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I don't think the main problem here is random terrorists cutting power to Europe by blowing up a power line tower. The real problem is that nation states that control the Sahara haven't proven to be stable (Syria, Egypt), or don't always have great relationships with Europe (Algeria in the 90s).

As to points 4 and 5, although storage and some backup capacity is reasonably feasible, this would mean that Europe could very well be forced to go to war in short order to get their full power supply back if a rogue organization gained power in North Africa.
Neither LLCs nor S-Corps pay corporate taxes.
Nice, that demo loaded pretty fast even with a lot of comments :)
Repealing the estate tax? The tax instituted by our founding fathers, specifically as a safeguard against the creation of an aristocratic class? A tax that ONLY affects people with more than 5 million at time of death?

For shame.
Google Code Search, when last I was curious on the topic, turned up a lot of open source Java with starts with "Windows 9" checks, including some deep in the Java framework itself. It's hard to imagine there isn't as much littered in closed source and proprietary code. (Even probably code that never actually ran on Windows 9x in the first place.)
Where does one obtain up to date PaX patches other than rolled into grsecurity? I looked and couldn't find it.
We know Russian explorers first sailed to America in the 1700s, but they didn't really explore or land enough to call it "well known" until the early 1800s.

In 1725, Emperor Peter the Great ordered navigator Vitus Bering to explore the North Pacific for potential colonization. The Russians were primarily interested in the abundance of fur-bearing mammals on Alaska's coast, as stocks had been depleted by overhunting in Siberia. Bering's first voyage was foiled by thick fog and ice, but in 1741 a second voyage by Bering and Aleksei Chirikov made sight of the North American mainland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_colonization_of_the_Am...
Great! A solid idea. What do you propose people who are not 16-18 do in their regular lives to take part in helping members of their community that isn't sending money to specialists?

It's of course very possible that your experiences and memories may vary significantly from mine, but my experience as a teenager with public service did not consistently inspire empathy for people others in my community. Teenagers are not generally known for their broad-minded feats of empathy, and I was not an exception.

As an adult, I have retained a general distaste for people who seek to tell me what community I am a member of. This is not because I resent being part of a community. It's generally because being told I am a member of a community I may not consider myself a member of is a precursor to being told I have a moral duty to provide some resource. I do not enjoy having my empathy tugged at people who only seem to see me as a member of their community when I have something they desire and who will not regard me as a member once I have provided such.
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Which is exactly my point.

Based on what the stated publicly, it's in Robinhood's interest as a company to push everyone into Margin deals. Their core stated benefit of using Robinhood over other brokers is opening trading up to everyone, through ease and low carry to make it easy.

Ipso Facto that means their goal will be pushing new unsophisticated traders into leveraged deals. That is 100% implicit in this whole thing.

I'm not arguing that there is evidence that "primarily unsophisticated people are buying premium." I'm arguing that this is their plan going forward and it could be really really harmful to markets if they get to the scale they want to.

Best case, Robinhood can cover every margin call themselves, in which case they are effectively doing what Uber does which is unsustainably subsidizing investing on credit.

Worst case, they can't cover margin calls and neither can their users and they roll up.

I'm just waiting for them to allow leveraged shorts...
You think HN is a haven for the alt-right? Or even the regular right for that matter? Libertarians I'll buy but HN is definitely left-wing. Were you not here for the whole Trump election? Did you not see all the shit Thiel got for supporting Trump?
> He has a very interesting (and controversial) history

Sure does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots
Where is "out the window"? People are going to be walking through that and it will flow downhill towards the water table and into well water. "out the window" is "everywhere" for most purposes.
Sad. I remember, at least initially, Google Gears having a tough time trying to parse blog content linked from Ffffound. I'd download all my Reader content for plane rides only to have missing images. Brings back memories of a better time; before Yahoo killed Delicious and Flickr.
$2/day on food is a load of shit. It sounds straight up like /r/frugaljerk advice.

I mean, you won't starve, but it would be one of those things contributing to the poverty mentality. Children, especially, need meat, physically active people need creatine, not easily gotten from plant-based foods. Not to mention fruits and vegetables will add extra (even frozen ones)

A 4-pack of fresh tomatoes alone is $2, at the very least.

Not to mention forcing people to eat boiled corn or lentils every days for years is damn near cruel.

I guess you could supplement it by dumpster diving for produce, but at that point you could also make the ridiculous claim of not having to pay for food at all.

He did get one thing right though: the biggest cost is housing.
They can elect to be taxed as a c Corp but I would think the vast majority are taxed as a corps or as partnerships.
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That seems improbable, because LLC owners usually recognize all of their income as pass-through distributions; this would be akin to a capped 15% tax on all wealthy people.

