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> Taxation could be used as natural pressure to correct market failures.

Taxation isn't natural.

By the way, I'd like to remind everyone: when the state taxes something, the state now depends on that thing for its budget.

> If retail company that has 30% market share pays 0.3% extra from its revenue compared to tiny company with just 10,000 customers, it would probably be enough to even out the field and limit barriers to entry.

If you are really interested in barriers to entry, you can do a thought-experiment (or a real experiment): try to start a business. See where the friction is. And then ask yourself what the barriers were.

Another thought-experiment: imagine if starting and running a business (which includes collecting revenue, paying employees, paying taxes, abiding by the law) were nearly zero-friction. If starting a business had very low artificial friction, then there would _actually_ be natural pressure against market incumbents.
>You would use group video chat to connect students and teachers from around the world.

That would struggle to work because of time differences.
The same way real engineers work: classroom training in formal engineering, followed by years of experience under an accredited engineer in the field. There is testing at each transition to weed out the skaters.

Software engineers don't need to be computer scientists, in the same way civil engineers don't need to be materials scientists.

There is a bootstrap process, and even in other industries not all engineers are PEs... but all projects are reviewed and stamped by PEs.
What's a "batchelor" degree? If you meant "bachelor", I was quite pleased to see that the surgeon who was about to operate on me also had a pre-med engineering degree from MIT.
Also, will vs. shall.

The defendant will comply by...

vs.

The defendant shall comply by...

When in doubt, use the latter.
> A French court ruled in July French court ruled that Google, now part of Alphabet Inc, was not liable to pay 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in back taxes because it had no “permanent establishment” in France and ran its operations there from Ireland.

How strange. I didn't know Google were an Irish company. I see them when I connect to the internet from all over the world.

It looks like Airbnb also have their EMEA HQ there, as do Apple, eBay, Facebook, IBM, HP, ..., ...

I guess there must be a really big internet market in Ireland for all those guys to be focused on that location, right?

On another note, I tried to pay my taxes through an off-shore location, but I quickly realised I would get jail time for tax evasion.
It sounds like extortion to me. I wouldn't be surprised if the data leak was an intentional move to provide incentive to people to sign up for their credit monitoring services or unfreeze fees.
Yes, you did write that you were just considering immediate values.

I'm not sure that PDP-6 Lisp used tags though, MacLisp used BiBop to determine the type of an object so the entries in the type table corresponding to the special pointers would have contained the fixnum type.
Yes, I meant the nightlies. It is at 57. I can no longer edit my original answer.
My first off-campus email was to Jerry Pournelle, regarding one of his F&SF stories. To my astonishment, he answered! I thought that was really cool of him. RIP.
Heavy automation definitely does away with jobs that people liked doing, but that's been true since the industrial revolution.

Most train drivers like driving trains, something like London's DLR doesn't have train drivers (a human _can_ drive the train, but when they take over it deliberately goes slowly for safety reasons, so this is not normally used in paying service). A five year old (or a twenty-something going on five years old) gets to sit at the front and pretend they're driving, which is fun for them but it's not a job any more.

Some people enjoy operating a simple mechanical loom. Some expensive cloths are still today "hand woven" with such a loom because the legal protection for the name of the cloth mandates that they be produced this way. Probably everything else you have that was woven is woven automatically by a machine because machines produce the same quality as a skilled weaver but in enormous volume and more quickly.

The question is never whether machines will displace people from jobs, but about whether new jobs will come into existence (in large numbers) to replace those jobs. It's not "Can a machine do my job?" so much as "Is there anything I could get paid to do that a machine couldn't do?".
Yes, I meant 57, currently the nightly. I was typing on mobile and couldn't cross check. Sorry.
I use Mint too. I don't worry about it too much as long as my net worth goes up, my salary goes up, I investment 10%, and I save another 10%.

As my financial situation got more complicated with more expenses and larger income, I also update a ledger of my expenses and income once a month. That helps me track my savings and investment rates better.

It's generally better to focus on the longer term investing than it is to track your specific return at any moment in time.
If one is "at scale", they will have enough in-house resources to implement this by themselves.
At first I thought this was something like bindgen for Rust, but it appears to convert cpp libs into a single hpp file.
> perhaps only because we haven’t had a sufficiently dramatic incident of this sort yet.

How about Therac 25 and Ariane 5?
Intent and reasonable expectations will come in to play.

Unlike the movies, judges hate word games and attempts to skirt the laws. As in, they really frown on it.

