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I think it's better interpreted as comparing effective tax rates, i.e. 27.6% vs 31.9% of gross income. You're right that the salaries not directly comparable for the reasons you listed, but it's also pretty clear that they're not that far apart. Certainly not enough to conclude that Australians are "paying higher taxes to offset the cost of health care". By examining the numbers it's pretty clear that we're paying more for health care in the US and getting less for it.
There's no wood on Mars. A great deal of our infrastructure (not just Amish infrastructure) is wood-based, and the first Martians will have to find a substitute for it. The typical substitute for wood is plastic, but that comes from petroleum, and there's none of that on Mars either. I suppose one of the first things we'll have to build on Mars is greenhouses -- not just for food, but for plant-based plastic to build things with.
Physics major here, but programming since age 11. I wasn't a fan of how CS was taught to my friends, but undeniably there is so much incredibly important knowledge in CS that you won't get in a Physics degree. Such important works as the Dragon compiler book, Introductions to Algorithms, SICP, the Purity Test. Since coursera came along, I've found a number of online courses absolutely mind-altering. Basically, to my fellow physicists: yes, you are a smarty pants, but respect the body of CS knowledge and learn it.
1. Store the certificate directly in DNS, signed by DNSSEC

2. Have a way for user to easily and prominently display name or domain who is the certificate issued for, hardware button would be best IMO.

No participant in this CA racket has any interest for this to happen...
> Are there no provincial or city income taxes?

no. there are "rates" paid to city/town for garbage collection, etc, but that would be on the order of $2000 more, for home owners only, for the nicest parts of cities.
It is indeed worth something -- most western countries are in deep trouble. And yet many pundits predict a strong dollar under Trump... For the vast majority of these countries, virtually the only way to meet debt obligations over the next decade will require rapid debasement of the indebted currency. Get your gold mining stocks/Bitcoin while you can.

Bad things will happen when the average person realizes what this means: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
Source on the music at low levels claim? That's new to me as well, and all references I can easily find only talk about excessive loudness (but they could easily drown out less well-known results if there are any).
Money doesn't taint everything for me. Therefore the rest of the article was impossible to agree with as the generalization it became by that initial declaration.
I don't think it's evidence of human traffic because they used their own name.
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Rates on freelancing websites were sky high for every non-western country (plus, you don't need pay tax on income from abroad), but people tend to die, age, or move on from development. This is in part a reflection of normal demograpgic trends. Freelancer rates were rising for the last 10y
See https://matrix.org/ for all that. Riot is the flagship Matrix client, but there are many other alternatives in various states of development.

For bridges that you can run on your on "homeserver" (if you indeed want to run your own server!), see https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html#applica....

If you use the matrix.org homeserver, they bridge with a number of IRC networks, including freenode and OFTC. The closest thing to an official list that I've seen is https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/2....
Signal is a system designed always to be encrypted with no plaintext opt-out, with secrets that change automatically over the life of a conversation (which could last years) so that a single point-in-time loss of secrecy has minimized damage, with no exposed message metadata so you can't accidentally betray your conversation with a dumb subject line, and with deniability so that someone wiretapping you can't cryptographically prove you to have said anything.

PGP and email is essentially the opposite.
People have been identifying wanted criminals from photographs for a long time. Sometimes humans identify correctly but often they are incorrect.

I would hope that there is a less drastic/foolish procedure than "FBI handcuffs person at work, investigates later" every time that someone thinks their new neighbor looks like a criminal on a poster and phones in a tip. Just substitute "algorithm phones in a tip" for "neighbor phones in a tip."

https://www.usmarshals.gov/investigations/most_wanted/
Oh wow, according to wiki you are right and it's larger than Shanghai which I would have never thought. I guess the city feels smaller because of the central peninsula.
I hear ya, but at the end of the day people still say they want jobs. Instead of telling people what they should want, why don't we listen?
Yeh, I'd also like to know whether the HN demographic really has a hard time at finding work?
I'm in the UK. The comparison makes more sense.

US salaries are a different story entirely. (We can't even get there because of VISA anyway).
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A lot have moved west of the mountains but they have also pushed into Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. There are still plenty around but the model of buying a farm for each new couple to run and start their own family isn't tenable with the real estate prices around here and the declining number of farms period.

It is quite a shame as Lancaster County is some of the world's best farmland/top soil and we've paved it all. :(
There's this newfangled thing called Uner now. ;)

Any trip where people fly is a rail candidate. The hassle and bullshit associated with flying is high and getting higher.
You seem to have no idea how health insurance works.

