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It wasn't mentioned in the article but there was also a lot of controversy on how Microsoft handled the Operation B71.

http://blog.fox-it.com/2012/04/12/critical-analysis-of-micro...
Good article and timely, because they just did another big response two days ago: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2014/10/14/msrt-octo...

While this didn't involve a broad takedown of a public provider (as far as I'm aware), it did involve coordinated release of tools and more-targeted takedown requests through their semi-private "Coordinated Malware Eradication" program. On balance, I think what Microsoft is doing is a good thing, but public scrutiny and discussion of any organization/cartel that operates in secret is equally important.
As someone who works in the tech sector in Ireland I personally think now is the right time to be closing this particular loophole. It has run its useful course. It has become a mechanism for huge profits to be shuffled around virtually untaxed by organisations with a scale large enough to employ teams simply to exploit it. It's not a realistic proposition for SMEs to manage the level of international complexity it involves, particularly when you include the Dutch sandwich. It's an unfair and unbalanced advantage to large multinationals.

I disagree with others that companies should not have to pay corporation tax. I don't believe it is double taxation. Corporation tax is not charged on employee income, thats an operational expense and the tax on income is paid by the employee relative to their own tax status. Also, tax on dividends is effectively a personal income tax. Dividend tax is not liable on dividends paid to other Irish resident companies, amongst many other sensible exemptions. Corporation tax is charged on the trading profit of a corporate entity, not its revenue. Also, it's worth pointing out that if a company has paid corporation tax in previous years in Ireland and then reports a loss they may be entitled to a refund.

A side note on FDI implications. Yes the "double Irish" has played a role but it's by no means the only reason large multinationals locate here. The new "Knowledge Box" structure in conjunction with our relatively low corporate tax rate of 12.5%, the tax credits for Research and Development related activities, our membership of the EU and Eurozone, the ability of companies to deal directly with the highest levels of government, the fact we natively speak English, the fact we're culturally similar to the US and UK, the fact we have a timezone which overlaps for at least part of the day with almost everywhere in the US and that we have a statistically young and educated workforce all contribute to attracting tech companies here. Thats before we even consider the efforts of the IDA (and Enterprise Ireland at a domestic level) who IMHO are superb national assets.

I think that if we can restructure our tax rules so that "Ireland Inc" gains even a fraction more revenue from the multinationals operating here whilst retaining our international competitiveness, then it's unquestionably the smart thing to do.
I'm sorry that people are hacking Microsoft's OSs, but this is "legal" piracy. The US courts should not and cannot condone one-sided private legal decisions. Sure the Federal government can vaguely justify doing this themselves but allowing a private corporation this right is beyond even a random reading of the constituion.
Sorry about that! I built this in 2 weeks in between doing other stuff (travelling, attending events) so I had to make some hard choices about the essentials. And editing was left out of that. However, I'm surprised the actual rendering looks that different - which job ad did you post? (see my HN Profile for the email). I can edit it manually for you.
"Microsoft had a plan in place to keep legitimate customers online, while stopping the malware, but it didn’t work."

Presumably Microsoft were able to convince a judge that their plan was acceptable on the basis that they had a plan and it would work.

IMHO, that should be enough in itself to hold Microsoft culpable for all damages as a consequence of their plan failing.

Nothing against Microsoft in particular here; anyone can screw up. It should just be a general rule that applies equally to everyone in this sort of case. Doing this "ex parte temporary restraining order" without any opportunity for the targeted party to respond presents enough of a risk to the target that it should only be permitted if the party requesting it is prepared to take the financial hit should they screw up.

Perhaps the funds should even be required to be held in escrow. Enough to cover the target's financial collapse.
Employment is all good and well, but one needs to consider: what are the second-order effects of that action? For instance, you could employ people to dig holes that serve no purpose. Or, you could employ people to build public infrastructure that continues to pay dividends over its lifetime.

Buying the yacht is a little bit like digging useless holes, because it's basically a very costly form of recreation that doesn't do much for society. Ideally, money goes into things that both employ and have desirable second-order effects.
I'd highly suggest making the posting companies list salary and/or equity ranges ala angelist. It sets expectations a lot sooner and cuts through a lot of bs for potential users.

I'd also recommend, having some indication of the listing companies commitment to remote work. Joining a team who is new to remote as one of the only remote workers is not fun. Supplying a short poll to each job creation, that generates a remote score, similar to the Joel Test people used to use, would help build confidence in potential users.
> Gates rightly (and self-servingly) also points out that Piketty does not consider philanthropy as a means to correct some of capitalism's imbalances

Doesn't your use of "self-servingly" here apply to anyone who acts consistently on their beliefs?

