skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't understand this idea. The GDP isn't like an actual account or something that the government can pay into or out of.

It's "a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period of time," to quote its Wiki definition. That is, we're summing up the value of everything we made that year. It's like a hypothetical number meant to evaluate what we accomplished. It's not like accounts receivable or something. And we already all have a share, by definition....it's the sum of what we all did.

Am I missing something here? Or does Sam not know what GDP is? Seems unlikely, but I really don't get it.
This is my favorite Firefox addon by far. It makes accessing files that require more than a basic HTTP auth for login much easier.
> Did you build Microsoft?

Yes. I purchased several of their products, thereby increasing the capitalization of Microsoft.

I expect you intended the answer to be "No," implying that Bill Gates (and a few others) built Microsoft. However, that rests on a specific understanding of ownership and causality that not everyone shares.
> The fundamental premise is no longer valid

That is exactly true, but the problem with abiding by a written constitution is that as long as the words are in there, it is the Supreme Law of the land. Its rather unfortunate, but its one of the risks assumed when a country decides on the Constitutional System. And all the political partisanship makes it unlikely that this will be changed (i.e. Constitution changed) anytime soon.
I participate in my local Code for Ft. Lauderdale meetup. Here's a link to an article about a small project I did for them: https://medium.com/@CodeforFTL/the-story-of-oh-snap-civictec...
>didn’t think about professional video such as live sports, music, news, broadcast productions

I actually did think of those. I watched NBC's live broadcast of the Presidential election on www.youtube.com and not www.nbc.com.

(The NBC website either had an issue with Microsoft Silverlight browser plugin which I don't want to install or complained about ad blocking. On the other hand, the Youtube live stream of NBC works.)
The fallacy here is that there is a pure form of market that isn't inherently distorted by the man-made rules required bring it into existence at all against wilderness of nature's 'rules' of the wild.
I worked at a UPS sort facility in the 1980s. Everyone there was definitely a human robot. Up to 130F temperatures were legal in the feeder trucks. All sorters and loaders were monitored by supervisors with stopwatches and clipboards. I can't imagine what it might have been like if not unionized and OSHA compliant. I also don't imagine conditions are much better now.
Glad to hear it helps!

The NYT has a good “buy vs rent calculator” that’s worth checking out:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

Even though the calculator is useful, it’s important to have a really good understanding of why housing is so much more expensive today (as a percentage of avg annual income) than it was 50-60 years ago. For that I recommend a short, but extremely useful book, The Housing Trap:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
This is just communism lite. Communism doesn't work and had killed hundreds of million s of people in the last 100 years.

This is a terrible idea.
Like the previous commenter mentioned, that's mostly water. I've seen various numbers between 100 and 150 calories burned per mile for runners, which at the high end is just a bit over one pound's worth of calories for a marathon.
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In the long run, every dollar of wealth gets spent.

As a practical matter, consumption taxes can be made progressive by combining them with a low-income tax credit or a universal basic income.
> for citizens will make US a weird version of Petro-State without Petroleum

The US has a technology sector that is as much, if not more, productive than a resource extraction industry. Why not use that sector to raise quality of life for citizens?
I agree with the gist of your post but your consensus advice is a bit off:

>And graduated Stanford. You've even managed to save around $10K in cash from various summer jobs and gifts from relatives. The consensus advice investment management professionals would offer is to sock it away in a well-diversified set of Vanguard Funds.

Your first $10k is your emergency fund. From what I've read, the consensus is: don't invest it, instead keep it in an FDIC insured savings account + cash. If you need it, it'll probably be because you've been unemployed for a while. You are most likely to be unemployed during an economic downturn. The cash choice insulates against natural disasters.

If you do invest it, try a target date fund that's matures in the near future. For today, 2020 would be a good choice.
But is it compatible with NeXTSTEP? I've been searching for a new browser for my NeXTcube.
Buying a house that you live in is an act of consumption more than an act of investing, IMO.

I also don't subscribe to the idea that remodeling pays for itself either (partly because it's also an act of consumption IMO), but I also don't believe that most remodeling results in a >60% return of investment, let along consistently at/over 100%.

PS: If context matters, I own and live in Cambridge, MA.
I devote an entire chapter to the origins of Mah-jongg on PLATO and how it became Shanghai on Mac and PC
Gulf War II was advantageous to Cheney, as he had been the CEO of Halliburton, and still had ties in the defense industry. As we know, Halliburton and other similar companies ended up with billions of dollars in US Government contracts supplying food and personnel for the Iraq war. Probably one of the greatest unenforced conflicts of interest in the history of the United States.
It is a provocative claim that I think the book succeeds in showing to be true.

