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Yes, the high tax rates weren't meant to be paid. They were almost universally routed around via benefits and deductions.

Of course, both what you said and what I said still doesn't explain why benefits weren't taxed (or at least not as heavily).

Btw, I remember growing up in the 1990s in Germany that having a company car used to be a big deal as a perk. I don't hear about that as much anymore, I suspect it's because the relative tax attractiveness of benefits vs straight up cash changed over time; I remember some loopholes being tightened (if not closed).
boohoo.

I'll take the role for a wildly discounted $20m.

It would be hard to do much worse than the recent incompe .. uh, incumbents.
I'm happy that there are still a few people at google doing the kind of fun things they used to do back when it was a startup.

I think the easter eggs are still up if you ask Google Maps for a walking route to Mordor.
The vast majority of the population are consumers. Each of us consumes far more services than we produce. Making life better for consumers is making life better for everyone.
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> German companies come pretty close.

Worked for one with this setup. It was all great until the stock price fell to ~20 % of its original value and has stayed that way since. Employees didn't like it, which was kinda funny (it's a risk they signed up for).
Those 5% cashback categories only apply to the first $1500 spent that quarter. Basically if you were to regularly use your discover card you’d instantly hit the cashback cap within a week.
> Then, on top of that, there is value in the data you're able to collect. Traffic data is really valuable. Tracking the movement of vehicles and pedestrians [...]

...but then they decided to market themselves as "privacy-focused", so they can't really do that, right? Or are they actually doing it?

> At one point, Apple was working on a car

...but then they killed the car project, so that goes out of the window too.
TIL because all of the comments as I'm writing this one have once again been posted by people who didn't bother even skimming the article:

- The selloff was triggered by a middle-of-the-road earnings report from Alphabet Inc. late Tuesday that featured a bloated capital expense.

- The declines mostly affect companies strongly linked to the AI push: Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple but also Broadcom, Tesla, etc.

- Some analysts lead by Goldman Sachs have been beating the AI bubble drum for a bit now while multiples remain very high.
Even a staged rollout over a few hours would have made a huge difference here. "Slow" in the context of a rollout can still be pretty fast.
but even with the label you don't know if the cheaper one is full of sugar or is mostly water etc... there's no escape.
I agree with you. Of course it doesn't get remotely close to how passionate people get about team sports. The audience and money involved in these won't be beat anytime soon, simplify due to traditions.
But your comment is short-sighted because you don't seem interested in sprinting or track and field sports and haven't been following recent events coming out of that space.
Just as an example, have you seen what Marcell Jacobs did for his country, being the first Italian sprinter to ever win a world championship, not just once but a couple of times, defying the Jamaican and American hegemony against all odds? He became an overnight sensation, was on the cover of a bunch of magazines, and inspired millions in his country. Nowadays he's under a lot of criticism because he couldn't keep his position exactly because sprinting requires the utmost physical and mental toughness.

> At best, it's designed to test fitness, but it even fails at that really

> You don't socialize with sprinting, and most people wouldn't use 100m sprinting as an activity to improve their fitness

FAILS to test fitness? Really? Have you ever read anything about sports science and psychology?
First, athlets don't compete singularly in the 100m sprinting event, a lot of them compete in different modalities, like the 100m, 200m, relays, etc. Sprinting 100m and specially the 400m are considered the hardest races for humans. It tests endurance, lactic acid build-up, pacing, mental toughness, strategy at the rawest level, and not to mention the mental preparation you have to have to deal with the pressure and criticism of the media, when you're on the track being viewed by millions and you have just a few seconds to prove yourself. How is that not testing someone's fitness well?
You just can't isolate 100m sprinting especially as an activity. Sprinting up to your 100% max heart rate is excellent for fitness, muscle growth, and longevity. There's a lot of research on this coming out with concrete data about the benefits of sprinting vs other kinds of sports.
There are additional options

Co-determination was born as a compromise in Germany (between the capitalist occupiers and the communist occupiers trying to find common ground for decades) that has done well, essentially its that the Employee Union has at least one board seat, by law

employee representation on the board in combination with US stock ownership concepts would be very novel and very attractive

I think both classes of stakeholders typically have some common ground and can find a way to make austerity and growth measures economically practical with more sustainment of employee consideration
Yeah that is no argument. Microsoft is a defacto monopolist and everywhere where e.g. municipalities tried to switch to Linux they lobbied hard against it.

