timoth

> And all income earned by a US citizen is subject to federal taxes, regardless of where in the world the income is earned.

This is just the same as many countries. All income earned is subject to tax in the country you live in, regardless of where in the world it was earned. However, this only applies when you are tax resident. So I can't see any reason why a wealth tax in other countries couldn't also apply to global wealth. There's a precedent set by their income tax already applying to global income.

The almost-unique difference in the case of the US is that it taxes its citizens even when resident outside the US (I realise there's a deduction for taxes you've paid overseas).

15 countries failing doesn't actually seem to be 100% of the evidence so far. What about Argentina, Spain, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and Italy (and BC in Canada) listed here as currently having wealth taxes?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax#Current_examples

Reminds me of this Irishwoman who joined the British army in the late 1600s and managed to remain disguised as a man until she was receiving treatment after being wounded -- but only for the second time!:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Davies

It's so amazing that it's hard to believe. For example:

"She was so successful at passing herself off as a man that a prostitute claimed she was the father of her child. Rather than give proof that this was impossible, [she] paid child support to the woman."

I don't have any association with the RecordMeNow app -- hadn't heard of it before this article -- but I thought both the article and app were interesting and brought up points that hadn't really crystallised for me before. For example, rather than having letters to open on special events which crops up in news stories from time to time, instead wanting more everyday mundane info -- along with being able to dip into it in a self-directed way. Seems like it makes sense upon reflection.

I think it's slightly ambiguous wording "burst blood vessels", where "burst" is an adjective, not a verb. So burst blood vessels are something it covers up, along with age spots and other blemishes.

Could be a double-edged sword. Have you seen Black Mirror -- first series, episode 3?

Britain is already in neither; it's never been in Schengen, and left the EFTA when joining the EEC as the EU was then. Although the other 3 countries in EFTA are part of the EEA (edit: which is how they're part of the single market), Switzerland isn't. Instead, they participate in the single market via a bunch of bilateral treaties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland%E2%80%93European_U...

And the VW e-Golf looks like a 'normal' Golf.

Same here. Though El Capitan is the end of the (official) line for me (mid-2009 15" MBP). As its EOL is next year, I'll probably then install ubuntu.

I must say that I'm quite pleased that Apple still support a >8 year old machine. At least with software anyway -- asking at an Apple store last year about a replacement battery did not result in success!

The UK had tax relief for mortgage interest payments for a while as well, but it was abolished in 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_interest_relief_at_so...

Shades of grey though; not entirely black and white. In the UK->Norway direction, it's surprising to have to pay to visit a doctor or specialist, not to mention paying painful retail price for medicines, even for children. (Yes, I know there's an annual cap etc., but still seems a bit weird compared to free-at-the-point-of-use and a flat prescription charge in the UK.) No NHS dentistry either. (Yes, I know NHS dentist availability is not what it once was in the UK! And there are subsidies for necessary children's treatment in Norway depending on severity.)

AWS now provides a container image for Amazon Linux which might also be an option, depending on the CI SaaS: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-linux-container-...

In addition, "All rights reserved" is technically obsolete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved

The legal minimum in the UK which just about everyone is entitled to is 28 days paid holiday assuming a full time job [1]. That can include bank holidays which are 8 per year for the vast majority of the population (1 or 2 more for Scotland and Northen Ireland I think).

For example, my first job was 25 days + 8 days of bank holidays and then you could earn up to 5 extra days if you stayed with the company long enough. Other jobs were all 22 + 8.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/entitlement

> I mean at this point why is the wiki in it's own space and not git versioned? (Put it in github-wiki folder!)

I understand your overall point, but as a slight aside the wiki is a git repo: https://help.github.com/articles/adding-and-editing-wiki-pag...

Reminds me of Sun over 20 years ago: "The network is the computer".

Reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/1573/

> The problem in the UK is that companies can still deduct the mortgage interest, this puts people who buy property to rent out at an advantage.

Not just companies in the usually-understood sense; private landlords can deduct mortgage interest on the property they let as an expense to reduce their tax bill. No need to set up a company or actually declare yourself as self-employed or whatever. (Conceptually they are running a business, but there's no need for a company.)

