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It is certainly debatable, some lists include it and some don't. Baltimore is not in the traditional industrial heartland or even the Midwest, but it's economic makeup in the mid-20th century is very similar to traditional Rust Belt cities (large ports, metal production, manufacturing).

includes - https://www.thoughtco.com/rust-belt-industrial-heartland-of-...

doesn't include - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt
If a housing-crash is an unintended consequence of this bill, I'd count it a win.

However, it's quite possible you won't have a crash but simply a consolidation as homeowners who can't afford the taxes are replaced by ultra-rich landlord-speculators.

And of course, this makes sense to the ultra-rich.
What is the sms backdoor?
That's how RFC2822 defines the email headers. That's not a leak, that's just how email works. When you send from the web app it uses that client as the originator.
Go try to find a job that doesn't require any of the new tooling experience or look at the other extreme... looks for those asking 15-years proven experience of Cobol.
It's well-established that the bill gives a tax break to the very wealthiest people and adds over 1 trillion to the deficit, not to mention that the bill manages to squeeze in allowing for oil drilling in protected arctic areas and anti-abortion legislation. After the the bill passes, the increase in the deficit will be offset by cutting social services like Medicare.

This is a very, very, very bad bill, drafted in secret, and being rushed through without hearings or debate. The people in support of this bill should be ashamed of themselves.
+1 for Vue support
I don't understand why the author sounds so excited about the premise of his article. Nor do I understand the fervor, in general, surrounding transpliers and the constantly-expanding JS toolchain. It seems people are too busy fawning over the latest JavaScript-adjacent tool to remember that the sole benefit of using said tools is basically to support browsers that don't yet support ES6. Yes, in doing so you are able to implement bleeding edge features that you couldn't otherwise, but this will not be the case once ES6 is fully adopted. Until then they are merely a necessity.

ES6 is JavaScript in its actualized form, and once fully adopted it should suffice for most developers unless you really want to implement bleeding edge ES7 tech. WASM is pretty cool, though I personally believe you have to be some kind of masochist to put yourself through the torture of building your web app in C++, unless said application would really benefit from the optimization factor.
Tax payments which directly fund public schools (SALT) are no longer deductible but they added the ability for private school tuition to be deductible. This is going to have dire consequences for America's public school system.
Lifelong Californian here. Recently moved to Florida.

You should consider complaining to your local and state government about your high taxes. Why should workers in other states subsidize local taxes for higher cost of living areas through federal deductions? Force your politicians to justify what you are paying.
It's not uncommon at all in the expensive markets (I'm thinking SFBA and NYC) for an engineer who isn't straight out of college. But I'm counting overhead - recruiting, benefits, employer-paid taxes, space, equipment, amortized cost of just becoming a bigger company (helpdesk, possibly management, etc.). Depending on how you count, that could add anywhere from 25% to over 100% to the employee's take-home compensation. http://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/how-much-does-an-employee-...

$192K ($240k/1.25) is definitely common; $120K ($240k/2) is low in these markets for someone who knows what they're doing.
> Please explain how is the very same government who allows the communication monopolies to exist, supposed to also ensure that they are "neutral"? It seems awfully convenient that the solutions to problems that government creates is to have more government.

The government "allowing" monopolies to exist is an example of the government NOT doing something. Besides the matter of conflating federal anti-trust, state governments & the FCC as being essentially the same thing, if government intervention is defined to include non-intervention then conveniently literally everything is the government's fault. The government "allowing" the lack of net neutrality is also "more government" by this definition.
Still, they've only been banned from the 2018 Games, not from Winter Olympics in general.
which makes it not worth the paperwork effort to do so.
I think the cable guys just awakened the sleeping giant. By making sure they can tighten the screws on Silicon Valley they have spawned out a multitude of startups that will topple them one day.
The cable companies make money by making something scarce. They will milk every penny of their investment and give it back to the investors without much reinvesting it back to create cheaper broadband for the masses.
Silicon Valley’s whole business model is based on cheap access to the internet that's why google Facebook etc is investing so much to connect the third world.
I believe they were hedging against net neutrality dying someday. I can't imagine after winning the first battle they took a timeout. The investments in the 3rd world internet may ultimately lead to newer cheaper ways to connect the world. Cabel companies clocks started to run out the day they attacked net neutrality. Let's see how they survive in about 10 years’ time.
>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?

