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> If Netflix just started taking money from German customers while providing them with a terrible service, we would be angry at that.

That's not the limiting reactant. The actual issue with region lockout is copyright bullshit.
I think there are two big issues to think about. The first is a public choice analysis of a potential global wealth tax. It's not enough to talk about a hypothetical economically sound (according to some economist) and perfectly implemented tax; we need to talk about what tax could actually be implemented given what we can surmise about the incentives of government officials.

The second is whether the conceptual idea of a global wealth tax would work even if we assume it could be implemented in the real world in such a way that there are no loopholes or favoritism. Let's also just assume the taxed wealth is somehow simply destroyed, to avoid the potential problem of favoritism in the way the government spends the tax revenue. In that case, it seems to me that it absolutely would reduce inequality. But I think the better question is whether reducing inequality itself is a good thing, because I think there would be other disastrous effects by this tax despite inequality being reduced.
It absolutely is not a load of rubbish. I have personally observed it many times. And I have spent a LOT of time observing. I don't claim to have "proof" however I know what I have seen. I also didn't say "reputable" (a strange word in this context). Also, every/most Casino does not engage in this but some do.

Your claim "they wouldn't do this because they already have an edge" is just silly. Why wouldn't they take a chance to make more money? Especially since, as you say, "proof" is a bit hard. An accidental bump. That's all. No intentional cheating here.

I would like to re-iterate my main point. This is something to watch for if you are a roulette player. If the table wobbles when you push against it... walk away.
That is my thought. We've already got the post a screenshot of map and times in there. I'd rather work on adding interval training stuff and more charts and graphs than build a web version.
Is the poker boom of ten years ago already forgotten? This fact shouldn't be surprising after tv, radio and internet telling everybody exactly this for years. What about the movie Rounders? Is it not watched in the US any more? I still got the DVD and watch it 4-5 times a year.
I find it shows the platforms weeks in advance.
Actually... building a stock market game around a poker re-theme sounds really freakin' cool.
At a time when taxes are obscenely high - at least in the US - the discussion should be of massive cuts, not new taxes. Alas, I am not optimistic. People have suffered for generations under horrific conditions. No reason it can't happen here.

Or to be more precise: No reason it can't happen here again. Don't forget slavery and Native Americans.

EDIT: Moved this from a sub post to here:

A lot of people are evidently misinformed about the state of US taxation. Since several have responded to my previous post with similar statements, I'll just take the top post and address the whole issue in one go.

1. The US has low tax rates relative to the rest of the world

For low earners, yes. For high earners no.

Re low earners: Federal income tax is low, SS contributions are moderate, but - and this is key - sales taxes (VAT) are extremely low, excise taxes on fuel are extremely low, and import duties are generally extremely low. Car registration, government fees, etc are all generally moderate to extremely low.

Re high earners:

a) Income taxes are extremely high. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates , sort by "Individual (max)", and note that only France, Belgium, Sweden, and Aruba are higher.

b) Corporate tax is extremely high. Note that many will correctly state that some corporations are able to avoid some of the corporate tax. This is true, though overstated if you only follow what the NYT reports. For domestic US corporations doing business only in the US, their effective corporate rate will range between 35% and 45%, depending on their state.

e) Estate taxes. We pay 50% of our net worth upon death on all assets transferred to our descendants. A truly morally repugnant tax, this one. Passing on our advantages and earnings to our children is a great joy to many people.

d) Tax enforcement is insanely strict. Prison sentences and hefty fines await those who transgress.

e) We can't leave: American citizens pay tax to the US government even if they reside elsewhere. If we give up our citizenship, we must pay the US government between 30 and 40% of our net worth. The US is the only OECD nation to do this.

2. US taxes are lowest they've been since XX!"

This is true for low and middle earners, whose current tax rates are very low. Not true for high earners. The US tax code is the most progressive in the OECD.

The last tax reform was under Reagan. He traded high tax rates with lots of loopholes for moderate tax rates with few loopholes. Since then, the few loopholes have largely been closed (with exceptions, such as the popular middle class* home interest deduction) whilst rates have risen substantially.

See the wiki link above: top US income tax rates are the fifth highest in the world.

3. Overall US taxation is low!

As detailed above, the US taxation regime is the most progressive in the OECD. But taxation is still not low. At 34% of GDP[1], it's higher than Canada and only 5 points lower than the UK. 11 points less than France.

[1] http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/total
You appear to be looking to hire engineers, and have chosen a cute self-deprecating title. I didn't figure this out until the last paragraph, but maybe I'm just slow. I thought you were going to make some meta analysis on CEOs writing blog posts for engineers.
As a general rule the more speakers a language has the higher the chance of mostly dubbed content. High quality dubs are not cheap and it's easier to finance it when your target language has a 100 million speaker instead of just 5 million.

