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There is already different tax regimes based on business type, it's not something new.
I personally think it's a good idea.
Our current tax regime has not been thought for this kind of business. Businesses like Google are something totally new, trying to apply the current tax system on it just doesn't work.
I find it perfectly logical to create a new tax system that is a better fit, will stop this cat and mouse game of optimisation and finally have those companies contributing to the country they operate into the same way other conpanies does.

After, i'm not an expert so I can't say that the system pushed by EU is the best idea or not.
The condradictions shown between coronavirus lockdown and BLM protests will have made this far worse.
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You will flip out when you discover “git blame” or, even better, GitLens on Visual Studio Code.
> Being able to just drop a static set of files in to a webserver without any risk of security issues in my code is great.

What security risks are removed by using a client side app instead of a server side one?
I'm with you, i don't get this neither.
Don't know why your comment is in gray, but I think you are 100% correct. "Beautiful" in games is inherently relative to the context. Space Quest 1 was so damn gorgeous compared to what I've seen before it, I still love it to this day in all its 4-color glory. Does it look beautiful to random strangers who don't know what CGA was? Heck, no.
So then the employees have to pack up their documents and drive past the executives home to get them stamped?
Same reason we use other "inefficient" protocols like json or HTTP and not "superior" binary alternatives.
> Robinhood

Well, you know the saying about fools and their money...
Before claiming that group X does Y to cause outcome Z that is unpleasant to someone, it is worth considering:

1. Is Y really a behavior exclusive to group X?

2. Is behavior Y fair to generalize across members of group X?

3. Is outcome Z the intended purpose of behavior Y, or is a side-effect that someone might take painfully?

For example, the sentiment of “In general on dating apps, women are funneling people to their instagram profile to ignore them” might read like at best someone low-key thinks women owe others attention.

Using a dating profile to promote another social media profile is something any attractive person might reasonably consider, and (barring some extraordinary looks, etc.) reaching out to them from a social profile with a lot of clout could be a way to get attention—clout likely being what that person respects, as they themselves are purposefully trying to acquire it.
Talk to a lawyer. Probably they will write a nasty letter to the appropriate party. Nasty letters from lawyers tend to get respected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l6tsKM1cY8 a late submission! looks interesting!
Just make sure you don't accidentally broadcast your most valuable passwords over your video conference.
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Also let them fill their credentials in a single form. Two-step login makes password managers experience terrible.
They're likely all webview apps with a single codebase though.
If they remove it for Apple, it would likely be gone for Android as well.

Don't remember if they had a link for signups before though, just pointing out that you can't deduce that point from given facts.

(Nor is there proof for the original thesis, it's all speculation at this point)
Not necessarily. You could store $10 \choose 5 = 252$ hashes for each user.

We did something similar for call center caller authentication (you don't want the operator to get the whole PIN of the user, so he asked only for e.g. two characters). Not that this would be very useful, security-wise.
Because China is threatening the global order on which peace and prosperity lies, starting with the freedom of the seas.

China is already harassing and sinking fishing vessels and trying to close the South China Sea. It may soon try to enforce an ADIZ over the SC Sea as well. Not great.

China is a growing aggressive power with cyber attacks across a multitude of countries and is running, like Russia, disinformation campaigns to undermine democracy.

It is in the interest of EU and the US, and indeed many countries, to have a rules-based international order. It is increasingly in the interests of the US as its power is in relative decline.
I don't get your point.

The talks are mainly about an additional 5% in taxes on the European profits of Facebook, Google, Apple, Netflix, or Amazon.

How does a small tax increase for highly profitable companies get into the way of standing together against China?
Precisely. That’s also why our screens use RGB emittors: that’s the frequencies our eyes have sensors for.

Pictures shown on a human screen must look really weird for a species with different color vision than us...
Check with your parents or non-technical friends.

You will be definitely surprised.
> "practically no one lives in the northern half so no one cares."

