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> tax progression will be removed, so that people will have a chance of levelling up

Progressive taxation has the exact opposite function to what you're suggesting. It's a mechanism designed to reduce economic inequality and the poverty among the low income workers.

Your comment sounds like a rationalization from a middle/upper income person.

> it is not uncommon to pay over 40% of tax

That figure is misleading, because it includes a set of expenses like social security, health insurance, government pension plans etc. Corporations don't pay that and that's why the difference may seems so big.

But I too am quite unhappy with the way the whole taxation system is constructed. But I would go in the opposite direction to the one you described. More in the way to progressive taxation, even negative taxation for the very low income people, basic income.

I would also work a bit towards making corporation pay more for all their externalities.
grand-uncle is not "directly related".
In theory they will be paying corporate taxes on profits abroad.

I assume they are dodging those taxes as well, but to take net global income and measure that against federal income tax in the US is a flawed calculation unless you are asking for double taxation.

Amazing scale though. It shows the power of cutting out middlemen when they are going direct to consumer without gatekeepers such as cable companies.
>> It would be perfectly fine for corporations to pay comically low taxes

No it wouldn't
How do you deploy changes? git hooks or something like ftp?
The Cowardice of Brave (2019)
At my current job I'm doing solely Java with vanilla JS to maintain a google maps like product. Heavy stuff. But this year, I also did about 10 hours of Wordpress because our website is on Wordpress and the guy who programmed it barely responded to finish some stuff. And I wrote a Wordpress plugin 10 years ago so I had some experience.

F' me, no? Time to throw my CV in the bin amirite?
From a quick Google search (not to be snarky) it seems like they only confiscated about 650,000 guns.

There's about 400,000,000 guns in America so I'm not sure how good of an argument that is.

In addition, Australia is essentially an island. The US is bordered above and below with other countries that also have guns. Not to mention the amount of lost guns due to "boating accidents" that would happen if there's a gun confiscation.
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I'll add this as a reply, so as to not edit the original.

The downside of all of this, is that workers in regions with abysmal workers rights, win. No health care? No paid holidays? No sick leave? Work 6 or 7 days a week, 12 hour days?

Yay! Your region gets more jobs (China), because your workers cost less.

Government doesn't tax corporations OR workers much? Well, then the worker's wages are even cheaper. The Government can't afford schools, police, etc, etc, but.. yay! You now took jobs from regions which have these things.

Which is what 'fair trade', and 'child labour' campaigns work against, but of course have limited success sadly.

Point is, I really think tariffs and a reduction in free trade, is the only way to prevent a race to the bottom.

People wonder why wages have continuously slipped in the US for the average Joe? Well, how can you compete with places that have workers working in such conditions. Who have abysmal human rights? Have no schools, or infrastructure.

Of course products are cheaper! And thus, with no tariffs, you lose in the end.
Yeah I'm not sure how it would affect cameras - if you wanted to part exchange the camera it could make it harder.
I have to say this is a great way of highlighting details in the paintings.

Small bits of text explaining things, zoom in the detail that the reader would probably not catch.
what benchmarks do you use? I'm curious how my VPSes compare.
Netflix recorded a worldwide income tax accounting expense of about 13.7% last year ($438M on $3.2B of Net Income). It also paid cash taxes of $292M (cash taxes differ from accounting taxes because of timing issues - just like revenue is not the same as cash-in).

A lot of growing companies have US taxes that are quite low because they lose money for a long time while they're investing in growth. When they finally become profitable, they're allowed to roll forward those losses (within limits) to offset their profits. That's where a lot of these "Zero taxes paid" headlines come from.

On the other hand there is a legitimate gripe about using IP offshoring to shift profits to low-tax countries and out of the US, using accelerated depreciation to decrease current year profits, allowing tax deductibility of interest and lots and lots of tax deferrals and deductions for property transactions.
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Less than 1% is too much.

What valuable service do governments provide to Netflix?

If Netflix could choose to do business with governments, they'd likely buy nothing from them.

And remember that all Netflix customers and employees already pay too much tax related to Netflix business.
Would you even need diffing if, for example, the relevant nodes had an ID functionally derived from their contents?
> Aired 10 years before the release of the first instalment of Peter Jackson’s movie trilogy, the low-budget film appears ripped from another age: the costumes and sets are rudimentary, the green-screen effects are ludicrous, and many of the scenes look more like a theatre production than a feature-length film.

