The purpose of sales tax can be different in different places. In France, sales tax is about a quarter of the country's budget. This seems odd in France who wants to tax the rich more than the poor.
But what you need to remember is that France is a highly touristic country. A significant fraction of the sales tax comes from tourists. It is hard to get good numbers on that, but a few percent of the sales tax collection is from tourists.
With companies that are offshoring their profits, sales tax maybe the only opportunity the government has on taxing that section of the market.
It is a matter of fairness. Either business income tax is useful, and there is no reason to let shady companies dodge them. Or they are not useful and no company should pay them.
Overall, I feel that taxing businesses helps avoiding many cases of a company switching from salaries of top employees to business accounts.
Finally, you seem to assume that the Spanish tax code is somewhat the same as the US tax code. I don't know the Spanish tax code, but in France, companies pay a non negligible amount of taxes.
It is true that not all that could vote did vote. But I feel that vote is representative.
There are 63 million inhabitant, about 12 million below 18 years old and about 33 million vote expressed. So most people that could vote did vote, and the split was over a million people, about 4% of voters. In any election I followed, that would be considered a clear cut vote.
The 1st-gen PS3 Cell had almost 300 GFLOPs performance.
To put that in perspective, the i7-4770K is ~100 GFLOPs. The i7-6700K is ~113 GFLOPs.
What are you talking about ? The cell in the PS3 gets about 250 Gflop/s single precision.
a i7-6700K comes with 4 cores at 4 Ghz, support AVX2 and FMA extensions. There are 2 (?) FMA unit on that thing. so you should get about 4(cores)*4Ghz*2(FMA)*2(2units)*256/32(AVX registers)= 512Gflop/s. And in case you wonder, yes you do get about that in gemm computation.
If you are looking at the memory subsystem, a skylake processor has almost has much L4 cache as the PS3 got in main memory. And a skylake machine wll probably have in main memory what a PS3 has in disk space.
Let's talk about hardship of programming. The IBM cell machine was a nightmare to program, with shitty compilers and using the SPE required programming them in assembly for the most part and to manually double buffer everything from the host CPU. On a typical skylake processor, any C program is easily sped up with typical compilation tricks (pragma omp, pragma simd,...) and the code will be portable on pretty much any architecture out there.
Don't get me wrong the cell was a lot of fun. But you'll never run meaningful computation on it today. God, the recently released NVIDIA GPU crushes it in flop performance by a factor of 40. Why would you even bother with a hard-to-program cell ?
Well, the cell was hot shit. Now it is just old shit. No one serious about computing would do anything on a cell processor. Too hard to program, small memory. And you get what in performance? 200Gflop/s? Any modern beefy laptop crush that before breakfast. Why bother with an archaic outdated fringe architecture?
If you are a computing historian, then it is a different story. But the cell was a dumb idea...
haven't RTFA (this is slashdot after all) but there are always diminishing returns. What do you gain by having a ship twice bigger? -the price of the ship might not be twice more. but eventually, it will be -the crew might not need to be twice as many, but on billion dollar worth of shipment, I guess the salary of the crew is not too significant. -gain in fuel efficiency, but I guess we are running out of that. -need to manage less ships simultaneously at HQ, but I am guessing that providing the scale of these ships, there are not that many of them for a company.
Now in term of cost. -insurance is likely proportional to the value of the cargo and of the ship. -loading/unloading the cargo, probably scales with the amount of cargo, one time overhead are probably already recouped at these sizes and they might become more cumbersome to load/unload. -bigger ships probably mean fewer ships, so you get less point-to-point flexibility. -fewer ships also means you start to have increased latency as you traded latency for bandwidth
Not sure which of these are real. But it looks like a fun problem to think about.
Either regulating commercial use of the space for housing arrangement is meaningful and it should apply to hotels as well as to airbnb. Or that regulation is pointless and it should not apply to either.
But saying "I am not a hotel, I am a which connect with customer using an app" is just BS.
I have the same fundamental issues with uber and airbnb. I like the idea, it allows to reclaim untapped resources. But laws should apply similarly to both "regular" and "uberized" commercial activities.
No, I read it without understanding that Magic Pony Technology was the name of a company. And for a moment got excited that someone actually developed a technology to get magic ponies.
It is almost impossible to pay over 50% of income tax in the US.
The highest federal tax bracket is 39.5% (over 415k for single) and only two state have state taxes over 10%: hawai is 11% and california is 13%. So at infinite income, you'll pay 50.5% tax in hawai and 52.5% in california. But since federal income tax is piecewise linear, you only start paying over 50% of income if your income is over a million dollar, and live in california.
Slashdot is full of liberal-libertarian wargarble largely in the vein of "money is economy" and "we can solve all our problems by hurting the rich". Basically, the response to poor people suffering is to attack the rich for being too well-off, with no explanation of how that helps. That attitude is what drove me largely toward economics; the tax impacts (WageTax sheet) of my Citizen's Dividend pisses people off for not terrorizing the rich, even though the impact on the poor is massive. (Of course, the hyper-conservatives on Slashdot hate this, too, because hand-outs are bad.)
