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Agree or not, that's what DHH is saying here. It's harder for sustainable businesses to hire talent, when talent is getting paid more at places with enormous valuations.

This of course falls down if the large valuation and the large pay are justified by things like large revenues, or value to those with large revenues.
There's no evidence he qualifies under that clause. He didn't renounce to avoid taxation, quite the opposite: He was paid up on his taxes and paid an "exit tax" according to the quote in an article I read last night.

The USA requires you to get permission before renouncing. Part of the process of getting that permission is being audited by the IRS to make sure you're up to date on your taxes, and paying an excise tax on the money you're taking out of the country.

The clause you're referring to is for people who sneak money out of the country and then trick the US into "letting" them renounce where the US thinks they are up to date on their taxes but they aren't because they hid the money.
There's no evidence he has hid any money, and no evidence that he has renounced to avoid paying taxes.

Unlike most countries, the USA taxes citizens on their worldwide income, no matter where it is earned or where they live. This means that unless you want to be paying taxes to the USA for money earned outside the USA for businesses outside the USA, you have to renounce.

Further, if he sold all his Facebook stock before giving up citizenship, he's already paid taxes on it. If he has kept that stock, then it is still the stock of a US company listed on a US exchange and after it goes public, he'll still have to pay taxes if he sells any shares-- just as any non-US citizen who owns stock on an american exchange does.

I can't see any evidence that he's avoided any taxes by leaving--- except taxes on income he produces outside the USA.... and why would the US have any right to that income anyway?
The sound bite that stuck out most to me was

For instance, it is a small step from "job creator" to "The Creator".
We did not accidentally choose this language.

Weird leaps of logic and data that don't directly support an argument regarding job creation are sufficient reason not to feature this talk (in addition to the partisan rhetoric which is verboten for TED).
It is possible to build a sustainable internet business which does not rely on the prospects of an IPO.

Unfortunately it seems that few people treat the industry in that way.
It actually seems pretty reasonable to deny reentry to someone who has left and had a nice windfall as a result.

How is it reasonable? What exactly is the USA gaining by this action? How is this making life better for the citizens of the United States?

This is just political bullshit, nothing more, nothing less. The Senators involved are far more harmful to the USA than Eduardo Saverin ever will be.
The wealthy will only bother to put up capital if they're more interested in earning money than in holding on to it.

Your willingness to tolerate risking x% of your wealth goes down as you get wealthier.
They're probably hung up because it's making them look small-time. What do 37Signals actually do, other than generate a steady stream of blog posts for HN? They make some sort of dropbox knockoff, right?
> you don't need Ruby to use it, which is a big plus for Windows users.

Not only that, but if you are minifiying Javascript some of the best minifiers are built with node, so its one less language/dependency if you're not already using ruby.
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"Wide Adoption" - always hard to pin down, but as my ears are tuned to Groovy, I'm seeing it in more places. In some ways it's harder to pick out, because a company that's 'using python' will more likely have a larger stack of python (or jython) code. Groovy can (and does) fly under the radar more, precisely because it's so similar to Java syntactically, and fits in the toolchain (add a jar to the classpath and you're off).

You probably won't find many projects built "just" in Groovy - because of its JVM nature, you're more likely to find Java projects which are enhanced with Groovy (Groovy plugin for Hudson, for example, and the Play framework supporting Groovy in templates). Gradle as a build tool is starting to get some traction.

Groovy will probably be more behind the scenes than you'd like for a 'hey boss everyone is using this' sort of pitch, but it's not going away any time soon, and adoption is growing.

Biases on the table - I've done a number of mid-scale projects in Grails over the past several years, and I also run groovymag.com.
The US wouldn't get a cut of that unless the exchange rate really sucked and that £20,000 was worth more than $90,000. Plus any UK taxes you paid on it (assuming there is a taxation treaty between the UK and US) are deductible from your US tax liability.

In general you have to either live in a country that doesn't have a tax treaty with the US or not pay taxes on your income in the country in which you reside.
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Hate to say it, but I suspect that showing photos will put some customers off because the products don't look substantial enough.

