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> Aristocracy and privilege are about as far from communism as it gets.

In theory. In practice (history is full of it), the castes develop overnight. A group of individuals has to make decisions and manage the oversight and record keeping, etc. This leads to corruption and a de-facto aristocracy.
Free healthcare? That'd sure be amazing. Oh, you mean non-free healthcare provided by taxes, paid for by anyone earning an income and only actually free for anyone not earning an income.

Anyone not earning an income in the US gets 'free' healthcare and has for decades. It's anything but free, it's very expensive.

Just ask any developed nation with socialized healthcare just how free healthcare is, as they all universally struggle to afford it (which is why Canada's wait times are so atrocious despite being held up as a good system).

One can make a great argument for socialized healthcare without pretending it's free. Claiming it's free is just an absurdity, as it's extremely expensive.
When a business person lies about a product he is being unethical and committing fraud.

Are people surprised that other people and institutions commit fraud and lie? No. No one is surprised. However when a criminal commits a crime, people react in kind.
Satellite internet is not an unregulated market in the US.
The Juno Space Probe Isn't Where It Should Be
From the paper: During these ∼530 days of operation, DAMPE has recorded more than 2.8 billion cosmic ray events, including ∼ 1.5 million CREs above 25 GeV.
Every six months or so I rotate my room's furniture layout among a couple arrangements to increase efficient use of space and feel better.
> I've also never met an adult that _doesn't_ have some form of photo ID.

I'm sorry you live in a bubble and can't see past it.
If you have documentation requirements of any kind (dejure or defacto), without documentation you are at a disadvantage. There's a lot of processes that require single if not multiple forms of ID, today.

You don't have to mandate it for anything but voting. But if you do want one, they should be easy for anyone to obtain. If the poor can't prove who they are, they can't do a lot. They'll always be poor.
> If a coffee shop accepts bitcoin, your transaction is effectively as untraceable as cash is today.

How? There is no globally public record of all cash transactions, unlike with Bitcoin.
I live in Washington; our state’s schools are woefully underfunded and a series of ballot initiatives over the past two decades has crippled our ability to fund basic services, so “revenue neutral” isn’t going to cut it, especially when our state tax burden is extremely regressive to begin with, and especially when the tax is inherently Pigouvian and is designed to produce declining revenue in the long run.

It also makes virtually no sense to tax carbon on the state level anyway.
Pardon my ignorance but I thought Apple largely obeyed the law. Shouldn’t these people be protesting the government that fails to tax Apple justly?
Ask HN: Open source software for tracking financial account balances?
I have not found a hosted/SaaS financial tracking application that fully works and has basic features for tracking net worth, transactions and balance history. I ran the gamut earlier this year and still can't believe I've found nothing that simply syncs my account balances and shows their changes over time while also making it to filter/sort/search transactions. So I'd like to take the matter into my own hands but also open to trying something new (again). The pain point seems to be syncing and dealing with various bank auth security. I have no qualms about hacking up a mechanize script to get my own bank account balances - something a "legit" finance app wouldn't do. I know I mentioned "transactions" but if I roll my own, I'm only concerned with current and past balances.

- Mint.com: Tried it for years. Tried it again this year, same crap as always. Fails to sync all my accounts. For example, it simply does not support my JP Morgan retirement account with no plan to add support. This makes using Mint useless for tracking my net worth. My Empower retirement account has not been updated for 5 months. By design, I cannot filter transactions by date. e.g. If I sort transactions by amount, I cannot filter by date to find biggest transactions from 2017. https://help.mint.com/Accounts-and-Transactions/888963121/Why-can-t-I-filter-transactions-by-date.htm

- Livingbalancesheet.com: Minimal syncing problems. No history of balances, only current balances. No transaction history - only high level overview of finances. Good for tracking net worth. Bad for everything else.

- youneedabudget.com: Not what I'm looking for.

- Personal Capital: Doesn't sync all my accounts. Many annoying sales people calling me.

- sigfig.com: Same as personal capital.

The list goes on, I can't keep track. I tried a couple Mac apps too.
It looks very useful thanks for the image and sponsoring events like this!
Worked with Tapclicks yeara ago and would recommened anyone looking for a good place to work to contact them
I agree that it is stupid that they have to deliver new things every year or they get negative feedback, but that doesn't mean they should deliver features that make their products worse or that QA should quit doing their job. Apple is a company with many many billions of dollars in the bank. There is no excuse for this. If their QA sucks, fire them all and hire 10,000+ new QA staff. They easily have the money to do that. If they pay all the new QA staff $100,000 each, then that's only $1 bn for the new staff and they'd probably pay a fair bit less to let the existing staff go. Apple has more than $250 bn in cash reserves right now. They can easily afford to do that. In fact, I think that probably should hire a few thousand new QA staff, firing the existing staff should be up to their discretion, but not hiring significantly more when it's clear that they have a QA problem, for a company with so much money, is not acceptable.
This doesn't seem a little thing to me.
I use Apple primarily because I don't want headaches.
But apparently every major iOS release is getting always worse, especially if you have "old" devices (calling old a phone from 2 years ago is kind of a stretch).
I postponed my update because I read about the crippling battery life problems, and now there is also this bootloop...
> income taxes