That's why Germany, France and Spain like to dubs, but not smaller countries like the Netherlands or Scandinavian countries. And medium sized countries like Poland often have really crappy dubs (sometimes one speaker for all characters).
Netflix's control plane is in AWS, and their content is distributed by global CDNs; there are no local servers to get.

I would agree though that you do have to ensure content has been staged to your CDN, you have a local control plane in the EU for end-user latency, etc.
This is a very complicated question, and while I understand why they would use that percentage figure, I think it confuses the issue if you look into it more deeply for exactly the reason you stated.

It is true that most of the money changes in hands where you get farther in the hand because pots grow geometrically as you continue on in the hand.

However, the importance of decisions becomes more important as well, and most of the edge a skilled player will have over a weaker player comes about from those larger pots based on decisions made later in the hand.
The first sentence only follows from the second if you also assume that the government cannot do anything that you or someone perceives to be a violation of the Constitution.
> When Comcast stops advertising an Internet connection and starts advertising a "connection to the Comcast network"

So you don't know what "internet" is either. That figures. It's just a magic computer thingy that let's you watch german scat porn and cat pics on Facebook.
"money"...
I think Michael O'Church would have a field day with this one. Particularly the "frustratingly smart" line.
Right now everyone in India is equally poor.

Well, that's bullshit. I'm not endorsing Piketty, but you're making even less sense, unless there's a joke I've missed.

I do agree about unrestricted international immigration, such that there's a free flow of labor as well as capital. Unfortunately most people are mercantilist and opposed to the promulgation of global standards that would be required to make this work.
>On this point I almost want to say that every person who graduates from High School ought to have gone through a rigorous class in logic and another in statistics.

Those classes are above the bar for high-school graduation (unless you have an extremely weak definition of rigorous). If you require them, it will just mean lower graduation rates.
True, but be polite about it: "Sorry, I'm disappointed because my expectations differ from yours. I'll found an alternative. Good luck with your project"
Heh, I was working on a SSG early last summer for my own stuff in Common Lisp. It's easy to make a bad and overcomplicated one. I know - I did it. :)
To me, it opened up a really horrible thought: Polish plus Hungarian.

Lisp with Hungarian names (shudder).
I also think "it shines in finance" is a little weird. It's used in finance because it's an industry with a premium on correctness and a sympathy for math, but I don't think it's generally better suited to solving those problems than to solving other problems. If I had to point to one area that Haskell is clearly better at than "mainstream" languages it would probably be tree manipulation - and as a consequence compilers - due to structural pattern matching (for small stuff) and evaluation strategies (for larger and more abstract stuff).
Is BART an "internal" transit system and not a feeder system to/from SF?

NJ Transit is not solely a feeder system into NYC (that's what PATH is for), though that's probably most of it: https://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/Rail_System_Map.pdf . Is Oakland not analogous to Newark in this system?
I'm not sure you've addressed eridius'a comments. I understand what you're saying about peering, but I think his/her point is that ISP customers pay ISPs not to care about peering.

I think that's generally the point that neutrality activists make, that in large par the internet works because users have equal access to any network, regardless of the asymmetry inherent to that access, and that users are willing to pay for the cost of that asymmetry.

If Comcast needs more money to properly connect it's users to Netflix, then that's fine, charge me more money. I'll gladly pay directly for real infrastructure upgrades. But forcing that revenue to go through Netflix first, you're fundamentally changing a key feature of the Internet.

The fact that these issues go away if there is no asymmetry (peering) doesn't seem so relevant.
Poker's problems are entirely cosmetic. It uses the same chips and cards and is played in the same building as blackjack, so it's always going to be associated with other forms of house-edged gambling, even though it isn't.

There are other places, like you noted, where people can gather, put money into a zero-sum game, and it's completely legal.

There are also lots of nuances in many of these state laws, where poker actually is legal under the right circumstances (like no house rake). I guess the fees associated trading options aren't considered a rake, so that's cool with the government.
I have seen those and those were what I was implicitly referring to. And if you did read them,"- Don't look for newlines in the input until after you've found a match." is just one of them but not the major contributor for speed. It's Boyer-Moore.
During the beta, the way we used to release CosmosUI was to send modified versions of the game interface files. On every patch, we had to manually go over all the changes we made and re-apply them to the new files. This process took several hours and in the process, no one could really play because they didn't have all their mods.

Since it was becoming a real pain, I figured out that we could modify the existing functions from a new file instead of modifying the actual files[1]. I spend several weeks transforming all our code into "mods", essentially the first addons :) Once this migration was done and patches were no longer a pain point, Blizzard officially introduced the notion of addons.

