duke_sam

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by duke_sam 16y ago
The bank bailouts made very little sense, the biggest toxic bank, Anglo Irish Bank, was not a retail bank. They specialised in property financing. Letting them go under would not have resulted in the Irish Government having to cover huge am
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UrbanAirship update iOS libraries with subscription support(urbanairship.com)
4 points by duke_sam 16y ago|0 comments
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by duke_sam 16y ago
This is pretty awful. I have some sympathy for the support staff though, if their tooling allows them to irreversibly delete someones account (and it's history) they need better tooling. The realisation that they just deleted someones 5 yea
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by duke_sam 16y ago
So in an effort to be as good as a competitor MS is watching what you do when you interact with that competitors website and sending that information home. Seems like a really big reason to suggest to anybody you know that they uninstall th
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Is it me or is the ISP business getting steadily more anti-customer? Between trying to double charge for bandwidth (charge me a monthly fee and then charge company X for access to me) and attempting to push through lower and lower caps. I u
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Passenger cleared after TSA checkpoint stare-down(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by duke_sam 16y ago|0 comments
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by duke_sam 16y ago
This doesn't seem to be the case: http://twitter.com/#!/olaonline/status/31020613325819904 Also seems to be backed up by others: http://twitter.com/#!/olaonline/status/31020613325819904 http://twitter.com/Firas_Atraqchi/status/31010020
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Possibly patents on methods of raising money online for political campaigns or patenting a method for organising large groups of people to congregate in a public area for the purposes of hearing political speech.
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Hasn't Andy Grove been talking about this for a while? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-01/how-to-make-an-amer...
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by duke_sam 16y ago
There is some[1] evidence to show that higher corporate tax rates result in lower wages so it's at least partially equivalent to a higher income tax rate. [1] http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbli...
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by duke_sam 16y ago
I'm surprised they are acting like this in the UK. There's a much better choice of carriers in Europe and you don't have any problems with different wireless standards (GSM vs CDMA). I knew the choice in Ireland was pretty awful but I figur
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A Lego model factory built using Lego(technicbricks.blogspot.com)
1 points by duke_sam 16y ago|0 comments
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Reminds me of the Chicago professor who was complaining about repealing the tax breaks for "rich" people[1] (his household income was in the 250k range). As a bunch of commentators pointed out he felt like he was just scraping by because he
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by duke_sam 16y ago
It reminds me of the attitudes in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1999171 This is a system that a very small portion of our (middle/upper class) population is going to experience. With the chances of interacting with it being that low
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by duke_sam 16y ago
It reminds me of some welfare recipients claiming welfare should be cut for others. As long as it's someone else benefiting from an action it's ripe for cutting but if I'm benefiting then it's justified.
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by duke_sam 16y ago
When the word of an officer is worth more than the word of a member of the public being able to record the officer in the course of their work is the only way to defend yourself. Yes this might lead to an increase in people getting off on t
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by duke_sam 16y ago
I'm hoping that this is finally the straw that breaks the camels back and people start to push back on these "security" measures. Not traveling via air is an option for some people but for most when they fly they aren't any reasonable alter
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Can she not use the DMCA to request that any offending online copies be removed and then sue in small claims court? I'm always amazed at how any copyright law doesn't make it any easier to seek compensation if you are an individual. To the
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by duke_sam 16y ago
But individuals do take advantage of tax loopholes. What you are talking about is that entities with more money have more options on how to minimise the amount they give to the government.
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Ireland usually gets a bad rep from this but companies like Intel, Google and MS are the biggest employers in the country. If they were there for purely tax reasons you'd expect them to be shell companies, rather than having multiple fabs i
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by duke_sam 16y ago
As the article points out they have an obligation to maximise profits. If there was a way to cut your tax rate from 20%+ to less than 5% and they didn't use it, it would be a breach of their duties. It's amusing to see how effective industr
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Alastair Reynolds "Revelation Space" series is fantastic. He also writes some great stand alone pieces (House of Suns for example). He is also quite strict about being hard sci-fi (no faster than light travel for example). Also The Culture
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Some of the claims in the article are a bit far fetched. The "curious but deadly Ekranoplan" for example just seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Games are designed to be engrossing and entertaining in ways that other media can't approach. It's hard enough for adults to consciously think "X hours of gaming a night is too much, maybe I should work on this side project". I can't imagin
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by duke_sam 16y ago
And of course you need to worry about pest management when growing that much of anything in such density. What sort of mechanisms you would need to harvest? Can't see a combine harvester fitting in the freight elevator. There's a million an
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by duke_sam 16y ago
I'm not arguing that American companies aren't taking advantage of this. All I'm saying is that they aren't just shell companies setup in Ireland. There are Eastern European countries with lower corporate tax rates, if the only reason they
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Most of those companies have pretty large complexes in Ireland. Intel has 2 fabs, Google has a large (for Dublin) office complex as their HQ and MS has their own campus. As far as tax havens go we actually had quite a lot of people from tho
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Was is the correct tense there. The current round of bank bailouts have been pretty crippling. We aren't quite Iceland or Greece but we are up to our necks in debt.
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by duke_sam 16y ago
Except Ireland. We're generally very good at getting the hell out of dodge when the government manages to do something horrible to the economy.
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by duke_sam 16y ago
It also has security clearance implications. Also if he moves back to Finland but remains a US citizen won't the IRS still be able to go after him for tax?

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