Same, three actually, none of which the US. A closer representation for the US brain may be who is considering between different states? Here is the thing, other countries do not necessarily work exactly the same way as the US or individually have large enough local markets to contain all aspects of the overall tech industry, just locally.
Its interesting that they went with the Elastic License. Maybe this is a leaf in the wind that we're going to see more adoption of the license outside of Elastic. I get it's not a "standard" license, but standard licenses become standard through adoption. Someone has to be early to the party.
The better alternative? Dunno. An alternative is iPhone and just take some of the benefits that comes with it. It's been a much more closed ecosystem from the start, but it's owned it. Google had a competitive advantage over that but they seem intent on throwing those advantages away with no foreseeable other upsides.
In development, working on completely other problem spaces to mobile development at all. It's not 2012 anymore and there are other noteworthy growth areas to spend time on.
But one think in the short term was tonight I just spent some hours migrating registered accounts away using a Gmail account to Proton.
If removed in 3 years. So many societal norms are being broken, what's one more. It sounds hyperbolic to say out loud because it usually is, but we're dealing with any possible scenario here.
It sounded hyperbolic for the 50 last newsworthy things he has done. Americans seems to think the current order is a given when in reality it's much more precarious.
Trump will be gone in 3 years, dead or degraded into a bowl of racist jello.
It seems clear that the plan is to game the system as much as possible before then so Republicans never have to win an election again. If they can do that, they don't need Trump - the Trump administration will live on.
I agree with this though I wouldn’t be surprised if they can’t manage without Trump.
Republicans aren’t some consistent viewpoint. It’s a big tent that’s (somehow) united by Trump. Even if Republicans came to completely dominate politics, they may have their own schism and we end up back in two party land.
Thought that may still be a more chaotic two party land than we have today. Who knows what the future brings.
It's not so much the republican party anymore, it's project 2025 people and the federalist society, Christian fascists funded by people like Thiel and built on the plans of Curtis Yarvin. They'll still be there after trump as they are his entire cabinet, Vance is in deep on it so succession is already secured, they'll rig or cheat elections to keep political power. Part of project 2025 was a CV database so they could insert sycophants in all levels of unelected government positions as well. They're entrenched and chipping away at election integrity every day.
There's a strong possibility. He's a cult of personality, and really doesn't believe in the values of either party. The Republican establishment loves him, because he gets people out to vote, and he'll push their agenda as long as he gets his cut of the action. This is one model of understanding Trump anyways.
(There are many models, and all models are wrong, yadda yadda)
Personality cults rarely survive the first leader, though it has happened (munster Rebellion). But at that point the plans of Christo fascist like thiel and the federalist society have progressed so far it's too late that it doesn't matter. Maybe a military coup is all we can hope for now.
>If removed in 3 years. So many societal norms are being broken, what's one more.
Are you American? I don't think you understand our culture if you go down this road. Trump operates in the gray -- gray enabled in part by two Democratic presidents doing things like keeping the minimum wage low while painting themselves as progressive as being "soft" on immigration. Is it a kindness to create instability in one's homeland, then look the other way if they flee as long as they don't insist on the same legal protections as others?
Anyways, the two term limit is a very basic rule, one that would provoke an overwhelming response the likes of which I do not think anyone who contemplates such a move fully grasps, and one that is difficult to put into words without sounding theatrical or shrill.
> by two Democratic presidents doing things like keeping the minimum wage low while painting themselves as progressive
Biden proposed and backed a boost of the federal minimum wage to $15/hr, it was defeated in Congress (he also unilaterally implemented a boost in the minimum wages under federal contracts, which did not require legislation, to create upward pressure on wages.)
Prior to that, President Obama also backed a federal minimum wage increase which, as well as boosting the wage would have indexed it to inflation going forward, this also was defeated in Congress (President Obama also unilaterally boosted the minimum wage under federal contracts.)
(OTOH, people pretending the President is a dictator and blaming him for failure to implement legislation when the President pushed for it but Congress refused to allow it to be passed is not entirely unrelated to the status quo where the President simply refuses to be bound by the law in his actions, though its not the main reason for that problem.)