Any good healthcare plan, especially post-ACA, will not have a cap like that.

People way overvalue free healthcare. Yes, it would be nice but it's nowhere near worth the salary differential.

I pay $160/m for my health care. It's a high deductible plan, but even if I were to reach the deductible every year then my total expenses would be $9,070=(160*12)+7,150.

The compensation differential between the US and Europe is way more than $10k.
I don't understand what this has to do with whether we should use risky, leaky cryptosystems like PGP over things like Signal that were designed specifically to deal with these threats.
Ha, yeah. Of course.
As someone who worked on a NASA Lunar mission (LROC), I can tell you that there are opinions both ways. With NASA on a shoestring budget, some scientists feel the best science return on investment is robots. But there are plans to put humans back on the moon that would not cost all that much more. If it weren't for the fixed budget, I'm sure almost all scientists would want manned missions.

Why? Go read some more about Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, who was on the Moon with Gene Cernan. Having a geologist on the moon enabled spotting things, making judgements, and then following up on the spot. Sending a scientist who can also pilot (and Schmitt was damned good) rather than only having military pilots changes the game as far as the science return.
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That's an interesting comparison, but it totally makes sense.
The moon has no resources to enable living there. You will always have to bring in air, water and food. Also, no current idea for something profitable to do there (Helium-3 mining is very theoretical). Some people want a moon base before a mars base, but I think they're mostly thinking about how much closer it is, not about what they want it for.
I was speaking more in terms of its commercial introduction/becoming mainstream, but point taken.
Anything that can be made locally on Mars is best

It has been proposed that many early Martian colonial buildings will be vaulted masonry built using locally manufactured bricks. The weight of the building and soil can serve to contain a pressurized atmosphere. Frozen water could be used in certain environments to make such buildings airtight.
Or we'll just make a lot more things out of metal.
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Related question, what's the opposite of sunk cost / escalation of commitment?

In this context, your comment made me think about the counter point, i.e. "I'll be able to make that decision later". Is there a name for procrastination bias?
> Being born into a family with huge debt is likely giving you above average income potential.

I don't understand that. A family with a huge dept is a badly managed family. How can there be anything good coming from that?
This is a bit too much gossip and not enough anything substantial.
I didn't say we should do anything. I simply asked about the relative costs.
The VAT in Australia is 10% while the average sales tax in the US is 5%, so that's an extra $5,000 in your example. Also, the payroll tax is over 5%, no matter who pays it (taxes are paid by people, not "employers"), so that's another $2,000. So Australians pay roughly 10% more in taxes.
French employees aren't paid on their standard holidays? It also seems strange that if you're working over the 35/hr week baseline and being compensated for it by extra leave, that you would not be paid during that leave. After all, you're working extra for that time off, so you've essentially just already worked those weeks in advance.
I was hoping for a more quantifiable answer like X tons of plastic compared to total plastic pollution.
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That's a great point.

The train from Albany to NYC is at or near capacity daily, although it's only 150 miles. Similar use case in many ways... It's enough of a pain to drive that people want to avoid it, and it's better than a car to go to Manhattan.

My uncle used to fly LGA to BOS a couple of times a week... I betcha that train trip is shorter now given the security and other nonsense associated with flying.
GG&S persuasively argues that human subpopulations spent a lot of time in very different environments.

But what tends to happen to populations that spend thousands of generations in very different environments? Diamond is curiously silent on this point.
I you don't need a more complicated plan than: work a lot, teach others, have fun, never stop learning.
You can't plan opportunities..
> You mention having more vacation. I know plenty of people who switched to contracting in the US so they could have more time to focus on startups and hobbies. They only work maybe half the year, yet still make more than developers do in Europe.

Doubt that. Contracting in London is very profitable. That's possibly the easiest money on the continent.
This suggests that if you want to create a company that is acquired by Elon Musk you probably want to design/patent systems and methodologies for building things on Mars :-)
The typical substitute for wood is plastic, but that comes from petroleum, and there's none of that on Mars either.

This was covered in Zubrin's The Case for Mars. With the input of some hydrogen and some energy, you can source feedstock for plastics from Mars' atmosphere. For example, ethylene:

http://pioneerastro.com/Team/RZubrin/Mars_In-Situ_Resource_U...
Because old versions of AWS didn't support NFS. This is called Elastic Stockholm Syndrome (ES2).
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I'm not sure what's wrong with "if you become a dangerous bandit, society doesn't welcome you". It's you who described the poor as bandits that are cheaper to pay off than protect ourselves from, not me.

