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Actually, I do think the bill is bad and would not vote to pass it if I was in the position to do so. I think the benefits are skewed way too far in favor of wealthy individuals and corporations and the cuts will not be paid for by growth. However, if the tax bill only got rid of the mortgage interest deduction and property tax deductions, I would happily support it (unfortunately this is not the case). You are allowed to point out some positive things about an overall crappy bill.
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Ask HN: Is anyone selling their chrome extension?
Does anyone know if there is a marketplace for Chrome extensions? People sell websites and apps that they've given up on all the time and I've seen sites like Flippa and Shopify's "exchange", but I can't find anywhere that caters to browser extensions.

I want to buy a chrome extension that has modest user adoption and see if I can grow the number of users.

For the past year I've been trying to come up with new tech-based business ideas (I'm a full-stack web developer) but it's actually really hard to come up with something that even two people will adopt. And I'm not getting much experience in scaling something, which I think is a valuable skill to have on my resume for a future job, or for when finally have a good viable tech idea myself.

A browser extension would be perfect because I'm not looking to make money and just want to get some experience scaling a product, without incurring too many costs. Browser extensions don't necessarily require server resources unless they're hosted, so I can scale a user base without worrying about having to make money to scale up hosting costs.

Again, I'm not looking to buy some massive chrome extension (that would actually be pointless for this), I just need to start off with something that at least has some user adoption (heck I'll take 50 users), instead of spending months trying to come up with a fresh idea.
No offense but I bought a lot of chromecast and even my most tech inept family users have "moved to the tech age" with it and never bother me to get it working.

I'm sure amazon thingy works just as well, but your trouble with it are more anecdotal than the rules.
Some Lisp implementations (like SBCL) also do that blending, although they can statically catch some integer range violations too. For example if you declare a variable to be an (integer 50 100) and try to assign a literal 30 to it, you'll get a compile-time warning in SBCL:

; Constant 30 conflicts with its asserted type (INTEGER 50 100).

But in many other cases it'll generate a runtime check instead, because the static type checking is basically best-effort.
nginx has more development activity. Eg, nginx has had http/2 support for a couple of years, HAProxy has for a couple of days. HAProxy is excellent - even it's stats module costs a couple of thousand bucks for a proprietary module per instance on nginx - but nginx seems to move faster.
I think you forgot about Windows RT.
You think it's just an accident that the rich states are high tax? No, the rich states have done much more to invest in education, safety nets, and regulation (work place safety, environment, police activity, etc.). That is why they have better economies. This tax bill just takes a look at all that investment and says: nope.
Feel free to move.
We are in the same boat, and that is why SoS Notebook allows you to execute parts of scripts in the side panel. Basically, you will need to select the graphic-generation part of the script and press Ctrl-Shift-Enter to see the output in the side panel.
Of course competitors want more powerful options, and they certainly have the budget for it given the pricing of premium Android devices.

Qualcomm simply fell behind. While Apple went for powerful, enormous cores in small numbers, Qualcomm and friends bet on simpler, smaller cores. Apple has started copy/pasting their fantastic cores, yielding the enormous transistor counts.

I admit to being a skeptic when Apple went off to do their own thing, sure that a whole industry (and options like the Tegra) would make them eat their hat. Apple executed and are in a remarkable position now.
Yeah but that is also it's Achilles heel. It's one of the reasons they can't make immigration work. Which contrary to popular belief it actually does quite well in the US despite it's many flaws.

I grew up in Denmark and is used to the Scandinavian way of thinking all I am saying is that it has it's own issues and one of them is growth despite a few places.
> Second, it's interesting to see people who were in favor of tax increases suddenly change their mind when it hits them.

I'm very much in favor of increasing taxes, if that tax increase went to taking care of some societal problem (I don't care what it is, so for the sake of argument, let's just stipulate that it's a problem we both agree needs funding to solve). In this case, anyone paying more in taxes is just subsidizing those who are seeing a cut. It's more of a shift, given that it's projected to increase the federal debt by quite a bit. I'd be okay with that if we were actually putting more spending money in the pockets of the lower and middle classes, but I'm not sure that's the case. If this is really about cutting taxes across the board, I'm okay with that too, but we need to cut spending and I'd like us to take a look at the defense budget before going after social programs.

> Finally, although the removal of the SALT deduction will cost me significantly, I'm not sure I understand how the deduction makes sense. Why should a state raising their taxes mean you have less of a federal obligation? It only makes sense to me if states with higher taxes use less federal resources.

Deducting SALT makes sense in order to avoid double taxation. To me, it makes sense to pay the local govt first, then the state, then the fed, in that order. In theory, they will provide services to us in that order.

