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> so advocating for 'sane progressive taxation' is just a nebulous cop-out that doesn't provide anything concrete enough to be discussed or analyzed.

Capital gains is merged into one income tax bracket. All money earned in a year is one single income. Income from 0 to your providential happiness threshold according to heuristic analysis based off the methodology used in this study: https://www.princeton.edu/~deaton/downloads/deaton_kahneman_...

From that point to 100x the happiness threshold you curve progressive taxation from 0% to 90% quadratically, approximating the median around 25% at 50x. Your total tax burden is simply the area under the curve, so rather than having tax brackets you use actual math to make sense and tax progressively all income earned.

That means any money made over, if happiness is 75k, 7.5 million is 90% taxed forever. I'd even wager to make it 100% as a short term measure to help dramatically curb income inequality. Note this rate is actually 2% lower than the highest its ever been, but in practice capping capital gains would have a dramatically larger effect on economic planning.

Additionally, you need tariffs on exported wealth, on corporate holdings accounts, and on physical goods hoarded, on property all at progressive rates to avoid off-shore tax evasion, hiding your money in a business account, buying material goods to hide your wealth, and stop the current and tangential issue of land hoarding that would be an even bigger problem under a legitimate tax scheme.

Finally, you institute a 10 year wealth tax to try to reclaim some of the amassed ownership of the means of production the ultra-elite have racked up over the last decade and stop some of the rent seeking. It is not just about stopping them from acquiring even more of a share of ownership, its about getting some of it back. The rates here are not something I have researched much, but something of the sort may be required since so much of total wealth has moved to the top.

You would keep sales tax as a means to fund local and state government, because while regressive if you try to push progressive taxes locally you will just have regional wealth flight. I strongly disagree with the argument that if you tried realistically taxing the rich to pay for society that they would all flee internationally - because the tax burden is pretty close to this in almost all European countries. Where else are they going? Politically unstable and unsafe third world nations? China? Russia? You would absolutely want some global effort here to prevent there from being such an easy escape route, but its a problem of global scale after all, the asset controllers in the US also dominate international commerce and are as much a problem in their influence on every other nation as they are here.
Java as base platform? Shit, didn't know that, and it totally explains the slowness on anything <8GB and spinning rust instead of a HDD.

Can anyone please tell me a reasonably complex GUI program in Java that is actually fast and resource-efficient? Counter-examples include IDEA, Lotus Notes, JDownloader, SAP...

I believe that while Java may be a nice programming language, you import slowness and resource starving of your system by using it.
Dutch company proposes building roads with recycled plastic
Do you like it? I found it very easy, but I'm biased...
As an active player since forever, Steam has ruined this game. It's full of bugs from 1999 and a whole lot new ones -- currently the lobby won't list games, you have to use a third party website. There is a pinned thread on Steam's support forums for a variety of bugs that are common to a lot of players (and the solutions don't always work), there are horrendous net issues ("Waiting for players", "Out of sync"), etc. I just don't play on Steam anymore.

Voobly, an unofficial platform similar to Gameranger, + mod community and tournament organizer, has a very active player base, including most of the top players in the game. It has it's own HD patch and several improvements not present in Steam. It's impressive how an unofficial, unsupported, free plataform can be light years ahead of the billionaires at the Valve/Microsoft partnership.
We had a saying in socialist/communist Poland.

Who doesn't drink is a rat (informant).

Of course lots of informants were drinking, because alcohol is not magic honesty elixir that makes you go against your vital interests. It just makes you less restrained in pursuing what you want and not remember it.
They are broad categories, I agree, but my definition is consistent with the historical usage.

Left/right originated in the French parliament, where on the left were proponents of political equality (you could perhaps, with a stretch, call them democrats), while on the right were proponents of keeping the hereditary privileges of the nobility.

The definition of left/right I gave describes a very general moral principle. Of course there are many flavours of left and right, depending on the exact interpretation, and they don't agree in many things. However, you didn't give any argument why is democracy not leftist, according to the above, historically accurate, definition.

GP asked if he is left or right, I gave an answer.
TL;DW

He bought sheets of $2 bills from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. Then he perforated these sheets and glued them to pads.

So he didn't really "print" them, but just modified them.

