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by sealeck 2y ago
Because it makes economic sense to apply extremely rigorous standards when writing software for a space probe, but not for a web app for expense reclaims?
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by sealeck 3y ago
The CIA is not authorized to operate domestically, counter-intelligence is the remit of the FBI.
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by sealeck 3y ago
What about crimes which transcend state jurisdiction (try getting 12 different state police forces to co-ordinate and run thousands of investigations together and see how well it goes)? Or issues like counter-intelligence? Or areas where lo
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by sealeck 3y ago
I think if you evolve your testing system to feed random numbers into your program and ensure that various correctness properties hold for all these random inputs you are likely to get a pretty robust program. You can make this slightly eff
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Things Unlearned(scattered-thoughts.net)
1 points by sealeck 3y ago|0 comments
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by sealeck 3y ago
How do shell corporations help you avoid paying income tax? Most countries now require employers to deduct this tax at source, so it's very hard to get out of it. Of course there are things you can try (e.g. your employer loans you mon
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by sealeck 3y ago
Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Luxembourg aren't exactly innocent and the US has done a good job in pushing for measures such as the end of banking secrecy. Other measures such as the OECD minimum tax benefit everyone, and hopefully the
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Tildes – a non-profit community site driven by its users' interests(blog.tildes.net)
3 points by sealeck 3y ago|0 comments
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by sealeck 3y ago
I think this is usually a problem which is more easily solved by better funding tax authorities and installing better oversight rather than by making it easier for people to not pay tax. I think most people's tax affairs are pretty cle
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by sealeck 3y ago
I really can't comment here because it seems like there are a million possible details that could make this either something very illegal or a miscarriage of justice.
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by sealeck 3y ago
> As much as the wealthy rightly get shit on for various things, they are still entitled to the same rights as everyone else. We're not talking about individual assets though here – we're talking about the distribution of resou
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by sealeck 3y ago
You can also rent a mailbox at a serviced office who will scan all the mail and email it to you instead of setting up an offshore shell company?
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by sealeck 3y ago
A lot of jurisdictions do maintain a beneficial owners database (e.g. Companies House in the UK maintains a list of all companies) but often these are not public. For example the ECJ recently made these illegal in the EU (see e.g. https:&#
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by sealeck 3y ago
I think privacy is really about power – we think the individual deserves privacy because it protects their personal autonomy from either corporate or state abuse. My view is that privacy is important because it's a prerequisite for sel
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by sealeck 3y ago
I mean "the customer has nuclear weapons" means "I work for the US government" which has roughly 3 million employees.
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by sealeck 3y ago
They afford to, but it's surprisingly non-trivial for a government to fill out all the paperwork involved and get the various approvals needed to procure/pay someone.
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by sealeck 3y ago
Switzerland also has this, for example there is a direct train from Zurich Airport to Geneva Airport.
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by sealeck 3y ago
Except that Boeing employs so many engineers that no other company can apply a "didn't work at Boeing" filter. Even ignoring the fact that most companies are aware that Boeing's failures aren't a result of the engin
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by sealeck 3y ago
As in the immortal words of Lucille Bluth: "wine only turns into alcohol when you let it sit".
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by sealeck 3y ago
This is definitely their tactic, and it may work because they can be incredibly obstreperous at every turn and make the commission fight every small detail tooth and nail up to the highest court.
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by sealeck 3y ago
If you switch every month then you will have been present in the EU within any 60-day window?
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by sealeck 3y ago
There's also another option where Apple is just going to wait/lobby the US government to apply pressure on the EU in the hope that this is effective (as it has been historically). In in the event of another Trump presidency (let u
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by sealeck 3y ago
The problem with this line of argument is that most tax receipts come from people who are pretty rich, i.e. they are the ones actually funding the government. E.g. in the UK the top 10% of tax payers contribute roughly 60% of income tax rec
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by sealeck 3y ago
It's easy to convince management you are brilliant by tackling the common cases of a problem and leaving the edge cases to someone else to solve further down the line.
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Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)(joelonsoftware.com)
157 points by sealeck 3y ago|100 comments
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by sealeck 3y ago
I'm being like 1000% facetious, and agree that rewrites are bad.
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by sealeck 3y ago
I think it's the other way around: the movie has come out, people are interested in the movie and the New Yorker is capitalising on this by writing about it.
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by sealeck 3y ago
rm -r Problem solved
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by sealeck 3y ago
We can spend those $15 to improve public transport? > The same thinking that is used to propose that we should ban gas stoves, but not private jets or 500' yachts. I think most people who support congestion charging also support hig
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by sealeck 3y ago
How do you think political change happens?

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