skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Remember, Tether has no upside. There is no reason to ever hold Tether for any length of time.

"There is this product/service X, that is bought and traded fro billions. I don't see any use cases myself so clearly there isn't any reason to use it. Market is wrong and I am right."
It doesn't matter where they are "domiciling themselves". If the company is international and does buisness in any of the G7 countries, than those countries will collect the tax difference between 15% and whatever they are paying in Switzerland.
To add to that, there structural problems with an income tax in general, and a corporate income tax in particular, and there are many arguments for eliminating it altogether, and replacing it with other types of taxes (e.g. a transaction tax, a carbon tax, a land tax, etc). But this locks it in place as a constant for all countries.
Except if you need to run the app on remote server.

VS Code shows how utterly difficult it is to get a GUI working well in that scenario.
I was always explaining this on our local community forums in the early years of Firefox presence like this: extension extends the program on functionality, while plugins allows you to use other piece of software or its part within the browser
Could we not have fixed those security issues? What was so structurally wrong with NPAPI that it had to go?
"For every 10,000 black people arrested for violent crime, 3 are killed

For every 10,000 white people arrested for violent crime, 4 are killed"

https://twitter.com/LeonydusJohnson/status/12674663458447400...

Consider also that there are towns such as Jackson, Mississippi which have police departments that are >90% black [1] but still have all the same problems as police forces in America generally:

https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/policeshootings/

Not posting this to change your mind, I don't think that's possible through a single comment, but if you seriously think that there can be no other good-faith, legitimate opinion than your own, then consider that you might not be thinking about this rationally.

"“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." John Stuart Mill

[1] https://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/police-dep...
What’s the mechanism by which poor countries will get even poorer exactly here?
So what if every supplier is connected to Uyghur forced labor?
The fact that they could levy such inducements and everybody knows it is probably why this deal is happening.

Tax havens require the complicity of larger, more powerful states to exist. They are by no means inevitable.
pythons type system, just like typescripts, is completely unsound. Haskell is also unsound because of unsafeCoerce. But that makes it very clear that what you are doing is unsafe. In python you very often write unsound code that passes the type checker. This means you cannot trust the type checker to catch type errors.
"Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, yeah
But when the taxman comes to the door
The house look a like a rummage sale"
-Fortunate Son, Creedence Clearwater Revival
That site is generally not a trusted news source. I'd follow that link up with something else.
Shouldn't Java be somewhere in that list?
G7 plans to tax big tech on where it generates profits
That's how Emacs works, although it uses (your choice of a set of) GUI toolkits. Not sure if you mean one single toolkit that covers both and looks identical. I guess Emacs would still mostly qualify.
Firefox abandoning the more powerful XUL to web extensions resulted in a lot of extensions going away because there are not useable APIs. On the other hand, I would feel relatively safer to install a web extensions than a XUL nowadays because they are pretty well contained with permissions.
Less companies will be formed there if they don't have a tax advantage.
Really? You are “skeptical”? Did you even read the article? It’s a nesting island on a dedicated ecological reserve. This has likely been happening there for decades or centuries.
If you already know another dynamic language and want to understand R, I would recommend skipping all the intros to R based around data analysis and start with Advanced R by Hadley Wickham. It will explain all the weirdness you'll encounter right up front before it confuses you. Then you can read the data analysis tutorials and focus on the content rather than the R weirdness.
Of course microsoft and apple would like such standardization: their browsers are very poor on plug-ins/extensions compared to chrome and Firefox. Maybe chrome is still a bit faster than Firefox, but it is fast enough for my uses and, considering it is "more independent" than other browsers, it is now my favorite browser again.
Read the article again. G7 countries will collect tax difference that international companies avoided paying in tax heavens. Thus deincentivising companies from even doing buisness there.
So Flash is an extension because it extends the browser's functionality to also be able to display Flash content, and an advert blocker is a plugin because it allows you to use the advert blocking software within the browser... right?
I see - that’s philosophically, but maybe not economically different from what I was thinking of - “make-work” jobs, or jobs that could easily be replaced by automation.

Edit to add: one major difference might be in the level of skill or education the employee has/needs.
Actually it looks like the calculation goes the opposite direction, basically disposable income is calculated by adding your income in dollars to other benefits you get (healthcare, food stamps, etc.), and subtracting taxes. So that is kind of accounted for, since in countries other than the US their healthcare benefits year-over-year will be added to their measured income.

