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>> disproportionately affects companies with higher capital requirements

How/Why?

>> underlying issue of moving to a jurisdiction with lower taxes

Well... nothing simple solves this in full. However, "loophole" in this article works by attributing income from IP licensing (an internal transaction between Apple owned entities) to Ireland, which does not consider this a taxable transaction.

A "share tax" would apply to the same entity that shareholders own a stake in, it doesn't try to disentangle subsidiary structures. Companies might try to list on Bermuda's stock exchange. I wouldn't discount that possibility, but it won't happen overnight.
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> If they shut the plants down and something happens, what do they do?

Use the tanks we already have?
Employers compete for workers based on pay, benefits, and working conditions. The government should not force employers to offer a work-from-home option.
People are already incentivized to do that in the current system. How does removing corporate tax make that any different?
Do paid tasks, not hourly. Hourly work, as a whole, is desirable for slow, inefficient people.
>> We let the kids learn on their own the things they wanted to learn when they wanted to learn them. This was wonderful.

I'm sure that it was. But good luck to them when they need to learn something important that isn't fun. There are times in every profession when you have to grind your way through something horrible. Want to be a lawyer? You will have to understand the rules of evidence regardless of what type of lawyer you want to be. Want to be a doctor? There will be anatomy that you will hate memorizing. There is something to be said for forcing kids to learn things they hate. It is necessary preparation for the important stuff that comes later, stuff they cannot learn from their parents. That's what advanced education is, learning something because an expert tells you to. Whether you enjoy every moment of it or not is beside the point. You can judge things once you become an expert.

I have to go away for a two-week training course on monday. It is going to be hell. Twelve days of memorizing stupid powerpoints about stuff I will probably never use. There will be tests at the end. I will pass them. My training at school/university, learning stuff I often hated, allows me to power through such things. I can sit in that chair hour after hour without drifting. Not everyone can do that. They work very different jobs. Their employer doesn't spend tens of thousands of dollars sending them to such courses.
It would probably look better if you are not the person making it in the first place, and you need to make it look like you're paying a market price for it.
If the US were to be powered by a dozen nuclear reactors that would be a HUGE national security issue. Imagine bringing America to its knees with a few successful cyber attacks, let alone physical attacks.
> some portion of his password

Doing a partial string match on a password would effectively require it in reversible form. Even if you hashed all the possible substrings of the password, it would be trivial to brute force given all the hashes of the same string with one extra character on the end...

But OP was mistaken - the tool Google uses only alerts if the entire password is typed. Meaning that OP's friend was careless with password hygiene. As is nearly every new Google employee.
AIUI rich people have a lot of spare money with nowhere to go at the moment, leading to the emergence of weird markets like this.
BS... you're excluding Property Tax, Sales Tax, etc
Walking is a kind of exercise, though. And sedentary people would benefit from walking 30 or more minutes a day, every day.
No, the £40K sacrifice (the max) would be from gross.

Tax 'relief' (it's a refund despite what anyone says) only applies if you pay from your post-tax income.
Ruby 1->2 and php 4->5 and 5->7 went a lot faster.

On the other hand getting everybody from Fortran 90 to Fortran 2008 will probably take at least one more decade ;)
The past year also saw a 50%+ spike in urban violent crime rates, and repeated riots in nearly every major city. Anecdotally most of the professional families I know who fled to the suburbs cited safety as the primary reason.
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I'm never going back to an office.
Which are not income taxes.
If the US is inefficient that people are still very far behind when it comes to average education compared to the rest of the world that spends less per student, you either need to spend a lot more or make sure it's effectively spent.

The argument that the US already spends a lot so nothing should be done feels loose at best.
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You can look at it from a different perspective. I wouldn't mind if an app like figma takes a huge amount of memory. It is comes in my critical professional path. I think if an app falls in your life's critical path, you can look past the memory, cpu usage, bloati-ness etc. I am judging website these days with this kind of yardstick.
Beijing AI academy unveils largest pre-trained deep learning model
The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) unveiled a newer version of its hyper-scale pre-trained deep learning model, the country's first and the world's largest, at an ongoing AI-themed forum in Beijing, in the latest signal of China's ambition to become a global leader in AI.

