skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last section, "Dai from PSM-USDC-A", is also USDC in the peg stability module.
IIUC, they are paying taxes on goods sold, but those taxes are then offset by “losses” which they incur by “buying”, say, IP licenses, from their sister company. This sister company get record profits, but this company is then located in a tax haven, and pays no taxes on these profits.
And less private spending and investment by these corporations and their shareholders. The optimal size of government spending, as a percentage of GDP, for economic growth, is likely well below 25%, and significantly lower than the level in every OECD country, so to the extent that this enables increases in government spending, it will likely hurt economic growth:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170821004405/http://ime.bg/upl...
This'll be hard to do when voting power in corporations is directly tied to paper wealth.

Although one idea I was playing around with in my mind was around whether the tax could be made payable in public stock, provided that the voting rights are still assigned to the holder for a guaranteed minimum window (5 years?) that could extend pretty much indefinitely until the government chooses to close a position, e.g to pay for things.

I have no idea how good or bad an idea it is, but it's an idea.
DeFi now has a plethora of 'stablecoins' thanks to innovation of algo-stables.
Twitter has taken even greater steps against the same kind of violent messaging in the US itself. How does that fit into your theory about imperialism?
A company deciding not to transact with someone is not analogous to a government preventing its citizens from accessing portions of the web.
“Science” proves kids are bad for Earth
Automatic jobs gatherer from companies like CircleCI and DigitalOcean
I don't think that completely does it justice.

The discovery of a new technique (reheating the shells) made it possible to partition the shell making and filling from the sealing.
Even google has its own SEO teams and they are not immune to the developers messing up.

And you need technical SEO's not more front end devs cranking out the frame work dejour
What job (where you can print easy money) does experience working as a paramedic directly qualify you for?
This is the absolute concentrate of idiocy. They need the island because there isn’t land to build new housing… there’s plenty of land to build new housing but every single attempt gets shot down with excuses about “maintaining nature” because every single politician has had a 3000% increase of the value of their houses and apartments in the capital region and don’t want to see that end.

Once the island is finally build and complete, some politician will find some species of frog on it that’s suddenly vitally important to conserve even though it’s also verywhere else in Denmark, and construction of housing will become prohibited.
I think it would work on margin trading. Having more asset allows to lend to more margin traders. Which also more risky so more chances for the exchange to get fees
Core RISC OS free fonts
This isn't even remotely true. The costs of a security clearance investigation are borne by the sponsoring agency, not the contracting firm. The problem is that it's difficult to justify taking an uncleared person and submitting them for a clearance. You have to have a billet where someone isn't needed to hit the ground running, you have to be willing to take the risk to hire them with the possibility you may have to fire them within 12-18 months if they don't pass the investigation, and the program and/or contracting officer they're assigned to has to be willing to sign off on it (many contracts are written such that pre-cleared individuals are required to staff it).
Biden has been consistently good at this, going in with a crazy bold position and letting people argue him down to somewhere that would probably be his real position in the first place.
This feels like US wants to keep competition out from creating big companies.

Very similar to feeling to how wealthy wants higher income taxes (not wealth taxes) when they have all the money the need. To maintain status quo.

Seems like US enjoyed with this arrangement by creating very large companies (monopolies) worldwide, now they want to keep US world order intact.

Good for world, China wouldn't play balls with this. Bad for Europe since they have ever smaller shrinking big companies.
Twitter thread.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/PeterHowkins/status/1400492809354874884
Thanks for this. I really don't like it when stuff gets thrown away but I'm starting to come around why NPAPI had to go... Haven't finished yet but interesting reads.
Isn't the literal definition of 'allies' a group of countries which pool their military resources to compel other countries to act how they want? I don't see the contradiction
Type dig www.google.com @1.1.1.1

Note how it works despite being udp out though your firewall, being batted to a public ip, and the reply on a connection less protocol coming back in and being let through and correctly sent to the correct internal ip, even though someone else in another ip did exactly the same for www.bing.com at the same time.
G7 nations strike deal to tax big companies and squeeze havens
What you're describing is a method of deferring taxation, not avoiding taxation. Google is a US publicly traded company so its profits ultimately belong to its shareholders, and it can only pay that out via the US.
The superficial VLIW-like encoding is abit of a red herring. The instruction bundles that resemble VLIW aren't really semantically too significant after instruction decoding. The grouping by stop bits is the Itanium specific feature that affects scheduling and depenendcies more.
> I want to know how do you imagine a method of authentication not requiring any privacy could work

>Facial Recognition?

That could be one way

> I will just grab your profile picture.

Then maybe fix it to detect whether its a real person or just a picture.

Or maybe there are better way, I don't know.

