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I think using higher taxes as a solution to anything is stupid and annoying as well.

I think education should be the key, not taxation.

Educate people that it's more healthy to eat less meat or eat meat less often. Educate people on the amount of resources needed to raise cattle and the impact on the earth. But let people make their own educated choices.

I eat meat maybe 2 times a week. I don't want to pay more for my meat. Buying organic meat is expensive enough already.
Is that possible outside a totalitarian / authoritarian state?

If so, would it work for jet travel, and all other sources of environmental stressers?
Well let me give you a better example. Because of the professional standards held by certain professions (medical doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, etc) - until they recently relaxed the rules, Canada required passport applications to have an occupational guarantor (of a certified profession) who knew the applicant for a minimum amount of time to sign a passport application.

The average person doesn't know the difference between a "Professional Engineer" with a PEng and a "professional engineer". If someone like you were to say "I'm a professional engineer" and sign the passport application and it was caught, the person's passport would be invalidated and the signing small-e engineer would likely be fined for misrepresenting him/herself. You could actually say that in Canada at least, PEng engineers actually have an elevated status in society like doctors and lawyers.
The author doesn't differentiate between the contexts of music listening, but when you're at work and need concentration, in a bar, at a party, or doing a workout background music is great and playlists based on moods are on point. Personally I don't see the incompatibility with algorithmically generated playlists and appreciating every song being listened to when appropriate, in fact I find them great to discover new artists and songs, especially in niche genres.
The town of Klamath Falls, Oregon has many homes heated with Geothermal Energy. Its dirt cheap once the well is drilled, just need to run the recirculating pump. The University (Oregon Tech) is completely powered (and heated and cooled) by geothermal, and sells extra power to the hospital next door. The town itself heats many sidewalks and buildings with Geothermal. But to do that, you need hot temperatures relatively near the surface. drilling gets expensive the deeper you go.
Should we really prioritize politics over the environment, though?
Something like a partial tax might be better.
A tax that doesn't affect the meat, the lower classes buy.
A much higher tax on the cuts of meat preferred by the upper classes.

Ex. no tax on ground beef, but a very high tax on filet mignon or ny strip steaks.

I personally think we can have a less divisive higher environmental impact by banning private jets.
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OK, so how do I buy a 3-day working week with my extra salary?
Ah, great, because when I last looked at an iOS device, the user had to switch between the WiFi network manually, which was a hassle.
I agree that the someone having access to run arbitrary code on a machine is a much bigger deal. In this case, the difference between this debugging feature and an installed keylogger is the use of trusted software to perform the keylogging. When the mictray issue came out earlier this year, I ran across a blog post you may find interesting [1]. To summarize, the author repurposed the HP executable to log keys to a remote server using webdav.

[1] https://diablohorn.com/2017/05/12/repurposing-the-hp-audio-k...
> Interestingly, they only do that for java code. Java has good analysis and refactoring tools

I can definitely see this.
Exactly. You need administrator to enable this, and you need administrator to install a different keylogger. So then the question becomes: Why use this? Well, an attacker wouldn't but the press doesn't know anything about tech' so, this fact escapes them. This is like science reporting all over again...

If you have HP's update agent installed, HP are able to install drivers, so all bets are off as far as what HP could do to your machine. They could enable this via the update agent, but even assuming worst motivations there are a tens of better commercial keyloggers HP would use before this.

This debug functionality likely shouldn't be shipping in retail versions of the driver (defence in depth, etc) and should be removed. But there's a ton of misinformation surrounding this bug which is frustrating, the actual security community are already bored of this one.
I completely agree with you.

But it's sad that issues like these can completely grip groups of constituents to vote with tradition against health care, gun control, fair taxation, climate legislation, etc.

People are literally dying by the busload in all those issues, but half the people vote against sane reform for supposedly needing automatic weapons, 4x4 city pickups, $100 less in "taxes" by paying $1000 more elsewhere, and having to eat a 2 pound steak because it's what we've always done...
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i follow my gut. If i see something and it really tickles my brain, I am right on it
From what I understand, people other than you and your friend will only trust one of your accounts (the real one), and will only accept money from it. So even though you might have 100 FakeYous, you will only be able to pay with RealYous.
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Articles like this one never look from the side of the engineer and / or never consider his opportunity cost.

Why would anyone work for you on an engineer salary if they are "great" and have all the CEO skills. They shouldn't.

