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>According to many people in favor of higher taxes, quantitative easing has no ill effects. Why don't they just ease $5B into existence?

It increases inflation. Right now, it's better to have more people employed/have the economy growing than it is to have inflation below 2%.

QE isn't exactly a progressive tool of choice, and I'm only minimally informed, but iirc that's the broad keynesian view as to why in theory it's at least better than doing nothing at all.

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

Because I'm not worried about Gaga's overall income. In fact, she probably ought to be taxed at a higher rate, because people like her comprise of almost zero per cent of the population. Cry me a river, in other words; it's not at her income range we're concerned with inequality.

>A tax like this would push growing startups to grow outside the US a few years before IPO.

Serious question time. Is this even reasonable?

If Zuck could have saved a cool billion in taxes, what's stopping him from doing just that?

If I'm say a Canadian citizen and I live in Canada but I own a fuckload of Facebook stock that qualifies as a salary, where do I file income taxes?

>This kind of foolish proposal would just drive more US businesses overseas.

These kind of astronomical windfall events are extremely rare and as I've denoted above, what you describe is already currently possible. So… why don't we already see this?

Other than the fact that you there are many advantages to having lots of engineering staff located in the United States/North America.
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This is absolutely true.

Capital gains tax also screws people over because the value of a dollar decreases over time. If that's the biggest objection anybody comes up with I say we start tomorrow (and I'll have an inflation-indexed version worked out by then anyway).
At this point, congress should be focusing on cleaning up the tax code, not trying to tax Zukerberg.

What's unfair is that we got a byzantine taxation system with all sort of exceptions, subsidy, loopholes, plugs, punishment, etc.
I like trailers but they are not all created equal. The longest trailer, released close to the release of a movie, is usually spoiler ridden. It will contain shots from every important scene, each action sequence/set piece, the crucial plot twist moment, and all the good effects shots and props. They take much of the awe and surprise out of seeing a movie.

The 30-60 second teaser trailers seem to be much better. They still get you interested, but don't try to actually hide things, and leave you wanting more.
They do. http://instantwatcher.com/ is built on it. It allows you to pick based on rottentomatoes.com ratings or NY Times picks. There's a random button as well if you're feeling lucky.
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I'm pretty lucky. I usually forget most of the trailer content before I actually see a movie.
> or not looking back far enough

So you're using the past, and not the reformed Gaddafi, as an excuse for causing more mayhem and deaths than the evil Gaddafi could have imagined in his wettest dreams?

> (You also speak as if foreign ground troops landed in Libya, which they did not.)

Sorry, not interested in defending against made up conversations.

> But here's a taste anyways:

Most of that is debatable, but if it is true, then: 1) that's way in the past and 2) that sounds like pretty much the norm for that region and time and 3) not even close to what the US has been involved in / has caused.

From your link and section:

> From 1977 onward, per capita income in the country rose to more than US $11,000, the fifth-highest in Africa, while the Human Development Index became the highest in Africa and greater than that of Saudi Arabia. This was achieved without borrowing any foreign loans, keeping Libya debt-free. In addition, the country's literacy rate rose from 10% to 90%, life expectancy rose from 57 to 77 years, equal rights were established for women and black people, employment opportunities were established for migrant workers, and welfare systems were introduced that allowed access to free education, free healthcare, and financial assistance for housing. The Great Manmade River was also built to allow free access to fresh water across large parts of the country. In addition, financial support was provided for university scholarships and employment programs.

> You're either willfully ignorant

Some would claim that the ignorant one is the one who thinks Libya is now in a better position, or the one who can't see pass what is spoon fed to him.
How does this tax lawyer know that:

The $5 billion he will receive upon exercising those options will be treated as salary

Was it in the S-1 that Zuckerberg did no tax planning?
You mean that you deleted it with dd? Can you show a before and after of what you're trying to accomplish, because it's very likely possible. I'm just not sure what you're trying to do.
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To me, the loophole seems to be 'Now his widow can sell those shares without paying any income tax on the appreciation before his death. She would have to pay taxes only on the increase in value from the time of his death to the time of the sale. '

Why doesn't the widow need to pay taxes on the increase from the original cost basis to time of sale? What is the reasoning for resetting the cost basis to 'value at time of death', when no taxes are paid at that time?
Can you please explain it?
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Wow! I'm intrigued and curious by what the "time bomb word docs" might contain. I don't really want the feds knocking on my door! Guess I will have to take a pass pulling this source code apart.
> The motive was apparently blackmail and an attempt to shake down Symantec for $50k

Symantec was the one offering the bribe. Well it wasn't even Symantec, they lied, it was FBI.
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Oh, nice! This could work for me! :)
Thanks for the suggestion!
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> How do you intend to handle this situation with every other app you, and presumably your wife, have ever downloaded?

