They most certainly do too. US citizens get deductions for foreign taxes paid, which makes it somewhat more fair than double taxation, but is not by any stretch complete avoidance of taxes.
Yes and no: * The US demands that US citizens pay taxes in the US no matter what country you're in. * The country of residence demands that anyone at all who's resident there pays taxes in that country. * The US and some countries have treaties that allow you to write off tax from one country in the other.
It's by no means guaranteed that you won't be double taxed.
Well, I think the point is that that shouldn't be true of US citizens either. Almost no other country has a rule that you have to pay tax at home while resident in a different country.
I as a brit living and working in the US pay taxes in the US only, even though my UK tax rate would be higher.
Actually, that's (not quite) the reason why non-competes are invalid in CA. The court ruled that a company wouldn't just have to pay you your full salary, but in fact would have to pay you more than your full salary during the non-compete period. The justification was that during this period you would not be keeping up with the latest technologies, and your skills would bit-rot. You'd become inherently less employable, and the company must compensate you for that.
There's many ways that it could have that effect. The part of the puzzle you're missing is poop. Calories in exercise + calories added to fat stores + calories in poop = calories taken in.
The number of calories left in the poop can be dramatically different depending on how the digestive tract is working. Different bacterial flora in the intestines can lead to dramatically different absorption rates of calories from some foods.
Certain foods (I don't know if artificial sweeteners are one, but it wouldn't surprise me) dramatically affect the bacterial flora.
10 year replacement is probably pretty fast. Most solar panels come with 20 year warranties, and typically last longer than that. Still out by an order of magnitude, but there's nothing saying that production of panels can't be ramped up.
Several job tasks at most companies involve being able to quickly and easily use all kinds of different bits of hardware.
if you bring in hardware and start using it to perform critical work functions, the business now depends on it working. What happens when it breaks? What happens when you leave?
Maintenance of said processes gets handed over to someone else in an organized fashion - as I said, you're not (or shouldn't be) the gatekeeper of all processes at the company - it's other people's jobs to figure out how the company most effectively operates, not yours.
Let alone the security implications. Are you storing sensitive information on that computer? How is it secured?
These are questions that are properly addressed using training, not draconian policies, as evidenced by that approach working at some of the largest companies in the world.
I'm sure you're competent enough to manage device security, but do you think that one, extremely non-technical associate, in say, marketing, capable?
Given that this works at some of the largest companies in the world, where everyone, yes even the extremely non-technical associate in marketing, gets this kind of setup, yes, I do indeed thing that. Now stop talking down to the guy in marketing, and publish the relevant training documents, rather than simply locking his computer down so he can't do his job properly.
It is as though the purpose of IT departments is to find a reason to say "NO" to everything
Yup - there's far too many IT departments out there where the guys in them have an over-inflated sense of their importance. They've come up with the process which makes their life easiest, and they'll be damned if they'll change it because it doesn't fit the business' needs, let alone if someone in charge comes and tells them it doesn't work.
Crazy policies like "you're not allowed control over the software that runs on your computer", or "you're not allowed to connect hardware to the network without us checking it out first".
Yes, I realize these are common policies, but they're also entirely unnecessary. I know for a fact that there's some really large companies (ones with market caps above half a trillion dollars), where those policies don't apply, even to the HR staff, and their networks continue to function just fine.
Not really - if people license their projects under BSD like licenses, that's because they explicitly want to allow people to use it without giving back. There's plenty of people out there who wrote something, and want to say "hey, I made this thing, use it if you like", without any ulterior motive about getting contributions back.
The companies you listed are tech companies, but they aren't large. Their combined market caps are together smaller than the market cap of the smallest company that I listed.
Also, many of these companies use, and contribute to open source software.
What are the chances you are submitting to open source and having a high salary?
Pretty high - most (all?) of the large tech companies have started, and/or contribute heavily to massive open source projects.
Apple - WebKit, clang, llvm, Swift, BSD,... Amazon - Outlier? I don't know of any major open source contributions of Amazon. Alphabet - Go, WebKit, Android, map reduce,... MS - vscode, WTS, Typescript,... Facebook - redux, React, flow,...
If you're working at a large tech company, there's a pretty significant chance you're doing work on open source.
Actually, I bet you the AI will be more expensive, at least in the short term. The reason scans are expensive isn't because the human doctors analysing the output is expensive (even though they are) - it's because the equipment is hugely expensive, because it has to amortise the cost of hugely expensive R&D into how to build it.
The same will be true of the AIs that analyse the output.
Right - it's just coincidence that the less educated side of US politics is the side that's trying to take away every safety net in the entire country, and generally acting like assholes to anyone who isn't them.
- States trying to ban people marrying the person they love because it disagrees with the Bible.