I realise that there are overheads and that your service is presumably aimed at people with a high enough disposable income.
Or not. If Facebook remains profitable, then it could basically be this bubble's Google.
That's probably worse. A worker whose labor is worth $10 an hour is not going to benefit from a bunch of jobs that are priced at $40 an hour.
oh yes, have some random Japanese person pick stuff and ask them to say eg "from whatevercity, greetings to the rest of the world. I am Mr x and picked some of my favourite candy for you. this one is called sgggddtgcf, it tastes like qetffhh. the bright green one is a bit special, be careful. -- I hope you will enjoy them!". show the shopping/picking. ask cute Japanese girls if men are most of your customers. maybe do that once per month. maybe personally address some of your customers in it (ask before).

that movie inside my head ain't stopping. :)
That's true, but not what I was asking. I can write a compiler from any language to any other language, so I'm not asking if you like other languages, I'm asking if you like Javascript.
It will probably go away in time. As I get older, it's more apparent to me how much I don't know any more, and my expectations for others knowing things I consider obvious has tempered some.
From the paper, which apparently nobody here actually bothered to skim:

> To study this phenomenon, I must overcome the fact that ﬁle sharing is endogenous in its determination of an album’s sales because an album that is popular in ﬁle-sharing networks will also be popular in retail markets. This occurs because ﬁle-sharing and retail demand are both driven by unobserved album quality. To address this endogeneity, I exploit exogenous variation inhow widely available an album was prior to its oﬃcial release date. An album’s ease of availability in ﬁle-sharing networks is positively correlated with the number of times that it is downloaded because availability determines the supply of the album in ﬁle-sharing networks. Availability is not independently correlated with an album’s popularity in retail markets because pre-release ﬁlesharing is driven by leaks, which are “crimes of opportunity” that occur at some stage of the production or album marketing process (Williams, 2009).
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I know that some level of taxation is necessary to keep society running along, and am not against taxation per se. But I do try to legally minimize my taxes, because I want my own family to be well-provided for and because I want to direct my charitable giving to my own community and causes.

If that's selfish, I guess I'm selfish - but is this motivation truly so terrible?
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I've definitely had this hesitation before and, like with programming, the more I publish and open source things, the easier it becomes. It might not be perfect, but good programmers can figure it out without help or novice ones can ask questions and show you where you need to explain things in more detail.

I've always wanted the organized README file, the detailed CHANGELOG file, the pretty bootstraped github page, and the polished docs, but it takes effort to get there. The little details along the way have tripped me up. After creating 3-4 active projects now on Github, I've worked through most minor details, cleaned up my older projects, and raised the overall quality of all my projects.
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Well, the key feature of a financial bubble is that no one is behaving irrationally at a micro level. Even if you know its a bubble, it may be worth trying to get in now and get out closer to the top.

Same thing with building social local mobile stain removal advice apps -- if someone's buying, then someone will be supplying it.

If it is really, no shit, a bubble, then there is a lot of money to be made by determining how to pop it.
So, yes? I'm curious: what's your favorite language that's not Javascript?
The whole head transplant[1] has got to be the most disturbing thing on that list.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant
SPDY is one frackin' cool protocol. I could easily see it being used as the default protocol for everything in the future, including inter-app comms in an OS.
I don't think he is arguing that he doesn't like the problems that are being solved. He does mention that he sees the same problems being solved over and over again for more and more money, photo sharing being a timely example.

I don't know if he's right; in general I don't have a solid grasp on how to value companies that aren't making any money.
One question with respect to all the reported erasures carried out by police -- on the spot or shortly thereafter.

If recording were indeed a crime (I can't bring myself to write this other than in the conditional), would they not then be destroying evidence of the very crime under which they are acting in arresting and confiscating equipment?

Which itself would be... a crime?
While having started a widely-used project looks impressive, I'd much rather see a steady stream of improvements to existing projects from a potential hire than a bunch of their own projects that no one else uses. While the latter may tell me a bit more about how someone's design sense, the former tells me more about how well they work with other humans, which is much more interesting.
That personal growth translates to your career as well.

Well, sure. It's not like my time not in school was void of personal growth. I see where my college-graduated friends are at and I wouldn't want to be in their shoes, career wise. The time I was able to maximize during those years has put me at a competitive advantage.

Not to knock what they have done. I'm sure their education comes with many non-career benefits.
I don't have anything really substantial to add to this topic, but I find it interesting I have some serious envy for the "talent" that is so in demand.