Mortgage interest and property tax deductions don't make sense to me, though. I don't really see why I should be able to deduct these, but my hypothetical tenant can't deduct their rent. None of this should have been deductible in the first place.
Since I am a Sprint Customer they are pretty big in my day to day life.
I wouldn't call protecting my computer and data being shitty attitude. OS developers need to realize that secure is not something they can compromise on going forward.
How well does that work when you're working on three different things in the kitchen, and they each need timing?

Yes, a mechanical egg timer is still a timer, and still functional. But so were sand timers. A mechanical clock still works, but many people still use digital clocks now a days.

I like the hands-free nature of the Echo timers, so I can set a timer while I still have dough or raw meat on my hands. And like I said, I can have an oven timer going while I have a timer for my pasta on the stove, and any variety of things I care to time (my kid's 5 minute timeout for fighting with his brother, for example).
> I don't see why state taxes should be federally deductible to begin with.

The same reason legitimate business expenses (including, of course, state and local taxes paid by businesses, which are not affected by this reform) should be and are, and the same reason lots of personal expenses (some of which are, some of which are not currently) should be: expenses which are essential prerequisites to or consequence of earning income should be netted against income before taxing it.

My state and local income, property, and sales tax are the support payments for the physical and social infrastructure that allows me to earn the income I do. With the federal deduction (and assuming state taxes with a marginal rate below unity), it's in my interest to engage politically to optimize for my net return before federal taxes; without the federal deduction, it becomes worthwhile to sacrifice income (before and after) state taxes for lower state taxes, so long as the reduced federal tax cost of the lower pre-state-tax income is enough to offset the reduced net-of-state-tax-but-before-federal-tax income.

This encourages producing less market value when the net after state taxes is equal, encouraging economic contraction.

For illustration, suppose, for simplicity, a federal flat marginal tax rate of 30% percent, and the ability to make $100K with a state tax rate of 10% or $94K with a state tax rate of 5%, and no other deductions.

Ignoring federal tax, the optimum choice is to choose the $100K income with the 10% tax: it provides an $90K net (of state taxes) income, compared to $89.3K in the lower-base-pay regime.

If you deduct state taxes from federal taxes, the incentives are unchanged, the net becomes $63K vs. $62.51 with the high-income, high-tax choice providing the higher net income.

But if you don't deduct the state taxes, the incentives are flipped: producing less market value even after the cost of local infrastructure becomes preferable, with the net being $60K vs. $61.10K.

Supporters of this proposal say it punishes people in high-tax states for bad political decisions; but the math is that it punishes them for good political decisions—for choosing increased taxes when the increase in market value produced that those taxes enable is greater than the value of the taxes.
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You're missing one even more heinous point, renters. A family paying off their 300k mortgage is getting a decrease in taxes owed while being subsidized for paying into an asset. The renting family is not being subsidized and they will never again see the money they are spending on rent. In most areas this is particularly twisted as mortgages will run beneath rental costs for the same standard of living. So the only real difference is that renters don't have to deal with the costs of damage to their asset... no money out of pocket for repainting or replacing appliances or structural issues and if their building slides into the sea they aren't out the value of the property.

Often times this also gets a bonus racist angle since minorities have a harder time securing a mortgage which traps them into overpaying for housing while struggling to save to pay less for their housing.
The high tax states are generally the rich donor states. No one in Mississippi is subsidizing California. It’s actua quite the opposite.
you're in like .01% of the population that wants that. the menu's and remote with the roku are horrendous, everything about a roku is terrible. You have log into an account within the 'roku os'. you also have to have the remote on you. I almost always have my phone on me. I'm already signed into all the apps that i want, with a much easier to use keyboard for searching. i tap a button on my screen and it's playing on my tv. The entire experience is 'seamless' just because you like to have 47 extra steps to watch a video doesn't mean that anyone else would like that. Roku is for people who don't know better or are technologically challenged. I mean, if you compared it to the appletv Roku is probably good?
The worst part is that in order to avoid detection of their schemes, these writers tend to stick to big VC-funded startups. Nobody ever got fired for mentioning Uber, Lyft, Tesla, AirBnb in an article... This makes the economic environment impossible for bootstrapped startups to compete in.
Tl;dr No

The field of probability was invented by largely French philosophers wanting to understand the math behind casino games. Casino games are nothing more (or less) than pure math. The 'unethical' part of casino comes from operators extracting too large of an edge. Obviously, the operator needs to make something to get paid to run the game, but the 'house edge' can be around 10%.