Like I said, I'm not the expert, I wouldn't know every solution to every problem.

My point is we should spent the effort on figuring out that problem instead of trying to keep thing hiding.
This is being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27401862 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27403478
The first proposal of having a minimum corporate tax rate probably doesn't mean a lot because you to then start policing what subsidies governments give to effectively discount below 15%.

The more interesting part is what I hope is the start of serious efforts to tackle profit-shifting, which is a name invented for "transfer pricing" because that is technically illegal. But it's the same thing.

A good starting point is that if you book x% of your revenue in country A then country A should get to tax x% of your profit.

Here's another part of this they should adopt: borrowing money should count as repatriating profits. In the era of zero interest rates debt is used to effectively defer taxes forever. There's no legitimate reason to allow entities to borrow money at near-zero interest rates instead of repatriating retained earnings.
Y Combinator entrepreneurs say they were kicked out of the accelerator
Well Microsofts browser now basically chrome now, most chrome extensions are compatible.
Oh true, I forgot to account inflation, and also healthcare. While I don't think you could retire at 30 with it, 900k would give you a comfy runway to build your own income sources (like an online business or something), while living freely for many years. I guess that's what I meant by financial freedom, not necessarily not having any other income forever. And building online income streams isn't for everyone of course, but it's probably a desire of many here.

On the other hand, 900k will let you comfortably retire and live like a king if you move to a lower cost of living country.
The problem with businesses is that they hide systematically profits. The big ones are shifting their profits globally. The small ones never register profits (claiming they always operate at a loss, specially if they operate with mostly cash and not credit cards).

And in business, it is easier to hide your profits because you can shift around money to assets (this ferrari and the Manhattan condo are company owned), compensation (my CEO will get a 1000% raise this year), liabilities (paid off that huge loan we got to buy the lambo) etc.

The problem cannot be solved unfortunately. There are crude methods like estimating profits from revenues, but really, this has never worked.
Nigeria is a (albeit flawed) democratic government with elections which the current President won in 2019. Jack Dorsey personally donated to protesters. Twitter also created an emoticon to support them.[1] Then Twitter decides to remove the sitting President's post.

We all saw how well the "Arab Spring" went. We don't need Big Tech to go and create more failed states. Strong democracy and good government never work being built top down.

[1] https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/twitter-u...
AWS Tape Gateway
I'd really love to learn more about the dynamics of market makers.
I'm still bitterly sad that Widevine has almost ended up as part of the spec de facto. I always turn off DRM compatibility in FF, and wish the other browsers would give me the choice. For me, that battle has been lost but the war may yet be won. I hope that this move of extension standardisation is actually a net boon for the end user, and not another silent, slippery path like WV and HTML 5 DRM have been.
I'm sure thety do, but when doing something like removing an instance from an Instance Group you can never be 100% certain that it actually was removed without several refreshes.

Switching to a different project can give you, for example, a list on instances belonging to the previous project.

It's just not what I'd expect from Google considering what they pay engineers.
The article mentions other disturbances from dogs, bikers and walkers. Perhaps the drones were the last drop in the bucket to convince the birds "this area is unsafe for nesting".
Thank you for your reply. In hindsight it makes a ton of sense that this would only apply to companies with a physical presence in multiple countries.

Tracking country of origin for every online purchase and grouping them in order to pay international taxes would be an absolutely ludicrous requirement. No matter how low your opinion of the G7 is, they're not that dumb.
Are We Waiting for Everyone to Get Hacked?
Yeah cool, so by focusing on the 100 customers that brings $1 each, they've lost 1 customer that brings $2.
Cracks in the foundation of TOS feudalism?
Yup.

I read pedos or terrorists combined with a different than usual request for information as a red flag for "fishing for a precedent".
Companies shifting profits to compensation is better for states than booking corporate profits, because income is taxed at a higher rate.
How to keep track of online users with WebSockets
This time. Once the mechanism is in place and the large companies have complied, they will come for the small companies too.
An Irish pop-star... Ireland has known about paedo-priests long before Hollywood. And the pop-star above performed that piece on SNL. It ended her in the US. I'm not American, by the way.
Are the Middle East′s ′electronic armies′ the most dangerous of all?
Read and think for yourself. Don’t let others think for you
Can Twitter be a concern at all for vast majority of Indian voters?
This happens all the time, see e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

Of course you're free to ignore it, if you don't care about hundreds of million potential customers.
DC-3 aircraft from the thirties still operate. And aircraft experience nontrivial loads and wear.

