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> It's not really relevant to our times unless you're forecasting another global war, in which case all bets are off.

According to http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/new-economy/2011/1025/Iraq..., the Iraq war will wind up costing "more than the $3.6 trillion the US spent to fight World War II, even after adjusting for inflation". Add in Afghanistan and the ongoing airstrikes and likely expansion into other areas of extremism, and maybe we should start talking about Americans at home paying a bit for the militarism in the form of higher tax rates.
According to Alexa Voice Service page (https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-vo...)

Amazon is starting a $100M fund for anyone building voice related services. This is very interesting. Has any company been funded via this fund?
Loopholes mitigated the 90%. The rate was cut and loopholes were closed at the same time to make the on-paper tax rates actual tax rates.

Comparing a 90% tax bracket then to 90% tax bracket now is comparing apples and oranges.
Surely the implied point is that Yardley ”made Edward Snowden inevitable” by founding the totemic precursor (Black Chamber) of the institution that Snowden worked for and to whose practices he eventually objected so visibly.

Beyond the somewhat ‘clickbaitish’ title and blind casting-around for parallels and analogies I found it to be a rather interesting insight into the history of code-breaking in the US.
I'm a bit leery to take advice from a person who is willing to take multiple DNA tests and analyze their research, and yet according to her About page, turned to Chinese medicine and practices quack pseudoscience herself.

DNA tests have their merit - I did 23andMe because as someone who is adopted, it gave me a rough blueprint of what to expect in terms of long term health risks. But even with their assessments, they're all based on research studies and not your actual body. For example, 23andMe claims I'm Factor V Leiden, and yet a blood test confirmed this was not the case. So even with a high confidence rating on 23andMe, it was wrong, so now I take everything from 23andMe with a grain of salt.
"There has been the suggestion".. by whom?
So, I served in the military and happen to have studied Arabic and Arab culture quite a bit. Furthermore, I am kind of a military history buff.

The core strength of our military is that we put a lot of power in the hands of career NCOs, who are literate and often carry more knowledge in their heads than the boot lieutenants nominally in charge. We even have a Warrant Officer track for technically minded NCOs.

The no-career-NCO Soviet Union style military which most of the Arab nations have embraced is a serious hindrance, and it's notable that Russia did away with it in 2008, leading to better military unit performance in recent conflicts.

I would guess that the Soviet military system was originally adopted to balance the need to utilize an illiterate uneducated peasantry while at the same time denying them any real power or opportunity to move up the social ladder.

It is interesting to me that the system persists in many of the U.S.' allies today.
> who uses the internet

Which skews your sample.
Feb 2015 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31623659

"The TV licence does not have a long-term future and is likely to be replaced by a new levy within the next 15 years, a group of MPs has said."

"The MPs suggested every household could pay a new compulsory levy instead."

Yeah. So if enough people decide they don't need or want the BBC so they're not paying for it, it will hit a threshold where they just start charging everyone.
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This is another global centralized namespace. I thought we had learned to avoid this mistake when we all saw how bad the domain-name system was.
Well, then, "God damn, 90% marginal tax rate!" For ultra-high income people, say making ten times the income where 90% rate kicks in (or around $10M in 2013 dollars annually in this historical data) the marginal tax rate can end up very close to their overall tax rate. Remember also, that historically the rates for capital gains and dividends were identical to those of ordinary income. All this is what people need to reference when they talk, e.g., about the rich having manipulated a redistribution of wealth over past decades.

The sad thing is tiny percentage of current populace (including the rich) have no idea that current income taxes are extraordinarily low historically. Formerly it was generally understood that progressive taxation was a good thing and made sense. America's "glory days" somehow happened with tax rates that conservatives now call "socialist".
I'd remove the objective and references sections. Those tend to be unnecessary on modern resumes. You can then move your school and degree information down to the education section.

I also prefer bullets for project / job descriptions. People are only going to skim over the content, so detailed paragraphs aren't ideal.

Do you have a GitHub? It can be helpful to link to your profile if you have any projects or open-source contributions. I landed my current internship as a result of having code posted online for people to look at.
I'd love to hear it, because it took me a quick Google search to find numbers for startup failure from 80%-95% cited. (Much higher than the 48.8% I found for small business failure rate.)

Moreover, I'd be interested if anyone has actually done a comprehensive study on total value (long-term economic and short term investor profits) added/lost from startups. I wouldn't be surprised if we found something that looks net/net negative or even pretty small.[1] (That is startups globally, not just VC funded or SV startups.)