It is a worthwhile book and, even if you disagree with it, I think you'll find it intellectually stimulating. If you think you'll read it, I'll happily buy you a copy, just PM me.
It is my hope that one day, we'll use IPFS and other similar tools to enable our apps to work effectively in mixed-connectivity environments.
I've had this happen with Bitcoin. It is a tough decision to make.

I have decided that I don't want any single high risk investment to consist of more than 10% of my networth, so I sell some to compensate.

Is that the right number? I don't know...
A global wealth tax does not distribute the tax globally. It just means that every nation collects a wealth tax. This is to prevent a race to the bottom which would penalize the first countries that enacted a wealth tax.
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I'm no fan of Milo (kinda hate the guy honestly), but I'm not sure if "talking with sources about the topic of an article" really qualifies as fraternizing. That sort of thing is somewhat of a job requirement if you intend to write about the topic honestly. What's he supposed to do, not treat this like real journalism and just publish whatever negative quotes he can get from anyone about it?
> e.g. I don't see anyone talking anymore about how the US pwned European infrastructure and broke into politicians' accounts (including Merkel's).

The Guardian did, however, break the story of the connection between the Brexit campaign and Bannon and Cambridge Analytica and Mercer et al. See Carole Cadwalleder's long series on this
I'm suddenly having flashbacks to reading On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.10987.pdf
Although an interesting write-up, I hesitate with anything that dichotomizes complex systems into only 2 options, as there are many spots on the spectrum and continuum of economic means and balance. Although "developing world" is true, and I can see the visual of rich people behind fences and poor people in the streets, there is actually a lot of gradation in our economic system(a) that does not support a "two party approach." I find it very intriguing that most researchers on the American continent split thinks into binary systems, like organizing your wardrobe into left socks and right socks, it really glazes over a lot of fidelity.
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You don't seem to grasp the difference between news articles and opinion pieces. The latter is by definition subjective, and is featured to provide an outlet for subjective views, as opposed to the former that is supposed to at least strive to be neutral, objective, and fact-based.

The article you started your rant with is an opinion piece and is clearly marked as such. It is not a news story.
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Yeah that's not really socialism that's doing that. They're become pretty capitalistic over there in certain respects.
Two minor details I disagree with (in an otherwise very interesting and entertaining article):

> In the 1980s and 1990s home computers didn't use much electricity. No-one cared about "thermal design power"

In fact, Apple DID have a notorious prior brush with thermal issues: https://www.tekrevue.com/apple-iii-drop/

> When Apple abandoned the PowerPC they temporarily took a step back into a predominantly 32-bit world with the Core Duo, only fully embracing 64 bits a few years later, with the Core 2 Duo and OS X 10.7.

As far as hardware is concerned, Macs with 32 bit Intel processors only shipped from January (iMac) to November (MacBook) 2006. I did wonder at the time whether gaining a few months was worth saddling software with i386 slices for several years (system frameworks had to be built for 4 different architectures, for instance). It's true that full 64 bit software support took a bit longer to emerge, but that may have been due to the need to support the 32 bit Intel Macs that were shipped.
> Now imagine how much more they'd make if they actually published quality material instead of culture war clickbait and freshman opinion pieces.

They've always published clickbait. But member donations will make it worse since the guardian has to cater to their members.

It's why NPR is so skewed and biased. They have to cater to their members who are extremely biased. If they stop being biased, their members will stop supporting them.

> e.g. I have yet to see any mainstream outlet bother to mention that Reddit's default news and political subs turned into pro-Hillary/anti-Trump mouthpieces in the months leading up to the US election,

Because the news organization employees took over major subreddits. There was NPR and WaPo employees begging everyone to support their organizations on the politics sub. It was ridiculous. It's why I stopped using reddit altogether.

It's pretty much "I hate Trump" and "support media by joining or buying a subscription.
any issues with the railscasts videos being so outdated? i can't imagine much of the earlier stuff carries over
Do scientists use OSX much? Just asking. OTOH a fully-packed graphical / video / audio workstation could be well-received.

I just don't think Apple want users to tinker with their machines at all. Fewer configurations = fewer support calls.
So will most of the Baby Boomers. A 20 year economic plan that gets through a major demographic shift which then needs a new plan anyway sounds pretty good to me.
Forgot to cite my earlier comments.

> Wages have stagnated & only recently picked up[1]

> GDP has been the lowest post-recovery ever[2][6]

> Net household debt is again at new highs[3]

> Interest rates at forever in the history of human civilization lows.[4]

> Meanwhile every single risk seeking asset class primarily owned by the wealthy has appreciated to levels last seen at prior bubble peaks.[5]

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wage-growth (can you even spot QE?)

