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Also, no one says the job will be at a comparable skill-level. The jobs that are often created are much more technologically sophisticated so that those who lose them have no where to go while those well off merely get more employment options. My genuine concern is that the jobs that can provide people with just a decent lifestyle are beyond the mental talents of many people.
There are institutions, e.g. pension funds, that only invest in equities that provide a dividend. By offering a dividend, Apple is making its stock more widely available => more buyers => more shareholder value.
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Both groups are on the margins of polite society and have experiences censorship and oppression. Both groups would benefit greatly from a secure anonymous way to share data privately.
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That's how I saw it, however I think the remaining ~$40 billion is sufficient to continue a dominant position in where they excel. Things only evolve so fast, and unless they were planning on extending into specializing into other markets, there's only so much money that can be spent in one area before you'll potentially extend yourself into other areas too much and dilute expertise/focus. Apple's brand can't dilute too much either, though there are some areas I can see them being able to excel in - but they might not have the total foresight or incentives needed to maintain dominance in those areas, as experts already exist in those fields and they'd be competing for human resources - they do have ~$40 billion left + will surely make many more billions to use however they please.
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Even if there IS a better way of doing it on the ground, this is a GREAT way to embarrass the ones who are trying to shut you down.An Aeroplane or helicopter needed just to shut down a floating computer?
Since we live in a society of auction markets, the more money other people have, in effect, the less you have.
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New Internet Explorer will come in two flavors
That is to stretch the definition of ownership quite a lot. Share holders have no rights to or control of any portion of the cash balance of a company that are not granted to them by the board.
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I just have no idea what you're suggesting. It seems incoherent to me. You value what you value, I value what I value, and money and markets are how we exchange things we value less for things we value more.

If you want to start a bank that pays people better interest rates for running every day, what's stopping you?
Thanks! Looks like there are things going on everyday. I will def attend some of those events.
> Go is designed for large codebases, which is a problem that the author may not have, and so he may not see the benefits.

If Go is really designed for large code bases, then IDE support for go with code browsing, refactoring, debugging and profiling would be developed in parallel with the Go language itself.

Since Go IDE support go only as far as petty Vim and even pettier Emacs modes, I couldn't call go "made for large codebases".
I think it's a pretty common occurrence. FB came after me a couple of months ago, but truth be told, I wouldn't even be co-founding a startup if I didn't believe in it. It would take a LOT (read: impossible) to woo me away from something I believe in. I suspect most serious co-founders are the same way.
As a wild guess, I would say that in the days before the internet made "international data transfer" something a regular person would encounter frequently, the thought just never occurred to them.
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Only see 2 people mentioned on the site.
Is this just a post for traffic?
I'm glad he made the correct distinction between partial application and currying. The article is worth it for his helpful explanation of the two alone.

Though, it's slightly off on the initial presentation of currying. Currying is the act of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments into a function that returns a function that takes n-1 arguments, and so on, not an "incremental binding of function arguments".
Hopefully they are with you because they would enjoy working on the project and with eachother. If they just want money and a security net then they'll jump ship. Hopefully the community you create with your project is what they want though. Goodluck. :) I'm still trying to find great technical co-founders, and they'll be the type who I'd want to be able to be desired by Apple, Google, etc..
Money quote:

> Losing a battle is a bitter experience. I won’t sugar-coat this pill. But we must swallow it if we are to succeed in our mobile initiatives.

Mozilla fought the good fight, and lost. Instead of standing on a street corner with a bullhorn, Mozilla is going to move on to fight the next battle. Those would be WebRTC and Google/Netflix's Web DRM initiative.
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So? If all the competition is getting government help, you'd be stupid not to take it, even if you think that in an ideal situation, nobody would be getting it. After all, in the long run, the government's going to extract way more wealth from you than you get from it.
“I only had my tears to console me,” how pathetic is this?Actually slavery has become a serious problem for the Africa.It should be just removed from Africa at any cost.
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Solution: Take investment as a convertible note (loan)?
Or sell shares at a fair market value, as contrasted so standard? This law seems like it just closes a loophole where a founder could take investment as personal income, which would rightly be a fee for service (salary), not actual investment; or closes a loophole where an investor makes a gift of cash to the company or for founders.

Consider YC: If you spend your $11K on your apartment rental, that's income. If you spend it on Heroku access, that's a business asset that adds value to the company.