If startups are engines of wealth re-allocations rather than drivers of long term economic benefit. Well, then silicon valley is just as bad as Wall Street.

[1] We're quick to count the successes, but struggle to count the failures. More than that, many startups, as the author points out, are entertainment companies that don't add much economically. Finally, how much money is churned out of investable capital into acqui-hires? How much of that delivers a meaningful return vs. defending a market position?
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Doesn't make sense to compare this to Ferguson.

Ferguson was not a standoff. It was a protest. And it was getting violent, which is why the National Guard was needed.

Oregon was originally a protest, but it is now an armed standoff. And if history is any guide, aggressive government action is the surest way to cause it to become violent.
Given two technically and aesthetically identical products A and B, if A manages to get significantly more funding, better management and outreach, it will probably sell more. We would say that the market thinks that A is more valuable. But A and B are identical products, so where is the difference in value coming from?

I think funding, management and outreach all depend on human resources behind the product, most importantly, the team of founders. They have to get the funding, manage the company and communicate well to customers. If the founders are "high value", they can imbibe the product with some of this "value".

A system of computing values, which includes this "human value" is problematic. In this system, the value of the Nazi philosophy, let's say, would depend on the person propagating it. A charismatic leader like Hitler brainwashed a lot of people into believing its legitimacy, thereby increasing the value of the philosophy. The same philosophy, in the hands of someone else, might not have gained any foothold.

When we talk about equal opportunity, we talk about resources like money. But human resource can also play a huge impact in determining the value of a product. I do not know what the definition of equal opportunity in the context of "human value" should be. It is clear that a certain class of people possess more "human value" than others, and there is an inequality because of this. The question is : where does this value/inequality arise from? And should society continue including this in the computation of value, or should we construct rules where this value is suppressed?

In summary, the market is not a detached entity judging value, but it can be influenced by "high value" people to go in a certain direction.
We changed the URL from http://flatassembler.net/docs.php?article=manual#2.3.3 to the root page because it looks like this project hasn't had attention on HN before.
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Well you'd have to start with an original floppy or cassette, wouldn't you? Some still enjoy cracking on the real hardware, but most make a low level floppy or tape image and work from that.

I've only cracked relatively simple stuff, but working in an emulator is a LOT easier than working on real hardware. In an emulator you can freeze the system and inspect both the computer and the disk drive, set breakpoints, modify memory, and so on, and it's totally undetectable to the protection code.
What if it's not a spy device?
This is discussed in the readme. One point:

> The big advantage of using Python and prompt_toolkit is that the implementation of new features becomes very easy.
From the perspective of the OP, it was theoretical when the post was written. You being offended now does not change the past.
> The discussion is about marginal tax rates

No, it isn't. The discussion is about Graham's claim (which I agree with) that income inequality due to variations in productivity--i.e., allowing people to get rich in proportion to how much wealth they create--is an unavoidable consequence of economic growth, which means you can't get rid of it without getting rid of economic growth.

Graham makes a separate claim about tax rates, which is that the marginal tax rate has basically no effect at all on tax receipts as a percentage of GDP. This argument is based on nothing more than looking at the actual statistics since World War II, which do indeed show what he claims. But in itself, it says nothing about what, if any, effect marginal tax rates have on wealth creation.
Aren't DOIs already pretty established for that, at least for scientific sources? http://www.doi.org/

Granted, they don't have nice names, but the namespace will get cluttered and full anyways.
> For ultra-high income people, say making ten times the income where 90% rate kicks in (or around $10M in 2013 dollars annually in this historical data) the marginal tax rate can end up very close to their overall tax rate.

Sure, but I'd happily take 10% of a billion versus taking home 90% of $40k without shedding too many tears.

Marginal tax rates mean a vanishingly small proportion of the population gets hit by increases to the top brackets, but Americans have been conditioned to see themselves as "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".
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If the planet is no longer capable of sustaining life after the nuclear war is over -- and I would argue that once you launch a couple of missiles you might as well launch them all, just to be safe -- then yes nobody wins. Your country/continent might die out more slowly than the other ones, but nuclear winter will kill everyone.

Now if you have 1000 years of rations saved up sure you might win. You might be the only person left on earth. But is that winning? Maybe somebody thinks so, I guess.
So let me ask a provacative question.

What makes a social component healthy/unhealthy? I generally found myself nodding to posts until I read yours, which made me think quite a bit harder. Can a community with questionable moral value (neo nazis) have a healthy social community? I certainly think those two are not mutually exclusive, and to tie them together may detract from a complete understanding of what "unhealthy" means.