Selecting for passion is selecting for people, usually young who have no life outside work, don't know their real market value and have easy to abuse personality, will tolerate agile micromanagement etc etc. Women usually have more social skills, enough to know not to become software engineers in bigco.
Your argument would be way more fun to read if you actually provided some points for WHY it would never happen, instead of just stating "it'll never happen".
“Sin taxes”

Is catholic church making a comeback?
Wow these comments are depressing. The extreme polarization between, pay me enough and I'll do anything, and take one for the team by making peanuts and working obscene hours is kinda frightenting. Has no one had a job where they were treated well and paid a fair wage? Its perfectly reasonable to get both of those things and be able to make a decision on a company based on additional things, like what the mission is, or who you will work with, or what tools you will use. Money isn't everything and you don't have to be taken advantage of. There is a middle ground.
>an interesting problem is worth more than 25k, but you haven’t stated where that ends.

It doesn't matter where it ends in the context of the reply to notyourday's assertion that only _one_ thing matters to non-mentally impaired people and that is _money_.

>I hated working for Amazon more than any other job. But I’d do it again for double my previous salary.

Totally understandable and that's why I began my comment that priorities will be different for different people. That's ok. The world needs all types.

My comment is informed by my experience with various tech jobs with wildly different salaries. I earned 2x the Google/Facebook salaries working for finance companies for 10 years. It was the worst 10 years of my life. The massive salary (massive for a programmer) let me buy nice toys, travel to expensive exotic places, and build up a nest egg but it was also soul-sucking misery. I look back at that period with regret. If I had to do it over, I should have taken a lesser paying $150k job with a company working on things that were interesting to me.

However, that doesn't mean other programmers can't accept the miserable finance job with insanely high pay. If it pays big money, they'll be fine with it because they can compartmentalize the job and find meaning elsewhere. Some people can do that, but that's not me. Terrible work and uninspiring colleagues just spills over into personal life even when I'm not physically at the job site.
I would think power consumption would come into play, considering the safe is most likely not constantly connected to power. BLE is an order of magnitude more efficient with power than Wifi is: https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/techzone/2011/aug/compar...
The models we use to guess dose vsm health are linear with no threshold and we chose this to be conservative in lieu of real low dose data. Since then there has been zero conclusive evidence that low dose radiation causes any harm at all. The people who live in very high natural background level areas have never been shown to have higher incidence of anything that could be linked to the radiation. The body has error correcting repair mehcanisms that can handle a lot.
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Is your central thesis that poor people are poor because they don't work hard enough?
I hate to break it to you but none of the existing cryptocurrencies know how to scale transactions yet. There are, however, many proposed solutions. Bitcoin is aggressively pursuing those solutions.

The worst proposal, increasing blocksize, is not currently being considered because of its impact on centralization.
I find the Goliath simple to take down with a Prowler. Even when they discover you, you're close enough to fire. Even with a skilled player as long as you're not directly in his line of fire you're safe.
The "Defending against fake accounts" section suggests that this wouldn't be effective except between you two. If I trust jstanley but not jstanley-fake, then you can still only give me jstanley currency. You've got to convince me to trust jstanley-fake in order to get me to use the money.

However, since this is basically a currency based on web of trust, at a large scale you could probably dupe enough people into trusting your fake account. Or introduce both currencies into separate social networks. One here with the technical social circle, another with your in real life community, for instance.
Honestly I don't think that works on long term. The amount of money you make will soon become your new normal, but the shitty condition will continue to make your life miserable.

The only difference the extra money makes is that once you got used to the money, you're trapped in that position.
>The Circles Money System was designed to get started creating a UBI economy today. We believe that the combination of resilience and global accessibility afforded by blockchain technology is a key catalyst that makes a Universal Basic Income achieveable within the next generation.

Sounds like they don't trust governments to quickly implement a UBI, and they want this to solve that.
Right, but sysv is still around, so if "support" means having the package, then Debian still supports other init systems. The complaint here is that stuff doesn't work well with sysv, so my question is: if back in Debian 7 something didn't work well with Upstart, was that considered a blocking bug? If not, I fail to see what changed. As you pointed out, they already removed obsolete init systems before systemd came around, so removing Upstart (which has been abandoned by upstream) is not a change in regular procedure.
Indeed, it does require capital. That's kind of the point. Why would you hand out something that's worthless? What use is that to anyone?
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I am not stating I have a problem with this. I am stating that is not the problem everyone else is having with this.

This doesn't seem that complicated to me. I am not sure how I could possibly make what I am saying any clearer.