If Gates (a) believes that philanthropy is ethical and effective, and he therefore both (b) engages in philanthropy and (c) advocates philanthropy, then (b) and (c) are separately consequent to (a) (which is a consistent principled stance); (c) is not due to (b) (which would be a self-serving rationalization).
It isn't voluntary for the offspring that are created through such efforts. Sure, that's not the case for procreation to begin with... but the difference is that these people would effectively be bred for a specific purpose. Then, to keep it voluntary, I guess we would lightly suggest to them at some tender age to consider going into field which requires high intelligence? Or do we not interfere at all, and just observe them from a distance (since you mention scientific supervision)?
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Yep, I always knew this would be a problem. Nevertheless I felt it would be worth putting it out there to gauge the interest in something like this. I'm happy to say a lot of people are interested (and new jobs are showing up on the board too) so I think there's scope to solve this problem. I have a few other ideas with respect to increasing traffic which I hope to apply to it in the near future.
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The government can choose who is more deserving of their money; it can't choose who is more deserving of their generosity.
Gates described three personas :

1. One guy is putting his capital into building his business
2. A woman who’s giving most of her wealth to charity
3. A third person is mostly consuming, spending a lot of money on things like a yacht and plane

All three actually spend their wealth. The problem with extreme inequality is that really wealthy people can invest, give and spent AND still sit on massive amount of wealth that get past to the next generation.

A progressive tax on consumption wouldn't be enough to fight this.

One core argument of Piketty is that the actual debate has been highly distorted by the massive wealth redistribution that happen in consequence of the first two world wars, something Gates doesn't acknowledge in his review.

[UPDATE] I overlooked the estate tax Gates proposed in his review.
>I'm not sure I understand your other option. If the government doesn't have control over the flow of wealth, why do you think it will not just increasingly flow to those in power?

Up until roughly 1903, the US didn't have any personal income taxes. There was a small business tax, and this was it. Gates' own example of old money no longer existing didn't really point to examples such as the Waltons, but to families who have had wealth for hundreds of years due to large estates. He's correct that this wealth no longer exists. My argument would be that it no longer exists because in the 1800s, neither the wealthy nor the labor class were taxed as individuals, r and g roughly equalized and the wealthy didn't maintain their wealth. This phenomenon of extreme inequality started to occur only in the early 1900s, the same time the US first implemented a personal income tax (thus taxing labor more so than wealth, lowering g and raising r).
It's even possible that some are mutually antagonistic/incompatible.

If gene A or gene B increase intelligence, A + B might cancel out or even lower it below baseline. It all depends on what mechanisms are responsible and how the genes alter those.
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I added that in for 2 reasons: 1) I usually get client work based on my github profile, i.e. they like what they see there, and 2) nowadays almost every job ad I see looking for remote web developer asks for a github id.

I appreciate that not everyone has or even cares about Github which is why it's an optional item when posting an ad. However, one of the differentiating factors of RemoteCoder is that it provides for tight Github integration in case an employer is interested in your github work. But perhaps this feature should be off by default? (at the moment it's on by default).
I believe that's true in the US as well because there are a huge number of sole proprietorships and partnerships. However, the companies with shareholders tend to be much larger companies, so they still make up a very portion of the economy.
Flow is a really good Android reader.
How many users said they wanted this before you started building it?
I'm 23 and have had my caffeine. It's neither your age nor your decaffeineity that makes this seem wooden.
That's interesting. You'd be interested in seeing employers receive payment from customers that's allocated/split? Or can you expand on that a bit? Feel free to email me at cody [at] incoin.io if you'd like to discuss more.
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The problem with Piketty (like with Marx) was not their analysis which I find conventional (in todays perspective).

The problem with Pikettys book is his solutions.

If only he had stayed away from that it would have had much bigger impact IMHO.
how/why would I combine this with Ruby-on-Rails?
Piketty cites 1914->1945 over and over in his book as the one period when r < g, and discusses the implications for his theory over dozens of pages. Yet Gates somehow seems to think WWI and the Great Depression are a gotcha! he has come up with.

