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Tax dodging is entirely legal. Eg spend on business consumable this year as a tax expense to lower taxable income and avoid some tax this year. Tax evasion is the same sort of thing, but not legal which is why I mentioned both. Which are legal and which are not is entirely unclear, the wealthy and large co.s employ lawyers and accountants to run cases tying up the legal system at vast expense when caught. Sometimes they're not guilty (at least of the charges brought) too. If you bring a lawyer they'll bring 50. Then hire yours. You've seen this, it's uncontraversial that it happens and it's entirely legal. Moral? Desirable? That's up to you.

It's difficult to fight tax evasion but rather important unless you want to give up on a system of taxation altogether, which has issues.

When you look at an entity with a large income and very little tax paid you know it's one or both of tax evasion and tax avoidance. Apple. Evasion or avoidance? Which is a fancy way of asking "Is what they're doing actually legal? I can't do that, why can they?" Trump doesn't pay tax because he inherited a billion dollars and thinks he's smart. I know a lot of people who really are /very/ smart, who didn't inherit a billion dollars who pay their tax. They can't decide not to like Trump did.

Rule of law. Equality before the law. Sure. Precisely. So what should the law be? What should the tax system be designed to achieve? What are the consequences of each particular trade-off you consider? Is there some new and better way worth considering or is it just hype to disaster?

And now we're at the starting point of a sensible discussion about tax policy.
In every public pool I've been in the US they had a "shallow end" and "deep end". In the shallow water kids could easily touch the bottom and didn't need to know how to swim. The lifeguard between the shallow and deep end wouldn't let you in if you couldn't prove you could swim. It was always cross the line and the lifeguard would yell at your to swim across the pool (different pools had different tests), if you weren't strong enough you got sent back to the shallow end.

If there wasn't a lifeguard the above obviously didn't apply.
Chrome is open source and available on all OS. Try running IE with flash and activex on linux in 1999. People today don't know how easy they have it :) (not saying you in particular).
Actually a very sensible opinion. If anybody put a bare minimum effort to survey the market, they would've found that some no notch models are being sold solely because of that. If you make 2 similar models, one with notch, and one without the first will sink in sales, things are as simple as that.

Look at sales stats for Mi Max 3. Despite good sales Mi kills it, and then get surprised how their other models didn't get any sales kick, and then resuming Mi Max production.

Same with other brands having a "Waterloo moment" with models lacking 3.5mm jack. Samsung saw trashy sales on low and mid-level models without jacks, made models with jacks, then removed them again, and is now about to introduce new A and J series phones with jacks again. Some times they don't learn...

I think the same thing was with removable batteries and tf cards.

What was good for Apple, was a real poison for brands with a polar opposite identity to Apple.

I attribute HTC's demise highhandedly to them denying removable storage, and jacking storage prices, while few power user brands were hammering that point.

I can remember such cases where blindly chasing trendsetters kills many times, going back to 200X, and Nokia.

So many brands went under chasing Nokia because they were perceived as "cheaper, worse Nokia's" just as today some brands became "worse Iphones"
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I’ve developed on two computers for about 6 years - an iMac at my office and MacBook Air for home and travel. All my projects are in a Dropbox folder but I also use Git. It works really well.

The biggest issues are when Dropbox detects conflicts and spits out conflict files. I wish I could turn that off. Checking out a different branch can be noisy because Dropbox will sync all the “changes” files.

The only major problem I’ve had is Dropbox bogs down with 500k+ files - even if they are very small. NPM will put you there fast.
Eh, anecdotally, I almost drowned when I was a kid before I learned to swim by literally jumping in too deep water. This was in the ocean and not a pool, but I walked out on the bridge to the first division and jumped in because I knew that it was shallow enough there for me to stand on the bottom with my head over the water.