Good engineering and craftsmanship.
It's fine to go off about China

But its finer to go off about the US and Israel

I'm assuming the author is American

Unlike with China, we/America at least indirectly control Israeli policy against the Palestinians

We could literally just snap our fingers and our oppression of the Palestinians with the help of Israel would end overnight

Just cut off arms sales and supplies and diplomatic support

Some of which is required by US (Leahy) law, and is just being ignored.

There is no reason for us to support the worse-than-Apartheid state that we/America and Israel are imposing on the Palestinians

We supported the South African Apartheid regime for decades until the pressure got to be too much

Then we magically were for human right all along

China sides with the Palestinians whenever the US makes a peep about the Uygurs

They're calling out our hypocrisy
In that case the US should first handle Delaware before throwing the first stone.
Direct link: https://www.ntara.com/google-core-web-vitals/

Dang might want to fix it if he reads this.
Then they already pay taxes there.
Layer 4 doesn’t have any way to understand layer 7 though without some sort of deep packet inspection. That’s outside the realm being reasonable in a lot of cases.
What stops individuals, sole traders and the self employed from doing this?
In countries like this, are people even trying to rely on "white" Internet? In places like Belarus, certainly not. Many people just simply use ToR as their main browser.
Maybe we're about to see react like semantics driving multiple backends, cli, local gui, html5 webapps..
The internet centralizes power rather than decentralize it
Bit surprised that this

"Getting the median of a single sorted list is trivial: it is either the central value if the list has an odd-numbered length, or the mean of the two central values otherwise."

Is stated with no proof its not something I recall from collage
Genetic study shows how humans are evolving (2017)
Twitter controlling political discourse in America is not imperialism, just corporatocracy. If Americans would like to live under such a system, so be it. Just keep your frankensteins out of our country please.
Yep, this is just the introduction to these kinds of thing. Then, they start to get accountants in both countries to agree on what seems a reasonable rate, say 30%? And the other 70% can be delayed earnings or whatever, and then maybe they decide to reinvest it instead. The list of resources is bottomless and continuously increasing.

What matters is that because the savings are potentially huge, your BigCo
is incentivized to reduce that tax exposure and they've got the legal and accounting workforce to find that optimization.
> I am not sure why you think it was UI blocker and not actual problem affecting the driving?

I think it's not an actual problem affecting the driving because the driving was unaffected. Autopilot wasn't engaged, we don't have evidence.

I'm just pointing out that the autopilot doesn't drive by reference to the dash UI (which is showing a pretty obvious visualization -- the UI understands these to be static objects so once it gets one it "animates" it as if the car was passing it), so bugs there aren't very informative as to its behavior.
Interesting.

To me, India seemed like the most reasonable in that region.
> My experience is mostly from the student side of things

Yes, and the author of article is writing from IT side of things, and he has to deal with non-student things as well.
This is such crap. While in theory you’re right, it ignores the biggest difference.

With politicians ever person only gets one vote, theoretically equal power to force change.

With corporations, the number of votes a person gets is directly related to their bank balance. There’s no such thing as equal power for the people, only the rich get to vote.
> but obviously (to almost everyone) these are unfalsifiable standards that self-proclaimed far left extremists have created to invalidate everyone's thoughts but their own

In this narrative, the CEO is playing the role of far-left extremist? I'm confused, please clarify.
Skiing is the best happy accident in FPS gameplay, in my opinion. While Tribes: Ascend was still a thing, the competitive scene was intensely charged around high-velocity damage-boosting optimal flag capture ski routes. It was nuts. The skill ceiling was practically unlimited and the competition was fierce.

Combined with projectiles with velocity ("inheritance") it made for some of the most exciting, tangible gameplay I've ever participated in and I miss I dearly.

All I want to do is ski.
I consider myself a pretty experienced developer/software engineer/whatever. Decade into my career, started in iOS in Obj-C, learned Swift along the way, eventually migrated to the backend with Java/SQL, and finally found myself where I really wanted to be, embedded doing C/C++ work for a household name.

That said, about halfway through my master's about two years ago, I found myself in an intro to data mining course that was sold as an "we will teach you R". I had heard non-programmer math friends talk about what they had accomplished in R, and was excited to dive in.

Now, it didn't help that the class ended up being heavy on the statistics side (which despite a math/cs double major, stats was never my thing), but the actually learning R part was 99% left as an exercise to us alongside of the classwork required.

I can say without a doubt, learning R is the worst programming experience I've ever had. Our assignments would give some high level direction on which libraries to use, but getting the right libraries setup and in the environment was just an absolute nightmare. All I remember from that class is hours every week googling unreadable python pukes from R studio (because apparently everything data mining/ML related in R is actually just python), and then spending an hour or less actually doing the statistics work.

