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It may not be legally, but practically. Almost all major content-hosting companies are headquartered in the USA and thus bound to the DMCA: Facebook/Twitter (social networks), Google/Amazon/Microsoft (clouds), Github/Gitlab/Sourceforge (code repositories), StackOverflow, Automattic (Wordpress), Akamai/Cloudflare/Fastly (CDNs), Wikimedia/Fandom (wiki hosting). The only major exception is Atlassian who are headquartered in Australia.

No matter if your content may be legal under e.g. European law (e.g. right to repair, right to interoperability, right to reverse engineer), you are going to have a hard time hosting it. And even if you get it hosted at an European provider (remember, we don't have anything that competes with any of the three US cloud giants in terms of functionality!), you will have issues with accepting donations easily - Paypal, Stripe and all credit cards are under US regulation.

And it's not just theoretical, just look at what happened to Kim Dotcom/Megaupload (or, tangentially related, Julian Assange). If the US deems you a danger to their business interests, you are going to get hunted down, no matter where in the world you are and if what you are doing is legal under the jurisdiction of that country.
Tax loopholes (and tax lawyers) exist only because there is sufficient complexity in the tax system/tax code.

This is because the tax system actually has 2 conflicting uses: (i) collect revenue for the gov't and (ii) create incentives/disincentives that are meant to push taxpayers in ways that are deemed beneficial, be it to the economy or to certain policy like environment, housing, etc.

If you drop (ii) you can end up with an extremely simple tax code as most of the tax code complexities deal with those incentives/disincentives.

So the question is: to what extent can you do away with (ii), or more generally with tax code complexity?
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> Any guarantee they won't change the interface and break my version, while they update both of theirs together?

No, I think you can guarantee that the interface will change at some point.
> The money is "brought back" (if it even left) into segregated accounts in the US. Most of that US off-shore money is in New York to avoid currency risks, etc. Then those accounts are used as collateral (if needed. I doubt if anybody says to Apple, "Where's your collateral?") for loans.

This is super interesting. stupid question perhaps: does Apple have the reserves to move a small currency if they decide to convert their cash all at one go?
I bought my first RPi six months ago, and now I have four (two 4s, two zeros), and six arduinos.

My uses are all brutally utilitarian.

One pi 4 is openhab, grafana, mqtt broker etc., and the other is doing all the network gumph - vpns, qos, Wi-Fi ap, Bluetooth presence, LoRa. One zero is a controller in a micro hydro system I’m building, the other runs a couple of remote cameras.

The arduinos are being used in a lora sensor network, using dinky batteries and solar panels - they’re so low power it’s ridiculous - most of them using ultrasonic rangefinders to measure depth in tanks (water, gasoline) and monitor river levels here and upstream - we live in a mill, so being able to see the delta-h will hopefully save us from a surprise flood this winter. The government operated river gauges were all destroyed in the floods last year, and haven’t yet been replaced. I’m managing to build serviceable river gauges for under €100 a pop - I might have to see if they’re interested, as I think their issue is money - they use these big mechanical gauges that I can’t see being cheap.

Another arduino is a weather station, and the last one for now is controlling a valve way, way uphill that I got bored of walking to.

Over the winter I intend to build out a heap of arduino/lora irrigation control valves, and am toying with sapping a tiny amount of energy from the water with an impeller to power the things - my ultimate aim here is to automate everything that reasonably can be, so we have more time to do the things that can’t be.

Also, damn, it’s fun to be tinkering again - 15 years of working in tech kinda killed my passion for playing with tech, but it turns out it’s still there.
> My intuition is that if I personally came up with a cute "gotcha" like this where I wound up paying zero in taxes because of some loophole, I would go to prison. Why isn't the same standard applied to rich companies?

The same standards do apply, the loopholes just don’t really exist down at a normal individual income level.

Calling it a “loophole” is a bit of a misnomer as well since it’s just the regular law. Being a subsidiary of another company is extremely common and isolating particular resources into subsidiaries with exclusive licensing/usage agreements for liability/accounting/ownership/management purposes is extremely common.

> These tax shenanigans would stop if laws were enforced.

Again, the laws are enforced. Tax avoidance schemes operate within the bounds of the law. It sounds like you’re confusing with “tax evasion”, which is illegal and is enforced.
So you are ok with people modifying input you put into an app you installed? What if they modified the query paramter automatically to send info from your computer/iphone? Why are you covering so much for Brave in this thread?
download speed is great, but what’s the latency like?
To say Biden is up by 8 points is missing a lot of microstructure. In every state Trump needs except PA, he’s within about 2 points. In PA, the critical state, he’s down by about 4.5 points, but Biden’s lead has been diminishing rapidly in the past two weeks.