When thinking about gambling being ethical or not, IMO the important question is the price of the risk, not the mechanic of money traded for risk. Money for risk is very common (think insurance for example). Nobody would argue insurance is unethical. But if a home owner policy cost the price of the house annually, people would consider that unethical.
It's injected into the main.js file which is added via index.js to the page
Seriously. From the article:

> When many people today think of cloud-based content management systems (CMS), the names that likely come to mind are WordPress (which we use), or Medium (which people leaving their companies like to use), or Tumblr (which is owned by the same company that owns TC).

So it's a blog hosting service?

> Contentful can provide some of the same functionalities as these but it’s aimed at a different end: CEO and co-founder Sascha Konietzke describes it as a “headless” CMS, not unlike Stripe’s relationship to payments: there is no front end for ingesting and formatting content, or design end for producing the final look of that content for the reader. Instead, there are a set of APIs that developers of the media product in question can use to control both of those aspects more flexibly.

So it's a specialized database?

> “Existing CMSs are like the MS-DOS of the internet,” Konietzke said. “No one really likes to use them, similar to older payment systems before Stripe.”

…wat wow
It's obviously not easy by any stretch of the imagination to port something as complex as Windows to a new platform, but I'm still surprised it took THAT long to finish this.
Eh kind of? qemu can be used with binfmt-misc to do CPU emulation while still passing syscalls to the running kernel, but it's a long way from perfect - there's various corner cases that cause problems.
The relevant quantity is standard deduction + personal exemption(s) which is barely increasing for single people and declining drastically for families.
I don't see why state taxes wouldn't be federally deductible.

Roughly: if I work 6 hours, I have to work an additional hour a day just to earn money to give to the state; you're suggesting I should work an additional 15 minutes to earn money to give to the feds just because I earned the money to give to the state.

Absolutely I shouldn't be paying taxes on money earned just to pay taxes. It's not like I'm "shielding my earnings", because those earnings are earned specifically to get confiscated - you want me to earn more just because someone else took my money.
They fired the second shot when they refused to make anything to stream from a kindle fire to a chromecast. That's literally a "amazon media playing thingy" and it can't stream to the market leader casting device.

I love competition but this to me is a case of "ohh, screw that, just make whatever work with whatever"
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>The poor aren't going to have any choice but to eat cheaper less healthy food.

As we've covered, repeatedly, reduced supply of labor will increase the wages of those poor you're worried about buying food. Based on the first google results I could find farm labor constitutes 10-20% of the cost of food. Even at the high end, if you DOUBLE the wages of farm labor the price goes up 20% but wages go up 100%. And this same principle applies to every sector where new farm labor is pulled from. Wages go up more than prices, so it's a net win. This is great for the poor worker, but bad for the wealthy worker who doesn't get raises due to this increased competition on the low end of wages. To the extent that the wage gap might be a concern of yours, this is one significant way to reduce the wage gap using market forces.

> the big companies will either start selling cheaper (less healthy) substitutes

Millions of new potential customers have extra money in their pocket to be able to afford luxury food products. Meanwhile there are far fewer impoverished people looking to buy food (migrant/illegal workers). So if anything, it increases the market for luxury goods and decreases the market for cheaper unhealthy substitutes.

>import it from places with cheaper labor.

This is only a problem if you believe 100% of the illegal and temporary work visa produced goods could be replaced with imports. Not only is that not true, but even if it WERE true, that doesn't say anything about other sectors predominately filled with migrant/illegal workers such as hotel maid services or construction. My house, in my neighborhood, is not going to be built by someone who isn't physically here.

I feel we've sufficiently covered the initial premise, which is that the policy I've described helps poor middle Americans. You might be able to debate the extent to which it would help them, or that this is good for the over-all economy/country, but it's undeniable that artificially increasing supply of labor in some sectors drives down wages for everyone in those sectors and in the labor markets that compete with those sectors.
Your $200,000 a year will get you by very nicely here in the Midwest. We even have jobs and accept the same currency you're paid in over in SV, imagine that!
"His risk isn't asymmetric. He (or she) has got to justify their job each and every quarter to the investors. A couple of bad quarters and you can expect the shareholders to be looking for a scalp and it's usually the CEO."

But what actual risk is the CEO taking? Sure, the board might decide to let them go. But that usually comes with a multi-million dollar severance package. They're not hurting. There is no practical downside. On the other hand, someone who gets laid off because of the company tanking does get hurt, through no fault of their own.

"I think you maybe underestimate the job market for senior executives. It's not like a CEO of a S&P500 company can find another job on LinkedIn. Sometimes they land a new gig. A lot of the times they don't."

