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I don't have a link to the actual academic article on it at the moment, but there are a variety of ways in which Picketty's science has been examined and found to be kind of bunk.

First, he made a lot of methodological errors, like using tax data as a proxy for income and then not adjusting for a change in tax treatment between one year and the next in the 1980s.

Second, more fundamentally, he's computing inequality without accounting for taxes and transfer payments, i.e. the things that we do to ameliorate inequality, e.g. food stamps, the EITC, and the entire Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid complex. I seem to recall that employer-paid benefits which are excluded from tax, like health insurance benefits, are also excluded.

At the high-level, in terms of big theoretical flaws, he posits this broad "when rate of return on capital exceeds the growth of the economy the rich just get richer" theory which is fine until the rich person dies, gives most of his assets away to charity, loses half of what's left to the death tax, and has more than one heir. People sometimes joke about how economists make a bunch of ridiculous assumptions in their models, and "people live for ever" is actually one of them, and it actually makes sense most of the time (because it usually doesn't affect what you're modelling), but this is the case where it affects what you're modelling.

This all started in 2014, so some of it may have been improved or corrected since then, but Picketty's popularity is still independent of any actual measure of facts or truths in the world. It's related to confirmation bias of the listener. This is why he is used in politics so much. (This isn't special or specially bad; it's why anything is, really. But see it for what it is and look to science rather than politicians for a fight on the facts.)
I think in Germany at least, employers have to pay people for the damages induced by non-compete (the loss of salary/earning potential). Ianal, though.
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Even in a thread with as much shittiness as this one, this comment stands out as dregs. If you post like this again, we will ban you.

You've been posting quite a few uncivil and unsubstantive comments to HN. That needs to stop if you want to continue posting here.
Man! Rough crowd! Is there a 'joke' tag that I'm missing or something?
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This could have happened with up-to-date windows too, if the NSA leak was different. The fault is with running fundamentally unsafe software in safety-critical applications.
> Source?

Yes, it is a pet theory, but a substantiated one. We've looked into Piketty's ideas during a semester project when I did a master's in economics. Among other things, we found that Piketty's measure for inequality (the percentage of wealth that is held by the top 10%) correlates very well with median age in the US. (T-stat: 7.2, R-squared: 0.90). Yes, correlation does not imply causation, but it is a strong hint that there is a connection.
Heh... I've been re-encoding a lot of mine to HEVC, and some things lowering the quality a little at the same time to get back some space... I do with nvenc had a bit higher quality, but the speed over x265 is so colossal I use it anyway. Most TV content as I watch, I'll nuke.. stuff I really like, I'll keep and if not already hevc, I'll re-encode.

Fortunately, I don't get too much from say 1080p over 720p, and hevc at 1080p seems to do very well, even at the lower quality (relatively) settings... so I'm getting 1080p content saved at file sizes sometimes half 720p avc.

In any case, I still pay for netflix/amazon, just got an NVidia Shield TV and love it so far (though had considered DirectTV Now, but they don't support Android TV for no reason). I cut the cord a while ago, and other than the Superbowl (next year just going to a bar), haven't missed it.

May setup Plex eventually as well, for now, kodi over the lan works great.
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The basic mechanism of market economy does in fact an excellent job of figuring out what people want at the very moment, and how much they want it relative to each other.

The important thing is, this mechanism does not exist in vacuum. It doesn't really distinguish between sources of "wants", i.e. whether a consumer wants something because that is their genuine need, or because it's a manufactured marketing-based need, or whether they're forced by circumstances into choosing this particular product (e.g. lack of choice).

I think we should both appreciate the effectiveness of this system and also talk about its failure modes when employed in the wider context of human society.
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Would you say it is more of a privilege or more of a burden to be able to spend time with your own children?

Women tend to be the primary caregivers because they choose so, and they are able to choose because it is their privilege because they are the ones giving birth to the children.

It is funny to me that male feminists think they are heroes if they take over primary care, while in reality they are robbing mothers of their privileges.

