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You don't have to be a tech giant, the UK will happily accept donations from anyone.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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If the #$@%ers paid any taxes on the billions in profits they make in Europe and the UK, they wouldn't be targeted by pissed-off taxpayers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What evidence do you have that they don't?
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Since the tone of your reply inherently indicated that you were minded to discuss it intelligently and maturely, I had someone look it up (which only took them five minutes, because dozens of news organisations have also been interested).
For the tax year to end 2017, and in the format [Company] : [UK revenues] : [UK tax paid]
Google (Alphabet) : £7.6bn : £49m
Facebook : £1.3bn : £16m
Amazon : £8.7bn : £4.5m
eBay : £1bn : £1.6m
Twitter : £77m : £2.4m
Source (sources, actually): the companies' own annual reports. Would you like to naysay?
The current corporate tax rate in the UK is 19%, so everyone else is effectively paying for the infrastructure that these giants use to make tax-free profits.
And it's the same all over Europe. We are paying them to rob us blind.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks.
I don't have any evidence either way and hence have no opinion, and I was looking for an honest answer. I assumed you were posting from a position of knowledge and not just spouting off, hence the question.
I assume also, that the companies are using every legal device to reduce their taxes, but it seems like a less than 3% tax payment rate is a little extreme. On the face of it it seems you are right.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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IT organizations bemoan the difficulty of hiring specialized staff. Research suggests that too few of those companies are retraining existing employees to teach them those skills. That's silly. You know: send them a few YouTube videos on the subject and give them a deadline
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In my 30+ years working in this industry, I have never heard a manager say "hey, who would like to get trained in a new technology, on our dime?" Oh no. Instead, you're either relegated to maintaining an archaic system or your replaced by someone that already has that training.
It's odd, a kind of trickle-down economics, and goes something like this: developer gets hired as a junior in some company using some new technology. After a few years (assuming the developer and the technology survives) the developer has some skills. Some other company needs those skills and offers the now more skilled developer either better pay or the opportunity to be the "guru" at the new company. Management prefers this solution because they don't have to pay for the training. And there's the very real question about whether taking a 60 year old COBOL programmer and giving them the training in Angular, Javascript, HTML, CSS, etc. is not just possible but long-term effective, given that they're going to retire in 5 to 7 years.
So, the old devs that had their heyday in their time trickle down like rainwater into the recycling bucket while the younger devs, with the experience the company wants and the (hopefully) longevity the company needs are given the new opportunities.
The only exceptions are 1) if you're in the 30 - 40'ish age range and you have a progressive enough management to consider training you or 2) you have an even more progressive management that recognizes that overall development experience far outweighs the gun-slinging 25 year old that simply knows some flash-in-the-pan tech.
But the worst management is the kind that outsources, replacing their entire tech stack with some sales pitch made by IBM, bringing in "specialists" that supposedly can solve all the problems and charge an arm and two legs to support the crap they end up installing.
And the worst of the worst management is the kind that outsources to a company on the other side of the planet. You all know who/what I mean.
Am I being too negative?
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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In contrast to Marc, I work at a company where training would actually be possible - even for our "freelancers". But it does not happen. Strange, isn't it?
Before the front-end to our product line was developed, I saw that our knowledge of WPF/MVVM was ... abysmal. I collected topics of WPF and MVVM, checked how much "experience" the people in the team already had with them, in order to organize some training. But then the developer who was most senior at this company asked: "WPF/MVVM is a marginal topic only for our product. Why do you want to spend so much time and money for it?"
And that was the end of the training project.
Of course, it was the front end which delayed the release of our products by more than half a year, and it is the least stable part of all of our programs.
My colleagues successfully refused to learn any other techniques I showed them: unit tests, clean code, design patterns, etc.
Though working only 3 days per week, I deliver more product per month than any other developer here. Do I get more money per month? Well, most per hour (says my boss). But per month: sure by far less than they do. It does not pay.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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The company is pledging up to $25 million to groups that want to solve AI’s biggest hurdles "To Serve Man"
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Next headline: "Google shuts down "Beneficial for Humanity AI" after it recommends Google cease to exist."
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 I was thinking that the AI would spit out a recipe for a small green wafer superfood, that would end world hunger.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Great!
I've nearly finished my unstoppable and undefeatable AI ad-blocker!
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A bug in Windows 10 allowed UWP apps (Universal Windows Platform) to have access to the entire file system in Windows without permission from the user. This could have allowed a malicious app to access any data stored on the computer without the knowledge or consent of the user. No one could have seen that coming!
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All two users not logged in as Administrator horrified.
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Actually, it wasn't a bug. It was tightly coupled to Candy Crush. 
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Classified as low-risk, as almost no one uses UWP apps.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Classified as low-risk, as almost no one uses UWP apps.
Yeah, they checked on the two users and they both said they have not been impacted.
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not even the hackers...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Inherently demonstrates that Microsoft has no clue about security. None, nada, zilch. Why even bother having an elephanting firewall, antivirus, etc when the OS engineers f'uup this bad?
What's scary are the holes and features we don't even know about.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Its universal , its supposed to access anything ...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Red Hat will become part of IBM’s Hybrid Cloud team Now Big Blue Hat
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It was a nice run Red Hat.
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hybrids... indeed...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Hoping this doesn't impact CentOS...
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Well that's one way to make sure the rat is dead.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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