If Microsoft wants to keep that cash making machine it should fulfill some minimum guarantees and feel consequences if their choices lead to damages.

I'd like to see you driving a car, flying a plane or riding a train that was built with your "no guarantees"-mindset. Aren't the benefits of modern society that we can bite into a piece of food from the supermarket without dying because we didn't research the exact places where it was made? This is only possible with standards and checks.
Smart move. Not only does it send 'We at AMD actually do recalls of defective products' message, but also potentially delay past upcoming Intel microcode update.
Even if you count Euston+KX+SP as a single station, it's not that much busier in trips HS2 users from Birmingham might want to make since most trains have that as a terminus going north.

Realistically, you would only be adding access to the Thameslink and to the Northern and Victoria lines.

Old Oak Common has access to the Elizabeth Line, the two branches of the North London Line Overground, and a branch of the Lionesses Line Overground. IMO increasing Overground speed and throughput might be a better use of money than the branch line to Euston.
This worked really well for clickhouse and sqlite. Any plans to open source?
And even in their supported browsers (Chrome at least) I got the "unsupported browser" on Fedora Linux.. Wonder what makes a online map need such a specific (even if its widely used) setup.
sttp (HTTP client), http4s (HTTP client/server), quill (database access), fs2 (streaming data processing), I have some vague memory of a gRPC implementation. A lot of stuff that does async in Scala tends to be written in this style because it's almost no extra cost compared to writing it in strictly async fashion.
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If they are really living paycheck to paycheck, giving them shares in the company instead of paying them isn't going to help much either.

Or are you suggesting that employees just get a fixed share when they join the company? That model exists, but it typically only works for companies that need no outside capital to get started. Like law firms.
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Zero click exploits are a thing, but they are very expensive and have limited shelf life (once they have been used a few times, they tend to get found out and patched). Most actors won’t use one, unless it is a very, very high value target. It seems that the EU parliament member was not high value enough, and got lucky.
Genuinely curious, what do most people say about it? I use Apple Music near daily and I’m pretty satisfied
I think the idea is that feelings of co-ownership in the company could affect the company culture positively. Although I'm sure the effect diminishes with company size.
> alone puts TS over anything that Java has.

Virtual Threads alone challenge this assumption.

Syntax bloat is not a feature.
You can generally negotiate for more cash instead of a stock grant. Of course you have to accept the current price. I’ve done it and lost a lot :)
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Anthropic is an AI company, it's evident that they want their system to seem intelligent. That's what they're selling after all.

> it would be regretful for you to bet against these systems not getting better or that another breakthrough would change the perspective of a new generation of LLMs.

Now you're putting words in my mouth. The results are impressive for sure, although I don't think we have seen any major breakthroughs since their original release. Just small, incremental steps. I'm not convinced that'll get us to reasoning capabilities but I don't mind being proven wrong. Predicting the future is hard.
It's true, which is why I think it's good to make shares part of the compensation.

That being said, employees already have skin in the game because they want their company to survive so they keep their job. When a company goes belly up, employees with shares are worse off than those that bought shares in other companies instead.
Moving to another country is a good idea as an individual. However, for a nation as a whole, nothing is easier but building rich people: Leave, and somebody else will take your place.
At some point in time, AI will become mighty. In certain areas it is already. For example, predictions of failures of machinery.. weather forecasting (Google has a weather model), etc.. what you are talking about as "AI" is LLM. LLM is not AI. It's a part of a lot different technologies and techniques. Also know as machine learning. So please, keep it divided.

LLMs won't replace you in this round at statistically composing text/code. But may be in the next. The best thing about this, still a human is needed to do the reasoning instead of the LLM. But when this can be done (f.e. with a combination of different ML techniques and LLM) then we have to talk what can be done about it.

We can talk now, but each solution for the question "what will happen to working people, when AI rise" is just a game of thoughts and in the end lead to the only conclusion:

You get rid of it and work further OR you stop working and let AI do it for you. It will be in the time of the transition, surely a lot of people will become unemployed. But at some point, the whole economy and money does not make sense anymore. Just imagine AI produces you the parts you need with a 3D printer on your sign. So when we come to this point, we've transformed as society so much, that your question is not important anymore.

(I think in Europe it will be started early to find solutions to the threat, a AI tax or something like this. With this AI tax the people who lost their jobs will be supported..

