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I really respect this kind of activism. Fair taxation certainly isn't the sexiest topic to hold a protest about, but it is actually a huge fundamental issue for us today. Individuals, and Corporations we treat as legal individuals, produce value for our society in several ways, and paying taxes is one of them. When wealthy individuals or large corporations dodge taxes via off-shore firms, etc. they erode the basis of public services and increase the tax burden on less wealthy individuals and smaller companies.

Worse yet, they frequently seem to do this by subverting our public officials. It's reached the point where our regulatory institutions and even our government appear severely compromised by the financial concerns of corporations. If our elected representatives need corporate money just to get elected, how can we rely on them to represent us on issues that might run against the interests of those corporate donors? Direct public action, such as protests, seem to be the last recourse left available to us on certain topics.

When you have a large, enormously successful company sitting on gargantuan cash reserves not paying its taxes and getting away with it, you have a problem. Apple probably isn't even the worst offender, but they're famous and have a built in hate-club (anything that inspires fans also inspires anti-fans). While this protest only had a few hundred supporters, that's pretty incredible for this kind of topic. Hopefully this sort of protest happens more often and gives tax-evading corporations pause.
As a fellow Princeton grad, I think his children will indeed have a better chance than most of getting in due to their legacy status, resource rich upbringing, and those donations.
Depending on what you mean by "in a decentralized fashion" the two aren't mutually exclusive. Many bitcoin clients, like Electrum, are distributed, non-centralized, but rely on the existence of SOME copies of the entire blockchain somewhere, but only verify back a fixed configurable number of blocks themselves when sending and receiving money. I suppose there's a minor degree of "trust" involved there, but I think the number of full nodes talked to is probably also configurable, so it would be pretty hard to fool the client, I think equally hard or harder than other kinds of double spend attacks.
More would be accomplished by protesting the government that allows certain loopholes.

Apple is a public company with an obligation to its shareholders to make money, not pay erroneous taxes.
Oh, another company... cool.

Who will get to jail? Oh, nobody.

Who will get bonuses? Oh, the management.

Who will be fired? Oh, some programmers or admins.
UpGuard has a solution available for this. You should get in contact if you're looking for bucket monitoring and peace of mind.

Full disclosure- I work for UpGuard. I'm the same guy that found the exposed data set in that article.
You know what would help shit like this?

Letting us downgrade iOS.

I get it. It means potential security exploits.

But at least let us make the choice wether we’d prefer those to shiny new, and different issues that seem to be growing in number.

Please?
No?

Fine, I’ll wait for the jailbreak and collect the goddamn SHSH blobs or whatever, if that’s how far you’ll make me go.

My, how lucky you are that GarageBand iOS has no peers (namely its integration with Logic), or I’d downgrade to a dumb phone and start carrying a palm pilot again.
Why incite a political discussion? The connection this article has to politics is extrapolated in your mind for one purpose.
Yeah, make the 2.7 -> 3 (preferably 3.5+) transition on 1.11, _then_ do the 1.11 -> 2.0 upgrade.
that's not what I said at all. All I want to avoid is that women pick up bootcamp educations in the hope to get a job, fall short in interviews based on merit, and then end up stigmatized as second grade candidates. Which can easily happen if only certain demographics pick up a specific education path, that can't objectively compete with the expectations these people face in their jobs.

Don't sacrifice the quality of education just to pursue an egalitarian end, it will backfire and get you the exact opposite result of what you want.
> I would take an Apple Watch + paid developer account any day of the week over Android Wear.

You've given no reason why. You're assuming OP is a mindless fanboy who will pay for something that has a free and more hackable alternative.
If the camera had a fisheye lens, it would distort the parts of the craft that are in its field of view, but those appear without fisheye distortion.

Unless I'm missing something else, the curvature you see is likely due to the spherical nature of planets.
There was never an actual point. It was the only plausible-sounding thing that could be given and neither regular folks nor industry journalists called them out.
Could you give some examples please?
https://thenewstack.io/instagram-makes-smooth-move-python-3/

How has Python 3 performed since then?

"Ding: We did not have performance gain expectations for Python 3 right out of the box.

So it was a pleasant surprise to see 12 percent CPU savings (on uswgi/Django) and 30 percent memory savings (on celery).

It’s only been four months since rollout, we don’t expect to see constant 10 percent performance improvement, but that was a very promising start."
Not the point: college is for CS. Not for "building on the work of others." You learn the basics that everyone needs to do the advanced work. If that isn't needed/useful then you need a vocational school instead of a CS program.