Gates: "Far more people—including many rentiers who invested their family wealth in the auto industry—saw their investments go bust in the period from 1910 to 1940, when the American auto industry shrank from 224 manufacturers down to 21. So instead of a transfer of wealth toward rentiers and other passive investors, you often get the opposite."
You only need one if the employer has specified that you need one when creating their ad. It saves them having to ask you for your id in your application - better yet, it allows us to verify your github profile for them and even send them a short-line summary of your work.
I don't know about your Norwegian example, and it might be because I'm ignorant of it; or you might be confusing it with Iceland 1200 years ago. If so, remember they had that system for 300 years (longer than the US has existed) and that they could not only choose which 'clan' they belonged to but also could literally buy seats in the law-making house. This makes it a voluntary (therefore, anarcho-capitalist) society.

I'd point you in the direction of any Austrian Economics literature. I don't come from any "objectivist" thinking as it seems to me most of it comes from fiction, which I don't read. But if you learn how wealth can be created from simple exchange between two people, that's the aha moment.

I'd recommend PraxGirl's Praxeology series on youtube, and Schiff's How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes.
I notice your use of scare quotes. Is the state of the art advanced enough to make a judgement on whether or not a person is better at the genetic level than another person? I'm not just talking about some specific category or skill, but also as a well-rounded person. Because these people will have to live their own lives, and would be subject to whatever other traits that might arise when you try to optimize humans for some kind of skill. I at least don't think that the state of the art is so advanced that they can predict that optimizing for some specific trait might have some unforeseen consequences when it comes other, perhaps seemingly unrelated traits.
You can tax "bad" consumption, but it ends up with the same kind of complexity as existing income tax with filings and tracking and specific exemptions/deductions/adjustments. As simplicity is one of the big reasons people propose a consumption tax over the existing income tax, almost no one who would want a consumption tax in the first place is interested in such an arrangement.

Personally, I'm unconvinced that there is any real practical advantage to consumption taxes, and think a better simplification is the smaller change of having a progressive tax on income without undermining progressivity by favoring capital income. At any target revenue level this enables lower taxes on working people which enables more peoe to become at least small scale capitalists, rather than taxing working people extra to reward those people who have already accumulated or inherited the wealth to live off capital rather than labor.
Yes! Search is a must. I specialize in certain types of work so keyword searches are crucial to me...
Thanks. Yep, that's on the todo list. Time was short and I predicted that initially there wouldn't be so many jobs so I prioritised other features over search.
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>The anarcho-capitalist position doesn't define markets particularly rigidly at all. "voluntary exchange" is pretty much it.

Then what about the exchange between the organization we call a State and the people?

For example: I am more than happy to exchange my freedom to commit violence and for others to commit violence against me in the course of doing business to a heavily regulated monopoly (the State) that is ultimately controlled by the people that constitute that State. That is one less worry I have with every other interaction I have in my life -- violence has been taken off the table except in the case of rules that I've agreed to live by. Seems like a very fair trade to me. I have already volunteered for that exchange.

Or how about the agreement that I pool my money with people from all different industries and backgrounds into a fund that we all decide to spend through our representatives that we've voted to appoint? This tends to mean that pool of money is used for the common benefit. I'm happy with that situation as well. It creates a collective power that would be hard to match in any less comprehensive scheme, and some problems call for that approach.

In short, I've agreed to exchange time and effort and some freedom of action (that I will never miss) to participate in a system that I think works and works well. This system does not use solely currency as a means for exchange but votes and persuasion. Granted, currency can be spent to nudge votes this way or that but there is no direct exchange.

I believe this is the right way to go and that not everything needs to be translated into exchanges of currency which, really, is the heart of my disagreement with anarcho-capitalism. Not everything must be exchangeable with currency. In fact, some things should be impossible to exchange, directly, with currency.

>Where they can't, there isn't - at the end of the day - any way I can see to prevent someone from using superior force to vanquish someone who possesses less strength. But that doesn't mean that we should institutionalize the use of force as a routine part of how we conduct business with each other.

Violence exists. The best we can do is manage it. Do you not see the contradiction that you would allow freedom of all associations except the one society's currently agreed on?
You were right up until density. The amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature by one degree Celcius, per gram of the material is the specific heat capacity. Theoretically, it could have a lower specific heat capacity than water despite being twice as dense (I doubt it though).

In addition, using that analysis assumes that the phone is in a vacuum, or is somewhere were it is not getting rid of heat through convection, conduction, or radiation.