Amerika, India, Afrika (as example) are the countries where a lot people living in that care by themselves for their lives. No helping state. There will be big problems, as no social/governed safety net existing.)
How were Firefox users marginalized by X?
There is no reason to shorten the url here, and I much prefer to be able to see where I'm going before I click.
I've read studies about workers coops and some of them somewhat contradict what you say in your last paragraph, specifically (b). Worker coops often cut down on their individual profits in hard times to keep the boat afloat.

I think ultimately a company creates and maintains a culture, regardless of the legal structure. Maintaining a good culture requires effort and especially a sensible, trusting image of humanity.

When we talk about the crass gap in compensation and power between workers and owners or executives, then we often hear the excuse that much of the compensation at the top is from stocks (even though that is a very incomplete picture). The big bosses can't just sell their stock to increase wages is the narrative, but they _could_ pay some of that stock as additional compensation.

A single worker doesn't move the statistical needle in a very large corporation? For one, the same fallacy comes up with voting. Secondly: This notion that people are rational robots who only optimize their profits and then also calculate the statistical impact of every of their actions is not just too theoretical, it's just wrong. Loyalty, trust and engagement are things you earn and maintain. A generous compensation (including stocks) can be a part of that.

An additional approach is to decentralize and enable partial ownership of franchises. Now suddenly the needle can be moved, day by day and year by year.

But again, the legal structure is just part of it all. I think it starts with the image of humanity, the culture and a long term strategy that incorporates all participants of a company. The details fall into place after that.
funny, bananas were the only thing they greatly lowered price (and quality) when they took over wholefoods.

before you had .8/lb and 1.2/lb true organic from south America. after you had both bins failed with the the same Asian chiquita, but the fresher ones labeled organic and they cost .8 and .6 per lb.
This is a misleading question because we're not talking about any kind of software. This kind of spyware is generally treated like a weapon and only sold to befriended government entities on an expensive per-seat basis. It often falls under arms-control exporting conditions, though I don't know about the specific regulations in Israel.
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Training those models costs 10s of millions. Running them at scale some order(s) of magnitude that. At one point those AI initiatives will need to return a profit. You really think developers will not have to learn a new API? Users inertia works for retail users, I don't think it works so much for people who get paid to do it or have a financial incentive to switch. Provided there is a suitable alternative.
> If they’re better, they will be more common

Unfortunately, the word "better" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Better for the employees is a world of difference compared to "better at getting funding to start a business", "better at getting Venture Capitalists or Angel Investors or Banks" interested.

It takes working two jobs, being independently wealthy or getting outside help to start a company, and most of that outside help very likely doesn't want employee owned.
Bun is doing that - every update usually has node compat fixes or improvements and the list of supported modules has gone up significantly since it was released
If I earn 30 million a year, I have next to no risk and can retire anytime I want. Hell, I could retire after the first quarter.
Corporations are people in Israel too, outside of communist state capitalist countries the default is to assume they are separate from the government

Exploit discussion is no different
Counterintuitively decreasing the cost of development might actually drive up the demand.

A lot of potential software currently can't be cost effectively developed - so it isn't.

More startups with a single senior engineer (augmented by AI) becomes possible at a lower price point.

We might actually end up with more work. And an altered kind of work
TypeScript evolves independent of Node, and the syntax you can use depends on your `typescript` version in the `package.json`
Not really, I haven’t noticed much of a difference to begin with. I only use the web app sparingly
There's an argument made that "our" (western) history of civil conflict in Africa and elsewhere is the only | principle written english history of such neighbouring violence and largely omits the actions of European actors in playing "divide and conquer" as part of the colonial playbook.

The role of France in the Rwandan Genocide was underplayed at the time and still relatively undiscussed.

The role of the US and France in extracting very high grade uranium from the Congo during the Cold War was almost unreported until well after and surrounded by a halo of funded conflict and destabilising warlords that prevented any local governance arising to challenge the relocation of valuable resources.

The British Kenyan Colony, now dissolved, was defended from the Mau Mau uprising against the British by stoking neighbouring conflicts and arming at below cost groups that would act in the interest of Britain.

A consistent story in colonies is that the violence Colonisers directly inflicted was very often the least part of the violence they initiated in a delibrate strategy of destabilisation.
While this one seems pretty straight forward to add, it's pretty incredible that they have so many great easter eggs. I can totally imagine that a major site like the SERP changing all the time, and maintaining an easter egg can be a helluva bit of tech debt to drag around without increasing profit. Anyways, kudos to that 1 or 2 engineers who convinced a PM to let them have fun for a few sprints.
If I'm correct, we generally percieve AI generated data to be indistinguishable from a human sourced data and we don't have a tool to reliably assess whether a text is AI generated.