These polls also rely on a turnout model. There’s no way to calibrate these models for a pandemic election where some people may be more scared to vote than others.

I give Biden the edge but it’s nowhere near 90/10.
This sounds like that social engineering challenge one guy did - where he said "I lose if you convince me to post <token> anywhere in my github repo", and someone won it by saying "you should put that challenge on your website" since the website code was in his github repo.
> Markdown syntax support is not something you find in mainstream apps (most non tech people use WYSIWYG editors which is also provided).

Not true at all. Unless you define mainstream as the Old Granny who doesn't even know how a mouse works.

> Code syntax highlighting as well and a lot of other things in the roadmap that I will be happy to share (mentioned in github but will uploaded in the main website as well).

syntax highlighting doesn't make it for software-guys. That's something you get for free with most editors these days anyway.

> Also and most important: created and used for everyday actions by a senior software engineer (myself) with 12+ years of experience in the industry.

So there is nothing...

> What would you expect to see? You can openly suggest things which can be added to the roadmap.

A tool dedicated for a specific trade, should offer the tools used by this trade. Syntax highlighting is not what makes a software developer. Development is about planning software, analyzing and discovering software, writting software and building software. So any funcitonallity for this, besides the basic features anyone has, would justify calling it "for software engineers".

Things like creating diagrams, navigating code, creating & tangling code, executing code, customizing the environment... At least to be able to write plugins or call external scripts for doing something with a document is the the least I except with a dedicated tool for this trade.
For context: FBI and DHS wanted access to data on Ross Ulbricht's laptop, which would be encrypted if the laptop is turned off, so they sent two undercover FBI agents to a library where Ross was, pretending to be a couple and staging a loud fight - distracting Ross enough to snatch his laptop while it was on.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ross-ulbricht-will-be-senten...
Einstein was not actually performing at college and during studies. He was not interested in what they wanted him to learn and had "attitude". He went off doing what he wanted which led to poor college results. He had trouble to find academic job after for precisely that reason. He was perceived to be lazy. Later, he had good ideas, partly thanks to his extra studies (while at patent office where he was supposed to be doing something else by employer, it was boring job).

It is preposterous to claim that the way these tests went is not an instance of sexism. His college teachers did not seen prodigy in him at all.

> (Note: it is of course possible that sexism was the cause, but it can't be inferred from the information given. BBC sure wants to suggest it, though)

It absolutely can be inferred. Moreover, it can be safely guessed that if she was rebelling the way he did, she would get even less of benefit of doubt.

Einstein had good ideas later and success. But at the college, most of his peers had better results then him.
It all comes down to which company (or people who runs the company) do I trust. As of now. Google, FB group are not truthworth with any of my data. I'm still not sure about Brave, however willing to give a try. The founder is the mozilla firefox founder BTW. And with the way how Mozilla suck up to Google. Building an alternative that destories goole is always good. Would like to find out the people who are funding Brave at this point.

Anyone here in HN has any clue as to ethics of those VC funding Brave?
That seems particularly poor. I'm still doing regular 30 mile rides with plenty of reserve after 6,000 miles on my original 500 wH battery.
Linux killed the Workstation vendors stone dead. Sun seemed to be very aware of the problem and fought really hard, but they couldn't cut off Linux completely.

I went to a seminar by an Open Source hacker at a Unix user group conference in the late 90s, where he talked about the Sun funded work he'd done on getting the Linux kernel to run well on Sun workstations. He was absolutely clear that he thought Linux would kill Sun because it completely undermined their software license business, but that this was their problem. They just had no good options.

I suspect the reason IBM was able to reconcile with Linux and even go all-in on it was that it complemented their lucrative very high end server and mainframe businesses. Their workstation businesses benefited from a halo effect from the super high-end mega-systems that protected it from becoming total road kill, but Sun and the other vendors never really managed to establish themselves at the super high-end, so when Intel ditched Itanium and PCs caught up with RISC they were left without a market.
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Seems low. https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/jltvk8/way_out_in...

more info here: https://www.businessinsider.com/starlink-internet-satellite-...
It's a UK article on a UK website, for most of the intended audience the term "Steele dossier" would be meaningless.
So this seems to be in response to article 27 of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive[1]

Of note is that the law does not mention ID cards or credit cards. That just happens to be the route youtube chose to go.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Check out Hardtack Teak. It was an exo-atmospheric nuclear test above Johnston Atoll. The blast was visible from Honolulu and a large glowing red cloud drifted over the island chain all the way from Johnston Atoll. There are areas of the zone underneath the explosion which are still hot to this day. And that was just one of the tests that went right. There were plenty of failures too, both in atmosphere and on the launchpad, which spread nuclear material and toxic fuel all over the place. High-altitude nuclear explosions are definitely a threat to humanity, no doubt about it.
> How to fix it?

