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In Wellesley, MA, its 1.183%

In Cambridge, MA, its .69 percent (down from .83 percent in 2015 !!!), with an exemption on the first $277,000 in value.

These are communities with top-notch schools and amenities, and a state-wide income tax rate half that of California's.
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> But the inevitable outcome of both these things will be centralization of consumer protection in federal government agencies. A modern democracy simply won't stand-by while corporations cheat and injure people.

I don't share your optimism.
Taiwan is also the origin of Mongolian BBQ, although in that case it was a kitsch dish targeted at the locals. Maybe Taiwanese are just more adventurous and entrepreneurial that way? A result of the mix of cultural, political, and economic life on the island? I think you have to fly all the way to Malaysia to find a similar admixture of Asian food cultures.

I think mainland Chinese culture is much like American culture--relatively isolated and inward looking in practice, even if superficially outward looking. In both cases by the time some foreign influence seeps through the culture it's thoroughly transformed and unrecognizable. And nobody really cares because both are already intensely rich universes until themselves.

But maybe we're just making too much of your anecdote.
Looks like any other brittle FSM. It's missing an important layer of logic. And yeah, I'm bias because I'm finishing up an FSM that crushes that brittleness.
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Context is important here I think. This is part of a series of posts containing career advice for mathematicians at various stages ([1]), and not life advice in general. So I don't believe Tao was addressing cases like Torvalds etc.

This post appears in the "Graduate level" section. At this point many open problems become accessible, while at the same time many grad students (emerging from being a big fish in a little pond) are looking to make a name for themselves. So a common trap is for people at this point to obsess over famous problems, to the exclusion of tackling less exciting but more tractable problems, and Tao is warning against this.

[1] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/
> You can quantify how much the value of gold is through actual physical use value

Yes, and it's very very small.

https://www.quora.com/If-gold-werent-used-as-a-store-of-valu...

The vast majority of gold's value comes from its utility as a fungible, divisible, verifiable value store.
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Good! I'm glad there's an organization out there representing my viewpoint.

I'm a "tech worker" who moved here for a job, and I'm pretty sick of being the scapegoat for the housing woes while half my income goes to my landlord who enjoys the benefit of being perceived as an upstanding long-term member of the community as he grows fat suckling at my teat.
Implicit in your question though is the proposition that there is an objective hierarchy of what is "meaningful."

One could argue that what Lady Gaga and Truman Capote did for the LGBT movement was/is meaningful perhaps contextually moreso than what you or I might consider the more meaningful work of eg. Margaret Hamilton.

I agree that there is such a hierarchy but it's not uniformly agreed upon.
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Oh, and if we're listing our favorite modern IF pieces, go try Slouching Towards Bedlam, For a Change and All Things Devours.
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>Why would everyone on earth have Bitcoin?

"Why would everyone on earth have Internet?"
That doesn't tell us very much, and the word you mean is "biased".
Often you only need one public IPv4 address and thus it doesn't really matter what it costs.
3D printing is inherently limited by what you can do with plastics (until you start getting into laser sintering or something else exotic). The niche application ends up being Yoda figurines and etc that require weird shapes and high detail.

For my money, cheap & modular mills like those at http://carbide3d.com/ are much more promising because you can actually make structural components. A $500 CNC'd Grizzly mill equivalent (hell, probably $1000 if it was user friendly enough) would be extremely useful and would sell like hotcakes, but of course that's empirically extremely difficult to design since mills are a mature technology that requires things like calibration, knowledge of tools and materials to use, etc. Even their $1100 machine would probably be fun as hell, but it's a price point that actually requires a use in mind.

Incidentally, as far as I can tell the most successful home-manufacturing product of the past 10 years or so has been https://ghostgunner.net/ .
You're correct in that Datastore does provide more general transactions (Bigtable only provides single-row transactions); Datastore also provides indexing and search (Bigtable, like HBase, has a single index: the row key), and Datastore is synchronously replicated cross-zone and cross-region.

Datastore and Bigtable have different characteristics and use cases; see https://cloud.google.com/storage-options/ for an overview.

Datastore is a document database (compare it to MongoDB), while Bigtable is a wide-column store (compare it to HBase or Cassandra).

> Is Datastore Spanner?

Datastore is built on Megastore, which builds on Bigtable. :-)

I am the PM for Google Cloud Bigtable.
I don't think that's why people buy consumer reports. At least for me it's about getting a professional review in the context of the product as well as against others in the same category from a source whose only interest is keeping the customer (me) informed. I'll admit that limits the selection of the products reviewed, but I'm OK with that trade off.

