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How much of the total income do the top 1% of earners account for? And when you say 30% of total taxes, is that all taxes or just some subset? In the US, it's extremely common to make such comments which only refer to income taxes, ignoring payroll and sales taxes which are regressive. I don't know if it's similar for UK figures, but it has left me wary.
This got me through undergraduate calculus I, II, III and differential equations. Can't recommend it enough, it's a free text book. One of those hidden gems you can occasionally find on professor's websites.
Or using an anonymous account for fear of being labelled a "far right extremist"?
I'm actually surprised about this.. a lot of those craigslist job posts that he's talking about are just referral marketing scams to send job applicants for a fake job to complete a credit check from an affiliate link.
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Do you have a source for this? Genuinely interested in this linkage, as I'm supposed to be taking it easy on my liver after recovering from a bout of antibiotic-induced jaundice, and apples are one of the things I've been relying on to help with nausea. Thanks!
haha love it! the harder the better! :) The things that we have thought about right now are:

1. After we have built community trust, and become the go to place for financial education, we can bring in mentors who can offer personal financial advice on a 1 on 1 basis.
2. We can enter into partnerships with other applications that act as financial instruments but are not offering the financial know-how.
3. We can provide financial tools ( platform for investing n such) to people in the future.
4. We can license customized courses for school students and university students.
5. Freemium model where interesting and challenging projects are offered, which advanced students, would pay to do - and get mentoring on.
6. After we have built an audience we can also make money off digital advertising and sponsorship.

We know these are very broad and vague but this what we have so far. That is why in the starting we want to be laser focussed on building up the content. Would love to know your thoughts about it.
> Don't get me wrong: I campaigned for the guy in 2008, so I'm no right-wing-nut.

Was this disclaimer really necessary for your comment? No need for the emotional credibility; just make your argument.
Sure, alright that's what I suspected intuitively. Would appreciate some resources to read on the topic.

I don't think studies of the nature I proposed are particularly hard to do, but they may be locked in classified status, so civilians wouldn't know.
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Why no criminal probe? Her are three reasons:
GS has friends in high places.
GS would have brought a legal force more formidable than the governments and stretched the case out for a decade or more.
Many government people involved in the case may not want to alienate the company they want to work for after government service.

Too big to fail should also be too big to charge criminally.
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Arc seems to be languishing: http://arclanguage.org/forum
Much of their market cap is dispersed in the form of compensation to employees and management, so market cap is an underestimate of the profit from activities.
Which misses the point. Being a 1%er isn't about some income, it's about economic agency.

Doctors in the UK are well-paid professionals, but - like scientists, artists, academics, engineers, writers and other members of the middle class - their influence on policy is essentially zero.

The biggest political change of the last few decades in the UK has been the absurd concentration of political power in the hands of speculators, bankers, property developers, creators of sweatshop industries, and a tiny number of "consultancies" that are hired to provide public services that used to be publicly owned.

A few of the biggest IT corps - most obviously Google and MS - are on that privileged access list.

No one else gets a say in policy. Voting is a sideshow.

Policy is set in secret meetings which are unminuted and off-the-record even if they take place in government offices.

The real meaning of "1%er" is anyone who can buy access to ministers - because it's been proven time and again that access is for sale - and influence policy for their own benefit.

I know less about the US, but so far as I can tell the setup is very similar, but perhaps less indirect. You pay for your senator or congressman or president on the way up, and then they do what you want, more or less, while they're in power.

There's a lot of show about caucuses and candidates and voting and flags are waved while pundits punditise. But the real decisions happen with money - euphemistically known as "favours" - on the table, and most voters are excluded from that process because they don't have the organisation, the social links, or - obviously - the money to take part.

If you are not playing at that level you are not a 1%er. Having a six figure salary does nothing to change that, because ultimately your income stream is just as susceptible to the whims of the people who do play at that level as everyone else's.
This was true before the advent of mount namespaces, but is now incorrect: See namespace(7) or something like:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22889241/linux-understanding-the-mount-namespace-clone-clone-newns-flag

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-mount-namespaces/
There is an SEO impact, however HN is not that oriented on general public and it has no ads so it doesn't really matter.
I guess the engine speeds would become an issue at 100mph+. Even if theoretically you can get maximum torque at any speed, practical issues would arise if you ran electric motors at 100k rpm.
These discussions always end up the same way. We don't know a solution to the problem of poverty, so people advocate just using the government to force a solution to the problem.

