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It's true, but it's just one feature you can turn off, it's the ONLY feature of smart speakers.
Not really according to geekbench.

a11: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/5286336

i7 (rmbp): https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/5285899

4.1k vs. 4.8k
So people making over 200K a year will pay more taxes, cry me a river.
Technological ignorance? Most people who are afraid of technology don't seem to understand it very well. God knows why they'd be here though.
Cloudflare is (among other things) a CDN/cache. haproxy does not cache.
You probably get this a lot, but here is one more data point.

Almost nobody who uses the term "Drumpf" is taken seriously. It's the 2017 equivalent of using M$ to refer to Microsoft. It's a way to immediately get your opinion written off.
It's more insidious than that. The big distros have been signed and will probably work, but recompiling your kernel, using less common distros, or using third-party modules won't.
If someone sells bitcoin for tether (because they want to redeem the tether and collect 20 cent profit) the price of bitcoin goes down, not up.
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I will be hanging around the next 60 years creating more JavaScript 1.5/ECMAScript 3 code, oh the horror.
This article is more descriptive, not mentioning why the bill is setup like this. But, it's worth saying that this is working as intended from a GOP perspective. This hits mostly democrats. And even if it didn't, high state taxes are seen as propping up big (state) government.
"It's a nice market you have with high-margin enthusiast desktop CPU's, Intel. It'd be a shame if Windows stopped supporting them"
> I cannot see this bill as anything short of theft. Why do I have to pay double-digit percentage more on my taxes to give the ultra rich a tax cut? In what fucking world does that make any economic sense.

My rent isn't tax deductible. Why is yours blessed with such a status (In the form of a mortgage, and property tax deduction)?

All that mortgage tax deductions do, economically, is increase the overall price of homes, and have non-homeowners subsidize home-owners.
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It doesn't, and that's why a large majority of economists were wholly against it.
Echo Show switched to showing YouTube through the web after Google blocked it the first time. Now it looks like Google is blocking the website. https://9to5google.com/2017/11/21/youtube-back-on-amazon-ech...
This is possibly the worst interpretation of the tax bill I have seen yet, maybe excluding Mitch McConnell's ludicrous statement that the bill is either deficit neutral or reduces the deficit.
> Why does HN have an active discussion of every rehashed ("hashed", hah!) crypto ponzi/pyramid/fraud scheme that flies, but not every new MLM?
> There were always be scammers peddling garbage backed by lies. It's getting boring.

What's even more boring is posts like yours which add to the meaningless noise. If you don't enjoy a subject on an article, don't bother reading it. There are tools which let you alter the content on HN such as [1] [2]

[1] http://www.taggernews.com/

[2] http://diethn.gq/
Uber buying stories on slashdot a few years ago, which resulted in an Uber promoting story every other day, was the reason I gave up on slashdot.
Hi, I guess I really didn't articulate my point very well at all, sorry about that.

I think I was trying to articulate that solving one disability problem for one type of disability almost always has applications for people with other types of disabilities, a very simple example is ramps and widening doors for people in big wheelchairs. That wider door and ramp can also be used by people with other disabilities.

As you quite rightly point out there are no panaceas, there is no one application to suit everybody; that would be impractical. What companies could do more of is open up their API's so that people can solve their own problems, that way if the widget you've just bought doesn't quite fit your disability but has an open API the option exists for you to tailor it to your needs. This is how I fly my Parrot drone, it wasn't designed to enable disabled people to use but they left a little space I could solve my problems. Obviously not everyone has that ability, but with an open API other companies could create products and solutions for existing products and services.

I'm not sure I agree with you about the disposable income part of your argument, if we can work a big enough scale we can make things affordable. But to get there we need companies to spend a lot of money on as you quite rightly pointed out talent, time and treasure. And unfortunately only Apple seems to be even slightly moving in the right direction.

Also in the UK we have the NHS who has enormous purchasing power and would be totally willing to pay for low-cost devices that solve particular disability problems, that way those people don't take up expensive hospital beds. At the moment, it needs a giant amount of investment and as you also pointed out that's probably going to be governments if it's done at all.
Basically Tether does what banks did in 19th century - printing their own dollars. It worked for banks back then because of gold reserve. Without enough gold ( or dollar in case of Tether) reserve we have an opening scene of Cryptonomicon in the near future.
Came here to puff about "yet another bundler".

Then read all of the docs in 15 minutes and realized that I might like this.

Then I used it and I know that I'll keep using it, unless there are any showstoppers.

Great job, Devon!
Florida here, I'm going be paying $4000 ish less in taxes. I hope the tax bill lands and is put to practice quick!

People who make over $200k aren't getting as big a tax break? I don't feel bad about that.
I don't see why state taxes should be federally deductible to begin with.

