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I think you missed my point. Given a choice, it seems nobody actually wants to live like stone age people, including everyone who is posting in this thread. Even the people who like "roughing it" make plenty use of modern technology, all of which was invented and made possible by civilizations.
Taxing the unimproved value of land has the additional advantage that people cannot decide to create less of it in response to the tax disincentive.

I really wish we went full Georgism back in the day.
"Actual conservative", that's the no true Scottsman fallacy; everyone who self identifies as a conservative is a conservative, regardless of how well they stick to those values.
I always thought that a regulation along the lines of "if you sell it, you must give the customer the ability to dispose of it" would be nice. And, yes, I do think that means Amazon would have to have some sort of bricks-and-mortar operation: at minimum there must be a shop owned by someone, which Amazon has a deal with, that you'd be able to drop your discarded Amajunk off at.

Also, I also think we should have a carbon recapture tax added to gasoline, but no one I know really wants to pay an additional tax of 7-10$/gallon.
> "I call that "not really caring"."

I call it "not really understanding". The cleaning was most likely more work than a few more phone calls to cleaners for quotes would've been. If it was about not caring then why wouldn't the husband put in the minimum effort and get in someone else to do the cleaning?
Actually, that's not what I said. It's location information, use the Location Permission, not an additional permission. Why should I need to have an extra permission beyond Photo Permission to get information like shutter speed, aperture, and timestamp?
It really wasn't relevant. Browsers are fungible. Social networks are not. Comparing Chrome with Google+ is missing the point.
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Maybe there should be a stronger proof-of-work for creating an account on twitter
I wasn't criticizing your work, but the commenter above, which sounded like it would be great if all software was like that.
Yea, thankfully the current plan proposes removing the estate tax to make sure we don't have any sorts of progressive taxes left...
I'm not sure I understand this. What would have changed if he had said he was exercising his right to remain silent?
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If you're truly wealthy there's a good chance your "personal income" isn't coming from a paycheck you worked for. Your income is in the form of qualified dividends, proceeds from long term capital gains and other investment income. Of which you're likely paying very little (long term capital gain) to no (qualified dividend) tax on.

Any tax reform that does not address the fact that investment income is taxed more or less flat compared to labor which is taxed progressively is missing a huge opportunity to tackle income inequality and making the wealthy "pay their fair share".

- Lower the corporate tax rate significantly. This creates more value in companies and possibly a larger labor pool.

- Install a progressive tax system on capital gains similar (larger standard deduction than labor) to how labor is currently taxed. Investors are making more on companies that pay lower taxes now. If investment is your sole source of income you'll actually be paying your "fair share" now.

- Lower taxes on working people who spend most of their income. This creates more consumption and investment which leads to better markets.
"I would not have to make the calls, get multiple quotes, research and vet each service, arrange payment and schedule the appointment. The real gift I wanted was to be relieved of the emotional labor"

What she's saying is she wants to do less work, and then she throws the term "emotional labor" in there as though that's a catch-all description for any work that she normally does that she would rather not be doing. But maybe I just don't understand the term.

"Then I tried to gingerly explain the concept of emotional labor: that I was the manager of the household, and that being manager was a lot of thankless work. Delegating work to other people, i.e. telling him to do something he should instinctively know to do, is exhausting. "

Nope, again, she's just saying she's doing a lot of work, specifically here delegation and managerial work. This is the way she is explaining the concept of "emotional labor" but most people just call it work and/or management.

I'm not sure how it helps to call it "emotional labor". It just confuses the issue putting focus on the individual's personal symptoms as the result of a problem rather than the problem itself. The real issue seems to be a work imbalance which leads to frustration. Fix the work imbalance, the frustration goes away.
Who needs anything else except deep learning? \s
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Changing the wording seems more like a symptom of the real issue: we're collectively very poor at our constitutional literacy.

If there's anything worth teaching in our schools, it's the rights and responsibilities we have as citizens of this country.

"A republic, if you can keep it."
The wealthy don't need to find loopholes, they are constructed by our lawmakers. An uneven playing field is damaging to the free market.

This is a bad thing. That money won't disappear. It'll get spent or invested (either directly or indirectly by a bank if saved)

Tax cuts are bad. Stop saying they're good. The wealthy have money to affect political decisions because they can afford lobbyists, so it's the not-so-wealthy who have a marginalized impact.
You don't really understand the value of a role until you see someone great for the role.

