it's beyond just new a visa, it's also changing tax code.
> Lutnick told the hosts of the All In show, was to allow people to purchase the right to live in the United States and pay taxes only on their income earned in the country.
That's a huge tax policy change. Currently, my understanding is that as a citizen, you pay taxes on all income, regardless of where it comes from. You get credits for taxes paid to other governments, but if they charge less then the US would, you pay the difference.
Being a Trump Card Holder may in the future become even better than being a citizen! How about even more, positive rights such as Judicial Express Review and deport override (at an extra fee, of course). The Platinum category gets permanent access to lawmakers offices.
One of my main complaints about the US is that basically corruption is less democratized, unlike a lot of places where it can be bought for a pittance. Trump bringing the bribery and corruption to the level of the common millionaire would be an invigorating breath of life into more equal opportunities usually reserved for billionares.
Paying $5 million to get a visa and then paying taxes on whatever assets and income they bring with them seems like a great deal for the US because the foreign income never would have been taxed by the US anyway if they hadn't got the visa. Why get greedy and demand taxation on all their income when this could lose us a the opportunity for a very profitable deal?
But is it fair that a foreigner can buy the state and profit of rules different than the country own citizens?
Let's push the concept further, if I'm a rich american citizen, that I leave the country and give up my nationality and then comes back with the trump gold card that I bought to profit of more interesting taxes conditions. Would it be fair?
Rich expats who hold visas and reside in a foreign country but don't pay taxes to that foreign country on their assets held back home is actually a very common thing around the world. This is encouraged because having rich people show up in your country and spend a lot of money is actually quite beneficial.
The outlier here is actually the US law that citizens pay taxes on income from outside the country. We are virtually the only country that does this. So in that sense I will agree with you that the unequal treatment is unfair, but it is the treatment of US citizens that is out of the ordinary, not the treatment of the Trump visa holders.
It's a mixed blessing. The deal is very similar to remittance basis taxation which we had in the UK until recently. It probably benefited the country in the way you say but was also kind of unfair in that foreign billionaires living here got a much better deal than British ones. It was just scrapped and a lot of millionaires are leaving for better or worse.
I'm skeptical that Trump will manage to get the tax changes through the house and senate and that they would remain through the next government which might put people off dropping $5m on the thing.
Also would Musk who has three citizenships be able to drop the US one and get a gold visa?
Like it or not this is basically how the US is run these days. Congress has ceded its power to the executive branch. Almost everything now is done by bureaucratic degree and executive order.
Not disputing long term damage to the talent pool in the US, just making an observation that it won't be solved until the issue affects certain groups.
You just reminded me of the dangerous crossroad in a town in my previous country.
It became dangerous because the regional council allowed a grocery store to be built there but the crossroad wasn't designed for heavy daily traffic. There were many accidents with small to moderate injuries.
As everybody knew it was dangerous, many people asked the mayor to do something.
His off the record answer was that unless a child or a few adults were killed, he wouldn't get the funding to build another crossroad.
I just checked on google maps and it's now a roundabout.
they mean "bonafide job offer". What is happening right now is staffing agencies (mainly in India) mass file H1B applications for all their staff, and then once they get picked in the lottery, they find assignments in the US and file the entire petition after. This heavily disadvantages non-staffing companies who file H1Bs for their staff outside the country or those in the US on F1 visas for actual jobs.
This change is meant to close that loophole. This used to not be a problem, because you had to file the entire petition BEFORE you enter the lottery, but now you just pay some nominal fee and get your name in, leading to a highly profitable situation for staffing companies.
This is a pretty niche acausal language, and is used extensively in Motorsports (F1, NASCAR) for real-time simulation on the driver simulator.
The language spec is open source but there many commercial compilers, Dymola is the most popular.
I code in this language extensively and its acausal nature is extremely powerful. It makes your models highly composable, you can basically assemble a mechanical system like a bunch of lego blocks and the equations fall out automatically. You can also easily invert your models.
The closest analogy in the programming world is Haskell.
This approach seemed super interesting and we attempted to use it for modeling a fairly complicated fluid system (pipes, valves, tanks, etc). However, in the end the equations that fell out made the solver choke. We abandoned the effort since it seemed like an undebuggable black box. It's unclear to me whether we just didn't do it right or if the open source alternatives just aren't capable.
Think of it like a solver for many coupled differential equations.
The coupling happens through "linear" equality constraints.
Such as "the output pressure variable of component A needs to be equal the input pressure variable of component B".
Something that Modelica doesn't do very well is stochastic systems. There you would need to go into SDE and that brings a lot of technicalities.
[1] Petzold, Linda R. Description of DASSL: a differential/algebraic system solver. No. SAND-82-8637; Sandia National Labs, 1982.
[2] Kunkel, Peter. Differential-algebraic equations: analysis and numerical solution. European Mathematical Society, 2006.
I don't know if it's because I use my left hand or because I have ~~our~~ ~~or~~ ~~fault~~ fairly poor fine motor function, but I can't get through most sentences ~~with~~ without at least some ~~cordon~~ corrections. Most of the time the right option isn't even in ~~thy just~~ the list ~~is~~ of options.
I distinctly remember it used to be better and I didn't have to spend so much time backtracking.
Maybe on this phone it can't phone home properly and do it's learning.
I'm guessing parent was requesting an alternative that was demonstrably better rather than examples of how it's bad - and thus saying that GBoard is actually okay on this front, regardless of how actually usable it is.
For the record I'm with you, I WISH swiping was reliable but it's just so often so far off the mark. I remember it being better as well, but that was probably very early on in its use, when I was paying more attention to how I was swiping and going slower, as well.
> I'm guessing parent was requesting an alternative that was demonstrably better rather than examples of how it's bad - and thus saying that GBoard is actually okay on this front, regardless of how actually usable it is.
Yeah... this style of "polite" commentary ("Oh, you're claiming it's bad? Show me something that's better, smartypants!") drives me up the wall. Old farts might call it an offensive application of blowing sunshine up others' asses.
It's entirely possible for something to be both godawful and also be the only available option! People are well within their rights to complain about things that are godawful! [0]
[0] For the seeking-VC-funding crowd: If folks didn't complain, how would entrepreneurial-minded folks learn that there may be an opportunity to make money doing better?
Aside from accuracy, I intermittently get a bug where the swipe gesture doesn't begin and I just end up typing one letter with each swipe. I can correct this state by dragging my finger around for about a full second or two, at which point the swipe trail reappears and starts working again.
Older Gboard (before it was called "Gboard" I think?) was quite excellent.
It started degrading badly for me around when it also started suggesting words that obviously came from the internet, e.g. stuff like "that" getting suggestions of "THAAAAAAAT", or current hyped brands I'd never heard of (much less typed out).
Same here, it is infuriating. It also isn't very good for languages which contract words such as Danish. In Swype I could hit backspace once to place the cursor at the end of the last word and then swipe to add another word after it, but Gboard just annoyingly insists on "correcting my mistake" and inserts the space back again. I have to manually type in individual letters of all contracted words when writing in Danish.
I really miss Swype. I have tried other keyboards but I have yet to find one that doesn't suck.
PGO describes the using extra data to guide optimisations, but it doesn't define what those optimisations are.
Reading the link, there's several that sound like they match what BOLT is applying (Basic Block Optimization, Function Layout, Conditional Branch Optimization, and Dead Code Separation).
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