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The reality is much more complicated than the article or the blog post makes it out to be. Google's foreign tax rate is 2.4% (quite low), and they shift lots of their earnings offshore where it is not subject to US tax ($17.5B cumulatively, per Note 15 of the 10K).

However, it is not the case that Google only pays 2.4% of their US operating profit to the IRS, as a look at Note 15 of their 10K shows. There are lots of reasons that a corporation's effective tax rate will differ from the statutory tax rate of 40% (35% federal + ~5% state). To name a couple of common ones:

1. Prior net operating losses (net of valuation allowances)

2. Stock option exercises by employees (see 1999-2000 when over 50% of major tech companies' cash flows were from option exercise, and lots of them--entirely legally--paid zero or "negative" tax, or so it appeared; in reality, the taxes were just paid out of a different pocket). There is a bill in Congress to remove this deduction.

3. Adjustments for overseas taxes paid

4. Use of NOLs, impairment charges, changes in valuation allowances, lots of technical items.

Some of the entries in Note 15 of GOOG's latest 10K that lowered its provision for US income taxes (effective rate) in the current period include:

- Foreign rate differential (due to tax treaties with foreign countries, income taxed overseas is often not taxed again in the US)

- Federal research credit

- Tax exempt interest (interest from tax exempt bonds)

(Search for "Note 15" here: http://edgar.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/00011931251...)

The rest of Note 15 elaborates on their capital losses from investments, impairments of acquired goodwill, etc. Tax disclosures are some of the most complicated areas of financial statements, and they're very easy to misread. However, they can be very informative, as tax info can provide a window into the difference between accrual-based earnings and cash inflow/outflow.

Just for future reference, NOTHING in a financial statement is what it seems until you read the notes, period. That is the first thing they teach you in financial accounting.

Think of it as the equivalent of a typical developer's reaction to a blog post claiming "X outperforms Y"--usually, the first comment is "did you take into account setting Z?" The footnotes contain "setting Z."
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On the one hand this looks like an admirable attempt to collapse the essentials out of Scala while removing the cruft.

On the other, most of Scala's features got there for a reason, and have had years to be honed into a cooperating set. It will be fascinating to see what needs to be added to Kotlin in the next year.
> Some UNIXes like OS/X still have a vestigial /bin/[ executable!

This includes linux, but it's in /usr/bin/[
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One of the big problems with our overcomplicated tax system is that it creates these sorts of moral ambiguities. Is person X or corporation Y paying their fair share of taxes? Only the accountants and (maybe) the IRS have any idea. So people with a negative view of business can get all riled up and angry, and people with a positive view of business can get all riled up and angry.

The presence of ambiguities in the system breeds mistrust among the citizenry. This cannot be healthy for society.
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In addition to the problem noted in the OP, a problem I noticed is that there does not seem to be a way for me to make available a series of posts to persons A, B and C (suppose they are members of a club I am in) without A, B and C's posts showing up in my stream. Suppose for example that I want A and B's posts in my stream, but not C's because C posts too much wacky shit.

So that's another way I'd like more control over my stream.
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Comparing JS to assembly is quite silly.

> Shaver's right, assembly without a great macro processor is not good for programmers or safety. JS is. So the analogy needs some qualification or it becomes silly.

This way you can compare anything to anything else and then try to qualify.
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This reminds me of how Tower Records opened their first store in Japan, when a fake Tower Records store was already operating in Sapporo... (see http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/MTS-Inc-Com...) Interestingly enough, the Japanese branch became independent a few years ago and is still in business, when the US stores have now disappeared.
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Reminds me of this version from years ago.

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I don't have anything personal against Drepper. I've never had any direct experience with him of any kind.

I thoroughly enjoyed his article about memory. He is obviously an extremely intelligent and knowledgeable guy.

I am afraid that he is too clever by half though, insofar as good code is clean and readable first, and clever second. Every time I've had an opportunity to interact with the glibc codebase I'm dismayed that such an important, core piece of software has been written so cleverly that it essentially can only be maintained by one guy.
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But then Google also does not have so many mobile patents as others. Currently royalty payments in all directions are 'fought out' through patent lawsuits. If you do not participate, you will be the sucker that only pays royalties, but doesn't receive any.

This is the annoying thing about the current patent situation: companies have to participate if they do not want to hurt their margins.
His account was created 106 days ago and has 7 posts, 4 of which are about Anon/Lulz. From this you conclude that he is a sock puppet paid by someone (the FBI?) to lead us astray with his constant one liners. Seems like a stretch, but hey that's just me.
Google's Help page lets their users Google for 'antivirus', because they don't want to endorse any product. Now they have to warn users which AV not to install as well, because their own results might show up harmful programs...