The reason you can propose drastically cutting the corporate tax is that it's a tax on money that is again taxed as income when it reaches households. The whole point of an LLC is not to do that.

LLCs that retain lots of income in the corporation indefinitely can elect corporate taxation, to which the proposed reduced rate would presumably apply. But when the LLC distributes that money back to its members, it is again taxed as income. In any case, that may be the basis for this proposal applying to LLCs.
The point is how do you know the vigilante's fix won't have adverse side effects?

EDIT* I agree with the bulldozer analogy.
To be honest, I really haven't read up on Vue or Vuex at all, so I can't make any good comparisons.

I _can_ say that I'm currently working on a blog post that will discuss what actual technical limitations Redux requires (and where/why those limitations exist), vs how Redux is _intended_ to be used, vs how it's _possible_ to use Redux. I've been doing research for that post by reviewing many of the early Redux issues and discussions, and will be including some of that info in my post. Hoping to make progress on that post this weekend - if you're interested, keep an eye on my blog at http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com .

I did write a comment on Reddit yesterday where I pasted a quote of Redux's stated objectives from an early version of the README, which may be informative: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/67gvic/i_just_d... .

In general, Dan and Andrew's primary goals were to enable time-travel debugging, server rendering, and state traceability, as well as offering up extension points so that developers could customize things like async behavior for their own preferences. That led to the effective requirements of immutable data handling, composed functions for organizing "write" logic, and the creation of "middleware" as the preferred approach for implementing async handling.
to be fair, there is LinuxBrew[1]; also, apparently you can use nix to the same effect.

I do believe that Linux-based desktop OSs should separate base system from user software, kind of like *BSDs have been doing; actually, I'd really distros to embrace something like homebrew, where packages are installed per-user

[1] http://linuxbrew.sh/
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"Yeah, and fusion is just around the corner..."

Fusion probably would have been if funding for nuclear fusion research had been kept at the same level as it was in the 70s. It took a deep dive after that though for reasons which most people can probably guess.
Wait, you're saying these things are true but it's poisonous to say so?

Or, more charitatively, that reality is composed of a large spectrum of true things and it's poisonous to emphasize the kind of true things they're saying?

(Or, to comic effect, that a three-valued logic of true/false/cringe is needed to evaluate social theories like that?)

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Here's how I feel about those "hatefacts". First, I don't know that they're true - ages 18-27, really? I know to some extent that Bono from U2 might be able to just waltz in and steal or have sex with my girlfriend. But here's the thing: I don't need to care. I firmly believe in the stoic distinction between stuff that's "up to me" (and I can fight for) and stuff that's not. I know I'm not about to become the protagonist of "Magic Mike 3" or some such optimally attractive man. I also know I have my own kind of charm which I can develop and let the dice roll.

It seems to me that the Red Pill stuff is structured exactly like class (and generalized "oppression") resentment. There are extraordinarily fine things and experiences I cannot afford in my current station in life and there are extraordinarily attractive women in the world (I saw a bunch today) that I will probably never enjoy as a mate. (Red Pill would likely say that if I became wealthy I'd get the girls, but doesn't that defeat the point?) But if you're going to be happy at all in life you need to do what you can do.

So Red Pill literature reads to me a lot like gender wage gap or black-lives-matter literature. It comes out of a place of disconnect between actions (what I can do) and consequences (what the world gives me) that's actually real. Of course the world's not fair. But it's sometimes painful, isn't it?
Donald Trump owns a large, illiquid, private company.

The AMT is one of the few taxes Donald has had to pay since he wrote-down a billion dollar loss in the 90s.

That's all I know.
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Not sure if this is sarcastic or not. If it isn't, it's ridiculous.

If this is a bubble, it needs to burst (or, preferably but imaginarily, gradually unwind in a non-traumatic fashion) as soon as possible. That's why bubbles are bad - they're going to burst eventually. Better to do it when they're smaller than bigger. And the goal definitely shouldn't be to keep them going as long as possible by artificially sustaining them with more and more speculative money. (Gee, when has that happened before?)

And if it is not a bubble, Chris Sacca no longer investing in high-growth startups is not going to have any impact.
The one with the second highest thumbs up: http://imgur.com/4HkZ0Wx
Two internet celebrities I follow (John and Hank Green) call those two approaches to making the world better "decreasing worldsuck" and "increasing awesome", and I really like that model of thinking. Obviously there are a lot of awesome things we can be doing in the world, but we can't let society leave people behind either.
to be fair, all homes are equipped with those already. Everyone's got phones and laptops.
Climate has varied a bit over the years though. And Alaskan summers seem quite inviting.
If a company (startup or otherwise) is private, then stock options holders can't liquidate their shares. However, they are still required to pay taxes on the capital gains when they exercise, which can be huge if the company has grown exponentially.