Of course it is up for every couple to decide who takes care of the children, so in the rare cases where the mothers prefers her career, sure, fathers can step up.
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the point is, you're arguing with the article, not my point.
So the only options are is to not have kids. What about the option where the man gives becomes the care giver, or if they both do it equally. I think the real issue here isn't so much that "there's a pay gap", but rather that this second options is usually missing. That's where the lack of equality is. Why does it always have to be women that are the caregiver and have to give up on their career?
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What sections of the law and precedents make you so sure about that?
So you think there is a market failure in pricing these workers? What do you think is causing it?
Iirc the recent prosecutions focus on distribution rather than use.
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It's not just about whether and how much your professional skills atrophy. It signals what's important to you in your life, what has the highest priority. Sheryl Sandberg used to work in Silicon Valley and go back to New York where her family lived at the weekend. She took a week's maternity leave. She routinely worked 80 hours a week. Work was clearly her first priority.

People get paid extra for credibly signaling that they'll be there for their employer or their colleagues in a partnership.
In the Netherlands is not legally enforceable either. You can only enforce not be able to take clients with you to your new employer for a fixed amount of time (e.g. 6 months).
Please keep generic ideological arguments off Hacker News. They're always the same, which is the opposite of gratifying intellectual curiosity, which is what this site is for.

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Not sure why that's downvoted but I see that health care is a highly complex topic. On the one hand everybody knows (at least I hope so) that all the care systems are going to be more and more expensive every year. On the other hand people still want to maintain highly unhealthy lifestyles because those are more fun. But I think nobody is ready for a paradigm shift yet, that would allow for cheaper health, higher coverage and better health.
It's not mandatory in the UK either. It's certainly pretty common in restaurants, as long as they don't already add a service charge, but it's unusual to tip in just about any other situation.
Customers come before team and ego every single day of the week. If you don't believe that and aren't prepared to do things that have biggest positive customer impact, you should resign immediately.
Is an extra round of back and forth to strike a legally meaningless provision worth it though? Another reply in this thread claims their former employee sued even with the redline.
HN readers tend to downvote jokes.
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actually my windows 10 installation didn't used uefi. (I had a really old machine). Basically I upgrade/upgraded to ryzen. I don't think it will be easy to migrate to UEFI straight.
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If you cared about the Super Bowl that much, couldn't you just get a tv tuner card to use the OTA broadcast?
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> will address this source of imbalance.

Why is it important to do so?
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Happy people don't focus on earning more money for exactly the same reason - they already have enough to not worry about their base needs.
Cause the users dont know what they are actually buying. They go for superficial signs of quality - like weigth, design, surfacepolishing and nice UI.

Security of a object is a thing you can only evaluate the day it turns around and snaps at you.

Now the default american solution for this, would be to have a "Late-Adopter" plugin, allowing to install "Additional" Gated-Comunity-Security for the rich - and let the mob become one huge botnet, held back by aggressive campaigns of bricking whole device classes remote should they be a threat to the "devices" in the better neighbourhoods.

Unfortunatly the rest of the world is either too poor or unwilling to follow this model, which means we are going to see a regulated, securty TÜV checked model in europe and japan, state regulated devices in china & russia - and a wild west everywhere else.
Next thing you know the photos you upload to facebook might use DRM so that you wouldn't be able to move to other site. Would you be happy about such a development?
We've asked you before to stop posting unsubstantive and/or uncivil comments to HN. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to end up banning you. Please fix this.
There's no need to defend Netflix as they're simply doing what they need to contractually do to stay in business. Did you really think Netflix was going to defy the demands of their content providers? Content is king and if Netflix didn't have it they wouldn't be worth subscribing to.
Trying to persuade people to live differently is not "behaviour engineering", it's how all social change occurs. Society is just people's attitudes and behaviours wrt. each other.

It seems like all you're saying is, "I supported feminism when things i didn't like were criticized. Now things I dont care about are criticised, I don't like it."
Please don't post grandiose rants to HN. They're indignant and boring—a terrible combination for any kind of interesting conversation.
I would say the reason the world is getting hacked is quite simple: OS vendors are asleep at the wheel. Instead of actually improving their OS platforms, they're instead turning them into web browsers and game engines - while all the vital services that a modern OS should provide are being ignored in the rush for control.

Take for example, the Fappening. This was possible because iCloud. iCloud is only necessary - like Dropbox and other services like it - because OS vendors decided they didn't want people to have control over their content, using their local computers - that it was 'easier' to provide servers dedicated to the purpose, than to actually add dedicated file sharing to the individuals' computers.

