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Companies could exist without explicit state law, but corporations could not. A company is a group of people working within a hierarchy. A corporation is that + limited liability + fiduciary duties. As a practical matter, lack of the latter things makes it difficult to scale up organizations where the people involved don't necessarily trust each other.

Remember, all of these complaints about corporate taxation would disappear if companies would simply organize as say partnerships, without the legal benefits of the corporate form. There would be substantial tax savings to this structure, because partnerships are simply pass-through vehicles (the money belongs to the shareholder immediately when it is earned). They don't do this because big partnerships are impossible to manage.
I want corporations to be as profitable as possible, because that is good for our economy

What if they spirit all of that money out of the country to somewhere else? Surely it benefits the host country more to tax profits rather than just let them escape entirely?
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True, if all of your classes can conform to the same interface.

When you integrate some third party black box with a different interface you're probably going to have to write at least one wrapper class.
the fact that you make some work doesn't mean that you're entitled to be paid for it.

You've constructed a straw man, I haven't once argued for draconian IP law. I simply stated that those that engage in piracy should be honest to themselves about their own motivations. I'm not even judging them, it's just the political affectations I find preposterous.

Most laws have developed from a consensus of what benefits society as a whole. This is no different. Nobody is claiming entitlement to be paid for anything. They're asking for the ability to choose on which basis people consume their product. We already have laws for this, the currently difficulty is in how to enforce them. I don't claim to have an answer to that question.
Yes. I said so in the previous comment. To get down to $80k, I had to ask each of the participating investors to invest less than they originally intended to.
For eg. they would have collected a 20% VAT (consumption tax in the rest of the world) - which is another £80M, a 13.8% national insurance contribution, which would work out to be approx another £40M, and then on top of that a payroll tax.

Consumer VAT and consumer income tax are not tax paid by a company, and it's disingenuous to suggest that 'a corporation pays'. They merely collect them from the customer/employee for the government, it's not as if the corporation contributes anything on top of that. They do contribute to NI as you mention, and local business rates on property in the UK at least, but the vast majority of revenues can escape taxation, and I don't think customer VAT, and employee IT can be considered paid by the employer, they are paid by the customer or employee.

There are of course many benefits to having a company setting up in your country (the aforementioned VAT and income tax receipts from the employees, rates, and jobs generated), but companies offshoring profits and shopping for tax jurisdictions by setting up fake subsidiaries whose sole purpose is to evade tax is a huge problem for all western countries, and not one they can address with current tax law. That's the reason that many receipts in Europe nowadays bear the legend 'S.a.r.l, Luxembourg'. All major corporations from Apple, to Amazon, to Google do this to some extent, and it results in tiny countries like Luxemburg collecting huge amounts of tax (in proportion to their size, and the true number of business who truly transact business there (as opposed to claiming they do)), simply because they're willing to give corporations the lowest international rate,and let them set up shell companies to funnel online revenue through the tax haven.
Your post makes a lot of sense, but personally I'm not going to bet against Apple on this. No one would have predicted them having the effect on the cellular world they did either.
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"Sorry but I call this 'Allophic Arrogance', Which basically results out of overzealous overconfidence in something. Hating something just because its old."

There are little things more arrogant than using a false modality to attack evidence-based medicine.
You should read about transfer pricing. In many cases it is entirely possible to assign where a large firm's income is made for tax purposes by internally transferring intellectual property.

On the point of why would tech companies want to do this instead of helping the community, I argue it may actually help California. Instead of doing the responsible thing and moving the firm to somewhere with a lower state corporate tax rate, the firm can simply avoid taxes. This keeps employees in the area contributing to state income and property taxes. In a world or multinationals, I am not certain corporate income taxes make sense.
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The same argument can be made for any company.
It would be very interesting to see what happened if TPB were to start distributing their revenue to the rights-holders without asking for their permission though. Maybe it could work in a similar vein to flattr, where the recipients have to claim their money?

Perhaps the future of torrents is a Spotify-like model where anyone can upload anything, and if you can prove that you are the owner of something you get your share of the revenue?

edit: minor change to phrasing
Another very innovative games:

- Storm - strategy game, core mechanics was developing your aircraft designs, test-flying them, building them, and defending your flying island with them. Big part of the game was trading in airships parts between factions. It also has arcade 3d-mode fighting system, where you controlled one of your ships, but it was unplayable).