(To answer the question myself, "healthy" vs "unhealthy" in my eyes is whether the community is a self perpetuating echo chamber, (for which many parts of instagram this certainly holds true, content regurgitation and mindless browsing, but I'm apt to believe not ALL of it) and similarly an ISIS forum may have more of a tendancy towards "unhealthy" social content, I don't believe it necessarily dictates it; I've read some fascinating discussions even on HN (linked to other sites) between extremist Muslim/European religious experts that would be a fit for the most cultured discussion boards, even if context of one sides subject matter is far darker.)
Does "over 100%" mean that on average every person has > 1 internet phone?
"Words mean what the speaker intends them to mean, not what you interpret them to mean."

It's both. If you understand that someone else will interpret a word in a certain way, and you choose to use that word, then you are responsible for them receiving that meaning from you - since it was what you expected them to understand from what you said.

If you don't actually know that other people will interpret words differently from the way you mean them, then you can't be responsible for misunderstanding until you get feedback and have a dialogue to figure out the different on understanding.

And of course it's fine to speak however you like with people who understand that you don't mean to offend them.

But you do know that people will understand certain of your words as offensive, so when you choose to use those words with people you know will be offended, you are intentionally offending them.

So yes, you actually are trying to offend people - you just don't care about it.
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You can't own a URL -- they are not permanent.
It's not clear that making organ sales illegal leads to overall greater happiness. If someone is poor and chooses to sell an organ, as long as their decision is rational, then they would be better off by doing so.

In other words, they're coerced into staying broke if we make it illegal to sell organs.
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IDEA comes with its own JDK bundled, so if you have permission to run IDEA, you have the updated Java (installed to the subdirectory that IDEA resides in, nonconflicting with the system JRE). What's so hard about that?

Or is your question about how JetBrains expects to get permission from the pointyhair bosses to purchase the new IDEA version for their developers in the first place? If that's your question then it's not really JetBrain's business if megacorps decide developer productivity is not worth the money to spend on buying a new copy of IDEA.
Speaking of shitting over a country's chances of building out proper infrastructure, have you read http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452287081 Confessions of an Economic Hitman?

It's all about the USA doing exactly that, by promising massive GDP gains. When they fail to net the profit required to pay the contractors, the contractors take over the infrastructure -- netting the USA dozens of corporate-owned electrical infrastructure all over the world, chiefly South America & the Middle East (!!)
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It's a measure of social success. All the mean bullshit of middle/high school is now quantitatively measurable.
README.md is a good place to check:

Compared to tmux

To some extend, pymux is a clone of tmux. This means that all the default shortcuts are the same; the commands are the same or very similar, and even a simple configuration file could be the same. (There are some small incompatibilities.) However, we definitely don't intend to create a fully compatible clone. Right now, only a subset of the command options that tmux provides are supported.

Pymux implements a few improvements over tmux:

There is a completion menu for the command line. (At the bottom of the screen.)
The command line has fish-style suggestions.
Both Emacs and Vi key bindings for the command line and copy buffer are well developed, thanks to all the effort we have put earlier in prompt_toolkit.
Search in the copy buffer is highlighted while searching.
Every pane has its own titlebar.
When several clients are attached to the same session, each client can watch a different window. When clients are watching different windows, every client uses the full terminal size.
Support for 24bit true color. (Disabled by default: not all terminals support it. Use the --truecolor option at startup or during attach in order to enable it.)
About the performance:

Tmux is written in C, which is obviously faster than Python. This is noticeable when applications generate a lot of output. Where tmux is able to give fast real-time output for, for instance find / or yes, pymux will process the output slightly slower, and in this case render the output only a few times per second to the terminal. Usually, this should not be an issue. If it is, Pypy should provide a significant speedup.
The big advantage of using Python and prompt_toolkit is that the implementation of new features becomes very easy.
Warning: OT

CyberDildonics is quite the amusing account: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=CyberDildonics

It appears to be used extensively for posting comments just like this one!

Personally, I am a fan.
Andrew Carnegie's philanthropy was a major force behind the library system in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library

> but many of its adherents simply don't.

To the extent that is true is irrelevant in complaining about libertarianism - it's a variation of the ad hominem logical fallacy. It's also true that many self-described libertarians have only a hazy idea of what it is.
Every time I hear it being used, it is in a derogatory fashion, ie "That's so gay" to something that they find distasteful or dislike. I'm not jumping to conclusions, since I saw it in my generation and in my sibling's generation (a decade of age difference) and the meaning certainly hasn't changed.
Great link.

