skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this article actually explains how the rich are avoiding taxes using these layered schemes of trustees and powers of attorney.

First, let's set aside corporations like Apple earning foreign income and not repatriating it or claiming Ireland tax jurisdiction or special treatment EU doesn't like. For this story, I'm specifically interested in the mechanisms citizens use to evade taxes.

To me, the journalists are conflating 2 situations:

1) hiding money & assets (rich people like to hide money from spouses and their divorce lawyers, or hide them from lawsuits)

2) not declaring money to evade taxes

A lot of the money that the rich store at the islands has already been seen by the IRS and taxes were paid on it. Therefore, I'm not getting a clear picture of which situation dominates...is it hiding money or evading taxes? If its evading taxes, I'd prefer the author explain that in more detail. Outlining the opaque layers of ownership doesn't really explain the tax evasion part.

I ask this question because I read a book about "protecting your assets" and the techniques that author Jan D. Weir talks about overlap with hiding legally obtained money that all lawful taxes have been paid on.
If you like tabs, you can just use tabs inside vim instead of buffers
Is there a difference between writing the content yourself and upvoting fringe content with 1,000 fake accounts while suppressing the inverse with the same?

The fringe is emboldened and encouraged and given an artificial air of legitimacy. The challenge or alternative viewpoint is suppressed.

It is still psychological warfare and the key point isn't really the individual composing the post.

Though in all fairness - based on the articles about the IRA and the experiences I've had I do think that that they have individuals posting and writing their own content.

(for those that haven't read about the Internet Research Agency yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency)
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I used to use bufftabline, https://github.com/ap/vim-buftabline. I think something like it is what you're looking for? If it's not quite right for you the readme in the github repo mentions some other plugins that have similar capabilities.

I really liked bufftabline when I used it. It was lightweight and did exactly what I wanted it to do, give me an immediate visual representation of the buffers I had open in a familiar tab-like format.

Eventually I moved towards an even lighter weight setup. Take at look at this video is you're interested in anything like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA2WjJbmmoM
> This is coming from a 2x Obama voter and lifelong liberal btw.

fwiw, it is extremely easy to label oneself thus and not be "left leaning" in any meaningful respect.
https://www.jetbrains.com/upsource/ Anything that jetbrains makes I love, IDEs, YouTrack (issue tracking, so simple yet so powerful with a very powerful workflow editor), upsoruce (code reviews), Teamcity (continuous integration) and of course Kotlin.
My personal best tool for a Git branch's code review is `git lfo`, where the alias expands to:

git log --pretty=full --reverse --show-notes=* -p --abbrev-commit origin/master..

Coupled with a "good diff highlighter", i.e. `diff-highlight | less --tabs=4 -RFX`… I'm set.

I've yet to see a tool that allows me to review all commits as well as code, as easily.

I don't only review a branch as a whole, i.e. `git diff master`, or "here's the diff" from a pull request… but I also review each commit individually (and rebase/amend them when required), as commits need to be in tip-top shape to end up going into master.
> The US media thought they were doing everybody a favour by giving Trump loads of airtime to expose his awful views.

Isn't this just an example of the same phenomenon I was describing? Sure, they gave him airtime, but it was virtually never positive. There was a tremendous lack of impartiality in the media's coverage of the two candidates. This led to the idea of "fake news" and ended up boosting his supporters even more, giving them reason to band together.

I dare say the outcome of the election could have been different if the media had spent less time trying to demonize Trump and simply reported equally on the two candidates with minimal editorializing.
It's not blocked, some posts do make it there occasionally. Previously they were able to rocket things to the front page by taking advantage of the fact that Reddit places a huge weight on the first few upvotes, so getting a lot of votes quickly almost always meant making the front page. Reddit had since changed the algorithm so that technique isn't as effective anymore. I would wager they just don't have the actual numbers normally to make the front page without gaming the algorithm. They have lots of subs but there active user count was always very low for the number of subs they have.
It's possible that a) diet isn't that hard to figure out and b) gamifying, quantifying, testing, and over-extrapolation from isolated scientific results make people confused and much less effective at making the right decisions consistently, which is the part they really need help with.
Yeah, probably doesn't. I just found myself using it across a couple different projects and seemed like it would be easier than having to copy and paste it everywhere.

Also, it has a command line tool that you can use to get the aspect ratio from width/height. So, not just the code.
What fraction of the energy recovered by braking is actually stored? I would have thought the battery on a non-electric or non-hybrid truck would be far too small. Surely the battery gets topped off and then the extra power is dumped as heat right?

Is the energy from braking really so small that it can't even fully charge the starter battery?

