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> This means you have people living in Sydney with multi-million dollar properties - which are just modest houses in now-desirable suburbs - who haven't paid any property tax since the 60's, and who can't move anywhere because they'd be up for so much stamp duty in one hit (easily 50-100k).

I don't understand. When you're making millions on the sale of the property, how is 100k in stamp duty a problem? It's on the same order as your agent's commission!
Thanks for asking. We're still on Azure but it seems that most of our initial problems are solved, our uptime has been acceptable. PostgreSQL and Redis are now highly available. Before we call things rock solid we still have to figure out how to cluster our storage https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/1
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This is an extremely common expression, I thought. Google seems to indicate similarly with 847,000 results for the exact expression "out of (my OR your OR their) league".

So, not sure under what rock you've been. ;)

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22out+of+(my+OR+your+OR+the...
That's true, but the effect size here is also tiny - 1%. It's plausible it's statistically significant but completely meaningless.

It's possible this study is novel mainly for the methodology, which as reported is the first wide-scale test of its nature. The media of course focus on the correlations because they are more sensational - it gets people thinking "am I depressed because I'm part neanderthal?"
What evidence do you have that inequality is a source of disutility?

Note that if you pull out one of the ever popular left wing scatterplots putting cross-country inequality on the x-axis, I'm going to pull out one with a higher r^2 putting something politically incorrect like single mothers or black people on the x-axis.

As for proportional repersentation, if it indeed is instrumentally useful in creating utility that's fine. But I only care about it insofar as it actually gets us other good outcomes - it's not something I intrinsically value.
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Awesome, glad to hear this. As you can see in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42 GitLab.com issues became 3x faster this week and we're working on further improving speed.
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> Prop 13 has nothing to do with real estate price inflation.

Yes, it does, because it incentivizes municipalities to encourage commercial development (which tends to change hands more often) over residential. It's a classic unintended consequence.
Really? I've never not been able to find an email I was looking for in Gmail.
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Yeah, that is strange. The opposite of the expected outcome for an economically rational recycling operation.
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He's writing this to citizens of Oregon, which doesn't have a sales tax. Other states would still have the "pay sales tax on internet purchases" thing that they theoretically already have that no one pays attention to.
I've looked at the site (on mobile), read all the comments on this thread, and still have absolutely no idea what this is.

Seriously, wtf is it with sites that do not state front-and-centre what the damn product is?
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It could look in multiple directions too. We're talking a world-spanning bacterial community in constant communication with itself. Its images could be quite sophisticated.
> Women aren't points on a scoreboard

Ideally, no. But men often use sports analogies when discussing getting a woman to actually date them, which is a quite difficult goal. I apologize for any offense.

> dating dynamics aren't meant to be a power struggle

Here you lost me. If you don't think there's often a power struggle in the early stages of dating, I don't know what reality you're living, because it's not mine.
What do you think about the value of grad school? It involves spending part of your 20s in school but allows you to have a bigger impact on the world through cutting edge technology. Any thoughts?
I didn’t say they have more important things to do but that they can’t just stop what they’re doing and code a solution in 3 weeks as the parent comment was suggesting. It’s perfectly ok to have to wait more than 29 days to (hopefully) see new features released that address the letter.
If I didn't know better I would think there was a conspiracy by the rich to convince people that consumption taxes are regressive because they know they're the only way the rich can be made to pay their taxes.

Think about someone who has a billion dollars. Not income, already in the bank. Without a consumption tax, they can spend all of it without paying any taxes.

Now think about someone who has student loans or a mortgage (i.e. someone not rich enough to pay for it outright). With an income tax they have to pay income tax on the money they're using to pay back the loan principal. Switch to a consumption tax and they don't.

So where does this idea that consumption taxes are regressive come from? The theory is supposed to be that the rich spend less of their income than the poor. First small problem, that's only true for the super rich. Someone making $120K/year is pretty well spending it all on a big house and a new car and sending their kids to college. It's the people who have a billion dollars and make ten million a year in interest who aren't spending anywhere near that much.

But those same people also don't have anywhere near that much in "taxable" income because they have fancy accountants and the investments they own don't have definite values until sold, which they never are. So they can make a million dollars in interest without paying any tax, and then they can use a different million dollars in principal to spend on anything they like, also without paying any tax.

