Why not give the information to the user? There is no need to use any manual labor here.

- Logistics in Germany is awesome, and Amazon really doesn't have a leg up on the already existing logistics solutions there.

- For a cloud provider, negotiating deals now when AMD is on the rise must be perfect.

- Beating AWS on EC2 pricing is easy. AWS EC2 pricing is insanely expensive. German providers like Hetzner Cloud entered the market at 1/10th of the EC2 price.

- A k8s-focused cloud provider gets an enormous number of already existing k8s services without the need to compete directly with all the AWS services.

A "Hetzner Cloud" + K8S in Germany? I'd move all my stuff there.

If you want non-standard deductions, create a company and do normal accounting.

50-100 standard deductions can be handled centrally by the IRS with no issues. It's been done in other countries for decades.

In 2019 they will even have automatic taxation for small businesses based on the statistical average for the industry and various signals.

So basically taxation based on machine learning.

You can take it or leave it - it's up to you.

And this also shows that simpler taxation and higher taxation has no relation to each other.

You are not supposed to be able to get special privileges to your company to the detriment of your competitors.

There can be no free market when justice (and thus taxation) is not blind.

It's bleedingly obvious that it's illegal to be taxed differently than other companies. Paying back €13bn is nothing.

Companies that "make deals" on tax anywhere in the world should be effectively banned from the EU market. It's pure evil. Or pay 10x of any gain they have made anywhere in the world by "making deals" on tax, thereby undercutting fair competition in a free market.

"The Irish government agreed a deal with Apple in 1991 to only tax a certain bracket of its earnings" http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-apple-managed-to-get-its-t...

To me it's pretty obvious that Tim Cook will burn in hell :-).

It certainly IS NOT. When Apple "get's a deal" it is by definition market manipulation. You're not supposed to "get a deal" regarding taxation!

The same taxation rules must apply to every company or else there is illegal subsidy. The whole idea around "making a deal" on tax is horrendous anti-capitalist BS.

It's exactly the same as "making a deal" wrt the law in a corrupt country. A corporation "making a deal" by having government look away when they do something illegal, or getting their competitors fined on dubious charges.

Apple, Google, Microsoft, and basically all of those companies ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH for not refusing do to business with the market-corrupting Irish Republic.

It's deliberate to kill competition while not being in a dominant position, and then when in a dominant position, continue the trajectory by defining defaults.

The Apple apps are dominant partially because of the abusive rules the app store had earlier. It's quite clear from the fact that in any area where Apple did not have a default app, they are unable to match what the free market offers.

I cannot change the defaults in an Android phone and sell it to you. That's the problem.

Where is the problem with making Android free?

It's the other way around. EU is building credibility that seems to be lacking elsewhere by penalizing anti-competitive behavior.

The haskell variable naming convention is bad. What is worse is that when someone points it out, there is ALWAYS this one or two variable example being put forward, when the problem exists in the 90% of functions that have 5 or more variables in scope.

I see a lot of haskell code that looks like FORTRAN. Haskell code is yet not written in large companies where there is a readability requirement. I just hope more programmers with a better taste for readability joins the Haskell ranks. The readability story needs to improve (and I see it improving a bit..)