This won't work. Now don't get me wrong : that doesn't mean you can't make it work through investment for a while, potentially even a long while. But you can't make it work over long periods of time.

The only way to solve poverty is to find something for huge numbers of unskilled labour to do that's economically positive (ie. makes a profit for whoever is the boss). That can last. And yes, we'll have to do it again, and again, and again.

Now should we use the government to bridge people over between jobs ? To help them out in periods where their economic utility is low ? In my opinion absolutely. But we should NOT make the mistake to assume that this can be anything but a very temporary measure.
Not when there's as much gray as exists in international tax law.
The real question is how we got here in the first place. Wasn't it the opinion of some scientific body and/or government health entity that basically said "fat is bad" and set us on this 30-year craze? Where are the pitchforks against these organizations? "Big sugar" is their creation.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...
Nope, been renting for years (in Cal) and no bureaus know about it.
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I don't think that is correct.

"penalties or fines paid to any government agency or instrumentality because of a violation of any law are not deductible"

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p535/ch11.html
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Except that Congress specifically created a regulatory regime for these businesses, and included a wide array of strictures on their practices and a very specific set of remedies for those who are harmed.

That system (FCRA, FDCPA etc.) is of course the product of major lobbying and regulatory capture -- "don't throw me in that briar patch, bre'r fox." But it also does have at least the fig leaf of support by consumer-focused NGOs and populist legislative rhetoricians.

So, no, if you went to the courts you wouldn't even make it to an appeal, much less to SCOTUS.
Am I allowed to be biased based on the results, rather than the actions that led to those results?

No raindrop feels responsible for the flood, but make it so people can't get out of the rain, and before long, everybody starts hating the rain.
This looks awesome - I'm so excited to read this!
Bernie Sanders seems like the only candidate in a long time that would be tough on this stuff, though they all promise to be tough on Wall Street.
This type of demonising one over the other is not proper science. Sugar (in various forms) carries the energy needed for the cells to operate well, brain being the highest consumer. Balanced nutrients would be the best bet for overall wellbeing.
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BitMessage is not secure (query BitMessage security on Google)

If you are interested, you can use OpenPGP with ECC ( and the JS implementation https://github.com/Jaxx-io/openpgpjs-secp256k1 )

Take into account that you need to use different keys for signing and encryption and the BIP 44 can be useful for this purpose.
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Not that they have some influence. That they have all the influence. What you and I want has zero effect on congress. What the rich want, they get. So how you claim democracy works is demonstrably not how it works in the USA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig
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You can't contribute information without Waze, and you don't get some notifications like the presence of speed traps. But the Google Maps app has the key traffic information after coarse-graining and filtering.
Unfortunately, when UO was big my internet connection was too spotty for online games so I never got the chance to experience that (though that might be a good thing...). In the past few years though I had a lot of fun with another game called Haven and Hearth which had similar mechanics - down to losing your key and having your entire homestead raided.

The really cool thing about that game was that any time a player commits a "crime" like trespassing, theft, assault, etc, a "scent" is left behind at the scene of the crime which could be collected and would then allow you to track down and possibly exact revenge upon the perpetrator. I've never seen another game with a system quite like that one. The game had plenty of other flaws, but it still managed to lead to some pretty unique situations, and actually made you think twice before going on a murder/theft spree.

The game itself has pretty much been rewritten from scratch since the last time I played so I don't know what the game is like in its current state, but I would still recommend giving it a look.
HN has computers for that.
It's really surprising how often something trends on HN and there's a relevant Planet Money episode from within the last few weeks. I wonder if that's because in some cases other news outlets are spurred into covering it because of Planet Money (it's reach is relatively small compared to the Guardian, so the Guardian covering the topic will be seen as new to most), or if there's some journalistic social network (in the traditional sense, not the Facebook sense) that some outlets are better are responding to quickly than others?
I did look for one last year but couldn't find any without stupid fees of one kind or another.
Furthermore most of those individuals probably did nothing illegal, but rather they were trying to minimize their tax burden through (mostly) legal shell corporations.

I've looked into offshore banking and shell companies and the like a bit over the years. I'm not sure why; I guess I just have a fascination with business and finance. My conclusion has long been that, for an individual who intends to comply with the law, there is very little benefit to these structures. Generally, an individual can't legally lower their tax burden through the mechanism of an offshore shell company.