They land on their feet more often than not. And, again, they're not hurting for money. If they don't find another job, their children are not going to go hungry.
Insurance companies negotiate much lower payment amounts with providers than individuals could achieve otherwise. They do this through scale, which, as you mention, can be bad when scale gets too big, but also through risk pooling. Risk pooling allows you to eliminate idiosyncratic risk and thus lower the cost of healthcare on average.

If you are a sick person with no insurance and average income, you won't be able to afford health care. But if you join a group of healthy people and pool some to pay for emergencies, you can. That's health insurance
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> I am citing them as places that are not "failing inner cities" with high crime rates

Where are you getting your data? SF has one of the highest violent crime rates in the nation. Also Los Angeles homicide rate is up 24 percent compared to last year. Etc... Those cities still don't help your case....
Isn't "intelligent life" just a function of time of "life"?
I am reading the book "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness" currently and the book makes the case that intelligence and/or consciousness has evolved separately in mammals (humans) and cephalopods.

The more I look at diversity and evolution of life on Earth, it seems like "intelligent life" as we know it is just a inevitable consequence of evolution, given enough time, perhaps.
Wow – I’m honored! The volcano of bad ideas coming out of this administration has kept me busy on a lot of fronts, so I haven’t had as much time as I’d like to keep myself up to date on the boards here. But I can say that my staff – especially in my Bureau of Internet & Technology – does try to keep up on the news in tech and any potential problems we need to address. My understanding from them is that the tech community has been incredibly active on net neutrality, and incredibly helpful and supportive of our efforts on the issue. I thank you all for that. If you have a specific proposal for how to help our office's investigation, I encourage you to get in touch and my team will get back to you as soon as they can.

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>Relax. You’re not subsidizing anyone. Homeowners pay a larger share than renters to begin with.

As someone who knows many landlords: Completely wrong.

They buy properties with a loan. They pay interest on that loan. The money the renter pays goes towards the interest payments. Renters are essentially buying the properties for the owners.

And landlords can keep deducting it, no matter how many properties. Homeowners can deduct only for two houses. And renters deduct none of it. The landlords literally deduct what their tenants are paying (interest, which is part of their rent).

And not sure about your other comment, but rarely do renters of similar size houses/apartments pay less than homeowners. As an example, my house I bought only a few years ago: I pay just a little more than some 3 bedroom apartments (which are much smaller than my house). Most 3 bedroom apartments in desirable areas in my city pay more in rent than my monthly payment.

And then with all the deductions I was getting, I was effectively paying less than most 2 bedroom apartments, and some single bedroom apartments. And if I take into account the amount going towards the principle, I'm paying about the same as most single bedroom apartments in my area.

I did not put in a huge down payment. Less than 20%, in fact.
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They already face the risk of getting laid off.
This is only true until the Republicans exciting new tax plan goes into effect. It kills the State and Local Tax deduction (SALT) to allow them to cut the Corporate tax rate to 20% and eliminate the estate tax while only increasing the federal deficit by $1.5 Trillion ($1 Trillion if you account for increased economic growth).
Hmm... I suppose, but I've never not received anything I was expecting. It's possible I've just not run into anything with SPF reject rules, or that Gmail is allowing them anyway.

I don't disagree it's better if fastmail (or whatever) can receive directly as it saves another MX server in the middle, but it's still doable without the end provider explicitly supporting it.
1) If we're also talking about how the cost of health insurance might change then you could be correct about the very poorest. It's a bit hard to say.

If we're only talking about taxes paid, then you are wrong there.

2) I think that the whole "over the 10 year period" is a bit of a red herring. The US tax system isn't getting set in concrete with the (potential) passage of this bill. Numerous things will almost certainly change over the next 10 years. Tax breaks set to expire will get extended. Rates will get tinkered with. It's hard to know what might happen. Because of this I think the short term effects matter much much more than what is theoretically set to happen in 10 years.
I may be talking shit, but for what I understand of SE, it wouldn't make sense to loose the data if you reinstall macOS.

I tried to look up the info, but the only thing I found was this: "But because its backing storage is physically part of the Secure Enclave, you can never inspect the key’s data."

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/certifica...

That means that it get stored in SE instead of your computer's hard drive.
Also, Apple have instructions to clean Secure Enclave if you're going to sell your macbook pro with touchid.
Totally agree. If they want to do so, I would certainly recommend a young person get a degree regardless of whether it is STEM or not. I just wouldn't give someone a huge loan to study a low earning major at a expensive private college. That is just setting them up for a mountain of debt they are unlikely to be able to pay off.
Not at all. When I leave the office, I want to leave work concerns along with it. My off time is for me, not my employer.