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The general principle is that corporate taxations are merely a concealed tax on the Public, as corporations merely pass all expenses, including taxes, on to their customers. Except Silicon Valley Startups, they run on VC money indefinitely, so can afford to sell at any loss.
If the government wants to put a higher price on energy or carbon, it should do so. But it should not be the arbiter of what's a worthy use of energy expenditure.

I could see a lot of people make the argument the production of a lot of energy intensive goods is not worth-while.
I am an author of a photo editor https://www.Photopea.com .

Whenever someone reports a bug to me, I ask them if they use any site-modifying extensions. If they do, I ignore them completely, even if they wrote a long, detailed report.

Web authors make websites for standard web browsers. I do not consider a browser with site-modifying extensions to be a standard web browser, and it is not my job to test my website with all 1,000,000 extensions that exist on earth.

It all started six years ago, when my website contained <div id="ad" ... and somebody reported, that their adblock removes that element, but it is not the ad. What kind of a mental process should a brain perform to conclude, that it is a bug in a website, and not in their extension, which is supposed to remove ads.
Will this reduce fees? I've heard it was a big problem with eth.
Let's be real: getting legal and infosec to sign off on that is never going to happen. "We just need to borrow a subdomain of Microsoft.com, give control to our biggest competitor, and sign a contract with them... to get a vanity email address in their store."
Same thing happened to me with Domino's Canada. The call to place the order was returning a well-structured JSON error message (it didn't recognize the city I had entered, which was my suburb rather than my "post town") but the front-end wasn't telling me anything!
Telegram, Maya, Ableton Live?
Amazon always has and continues to invest internally to expand e.g., new AWS regions, warehouse automation through robotics most of which are extremely capital intensive. Though your observation is right that MGM acquisition does make sense for Amazon because they OK to pay a premium to fast-track expanding their media business.

The way I see it, Amazon, as a growth machine, keeps its growth options (organic/inorganic) open and when sees an opportunity for inorganic growth they will go for it. The most recent example being their acquisition of Whole Foods. They were anyway investing in growing their brick-and-mortar presence and opportunistically acquired Whole Foods to fast-track it.

Relatedly, Amazon has to be one of the most diverse corporations ever. From AWS to media studio. Which other corporations come close?
Terminal is still a first-class UI mode, not some fallback.

If some tooling doesn't work for us (which means over a terminal), then we don't consider it. If something doesn't expose functionality over a terminal, that functionality doesn't exist.
How do they prevent impersonation? There's no way a cryptosystem can prove that two different people actually have two different keys. If I want to pwn Cardano/Polkadot, don't I just need to run a bunch of different staking keys?
>It feels like he's trying to deal with something on his end, and we're just watching him rationalize to himself.

That's the case for all PG essays, isn't it?
I cringe every time I see such comments. Ban bitcoin or ban beef because it uses too much energy.

Humanity will continue to require energy as it advances and banning anything "because it uses too much energy" is a ridiculous advice. How about we ban gold mining, or set quotas on the number of children people may have, that will surely contribute to our CO2 reduction goals. It's also Orwellian and reminiscent of how the world looked like for citizens of the USSR back in 1960-1990
User jdasdf already responded with an excellent resource on the economic arguments. I can add this link as well, which you may find interesting: https://www.europeanceo.com/finance/zero-corporation-tax-the...

In short, corporate taxes are going to be passed on the shareholders or consumers. So just tax them instead.

Why is that better? For one thing, those individuals get to vote, so they can object in a legitimate way if they feel the taxes are unjust. For another, it removes a vehicle for government mismanagement and corruption.

As for your last sentence:

So there is a corrupt system, and the only solution is to just destroy it? I don't get it.

I'd prefer to think about systems on a spectrum of their vulnerability to corruption, and what mitigations to corruption are feasible. In the current framework of regulation and taxation, we have a situation where corporations are, on paper, liable for huge tax burdens, and politicians can choose to lighten that load at their discretion. That's a recipe for extreme favoritism and corruption, especially when you consider most of these decisions are made at a local or state level, where media scrutiny and public awareness is especially weak.

In this case, in my opinion, the best answer is to take the sharp-edged toys away from the children, by which I mean eliminate the possibility of corporate taxes (and therefore favoritism) in favor of more direct and fair taxation on the individuals who end up paying them anyway.
This is the best answer for the poster's situation.

Buy a mac, sell it after 1 year (many stores offer a buy back program for this exact purpose), get another new mac.

Easy. Done.
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No? Unless you mean to say that the only way to make money is to not pay taxes, and not only that, but if anyone makes more money than someone else, they do so by paying less taxes.
A lot lot lot of start up founders have some type of exit (life changing but not retiring type money) then go work as an engineer at FANG+. It's always interesting talking to them because most of the time they thought about leaving during their time running the start up but stuck around for one reason or another. Sometimes because they didnt have time to interview elsewhere.
Tax lawyer here but not legal advice.