Not sure yet. Path is actually the first (and will certainly be the last) social network I've ever joined - and it was precisely because it was supposed to be private and they had a pretty reasonable privacy policy. I remember something of this nature after the App Store was first released but had honestly thought it was a fixed issue.

On our lap/desktops we use prompting firewalls and on occasion will even watch suspicious apps or behaviors, if you will, where on iOS this is much harder.

I have an idle FreeBSD box and may start mitm'ing like OP did, but seriously pouring through the kind of output a home network produces doesn't sound like fun at all and I already know that going back to a dumb phone would probably be just as easy.
The one aspect I'm not seeing anyone mention here is the very real implications this has for the company in question. I don't have the numbers, but a tax like this could (and probably would) cause Zuckerberg to no longer have control of Facebook since he had to sell shares. Or Bezos to lose control of Amazon, etc.

I, for one, think this is a big negative.
Adam, the CTO at Uniiverse, is a good friend of mine. I know for a fact that they believe fully in what they're doing. I think the idea of building a social network around bringing people together in the real world is awesome.
> Not a tax lawyer, but doesn't the Jobs family pay 35% death tax?

Nobody who does any sensible planning pays the estate tax. It is a complete red herring used by politicians to demagogue their constituencies.

It is beatable in so many ways that it's not worth discussing.
I don't necessarily disagree with the author, but almost inevitably you cannot be an autodidact. If you consult a book or the internet for information, you are learning from someone else (just not necessarily audibly or directly). The real question is, are you somehow at a disadvantage if you avoid academia? Is it better to be practiced in real-world scenarios and real failures then to learn theory? Personally I think a little of both is good, but you do not necessarily need to be "taught" in the traditional sense we think of teaching.
3) He has "more" money nominally but the majority of the difference is due to inflation. If Fred invests in TIPS with zero yield, he will have exactly the same amount of real money when they mature, but he will likely be faced with a big tax bill anyway.
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"Psychiatrists still have no idea how to distinguish a person with mild Asperger's from a person who is simply introverted."

Classic rule of logical argument: Two things which are equal to one thing are equal to each other.

Or rather: If "Introversion" and High Functioning Autism (HFA) both essentially meet the DSM guidelines for diagnosis, what difference is there besides how pop psychology abuses the concept?
Ah. right. Probably shows I'm still practicing abstinence i.e. no smart phone with 3G plan yet. Still seems its a lot less to be concerned about in comparison to what other organizations own. I suppose the sneaky under the hood part is what's jarring.
This article has a fundamental flaw. It starts with the premise that some outrageous tax revenue level is necessary, and from that premise tries to analyze the fairness of the existing tax code.

There's one thing I would really like to understand. I've been mulling this over for a couple of months, and I'm coming to the conclusion that a vote in favor of ANY tax is immoral.

If I cast a vote for a tax, I am voting in favor of taking money from someone else, with the force of gunpoint and the threat of prison. How can that be moral?

Since coming to this conclusion, I have tried to find arguments, and they usually start with "well, we need to have a tax, or no one will pay." (Romney even said that in one of the debates.) But I can't find any proof to this statement, and I find lots of things that disprove it.

1) The United States was founded with a volunteer militia funded completely voluntarily. (And at the time, citizens had to pay tax to the enemy of the revolution, England.)

2) Numerous organizations ranging from charities, to huge churches that have survived several millenniums, to a complete country (Vatican City) are funded voluntarily, and do that quite successfully.

3) Free people freely give to causes that they believe in. And people believe in freedom. It would not be a hard sell.

The whole argument that we have to get more from the rich (or more from anyone, for that matter) is standing on this shaky ground - that somehow it's moral for "the majority" to steal from others through a diffuse system of voting, representatives, laws and organizations like the IRS. But it's you and me, stealing from other people, and using organizations like the IRS and the police force as our weapons. And that can't be right.

Honest question: Can someone convince me that it's not immoral to vote for a tax? Please don't down-vote me for asking a question, because I am honestly trying to understand. If you disagree, help persuade me.

