skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Split your company in 2. This one gathers money for product A. This one gathers money for product B. Look at that each is 99million. That is just a very simple way around it, until another law is written. Your method sounds like a good start but you need to remember for every idea anyone has they have 2 accountants they can afford to get it back.

If you want to understand why we ended up here you need to get at the root of the issue. Exemptions, tax breaks, and writeoffs. Once those were created there will be an accountant that will max/min that thing. You may think 'oh flat tax'. The problem is unless everyone does flat tax no one can. This is due to putting yourself at an economic disadvantage in relation to other countries. An interesting prisoners' dilemma if you will.
Teddit.net[0] solves a lot of these problems and paired with Redirector[1], it's a transparent switch out.

https://github.com/teddit-net/teddit

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/
This hasn't been my experience in practice. I went to a top-5 CS university in the UK and some of my classmates graduated almost unable to program (and they still, somehow, got jobs). Seeing that first-hand was extremely jarring. It didn't and still hasn't damaged the reputation of the university.
Fandom. Unfortunately it's the best source for in depth data about several video games I play (notably Civ VI... e.g. here's a random page [1]) but for a website with primarily user-generated text content, it loads a ton of video ads on every single page, making it a bear to use.

[1] https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Civilizations_(Civ6)
What is infuriating the fact that you pay taxes or that a company like Microsoft do not?

If it's the first one I can't disagree more, I'm paying kinda the same percentage and I'm happy to do so personally.

If it's the second one, I can't agree more that this is infuriating indeed.
Representative democracy is a kind of democracy. So yes really.
If a question is very popular, a lot of people think it's like a normal forum and post “me too” answers. (Or, at least, they used to, before everyone knew Stack Overflow.) So there's a mechanism to “protect” questions so you need at least 10 rep (on that site – the “you contributed lots on another site so probably aren't a spammer” bonus doesn't count) before you can answer.

Very few questions are protected.
Is it really that bad that Microsoft pursues all the legal means for minimizing their corporate tax? Microsoft employees pay the same rates as we do. Also, most people in this thread are Microsoft shareholders, unless they have some unusual choices for their retirement. 5% of SP500 is Microsoft stock, and SP500 tracking funds are a common pick.
No, not all the criminals are in the gangs. Nearly everyone in the neighbourhood was a criminal of some sort. Everyone else just kept their mouth shut.
One suspect wanted in deadly Newport stabbing turns himself in
>I also wasnt taught to hate America or white people.

WAT.
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I believe, when you are employed, you must also pay pension insurance, unemployment insurance, health insurance and other. No way you will be at 20-25 percent in Germany.

When you count employer contributions, then you are quite close to 50%.
As with most things UI, it's subjective and difficult to quantify, but in the context of a website, it could mean a few things.

If you, as a user, feel that the site is sluggish, unresponsive or difficult to use because it feels too crowded or has too many features, you might judge that site to feel bloated.

In a more technical sense, bloated might refer to very large (or poorly optimized) files, either javascript or static assets, required to run the thing, causing it to load slowly (i.e. at a speed that the user feels is "slowly").

So maybe a good summary might be: "does too much stuff and/or poorly optimized/coded"

Again, not exactly a tight definition, but UIs are inherently characterized by the perception of their users.
You are on the right track, IMO, but taxation can't be abolished. Taxation is what gives currency value/demand. Everyone needs to pay tax in USD, so they need USD.

A loose monetary policy (a la NMT or Keynes) also needs taxation in order to destroy currency. Currency works in a loop. Governments/issuers make USD and pay for stuff (UBI, etc). The currency must complete its life cycle by returning home. It's circulation that makes currency currency.

Without taxation, we'd have currency collapse, not inflation. Printing money without sufficient taxation, we have what we're seeing currently: asset value inflation.

Also, I think we're beginning to understand that "general inflation" isn't really a thing. The price of investable assets isn't connected to the price of consumable goods. Wealth disparities are a big part of this. In theory, if Jeff Bezos and such tried to spend their earnings... we'd have inflation. But when personal income and CG is measured in billions, it's basically impossible to actually consume as much as you earn.
Why should it be different? Because you're extract money from a foreign country, utilizing their economy and giving nothing back in return for the infrastructure that's allowing you to make the money - that's why.
> NixOS also covers package configuration, not just which packages are installed. And because it owns all of the configuration, it can semi-intelligently merge package configurations that are managed in multiple independent places.

Do you mean system configuration in /etc, or also user configuration in /home?

In the latter case I do not see how this can ever be implemented, even if an exhaustive list be provided with each package in it's description, quite a bit of software will arbitrarily add new files under new names as part of it's confguration.

