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Being wrong with great conviction doesn't make you right...

Your "argument" was torn down piece by piece.

You were wrong by not understanding the concept of an "or", and you were wrong by not understanding that in this context the rats are being anthropomorphized.

I think most of us have just been mocking the absurdity of this by replying succinctly enough to watch you flounder a bit more at this point, you would have been best served leaving it at heroic rats...
What if i don't want to join?
One of the frustrating things about being a web developer is that I can do a ton of advanced optimization to the point of code splitting my js with dynamic import() or doing page level caching, lazyloading, and splitting non-critical CSS. But other departments of my org can squash it by adding a chat plugin with a disgusting level of resource abuse which obliterates all the advances I've made.

My approach is to just explain what I can or can't do, and explain the trade-offs for everything. I'll give the decision-makers the info but I'm not going to be the curmudgeon going to war over something the marketing people say we need to survive.
Ask HN: Looking for Emacs org-mode tutorial videos by women
I was interested in recommending Emacs and org-mode to colleagues, but discovered that I could not find any tutorials or introduction-to videos made by, or narrated by women. In the interest of my colleagues not getting the impression that its just a tool for a certain well-established crowd of male nerds, particularly since most of my colleagues are women, I was hoping to get help finding resources that portrayed it more inclusively--in the interest of bringing more people in to use this fantastic tool.

Edit: I'm not interested in culture war crap. I'm interested in resource recommendations that might better appeal to a certain audience. Please, if your only point of replying is to complain that I asked the question, please refrain, because its off-topic.
Economies have been globalized since ancient times
If a firing or whatever is described as an example of ‘cancel culture’, that usually means it was driven by some kind of orchestrated pressure from third parties.

Typically it means those third parties (usually online activists, the ‘cancellers’) have gone out of their way to get the person fired/disinvited/whatever, with the specific motivation of diminishing their public standing. This may involve techniques such as deliberately fomenting online outrage with the aim of creating a negative PR situation for their employer that will go away when they fire the the targeted person.

(Just explaining what I think the term usually means; not saying anything about any specific claimed instances of it.)
>wouldn’t implementing those be easier (for both you and the rest of the world) than creating a completely new protocol?

Maybe. One the other hand, WebDav and SFTP may be more widely supported than those extensions already.

>Aren’t multiple ports only an “issue” if you assume NAT (and CGNAT, shudder) as a natural state of things?

NAT is unfortunately something ubiquitous. And the multiple ports makes FTP harder to tunnel.
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Average effective tax rate for corporations is considerably less than the top rate, so much so for companies like the FAANGs as to make a mockery of corporate tax as being anything more than a guarantee of full employment for tax attorneys. OTOH, brick and mortar which has to compete against Amazon has the privilege of paying for Amazon.
Some did come back over time though as additional APIs were added from what was there initially: epubreader and DownThenAll! being a couple examples.
In relative terms hey are in a worse position than those who theoretically got a flu vaccine by violating distribution rules, if such a thing existed, was I think the point.
"Why is the government allowed to put me in prison for not paying my taxes, but when I kidnap someone and lock them up in my basement, I'm somehow the bad guy?!"
Exactly this. Imagine a company that has makes X dollars and spends X dollars. So the company pays no tax. What that means is that all the other tax payers pay for all the infrastructure.

And that's fine, but if such a company ever needs to call the police and go to court, etc., they then would have to pay all of that out of their pockets (i.e. the work of the police, the lawyers and judges, and so on).
> On the other, mass personal enlightenment will not occur nearly fast enough to solve the problem if it's even possible at all ...

> ... honestly if we want to fix the problem the only thing that can come up to scale with sufficient speed is decisions by people who control large segments of the economy, i.e. governments and corporations.

But isn't the first step toward changing things at a governmental level getting the individuals -- who vote for said government officials -- to care about the issues? If people are so resistant to even the idea of individual change (e.g. the parent comment is downvoted), it makes me think they might not care that much after all.
As a cyclist, I've had a fair share of "well trained" dogs chase me and nip at my ankles. It's scary and usually only ends after I stop, get off my bike and walk back towards the owner so they can regain control.

> Taking them off leash, when others have a fair expectation that they will be leashed is rude and inconsiderate.