Making people do continual simple demos and nonsense programs instead of teaching them actual CS is BS. They can be simple programs, they don't need to build huge things, but what they build should reveal and teach them things beyond how to shift text around the screen.
I don't really think your analogy is all that apt, but anyway, it just serve's to reinforce dsacco's point: there may have been a lot of fuss over this, but in terms of actual impact, this was negligible.
Kibana team members are in time zones around the world (and sometimes inconsistently since some team members travel and work simultaneously). Most of our communication is asynchronous through GitHub, email, and Slack. When we need to have synchronous conversation we set up video calls, sometimes ad hoc and sometimes scheduled. We try to be mindful of each other’s personal lives and preferred working style and generally things just work out.
Remote Front End dev here. Ping me if there's interest: https://nunoarruda.com/resume.pdf
I tried to make it clear that this isn’t guaranteed, but there is good evidence that GDP will go up, and high earners (as OP asked, people making $250k/year, which is 98th percentile) often see wage growth under those conditions. Low and middle earners often not so much.
Thank you for your service, Karl. Perhaps you might share some more light on your experience "administering the vote" as a polling place inspector. As a technologist, what do you see as the major error modes of the American system of polling? Do you think fraud is wide-spread? Is it even possible to measure fraud (since, by definition, if you detect it you eliminate it)? Are there other methods of polling that might work better? It seems like a really hard problem, and I've wanted to ask someone "on the inside" for a while now, and this seems like a good opportunity. Thanks in advance.
This would depend on the field, right? Ie in some fields are there possibly more jobs outside of academia (than within) that require a PhD, alleviating the pressure to progress from PhD->Prof?
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This is some bloke's project and he decided to code it in the tool he was either most comfortable with or wanted to glean exercise on. If you want to take inspiration from his work and write an analogous program in ARM assembler for the amusement of running it on whichever device most amuses you, you're free to read his code, learn from it, and then go off to re-implement it in a steam-powered balanced-ternary analytical engine, if you so please.
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70 Years ago: "I don't think being required to prove you're a literate citizen with a test is suppression of the will of the people"

If you look at the people affected it's clear that it is racial disenfranchisement under a different name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_test
I'm not doubting the desire. But in the face of 7 BILLION and counting...climate change...other questions about resources...AND there are other proxy-esque options...It to me feels selfish and shallow.

You "bear" a child because you have love to give and to share. It's not about you, but about giving selflessly. I'm not judging what this is, or why. But this is not that. This is about the parents. The irony is disturbing.
Your statement contrasts amusingly with the actual context.

This occurred at a conservative-leaning, Baptist university in Texas: Baylor.
>> and tell me if you think that list compares to the large governmental subsidy that is provided to support non-taxation of tuition for graduate students.

>From my original post:
>> Additionally, and in direct analogy, GI Bill tuition is not taxed.
>It's not just comparative. It's Literally. Identical.

It's not identical. The GI Bill is a benefit that's conferred on a servicemember FOR SERVICE TO THE NATION. That service includes the possibility that a servicemember will be killed during their service. That's the job. It's not taxed because it's a benefit they earned for selfless service to the nation.

A good buddy of mine is going to law school with his. He did 20 years of service as a Marine.

You want a benefit like that? EASY. Go do 20 years in the Marines. You can have all the tax-free tuition you want.

> And no, spouses don't get special treatment. You're making things up to justify your argument
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Spouses_Residency_Rel....

Again. This act was for the protection of servicemembers against loss of job or loss of home because of a deployment. It doesn't give them special tax treatment. It forestalls things like foreclosure or garnishment of wages because of deployment to a war zone. There is no special tax treatment for spouses. They pay tax. I paid tax. Just like everyone else in the USA.

You don't understand the arguments you're making.
All the balances mentioned in the article combined seemed to add up to around $300k. I'm sure we'd all prefer these scum to have no money, but I don't see how this is newsworthy in the least. You could barely fund a small business for a few months with that amount of money.
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Yea, but I wouldn't trust someone's bootstrap estimator if they don't know how to interpret a t-test.
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In some ways it was probably too "enlightened".

I would call that not enlightened enough.

Real progress is quite hard. A lot of discussions about ideals fail to recognize that there are pragmatic limits. Any mention of pragmatic limits is attacked as an excuse for continued bad behavior.

As a current example, I am not for UBI. I don't think it really works in practical terms. It sounds like a nice ideal, but when you dig into the details, I think it simply doesn't work.

It is really, really common for new initiatives to wind up falling far short of their stated goals. It would be nice if the North had done more for the freed slaves. But I don't think that failure really suggests that it would have been better if the handling of the end of the Civil War had sowed the seeds of the next American civil war. I can't say that I really believe that Black Americans would be better off if the country were locked in a vicious cycle of civil wars.