Based on the unclear language in the petition, I don't think the only writer understands the law.
As of now, while in Beta, it's totally free--and has been for about 5mo. That said, we are working on getting a free tier. Doing free as a startup when you have to have infrastructure on the backend is a little difficult.
Thanks for linking this, just what I was looking for.
Part of what makes it so cool is that there is literally no learning curve. It's a pretty straightforward UI. We made that part of our goal when developing that platform: not having to relearn stuff to just deploy your app, like Amazon or Google.
I hate to say it, the problem is 100% valid. Worse is that Android stock interface is GARBAGE. Even if performance is great.

the tech unsavvy don't give a shit about customizations and custom launchers. They want a phone that works and is easy to use.

If anything Google should be making a wonderful interface, not just performance but INTERFACE.
The idea of buying Netflix doesn't get Apple into Asia, Continental Europe, or the Africa. It also doesn't do much more than spend the interest on $100 billion. Akamai would put even less of a dent in Apple's cash pile.

Purchasing Disney isn't primarily driven by the fact that they are a movie studio. The purchase makes sense because of Disney's existing media portfolio and the worldwide demographic which their properties attract.
That's true, but the shareholders have delegated the decision on how to spend the money to their legal representatives on the board. There's a strong presumption that the shareholders have elected board members whose decisions they support, so if the board makes decisions and the shareholders don't vote them out, those are presumed to express the preferences of the shareholders. Note that those decisions do not have to maximize shareholder profit. Shareholders can elect board members who commit to maximizing shareholder value, but they can also elect board members with a variety of other preferences and ideas about how to best run a company, or how to best spend its cash on hand. The board can legally pursue a wide range of strategies, and shareholder lawsuits basically never prevail (in the U.S.) absent some kind of overt wrongdoing, like secret side deals made by board members or something like that, or else shenanigans related to mergers and equity (e.g. some kinds of dilution).

(There's a persistent myth to the contrary, but it's not really rooted in law; see e.g. http://truthonthemarket.com/2010/07/27/the-shareholder-wealt... and http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism/ar... ... and even if that weren't true, courts are willing to grant considerable leeway to business strategies such as "building goodwill" and "increasing positive sentiment towards the brand", since courts aren't in a good position to second-guess a duly elected board on such points).

I tend to think of it as the board being in possession of the company that the shareholders have all but signed over to them; with shareholders retaining notional ownership, mainly enforced via the rarely exercised right to revoke the delegation of power if they get sufficiently angry.
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The board represents and has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. The term "fiduciary duty" is not abstract; it has legal force, hence the frequency in the news of another investing term: "shareholder's lawsuit".
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Mar/78

The FD discussion, if you're interested :)
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Radio and video may add to speech but bandwidth wise if it is just the words reading is so much faster that you have to add a vast amount to compete...
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On a related topic, an mozilla issue that was fixed, and has been reintroduced in the name of going back towards the crazy selection system: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190615
I was right about Apple's plans to repurchase its own stock. I guess I was a little surprised by the quarterly dividend and the amount of money it plans to spend ($45b over 3 years).

Then I realized Apple earned $13b profit last quarter and it's only going to grow. $15b x 4 quarters = $60b PROFIT PER YEAR.

Not all of their profit will be used for the share buy back/dividend, but Apple can easily afford it and still have MORE cash (specially after you factor in cash inflow from its investing activities).
The alternative, though, is losing $10 dollars in print for $0 gained online.
I had no idea that Neil Armstrong and other veteran astronauts are against Musk and SpaceX. Other than being in the government's back pocket, I can't think of a reason why people who have been in space would not support going back (putting safety aside, which was considerably the same thing back in NASA's early days).
The article is a bit too enthusiastic. The official announcement itself says:

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.3#head-b733d694037e0b34ad47...

"Various Android subsystems and features have already been merged, and more will follow in the future."

and also suggests reading:

https://lwn.net/Articles/472984/

Lots of progress, but not completely done.
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They know how to spend the money they have. The "problem" is that they keep making tons more.
Those are some pretty strong words (religious genocidial death cults)

Honestly, I think it's pretty obvious that Islam is religious, genocidal, and anti-life (i.e., flourishing human life on this earth).

who says they are governed by them

Iran, Egypt, the Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, Saudi Arabia. All closely tied into Islam. And that's just a short list.
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1. Think of popular board game not in app store

2. Build it and submit it to the app store

3. Profit
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As a dedicated anti-trafficking advocate (check out www.stopthetraffik.org to see some of the work we do) I am used to trolling through pages of ignorant, xenophobic disheartening callousness after an article like this.
I am so encouraged by the respect and knowledge you're bringing to the debate in this forum. What a breath of fresh air. Thank you, all the posters below, for reinforcing my faith in humanity!
"In reality Apple could probably just become a private company by buying back most/all the public shares, but I doubt they want to do that."

