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It gets very complicated at the high levels of tax compliance. I am part of a company who had paid a specialized company to set up a tax advantaged structure in a foreign country several years ago in order to avoid capital gains tax.

The tax treaty document between the US and this country was over 100 pages long. When it came time to actually take the tax advantages on a return, we decided to figure out what the risks were of being audited and potential penalties. We engaged several tax experts to give their opinion.

What ensued was eye opening. We received wildly different opinions depending on the expert. The entire case hinged upon how one line in that 100+ page document could be interpreted. At the end of the day you are subject to the mercy of the IRS. For a large corporation, you may be able to afford the litigation (or avoid it all together as you could proactively play to the court of public opinion).

For us, we decided to fire the tax consultant and pay the tax. It was - for us - a very large sum, several million dollars.

Ultimately the “laws” are less like a set of rules and more a set of malleable guidelines. People who say, “oh I can just take whatever loopholes I’ve been given” don’t understand the sheer complexity and ambiguity of the tax code.

While I’m disappointed that we “lost” that money (one could argue it wasn’t ours to begin with), and disappointed that others are morally flexible enough or big enough to get away with it, I am left with the feeling that we did the right thing for the country as a whole. I am sad that more companies and individuals don’t consider that in their moral calculation.
Not quite accurate, as it depends, this explains some of the other relevant variables in the equation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2011/05/14/money-gr...
Same age, also UK, and yeah, they were still doing those when I was at school - definitely had at least one, vague memories of two.
It seems like the comment (from a former tax advisor) you are responding to is explaining that the high cost of gaming the system is cost effective for large companies, but not for individuals. In that respect, it "makes sense" that individuals cannot take advantage of these loopholes that companies use.

In contrast, you seem to be arguing a different point--that, to you, it "doesn't make sense" that the system is designed poorly.
Thanks! I have a completely rewritten version in the pipeline, where I use easier versions of the theorems/proofs and fix some mistakes (in fact, the proof of lemma 1 is quite nonsensical if you look closely).
Pis don’t require Linux, they support Linux. If you want to teach kids on RISC OS like I was in the late 90s, there isn’t anything stopping you.
Its no longer relevant to me nor him, but I can't help but think the attitude of this article kind of violates the DFSG.
If the stance is to insist that free software should be allowed to be redistributed by anyone, flaming those which have in the past wanted to mirror your code on github by indicating you could get them banned by fiddling with the hashes in your repo is pretty aggressive. I totally get the frustration, but when I learnt the DFSG, this was the biggest lesson for me. Freedom means freedom to anyone. Restricting your code to, say, non-military use, isn't compliant with the DFSG.
So, now that we have perceived hostile code hosters, do we really want to go there? "You're not going to push my stuff to x.y.z, or I will make you feel the pain."
lots of public sector customer is using outpost for data sovereignty
You’re just quibbling about how much the total taxation should be. The point is that it doesn’t matter if you tax the company profits at 20% and capital gains at 20% (assume the normal income tax is 40%) or if you tax the company 0% and tax capital gains at 40%.

The government already tries to reduce double taxation. There is not supposed to be a penalty for incorporating vs. doing business as a sole proprietor or general partnership. That’s why the capital gains tax is lower than the income tax.

This is all about ease of administration and making creative accounting more difficult or impossible. If you’re looking at it through some moral lens, you don’t get it.
Nothing to do with reserve status. Everything to do with a non-convertible floating rate currency.

The same applies to the UK, Japan, Canada, Australia and the Eurozone among others.
> ... heavily bloated and resource hungry editors such as VS Code and JetBrains ...

Normally they are fine, but add the indexers and code parsers then everyone is bloated. On my emacs + lsp, lsp is the one using a lot of cpu/memory resources.

> Emacs is still actively used today ...
I would change much of the Readme.
I have not seen a real NIOSH n95 since March.
> I don’t buy this argument. No one says “Coal-stuff” or “Stuff-change” in the Anglophonic world, so to the extent that those constructs form a lower register,

I think you're missing the point entirely. Of course no-one says those. Did you miss the "that is an unfamiliar way to say it in English" part? We do say "coal" and "stuff", but we just switch up when talking about carbon, the stuff of coal.

The point is not that there are different dialects (although there are to an extent, but that's an entirely sperate discussion) It's that English vocabulary can be sorted into these two registers, a common and an academic one, and that this distinction is largely absent in several other European languages.