The legal versions of this involve genuine corporations headquartering in a business friendly location. They don't do it secretly, however. It is done in the open, and the corporation's owners (the shareholders) still have to pay their taxes on any dividends or capital gains in whatever jurisdiction they live in. You can argue whether or not Google should be legally allowed to move most of their income to Ireland, but that is a totally different scenario to a single person starting a company in Panama to hold his investments. In the United States, at least, a single shareholder company that does nothing other than hold investments is treated as a pass through for income tax purposes. I.e. you can't avoid taxes simply by keeping the money in the company. Moreover, even if you could avoid the tax on the company profits, you would still have to pay tax when your wanted to take the money out to actually spend it.
How does that help things? I can easily find you a licensed chiropractor who will "diagnose" your ailments by just pushing down on your outstretched arm while holding a supplement or homeopathic remedy in front of you to determine if that supplement will fix the problem or not. I won't even get into "subluxations".

And because that chiropractor is licensed by the State, the State government is explicitly endorsing this doctor's medicine and all the "theory" that backs it.
Our law is not logically consistent - the same action can be legal in some instances yet illegal in others.
I watched Formula E in Florida and it sounded like a race of blenders :)

I also watched Formula 1 and I loved the sound of the engines. You can tell by the sound what the top engines are. It is just a whole other experience. You hear the car coming before you see it and that gets you excited.

I'm probably biased, being a Formula 1 fan for over 25 years.
>accept war ... and the damage it does to people I don't see how you can be so against torture

We have collectively abolished many weapons and practices: chemical (e.g. nerve gas), technological (e.g. blinding lasers), or (e.g. booby traps), as well as many tactics (e.g. public executions). We held meetings (the Geneva/Hague conventions), and agreed these acts were too evil to continue. Now those choices are uniformly accepted as being progressive for our society.

War is hell. We do hellish things to the "other" side. Historically, the "other" side often ends up being on "our" side sooner rather than later (alliances+migration). Every so often we decide which actions are too inhuman to perform, regardless of what uniform the human is wearing (if any). Right now we are deciding on whether the secrecy and severity of physical and mental torture, with no representation or defence available, is on the wrong side of who we want to be.
Not unusual to hear "absolute" anything being questioned on HN
You start by saying "success is not related with money" and finish by implying that more people listen to Bill Gates because of his money than his other accomplishments. There are plenty of super wealthy people out there we don't listen to much at all (for example, I don't think I've ever heard someone quote one of the Waltons...) but Bill Gates has done a tremendous amount with his wealth - and even more importantly - his time, which is what I listen to him about.
It's quite simple. It's never wrong to reveal facts. It's always right to reveal facts. It's always wrong to hide facts.
How does that work? What assets are they benefiting from more than others?

If you're in the top 3000 people by income in the UK, you get to ride the same crappy trains as everyone else, drive the same crappy roads (unless you try go everywhere by helicopter - hardly practical), get the same government services, have access to the same markets and the same products in those markets; how many companies produce luxury goods these days? Unless you're an idiot and buy diamond encrusted iPhones, the stuff in your house is going to be similar to other people's. You'll be eating similar meat, drinking the same water. You could collect rare art or something, but that's hardly a meaningful part of the national economy.

The top 3000 get pretty similar benefits from the economy as everyone else, they just pay a lot more in absolute terms for the privilege.
It's explained in the article. The part about Ancel Keys.
This may be too pragmatic on my part but please consider the alternative before you think you made a really bad choice. Imagine if McCain/Palin had been elected in 2008 and/or Romney/Ryan had been elected in 2012 - I can imagine this 5B "slap on the wrist" turning into a "pat on the back" for this vaunted job creator (i.e. Goldman Sachs).
Two bankers from Goldman Sachs profited around as much as the fine is in the Summer of 2007.

Slap on the wrist is an understatement.
Thanks! I'll be bookmarking this and coming back periodically. FWIW, I used chrome dev tools to add some page styles, in order to make the stories easier for me to read.

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Paying this fine won't impact GS at all. In fact, their stock has risen today, albeit financials as an industry are up. Investors will chalk this up as a one-time charge and earnings estimates will be revised down appropriately without any downside.