This is not legal advice and I'm not your lawyer. Consult a qualified legal representative in the appropriate jurisdiction.
Religious flamewar (which this crosses into) is off topic on HN, so please don't post like this.
Too bad patio11 has a full time job now. Sounds like something he'd have fun with.
It's not like they can tell you "Name and SSN not found" when you put in gibberish. That's a public facing interface to brute forcing what somebody's SSN is. Just try numbers until you get a yes or no back.

If people are upset about this, what's the better option?
The Apple II also had schematics, and a listing of the Monitor ROM. Quite a contrast from the sealed-box-no-serviceable-parts-inside philosophy that they went to starting with the Mac.
>Why not offer this as a Chrome extension that detects any arbitration clause in any TOS and gives users options to opt-out, including the ability to mail an opt-out through an API?

probably because thats like a million times more work?
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That is very interesting. Worthy of it's own spot at the top of HN.

Thanks for posting.
Thanks muchly, Paul - very appreciated!
That's illegal for a person to do, but legal for these big companies. Don't blame the companies for exploiting loopholes. Blame the law. Fix the law.
Even if those are the case, after enough hops in the trust graph trust gets pretty diluted.
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I don't quite understand what your comment is getting at but I'm interested. Do truffles and huckleberries only grow in nitrogen rich soils?
I find technical discussions around this subject extremely fascinating but I'm a total noob in this space. Would you mind sharing any relevant links on the topics you mentioned?
I wonder if Lenovo keeps the service manual tradition alive for thinkpads.

You know it's all consumer dynamics. People buy even without, then why bother.
The legal system and independent courts etc are an infrastructure it depends on - Google had to leave China due to problems with the local legal system
The other problem not mentioned: Yellowstone is the middle of fricken nowhere.

Electricity is hard to send long distances and central planning projects have shown to be their own disasters time-and-time again through history. "This time around though" we have more established population centers so maybe we can pull it off? Not sure! If the power could be produced cheap enough, it might pay off to maintain the massive power grid to send electricity to population centers...

What would truly be revolutionary is phase change electricity storage mechanism! Imagine being able to "ship" electricity on conventional roads, or even in existing pipelines, much the way we do with hydrocarbons.

Batteries charge roughly at the same rate they discharge, making electric cars a PITA. A conventional automobile can be "charged up" with enough potential energy in 8 mins in what takes the fastest chargers 75mins.
Sure, but they didn't give data to a credit agency. That would require consent, and even if you assume they ignored HIPAA, if they'd done it for one daughter they'd have done it for both.
Infrastructure is a precondition for high economic activity and wealth. Without wealth Google, Amazon would have few customers in Germany, France, Spain.

These countries have mostly tax financed universities free or only with nominal tuitions for students. Without such education system the internet companies would have few customers wealthy enough to create a lot of profit for the company.
"...will this make Amazon's prices non-competitive"

Amazon UK book prices are mostly full-price outside of the bestseller lists. It's been like this for a while (but it wasn't of course how Amazon started). So you could argue their prices are already non-competitive for many books. It doesn't seems to matter though since all their rivals (who undercut Amazon book prices) are on Amazon marketplace anyway, so Amazon still gets a cut of the sale. Win-win for Amazon.

If you are in the UK, wordery.com is often a cheaper alternative than Amazon for many books. So is bookdepository.com, which is ironic given that it is owned by Amazon.
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So corporations are people only when it benefits them?
The technology may not be quite there yet, but there's little doubt in my mind that we'll get there within the next decade or two.
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This is a really deceptive campaign, given it's claiming to promote the original version of Ethereum when the original vision clearly included a switch to proof of stake.
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I'm ignorant, what does phase change have to do with energy storage?
A smart move after being informed that your personal data has been breached is to give more personal data to a random dude on internet. After all your are only giving up your name, Address, Equifax id, and IP address. What could go wrong?
Why do you think that law hasn't been fixed ...
This is not as intractable as you might initially think [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Amigas_SuperStation
A more challenging 'edition' is to find a number that spells out one of its prime factors.

But then, that long number wouldn't be a prime, so it's more like prime-ception. :)
That's great in theory, but in practice that's not what happens, because new orders influence existing orders, and cause additional new orders to be created. Much smaller sales can in fact, and to do, cause much larger price movements.
Who do you think the consumer is? Unless you're issuing credit, you're probably the product, not the consumer.
To answer the "functional programming" aspect:

First, "pure functions" are generally agreed to be easier to test and easier to understand, because they only rely on their inputs, and don't modify anything outside of the function. In a real application of any kind, you realistically can't write the entire app as pure functions. But, writing more of your codebase as pure functions means more of it is easily testable and understandable overall.

Second, while the OOP vs FP debate is never-ending, FP does lead to some nice forms of reusability via composition.

