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Maybe we should move into doing a luxory sales tax instead? 100% sales tax on yatches and cars over 100k? 20% tax on homes over one million?
It's already advantageous to structure your earnings in this way, so most high earners are already doing this as much as is possible.
There's a very simple answer: the middle class pays very low income taxes in America. Nearly all of the income tax burden is on the top 25%. If you want to shuttle over half the population into a new single payer health insurance system, they're almost all going to be a (big) net drain. It's an inherent consequence of a highly progressive tax system.

Your typical middle class single person is now spending $300 to $400 per month on health insurance (employer sponsored is closer to $100 per month, but that's merely subsidization), and you want to shift them into single payer, then you have to recover that $300 to $400 via taxation.

The median in the US has an effective income tax of about 3% to 5%. Put another way, putting all of that toward their new single payer insurance, wouldn't come close to covering how much they'll cost you (and that's before getting into family cost structures).
The headline invites ridicule. A more descriptive headline would be, "That young people ignore social media age limits exposes them to bullying."

When I was a 6th grader, I played Diablo II online. A player named "I-Dupe" told me he'd duplicate my items and give them to me. I thought he had a program to do this.

I gave him my items, and he left the game. My items were not duped; I was. I bawled, and ran downstairs and yelled to my parents. They offered consolation and advice ("be careful online"). But you can tell my parents couldn't ameliorate my hurt feelings.

If I could wave a magic wand, I'd turn this situation--wherein parents have to cope with the relationship between their kids and the web--to one where parents can do something about it. The ridicule I've seen in HN's comments just now demonstrates that age requirements don't work and appear disingenuous. I'm also skeptical of what someone from UK Safer Internet Centre said, "It's so important that we show children what other things they can do using digital technology that are engaging, creative and age-appropriate. It's about showing them what else it could be and inspiring them with that." When we make things for people "less" than us (young, less-tech-literate, etc), we often make something crappy[0].

[0] http://paulgraham.com/javacover.html relevant excerpt: Like the creators of sitcoms or junk food or package tours, Java's designers were consciously designing a product for people not as smart as them.

This "smart people creating for people less than them" problem is exacerbated with students. You can convince almost any unemployed adult to learn Java by telling them it's profitable, even if they can detect condescension. But students are just as good at detecting condescension, and these "engaging, creative, and age-appropriate" tools are probably made to occupy students' time, not make them money.
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> From the second link you posted, why couldn't selling a license be considered "selling donated merchandise" (the code is the merchandise) and therefore exempt from being taxed as unrelated business income?

FOSS expenses are generally related to giving the developers money to do X or for infrastructure. [e.g. Pay for bug bounties, pay for security audits, FreeBSD's utility bills for electricity]

At which point, it isn't "donated merchandise" as you are paying for some of the contributions and/or using sales to fund your infrastructure. That is a slippery slope to audits which is the sort of mess that Patio11 is trying to avoid on his end by exporting it to the FOSS end.

Except, this time, instead of line items its integral to the entire code for the project in some cases which risks calling the entire project into question. [e.g. security audits, paying for infrastructure]

> It seems like there could be a great opportunity for some kind of platform company that handled all this hassle for FOSS projects that want to offer paid licenses.

This isn't a SaaS platform opportunity. This is a "You have to pay a CPA and a Non-Profit Tax Attorney" situation to make sure you are on the right side of the law with the entire process from end to end.

https://blogs.gnome.org/jnelson/2014/06/30/the-new-501c3-and...

> The requests for clarification contained mostly non-surprising questions. For example, “Describe whether your organization provides any goods or services for a fee.” (We don’t.) Some were odd: “Will any of your directors or employees reside at your facility [i.e. our office]?” (Ah…no.)

> You have a substantial nonexempt purpose because you develop software published under open source compatible licenses that authorize use by any person for any purpose, including nonexempt purposes such as commercial, recreational, or personal purposes, including campaign intervention and lobbying.

These are the sort of questions you get asked as part of the 501(c)3 process and this would qualify as "providing any goods or services for a fee" almost certainly.

Really, in order to sell licenses like Patio11 would like, you need to be a For Profit entity. You have no chance of going any other direction.
What's different about this app is that you get just one match- ever.
While I agree with the general sentiment, the matter is, there were a ton of people using a single Redis instance for distributed locks, since people find this model useful sometimes, even when best alternatives exist, or maybe because of limitations of systems they interact with. So I tried to provide something better compared to what people were using, but comparatively easy.
Sanders would also seek to double the capital gains rate for the richest 2%, and close various loopholes.
I think Sanders has radical ideas that will not work in America... I also support him for this reason.

