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Eliminating corporate taxes isn't exactly what you want: It would turn corporations into tax shelters, allowing investments to compound at a faster rate. (You'd be effectively giving everybody an unlimited Roth IRA.)

What you really want is an integrated tax system like Canada and many other countries have: Corporations pay income taxes, but when they pay out their profits as dividends, the individuals receiving those dividends pay tax on their share of the corporation's pre-tax income, but get a tax credit equal to the amount of taxes the corporation paid. (Sounds complicated? It is -- but it works.)

As a side benefit, this fixes the "Buffett pays less tax" problem, since the taxes paid on corporate taxes (in the end, once they've been paid out as dividends) are based on the same progressive system of increasing marginal rates as any other income.
Apple relaxed their restrictions 5 months after announcing them:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/09/09/app-store-statem...
Beautiful work. Seems like this would be great for teaching kids to program.
Your living expenses and rent are a benefit you receive as an individual from the company, with a direct monetary equivalent : You should be declaring it, and paying tax on it.
It seems plausible to make it so that people can't become corporations.

1. The IRS already does this with certain classes of businesses in which they make it illegal to form them purely for tax avoidance purposes.

2.You set the corporate income tax to 0, but personal income tax to whatever. You then make all corporate profits flow through to individuals, and make corporate write offs and deductions rare/impossible/non-existant.

Under our current tax environment, you're right. But there is nothing inherent in reality that makes this impossible.
E-PARASITE bill; the bill by and for e-parasites.

Seems legit, no?
no, more ram means less power consumption because you are accessing hard drive less often.
The Mexican economy is doing very well. What happens if economic growth in mexico creates greater demand for unskilled labor, reducing the incentive to work in the USA illegally.
There is some research that shows that this could happen in the next decade.
It sounds (literally) pretty cool ;p Goes fast. Comfort is a secondary thing. In fact you gotta pay extra usually for the slim down race models with even less comfort. Forget the AC/radio... in some of those high end race car models.
I can't speak to the US tax system, but people absolutely don't get away with doing that in Canada. People try it, of course; but the Canada Revenue Agency is very good at catching "benefit conferred on a shareholder" and taxing them as deemed dividends.

And, of course, throwing people in jail who deliberately fail to report such benefits.
Notably, this fits into YC's "Request for Startups #5: Development on Handlhelds":

http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html
On transparency, I've come to believe that it should be the government's role to make data available and the private sector's role to compete with each other to create the most useful tools with that data. I might be biased since the latter is my job, but I think it works fairly well. The "Surgeon General's Warning" you suggest is an interesting idea that doesn't really work without the government putting a lot of the tools together themselves, though.
If distribution cost were high and creation cost insignificant, copyright would not be needed -- the creator can handle competition from other distributors of his creation because they have to cover the same costs he does. It's only when creation cost is significant relative to distribution cost that the creator cannot compete with other distributors. Digital distribution is the extreme case of this: the creator must cover the cost of creation, while his competitors have almost no costs to cover.
I've love to see http://moonscript.org support.
Fight PIPA
Ok clearly you think the rest of your argument is obvious, but I'm going to be dense and say "yes", those are tools. Just as the Linux kernel is a tool for managing the various resources of the system. Maybe it's the word "merely" that's tripping things up, but I don't see how any of these things fail to fit the word "tool".
There are several reasons why AWS does (and should) cost more than a generic solution.

1. If you just look at the cost of bandwidth and hardware, there's no doubt you can find cheaper solutions in the commoditized basic hosting market. AWS solutions, however, remove a lot of manual work that goes into setup, configuration and maintenance of servers. If you're a startup, it costs you (a lot of) money to hire those people. It also cost you time wasted not working on the core of your service. Up to a certain size, the fixed costs of additional personnel heavily outweigh higher bandwidth costs. Evernote and Stackoverflow have extremely high traffic and might have crossed the threshold at which it's profitable for them to look for savings in hosting bill. A vast majority of startups is not in that position.

2. Unique services demand a premium. Most of the hosting companies provide commoditized services. AWS is much more unique.

3. Services higher up the stack demand a premium. The most basic hosting service offers you a bit of physical space in their building and only give you power for the server and network connectivity. Amazon provides a wide variety of services on top of that. Developing those services and keeping them working is much more costly than just ensuring power is on and network is up. They have to charge more (they have higher costs) and they can charge more (they provide a richer service).

4. Ultimately, the prices are set by the market. We can't really say anything about whether Amazon is more efficient at using hardware or power than, say, SoftLayer, based on their prices. First, their services cost much more to provide. Second, they are free to set their margins at whatever level they please. They could run the service at a loss or they could charge an outrageous premium. We don't know. People are clearly willing to pay for AWS services so at the very least they've set the prices in a way that, given additional benefits, is competitive with traditional server hosting.
What happens if you delete the last class that #imported something? Do you remove the #import? What if the #import wasn't automatically added? Still automatically remove it?

