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I think your suggestion is more "fair" for someone who earns a steady income every year of their life, but is horrible for people (like me) that drop in and out of earning money every few years.

Lets say I earn $100k for 5 years, and pay taxes on it during.. then take 5 years break, and only earn something like $10k a year to keep rent ticking over.
So I would have to pay tax on $550k over 10 years... that effectively means my tax rate during the later 5 years was calculated on earnings of $55k a year, even though only $10k actually came in. So I have to pay more tax that I'm earning for those later 5 years.
Lets hope I saved a bunch during the first 5.

Conversely, my brother is a ski bum and has not earned over $10k a year for the last 10 years. He's actually an Aerospace Engineer, so lets say he now goes and gets a big-wig job for $200k a year for just 3 years. During those three years, he'll only pay tax on an (average) income of $53k, even though he had $200k coming in those 3 years.

It's certainly more appealing to not go to work until the last few years and earn as much as you possibly can in those years... somewhat like the opposite of retirement I imagine.
Taxing someone based on their unrealized gains only makes sense if you have liquidity! Instead of making the tax system more complicated with propositions like this, we should just switch to a consumption based tax system.
I basically agree with you, but I think something positive about this video is its admonishment not to settle for one thing wrong. There are other factors and precursors that can be identified and fixed as well. Turn a root cause analysis into a root causeS analysis.
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It's not "skirting" if you're following the letter of the law. Regardless of how you feel about the man, he makes a valid point.
The capital gains rate was 28+% for much of that period. Buffett didn't start advocating for higher tax rates until after the Bush (and Clinton) tax cuts which slashed capital gains rates to 15%.

Your position is as foolish as saying if Al Gore really cared about global warming, he would have been advocating for climate change policy during his college years.
Income tax taxes income, sales tax taxes sales. Death tax is not a tax on death. I have heard people equate "death tax" with "paying to die" and as support for the phrase "even death isn't free".
Is my SEO hurt using this type of redirects?
I've seen many websites, specially social networks, allowing their users to have on their profiles a link to their own website/blog, but in reality they all are using redirects.

I wonder why are they doing this? I imagine it's because is a cheap way to get links with "valuable" anchor texts, so I decided to try it myself.

I'd like to make sure this is not going to hurt my SEO.

Side question, what is happening with my page rank when using window.location.replace(redirectURL)?

PS. I am sorry if anything I just said/ask doesn't make sense.
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I've seen many websites, specially social networks, allowing their users to have on their profiles a link to their own website/blog, but in reality they all are using redirects.

I wonder why are they doing this? I imagine it's because is a cheap way to get links with "valuable" anchor texts, so I decided to try it myself.

I'd like to make sure this is not going to hurt my SEO.

Side question, what is happening with my page rank when using window.location.replace(redirectURL)?

PS. I am sorry if anything I just said/ask doesn't make sense.
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>> No, it's most certainly NOT a "best practice"

Apparently they meant to say 'industry lowest common denominator'.
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Coming from a law background this makes me, and I imagine many lawyers, nervous. Terms of Service agreements may be wordy and hard to understand, but they're also substantive--everything in them has meaning. Good lawyers should craft them to be as concise (and readable to lay people) as humanely possible, and there's no reason to believe that the lawyers that draft ToS agreements, particularly for highly profitable businesses, have done anything but that.

Even if you have a normal ToS and then try to abbreviate it, you have a host of issues: which one would control? You could explicitly say, "the normal ToS controls in the case of a conflict between the ToS and an abbreviated version," but, if people, don't read the normal ToS because there is an abbreviated version, is it really conscionable to say that the normal ToS would control? If the abbreviated controls, there have to be many caveats: like "We own everything you upload... unless you didn't own it to begin with, in which case, we don't own it, and you guarantee to us that you have the right to use it, and you give us the right to use it," or "There are no warranties, except if this statement itself is unenforceable (which is true in some states), in which case we disclaim all warranties to the extent applicable by law, and in the event this is unconscionable or found unenforceable, the rest of this agreement is still enforceable" etc etc. Once you're in that land, you've obviously lost the point of abbreviating it.
"If Mr. Zuckerberg never sells his shares, he can avoid all income tax and then, on his death, pass on his shares to his heirs."