-States trying to force women to carry babies to term even when it'll kill them, because the Bible apparently says they have to.
- States erecting public monuments to christianity, despite constitutional requirements that they don't.
- States trying to force people to be taught non-science in science classes because it disagrees with the Bible.
- States trying to give tax payer funding to churches and calling them schools
-...
Don't give me that bullshit about no one trying to ram ideology down throats other than the left. The religious right has been trying to ram the bible down everyone's throats for decades.
"Anyone who disagrees with me must have been indoctrinated. It couldn't possibly be that by becoming better educated these people see clearly the bullshit that the GOP has become."
Actually, I expect it is all that Engineering, math, biology etc that they regard as bad. Damn filthy heathens talking about evolution, and some such. What's in the bible is good enough for me, and it can damn well be good enough for everyone else in the country if I have to ram it down their throats.
I started carrying cash again about 3 weeks ago for several reasons: Security (too many data breaches lately, and one of them hit real close to home, specific locations I did use plastic!)
The simple solution here is to stop living in the USA, where no one takes credit card security seriously. If you go to the EU, you'll find that all the common techniques that allow stores to store skimmed card numbers in their databases don't work.
convenience (using cash for day-to-day purchases makes my bookeeping simpler -- yes
No it doesn't, it makes it harder, and you admit it straight below.
I balance my accounts monthly; why doesn't everyone?)
Because other people don't use cash and cheques, and as a result has their bank automatically produce the output that you spend time producing.
and privacy (no one can scrape data on my purchasing habits from cash).
Yup, some people don't realise that socialist policies are just a way of applying game theory to get a better outcome in the capitalist game than "EVERYONE FOR THEMSELVES".
You realise that the US subsidises fossil fuels by more than renewables, right? There's $6.8bn of government money given to coal producers, another $1.5bn to other fossil fuels, and $7.8bn to renewables.
It started production in January 2016, but is not even close to being finished yet. They use Panasonic 2170 cells, which is what the Gigafactory produces.
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They most certainly do too. US citizens get deductions for foreign taxes paid, which makes it somewhat more fair than double taxation, but is not by any stretch complete avoidance of taxes.
Yes and no:
* The US demands that US citizens pay taxes in the US no matter what country you're in.
* The country of residence demands that anyone at all who's resident there pays taxes in that country.
* The US and some countries have treaties that allow you to write off tax from one country in the other.
It's by no means guaranteed that you won't be double taxed.
In the case of iOS it means that they're given 0 CPU cycles by the scheduler, and they're marked as available to be jetsamed from RAM on an LRU basis.
Well, I think the point is that that shouldn't be true of US citizens either. Almost no other country has a rule that you have to pay tax at home while resident in a different country.
I as a brit living and working in the US pay taxes in the US only, even though my UK tax rate would be higher.
Actually, that's (not quite) the reason why non-competes are invalid in CA. The court ruled that a company wouldn't just have to pay you your full salary, but in fact would have to pay you more than your full salary during the non-compete period. The justification was that during this period you would not be keeping up with the latest technologies, and your skills would bit-rot. You'd become inherently less employable, and the company must compensate you for that.
There's many ways that it could have that effect. The part of the puzzle you're missing is poop. Calories in exercise + calories added to fat stores + calories in poop = calories taken in.
The number of calories left in the poop can be dramatically different depending on how the digestive tract is working. Different bacterial flora in the intestines can lead to dramatically different absorption rates of calories from some foods.
Certain foods (I don't know if artificial sweeteners are one, but it wouldn't surprise me) dramatically affect the bacterial flora.
10 year replacement is probably pretty fast. Most solar panels come with 20 year warranties, and typically last longer than that. Still out by an order of magnitude, but there's nothing saying that production of panels can't be ramped up.
What's unreasonable about that?
Several job tasks at most companies involve being able to quickly and easily use all kinds of different bits of hardware.
if you bring in hardware and start using it to perform critical work functions, the business now depends on it working. What happens when it breaks? What happens when you leave?
Maintenance of said processes gets handed over to someone else in an organized fashion - as I said, you're not (or shouldn't be) the gatekeeper of all processes at the company - it's other people's jobs to figure out how the company most effectively operates, not yours.
Let alone the security implications. Are you storing sensitive information on that computer? How is it secured?
These are questions that are properly addressed using training, not draconian policies, as evidenced by that approach working at some of the largest companies in the world.
I'm sure you're competent enough to manage device security, but do you think that one, extremely non-technical associate, in say, marketing, capable?
Given that this works at some of the largest companies in the world, where everyone, yes even the extremely non-technical associate in marketing, gets this kind of setup, yes, I do indeed thing that. Now stop talking down to the guy in marketing, and publish the relevant training documents, rather than simply locking his computer down so he can't do his job properly.