The first correspondence you received from the IRS is threatening a lien? That seems strange. I would expect they would have issued you an information audit first (basically: hey, can you give us more details on this?).

If we're talking big money, I'd say skip the accountant and go right for a tax attorney. Contact the federal bar.

Edit: I have heard good things about Moskowitz LLP: https://moskowitzllp.com/practice-areas/cryptocurrency-tax-a...
The Parallax Propeller is one microcontroller that could (in theory) work for bitbanging precise timings even when something else controls the timing. Since each task can be put on a dedicated core, you could clock-count your assembly instructions to sync up with the right time windows, and offload any variable-time tasks to a different routine on another core.

The only caveat is access to the central memory store inside the microcontroller is round-robin (80MHz / 8 cores), so if the timing requirement was close to that limit (1/10MHz), you might have to do some gymnastics to make sure your routine grabs the right distribution of cores to get auspicious timing, and possibly reset and try again if that can't be achieved.
>it forces different services to compete against each other in a way that produces more and better content overall

It seems more like another avenue through which a small number of mega-corporations can control ever increasing shares of the media marketplace to me.

In my view, some sort of mandatory licensing scheme would force individually owned production companies to compete against each other to produce the best product.
A ton of his time his wasted by other people trying not to waste their time. If we all just agreed to do everything his way, it would be a huge time saver... for him.
Plus it's not as though people don't still make fun of nerds. They just don't throw the term itself around anymore. Twitter (not that we should be paying any attention to the thought pit anyway) is rife with jabs at smart/technical people and some of our more common idiosyncrasies.
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This is a great solution called zk-rollup (zero knowledge rollup) https://zksync.io/

It is just as secure as the base chain (unlike polygon) and has low fees and has been live for the past few months. This is a perfect solution to simple payments.

The difference between optimistic rollups and zero knowledge rollups is that you can’t deploy arbitrary smart contracts to zk rollup, it only supports a limited set of use cases, such as simple payments for now. Read more here https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/05/rollup.html
Would be an ironic way to power a pacemaker as you'd be asked to start standing near the microwave.
They will not "bully you every inch of the way". Go ahead, start a competitor. Here's how it will go: First they will ignore you. You are so small they will not even know you exist. Then when you start getting some noticeable but still insignificant volume of marketshare, they will laugh at you. Then when you actually start getting too much market share they will actually do something and fight you. If you survive that you will either win or they will buy you.
Very bad. Ive got another radical take -- cypherpunks should ban proof of stake cryptocurrencies. They are bad for freedom, bad for decentralization, bad for store of value. Wall street tricks attempting to put the genie back in the bottle.

Proof of work is the only thing of value, the only distributed consensus model that is secure and the only way forward for store of value cryptocurrencies.
Just a warning for people who don't know the parent is referring to the extension formerly called 1Password X (now just 1Password in the browser because AgileBits wants you to use that one) which puts ALL OF YOUR PASSWORDS into your browser's memory.
At your price point ($10-50 per sale, $10-500 lifetime value), it simply is not worthwhile to have anyone doing 1:1 sales. You should be acquiring customers via marketing.

There's a pretty famous book called Traction that introduces founders to marketing. It goes over 19 marketing channels, and after reading, you should have a good hunch about which 3-5 channels might work well for you.

Off the top of my head:

- Partner with climbing gyms. They all have a store that sells chalk and shoes and whatnot. Either sell them 50x of your product (this does require actual sales) or see if they have a model where they get a cut for every sale made.

- Influencer marketing. Reach out to people like Alex Honnold and ask if they'd be willing to try your product out for free and give you feedback. If they like it, ask if they'd be willing to help out by talking about it on social. Could eventually explore some kind of affiliate model where they get a 20-30% cut per sale they drive your way.

- Paid search ads. If anyone on the internet is searching for "climbing chalk" then they should end up on your site via paid ads.

- Retargeting ads. If anyone visits your website or puts something in their cart and doesn't buy, make sure you use Google Display and/or FB/Twitter retargeting ads. These will be the most profitable ads you ever pay for.

- SEO. This one is pretty hard because your site is relatively small/new, but if you write articles talking about why your chalk is better for the environment, you might get some traffic this way.

Some of this work does involve "sales", in that you're selling to gyms or recreational stores or influencers 1:1. BUT, just try to think about it from their perspective. You aren't "selling them on your product", you're "helping them make more money by promoting a cool environmentally friendly chalk brand".
I'm not satisfied with YouTube, amazon, Google, shitbook, eBay, etc.
I want to use a service that protects my data better and drives those dirtbags out of business.
I'd expect that the people the article talks about did have other options since they were "high earners".