I feel bad because I feel like I was setup to not be able to give it a fair chance, but if that's what non-programmer math types are subjected to when told "you need to do some programming for your job", I can understand the apprehension.
Currently, the ban is only a government boycott. Burari's wife deactivated her Twitter account. I expect his party members to follow suite.

At the moment Twitter is freely accessible in Nigeria.

Maybe in coming months, the Buhari government would work with China to enforce the ban.
That is incorrect.
The source of it may vary but the results are the same.

Educated and well off people might have a superiority complex and they can be both racists and classists. And poor people can be ignorant, even more so when isolated, which is a catalyst for racism.
Working as an EMT counts as "clinical experience" some amount of which is required or "encouraged but practically speaking required unless you know someone who can pull strings for you" for med school admission.
The European Union did introduce a system similar to this for VAT, where the rate paid depends on the country of the buyer, not the seller: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/taxation/vat/cross-bor...

It might be a bad idea but it's not beyond the realms of possibility.
more companies and startups should have and attain that test to code ratio.
I had to double check my tablet, as I didn't have it handy. That is the exact same service as the app. You are correct in that there is no dot, nor in the app name, either. My error, sorry.
The current president already executed a coup d'etat against a democratic government once in the 1980s. How many of those has Jack Dorsey done?
It’s funny you don’t.

Putin has been pulling his dick out, slapping it on the table and leering at what he wants for *everyone to see* before making his move to take what he wants.

There’s nothing secret about his plans. You’re just thick.
RPA/screen scraping just uses the web site as the API. It’s a poorly defined, likely to change, poorly defined API. But it exists and accepts http.
Just as stupid ad for Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor with a click bait title.
A thousand nods of agreement. I tell everyone that will listen to stop buying from Amazon and feeding the beast. They know that they have a counterfeit problem and they refuse to face it. I suspect that someone has done the math and figured out that most people won't figure it out or complain so it's more profitable to just let the common binning continue.
The nail that sticks out gets hammered.
Well that would be why it's so much slower than it use to be! HN is one of the last bastions of fast sites :(
>Without some expectation of privacy it would have been impossible for people to gather together with others who had been similarly criminalized..

Impossible is a really strong word. I'm not saying that its going to be easy but I doubt that its impossible. That's my point lets spend the effort to figure out/solve this problem instead of trying to hide information.

>I doubt you actually believe that privacy doesn't matter however, because you're posting here under a pseudonym and haven't linked any social media accounts or anything which could reveal "private" details like your full legal name, place of residence/work, etc.

I would love to have everything for everyone to be public so that I don't have to worry about hiding those information. The problem is right now I can't. That's why I'm advocating we spent the effort on solving the problem that arise when the information is public rather than trying to hide information.

Likewise, if I'm gay I would much much prefer to have gay to be decriminalized rather than hiding my sexual orientation.
There is plenty of space in Copenhagen. However plans to build anything anywhere gets shot down constantly with silly laws and restrictions. Politicians don’t want a more healthy housing market in the capital because they are all some of those who are profiting most from how unhealthy it is.
The proof is by definition.
I hope they also sent the participants through new mazes after training while asking them not to echolocate -- just to help determine that they weren't getting better at sightless maze walking for some other reason (like greater sensitivity to signals from the skin and hair) ... It's kind of amazing what information our bodies perceive -- I'm thinking about the phenomenon of walking down the street talking to someone next to you while not looking ahead only to suddenly realize that you've stopped and leaned dramatically backward with your head inches from a sign you didn't see ...

I'd love to learn this echolocation skill and then volunteer to help train blind folks that haven't been taught ... I'm obsessed with echolocation.
Western dotcoms really need gang up together, and look at creating a solution for "unbannability."

The Facebook, Amazon, Google hosts a double digit portion of the Internet, and can take an even bigger part of it hostage.

They can easily force countries to either block Internet completely, or bend over.
The PoI could equally apply to any conspiracy: Shadowy Jewish bank cartels, the gay agenda, prism and the deep state.

The issue at hand is that the evidence is picked at contextual extremes, and then extrapolated.

You need way more verification that the intolerant have the power you think they have; there is v often a silent majority that would step in if things escalated.
That's exactly what I thought. There is a ridiculous amount of power that gets attached to a capital city, which means we can't do the sensible thing which would be to spend far less creating new towns or cities with modern sustainable methods, better balance of transport/living etc.

I guess it is just good money after bad and the fact that despite the amount of sense it makes to build elsewhere, lots of companies cannot find good employees and think they need to be in the big city to get those.
Years after having read the trilogy, I still often get reminded about the story and the elements in it. Thank you for sharing.
Maximum wealth cap? What are you, Stalin?
Twitter: Suspends for something they don't like.
Government: Suspends Twitter for something they don't like.
Twitter: surprised Pikachu
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