But if we had a consumption tax on cars and yachts and airfare, they would be paying that. So which one is the regressive one?
Pretty Lights seems to do well on their own.
No, fitbits are probably just legitimately terrible. The value-of-information that they collect seems low, and the motivational distortion can be a gigantic liability. If what you actually care about doesn't involve having and taking care of a body, then no amount of game-playing is going to fix it. And playing games isn't how you focus your attention onto what you want and why you're doing things.
Good point. And I would have given more credit to the article if they had mentioned that.
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Recently had a need for something like this and Gitlab ended up losing to BitBucket Server which we bought along with JIRA and Confluence. Gitlab seems like a nice, light solution, but their issue tracker ain't JIRA.
You are proposing to remove taxation on a bull market (property)? This would inflate prices even more, as investors make a run for nice tax-free properties. It doesn't make sense, sorry.

You need to remove incentives to invest in property altogether. It's one of the worst and most unproductive markets, and not even a market in practice because everyone needs a home. My personal pope-emperor utopia would forbid companies from owning residential buildings, and tax individuals 10% of house value yearly on any house (with the first two exempted). Redevelopment should be allowed only when the area is in clear state of abandon, with strict rules on the amount of commercial space that can replace residential space.

The property market needs to die -- and I say that as a homeowner.
My resting has been 36-40 since age 15. Scared the hell out of me once when I was in an ER for trauma and they say "we have to fix your heart first". It's common for athletes to have a resting heart rate below 40, though I'm not aware of any relationship between performance (e.g., VO2max) and resting heart rate. I.e., 35 is no better or worse than 50.
Then what do you call able bodied people who choose not to contribute, but instead choose to live at the most basic means? That's the very definition of freeloading to me.

freeload - intransitive verb:

to impose upon another's generosity or hospitality without sharing in the cost or responsibility involved
This piece recycles (sorry) the prophetic arguments from this classic 1996 article by John Tierney, which generated more reader response than the NY Times had then ever received: http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/30/magazine/recycling-is-garb...
Near as I can tell it's primary purpose for the masses is following celebrities. Their growth model should be around helping celebs tweet more.
Nice one, hadn't seen that particular article about the problem before. A hidden underlying detail in my comment is an assumption that such a waste crisis is so far in the future that we'll have things like space elevators (making getting to orbit easy) and solar sails (making reducing the starting earth-to-sun relative velocity doable in less than a year), though.
Thanks for your perspective and naming the features you would like to see in GitLab CE. Can I ask what open source project you are considering to host on-premises with GitLab CE?

We do try to open source features that are requested by open source projects, such as the branded login page after a HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931690

I agree that falsely accusing people of looking at the EE code would be very bad. So far we only once declined a contribution to CE by claiming it was EE code, in this case the code was verbatim, the diff showed a zero character difference. Future calls will be harder but we'll try to prevent false declines.

More about this our criteria to merge CE contributions if they are already in EE can be found in https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship
I think Mozilla has completely missed the point on how tabgroups are and why they are not something that can be replaced by bookmarks...

"Removing the Tab Groups feature will make it easier for us to improve Firefox". Yes, how, what? What was the problem? What is the new thing that is so incompatible with tab groups that this has to go away from the code?

I found the feature recently and thought, oh, how nice, and since then I have tabs grouped by topics. For some topics (like research), I need many tabs open, but when I'm not working on them they are just nicely hidden in their group. And I can go back to the browsing state I was at a later moment.

At least they offer alternatives and a clear migration path. That is good even if the explanation sucks.
SourceForge is probably not worth it now, but it is also worth watching.
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It seems that any discussion of specific genders brings this out of some people.

The problem is, there IS a double standard, as evidenced in many places, including this OKCupid blog post that was replied to me: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-looks-and-online-dati...

That said, generalizing correlations of ANYTHING to gender and then trying to ACT on that, is, generally, a bad idea (just as it is to correlate with race or ethnicity or age or pretty much any other physical attribute).
In the Vernor vinge novels they use unixtime and units of kilo and mega seconds as handling time issues across space would be nightmarishly complex.

Its surprising how quickly you get a grasp of the units, made me realise all our time stuff is just arbitrary convention.

See also Swatch internet time :)
any ref for that?
Right, but that's on the back-end. The tax you pay at the register is still whatever is mandated by the state/county/municipality that you're in. Wal-Mart most definitely cannot raise that rate on their own.
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It's not a problem, but it's a nice excuse to hold on that sweet investment and let the kids worry about it after you're gone.
Oslo, Norway where I live is a pretty expensive city, but we don't have property taxes so that is not an issue.