We do not need to be the next Norway, but we should have much better healthcare, education and intolerance of greed. I think that his fresh ideas will really bring this to fruition.
Medicaid & Medicare are practically "single payer" government-monopoly health insurance plans. They're notorious for severely under-paying doctors et al, to the point that many refuse to take such patients at all.
Corporations responded by not paying high salaries but instead giving people lavish expense accounts and company cars that were not taxed.
English law is actually subtler than that:

"As a general rule, a minor is not bound by contracts he makes, though the adult party whom he contracts with is"
What happens when you sent the increment and then failed to send the decrement? The problem isn't typically the eventual consistency aspect, though that can also be a problem since you want the balance to be accurate, but rather the transactional nature.
It's actually very common in Oregon to be asked if you're over 21 before having alcohol served to you (without being proofed).
Android users can get adblockers by sideloading, and Chrome users on iOS are a tiny minority.

The reason why the mobile web version is less sucky on your battery life is because it doesn't get the chance to break out of the browser to monitor your position, play silent audio so that it can stay "active" and push notifications at you, and generally push to the front of the queue.
"Actively exploring modes of failure"
The paper discusses benefits of applying the theoretical tools and written by engineers. You[r] cite is of course essential but no doubt OP knows this as well :)
What about comparing to other countries and their tries? I am sure there are some slight variation and cultural differences, but it's a good start. On the same note, I am amazed how many mistakes Europe is doing when the answer sheet is just look at what LKY did.
The web UI looks solid, I wish there was a translated version of the README into English. Currently I am using NGINX Plus for load balancing and love it. The NGINX Plus web interface is really good as well.
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> UIs aren't stateless

i would agree that this is the traditional perspective.

i'm not convinced this is necessarily the case; there may be other ways to look at it. it could be that the ui "value" is the output of a series of functions, and that what might look like a "state" change is really a "new" ui being rendered.

(maybe this is what "frp" gives us, or perhaps "immediate mode gui" that sometimes pops up in game development circles; but i'm not very familiar with either.)
But I'd hate to give up all these top rated hospitals. The US has more expensive health care, but the US also has most of the best hospitals.

http://hospitals.webometrics.info/en/world
Good, more room for the next generation.
That was the first mission return landing, ever. It'll be awhile before they can reuse a first stage for a mission, there's a lot to study and learn from returned stages and static firings (as the article said, they are already making changes based on what they learned).
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They're probably empty. It's mostly security theater to perpetuate the myth that the police state will look after you.
Federalism.
I am a Bernie supporter, but I have 2 issues: 1) I'm having a hard time understanding how such a policy shift could happen purely from the POTUS 2) Even if it did happen and we got single payer, I have a feeling it'd just turn in to another benefit for the employer. When employers no longer provide health insurance they'll just keep the money for themselves and the employees won't see the actual benefit, just the higher taxes. If my employer is currently paying 13k/yr for family coverage and all of a sudden doesn't have to, I doubt they'll be adding that, or even some percentage, to my salary.
Can you further explain your "check" and "set" storage example? I feel like you might be begging the question. "check" and "set" seem like they describe another lock. How does that lock time out?
Note: you have the same issue with all the other dist locks with auto-release. If you have a mission critical use case you could:

1. Try real time kernel extensions.

2. Try a time bomb or watchdog process as you suggested.

3. Put monitoring systems to avoid load to go over a certain level.

4. Tune the Linux scheduler params.

5. Use TTLs that are comparatively very large compared to the work you need to do with the lock hold.
I think they plan to use them to launch the new satellites they are coming out with until they are proven reliable.
High income tax rates do not "discourage greed", they merely cause it to manifest in different ways. Compensation structures in high tax jurisdictions like Europe reflect this, with myriad forms of lavish compensation for corporate executives that are technically not income, much more so than in locales where the taxes encourage people to simply write a check. An argument could be made that direct cash compensation in tax jurisdictions where that makes sense has the benefit of being a much more transparent kind of compensation.

Tax rates don't change human nature, they merely change incentives.
This is a really interesting book. Made me realize I have never known what it is like to be truly hungry.
Yes.

The Company will begin to provide these extra perks to high income earners, solely in order to advance the Company's efficiency. Perks may include: private jet, a house near the office (or far away), fully paid for meals, etc.
I would imagine a simulation to be extremely complicated and fairly unreliable given that the Economy is and can be more volatile than weather (and of course is a chaotic system as well).