Edit: I WANT to pay for freedom. I DON'T want to FORCE someone else to pay for freedom (which has an obvious contradiction).
Why are they even bothering with h.264 anymore? Didn't they want to remove it from Chrome since like version 10? It's about time they start to aggressively push for WebM, if it's ready.
> 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.

I see this argument, but it is completely non-sensical. Someone who just cashed in to the tune of $5 billion is going to leave the US to avoid paying $2 billion in tax? To where? Europe, with its super low tax rates? The developing world? Every place worth living has higher tax rates than the U.S.
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First, this is really cool. Grats for putting it together. Next, I would say that this falls into a category of app that I like to call "Discovery". There is just so much content of every flavor out there that Discovery apps will carve out an entire niche for every niche of people out there. Have you thought about adding a log in that would allow people to simply click +(more) or -(less) for each item presented? Thereby allowing you to hone your recommendations...
This is one of the most frustrating article to read I've ever seen on HN. The proposal is completely ridiculous. Ellison and Jobs never selling shares has so much less to do with avoiding taxation as it does with maintaining control and upside exposure.

This proposal would effect a slow creep of management being universally excised from their companies over time, as they're compelled to sell shares to cover their tax liability. I fail to see any good whatsoever that would come of this. All it does is introduce a time decay of company control for founders and owners. The secondary effects of trying to collect a little more tax here would redefine industries.
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Your cure is worse than the disease. Who really cares whether they work in Geneva or New York or Sydney or SF? They are all nice places to live, and that plan would be a national disaster.

The US just needs to tax capital gains as ordinary income, and cut the corporate income tax to 10-15% with no exceptions to be globally competitive. The goal is to have more multi-nationals based in the US, not less.
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I like GUI tools for quickly visualizing data, otherwise you're correct, a text editor is (currently) better/faster for editing.
Why are you making money?
At some point though the borrowed money needs to be repaid, and this would be with income (capital gains or earned income) that is taxed, right? So, I am curious how this works out in the long run. I imagine there is a twist to this I am missing...
Precisely my point here (as I mention in the last paragraph) is that knowledge is becoming widely available and new ways of learning are arising.

You are no longer an autodidact and you are studying the topics the college is telling you to follow. Some of them you would have never consider if you were to chose, some others you would. But in the "high level" (and probably in the future) you would appreciate the starting point that college has given you.

PS: I agree completely with you regarding attending to classes, even though I would have homeworks/exams to help retention of the material.
FYI, the printer I currently have is a HP Photosmart 7510. It's one of their touch screen interfaces, so I know the onboard system isn't absolutely dumb. There's gotta be a way to make this work!
I prefer to keep using Echap so it works in a terminal with vi keybindings. The visual mode is not mentioned and this is super useful to see what you want to copy / delete. Also getting rid of the arrows is the way to go.
Right. Kik did it without having an opt-out. At least Instagram does it after you tell it to. Path and Hipster? They just do it. Hipster, to a lesser degree.
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It's been a lifesaver. I usually have 20 buffers open and swiping between them makes editing a lot quicker.
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Hey Ben. Craig here, CEO of Uniiverse. Actually, Uniiverse is not a social network. We believe that the social layer has been built. The next decade is about the engagement layer, and we are building the platform that connects people for real life interactions. We are a marketplace (across the full value chain i.e. create > discover > book > pay > review), and we are aiming to get people offline.
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Taxing the super-rich is rife with problems. They will find other ways to avoid taxes. The only tax that makes sense to me is a sales tax on luxury goods. Let them keep their money however long they want. It doesn't affect anyone: until they buy that yacht that takes 100 man years of labor to make. Charge big taxes on those yachts, etc.
First, IANAL. Second:

83b election essentially says: Dear IRS, I know I received all these unvested unexercised options, but I want you to tax me on them as though they were all exercised when I received them. You do this in the year they are assigned to you.

Since this is before the company actually takes funding, the shares are worth some stupidly low number ($0.001/sh). So 1M shares is $1000 of income. Since he was not making much money, that amounts to maybe $200 of income tax on 1M shares.

When he goes to exercise the options, no income tax is paid because he already paid it! He can use those share for ALL SORTS of collateral for the future. As long as he doesn't actually sell the shares, no income tax is due.
Ohh, you're giving me ideas now. How great would it be to have a whole panoply of "[language a] for [language b] developers" videos or articles ;-) I know of a few but still..
I don't follow why not to use jQuery. Because then you can roll your own library, and deal with the bugs that they've already fixed when making jQuery? And also you can implement all of the browser dependent cases yourself?