I went the easy route, chose the web development path in my education, rather than a more math heavy, software engineering direction. I've been slapping myself for years now, but this just rubs salt in my wounds.

Granted, I interview very poorly, am not the most articulate person (stutter and stammer a lot, etc) and I certainly can't at this point in my life up and move to San Francisco, so it is probably not important anyway.
Cool. FWIW, here's a list of places using Grails:

http://grails.org/Success+Stories

and note that Groovy is commercially supported by SpringSource, a division of VMWare. I'm guessing your boss has heard of VMWare.
Ah, capitalized phrases, the sign we've crossed from politics to religion. In the name of the Fountainhead, and of the Galt, and of the Holy Dollar: go forth and tax no more. Hear our prayer, St. Ayn.

That you find something absurd isn't proof that it's a bad idea, or that it doesn't work, or that you can just pretend your fantasy world will be awesome. I think it's absurd that we genius beings of ethereal light and wisdom are implemented on top of leaky, decaying bags of meat. But that's how it works for now, and denial isn't going to make my life any better.
The chance that granny is going to lose her pension fund is much more related to the actions of the banking and financial industries. Granny is already losing her savings with near-zero interest rates.
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The pieces of this argument fit together very neatly, but the problem is that they don't correspond to reality. E.g. the cloud about increased VC fundraising. In reality VCs are having a hard time fundraising:

http://nvcaccess.nvca.org/index.php/topics/research-and-tren...

Thus it also isn't true that the cause of higher valuations is that VCs have more money. Valuations are certainly higher, but I think the reason is that founders are increasingly getting the upper hand over investors. Which is why in addition to getting higher valuations, founders are increasingly able to retain board control.
Someone having money doesn't preclude someone else in the economy from CREATING VALUE. Hacker News is a site filled with people who understand that it's possible to create value out of nothing. Your scenario is impossible, but assuming someone acquired all of X currency and refused to let anyone else have any, that currency is effectively nonexistent - currencies are only worth what they can be exchanged for. People would trade using something else.
I was expecting some illustration like this:
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/earthhowmuch.html
Just with oxygen instead of water.
I would be very surprised to see it. This school is an outgrowth of the unusual demand for Rails-specific talent amongst VC-oriented startups in SV and NYC. Django has maybe a third [1] of the cachet of presence in that particular niche. Note that this is not intended as a statement of the relative merits of the two frameworks.

[1] I got those numbers by skimming the last six "Who's Hiring?" threads.
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All true. One of the bigger issues is that some of these Dark Matter folks don't even know what's out there, and need some help getting there. They want to be part of things, but they haven't been for a while. Any encouraging words to developers who want to contribute to the community, but aren't yet doing so to the extent they could, are welcome.
Out of curiosity, anyone know how it's comparing in speed to JRuby? Fantastic work was done on JRuby - you'd hope many of the findings/techniques find their way into Jython.
That you find something absurd isn't proof that it's a bad idea

No, but it's still a bad idea.

and denial isn't going to make my life any better.

So work on changing the situation. That what I do vis-a-vis my issues with the way American society is implemented. At least with this stuff, we have tools at our disposal to try and actually change things: running for office, volunteering for campaigns, donating money, spreading the word about better ways of doing things, etc., etc.
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> So now it's unfairly partisan to point out that the evidence supports one party's position but not the other's?

I come down way on the side of Hanauer in this debate, and agree with your point above, in general. But my reading of the speech was that it was a partisan fluff piece.

If you asked any number of my liberal college-educated friends to vamp for three minutes on the subject of "the wealthy as job-creators and drivers of economic growth" and then gave it a quick edit you'd get something comparable. The only difference being Hanauer makes a fallacious argument from authority (although I think his opinion is correct).
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In that case may as well install a proxy on the mini-instance, along with an OpenVPN server.

There are OpenVPN clients available for most platforms, configuration is easy and using it is trivial ("install and forget").
I think Japanese people are very camera shy. For example on social networks in Japan, most don't show their face in profile pictures. I did meet one guy who was the total opposite, so I managed to make a video with him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb7PP2z3nnw

The thing with these videos is that I need to make two per month, and I'm not sure how I would source that many people to agree to appear in the videos.