Usually one simply copies one's entire `~/.config` directory along.

> It can also be used to apply patches to packages (which are then automatically carried over when the upstream package is updated).

True, but this is also a feature of any source-based system.

The real advantage to me seems to be that it is a source-based system but with a central repository for identically configured packages to avoid compilation in many cases.
Public schools have been increasingly focused on politics. It's scary even if you agree with the general ideas. You hear kids repeating mantras and slogans with very little understanding. And it's all reinforced in popular culture/entertainment.
Disagree strongly. I commuted solely via public transit for years, and it isn’t time you’ve regained in a meaningful way. Reading a book on a crowded train is superior to driving, and vastly inferior to reading a book in my hammock before working hours start. I also can’t work out, hang out with my family, or do all kinds of activities when I’m on public transit.

For the record, I’ve commuted via public transit (both bus and train), bike, and foot for long stretches of time. All beat driving, all are much worse than just not commuting at all.
Similarly to a mortgage, the value of money now is not the same as the money in 30 years.
Depending on the interest % it may make more sense to invest that money.

That said, pre-brexit, I would have considered sending the kids to uni somewhere in Europe for free and save the university fees.

I paid 10k€ for a 3 years degree which is as close as free as it gets for me (it could have been zero if my family made less money or if I lived by myself and were unemployed).
I don't think I would pay more than that for a degree, they're mostly overrated.
i am someone who does not use containers, and every time I try to get into it (knowing how popular they are now), I just get... stuck. In feelings of wrongness, among other things.

One of which is that I really don't understand the "security story" with regard to patches for vulnerabilities etc. How one is meant to know when a patch is required and how one applies it, what the "conventional" or "best practice" workflow for this is.

This article is making me think maybe there's nothing I'm missing....?
As an American citizen who paid $30k for healthcare last year and looking at college for two kids in less than a decade, I'd take the Danish deal laid out in that article pretty happily.
> I also wasnt taught to hate America or white people

Please elaborate...
I always do super crummy on interviews but usually end up being a star performer at places I work.

maybe this is my ticket in...
I remember both him and McAfee staring at me from software boxes back in the day, and both products being considered scammy even back then.
GCP. I don’t know what it’s doing under the hood but it’s such a slog loading it up and waiting for the UI to settle before I can actually do something.
> You are probably aware that shops like Best Buy, Ikea, BB&B etc are not primarily selling food? I don't think Best Buy sells any food at all, maybe some candy at the register... So no, you have not slain me with facts and logic and smugness here just yet

I'm not too familiar with American brands ( Best Buy in particular). For them to remain open there was probably some reason like them providing essential supplies like electric appliances - if your oven dies you kinda need a new one asap. In France a special exemption was made for hardware stores, for repairs and as a mental health thing.
Loading a page of text is effectively instantaneous. If the user's goal is to read that text, then anything else on the page that slows it down is bloat (from the user's perspective).

All the stuff that is extraneous to the reason you visited the webpage would be bloat.

Think about a news article on [insert your favorite news website]. Often before you can see the article, you have to process a bunch of JS (SPA framework, tracker code, etc) before the text loads and you can get the info you were looking for.
Yeah, for sure it's impossible that people have different opinions without being indoctrinated, simply impossible.

This way of thinking is why people who disagree cannot even talk anymore. If someone says they believe something, don't jump to conclusions that they are manipulated or indoctrinated, there are plenty of things that are simply _difference of opinion_, but somehow that thought seems pretty wild today, for some reason.
Hmmmm...not sure, entirely. I think it's that, by putting in more effort, I end up processing the book mentally in a more thorough way. Something like what my grade school literature teacher might have said was the point of book reports. Thinking over "well, exactly what did I think of it?" tends to make me think over the book's contents more carefully, instead of just putting it down and immediately moving on.
Jira has been slow and buggy for me for over a decade at companies of every size. When Atlassian loses half its market share overnight to some new competitor, we'll talk about how inevitable it was. Nobody has cracked that nut yet, but they will.
Terry Tao's blog has entries on nonstandard analysis, which he uses in various ways as a working mathematician.

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/tag/nonstandard-analysis/

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/nonstandard-analys...
Just a few points I could come up with off the top of my head:

- Users could buy and trade domain names using cryptocurrency tokens within the same system without relying on centralized payment gateways.

- No need to rely on a central authority like ICANN to decide who can control what gTLDs.

- Could make way for entirely new security models for TLS certificates; no need to trust certificate authorities. Certificates could be signed using blockchain private keys associated with a specific domain.

