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If a Brazilian interviewed the founders of a company remotely, made a remote angel investment, and the company became a success in the US, should the Brazilian also be obligated to pay individual US income taxes?

If not, what difference does it make that the Brazilian resided in the US for some period of time?

Note that the corporation is still paying US taxes by virtue of being physically located in the US. The issue is whether the investor should pay additional individual income tax on top of that.
There's so much wrong in your comment, I barely know where to start.

> Did you immediately understand what set of behaviors I implied by saying "wild Indian" and "slovenly Barbarian"?

No, actually, I still have no idea. My guess was that those behaviors do not include "great table manners, is polite, shares, and is quite empathetic" but beyond that, I can barely guess.

> (Why isn't anyone upset that I included the Barbarians?)

Who are "the Barbarians"?

> Simply using existing stereotypes is not racism.

Response a) So what, only new stereotypes is racism? b) Yes, it is, when those stereotypes are based on race.

> I have neither commented on the superiority-level of Indians and Barbarians

Um, you said your kid is well-behaved, unlike those other people. That directly implies your kid is superior to them. And I guess your Alaskan Native friends are superior to the "wild" ones. Also, 'positive' racism (e.g. "asians are good at math") is just as bad,

> or have I modified their access to resources and opportunities.

Not directly, but racism is hardly so overt these days.

> In fact, stereotypes can be quite useful, for example, when you are trying to determine which VC to impress or what demographic is most likely to use your kitten-photo sharing Facebook App.

What?! I would never invest in someone that makes business decisions based on stereotypes rather than data, or that approached me because of stereotype they had about me.
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>Also it doesn't really matter because the core of the argument will always be individual rights and control of intellectual property.

Not really. That may be the core of the argument for the idealists, but the core of the argument for the pragmatic is "harm to the economy", and the core of the argument for the politicians is "appeasing those wealthy campaign donors". Individual rights have very little to do with modern American government.
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he's been living and working in Singapore since 2009 and there is no way for a non citizen "to spend as much time as they please in the US". You'd need a Visa that is linked to work and in that case work would be of course taxed in US.
I can no longer edit, but if anybody is curious what the prototype "zapper" thing looked like:

http://thingist.com/t/item/20483/

This was something I put together over an evening, so it's really rough (just a PoC). What I was actually doing here was tying the electrodes to different events on my webserver. The idea here being that the "force feedback", could indicate to me how much traffic was hitting different areas.

I almost constantly tail -f /var/log/apache/access_log. This was supposed to be a wearable version of that :).

(The project, for me, changed a bit after this. What I'm working on now is a general purpose haptic device that can be tied to arbitrary inputs around your environment)
The issue in my mind is that "all those smart and talented heads" which the article mentions, even if they're aware of the bubble, have no incentive to change directions.

Call me jaded, but I don't think most startups are created with the intention of improving society. So long as there's an Ouroboros effect of VCs funding brilliant engineers without truly revolutionary ideas, those engineers are going to create business models revolving around getting a big enough user base to justify high valuations, and eventual acquisition.

And businesses shouldn't be about exit strategies.
But "macro-trends" always affect your business even if you are building a sustainable one. Even if you have no investors, if your clients are suffering, you are suffering. If your clients' clients are suffering, you are suffering. If your clients' clients' clients are suffering, you are suffering.
Tomorrow? Nothing. A few months later however - after all the security holes have been fixed and malware attacks have died down - I'd buy a Mac.
He presumably paid capital gains taxes on his Facebook stock when he left the country.

You might find his disloyalty to America distasteful, as I do - if his citizenship was so easily discarded, perhaps he shouldn't have acquired it in the first place. You might believe long-term capital gains tax rates are too low. But if you're implying this man is a tax cheat who's reneging on his obligations to society, that's just slander. As far as I can tell he followed the law, paid his taxes, and kept his obligations.
And if each of those people has a perpetual motion machine, the world's energy problems would be solved forever.

Do you have any sort of basis in your "net worth over $1m" idea, or is that just pure speculation? Because in the absence of actual numbers, I can't see why you'd even make that statement.
So... we have rules about who pays what taxes! Oh... you mean you are obeying those rules? Well then... we will change those rules! lame
It's a shame that all of that talent is working on things the author doesn't think are worthwhile. I mean, everyone should work on what everyone can agree on is worth their time, right?