I think what you're describing could work well for Angie's List though (also a customer of theirs).
Currently using internally for production level work. They need to spend serious time making it easier to diagnose issues when they happen.

The log is simply not verbose enough and when I hit issues with telegram, kapacitor and influxdb I have to open up a github issue having no idea what is causing the issue.

Still highly recommended they just need to spend time making it easier to identify common problems. It'll help reduce the number of github issues they have opened too.
Cynically circular.
Yeah, good point. Its the shitty side of open source. People expect everything for free as in free beer.
To elaborate ... MA is the the original home of direct democracy. Towns in the state hold annual town meetings, with a committee of the whole coming together to vote on key issues. In addition, they have a fair number of ballot referenda, but not as many as CA.

MA has its own "Prop 2 1/2" which caps real estate taxes at 2.5% of assessed value, and limits annual increases in the total assessment to 2.5%.

Quite literally, the cities and towns are continuously re-assessing their property base, and literally re-set the tax rate on an annual basis to deliver the revenue that they need to run the town. Thus, you see Cambridge's rate plunging by 25% year over year, presumably as property values on high-dollar properties have boomed. This gives lie to the idea that politicians would just take the increased taxes from higher property values as a windfall. In actuality, the tax burden is redistributed as real estate wealth is created.
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Ramanujan produced a constant stream of results and wasn't at all obsessed with one big problem to solve.

Terrance Tao is talking about the "hide in the attic for 10 years working on one problem" attitude. And this he warns against.

As for business development, I'm pretty sure Jobs/Bezos etc actually produced something in fairly short order, ie. the MVP came out quickly. This approach of release early, release often seems to be exactly what Tao would endorse.
What does "180F is 82C" prove? Does water boil at a high temperature for smart people?
It only takes a simple majority vote to change it, you just need enough signature to get in on the ballot.
What about forging? Rough out the shape from AlZnMgCu1,5 (EN AW-7075) alloy, heat to 450°C, and slam it between a pair of dies.

Compared to cast or machined parts, you get a 20% higher strength-to-weight ratio from the forging. The cycle time is decent I think, perhaps 3 per second with a 0.06 second contact time in the dies.
I'm somewhat older, so I see it from the other side. Many of my friends and relatives have adult children.

In my observation, it's no longer seen as strange for kids to bounce in and out of the parental homestead, as their economic circumstances evolve. I really think if there was ever a stigma, it's pretty much gone.

And if you look at the folks who are very wealthy, their kids may be living in another location physically, but their finances and opportunities remain closely intertwined. I could cite the Trump family as a famous example, not to be political, but just to observe something that is almost taken for granted among the wealthy.
> Bitcoin's only value is in the transactions it can make.

Bitcoin's value is that it's

* Fungible

* Divisible

* Verifiable

(All qualities that gold has, but Bitcoin does them a lot better)

as well as being

* Stupidly easy to store and transport

* Extremely difficult/impossible to confiscate

* Not subject to devaluation due to an as-of-yet undiscovered deposit

> If there are no transactions,

There are, as of now, on the order of five transactions per second. How many times per second do you think people are trading gold?

> Fiat currencies aren't technically any different

Well, there's at least one difference; fiat currencies can be easily devalued by inflation. Gold can't be inflated by fiat, but it could be inflated by the discovery of a large deposit (or asteroid mining). Bitcoin can't be inflated at all, period.

> but you can use them to pay taxes

If you have an asset, you can sell the asses to pay taxes or court-ordered payments. The small friction involved in converting the asset to fiat money is factored into the price of the asset. (Incidentally, one of the benefits of Bitcoin is that it's less beholden to taxation than traditional clearing house/bank-held assets).

> and their value is insisted on by armies

I've seen this meme a few times, and I honestly don't understand how anyone can say or write this out and not think to themselves "Wait, this doesn't make any sense at all.". I'm pretty people started saying this as a joke.

What is this even supposed to mean? If I attempt to sell something for USD above a certain price, is the army going to kick down my door and threaten me until I place a higher value on the dollar?
There are plenty of us out there that are holding, have been holding, and don't talk about it much outside of when someone else brings up Bitcoin.
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Agreed. Many a promising mathematician has been lost to the riemann hypothesis.
Trusting that a pair of engineers will always come to an agreement to authoritatively decide the best way forward seems naive to me. Where are these magical people?
There are likely to be fees to convert cash into bitcoin and vice versa.

I've found that this would up the cost quite a bit but it's possible there are cheaper ways of doing it that I'm not yet aware of.
Imagine the frankenlaptop the Mac would be if Apple ever listened to its customers? CD-ROM , touch screen, fm radio, infrared whatevs
That's a weird situation - it's a partnership between Amazon and Comcast, and many of the 5-star reviews say "Amazon customer service is awesome". It says more about Amazon than Comcast.