[2] http://fortune.com/2015/07/30/us-gdp-economy/

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-debt/americans-de...

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/17/200-years-of-us-interest-rat...

[5] https://stansberrystreaming.com/presentations/grant-williams... (this years stansberry vegas conference)

[6] https://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/07/american-...
Other non-profit entities (such as private foundations) are required to spend a certain fraction of their money each year or pay taxes. Universities are exempted from that requirement.

from [0]: "Harvard targets an annual endowment payout rate of 5.0 to 5.5 percent of market value. The University's actual payout rate has fluctuated over the past 10 years, from a low of 4.2 percent in fiscal year 2006 to a high of 6.1 percent in fiscal year 2010."

[0] https://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/endowme...

[1] https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/private-foundation...
The use of the word 'Hire' in your comment is leading (as in a leading question). You are coloring your argument that the drivers on Uber's platform are their employees by using colored words like 'hire'.
It would appear that Firefox's built-in SOCKS support successfully proxies DNS as well, though I've always wondered whether or not there aren't other ways to leak your IP via browser APIs. I imagine that Flash almost certainly would, and I wouldn't be surprised if WebRTC does somehow.
But everything is already political? They're saying that _this_ specific person should have a more explicitly political stance, and not taking one is a political stance still.
Than any one person through the lens of an authoritarian hierarchy that’s structured to reinforce the necessity of top-down rule.

In reality, all the laborers at Microsoft built it into what it is today. And it (like most companies) are at a scale of complexity that is far beyond the fiction that workers are acting out CEO’s “visions.”
That could be true, I was mainly going off the article's notion that it was the 127 days of phone records - and if it was all phones nearby or his phone records wasn't clear in the article.
I've contemplated doing something similar. Except the way I'd do it is statically link OpenSSH and Tor into a single portable binary. Then create an onion service to a local sshd. Then just provide the onion address (still would use traditional auth). Of course lots of configurability. This has lots of benefits of course and can be completely self contained and ephemeral.
If you think of the population as the government (a democracy, in other words) then our gross domestic product is our collective revenue. How we allocate that revenue to different accounts -- yours, mine, roads, military, etc. -- is just accounting.
Couldn't agree more. Also didn't want to be that person tracking calories ... but now that I do and can look back, my perspective is more of "let's face it, losing weight is not easy" and those people tracking were doing hard work.

But you realize, finding your macro deficit combined with an app like my fitness pal makes it SIGNIFICANTLY easier. Losing weight becomes simple arithmetic.

Alcohol is rough. So many people have no idea what a drink actually contains calorie wise. Even the new and popular alcoholic seltzers will list something like "100 calories", and then the nutrition facts will list something like "5 carbs". With 4 calories per carb ... 4 * 5 does not equal 100. It is more accurate to just take the calorie count of 100 and divide by 4. Now you have a 25g of carbs drink, which is fine, but you need to factor that into your daily tracking.

Alcohol has calories per gram, but it isn't required to be listed. This makes craft beers very interesting. Take a 16oz can of some double IPA at 8% and boom, you have around 320 calories in that one drink ... or 80 carbs if you look at it that way.

I've tried to simplify it a bit with this calculator that actually factors calories/g of alcohol.

http://www.thealccalc.com/
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@simook do you have a direct email to request features? Thanks
Oh you are right this is a potential risk and I don't see it as theoretical.

In my mind evolution favors the best information carriers and technology seems to be a better information carrier than humans. Also when it comes to going into space.

One argument for why technology would feed us is that until it's self-aware it needs us to be aware for it.

But I am fully with you on the non-certainty here. The premise is that humans are still around and thus needs UBI.
They're already on record as acknowledging it was a swing and miss, so you get your wish.

https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
> Now imagine how much more they'd make if they actually published quality material instead of culture war clickbait and freshman opinion pieces.

Won't this crowdfunding potentially polarize journalism even more? In general, individuals are more passionate about their political opinions and social causes than for neutral, high-quality journalism which sometimes confirms, sometimes rejects their world-views. You also invite strong pressures from well funded special interest groups, seeking to borrow on the credibility of journalism to promote a particular world view.

At the very least, it's much harder to get businesses to openly profess a particular political view. Often those which do face huge backlash and more ill-will towards their brands than the good-will they're trying to foster with ads.
Can you expand on "toxic" as it applies to AGPL and why it's in scare quotes?
You sort of have to love their advertising:
"How is reMarkable different?