Assuming that Zuckerberg has a normal life expectancy, what's the probability that Facebook will still be around in 60 years? Not very many corporations have lasted that long.
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Funny you should say that, I always saw anons as CIA.
Agreed. Trying to pass automated emails as personal never works. It is, however, a step in the right direction. Knowing that a dev is looking after the API users is somewhat comforting.
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That's a really fair point, but it's also not a problem unique to any particular technique or process. There is literally nothing you can do via process to protect yourself from bad or actively harmful management. Your only choice is to try and drive them out of the company, or leave.

Maybe the problem is that 5Ys worked great and seemed like a nice process improvement because we had healthy management. I think the reality is - the unhealthy managers who could really benefit from Eric telling them how to be better managers? They're never going to go anywhere near HN or the Harvard Business Review.
They would pay estate tax of a percentage of what the estate, including stock, is valued at.
He could've just pinned that photo showing the link.
Agreed. Obama recently spoke at the university I attend. At one point in his speech he mentioned that Buffett's secretary told him that they have a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett. Then literally two minutes later in his speech he praised Warren Buffett for addressing the issue of needing to increase taxes on the wealthy. What a joke.
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That's why we made http://privacyparrot.com The AI isn't perfect, but it's better than not reading a policy at all.
If he really cared, he would have fought for higher tax laws earlier in his life.

I don't understand this kind of reasoning. He's arguing against his own self-interest now. I think it's hard to say he doesn't care. Maybe he didn't come to feel that he unfairly benefitted until he was older. It's not like he's saying we should tax young people more now that I'm old.
That only counts if you are passing it on to someone other than your spouse. The so called "unlimited marital deduction" which comes up frequently in gay marriage debates. If you keep it going with death/marriage/death/marriage you can avoid ever paying the estate tax.
According to many people in favor of higher taxes, quantitative easing has no ill effects. Why don't they just ease $5B into existence?

And why don't people concerned with "unfair" taxes call for Gaga's rate to be lowered rather than Zuck's to be raised?

Miller doesn't seem to understand that the superwealthy also tend to be highly intelligent and resourceful. They are not stationary targets. A tax like this would push growing startups to grow outside the US a few years before IPO. A multinational can change its base of incorporation, and many people can and will change their citizenship over a million bucks, let alone a billion. This kind of foolish proposal would just drive more US businesses overseas.
I'm not a tax lawyer either, but if he set up trusts for his family members, they may be sheltered from paying estate taxes on some of that money.
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I think being in college you do have the position of staggered job interviews. At my college it was understood that there was almost always on campus interviews going on, so you could interview with 2 very good companies but two weeks apart. The second might not get back to you in time for the first, so what do you do? My first internship offer had 24 hour deadline, so I turned that down. The next one I had gave me a month knowing the campus recruiting schedule.

The other thing to do is check with your school's intern/co-op office and see if they have a minimum amount of time for a job offer. As I said before, my first job offer was 24 hours, but the school requires all employers operating through the school's listing service to give 2 weeks. If there's such a requirement you can use that as leverage to extend the date.
I don't see the problem here. Warren Buffett pays the 15% capital gains tax and wants to see it increased. Are you criticizing him for not paying more than he is taxed?
I thoroughly expected this post to advocate free laundry with the caveat that we receive underwear-related advertisements.
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I'm not an admirer of Luntz's work, what he does is evil. His active spreading of the "death tax" term, however, is one exception. "Inheritance tax" is better of course, but "death tax" is still better than "estate tax" in terms of conveying the actual meaning and causing less confusion than "estate tax". In any case, this discussion has served little utility (especially considering the GP's question on Jobs' inheritance tax) and I wouldn't mind someone downvoting the whole comment chain.
You're either willfully ignorant, or not looking back far enough. I think it's option 1. (You also speak as if foreign ground troops landed in Libya, which they did not.) But here's a taste anyways:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya#Libya_under_Muammar_Gadda...
Cool. Too bad about the jailbreak requirement :).

Hipster doesn't leak as much information, but it is almost just as persistent. You can uncheck the "Contacts" button when you enter that preference, but only after the app sends your data. Also, if you come back to the screen, it reverts to checked. They are really filter buttons, and not stateful, apparently.