(There are no really good reasons why your modern PC can't serve its own content - especially in this era of bandwidth and monster CPU power. We hosted the 90's Internet on far less powerful computers than your average mobile phone, with less bandwidth too.. the point is, the protocols.)

So I honestly think that OS vendors need to be forced back behind the wheel to make our computers better, and the "network is the computer" business model needs to die. This was always a terrible idea, formed on the basis of an accountants wet dream, and should be forgotten as soon as possible. Instead, lets build better computers, simple as that. Computers that are actually safe to use because they've been designed that way, from the get-go. The cloud must die.
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"As expected, Enterprise Services revenue declined 1 percent and was flat in constant currency, due to a lower volume of Windows Server 2003 custom support agreements."

I did not even know that Custom Support has to do with MS quarterly earnings until today! I wonder how much it actually costs for MS.
Torrents will also distribute content unless you are leeching, which the GP is implying via sonarr/radarr
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He did also just confess to distribution though, via his Plex Server.

The gleeful attitude many have to pirating makes me sad. I've downloaded shows too, but whenever possible I use legal methods to watch. I believe it is content worth paying for, and if a show disappears from Netflix it's probably available somewhere else. It's at least worth checking before you go to your friend for Plex access.
> or is terminated without just cause or laid off.

Wait, seriously? One can be laid off but still barred from working for a competitor? Grateful to live in CA but that makes me ill on behalf of the rest of the country.
To howls of outrage, I have suggested to several companies that we simply disconnect from the public Internet. People programmed before cut-and-paste-from-SO was a thing after all. Obviously the web servers in the DC need to be accessible but the desktops in the office, or the critical bits of infra like DB, file servers and so on, nope.

Anyone who wants to surf can easily do so on their personal smartphone with no risk to corporate systems. No one has ever been able to put together a coherent rebuttal to my proposal, yet still the PCs remain connected and still people click things they shouldn't...
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They didn't say "reputable business". Even the mob is a business, meaning "something whose purpose is making money" (over-simplified, but I'm sure you'll get the point).
If you can't post civilly, please don't post here.
> People programmed before cut-and-paste-from-SO was a thing after all.

I've always considered SO to be more a sign of devolution than anything else. It hasn't produced better programmers - just more programmers. Is that better?
Yes. Yes I see that now. Yet another thing I can't talk about on hacker news.

Well. Ok, then.
Please don't. It only makes things worse.
Richest nations are the happiest nations as long as they don't run out of their money. That is the proper conclusion.

I am pretty sure 10 years ago Greece would have featured as a happiest nation and Venezuela not as much as a miserable nation that it is today.

Contrary to all this India WAS super miserable 10 years and go and much more happier today though comparatively might not be as happy as the Italian.
It'd be thrown out immediately anyway, due to having no legal basis (at least in the mainland European civil law systems)
Why use a trigram as n ?
I tried different n grams and trigrams were performing best.
Well, Piketty has been hired by LSE to work for their Inequality institute. Possibly an exception to the rule. http://www.lse.ac.uk/website-archive/newsAndMedia/newsArchiv...
Heh. I no longer enjoy 90 hours a week (I was doing that 20 years ago), but I love refactoring / rewriting. In fact, when this contract ends, I should really look for one where refactoring is the main thing to do.
How do you force them back to the wheel?
how far from the screen do you sit?
Because since the only way that a program can have access to information is by explicitly handing that info to the program from another program the only place you enter a password is on your login screen.
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I'm not sure why you find that Sokal-style. Unfamiliar terminology aside, it's clear and unambiguous -- you could directly rewrite it as a mathematical definition, for example.
As others have pointed out, 2.4% is within the margin of error.

The "accounting for job, industry" is very rough, so "social science" lumps together economists (66% male, $70k median income) and social workers (68% female, $40k median income).

"Hours worked" is also almost certainly not accounted for properly, as that is not a linear relationship of you get %x more for %x more hours. Instead, being willing to put in extra hours is seen as a token of submitting to the dominance hierarchy and key factor towards advancement. Saying something like "I structure my work so I get everything done in 40 hours" is not the correct answer when asked about your willingness to put in extra hours, because that's not what this is about. And men are generally more willing to do this than women, and men that are not are shut out of promotion just as much (or probably more) than women.