AIUI, it's not illegal and there is nothing to pay if you're under the relevant limits and it's for personal use. You can import up to 6000NOK of goods (3000NOK if you've only been out of Norway for < 24 hours) and you can bring up to 10 kg combined of meat/cheese etc from EEA countries. That's quite a lot of butter. In fact, the 2nd link below is ambiguous on the point of whether dairy products other than cheese are included in the 10 kg limit, but you'd probably want to assume so to be safe. Either way, you can import a lot of butter for personal use.

http://www.toll.no/en/international/english/shopping-abroad/...

http://www.toll.no/en/international/english/shopping-abroad/...

The superchargers arrived in Norway almost 2 years ago:

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/tesla-motors-brings-revoluti...

You see a lot of Teslas around in Norway, relatively speaking. The favourable tax (discount) helps I imagine, given the punitive tax on private IC vehicles.

Assuming you're both talking about Google Cloud SQL and AWS RDS, then with RDS you can actually choose between MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or Amazon Aurora which is supposed to be compatible with MySQL 5.6. Google Cloud SQL only seems to mention MySQL.

For scalability, RDS gives you up to 3TB storage (1TB for SQL Server, 64TB for Aurora) and DB instances with up to 244GB RAM, 32 vCPUs and 10Gigabit network, whereas it looks like Google Cloud SQL is 100GB and 16GB of RAM. It looks like Cloud SQL provides managed replication/failover as standard; with AWS this is optional, but simple to set up. (I use RDS; never tried Google Cloud SQL.)

(I have no connection with either company, beyond being a customer.)

Naturally it isn't. But those other countries maintain their roads, schools etc. etc. without taxing non-residents on their financial affairs in other countries. The main point is the difference between how the US handles the tax issue vs. almost all other countries.

Now you mention it, renouncing citizenship seems relatively costly compared to e.g. the UK, though I have no idea what the average cost is for renunciation. Perhaps the UK is abnormally cheap! (EDIT: Should probably have pointed out that it's currently £144, or about $215.)

It would seem a shame if people felt they needed to renounce citizenship to avoid hassle/tax. Of course, some may argue that if they want to renounce at all, then perhaps they're not committed enough anyway, but I wouldn't argue that.

It seems part of the problem is that:

> You have a great passport and can come back to a country that has a wealth of opportunities that are not available in most other places and in some cases no where else.

could be said about many other countries which don't tax non-residents on their financial affairs in the country in which they've chosen to live. So I think some find it hard to see how the US can justify it.

No downvote from me, but couldn't it be argued that the more cycling is taken up, the likelihood is that fewer people would be driving so there'd naturally be less exposure? So then it would be true that the more cycling is taken up, the safer it becomes -- because there are fewer cars driving about.

As you mentioned, there's less vehicle exposure in countries where there are low cycle death rate -- lower car usage is presumably a big factor here, though well-designed road sharing and separate cycle paths etc. would presumably also help a lot. (Of course, people can be killed cycling in other ways than being hit by a car, but I'm guessing that's a small minority of cases -- would be interesting to see figures though.)

Rather than ATC taking over the plane, which seems like a non-trivial exercise, it might be a lot easier to allow them to override the door 'lock' mode in the cockpit (which ignores the keypad code for door entry) so that in this case the pilot/others outside could have asked ATC for it and got in. This means that there isn't someone outside the cockpit on the plane who has 'root' access (so nobody can be threatened for it).

Even then, there are considerations like not allowing the cockpit to kill all com links / power so that people outside the cockpit are still able to communicate with the ground to get the root pwd, and as mentioned elsewhere the person inside the cockpit could change their strategy to make recovery of control difficult or impossible even in this case (EDIT: e.g. throwing the plane about). Also, you'd probably want >1 ATC person to authorise to reduce the chance of the door being unlocked by someone at ATC in cahoots with hijackers.

For network and storage at least, Amazon says that their HVM guests use PV drivers according to this page:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-...

but on this page, they don't say that specifically, but mention the possibility in the PV on HVM section:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/virtualiz...

Perhaps/presumably it also depends on the AMI you're using.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this is the case. In fact, I'm running PV on m3.medium instances (EDIT: and c3.large) right now. It depends on the AMI you use to launch the instance, though some instance types only support HVM (e.g. t2.* or r3.* ) or PV (old-gen t1.* or m1.* ), but some, like m3.* and c3.* which are current-gen, support both. See the Amazon Linux AMI availability matrix for example: http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/instance-type-matrix/

Interesting that over half of the companies on the list were added within the last week, if the dates in the page changelog accurately reflect when they were added. If so, perhaps they all suddenly bundled in so they could find out what the embargoed vuln. was.