Two families both make $250,000 a year. One is in New York and one is in Texas. The family in Texas is carrying more of the federal tax burden than the family in New York. Why? Both are (in theory) receiving the same benefits from the Federal Government and should pay the same in taxes.

If you're a progressive this should make even less sense: rich states are currently keeping additional funds for themselves local, in their rich states, via high taxes, that are then shielded from the federal government via deductions.
>Other than the last clause about "without providing any refund", I would expect this from any service provider

that's certainly not the case for office365, for example. https://www.microsoft.com/online/mosa/MOSA2014Agr(NA)(ENG)(N... . same with gsuite. https://gsuite.google.com/intl/en_in/terms/2013/1/premier_te...

>and I'd certainly never want to run a service that didn't have this in its terms.

that may make sense if it was for a free trial, or it was for a cat sharing app, but I certainly would not want my business to be dependent on a service that can be yanked away from me at any time.
They allow you to statically declare integer ranges (as well as other things), even if their bounds are unknown until run-time, and without requiring a run-time type check.
Do you ever use a tv remote?
Not anymore. But I have been. I've also been a day-laborer. A retail clerk. A Christmas elf. A soldier. And a developer.

When somebody is trying to hire you, you are the one with the negotiating power.
The amends with victims are, at least in case of Polish people, more of an excuse than anything else. For example - my grandma’s father was bestially exploited and murdered in Auschwitz, leaving her without a father at the age of nine. Moreover, Germans closed the school around the same time, which left her uneducated for life. Add years of stress and malnutrition (hunger) as a child on top of that. If US government did such thing to its citizen, the damages awarded in court would be astronomical. Meanwhile, my granda got exactly $0 from the German government. And there are millions of people like her. So, when I hear about Germans making amends, I call it more a propaganda in action than anything else.
That was my feeling too. I read it and kept looking for the downside, but people making over 200k(!) having to pay more taxes doesn't seem to have a downside.
It's not "fair" but I think it's necessary. We are staring down the barrel of a loaded gun at this point.

I may be a little salty because I took the community-college-into-university approach to save on costs and made some sacrifices to send every extra penny I earned towards paying down debt.

But I also realize that the country is going to be much worse off if we continue to punish people for spending more than they could afford on university.
Not AGSchneiderman, but I'll try my hand at some of these.

2. Because the "gentleman's agreement" behind peering has broken down, and the last-mile telecoms realized they can demand money from both sides.

3. Because any entity the size of the govt has many parts. The NY AG is not working at the FCC, nor do they work at federal antitrust organizations.

4. It certainly would, but the incredible infrastructure investment needed to bring meaningful competition to an area ensures that most companies and investors don't want to commit to such a low ROI.
People have been clamoring for more taxes on the rich. Well, this is what it looks like.

Oh wait! You didn't think you were rich, right?
>>I'm not thinking just SS. Imagine in 30-40 years when SW engineers are retiring with their $5m 401k, but their neighbor is still barely making rent at their service-level job.

It's interesting that you believe people with $5M+ networth would have service workers as neighbors. :)
This is what a lot of commenters aren't getting. Complaints about raising my taxes to lower corporate taxes is kinda ironic because 200K+ is rich as far as most of America is concerned.
Wow, the design of this blog site is horrid. The top and bottom bars take up at times nearly half the screen, much of it just covering up the content with empty space.
I think I was unclear, or you're rounding my view off to a very different one that I admit is common.

I'm a child of teachers, and I know quite a lot of people who teach in inner cities or narrowly made it out of impoverished towns because of good education. There's a reason I said "as well as an educational system", and I definitely don't believe the daycare role of schools is a reason to cut budgets or cut schooling.

Educating kids is hard. Many people lack the time, knowledge, and resources to substantially educate their children themselves. Many students benefit from years of often-repetitive teaching to ensure information is available when they're developmentally and environmentally ready for it. I don't doubt any of this, and I absolutely think public schooling is a sensible solution to it.

My point was only that "you could say K-12 education acts as a state sponsored vacation" misunderstands the role of schools as daycares. Non-educational time at school isn't a vacation, it's a public service for two-income households that struggle to afford daycare. I'm not talking about teaching kids math. I'm talking about the existence of three-recesses-per-day kindergarten, or middle schoolers sitting in voluntary, teacher-run study hall after school.

The district I grew up in had a public debate about whether to move to half-day kindergarten, where the two sides were "it'll cut school costs" and "it'll cost parents more in daycare". No one even claimed it was an educational debate, because less than half the day was spent on education. None of this has anything to do with whether teaching literacy in the Bronx is important.