But like Vancouver we have serious issues with the housing market. We have a green area around Oslo were you can't build on (that is where everybody goes skiing and hiking).

And we have the extra problem that due to being so far north we can't build high rises otherwise we wouldn't get any sun in the city in winter time.

But they have started turning a lot of old villa areas in to 4-5 story buildings. So densification is definitely a strategy being followed in Oslo.
I'm sorry to hear that. If you prefer to use JIRA please be informed that we have extensive support for that in both GitLab CE and EE http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/project_services/jira.html
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Where will those highways feed into? Business district roadways north of the Fraser are close to saturation.
Businesses are ridiculously slow. What I can tell you about a business that is a blackbox to you which will surprise you: It's a blackbox to them as well. They just don't know how to manage so many people and ideas. And the sad part is most managers don't. So I don't think it will change. The solution would be to educate the manager about how to find out what's not working and how to resolve such problems, or switch the manager with one that is willing to constantly work on getting things to work instead of just keeping the head above the water. It's a really hard problem though, since as an employee you don't gain much by resolving true systematic problems, and you even may lose some value with your coworkers by changing their daily processes that they are used to so well. It's really something that must come from the top, but if there is nobody to do that then it won't happen.
i believe the world is made up of excitations of quantum fields. Is this a scientific belief?

i haven't done the experiments.

it would take me weeks to work through a single path integral from even the best pedagogical textbook (I have Zee [1] in mind).

Why do I believe that? Because it makes 'sense'? QFT as physicists do it is mathematically inconsistent. can i interpret the immense amount of accumulated experimental data from bubble chambers to the LHC with any reasonable chance of saying something sensible?

i'm not a scientist; how could my beliefs be scientific? what exactly are people saying about their beliefs when they say that they hew to rationality and science? it doesn't seem materially much different from magical beliefs in how the world works. it just so happens, yeah, the world is probably a bunch of excited quantum fields because that's what makes me laptop run, or so i've been told.

ultimately, most of us are trusting an authority, and the strength of science always must be that there is no central authority: that all that is true is freely observable by anyone. there's no special rites that need to be observed (though if you were to go to grad school, you'd say otherwise), there's no purity that must be established. you don't have to be a man, or white, pharaoh or a priest. science is defined by this egalitarian radically free epistemology, and it is important not to take that for granted because it is constantly under assault by those who would seek to claim exclusive authority over truth.

the idea of science can easily be used to smuggle in magical ideas. science itself is defined not by its rhetoric, its jargon, its sociopolitical structure, whose paying for it, all the property rights and patents that enable it to be hoarded, etc. but by the ability to observe an experiment and ask another human being to reproduce it. science is mutual trust, good faith, and cooperation in the search for truth.

[1] http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9227.html
...in Estonia only.
My company is using atlassian products heavily and I was surprised to find very good support for GitLab. I run it locally and love it and I'm pushing to use it at work.
I'm surprised that something like Swatch internet time hasn't made a comeback with the popularity of Minecraft.

Online gaming is a good use for it.

MS should buy it off Swatch and put it in minecraft.
Sweet. I'm working on something similar, for rating repo management. http://repocheck.com. Your app has great design.
Why? Income taxes seems much more predictable. You don't suddenly get a hike in your taxes because your neighborhood got popular.
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Thanks!

And yep, I've tried that OAuth provider. This is me, raising an issue about it not working: https://github.com/linchus/omniauth-gitlab/issues/10
In the UK, most (all? Not sure) receipts will have the amount of VAT indicated (e.g. my Amazon orders list "Total before VAT", "VAT", and "Grand Total"). Pretty much everyone is aware of VAT AFAICT, and 20% of total gives you a reasonable estimate of what the VAT on an item is (bit of an over-estimate, and ignores items that have rates other than the default 20%, but generally good enough to get a reasonable idea).
Glad to hear that!
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Why is single in quotes?
It reminds me of a story I was told about certain orange juice factory worker never drinking orange juice.
I find this an interesting viewpoint.
For me my exercise tracking is more useful as a metric to establish a good workout routine. Once I have it down then I can track my variations throughout the week and correlate that with work habits (I work from home half the time and half the time go into the office) so that I can make sure to set aside time to achieve those numbers as often as I can.