> we confirm labor shocks disproportionately impact high-earners and these same workers start more successful firms
> These are typically cash heavy businesses ( as long as it is allowed ) and keeping revenue out of the books is as old as the Romans.

Cash is used in less then 5% of transactions here in Finland (and it is roughly the same in the rest of Nordics last time I checked). Basically I have not carried any cash with me for the last 10 years or so. I am a bit of an extreme case but none of my friends carry any cash with them either these days. Having a cash only business here would just mean that people would not do business with you. If you go to a bar/restaurant/whatever and say "I want to pay" at the end the default is that they bring you the payment terminal.

> I think you are pretty naive here.

I am not that is just how it is here.

Illegal tax evasion still happens but it is not done in the "lets just not put this transaction into our system" way. Most of it is just lying about deductible expenses after that is employing someone without an actual employment contract (and thus nobody is paying any taxes for anything on that). Small scale construction is the one field where the "I'll just take the money and write a fake receipt" is done in any meaningful amount here.

For the record the Finnish tax office collects somewhere between 92 to 96% of the tax revenue it should be receiving according to studies by them and the government. They believe they could get more but in their infinite wisdom every even slightly right leaning government in power has slashed their budgets (and thus less tax auditors) for the last couple decades even though every euro spent on the tax office budged brings in multiple times of that in tax revenue back (there is some limit where that is no longer the case but we are nowhere close to that)
True, but a double-spend attack would destroy the stake of all the participants.
> I think a recession would definitely annoy people, but like when it rains, it would clean up a lot of things. Too many zombie companies going on, big tech getting so much money as it seems the only thing that will stick around post-crisis.

Annoy people is a funny way to describe poverty.
One neat thing is the rump kernel.

I had a very old DOS formatted diskette and when I tried to mount it on Linux, FreeBSD and got a panic.

NetBSD just came out with rump and I did some reading and gave it a try. I was able to mount after a couple of attempts and copy about 90 % of the Text File (a large file). No panics except under rump, but main system was happily moving along.
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I believe there are some use cases. Think of a government which does not allow currency conversion to more stable currencies in a place where volatility or inflation is very high. In that situation, it might be worth adopting a crypto-first approach, no?
Strange. I made ~5 ETH transactions a few days ago (interacting with a smart contract) and paid ~$90 each. Around the same time I made a few transfers, and spent about $25 each.
Unless you work for a great company as a software engineer, you can make/keep significantly more money as your own company.

The past few years have punished W-2 wages even more when compared to non-W-2 earners or people who partial incomes from W-2.

PPP Loans, SEP-IRAs, QBI deduction, plus plenty of other random deductions as well that are no where near the sketchy deductions that certain people take such as hair/makeup.

Like many things, this doesn't apply only to software engineers but any job that you can easily contract out or do plenty of remote work.

The current US tax structure encourages entrepreneurship. At the same time it seems to make it slightly scary/challenging with tons of ridiculous paper work, especially if you move across state lines. Oh & paying taxes is a pain. If someone wanted a huge unicorn type business idea, making it super easy to handle all this garbage would be nice. Most places are either to expensive for a single or tiny business, or don't offer enough help. Huge opportunity with an expanding niche & no one is doing it really well.
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> I'm curious how this could possibly turn out to be anything but anti-consumer. ... this particular one seems questionable.

Again... why? The easiest vertical merger cases I teach to undergrads are welfare-improving. I don't see any reason to think that this one is anti-consumer. What do you think will go wrong here?

> I would like them to carefully and thoroughly evaluate the welfare effects of this merger,

They will b/c that's what they do. The OP to whom I was replying suggested that the FTC had "failed" us somehow. I would not expect the FTC to find any grounds to block this acquisition, though I could be wrong.
Bummer. Well, a whole lot remains interesting, thanks for the data points!
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He's done internal software to manage YC.

YC itself was born out of an attempt to hack the hack the VC funding system. Shift things to be more friendly to technical types.

