Exactly. If you really want to change the way people see taxes and the cost of government services, stop taking taxes out of everyone's paycheck before they get them and make them write a check each month.
It would be amazing the shift in public opinion once the cost of all those "free" things they get from the government became more visible.
Did they ask those same people to name any ten leaders in tech? Is it a gender issue or the usual not being aware of something they don't particularly care about problem?
That means taxing corporate net profits and not their expenses taxes production: if a table is made, taxing the worker's wages and the corporate profits both of the table manfuacturer and all involved suppliers (including the truckers shipping those supplies) at a rate of 10% gets you 10% of the market price of a table. By taxing strictly and effectively in this manner, an average effective tax rate of 10% collects 10% of GDP and represents 10% of all goods and services produced and sold, in the long run. Taxing corporate revenues ("gross profits"), on the other hand, double-taxes wages at the end of the pipeline; and far more than double-taxes supply everywhere else. This means the more suppliers you have in a chain, the heavier your taxes, and the higher the effective tax rate applied to a product.
I understand all that perfectly well. It doesn't explain why corporates get taxed on profit while individuals get taxed on revenue.
When you create or change your passcode, there is a "Passcode Options" link shown above the keyboard. Select that and you can choose a "custom alphanumeric code" (among other choices).
For startup, just ask for equity (less shares than options offered, no doubt) delivered on their proposed option vesting schedule.
An equity grant like that results in the employee getting taxed when they receive the stock, which they may not be able to afford since they can't actually sell any of the stock to cover the taxes. It's exactly that tax problem that stock options are intended to help with. It let's you decide when to take the tax hit.
The real problem is a combination of expiration dates on stock options (10 years typically) and late stage companies that don't want to face the discipline/regulations that come with being publicly traded. When they stay private for 10+ years, it puts early employees in a bind because they have to either exercise their options (and come up with $$ to cover the taxes on their gain) or lose them.
Some companies are starting to go to longer expiration periods because of this. Founders don't want their employees getting pushed into a corner like that.
U2 did a variation of this for their 2017 Joshua Tree tour. The credit card you purchase the ticket with is your ticket. You can buy multiple tickets, but they all have to get together with you to get in.
It's a pain for some situations, but gives fans a chance to get a ticket without having to deal with scalpers.
Embedded doesn't necessarily mean small either. In networking and networking security, you can be working with bleeding edge technology (latest network processors, custom acceleration with FPGAs, etc.). Lots of hard/interesting problems to solve that you aren't going to do with college hires.
My engineering team at a startup in Austin is mostly in their 40's and 50's. Only one engineer on the team 30. The spread will diversify as we continue to grow and can afford to have less experienced developers.
News flash: Products aren't sold at their BOM costs! They aren't ripping the customers off. As long as customers get what they paid for (ie., per spec), then what difference does it matter how much margin is in the design?
There are design margins in everything. Some are razor thin (typical consumer goods), some are quite large because it can make more sense for the company to optimize costs related to manufacturing and inventory management over absolute per unit costs. There is also margin in designs for reliability purposes.
That's very different than the engineering co-op programs I've seen. At Texas A&M, there is a formal co-op program where students alternate semesters of school and working in their field. It generally starts after ~1.5 years of school and you are expected to work for 3 semesters before you graduate - usually at the same company, but not always.
It paid well enough to pay my way through school, provided fantastic experience and something to talk about during interviews instead of school projects, and frequently results in having a job offer in your back pocket before you graduate.
I'd expect experienced developers to run like hell from that situation. Who wants to spend the majority of their time cleaning up rookie developers' crap?!
No way I want that embedded in the TV. The lifespan on a TV is too long to keep up with what's going on re: streaming and online services.
Keep the TV as a relatively dumb monitor and keep the smarts on something external that can be updated more frequently at significantly less cost.
So why is it bad when the Federal Government tells a State what to do, but it's a-okay when the State tells a City what to do?
Because of the 10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
There's a pretty limited set of powers for the federal government enumerated in the Constitution. Probably 80% of what the Feds do isn't really allowed by the Constitution. They only get away with it because judges do their wink-wink bit and let things slide, frequently under some tortured interpretation of the commerce clause.
While there is a common belief that local control is "A Good Thing(tm)", any protection cities would have from State government depends on laws from that state.
Bingo. I'm always amazed at folks that thing just because HR at companies states that you can't give references that there aren't calls being made from the hiring manager's personal network.
MIT Media Lab Defaults To Free and Open Source Software
That's not what the article says at all. They've removed the extra approval required to open source projects. They are open sourcing everything by default. It's up to the project whether they release it as proprietary or open source.
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Exactly. If you really want to change the way people see taxes and the cost of government services, stop taking taxes out of everyone's paycheck before they get them and make them write a check each month.
It would be amazing the shift in public opinion once the cost of all those "free" things they get from the government became more visible.
^ This. A thousand times this.
What is this "RTFA" you speak of? Something new they are rolling out on /. now?
Did they ask those same people to name any ten leaders in tech? Is it a gender issue or the usual not being aware of something they don't particularly care about problem?
