A product has its components fabricated in east Asia, is assembled in east Asia, sold in Europe, and the profits from the sale are held in Europe. Somehow you consider this “illegally offshoring money”. Somehow you think the US government deserves 34% of these profits. Apparently, the spirit of the law being violated is that the US government has the right to stick it’s nose in anyplace in the world it wants and extract rent.

At a physics conference Wolfgang Pauli heard a talk that was so misguided that his comment was that “it wasn’t even wrong.” IMO your comment isn’t even wrong.

I don't think the US government deserves 34% of these profits, but some country out there does. Make it point of sale, if you want.

But right now that money isn't taxed at all. That money is what the Irish subsidiary owes Apple US for the license to Apple IP. So the Irish subsidiary isn't paying taxes on it, and Apple isn't paying taxes on it in the US because they are refusing to "bring it home".

That is why Apple is lobbying so hard for some sort of "tax holiday". They want to pay 0, nada tax on those overseas profits.

You seem to be missing this little detail.

Government research grants need to require that papers produced are available online for free. This would rapidly change the academic publishing situation.

many funding bodies do. but what to do about older papers?

Maybe a law reducing the length of copyright on academic papers to a few years.

actually thats not a good idea. A paper may already take 1+ year to go from experiment to publication, it should be open for everyone to read immediately to be most useful - science moves fast.

Perhaps you meant “convergent function ratios.” The first example equations are parabolas (divergent).

Yes.

From the first sentence of the paper: “I explore functions f that can be written as a sum f=g1+g2 where g1 and g2 are shifted and possibly reflected versions of each other, both strongly resembling the original function f.”

Note, not f but “both strongly resembling the original function f.”

My friend stopped graduate school at a MS and didn’t pursue a PhD because all the American grad students were forced to take teaching assistantships while the foreign grad students were given research assistantships.

The Apple STOCKS app on my iPhone is showing updates as I watch and says Yahoo! at the bottom. So, it seems Yahoo is still providing fairly real-time stock quotes via some means.

xkcd of land mammal biomass

https://xkcd.com/1338/

Human biomass growth 1900 - 2015: http://peakoilbarrel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Terrestr...

I wonder if that protruding sensor block can be used for touch ID somehow?

Arizona doesn't participate in daylight savings time. And, we really don't need to be saving any daylight in Arizona.

Most of Arizona doesn’t participate in DST [1].

[1] “Daylight Savings Time explained”, CGP Gray. https://youtu.be/84aWtseb2-4. Skip to the 5 minute mark for Arizona.

Is Navajo Nation technically in Arizona, though?

For some purposes yes, for others no. The state has jurisdiction in matters not involving the tribe that take place there and the residents can vote / participate in civil government as Arizonians. However, the nation does have sovereignty in tribal affairs on the reservation and a few outside it.