Except it was at highwater now, so my head ended up I'd say almost a foot under water. I landed on the bottom and managed to contain my panic enough to kick off and angle myself so I'd go towards shore and not away from it. In the end I was fine, but a lifeguard watching me would've been caught totally unawares.
As someone in the UK who has earned more and more over the last decade but never seems to actually have more i'm going to read this enthusiastically.
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"Secondary drowning" is another term people use to describe another drowning complication. It happens if water gets into the lungs. There, it can irritate the lungs’ lining and fluid can build up, causing a condition called pulmonary edema. You’d likely notice your child having trouble breathing right away, and it might get worse over the next 24 hours.

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This doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever.

The phrase you've quoted is talking about whether there is something supernatural in the construction of a brain that gives rise to the consciousness, e.g. a soul.

The point being that if the brain is "just" bioelectrical hardware, there is very little reason to think we can not eventually reverse engineer it. But if there's a "secret black box" element to consciousness that exists outside the real of the possibility for us to examine and recreate it, then that is a separate issue.

"Intelligence" is the "easy" part - there's no reason to think we can not eventually simulate reasoning to a sufficient fidelity; dealing with symbolic manipulation of abstractions is certainly not impossible.

Consciousness is the big question, because we don't know what it is.
Agree. I either want to talk to a community for each of my interests (on a subreddit or a dedicated forum) OR to a small group of close friends or family (messengers). Only rarely would I want to broadcast generic information / entertainment to everyone I know (facebook).

One platform I'm missing is one where I could (anonymously) talk to strangers in my area. To discuss or ask about locally relevant things, or just see what people that aren't my friends think. The apps that already exist seem to be always targeted at students.
The assumptions that humans are intelligent and self-aware, and can understand each other are often left unspoken because actually pretty hard to support with anything but the subjective experience of "Well, I certainly am self-aware, and possess of intellect, and can understand and be understood by other people who obviously are also self-aware, intelligent, and can understand me and can be understood by me". Ha, "people understand each other", what a joyous fiction! Any one who ever attended any meeting with customers or high officials, or parents of your S.O. can attest to the opposite.
In my country (I can't speak for USA), copyright falls under civil law, and theft under criminal law.

The laws and punishments are different precisely because they are not the same morally.

You don't have to compare copyright infringement to theft to make your point. Copyright infringement can be proven to cause damage on its own merit, with its own law.

Articulating these are different does not equal saying the law is insignificant, that's a straw man.

Besides that, we're talking about alleged copyright infringement.

You need to start using the appropriate technology if you want your point to be taken seriously.

If it does not interest you to be correct when you're speaking about law, please refrain from making statements regarding law.
"2-DST" would make it so that people have to get up much earlier in the day though, right? From my experience, in places up north people find it harder to wake up early in the winter because the morning darkness (I'm sure the cold doesn't help either).
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You are aware that moderation varies wildly between subtedddits, right? With that in mind, what you are saying actually has no bearing on the GPs comment at all.
This sounds like the Cornell note taking method
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Gaslighting appears to be a nasty and old habit of governments back to "liberating" the local Christians in the crusade and then both raiding their countryside for crops and then not sparing them from the massacres and looting.
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If the 10$ smartphone you mentioned actually exists, I'd like to know how I (as a German in Germany) could buy a couple. At that price point I'd feel comfortable degrading them to a wall-mounted light switch or doorbell repeater. Generic IoT stuff.
Ive one of these- they were selling them at the Sams Club and I have a lot of fun with it. Definitely recommend using Morton kosher salt with it. Seems to strike the right balance between mass and aerodynamics...
Our company experimented for 4 months and found productivity is much higher and the only people who were unhappy were the managers. Our CEO jokingly said while the devs have become more productive after about 3 weeks he had no idea what managers were doing. Except managers everyone was laughing pretty hard. In my experience working in about 4 companies managers are the gatekeepers for not allowing WFH.
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Well I stand corrected. I was judging from the examples in the linked article, so will have another look ...
The libertarian tech monoculture is the problem, not the solution. If you knew the history of the industry or Kansas over the past 30 years you'd realize you're exactly backwards.