How about if you don't need the #import for a class, but, instead for something else (say, it #imports a bunch of other classes for you instead, like UIKit.h)?
This was a popular trend in the 90s e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prograph

Check out the Mactech articles in the references.

I even wrote a decent size app in prograph. While I really liked it a large code base was really hard to navigate and maintain. Also you couldn't email code snippets around easily.
I don't really consider this a DMV loophole. It's just constantly driving a new car. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to "uncover" this loophole, it just takes a wealthy individual to be able to afford the the lease premium to do this if they are motivated enough.
Toyota's Semi-Interactive Semi-Funny Video Experience
Why does a market need millisecond-resolution liquidity?
Of course, moulding technical people into recruiters would be much better.
It's also easier now to block (and punish) "copyright infringers", which gives a scary authority to those who get to define that term.
According to some recent research, HFT appears responsible for lowering spreads by more than an order of magnitude:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/10/mor...
That's a definite social good that would go away under proposal #3.
thus the army of lawyers, accountants and golden shares. It's good to live in a globalized world.
Amateur Rocketeers Chase $10,000 Launch Prize Offered By John Carmack
Well, this is absolute bullshit.
This is 6 hours old and it has two votes. Sad.
Are we sure we don't have this backwards?

Perhaps it's not that he got a new car every six months because he really disliked plates. Perhaps he just got a new car every six months because he really liked having a brand new car.

Heck, I would. I wouldn't always get the same car, like Steve Jobs, but then again I wouldn't always wear the same clothes either.
TLDR: Takedown notices can be sent to payment processors and web advertising aggregators to shutdown revenue sources to sites which the entity sending the notice deems infringing. However, "ISPs and payment processors get the green light to simply block access to sites on their own volition—no content owner notification even needed."
I don't get why when I want to pay them more money they make it impossible for me to do so.

I take it, then, that after you've pirated, you buy the DVD when it becomes available?
Greed is the most powerful force in the world. If you tie regulation to money, it will be exploited and corrupted. It also shifts accountability from the individual violators to "the corporation". Instead enforce criminal laws against people. Doing the "right thing" doesn't deserve reward. Doing the "wrong thing" does deserve punishment.
It's also nicely explicit and consists of a lot of "tell me if you plan to do [x] up front so we can agree or disagree".

The more common "policy" is for speakers to not list all these things in advance, but then threaten to pull out at the last minute when they find out they were paired with another keynote speaker they don't like, causing mad panics to smooth things over or find replacements.
Pretty sure that's wrong except in contrived disk-heavy workloads. RAM needs power in proportion to its storage size.

My 2009 MBP, which I immediately upgraded to 8GB RAM on purchase, has never come close to the stock advertised battery life. And, supposedly a reason Apple optimizes iOS devices for such small RAM sizes (sizes which are never emphasized in published descriptions) is that minimizing RAM is an important factor for their long battery life.
js interpreters are not as friendly as lua for embedding.
cool indeed! :)
The graph is a bit hard to read since it's labeled poorly. The X-axis is the year. The Y-axis is the percentage of income relative to 1979, after-tax. They do not mention if these numbers were adjusted for inflation, but the report linked to on the page says the numbers are adjusted for inflation:

Income is adjusted for inflation using the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ research series of the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U-RS). -http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/124xx/doc12485/10-25-HouseholdIncome....

That report is much more detailed than the Economist's summary.

So, in 2007 the top 1% made ~375% of what they did in 1979 (~275% gain). In 2007 the bottom 20% made ~120% of what they did in 1979 (~20% gain).
The copyright make sense only in connection with distribution. Without the very act of distribution (like exhibiting or selling of the work), the copyright doesn't make sense as nobody would know the content of the work. You can create or invent without any risk of copyright infringement (and thus without any need for the notion of copyright) as long as you don't attempt the distribution.
Somebody forgot to tell these guys that iPads are for content consumption, not creation.
I think you hit all the points exactly.

What I think these companies need to realize is that they're completely wasting their money not capitalizing on revenue streams. For new movies, sure, theaters only. For newly released DVDs, sure, stores and/or rentals only.
But 6 months to a year after release, I expect every company to put their content online so that it's convenient for people to watch instead of relying on the $5 bargain bin for revenue. That's what makes sense to me yet it doesn't happen. They pull content left and right for what? So Netflix can't be the sole provider of the content? What makes sense to me is AMC putting the first several seasons of "Breaking Bad" on Netflix so that all can watch it to catch up to the current season on air. Do other programs expect people to purchase DVDs for a single view to catch up?