They can't use the shareholders' money (which is what this is) to take themselves private. You can't buy something from someone with their own money.

EDIT: Any of these downvoters care to explain themselves? Apple can't buy back most/all of the public shares using this pile of cash, because it belongs to Apple, which belongs to its shareholders. (Even if they could afford to do it, which they can't)
Sorry that wasn't clear. The way it works is pricing is the same for database and app servers, i.e. per cloudlet. HDD is free for the first 1GB. After that, there will be a monthly fee for storage that we have yet to announce. (it will be in line with what storage is currently running in the market)
> dividends signal to the market that you have no better way to spend your money than just giving it back to investors to spend elsewhere

this is exactly what they're trying to signal because its true. what's wrong with that? they've been extremely profitable while not spending the $45 billion they're giving back to shareholders, and they can continue to be profitable without it.

> In reality Apple could probably just become a private company by buying back most/all the public shares

no it couldn't. it's market cap is 550B. it's cash reserve is 100B.

more generally, a company cannot buy itself because the shareholders actually own the cash the company holds. generally, if a company has $X dollars of cash reserves, then the market cap on that company would be > $X.

edit: a factor of 10
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The US is not a Christian nation, if that's what you mean. It was founded on a basis of individual rights. Sure, we are getting further from that every year, but at this particular moment, there are very few religion-based laws (marriage laws are the big exception).
Well, this seems like an 'informed opinion' without any actual sources.

http://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf

"In particular, when garbage collection has ﬁve times as much memory as required, its runtime performance matches or slightly exceeds that of explicit memory management"
If the investor is entitled to return, the investment amount is not in excess of the share value, and hence there is no income. If revenue is spent on growth expenses, there is no income.
(1) Google spent lots of developer resources on Unladen Swallow, which ended up not giving the speed increases they expected, but that's another story.

(2) Last thing I heard, Google's trying to minimize their Python usage in favor of Java.
Both dividends and repurchasing are ways to distribute money to shareholders, and are from the point of view of the Miller--Modigiani theorem equivalent: from this abstract viewpoint, neither should affect the value of shares.

The differences are

1. Buybacks are usually more tax efficient, because with dividends, profits are realised at the point of sale;

2. Buybacks tend to be procyclical, since companies get a bargain when their shares are undervalued and overpay when they are overvalued. There is some evidence that overall, companies do not get good value for their shareholders from share buybacks. Also, many stock options have the effect that buybacks reward shareholders better than dividends.

I think a mixed dividend and buyback policy is wise. Apple shouldn't be hoarding the cash, and they shouldn't make poor value acquisitions.

To take themselves off the stock exchange, they would need to issue bonds valuing around $500 million, and so become a highly indebted company. This would be tricky, and it is not obvious why this would be in Apple's interest.
I think this is actually a pretty cool idea, but for it to be successful - 1) The app is a little rough around the edges... needs at the least a method for "flood protection." 2) Ability to adjust opacity, as it does take up a decent bit of real-estate. 3) MOST IMPORTANTLY - this is a great little bookmarklet app for community-driven websites like HN, reddit, etc... but the owners/admins of these sites need to PROMOTE the use of it. NOTE: This could also be popular on other types of sites as well.

For example, when this was on the front-page and i tested it out there were a little over 30 users on chatting, today its moved down to item 64 in the list and no one is using it. So it would definitely need to be promoted by the site for it to become popular.

I just had another thought, the developer of this bookmarklet could do a website that provides a list of web sites with the ability for user submissions and provide a sort of jump list. Hopefully there should be a way for the app to report the # of active users for each site in this scenario.

Anyways, I like it.
Why are you so dismissive? Apple is not the only company that has done this.

Many companies had MP3 players prior to the iPod, but it was Apple's device that completely up-ended the music industry. Now people have access to entire libraries of music on their phone, and a store where they can buy even more.