Deere and similar companies got the idea to create this "perfect walled garden monopoly tractor" from Steve Case. AOL was the first to really lay out the pattern so many other industries (and Google and Amazon and Apple and other monopolists) have now emulated.

This isn't about innovation or disruption, it's about consolidation, power and monopoly. There are lots of smart people trying to innovate in Kansas right now, for the most part they are getting absolutely crushed by massive corporate concentration.
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Reddit also suffers from the dreaded circlejerk effect which simply reinforces an idea regardless of if its correct or not.

Using your example of /r/investing, if you propose anything which isn't a broad market index your post just doesn't get seen, it just buried under 10 other comments which blindly followed the subs meta.

I believe a sub is best when its small and focused, 5-10k subs max. Beyond that the ideas and culture get diluted by the mass mob. God help you if your little sub ever ends up on the front page, may as well just shut it down at that point.
Rust refuses to compile, because an Option<T> type is a different type than T, so if you try to use it like one, you get a type error.
That's an improper use of the term, so I think the analogy falls apart.

You don't "inject" queries, you submit queries as normal. You're "injecting" what you know to be code that will execute, where no code is even designed to execute.
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The introspective ability to hold abstract concepts in the mind is the source of the statement that humans can do so.

It is what Aristotle called the intellectual soul, not qualia. Qualia is an experience and has no relation to holding abstract concepts. As I already wrote, Turing machines cannot do it for they suffer from multiple realizability, any abstract concept can be implemented in multiple physical constructs and any physical construct can be interpreted to be any number of different abstract items. I have not written that only "wetware" can do it, I have written that turing machines cannot do it and that no purely physical construct can do it (including purely newtonian/quantum wetware).
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It is the business model of Whirlpool corp. KitchenAid's destiny was fixed when Whirlpool bought them, they buy brands with stellar reputations and cheapen the products over time, miking them into the ground. They did this to Maytag as well. Sadly as of lately Electrolux seems to be following the model of Whirlpool and GE of acquiring and ruining brands.
But we're discussing the group consensus of a self-selected group of people interested in finance, who are nerding out about it on the internet, not the group consensus of the general population.
This gets me every single time. I also have seen plenty of screens where buttons are given a "selected" state (e.g. a dark blue background), but it's non obvious if the dark blue background means selected or not. Radio buttons and checkboxes never give me these problems. Just use them.
> desire to communicate

This was my original point: you can’t hide a Dyson Swarm. It goes the other way too. You can’t really hide from a K2 civilization either.

We’re getting into Fermi Paradox territory here. The beauty of a lot of arguments here is that you don’t need to prove or even assume that civilizations will, on average, “hide” because it just takes one to be detected. So the arguments is actually “do ALL civilizations hide?”

This is a much harder argument to make.

> There could have been aliens nearby a million years ago that are now extinct or elsewhere

In Fermi Paradox terms, this questioned is framed as “is there a Great Filter ahead of us?” This question predictably has a lot of discussion. It’s hard to predict what that might be because even apocalyptic scenarios other than extreme bad luck (eg a nearby star going supernova) are unlikely to completely wipe us out at this point, even nuclear Armageddon.
Is this like an open-source Geckoboard?
> When the buy-it-for-life premium is nontrivial, I try to first buy something basic and use it until it falls apart, simply to confirm that this is something I will use

Believe it was popularized by Adam Savage, re: tool purchases.

Essentially, current price segmentation means the optimal approach is buying cheapest (e.g. Harbor Freight), seeing how much you actually use it, then if you use it (or use it hard enough it breaks) buy something premium for your second purchase.

You'll save enough on all the things you don't really use to more than make up for replacement costs.
Do you know a single movie which accurately shows drowning?
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It's totally misleading of the article to suggest this phone is a success in any way. Building a phone (even on top of a rebranded device) is incredibly hard and expensive and unfortunately they didn't raise anywhere near enough money to even try.

The Volla Phone met an arbitrary goal of raising 20k, but they were clearly using the common KickStarter tactic of setting a really low initial goal that they hoped to blow past to build press and enthusiasm. But then unfortunately they... didn't. And they only tried this second approach after running a previous campaign to raise 350,000 euros and getting no where close.