Ideally for me there should be company B and company C to compete with Netflix, each with its own set of exclusives from different companies, each with a ~$10/month no contract charge for viewership. I'll end up with ~$30/month cancel anytime for all content and stream it all off of a single convenient box. That sounds better to the status quo to me.
How long until Apple shuts it down for using a language other than Objective-C?
Oh I could certainly agree with that. I forget who said 'never ascribe to mmalice what can be adequately explained by stupidity,' but I've found it an excellent yardstick to judge politics by. As far as investigations go, I am not expecting a big showdown at the OK corral. I am just sick of this meme that it's all one big cozy and corrupt club. There are plenty of people in both the private and public sector who are dedicated to the idea of conducting financial business with both legal and ethical integrity.

Securities litigation is slow because it is complex; additionally, there are sound economic reasons why it is often better to settle for the certainty of large fines than waste time and money on uncertain litigation. It's not as if scores of corporate officers went to prison following the crash of 1929 either. Bad policy often ends up as its own punishment.
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More like $140K. Actually I think they don't make the SL55 any more, so the latest one would have to be an SL63.

It doesn't look all that different to a $45,000 SLK, though, which makes it the insanely fast borderline-supercar of choice for the billionaire who wants to remain relatively inconspicuous.
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"The utility of the command line would plunge if we didn't have any of those"

If I'd meant "been eliminated", I would have said that. Nevertheless, I cite the "your mom" argument. "People" are terrified of the nice command line, and we think that they're going to switch to a vastly, vastly more user hostile one, no matter how friendly and chipper it may seem on first glance? If "people" wanted command lines that much they'd already be using them.
This is a non-starter, you don't really deserve a job if you cant see what is wrong with the following:

1) The web service storing usernames and passwords in an unencrypted or easily reversed encrypted format. (which it must be, since you are able to send an email with these details).(Hint: see the gawker media password leak)

2) Your email address being sent in plain text over an unencrypted mail service with untrusted intermediaries.
I'm not sure it does need that much liquidity. But, at what point are we not liquid enough? Is hourly liquidity enough? It's a good question, but I'm not sure how you measure what 'enough' is.
"Unthink" is an unflattering name and does not express the what or why of their service compared to Facebook.
I'm not sure that he had to get a brand new car every six months. He could have created a new lease on the same car every six month from a leasing company. That should have been enough to satisfy the law: http://dmv.ca.gov/fee_calc/feecalcfaq.htm#plates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero–sum_game#Economics
Sometimes people make things just to see if they can and to show off, even if it doesn't improve the lives of other people. It's a showcase to show off the flexibility and capabilities of CSS.

I mean, one could easily argue that delivering movies and TV shows to people via the internet is also completely and totally useless, couldn't they? So yeah, you are being that dick.
Encrypted data is not very compressible. Compression algorithms exploit statistical regularities in the bitstream, whereas the whole point of encrypting something is to get a result with no statistical regularity whatsoever.

If you compress first and then encrypt, you can then get smaller file sizes than the input, because the compression algorithm can work on the plaintext.
There is no such thing as a $120k used Mercedes, outside of a 65 or a Maybach. As for the boring and reasonable bit, search 'G550'.
The government has identified DNS as an especially vulnerable component of the internet and intends to attack it:

"A service provider shall take technically feasible and reasonable measures designed to prevent [...] the domain name [...] from resolving to that domain name’s Internet Protocol address."

Hard to tell which incarnation of this effort will become law, and when, but it seems prudent to assume that it will. Rather than simply hope the government won't attack the network, or petition the government not to attack it, we should engineer improvements to the network which increase its resistance to attack.

Time for a more distributed, probably peer-to-peer, DNS.

It's been said that the internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it. That's precisely what these threats call for.
Except it has been reported by Amazon insiders that AWS is not a byproduct of Amazon's other work but a very much stand alone product with it's own dev group with little connection to devs working on Amazon proper and that Amazon was relatively slow in adopting AWS product for implementing Amazon's internal software.

Amazon always tried to give the impression that they use AWS but (at least in early years) those were half-truths (i.e. statements vague enough that if you squint at it one way you can read "Amazon's internal systems are build in AWS services" and if you squint at it differently, they might just as well say "AWS's servers are hosted in the same data center as Amazon's servers"; public perception was the former and the reality was closer to the latter).

