derriz

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by derriz 7y ago
But you’re not fully solving the problem of devs using inappropriate names and you make using popular tools like text editors, grep, ctags, etc more difficult to use effectively. I mean how do you stop devs picking easily confused pairs of
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by derriz 7y ago
Sorry but an anecdote about your personal experience isn't very convincing. What would be convincing would be a reference to a source with numbers/data to back up your claim. The most recent Europe-wide figures are pretty out-of-d
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by derriz 7y ago
Don’t understand the downvotes. If anyone has any references to there being a large number of undocumented immigrants in Europe, I’d be glad to be corrected. Most of Europe is very different to the US in this regard. Without being legal&#
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by derriz 7y ago
Where in Europe are you talking about? The majority of immigrants in any EU country come from other EU countries. Of the remainder, less than 10% arrived as refugees. The vast majority of refugees (over 90% I’d guess) are documented and
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by derriz 7y ago
I tried this switch (2015 MBP 13 to top-spec XPS 13) about a year ago and was not so happy with it. The reasons that I remember: - Unless watching movies (not something I used it for) the wide screen aspect ratio was a big step down for pr
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by derriz 7y ago
I'm not in the US but there are probably even more online discount brokers operating in the US and Canada so maybe it's a tax efficiency thing? Paying 1.5%-2% for FX conversion between two major currencies is very expensive unless
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by derriz 7y ago
Is Norbert's Gambit anything but theoretical? It sounds like a guaranteed way to lose money. Given the tick size, crossing the spread with this ETF is going to cost you around 10bp alone. Never mind that this ETF only holds $45m in a
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by derriz 7y ago
If you run in your container as a non-root user, it makes working with volumes a pain. Who knows what the container user UID will map to on the host and whether this host user, if any, will have permissions to access files in the volume.
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by derriz 7y ago
It's happened in Denmark already - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/12/danish-bank-is-offering-10-y... It feels very weird.
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by derriz 7y ago
> You can get rid of any stacks whatsoever by keeping a parent pointer in the tree node data structure. You can actually in-order traverse a binary tree without any memory overhead at all (no parent pointer nor an implicit or explicit st
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by derriz 7y ago
Bit late to reply but regarding the advantages of not allowing rebase operations in a distributed system: if you can only change the version tree by adding nodes to leaves and by adding attributes to nodes (e.g. for merge arrows, tags, etc.
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by derriz 7y ago
I completely agree that rebase and manipulating the graph history is part of the design of git. But also you can use git effectively without manipulating the history (in a non-incremental way). And you don't lose anything in terms of
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by derriz 7y ago
If there's more than one person working on the code base, rebasing is only safe if you restrict pushing/pulling in some way. Properly interleaving pushes and rebases is just more mental load and another way to shoot yourself in t
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by derriz 7y ago
Once I read "this is ugly and pollutes your history graph" as a justification for any git feature, I'm immediately turned off. What really is wrong with having a graph that actually reflects the real history of changes as the
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by derriz 7y ago
I don't see any future for Perl5. Through a type of Osborne Effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect - the development of Perl 6 has also killed Perl 5. Few or none will reach for Perl5 these days f
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by derriz 7y ago
The numbers are in the article I linked. You're quoting a number from the Vestager ruling as if it were generally accepted but it has been contested and currently up to the European Court of Justice to decide whether she was correct in
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by derriz 7y ago
Logistics and distribution are low margin operations and so make small profits and so pay small amounts of corporation tax. If the operations of Apple, say, in those countries are mostly logistics and distribution, then the profits of those
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by derriz 7y ago
No - it's about $4bn by my calculation. See https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/apple-records... on Apple's Irish tax bill. This is probably a reasonable margin given that the vast bulk of th
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by derriz 7y ago
The revenue number is irrelevant when it comes to corporation tax, don't you agree? If you do agree, why mention it? The discussion is complex enough without introducing unrelated numbers. The figures I've seen published suggest
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by derriz 7y ago
If it's difficult to follow my argument that's my fault. I should have been more clear about the distinction between "profits on sales in Germany" and "profits made by the German operation". The $300 is the (gl
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by derriz 7y ago
I agree with a lot of what you say here. Corporations benefit greatly from public infrastructure and they should pay taxes for the benefits they derive from it. A sales tax or VAT achieves these goals. But you misunderstand my argument -
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by derriz 7y ago
To be straight here, yes that's pretty much how it's supposed to work. There would have to be sales, logistics and back office functions in the consuming country and those operations would be taxable. There would like to also be
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by derriz 7y ago
No it's not complying with any law. For example, Germany car exporters do not pay corporation tax on the _whole_ supply chain profit in the countries where sales are ultimately made. Of that example $800 retail price, the cost break d
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by derriz 7y ago
Where a company books revenue has pretty much nothing to do with corporation tax which is based on _profit_. This discussion has no chance of being productive if the distinction between profit and revenue is constantly blurred. It wouldn&#
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by derriz 7y ago
If you're interested, you can estimate the profit on revenue in all countries relatively easily by multiplying the country revenue by the overall margin. These numbers tell you how much profit _Apple USA_ made in those countries. Say A
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by derriz 7y ago
Those are US corporate accounts and absolutely are used as the basis for US taxation. The fact that a corporation can make billions of dollars of profit but not have to immediately pay corporation tax on the profit was a quirk of US corpor
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by derriz 7y ago
I'm getting downvoted for responding to the claim "internet giants always declare zero profit" - which can be trivially refuted by cursory search. Alphabet declared a profit of about 7 billion dollars for Q1, 2019 - which is
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by derriz 7y ago
This is not correct and it has everything to do with US corporate tax deferral. The accounts for Apple in Ireland only includes profits created by the value added in Ireland (relatively small) and profits on sales in Ireland (ditto). All
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by derriz 7y ago
This isn't true - public corporations are obliged to publish accurate accounts which include the profits of their subsidiaries. Even an very basic overview like https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/ap
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by derriz 7y ago
The old coin-operated public phones in Ireland (and probably the UK) - the ones with the A and B buttons - were hackable in this way for local calls. I haven't found much on-line about how they worked, but here is a youtube video - h

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