Some of the reviews even say "We all know Comcast sucks, this is a review about buying it through Amazon".
You would violate the terms of service for sharing your passwords with third-parties.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/terms Section 4, number 8:

"You will not share your password (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account."

Gmail: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/

"To protect your Google Account, keep your password confidential. You are responsible for the activity that happens on or through your Google Account. Try not to reuse your Google Account password on third-party applications."

Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/privacy#terms

"Please safeguard your password to the Services, make sure that others don't have access to it, and keep your account information current."
InfluxDB. Super simple to send an ad hoc metric to it. Grafana let's you build wonderful graphs on top of it.
What the GP means is that layer 2 switches should forward traffic agnostic of what the Ethertype field says. That field only exists so layer 3 knows what it's dealing with.
"If you cant afford the tax, you should move out and sell/rent out"

This makes zero sense to me. Someone bought the property 50 years ago and now is the sole owner, but it is reasonable to force them off their property / out of their home? I get it, other people are willing to pay more for it, but it is the owner's property.
The title is a question. So yeah, "no."
I think it's a good sign. I will be grateful for any President that not only breaks convention, but points out how contradictory the policy was in the first place. I'm sure he will treat China with respect and fairness when they call.
My company receives money deposited into their account the same day the charge occurs. While it may take days to settle with the merchant provider, they hide that to us, the end user.
I'm looking forward to trying it out. I used it at home to build a live weather site for my backyard weather station: https://mhkweather.com

The performance went way down when I moved my DB from a ext4 SSD volume to a four-disk ZFS magnetic volume. I expected some slowdown but not as much as I saw. Looking forward to trying 1.1 to see if it improves things.
I have a feeling you'd be fine. I'm working on a biotech startup, and I'd be willing to hire a biotech person out of Theranos. As a software dev, you can't have been expected to know what was going on.
> has no manual mechanisms for allocation

Golang supports value types for objects, so arrays (or something higher level like sync.Pool) work great for doing arena allocation.
tl;dr since some of us won't have wsj access:

“David Sacks is still the CEO of Zenefits and remains very committed to the company,” she said in a statement. “This is not a role that David sought, but he accepted it without any compensation at the request of the board to get the company past a crisis. Now that the crisis is over, David is leading a process to determine what senior talent the company needs to get to the next level.”
I know frames are a racket but what about lenses? Are Carl Zeiss lenses really that much better than other brands?
> I do have to add the caveat that it's mostly bad, but not _all_ bad: some of my favorite spots in town would have almost certainly had to evacuate the city by now if they weren't grandfathered into a certain tax rate (usually cafes/restaurants/bars).

This is certainly true-- it does create its share of "hidden treasures," but I find that for every favorite business that sticks around because it owns its property, I see two favorite businesses that close because they rent.
Virus is also a pretty bad analogy. The privilege of using gpl software as part of your software is bought with trade in kind instead of cash.

You have to make that trade willingly. You can't be infected. I don't think that you have thought this through and invite you to do so.
Real estate is much more expensive than last few decades and birthrate is lower than ever, this is hardly a surprise.
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> Guess what? You can't tax something that's not controlled by the US government.

Uh... you might want to be a little less brazen and loud about your tax evasion.
Taken to the full Georgist theory, a person is entitled to property in themselves, and in what they create, but not to land and other natural resources; they have no right to excludes others from natural resources without paying the rest of the community rent for its use.
Ethernet over IP is a thing too. Useful for bridging networks over a layer 3 link that you may be forced into for whatever reason.
Thanks for sharing in detail. What is the service you use for backup?
I would also add that talking about it in English might be difficult for them to express the nuance of the situation.

If the Westerner was willing to talk in Mandarin, perhaps they would be more willing to discuss the issue.
Presumably this got posted because it is tacit confirmation that Apple is working on a car, or at least thinking about it. The comments themselves don't seem particularly surprising or noteworthy.

Although I do think it's funny that even Apple's legal comments to federal regulators use the same font and whitespace conventions as their marketing stuff.
It's worth noting that the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer's Association[0], the group that originally passed Prop 13, fights for its continued existence as a dedicated lobby, and they're extremely well organized.

[0] http://www.hjta.org/
3D FDM plastic printers are an useful component of the future the hype described, but they are just a component, they are not energy to matter Star Trek replicators.

If one designs for it, it is possible to build complex products. FarmBot is a good example. It is made with a combination of 3D FDM printed parts, flat metal parts that could be made with a plasma cutter or CNC, open source software and compute provided by small ARM computers, and commodity produced parts like wires, motors and extruded aluminium rails.