However, could it be that texts generated by AI models posses some kind of statistical property which causes training to collapse?
Then, would it allow us to use it to detect AI texts?
What are some corporate votes that you feel wider employee ownership would have improved?
> Also presumably better privacy than Google Maps.

Yeah you might say that.

My Android-owning Irish mate got hammered one night. Had no idea where he’d been.

We launched Google Maps and it had a GPS track of his entire night. Like a dotted map with every step he’d taken.
Do you mean having malware code already running in kernel space, or having system permissions to install new kernels?

For the latter case, there are now mechanisms that aim to prevent root from modifying the kernel or otherwise getting ring 0 access, see eg https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/kernel_lockdown.7....

But even in a non locked down mode, there are practical advantages for the adversary in using officially supported interfaces vs their own kernel module or leveraging some i/o path to access kernel memory.
Ok then we get rid of employees

It's surprising how unnecessary they are.
No, you're reading it right.
Huang started as a chip designer and then founded a company developing chips. What other kind of work experience would be relevant? AI contains scams, but also obviously important real progress; your points about war and surveillance are pure mood affiliation and irrelevant to the topic at hand.
"Works through hacking" is not the same as being supported. See Hackintosh.
Allegedly, Apple have built in privacy features so they can't associate individual users with routes, or know what the entire route is[1]. Apple does show traffic data in the app, so they obviously do collect the data somehow.

When Apple built maps, the car project was still alive, so it would have been a factor in deciding on the investment. They could still partner with a car manufacturer and use the data.

I do suspect that my first point was key in green lighting Apple Maps. Google could have asked for more and more money to provide maps for Apple, or they could pull out completely, and force users to use the App Store app, which would have left the product direction of Maps completely out of Apple's hands.

[1] https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/13/apple-maps-navigati...
It's nice. Extremely fast too.

Personally I had to turn my brightness up to read it easily, so possibly a little more contrast between text and background but that's just me.
Well isn't that exactly what "supported" means?

It may or may not work, but since that is a bad user experience, they disable it.
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Many other websites enforce rate limiting or IP banning for public pages (using products like Cloudflare). Why is this not legal?
So you make all the employees equal partners, what will happen? If the company is a money-making machine like Google, the employees will not be sad if the employee base is kept small and most stuff is outsourced to other (likewise worker-owned) companies that gets a slim margin above their cost.

So I predict that this world will have very small, very profitable companies which have some secret sauce but hands off most of the work to big companies making much less money.
It’s an issue because node has a system of LTS releases, whereas TypeScript has quarterly updates, so the release cadence is different.

Updating node is much more fraught than updating TypeScript. For example, it may break any native code modules. That’s why users are directed to use the LTS and not the most recent release, so that there’s enough time for libraries to add support for the new version.

On the other hand, I usually adopt a new TypeScript version as soon as it comes out.
Except for the part where the company gets outcompeted and goes bankrupt.

And no, we cannot just outlaw competition. Having an efficient economy is important and valuable because it allows us to have a higher standard of living while putting in less work.
The point is that supply and demand works on the final price, not on "price before tax". Especially when taxes are proportional, so if you offer a lower price than your competitor, you also pay less of it to the state in taxes. So the tax level is irrelevant to the value of the market price, if you believe in supply & demand as the price setting mechanism. Showing price without tax is then obviously a scam to try to attack your psychology to think it's cheaper. They could just as well show price - marketing costs.

Of course, if businesses actually set prices as cost + margin, then it does make sense to separate tax from the price, as the value "price before tax" is a meaningful part of the price setting algorithm.

And lowering your margin is not the same thing as running a low margin business. If your margin was 20% at a tax level of 10%, and taxes go to 15%, then reducing your margin to 18% doesn't make you a low margin business now. Regardless, if you believe in supply and demand as the sole mechanism for price setting, this is all moot: the state increasing taxes won't increase demand or reduce supply with the exact same level as the tax increase, so the price can't move the exact same as the tax increase in this model.

I'd also note that it's not strictly true that taxes are completely decoupled from supply & demand. States do compete on attracting businesses through lower taxation.
The Apple Music web app is so terrible it made me doubt the engineering ability of the whole company. Can't sort collections, can't edit playlists, songs randomly getting skipped, etc. etc. It was like they actively hated the users and wanted to punish them for using the web app.