I wish the article wasn't so sneering in tone... sneering is good larks if you're on board with it, but if you come in like "oh wait this actually seems interesting" it can be a bit off-putting. However, it is nice to know of this show's existence, and I'm grateful to learn of that.
“Why have so many great ideas been discarded?”
I took a stab at this with my own theory a couple of years ago. I think there’s much treasure waiting to be rediscovered. Would love to know what people think.

https://blog.eutopian.io/the-next-big-thing-go-back-to-the-f...
How was it paid out that your federal income tax liability is 40%

Or are you talking about withholding? Which is not accurate to describe as “taxes paid”. Also, if including state tax, then it might be higher, but I would still be surprised if your total tax liability was over 40%.
I'm not sure what 'a lot faster' really means in this context.

Honestly, I've found using Spatialite queries to be orders of magnitude faster for analysis than shapely or geopandas. The latter typically imply row-by-row selection and manipulation for starters.

If you can wrangle the data into a geopackage first it's super easy to run queries over the data and extract what you need.
> The first thing I do with an .epub or .mobi is convert it to PDF.

b r u h
lg web os is a nightmare, i wish i had read up on it before i bought the last lg tv. laggy and missing so many apps. ended up buying a cheap android streaming box as the webos is cluttered with so much crap I won't use but missing things I use on other tvs
Project CARS described their tire model that they developed for the first game[1], based on three coupled simulations for the carcass, threads and heat. They describe it as a fully dynamic model.

Not sure what the state of the art is though, I just recalled this post from way back.

[1]: http://www.wmdportal.com/projectnews/inside-project-cars-set...
> It seems like they got lobbied by insurance companies who scam people over the phone

I always wondered why Android disabled call recording.
The first part of it is nonsense - quantity of people does not translate into quality and innovation automatically.

You have to free people from drudgery and spend tons on their education, and provide them with a stable environment in which to work, and cultural encouragement for the parents to nourish children's curiosity.

Only then can you hope to generate ideas that surpass our already quite formidable body of knowledge, and it's still not guaranteed.

> yet in spite of the continued failed predictions of disaster people have been making for the past couple hundred years, people still persist in making such predictions.

They only have to be right once. On a geological time scale, a disaster is certainly inevitable. Not that I necessarily agree with doomsaying all the time. Population growth isn't the biggest issue we're facing.
Did you mean their Honor brand instead of Xiaomi, which is an entirely different manufacturer?
That's fascinating. I was recently reflecting on how in 20 years Ill be telling young people "with a western passport, you used to be able to just book a flight and fly to almost any country you want and stay at least 30 days, but then covid happened." I'm so glad I got to do some nomad-ing for 2 years in my mid 20s. That level of openness is gone, and no the vaccine isn't bringing it fully back. The borders between The US, Mexico and Canada used to be a lot fuzzier too only 30 years ago. While there was SOME control, it was a lot more lax and after 9/11 it never came back. Once you give up some openness for security it never returns.
Build a portfolio whose value is in some way connected to their share price. Buy shares, hold them, sell later would be one example.
This industry has always been a tone-deaf juvenile bunch ence the success of shows like Silicon Valley.

At this point most people don't even care, just chuckle.
I might accept that wager based on the other comments here.
You are reformulating the original statement and misinterpreting my argument. Do you really think that someone who has graduated from Harvard summa cum laude and earned a Ph.D. from Berkeley as well as having worked at the Institute for Advanced Study and as a multi-decade experience as a professor has the same level of overall understanding of the world around us (including intergalactic political theory, if you insist) as an average Joe or Jane?
Where would one find the data though?
Does anybody in the "know" understand if this is just prior year losses being set against current year profits.

Or is this something else?

It makes all the difference.

Thanks
I think this is a good overview of some of the challenges in taxing corporations. Personally, I don't mind keeping taxes on corporate profits low given their ability to be gained (not just by shifting across borders, but through many other accounting tricks). The problem right now, in the U.S. at least, is two-fold: (1) smaller companies are still taxed at a relatively high-rate and (2) individuals pay a significantly lower tax on "capital gains" because it is assumed that investment income has already been taxes at the corporate level.

I would like to see an across the board lowering of the corporate tax rate, remove the capital gains exception counting all income as income, and making up any losses through a VAT. This would go a long way to decreasing the ability to gain the current system.
Amazing.

Direct link to shadertoy: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ssBGRG

Youtube video with intermediate steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJf2nVOkOb4&t=1s
I remember reading that employment numbers is often a case big Corps make when they warrant dodging tax. “We employe X thousand people who contribute Y to the tax base so we really do pay tax”.