The latest version of the model, known as Wudao, literally meaning an understanding of natural laws, sports 1.75 trillion parameters, breaking the record of 1.6 trillion previously set by Google's Switch Transformer AI language model, the academy announced Tuesday at the three-day forum that runs through Thursday. Wudao was only initially released in March.
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What kind of idealistic misunderstanding of history do you have that non-capitalist societies were some kumbaya utopia? Korea historically had slavery and extreme class differences. Europe had nobility and serfs who were not far off from slaves (and could be tortured or executed). Ancient Sparta and Persia had slaves and going way back into biblical times (though this still happens today in some places), people could be stoned just for not believing the right things. People today make the mistake of assuming things were altogether better in the past just because one particular aspect they dislike today was better before. Hierarchy and treating each other terribly are an inherent part of being human, and it's taken centuries of work to get to a point that we can even pretend otherwise.
> But they will never do that because that would break existing systems that depend on the old behaviour.

Which is an inevitability for anything that's been a dependency for long enough.

Either you admit that things have to change and sometimes shit that's been secretly broken for years will have to change too, or you give in to the shit and admit that you can never solve any problems that made it to production.

Both answers suck, but one is a lot more suck so I choose the "fix it anyways and if something else turns out to have depended on the brokeness then add that to the list of shit to fix" approach whenever possible.
Exactly right. We want strong healthy companies. I'd rather see another special tax on all buybacks. That is the perfect time to collect more money and reduce some of the perverse incentives in the system right now.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locat...
That is completly unrelated to security.

But just to tease your goal post move action, 99.9% of people using Android don't care about using git on their phones, and even if they would.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aor.pocket...
Capital gains taxes are based on difference between buy and sell price of specific assets and require only those two data points. That’s very different from accurately pricing an asset yearly.
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I think we should use the money to fund students and abolish the idea of government run schools. Every kid gets the same amount to be spent at a private school that suits their child’s needs. Schools could be smaller and give students the attention they need based on their abilities and interests.

The government would audit these schools to ensure kids are adequately learning. Existing government school building could be leased to private teaching organizations.
I find it disheartening that so many people object to changing a single picture.

I think this account by Maddie Zug [0] summaries most peoples objections to the image. Women just want to participate in tech, but the male dominated field already makes it hard enough, especially when images with a very sexual origin (again, it isn't the pretty woman, but the origin of the pretty woman) are used. It is that difficult to use another picture from the above database?

"I retired from modeling a long time ago. It’s time I retired from tech, too.” - Lena Söderberg

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-playboy-centerfold...

[1]: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/How-a-Nude-Playboy-Photo...
And the "minor" difference that corporations are taxed on profits, whereas individuals are taxed on revenue
Public school is like public housing: You only use it if there are no viable alternatives. A few places here and there the rich have their own public school with carefully drawn districts to keep out the undesirables, but even those are communist propaganda wards.

Public school is big business though. Lots of unions, lots of public employees, lots of text book manufacturing, whoever makes the desks, fixes the school buses, HVAC systems, you name it.

Even if the education itself wasn't outright propaganda and otherwise dysfunctional, public schools are mental misery for many. Self-important, entitled, arrogant, but otherwise useless staff and teachers. Don't subject children to prison-like treatment.
Also can make people think that others in a place nearby are dangerous and evil all of them, and in that way keep conflicts alive or start new.

> For a few weeks I lived with people whose world view seemed shaped by ..

I wonder, what could have been things to say, that could have helped them to stop looking at the world in that way

Unplugging the TV would have helped I suppose

Or giving them something else to think about, but what?
They had to stop doing the military press in the olympics because the scoring got too difficult and political between the US and USSR in particular
I feel like this borders on the kind of insensitive comment that people get when they live paycheck to paycheck. Why don't you just save your money for a month? Why don't you just buy nicer shoes so you don't have to replace them every other month?

I feel like the trade off isn't that complex. Walking to work is a luxury of having a well paying job in the city.
> This goes down the rabbit hole of crypto enthusiasm, which HN as a collective despises.

Count me among the naysayers. I've worked in a field (publishing) with IP as its lifeblood, and I simply don't see the business value NFTs provide over traditional contracts.
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Yet, some of the neighbourhoods and districts are so grossly underfunded, teachers have to put money out of their pocket for school supplies...

hmmmm
I'll say the high learning curve statement isn't really true for Erlang either. I was up and running with Erlang as a mid level dev back in 2013 or so within 2 weeks. Worked through LYSE, and basically grokked everything I needed to, genservers and OTP included. Only thing tricky after that was building a release (since at the time the best tooling was rebar; Elixir's mix makes this really simple).
Something doesn’t make sense. If it’s $437B in profit, then revenue must be higher?