This adds to a lot of the bad feelings. Some people are great at marketing, but if you work for someone mediocre then it's easy to see how you will think they are worthless.
It has none of the qualities of a cellphone other than being a radio, so it is not a cellphone prototype. It is a passively-powered radio prototype. They may later build a cellphone prototype, but this isn't such an animal.

> But you may have missed this part "or ambient light collected by a solar cell the size of a grain of rice". So, yes they built a cellphone, even if they can't gain power from arbitrary sources.

A cellphone is not "a radio that cannot connect to a phone network and that uses a solar cell". That would be a solar-power radio.
They're all conservatives. A conservative is someone who self identifies as a conservative, that's really all that matters. Antifa are liberals, radical extreme liberals that seem to have a problem with free speech, but liberals none the less.
And independent consultant. Which I guess is founder?
I programmed almost all of those machines at one point, both Interlisp flavor (dandelion -- wrote custom microcode for it), dolphin, Dorado; MIT CADR, Symbolics CADR, TI (LMI) CADR, various 36XXs (had two 3650s in my office at one point, used them both), but moved on before the ivory Mac plug in came along. It was a nice spur on the computing road, but ultimately not worth it. The tagging ideals still survive, e.g. in the RISC-V.

Sadly though the philosophy that everything should be programmable has mostly been lost, though partially revived in the browser. But only partially.
I'll be curious if WebAssembly affords them an opportunity to leverage {large number of engineers} or instead enables new browser entrants via evening the legacy "How good is your js engine?" playing field.
React is the view layer. Maybe you can write the UI in react, but everything else would just be JavaScript, no?
If you are concerned that your engine doesn't run efficiently, simply cutting the fuel to it doesn't actually fix any problems.

The government is a huge entity that does some very important things and wastes a lot of money (some of which being pork that it seems every party indulges in), simply assuming that cutting off the cash flow is going to improve anything is wishful thinking I think.

You know certain things will be funded (like the military) but a lot of basic services to the needy always seem to be on the chopping block despite costing a fraction of the budget (food stamps, nutritional assistance to pregnant mothers, etc).
Brew is what I was alluding to, they have straightened out much of the package management issues. I ran into problems recently where certain CPAN modules wouldn't compile under OS X.
> I think it's a viable theory

I'm not a working evolutionary psychologist, but my understanding is that this is the most widely accepted theory for understanding this discrepancy in outcomes for men and women. If you're not already familiar with evolutionary psychology, I highly recommend taking a look. IMO, it is the best lens through which to understand human behavior.

> they're disenfranchised and restricted from achieving positions of power

I think causation runs along two paths. The first is, as you mention, that women are restricted and disenfranchised. But I wouldn't underestimate the degree to which women are evolved to simply not seek power and prestige. Seeking power is costly. It takes a lot of time and effort and, when things don't go well, you often end up dead (assassinations, coups, etc.). Whenever something is costly, it needs to have a marked offsetting benefit for it to be evolved for. Since women stand to gain less than men do by accumulating power, evolutionary theory predicts that they should be proportionately less motivated to do so.
>I wanted to vividly demonstrate how much of a handicap it was to work without floating points.

So, did he manage to demonstrate that in the book? Because the page linked here, while explaining how floating points are represented in memory, does not explain how computers perform operations on them, or what purpose does a FPU serve (how does it differ from an ALU).
It's actually got absolutely nothing to do with City of Seattle government. This is an initiative by the King County (the county where Seattle is located) Prosecutor's Office and the Sheriff's Department. It does not (yet, hopefully) apply to Seattle Police Department or the Seattle City Prosecutor's Office. So while many of the affected youth may end up benefitting from the initiative if they land at the KC Juvenile Justice Center, if they're arrested by an SPD officer, they're likely to hear the same old Miranda.

(And another point of clarification 'cause I read it too and can't help myself: an opinion piece by George Will isn't exactly an "editorial." I'd seriously doubt that the WAPost editorial board would agree with many of his dubious positions in the column.)
exactly.. it's literally a job in itself.
Are you sure rounding error builds up exponentially? I may be wrong but I thought it was sqrt(N) where N is the number of operations.
The issue is that it won't necessarily get spent, saving rate goes up with income which produces less currency circulation. The whole idea of trickle down economics just needs to go away.
Speaking of using headphones as antennas--are there any articles or documentation on how they work? Would you be able to replicate that on a PC, or does it need to use other some of the other antennas on the phone to function?
> The first 5,000/year in clothing tax free

Per person? In that case, we can lower it to $1k/year.
This doesn't work when you're several levels deep in photos, within groups, within comment sections, etc.
That tax is worst which distorts most. Differential taxation of income and capital gains has resulted in many financial products for transforming ordinary income into capital gains - obviously non-productive "work."