But yes, it doesn't happen every time.
Could easily be against your boss's best interests, or at least what your boss thinks is their best interests, in a large company, too. That's the hole I'm currently trying to fight out from.
Python or a jvm language should be a better choice
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Is having a summary on a ToS any different than the Creative Commons deed vs. legalese? (cf. the disclaimer on http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ).
Random observation from reading the source: your tweak is going to cause issues (possibly crashes) if the application is accessing the address book on a non-main thread. You should dispatch_async() that alert over to the main thread.
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OS X and Linux never shared a common parent or converged. The BSD heritage is what makes it Unixy. BSD has been oil to Linux's water for a long time.
Spouses are exempt from estate taxes. Had Steve left his stock to his children, then yes capital gains and estate taxes would both be paid on his $2B.
In case you wonder what the term "superwealthy" means in practice, the HEART Act of 2008 could offer some help. The act introduces a mark-to-market tax for people who wish to give up their citizenship, as well as long-term Green Card holders if they give up their Green Card. To prevent the super-rich from avoiding taxation. Senator Kennedy called it "the billionaires' amendment".

Now who is a billionaire according to Senator Kennedy? Anyone with (a) the tax liability above $139k on average over the past five years (inflation adjusted), or (b) the net worth above $2M (not inflation adjusted).

Hope that helps.
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> I believe the company creation stuff has all been pretty straight-forward - certainly compared to visas for the (2, non-founder) UK employees we sent to the US.

Hmm, I guess what OP and grand-parent comment are talking about is exactly the visa question. The problem is not so much setting up a US corporation, but actually running the business while living in the US.
I think it's about building relationships with the customer. With more choices comes fragmentation. The good ones will create a herd, small following of fans that feel such an affinity with the producer that they'd feel bad to go anywhere else.
A lot of introverts do care what others think and tell themselves they don't care in order rationalize their social failures and unwillingness to expose their vulnerabilities. Some might be able to fake it 'til they make it, but all too many just keep faking it and dying on the inside.
He's pretty much saying that all problems in your company can be traced to people.

I shared the same concern, but having heard Ries speak in the past, I think his use of "people" here is a bit misleading.

A commenter on the video made the good point that it's probably more accurate to refer to "process problems" than "people problems". I think this video may have been flavored by his audience, looking down from an upper-management perspective.

"People problems" implies that you need to keep people from messing up. "Process problems" includes more institutional problems: culture, training, scheduling, prioritization, &c.
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Has been one of the most useful tools for me as it just pulls up all the necessary profile information based on email id. Hope it doesn't get shut down or trivialized because of the acquisition.
It works great. In fact, it recommends such good movies that I'm almost guaranteed to have seen them many times already. Ferris, Outlaw Josie Wales, Back to the Future. All are perfect picks for me, but it might be neat to add a few lesser known selections. I find myself keeping a google doc of movie recommendations from reddit threads, then renting when I have the time. Found Primer this way.
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nice explanation. well done.
> What are you talking about? Do you expect them to perform complex data analysis to figure out that certain contacts are young children, and then explicitly ask permission to share those? Or do you expect them to preemptively ask for any potential sensitive contact information? "Can we use your children's information?" "Can we use your in-laws' information?" "Can we use the address of the President's safehouse?" Etc.

Just a "Can we upload your entire address book?" would have worked. Or perhaps listing "Your entire address book" in the "What personal information do we collect?" section of their Privacy Policy.
There is actually a lot of research in this specific area out there, so don't worry about needing to give the idea away :)

Some systems I have noodled around with apply a similar set of vectors using an advogato-like trust metric, but one where each viewer is their own source of (advocato was a hierarchical system where trust flowed from a few sources, given available resources today you can evaluate the flow network from each viewer's individual perspective.) It is not too hard to extend such a system to embody ideas like "expertise" where topics and keywords are passive nodes in the graph so that Alice can upvote Bob for postings related to coding but downvote him on postings about politics.

The research and mechanics are fun to play with and think about, but when you start to analyze the system in terms of the sort of community it would probably create you end up with a collection of smaller, partially overlapping echo chambers. The real problem, IMHO, is that you need to get a little bit more signal on the inputs. Up/down is just not enough. I think a system like this can determine if you using up/down as agree/disagree or as interesting/stupid, but if you mix those signals things appear to rapidly head towards some unpleasant local minima. If there was a nice way to get users to use a four or eight point voting box (permute agree/disagree, interesting/not-interesting, and optionally add a null signal for each pair) then you could really do some fun stuff for creating a neat alternative to all of the various social news sites out there...
It actually just causes CoreAnimation fence issues and messy animations as far as I can tell, but you're entirely right. Fixing in my next commit (which also fixes some other brokenness). Even had a note in the TODO about it.