Thats how RepRaps are made, and that is how you have to build in this new way. Very few things are solid plastic shapes.

3D FDM printers are great for designing and producing the case that your etched PCB, switches and LED's attach to. It is an ingredient in the recipe.

FDM can be used to make custom metal components through green sandcasting metals.

If more projects were designed like RepRap, or FarmBot, this new industrial revolution could still take shape. Robotic PCB production is another key ingredient that is needed for reality to match up to the hype.
Right, I'm totally with you on this. I only used the light bulb to illustrate the basic idea.

This need not be limited to network-connected devices either. You can define interfaces for any object even if they aren't electronic.

For example you can define the interface for a bottle as something that can be opened. You can define processes based on the interfaces of multiple objects. These process definitions can then be transferred to a robot that will then be able to interact with the real world based on those definitions.
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Some states have property tax deferral programs where retired owner can borrow money for property tax which is paid off when property is sold or transferred on death. This would let fixed income residents stay in home but keeping fair property tax rates.
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TIFF is the most common format for scanning applications. PDF (which is also an open, non-proprietary format) is the second.

Any organization that uses a document management or records management software will have most of their documents in either (or a combination of) those formats.
Just give 3-D printing time. I really hate it when people right off good--no promising--technology.

Just wait? Then again, I thought the Internet would encourage people to ticker/rebuild their gizmos. I'm loosing that battle. "Just throw it away!" That attitude kills me. Plus, I don't have the disposable income to think like that. (Actually a lot of people are repairing things, building things. Part of the problem is propriatiatry repair manuals.)

I truly believe when 3-D printers extrude metal, they will ,hopefully, be in most garages. (Cheap printers that extrude metal. Metal equal to, or stronger that cast metal.)
I find it really depressing to live with roommates. I spend 8+ hours a day in an open office subject to other people's opinions (and carelessness) about what should enter my ears. To endure that and then come home to someone watching TV or on the phone is literally hell.

I've traded away 3+ hours/day of free time to the commute so that in the little free time I have left, I get to choose the ambient noise.

At least in college, the library was a short walk and open late. There are no quiet indoor public spaces open after work, sadly.
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The problem is Django itself as a framework and Python as a slow infrastructure for it are getting too old with time. I love Django but it grows too restrictive as projects get more complicated (ORM and template rendering for example), not to mention the slow performance compared to new languages like Go and Elixir, which is actually Python's responsibility not Django.

Django is a monolithic framework that wants to do everything while there are good and even superior alternatives(SQlAlchemy, Jinja2, WTForms), which makes things harder for its developers.
I think the economic model of 3d printing in home is off.

The goal should be to have advanced 3D printers, latches and CNC milling machine shops that provide easy to use services for walk-in customers or mail-orders. It should work just as easily as copying and printing services work for PDF files. You don't know if they have Xerox or Canon and you don't care. You want to know if they can print A1 and things like that.

As 3D printing advances, having affordable access to several $20,000 - $200,000 specialized printers in your city beats the $2,000 printer in your home for a serious hobbyist or small business. Maybe its worth paying $200-$300 for printer you can use for prototypes before ordering more expensive work.
This story has been highly politicized and is proof that even in the 90s everybody was like tl;dr. It is the perfect example of lies and inneuendo trumping the facts and reality. And it is a perfect illustration of why we are in the mess we are in today.
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> This is certainly true-- it does create its share of "hidden treasures," but I find that for every favorite business that sticks around because it owns its property, I see two favorite businesses that close because they rent.

Agreed. Unfortunately it's a case where the lucky [1] survived. Even in the few years that I've been in SF I've seen a lot of amazing places disappear.

[1] I use "lucky" because no one 30-40 years ago could have predicted the disproportionate lucrativity that real estate would have compared to any other class of investment. It wasn't all that unreasonable to rent at the time.
About that space illustration you keep seeing around
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So next time I buy a car, if I put a line through paragraphs that I don't agree with in the contract are they going to walk away from the deal? I'm sure that the dealership doesn't want this to happen, but the sales personnel are more deal focused than anything else. I'm bloody minded enough to try this half a dozen times.
Prop 13 and various forms of taxable money laundering (overseas money dumped into real estate, Other People's Money based VC funds, imported under-market labor...) are the only things keeping this godforsaken state from going Full Venezuela, which is about 10 years from happening anyway due to continuing demographic decline.

If you allow the clowns in the state legislature to raise taxes ad infinitum they will do so, and then wail endlessly about white flight.

California Secession Now; they must serve as a warning to others.