For the average person though there isn't much risk of having to pay tens of thousands of dollars for cancer treatment. The vast majority of Americans have health insurance, and your costs are limited by the out of pocket maximum.
tl;dr; We are lazy, so if a process gets simpler/faster/easier, we tend to use it more often.
Not true at all. 8.6 has been stable for over a year. It is also very very low compared with what you can get in DeFi (which is arguably higher risk).
If I buy online and have it shipped to the UK, is it sold in the UK, in another countries warehouse or wherever they have a web sever?
It's pageantry. Google forced Manifest V3 on the world without consulting the other browsers or the existing WebExtension stakeholders. They did it under a false flag of security and performance, objectives that could have been achieved with MV2 if they wanted. But that wouldn't allow them to neuter ad-blockers.

Their member in this group, Simeon Vincent, won't acknowledge this because his paycheck requires him to not understand it. You could read the last year of the chrome extension google group for countless examples of developers raising issues with MV3 architecture only to be corporate-spoken away by the 800-lb browser gorilla. They aren't listening, but they want you to think they are.

Google does whatever it wants, whenever it wants, as poorly documented as it wants. MV3 still does not have buy-in from extension developers but Google has started the clock on MV2 deprecation. This new group is nothing more than an attempt to get Google to document loudly what they're already doing.
Java falls under plug-ins. The Java plug-in was released in 1998. Flash was released in 1996
It’s not in the distribution, but some kind soul updated the source code for modern compilers.

https://github.com/interkosmos/xroach
It's astounding to watch both states and companies work so tirelessly to pretend that the contours of the internet are isomorphic with the current political borders of the planet.

The internet is under no obligation to recognize or respect those borders, and on sufficiently large time scales, certainly will not.

So what's all the tantrum throwing? Can't we let states be states, and let the internet be the internet, and then see which one emerges as the more human (and more humane) phenomenon?

A company deleted a tweet. A state has blocked access to the servers of that country insofar as it can control network access. What is the takeaway?
Unmanageable is obviously hyperbole because they are managing it now and have a fantastically successful business.

I don’t think any of us in this thread understand what their customers want more than Starbucks do…

Besides even the classiest coffee bars will offer an eye watering number of permutations. Most offer 3 options of bean (dark, light, decaf), 7 drink types (Americano, espresso, latte, cappuccino, flat white, macchiato, filter), 2 sizes for each, skim/full/oat/coconut/soy milk choices, 5 syrups, own cup/mug/takeout, option to double-shot, so that already gets you well above 6,000 combinations. Want to offer those as iced drinks in the summer? Up to 12k options.

So what do we want to do? Not offer syrups? No cold drinks in the summer? No coconut milk (which is an upsell anyway)?

All these choices have revenue implications.
And yet tax receipts locally will be up.
Hmmm ... I dunno if this is helpful, but if you're looking for new content that might be interesting to you, I put together an email newsletter that curates HN stories which didn't reach the front page.

Most of it just flies past and doesn't get seen, so if you look in there, you might find links to articles and topics that would otherwise be overlooked. Maybe that might satiate your boredom?

It's a list of 40-50+ articles every Friday, and the interest profile is very similar to HN. (I wrote some more info at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27343897)

If you're interested, please have a look at https://bengtan.com/interesting-things.
India will be next to ban Twitter. And their govt. is not unpopular, nor will that decision be insignificant to the price of Twitter stock.
Whenever twitter bans someone, there's a chorus of comments saying that twitter is just a website, just use some uncensorable p2p protocol, etc.. It seems like all of this would also apply to twitter itself getting banned, and yet I don't see any such comments here.
You judge them as not acting in good faith, and impute their endgame in the very same sentence.
I've only just now read the paper (link below), so this is from the hip:

Graeber floated an explanation (bullshit jobs) for the data gathered (grumpy workers). It was not a study, nor ever presented as such.

This is follow up research, a proper study. IIRC, as Graeber had encouraged.

The researchers propose the Marxist notion of alienation as an alternate theory for the phenomenon Graeber originally daylighted.

While the researchers reduce the likely scope of alienation, they emphasize that millions of people are impacted, which should not be ignored.

Graeber has no particular animus towards finance, as The Economist suggested. He's grumpy about corporatism and bureaucracy. If The Economist is offended by Graeber's work, that's on them.

--

Research cited by Economist:

"Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170211015...

Buried lede:

"But part of Mr Graeber’s thesis turns out to be correct. Employees who think their work is useless tend to feel anxious and depressed. The reason, the academics suggest, is linked to the Marxist idea of “alienation”, which described what artisans felt in the 19th century when they stopped working for themselves and were dragooned into factories."

Bonus link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation
Google USA made zero profit on those sales due to the 100% licensing fee with Google Ireland, so there's no income to be taxed. Revenue and expenses are exactly equal.

As for sales tax, I don't really know how it works in this situation.
Both Ireland and Luxembourg have legitimate activities: Irish whiskey isn’t a big deal compared to tech, but there’s no real reason to ban it. Defining a line is hard, especially when the country’s traditional advantage _is_ finance, like it is in Luxembourg, even outside of tax-optimisation.