I have friends who live in Iqaluit, Nunavut. It's a nice place to live with a cool community, but everything there is very expensive, including internet service. How about $399/month for 5 Mbps service, capped at 55 GB? And that's with the resident's discount! If Starlink were available here it would be an absolute game changer.

https://www.qiniq.com/internet/
Great suggestion. This is one of my design pet peeves for anything related to banking / bill payments numbers that are long and unwieldy to type. The (eg. invoice) number 563466130 in base 35 is "9bh18y". The same number as 9BH18Y and so much easier to type. Base 35 for sha256 would however add 11 additional characters compared to the sha1 output length tho.
For me, it reads like they wanted to discuss the rules for the new order, but then the US suspended talks over what might be called greed.
I am a firm believer that written communication is the best way to sustain a productive team.

Talking, especially in person, might get you the result you're looking for faster. Look, we decided what we needed to make and skipped the overhead of opening a ticket and capturing the back and forth.

But then you have to revisit your decision and your reasoning behind them 4 months from now. Why didn't we just do that other thing that seems more efficient?
Or even worse, someone picks up your work after you leave and they have to do that, without the potential ability to recall the context.
Or then you leave a meeting about making any sort of decision and start working and a few days later realize you're not on the same page.

I get that writing might not be some people's best skill, or even their preferred way of communication.
We all have to put up with things we don't enjoy and learn skills to work, why should this be any different?

I work for company that is in the process of going remote first, without embracing a culture of writing first and writing everything and it's not very pretty.

Previously, I worked for a company that despite not really prioritizing remote workers, because teams were distributed across the world, had to capture a lot of the things I mentioned in the tickets created for each task. And it was really empowering to have a lot of context as someone who was tasked with maintaining those things.
>Everyone is forgetting “monotone”

I miss monotone! What a beautiful single-file (sqlite) VCS if it would be still maintained i would use it for small projects, but nowadays i use fossil and bitkeeper...and yeah git if i have to ;)
You could also treat probes from google's address space differently, perhaps if you return 404s they'll automatically delist it.
Aren't you afraid that you are going to forget a passphrase that you don't regularly use? That's my main concern with your approach (I have thought about it and didn't do it because of this fear)
Neat comment id, by the way (2345678)
How do you keep all of that safe though? Unless you use a password manager that backs up into to cloud you can still be in trouble. If your house burns down then there's a good chance your codes went with it.
Given the poster learned that requests are forwarded to the listing owner, it sounds like they (the other business) don’t intend to fix it.
Experiment here. I'm haven't synesthesia but I do have some associations of colour and their brightness/darkness with days of the week (these don't match those in the article). If anyone wants to do the same, mine are below in base64 (emacs has base64-decode-region or you can do it online). I'd be interested if there's a correlation.

c2F0dXJkYXkgLSBkYXJraXNoIGdyZXksIGJsYWNraXNoCgpzdW5kYXkgLSB3aGl0ZQoKbW9uZGF5
IC0gZGVmaW5pdGVseSBzdHJvbmcgcmVkCgp0dWVzZGF5IC0gc29tZXRoaW5nIGRhcmssIGxpa2Ug
dmVyeSBkYXJrIHB1cnBsZQoKd2VkbmVzZGF5IC0gbGlnaHQsIHBlcmhhcHMgbGlnaHQgZ3JlZW4s
IGxpbWUKCnRodXJzZGF5IC0gZGVlcCBwdXJwbGUtaXNoLCBibGFja2lzaCwgbGlrZSB0aHVuZGVy
Y2xvdWRzICgndGh1cicgZ2l2ZXMgaXQgdGhlIGRhcmtuZXNzIGF0dHJpYnV0ZSkKCmZyaWRheSAt
IGxpZ2h0IGdyZXk=

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Those are some reasons for "against China" but how about "with the US"?

The US isn't the only potential ally against Chinese influence, why should Europe align itself with America instead of other countries?

