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by fooster 8y ago
Does anyone know if the SQL layer was open sourced, or whether there are any plans to open source it?
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by fooster 8y ago
I don't think that is correct. My understanding from using fdb for years in production was that sqlite was the storage engine.
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by fooster 9y ago
I find the idea of no corporate tax pretty appealing yes.
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by fooster 9y ago
It is recognized to some extent. Thats why interest has a different taxation rate than capital gains on stock investments.
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by fooster 9y ago
Thats because US corporate tax rates are ridiculous and so big corp plays games. Small corp of course are the real victims because they can't afford the army of lawyers and accountants to manage all the complex tax avoidance schemes so
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by fooster 9y ago
If there was no capital gains tax it would almost certainly reduce investment in risky industries. For example, high tech.
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by fooster 9y ago
Probably spreading it out in some way? You must also have a have a future gain to offset that loss. The rate difference is to compensate for the risk that you are taking by investing the money. Again, as a worker you have essentially no ris
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by fooster 9y ago
I don't see it that way. When you invest you risk the capital. You might get a return, you might not and therefore the taxation rules should reflect that. The situation as a worker is different. The only risk you take is that you might
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by fooster 9y ago
Its a huge corporation now. If they took your attitude they would never have gotten off the ground.
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by fooster 9y ago
I know how the leave is payed for (although most companies top up the meagre payout from the government). My question was to the point: > 50 person companies can't as a rule guarantee year-long parental leave That is clearly not leg
221.
by fooster 9y ago
So how to non-US companies manage to do that? 51 weeks is mandatory in Canada for example.
222.
by fooster 10y ago
It certainly does! In Canada, for example, you have to be a resident _somewhere_. So you cannot just move around from country to country on tourist visas (which obviously do not permit you to declare residency) and claim to the Canadian Tax
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by fooster 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis Overall this crisis, imo, was caused by the pro-privatization advocates arguing for deregulation. The wikipedia article addresses this to some extent.
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by fooster 10y ago
I'd think the UK population are a bit gunshy about privatization after privatisation of British Rail. I'd also think that the US would have learned their lesson by looking an Enron... but since when have facts gotten in the way of
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by fooster 10y ago
That isn't obvious to me at least. It was morally, ethically and legally wrong to publish that video. Now they pay the price.
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by fooster 11y ago
> A web service is not a device driver where every edge case has to be carefully considered. Bailing out with an exception is fine. Go disagrees. If all you want is a bail out mechanism then panic.
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by fooster 11y ago
Except with go I don't have to have anything else installed. And that is the way it should be.
228.
by fooster 11y ago
... and now you have two problems?
229.
by fooster 11y ago
> To have an abstraction where you really don't care about blocking or not you need promises/futures. Go's futures are bad. Real bad. Please explain.
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by fooster 11y ago
One of the most widely respected and awarded designer in the world... not that great. Perhaps you should re-evaluate your measure of greatness?
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by fooster 11y ago
I see no downfall at all. They ended _their_ life the way they chose at the time of their choice. That is how it should be.
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by fooster 11y ago
Looks nice!
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by fooster 11y ago
Exactly the point surely? Just because json isn't good for everything doesn't mean its not good. Just because you wish json had xslt support (for example), doesn't mean its not good either.
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by fooster 11y ago
Of course it isn't a gateway drug. Complete nonsense.
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by fooster 11y ago
Depends what you mean. If you mean google style whiteboarding coding interviews are great I'm here to tell you they are not. I've never been payed to write code on a whiteboard, have you?
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by fooster 11y ago
If they reduce their profit to zero by paying out to the employees this means they don't have to pay any corporate tax, and the employee has to pay income tax. The personal income tax rate is generally higher than corporate, so why is
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by fooster 11y ago
The bonuses were taxed at personal tax rates, rather than coroporate. Furthermore, the personal tax rate is higher than the corporate, so why is this a bad thing again?
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by fooster 11y ago
Or someone will catch it and discard the result which is often often what occurs. For example, with java throw an exception in an executor task (an assertion failure for example). What do you think occurs?
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by fooster 11y ago
And runtime exceptions? What about them?
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by fooster 11y ago
Sorry, but if you have every operation followed by a guard clause you are doing it wrong. For example, https://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values

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