It’s easier to have rules against countries with less credibility, but then again, you risk making things complicated for Seychelles, Curaçao, St-Martins. It’s easier to define a minimum tax so that they don’t have to pick between tourism and tax optimisation.
You aren't paying taxes on revenue, you pay tax on profit
Maybe they should do a sales tax then.
This is not how banks operate. When a bank makes a loan, the bank creates a new deposit in its balance sheet, in effect creating new money out of thin air. [1] Most of the money in circulation is created by banks in this way. This means banks don't need liquidity to make loans, because they can create their own liquidity. And, yes, the demands for loans in the EZ crashed during the financial crisis and hasn't recovered ever since, which explains the low interest rates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_creation#Role_of_banks_i...
I'd reason, there's a chance that child molesters might share with each other and might connect the readers that way. If they have some data on a suspect but aren't sure yet?
Hah, dating to when the OS being aware of the mouse pointer location was novel.
That’s a pop star you ran out of town. The BBC or Der Spiegel weren’t falling all over themselves to be first to let everyone know that the Catholic Church had a giant problem. There’s a reason Spotlight was an important movie.
Do you really think countries like Ireland, Liechtenstein can afford to piss of US. US has the leverage here, it should use it.
There are 3 ways to vote in a corporation:

- with your wallet: buy or not buy from them

- with your broker: invest (and then literally vote from the inside) or not in them

- with your feet: work or not for them

Corporate interests are directly aligned with us exactly because without these votes they are finished. That is why corporates try to create products clients want, profit investors want and salaries workers want. On top of that, social responsibility programs to keep everyone happy and pay their taxes.

There is only one way to vote when it for politicians: with your feet. And they don't care since they win by getting votes and they get votes by spending money which is taken from us. They have no interest aligned to ours.

That is why I much prefer the dominions of corporations.
Not advocating for necessarily

But start lying your ass off

Or at least promising all kinds of bullshit

When I think of about half of the most famous brand people in the world

This is them
This little write-up says next to nothing. If you want to engage with a critique of David Graeber's work on 'Bullshit Jobs,' you might as well skip to the paper linked at the bottom of this column - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09500170211015....
This reminds me of when the G7 political elite got together in 1990 and created FATF, to institute a financial warrantless mass-surveillance system, euphemistically called an anti-money laundering system, and nearly every government in the world soon signed up, despite it turning out to be one of the least effective policy experiments in history:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1...
Not really. That sort of payment processor might allow you to specify a tax rate to include on a bill and maybe to configure different rates that are automatically selected depending on where your customer is. However, typically they do not actively monitor and update the current tax rates for different areas, nor do they handle the reporting and remittance to all required authorities, so they only take care of a small part of the overall compliance requirements.

There is another type of service becoming increasingly prominent, which is a "merchant of record". In effect, the service becomes a reseller for your product or service, and since they are then the vendor for legal purposes, they also become responsible for all the end customer taxation issues. You in turn typically deal with them as a much simpler B2B relationship between just two entities.
The argument is a tax on revenue is very unfair to low margin business like retail or farming, so corp. tax is usually on profits. Which creates the loophole of where are the profits recognized.
A pricing page is surely what I look for in new saas.
What you’re proposing is a tax on revenue, rather than a tax on profits. That is what a sales tax is.
DHCP will provide a nameserver and search domain for the network you connect to, which will resolve domains in that search domain properly. There is nothing special about that.

With systemd-resolved, the right thing happens out of the box. Without it, you've got to do something arbitrary like you describe.

It's ok to dislike systemd (there are plenty reasons to do so), but if you won't acknowledge things it does well, it's hard to take you seriously.

FWIW, I don't think having a local network (with eg. a NAS drive on it) and connecting to another (VPN) is so uncommon.
Does anyone know how these birds react to thunderstorms?
I think this may be over reading into it.

You can have a job where you feel useful and valuable without changing the world.

There are also jobs where you are being very useful, but it's arguably not good for society at large. You've got companies like FB that exist to just sell user data and serve ads and in HFT that milk ever penny out of the stock market where the speed of light isn't competitive enough for them, so they have to be as close to the exchanges as possible. Valuable to the company, but not through a bigger picture lens. Even worse, those companies have absorbed some of our best and brightest STEM graduates for years and prevented them from solving more noble pursuits.
It's Hacker News after all. :)
It's a gatekeeping job for a lot of medical stuff. Also if you're looking to become a firefighter or cop it's a very nice thing to already have on your resume.