Oh, come on. Everyone here knows how this game is played.
Exactly! JWT is a much misunderstood system it seems. Though it doesn’t exactly help itself by being quite complex
Good, finally some concrete step by senate to stop block craze. Meh typical HN commenters "Taxes are great, except when its us who get taxed". The way I see its time to throw book at bitcoin holders, lets start putting Coinbase execs in prison.
Please. We are in a world where heartbleed happen, as well as an untold number of buffer over flow / memory management vulnerabilities through the years. Companies have spent millions developing languages like Rust and Go to replace C & C++ in more security sensitive applications. Assembly is definitely not just "just considered bad/dangerous by people who have no clue about it and consider it something magical".
With the NSA permeating so much, how sure can we be a bitcoin was ever truly anonymous ?
> a gobsmackingly terrible investment decision

Speaking only about the "investment" part of home ownership, I found this blog post insightful, and maybe interesting enough to share here: http://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/29/why-your-house-is-a-terrib...

Here is a somewhat paraphrased version of the author's main points:

* Not just an initial, but a relentlessly ongoing drain on the cash reserves of the owner requiring an endless parade of repairs and maintenance without which it will crumble

* Illiquid. It takes months of time and effort to buy or sell

* Expensive to buy and sell with very high transaction costs: 5%+ commissions, buying and selling

* Undiversified. Represents a disproportionate percentage of a person’s net worth

* Complex to buy or sell

* Lots of extra fees and reports and documents you must pay for

* Generates low returns. At or below the inflation rate

* Leveraged. If the price goes up a little bit, leverage will magnify this and people will convince themselves it’s actually a good investment! Most will never consider that leverage is also very high risk and could just as easily wipe them out

* Mortgaged. You pay interest on the loans. Many people borrow money against it more than once

* Unproductive. Never pays interest, never pays dividends

* Immobile. Fixed to one geographical spot so at any given time only a tiny group (if any) of potential buyers for it will exist

* Subject to the fortunes of a single neighborhood

* Fragile. Easily damaged by weather, fire, vandalism and the like. As such it requires expensive insurance to cover these risks. Often the the bad things that are most likely to happen aren’t actually covered

* Heavily taxed.

* * If it should go up in value, we tax that gain. If it goes down in value we do not offer a balancing tax deduction on the loss like with other investments

* * Taxed annually, not just when bought or sold

* * Tax rate goes up as value increases. Does not go down when value decreases

* Subject to eminent domain

* Increases stress, leads to more divorces, but then be impossible to divide

(Note, I am biased against homeownership. Which hasn't stopped me from recently buying a house for a variety of reasons, mostly revolving around space needs for my family that could not be met with the available rental options in my current city)
A malicious actor can utilize a botnet to skew the crowdsourcing of trust, for example. In other words, in a WOT for identification, one's identification can be invalidated or stolen by someone who purchases cloud time.
Well it needs to be somewhere for you to be able to use it.
So, gut feeling might actually be a thing :)
I've been using csound as the audio engine for my Android apps but I'm looking at Faust for my new one because csound has a fairly limiting library in terms of where and how events need to be attached. With Faust I can place it in my own jni library and import and call the dsp method even if it's from deep within a nested custom view.
Python is very much alive. Not sure where you’re getting that. Perl 6 and Python 3 aren’t really remotely comparable, either.
Run it on qemu on Pi? Qemu can run individual binaries.
Tesla and Toyota already had a collaboration that was destroyed by Tesla refusing to remove "one pedal driving" from the drivetrain of the Tesla-powered Rav4. Also, Toyota has been pushing fuel cells over batteries for a long time.

