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Totally agree. As everybody seems to know everything here, maybe letting it die would be best.
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I said exactly the same before reading your message
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Actually, it was Ireland broke EU law by offering a one-off deal to Apple, that counts as State aid
If you truly believe Apple had no part in this negotiation, you're naive to put it mildly. Why else do you think they channel all EU income through Ireland? Add to that the fact that Apple also keep their money out of the US to avoid US taxes, and a global picture starts to emerge.
We really do need to tighten the screws on large multinationals undertaking enormous tax evasion (in this case) and avoidance. Because it's us consumers who have to cover for them in increased personal taxation.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Surely it's a simple as [of course it never is] Ireland has a Corporation tax rate and it should be the same for every company operating out of there. Ireland can [and do] set their own corporation tax rates.
The EU are there to enforce it, both because they want to ensure competition is fairer between EU states, and also because as a whole they have a lot more power than maybe Ireland does on it's own. Even if Apple paid the going rate in Ireland, it would still be lower than most of the EU, which is why they based themselves there in the first place.
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For those cheering this, beware that if you work for a multinational firm the EU is likely coming after your company next. What those companies can't pass onto customers, they'll make up for by slashing jobs.
Of course, you could just vote the EU out-of-office. Oh, wait, you can't.
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We have seen demonstrations of two types of cyber attacks against STJ implantable cardiac devices (“Cardiac Devices”): a “crash” attack that causes Cardiac Devices to malfunction – including by apparently pacing at a potentially dangerous rate; and, a battery drain attack that could be particularly harmful to device dependent users. Despite having no background in cybersecurity, Muddy Waters has been able to replicate in-house key exploits that help to enable these attacks. Reminds me of an old Geek and Poke cartoon:
http://geek-and-poke.com/geekandpoke/2011/10/10/geeks.html[^]
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Should be "Root in pace" should it not?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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That does it.
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As part of his annual "personal challenge," he wanted to build an AI capable of controlling his home. Everyone wants to be Tony Stark
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So? Steve Ciarcia (of Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar, BYTE) was doing this sort of thing more than 30 years ago, albeit without voice control.
Zuckerberg's system is less flexible than Ciarcia's - even other members of the household can't use it. What's the big deal?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: What's the big deal?
I was thinking the same thing.
Bill Gates did this back in 1995 or so when he built his mega-house.
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Quote: It's awesome because I get to interact with all these Facebook engineers who are doing all this awesome AI work in speech recognition, in face recognition...
So it's not actually Zoidberg who built it? Gotta love a manager who uses up other people's time and then has the gall to call it "my project".
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That, surely, must be one of the most tempting targets for hackers in the history of computing.
May be he should call it HAL: "I'm sorry, I cannot do that Mark".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Dev Center continuously adds more options to enable you to monetize and promote your apps and games, and to streamline new submissions or analyze app performance. For those who like their garden with walls
Oh, but you can submit apps for XBox One now. Now you'll finally be able to add a new database record by pressing "jump"
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On Tuesday the European Commission will find against Ireland's tax arrangements with Apple, and ask the country to collect over 1 billion euros ($1.119 billion) in back taxes, a report claimed on Monday. That will buy a few iPhone 7 units
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Sadly, as anyone who has been to Ireland can tell you, when Apple do hand over that money then we will technically be "in a round" and have to keep drinking / paying in turn until the bar closes.
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Ah, lovely Emerald Isle where my ancestors (that were not hung as horse thieves) kept fiddlin' and diddlin' to keep the genes that created me afloat in spite of all the odds rigged by their colonial masters in the name of "Rule Britannia."
Ireland has lowered its debt-to-GDP ratio significantly from second-hightest-in-the-world a few years ago to fifteenth highest now: [^], and eighth highest in the EU ... but, a cool billion could certainly help put a few new strings on ye auld fiddles.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
modified 30-Aug-16 7:00am.
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Thanks, Duncan, you're absolutely right; I've updated my post to reflect the most recent source I could find.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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A report from HackerRank finds that while the U.S. and India have lots of developers, Chinese and Russian programmers are the most talented. "Callin' all nations to put it on the line"
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Chinese developers outside the US are next to worthless. While Russian programmers are very good, those from the non-Russian parts of former Eastern bloc are better.
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In this article I’ll show when C++11 and C++14 can help to write fast, compact and well-structured code. Not your grandpa's C++
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According to the software giant Windows 10 now has 50 percent of the market in the US, and 51 percent in the UK. {Something about the third kind of lie goes here}
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If you liberally count Ubuntu as an alternative Win10 release, that number may be right.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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