So it was an attempt to improve a complex system as opposed to focussing on making deals. Systems focussed instead of people focussed.
Yep. Not much, if anything, has improved since you wrote off Bitcoin. One of the problems is nobody really cares about having a new payment mechanism. You can explain fractional reserve banking to people, explain how the 2008 financial crisis happened, even give small scale advantages like sending money overseas, and the vast majority of people just don't care. Until people start caring, nothing will change, and crypto will remain a zero-sum pyramid scheme.
If you want less carbon burned, tax carbon. I'm skeptical of cryptocurrency, but the idea that regulators, already captured by banks, should aggressively ban new financial products that may one day threaten the incumbents makes me wary.
If we are passing radical legislation that cuts across borders I'd much rather see a carbon/greenhouse gas tax.
wat. The rich will pay UBI in exchange for getting to control the votes? I'm hoping this was sarcasm.
486s ran plenty fast in their time. With a tiny bit of modern hardware like the addition of an SSD, the only thing stopping them from being blazing-fast is modern bloated software stacks.
Maybe, but the messages are centralized and can be censored or removed in your scenario. Zmsg, while just a proof of concept, uses encrypted memo field in Zcash transactions. Once the transaction is confirmed, it is part of the blockchain. This can be useful, for example, for political protesters against subversive government.
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I definitely like the ternary version, but to my original point I think people make too big a deal about it. With respect to map/filter/groupBy, I rarely find that solutions are clearer when expressed as chains of iterator combinators like these rather than a single for loop, especially when you're dealing with multiple collections and dealing with errors (short-circuiting). I'm writing a lot of Rust lately, and I definitely find myself dealing with this a lot in practice.
Every staker preserves their fraction of the (increasing) pie by staking. Those who don't stake slightly lose in their fraction of the pie, benefitting all stakers by the same percentage.
> in tons of physical stores across the world.

Compared to other crypto, or on the scale of Visa and MasterCard?
Since Bitwarden is end-to-end encrypted, the risk isn't who hosts the data but who controls chrome extension and App Store updates. Bitwarden's servers being compromised would cause you no harm except data loss, but a malicious client update could steal all of your passwords.
Gtk's popularity comes from a couple of things that happened about 20 years ago...

- C++ dynamic linking used to be slower on Linux than C dynamic linking

- A lot of Linux die-hards are simply C++ haters

- Qt's licensing used to be unfavorable to purists, which lead directly to the Gnome-vs-KDE schism.

(Though I've always had the feeling that the license fight may have just been a palatable cover for a C-vs-C++ fight.)
I'd say your unlikely to pick up the entirety of OTP in a few days, but agree that it should'nt be too daunting to train in it.
A desktop runs a lot of low priority processes. The efficiency cores can be given all those processes. This means some low priority thread will get scheduled on a performance core and bust the cache.

There's also plenty of time where the system has low intensity use or is idle. The efficiency cores let things like receiving notifications or checking e-mail happen for very little power draw. Fans only need to run during intense use and the system can be quiet the rest of the time.
Financial hurdles could be the biggest barrier to achieve net zero targets
I think the idea is that some people are naturally dealmakers, and the whole idea of YC was technical-minded people taking over the job that would normally be done by social-minded people and doing it better.
Here's the testnet: https://nocturne.rayonism.io/
Communities tend to ban harmful things.
One glaring difference between 1948 and 2021 is that distribution is basically free now. Whereas in 1948, one's ability to consume media was dictated by their physical location, today there is close to zero marginal cost to deliver digital media and low barriers to entry for new entrants. Just consider how many streaming services there were 10 years ago vs today.

No human consumes enough TV media to warrant subscribing to every single streaming service at the same time, and there's certainly a lot that can be improved to make the "a la carte" experience of selectively subscribing/unsubscribing to services on demand more seamless — but the way the industry operates across the entire supply chain is dramatically different today.
We have banned a ton of things because they are bad for the environment. It has worked and will continue to work. Things like building design and construction standards are set to a minimum environmental standard, why shouldn't cryptocurrencies.
Could someone correct me? I am pretty new to graphics programing but I was learning wgpu (the Rust binding of WebGPU) the other day. I was under the impression that the shader language is GLSL (version 450) and it is then converted into SPIR-V.

Would those limitations still apply with SPIR-V?
Youtube alone uses 2x the amout of energy as the entire Bitcoin network, for perspective.
GlueViz predates Bokeh.
Did I say anything about bezos? No. Quit deflecting and making strawmen.

Amazon is already under antitrust charges in the EU and under investigation for antitrust in the US, stop ignoring that fact.
Yup. I'm on MP and a bunch of FB groups for climbing.

If you're there cause you like the community, fair enough. If you're shilling a product, folks will know it. Just don't.

At the end of the day, you'll look like the parent poster for this and even if you are well-intentioned in your contributions to the community people will suspect that you're using them.
Most of these PoS protocols use pBFT consensus (instead of nakamoto consensus) which means it would only require 1/3 instead of 1/2
Would be good to have this implemented in the curriculum in Canada & US. The amount of times I've been honked at because I was approaching a red light without hitting the gas, only to have the person behind me speed up and overtake me then slamming the brakes as they approached the light is ridiculous.
Um...that's not strictly the case though? https://blog.bitgo.com/24-major-businesses-accepting-bitcoin...

(Tesla has recanted 'for now').
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Apple does offer a dividend fwiw. The others often use cash for share buybacks which is part of why the price is so high. So it’s not entirely like they just let the money sit there.
Agreed fully, these are my reasons too, and I'm quite sorry for not having included a trailing comma in my example :)