With Redux, you are intended to write your "reducers" as pure functions. It's up to you whether those reducers have complex logic or simply return the values they were given in the actions, but the reducers (which control the actual state updates) should all be pure, and therefore easily testable and understandable. Reducers can also be composed together to add new behaviors, such as:

const finalUsersReducer = undoable(resettable(originalUsersReducer));

In addition, writing pure functions with no side effects, in conjunction with dispatching plain object actions, is what makes Redux's time travel debugging feasible. (That's not to say it's impossible to implement time travel in other ways, just that those aspects of Redux's design make it very straightforward to implement time travel.)
Isn't this what semiotics[1] is all about? The difference between connotations and denotations?

My parents were really into that sort of thing "Words have power" - So during my 'bratty teenager' phase, I standardized on the word with the most negative denotation that had the correct connotation in my speech. I still do it sometimes, as a joke, but it's... funny, because while I have the feeling that the connotation is somehow less important than the denotation, and when I do the above, I'm attempting to point that out, nobody else seems to see it that way. To 'hire someone profitably' is a dramatically different thing, in most minds, than to 'exploit someone', even though the two words have an identical denotation.

I used to see my lack of understanding here as a sign of how most people cannot see past their own emotions; I now see my lack of understanding as a sign of how I am not in touch with emotions in a fully human sort of way.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics
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That is civil asset forfeiture.
All of those things you mentioned are already paid by somebody: the customer pays for your broadband and couriers pay for roads thorough their revenue taxes and tolls.

However, the topic here is the indirect benefit of being a wealthy nation where you can have customers wealthy enough to care about your products in the first place. The argument is that this is the result of something the society or the government did and it whoever benefits from that must pay their share for the access to that benefit, possibly to keep or improve the conditions that lead that wealth in the first place.
In Footfall, SF authors (including a clear cameo of Heinlein) were the advisors that enabled the US government to save the Earth from the aliens. So... yeah.
That's not a wholly correct interpretation. Law codes aren't rigorous; there's room for "interpreting" the law, and what really matters in the end is intent ("spirit of the law" > "letter of the law"). At any rate, the news is about "patching" the exploits.
Wait, did you just claim centrally planned projects are disasters, and propose to use nationwide highway/pipeline network instead?
The federal corporate tax can be up to 35%, which is the highest in the world outside of some literally banana republics.

Delaware has a corporate tax rate of 8.7%, California has 8.84.

So yes no one is incorporating in Delaware becuase of taxes, WA, TX, NV and a few others have zero corporate tax.
For example schools, hospitals, roads. They are mostly public in maybe every single European state. Without them there are no literate healthy customers and no deliveries.
Regardless, the parent's point stands, that the overall benefit would be enormous - far greater than just the value of the electricity generated.
It a faithful copy of a decent General Electric fridge, so no wonder.
It's being used for local construction. Even if it wasn't, do you have the same sympathy for Australia which is a major source of many minerals? Continents aren't people. They don't have property rights. People do, and it's important for people to be able to exercise those rights to benefit their own lives.
When a company "pulls" your credit they are not given the report for free. Equifax and the like sell a credit reporting service to banks and other companies who would want to see your credit history. When you freeze your report, reporting agencies are not allowed to sell your report to anyone, at your request, meaning they are losing revenue. The freeze fee makes sense when you realize your report is the product they are selling. "You're not allowing us to make money? Fine, then you need to help make up the difference with a fee." Just like stockbrokers, they are intent on making money both coming and going.
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You could probably increase your odds significantly over time by analyzing the distribution of pins (and as others note, by making common sense observations you can also increase your odds)
This isn't strictly true. They use an internal tool built using Victory[1]

1: https://github.com/FormidableLabs/victory
> They seem overly entitled.

This is why I've always enjoyed college ball. Student atheletes often have more of an affinity/comraderie to their team, and coaches don't tolerate them bad-mouthing their own teammates on TV. In pro, the inverse is true.

But in the end, I've grown tired of watching all broadcast sports except international championships (track & field, fútbol, etc)
Didn't toba reduce humanity to something like 2000 people?
CH VAT is 8%, how is that high?
Ask HN: What do you do when an app with cloud sync shuts down without notice?
I was a user of the photo journaling app HeyDay since it was released. It was shutdown this past year (last year perhaps) without notice to any of the users. I was lucky enough that I never fully trusted their cloud syncing service and kept copies of my photos on my computer. Others were not so lucky:

https://j9sopinion.com/2016/05/09/heyday-photo-app-review/

Efforts to contact the developer appear to have fallen on deaf ears, and I've all but given up hope that any data would be recovered. For me, that just means journal entries and location data for the past couple of years is now stranded in the app unless I can find a way to extract that data. For others, far more is lost.