Also, do you think there's no argument to be made for changing China's behaviour through a partnership?
Like you say, I think we've reached an end point on most of this.

FWIW, I think we're using the term "theory" in exactly the same way, given that we've discussed half a dozen examples.

I'll just respond to the last point. Human minds and societies are complex. The job is hard. So, what to do? The modern conception of the scientific method (eg a scientific theory must be falsifiable) was laid out most famously by Karl Popper.

His work was adopted as a framework by hard sciences. But, it was intended as a criticism of social sciences of his day... notably marxist & freudian fields. The methods of reasoning in these fields. Social science was, I believe, deeply affected by Popper's work. But, I think the direction was entirely wrong.

The conclusion should been to abandon scientific pretext when it is not possible. If what you are doing is philosophy, punditry or what Popper called "justificationism," treat it as a nonscientific avenue. Non scientific fields are valid. Non scientific theories presented as scientific are not. They're pseudoscience.

The replication crisis in psychology should have been a wake up call. I fear that the loss of position social sciences are experiencing (as you say, they've lost a lot of pull in policy formation) will make things worse, not better.

The way social sciences influence the world these days is mostly undergraduate education. That's a lot of influence still, but it's also a refuge from criticism. The only remaining threat to a social science theory is prevailing biases within its own field, because it's unlikely to leave the classroom.

Look, leaving economics aside... what are some tangible achievements of social sciences in recent generations? What has behavioural economics or psychology taught us, that we use to some benefit?
Minimalism, by opposition of capitalism, consumerism-driven economy. It has been said in other comments, things like lockdowns opened up people's mind. Living more simply, is not only beneficial to oneself, but also for environment, which in return also bring benefits to us

We should rethink various jobs and activities, in the angle of "usefulness" or "toxicity". Consider advertisement, entertainment, luxury, tourism, skiing, golf, air-travel, .. even space industry as well since it's mentioned in comments here for example on one side, and permacultures, remote-work, environment-friendly transports, environmental-friendly leisure and sports,.. on the other side

I'm not saying we should live like thousands years ago, no, we should just try to stop wasting and harming our limited environment and ourselves as well, with this consumerism frenzy of products and services
If Russia were so inclined (I don't think they are and don't see why they would be) they could turn the Island of Taiwan into a pile of gravel on the floor of the China Sea. They have several thousand nuclear warheads with the means to deliver them; more than enough to overwhelm any extant ABM system.

For that reason if for no other, I think an American conflict with China is more likely than a conflict with Russia. China still has hundreds of nukes too, which is hundreds too many, but that's many times less than what Russia has.

To be clear, a direct war between any three of these countries would be a stupid, horrible idea.
Thanks Mate!!
Oh yeah?

Can you guessestimate for us how many employees would Apple have, or how much more (or less) would they be making if Apple had to pay 10 times as much tax?
I believe it's because our brains get dopamine out of successful predictions - more so than others.
And by "spy on users" you mean "show ads that might at least remotely be relevant to the user"? The world is a lot bigger than the US. If there was no targeting of any kind then half of the ads you'd see would be in languages you can't even understand. Hell, that's the situation right now if you live in certain places in the world and this is with some tracking!
Instead of resorting to a browser extension[0], consider solving this with something like autohotkey, alfred, hammerspoon, etc.

This is my hammerspoon config that lets me do this, it's like 7 lines but could just as easily be 1 line: https://gist.github.com/philsnow/48ae8a31f7e063b23d4013470f0...

Benefit: works across all browsers, even daffy embedded (electron) ones where it's inconvenient to install extensions.

