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Go has a great standard library in terms of breadth. The quality of the standard library varies between packages though.

I wouldn't say they're higher quality than comparable Scala/Java libraries, but I guess that's subjective.

Still love Go though, but really looking forward to a production ready Rust.

One of these things is not like the other. :)

Anything's better than the original Kindle Fire.

California is pretty much dollar for dollar equivalent to Australian taxes (which, funnily enough, the IRS classifies as a "high tax country") too.

And you get much more for your money in Australia.

That's why a lot of US-ians are anti-tax. I think it has a lot to do with not seeing any benefits to paying it -- so they'd rather keep their money and fund private institutions. Of course, that's lose-lose and the country has almost no new infrastructure, terrible health care and no safety net and 8% unemployment. So there's that.

But most of these people choose to ignore the elephant in the room, which is military spending. But I presume you can't just say "divert all military spending to Euro-style 'socialist' paradise spending" because then a lot of people would no longer have jobs in the military-industrial complex.

TL:DR: nothing is going to change.

Flat taxes don't work brilliantly except for rich people.

Flat tax is never going to happen.

No one was killed in the latest "spree killing" in Asia. Try again.

You just failed Econ 101. :)

You could answer your own question in 10 minutes by downloading the BB10 emulator.

There's no need to speculate: the answer is no.

It'd be nice if you told people what this was.

No way. You mean the vested interests of the USG means that people are spreading FUD about moving governance from US to international control?

Really? :)

Let's not bring logic and facts into an argument about guns with Americans.

The simple fact is that Americans are exceptional, so anything that happens outside the US is irrelevant.

Oh yeah, the millionaire (possibly billionaire) is just being SO BRAVE espousing these generic conservative talking points.

Rich guys says we should destroy the environment, people should be enslaved in sweatshops to make widgets to make him richer and talks some complete idiocy about AirBNB.

News at 11.

Looks like UltraDNS disabled their zones. Someone probably forgot to pay invoices or something.

You're pretty much screwed in this case.

Most new taps are of the mixer variety in Europe.

Maybe without the ugly BlackBerry logo on the front, taking up most of the phone bezel.

GCM doesn't work on any non-Google Android distro.

That's because a large portion of the system runs on JS/HTML.

While I agree with the general sentiment of your argument, it's still wrong since Google would get a credit for foreign taxes paid. Your post is moot due to this fact, aka reality. :)

It's pretty naive to assume that Apple is going to eat the added costs of US manufacturing instead of just building it into the price, ala Nexus Q.

They've probably got enough good will out of all the misleading coverage to cancel out the $100M they're planning to spend already.

This isn't impressive if it's in memory. Which it most probably is.

This is a huge waste of money, because they're going to be in the deadpool within a year.

And I say that as someone who loves the tech behind it. But it's almost pointless.

It's as if a bunch of Americans wrote a bunch of ill-informed translations in an attempt to make this about translations, and not about tax avoidance. :)

They're not expanding to Ireland. That's the point. Now they route all transactions from non-US customers through the Irish subsidiary and keep their money over there. They pay up 15% or whatever the tax rate is instead of the 35% over here. They keep the profits there waiting for a tax holiday, then move the money back when that happens. They can probably even claim the 15% as a foreign tax credit during the tax holiday.

Pretty simple. :)

While not illegal, it's a little bit dodgy. But it's what everyone does these days, so why not?

LOL.

LOL. You do realize the laffer curve is widely discredited?

All reducing corporate tax rates does is cause a race to the bottom.

Lifebooks are amazingly awesome for non-Apple hardware, but yeah, low res has been letting them down for a while. The build quality is insanely good though.

Any Apple v1 is usually going to have one downside. That's the rMBPs.

I was crazy enough to buy a v1 MBA. That thing ran so slowly due to overheating it wasn't funny. Now they're the most awesome portable notebook you can buy. :)

The v2 of a 13" rMBP might be the perfect laptop. :)

This isn't a good explanation of anything.

"Our thoughts are with the Syrian people and we hope connectivity, and peace, will be quickly restored."

Err... well, that's great. I'm glad that this information free blog post pimping your services ended with your sincere token of solidarity with the Syrian people.

For an article with real information from people who actually understand what a network is, go here: http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/11/syria-off-the-air.shtml

(Yes, I'm a little annoyed. But that's just because a lot of companies are submitting their "informative" blog posts on HN while really it's just more pimping of said service.)