I am finding myself deeply disturbed by the things I am learning here lately about the history of how Blacks have been treated. I am newly off the street and back in housing and I am seriously medically handicapped, so there is significant limits on what I, personally, can do about anything beyond just coping with my own survival. But perhaps my upset over these injustices will stay with me and perhaps that will lead to something constructive happening, at some point.

I have a tendency to try to light one small candle rather than the curse the darkness. Although it seems to have so far failed to establish any kind of reputation of a sort where I can use it for purposes of being a resume or making money or having serious influence, I have a track record of making a difference.

Though a tree falls and makes no sound, still, it falls.
To be clear, I do not agree to filtering out bootcamp people.
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They just switched cameras, and this one doesn't show parts of the craft, so my comment above won't make much sense, but the curvature I see with this camera is similar to the one I saw with the other camera which shows parts of the craft.
In Pennsylvania, about $30. That's at the high end. In Ohio, it's $8. Generally good for four years. Is $2 per year an impediment to voting?
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> that's not what I said at all

Whoosh, as it were. The point is that when you say that, it is what some other people hear. And that forcing disadvantaged demographics to read your mind to tell whether you're simply naive or a sexist jerk is hurting all of us. There are principles at work here beyond "sacrificing the quality of education".

The bottom line is that you aren't being nearly as welcoming as you think you are.
Some of my favorites:

Mach 1 Slide Rulette - made in 1972, one of my older ones. Has a really nice glowing green VFD, vacuum fluorescent display. Obviously very well made.

Sears M8 - made in 1973 by Sears, came in a nice black leather carrying case. The side of the calculator has an orange stripe down it, which makes the whole thing look gorgeous.

Sharp EL-827 - made in 1981, my #1 favorite, a musical calculator. It's fairly quiet, but you can hear it in a quiet room easily. The keys each have different notes for them, so you can play songs on it. I've learned a handful of songs on it myself. A really tiny, little, gorgeous thing - slimline, brushed metal, super thin. Just beautiful.
PhD programs are not full of modal students; what you want to do is compare the average PhD with the average person who did not get a PhD but would've been accepted into a program. On that note, compare students' industry offers after undergraduate to their post-graduate incomes, and account for opportunity cost
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>More would be accomplished by protesting the government that allows certain loopholes.

I'm not so sure about this as I'd question that it's possible for a single government to close loopholes on its own. Arguably yes, governments should be pressured into closing "certain loopholes", but not because this necessarily leads to a better outcome.

>Apple is a public company with an obligation to its shareholders to make money

Not everyone agrees that companies ought to maximise only shareholder value.
You will probably find they're in favour of bringing more of "their kind" into the world.
Release early/often is a mantra which fits free software development, one where there is often a second party between the software producer and the end user. This second party can be an integrator - Debian, Redhat, etc - or an IT department.

Release early/often is categorically unsuitable for proprietary, closed software development, especially for a company like Apple which directly targets end users and has made a name for producing stuff which 'just works'.

As such I don't think Apple actually follows release early/often, they just seem to think they can get by with less testing than they actually should. They also have a tendency to concentrate efforts on superficial 'improvements' while they lack the same drive to improve basic infrastructure.
You're claiming to know the future of Python better than "Python people" know the future of Python.

Python has changed incompatibly once in 26 years, and never plans to do it again, yet you're making it sound like an ongoing pattern. What language are you going to run to that has that kind of track record?
I've been writing a lot of python 3.6 lately. f-strings are really helpful and I use them all over the place.

I haven't used type hints yet.
Actually... that sounds like a good idea to me.

Except for the part where no one would pay attention to it because it's Twitter, and the part where the government controls the platform, making internal surveillance and censorship inevitable. It would probably just wind up a PR machine for the party in power.

But government employees, from the President all the way down to, say, interns having an official and direct means of communication with the people, on public record? I'm all for it.
> In its first 530 days of scientific observations, DAMPE detected 1.5 million cosmic ray electrons and positrons

> "we now expect it to last 5 years"

> That will allow the satellite to record more than 10 billion cosmic ray events.

Assuming DAMPE continues detecting cosmic ray events at its current rate, I think the total number after 5 years would be a bit over 5 million. That's a few magnitudes off of 10 billion... Math fail, or do I misunderstand something?

1.5m / 530d * 5y * 365d/y = 5.165m
Even though it's becoming the same old google joke, such a well placed burn must have taken down a whole data center.
Are there any operating systems that offer an seamless, out-of-the-box downgrade option? When I first upgraded from windows 7 to 10 I remember wanting to go back and finding out that it was an incredibly convoluted process. Although I guess with iOS you just can’t downgrade, period.
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Fortunately decades of history and court decisions disagree with you.
If a hundred people need to write that code anew a thousand times, somebody's going to screw it up. Widely used and heavily tested code is how we get a more powerful foundation to build on.