Yet, I don't think everybody can really agree on what is worthwhile for a person's time. I can point at people working on things like Linux and Khan Academy and say "Their efforts are worthwhile!" but then Microsoft and that one guy, who bitches about Khan Academy stealing all the VC money or whatever, will wag their fingers and say "They are hurting our business! Their time isn't worthwhile!"

Personally, the efforts DHH has put into basecamp and their products is worthless to me. I don't use the products and see no reason to start. That isn't a diss to the products themselves: I literally have no use for them right now. I freelance and study at college and their suite of products doesn't solve any of my problems.

So, who decides what's worthwhile? There are at least two instances where two groups of people don't all agree the same thing is worthwhile. It's a hard problem and implying "adopt my values so you will work on things I think are worthwhile" isn't going to solve it.

(Also, I agree we are in a bubble. I value economic growth and American strength, not pictures of cats.)
Your pedantry is wrong.

Languages are defined by usage, not by some proscriptive description. It is true that "begs the question" is the name of a specific philosophical fallacy that has been discussed for millennia. However in English it is common to say "begs the question" where you mean "raises the question", and therefore that is acceptable usage among native English speakers. (I don't know where that usage came from, at a guess it is a shortened version of the phrase "begs us to ask the question". Anyways it is common usage.)

Now did you have a comment on the actual content of what I said?
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As someone who's done a fair bit of hiring, I'm happy to see anything out there at all. At least it gives me some real code to look at.

Of course, having contributed to (or better yet, created) a widely-used project is an even bigger plus. But something is usually better than nothing, unless that something is code so awful that it makes me not want to hire you ;)
There are consequences. He no longer gets to vote. He no longer has access to US-funded social programs. There is a long list of things he can no longer enjoy as a US citizen; natural consequences of not being a citizen. It sounds like you support introducing unnatural consequences.

I once visited the US on business and left without purchasing anything more than a meal. If every action must have consequences, what consequences would you suggest for my actions? Perhaps I should be banned from re-entering the US since I didn't contribute significantly enough to the US economy while I was there?
As a young boy our family took a trip to Florida in 1966. At the time I-75 wasn't completed so we ended up having to detour through some small towns in the South.

Even though that was two years after the civil rights act you could still see examples of segregation. Though they were no longer being used you could see separate bathrooms and drinking fountains for the different races.

It left a lasting impression on this Detroit boy. I was too young to comprehend at the time but racism existed in Detroit, but it was just more subtle.
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This is political BS aimed at making rich people look bad in an election year and nothing else. As if 60 million means anything at all to our budget. Less than 2k people left last year. At most we are talking about a few billion in a multiple trillion budget. It just doesn't matter. The negatives of not having intelligent businessmen ever come back far outweighs the few bucks we could have taken from them. I'm just going out on a limb, but I suspect facebook has generated more than 60 million for the government so far.
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Why does racial discrimination make you bring up the criminalization of marijuana? Have you been smoking too many drugs?
I love dub. Also a bit of drum'n'bass, dubstep. Sometimes world music, electronica, UK Garage, hardtek.

But the music of hackers is probably experimental/acousmatic/concrete. Stuff like Ryoji Ikeda, Pierre Henry, Kaffe Matthew, etc. That's really music hacking.
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My company released this effect a couple of months ago: http://okfoc.us/okshadow/ and https://github.com/okfocus/okshadow
They are dozens of countries that will give you citizenship if you pay, like the US does(If you have money you become citizen).
CNN ran an "angry black man" article this morning by a Republican consultant. Obviously they're really hanging this one on turning out the racists.
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The Central govt general 'control everything' approach does make things worse, especially given their track record of not being able to do anything useful in the past 5, I dare even say 10, years.
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"Significant part" is a weasel word. You talking 10%? 90%? In order to justify a moral imperative not to pay taxes, it's gotta be towards the 90% end, so I wasn't misstating the implication. Just cutting through the weasel words.

I wasn't pushing the argument to the extreme - it started off as extreme.
I think the way the US claims taxes on foreign income is wrong. But this is clearly not foreign income, and he's leaving with clear foreknowledge of a likely future windfall.

I don't think anyone is claiming he has not complied with the law. They're saying that if he wants to renounce citizenship, he must also renounce the benefits of being in the US. If that's truly his intention anyway, then he has nothing to worry about, right?

I'm sure that even if this happens he's not going to shed many tears. If he wants to see his family, they can just meet somewhere else.
Well, strictly, it was a 'long weekend' :).