- Net Storm - another game on flying islands - also strategy, but gamplay was very different - it was all about building towers, defensive structures and bridges to contain and defeat enemy flying island. It felt like real-time chess, positioning was the most important. It also had nice multiplayer mode.

- MAX - another strategy game - this time turn-based. It had nice system of resource extraction - you had to scan ground for resources, also your factories, defence systems, mines, etc had to be connected by pipelines for resources and power to be provided everywhere. So defending pipelines was important.
How my free ebook was downloaded 1600 times in 24 hours (without a following)
For the big list of Compile-to-JS langs, folks keep a pretty good wiki page here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
Oh yes, sorry...corrected it finally! Thanks!
That isn't equivalent to what Google does at all though; if they didn't shift business around to shell companies in Ireland or Luxembourg and just paid the "the amount they have to, and no more" they would pay a hell of a lot more tax in the UK. You are comparing two different things: sending in extra money, which I think we can all agree is rare (although I also could pay less tax than I do), and actively using complex accounting involving other countries so that you pay far less then you normally would (and other equivalent dodges for individuals), which is not common among individuals.

Of course, it is not so easy to avoid tax as a salaried individual, which is why your comparison is failing. Somebody on PAYE (i.e. most people) can't create a clone of themselves in Ireland to pay their income tax there instead of the UK. If that option was available to individuals then I'm sure plenty would take it (assuming Irish income tax is lower, I have no idea). That is what the debate is about though: some entities have great flexibility and can avoid tax if they want, others (individuals of average means or less) don't have the choice to pay less.
But all of these just compile to Javascript in the end, right? I long for the day where we just have a "Browser VM" that we can all compile to instead of compiling to a high level language.
I like that Europe scolded visa for stopping payments to wikileaks, but that is unlikely to ever happen for anything piracy related.

http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/20/europarliament-scolds-visa-m...
True, but then if you buy your first $50 worth of media every month and then pirate the rest. Those unlucky enough to be in the second group get kinda screwed.

Maybe you the stuff you pirated is better than the stuff you paid for? In which case since you probably can't get a refund on that you should really buy the stuff you pirated next month instead. How often that happens in practise is uncertain.

Or maybe it all averages out in aggregate.
I wouldn't brag about my poor ability to understand causal relationships.
Is it something people pay for? How much? How much can you acquire new customers for?

You need to test your business model. It's not really clear what you're doing so it's hard to try to be concrete or very constructive.
The $150k was a problem when founders fell out. When that happens there's usually still money left.
A modified 6502 was used in the NES.
I'm a graduate of the most recent class. I've done a bit of rails, and I now understand why some programmers look at Rails and scorn the "magic." I think the point of technology is to make things easier for people, and since Rails makes it really easy for just anyone to make a site within minutes, that's great--for someone who doesn't want or need to go into anymore depth of understanding about what's going on behind the scaffolding. I'm glad we did Python--it's a good basis language.
In case anyone else is interested in the source of this quote:

http://byuu.org/articles/emulation/snes-coprocessors

It's a fascinating story.
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Had a hard time finding artists with "common word" names, such as "copyright" for instance. And when it did find the accurate artist, the songs where much older than what I would have expected.
Though the idea is great, because I'm tired of checking each artist manually or on SoundCloud to know what's coming. Again, great idea.
How about a link to the site or a link to the other post?
"It hasn't gotten better enough. Homeopathy is, in a certain sense, propaganda for modern medicine"

Except that it's not, because its adherents demand revolution, not reform.
The should have used Mario Kart as one of the non-violent games, that would have ruined their hypothesis.
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An image upload site I know of used the same approach to 'login' and I quite liked it - I suppose the ideal configuration would be to give the user a choice. I had to nail down on feature creep at some point or I was never going to ship anything.

I'll look into the missing album though, edge cases like that are handy to know about for data quality.
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Here's an article by the Dart team that describes why the JavaScript VM (or the Dart VM) may already be the "Browser VM" you're looking for: http://www.dartlang.org/articles/why-not-bytecode/
Well, that sucks. :( If the order hasn't shipped, why on earth can't they cancel it?

Google's incompetence when it comes to shipping physical product demonstrates that they have a lot of learning to do, because right now they're really not very good at it are they?
Negative thinking is just a tool.

No one must get too deep in negative thinking and make it a habit.

Use the negative thinking as your servant and as a powerful tool to push the limits.