And what this is saying is that Ireland’s GDP will double in 2020?
This question is a bit convoluted, but see some arguments here: https://www.britannica.com/topic/income-tax/Corporate-income...

E.g., "The separate taxation of the incomes of corporations and their shareholders follows the legal principle that corporations and shareholders are distinct entities. Some scholars argue that it also accords with economic reality, particularly for large corporations with many shareholders who do not participate actively in controlling the enterprise. They consider a corporation income tax justified as a charge for the privilege of doing business in the corporate form, as a means of covering the costs of public services that especially benefit business, and as a way of capturing part of the profits of large enterprises."
This is really, really, really a problem. I know a lot of us make decent money and we write large "checks" to the government because we're in high tax brackets, but seriously. The middle class has gotten smaller. If you live in a city a house costs a million dollars. Many people don't have adequate healthcare. Yet we are allowing the richest people in the world to have astronomical profits and pay no tax to help cover the costs of society, while we squeeze the "working rich" (high earners that don't get most of their income from dividends/capital gains) and working class .

Now, maybe if you are making 300+ you don't feel squeezed. But in all fairness, not that many people make $300k.
It is ironic that most cultures believe that genetics drive human evolution.
CSP with molten salt would be cheaper than nuclear with molten salt [0] on a LCOE basis.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23589828
It also seems really self-defeating. Talent attrition is a major problem at any company, and people with kids are way more likely to stick around in their nice comfy jobs, regardless of their gender.
The U.S. did a terrible disservice to children during the pandemic by closing schools (where COVID does that spread well) while keeping open bars and other places where COVID spreads much more easily. Many people treated it as if education is not that important.
University students with morning lectures tend to have lower grades
Machine learning security needs new perspectives and incentives
Is "apple silicon optimized builds" somehow required for E2E encryption or how is this comment related to the submission itself? General comments about product X just because it's mentioned in the submission feels pretty boring.
Income tax is not the only tax one pays. Every penny one spends, saves and withdraws is taxed. It may add up to more than 50% in some instances.
This NFT in particular is the first one for that video and the one going famous on social media therefore it's the "valuable" one, I wish I was joking.
> Feel free to use and maintain Python 2 indefinitely or move to a different language. Most of the rest of us will move on since the conversions were not that hard and the improvements worth it and we were given 10+ years to do it.

Maintaining Python 2 indefinitely is an option actively being taken away from people. More importantly, fuck anyone who wants to direct my budget! There's things written in Python 2 ages ago that don't justify additional developer time in my company. Except the community is making us do it.

If you think migrating some ancient Django app to modern Django is trivially easy, why don't you come do it for us?
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Great work! I was going to ask if there is any specific reason you stopped at 1976, but I see from your About page that you plan to go further. I reckon that Italian car design peaked in the mid-80s, so it would be cool to reach 1990 or so. Afterwards there were some interesting designs in mass-produced cars but the top range is fairly bland (with Lambos just being Lambos).
That is what makes this so absurd to me. You are buying... nothing. A right to say you "own" something while the family still clearly owns it. You cannot do anything with it, they can do everything. It is like the companies that sell you stars or acres on the moon. I just don't see any sense to this.
But you could take the loan and invest the same money and get back more. It's a very cheap, unsecured loan.
By removing the audit of the corporations.
Fewer than 1% of Americans commute by bike.[1] For the vast majority of people the end of WFH will not be a relaxing meander of me time through the forest.

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/05/younger-worke...
Homeschooling is great if the children are brought up in a solid environment of proper socialization. Otherwise they end up becoming schizoids that can interact but are dull. Nothing is worse than letting a kid teach themselves about the world than letting them experience it first hand.
Opinionated things are good when I agree with the opinion, and terrible when I don't.
In some cases the upstream modules are simply targeting a different use-case. A lot of modules are written by someone scratching a specific itch - ours are no different, but scratch different itches.

I think a better solution (long-term) is actually a redesigned way of doing service declarations where we're dealing with composable bits of data that describe services (so that a module isn't all-or-nothing anymore). Too much on the plate to design that though ...
I think it's fair to say that pacifists do in fact, sometimes invent things.
Judging by the number of genuine sibling replies here, I'd wager on it being the former.
$100 bucks to your favorite charity and two WaWa sandwiches says i'm getting downvoted cuz libertarians and liberals don't like the idea of re enforcing the public school system ( and the whole thing about taxing millionaires and billionaires )
>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.