> Anyways, the two term limit is a very basic rule, one that would provoke an overwhelming response the likes of which I do not think anyone who contemplates such a move fully grasps
The degree to which people are confident and complacent that other people will spontaneously rise up and do something if Trunp crosses on red line or another is, perhaps, one of the significant reasons why people do not, in fact, rise up in any way that is effective as Trump crosses every red line that exists.
>Biden proposed and backed a boost of the federal minimum wage to $15/hr... Prior to that, President Obama also backed a federal minimum wage increase
I don't have time to get into the specifics with you, but to put it in poker terms, the democrats play a "tight-passive" strategy - they make piddling bets then fold when called, when faced with an opponent who will C bet them to the river.
Combined with the documented kneecapping of candidates further left than neoliberalism, it's the height of entitlement to fail to govern well, repeatedly, and demand votes because the "other guy" is worse.
>The degree to which people are confident and complacent that other people will spontaneously rise up and do something if Trunp crosses on red line
Maybe spellcheck your own post before assuming I speak for anyone but myself?
>Trump crosses every red line that exists.
You have not spoken to the victims of totalitarianism, and your histrionics will make it sound less dire when folks like me announce with deadly seriousness it's time to go into your condo, lock the door, and get in the bathtub.
The USA already came within a hair of testing that boundary, outside of natural causes I think Trump will make a play for it. He's had zero respect for any rule, I don't see why that one would be different, especially not given what has already happened.
Nope, but have spent my time in the Bay and Massachusetts. Born European and currently in Canada. But, guess what, every country looking at their trade deals in the world are not American either. If you need to be American to have confidence in it as a trading partner, there are no such American trading partners on the international stage. Welcome to what the majority of the world is actively thinking about the state of the US right now. The borders can remain the same while the paperwork governing those borders can be changed, just ask the Fifth French Republic.
Very basic rule indeed, and who upholds those rules? The army and police? ICE? The paper is only worth the systems that support them, and there are years to go in tinkering with the make up of those systems. A ruling or two by the Supreme Court, and it's a whole new ball game.
Let me be crystal. TL;DR Only babbling fools think America isn't capable of crossing any line right now on the international stage. The trust, is gone.
>Let me be crystal. TL;DR Only babbling fools think America isn't capable of crossing any line right now
I think the babbling fools are the ones with multiple passports, ignorant of their privilege, who demand that the same untrained civilians they turned their noses up at when they tried to leave this place take risks for a type of global elite who's happy to float in wherever they can enrich themselves, then flee.
There are plenty of great unis in the EU and Canada. Why come here, if we're so terrible?
> The tax strategies these companies use are known
Links to an article from 2017 about a tax loophole that was closed in 2020 [0]. As an Economist that by his Wikipedia article [1] dedicates so much of his time talking about the Irish tax regime, he should be well aware of this fact.
You are talking about the "Double Irish", which was scotched (sorry) in 2020 by Ireland.
The link under your quoted line in the TFA seems to be talking about Apple (and others) preparing for the end of the Double Irish by finding other tax havens.
"Elite tax advisers help Apple Inc. and other corporate giants skirt impacts of crackdown on 'Double Irish' maneuvers."
So, I don't see what's invalid about the TFA's point, which is about tax avoidance in general
As someone close to pharmaceutical manufacturing, the reason why the manufacturing is done in Ireland is for tax benefits for sales in Europe.
So why not have a US factory for US sales? Because it's much more expensive and complex to have two separate factories making the same drug. It's far easier to just scale the Irish factory to serve all global sales.
Even the same companies with Irish factories have US factories as well. It's not like any tax benefit moved that out of the US as well.
The manufacturing is in one place. The IP in another place. Both places chosen mostly for tax reasons in this case. Paying zero taxes in the US is a lucky side-effect.
It is also kind of an odd article because his assertion "After the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), imports from Ireland soared." is not at all borne out by graph that immediately follows.
Switzerland is a whole different matter, but such carelessness doesn't improve trust
Right, the graph shows a continuous increase since 2017, which tracks the growth of the worldwide pharmaceutical industry in general ($800b in 2016 [0] to $1.4t in 2024 [1].) So actually, the proportion of pharmaceutical imports that were from Ireland remained constant until a spike in late 2024.
And then there's this:
> The top seven pharmaceutical companies are paying $10 billion or so in tax on their $70 billion in offshore profit. They are just paying all that tax abroad.