In steady state temperature analysis, you have the rate of heat going into the phone, and the rate of heat being conducted away from the phone over the surface area. Say, 10W in (5V at 2A) is the rate of charge, and 1W will be converted to heat. The phone gets rid of heat at a rate that is proportional to its temperature. A phone 10 degrees warmer than the surrounding air will release more heat into the air than a phone 3 degrees warmer.

In a steady state analysis for our example(which 2 minutes may not be appropriate for!), let's say the phone gets rid of 0.5W of heat at 1 degree above room temp, 1W at 2 degrees above room temp, and 2W at 4 degrees above room temp. If the rate of heat going into the phone is 1W, then the phone will eventually become 2 degrees warmer than the surrounding air to reject that heat.

I made up these numbers as an example of how you would discover how hot the phone would get. You'd need a calorimeter to submerge the phone in to measure a lot of this stuff.
I think Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MT) is fascinating. I really wish Amazon would release more figures on its usage, rather than only the number of registered users[1].

It would be really interesting to see how many people earn their wages through this service. The chart in the article says 16% in Feb '10 [2], but I think it would be really interesting to see 1) how much money they earn, 2) how many hours they work, 3) where they live, 4) how much Amazon pays out in total in MT wages (all anonymized data, of course).

[1] > The only numbers that we share regarding our Worker population are these two -- which reflect our current state:
Over 500K registered Workers from over 190 countries worldwide.

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=58891

[2] http://pix-media.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/835/ScreenShot2014-10...
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FTFA:

> Disclosure Timeline:

> 16. Sep. 2014 - Notified the Drupal devs via security contact form

> 15. Okt. 2014 - Relase of Bugfix by Drupal core Developers
>Nothing against Microsoft in particular here; anyone can screw up.

Well, except for the bit where they appointed themselves Sheriff without any legal authority. Sure, what they did may have been legal, but anointing themselves doesn't sound legal to me.

It's the moral equivalent of someone appointing themself the President because he or she has the biggest and most guns.
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All three actually spend their wealth. The problem with extreme inequality is that really wealthy people can invest, give and spent AND still sit on massive amount of wealth that get past to the next generation.

A progressive tax on consumption wouldn't be enough to fight this.

Gates also specifically talks about an estate tax to prevent the wealth to pass to the next generation (at least, part of it).
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The Nigerian response was in reaction to patient 0, just like here.

The level of hubris is striking. "It won't happen here" is not a comfort when our hospitals can't contain an infection.
One of the key differentiators is the ability to see which jobs are truly remote (like nomadlist does) vs. remote within a particular region. The other is that this job board is focussed solely on coders (whereas weworkremotely also caters for designers, business admin, etc). Hence the optional Github authentication.
There are other ways of enforced labour as well as slavery, and some are quite close to home. Indentured workers, and poor houses for example, and the company scrip, are slightly less brutal forms of something similar to slavery, as are workers in the penal system. In all of these systems the workers aren't really able to walk away from their "owner". And some of this is fairly recent involving Ikea [4] and Walmart [5].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labour
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/business/global/ikea-to-re...
[5] http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/09/05/mexico-walmex-idUS...
The problem with any consumption tax is that wealthier people spend a smaller percentage of their income on needs compared to lower classes. If you make it progressive, they will just buy their most expensive items overseas and never (or hide?) the import and avoid the tax. Anytime you try to regulate, there will be people making big money trying to find workarounds.

Anyway, taxing in this way imposes a moral judgement on the use of a person's wealth... I consider myself a pretty liberal person, but even I see a problem with 'punishing' a person for spending a million on a yacht rather than starving children. We can incentivize that by making it tax-deductible, but that does nothing to solve the problem of the income tax disparity. I work a lot of hours and my payroll taxes are much higher than capital gains taxes--as Buffett and others have pointed out, that's what's unfair but it won't change as long as the people who get their income from capital gains have the most power to influence politics.
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>Gates rightly (and self-servingly) also points out that Piketty does not consider philanthropy as a means to correct some of capitalism's imbalances.

It certainly helps, but in a well-designed system philanthropy wouldn't be required. Philanthropy is a symptom rather than a cure.
Call me old school, but I've always felt the term "coder" was a diminutive, while "programmer" (as used in the title) is more appropriate.

I think of a coder as someone mindlessly implementing logic that someone else has laid out before them... while a programmer is someone who comprehends the problem, develops an algorithm and implements it.

Of course, these days with so much work being about setting up a UI on whatever platform, there isn't as much algorithm development.
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