Something that really bothers me about "Facebook Basic (Free Basic, Facebook.. what a fucking insidious name!)" is the lack of competition..
it's very rude to make up bollocks about other people and state it as fact.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8011987#up_8012898

> HN is not "Suppressing" all NSA-related topics.

> Users are flagging these posts. The HN community is divided. Some people think that there are too many NSA stories; others, too few. On any issue where the community is divided, upvotes compete with flags, and stories rise and fall according to the tug of war.

> The HN software adds a small default weight to NSA stories. The purpose of this is obviously not to suppress them. If we were trying to do that, it would be a large weight and not a small one. Instead, it's tuned so that NSA stories can still easily make the front page—and so they do. It's an attempt to strike a balance between the different segments of the community who strongly disagree with one another about how much NSA is the right amount of NSA.
Socialism and communism has even greater income inequality than capitalism.
Scott Aaronson summarizes a number of the responses: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2612
It's a bit silly that the author doesn't make a link to an obvious parallel: South Vietnam's completely dysfunctional military. Mistrust at all levels? Check. Lack of consideration for the lives of conscripts? Check. Lack of cooperation between units? Check. Rampant corruption, disappearing supplies? Check. Legitimate fear of military coups? Check. Promotion based on contacts, not competence. Check.

Essentially this is a pathology of the militaries in countries were the government lacks legitimacy, where survival of the most paranoid is the rule. The paramount example of this is Saddam Hussein, who would deliberately promote incompetent idiots to the highest positions to protect his own ass and surrounded himself with sycophants.

Mussolini's Italy is another good example, and so is the Iran of Mohammad Reza Shah.
How nice for you.
If you build the device yourself, you can ensure it only uses the API at a time you control. For example, you might configure a trigger word that is recognized locally.
Well, the startups that don't fail generate financial returns that far outweigh lost capital from faulures. But value isn't just returns to investors, it's value for customers and employees which even failed startups generate
But more importantly, you don't get to make claims that you can't substantiate and then ask others to prove to you they are false. Do you think Zeus is real? No? Well, prove to me he isn't. If you claim startups don't create value without actual evidence to back that statement up - that's a nonsensical way to converse
As Wendy Cope reminded us in Engineers' Corner.
Actually this was exactly my thinking when I wrote it, but having read this thread I'll certainly try to have some clearer introduction on every page.
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The Alexa Fund page lists a sub-set of the companies that have received funding from the fund so far: https://developer.amazon.com/appsandservices/solutions/alexa...
None of this really answers the question. Of course technology eliminates jobs. This has been happening since before Ford was founded and before all those automotive jobs were originally created. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite for instance. The question isn't whether specific jobs are being destroyed, but rather whether all unskilled jobs are being destroyed, and none of those links even begin to give any data on the subject.
It's quite clear that the cognitive dissonance necessary to buy into membership in a truly* privileged class is very costly. You can't value positional success at the expense of the success of the others in your economy without incurring greater cost.

*the present-day use of the word seems incoherent at best - so let's stick to easier-to-see versions for now.

Narrow self-interest appears to be completely at odds with enlightened self-interest. This isn't some ascetic protestation of moral superiority; it's a purely practical mechanism for personally having things that work.

I'm not sure how an average is better (or worse) than an outlier; I meant simply to show what was possible. She was able to use institutions other than marriage for support.
I was going to answer to that post, then I realized I would be making a choice between PHP and Javascript on the server in the future.

And really, I want neither of them.
Instead of having all of these tax brackets, which for all of the smart people and companies they are meaningless anyway since they take advantage of the hundreds and hundreds of loopholes (also called "deductions") so they don't pay the full amount, why not have a flat 15-20% income tax for everyone instead - rich or poor?

I think it would be simpler, more honest, more transparent, and more fair (slightly favoring the rich, but it more than makes up or it in other ways). You also wouldn't have these endless discussions about whether you should tax the poor 10% (because the tax affects them more) and the rich 30%, or the poor 30% and the rich 10% (because they are the "job creators")?

A moderately fair flat 15% income tax for everyone. No deductions for any special interest.

I'm not a huge fan of subsidies either, but if you really think you need to "make it easier" for some vital or up and coming industries, then you could give them some subsidies for a while. That would also be a more direct and more transparent approach than giving them lower taxes, because then you'd know exactly how much of the taxpayer's money is going into aiding an industry and there would be bigger pressure to end that subsidy eventually.
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