This sums it up perfectly. Thank you!
Got the reverse experience. Trained in Matlab, R and Python, we had to follow a database/application class with computer scientist and software engineers where the big project was to make a basic Android application with sqlite database. That was painfully to be dropped in Android Studio without any Java knowledge. And because the class was focused on database, we had no Java introduction or whatever. We were able to team up with students from the other cursus that already had multiple Java projects and classes under their belt but the pill was bitter swallow.
For JPEG, if image is encoded using resolution progression, then decoder can not decode using quality progression (where image quality improves with each new piece of the image) and vice versa. With JPEG 2000, the decoder can decide which progression it wishes to use at decode time - by resolution, by quality, by component, or by spatial region.
Abortion is not an LGBT issue and anti-abortion types are not exclusively religious. The split between anti-abortion and pro-abortion is almost 50/50 in the US and 50% of America are not fundamentalist Christians.
But who are "US Latino adults" to begin with? This kind of statistic is based on an egregious confusion between ethnicity and citizenship, familiarity with languages, "communities" and subcultures. Labeling people (particularly other people) is problematic in itself.

"Latinx" is a sophisticated word from and for sophisticated people (such as the mentioned LGBT activists, who are often ready to adopt neutral replacements of masculine and feminine words); its usage should be considered an indicator of such sophistication (do you find it proper or silly?) and social contexts (who would you call "Latinx"? What would they think of you if you did?), all quite orthogonal to people's identity.
How come? I'm an "[insert-country-here]-born American," though, I rarely say that out loud or otherwise.

Ayn Rand was a Russian-born American.
Mila Kunis is a Ukranian-born American.
Natalie Portman is an Israeli-born American.
Elon Musk is a South African-born American, and so are his siblings.
Sofia Vergara is a Colombian-born American, so is Wilmer Valderrama "Fez" from That '70s show.
Justin Bieber is a Canadian-born American.
The Sprouse twins are Italian-born Americans.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-born American.

The same way that say, Boris Johnson (Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) is an American-born British, except that outside the US people don't pay as much attention to this silly thing.

What's your point?
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How active is the Indian diaspora in philanthropy back in India?
That box is obviously and clearly malicious.
Firefox's Reader Mode maybe?
Raise prices all you want. The invisible hand will figure out what people value and what they don't and supply and demand will adjust accordingly. "Your margin is my opportunity."
There was a time that companies paid back into their local communities, funding schools and parks and infrastructure. It was normal until relatively recently for a pretty big chunk of profit to be "distributed" in this way. And it made sense. A company needs the community it sits in as much as the community needs the company. Then everyone went all single entrepreneurial / maximise profits for shareholders; a tiny sliver of people got astonishingly rich and incredibly greedy, and we ended up where we are with a huge poverty gap.

Companies are making enormous, enormous profits - of course they should be taxed. Tax them more. Bring back more money to the services that need them. Redistribute the wealth, because the alternative is absolute insanity.
I'm not a religious person and share some of your opinions but it seems to me fairly obvious that religion has contributed a lot to social coherence and organization. There's a reason it is almost endemic in post hunter-gatherer societies despite the wide variance in beliefs.

Humans are a people of stories and a shared common narrative was probably critical to provide societal cohesion and build a sense of community and purpose.
TOR is clunky and slow, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that someone would visit a dodgy forum over TOR, and use their regular browser for other web browsing.

Some sites can be difficult to even access over TOR, especially ones that are very JavaScript heavy or sit behind something like Cloudflare.
So having no tax would be great, right? Who needs public services!
I think we’re already past cliches and stereotypes when talking of all dog owners who walk without a leash!

I’m from USA. On the same page with you here about the collectivist vs individual freedom. As you noted it’s a tragedy of the commons—-because unquestioned individual freedom is prized so heavily in USA, some dog owners take advantage of it without appropriate precaution, and those people tend to do things like call the police on black people, or scare and injure children by accident with their dogs, and these incidents correspondingly build our stereotype of off-leashers. Ironically this also leads to laws and rules and a general social attitude that restrict our individual freedom to walk dogs off leash.

In that way, Europeans are more ‘individually free’ on this topic because, as you note, off leash dog walking is totally normal over there because people wouldn’t think of doing it without appropriate control of their dog. Interesting to think about the tension and paradoxes between individual and collectivist freedoms.

But, you probably have some annoying dog tax ;)
Corporate profits are easily reduced to zero by say... Paying fat bonuses to ceos. All high corporate taxes do is encourage companies to dispose of the profits before the end of the tax period.
“We need to hide opinions because people who agree with it might have other opinions”

No thanks.
Posting comments on the internet can be a high risk activity - which is my cat memes are so popular - it is not the right medium for a) bragging about unethical behavior or b) denouncing others. I understand the freedom of speech arguments but this comes from a time when there was no broadcast media and no permanent public record of what you said.
Why is punishing adding value not wrong? Isn't adding value a good thing?
I grew up in Australia but lived in Japan for 10 years. Tall poppy syndrome is what made me feel the cultures truly had something in common.
I’m a bit surprised to see this article flagged so heavily that it disappeared from the HN front page entirely.

Poor people starving even more due to Covid related lockdowns is a reality. Families begging MLAs for hospital beds and oxygen is a reality. People with appointments for vaccination being turned away and then the vaccines being sold to paying recipients and families and friends is a reality. These are things that have happened to family and friends in my case.