If the government actually wanted to punish them, the fine would have to be astronomically high. Or, you know, they could actually fix banking regulations.
Or the money could be used for any of the vile activities the State is up to thus ironically contributing to more suffering. Let's not forget that.
Not a GS employee, but I work in the industry.

Fixed-income securities (like the bonds in question) went from being the most profitable division for investment banks to one of the least.

Major banks around the world and shutting down or significantly shrinking their investment banking divisions (Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse) and specifically closing fixed-income desks.

The reaction from those of us in the industry is that there was a problem, and we corrected it.
The ends justify the means? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I hear a lot about how this is just a slap on the wrist but can you explain to me why it is? 5B is a lot of money afaik. Why is this so insignificant?
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Your argument boils down to the Republican sound-bite (referring to the poor): "But... but... they have refrigerators and air conditioners now!"

Which is totally irrelevant to the main point being debated: it's not about wealth relative to the past, but about wealth relative to everyone else in the present. The reasons are simple: wealth buys political power, and political power is inevitably used to further concentrate wealth in the hands of those who have a lot of it.
Why would anyone buy Yahoo?
It's The Guardian, what do you expect? Lots of HN users like reading trash it seems.
It is absolutely maddening how sugary fruit juice is (soda, too). And it's completely unnecessary. We dilute our juices by at least 50% and it's still not enough.

There's no way Coke & Pepsi will ever lighten up on the sugar short of regulation. As with smoke-free restaurants, the free markets will never deliver less sugary beverages no matter how much demand there is.
There were actually postings on 4chan's /pol/ about this. Mostly anons asking Swedes what they thought of Muslim refugees raping women in their country (in the rudest way possible) and Swedes politely denying that claim.

Would have been interesting if the anons weren't so hostile; instead it was just aggravating as 4chan always is.
"In 2011, Coke and Deka sent 15 Slingshots to Ghana for a six-month field test where they provided clean water to five rural schools. In fall 2013, Coke and its partners announced a goal to place up to 2,000 units (either standalone Slingshots or Ekocenters) around Africa, Asia, and Latin America by the end of 2015."

- http://www.popsci.com/article/science/pure-genius-how-dean-k...

I think they are slowly getting out there, but they're still very expensive.
I skimmed through their manual.. ConTeXt does all of this better, and has been doing this for longer.
"The thought of women swiping (either direction) in response to some fleeting half-glimpse mostly based on how well I could choose photos that overstate my attractiveness is seriously a distressing idea."

If you like having lots of women around, this same concept works outside of apps, in the physical world.

Yes, it is distressing if you aren't interested in doing that. People eventually want the luxury of not being judged this way while having the emotional attachment to someone.
Malware is getting nastier, but that shouldn’t matter
I'm seeing two major factual problems with many of the comments here.

1. In terms of determining how much weight you are going to lose/gain. A calorie is a calorie. Calories in/calories out is the secret sauce to every successful weight loss diet, even keto. That is a simple fact, backed by all of the truly solid nutritional research in modern science.

2. If we are talking about lean body mass, body fat percentage goals, healthy eating habits or disease prevention, then we should have a talk about sugar. It is certainly a variable that deserves attention. However, it is not the devil...

Fat is not the devil...
Meat is not the devil...
Carbs are not the devil...
etc.

If you don't believe me, if some pop science book has convinced you that sugar is the worst thing in the world, I ask that you look into the work of Alan Aragon. A good place to start would be the following article:

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...
Please provide links to the data and numbers in that case.
The comments serve as some justification for the newspaper's extreme positions.

The paper can claim not to be extreme by pointing to comments that directly call for murder of refugees or genocide of gypsy travellers.
> torschlusspanik

What an awesome word! TIL that it's German for 'gate-shut-panic', [1] or 'fear that time is running out' apparently. Literally the feeling that medieval peasants had when the castle gates were closing for an upcoming onslaught by enemies.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torschlusspanik
The poor new yorkers living in project housing who work minimum wage jobs trying to support 2 kids with an absentee father?
Why would anyone use Yahoo?
I do not miss dating one bit. Getting married was one of the best things I've ever done, and I enjoy it more and more as time goes on.
As long as they're committed to maintaining the feature add-ons under the new API I couldn't care less how it works under the hood.
Don't you only become liable to pay the tax when you repatriate the money? So perhaps you can spend it outside the US with impunity?