As a possible diagnosis of the problem you are having, if you believe my first sentence says or is equivalent to "I don't have a problem with this", you have a fairly common reading comprehension problem where you read what you expect to have read, rather than what was actually said, and the problem you are having with what I wrote is your difficulty in fitting such a short point into your framework of what you expect to have read. I suggest spending some more time learning how to read what is there, rather than what you think is there, as you are missing out on one of the primary benefits of reading. That's not the only possible problem you've having with understanding such short, simple sentences, but it is likely enough to be worth calling out.
You can. Yes. Go to your boss. Ask to be paid 60% of your current salary to work M-W. I'm sure you'll get a yes.
I don't really mind people wanting to be vegetarian, vegans, or not eating whatever they want. I do mind when they are trying to impose their habits on others. I don't believe a single second that health or global warming is the real motivation for this tax.
It really is sad that public spaces are now full of people doing private things. Yes, they're often being social in a way, but in most of those cases they're interacting with people they already know at the expense of getting to know the new people around them. That impedes the formation of the broad and diverse web of relationships important to civic community.

I don't think there's a simple answer to this. There just needs to be more of an understanding that mobile devices and social media can either enhance or detract from real human interaction, and that using them in ways that detract is rude.
To some extent we are radioactive material on the surface streets of the major cities, because we have consumed soil!! Even our steel tools can be somewhat radioactive, refinement concentrates point sources.

However, containment vessels like that are usually for refined ores, which end up in reactors, smoke detectors, medical devices, radiotherapy machines, you name it. Too expensive and possibly hazardous to airlift.

As far as I know, production of atomic weapons has stopped in this country and we're not even sure if they still work (half-lives--they rot). Could've been materiel for a stewardship program at the Hanford Site, or waste being evacuated from the Hanford Site.

Generally speaking, the remaining atoms transported and transmuted are for peace. That's why Russia brokers Uranium to the States, and why people in Kazakhstan and elsewhere continue to mine fissile ore.

If you were to shut down the remaining fission plants of Planet Earth, civilization as we know it, would end almost immediately, such is our need for these fuels. It would not be pretty--consider the amount of electric heat, the number of electric stoves with 50+ year duty lifetimes. That's why Japan recycles spent fuel at the French reactor.
Some people don't even get the opportunity to create value in the marketplace. You seem to think "but just create a startup" but for some people who earn just enough money to feed their families, they can't take the risk. Don't you think UBI could give them more opportunity to take the risk and try to create more value?
Have you done the back of envelope calculation to compare private air miles to pounds of meat or are you just guessing?
> Who do you think benefits from those welfare programs?

I can tell you who many poor Republican voters believe benefit: "Lazy urban youth." Yes, this is a dog whistle. But I have heard the words "welfare queen" in person, and I knew exactly what they meant.
As if money actually spent on environmental purposes does anything useful for the environment. Recycling programs, as it "turns out" (as if there were people not already aware of this) put most recycled stuff in landfills in China.

So don't worry. Whether the money goes to "something useful" or not. It won't actually be useful.
Hobbies

Try them.

I promise you that when you're making a 14-person formation in freeall, or flying a new faster turboprop, or signing for your new yacht, your work will not be on your mind.
>you need administrator to install a different keylogger

nope. you need administrator if you want to install for all users, but there's nothing preventing a user from keylogging himself.
> If you think that more money doesn't motivate you, either you've never been paid enough

Or you have; there's significant evidence that behind a certain level, additional income doesn't actually provide additional improvement in most measures of satisfaction and subjective quality of life (IIRC, some studied in the 1990s showed this on average at somewhere around $250,000 in then-current dollars in the US.) Once you've reached the point where that occurs, it only motivates to the extent that knowing you've missed an opportunity to run up a higher score is disappointing to you.

I've been poor, and I was much more motivated by money then than now, when I'm being paid much more.
I made a cool plot of this in the solar system the other day.

https://whatisnuclear.com/img/solar-system-insolence.png
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An appallingly minuscule tax (eg: $0.01/1000L) would encourage appropriate (nay, mandatory) rate monitoring as well as provide a modicum of oversight.

