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It is completely unrealistic to claim that people won't start businesses because any personal profits they make over $10mil/year will be taxed too highly. It is completely out of touch with the financial position that most normal people are in.

If the high tax rates only apply above $10 million, then the big impact would be on:

1. The most skilled global talent, who might choose to start their business elsewhere, where there would be the prospect of becoming super rich.
2. Angel investors and second-time founders. A major reason these founders would want to take risks, reinvest, and double down is to hit the home run, and have change-the-world amounts of money.
3. First-time founders who sell-out early to a big company, rather than try to go big. This could really do great damage to the pipeline of new and great products, since big companies are often where innovation goes to die.

I do agree that a high percent tax rate on income over $10 million would not do much to discourage run-of-the-mill new businesses, such as restaurants and landscaping companies. But I think it could majorly discourage the types of startups which drive the continued advancement of technology.
The reason to require a license to sell insurance is that it's a complicated product and most people don't know enough about it to make appropriate decisions on their own. You want to make sure the people selling it are both informed enough to give their clients the right information and also not crooks.
Royalty based models are quickly becoming the norm for even AAA engines. Source 2, Unity, Unreal, and now this version of crytek utilize this model. This pretty much means that the top 4 game engines now have a "free" option.
They plan to be producing Falcon family rockets for a long time yet, and those are sized to permit highway shipping. They plan to produce larger rockets for the Mars project, but their current plan for those, per hints they've occasionally dribbled out at industry confabs, is to build a new factory near the launch site.
Well a function may in general have closed over arguments. Therefore it needs to be a closure. (If you have lexical scoping that is)
What can we actually do about it?
Is that a rebranding of diaspora?
Fair enough, I suppose. But at the same time, don't forget it, either.
You are being a dick, offering no reasons other than the opinions of people you presumable agree with.
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Developing a game is such a time and resource intensive process, I don't see any AAA studios locking themselves into using AWS. It's a non-starter.
So because not everyone will become a cosmonaut, nobody should try? Think for a second about what you're saying. Would you honestly tell a child "sorry kid, the chances of you going into space are pretty slim, so why don't you aim a bit lower.".

The great thing about big dreams and lofty goals is that even if you don't reach them you often end up in a better situation. So sure, Joe the Plumber may not have made anywhere close to $250,000, but he made a hell of a lot more than someone not working at all, right? And yeah, little Sally may not become a cosmonaut, but she may land a gig working at SpaceX as an engineer and be on the team that eventually successfully executes a manned mission to Mars.

I'm sorry, but this is what's so great about America. When I hear people, especially foreigners, make fun of the American Dream I can't help but think it's just sour grapes.
Right, but as Falcon Heavy demonstrates, you don't need "heavy lift engines" to build a heavy lifter. Going bigger than Falcon Heavy with the Merlin engines is probably getting a bit excessive, but the Falcon Heavy will already be one of the largest capacity rockets out there.
The case could have some kind of fin or tail that keeps it from spinning.
And don't forget the Ecuadorean kidnapping industry. I know a guy who was kidnapped four times (his family owns a banana plantation in Ecuador)

A friend of mine knows a guy in Columbia with no fingernails. He was kidnapped for 18 months, they wanted him to reveal the real owner of some land where his name was on the title. They removed his fingernails one by one.

That puts a bit of a damper on my own enthusiasm for South America. An uber driver from Brazil once asked me how I liked Brazil and I said "it was fun to visit, but what about all the kidnappings?"

And he said "Oh, so you know what's going on"

Yeah I do. Really it's not a region to visit carelessly.

(I travel a lot, I'm in India now)
They are currently developing the methalox Raptor [1] engine that is planned to have 2300kN sealevel thrust. That would be more than six times powerful than the Merlin 1D+s in current Falcon 9. That would be solidly in the heavy lift rocket engine category, specifically as they intend to group them like they group engines in Falcon 9.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine)
Americans are stuck in a financial groundhog day
Is it just me, or does it seem like Google is being the target of a large number of obscure law suits lately (especially in Europe)?
So it's not the tenth amendment that conflicts with socialism? It's a variety of other laws and policies.