Not only do you have to take the risk of the stock/company crashing and burning but you have to pay in advance the taxes on the "gains" which you can't actually cash out. It's a trap, only thing you can do is stay at your company until liquidity occurs for shareholders.
Sure, but political activists also start riots. Just because they are activists doesn't mean they aren't doing "bad" things (violence). There's huge demand from even local LE across the world to turn online postings into some form of intelligence for them.

I agree that it'll mostly be abused by government, but knowing what people are planning can be helpful. Right now there are groups of people coordinating a street battle in Berkeley over social media. Giving local police insight into the groups is almost certainly a benefit, assuming the police act to keep the peace.
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this tax proposal would change that though, right? it sounds like you'd now pay your personal tax rate or 15%, whichever is lower, on income received from the passthrough entity.

Edit: "Beyond cutting the tax rate to 15 percent for large corporations, which now pay a rate of 35 percent, Mr. Trump also wants that rate for a broad range of firms known as pass-through entities — including hedge funds, real estate concerns like Mr. Trump’s and large partnerships — that currently pay taxes at individual rates, which top off at 39.6 percent."
> FISA being used to demand all of verizon's phone records! All of them! And what are one of the programs that FISA feeds into? Oh yeah, that's right. PRISM

This explicitly isn't PRISM, and this isn't ongoing. Moreover, Snowden's documents showed that this data wasn't used for surveillance. The data was anonymized and a system (not PRISM) was built on top of it that could only perform a limited set of graph queries to find associates of known threats to national security. To deanonymize a node, the government would have to request another court order.

You have once again demonstrated that you don't know what PRISM is, so is it any wonder that I keep calling you out on it?
It's a good question!

For any use case where there is a set of servers and a set of clients that interact with those servers, you often end up having to hard-code API contracts and response shapes on each client and each server.

If your client and server are written in the same language, you might be able to write an interface/class once and share the code between both builds. But what if (as is more often the case) they are written in different languages? What if you introduce a 3rd client, written in a 3rd language (say C# on the server, Swift on iOS, and Java on Android)?

This is what Google uses Protobuf for [0]. A competing solution is JSONSchema, which gives a slightly different set of functionality than Protobuf.

You describe your interface once with JSONSchema, and compile it into interfaces/classes for your various clients/servers to consume. This gives you compile time safety, and eliminates the need to manually author these classes and manually keep them in sync between platforms.

As you scale up the number of services/clients/servers you're running, a system like this becomes not just helpful, but necessary to ensure that they can all talk to one another.

[0] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
The traditional answer is that the incentive to find and exploit market inefficiencies gets higher if more and more funds are parked in indexes (e.g., if $GE is underpriced due to excessive indexing, savvy investors will swoop in and buy up more stock in $GE, this bringing the market back to efficiency).
Homo sapiens mostly didn't leave Africa until about 100k years ago, but when dealing with these things there is always a fair amount of uncertainty so some could have left much earlier.

There are also other early human species besides Homo sapiens that could in theory be responsible for something like this.

Homo erectus was galavanting around the world perhaps up to 2 million years ago, and they were tool users. Homo heidelbergensis was on the move around 600k years ago. Homo neanderthalensis was out of Africa around 300k years ago.
Great quote: "All the good dam sites were gone by 1940".

The ideal dam site is Hoover Dam. One dam at a narrow point created a large lake with a high drop for power generation. No population to displace; the surrounding land is desert. Few other sites in the world are that good.

There's nothing anywhere near that good left in the US. China has some good hydro sites in the west, and they're building hydroelectric dams there. Million-volt DC lines going thousands of kilometers are being used to move the power to the loads in eastern China.
AFAIK Twitter doesn't sell access for LE purposes and has cut off people doing that. It's a huge business opportunity to sell to local police departments.
I generally don't believe these anecdotes when pertaining to successfully companies with 10s of 1000s of staisfied business users. Most are far better off with shared IP addresses. After you establish a sterling domain reputation you can think about your own IPs.
I like to put it this way. Elon Musk is working on the cutting edge (make new tech), Bill Gates on the spine edge (make existing tech available to everyone).

You need both for humanity to progress.
I don't understand the logic that just cause someone is in a political party doesn't mean they can be evil and subsequently vilified.
How profitable can Waymo be?
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I was not speaking to what marginal cost is, I was speaking to the reason they chose to use the term marginal cost and also chose to pin it to sunny/windy and free.