So these companies already pay 14% in corporate tax. In the US, they'd pay 21% headline rate, but with room for deductions (I can't find a good source for what they actually pay, but here's [2] a bad source putting the R&D deduction alone at $15b/year across the top 8 companies). This 21% changed from 35% in the 2017 act the article criticises, though some deductions were also reduced. So corporate tax can't be the main differentiator here.
It's nice, for balance, to see an article that says the problem with Trump is that he just isn't protectionist enough. But the arguments here don't hold up.
Can the script on this then be flipped? Build a search engine, clearly smaller in scope and commercial utility, that if a site links to a payment or ad network, de-rank it heavily. Then the end result should be in theory, filled with what one would consider the "old" internet, primarily blogs and sites not trying to sell you things or abuse your data.
None of the large companies would do it, but that would be the point.
That's not what Kagi does. Nor does its "Small Web" search mode, as it only searches blogs that have been manually added to a specific GitHub repo (so for most part is a collection of US tech blogs - not very diverse at all)
No VC-backed or commercial search engine would do what OP is talking about. But I can see a use for a niche search engine that ranks websites inversely proportional to the number of trackers and ad networks they depend on. Heck, I would pay for that, but I'm a nerd.
Kagi maintains a "non-commercial index (Teclis) and non-commercial news index (TinyGem)" [1]. They also "prioritize non-commercial sources," implicitly downranking monetized sites. (Also, you can manually downrank problem domains [2].)
My devices have randomly switched back to Google or DDG from time to time. The first thing I did was check my ad blocker was working--I was simply stunned by the amount of blogspam puke.
> No VC-backed or commercial search engine would do what OP is talking about
No ad based, i.e. free, engine can, not sustainably. A paid one obviously can and does.
We do actually. We penalize the sites with a lots of ads/trackers on them in our results and boost non-monetized pages. It is one of the main reasons Kagi reults have a specific 'flavor' to them. (Kagi CEO here)
You surely have huge exceptions to this rule, or major silos like Reddit, Twitter, StackOverflow, Youtube, Facebook etc. would rank towards the bottom.
Which the average Joe wouldn't like, hence my comment that no commercial search engine would implement this feature correctly, on purpose.
Not really exceptions (all treated equally) just there is nuance in the algorithm. Having some ads doesn't mean you go straight to the bottom. And when searching for youtube you clearly want youtube.com - so nuance applied but that is the principle driving it.
Because it's a paid service? That's the entire point.
And that also enables tons of user-centric features they talked about, starting with the earliest ones and my favorites: being able to uprank and downrank domains (like, "ban pinterest", "pin Wikipedia", "downrank w3schools", "uprank cppreference", etc.), and adding rewrite rules to results (like "reddit.com" -> "old.reddit.com"). Both of these are personalizations tied to your account, so they're active on any device as long as you're logged in.
They've added more cool stuff since, but these two alone were what has kept me a paying customer for the past years.
Google knows what you search, even in "incognito" mode, and even when you're logged out. They correlate your IP address with your search profile and use everything you search for in your ad profile.
Kagi does not track search history, period. There's no history attached to your account even if you wanted it. The login is purely for authentication.
Those sites don't exist any more. Not literally of course, but effectively. There's probably only a couple tens of thousand if I had to guess (and many of them abandoned blogs with a couple dozen pages of no note, hosted by some server that has not yet been unplugged because it's physically lost). Also, good luck trying to find them (either electronically or physically).
(And I say that as someone who owns such a site.)
Case in point, I wanted to link to http://bash.org/?5273, but bash.org no longer exists.
How often do judicial prosecutions air a given case out in the public space? Especially pre-trial. Isn't that ripe for potential to ruin the case generally speaking?
There are two Irish state departments that are hyper competent. The IDA and Revenue. This can involve both. I'm not at all worried or the political blowback will see them functionally banned from Europe and an acceleration of the social media regulation and hate speech laws introduction.
Most major chipsets have their design specs in PDF format online with all the info there for interfacing on a hardware level. Many drivers these days are open source. Kicad is free to use for designing PCBs.
Finally, goo into things with an attention to detail to polish a board. A hobby board takes far less time than a product board, but all it is is time and thinking about each attribute more. You don't need third level education to have that work ethic.