To those flagging the article- please let us think about the long term. Only when we are all aware of what is going on can we ask for action backed by evidence. Otherwise, we’ll continue with the current situation of no news reporting.
Dog attacks are common enough in the U.K. to be a topic you can subscribe to on the BBC news site. While it’s definitely pretty culturally acceptable to have a dog off leash there, I’m not so sure it should be, especially in places such as children’s parks or near livestock etc.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c9q9301541xt/dog-attacks
I look forward to the day that we punish corporations by removing their freedom (ability to operate) instead of fining them laughably small percentages of their yearly revenue for serious violations of laws and regulations.

In reality I understand that this would harm the employees and the public to an unacceptable degree so maybe some form of “jail time” whereby all profits go directly to non-executive employees and price discounts would be more effective. Depriving shareholders of dividends may lead investors to “vote with their wallets” and we’d see more of an actual free market instead of what we have today where economy-destroying decisions go effectively unpunished and in some cases are rewarded by bail outs.
> when a company gets to generate more profit the result is an even bigger gap between C-levels and normal employees salaries.

This is #4 "spent on wages" no?

We already tax wages. A graduated income tax targets specifically the problem you are flagging here. Taxing corporations exclusively would do away with this.

If you're making an equity argument, why not argue for the opposite of what you're saying: reduce corporate taxes to zero, then make up for it by taxing only the highest earners' wages? Not advocating for a policy position here, just pointing out that the argument in the GP post is precisely that they lack of those granular policy levers is a drawback of taxing corporate income. Policy levers which could be used to nudge the income gap down by taxing the "excessive" executive comp at a higher rate, for example, don't work if you collect that tax revenue as a monolithic corporate profits tax.
* Oligopoly, unless you're claiming that an infrastructure provider is one of the following:

Either:

1. A sole provider of a good or service

OR

2. One of several ruling elites that form the primary basis of government.

Monopoly:Oligopoly :: Monarch:Oligarch.
my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. can anyone point me to an actual monk who was 700 years ahead of their time please?
Same failures
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-June/150839.h...

Quality really went down with that RH guy.. :/
> The working class shouldn't be subsidizing large corporations.

Totally agreed. This is exactly why HN’s constant support for corporate tax avoidance confuses me. Most HNers live in high CoL countries, where corps do not pay their share of taxes. This leads to the same HNers paying more taxes to support their country. Truly hilarious!
That’s my general conclusion and it’s substantially more so for the library/archive case where long-term stability is so important. It’d be one thing if, say, a game found a format to be so much better when they control the encode and decode sides completely but once that’s not true it really needs a first-class open source implementation to even be considered.
Tax intellectual property too then.

This would also help push back against ridiculous patents and eternal copyright.
they do have some employees - the directors

> Microsoft Round Island One, the registered address of which is at an office of the law firm Matheson in Dublin, states in its accounts that it has “no employees other than the directors”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/03/microsoft-iris...

What the Guardian is not saying (but I am not surprised, since it's a rag) is that MS has a huge presence in Ireland, in a different company, probably.

Ireland has been MS base in Europe for decades, they have 2000 employees there, and it's where Azure had it's first European data center. I know because I applied to them back in the day, and my company had a one day outage in 2011 because of a lighting strike to the data center...

MS should pay a minimum of 5-10% of those money in taxes, where they are produced, for sure. But let's get our facts straight, so we have a better voice when we say this.
So... wouldnt that mean that there should be a government MAXIMUM amount of taxes that can be collected?

Why are their taxes on every single transaction?
I didn't claim to solve anything. Merely that a world wide corporate tax rate isn't as simple as everyone thinks. For what it's worth, a corporate tax rate doesn't prevent you from doing what you suggest. In fact, you are encouraged to do so to avoid the tax.
> User Style Sheets (1998-2019)

I’m still using them.
Help people. Preferably in an area with the following attributes:

* you are an expert in, or willing to learn a lot about for years
* relatively focused (so, React, not webdev. better is react hooks)
* technical

Find people talking about this in online communities. Read their questions, answer or research them.

Amy Hoy has great insights about this: https://stackingthebricks.com/articles/ (she covers this in the context of building a business but it works in the context of building a brand)

You can help people in other ways too: help run a meetup. Speak at meetups. Mentor.

But participating in an online focused niche scales far better than other methods.
This is fun! It even handles emojis!
A lot of the identifier names are ... undesireable for me, so I'm having to change characters and search around to get a positive and family-friendly result.
Very encouraging work!

ryanmentor becomes "Brown Eating Doctor" with a brown-eating grin. Obviously that's not how I want to be represented!