It is as though the purpose of IT departments is to find a reason to say "NO" to everything
Yup - there's far too many IT departments out there where the guys in them have an over-inflated sense of their importance. They've come up with the process which makes their life easiest, and they'll be damned if they'll change it because it doesn't fit the business' needs, let alone if someone in charge comes and tells them it doesn't work.
Crazy policies like "you're not allowed control over the software that runs on your computer", or "you're not allowed to connect hardware to the network without us checking it out first".
Yes, I realize these are common policies, but they're also entirely unnecessary. I know for a fact that there's some really large companies (ones with market caps above half a trillion dollars), where those policies don't apply, even to the HR staff, and their networks continue to function just fine.
Not really - if people license their projects under BSD like licenses, that's because they explicitly want to allow people to use it without giving back. There's plenty of people out there who wrote something, and want to say "hey, I made this thing, use it if you like", without any ulterior motive about getting contributions back.
The companies you listed are tech companies, but they aren't large. Their combined market caps are together smaller than the market cap of the smallest company that I listed.
Also, many of these companies use, and contribute to open source software.
What are the chances you are submitting to open source and having a high salary?
Pretty high - most (all?) of the large tech companies have started, and/or contribute heavily to massive open source projects.
Apple - WebKit, clang, llvm, Swift, BSD, ... ... ... ...
Amazon - Outlier? I don't know of any major open source contributions of Amazon.
Alphabet - Go, WebKit, Android, map reduce,
MS - vscode, WTS, Typescript,
Facebook - redux, React, flow,
If you're working at a large tech company, there's a pretty significant chance you're doing work on open source.
Heh, I'm amazed that no one suggested that this would be the actual causation way back then.
Oh wait, I did... https://slashdot.org/comments....
Actually, I bet you the AI will be more expensive, at least in the short term. The reason scans are expensive isn't because the human doctors analysing the output is expensive (even though they are) - it's because the equipment is hugely expensive, because it has to amortise the cost of hugely expensive R&D into how to build it.
The same will be true of the AIs that analyse the output.
Right - it's just coincidence that the less educated side of US politics is the side that's trying to take away every safety net in the entire country, and generally acting like assholes to anyone who isn't them.
Right, and that's why we have:
- States trying to ban people marrying the person they love because it disagrees with the Bible. ...
-States trying to force women to carry babies to term even when it'll kill them, because the Bible apparently says they have to.
- States erecting public monuments to christianity, despite constitutional requirements that they don't.
- States trying to force people to be taught non-science in science classes because it disagrees with the Bible.
- States trying to give tax payer funding to churches and calling them schools
-
Don't give me that bullshit about no one trying to ram ideology down throats other than the left. The religious right has been trying to ram the bible down everyone's throats for decades.
"Anyone who disagrees with me must have been indoctrinated. It couldn't possibly be that by becoming better educated these people see clearly the bullshit that the GOP has become."
Actually, I expect it is all that Engineering, math, biology etc that they regard as bad. Damn filthy heathens talking about evolution, and some such. What's in the bible is good enough for me, and it can damn well be good enough for everyone else in the country if I have to ram it down their throats.
I started carrying cash again about 3 weeks ago for several reasons: Security (too many data breaches lately, and one of them hit real close to home, specific locations I did use plastic!)
The simple solution here is to stop living in the USA, where no one takes credit card security seriously. If you go to the EU, you'll find that all the common techniques that allow stores to store skimmed card numbers in their databases don't work.
convenience (using cash for day-to-day purchases makes my bookeeping simpler -- yes
No it doesn't, it makes it harder, and you admit it straight below.
I balance my accounts monthly; why doesn't everyone?)
Because other people don't use cash and cheques, and as a result has their bank automatically produce the output that you spend time producing.
and privacy (no one can scrape data on my purchasing habits from cash).
Another good reason to live in the EU.
That *does* have an impact on your performance as a restaurant to me.
What I do in my spare time does not have an impact on how I do my job.
Limiting your market share sampling to people who run benchmarks is certainly not the best way to figure out how many CPUs are being sold.
That said, good on AMD for producing a chip that actually competes with Intel.
What makes you think an 8kW system is a strawman? That's a pretty normal size for a system these days and the price is pretty accurate.
Yup, some people don't realise that socialist policies are just a way of applying game theory to get a better outcome in the capitalist game than "EVERYONE FOR THEMSELVES".
You realise that the US subsidises fossil fuels by more than renewables, right? There's $6.8bn of government money given to coal producers, another $1.5bn to other fossil fuels, and $7.8bn to renewables.
It started production in January 2016, but is not even close to being finished yet. They use Panasonic 2170 cells, which is what the Gigafactory produces.
No, it's the largest group of cells. A group of cells has a name - a battery.