Still funny.
Who said that openness and sensitivity are contradictory? Is the article building a straw man?
Hilarious and strangely addicting! We need to know what is in that Taco Bell Linux flavor.
I'm afraid the body is not that simple. Both too little and too much mess with the heart:

> Magnesium is also cardiotoxic and, in high concentrations, can cause bradycardia [#]. Occasionally, complete heart block and cardiac arrest may occur at levels greater than 7 mmol/L. [0]

[0] http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/246489-overview#a4

[#] a type of arrythmia
Similar experience. I usually use IntelliJ in my Macbook. But when I had to code on an enterprise laptop with 4 GB RAM (with many enterprise bloatware), I was surprised IntelliJ performed so well. That too, I was working on 10 modules.
Rock on! This is a perfect example why i love hn! Thx 4 the comment :-p
Debian founder Ian Murdock's last tweets strongly indicate police abuse
I have anti-herd mentality. When a large group of people unanimously agree about something, I get an insatiable urge to argue against the consensus. Does that make me a troll?

I think I'm just against extremism. To me, herd mentality is a form of extremism. Whenever I argue, I'm not trying to convince the other person of my argument for the sake of winning; I just want them to meet me half way.

In summary, I'm against people believing in anything with 100% certainty. Doubting things and changing your mind often is the right approach to life... I think.
Actually, the rate of new business creation has been falling ever since the 80's. According to [0], “Unfortunately, new firm formation has waned since the 1980s, and the recession accelerated the decline."

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-small-business/post/...
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I have played with wall climbing cars some years back in italy. I believe they had been bought from thinkgeek.

But they were suction-based and had to be manually positioned on the surface.
I'd argue that a robust and liquid financial market does "create wealth" in that it opens up new strategies that were previously too costly. For example, due to lower spreads, automated pricing, and decreased transaction costs, it is now cheaper than ever before to rebalance one's portfolio frequently to avoid over-exposure to certain sectors, gain exposure to more diversified international markets through ETFs, etc. etc.

A lot of this even has ties to the real physical economy. With a tight liquid market on the screen, commodity producers/consumers can adjust their oil/grain/gas hedges in real-time, retailers can manage their foreign exchange exposures and make live adjustments as orders arrive, and so on. Just makes the economy more efficient and reduces "slop" where end users built up risk exposures they didn't really want because hedging it was so expensive.

And I agree the HFT is creating value, especially market-making HFT. Absent his bid or offer, you would either lose more money paying a higher spread, or lose more in opportunity cost wasting time to wait for another trader on the other side. People who trade with them "lose" like people buying insurance "lose." Not everyone has the same utility function.
Sometimes you have to admit that the problem you need to solve is hard. Hard problems usually can't be solved by easy solutions.

Some examples:

> I have far more faith in xargs than I do in Hadoop.

Me too, but those things are very far from comparable. You can only compare xargs to Hadoop only if you have a Hadoop cluster with one node and I'm really not sure why would anybody use Hadoop like that.

> I trust syslog to handle asynchronous message recording far more than I trust a message queue service.

You mean you trust the protocol that sends messages over UDP and can silently truncate or lose messages?

Standard Unix tools are nice and I always try to use them first, but for some tasks, they are just not the right tools.
Poor is relative. We are talking about the difference between having a safety net at your parents house where they have a combined income of 300k and might have a cleaning maid every weekend versus a billionaire CEO with penthouses in four cities and his own airplane. One is middle class, the other is extremely rich.
You're out of touch with the news. Over the last few years there's been many, many cases of people whose lives or careers have been destroyed by SJW social media outrage - sometimes over a single stupid tweet, sometimes over a single stupid whisper to a friend that got overheard, and sometimes just out of virtue of being in the vicinity of the actual target. People have been bullied to suicide, but since it wasn't anyone prominent, it isn't even talked about. And those are only the most direct results of the general undertone that if you're a white person who even looks in a general direction of a woman or minority member, you might be crucified.

The biggest chilling effect coming out of this is that you never know. Whole big areas of discussion topics have been turned into minefields. You may voice your opinions for months and only have intelligent audience discussing them with you, and then your irrelevant comment somewhere gets posted to Twitter and your life is over. The reaction is sudden and so out-of-proportion that it's like government nuking the city because of a speeding driver.

> As if wild-eyed college students haven't been making accusations that are beyond the pale for... well, forever.

They were. The difference is that now they're being listened to. It's probably the side effect of PR being the most important thing for companies and academic institutions.
There a particular personality that is given to self righteousness and imposing on others, and these self appointed arbiters quickly attach to these causes and use them to police other people, nevermind the cause. The internet has made this kind of self righteous mob effortless, and they feed off each other making justice or the original cause completely secondary to their own need to impose their views.