With so many apps trying to implement syncing to the cloud, what recourse is there for users if the developer/company decides to just shut down business without warning? Is the lesson to be learned from this that no cloud service, even paid ones, are trustworthy? What does this say about the ever increasing movement to the cloud & subscription models?
I doubt it. I once had an employee who had accepted an entry-level engineering position when they really were qualified for two levels above that. I was explicitly told they couldn't skip levels, and that I could only put them up for promotion so often.

But even at a place that didn't have slow-down-there bias built in to the promotion process, the way you prove you're qualified for the next level is by doing work that's above your current level. Nobody will give staff engineer work to somebody in an entry level position; there's too much jockeying for that work by people one level down. So there's a practical limit to the rate at which somebody can advance even with no bias.
> meanwhile the state is funneling public funds into things like a concentrated solar plant which will probably never generate more revenue than expenditure.

Erm the state isn't a for-profit entity, in fact if it were to generate a profit for some reason and didn't use that money to improve infrastructure and the living conditions of the people it represents then it would've stopped serving its purpose.

It doesn't matter that their investment doesn't generate revenue, it will improve the lives of the people it represents.
If you read more favourably you can interpret OP as saying that the 'average' haute cuisine restaurant in Japan is better than the best in NYC. Which to me seems believable - at least the Michelin guide seems to somewhat agree. But I'm aware that I'm running into a no true scotsman fallacy there. Personally I don't have enough experience to say anything about haute cuisine, but I can say with certainty that at the low to mid end, Japan is in a completely different ballgame from the US.

In the US I essentially have a severe discoverability problem - there is great food, but you have to really hunt for it and do research to find it - sites like yelp are no help to me at all, a 5 star rating in the US translates to about a 2 star in Japan on tabelog, i.e. there's not enough resolution. Btw. in Europe the problem is usually the same, so that's not purely an American problem, more like Japan being an exception. There you can condidently walk into any place and get great food with about 70% success rate, and the other 30% is usually still good enough to not bother or even endanger you. A 3 star rating is standard, everything above promises greatness. Also, the accuracy with which Japanese can replicate (and often improve ok) Western food is surprising.
I suppose, although with the money system it seem like there is this crazy hyperparameter of how much a single vote costs. Plus, if you want to make things more economically equal (which is something we should want), you can do that with redistributive taxation. There are pragmatic considerations of what can get passed, but the same is true of voting reform. (Many people will make their decisions based on whether it will benefit their causes. This is why, for example, we have gerrymandering and left-right polarization on issues like making voter registration easy or allowing felons to vote or electoral college reform. General principles take a backseat, perhaps even rightly to some extent, to what one believes will lead to good outcomes.)
American Express has helped me out twice with this because they are a global entity. Originally became a member in Germany, moved to the UK and all I had to do was change my address with Amex and I had a UK credit card with no credit history in that country. I did the same thing when I came to the US, called them up and said I’m in the US now. Got a new card and my credit score was at 700 or so within a couple of months.
I thought Lyft was partnering with Waymo? Is this Drive.ai deal an additional partnership?

http://mashable.com/2017/05/14/lyft-waymo-self-driving-partn...
Matter phase changes either require or release energy. For example, liquifying ice requires energy (which is why ice makes your drink cold when it melts), and the energy used to transform liquid water into steam can be reclaimed as useful work in steam engines. Phase change is one potential storage mechanism for, say, excess electricity production.
Not any more, of course. It also deserves to be mentioned that lots of higher-end equipment used a lot of custom parts, and not always out of necessity (like custom µPs in HP multimeters, or stuffing solenoid drivers into unrelated hybrids ... and of course anything handling higher frequencies almost always used some custom chips or selected transistors hidden behind opaque part numbers).

Sometimes there are still schematics, Agisight still does it e.g. for low-end power supplies.
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There are occasions where legally a "demand" is exactly what you need; e.g. A "formal demand notice" is a specific type of notice that a debtor is required to pay up immediately (i.e. 7 or 14 days) before a creditor files for involuntary bankruptcy (i.e. to force you into bankruptcy). Having said that you should never say "I demand" or "I require", it is always used to reference a document, a signed contract, a law, etc.
> probably because thats like a million times more work?

I assume you're referring to the "detection" part.

Perhaps in the early 2000s this was true, prior to the widespread application of natural language processing; when one had to pre-define the format of most everything. Now all that's required are a few niche terms and a structure to apply them.
NYS attorney general announced it was unenforceable yesterday [0]. Equifax is dead and buried at this point.

[0] https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/906195350532304896