Yet you say that "there is absolutely zero compatibility between Socialism and the US Constitution", so perhaps you're thinking of one of the other amendments or some such? Perhaps something involving the protections on property.
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One reason: Most RDBMS's aren't designed for "waiting for newly queued items". You literally have to have each worker poll at some time interval for new items: `SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE status = 'new'`, transactionally claim the job, and if a worker dies, un-claim it. It's not that it's not possible to use an RDBMS and work around these problems, but generally, it won't lead to the most scalable and robust solution for the problem. Message brokers / AMQP are better designed for this problem set. If you have a small site, with a low volume queue, your RDBMS might be just fine though.
How is 25-30 m^2 considered a "micro" apartment? Sounds more like a medium-large studio to me.
The sort of thinking in Feynman's bio is what drives math circles, though.

I taught at a math circle for a few years; we did 'looking at awesome stuff' for two thirds of the year, and competition prep for one third of the year. Different kids came for different parts, but will came out smarter for the experience, I think.
To anyone else confused, apparently “played up” is a British colloquialism for “misbehaved”. :-)
Or maybe hacking ;)
It's odd that you call that out as violent and not the demonstrations in Ferguson.
> Doctors, lawyers, and managers, at the point in their careers where they are the most experienced and capable, will likely decide in meaningful numbers it is no longer worth putting in the hours if they only get to keep 27% of what they earned.

Only 27% of what they earned above $10 million. They keep considerably more of the first $10 million they earn.

Did the entire nation sleep through the day they explained how marginal tax rates work, or something?
Init's job is to start the init scripts and then hang around to foster orphan processes. Ideally, it should not be parsing configs, but should spawn another process to do that sort of work. A good PID 1 is very, very minimal.
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture#United_States

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Global_surveill...

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_bargaining_in_the_United_...

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner

6. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-manning...

7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#...

8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_broadband#Legal_issu...

9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Inte...

10. http://thedailycoin.org/?p=62014
No, it was reported in the news[1] with the caveat that the information provided was incomplete and the suggestion that the ITU would need to wait until full/complete info was provided before they would publish it to their members.

1: http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.asp...
There's also inherent tyranny-of-structurelessness issues that will arise from abolition of private property whereby certain members of an outwardly democratic cooperative will have more influence and significance than others, but whose de facto "ownership" will have no de jure significance, thus being easily denied and also inefficient since the law will not clearly delineate property lines when everything is meant to be "common".
Do they need to? Should Falcon Heavy work as advertised they can get 50+ tons to LEO. Considering the Heavy is using a lot of F9 tooling and production lines (~same boosters and such) it probably saves plenty money not producing drastically different types of launch vehicles.

It seems as if for now Musk is betting on F9 + FH to milk the satellite industry for cash to fund his mars mission which requires a completely different vehicle setup including a new engine (Raptor) among other things.
I'm new this this, so help me out.

If this is true (particularly the reference to advertising=1.27% of GDP) then an expectation of future revenue of all FaceGoog-advertising will be in the range of 1.27% x (GDP of US) x 50% of advertising market. This works out to 115 Billion per year. Google+FB's market combined current revenue is $93 Billion.

Is that reasonable? If so, isn't FB's market cap a little silly?
I am not complaining about the existence of such initiatives. It's great that they exist and as you said it is step one.

But such initiatives cannot be a solution to a poor public school system.
Not live in Manhattan seems to be the only answer for common folk, unless you like a few roommates.
> in Europe people start drinking very young (illegally)....

> By the time we have easy access to alcohol (money+legal) we already know how to treat it with some amount of respect.

I would suggest that early illegal drinking is a dangerous thing. It works as you say for the majority, but for a sizeable minority it causes serious problems both then and in the future. Overall it is a bad risk/reward situation IMO.

Legal early drinking while young more reliably has the effect you describe in my experience though.

I don't know about elsewhere in Europe, but in the UK while it is illegal to sell alcohol directly to anyone under 18 under any circumstances, or those 18+ if you have any reason to believe they are buying in order to supply a minor except under specific conditions, you can (at your discretion) knowingly sell it to a "responsible adult" who is buying for a minor (IIRC the cut-off here is 14+) if the drink is part of a sit-down meal in a properly licensed premises. This covers having wine or beer with a meal in a restaurant. Furthermore, in your private residence you can give alcohol (again at your discretion) to anyone older than 5. The "at your discretion" part is vitally important here, it is the caveat through which the seller/giver is liable for prosecution under child protection laws if they are seen to allow anything that might be dangerous to a minor or get the "responsible adult" judgement wrong, and is also the caveat that allows the seller/giver to say "no" for any reason (which they do not have any legal obligation to explain, and if the customer gets angry about the situation that is adequate reason for refusal on its own in addition to any other considerations).
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Redlock has nothing to do with linearizability. The only strong property it tries to provide is mutual exclusivity. I'm interested in working to a Jepsen test for this, but the Jepsen learning curve and actual level of documentation requires to spend a lot of time on writing the test.
> at least focuses partially on the actual topic of the article

Yes, sorry. I thought people would read the article before commenting, and it seems a few people didn't bother doing that.
I want to say this carefully and respectfully, not least because I believe in the guidelines here on HN.