It gets worse when you think about how few people technology companies really employ when compared to more traditional companies (Alphabet employs 130k, Walmart 2.2 million). They have annual profits of 40billion and ~4billion (2019) respectively. It’s bonkers that employing people is a good enough reason to warrant not paying tax.
They’re selling it so you don’t have to get it by yourself.
It's larger, but less effective. The G.I. bill gave resources to veterans to advance their lives while the 'rona-based payouts disproportionately affected the already-wealthy individuals and businesses due to the military-industrial-congressional complex.

It's not so much whether it's larger or smaller, but how well it was spent. Free college and the myriad other benefits in the G.I. bill helped build the US into a superpower (well combined with other fortuitous things, like being the only major industrial power that hadn't been bombed to smithereens). The bailout of large industries that a lot of the CARES act went to were not well spent: it was cronyism to prop up underprepared corporate structures (i.e. those that have hollowed out any "emergency fund" due to it being an overhead to their bottom line) and prevent bankruptcy from enabling other folks to come in and perhaps run things better.
Thanks for sharing this! I've been thinking about alternatives to PostGIS to handle larger datasets (millions) and nothing seems to come close to the level of functionality, performance and community support of Postgres
While EDAs truly are ridiculous expensive garbage, their cost is a pocket change in the age of billion dollar startups without a selling product.

It's just you actually have to make some working product in semiconductors, it's a substantial technical undertaking, and thus a big turn off for the aforementioned billion dollar internet startups.
See my reply to my original post.

Tax rate changes are well known, but here's an example. Click on 'max' for a decades long look.

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/corporate-tax-rate

In terms of 'real world' wages not improving, that's a somewhat arbitrary term. If you mean 'pre-tax', wages HAVE improved over time pre-tax. We're talking over 50+ years here.

'post-tax', they did improve, but that was before the great exodus of manufacturing overseas. Since that time, since 'free trade' was a 'good thing', they have fallen steadily.
I think how arguments are framed matter. It’s one thing to say, “If A happens then this means scary scenario B will happen.” And another to say, “If A happens then we need to be vigilant that B doesn’t result as a consequence.”

The problem as I see it is that debate on policy does not revolve on how best to achieve an outcome. It typically revolves on the mistaken belief that if change comes then either it will be glorious or have dire consequences. In the healthcare debate rational people should want everyone to have access to the healthcare system. So how best to go about achieving that? That should be the focus.
I actually don't get why corporation should pay taxes.
When the profit of the company is distributed, or paying the employees, the employees/shareholders will be taxed on that money.
Cache layers are just (‘just’) distributed databases with narrow requirements. CAP theorem applies, etc. It shouldn’t be a surprise that it’s hard, but due to the aforementioned narrow application space it might be easy to disassociate caches from distributed systems.
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The 60% effective tax rate is only on earnings between 100k and 125k, and only because of the loss of certain tax benefits. After 125k it drops back to 40%. It's really silly that it exists, but isn't representative of UK tax rates, it is just a weird side effect of the loss of the personal allowance.

And I reckon most earning between 100k and 125k would avoid that 60% by contributing to their pension, so I don't think many are affected by it.
This 8 month old French Bulldog in Greenwich Village legit made an NFT. https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c2484200...
They could, by investing in a business. Like Netflix they would reap the rewards of the tax code, which means they would be taking on the same risks.

A less risky version of this is stock ownership, or buying an index. Because it’s less risky, potential rewards are lower.
>The key is “for each packet”, because it’s bucket based it will entirely skip evaluation for packets that do not match.

That is how it works in nftables.

>but I can see how it could be confusing if you’re used to iptables and only think in those terms.

Considering you're misunderstanding some basics about nftables and iptables here, I think you need to look in the mirror.

>I posted the architectural diagrams of both in another comment on this thread yesterday, I think you missed that.

I saw, and it only reenforced the fact that that's how nftables works. Hilariously enough, the OpenBSD webpage crashed and wouldn't load, giving various 500 and 42X errors.
My concern is that Americans consistently support and vote for bills and tax laws that ultimately work against most regular people (of which I am a member), because politicians use words like "green energy" and "get Americans back to work", etc. Sometimes politicians even pay $1400 per person so people won't question the rest of the bill. What are you concerned about?
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Maybe php and node are the cobol and basic of our generation?
Sorry buddy, you ate the forbidden PHP apple. You're out.
My suggestion might be to a precalculated step to split "the universe" into grid areas divided by geometry complexity (i.e. population density gridding) then process these reference areas in parallel. How you do the latter is probably the interesting part!
She failed to keep the machine churning. She was not likeable and banked on being paddled by people with their own agenda(people who advocate for the women in business). She didn't have to be fraud, had she acted smarter IMHO.
My nephew asked me what my phone was. I said a OnePlus 7 Pro. He said "is that a Samsung?" My anecdote suggests there is only iPhone and Samsung that people choose between. Of course many know there are other options, but that seems like the mindset of the masses.
When going to youtube, I'm seeing a full page cookie consent and I can't proceed to the video without interacting with it. I didn't see that before.