Honest questions. I figured that since regenerative braking in cars seems to double fuel efficiency, that order of half the power used to accelerate was recovered and I would have thought that was a very large amount of power to store.

Or is it because of the nature of long-haul trips? I know hybrids have much less advantage on the highway, maybe for long-haul trips the ratio of energy lost as air friction to energy lost in braking is vastly different.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from actual malice.

I'm still willing to accept that the root cause is often not actual malice, but I don't actually care if the damage is done because somebody wanted to inflict it or just ignored all warnings and forged ahead, no matter the cost. The damage done to others is the same.
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This is pretty cool.

I was hoping this was a namesake or somehow linked to Udacity's SDCE nanodegree program, since their actual self-driving vehicle that they use in that program (as the "final project") is named "Carla".

But it seems to have no relation - but more simulators are always welcome!
> StartCom will always have a special place in my heart – they're the only company that I had to outright bribe to do business with.

Can you elaborate on that?
Don't your charts prove his point? The S&P chart is logarithmic.
And yet political parties around Europe are and have been popping up representing the same kind of voters. Who don't look to the future with optimism but with skepticism.

I always try to make sure I give a politician as much credit for their intent as possible not just those I agree with but everyone.

No one is just a bag of evil or only good. Yet when we discuss politics we always end up there as this thread is a good example of.

Whatever legacy Trump will end up leaving we don't know yet. It might lead to something amazing even if it wasn't on purpose (certainly happened to Reagan) or it might be that just the right kind of irrationality is actually quite rational in hindsight.

Political decisions often have decades of decay. It's impossible to say what Trumps (the few he has actually made) are going to mean.

It's never that simple.
Probably, but contract issues could lead to a hefty legal bill as well.
> How do you know when to get out of a bitcoin investment?

That's the thing. When Bitcoin succeeds, you won't have to get out of the investment.
Consensus, or consensus of representatives.
There are many ways, depending on what you specifically need.

For the most basic command that will probably work immediately, just start up vim with multiple files like so:

vim -p file1 file2

This will open file1 and file2 in separate vim tabs.

But vim tabs may not behave the way you would expect them to coming from other programs. You might prefer to just list all the buffers within one window instead. There are many plugins dealing with buffer management on the vim wiki and elsewhere. Here are two I found with a Google search that look at a glance like they might work [0], [1] (haven't tried, just looked at the page briefly)

[0]: https://github.com/ap/vim-buftabline

[1]: https://github.com/bling/vim-bufferline
Maybe to give a concrete example:

When /r/anarchism (left leaning sub about anarchism, antifa, communism, ...) mods refused to enforce reddit's rules relating to the incitement to violence, reddit only removed the mods in question instead of closing the sub.

When /r/physical_removal (right leaning sub about pinochet 'memes') mods refused to enforce reddit's rules relating to the incitement to violence, the sub was removed.

When /r/nazi (third position leaning sub about national socialism) - well, I don't actually know whether the mods there refused to enforce reddit's rules. It's been removed.
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Just to clarify, since this article just talks about smartwatches in general: The issue are watches that allow someone to remotely listen in, not all variations of smart watches for kids. They are banned for that ability, not for general concerns about IoT security.

Hidden listening devices (devices with listening capability that are disguised as other harmless items) are illegal to possess or sell in Germany under existing law. The regulatory agency for this just made a press release pointing out this specific device category and that they have taken action against sellers.

German press release: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung...
There was a bit of a fuss last time they gave a Tesla to Top Gear...
Mac vs Windows

iOS vs Android

Google vs Alexa

History teaches us that there’s no room for third place. Furthermore, Google and Amazon have a $50 entry price.
"Is the Second Amendment the Second Most Important?" - "The order of that list, however, still reflects Madison’s view: They come in the same order as the sections of the Constitution that they would have modified."

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
> That happened the moment technology became ever more important in our lives.

Which would be when our ancestors first began making hand tools and using fire, right?
It may possibly be because the Roadster was a surprise reveal, while the Semi was expected to arrive this year anyways.

Regardless, I am really looking forward to seeing the Semi's on Highways, although I believe that a main roadblock to it will be the lack of Tesla charging stations across the country. Semi trucks drive throughout the US on all major highways, and they have to coordinate their routes according to where the Weighing stations are in each state. Having to add super-charging stations to their routes will certainly complicate their routes, so it should be a bigger priority for Tesla to address those first.
Here's a more complete view: https://graphtreon.com/

Median income in the US is ~$42,000/yr last I knew. Call it $4K to make up a bit for benefits and such. There isn't a hard-and-fast way to count because some people hide their total, but there are clearly plural hundreds of people above that line in the top 1000 [1]. There's several more hundred people making poverty-line in most of the US (which as a relative measure, I can't do a precise cut off), and before one starts moralizing about how horrible that is, remember that they are not necessarily doing this as their only job. What may not be enough to live on can still be a very very nicely paying hobby.