- The whole system would be self-contained and all domain purchases would be publicly auditable on-chain; every domain would be paid for using tokens which represent real value, thus preventing misappropriation and spam.

- Different DNS blockchains could compete for relevance/adoption to be integrated with different browser makers; this would encourage decentralization in the browser space.

- Easy path to monetization; imagine how much demand would be created for underlying tokens if each user paid tokens every time they wanted to change the IP address which a domain name points to. This kind of DAO would be profitable by design. You could earn profit just by holding the token.
> Better yet, dump corporate tax altogether and simply enforce a global flat tax on all forms of personal income, both capital gains and salary.

Fraudsters skirted that by keeping their corporation's assets on the books and expensing everything, never actually receiving/spending anything themselves.
It's definitely not. I'm certain I can install and use tools like git on a fresh GNU/Linux install. I can't say the same about Android.
The difference is that your domain name is useful. Knowing that you “own” some youtube clip or tweet is not useful, since you don’t actually own any of the rights.
I knew it has been different, didn't know that website though. Anyway this should be repeated more often, also in response to the 'but if we tax them they'll go elsewhere, there is no other way'. Because people simply do not know this.
Stealth is necessary for attacking, but not defending. Further, stealth is only necessary for attacking sophisticated enemies.

Russia and China have no plans to attack the US within the next few decades, so they continue to research, but not to implement. It also doesn't help that US radar is a couple generations ahead as well.

Their current interests involve countries where a fast, hard-hitting plane is just as good as a stealth plane, so they save money at every stage from design to building to cost per hour flown.
At least in the UK, "Software Engineering" degrees are just Computer Science degrees with a different name and a restricted subset of course options. From what I can tell, they're a marketing gimmick, but even respectable universities will offer them. The more questionable universities will also offer actual specialised courses under that moniker (in the same vein as "games design" degrees), but they aren't great.

Some Unis also offer different tracks for Masters degrees - MA (Master of Arts) in Software Engineering, or MSc (Master of Sciences) in Computer Science. Those differences are a bit more meaningful. The MA will be softer, with less research focus, and is (ostensibly) explicitly designed as preparation for industry.
do you the link to youtube. Cant' find it; that why i gave up on the class.
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> is lobbying the US govt to spend 250 million to make more software engineers

It cost money to "train" engineers , better use taxpayer money to train those damn "human ressource" rather than those 300Billions of Profit.
The United Nations OCHA with Emma Jane Hogbin
It's not the citizens of a pirate nation that are unhappy with piracy. It's the rest of us.
Surely what matters is feature support and quality, not big version numbers

Anybody else remember when Solaris jumped from version 2.6 to version 7 because they didn't want to have a smaller version number than Red Hat?
Yes, exactly this. My kids stay home, read up on their Q and the intellectual dark web, too!
Well of course it can be done, we have been to the Moon and all. It's just the squirming politicians and oblivious general populace that won't do anything (except vote for the same people year after year) that allow them to get a free pass.

Basically you could just penalize and persecute companies that funnel their profits to small tax-haven countries with little or no employees but excessive profits and hence, are considered avoiding taxes. The general gist of it is that since there is no penalty they lose nothing currently except small reputational damage. It's definitely a solvable problem but one needs a consensus to enforce it across the borders.
Maybe you want to run your application on Kubernetes? Nomad can just run an application directly, but I don't believe Kubernetes can.
We don't have a death tax in the US. We have an estate tax that is exempt up to $11 million and can be spread out 15 years for businesses.
The UK is one of the most successful societies in the history of the world. Why should it be cavalier in changing things that obviously work for them?
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JIRA is unrivalled in my opinion. Just loaded up a random ticket page with one comment and no attachments.

- 105 requests

- 3.9MB transferred

- 13.9MB resources

- 32.57s load time

Here's a nice repo of other examples: https://github.com/dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated
So... what is the conventional/best practice way of dealing with this?

I ways always confused about this, thinking I didn't understand what people were doing here... but it turns out maybe there is no good solution and most people are ignoring it?

Would you expect this to result in more attention at some point, after it results in more exploits?
Interesting, thanks for that!
The definition of a parasitic economy. Other countries are well in their rights to pressure Ireland as hard as they can to end this theft.
> You could do all this in-house, but it's a lot of work for small teams. Redundant work.

What's the alternative?
> If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you're saying, because it's too hard to believe one thing and say another. I can see it very strikingly in my own background. Go to any elite university and you are usually speaking to very disciplined people, people who have been selected for obedience. And that makes sense. If you've resisted the temptation to tell the teacher, "You're an asshole," which maybe he or she is, and if you don't say, "That's idiotic," when you get a stupid assignment, you will gradually pass through the required filters. You will end up at a good college and eventually with a good job.