But yeah, it would be pretty awesome if I could figure out how to pull that off.
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"A price on the whole community" might not have been the best phrasing, but I'd tend to agree that Saverin benefited immensely from being in the US (and that the stable government supported by taxes absolutely played a role in his success).

As for why he should continue to pay for services he is no longer using? Well, to me his current money is a kind of deferred income from the years he was in the US. He earned his billions while he was at Harvard, and then later while he was in the US. The income wasn't realized until later, because that's how startups work.

I see this as a completely different situation from an American who leaves the US, takes up residence in Canada, earns a salary in Canada, pays Canadian taxes, makes investments as a Canadian resident, etc. This was a situation where someone actually earned the wealth in the US, as a US citizen.
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I think I have a stricter definition of evidence. I saw a lot of arguments (many that I agree with generally), but not anything I would call evidence. If he wants to prove what he is saying is true, show the empirical evidence. A lot of people argue their opinion, which is fine, but in the end it is just opinion.
Counterexample: I was never interested in photo sharing before Instagram. I wasn't a good enough photographer. Now I can make my photos beautiful enough that I want to share them. Is this worth more than a few dollars to me personally? Yes. If I'm at all like a random person, then it's easy to see how Instagram is worth well over a few billion dollars.
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I'm shooting for smaller. :/

I've found DOORs easier to work with than ReqPro
I feel like your landing page is too "corporate".

Candy Japan is about the emotional experience. The design should reflect that!
Economists know a lot about how to create wealth. They know very little about creating jobs.

Jobs are temporary inefficiencies and a lot of economic growth comes when you get rid of them. We've automated most of our farming, but we don't have 90% unemployment because all the farm jobs went away.

One thing is how fast technology grows related to how fast workers can adapt. 'Race Against The Machine' is a thesis that technology is now growing so fast workers can't keep up. I don't know if I buy it, but it's something to keep in mind.
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I'd be looking forward to being able to run my favourite desktop on 'proper' linux on hardware of my choice.
Once someone's finished creating the inevitable Obuntu distribution that is.
Even 1% would be far more than Saverin's saving. You should really read Lawrence Lessig.
It's worth noting when talking about how the wealthy should pay their "fair share." That discussion should at least consider what percent of all taxes they pay.

Also, I have some friends who grew up very poor and who believe pretty strongly that it's wrong to own an excessive amount of money while others go hungry. Though I think they make good points, that's not my view.
Nothing so bad about that, I do the same, within reason. I'm just saying acknowledge it for what it is. And when you have billions, it's a fair bit more selfish.
Please. The fellow played a modest early role and was then forced out because he wasn't competent to handle the rest. His was a minor role in a major startup, and he is basically a lottery winner. For which I say: congrats!

Also, you misunderstand restaurants in the same way you misunderstand economies. The guy who chops the vegetables in the 3 months after the restaurant opens should certainly be paid and thanked. But his job only exists because of heavy investment by the restaurateur.

And that sous chef should still pay his taxes just like everybody else, because restaurants are heavily dependent on civic infrastructure.
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The short answer is that "making jobs" is a complete mystery to most economists. Aside from the government directly hiring people to bury jars full of money, no one knows how to make it happen.

It doesn't stop politicians of all stripes from pretending that they have the magic answer, and that the politicians from the other party are a bunch of nincompoops.
I suspect someone at Apple is snarking surreptitiously, and making an unauthorized statement about how "jail breaking" is a dirty word at Apple, by adding it to the list of expletives Apple probably uses on the site.

You can still search for the term, and matches still come up, even if the word is "censored". Which is a pretty ineffective way of blocking people from finding things that mention 'jailbreak'.
Yes but society did a lot as well (for example providing enough free education so that most people are even able to use FaceBook in the first place), and thus they are do their share as well. Instead, he is trying to duck out so that his fair share gets minimised as well.

It's like trying to leave the dinner party and leaving $40 when your meal added up to $43.25 before tip and tax.
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I agree it's not that "sweet". I wonder what would be a good example of the kind of site design I should be aiming for?
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Unfortunately their success has gone to their heads.
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2 and 3 are the same problem.
That can all be brought back to values though. If you value ${MAX_INT} in your bank account, then working on whatever will get you there is worthwhile to you.

Regarding that very last fragment, if you get that money, then somebody is willing to pay for it; not in the "customer-producer" form of exchange but the "buy you out" form.