Civilized society depends on the rule of law. There is a large mechanism in place in any civilized society with an extensive process to first decide guilt and then give the guilty an opportunity to pay the price, reform and try again. This by definition rules out arbitrary individual perceptions of justice or injustice, discrimination or organizing to 'directly' deliver it, to prevent anarchy. Justice by definition cannot empower some arbitrary individuals or groups views over others.

Activism targets laws or injustice based on reason and not individuals. The objective is not to shame or deliver consequences for an individual but change the law. Self righteous mobs on the other hand driven by their own opinions and the need to impose their views, rather than justice, target individuals.

Discrimination is illegal and has a huge social, personal, and professional consequences. If an individual escapes that somehow it indicates a flaw in the rule of law which activism would target, not the individual. But that's not fulfilling for those driven by self importance.

You may decide something is wrong but only the rule of law can make that decision objectively and enforce consequences. A mob convinced of its own infallibility sidetracks all that, evades accountability in favour of their own perceptions and in an exercise in pure self importance and injustice delivers consequences. That is little to do with justice and everything to do with vanity, self importance and inability to recognize the limitation of one own views, and the value of activism and rule of law.
Hm, I write Java for a living (Android) and Java being a nice language would be one of the last things about it to come to my mind...
>> design interfaces using only code

The lines are blurred in Rebol because code is data and data is code.

>> the author seems to advocate that UIs should be disconnected from events

I don't think the author is advocating this because both TCL/TK & Rebol View rely on events.
> If I'm electrosensitive (I constantly get electric shocks for example), then computers are probably the best medium.

This statement appears as mystical as tarot cards. What connection is there to getting electric shocks and using a computer other than some vague mystical correlation not founded on anything logical?
One of my college professors (I think) has a saying:

"Life is not an optimization problem"
Reading tends to fill my head with cognitive dissonance, and especially when it becomes a habit. It is no secret that information is just as addictive as any other vice and as with all vices, there will always be the urban legend of the person who finds it hard to over indulge (in this case, a bibliophiles). Ignore them and cut down on your reading when you can.

Unless you must increase your IQ at all costs because your life depends on it, or that everyone around you is getting as smart as you, so you have to up your game!
Oh, yeah? Click on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1...
After using Linux for 10+ years, I made a video (Chinese with English subtitle)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/university-missouri-pro...
Lee Kuan Yew understood early on that the call for "social justice" was essentially just a bunch of marxists trying to take power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spectrum

> His "key man" in Singapore was Vincent Cheng, a full-time Catholic Church worker in the Justice and Peace Commission

Oddly enough I trust the dead Lee Kuan Yew more than I trust any "social justice" advocate... or the Swedish government.

Sometimes I think the craziness of "social justice" sociopaths is on design, in order to push people to the far right. It certainly worked on me. Guess I'm weak minded enough to buy it.

If we can look back in history and compare with national socialism growing, I am sure we can do the same with socialism/marxism.

The way Singapore handled both islamic and marxists threats is incredibly useful to read about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Coldstore
Yup, that's the exact implementation am using, but just with JSON instead of an API. Do you have a link for your project?
Hehe.

It's a big step to admit that your knowledge in human nature is just bad.

The most wrong decisions I have seen were made because people thought they knew other people better than they actually did.
This reads like the wrong combination of shoes and floor, resulting in huge ESD problems. Highly individual, too.
A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Finnish Quietude and Japanese Tranquility
I think it's up to you, it's a moral principle, you can apply it (or not) in myriad of ways.

And people do.. and then they are called out as hypocrites. :-)

I am not actually sure if what we disagree on has a name. You seem to think that we should not seek and follow unifying moral principles and strive for consistency, but I do. And for sure I am hypocritical in that, too.
I think the point is that most problems aren't actually hard enough to need the more complicated tools.
I was going to write a program to generate static files from our horrible Wordpress site and then I remembered oh yea - wget. I relate to this post in the fact that I'm a system admin that hopes the devs learn some daily tricks, faster word manipulation on a large scale but keep the system calls out of production.
I've always been wondering if file system RAM caches couldn't be moved to a fast SSD nowadays. Do you think this would be possible with, say, an Intel 750?
> Libertarians and Evangelicals agree on very little yet they've been voting for the same party for years.

Huh? Libertarians are liberals (small 'l') and what you call evangelicals are (for the most part) social Burkeans. The U.S. happens to have been founded, for the most part, as a liberal state, so the conservative position and the liberal position have historically been on the same side of most issues: welfare, parental rights, religious freedom, education, economic issues, and so on.