Can you really say the situation would be better if Apple had blown out in the 1990s and we were at the mercy of Rio and RealPlayer?
I don't know what that means, but Wikipedia says that Space Science Corporation's vehicle can cary a "2,000kg / 2700kg" "delivered payload" and SpaceX's Dragon a 6,000kg "launch payload" so they win there too by more than double.
First line:

> Mathematicians have never been comfortable handling infinities...

I stopped reading there, since that is badly false.
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Check out www.psdtuts.com they have a lot of good guides but believe there are some introductory courses too (might be premium the courses).
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You're off by a factor of 10 there but the claim is still true.
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Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short-wavelength radio transmissions in the ISM band from 2400-2480 MHz) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs) with high levels of security. http://codersky.com/how-to-develop-android-applications-212
Apple has shown it's unwilling to invest in things it can't turn into a huge win. It's not being run by Howard Hughes.
> I don't think it's unusual for a grown man not to call his family for two days.

True, you may not call your wife for two days. But if you are supposed to call your wife and don't for two days, she is going to freak out, justifiably.
The funniest and most succinct reply I can muster for you is that Clay is the programming language least designed for quiche-eaters.

I leave it to your Google skills to get the cultural context for that. :)
So, the clarity you've added here is neat (I hadn't drilled down into the specifics of what "fiduciary duty" meant in law, and also had been using "maximize shareholder value" as a shorthand for it), but if you search, you'll find lots of instances of boards being sued for breaches of loyalty over company business decisions. Courts seem to find lots of ways to connect the dots between "putting the interests of the corporation first" and "not signing off on dumb business decisions, like giving the CEO a huge raise in a year where the company missed its numbers".

Regardless; Apple is not going to space, at least not until it can figure out how to make money doing it.
Well, looks like we were both right.
>I decided a long time ago that what I really liked most was to create lots of functionality in as short time as possible.

That's what I do now, but it's not what I've always done and I'm keenly aware of the limitations my peers are dealing with on a daily basis.
I completely agree with "an evil dictator of some kind." Many peoples have suffered the injustices of religion, also in agreement.

"Nations with higher atheism are the ones with the least problems." Can you please source that?

I believe religion in general does aid in providing some sense of moral compass. It is the two-edged sword that cuts and heals, depending on its wielder. Religion played a crutial part in Slavery, but it was also crucial in the abolishment of the same. As the article suggests, freedom cannot be given, it must be demanded. There is no way this is possible without educating the enslaved.
See the later part of this video:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/bill_stone_explores_the_ear...

Another inspiring TED talk.
Didn't H.264 become free forever on the Web due to fear of competition from WebM? Doesn't sound like a total loss.
Then come over, and bring your Alt. (but make sure to hide it en route) We don't discriminate.
Ctrl-F5 would then cause the new page to show rather than the original.

Great idea though.
I read this with great interest when it came across another site. I have watched many of people explode bolts or something with homemade capacitors. This seems to imply that a home a solution for experimentation could be derived, but at this time it seems that while a DVD burner may be in the mix, it is in the middle of a very advanced lab and the further processing such a material would require for application.
There are some services with unlimited demand, like healthcare.

My guess is that the demand will switch to other services as well, like the nannies you mentioned and better education and other wealthy-person services: personal trainers, nutrition, leisure, party/wedding planners, clothing advisors, gourmet cooking. There will also be a lot of services needed for the elderly.

Of course, competition will be cut-throat, but those jobs that cannot be made more efficient or paralellized (those with a high amount of in-person involvement) will sustain the new middle class.
It isn't uncommon for management to partner up and take a company private when they are already large shareholders. In the case of Apple, this is not the case. Jobs owned more of Disney (almost 8% via the Pixar deal) than Apple on a percentage basis (less than 1%).
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Humans are maladapted for western diets and western surplus, it's not my goal to assign blame but rather to help people get around the natural limitations of day to day life.

It's unreasonable to expect every human being to possess the knowledge of a nutritionist just to manage their own diets.

Hopefully the product I'm working on will level the playing field.
> I hate to say this is a bad idea, but dividends signal to the market that you have no better way to spend your money than just giving it back to investors to spend elsewhere.

The ever-present notion that the leadership team of what is now one of the largest companies in the world has no real idea what they are doing is fascinating to me. Perhaps they deserve a bit of credit.
I don't see a meaningful difference in the cases in your last paragraph. Seems like an implementation detail.

The issue of whether the caller has to explicitly call "partial" seems to be the meaningful distinction.
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