Differential taxation of ordinary income and pass-through income will do the same thing. This is just bad tax policy design.
I started full time in 2008 when the recession was bad. I don't know if 2008 was a long time ago or not.

Turns out when companies are making money, they want to hire engineers to build new stuff. When they are losing money, they want to hire engineers to automate.

There were certainly some lucky breaks involved. I like to think of it as I'm lucky the doors opened, it wasn't luck that had me searching for open doors and walking through them when I found them.
Or maybe they aren't stupid and they're simply acting in their own self-interest, which means not wasting their time with unnecessarily more complicated products that offer little to them in return. Or maybe they do want the products they use to be status symbols. Or maybe they simply don't share your point of view.

This doesn't mean they're necessarily stupid, it means they're different from you.
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I actually can't tell if this is useful or a parody.
okay, after 15 minutes of this.

Previous view: Linux tracing is so complicated. Without a personally important usecase I probably won't invest the time to learn it.

Current view: Linux tracing is so complicated. Without a personally important usecase I probably won't invest the time to learn it.

Soo... What I can say is I really hate these keyboard sounds. Otherwise I'm not sure I learned much.
Sentence two: The first 5,000/year in clothing tax free, and the First 10,000/year in food tax free.

I like plans that take care of this with a prebate - $200-$500/mo checks for everyone. It could also be a precursor to UBI.
This easiest is to tax things that cannot move away, like
real estate instead of giving giant deductions.

States and localities absolutely do. "The federal government is generally prohibited from imposing direct taxes unless such taxes are then given to the states in proportion to population."
Here's another char off:

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It was on his blog before, http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-12-27/linux-tracing-in... and has been posted here a couple of times. Interesting this is the most traction it's got AFAICS.
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A manager isn't an executive.
In addition to new skills, there are also mental shifts necessary at various stages in your career, as you climb to increasing levels of leadership.

You can see this on the IC track as well for top-tier tech companies - there is a step-function difference in mindset at certain levels.

Jumping from IC to line manager, as you suggest, is one; you need to recognize you are no longer shipping code but are shipping your team - they are your output, and their performance is how you are measured.

At director it switches again, you are responsible not precisely for the people but for your organization as a whole. There is an adage that you know you're a director after your first re-org and are moving people's names around as cells on a spreadsheet.

It changes again at VP, as an executive of the company you are responsible and accountable for an entire function. Excuses cease to matter, even external forces - you should have accounted for them. You are optimizing for the company's overall future and not your org or people.

This is a vastly simplified explanation, obviously.
What is wrong with Ajit Pai? Has he no engineering background at all? It's like complaining that not all the bolt holes in my car have bolts in them because the same chassis was intended for different models.

This headline could just as well be, "FCC asks Apple to use some un-connected transistors". There's more to a radio than the heterodyne or nowadays receiver module. Antenna design, amplifiers, etc...
I like it.. you could probably apply a similar thing to Tumblr...
The sibling analogy doesn't really hold -- comparing the government to an engine has the inherent assumption that you're in control of it. I don't believe that's been the case in the United States for some number of decades. A better analogy might be to compare it to a runaway train on a downgrade.
So how did you feel about Joe Arpio's tent city jail and chain gangs for the inmates? Virtually every conservative I've ever known supports it.
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I keep trying to sign up, but it prompt me with:
" you already have an account...", when in fact I don't.
Wouldn't you have a better chance of passing 0 federal taxes for anyone under 2x poverty level with a similar benefit?
> Engineering and CS are majors that companies specifically target

In your industry.
Are LSM trees still relevant under a mostly-NVMe storage architecture? If not, what is used instead?
Yes, this. The seemingly increasing HN practice of rewriting submission titles and headlines strikes me as the ultimate in IT support nerd "just move"-ism.
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Also beware of tin whiskers. NASA itself did some research on the subject because the problem is damn serious.
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I'm surrounded by conservatives. I live in a conservative state, from a conservative family, and my primary hobby is very popular with conservatives.
I am rather disappointed that the mortgage rebates will remain in effect in this cut, providing an additional advantage to those who purchase and build up assets rather than rent is unnecessary.

It also looks like this cut would make it even more advantageous to use an S-corp for funneling income from contract work. Piggy-backing onto methods used to reduce top-earner's tax burden always has it's advantages for those who can exploit it, I guess.
But that argument goes all the way down the value chain. You'll end up with something like food production > transport > tech. The chain can be as long as you feel too.

