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Comment · 5 years ago
What I see here is tax evasion. But done in a roundabout legal loopholish kind of way.

1. Establish profitable company in your home country.

2. Establish 2nd company in a tax haven country.

3. Give 2nd company some kind of ownership, and then pay rental fees, licensing fees, or simply set up a high interest loan that the 2nd company loaned the first.

4. Once you set up a way to make it look like you owe the 2nd company tons of money, now your 1st company no longer is "profitable" and actually in debt losing money, which means it doesn't need to pay taxes on the massive profit it's making.

While I believe it's legal it hinges on bad ethical practice. But many large companies do this, such as cruise ships and I think Apple.

Comment · 5 years ago
The last one on the list 30 - Arcosanti. Was actually built out in the desert of Arizona.
Comment · 5 years ago
Oh wonderful. So that means John Deere can drop all the lawsuits against farmers who try to repair their own tractors since farmers didn't break any law. Right?
Comment · 5 years ago
But you aren't using an M1. The article says M1s can only go up to 16GB of memory, and the M2 should be able to do 64GB.
Comment · 5 years ago
The article says M1 can only support up to 16GB of RAM. The M2 would be able to support 64GB.
Comment · 5 years ago
What I don't get is that the intel based macbook pros allow you to get 32G of RAM and 4TB hard drive. While the M1s only allow a max of 16G of RAM and 2TB hard drive. I'm not taking a hit on these other, in my opinion, much much more important specs to gain an extra battery life.
Comment · 5 years ago
The thing that isn't addressed. Their terms now say that people 13 and under cannot use their product. Yet this tool is taught in schools. They want to collect this data but do not want to follow COPPA laws.
Comment · 5 years ago
You would think you could listen to an oral history right? Looks like it might be better titled "a written history".
Comment · 5 years ago
I built one of these once. I even figure out a way to remotely trigger the garage door to close. I programmed it so that if I left it open for too long it'll message me telling me, and if I still stays open too long after that it'll be passive aggressive and say something like "I hate having to do all the work for you, but I closed your garage door because you forgot to."
Comment · 5 years ago
Wait a minute... What about copyright? Like I would love to have a blog where I can just copy and paste my favorite recipes, and add a few notes myself. But I don't do that because it seems like plagiarism.

Or another option is to use this site, and then use some kind of 1-5 star rating. And then just see my favorites without all the other bs that food sites show you.

Comment · 6 years ago
This is what hacker giraffe used to print to 70,000 printers printing "subscribe to pewdiepie".
Comment · 6 years ago
> The rest of the story is simple — you need to store a counter in the database and return an SVG image with the number of views as a response. Of course, there will be some extra requests from bots, but having such statistics is better than nothing.

"The rest of the story is simple" uh, no that's not simple at all! You want me to register a domain, get a hosting provider, create a database, and create logic to listen for requests with anti-bot detection? Please don't say this is simple.

Comment · 6 years ago
wenbin, for stats on hosting providers, when it's like podtrac, do you count both podtrac and the real host?
Comment · 6 years ago
I just wonder, what % chance is there of lights out? Because if it's only a 30% chance that that'll happen, then doesn't that mean a 70% chance of it coming back up, quadrupling in price in the next year?
Comment · 6 years ago
The bigger the map the better! When you have a ton of data points all mapped out Maltego has tools for you to analyze this data in amazing ways. You can sort of twist and turn the data to look at it in different ways to discover the meaning of it. Say you have a dataset of 1000 different hacks that have been attempted or conducted on your network. And you populated Maltego with tons of data. Source IP of the attacker, attack method used, port attacked on, country of origin of attack, time of day of attack, duration of attack etc etc. With Maltego you can identify patterns that you can't with other tools. Like you might see that 300 of the attacks all happened on port 337. So you can isolate just for that, then look for commonalities. Time of day? Tools used? Country of origin? In just seconds you can drill down to find some of these and start making a picture on who might be attacking you. I've used it and it's amazing for showing you graphs in ways you never thought to look which can help tremendously when doing research on certain things.

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