I'm simply asserting that "provides childcare for free" is an intentional benefit, not an accidental drawback, of public schooling.
Coastal liberals are very happy for tax increases except when they have to pay it themselves! This makes the situation more fair - eliminate market warping changes such as the property tax deduction and stop letting states get a free ride when increasing taxes by reducing the federal burden. Seems fair to me.
Have you read The Unincorporated Man? It's a sci-fi novel about a society like the one you're suggesting, where "investors" in humans such as parents and educators own shares in the person's future earnings. The novel/series casts this in various lights, mostly negative but with undeniable fairness and benefits. One question is where these shareholder cross the line into slaveowners. What is a reasonable rate of taxation? What can be reasonably demanded from the indebted?
California is the insane state with created the taxes. The government is trying to simplify the tax code, that means you should be able to say: "I'm taxed at 15%, and that means out of $100k you get $85k take home" Not all the deductions.

I'm not really, for or against this bill. I used to live in Alameda, CA and thought the taxes were insane. The bag tax, the income tax, the property tax, literally if you didn't have deductions out of $100k you might have a $30k take home. That's the crazy part.

Perhaps we should rethink the government being the biggest employer, and actually make taxes simple and uniform.
What? They don't mention anything about Golang.
>I cannot see this bill as anything short of theft.

How do you distinguish between taxation and theft?
Why would you want to start a business relationship with a company that required you to go through so much effort to buy their product?
There are numerous items written by economists that discuss in detail why state and local taxes and mortgage interest should not be deductible from federal taxes. It's very highly agreed upon. Perhaps you should seek out some of this literature.

I also strongly suspect that you are overestimating the magnitude of the tax increase you will see but if course it's very hard to know without the details of your particular financial situation. In particular I will note that the mortgage interest deduction is grandfathered in for current homeowners and the elimination only applies to loans over 500k (and that's only in the house bill. the deduction remains completely in the senate bill. it remains to be seen what happens in reconciliation).
I think you recall incorrectly. There's an Amazon Prime Video app in the Play Store.
Because the person that owns the property you rent is receiving those benefits.
Instead of selling, if you move out and rent out your house, the rent you collect will only be taxed at a max rate of 25%. The federal income tax rate on passive income from S-corporations (which are pass through entities) maxes out at 25%.
Inquiry: if we do find some form of life in Europa, what does that tell us about the probability of life existing in the universe? Does it necessarily increase the likelihood that life is actually highly common in the universe, and a very regular outgrowth of nature?

EDIT: Specifically just life in general, not necessarily "intelligent life"
I view what's happening with net neutrality as what happened to cable television. When I was growing up, I only had access to local shows and then the number of channels grew steadily. Then fast forward to today and you have all theses different packages that you have to pay for in order to access them. It's just another way for companies to continue making money off us.

I think they see how torrents and online streaming sites threaten their revenue and that the Internet can do to them what it's done to advertising (esp. for media).

I'm curious to see what forms of innovation and technology will come out this to try and bypass this. Maybe nothing. Who knows though.
Mortgage interest and property taxes are costs on top of the actual cost of the house. My mortgage itself isn't tax deductible.
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The claim is this phenomenon exists even without printing unbacked tethers.

> Even IF Tether is NOT running a fraud
Thank you, while I haven't read but certainly will, it would be very interesting to see these papers implemented and peer reviewed!
Thanks for this question. We think there's still time to stop repeal, so we're hoping everyone with a stake in this issue--especially the tech community--will mobilize to force the Chairman to reconsider his proposal. You can be sure that we'll scrutinize the final rule very closely and seriously consider possible next steps at that point.
Ask yourself this question - how do insurance companies in general add value? Forget payout for a moment. Their value is added in deciding what rates to charge people, and determining if a claim is valid, that's it. Anything else they do is value subtraction. Their profit drivers come from raising premiums and denying more claims, both things kill value. You make a good point about providers consolidating, and the same point should be made about health insurance companies consolidating.
To piggyback here, the key point in #1 is about prioritizing/throttling based on vendor, not service type. Prioritizing video over email is fine, prioritizing Netflix (who paid you) over Hulu (who didn't) is not.
Overall this bill seems really, really bad and poorly implemented (and costly). But as a renter in the bay area, I do like that increasing the standard deduction and reducing some of the other popular deductions will decrease the large tax break homeowners have been receiving. In my opinion we have been treating renters unfairly by letting homeowners deduct so much mortgage interest, property taxes, etc. We already incentivize home ownership by offering government backed 30-year mortgages. We don't need to use the tax code as well.
When the federal government gives high tax states tax cuts, that means those areas give less to the federal government, meaning those generally rich states end up getting federally subsidized by the poorer states.

How does _that_ make sense? Shouldn't the richer areas help pay for the poor? Why not do something about the high taxes in your state instead?
I blame the lenders as well but I get there differently.