-- Noam Chomsky
The masses don't have wealth, especially if you exclude personal dwellings. In any case, you need "balance sheets" to have CGT, which in theory we do.
Originally it was just a fullscreen nag div on top of the already rendered content, so if you can delete elements, it should work for viewing or you can use something like Nitter.net

Nitter.net[0] solves a lot of these problems and paired with Redirector[1], it's a transparent switch out.

There's an expired cert issue 3 days ago, but there are other instances[2]

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
> ...funniest joke in the world...

Where "world" is USA, Mexico and Canada.
This argument comes up a lot but nobody is paying 50% income tax in the US. Even if you make a million dollars a year in W2 income, in California, which has the highest marginal tax rate, you'll pay roughly 40% effective, almost entirely to the federal government. Realistically you're going to make a lot less than that W2, which drives the effective rate down considerably, and as remote work becomes more of an expectation, living in a state with high income taxes will become more and more of a choice. Plenty of states have bustling urban centers and low single digit income taxes.

Also I think it's pretty disingenuous to assume that MS wants to see computer courses taught in school to drive down the cost of labor.
Oh, ok.

I don't think I said anything about "not liking gay people" but you've obviously read between the lines. Good for you.
As I understand it in the US, the average taxpayer’s experience is that of annual taxes but the reality is that taxes are paid quarterly and settled on an annual basis. The self employed see this more clearly. Those in employer-employee relationships don’t see it since the employer sends the quarterly check to the various income taxing jurisdictions. Any interest made from the temporary storage of cash is probably more favorable to the employer than the government since the government spends cash faster than it arrives. The government does not escrow tax remittances in an interest generating account and then withdraw it all at year’s end.
All schools are religious schools now it seems, so I expect a surge of alternative options for parents to educate their children.
Cool. Great. Glad it worked for you.

Now, let's tax the living daylights out of everybody over USD$1M, cut the military budget and put all that money back into the educational system, so the rest of the kids can have the same experience as you, then re-introduce your kids to public schooling.
Reminds me of "rich man's war and poor man's fight". The rich are always moralizing about how everyone should pay their fair share, but it is the poor man who ends up paying. Why do we think that a system controlled by the rich man will ever really allow it to overtax the rich. Better to stop raising taxes that only the poor will pay.
Definía sort of a system that feeds on itself, not a great model I think. Tokenizarion of real or digital items makes sense for many reasons though, the most basic of which is that it is a system of record keeping that is persistent, trusties, and programmatically immutable where immutability is needed. For digital items, tokenization can make sense from a data durability standpoint, since tokenized data can be stored on chain with its presentation context, for example an in game asset could be globally accessible and playable far into the future beyond where the game would otherwise be available. This and other potentially useful cases are mentioned in some medium articles at prufio.medium.com.
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First, the author is being fooled by false positives due to bad scanner settings. Basically there are a huge number of CVEs that are meaningless, and closed by some distros but not others in the CVE databases. The result is a spew of "OMG LOOK AT THIS BADNESS" which security scanners vendors like because it makes them look useful, but is actually just noise.

Long version: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/docker-security-scanner/

Second, the author isn't installing security updates! You need to run `apt-get upgrade`, even for official images.

Long version: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/security-updates-in-docker/

Third, Alpine has some issues in some cases, although for Go at least neither of these issues is usually relevant so Alpine is fine.

1. musl can be subtly incompatible with some applications, with annoying bugs. Personal experience: if you using minikube in a WeWork office, Alpine-based (or really, musl-based) containers would fail to resolve DNS inside Kubernetes due to a concatenation of circumstances that was mostly the fault of WeWork's ops team but which glibc handled better than musl. The problem has since been fixed by WeWork, AFAIK.

2. For Python specifically, binary precompiled packages (wheels) won't work on Alpine, which means you ahve to recompile the whole universe, which means container builds are slow. There's a PEP which might get this fixed, but for now, not worth it. https://pythonspeed.com/articles/alpine-docker-python/
I know, that's why I'm talking about a spectrum. They shouldn't kick you out on a whim, or with no evidence, but they also shouldn't weigh it like they're giving you a life sentence in prison.
The revolution in DIY testing that will outlive the pandemic
Loading the page instantaneous is again can be solved by adding spinner.

Sure, adding tracker and other stuff might be a jarring experience. But I think you can have all the stuff in your app and make it async so that it does not impact the core functionality of the app.