It is a radical proposition that a farm day laborer adds more value than an elite tech worker because 'the system would stop without food'.

The value add is controlled by the person who decides what "value add" is. That is the executive, original product designers and customers (who may well be represented by marketing in some businesses, I dunno).
If there's going to be government intervention in the economy (and there's going to be government intervention in the economy) then supply side economics works great in environments where there isn't enough investment.

That said, we don't live in one of those environments. We've probably had too much investment for the last 104 years or so...
Do you think inheritance tax eventually captures a lot of this passive income?
So in other words, the bum down the street pays the same tax rate as the billionaire's spending up the hill?

Take your average thrifty bum. Pays X% on the totality of what they earn, minus some lump sum. And your average billionaire. Pays X% on the totality of what they spend, minus the same lump sum.

That doesn't quite seem right, unless you tax financial transactions at the same rate as groceries. It might be just me, but methinks Wall Street will have none of that.

As to not needing tax auditors, just no. You'll still need to audit companies, and their incentive will be sky high to get cash transactions and declare only some of them.
I wonder what the target audience is for an editor like this is.

Most folks who use Vim/Emacs seem loyal to their editor and are not in much need of alternatives. Those who don't have plenty of graphical ones—Sublime, VS, Atom.
The Netherlands has a wealth tax of about 1.2% per annum; property you live in is not taxed (via the wealth tax)
When you have been married decades, for me, this article has "historical" relevance. As in our past.

I would not say it's a gender thing though

Everything became clear to us once "we were at the head of the table." when both sets of parents died.

Our greater understanding of each other gained clarity when we were parentless.
> Chrome isn't really that much better than others.

The point is that it was much better than the others when it came out. It spurred the competition into actually competing. (If you remember, IE had >80% of the market at the time, and was horrendous.)
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> - Never buy a new car. They're for chumps.

> - Never lease a new car. That's for the biggest chumps.

Disagree on the leasing if you have your own company. The lease payments are all interest and deductible from your income. Sure, you don't end up with a car but if you do a 36 month lease, your new car is under warranty the whole time.

I've seen too many people suffer from the false economy of used cars. If you are lucky (or a skilled mechanic), you can benefit, but if not, the repair expenses and vehicle breakdowns become a large drain.

I agree that financing a new car is just a depreciation hole, but you need your wits to avoid being screwed over when getting a used car. You just never know what's been done to it.
That information is in the second link I provided.
Because of the way our criminal justice system works employers should not be able to ask this question. If they want to ask about convictions that's fine but accusations is unreasonable.
You called your ex husband a pig, in responding to me. That was what I said I wanted you to remove, because I feel strong discomfort having caused someone I don't know at all getting insulted at in public. I'm still very uncomfortable with it and still, I'd be happy if you edited your comment to remove that particular word. Wrt the other issue, well, I've said I'm sorry enough times and all I've gotten was bias and aggression. You've said that I'm acting to create a certain impression on other readers, and you've implied that I'm sexist. I won't add any more comments to this thread because this is becoming really annoying and actually offending.
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tells me a lot about the ethics of Google's leadership, also.
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but if the desire is to protect the rights of vulnerable people, and to make convictions more reliable, it's easier to just make sure anyone under 18 or with a borderline learning disability gets an Appropriate Adult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_adult
Seems to perform pretty well. Much more usable than I was expecting.
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Still a massive tax cut for the wealthy and a massive tax raise for the middle class no matter how you cut it. And still makes it easy to avoid taxes: buy your goods overseas and ship them here. Not worth it for your groceries and stuff, but for big ticket items it matters a lot.

Not to mention that the fact that we have a progressive tax system isn't the reason it's complicated. The complication is that we have tax exemptions and deductions and the like. And those are valuable tools to making things like owning a house and getting an education more affordable, as well as incentivizing certain beneficial actions like using renewable energy.
First time I've looked up what it is, looks like it's quite useful - I'd imagine the community will keep patching it.
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They absolutely help the middle class, too. The issue with being middle class is that you don't qualify for the "social safety net" deductions, but the other loopholes don't net you much in the way of absolute dollars—particularly given the investment (documentation) required.

Plus:

1) Middle class typically doesn't have the ability to structure income as capital gains.

2) (See above.)

3) Given modest contribution caps in retirement accounts, not a major "loophole" for the wealthy.

4) Something we should encourage at all levels.
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As a Chinese, I was never bothered by the 140 chars limit because symbols in Chinese can convey much more information than the same length of English characters.
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I love his personal philosophy videos. Really sharp guy.