For example when someone have to challenge the "status quo" to do something "impossible" or say "innovate" and they have exhausted all possible ways to do it the only way to get though it is to get angry and not accept your defeat. Your "negative thinking" makes you continue and not quit.

"Do not underestimate the power of the dark" side as they say :)

Get angry at some problem and solve it.
Actually, I just meant young, college educated people. Very few people in that demographic have cable subscriptions, compared to the population as a whole.

Specifically, I'm thinking of my friend's houses that I've seen in various cities around Canada. Not many televisions.
I remember reading that the US Congressional sub-committee report into a possible amnesty found that approx 50% of the money was back in the USA via securities and loans anyway.

With the 2004 amnesty - you are right - but there are a few things you can't do with offshore funds - which is why this time Cisco, Apple and the big pharma co's are lobbying for an amnesty

You can't do acquisitions, you can't do a share buyback and you can't pay a dividend.

If you are managing smaller reserves it makes sense to leave it offshore - but with larger reserves such as with Apple investors want you to do more with it (they want to _get paid_)
You may be under-appreciating the interconnected nature of the power grid.

A huge swatch of the north-east US lost power for a couple days, not all that long ago, because of a tree branch. And efforts to contain the problem were hampered by an obscure bug in the management software.

If a freak accident can expose a cascade of unexpected fail-over behavior, do you really think the grid is hardened against deliberate malfeasance? Particularly when we consider that the vulnerabilities from which voltage irregularities could be created, could quite likely attack or destroy the management software itself.

Mix in the likelihood of attackers having access to several nodes on the grid at once and regional blackouts seem quite plausible.

In which case a country-wide blackout is merely a question of whether attackers could compromise enough stations across enough of America to effect several concurrent regional blackouts.
Check out https://github.com/matthewrobb/six and https://github.com/jdiamond/harmonizr.
I don't know what Google intends by support, but if it were me I certainly wouldn't invest in Israel.

The amorality of it aside, Israel is also a huge intellectual property and espionage risk.

Check out "Spy Trade" by Grant F Smith as an example reference (links below).

http://vimeo.com/31298789

http://www.amazon.com/Spy-Trade-Israels-Undermines-Americas/...
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It's factual?
Companies don't pay VAT. It's somewhat more complicated than that.
"Further, I did not merely live. The hole in my lung closed and I have gradually but steadily reversed my symptoms over the course of more than a decade"

Again, with enough persons, these spontaneous remissions DO happen. With a source of one person, it would certainly appear a miracle.
Hi Diamons,

First of all, regadless of my opinion about your project, congratulations for deciding to do something and actually getting it off the ground.

Now, regarding http://theboxngo.com, the first thing I would personally like to see is a clear statement explaining exactly why I should be using this as opposed to eBay, local classified ads.

To answer your question, your marketing strategy should very much depend on the core value you provide which - to me - is not clear at this stage.
And yes, the majority of Israelis recognise that the Palestinian citizens of Israel are treated as second class citizens and yes the majority approves of it. The majority of Palestinians are of course in exile since 1948 and more since 1967 (and are in much worse situation such as the refugees who have been living in Gaza) but this poll is about those who survived the European Jewish terrorism in 1948 and ended up as Israeli citizens.

http://972mag.com/poll-israelis-support-discrimination-again...
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What about me? I bought Assassins Creed 3 on steam last week and ordered an xbox360 controller for PC from Amazon. I had the game downloaded and everything ready to go to have a relaxing day of gaming this Saturday. The problem came when I was required to create a UPlay account in order to open my game. Ubisoft's servers were down and I was not able to create an account or play the game. I spent a couple precious hours of my Saturday dealing with their incompetence and then gave up and decided to pirate the game.

I was not very pleased at this point and walked in to my office where we have a 1Gbit connection. I proceeded to torrent the game and grabbed Farcry 3 as well because, fuck em. This took about 45 minutes of downloading. I walked home and was playing 15 minutes later. Ubisoft is forever on my To-Pirate list for brazenly wasting my time on their pointless DRM.

I don't think I fit in your narrow categories.

PS: I spend about 200$/month on paid iTunes Content.
"Everyone is entitled to believe in whatever they want to and live by that."

No one should be entitled to sell snake oil and quackery.
> The point is, when it breaks and you need someone to help you fix it, it's often not enough to find someone else who "uses Linux" - you need to find someone else who runs the same distribution, because they all have their own init scripts, packaging systems, filesystem layouts etc.