That being said I bet a simulation would probably be better than many educated guesses.
I've been working with several applications that are Access-based in one way or another. Most of these apps are "ancient". Some of my job is to migrate these apps to modern solutions, but a lot of that depends on project budgets.
The uninsured rate has been cut in half under Obamacare.

>According to an ongoing NHIS / CDC study the current uninsured rate of 9.2% for 2015 is the lowest in over 50 years.

It started at 18%.
People might also be more supportive of taxing things they'd never dream of buying.
He could if he is OK with the risk of malvertising.
The scenario is this "the idea is aggressively sold during the campaign, and is a key issue in not only the Presidential election but a substantial number of Congressional elections".

Of course, even if Sanders is elected, its likely that there won't be sufficient support to.adopt his programs unmodified in Congress, and some alternative or compromise will be necessary. The same is true, for that matter, of any Presidential candidate.

Part of why you campaign on plans is to shift the public dialogue and set the groupies ds for the eventual compromises that are necessary as part of governing when you aren't a dictator. Holding back preemptively doesn't help that, it just cedes ground to the other side before the work of compromise starts.
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The algorithm needs a proof and the implementation needs rigorous testing (Jepsen).
This might work in other countries but I am skeptical it would work in the united states. I do like sanders ideas of reforming wall street:

https://berniesanders.com/issues/reforming-wall-street/

If he gets elected and can actually deliver on that promise, hopefully he can manage to siphoned off enough tax base from wall street alone to fund some of his other ideas.
Then it will shift somewhere else. Or being invested in countries where savings and investment are rewarded rather than punished.
A tax on consumption? Why that would encourage people to save for the future. Blasphemy in modern economics where negative interest rates are being contemplated to further discourage savings.
"Trickle down" was a deliberate mischaracterization by opponents of Regan's economic plans. What it construes wasn't implemented.
So far they've only landed the first stage, not the whole rocket. And they've successfully brought it back to land, but not to the barge, which is what they need for larger payloads (since returning to the launch site requires fuel).

And maybe they think by the time they're reusing rockets on a regular basis, they'll have enough volume to need the bigger factory as well. I don't think they've said how many times they expect to reuse each rocket.
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That complicates it more, and high net worth individuals will just leave their money in captive corporations/trusts instead.

This is not a route to saner tax policy, just something that sounds great to the average voter.
To learn from whom?
He is running a propagandistic campaign that seems to be more about 'bending the stick' of public perception of what is mainstream political/economic thinking in North America.

And I think that is good and I wish him well.

But for myself, as someone who would call himself a kind of Marxian socialist, I wish he'd stop calling himself a socialist. He is doing both himself (at best a Euro-style social democrat) and socialism a disservice.
Not sure what exactly you mean. Do you mean subtitles like this? (with apologies to George Lucas and thanks to http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/ )

It is a time of people's war.
Space ships of people who do not agree, hitting from a hidden home, have won their first win against the bad Many-Star-Group Big-Country. During the fight, people who steal hidden information for people who do not agree managed to steal hidden plans to the Big-Country's greatest attack thing, the DEATH STAR, a hard-metal covered space house with enough power to put away an entire large space home ball.

In such case, it would probably be better to see both the simplified and original subtitles, no?
It bothers me that our politicians always talk about taxing labor income but never talk about taxing land values and/or capital. We need more economists coming up with tax plans rather than politicians.

(I say this as someone who will vote for Bernie Sanders)
Only 27%. ONLY! Did you know the UK has a 40% income tax over £42,385? And plenty of doctors, solicitors (lawyers), and managers continue to work for income.

https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates/current-rates-and-allowa...
> Social housing

Really?

> SETI

Really?
I can tell you that teachers don't make six figures and above.
Unfortunately, my founded belief is that if a Democrat gets elected president, the gang of Republicans that shut down government will also act to stop any action the D-President does.

We've already seen this with Obama. It's not hard to see them doing more of the same.
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Whatever you can mount with a random token is always simpler than checking if Token_ID_A < Token_ID_B which needs a linearizable store. But basically this is how it works:

You want to modify locked resource X. You set X.currlock = token. Then you read, do whatever you want, and when you write, you "write-if-currlock == token". If another client did X.currlock = somethingelse, the transaction fails.

Edit: note that I noticed some confusion about this. Any other client is free to replace X.currlock even if set to a past value.
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It isn't a pain point for most people. In addition to that, for some people like myself, it is the opposite of a pain point as I don't mind learning new words by looking them up.
>> is a key issue in not only the Presidential election but a substantial number of Congressional elections

Are there a substantial number of Democratic congresspersons that would line up behind Bernie's tax proposals?