[1]: http://blog.vjeux.com/2011/javascript/hook.html
I think your comment is a case of rational irrationality.

The theory of rational irrationality holds that people often choose—rationally—to adopt irrational beliefs because the costs of rational beliefs exceed their benefits. In this case, the cost of admitting (including to yourself) that the article's surmise makes a valid point is greater than you are willing to accept. (Likely related to the denial that the article discusses.) So you are being irrational, attempting to impeach the article by drawing ludicrous conclusions from its incidental and irrelevant choice of picture aids.

Simply: you are being absurd.
> No, but they're obligated to get those GB to the consumer in some frickin way, b

No, they're not obligated.

Not legally.

Not contractually.

Not morally.

Consumer internet is a "best effort service". If Netflix refuses to acquire sufficient connectivity, then it's not Comcast's fault.

This is really simple. You should get it after I repeat it a few dozen times.

> because they have a signed contract with the consumer obligating them to get them their damn bytes.

It's an implied contract, but the problem's still the same: you never read it.

> Who cares if it's netflix or 1,000 myriad other sites. The only reason netflix is an issue is because they're a big enough target to extort.

The only reason it's an issue because only Netflix is so big that the existing connection is insufficient. When you subtract the Netflix traffic, the link's not saturated.
Personally I want access to my running data in json or rss. Without that I would not consider using a new app.
I implemented Square in our family business primarily for having a tight feedback loop with customers and the improved user experience. Digital receipts are an opportunity to improve the customer relationship and streamline operations. To me, this was the key reason.
What the article missed on is the economics of Apple. They don't sell at 10% margins, they sell at like 30 or 40% margins. So, at the same $8 million/store/year they would make 3-4x the profitability of a Gateway store. So, based on the estimates of needing to make $12 million a year they only needed to make $3-4 million a year for it to make sense to run the stores.

The writer was focused on market share, not margin. That is a common mistake that people make when they look at Apple and it's been wrong over and over again for over a decade now.

If there is one "secret" to Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Intel it's profit margin. All of those companies have solid margins that allow them to invest in growth over time. Somehow other companies seem to believe that you can run at break even or a loss and somehow turn on the profits once you reach some huge scale.

Smart, successful companies are turning a profit consistently on just about everything they do at any significant scale and they shut down projects that don't.
Or use error-correcting codes so you can get your list accross even if you're drunk :D
I'm not an expert (this is not my industry, so please correct me if I'm wrong) but I imagine it has to do something with the initial cost of entering the position.

With a futures position you may end up losing more than you put in (your initial margin) but assuming you went long a stock without using margin, the most you could lose would be your initial investment.

But perhaps it's not a fair comparison. I would say that buying 100K of stocks on margin is similar in risk to having a futures contract with a similar value, all other things equal.

Also, with forwards (not exchange traded) there would be counterparty risk if no clearing house was involved.
It certainly deletes the public-facings parts you can verify.

However note that they claim it will take up to 180 days to delete your account. (I went through this last year, getting sufficiently annoyed to close both Ebay & Paypal accounts.)
You think India is equally poor? Uh-huh... There are no equally poor places. It's an American libertarian fantasy construct.

http://www.forbes.com/india-billionaires/list/
Please don't take it too literal.
A fair-sized proportion of the right wing (loosely defined to include libertarians also) favors privatization. It is fair to say that some of them want to believe that the public sector is as bad as possible. It is unlikely that any are deliberately making it worse.
So your argument is that internet providers are perfectly within their rights to cash your check and then not provide internet service, and that's all perfectly ok and the way things should be? I'm not talking about the lack of an SLA when temporary outages happen, or temporary service degradation as they roll out new infrastructure to cope with traffic growth, I'm talking about consistently and systemically not living up to their end of the bargain and no intention to fix it. Complete lack of "best effort".

Subtract netflix traffic and more traffic will come from someplace else. The internet's not going away, usage is growing across the board, and netflix is just (one of) the first to hit our current traffic peaks, which will themselves look small in a few years.

If ISPs can't deliver that bandwidth at current prices, they should A) look at whatever korea, japan and northern europe are doing right, and B) failing that, increase prices until they can deliver the service they're charging for. This is really simple. You should get it.. well, you won't, probably. But the rest of us won't stand for it.
Certainly before 1994, given that Stepanov was already writing about his Standard Template Library for C++.
It sounds like the complaints my colleagues keep levelling against common core. And to a one, every example they found came from textbooks or blog posts, not the standard.
> That linked preso was terribly salesy.

