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by plesner 10y ago
I've seen first-hand uber employees doing things on behalf of the company that are even more unethical than what's being reported in the press.
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by plesner 10y ago
Isn't that basically what you'd expect with a progressive tax system? Paying taxes is not the only way to contribute to society -- almost all the money people earn do to some extent, through taxes, and consumption, and investments
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by plesner 10y ago
[citation needed]
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by plesner 10y ago
The original comment said it was their fiduciary duty to minimize taxes. It's not - exploiting loopholes is a choice, not a legal obligation. You're talking about incentives which is a different discussion. There are incentives th
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by plesner 10y ago
If what you're saying is true then it's easy to provide evidence: just find a case where a company has been successfully sued for not minimizing their taxes sufficiently. I've never heard of such a case and I can't imagi
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by plesner 10y ago
It's a common misapprehension but it's just not correct. There is no such thing as a fiduciary duty to minimize taxes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary#Fiduciary_duties_und... .
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by plesner 10y ago
Incorporating old rancid stock is obviously bad. But besides that -- how bad is this if people don't actually care? The danger of saturated fats is being increasingly questioned[1] and evidence for the health benefits of antioxidants i
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by plesner 10y ago
This looks really impressive. I'm curious what the story is around propagating errors through chains of futures. Traditionally future libraries don't pay much attention to that which can make debugging excruciating, which it doesn
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by plesner 10y ago
> L1. There are gaps out there. I had a similar experience. At one point I decided that I wanted to understand, step by step, how Ada Lovelace's Bernoulli program works[1]. There was a few steps that didn't seem right to me but
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by plesner 10y ago
These things keep happening in Denmark but the thing is, very few people actually care here. Avoiding mistakes of this caliber isn't rocket science but it does take a little effort and awareness and as long as nobody cares there is no
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by plesner 11y ago
It's possible that it's more a theoretical than a practical problem, I would hope so. But it does seem to me like fundamentally a problematic property of a type system that having more accurate types can break your program. It&#x2
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by plesner 11y ago
In their list of risks there's one missing: it makes changing the return type of a method to a subclass a subtly breaking change. Say some api defines a method, Collection<String> getNames() { ... } and in your code you do var na
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by plesner 11y ago
No question, we're quickly moving away from physical Kroner. There's also political and especially business pressure to get rid of them. However, it's not true that they're obsolete or somehow similar to new yen. I think
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by plesner 11y ago
That's just not true. People pay by cash all the time in Denmark. I happened to read this in line at a Danish supermarket and people were paying with cash as much as with cards while I was paying attention.
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by plesner 11y ago
You're making it sound like you're disagreeing with me but it sounds like we're in complete agreement on the main point: it's not impossible to create a cPython JIT. It's a choice whether to do it or not. (And by th
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by plesner 11y ago
Sure there were C-based extensions for JavaScript, that's how it integrates with the DOM. It makes it a little trickier but not a whole lot.
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by plesner 11y ago
By "bold" I'm also referring to your use of the words "freaking" and "ridiculous". 1. This was also said about JS before people just went ahead and wrote JITs for it. Are you sure what they're saying
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by plesner 11y ago
> If you see only print, you are missing the point. The top thing, sometimes the only thing, that makes my scripts written for 2 not work in 3 is the change to print. Adding a print function is fine, I'm all on board with that; remo
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by plesner 11y ago
> Adding a freaking JIT to CPython is a ridiculous suggestion that will never happen for a whole load of reasons. That's a bold statement. Can you elaborate on what those reasons are?
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by plesner 11y ago
I agree that Denmark tends to dance to the US's tune but not as spinelessly as you make it sound. If what you're saying was true wouldn't there be US missile on Greenland?
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by plesner 11y ago
Here's a video of him leading a search quality meeting in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtRJXnXgE-A .
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Fiduciary duties under Delaware corporate law(en.wikipedia.org)
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by plesner 11y ago
Why would that be illegal? There is nothing illegal about having other priorities than maximizing shareholder value. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary#Fiduciary_duties_und... .
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by plesner 11y ago
Caveat emptor. The license only gives you permission to use the code, not any patents covering it. So while you can read the code, to use it you need to either get a separate patent license or convince yourself that MS holds no patents on t
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by plesner 11y ago
Not my comment but I think of it in exactly the same terms. You abstract the details of the company away and reduce it to some key numbers, the company viewed at a high level of abstraction. The company gets to abstract away information tha
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by plesner 11y ago
Really like the idea. Unfortunately name might work against them in Scandinavia and other places where kloak means sewer (it has the same origin as "cloaca" in English).
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by plesner 11y ago
No you're totally right, it's not a pyramid scheme. I still don't think it's a Ponzi scheme though because I don't think a sticker and return postage constitutes an investment. It's just a normal, if unsustaina
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by plesner 11y ago
Wouldn't that be a pyramid scheme?
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by plesner 11y ago
Nit, but: it's not actually a Ponzi scheme. What made Ponzi's scheme a Ponzi scheme was not the postal coupons. It was pretending that investors were making huge profits to make them keep their money invested, and paying them with
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by plesner 11y ago
Apple is not an abstract concept, it's run by people. I'm curious why, in your opinion, those people's decisions on behalf of apple should not be subject to moral judgement?

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