That means taxing corporate net profits and not their expenses taxes production: if a table is made, taxing the worker's wages and the corporate profits both of the table manfuacturer and all involved suppliers (including the truckers shipping those supplies) at a rate of 10% gets you 10% of the market price of a table. By taxing strictly and effectively in this manner, an average effective tax rate of 10% collects 10% of GDP and represents 10% of all goods and services produced and sold, in the long run. Taxing corporate revenues ("gross profits"), on the other hand, double-taxes wages at the end of the pipeline; and far more than double-taxes supply everywhere else. This means the more suppliers you have in a chain, the heavier your taxes, and the higher the effective tax rate applied to a product.
I understand all that perfectly well. It doesn't explain why corporates get taxed on profit while individuals get taxed on revenue.
Evidence would suggest otherwise...
When you create or change your passcode, there is a "Passcode Options" link shown above the keyboard. Select that and you can choose a "custom alphanumeric code" (among other choices).
Here's a current article about how misleading the Everytown stat is: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
bingo!
For startup, just ask for equity (less shares than options offered, no doubt) delivered on their proposed option vesting schedule.
An equity grant like that results in the employee getting taxed when they receive the stock, which they may not be able to afford since they can't actually sell any of the stock to cover the taxes. It's exactly that tax problem that stock options are intended to help with. It let's you decide when to take the tax hit.
The real problem is a combination of expiration dates on stock options (10 years typically) and late stage companies that don't want to face the discipline/regulations that come with being publicly traded. When they stay private for 10+ years, it puts early employees in a bind because they have to either exercise their options (and come up with $$ to cover the taxes on their gain) or lose them.
Some companies are starting to go to longer expiration periods because of this. Founders don't want their employees getting pushed into a corner like that.
U2 did a variation of this for their 2017 Joshua Tree tour. The credit card you purchase the ticket with is your ticket. You can buy multiple tickets, but they all have to get together with you to get in.
It's a pain for some situations, but gives fans a chance to get a ticket without having to deal with scalpers.
+1 for embedded
Embedded doesn't necessarily mean small either. In networking and networking security, you can be working with bleeding edge technology (latest network processors, custom acceleration with FPGAs, etc.). Lots of hard/interesting problems to solve that you aren't going to do with college hires.
My engineering team at a startup in Austin is mostly in their 40's and 50's. Only one engineer on the team 30. The spread will diversify as we continue to grow and can afford to have less experienced developers.
News flash: Products aren't sold at their BOM costs! They aren't ripping the customers off. As long as customers get what they paid for (ie., per spec), then what difference does it matter how much margin is in the design?
There are design margins in everything. Some are razor thin (typical consumer goods), some are quite large because it can make more sense for the company to optimize costs related to manufacturing and inventory management over absolute per unit costs. There is also margin in designs for reliability purposes.
COGS means Cost Of Goods Sold, not "off the shelf part"
I do not think it means what you think it means. -- Inigo Montoya
I moved 5 lines from AT&T to T-Mobile last year and zero problems with porting the lines over.
A computer is a machine...
That's very different than the engineering co-op programs I've seen. At Texas A&M, there is a formal co-op program where students alternate semesters of school and working in their field. It generally starts after ~1.5 years of school and you are expected to work for 3 semesters before you graduate - usually at the same company, but not always.
It paid well enough to pay my way through school, provided fantastic experience and something to talk about during interviews instead of school projects, and frequently results in having a job offer in your back pocket before you graduate.
Exactly. It's a great way for junior developers to learn the system and to get familiar with the style and layout of the code base.
Juniors write code, seniors fix bugs.
I'd expect experienced developers to run like hell from that situation. Who wants to spend the majority of their time cleaning up rookie developers' crap?!
Learning C/C++ is hard as a first language, though it makes for better programmers.
Yah, sure. I don't know of many that actually believe this, and you're gonna have to back up that statement a little...
The Perils of JavaSchools
I have found this system useful.
So enable it on YOUR phone and let everyone else decide whether they want it or not on their phones.
Who said it needs to be in the TV?
The post I was responding to in the first place :-)
No way I want that embedded in the TV. The lifespan on a TV is too long to keep up with what's going on re: streaming and online services. Keep the TV as a relatively dumb monitor and keep the smarts on something external that can be updated more frequently at significantly less cost.
So why is it bad when the Federal Government tells a State what to do, but it's a-okay when the State tells a City what to do?
Because of the 10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
There's a pretty limited set of powers for the federal government enumerated in the Constitution. Probably 80% of what the Feds do isn't really allowed by the Constitution. They only get away with it because judges do their wink-wink bit and let things slide, frequently under some tortured interpretation of the commerce clause.
While there is a common belief that local control is "A Good Thing(tm)", any protection cities would have from State government depends on laws from that state.
Bingo. I'm always amazed at folks that thing just because HR at companies states that you can't give references that there aren't calls being made from the hiring manager's personal network.
MIT Media Lab Defaults To Free and Open Source Software
That's not what the article says at all. They've removed the extra approval required to open source projects. They are open sourcing everything by default. It's up to the project whether they release it as proprietary or open source.