So no, it doesn't look like Tesla passed up your obvious choice.
One is a measure of mental aptitude. The other is a physical thing that proves you are a constituent entitled to all privileges of citizenship, including voting. This analogy makes no sense to me, can you explain it better?
Could be, would be. I get it takes a while to bring things to mass market, but most of the time advances are overblown by news reporters and never materialize.
Then they really aren't being trained on the job are they? Thanks for the info about the programming experience they get. I know a few graduate level physicists, but they never talk about programming.
The mortgage interest deduction is bad. Economists are almost universal in their agreement on this topic. Sure it sucks that some people got to take advantage of a bad thing in the past, but that isn't a good argument for keeping it around just for the sake of generational fairness.
Bitcoin was not and never will be anonymous if a user converts to fiat. There is always a way to trace a transaction through the blockchain, and from there to a fiat-Bitcoin exchange where you have an account tied to your bank.
You actually can downgrade iOS but only if you are inside the "grace" period that is about 1 month from the first release.
After that point you can't downgrade anymore.
In my case I always wait before updating because I have been burnt in the past, but this means that I'm outside the grace period.
Even extending it to something like 6 months would be great.
If py3 never happened, then py2 would have also have evolved at an equal pace. Nobody can accurately calculate missed opportunity cost, but "almost there, everyone please use py3 now, its not a problem anymore" after 10 years is as high as it gets.
Because at no point is your identity tied to the address.
So, does anyone with a jailbroken iOS device want to decrypt the .text sections and bindiff them? I'd be very curious to see what the actual changes are.
Many Google APIs either offer paid premium tiers (eg. Maps) or are pay per use (all Cloud APIs).
France does tax Apple on its own. They still pay VAT of course as well as on any profits classified as French (e.g. retail). The question is then everything else whose origin isn’t obvious.
>IDs should be required

Do you have a source to support this claim?

As I previously pointed out, voter fraud is incredibly rare[1] practically non-existent.

Creating laws and administering laws both take time and resources. Can you support your claim identification is needed with any sort of rational, data based arguments or are you operating on emotion?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/03/he...
wow, that's very disappointing.
You say "without needless animation"; I say "makes me, as someone with a sensory integration disorder, able to refocus my eyes to the new text more quickly." (And then someone else says "makes me, as someone with the other kind of sensory integration disorder, overwhelmed and distracted and so hinders my fluency.")

Accessibility is not a scalar; some people need things that other people don't; some things X people need hurt Y people, and vice-versa. The animations might not help you, but they help someone.
> Tax rate goes up as value increases. Does not go down when value decreases

The tax rate usually doesn't change in either direction with value, except in states like California which limit assessment increases, where the effective rate decreases if value increases rapidly (because the tax basis increases less than the full increase in value).

And in most jurisdictions, value decreases are fully reflected in tax assessments, even when increases are only partially captured.
The 10%ish speed boost is all down to PGO, I'm assuming?
There are few jobs outside of academia where postgraduate degrees in liberal arts are a meaningful qualification. STEM can be hit or miss—a physics or math Ph.D. may be highly employable, but not especially more than someone with similar talent and ambition who invested their time in more marketable experience.

If I were the federal budget czar, I would literally pump tens to hundreds of billions of dollars into opening national labs and hiring these STEM postgrads to do basic research. Figuring out how to efficiently produce something like high-temperature superconductors, carbon nanotubes, fusion power, carbon sequestration, gene therapy, etc. would solve some very fundamental problems, likely produce a huge return on investment, and gainfully employ thousands of highly educated people who are woefully underutilized. Even less outwardly ambitious research can produce value: look at what happened when the federal government wanted to build a more resilient computer network for DARPA.

But I’m not that czar, and I think subsidizing people into career dead ends is something we could stand to do less of.
You made that clear in your first post. I was just trying to add on to that.
You must be a bit of a hermit ;-). There's a list of documents that you could have brought any three of, which includes things like utility bills, paystubs, insurance policy, personal check, etc. Sixteen different options, and I honestly don't know anybody in my circle of friends who couldn't pull off at least three of them.

I otherwise agree with your point, if it is that ID is too expensive to require for voting. It amounts to a poll tax.

Better to make it the job of a federal agency. Let's call it the Federal Elections Commission. ID is free, and they track you down to issue it, kinda like the census. Then I might be able to support requiring the ID for voting.
>Worst of all she's considered to be basically impossible to replace. It would be very nice to see CA stop giving her money and put a significant challenger forward but it's probably not good ROI to attempt.

The only type of person that has a chance is a celebrity. If Arnold can win governor as a Republican, then a left-wing celeb can definitely primary Feinstein.
Ah, makes sense now -- should've gone to the source instead of trusting the article to summarize all numbers. Thanks!
Uh, it says intentionally concealing, not owning.

Income from investments is supposed to be reported to the IRS. It’s silly that anyone would expect crypto currencies to be an exception.