So, what's another good explanation as to why software heavy businesses want more software engineers? It seems to me that it's to increase supply to lower costs. If the claim is that they can't capture enough, they can raise comp even more to capture people who don't work in their businesses, train them on the job by reestablishing employer/employee loyalty, etc. Plenty of options there that aren't being pursued, the most obvious explanation as to why is because those options are costly.

Such businesses have been trying to lower expensive technical labor costs for decades now, trying all sorts of strategies (non-compete hire agreements, outsourcing/offshore teams, pushing more towards capturing recent grads with lower expectations, FLSA overtime exemptions for computer professions, reducing employment mobility by increasing hiring barriers, institutionally and indirect built in ageism, ...). I tend not to give 'the boy who cried wolf' too many chances, and that ship has long sailed.
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I enjoyed his computer graphics course so much that I did a master's under his supervision.
"One crazy trick..." employee<->manager interactions seem so broken to me.

The idea that I would put an employee onto some kind of dev/PIP/watch list and then not tell them about this fact is so fundamentally foreign to me, but I believe it happens (because no one would make up such a thing).
You need applications to integrate with the blockchain rails and start using it as a source of truth. As the ecosystem develops and more applications to do, it organically occurs.

For example, Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a name service on Ethereum https://ens.domains/ Brave Browser has natively integrated with it, and .eth domains are tied into it. As more browsers and tools integrate with it, the value of it continues organically.

There is no top-down government or organization making this happen - it all happens organically.
Yes, skim off trillions of potential tax revenues of other countries to earn a billion or two as a single country. Effectively a Prisoner's dilemma on an international scale.

Countries like Ireland and the Netherlands are nothing more than tax avoidance puppets of a few big companies. And the sad thing is that their governments think it's good what they do while it's a downwards spiral instead.
I question the accuracy of this. I grew up where going out to dinner was a luxury; we went perhaps once a week, and sometimes that was to a McDonalds or pizza joint, not someplace that charges $30/plate.
Well, thanks for your snarky comment. ;)

The profit goes out to shareholders as dividends, to employees as salary rises and into investments of a corporate’s means of production hopefully generating more growth and, hence, growing tax returns.
... sounds a lot like many democracies choosing a sociopathic but charismatic leader.
TBH, it looks like this was just money moved around from other low/no-tax subsidiaries.

Profit after tax increased ... due to the liquidation of two subsidiaries.

Like, it's still bad, but this money presumably represents many years of accumulated profits, as otherwise the number makes no sense (MS made a profit of $14bn in 2020).

See: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20794038-microsoft-r... for the actual directors report.
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I think the author of your quote meant global as in "one form for all USA taxes related to income", not as in "international".
> Managers should possibly be penalized if they fire (or lose) too many people (it shows that either ... or that their people hate them and leave)

There is a nuance here, which is that Amazon is only targeting unregretted attrition rates. Which indicates the number of people leaving Amazon, who have been previously marked as poor performers. The system also doesn't allow simple gaming, such as marking someone as a poor performer after they tell you they are leaving. Having a high regretted attrition rate is indeed something managers will be penalized for.

Not defending the system in any way. Just wanted to clarify the above
Small sibgle owner companies do that a lot. Big multinationals? No
High school taught me a lot about what to avoid, and how to game bullshit systems.

It taught me that, while I had no idea what I wanted, I did not want the life I was seeing kids around me trapped in to. So I learned to give gatekeepers what they wanted and got out of that crappy little sinkhole.

Didn't learn much of anything academic, though.
Agreed, trying to get the whole world to agree on a single tax rate (0 or otherwise) is unrealistic, and completely ignores the sovereignty of countries to design their tax system as they please. What needs to happen is a modernized way to calculate which percentage of global profits from each company are taxable in which country, and then leave it up to each country how to tax that (or not). The current system lets companies cook the books in a way where they can effectively relocate their profits to any country they want.
Sadly a Ferrari SUV is coming, though...
You are so right. If you live in rural Iowa that's a lot of money. Guess what? Hundreds of millions of people live in cities where housing, transportation and food costs are prohibitively expensive.

You know how many people live in Iowa?
> abolish the idea of government run schools.

aaah, the libertarians have arrived.

i'll step on snek just fine, thanks.