This may be "an altogether different phenomena" to what the author is describing, though that should not stop you buying it. Equivalently, it should not impede your purchase of the concept that English does have some form of "high/low language pairs".
This story (and others) are the subject of the well-reviewed book "A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II" by Adam Makos and Larry Alexander
> Inflation is a fantastic tax, ..., anti-regressive.

_Thomas Picketty has entered the chat_. History has shown that the rich are able to (easily) outpace inflation, while the poor (read: effectively ~95% of the planet) do not.

So I'm not too sure that is a desirable claim to make here.
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People are making a bit deal about these "auto mobiles", but we've had horses for ages.
Yeah,

There are dozens of ether-types that are not standardized. There is also 0x8899 which is Realtek Remote Control Protocol (RRCP)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realtek_Remote_Control_Protoco...

There are many more but I don't remember them off the top of my head. I probably need more coffee.
The point is to choose your own ground, not be dictated battle conditions, most especially by a determined opponent.

Preparing the fisk, as noted in my original comment, addresses confidence in argument, though other factors may dominate.

Two recent examples, one taking on a Nobel laureate, the other a question concerning a point of law:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24917960

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894116

Feynman comments on scientific (or technical) argument: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LIxvQMhttq4

If you're interpreting that I feel there's only one valid interpretation in all instances, I am not. There may well be several. But many-sidedness is not any-sidedness, and while all models are wrong, there are many which atre both wronger than others and less useful.
I remember seeing and using the one from 1996 in my early childhood as displayed in this article:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32738088#_=_

Not sure if these actually used X-rays but it'd be interesting to find out if they did.

EDIT: In hindsight, I really don't think the type I remember used X-rays.

ANOTHER EDIT: Looks like this is the company that made the ones I can remember:
http://sensatech.com/applications/index.html
Lyn Alden is great. Another recent article - “3 Reasons I’m Investing in Bitcoin” https://www.lynalden.com/invest-in-bitcoin/
Slightly off topic, but what’s the purpose of anything more than an 8 string? Because at 8 strings, you’re already hitting 2 semitones above the standard bass’ tuning (E standard). At that point, if you want to go lower, why not just use a distorted bass guitar? Maybe I just don’t like the muddiness of the guitar distortion sound of the extremely low notes (bass distortion has a different sound)?
The EFF on behalf of Prof. Green is not arguing "non-circumvention". They admit Green has performed circumvention. They argue 1201 as applied to Green's work is unconstitutional.

Again, the RIAA is not alleging circumvention. They are alleging publication/trafficking in circumvention technology.
Not shure single digit effective is possible nowadays even outside IR35 - and HMRC has unliterally ruled that some professions are in side IR35 eg all it/developer contractors.

Actors, film / tv professionals and lawyers etc are for the large part still treated as "self employed"
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This is an intentional misinterpretation of MMT.

Quite BS imo.
It means that all banks will be distressed, thus destabilizing the whole system. Regulatory change plays here a role of an artificial shock (since banks have to increase their reserves), which gets smoothed by the QE. I guess an alternative could've been a gradual raise of the legal requirements, but probably such measure was too slow for the crisis conditions.
Just to add sales tax is a State/County/Municipal thing. I just voted on a 1% sales tax increase for my county, for infrastructure, cyber security, and other public stuff.
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The "Colored function problem" is a complete fallacy: aside from the fact that async and non-async fns are interoperable in Rust (block_on) and other languages, the same argument could be made against functions with any preconditions.

> The solution to expensive context switches is cheap context switches, plain and simple.

Except the performance difference between a kernel-mode context switch and a user-mode one is only going to narrow in the future. The overhead that cannot be eliminated from context switches is their effect on the cache, since you start to run into the laws of physics at that point...

The real solution to expensive context switches is to just do fewer of them... No context switch is always faster than a "fast" context switch.

> I sincerely believe this is Rust's ballpark

I think it's plausible that Rust could get a library-level solution for fibers that does not rely on unstable details of the compiler. Rust will never again have that baked in to the language, as it would make the language completely unsuitable for many low-level tasks.

Fibers, especially the way they are implemented in Go, come with a lot of their own complexity.

Just look at this issue: https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/

This is just one of the segfaults caused by Go's complex stack control. I don't want to rely on a runtime that contains these sorts of bugs, and the best way to avoid that is to avoid having a runtime in the first place.
I've actually had a couple of email exchanges with Doug. Mail might have been caught in a spamfilter or just buried.
Because for everything else someone somewhere will need very tangible resources e.g. raw materials to build that phone you are using do X or Y.