Selling ~50 phones and not even managing to sell out the "early bird" option is the opposite of a successful KickStarter launch. They didn't even raise enough money to pay a single developer, let alone deliver an entire custom OS. And it's clear from the demo video that they don't have much software built yet. There's just no way they could deliver on their promises with the tiny amount of money raised.

I'd be surprised if this is even enough money to cover the time to purchase, box and ship out the 50 re-branded phones to the backers without installing any custom OS. I hope they decide to either just return the money or immediately ship out unmodified phones instead of trying to build their custom software. They just didn't get enough money to do that and it would most likely lead to pain and disappointment on all sides to even try.
Are you sure? I was talking about new users having very specific questions that nobody else is likely to have. They can't upvote, and nobody else will probably ever search for that specific thing. So it stays at 0 which harms your "score".
People say this, but do the economics support it in most categories?

My gut says the depreciation between new and used + your time spent finding a buyer and selling torpedo the actual benefits.
If the brain is just bioelectrical hardware then there is nothing worth reverse engineering, nor is there any worth to anything at all.

You can simulate digestion with a turing machine all you want, but that simulation wont digest any food. Likewise you can simulate the neurons in a brain but that simulation can not be an instantiation of the concept of triangularity.
Semi-OT: it came up in an earlier discussion that the 15 minute rule is common, and makes for better attention fatigue management than Uber has for SDC test drivers.

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Maybe? There is a

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> capable of being passed down to kids

Thank god 60s avocado green is coming back into fashion...
There's no timezone.

LocalDate is appropriate for things like user interfaces, where you're modelling an intuitive/vague concept of date-ness only meaningful in some wider human context, or where the actual time at which that day starts just doesn't matter or is unknown. For instance it may be a good type to use for annotated historical events, where the day the event happened is the most accurate you can get.

For a bank transaction where they're international by nature and usually need to be ordered temporally against each other, it's an inappropriate type. The time zone in which the date should be interpreted is important. But really for transactions you'd be better off using Instant, at least internally. Time matters too.
There will always be the ability to buy the best care available.
Uh... but the neural networks (and Bayesian networks) do hold abstract concepts, and are implementable by Turing machines. So it appears that your assertion is wrong.
And yet, Apple has been successfully pushing a Unix desktop for years.

It's all a matter of how it is wrapped. People don't want a linux desktop with the usual linux tools. People want a desktop/phone with an app store and "point & click".

People also want their usual apps, and we've come a long way in the past decade. Office apps are now on every major platform, and lets face it, Office apps are the bread and butter of desktop platforms. Messaging has moved from desktop messengers 20 years ago, to everything messaging living on a phone, to some extent also including email (which apparently refuses to die)

I don't know much about Android hardware, but the current generation of A13 processors in iPhones has nearly the (benchmark) performance of the low end 2019 Core i7 processor, which should be enough for a large part of users, including developers compiling stuff.

I agree that the next revolution probably won't come from a start up pushing "ready made" phones with a different skin/feature set. And i doubt anyone has the resources to make this happen but a few select players, like Apple, Google, Microsoft and IBM.
At least machines are consistently dull.
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I don't know what you're referring to, but FSF does not allow the GPL be used in such a way that the four freedoms are compromised by the licensor imposing additional restrictions.
Why do you focus about who is interviewed rather than what the questions and the answers are? If the answers are still interesting, it doesn't matter what the person has done before or is doing now.

Instead of bragging about the person who is interviewed, point out answers you don't like or agree with and post your point of view.
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I'm curious to know what biz #1, #2 and #3 are...
It's remarkable how true that is of almost all forums that have been around a while. There are dead serious experts on every subject to be found on 4chan for example. Reddit is no different, but each subreddit is basically a tiny little kingdom and not all of them are run well (the LoL subreddit, for example, is a nightmare due to corporate moderation from Riot).
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TV already does that. It has the date change somewhere at 6 hours.
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