This and tracking food consumption has helped me lose 50 pounds over the past 7 months, and I can actually look at my graphs and see trends and hopefully I'll see even more as the years progress.
I also picked up a Zeo from a recommendation on security now, and that helps me track my sleep patterns, which will hopefully help me figure out the best routines that I can utilize throughout the year to maintain optimal mental and physical happiness :)
Sometimes it's not the tool.
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> Sure, sorry if I came off like I was using you guys as a
> political football or something.

No problem. :)

There's no silver bullet to triage, but assistance from the platform can help in small ways that add up over time. For a project like Rust, for instance, we need a test case with each bug report, without which reproduction, triage, and regression testing is impossible. An issue template that suggests a test case would go a long way.

Another example, from a different project I've worked on: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a roguelike game that recently switched its canonical repo to Github, but was unable to switch its issue tracker to Github Issues because they rely on users being able to attach savegames with crash reports. Github Issues only allows images to be attached, so unless they expect users to steganograph their savegame into an image macro then GI is simply a non-starter.
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I'm involved in translating a book from french to english, and I'm trying to find a list of universities and professors who teach courses on the haitian revolution.

I realize that, what I really want, is a searchable database of all courses in all universities. I think that other book sellers could make use of that, as well as high school students who are trying to compare colleges.

Does this already exist somewhere?
Thanks for opening that issue, I see the maintainer responded within a hour so I hope it will work soon. I offered our help in https://github.com/linchus/omniauth-gitlab/issues/10#issueco...
And everything is much better when we've got the illusion of agreement, rather than knowing what the assholes actually think. It's much more important to provide consequences when we disagree.
I'm talking about taxes on personal residences, used as residences. I don't particularly want to argue in this post about what taxes might apply to second/third/fourth/investment/etc houses, or about the desirability of using excise taxes to control behavior.

In the context of property used as a residence, I'm suggesting that property taxes produce undesirable effects, and that other forms of taxation might potentially work better.
Probably easier to just use another operating system like FreeBSD if you don't like the direction the Linux ecosystem is heading. There are some great alternatives out there.
Tom Scott's just done a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVI87HzfskQ
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The funny thing is despite having the opposite opinion I understand so well how you see it. I wish I could show you my point of view better.
In the case of cigarettes, making them prohibitively expensive for teens will inevitably curb consumption over the coming decades, even if no adult addict quits because of the tax increase.

Tax incentives on the other side absolutely work as well. I have a LEAF parked outside instead of my old Mercedes diesel precisely because the feds and state combined to give me $10K in gov't cheese to facilitate the purchase. Sure, I wanted it, but paying $20K was a lot easier to justify and I wouldn't have bought it for the "full" $30K.
Not really. Notice that grandparent said "the situation is even wilder in the closed gardens". It still exists in open source. Rolling back a set of packages to some older state isn't a trivial operation, and rewrites are incredibly expensive no matter who's doing them.

Open source is a prerequisite, but this isn't a solved technical problem. The challenge is to make codebases rewrite friendly. The bottleneck isn't the rewrite itself, it's all the risk due to the regressions that rewrites tend to cause, and all the stress from trying to catch these regressions before a release. I've been working on ways to express more tests than our current (c 1970) unix stack can support. The goal: to be able to certify a release to production just by running its automated tests. No large projects today meet this standard. Once we do I think we'll be in much better shape to undertake dramatic rewrites, and to reuse code between projects/rewrites.

(More info on my project: https://github.com/akkartik/mu)
How does systemd violate your freedom? It's LGPL 2.1 and, as far as I know, respects the four freedoms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition
Yes and it's quite new, huge amounts of waste have been (and continue to be) burned in much more dirty methods.
2000 was 16 years ago.
I agree that equality is not important as a goal, but it's important as a means - I think (i.e. based on my observation of reality) that inequality results in bad outcomes (i.e. takes us further from the goal of "less poverty" or "better lives"), hence my drive to oppose and fight it.

Of course, it would be even better if I/we could simply reduce poverty and improves lives directly (without the detour of fighting inequality), but currently I don't know how (and neither does anyone else).

One of the best, if unrealistic, solutions I see are robots; but between now and when we invent really useful robots, I think it's important to strive to prevent outcomes as displayed in the movie Elysium (or the alternative future in the story Manna).
Yep I had distant family get enslaved, his passport was taken away, was not allowed to return home for over 2 years.

What ad hominem? all this can be easily verified by minimum amount of research. He has power to make a real change instead he chooses meaningless publicity stunts like female pilots.

Are you some sort of supporter of his?

"there is good and bad in all people" are you serious? Would be saying the same thing if you yourself were taken in as a slave without access to a toilet.