I agree numbers matter, which is why I asked if you had a ballpark on them. I guess you don't?
Sure, contracting in London is "very" profitable but it's still not as profitable as contracting in SV/NYC. It only looks good in comparison because full-time rates are shit.

Also, if you're talking about contracting then all the supposed benefits of a better work-life balance or vacation time are out the window.
While I'm sure there are unique situations that for whatever bizarre reason work out where cloud is cheaper, they're pretty rare. Most of the time, if you have a server "on the other side of the world" you're in a data center where you can ask the datacenter's staff to install another disk for you and pay any associated fee. If you put it in a datacenter that doesn't offer such services and you're 5000 miles away, that was probably a bad call.

Cloud does have some benefits and there are specific applications that are smarter to run in the cloud than on colocated hardware, but they're almost never going to be cheaper to run in the cloud.

You can sometimes save money sort of indirectly. For example, if your MySQL application is struggling and you put it on Aurora and it runs fine there, then you've saved tons of labor costs in exchange for the cost of your Aurora instance, which isn't cheap, but is probably cheaper than consulting time, but even this is a short-lived benefit because at some point the monthly rent crosses the threshold, and it locks you into an application that can only run well on Amazon RDS.
Speed matters. According to the authors of this software "Highly optimized Turbo Decoder available in Intel SSE4.1/AVX (+100 Mbps) and standard C (+25 Mbps)".

Also, a lot of alternatives are just not there. Rust is not mature; today it doesn't "fully" support SIMD. Go requires a runtime, does not support SIMD, and has a penalty for calling C code.
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Reasonable... it's just funny because the article from today had the first three comments that were clearly from trolls. But thanks for the info.
ublock origin has anti-tracker lists, and to use fullstory you add fs.js to the <head>. I could see it being blocked (like I just did in my custom list).
That's very much a libertarian style nuclear option to remove a CA from the root store. Why can't the industry work out a fine to pay an ICANN-like org for root CAs when it happens?
The SpaceX internet service isn't just about building a new product- it's about smoothing demand for SpaceX's primary business.

Space launches are a high-variability industry. Sometimes there's lots of demand, sometimes you lose the ability to launch for 4 months because of a minor accident (or $250m explosion...).

This internet service is a new customer who can smooth demand out. SpaceX sets a goal for launches for a year, and gives the internet company 20% of their launches. If they oversell, some internet launches get cancelled. If they undersell, the internet company buys extra. Either way, booster production remains smooth. Every other customer is afraid of using used boosters? No problem, watch SpaceX use them themselves.

And if the internet thing doesn't turn out to be profitable? Ah well, the capital that financed it probably came from outside anyways.
Bob Newhart would like a word with you. Specifically, as a one-sided phone conversation.
I guess you're talking about something like Twitch? That's certainly a use case but a rather extreme and rare one. Among public IRC networks I believe QuakeNet has the record with a peak of ~240k users in total on the entire network (that was a long time ago). Channel record on QuakeNet was ~10k users. These days it looks like only two IRC networks have >30k active users in total (according to http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/) - freenode and IRCnet.
Why is "born to American parents" a more meaningful moral category than "born to white parents"?

I don't think the poster is racist. I think he holds a moral position which is equally indefensible.
No need to download any software. No need to choose between PowerPoint or Keynote.
I don't have the citation handy, but one fun fact is that this has basically shaken out by "natural selection" if you will - there used to be Amish communities that were fine with modern travel and personal ownership of cars... but all such Amish communities basically disintegrated into the larger culture. The ones that are left are the ones that picked technology policies that allowed them to absorb benefits from modern technology without fundamentally disrupting their culture.
Hmm, it seems that if I wanted to go work somewhere over there though, that it would be a crazy pay cut even if we factor in all the benefits
All of your "solutions" still involve having the keys on an untrusted computer: the one in my hand; it isn't correct enough to say it is "easier to just assume that everything you wish to keep private will be visible"... it absolutely fundamentally doesn't work to put something sensitive in the hands of the attacker, even momentarily. For people who just can't grok this, imagine some incredibly trivial to pull off scenarios: your app is modified, the Java virtual machine is modified, the Linux kernel is modified, the phone is actually an emulator and the "hardware" is modified... you can't trust anything in the hands of an attacker, and trying to hide things from them using slieght of hand is foolish: I'll just log the final network traffic and work backwards (which for many or even most kinds of credentials is something that can be trivially automated) instead of trying to slog forward from the output of a static analyer.
I make $110k per year. I pay, $15k in child support, and save $40k per year. Yes, you can easily save $80k per year on a $200k salary. It just depends on how you decide to spend your money.
Definitely! I'm a big fan of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project for their beautiful vision. I also think it serves as an interesting data point that despite their wonderful vision, they were unable to gain traction.