Then they assume their users, who managed to get infected in the first place, are computer literate enough to know how to install it and know what a systemscan is.

I admire that Google is trying to help their users help themselves, but I seriously doubt a lot of users will be able to solve the problem based on these steps...
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Putting gum in a lock == vandalism == DOS of a physical location. Real dollars are lost etc. in that scenario.

Seriously... please just stop posting. You are strictly putting words in his mouth so you can have something to argue with.
Downmodded into oblivion. How nice for sharing my personal experience of a topic raised by someone else. I guess I should have known that a perfectly normal outage was responsible why I could log into the site, load pages successfully for thirty seconds, and then be logged out and be unable to log back in without resetting my password. Couldn't have been attackers DOSing Netflix users or Netflix admins trying to squash an attack. The problem was just that their don't-constantly-log-users-out-and-deactivate-their-password service went down because it wasn't on the cloud and I was dumb not to figure that out.
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Well, they have a spec for it, but it's not very good. That said, despite PE's history, it's remained largely the same for what, 15 years? Small changes to support various things, which make parsing arbitrary PEs a pain, but it's not bad considering its age.
Oh my gosh. If this isn't a prime example of the value of HN I don't know what is. I suspect this post will give me months of pointers on stuff to go learn (no experience in distributed computing). Thank you!
everything you've posted here also applies to sit ins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in

the question of whether these guys should have been arrested is distinct from whether they're justified, which is distinct from whether ddos could ever be considered civil disobedience.
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I'd like to see some counter arguments against that. Please discuss instead of downvoting.
Well I just wanted to check the website. So it's no bother.

However contacting the ISP again is a bad advice. They allocate dynamic IP addresses and can't do much if an IP address used by a spammer was one day allocated to me. Checking the IP address to determine whether the computer is part of a botnet is a flawed approach. It's not as simple as that.
How so? Cite your source please.
>Apple has never participated in those "top workplace" surveys

Which is sensible IMO. I worked at Walmart in IT at the time that they scored quite highly on one of those things. I couldn't name a single person who loved or even liked their job. Everyone I knew was there because they didn't feel they had a choice. I've never looked at one those surveys since then.
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The types of problems I usually work on are more complex than a single file form-to-mail script, but if I needed it, Heroku gets you up and running with Sinatra (or plain rack) in a single file.
I see this link here as flame bait. This guy is happy with his Asus tablet because it has a keyboard and Flash in the browser. Good for him.
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A different host name... not rocket science. :)
Would you still be against a group of people (non-violently) disrupting a business if that business illegally denied you service because of your race? Wouldn't you want the community to stand up for your rights?

I'm not defending the actions of the LOIC users, I don't think they are doing quite the same thing but it's close. If the balance of power is off then it is up to the community to try and put it back in place, as another commenter has posted one particularly successful method in the past has been the sit-in. Just as it's not ok for any mob to do whatever they want to a business, it's not ok for any company to do whatever they want to a community.
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Er, have you seen pre-iPhone Android?

Android was a BlackBerry competitor, not an iPhone one. When they saw the iPhone, they rebuilt the entire UI from scratch.
...no iPod touch or iPad support? Honestly? Why? That's insane. Judging by how ubiquitous support is for those devices across iOS apps, I almost thing Google specifically disallowed them to be pricks, which is supported by the fact that it runs on the iPhone 3G. Either way to not be aware that this is an issue floors me. Maybe they really DON'T see the value or market in the iPod touch at all?

Between that sheer ridiculousness and the Android-esque navigation bar, this is shaping up to be one underwhelming iOS app launch from Google.
> I suspect this is a big part of the decision.

That doesn't really help things. If this was a conscious decision because they assume iPod touch users are mentally deficient, well then it just bit them in the ass. Apparently Google didn't realize that they could just download the app in iTunes to leave a bad review.
You're trolling, correct? If PayPal shuts down for an hour, it loses a lot of money (transaction costs, administrative costs, paying idle employees, etc.). Not just them, but millions of their customers who rely on PayPal for their business lose out too.
Very linkbait-y/troll-ish headline, but I own an ASUS Transformer and for my money it is the greatest single gadget I have ever owned or used, even adjusting for technology inflation. The keyboard dock is the killer feature for me, I use the thing in "netbook" mode at least 80% of the time because I find it to be a superior form factor for anything but very casual "couch surfing". And when I do want to do that sort of casual browsing, I just pull the tablet part out of the dock.