I browse in private mode and clear cookies, looks like they want to show that page for every video in that case. Is there a plugin or tool that works around a page like this?
The article omits mention of what are to me more important aspects of falling population, at least in the medium run: deflation, and increased investment risk.

Deflation: if there is less demand for a product, then the price will fall. Expecting prices to fall, people hold off buying anything as long as possible.

Investment risk: With population rising at 1% per year, it doubles in 70 years. This inevitable increase in demand for products reduces the risk of investment: if a town has 1 shoe shop now, it will need 2 shoe shops in 70 years. This underlying increase in demand reduces the risk of investment in new productive assets, and also makes debt repayment easier (future income will be greater than today's).

Following the same logic, with falling population financiers will demand higher interest rates on new investment to compensate for the increased risk, and debt will have to be repaid from shrinking income.

Contrary to the article, falling investment, rather than lack of ideas, will be the major mechanism by which productivity growth stalls with falling population.

There will still be lots of ideas, but they will each have to jump a much higher investment hurdle to be realised. So we'll limp along with minimally maintained, decrepit old capital equipment and systems.
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>"[holywood is] tapping on the human nature instead of the culture"

I am wondering what makes you think so, when you are not from US or especially if you are not western a lot of whats going on their looks terribly unnatural.

I particularly dislike the way police is portraid in the US shows, in the show I was watching the main character regularly points a gun at random guards and passerbyes and threatens them. They depict torture as mundane business.

I mean, even in russian shows we dont portray this as right and proper behaviour.
Interesting analogy to TS (which I'm also a fan of). I hadn't really thought about it like that but I think there is truth to it.

As you say, the fact is that we've got all of these standards that can't be be changed without breaking the web. Those standards were also first created for a different time, so it's not surprising that some assumptions turned out to be poor.

As a result, we've ended up in a place where tools treat those standards as compilation targets. This isn't a bad thing per se but it does lead to a lot of complexity in the tool chain.

I think part of why I like tailwind is that it almost feels like I'm using plain old CSS. I get the same amount of flexibility (as much as I need anyway), but I don't feel like there is some great abstraction in between me and the styles I want the framework to produce. At the same time, it's quicker and easier to use.

Anyway, I'm aware it's a pretty divisive tool. I see a lot of strong opinions about it on HN!

EDIT: grammar
I think Flightgear supported ADS-B just fine.
> It would be perfectly fine for corporations to pay comically low taxes

Strong disagree.
It's my favorite work of nonfiction.
I can't remember exactly in what order UX concepts of Maemo/WebOS/Meego came in, but they all had the concept of cards, implemented slightly differently (eg. Nokia N9 and Pre 3 were both released-into-void in 2011 :)). It's amazing that such great products basically never got released (Nokia just sold-off the mobile division to Microsoft, and Pre 3, with Palm already owned by HP, was scrapped days before release).

I loved my Palm Pre 3 gotten off eBay (though I had to hack it to enable Serbian 3G connection, and I put together a Serbian Cyrillic keyboard layout too :): cards and swiping on the home button when editing text (to go left or right by a character or two) were monumental for me. Along with the full keyboard, the first (and last) time I didn't hate typing on a phone :D

Edit: it was probably 3G and not LTE at the time :)
Compared to competing OSes at the time? I don’t remember any being particularly fun. (But also I didn’t spend much time in the Windows Phone ecosystem)

But I think you’re right that MS lost focus on developers on mobile. Ironic given "developers, developers, developers" was the literal mantra.
> if you want to save for a deposit to buy a house, spend time on education and getting a better job, you'll get hit by much higher tax and it will take ages to save anything.

I actually disagree. The issue isn't the tax rate, the issue is the arms races we have embedded all over our economy. Take housing, for example. No matter what you put as your tax rate the people in the region are going to compete for the limited amount of housing stock. The same is true for premier universities or top medical care. These arms races in our economies are eating up all the real productivity gains we've made in physical goods. If you compare the cost of a small home across time in something physical like eggs the cost has absolutely sky rocketed and it has nothing to do with tax. There are certain sectors of the economy that the market can't produce more of efficiently, like housing.