[0] every browser extension you install that has a broad permissions manifest is a liability; when they get popular, the authors start receiving offers of money from sketchy people in exchange for adding 'extra' bits of JS
I've seen people like this doing day to day business: it's absolutely awful. They attend meetings starting with software and ending up with elephants.They can't sit for more than two minutes and there's always phone, email, whatever. To expect for such a personal to produce a written piece on what they want,while they can't even do it verbally,is impossible. These are usually somewhat successful in some sort of a niche but would drown in any other environment.
Yes, but you need a google account, which means you add to the google personnal stash.

Google has enough data about me, I'm not going to pay so it can get more of it.
I'd say the golden age of web app development is now. Most people who want a web app can have one. And it can do most of what they want it to do. And it doesn't take months or years to get it there.
That means the password is held in plain text or reversable encryption. They should only have a salted hash of your password.

Using a shared secret in addition to a salted password is probably acceptable, although how much extra security it gives is debatable.
It's a fair question.

I don't think the US (or the EU) can change Chinese policies on a list of issues alone. At least not without a tonne of backlash at home over the economic results. So the EU (/US) (plus a list of othets) either need to unite on those issues or accept them happening.

The issues I'm thinking about are: Hong Kong, freedoms in wider China, treatment of minorities, coronavirus and the recent clashes in India (I don't want to take sides, I just want two nuclear powers to stop shooting at each other). You may disagree with one or more of these issues. But I'd be surprised if you think nothing on this list warrents at least some international pressure?

I'm more than happy to admit that none of the places I've listed are perfect. And we all have bones to pick with each other. But right now we're squabbling over very little while China sets up camps and deployed troops...
Plus you get youtube music which is just as good as spotify or amazon music - all this for Rs.129 / mo is unbelievable.

As a matter of fact I often find songs on yt music that are not on Spotify.
Can somebody TL;DR this for us? What language(s) is/are used, for example? That can be quite important as well, some runtimes and/or compilers produce security-imperfect code after all.

If this is to take off it should be quite secure.
I think this is true and nearly referenced the psychological downsides in my OP, I'm just perhaps uncharitably assuming the 'wantrapreneur' class dreams of riches and enjoys pitch sessions but has less commitment than most founders to actually executing their idea and hitting targets, and fewer staff and customers to feel they've let down.
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Better question: Why would Europe/Canada partner with the US now, under Trump.

They will do so when someone more trustworthy appears, but that is not the case currently.

You can't get trust, if you just take all pre-existing agreements and throw it out of the window.
I was replying to the point about why EU and the US should form an alliance against China - and the reason being the wider geostrategic context.
Give bitkeeper a try, it's now FOSS

-Simple clean interface

-You can work the linux way or with a central-repo-style

-Binary Asset Manager build in

-Nested (submodules done right)
If you try to trick Google Bot different, they find it a punish your site.
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There are ready solutions for that too. For example https://github.com/bizley/yii2-partial-password
How is that different, besides being less informative? They didn't call it europe.
We all know this, but Europe has no trust in the US under Trump.

How can you not see that they are waiting till trust re-appears.

1 example: If Europe would really partner up, Trump would require Russia to be in the table ( G7). The current situation is nuts and it's not Europe's fault.

Ps. Trump has no interest in peace and prosperity. Haven't you been paying attention? The US has never been this divided and the current leader thinks tweeting is more important.
> ... he was just a competent person, at the right place and time.

Right skill set, right place, right time. The decentralized team workflow of Open Source projects demanded a decentralized version control system (DVCS). A number of DVCS systems emerged with varying trade-offs.

It is interesting, but non obvious, which set of trade-offs gain greater adoption. Git versus Mercurial is a case study of this process.
> The US isn't the only potential ally against Chinese influence, why should Europe align itself with America instead of other countries?

Of course! All countries that value a rules-based order should ally, and that would include the EU, the US, India, Australia, and the many other smaller countries.

> Also, do you think there's no argument to be made for changing China's behaviour through a partnership?

Been tried. India was trying that by letting China have a stake in the economy. It hasn't ummmm worked out so well.

China uses the economy as a tool for its own political aims.
How on earth could I remember random complex passwords I use once a year?