Make a tax code as simple as possible. So simple there is no room for interpretation.
The history of France and the muslim world started a thousand years before Napoleon. The Arab invasion of Europe ended in France. France played a key role in the Crusades.

I don't think that Islamists have a particular problem with France, though, this is the same for the whole of Europe. They have a problem with the West in general because of both its Christianity (and it should be noted the latest attacks in France targeted Churches) and liberalism.
No, we punish them when they have fraudulent practices and when the product is a scam, like brave is. They modify user's input without their consent, they accept money with no guarantee of delivering to the intended target and talk about privacy as a selling point when they run an ad network . I cannot believe how much people turn in to a cult like fanboy for a product they understand very little about.
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I am a data professional, with few years of experience as data scientist. I have experience writing production code and could also work as a software engineer

Location: London (UK)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, willing to travel every once in a while

Technologies: Python (including the main data libraries: Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, Spacy), MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Bash, Git, Docker

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Tracking sensors embedded in shelves sound even better.
> If takeouts could be configured to download automatically through Google drive, that would be amazing.

They can. And Dropbox, and various other cloud providers.
I don't think it exists because you can always copyright some piece of self-created digital art so that it hashes to the number (if the hash maps to enough bits to represent that number).

I think there is a biggest number though, and it should be higher than 64bit-1 because your processor would otherwise occasionally handle illegal numbers, thereby (probably) making it illegal as well.
The input is actually very slow. It's own configuration file (about 300 lines) took over a minute to paste.
Laws of physics are discovered by human experiment.

Economics are defined by humans.

They’re taught to each other by humans.

It’s all wrapped in how we treat each other at scale.

Separating the two is impossible except as a semantics game.
Why not 8GB? Shouldn't it Rpi be swappable?
I don't use plugins just because I don't know what or whose system I'm going to be using vim on. The reason I use vim is because it's everywhere. When I started programming, I used emacs, and actually dropped it years later for that reason.
Agreed but replace 'discord' with the platform that your users already know and hang out on. For us, in a non-technical niche, that's Facebook groups. For others it might be slack or discord - just know your market and go where they are.
I think this summarizes the article:

> There is no substitute to the effortful application of cognitive power to a problem.
I have had to do this in the past. Admittedly, that was only a few times over the course of 15 years.
Queues of work that block because of all the dependencies during all parts of the SDLC that increase the lead times, decrease deployment frequency, and can increase the blast radius of failures leading to longer, and more severe outages.
> For us, it was a bare metal machine where we had to email a sales rep to get a machine added, then spend ~2 hours setting up firewall stuff with semi-manual Ansible scripts. Add to that minimum contract terms and difficulty cleaning machines, and it was a pain to manage.

That'll do it. I'm using the Buildkite elastic stack, which took me about 20 minutes to start using and 4-5 hours to dial in to ideal settings (eg adding IAM to allow deploys from agents, getting the right size spot instances etc).
I tweak 1.5GB files by hand on a weekly basis on servers across the globe. Fortunately vim works for my use case.
Why are we shooting the messenger?
Things were so much easier 15 years ago. I see very little gain for all the complexity we have added since then. Ok we can scale easily on demand, but the vast majority of places won't need to.
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This all made sense to me until the end. It sounds like the author wants to just build pc’s that are customized, which one can totally do without trouble. I’m not sure what there is to lament except maybe a lack of processor and OS variety?
The saving is more from a National Insurance perspective than an income tax one as income tax is paid on dividends (and dividends come out of profit after tax)

Only first 2k of dividends is tax free, then its 7.5% within the basic earnings band, and 32.5% in the higher band.

This is from funds that have already had 19% corporation tax applied to them.

Of course anything paid as dividends doesn't attract either employees or employers National Insurance so there's a saving there, and adding a spouse or partner as a director allows the income and dividends to be split so reducing tax.