Edit: Yes, I get how it works. There's a point, though, where reaching too far is counterproductive.
So no figures for Germany then about paying customers?
I don't see a distributed lock implementation being both 100% correct without any support of the resources guarded by the lock and actually feasible.

For data which absolutely must never violate the lock then the underlying data storage has to be involved. The vast majority of times where a distributed lock is used is where the underlying storage doesn't provide any support and the distributed lock is good enough, failures are exceptional and not disastrous.

If you want perfect correctness then you can just not have auto-release but practically this will cause more problems than it solves.
People don't always work solely for the money. Also, that top tax rate is only in income above $10 million. The money below that threshold is taxed at lower rates. So, they would be keeping more than 27% of their total income
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The key aspect here is "established charity" recognized in the country where the company is located.
The moment I saw "foddy.net" next to the title I knew what I was in for. This is the same guy behind games like QWOP (http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html), GIRP (http://www.foddy.net/GIRP.html) and CLOP (http://www.foddy.net/CLOP.html). He's an expert on making games that troll the player.
I'd imagine it being pretty unsettling to watch a bank balance fluctuate. Also, what if there are downstream operations that depend on the value being accurate I.e. Trigger overdraft condition?
Current rockets are supposed to be reusable, they've designed them that way from the beginning. They've already test-fired the one they brought back, and it looks like they can reuse with minimal refurbishing.

http://www.universetoday.com/126837/spacex-test-fires-recove...
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found it! It had a different filename:

https://github.com/ca98am79/my-first-programs/blob/master/ps...
What an irony to use twitter bootstrap to make a FLOSS twitter :)
No, it does begin to ensure it. It doesn't do the whole job, you need others to do it too, but it's a necessary step.
At least for doctors, I would think that the average annual income is somewhere around $300,000-400,000 (and that may be too high). This group would, all-in, be taxed somewhere between 50-60% including medicare, Social Security, etc., no where near the 73% imposed on any dollar made past $10,000,000. There may be a handful of doctors in the world pushing the $10,000,000 barrier. I assume that the landscape is similar for lawyers and managers, and that people tend to focus on those making huge money to generalize the whole field.
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you mentioned your desire to inflict disproportionate punishment. I am pointing out that there is a reason fines are levied as opposed to more severe punishments, in case of certain violations.

also, I did not say that you mentioned beheadings. I mentioned beheadings to illustrate a point.
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Yes, and the Capitalists whom Reagan's plans helped ended up doing what with the gains?

That's right. They saved it. They didn't "invest" or whatever crap was spewed then. They didn't hire more people.
If you improve the perf/functionalities of init using Go, I will give this language a go right after. It seems promising tho.
They are, and I expect if nothing else they want to continue to attempt more landings for study purposes. We won't see actual rapid re-use of rockets for few more years though.
My understanding is that this kind of payola is rampant in the industry and has been for decades?
Why would the next generation want to take up that room? Would you take up a career where despite long & expensive education, long hours, hard work, and lives-in-your-hands responsibility, you kept just 27% of your income? would you put in a million dollars of effort to net a quarter of that in return?
You are assuming that those professionals choose to remain a part of the workforce due to their high income.
It's worth noting that any tax increase has to start as a bill in congress, so it wouldn't so much be Republicans stopping the action of a D-President as just not doing what he/she wants them to do.

Which...sounds like how the system is supposed to work? Checks & balances and all...
Too bad tens (hundreds?) of millions of citizens can't afford to go there.
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to the downvoters: is the deposed CEO not a common shareholder like any other common shareholder?
A good starting point. But those proofs are notoriously based on fairy tales such as reliable networking, Fail/Stop, and other white lies.

The fact that a protocol (e.g. Raft) has been proven correct sets the floor but it is certainly not sufficient to assume correctness of an implementation.
This is exactly the point of having states. They're not called laboratories of democracy just because we like flowery language.

Obviously you can't experiment on a statewide basis with federal taxes, but you can look at the economies of various states compared to their tax rates. Do states with low or no state income tax fare better than states with high state income tax? Do states with an additional capital gains tax have less investment or stock market participation per capita than states without an additional CG tax?
They get to keep a larger fraction of the first $10 million of income.

I wonder how many people earning more than ~$1 million per year really care about the exact level compensation they get (there are an awful lot of people that reduce their working time well before that level of income).
Is that possible to recode init in any other language using your technique? For instance can I try it in Ruby?