This makes me think an idea like this needs to be funded by a profitable organization.
When I was 25 years old I made the plan to move to SF, find a technical cofounder and start a fast growth company.

5 years later I achieved that goal.

My plan was nowhere near the detail of this but there were steps along the way. Things changed a lot, and not everything was done in the order I originally planned.

With that said, having a clear vision of where I wanted to be and loosely how I was going to get there meant that I could turn down opportunities that may have led me astray, or which didn't further my career/life goals.

YMMV.
You're referring to people who do not have sufficient access to resources. Those people say they want jobs because they don't have access to resources, and they can't envision said access without the intermediary process of having to perform work at a job to obtain said resources. They view the two concepts: jobs and resources, as inextricably interwoven facets of a single process.

As someone with a job, with friends and acquaintances who all have jobs, and parents who have jobs, I feel like I can safely speak for all of them when I tell you right now: We do not want jobs. We want access to a fair share of the available resources.
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We need more physicists so we can prove the Everettian interpretation of quantum mechanics so I can travel to the world where I'm a billionaire.
I was googling that and it seems Chollet also confirmed that in a Reddit comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5jg7b8/p_d...

Some background in this article currently featured in r/MachineLearning: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/5o9vfx/d_k...
Interesting that you were able to get the O-1 with such an "average" career.

I guess that's a hidden advantage of writing a few books, hem? You're able to send them a polished application :)
Professional teachers(particularly in STEM) accept wages below the market for those skills to pursue their Vocation of teaching.

Many of my peers in Secondary Ed would happily teach for free if their other needs were met.
If someone has no job the government pays the full $x. So the employer is only helping the government. I agree with you that we should cut these government subsidies.

However, the subsidies are to the worker, not the company. To see this, imagine a hypothetical world without the subsidies, and try to figure out if the employer would be richer or poorer. (Hint: richer, since they don't need to compete with the "stay home and watch TV while collecting welfare" option.)
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If you're going to count the employer side of the payroll tax, you have to do so for the US too. Total payroll tax in the US is 15.3% (of which the employee pays half and the employer pays half). So go ahead and double that payroll tax to $15,300.

VAT is based on spending, so you can't assume that $5k is actually being spent on VAT. Besides, many cities in the US tack on their own sales tax and it gets close to 10% anyway (Seattle is 9.6%, Los Angeles is 9.5%, San Francisco is 8.75%)
>Putting men on the moon could have ushered in a new age of exploration

Not really. Solving the propulsion and energy generation problems would have done that, but not merely sending a bunch more people to a space rock for a few days using chemical rockets. EMDrive is interesting if it works, but significantly more efficient energy generation still eludes us.
No government money is being spent on space settlement. NASA's budget is about $18B per year.

Some stuff is actually awesome and worthwhile (and cost effective) like the robotic exploration of the solar system, and a little supports SpaceX which uses the money to develop technology that enables cheap access to space.

But I think most of that money is a jobs program for high paying jobs congressmen want in their districts which help the economy tactically but might not be the best use of those people's effort. But, the provided jobs also support a skills base and supplier ecosystem that would allow shifting some of those people and parts suppliers into doing something more necessary to the government like defense stuff. The thinking is that if that money goes away and those people get laid off, they'll stop working in aerospace, move into finance or whatever, college kids will not study space engineering because they'll hear there are no jobs, and defense contractors will have a harder time hiring the next time a big defense program is funded.
It could be mounted with a belt (at a reduction). The horse probably won't be as bothered by the increased load as a human.
that failure mode is more what I worry about in a reality with The Machine. What happens when we can no longer maintain it, and some major threat comes along.
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> no company will ever send you into a quantum mechanics lecture

I bet D-Wave has some interesting quantum mechanics lectures!
I knew briefly a woman who had ran away from everything she knew at 17, to avoid a marriage. The stories of what counted as "normal" was horrific, especially with regards to daughters. Between the corporal punishment, starvation-as-punishment and strict-to-consequence-of-abandonment gender roles, it mapped closely to the popular conception of young women's lives in radical Islam. They also have a greater prevalence of genetic diseases due to inbreeding.

The study linked in that blog post makes no reference to the Amish, whose happiness is entirely conjecture from the blogger.