If the answer is to generate the Go, then we should be having human beings focus on the more powerful language controlling that generator.
Because it limits the amount of people who can audit the code, contribute to it, or just use it?
> BTW, if you wanted to curtail administrative bloat/power in universities, there are ways to use the tax code and science funding policy to do so.

Can you give a summary of your proposals here? Skimmed the Seery article and it doesn't seem to have anything directly related to the tax code, but could be missing it.
And why would I put in time learning these APIs if I have no guarantees they will continue existing?
I saw some drug documentary too. Smuggling in drugs is only one part of the problem. Drugs are small and valuable. Smuggling out the money is an equal problem, because it was all large and bulky. If you bring an entire truck full of cocaine in, you're going to need more than a truck to pull it out.

So while you can buy a few grams or a slave with a briefcase of notes, it's not as easy for the dealer.

Crypto, if safe, would lower the risk by about 50%. Bitcoin is traceable but it seems that something like Monero might be better for this.
menstruation would only be a component if the transplanted organs included functional ovaries and fallopian tubes. women who have full ovariectomy do not mensturate afterwards, as a slightly related example.

there are existing procedures to help facilitate implantation and regulate hormones that have high success rate (most common is ivf).

however, vaginal canal can also be useful to expel discharge and in case of pregnancy, placental fluid/sac -- but in a theoretical case of implanted uterus only, I wonder if "including" a vaginal canal would be more symbolic than medically necessary?
So cure (?) a problem for a handful of rich Westerners is The Most Important medical problem in the world right now? Seems to me you're overlooking other, far more significant (in terms of total numbers) suffering.

The people thinking what you're thinking must be very young or have some strange sociopathy.
> If you want punish people for having more than others, there's already an instrument for that, progressive taxation

Except that rich people (and companies) don't pay taxes.
This is what I was thinking. If the Trump org started their own Mastodon instance and syndicated it to Twitter/FB using their APIs, I wonder what might happen. They'd have to restrict signups, but if they provided a read-only, http version (cached) that could be interesting.
> It's not identical.

It is an identical benefit.

The justification for the benefit is not identical. In one case we're providing additional compensation to veterans. In another case we're providing an incentive for research.

But the benefit itself really is identical.

> This act was for the protection of servicemembers against loss of job or loss of home because of a deployment

Civilians also lose jobs / are forced to relocate?

Pointing out that someone gets special treatment is not an argument that they don't deserve that special treatment.

> You don't understand the arguments you're making.

You seem to be under the impression that I think these benefits are either unreasonable or sufficient.

I don't believe either.

I'm merely pointing out that there are many provisions in the tax code that are specific to military personnel and families.

Perhaps they deserve those benefits, as you argue. And I agree. But that doesn't mean those things aren't special treatment in the tax code.

> They pay tax. I paid tax. Just like everyone else in the USA.

Including graduate students. Excluding billions of dollars over at Apple.

Maybe if we stopped fighting over who's getting screwed more and started taxing extreme wealth we wouldn't have to choose a winner in this apparent culture war?
Here's a discussion on the topic: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/data-breach-lawsuits-fail-a...
I've been using --enable-optimizations for a while, and built my own 3.6 images a couple of weeks back.

Here's the Dockerfiles and readme:

https://github.com/rcarmo/ubuntu-python
> As I understand it, they're the result of a ridiculous arrangement between universities and the grant agencies

Do you have any links for further reading on this point? I'm not familiar with this argument, but could well believe it.
> This tax is still a ridiculous solution. If the problem is that university grant structures are screwed up (which they certainly are), then fix the broken grant structures.

Other way around. It's not that tuition grants are being treated specially if they're taxed. All grants and material benefits of this nature are considered taxable by the IRS. Graduate tuition happens to have been given a special exemption from being taxable, and this bill is aimed at eliminating that special exemption, treating it like all other grants and material employment benefits.

> Or tax the universites, not the students.

There are two problems with this. First, the incidence of the tax (who actually ends up paying) is completely unrelated to who the IRS collects the tax from. This is why, even though employers are required to pay half of taxes for Social Security and Medicare, employees are the ones who bear the tax burden: 95% of any increases in FICA taxes are paid for by employees (via adjustments to wages and salaries), and vice versa.
Because when you live in Hong Kong you don't live in the US. When you live in California you still live in the US.
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The value is like gold. It is a limited resource. It can't be counterfeit.

The big difference is that gold is portable and much harder to destroy.
Ask HN: What Happened to Sci-Hub.io? (The Pirate Bay of Academic Papers)
Does anyone know what happened to sci-hub.io? There are some academic journal articles that I'd like to access but can't since sci-hub seems to have been shut down.