But, my last experience (2011) with Django was not encouraging. It's not that it doesn't do what it says on the tin, I believe that it does. It's that it's just so darn complex to work with. Installation was very, very difficult. And, once built, it felt like there were a number of layers of 'magic' between me and getting something done.

I know there are tradeoffs in content management systems; I launched and sold two companies based on content management tools, the later one based on the ArsDigita Community System in 1998, and so I would say I have at least 10 years of CMS experience in a variety of different environments and languages.

I have a bias against magic, and maybe magic is what's needed for most CMSes. But I still have a little shudder when I think about dealing with install and configuration, backup and datamodel changes in a very small site.

Can anyone offer a counterpoint? I'd like to be able to change my mind if it should be changed.
I wasn't talking about "styles of failure". I'm talking about this very thread, where people are popping up, looking at a program demonstrating success in mathematical education, a thing proved to be difficult by well-funded repeated and repeated and repeated failure, and all they've got to say about it is complaints about how it's not fair that it's just going to rich people.

This is not the time to be worried about fairness. This is the time to figure out what works. When you have that, then worry about fairness. Demanding that all the experiments be done equally to everybody at scale produces total paralysis, and is in no small part responsible for the total paralysis we witness in school reformation right now. You simply can't do anything that way.
If advertising doesn't work, they wouldn't do it.
Can the law not be modified to collect from corporations and trusts?

That's my concern with this line of reasoning: Money, which is just a transfer mechanism of wealth, is a human creation, just as the rules around its taxation are. People seem to think that "If you change the rules, people will just find other ways!". Well, the rules can change at any time.

> This is not a route to saner tax policy

A saner tax policy taxes the wealthy at a higher rate than the middle and lower classes. Trickle down has proven not to work.
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I recently had to help some developer that was stuck trying to have mongodb lock a resource and started using redis+redshift to prevent multiple webserver from updating a document in parallel (mongodb basic locking features weren't enough in his case).

As a RDBMS aficionado, that whole stack made me puke, BUT, to all the really smart people here having a PHD in distributed systems, please : try to help antirez build something that works. Many developers are trying to reach the shore of consistent systems after having been lost in the ocean of "NoSQL is great for everything".

Note : and i'm not saying redis is to blame here. It's obviously a great software. It's mostly the users that are to blame in this case.
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Sorry I did not meant to be rude.
I don't know about this specific circumstance, but travel writers I've known got free trips from the tourist agencies, resorts, etc. in the countries they visit. Disclosure is not typical.
Google translate is good enough to get the gist of it

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
1746k each? That's obscene.
Because the success of the individual is very rarely tied to just the sweat of their own brow. A society built on the principle of citizens lifting up their neighbors tends to be happier.
Socialism could be defined on many different levels. Given that money is supposed to be a store of value, and that it has a large affect on human choices, I contend that the progressive nature of the income tax rates as they are applied at the federal level is some form of Socialism. Look at the Earned Income Credit, it pays people money back above and beyond anything they have paid in. This is a form a wealth re-distribution.

Also see how Bernie Sanders plans to use the income tax in his plan to raise max rates to 73% to accomplish wealth redistribution.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11066036
In addition to all the rest, they still need to build a new second stage for every launch.
you don't need a token service if you are going to set the token on the locked resource, perform work and then unset the token. your lock is completely superfluous in that scenario
Nil pointers and receivers in go
@CSDude, I recommend putting a link to part 2 on the part 1 page.
Why only 50% of the ad spend? I think the article makes the case that all ad spend is moving to digital. Probably not ever reaching 100% but a lot closer to 100 than to 50.
In most states education funding is local. California (and probably others) redistributes across the state.
You either program in php and love it, and in this case you're just part of the amateur group who don't understand what is possible in other platforms, or you're an experienced programmer who never actually did something serious with php.