Granted, you can do something vaguely similar by adding a bluetooth or USB keyboard (on tablets that support USB host mode) on other tablets, but you lose a lot of convenience by not having it be a proper fold-up netbook configuration, IMO (you're basically forced to use a bag to tote it, unlike the Transformer).
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The parent comment is using non-violence to mean the absence of physical violence which seem impossible to argue against. In the most common definitions of violence, DDoSing a site would be as violent as a large protest blocking traffic in the area.
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No web site :-) Partly because they're old-fashioned, but mostly because they don't want any attention. When I worked for them, they didn't even let me tell my friends what industry our customers were in. When I do a Google search for the company name, the only hits that come up are a patent and a resume for a guy who worked for them before I did. They've apparently opened up a little -- a previous Google search for them showed they had joined an industry consortium, which by their standards is practically a debutante ball -- but I haven't been in touch with them in over a year, so I don't want to presume anything.
You're comparing apples and oranges, and using straw man attacks. PayPal did not ban them on the basis of their race. PayPal was perfectly within the law to do what they did.
I'm not sure why you're surprised.

CloudFlare is amateur at best, compared to existing DSA/CDN offerings from Akamai, Cotendo, EdgeCast etc.

But those cost a lot of money (at least 50-100x the cost of CloudFlare) if you're small/medium sized. You get what you pay for with $20/month.

The 3 second slow down looks like a standard TCP reset + retry. They're probably having issues with that particular POP. That it took several hours/days for the 'best engineering team in the world' to resolve tells you all you need to know about the service level you should expect from them.

But, once again, it's $20/month.
Or suddenly all the machines in the office are bluescreening at the same obscure graphics driver bug and nobody can do any work...
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Launching a product that's running in a screen session. I don't think it's a good idea, but I can't help but feel impressed in some way I don't understand.
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I think mine look even prettier:
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Anyway, some fonts look good at a specific size. I'm currently using the big size in the first picture and everything looks gorgeous.
I don't think that analogy is fair. It's a denial of service. It's similar to going into an Apple Store or any other store, and blocking customer checkout registers, preventing customers from paying and receiving their goods. But instead of affecting 30 customers for that one store, you're affecting millions of customers.
I wonder about this. Was Google itself an outlier? I don't think so. Indeed I'd say you probably could have discovered Google using similar metrics the article claims they are using, such as scholarly trends (but possibly not founder history).
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I seriously doubt the Chinese police will care. Maybe if it was in a city where Apple had a factory and they had cultivated relationships with local officials, but out in the boonies they have no power.
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The issue was pretty mundane, the server script is very simple - so I assumed it wouldn't need to have a lot of monitoring overhead to deal with traffic spikes.

Even though it's a very simple script the volume of traffic used up all the memory on the machine leading to server death, then my restart script turned out to be wrong :(
Only Google can hide the page behind a log-in and still expect us to come back (precisely because they're Google).
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You cloned their layout, republish their content, and now you're submitting their stories on your site to HN... there's really no point in pursuing this model, they will shut you down the minute they notice you stealing traffic from their articles.
It looks like they are selling genuine Apple products. So the only thing this store is guilty of is using the "Apple Store" name without permission. There is nothing illegal about running a store that sells only Apple products, and decorating it in a matching way. It is quite common in China to see small stores that sell only Lenovo, only Dell or only Sony products, and they are not usually run by the brands.
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Are these fake apple stores selling genuine apple products? Or the products themselves are fake?
Oh, easy:
1) Wait for the marshmallow (it may be 15 minutes)
2) While you are waiting, distract yourself.
3) Presto: you are now happy and waiting for the marshmallow.

You can read the article on the new yorker now (google newyorker marshmallow, article is called "the secret of self-control") but the key concept is "strategic allocation of attention".

I'm not sure what his point is...in fact the whole article is a little bit haphazard. The concept is usually stated as "deferring pleasure", which is completely different from deferring happiness.
In my opinion, anything that improves upon the current system of education in public schools is a welcome innovation. As it stands, teachers have little leeway when it comes to actually TEACHING a class. Teachers are forced to follow a curriculum that the school board deems appropriate for the majority of students. How is that effective? Generally, it caters to the lowest common denominator.

Personally, I think it's a great idea to let students follow the lectures on their own time and use class as an opportunity to engage the teacher in more personal questioning. I can count on one hand the number of times I actually got personal time with my teachers in school. Why? Because 99% of school was suffering through lectures. My teachers never had time to actually work with students one on one.

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