Merging National Insurance into Income Tax is one way to start addressing the issue also simplifies administration work (for companies and government) but you'd get the political issue of tax increases on pensioners savings.

Fundamentally we need to start treating earned (salary) and un-earned (interest, dividends) income the same from a tax point of view
> But I do understand your point, Linux emulation on FreeBSD may be incomplete/incorrect in places, so you have to address to problems at the same time. Unfortunately, I think this is also what people would expect from Docker support - the ability to pull arbitrary images.

This is really an important point, MS failed to get WSL1 good enough so WSL2 was just a plain Linux kernel being virtualized. Maybe running a some partially virtualized linux kernel(Linux already has modes for this?) via bhyve relying on a host FreeBSD filesystem (using the already developed layering) might be an feasible approach that requires less Linux API chasing while retaining the "native" FS advantage at the expense of some extra memory (bhyve) ?
Did you guys split along the equivalent of a bounded context? That would seem to make sense to me in terms of keeping things loosely coupled but still cohesive.
> With this technique, people cannot verify whether or not you said it, the email might be a fraud and so people are less likely to believe the sensitive thing about you.

If the recipient can prove he had the signed email before the signing private key was made public, eg, by contemporary third party notarization, the keys becoming public later don't help with disclaiming it at all.
I use Sublime Text, why should i use Ox?

Only for terminal fetish? Or because it is written in Rust?
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Chrome to let users take screenshots in incognito mode
This does not read as a non biased take on a piece of software from a private company.
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Because it's not just the cut from a credit card processor. It's also fraud handling, forex, invoicing, marketing, distribution, and fees for apple to operate the marketplace, plus their cut. I'm not going to defend 30% as the number, nor the _enforced_ 30% cut, but the 10x cut is not an apples to apples comparison. It's the equivalent of saying "just use OVH instead of AWS"
Until the various clouds stop charging outrageous amounts for bandwidth egress multi-cloud will remain a niche.
While that bandwidth is impressive, I'd be interested to know what the expected packet-delays through the atmosphere are. The lowest orbit they plan to use is 340 km which translates to a minimum 2 ms delay. While the equipment will rarely align like that, even 10 ms is fine for most human use.
I feel like I've read this article, every decade.
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This is why we've built STOMT. https://www.stomt.com - It's addressed towards Gaming atm, but we've companies from all industries using us.

Our idea is to keep the perceived effort to give feedback as small as possible and that works quite well. Also, it can embedded and triggered in any software to collect feedback right in place.

Feedback is collected publicly by default. Here is our own page: https://www.stomt.com/stomt but of course you can also turn your page private.
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operations at the site of the antenna mentioned and sometimes gives some "behind the scenes" views, worth a follow https://twitter.com/nascom1

An older tour discussing how to contact Voyager 2 he gave at https://www.eevblog.com/2017/04/19/how-to-contact-the-voyage...
> Instead of taking a huge salary, the CEO would borrow money to pay for everything, using the shares of the company as collateral.

This would mean that they essentially pay a "wealth tax" (interest on all their borrowed net worth, with probably a decent premium for the risk) to the bank.

> Then when the CEO dies, the loans are repaid out of the estate.

And at this point, income is raised out of the company and would become taxable. At least where I live, the estate of a natural person pays taxes for their income like a living natural person.

> the tax treatment of natural persons at death means that folks could greatly reduce the amount of income realized during their lifetime

But they'd still pay the taxes eventually. I don't see this as a huge issue. If the society can't wait to get their the taxes (IMHO a nation state should plan for timeframes longer than a single lifetime), they can use the same trick to get a loan from the bank with the future tax income as collateral.
Or this might just be another confident but baseless HN commenter assertion.
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Ask HN: What can replace my iPod for podcast listening?
My 16GB 5th gen iPod nano is dying. I'm looking for a replacement. Years ago Apple stopped selling anything except the iPod Touch, which is too large and fragile for me. I want something that fits into my pocket, with a long battery life.

"Long" means can be used for a couple of days without needing a charge, or in standby for weeks. As an example of "too fragile", I had a 7th gen. iPod with touch screen that broke after a month or two of the same treatment my 5th gen. handled for years. I went back to my 5th gen. after that.

I only need it for podcasts. I like dedicated hardware to reduce the temptation to connect to the world.

Since Apple decided to split up iTunes into different apps (I haven't upgraded my Mac yet, to keep iTunes), I'm also fine with switching to a new app to manage podcasts.

Any suggestions?