This is the first time I've used MobileSubstrate and Logos, so I'm having a lot of fun :)

update: fixed.
If its a good idea after the government makes a legislation, surely its a good idea even otherwise.
This plan does not smooth things out completely because the value of a dollar decreases over time.
Do you really think that spreading the term "death tax" caused less confusion than before? Really?

It is a brilliant propaganda term because it makes people think they will have to pay when their loved ones pass away even if they own nowhere near the $5 million cutoff (as of 2011) for paying federal estate tax. In reality, these people are opposing taxes that they will never see.
It's a different ebook.
It looks like Creative Commons tries to protect themselves with their disclaimer, which says that their deed has no legal value. I suppose a summary which similarly had no legal value would at least inform users about what the company does (which would be good) but, in the case of a lawsuit, if someone misunderstood the summary (or whatever), they're out of luck. And, anyhow, lawyers are taught to be risk averse. The more they have to think about and worry about the legal complications of something, the more they don't want it to happen. So, for places like Google, or whoever, adding increased readability even in a comparable "deed" would probably come at the cost of their legal department being very upset: and you can bet the second they got sued and the issue of some conflict between the summary/deed and the actual ToS came up is the second they would take that summary down.
Neat idea. It would be great to be able to only show trailers of movies available on Netflix.
Great example of what I had in mind.
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Fair enough! Here's a good video: http://mrmeyer.com/threeacts/speedoflight/

I like the combination of the video and the info-animation. Really interesting.
What concerns me about Mr. Miller's proposal is that if we went to a marked-to-market and in year 1 the stock gained 100%. Then let's assume that provided the government with $5Bil in taxes, the government would spend that money like a kid in a candy store. Then what would happen if that stock lost 50% of it's value in year 2? How would the government have the funds to "refund" that $5Bil back? Would they just print more money?

This idea doesn't take into account how volatile the market is and the nature of government to spend during any surplus. Not to mention all the overhead needed to find fair "marked-to-market" values for pre-IPO companies.

And as other comments have stated, if this were to happen, what would be the motivation of CEOs to drive the price of the stock higher? Wouldn't it be in their best interest to keep it low so their tax bill would be lower?
This is correct, but the amount that can be sheltered is small compared to the overall value of the Job's estate.
The developer here. You can if you go to this modified URL: http://www.trailermatic.com/?netflix_only=true. I'll eventually make filtering easily available through the UI.
Or you could simply regulate loans made using stocks as collateral by either setting the minimum APR to say 20% or making the whole practice illegal.

Seems a lot easier than getting a new tax passed (loans are well regulated already) and won't harm the poor guy who is paper wealthy but can't actually sell his shares.
How do you know if these movies are available on Netflix? (no, I haven't checked to see if netflix has an api for this)
> He could sell some shares to pay the tax (and would be
> left with over $20 billion of Facebook stock after tax),
> or borrow to pay the tax.
>
> If his Facebook shares decline in value next year, he’d
> get a refund.

What happens if the market goes through a downturn and the government has to refund all the superwealthy their taxes?

I can imagine this working well in a bull market, but when a bear comes around the corner it could be disaster for the budget.
You're imagining the tax rates as being much higher than they would actually have to be (and I think you also missed that the taxes you pay always end up being a tax-rate proportion applied to the amount you earned that year). Assume for simplicity that people typically have a 40-year working life.

Then when you earn your first $500k in five years, that will be taxed at a rate appropriate to someone who earns $500k over their working life (that is, $12.5k/year). What's the U.S. tax rate at that level, currently? 15%?

So I envision your annual taxes, in your example, as looking something like:

Year 1 Earn $100k Rate 10% Tax $10k
Year 2 Earn $100k Rate 10% Tax $10k
Year 3 Earn $100k Rate 10% Tax $10k
Year 4 Earn $100k Rate 15% Tax $15k
Year 5 Earn $100k Rate 15% Tax $15k
Year 6 Earn $10k Rate 15% Tax $1.5k
Year 7 Earn $10k Rate 15% Tax $1.5k
Year 8 Earn $10k Rate 15% Tax $1.5k
Year 9 Earn $10k Rate 15% Tax $1.5k
Year 10 Earn $10k Rate 15% Tax $1.5k

You won't move into the 25% band until you've earned something like $1.3m over your life.
Besides that, is this tax refund for a marked-to-market loss a new element of this scheme? Right now, real losses can only be used to offset similar gains and excess losses are carried forward.