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Only for certain countries: https://www.sif.admin.ch/sif/en/home/themen/internationale-s...

Tax evaders from USA are safe.


> Tax evaders from USA are safe.

No, the USA forced Swiss banks to open up their administrations to the DOJ already in 2013.

https://www.justice.gov/tax/file/631356/download


I very much doubt that.

When you open a bank account there they'll go to very great lengths to make sure you're not from the US and you don't fall under FATCA (forein account tax complience act), and if you do, then .. well, you usually can't just open an account there, but there are branch offices of course that are ready and willing to do business with people and entities associated with the IRS, probably they are a bit more costly though.


This applies even to Swiss citizens with American green cards, unfortunately.

Note private banking has always had different rules from consumer banks.


The AEOI is a mutual agreement the US doesn't want to share their banking details with some nations on that list.

That said iirc the Swiss have a separate agreement with the US that agreement is based on the 1996 tax treaty and allows the IRS and SFTA to look through the banking records of each nation.


Note that EU is listed as a single country. The footnote reads:

>The AEOI agreement with the EU applies for all 28 EU member states and is also applicable for the Åland Islands, the Azores, French Guiana, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, the Canary Islands, Madeira, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion and Saint Martin.


When will Microsoft buy this company and integrate ReSharper into Visual Studio already? Having to make two payments (one for the IDE and the other for the plugin) instead of one is not very appealing.


How is this different to software engineers meeting up?

Software engineers getting together to talk about which programming language is best, what software to use, etc..


No Angular2?


No paywall, but rather video ad!


Unix serves as a foundation of iOS?

Didn't know that!


Darwin, the open-source operating system UI underneath both macOS and iOS, is based on FreeBSD and the XNU kernel, plus some NextStep stuff. And of course FreeBSD is based on BSD, which was a patch set derived from the original AT&T Unix.

It's amazing that in 2016, the two major consumer computing platforms are BSD and Linux, and Windows in struggling to catch up.


Depends on how you slice it. Windows still dominates the personal computer market.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62kxPyNZF3Q

>And you know the surest way to go broke? Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market.


the filesystem wasn't a clue? ;-)


Or, you could use JavaScript and do something in 30 seconds rather than fiddling with CSS.

Why do people try so hard not to use tools that make their life easier?

You might not need a car - you can walk. But it makes life easier and it just works!


> Or, you could use JavaScript and do something in 30 seconds rather than fiddling with CSS.

Assuming you're more proficient in JS than CSS ;) With CSS3 I find some animation is easier w/ transitions and keyframes than JS.


I got blacklisted because my name is the same as a baseball pitchers name..


Don't overspend on infrastructure.


That's a very good point. Any advice on how to plan for infrastructure at the time of launch?


I don't understand how this would work? Does the algorithm detect similar sounding beats?


> At a certain point, Spotify contacted Perry’s music manager to explain how the service had transformed his client from autoworker to house music luminary in months. It was simple: It had a lot to do with Spotify’s music-recommendation technology. The company keeps track of what you listen to. Then it uses algorithms to see which other playlists contain the same songs—and other songs that are on those lists but not on yours.


Although Release Radar apparently does analyse sounds as it doesn't have the playlist history to access.


There is bunch of info out there about this

The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good

http://qz.com/571007/the-magic-that-makes-spotifys-discover-...


Spotify acquired a startup called EchoNest[1] a while back. Discover Weekly is probably based off their technology.

[1] http://the.echonest.com/


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