This would be one of the few cases when the title should be updated.
Shit, I'd just want my balls back so I didn't have to take shots every few weeks.
That’s one explanation but if one company has the resources to innovate and keep up quality control it’s Apple. Especially since they have such a limited number of device models to support. I just hope this is a bad year and not an inflection point.
Kevin de Leon is running against her and has some political and media support. Unfortunately, he's far to the left of her on the issue of gun control and that alone may nullify whatever small chance he had of getting elected.
The text doesn't sound so much to me like it's criminalizing intentionally concealed ownership of cryptocurrency, as ownership of accounts at exchanges...say, by signing up for an exchange with a fake ID.
Is his district (LA) particularly pro gun?
I thought about this some more... maybe the price dips slightly in the short term, which lets a few more engineers in. These incremental engineers take the tech industry over an inflection point, meaning it’s now ravenous for engineers and paying them enough for rent $Z > $X. Is this what people mean when they say they’re concerned that more housing would not lower the price?
As usual with large vendors nowadays, we are the QA department. From an in-house perspective, QA is a cost center. As far as upper management is concerned, it literally doesn't earn its keep... especially when consumers have shown they're willing to overlook and forgive one gigantic blunder after another.
I think it would be much appreciated if this software could be released as open source.

How did the user space redirection handle potentially high spikes of execve's?

And btw, thanks for all the years of debian-administration.org.
So you don't think the original decision by US authorities to deny entry to these children was political? Because your answer only blames the other side for politicizing the issue under labels of "propaganda" and "power struggle".

That speaks of a mindset where any decision made by law enforcement authorities is apolitical, and any questioning of said decisions is political. It's the same mindset where American police are always just doing their job the best they can, while Black Lives Matters is a dangerous anarchist movement.

Oddly this mindset only extends to the sectors of government that are authorized to use power. Anybody else working in the public sector is part of "the swamp".
In theory, it might not be; the actual proposals there have been advanced have been attempts at voter suppressions with partisan (and usually class and racial, as well) bias.

Establish a universal ID first and eliminate any access bias then we can talk about requiring it to vote. Given that there is no evidence of any real problem that it actually solves in voting, it's more important to avoid creating new problems than to rush into it as a solution for speculative potential future problems.
But the top tax rate has been steadily declining since the Eisenhower administration. This tax bill furthers that decline. Over that period we've seen an increase in inequality. Are they correlated?

I'm not sure the bit about what share of income tax is paid by the wealthy is meaningful here, outside of right wing think tank PR releases (your linked site is funded by the Koch Brothers btw. Just a heads up).
Higher wages also means more disposable income for workers which flows quite heavily to industries like retail and hospitality, which offer a high proportion of entry level jobs
Can you order pizza from emacs?
> “Apple must stop denying the tax practices highlighted by the European Commission’s investigation, withdraw its appeal to the European Court of Justice and pay its fine of 13 billion euros as quickly as possible,” said Aurélie Trouvé, spokesman for Attac, according to the release.

A blurb from article. It looks like the government already went after Apple.
I’d argue free isn’t enough. Free and accessible is necessary, but given how hard it is to obtain a birth certificate e.g. there’s more to the problem.
>Companies can have both a diversity policy and a policy to make sure the top talents don't go elsewhere.

Those should be one policy, the diversity policy is about making sure top talent doesn't go elsewhere . . . your comment implies that people from "diverse" backgrounds are not top talent, whether that's what you meant or not.
I don't think we ran benchmarks with LTO and PGO in isolation, so honestly not sure exactly how much of a contribution each makes on each benchmark. PGO is definitely the bulk however.
Yeah, looks like I was wrong: http://mashable.com/2017/06/06/apple-high-sierra-ios11-2fa-s...
When it comes to a single particle, I wouldn't have thought an infinite number of degrees of freedom "seem available" in the first place.
Considering the vote is the centerpiece of democracy, to ignore fraud of any kind or to not safeguard your democracy is on its face illogical or at least questionable.

Of course it would take time and resources, but to make it easy for people to obtain IDs would be one of the cheaper things we can do as a nation.

You need an ID to get a lot of jobs, get funding for school, etc. If it's not easy for people to get IDs, we are limiting them anyway, so by argument we should be making them easy to obtain. That's my datapoint. It's a very natural way to empower people.
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The man who presided over the unfolding High Sierra disaster?
Is there a reason an ID shouldn't be required to vote?

The source of the source you link to kind of backs up OP's point. It's not an unbiased source. So why do they think ID's should not be required?

I mean just thinking about, verifying who a person is before they vote seems like 101 common sense to me.
When the Judge Distrusts Your Lawyers
_You_ may want that. However, _India_, as the biggest democracy in the world, chose to do a moon landing instead.

What makes you believe you know better about what is best? Unless you are an astrophysicist specialized in economic development (not sure that exists) odds are not in favor of your judgement being the correct one.
I'm guessing a lot of people didn't read the article: this is about GSB, Stanford's Business school. As pointed out in the article, https://poetsandquants.com/2017/11/30/stanford-gsb-misled-st... is the original source and should be preferred for the HN submission.
Drivers and bartenders are licensed. Cars and booze are registered. Requiring a higher standard for risky stuff is how we handle everything.
This is a good question and should not have been downvoted.
You could go slower like everyone else.. with less features..