It obviously helps that I'm already familiar with it and the other technologies I used - especially trigger.io (I'm a founder) and backbone.js. But with those it becomes pretty fast to implement these kind of apps.
Yes, I am waiting for one.
I'm changing the words on that as it is confusing - you can use Trigger.io for iOS and Android completely for free.

It's only if you need to upgrade to get additional support or Windows Phone that you need to pay the monthly fee.
Mostly indifferent: I'm perfectly happy running Ubuntu. Of course, I'm always happy to see previously-closed source become available.
I was born on the same date that the last photo (with Jackie Kennedy) was taken.

The racism was still quite real even in the early 70s.
You make some good points, so I hope this doesn't seem dismissive-- my claim is not that the study is right. My claim is simply that the editors of the NEJM decided to publish the study having read it in greater depth than any of us here would care to, so if I read the CNN article and think there's an obvious reason it's not true, I can be pretty sure I'm wrong.

Now that being said, I think we're talking at cross purposes. The study found a link between coffee drinknig and mortality; I misread the GGP as being critical of that link, where it's actually just a hypothesis which would explain it. So none of this is really relevant :P
This is the most important part of the talk:

"I have started or helped start, dozens of businesses and initially hired lots of people. But if no one could have afforded to buy what we had to sell, my businesses would all have failed and all those jobs would have evaporated."

This is what some people fail to understand and it boggles my mind.
I wasn't slandering Saverin specifically so much as the notion that there's a principled reason to avoid paying taxes. There are plenty of selfish reasons, and I'm not Mother Theresa so I'm not claiming to be better than anyone. But call it what it is.
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Piracy is an issue, yes. So is homelessness. If banning is a real solution then maybe not allowing anyone to own is house is as well, no?
Or Paris having cheaper and faster home internet connections compared to Berlin..
If you're in the U.S., just make sure you purchase it with cash. You don't want such a transaction in your credit card or banking records. (Especially if your health insurance circumstances are shaky, but I'd say, regardless of this.)
It would be a start. Our government is totally evil, corrupt, and invasive. Anything that takes away from their ability to interfere with things is a Good Thing.

Deport all the Senators, then the House Reps, then all of the judges, the President, Vice President, and then start on the rank-and-file bureaucrats... Oh, how I long for that day.
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If it's a bubble then Facebook's IPO could be the turning point.
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Incredulous, this being one of the most locked-down ecosystems. I'd suspect a legal trap, incompleteness (see: nVidia) or obfuscation.
This pegged my duo core at 100% for both cores. Realtime shadows are great and all, but if I needed to achieve them I'd imagine I'd use WebGL if I didn't care about CPU or battery.

Using jQuery for this type of problem seems a little out of place to me. That said, this is certainly "neat." THAT said, I don't believe this has real world practical value. Its too computationally expensive considering what it adds.
Whilst I applaud the effort, I think there needs to be PCB layouts and the like before this can be considered open source. At the moment the source code is there, and probably enough resources to give you a jump start on building your own, not detailed enough to build your own.

It's like me calling a program open source and ownly making the roadmap/initial spec publicly available.
Wealthy people can get investment visas pretty easily:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa
I like how discussion of the tactics got totally hijacked by one comment claiming that Alinsky's rules are "pure evil", and another comment claiming that Obama uses these tactics.

Poof! Any sane discussion up in smoke.
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I appreciate your relativistic stance, but there's a part of me that wonders if, as an example, Instagram provided a billion dollars worth of additional photo sharing value over what already existed on Facebook.

That is, photo sharing does have value to people who want to stay connected and have shared experiences via the internet, but I don't think that Instagram improved that to the tune of a billion dollars.
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A surprisingly good and thorough article. I'm saving it as a checklist.
in a marketing sense.
Well, the Native American boarding schools which took children from their families and beat them for using their language didn't reach their peak for another 11 years. Some avoided this treatment, but quite a lot got caught up in it. The forced moving from reservations away from their families of some adults was yet to come. This resulted in a 90% suicide rate. AIM was in the 1970s. Nevermind the current problems with Indian Health Service.

I get the feeling Reagan was right, we won't "fix" racism until there is another them.
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Will there be an option to order the hardware pre-built? I'd love to hack on some effects, but my resources are a little thin for putting together the hardware side of things at present.
> All those smart and talented heads, and all those benjamins, didn’t progress the economic base in a way we’re going to care about tomorrow.