The price of a CPU is unrelated to the price of sand. CPUs are 10000x faster over the last couple of decades. So there’s little or no correlation required between raw materials consumption and growth.
Say, why can’t we recreate this with ultrasound?

Actually that seems like a good idea. Should I patent it?
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> Since inflation is just the price of stuff rising...

Inflation literally is money printing. Price increases is not inflation. Price increases can be caused by inflation. Prices can remain nominally the same while money supply has increased.

> So, do prices rise just because a certain amount of dollars were added to an economy ? No, certainly not. Which is why the money printing should only happen when the economy is dysfunctional.

The prices while having not risen nominally are still artificially inflated. A dysfunctional economy is not a real thing. It is just the economy. If you are referring to a recession, printing money during a recession arguably may not cause prices to rise nominally, but it artificially inflates them. During a recession prices typically go down due to falling demand. This is a good thing. It allows people who are suffering to enjoy lower prices. Recessions are a healing process for a previous period of misallocation of resources. Money printing only serves to exacerbate and extend the misallocation. As the period of misallocation is extended and exacerbated, the recession necessary to balance that is larger and more frightening.

We left the gold standard because we were afraid to deal with the recession from the spending of '60s and we've been afraid to deal with our issues ever since. One day we won't have a choice. Tough times are ahead.
AMD Vega has "V_RSQ_F32" (Reciprocal Square Root"), and NVidia has rsqrt.approx.f32. ARM has vrecpsq_f32.

So all the major platforms, CPUs and GPUs, implement the fast reciprocal square root to decent amounts of accuracy, without any need of bit-twiddling anymore.
"Reserve currency status does afford increased deficit-spending capacity."

Reserve currency is essentially a myth. It's just an artefact of double entry bookkeeping in banks.

There are lots of reserve currencies. Every floating rate currency held outside its native borders is "reserve". It's just somebody holding the money - aka savings.

Many countries do that for mercantile reasons to avoid a dutch disease at home. Norway is one, China is the main other.

"Piloting federal fiscal policy on MMT is akin to steering the plane to FL 100 and keeping an eye out for a stall"

It's just excess savings, which are automatically offset by a Job Guarantee. Basic accounting really.

Deficits are just an accounting residual causes by people choosing to save. For there to be a deficit at all somebody has to choose to hold the money. Or there won't be one.
I used one a bit in the mid 90s when I worked for the Forestry Commission here in the UK. It was running a specialist scientific application I can't remember anything about. I only worked on it to get it connected to our network, access NFS shares and connect to printers. It was incredibly expensive compared to the Suns. It had an administration interface that was just a set of bash script menus for running various commands to do basic admin activities. I ripped it off and converted it to C Shell to simplify some stuff on the Suns for some of the less technical staff. That was one of my first moderately complex shell scripts, so thanks IBM.
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> If you're one of the people believing monoliths are The Way, you're making a bizarre bet, because there's N potential pieces you can have to create a complex system, and you're saying the most optimal is N == 1. What are the odds of that? Sometimes, maybe. But mostly N will be like 7 or something. Occasionally 1000. Occasionally 2. But usually 7. Or something.

"Pieces" is doing some heavy lifting here. You're assuming that isolated parts of a system need to be seperately developed and deployed systems, which absolutely doesn't need to be true. Seperate parts of a system can be modules, namespaces, libraries, or any number of different solutions to decouple code and create domain contexts and boundaries.

I've never met anyone who prefers to use monoliths that would also say "just let everything call everything else, you don't need any structure". That doesn't necessarily mean that that the only acceptable boundary is an HTTP interface.
Interplanetary Internet [0]

When I first heard about the Deep Space Network I thought it was something like this, and not a bunch of dishes on Earth.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
Now we know how Dijkstra's paper editor come out with the infamous phrase "considered harmful" :-)
Absolutely NOT the same dish, but if you've not seen this film, you are missing out:

The Dish: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/
I always thought this was a fairly common practice so you can verify you are getting the ad traffic you paid for.
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And now you've solved one problem and have created a bunch of others. Welcome to tax design!
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A good example of this is the string functions in the C stdlib. I’ve reverse engineered some programs where the compiler used x86’s built-in “string” instructions instead of calling out to, say, `strlen`.
Do you have a link? I'd love to buy some, but when I apply the n95 filter, all 12 results are out of stock.
Sure, but for a sense of scale about how badly wrong things can go even in “rich” countries like England, 17% of state educated kids get free school meals because food is too expensive: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54692880
Alan Kay has been calling The Tech World a pop culture for a long time.
I'm pretty sure the moon is already being bombarded with all sorts of nasty radiation.
Especially given this:

> That 1948 study of 43 machines in Detroit showed ranges from 16 to 75 roentgens per minute. In 1946, the American Standards Association had issued a safety code for industrial use of X-rays, limiting exposure to 0.1 R per day.