You are certainly correct that overall, more money flows through YouTube. I am much less convinced that that's a good thing in general, though. The incentives on YouTube fluctuate a lot, but in general tend to support quantity over quality. In fact as I think about it, I wonder if Patreon is helping prop up YouTube a bit by helping the quality producers resist that; if YouTube banned alternate monetization and tried to survive just on their own quantity-over-quality metrics I wouldn't be surprised they would eventually experience an eat-your-own-seed-corn collapse. I've listened to the YouTube videos of a couple of the people chasing the quantity-over-quality treadmill that YouTube ends up putting them on to stay on top, and it's not a life I'd want or wish on anyone.

[1]: https://graphtreon.com/patreon-creators
> Are you sure it's true that Trump's entire political franchise has had zero good ideas

Some of the stuff he said on the campaign sounded great - in fact enough to get him elected. It appears he has no intention of implementing it. Does that make it worth discussing? No.

As we say about startups, ideas are cheap and execution is everything.
It’s not just “my OS > your OS”: SmartOS is bulletproof when it comes to correctness of operation, data integrity and superior ease of system administration, which most prominently manifests itself in less breakage, non-existant problems caused on Linux by techology concepts from the ‘80’s of the past century and nights slept through instead of being in conference calls with clueless managers screaming at one at 01:13 in the morning. These were all issues I have and have had with Linux which I don’t have with SmartOS. That’s a big difference!

An OS is a priori better if I get to sleep through the night without an incident.
Wow, the buckling of the tire wall in the last two pictures is crazy. I guess that happens because there is enough friction to stop the wheel moving, and the axle is trying to turn it faster, causing a shear force. With normal tires, I assume they would just slip at that point and spin because they don't have enough friction in the contact patch touching the road.
1. These journalists don't understand the half of it. All of these structures, mechanics etc serve a purpose, and while most journalists do a decent job of describing what the rich use (i.e. trusts, companies, foundations, PoA, etc) they don't actually describe why they do it.

2. Avoidance is not evasion. These really shouldn't be lumped all together because there is a massive difference.

3. Even if they get rid of all pure (Cayman Islands style) tax havens tomorrow, the rich won't be paying more in tax. They would then go to more respectable jurisdictions, such as Luxembourg, Switzerland, (for non Americans) the US, Singapore, etc.
It kind of feels like sacrilege though :-)
perhaps this is an opportunity to start their own services (seriously).
Also don't like that there aren't passenger seats, or at least they don't show in the interior pictures.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...

> The failure to address the abuse was attributed to a combination of factors revolving around race, class and gender—contemptuous and sexist attitudes toward the mostly working-class victims; fear that the perpetrators' ethnicity would trigger allegations of racism and damage community relations; the Labour council's reluctance to challenge a Labour-voting ethnic minority; lack of a child-centred focus; a desire to protect the town's reputation; and lack of training and resources.
Never heard of it, I'll take a look, thanks.
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You're planning on downloading binaries and gpg keys from that site anyways. Either you trust it, in which case you might as well curl | bash, or you don't, in which case you shouldn't be running that script no matter how carefully you inspect it.

And of course you can inspect the bash script (not that it does you any good), curl > file; bash file. It's just that most people don't so that's not what is recommended .
I used to patch games for infinite-lives, or to allow my serial numbers to be accepted. Doing this wasn't hard, as somebody who grew up writing assembly language on 8-bit machines in the 80s.

One fun self-challenge was always to make my modifications as small as possible. e.g. one-byte changes were a lot more impressive than two-byte changes.
I just don't know how else to tell you that these things are all very bad. They, to me, should appear bad at face value. We clearly differ in the perception of the world at a fundamental level.
The market is not self regulating here. Most parents cannot know or understand the security issues behind these devices, and are unable to make an informed decision on the risks.

In that respect, it makes total sense to put a blanket ban on these until regulations can put put in place that only allow the sale of devices that respect privacy.

At the end of the day if you really want a smartwatch on your child you can just buy one anyway.
I heard that those shady Swiss banks won't accept you unless you plan to deposit at least 1 mio or more.
It's the inevitable come-down from over-inflating digital media start-ups in the post great recession era.

The business is mostly a terrible one with mediocre margins, vast competition and audiences that are fickle. There is also no real moat, other than extremely deep pockets (which can help sustain a journalistic advantage through ups and downs in the business). Content like that is almost like food when it comes to dealing with consumers. With very modest margins, tons of competition and fickle consumers, digital media start-ups aren't too different from restaurants in their likely-to-die rate.