Help me out, here.
IMO the best thing about the terminal on a mac is being able to select text and copy and paste it with the keyboard (since the CMD keys don't have a purpose in the terminal world).
For what it's worth, I don't have showdead turned on, but I can see your comment.
Hmm. I see what you mean now.

Though it's still extremely unfavorable for people that work sporadically. If I work hard for years then retire early, that means I have to keep paying tax in retirement for the money I earned years ago.

In the example of my brother, lets say he doesn't earn any real money until he's 40.. so he pays very low taxes until then, then starts making the big bucks... at that point the average will never catch up to him before he dies, and he will have not paid enough tax for the money he earned.

It sure is an interesting idea, I just can't see how it would work out.
Do you know of any high traffic sites that aren't?
The US just needs to tax capital gains as ordinary income, and cut the corporate income tax to 10-15% with no exceptions to be globally competitive.

This only makes sense if the income used to buy the capital hasn't already been taxed once, when it was earned. Since it already was, you're in effect arguing for double taxation. Which is why capital gains are taxed differently in the first place.
I believe that he's referring to all the schemes they currently use for evading taxes and (at least for the likes of Zuck and Buffet) the way they got their money to begin with. Regardless of whether they or merely their accountants are intelligent, they won't take a massive tax hike lying down.
I would look into donating the books to the prison library. Censors usually don't go to town on books that are donated, whereas things that are sent in via the mail to a specific inmate are scrutinized to an unimaginable degree.
Upon clicking a link, you're sending a 404 status code message to browsers/user agents. Search engine crawlers likely aren't going to follow past that.

So everything you link to appears to be a broken link, and the pages are all about links.

What kind of quality score might a search engine give a page that's completely filled with broken links? Probably not too high.
It's a really sexy API, good job1
I guess I don't fully understand the nuance between a social network and an engagement layer ;)
Yeah, I'm trying to figure this out myself.
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The problem with FireFox on my (512 mb) phone is that the OS usually kills it when I switch to another app (even tiny apps like messaging), and it's a slow FireFox restart if I want to use it again. The OS doesn't do this with the stock browser.
That's kind of like saying we should rewrite the Windows codebase because it has all sorts of patches, hacks, etc. Do you have any evidence on how much those things are actually costing us?

I don't (I'm not the one making dramatic claims), but my hunch is that most of the real revenue losses in our tax system are from some broad failings, not little loopholes. Our ridiculously low capital gains rate, for example.

To the point of the article, there is actually a deep-running theoretical difference between various realization schemes. This isn't just "trying to tax Zuckerberg" but rather figuring out how to properly compute "income = net accession in wealth." The theoretical amount subject to tax is: Gain = Net income + Delta(value of property). Theoretically, you could compute the latter term at any interval you like (every year, etc). As a general policy we compute the term at sale of property because it's the easiest time to do so (the valuation is fixed precisely by a market transaction). But for something like a publicly traded stock, that rationale carries much less weight. And the counter-veiling concern of ensuring that the amount does get fairly taxed (instead of being held on-to indefinitely) probably outweighs that rationale in this case.
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Thanks for the complements! I like the idea of helping the user hone in on a set that better matches their preference, while keeping the interface clean and uncluttered. I was going to add a simple genre filter, but I might experiment with an opaque filter based on +'s and -'s.
Singapore and Hong Kong would like to talk to your about you theory that every major domicile has higher taxes than the US.

Plus, if you enjoy living in a sea of sandcastles, Dubai has no income tax.
I have also looked into Earth Class mail as a possible solution. While the service is great, it's not quite what I'm looking for. I don't want to have to forward all my mail somewhere else and then have packages etc "re-forwarded" back to me.
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I'd love to hear if anyone else is having these issues, because it's really frustrating me.
Bad advice.

Coffeescript isnt a framework, it is a language.

So for your DOM manipulation you say you understand the quirks and difference between WebKit and IE7, what about the host of over rendering engines, mobile/tablet/desktop and different OS editions. I bet there exists dozen of bugs in your implementation. But thats how startups waste money I guess. If JQuery isnt your style use another abstraction library or a lightweight version of jQuery, combined with minification, gzipping or a CDN, rolling your own (at your current level) is just STUPID, risky and a waste of money. Typical NIH.
That still wouldn't be specific permission to share children's information specifically, which is what it seemed like your were requesting.
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Also, for apps with private messaging systems like Path, I'd be far more concerned about rogue employees looking through the messages I send than contact list data. I'm far more likely to have sensitive information in there.