With or without the threat of lendee bankruptcy, it isn’t in the interests of lenders to negotiate lower tuition. This doesn’t happen with houses. It’d never happen with tuition.

Instead this is just free money for the banks. Since it guaranteed they risk nothing.

Your no skin in the game is their lack of risk. I blame the lenders because they lobbied for this gift.
Any chance you'd be willing to, roughly, show your work? I'm curious to see if your calcs are accurate and how you are getting to that number. Understand if you prefer not to. Thanks.
Hi AG Schneiderman, I'm a resident of Westchester County, NY and support your investigation into the FCC's process. If you are successful, or even if you are unsuccessful, do you think your efforts will embolden other state AGs to investigate the federal government, and do you think that is a good or a bad precedent to set?
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Maybe elaborate? Disparagement without correction doesn’t help other readers.
I'm not aware of any person who lives in the US who has 0% (of state and local taxes which include income, payroll, property, and sales) Can you provide examples?
I love how the articles make it look like Democrats are more likely to be hit by higher taxes. Yes, those states where taxes are going up are majority democrat, but the split isn't that far off from 50/50. Plenty of wealthy Republicans will be paying more tax too.
This only works if literally every function has a probe inserted, which is a really silly dependency and is slow. With a more sensible design, functions with small stack frames don't need probes.

It's also not at all clear that this design works is signals are involved unless there's explicit runtime support.
This seems win-win to me.

Techies and bankers pay more in taxes.

People in fly-over states get a small tax cut, and maybe can buy a few extra weeks' groceries for their kids.
FWIW, only the interest is deductible, not the entire payment.

I agree with the sentiment though. The realtors have arguably the most effective lobbying efforts, and to be able to tie their industry in with the "American Dream" has been very effective.

I was out in DC earlier this year speaking with my congressional representatives about some changes to the bankruptcy code. We were working with a lobbyist who said something along the lines of "everybody knows when the realtors are in town. Nobody tries to get meetings that week because they have such a great mobilization effort, everyone gets booked up."
This is a tax break for the very wealthiest at the expense of everyone else, but sure, keep on that "coastal liberals" nonsense.
Actually, it is possible, but not on Amazon's cloud.
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The rationale is to encourage home ownership, because that gives people an incentive to care about upkeep and the community. It's hard to create good neighborhoods with renters who can just pack up and leave.
No longer shall the welfare programs in your state be subsidized by the federal government. If Californians are for said programs in their state, then they should subsidize them.
So then who pays for the money that was already borrowed?
> consumer loans get sold and resold, often with poor record-keeping, and its hard for the consumer and the courts to know whether a creditor claiming nonpayment actually has a right to be paid.

Well, a loan isn't a physical object so that example doesn't really apply to my comment, however, I still don't think it solves the underlying issue since the cause of the problem isn't a lack of reliable record keeping technology, it's "poor record keeping" which is a deliberate choice made by some businesses regardless of what technology is available.
Yes, any change will have winners and losers. The winners will be happy, and the losers will be mad. We all support the idea of simpler tax code, but the devil is in the details. I'm not sure that eliminating the state tax deduction really simplifies anything though. It seems like a transfer of power from the states to the federal government.
I wish they launched an OS that has bare minimum interruption with things I do not care about. I seriously do not need anything from an OS than just a super lightweight interface to interact with applications and filesystems. Why is it so hard?

The mail.app vs outlook is a great example of useful and useless UI. Both app does the same.
Sadly not available outside of the US.
Well, for me at least, amazon's copycat worked first time out of the box. Chromecast, alas, turned out to be an expensive plastic brick.
The counter argument is, why should the rest of the country and generally lower income tax payers be subsidizing the high State taxes, high property taxes, and higher mortgage deductions on your expensive homes?

If you want to lower your State tax bill then lobby your State representatives. If you want to lower your property taxes then lobby your local officials. Or vote with your feet and move somewhere that doesn’t subscribe to those high tax policies.
You can totally do all of this. There are projects that just pipe the output of Babel into uglifyjs into a file and call it a day. You still “need” to use npm to install those packages though. npm puts command line utilities in node_modules/.bin to not pollute your machine. npm just stores packages as tar.gz files though, so if you wanted to you could wget them yourself.
I wanted a little USB dongle that would turn any keyboard into a Dvorak keyboard so I could make pair programming easier on our group (3 Dvorak typists out of 8 people).

I found some, but I realized the hardware was basically a keylogger with a little extra code. Made me too uncomfortable to suggest it to my coworkers.
The problem with this is SPF reject domains. Which means your legitimately forwarded email will simply disappear into the void. Hosting your domain at something like fastmail will not have this problem.