Venture capitalists love to invest into them because they all picture themselves as media barrons. You see the rich person getting into news / media syndrome as a trend that carries throughout time. They all want to do it: Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs (he was fascinated with Murdoch & news in general), Patrick Soon-Shiong, Chris Hughes, Peter Barbey, Laurene Powell Jobs, Viktor Vekselberg, Carlos Slim, Michael Bloomberg, Sheldon Adelson, John Henry, Sidney Harmon, Joe Mansueto, Mortimer Zuckerman and on and on the list goes.

For every rich person that does get into it, there are a dozen more that flirt with doing so.

Rich people constantly trying to get into news / media, is the equivalent of average people trying to start restaurants, with predictable results.
God damn....that acceleration is almost cartoon-like.

I'm kinda sad about the $200k price tag. I was planning on budgeting $125k for my next car in 2022. Obviously options have yet to be announced, but I'd really like to see a 100 kwh option for a cheaper price. That would give about a 300 mile range which would be plenty for me. Considering they announced 200 kwh as the base though, I'm not exactly holding my breath.
The real answer is: "don't go to the website we stole this info from, but click on an ad here"
How does wasm stop stack smashes? I can see that if it's not a von Neumann machine i.e. code is in a different memory space to data, it'd be harder, but that doesn't seem really compatible with C/C++?

Just in general if I have an arbitrary memory write primitive inside the wasm memory space, how much control over the program can I obtain?
So... typical politics or unproven allegations. Got it. Not like... starting wars (like 4 previous presidents have done) (although he's still got time, I'll give you that).
It’s very obvious what the author wants to accomplish, but I would ask how smart contracts make this “super doable”?

>I could sell shares of my house such that they confer only ownership of the economic value of the house at time of exit (sale, my death, etc.) or the shares could be re-sold to someone else if the housing market here gets hotter, etc. but I maintain ownership of the right to occupy the house.

So assuming you create the asset backed tokens via smart contract...when you sell the house and pocket 100% of the proceeds (nothing personal, just hoping for the best and planning for the worst), how am I to enforce my asset backed token in court? What’s the jurisdiction? Where the house is or where I am (the injured is)? It would be very inconvenient for me to have to bring suit in your jurisdiction not mine. What if I sell the token and you don’t pay out the buyer am I joint and severally liable to the buyer?

Assuming there is standing and personal jurisdiction, how does the court know what type of ownership the token creates or created if any at all? You claim it’s an economic interest, but how is the court to decide the ownership/rights over say: fee simple, fee simple defesable, with condition subsequent, joint tenancy, tenancy in common?

Also, maybe the token is not enforceable because it violates the statute of frauds (real estate contracts must be in writing... is a smart contract/code/token a writing that’s satisfies the statute of frauds?), or does the smart contract violate the law of perpetuity?

It’s definately “super doable” to create a token on Ethereum via smart contract (I’ve made multiple tokens myself), but I think it’s anything but clear a asset back token can be created to represent ownership in real estate claiming it’s a simple economic interest without addressing a quagmire of legal issues and enforceability. Even then it’s all theory until it gets tested in the courts and precedent is set.
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> MasterCard was clearly on board with the process.

They might have been when it started, but clearly something changed. If it was desirable, the moment PayPal decided not to continue, MasterCard would have started looking for alternatives. Since they didn't (and haven't), its pretty reasonable to assume they decided intentionally not to pursue it.

The two other functioning alternatives listed in this thread, getfinal.com and privacy.com, both Visa. Kinda says it all there.
> Trump is a minority voice. The election results and polling are clear on that. So the question becomes more about how much weight we, as the majority, should give to those ideas.

I think this is actually irrelevant; it doesn't matter whether someone's ideas are in a minority, only whether they are good ideas, bad ideas, and the proponent is interested in constructive engagement.
What's odd exactly?
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On one hand it is a good decision by Germany, but on the other hand its essentially telling parents that the government knows more about what your kids should and shouldn't wear than you do. I think a better approach would have been to raise awareness through a PSA about the dangers of children wearing these devices instead of an outright ban.
The advise about 'destroying' watches you have is a bit odd too. Why not just return them or remove the listening in capability with a firmware update?
> "According to our research, parents' watches are also used to listen to teachers in the classroom."

I wonder why they want to ban them outright instead of not allowing them in schools. It's also not clear from the article if they are banning particular, poorly secured smart watches, or all smart watches for kids altogether. The former seems more reasonable.
I filtered out /r/the_donald forever ago and I'm only reminded of it when a new anti-trump echo chamber spams its way to the top of /r/all. Now I have dozens of those filtered but its hard to keep up.