Also there is risk-taking. A study reported on in the Süddeutsche Zeitung[1][2](German) shows that even in controlled laboratory conditions, women chose low-risk strategies even when the "risk" is almost entirely theoretical and the advantages of a higher risk strategy clear. As the high-risk strategies on average lead to greater rewards (as in real life), the authors report there was a 23% gap in male/female earnings within that study.

Finally, it turns out that the lives of the top earners actually aren't all that great. They more or less suck. Women are more savvy about this, and have more alternatives, whereas men are much more motivated to stay in such negative environments for the status/money rewards[3].

When you put these factors together, they actually appear to over-explain the gender wage gap, and of course that isn't entirely unlikely[4]

[1] https://allesevolution.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/frauen-risik...

[2] http://www.sueddeutsche.de/karriere/gleichberechtigung-das-g...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gddjMm3Q3l0

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Women_are_wonderful%22_effe...
Please don't do generic ideological arguing on HN. It's off-topic here, and not the benign kind of off-topic.

I respect that your comments arise from a serious and even tragic situation, and am sure most everyone here shares that feeling.
> ...started, as it often does, with a defect in software, a bug.

It all started with poor ethics. Every single version of Microsoft Windows have intentionally left backdoors for NSA and some hackers knew how to use it. This is like you pay some money and buy a house, but the previous owner keeps backup keys to watch you. And some others get the backup keys, kick you out of your own home unless you pay them.

This is such a shame for Microsoft, NSA and American government. People trusted Microsoft products and purchased them, in return, Microsoft wanted more than money; they wanted to spy them for their ideological goals.
I gave up on this sort of thing ages ago because it just wasn't worth the hassle, but the nerd in me likes a technical problem to solve, so...

With a decent router you could configure it to connect to the VPN of your choice and then route requests from your Chromecast's IP over it. The Chromecast would probably not know the difference, and you can also route anything else over whatever VPNs you like.
The copyright mafia should not have that kind of power that you're assuming they have. I pirate too. I don't use any legal service to watch content or listen to content. I don't have the money to do so, so I pirate. I wouldn't've paid them if I couldn't pirate, I just wouldn't consume the media. If I like an artist or a movie I'll buy their content but I usually cannot because there's no place to buy it in my small village and it's far away from cities that have DVD stores. Most people in the country pirate. And most online stores don't allow Serbia as a purchase country so... TPB here I come!
SO, although can be misused via copy & paste to production, is one of the greatest productivity boost I've ever had ( I'm 15+ years of experience ).

Sure I remember having lots of fun with Turbo Pascal and paper books, as well as Perl and `man perlre`, but nevertheless there is always one weird error that will cost you half a day of debugging, which nowadays is replaced with 5 minutes googling.

SO community are doing fine job with preventing bad code left without the warnings, but anyway I think SO delivered more to programming than it actually took.
Right: this is the Internet Archive, and most materials are downloadable in various formats -- PDF, ePub, DJVU, and with varying degrees of legibility, plain text.

The online reader, if you can read it, is excellent. I'd linked the 2-up version, there's a single-page setting which should work on most mobile devices fairly well.
I don't know how UberPool or Lyft Line work exactly, but it sounds like the shared taxi initiatives (mostly operated by the railways) we've had in the Netherlands for decades.
Yeah they seem to be moving to newer, platform based security/drm models across the board.

For instance my HTPC has an Nvidia 1050ti card and can do UHD colour 4k output. I can play UHD test files just fine.

But the Netflix app won't show me 4K content as they require you to have a Kaby Lake CPU, which has some new hardware DRM module built in.
Sadly it's true. Average person don't even know that DRM exists. To extrapolate this a bit, from my experience average Windows 10 user don't even know how much spying it is there and those who know simply don't care, the same is true with DRM - the small percentage of people that know about it just don't bother to care.

As a thought experiment I wonder if my relatives will start to care about it when the wedding pictures I have taken for them suddenly will be DRM so they would need to ask my permission to print each and every of one (I guess not, they probably be just mad at me).
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