I feel like you are trying to say something potentialy smart. But I have no idea what you are saying. You are linking wice to the same impossible to understand spreadsheet an a blog post that seem to assume you already know what this is talking about. Citizen Dividend seem to be akin to state-guaranteed income for everyone. Do you mind making a clarified post about what you are trying to say ?
You could have local install of documentations. We used to have dumps of main part of MSDN coming with visual studio. I don't see why you could not have a similar thing. Once you decide to adopt a framework/library, install a local copy of its documentation.
and no one is talking about killing 32-bit support. Debian is just killing i586 and older support. So your pentium with MMX will no longer run debian. Not sure anyone was willing to run a 4.x linux kernel on that anyway.
They are not dropping all 32-bit support. They just now require i686 at least. So pentium 2 should still be working (IIRC). And that is what, 20 years old ? So, I feel like nothing much is lost by upping this requirement.
No One Should Have To Use Proprietary Software To Communicate With Their Government
You mean TurboTax?
I'd argue it is not normal either. Though in that case, you still can file manually.
I am not too happy about them making the case that the javascript library is proprietary. There are bigger fight to pick about software freedom without picking the ones that look borderline to many people.
Except that is not why we wash our hands after going to the bathroom. Overall, going to the bathroom is fairly sanitary. Sometimes our hands get soiled in the process, but most of the time they do not. But it is all the rest of our daily activities that is not. We wash our hands when we go to the bathroom simply because there is water there already, so it convenient.
Really? Urinals outside with no privacy screen at all in France? I call bullshit.
Vespasienne were built with privacy screens. And they basically no longer exist. They are mostly decommissioned. They have been replaced by public (paying) toilets that can be used by both genders.
I live in Charlotte, NC. Pretty much no one I associate with is religious. I am not saying there are no religious people, one church every other block in the southern half of the city. But clearly there are also a lot of people that don't give a shit about religion.
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sales tax increases affect the poorest the most.
The purpose of sales tax can be different in different places. In France, sales tax is about a quarter of the country's budget. This seems odd in France who wants to tax the rich more than the poor.
But what you need to remember is that France is a highly touristic country. A significant fraction of the sales tax comes from tourists. It is hard to get good numbers on that, but a few percent of the sales tax collection is from tourists.
With companies that are offshoring their profits, sales tax maybe the only opportunity the government has on taxing that section of the market.
It is a matter of fairness. Either business income tax is useful, and there is no reason to let shady companies dodge them. Or they are not useful and no company should pay them.
Overall, I feel that taxing businesses helps avoiding many cases of a company switching from salaries of top employees to business accounts.
Finally, you seem to assume that the Spanish tax code is somewhat the same as the US tax code. I don't know the Spanish tax code, but in France, companies pay a non negligible amount of taxes.
It is true that not all that could vote did vote. But I feel that vote is representative.
There are 63 million inhabitant, about 12 million below 18 years old and about 33 million vote expressed. So most people that could vote did vote, and the split was over a million people, about 4% of voters. In any election I followed, that would be considered a clear cut vote.
The 1st-gen PS3 Cell had almost 300 GFLOPs performance.
To put that in perspective, the i7-4770K is ~100 GFLOPs. The i7-6700K is ~113 GFLOPs.
What are you talking about ? The cell in the PS3 gets about 250 Gflop/s single precision.
a i7-6700K comes with 4 cores at 4 Ghz, support AVX2 and FMA extensions. There are 2 (?) FMA unit on that thing. so you should get about 4(cores)*4Ghz*2(FMA)*2(2units)*256/32(AVX registers)= 512Gflop/s.
And in case you wonder, yes you do get about that in gemm computation.
If you are looking at the memory subsystem, a skylake processor has almost has much L4 cache as the PS3 got in main memory. And a skylake machine wll probably have in main memory what a PS3 has in disk space.
Let's talk about hardship of programming. The IBM cell machine was a nightmare to program, with shitty compilers and using the SPE required programming them in assembly for the most part and to manually double buffer everything from the host CPU. On a typical skylake processor, any C program is easily sped up with typical compilation tricks (pragma omp, pragma simd, ...) and the code will be portable on pretty much any architecture out there.
Don't get me wrong the cell was a lot of fun. But you'll never run meaningful computation on it today. God, the recently released NVIDIA GPU crushes it in flop performance by a factor of 40. Why would you even bother with a hard-to-program cell ?
Well, the cell was hot shit. Now it is just old shit.
No one serious about computing would do anything on a cell processor. Too hard to program, small memory. And you get what in performance? 200Gflop/s? Any modern beefy laptop crush that before breakfast. Why bother with an archaic outdated fringe architecture?
If you are a computing historian, then it is a different story. But the cell was a dumb idea...
It is 2016, the IBM cell is horrible compared to any machine out there. Do you really still care about running linux on a PS3 ?
haven't RTFA (this is slashdot after all) but there are always diminishing returns. What do you gain by having a ship twice bigger?