Your concept of good code design is close to what I mean, but even that is not possible in php.
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Yeah I understand the problem with any rare truth, there's so many people who know the wrong thing that anyone who has found rare truth just looks wrong. (how do you separate crackpots from explorers?) The only way you can resolve that issue is to study the docs yourself. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to believe me unless you can see how all the different mechanisms I've explained fit together well and even then you've really got a responsibility to learn for yourself if the consensus is just folk-knowledge or the truth. The specifications are available online but they are tedious.

As for them saying "We don't need it" Actually it's so complex that they've never said something so broad and sweeping. It's almost like asking a molecular biologist to comment on the collective function we call the "mind". Sometimes it's easier to comment on trees than the whole forest.

I am however, looking to in to asking someone in particular to make those generalizations because I think he can, I just haven't been able to reach him directly yet.

The author of this paper: https://www.ion.org/publications/abstract.cfm?articleID=1604

The use of ECI vs ECEF puts things in a different light that would take a while to explain. This whole question has so many moving parts that you really need an expert authority to generalize. (I'm trying to get that)

It relates to questions of theory that have only been resolved in the past ten years as well. For instance, it was widely held, until the past decade, that the Sagnac effect could only be described in terms of general relativity because of the way it seems to controvert Special relativity. After the experiments of Ruyong Wang, however, the consensus explanation has been to simply explain its workings in a very classical fashion without any regard to the seeming violation of light speed constancy that it was designed to show.

It doesn't help that all weapons guidance systems rely upon these principles so research brings you into DoD territory and information on working principles for RLGs iFOGs etc (which prove the workings of the sagnac effect), becomes slim or inaccessible... I got someone at Honeywell in pretty big trouble once just for asking the wrong questions and him giving me too much information.

Really all you can do personally is try to understand the workings of all these system, but sometimes you just have to accept believing in folk-knowledge because consensus is just more reliable if you can't personally do the footwork.

You can find the specs here: http://www.gps.gov/

Best of luck!

PS: Let me reiterate that I'm not saying the time rate difference created by clocks orbital motion and placement in a gravitational field are insignificant. I'm saying that the difference between newtonian expectation and relativistic is insignificant.

(newtonian effect for gravity is half, and for motion effects is arguably gamma^2)
Having semicolons introduces simple redundancy to the language. If you leave off semicolons you introduce more ambiguity, which can make error messages less clear since it's less obvious to the compiler exactly what was the mistake the programmer made.

Think of it like a sliding scale: on the far extreme of no redundancy, a typo could be a runtime error instead of a compile error. On the far extreme of redundancy, you have to express your code twice in different ways. Having semicolons is a reasonable balance between the extremes.
> Would you be okay if your child married a neo-Nazi who believed strongly in the white nation's victory in the coming race-war?

I would probably be unhappy about that. But - as you say, lesser degrees of disagreement are lesser degrees of disagreement.

I don't think that it's always making politics too personal, to be upset about the political opinions of your child's spouse. I do think that if those political opinions are held by ~50% of the country, then that does seem to be making politics too personal.
I'm disappointed that you're getting downvoted - this point rings very true (And is quite reminiscent of the sentiment in A Letter from a Burmingham Jail[1]).

[1] http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.h...
"But such initiatives cannot be a solution to a poor public school system."

I'd submit you're still asking for some sort of magical solution whereby we skip this step one somehow and leap directly to everybody having the good thing. But that involves skipping the experimentation phase that demonstrates the thing is good in the first place. It's why nothing, right now, can be the solution to a poor public school system... attitudes like this have utterly paralysed them.

If you want to see improvements, you've got to loosen up a bit on this fairness kick. Somebody is going to get them first. It is a mathematical necessity, because we should not do "experiments" by rolling things out to everybody at once in one shot. It's not like there's a guarantee that it's an improvement, after all.
I wasn't saying that you're obligated to look at ads. I said that if you want to use someone else's servers AND want to block ads, you're going to end up in a technical war.

You said "there is no war", but obviously there is.

Your choices are:

* use the servers and look at ads
* don't use the servers at all
* use the servers and try to block ads

In this third option (which seems to be the one you chose), the people who own the servers can then try to block your access to the site. You can then try to circumvent that block, then they can try to block you again.

This is a war. You said "there is no war".

The subtext here is that, grand proclamations about sovereignty over your computing devices aside, by making other people's servers a crucial component of your computing you are ceding to them some leverage and therefore control.