Yeah, I get where you're coming from. I think by the time Simon gave that particular presentation he'd been saying the same stuff on a regular basis for a good two years, so it started to sound really rehearsed. Have a look at some of his older videos eg. [1] Although, that is, to a major degree, just how Simon sounds when he talks.

I don't think you fully understand the implications of what NBN Co is building.

> Te point of the NBN is getting fiber in the ground that no one company owns.

This is exactly what is not happening. Labor's NBN Co is (was?) building another Telstra-like monopoly. The one company that owns the fibre is NBN Co. which will, like almost every other government asset, be sold at a loss to a private company. And, like Telstra, it will become notorious for dragging its feet when it comes to appropriately pricing the wholesale service.

> He also has a point about the number of POIs that NBN will require the wholesalers to interface with. But again, this is missing the forest for the trees.

While you (I don't mean you personally, I mean 'you' in the general sense of the Australian voter) are focus on 'fibre regardless of costs' then yes, sure, you're correct.

> Simon doesn't make that argument.

You're right, he doesn't. That is my argument. And, like I always said from the very first first announcement of the NBN "well that will take Labor winning the next 6 elections".

> The NBN is about getting non-monopolized fiber in the ground. Once that's done everything else about it can be changed to suit his or your desires.

Change. Yes, just like Telstra. In fact, the scenario with Telstra is better than NBN Co. At least Telstra has been forced to resell ULL (Unbundled Local Loop, ie. vacant copper) to ISPs. NBN Co. is being built from the ground up to not be like that.

WHY!

I'll take Dark fibre to the premises, or no fibre thanks.

The creation of NBN Co. even resulted in the enactment of new legislation that prohibits competing fibre network builds. Hell, NBN Co. is taking TPG to court over TPGs pre-existing fibre network! [2] This is decided not the role NBN Co. could be playing.

(edit: clarity)

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMeYr2_rJmo
2. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/nbn-turns-the-heat-...
At what rate do taxes cross the threshold of being obscenely high?
I still get mail from Bank Of America -- where I no longer have an account because their fraud department decided to stop paying my mortgage -- about someone trying to log into my account. About once a week. I could spam filter it but it reminds me not to go back.
"The more we’ve let our engineers be involved in the fundamental business model, strategy and direction of our business, the more successful we’ve been."

I wish more non-technical leaders understood this. It's not that engineers have all of the answers, it's just that we specialize in thinking critically and solving problems. That's useful everywhere, not just with technical matters.
This isn't the case at the top end of the field.

There used to be prominent winning players who were unaware of the math behind the game, but the theory nowadays is they mostly just lucked into naturally playing in a style that happened to be better than the field during the period of time they played (i.e., years ago back when the game was less sophisticated).

Nowadays, those players are often the weak players who the players more skilled at theory can comfortably beat.

There's an eerie parallel to the early stock traders here.
The size of JSON files is huge compared to delimited data. Languages like Python make it equally easy to consume delimited data and JSON, so it shouldn't matter much.
How Adobe Achieved Double-Digit CTR Increase via International SEO
Do you have a link to a live demo?
I wish I had thought of this when I was trying to develop a WoW Addon. I was building an advanced party gui and wanted to communicate the whereabouts of each user, but was stmyed about how to send information between each instance
Thanks for checking out the site. I can definitely attest to the difficulty in finding InfoSec positions on generic job boards as I was in the same position around a year and a half ago. As you mentioned, most of the positions on those job boards were either old postings, not actually relevant to InfoSec or posted through a recruitment agencies. This led me to practically writing regex's through the sites' filtering systems just to get back relevant postings. Having run through the problems firsthand, I wanted to try and solve these pain points by creating a community-driven job board for InfoSec positions, aka SecurityOverboard.
Net neutrality may be harder to achieve than we thought
Just remember, the MSDN Azure credits are not meant for production. But BizSpark gives you a production use clause with the free Azure credits.
EBay to ask users to change their passwords
Aha, that makes more sense! You might want to clarify that some when you initially introduce the message; I think that point is kind of 'hiding' behind some of the other ideas in your post.

It looks like you fixed one of the more glaring things since I last reloaded (the 'laser quest' duplicate); I'd suggest doing a pass for punctuation, too (a bunch of sentences would scan quite a lot better with commas throughout -- "Plus, if ... fund, then ..." is one of the examples of that class that might go a long way towards setting the stage better to make your point).
I love poker. I'm not great at it but it is fun. Also it is a great metaphor for life. If you poke your head in on any given hand you might conclude that the game is all about luck. However if you play long enough good players emerge on top and bad players lose their money. Sometimes terrible players win big and sometimes good players lose everything.

Just like life: the harder you work, the luckier you get.