I made this one bit-by-bit and I rather like it: https://nimiq.github.io/identicons/builder.html#%22backgroun...
I wrote a path tracer in a compute shader. It was quite fun and much faster than the CPU version. Not trivial though; even such simple things as generating noise take at least some thought.
First, companies don’t optimize for tax at the exclusion of everything else. And calling tax optimization and inefficiency is interesting considering it directly impacts returns.

Second, the innovation isn’t in the tax policy, it’s in the use of the tax revenue. If I come up with a less bureaucratic and less costly administrative process for companies, why shouldn’t I pass the along if I want to?

Third, the implementation goal is global. That’s been stated by Biden.

And I’m guessing the lower income countries will suffer. You want to pay t a similar tax rate for the US for say Myanmar? Abundant corruption, questionable private property rights, untrustworthy courts?
I think I saw this on Penn & Teller's Bullshit, or maybe some other show with them. There was a blind man using echolocation and the tongue clicking to ride a bicycle. It was so cool!
A union/federation/etc is not exactly centralization. Neither does centralization imply authoritarianism.

Whether this is good policy imposed on poor countries by rich countries is a great question. But that has little to do with the premise you suggest.
I remember long ago, when I used to watch TV, a story of a man who figured it out when he was a child, and eventually learned to ride a bicycle, and started teaching it to others.

Thanks to search engines, and video on demand... here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAtVOK04XvA
With oceans rising and lakes drying up, desalination is starting to look more attractive.
If the people who are most concerned about climate change believe this and die childless, the earth will be inherited by the children of people who don't think climate change is a huge problem.
>More corporation taxes = lower income taxes

Not in my country though. Why not raise both and steal some money?
> I personally like Michael Pettis's argument that continued economic growth depends on increasing economic demand through redistributing wealth from capital (or more generally the wealthy) to labor [3], so I am skeptical of reforms that stop taxing capital.

This is an important point, and is misunderstood in (US) politics and deabtes, IMHO. Supporting capitalism and taxation aren't mutually exclusive positions. Well thought out taxation is crucial to balance the inherent network effects of large corporations. There's huge network effects, especially in tech [1], that leads to less ability for smaller firms or new players to compete. If anything, I'd wager that appropriate taxation of network effects is crucial to a well functioning capitalist society, especially as so much of success is due to luck and network effects in addition to hard work and talent [2].

Just because you have capital doesn't mean you have capitalism, where most any individual(s) can access capital to bring about new companies and products. The trick is defining empirically and scientifically sound taxation measures rather than giving into simplistic models of Socialism or Reganism.

1: https://medium.com/@nfx/70-of-value-in-tech-is-driven-by-net...
2: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068
Poe was a big influence on Lovecraft, who died in poverty and obscurity but exploded in popular consciousness with the passage of time. In fact one can say that he has eclipsed Poe as his popularity continues to rise.
You know... someone told me was looking for someone you can be offended on behalf of to make yourself feel morally superior to other people.

Have you heard that some people call this the white savior complex? Crazy right?
Now find some sources to cite with that timeline, and create a wikipedia article from it!
Soufflé, a logic programming language inspired by Datalog
There has never existed accounting methods for corporations to funnel taxes via cherry-picked countries, until the modern globalized economy.

Do provide some sources or examples?
Post 7 resonates with me a lot. One thing that it only hints at is how fundamentally different thinking about things from a machine/system perspective is from thinking about things directly.

It's also really ubiquitous across a bunch of disciplines, from Drucker's Management & Gerber's E-Myth & Dalio's Principles in business/org development (not even mentioning the huge field of ops management) to the broader field of systems thinking like Donnelly's Thinking in Systems. Even frameworks like the Scientific Method are a form of this type of thinking, and it's easy to forget that these are all human concepts of trying to bring order to chaos. In the software world you have contemporaries like Larson's An Elegant Puzzle focusing on the management aspect and so so so many classics like GoF/Pragmatic Programmer/Code Complete that focusing on the developer. It's neat that the same ideas apply at different levels of the bigger systems (company, project, individual contributor).

It's also easy to forget that the cogs of many of these machines are people, and this article does a good job of bringing that aspect to the forefront.
I'm not sure we need to draw distinctions between the two in this case.

I mean, I don't want Google searching through gmail for any time anyone has shared anything that might be subject to copyright, either.
Personally, I would say it matters because that scenario is BS.

Further, don't forget that while the IRS knows exactly how much you have made - they still require you to figure it out at the end of the year and then in all likelihood pay more taxes than what was taxed.

In scandanavian countries - their taxes are high - but at least the system is simple; they send you a summary of what you made, what you were taxed and you basically just sign it (according to some friends from there - I do not have first hand knowledge of how its actually done in Sweden/Norway/Finland)