No tablet has less functionality than the reMarkable. "
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This would address one (but not all) of my fundamental complaints about UBI though: What do you do when due to some disaster, you must pull back your UBI payments? Consider significant war losses, for instance. In this case the answer is that GDP would go down and so would the payment. (Though maybe we can't tie it to GDP per se, since in a war situation you can't afford to see your GDP rise due to forced construction and then also have to pay your populace more.)

That said, it addresses it structurally, but I still think the result would still be a disastrous political explosion if that ever did happen. UBI seems to be fundamentally predicated on the idea that growth and improvement are inevitable, the only possible way that things will develop going into the future, including any structural or societal changes that may develop as a result of UBI or GDP-sharing itself, and therefore there's no need to ask who starts swinging from trees the first time that UBI or GDP-sharing has to be cut back, and what disastrous decisions will be made on the basis of not wanting to be the one swinging from trees.
Sure. But did they break the story on the connection between anti-brexit organizations? It's funny how the guardian mostly published anti-brexit propaganda.
> From our nice position 14 years later it is amazing how much power draw we had to tolerate back then.

I find it incredible how indifferent and uneducated I was back then, about how much power it uses and what the consequences are on a larger scale. I remember keeping it powerd on 24/7 (of course with periods in which it slept). Nowadays I am (hyper)aware of the power consumption of pretty much every device in the house.
> That certainly highlights the importance of the right UX, but I wish they had invested in Patreon style features to allow support for specific authors.

They undoubtedly keep track of which articles generate most clicks. Then again, clicks are a terrible metric.
What has surprised you most about the job versus your expectations going in?
I have to agree, the Guardian has degenerated substantially. I think the stuff on the Panama papers is good, but a lot of the content seems to be loony-leftie territory, and very divisive.

Then there's the constant undercurrent of finger-wagging superiority.

The right-wing UK press have a superiority complex too, which I'd describe more as arrogant than finger-wagging. I'd generally rather read the guardian than most of the rest, but TBH in this day and age I'd be happy enough to watch them all sink without a trace.

Long live the BBC. Now if they can just clone David Attenborough and get the clones to read the news and pretty much any other factual programs, we'd be on to a winner.
You are just beating on the fact that I based the comparison on the total rather than the mean GDP available to an individual.

But that was the point of my post, to compare the captured wealth to consumption. People always talk about how the wealthy are screwing the rest of us over and everything would be great if they weren't taking so much, but it turns out that consumption is also a huge portion of the economy. Total wealth in the US is on the order of $100 trillion (this includes all housing and so on). Consumption of several trillion dollars a year adds up to that pretty quick and seizing it all and turning it into circuses isn't going to go very far.

Which isn't to say I am against programs that result in wealth transfer, it just pays to try to look at things clearly.
Gawker was also getting away with using personal wealth as a way to defer justice. Gawker also buried people suing them with legal fees.

I agree we should move towards a costless or more efficient legal system, but in the meantime, the Hogan vs. Gawker lawsuit was a victory for the good guys.
SPI did not directly have game servers, but yes, at least one of our members ran one. I don't recall if it was a MUD or something else.

Speakeasy also had other co-location hosts in the rack. If I recall, one was for a design firm somehow connected to one of the owners. Maybe there was a game server there, too.

For a bit more historical context on the Seattle Peoples' Internet, I slapped this together:
https://play.org/articles/seattle-peoples-internet
I purchased a ”dual-dual” (”quad”) Mac Pro G5 with two 970MP processors, 8 GB of ECC RAM, PCI Express system bus, and two SATA HDDs in November 2005 (?). Contrary to what many will tell you this machine was not water-cooled: that was the previous generation of G5s, which had multiple single-core processor chips clocked at higher frequency. This machine is air-cooled and varies between sounding like a thundering highway tuck and a jetliner on takeoff.

With a pair of CinemaDisplay 24” (?) it served as my main workstation well into 2009, and was a truly awesome machine and I keep it in working condition with OS X 10.7 for the purposes of nostalgia. It was by far the most performant-compared-to-prevailing-average machine I have ever owned (back at a time when such comparisons mattered).
> cost of living crisis

I know this is a major issue in CA, NYC, and probably a few other cities, but I'm not really well versed on how much of an issue it is elsewhere. Where could I learn more about this? Preferably sources with data and not just journalistic fluff.
When the alternative is destitution, homelessness, and starvation the choice to work in a hellish occupation can hardly be called 'voluntary'. Many who find themselves in a situation where a job in one of these hellholes is an attractive proposition are in those types of desperate life circumstances.