There are a few social issues that there isn't general agreement on, but those only seem to affect how libertarian voters feel for an election or two. After some statist behavior actually happens (healthcare reform, the Kelo decision, government surveillance, etc.), libertarians start to realize that conservatives align much better with their goals. At least, they're the lesser of two evils.

I think the problem here is that most people don't actually listen to other opinions on things. Since there is a lack of diversity in mainstream opinion shows, certain positions (libertarian, evangelical, etc.) tend to be only described in caricature. When evangelicals and libertarians start to talk about politics, there's actually a lot of agreement on big issues. Even when they disagree on the ends, they generally agree on the means (big changes should happen with a Constitutional amendment).
Only moderate liberal? I've gone to the deep end of the right. Though I still advocate the regular progressive stuff: abortion, LGBT rights and immigration.

I think Pim Fortyn was the last person who'd share my sentiment, but he got killed by a "social justice warrior".
It's funny to see LGBT-right advocates side with radical islamists. I guess gay rights doesn't mean shit when you can get a huge muslim voting cattle.
Nature is self similar. I come from the school of thought that if something is prominent in my own nature, then it must resonate highly with something else just as prominent. Like attracts like and all of that.

Electrosensitivity as mystical? You could say that, but it genuinely is a case of intuition manually over-riding a brain with an otherwise high reliance on scientific surety.
If you rephrase this quoestion as: "What benefit do acute senses give an artist?" you already have your answer.
I always shy away from clever solutions that involve semantics that's not obvious to the reader. If something using this code lends on your lap you are going to spend hours tracking its source, figuring out what the author was trying to say, etc.

I know, I've been there. Making my coworkers' lives harder than it needed to be with clever template magic didn't help anyone. I ripped that code out soon after.

But if the code like this is well contained, and is there to solve a very specific problem that maintainers will be able to handle, then go for it.
Does it support sass?
Yep it will be added soon.
> The effects of World War II were both economic and social. Economically, it decreased variation in income. Like all modern armed forces, America's were socialist economically. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. More or less. Higher ranking members of the military got more (as higher ranking members of socialist societies always do), but what they got was fixed according to their rank. And the flattening effect wasn't limited to those under arms, because the US economy was conscripted too. Between 1942 and 1945 all wages were set by the National War Labor Board. Like the military, they defaulted to flatness. And this national standardization of wages was so pervasive that its effects could still be seen years after the war ended. [1]

Just another article by a hypocrite capitalist talking about "socialism" without a clue.
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> How far are you willing to follow this line of argument, should a company help with enforcement Sharia Law, or the North Korean weapons program also? (They conform to local laws!)))

The answer is yes - if the company wishes to do business in Saudi Arabia or North Korea respectively.

Morals aside: should Heineken (a Dutch company) sell alcohol to 18 year-old Americans in California because that is legal in the home country? Or should they follow American laws when they are doing business in America?

If Heineken finds American laws unconscionable, the best they can do is to not do business in the US. If they want the US as a market - they have to follow the (local) laws.

Only in a fascist dystopia do companies get to pick and choose the laws they would rather follow.
> In the US, the prison system replaced slavery as the mechanism to control the black population. So the US has not improved much in that regard, with even children killed in broad daylight by the state.

Source?
Yes, although I've seen the same thing in other social networks and on the streets.
But why does that astound you or strike you as a problem? Look at any mature market and you'll find middlemen buffering supply and demand. Imagine:

50-70% of auto transactions are between dealers who don't even drive their cars and only own them for weeks!

50-70% of bread transactions are between distributors and supermarkets who don't even eat bread and want to sell it in days or even hours!
God damn, I could just feel the writer stretching to make the parallels work...that last attempt at poetry in the last line, "Then, along came Mr. Snowden". A code breaker who wrote a book to make money during the Great Deprssion is what made Snowden inevitable? And no one of worth came after Yardley to expose the NSA, not James Bamford nor Bill Binney?

If there was anyone who made Snowden inevitable, it was whoever was doing sysops.
While I haven't tried crochet, I have tried building my own RPi-B+ image. You mention in your guide that you'll post updates "when you have something", and judging by your post it seems you have.

Since I had difficulties compiling the zfs (and one other, which I don't recall) module, I'm wondering if you'd care to share your experience in your guide?

Kudos to your very well thoughtout and thorough guide.
> I remember everything that happened during the events

I don't get this. I know alcohol seems to erase memories for some people, but i've never forgotten anything i did while drunk. Something genetic maybe?
Damn, I love the "cd" command feature expansion