I'd be curious how much a typical modern dental x-ray emits, but we no longer measure in roentgens these days as we have better measures of the actual dose (sieverts).
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Thanks MS paperclip.
This is thinking too small. While the West has a lot of focus on its leaders and the population is fairly tech savvy - in the developing world can have a deep fake start a revolution before calmer heads can disseminate the truth.

I could easily see a deep fake viral video go around in a sub-Saharan country, with a leader claiming he is gay or something else socially unforgivable in that country, and starting an internal ethnic conflict that cannot be undone.
Point 2 is interesting. From the employer's point of view, it must effectively act as a high tax on non-compete clauses, still stopping short of an outright ban.
According to MMT, inflation is the metric that matters. Since the deficit and inflation are very closely linked, then deficits do matter.
My local rural school, its around 50%
"The problem is that there is a limit to how much treasuries you can sell to the market."

Why is there? Given that Federal spending puts the reserves in place with which Treasuries are purchased, how can there be a limit?

It's just an asset exchange.

"No one wants to buy those treasuries at the proposed rates and volumes anymore."

(i) What is the bid cover on the latest auctions
(ii) Why do you think that matters anyway? The Fed can just leave the bank reserves in place - as it is doing by QE.
1. Hyperinflation isn't the cause of Nazi Germany, please keep the Godwin goblins under the control.

2. Hyperinflation isn't a natural result of regular inflation. There have been countless governments that have engaged in deliberately inflationary policies. Basically none of them resulted in a hyperinflation spiral.

3. Hyperinflation isn't even caused by spending policies in the first place! It is the result of a collapse in national revenue, forcing a government to print money to honor debts that it can't otherwise pay. This leads to a collapse in confidence in the currency, and more printing, thus the spiral. I'm not aware of any nation anywhere that "printed money" for new spending and ended up in a hyperinflation state. You have a counterexample?
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Isn't this basically UTM Tracking?
Simply swing the antitrust hammer judiciously, in that case.

I'm suddenly hit with the image of a child whining that having to do homework AND chores is too hard, and their parent telling them to suck it up.

Besides, tax revenue doesn't just disappear into some govt hole, it gets redistributed as services and grants and the like. The loss in operating revenue is likely made up in increased business. Your low margin goods get fked but people are more willing to purchase the higher margin value-adds.
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> For private ones, the shares would be auctioned publicly.

No company could be held privately in perpetuity. Taking ownership away is very different from taxing ownership.
Urgh, the irony - can't open this page, because there is some problem to do with too many redirects. Which you can maybe fix by clearing cookies.
You might have different definitions of broadband.
It can't go anywhere other than Japan or the Eurozone.

What it ends up as is savings - bonds. When those bonds are spent they generate a sequence of further transactions and taxation that pay off the bond.

Bonds are essentially a store of taxation as well as value.
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How effective is retargeting? I’m understand that it varys from business to business, but from what I saw 5 years ago in consumer electronic, gaming and toys, it’s not really going to be a significate revenue source.

The retargeting most of us are see is the failed kind where you’re trying to sell a fridge to the person who already ordered one two days ago, and you’re the person who sold it, but your retargeting partner does actually support registering a purchases.
Run the database in multiple regions and pay the egress for replication.

egress cost is really not as bad as people expect. if you're willing to pay for double the instances and storage, as required to run in multiple regions/clouds, the bandwidth costs are really not that outstanding in the grand scheme of things.

The usual problem is poor architecture and non-distributed systems. You're not going multi region when everything relies on a single MySQL instance somewhere.
Most large companies have transitioned to giving shares (RSUs) rather than stock options (NQSOs in the case of large companies) for non-executives. Compliance risks/costs are lower and payouts to employees are more predictable (and therefore valued more highly by employees).
I don't know too much about Rust, but in .NET, blocking on Task.Result is considered an anti-pattern and a Bad Thing To Do. Not in the least because it very easily leads to deadlocks.