Keyword: rate monitoring, not rate limiting
But what if I pretend to be two different people? It seems we'll need some kind of centralized organization to verify identities here (the government? )
> it’s not coming to postgres anytime soon

Isn't Peloton close? http://pelotondb.io/
HPSynapticsdriver.dll is probably on antivirus whitelists and signed with a reputable certificate whereas a random keylogger would not.
That's not far off from what I did. I got total after tax compensation of around $4MM for 4 years of intense work. I consistently worked around 100 hours per week. So basically no life at all besides eat/sleep/shower/gym/work. No social life. No hobbies. No family time. No down time - for 4 years. It took a toll, but it was worth it in my opinion, as I'm financially independent now and I retired early, and I will never work another job that I'm not absolutely in love with. I would repeat the same thing again if given a choice, and a lot of poor bastards work more for less compensation, so I count myself fortunate to have had the opportunity.

However, I think $500,000k for 3 years is probably not a great deal, and I probably wouldn't have accepted that bargain.
So a takeover by a UN mandated operation then, to put it under the trusted oversight of a bank? :)
In true HN fashion, everyone's first reaction is to hate this.

I don't really know enough to say whether this will work/won't work, but I think it's a cool idea. It's blending technology, market forces, social contracts all in one in attempt to do something new and beneficial.

I'd love to see more concepts like this being created and tested.
Nah. I gave up on the money grub once I had enough. Then I had a life.

A limit to how much you want to spend on hobbies. Only so many restaurant meals I can eat. Only so much time in the day, and so much more to do with it than, all that horror show.
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An increase in blocksize means an increase in propagation delay. Too much delay and miners who are closest to the most recent block get a head start mining the next block. Mining is suppose to be a lottery, not a race.

Research done on the matter shows that for each kb above the current 1mb block, 80ms of delay propagation is added.
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Great summary. Thanks and agree this is a big deal.
Yes, it is possible, but then you'll probably lose the next elections. Or perhaps even encourage riots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_riots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902_Kosher_Meat_Boycott

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
But of course when I pay you, you’ll have no idea which account is my primary. I’ll tell you it’d FakeMe23 and you’ll accept the money because why wouldn’t you?
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What kind of a world do we live in where a gun safe requires a firmware update to patch a security vulnerability?
The trust part breaks this I think. Would like to see a UBI that is distributed to Estonia e-citizens, Fummi, or similar. Something where a real live person is validated once and only once in person.

Fummi is at
https://blockchainforchange.org/
yes, of course. you're responsible on a smaller scale than amazon is, but ultimately you are responsible for the behaviour of the companies you patronize. and the behaviour of their contractors.

and that's not limited to whether you know about their poor behaviour or not. If you see something that's too good to be true, like "free same-day delivery", it's up to you to question whether that's really something you want to support.
The only way to make this more Hackernews would be to implement it in Rust and somehow run it on human gut bacteria.
Moving is a rather drastic step. Instead, I buy USDA Organic wheat, which doesn't allow the use of glyphosate.
Try "purchasing power of $your_currency" and you will find stuff like that:

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/buying-power-us-dollar-centu...
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Upvoted. I am missing the machine learning though.
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I guess they hope that the currencies will be worth something. I don't see how this can earn value, but i think it's interesting to try.
If you are working massive hours you need a massive salary to make up for it or you are not getting well compensated.

If you are working 60 hours a week you better be making 50% extra (or get 50% time off at a later data) or you are NOT making good money.
in general they are very close but at times of extreme volatility they can differ quite a bit, as was the case several days ago when GDAX surged up past $19,000/BTC and then crashed.
it's trivial to bypass antivirus by obfuscating the executable with a commercially available packer/obfuscator. not to mention that if you have administrator access (needed to enable the keylogger), you could also disable/uninstall the antivirus, or load a driver (whose access can't be restricted by the antivirus).
Somewhere in the instructions it says that your solution should run in less than a minute on ordinary computer hardware. Sometimes it's just as interesting to make your brute force solution more performant as it is to find 'the trick.'
Or the millions that work in soon-to-be-obsolete jobs should.. create different value?
That's always what taxes like this have been called, same thing goes for smoking. They know people will do it no matter what so they know they can put an obscene tax on it without impacting consumption much. Not that people will like that though.
Also don't forget the security of the servers...

For example, for myself, since I am the only user of my software (it is not for sale), the server security is much more important...
That 200k extra means 2 years of not having to work, whether it's now or some time in the future. Not having to work means having more time to spend on myself and with people whose company I enjoy. Money is literally exchangeable for time.
Not any more. China isn't buying any more plastic. Well, it is still buying it but has set standards that are nearly imposiible to meet.
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The recommended daily meat intake is much lower than the typical (American) diet. The pasta and bread aren't helping, but more meat calories in place of carbs won't suddenly make you lose weight.
$250k then could be $500k+ now at which point I'd agree with you.
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