Basically people put up with it because it's usually a stepping stone toward a job where you can print easy money.
> allowing Amazon's rise

By doing what, clearing out the rest of the local competition?
I hope this means extensions won’t be able to track the websites you visit.
If the US branch bought a widget for $90 and sold it for $100, they'd pay tax only on the $10 of profit. If it actually cost the Irish branch $90 to make those widgets then that would be entirely fair and the right way to assign the tax burden. However, if the widget is actually free to "make" and yet the US branch is changed $100 for them we get the current situation.
Another person tweeting on being kicked out for criticizing a founder, though for a different topic. https://twitter.com/ekadamer/status/1400956227501318146
>And their govt. is not unpopular

Will they actually remain "not unpopular" if they ban Twitter?
Do you expect a peaceful resolution? It’s great to tell a bully to calm down, but you want either them to calm down (which doesn’t seem likely here) or more reasonable people to take over.
>Small software companies with customers all over the world are not multinational companies

It's extremely common even for small software companies to have offices across the world
The trick is to not own things (personally) but control them, e.g. if you want a yacht, you create a holding somewhere that buys the yacht and owns the yacht, and you can use it whenever you like. The holding then has contracts with other companies renting you out. And you work for 0 EUR for the holding and have no income. The holding also owns the house you live in. If you're a high risk person the company can be owned by your wife(example is simplified, the setup is more complex and implemented my EY e.g.).

For example I want a computer. If I pay for the computer as a private citizen, I have to pay income tax, social security on the money before I can spend it and then I have to pay VAT on the item.

Hamilton got too greedy here [1] and the setup wasn't the best, but you get the idea:

"Hamilton set up another Isle of Man company to purchase a €1.7m motorhome that he uses at racetracks. [..] He is contracted to Mercedes, with whom he secured his fourth world championship last month, via a Guernsey company."

See Hamilton doesn't get the money from Mercedes, his "Guernsey company" does. He doesn't own the motorhome, he owns the company that owns the motorhome. No VAT payed, no income tax payed. And the company he owns might be through several shell companies so no IRS knows what he owns. And when it knows, the company only makes losses (see Trump setup), so no taxes payed on owning the company either.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/06/lewis-hamilton-...
> Both Ireland and Luxembourg have legitimate activities:

So those countries need to decide if they want to support legitimate activities or legitimate activities with fair tax policy approved by the US.

If they dont like US's demands they can stop trading with US but we know they are not going to do that.
Interesting. I wonder why the drone caused such a disproportionate response. The article doesn't address it but I doubt that if, say, an eagle had landed or started killing birds they would have abandoned so many eggs.
Will rich nations back a deal to tax multinational citizens?

This is one area where America has a secret lead for both foreigners and ultra-rich citizens. Checkout GRATs and Opportunity Zones if you want to daydream about how to pay near-nothing in taxes as an American sitting on a massive windfall.

And then there’s all of the things you can do inside of an insurance policy.
Have a look at Posthaven:

https://posthaven.com/

Top feature is post by email:

Post by email done right
Email post@posthaven.com.
Attach photos, music, video, and docs.
We reply with your new post.

Here’s how it works (well!):

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From the builders of Posterous after Twitter bought and killed it:

> Posterous is shutting down as of April 30th, so it is ever more important for users to weigh their options and choose their next platform.

> We created Posthaven to provide a perfect export option to Posterous users. Before this, we were key parts of the team that built Posterous in 2008 and wrote and designed much of the software.

History: https://venturebeat.com/2013/02/15/one-year-after-being-acqu...

So far, the stability and durability have been as promised, approaching a decade.
I add my goals to Habinator habit tracker. After a couple weeks I have progressed or I delete the goal because I have realized the unrealistic expectations what I had about my goal.
I think the actual economics paper[1] is far more interesting than Amazon’s PR spin on it. What Amazon (I suspect) knows but the paper authors sidestep a bit is the elasticity of the unskilled low-wage labor market. If you’re a waiter or a cashier and your boss or the job requirements become unbearable it’s not terribly difficult to waltz into Home Depot or the local grocery store and get a new job making the same amount of money.

Amazon paints their $15 as a benevolent community service but given all that we know about the expectations and requirements of an Amazon warehouse worker it seems to me that Amazon’s wage increase was necessary in order to compete in the labor market. If you could work in an Amazon warehouse for $X/hour or work stocking shelves at Target for $X/hour very few people are going to choose Amazon. And this is evidenced in the referenced/linked economics paper. Amazon’s 2018 wage increase from $11/hour to $15/hour resulted in an average local unskilled low-wage increase of 4.7% suggesting those local markets didn’t need to meet Amazon’s wages in order to compete with them.

The $15 is enough to lure some people to work at Amazon but it seems there are others for which slightly lower pay and the benefit of bathroom breaks is a trade-off they’re willing to make in the labor market.

[1]https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3793677
stablecoins enable the ability to exit bitcoin at any time without having to take risk on another equally volatile coin.