He's talking of Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, etc. and doesn't have the courage to name then. Is this envy? That DHH's products haven't got this far? Or just naive? Because he should know the typical deal terms of a Pinterest and that valuations and raising are blown up for the sake of getting PR and the real milestone payments are much smaller? And that FB IPO can still fail in the long run?

Whatever.

As much I appreciate DHH and his past work his posts have always the same bitter taste: 37signals is the benchmark and the rest is wrong.

EDIT: Hey downvoters, downvoting != disagreeing, just reply if you disagree
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Either he sold his Facebook stock before leaving, in which case he already paid taxes on it. Or he didn't, and since FB is an american company listed on an american exchange, when he sells any of it he'll still be subjected to long term capital gains, as any other non-US citizen who owns stock on a US exchange is.

Thus the only thing to be upset about is that we have a person who has the ability to produce a high income for himself that the USA can no longer tax.
This is great. I think the key point of this, is that you gain nothing by keeping your code squirreled away, but there is a very small possibility someone else might need something similar and reuse your code if you do put it out there.
You're right, but a truly valuable and sustainable business/technology will be one that clients consider worth paying for even when they are suffering.

There aren't necessarily a lot of modern tech companies that would survive this test though.
Apache's event MPM is not really an event MPM. It's a slightly modified worker MPM. It puts all idle connections (keepalive state) and listeners in a single thread. Each active connection gets its own thread.

The event MPM also behaves the same as the worker MPM for SSL connections.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html
for a real world application – at okfocus we used our version of this effect on http://tugofstore.com and it added to the realtime "tug" effect by making it more of a visceral experience for users. perhaps ours is less computationally expensive idk.
Gary Bernhardt's Destroy All Software screencast series includes some good points on why keeping commits atomic is a good idea, and Wikipedia has a good general description of this SCM "convention": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_commit#Atomic_Commit_Con...
How about the creation of good jobs?
IOBridge is a similar product/platform that has been around for a while: http://iobridge.com/
which is what I wrote: there is no way he can just spend as much time as he wants without approval, supervision. And the Visa can be rejected
Dismemberment and lost limbs is fairly rare among the civilian population. This is not the case with the military - it makes perfect sense they would be the ones funding this, as they are regularly sending home guys with fewer limbs than they went out with.

I think they should be funding this - they owe it to their disabled veterans.
Avoiding taxes by moving after the fact is an asshat thing to do

No it isn't. Avoiding paying taxes is the Right Thing To Do.
The idea that taxation is just or right is rooted in some ridiculous ideas, like the notion of an "implicit contract" which is a total oxymoron. Contracts are explicitly, well, explicit. The idea that someone drew some lines on a map, gave that area a name and created something called "government" and now have some authority to collect money from anybody who happens to be inside those lines is absolutely absurd.
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The highest marginal tax rate was over 90%, but very very few people paid it. The tax code was loaded up with deductions, only direct compensation was taxed, and you could still easily convert wages into capital gains, which even in that time were significantly lower than wage rates.
> "It's a shame that all of that talent is working on things the author doesn't think are worthwhile."

That's an unfair statement - I think more importantly the bubble is making people work on things that they themselves do not believe are worthwhile. You have more and more people entering the market working on things because they think it will flip for ${MAX_INT}, not working on products they genuinely believe people want, or will pay for.
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I think it's a shame that this is targetted at the hacker-musician community, but the development environment is almost Windows only. (Written in C#, partially working under Mono on OS X, not tested under Linux.)

I suspect the vast majority of musician-hacker types don't use Windows.

Edit: I see that the Linux version is mostly held back by a third-party Windows-only tool, and a cross-platform replacement is under development. Awesome.
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Wow, it is incredible how the US is becoming more and more of a police state day after day. The currency devaluation by the Fed, the TSA, the patriot act, the bail outs, and now trying to prevent by force of the law citizens escaping the country.
We should be combating spin with facts, not more spin. Otherwise you are part of the problem.
Well one take away from those pictures that many people tend to forget is that it was not an issue just for the South. It was just brought to the forefront in the South because it was far easier for people accept it was only a Southern problem.

There are still bastions of hatred in many parts East of the Mississippi, its not just a Southern thing.
We should be creating a tax structure that makes people clamoring to bring their wealth into the country - not maneuvering to leave.