That, of course, doesn't mean that 37 Signals' advice isn't good, just that this is not an example that confirms that advice.
What are some inspiring videos I can watch to renew my passion for startups?
I remember when I was learning guitar and it was so frustrating in the beginning, I used to watch great rock guitarists and draw inspiration from them. Videos of live performance kept me going. Extending the same analogy, is there some great startup videos that I can watch to get inspired when I am down and demotivated?
I was wondering why it disappeared off the front page.

Thanks for protecting us.

There are 3 more "political" posts there being upvoted... that need censorship.
If anyone happens to see this, the best thing I've learned this year is that you can do all your DMV business (at least in CA) at any AAA office, if you're a member.
> I just want to understand the reasons behind the reaction.

Did you read what I wrote? Let me put it in the simplest possible terms.

You haven't been depressed.

You don't know what it's actually like.

Your list of exercises would not work for a depressed person and by thinking that it will you perpetuate the impression that depressed people are just 'putting it on' to garner sympathy and attention.

Depression is a serious condition that ought to be given medical attention.

Your list would appeal to non-sufferers, who might try to foist it on sufferers. What non-sufferers should be doing is dragging sufferers to see a doctor.

Insofar as advice like yours prevents people seeking help for themselves or others, it is actively harmful.
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Yes, this is true. When I first heard about AWS I assumed Amazon was selling excess capacity (because why would an online retailer set out to build something like this?), but in fact, as you say, it was a completely separate project. I've heard from people who used to work at Amazon that they don't use AWS for much there.
A six-month-old, slightly used SL-class AMG? $120K is about right. They're $140K new.
My #1 feature request- support sprite sheets for animated sprites!
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If I'd had a silver SL55 I would have de-plated it, in the hope that Steve Jobs would have got blamed for everything I did.
>It's only when creation cost is significant relative to distribution cost that the creator cannot compete with other distributors. Digital distribution is the extreme case of this: the creator must cover the cost of creation, while his competitors have almost no costs to cover.

nobody forces the creator to create [or distribute the work]. Keep it in/to yourself. Nope, somehow "creators" feel that the society is owing them the copyright protection.
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I use an IPod and I don't feel treated as a King, more like a pigeon: It is my gadget, with my music in it, and I am being forced to use a software I dislike (iTunes) which don't even work on my OS of choice.

You have a weird view on how Kings are treated, or on Apple itself.
This will be a response to this parent and the one that posed essentially the same point.

I don't believe I referred to anything regarding the recent recession or who was to blame. My problem with the repeal of Glass-Steagall has more to do with the overwhelming conflict of interest it could create within these institutions (i.e., using deposits to grant credit to the investment arms for making risky bets). On the flip side, you could argue that proper regulation could stymie that risk, but I'd rather just not leave it up to chance (read: politicians). That's my opinion - you may feel differently.
Really? Including getting my licence renewed?

I've been putting off going to the DMV for nearly a year now. My licence is very, very expired. If I can join AAA to avoid this, I definitely will.
Also on Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/26/raise-cache-nyc-teams-with-...
I'm just curious, do you feel like this was a meaningful contribution to this discussion? 0 added value, and virtually no insight in your post. Your post has nothing to do with what they've created.
"If your university hired someone who only spoke Mongolian but spit in people's faces when they extended their hand for a handshake, would you be upset at the speaker or the idiot who hired him?"

If their spitting was common knowledge, as RMS's eccentricities are, then yes. Of course I would be upset primary with whoever booked them...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOytubycHOg
At some point you'll have to decide: "enough" for whom? For someone just trying to accumulate some money for retirement, even hour-level liquidity probably looks like more than is useful (and will his broker even act on a request he makes in less than an hour? maybe someone else can answer that one).
I think Wikipedia Italia had a better idea. Forget the politicians, Google and Facebook have the ability to highlight the implications to virtually everybody in the US. Big corporations might not often be inclined towards grandstanding, but there's precedent when it comes to Google objecting to censorship. A little "if this Bill passes, we'll be serving a lot less search results" message above every search performed by US users would be sufficient to make the bill politically suicidal, methinks.
This story Sounds like total BS to me coming from a Google employee.
Isn't this just an instance of a chaotic system, in which the parameter settings that almost match the historical data will inevitably diverge because of sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
One unfortunate downside to the AT&T syntax is that the Intel reference manuals all use, well, Intel syntax. It's inconvenient to have the Intel reference manuals while working in an AT&T environment, especially for instructions that are quite different (ie: compare Intel vs. AT&T syntax for the LEA instruction). Intel is really the only architecture, at least now, where there's such a large difference in assembly language syntax -- for the same architecture, most platforms typically only differ in minor areas like expressing relocations. In a way AT&T is also quite a departure from other assembly syntaxes too as most have the convention that the destination register is on the left side.
The color picker - IDE integration is really slick!
Not at 90 mph.