax laws isn't working.

These figures published are part of the public record of the company.
You can down-vote for whatever reason you like. You are trusted to justify it only to yourself.
"We don't want to follow the agile process..." followed by "why isn't agile working for us?!"

I blame the ambiguous manifesto.
Do you think that a profit margin for Apple of 0.0275% is reasonable?

Nobody questions the right amount of tax is being paid on the declared profits. People question that the declared profits are actually the actual profits that the Apple operation generates in the UK without any sort of financial shenanigans, e.g. transfer pricing, etc ...
Not particularly. The last known time a western aggressor hacked into such a Russian intelligence company, Kaspersky, it was revealed to be the Dutch intelligence agency, sharing their info with the US. So it could be any of the 5 eyes or any of their partners.
Pros aren't using the drive in a machine as the authoritative storage for raw photos, videos, or whatever they're editing with that machine. Hell, I don't even do that, and I'm just a nerd with a couple of cameras.
> Public Interest Registry is a mission driven non-profit registry and currently has no specific plans for any price changes

This means nothing. It's like when you get the hiring paperwork and the HR person says regarding the non-compete: "oh, don't worry about it, it's not enforceable"...
Take a look at SObjectizer if you want to use Actors or CSP in your C++ project
LIGO is extremely far from quantum gravity.

The gravitational waves in question have no quantum properties, either because they have so many quantum numbers in them that classical behaviour is recovered, or because they are classical “all the way down”. LIGO, its siblings, and their foreseeable successors are unlikely to help resolve this.
The results have already constrained the space of quantum gravity theories from which General Relativity must be recoverable, but that is not the same as preferring (much less indicating) any particular approach to quantum gravity that will be consistent with LIGO et al.’s results.

That said, LIGO’s detector itself relies upon the details of quantum mechanics, as it is also sensitive to quantum noise from its immediate environment. However the quantum mechanics in question are purely local, and have nothing to do with distant events like binary black hole mergers. (LIGO is not sensitive to those distant quantum mechanics — it’s either outright blind to them, or at best they blur into classicality — and it’s hard to envisage a human-buildable detector that would be sensitive to their gravitational influence within our solar system).
> Now the article does mention Apple paid a £13m dividend to its parent in Ireland, which presumably is the money Apple is sheltering from taxes

Lol, no. Most of what they're sheltering takes the form of IP license fees. That's in the hundreds of millions.
And the weird thing is that it's almost trivial to create an equivalent of (.) in Haskell that's ordered in the more natural forward way and I really wish it was a standard. Though (.) itself does get rid of all those parenthesis.
I deeply dislike it as well, but they are a business and it's only normal that they do - I'm pretty sure any for-profit company in the world would want to maximize profits at expense of tax. It's up to lazy politicans collecting their fat paychecks to close the loopholes when they're found, or pay more attention when they're writing legislation and not create them in the first place. Or not be corrupt and ignore the loopholes for other interests.
Legally Enforced Segregation
as the history shows, no.
What I also don't understand is the assumption that people don't share phone numbers or have multiple of them.

If they want to restrict a service to a physical person, then at least in Germany there are identification services.
Good advice for an experienced team. Couple it with good reporting (who's job is that?) and management could be good with it.

Green teams may need more structure. But the structure should not take over; it should be a tutorial and get rethought as the team matures.
It also scaled poorly.
You just pay it as transfer pricing. Eg an expense of $100m for "brand licencing fees". You give me the trademark to the subsidiary in the less taxed place, and done.
Debian 10.0 “Buster” Release Images Are Up for Testing
More like pitching a stall outside your local Costco, calling it Costco, and charging dimwits a fee to enter the warehouse
Of course but they are not so narrow focused like often many people use to depict them.

In order to justify why there so many forks of the BSD kernel it seems to be an urge for exalting their differences when the main reason is simple politics.
Yes I agree. Once you have interfaces with default implementations especially, you have non-nested OOP
> I believe a room temperature of 20C is the normal design target.

Usually you don't want room temperature to be more than 5C lower than outside. Bigger contrast can be a problem for people.
> the founders have a way to realize their equity as well.

That's the part I don't get. Wouldn't they keep the profits anyway if they just didn't sell?
> Giving .Amazon to the company and not the brazilian-peruvian group that wanted to run it was really a fine example of icann in the year 2019.

Not to be that guy - but why should the brazilian-peruvian group have gotten it instead? If you said that the actual group of mythical woman should have gotten it I would say maybe you have a point, but then we would have to first figure out how mythical creatures can own things.
> I can't get some personal domain name for life from this - it is market based AFAICT.

The yearly renewal fee is fixed, and is a standard transaction fee, not market based [0].

[0] https://handshake.org/faq
Or it could just be that Microsoft has been shady for over 15 years.
Yep, terrible company. I made the mistake of calling them to get my roof repaired... actually I didn't call them but some bogus website for a local roofing company led me to those shady clowns. I chose a local contracting company instead and they did a really good job as far as I can tell. No leaks after a year and a half.