-the price of the ship might not be twice more. but eventually, it will be
-the crew might not need to be twice as many, but on billion dollar worth of shipment, I guess the salary of the crew is not too significant.
-gain in fuel efficiency, but I guess we are running out of that.
-need to manage less ships simultaneously at HQ, but I am guessing that providing the scale of these ships, there are not that many of them for a company.
Now in term of cost.
-insurance is likely proportional to the value of the cargo and of the ship.
-loading/unloading the cargo, probably scales with the amount of cargo, one time overhead are probably already recouped at these sizes and they might become more cumbersome to load/unload.
-bigger ships probably mean fewer ships, so you get less point-to-point flexibility.
-fewer ships also means you start to have increased latency as you traded latency for bandwidth
Not sure which of these are real. But it looks like a fun problem to think about.
What did I miss ?
Either regulating commercial use of the space for housing arrangement is meaningful and it should apply to hotels as well as to airbnb. Or that regulation is pointless and it should not apply to either.
But saying "I am not a hotel, I am a which connect with customer using an app" is just BS.
I have the same fundamental issues with uber and airbnb. I like the idea, it allows to reclaim untapped resources. But laws should apply similarly to both "regular" and "uberized" commercial activities.
No, I read it without understanding that Magic Pony Technology was the name of a company. And for a moment got excited that someone actually developed a technology to get magic ponies.
That would have been a so much better story!
I want magic ponies!
Christine, go pick up Carrie from school and drive her to swim practice and then park and wait for her to finish.
Are you trying to warn us of the consequences of self driving cars?
Christine (1983)
Carrie (1979)
It is almost impossible to pay over 50% of income tax in the US.
The highest federal tax bracket is 39.5% (over 415k for single) and only two state have state taxes over 10%: hawai is 11% and california is 13%.
So at infinite income, you'll pay 50.5% tax in hawai and 52.5% in california.
But since federal income tax is piecewise linear, you only start paying over 50% of income if your income is over a million dollar, and live in california.
Or am I missing something ?
Slashdot is full of liberal-libertarian wargarble largely in the vein of "money is economy" and "we can solve all our problems by hurting the rich". Basically, the response to poor people suffering is to attack the rich for being too well-off, with no explanation of how that helps. That attitude is what drove me largely toward economics; the tax impacts (WageTax sheet) of my Citizen's Dividend pisses people off for not terrorizing the rich, even though the impact on the poor is massive. (Of course, the hyper-conservatives on Slashdot hate this, too, because hand-outs are bad.)
I feel like you are trying to say something potentialy smart. But I have no idea what you are saying. You are linking wice to the same impossible to understand spreadsheet an a blog post that seem to assume you already know what this is talking about. Citizen Dividend seem to be akin to state-guaranteed income for everyone. Do you mind making a clarified post about what you are trying to say ?
Isn't there is insurance for that? Isn't it simply one of the risk in being in the renting market ?
If one is uncomfortable with that kind of risk, maybe they should not be in that business.
You could have local install of documentations. We used to have dumps of main part of MSDN coming with visual studio. I don't see why you could not have a similar thing. Once you decide to adopt a framework/library, install a local copy of its documentation.
No CEOs will have the same thing! A raise every 2 months!
TFA reads 45,000 EUR. I assume the editor or poster converted to USD.
and no one is talking about killing 32-bit support. Debian is just killing i586 and older support. So your pentium with MMX will no longer run debian. Not sure anyone was willing to run a 4.x linux kernel on that anyway.
really? Are there many embedded system processor that run intel's instruction set i586 and older ?
They are not dropping all 32-bit support. They just now require i686 at least. So pentium 2 should still be working (IIRC). And that is what, 20 years old ? So, I feel like nothing much is lost by upping this requirement.
No One Should Have To Use Proprietary Software To Communicate With Their Government
You mean TurboTax?
I'd argue it is not normal either. Though in that case, you still can file manually.
I am not too happy about them making the case that the javascript library is proprietary. There are bigger fight to pick about software freedom without picking the ones that look borderline to many people.
especially in Dubai where AC has to compensate for being a bazillion degree outside.
What do they want, to be able to pick and choose exactly what passages get to be indexed and put into search?
Please! don't give them ideas like that!
Except that is not why we wash our hands after going to the bathroom. Overall, going to the bathroom is fairly sanitary. Sometimes our hands get soiled in the process, but most of the time they do not. But it is all the rest of our daily activities that is not. We wash our hands when we go to the bathroom simply because there is water there already, so it convenient.
Really? Urinals outside with no privacy screen at all in France? I call bullshit.
Vespasienne were built with privacy screens. And they basically no longer exist. They are mostly decommissioned. They have been replaced by public (paying) toilets that can be used by both genders.
I live in Charlotte, NC. Pretty much no one I associate with is religious. I am not saying there are no religious people, one church every other block in the southern half of the city. But clearly there are also a lot of people that don't give a shit about religion.