I can memorise af58f916cc0cb22193c18f02d3c1cc3e easily, but once you work out (perhaps a keylogger) why that's my paypal password, my google password of 68b31385067f73977c6007cefcddbe74 falls quickly
It sounds like you are the trademark holder and know the address of the offending business in question. Any lawyer should be able to compose a suitable nastygram to send to that business quickly and cheaply.
40 years ago, stingrays weren't necessary to monitor cellular calls.
Would this verification feature be similar to how keybase works? You post a "fingerprint" message to a host of public web sites (ie. Twitter, Facebook, GitHub Gist, etc.) that anyone use to verify your identity. The idea is that even if someone tried to impersonate you, they would have to take over all of your accounts in order to do so.

I like this idea and think it would be a great addition to the development world.
I got a pro subscription and I read all my news feeds and twitter through it. I am willing to pay 50 euros per year for such a great service. I also like the android and ios apps which do a great jobs reading news on mobile devices.
> How can you not see that they are waiting till trust re-appears.

The EU cannot afford to wait that long. China isn't taking a pause on its aggression. Indeed, its exploiting the US under Trump, Covid, etc to move aggressively now.

> The current situation is nuts and it's not Europe's fault.

"fault"? It doesn't have to be your fault if the mess still ends on your lap. And Europe (and I'm a European) being neighbours with Eurasia doesnt have the luxury of huge oceans separating it from revanchist powers.
> but it it would be a 128-bit hash function with the security properties of a 64-bit hash function

This is not true. Consider two hash functions f and g

f(x) = md5(x)[0..63]
g(x) = md5(x)[64..127]

and a third function

h(x) = f(x) || g(x)

where || is concat

So no, concating multiple smaller hash functions is not any weaker than using a single big one.
> Yes and no are obviously very different from true and false.

The text-based language YAML allows “yes” and “no” for Boolean in addition to “true” and “false”. So if multiple bright people think about this topic they’ll evidently come up with different approaches. Not so with a single bit.
Stop these advertising schemes. Annoying as fuck
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Exactly what I thought when I read the comment. Unless it's something you connect with on a regular basis, and therefore I guess less secure?
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> while m4 is perfectly fine for simple tasks I don't even want to imagine the layers of opaque and recursive macros you'd end up having to maintain for any moderately complex project

I'm not doing anything too clever with Pug, but there are certainly a bunch of things that it makes quite easy that would otherwise be awkward or complex.

Lots of things work really nicely as well: includes, sections, configuration, and it certainly cuts down on typing. I'm absolutely not contemplating a switch from Pug to M4.

I just find it interesting that there's this thing that's been hanging around for decades that would do at least a partial job and is still decent for simpler use cases.
"not biased"

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Arsonists and looters have been caught and prosecuted without the use of facial recognition.

Rogue police officers have been caught and prosecuted without the use of body cams. That doesn't mean that body cams aren't beneficial.
Pro tip: you can create a blue and white CSS theme for just about any ticket system, and nobody would know it wasn't JIRA. For example, just install Bugzilla and add 20 lines of CSS.

Even the style on the Bugzilla homepage looks good to me:

https://www.bugzilla.org/
They're mostly there for converting from log returns and back, but yeah they're good for any kind of probabilities as well.
Education is an issue. Very few programmers actually know what functional programming even is or how it can help.

Also 40 years ago we had what? LISP as is commonly used is not an FP language. ML was nice but there wasn't much FP done in ML either.

The advancements to make FP practical, like good garbage collectors, laziness, monads, good persistent data structures, are newer.
Interesting! I think I read about a person who had a "only turn on this machine if I ask you to" situation, where that computer would boot, automatically connect to a network and allow for connections to the secrets store, in a situation like you describe.

Of course, that requires maintenance and checks it would work in a real life situation, that network configurations haven't changed, the parents are present and compos mentis, etc.