Again, greatly exaggerated. I'm usually able to use Ubuntu or Fedora forums to help solve my problems, even though I don't run a Debian-based distribution. If I'm having systemd problems, I can debug that the same way as with any system running systemd, whether it's Fedora, Red Hat, Arch, etc. If I'm having issues with my package manager, I can use resources from any distro that uses that same package manager.

You're assuming that these variations cause combinatorially many possibilities for problems, but in reality, Linux is designed to be modular enough that these things don't compound in practice.

That's not even taking into account that most Mint issues have the same solutions as they would on Debian/Ubuntu, etc., because most distros are derived from one of a small set of distros; very few start 'from scratch'.

> By contrast, because there is a single FreeBSD, anyone who "uses FreeBSD" can probably help you with your FreeBSD problems.

Yes, but NetBSD and OpenBSD? Not so helpful. And frankly, given the relative sizes of the Linux and BSD userbases, this isn't really a problem on Linux at all.
True, I think that the perceived barrier to entry for using torrents is much higher than the actual barrier.

If somebody were to release a TV set top box that used the pirate bay as the back end they would sell millions overnight.
Agreed, it's different. I didn't want to make a broader comment, actually. Was just letting OP know that his behavior (used as an anecdote to counter the other poster's hypothetical) is highly unrepresentative.

On a side note, one point I've been stuck on is what to call the commentors above me. I know there's established language for it (parent, grandparent) but I have trouble using it right. Anyone know what I should have called the poster of the hypothetical, and the response that I responded to?
I think you would be surprised to know what level I started at. Everything I had learned about backend development was passed up within two or three days, and that Friday we went over HTML and CSS, which passed up everything I knew about that. Hackbright is, of course, no easy road. In fact, I can easily say it was harder than all of my AP courses in high school, harder than moving to a German city where I knew no one, harder than deciding to jump into the marriage boat (trust me, that was difficult), and harder than even the decision to make such an investment. And that's why it's worth it. Of course we'll all continue learning, just as every programmer does, but Hackbright was a fabulous kick in the right direction.
In my own experience the focus on worst-case is a matter of intellectual preparation. My mind is running through as many of the possible failures as can be imagined along with responses. When I later encounter a situation that is a close-enough match to a prepared response I can quickly adjust to the reality and act.

This appears to many people to be purely improvised and can startle them in the way that you seem to grasp all kinds of hidden issues and avoid the pitfalls, and in some cases there is a lot of improv involved, but it's really a matter of being mentally prepared and having good abstract models.

The danger of this kind of "disaster" pre-planning is scope creep. Some people will obsess on every possible bad thing, but that is not an optimal solution. Large chunks of "bad things that can happen" are either entirely out of our control or are a combination of absurdly low probability/far too expensive (of whatever resource) to justify addressing.
I'm not at all sure that I do know. I believe part of the implied message in this post is that Google is not motivated by a cynical profit motive to the same extent that Amazon is. That is highly dubious to me. Sending search queries to Google may very well be both more useful and less surprising to end users, but it is NOT "less evil". Either and both would be significant privacy violations.

I am now not sure that is implied by the message at all. In which case you would be mistaken about me knowing damn well what it meant. I have no idea what other interpretation of the Google reference would make sense.

Either way, your hostility is unwarranted and adds nothing to the discussion.
Sure sorry, I didn't want to spam HN but here it is - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864978 - the site is called http://www.ultimategiftlists.com and it is a cool way to create a giftlist, but is now also, in my opinion, a real neat way to find gift ideas for people.

We've acted on a lot of the feedback given to us:

- An About Page
- More Categories
- A better way of saving the list
- Make the giftmark more prominent
- A blog (although not yet published)
- Resizing of images and a general change to the layout.

cheers
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Ironically, the largest beneficiaries of the mortgage interest deduction are the banks. If you give one person a subsidy, it allows that person to buy a home when they otherwise couldn't. If you give everyone a subsidy, they just bid up housing prices by nearly the entire amount of the subsidy. (If the government really wanted to make it easier to own a home, they should subsidize new home construction in order to increase the supply of homes and thereby reduce their cost.)

But once you've established the deduction and people have already bought homes expecting it, they require its continued existence to be able to keep making the payments.

What they really ought to do is remove the deduction for new mortgages but not existing mortgages (or refinances of existing mortgages that don't increase the loan principal).
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