Some are assuming I did not see "marginal" in there, but the rhetoric angle is exactly why author chose marginal cost. It was simply to get the word "free" in there and then again author used "free" when speaking about shale.
Studies show it's effective.

I agree that it's doing a good job in keeping me from breaking my tires free, which could lead to losing control. But I'm skeptical that enforcing these tactics blindly in all cases (as my car does) is the best overall strategy.

where are you turning right onto a road with a 60mph speed limit with no merging lane?

Specifically, US 290 west of Austin TX. But this seems to be the norm in much of Texas.
$13.60 Kindle. That's a lot of variation.
+1! I made daily visits and haven't thought about it for years now. I wonder how many other sites like this I've forgotten about.
You're exaggerating a bit. Take the Cameron statement for example. He got ripped apart for that by the public, media, and other politicians and then was forced into adopting a better attitude to refugees.
This outcome makes me kind of sad. I bet there would be people willing to fund development of grsecurity and PaX in the open (i.e. with broken out patches, etc.), and there could plausibly be more money in that than in selling subscriptions.
Looks really heavy. Also, no back rest. And no pillow, so hard on your butt.

Not a great design if you ask me.
So the SEC is ok with having non-accredited investors borrow money to gamble with? If it's so legit why isn't eTrade or Ameritrade et al doing it? I think the SEC should be investigated by Congress for throwing the common man (non-accredited investor) in front of the bus by not enforcing sane rules for investing.
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Windows version APIs have always had a "name" string and bad developers do have a wild tendency to just use string manipulation instead of more obvious methods. The Windows version APIs now even "lie" by default since around Vista because they presume a developer isn't querying the version API for the right reasons and you now have to essentially tell Windows you are built for/have tested on the right version to get the right version response, but the right way to do things is capability checks rather than checking the version API so it shouldn't matter that you need to do a lot of work to get the actual current version information from the version API.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14205899
That's how Searle views himself, but one critique of his work is that he can't distinguish his "naturalism" from dualism. It seems so obvious to him that the Chinese Room isn't conscious, but if it can replicate everything a conscious person would do, it might indeed replicate the phenomena of consciousness. How would we know, after all, since those phenomena are not readily observable.
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That's John Bogle. You're looking for Jack Bogle. https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investment_...
Same with Delphi which had a better underlying language than BASIC, fast compiles, superb version support and a stunning VCL (visual component library), it took VS studio years to catch up with a lot of that.
> Anyone can get it.

Please get me a couple billion dollars if it's so easy. Thanks.
Yep. A lot of the cultural luxuries programmers enjoy stem from the fact that there's a binary arbitrator of "correctness". Code will either output something that contains the required data, or it won't.

Within programming, there is plenty of room for taste and finesse and snobbery at higher levels of abstraction, but the field is naturally gated for us by a hard meritocratic absolute. In most fields, it's not that way at all.
This is far from the only reason, but I think one reason is UK running a two-party system.

The proponents (sitting parties) call it first-past-the-post, to make it sound like a fair system.

But most people know that proportional voting systems are better.

With a two party system there will always be debate, but it won't be as real as it is with proportional voting. The parties run no real risk of not getting elected. It also drives the two parties to each side of the 'spectrum', which isn't very constructive.

Take a look at these lists[1][2], see any pattern in which countries are using which system?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation#Li...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Lis...
> it's just a comment that will be ignored.

It’s not a comment. Some mail services allow you to have aliases in the form of normal-username+something@service.com but that doesn’t mean all do. If it were a comment the address +@example.com would be invalid but it’s not. Comments in email addresses are written in parentheses like username(i'm_a_comment)@example.com.
That's what WSJ suggests, but it is extraordinarily unlikely to be the case; it would effectively cut the income taxes for every business owner in half.
Agreed! life was great before these restrictions.
>When Steve Jobs came down with cancer, he was required to disclose his medical details publicly because of the fiscal impact it could have on the public stock

Yeah that's why he waited 9 months and after his surgery to announce it. "there's no specific obligation under the federal securities laws to disclose the health condition of executives."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-qa-sick-executives-201...
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I don't think I fully comprehend - do stock options holders need to pay tax even if they have not added actual money to their bank account?

Why would someone have to pay in advance taxes on a gain that has not actually happened? If I don't have the money in my bank account yet, how can I pay this huge amount of gains tax even?
Seriously. Nobody who hasn't gone through the ISO+AMT hell could possibly internalize how Kafkaesque and insane it is.
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