No one asks this question, because the premise is completely flawed.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-states-the-most-and-least...
Tendermint and Ethereum are the ones I'm most familiar with- Both use the term "finality" frequently.

In Ethereum POS, an arbitrary PC can use a deterministic algorithm to exactly calculate the checkpointed/finalized block- There is no magical signature used by the ethereum foundation that "blesses" blocks as being checkpoints.

> how to avoid exploratory mining on every possible chainges with proof-of-stake systems are how to avoid collusion

In both Ethereum POS and tendermint this is a solved problem, anyone can earn a reward by providing proof that a user is mining multiple histories.

> There's also the related problem how to bootstrap a node from scratch in face of equally probable views of history

Yes, this is still an existing theoretical limitation of POS that is not shared by POW and is a valid criticism of POS- But even on a POW chain you still have to trust software from a third party to some degree in order bootstrap your node.
One example is when Google got the third party YouTube app removed from the Windows Store. Google had refused to make a decent YouTube port on the store, and so a very well made third party one was introduced. It had all the features that YouTube Red boasts today, but it didn't support ads. This was not because the developers were trying to make a play on Google, but because there wasn't an API to serve ads. They mentioned they were more than happy to comply, but were served a C&D and the app was killed.
Rich is relative to housing costs.
Just curious...was this incident before or after they re-architected their authentication system? I believe that was done last July[1]. The new system is really nice, now implementing separate app-specific passwords as well as new emergency recovery mechanisms. I wonder if they updated their internal support policies with respect to assisted account recovery when they implemented the new system...seems like they should have made the bar higher...

[1]: https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/07/25/two-step-verification-a...
I honestly just expected better from HackerNews folks. I am not irritated oh_sigh, I am just very disappointed.
In economics, liquidity is often referred to as "spendability".
There were no Olympic Games in 1967.
The upper middle class is apparently a minority that is politically safe to do economic harm to.
Rich in the bay area is somewhere in the neighborhood of $500k-$1MM/year.
Both states still recieve the same benefits from the federal government, it's mostly just demographic and economic differences that cause different states to receive different amounts of aid. Or do you really think West Virginians, who are mostly poor, should receive exactly the amount as New York, who is much more rich overall?
Ok, lets play this game. From now on its renters that have to pay 50% of the property tax. No? But you get to deduct it! an extra deduction for you! whats not to like?!
This is a question I've gotten a lot in recent days -- and I totally get it. When it comes to this issue, I ask people to keep something important in mind: the law protects more than just our physical safety – it protects important intangibles, such as our property interests, our civil rights, our control of our identities, and even our dignity. Fake comments hurt Americans in several ways. First, they deprive those who wish to make their voice heard the ability to do so, by drowning them out or negating their actual view (especially when a fake comment in their name is misused with a comment expressing the opposite view of the one they really hold – we’ve see lots of these). Second, fake comments lead to worse policy outcomes for everyone, because policymakers are acting on incorrect information. Third, fake comments can erode public faith in their government’s legitimacy, which is indispensable in a democracy. Fourth, they are an offense to dignity for many of those whose identities are misused. On the web form my office put up for people to check if their identity was misused and report it, we included a comment form. What we’ve seen is very telling: many New Yorkers, and Americans in other states, are deeply insulted that their identities were misused.
"That said, it's always been a little odd to me that we could deduct our mortgage interest and property taxes, but a renter cannot even though they're paying a good portion of that on our behalf."

I'm not going to suggest that it is as simple as the following, but the underlying rationale is that the renter benefits from lower rent than it would otherwise be because the landlord has lower expenses.
>I'm sorry, I don't see the connection between my health and whether or not I use light switches.

That's because this is only considering the direct first order effects, and at isolation on this or that particular person, and not second order effects and general consequences of such an attitude. My argument was more about the latter.

Having a particular (European) kind of mindset, I don't argue about what some unique snowflake might or might not do, not care about people's "personal responsibility" to balance things properly themselves. Instead I care about general trends and societal effects stemming from such an attitude. A person could have automated his lights and toiler flushing and whatever, and also be a multi-marathon runner. Perfectly possible, but obviously not statistically significant enough to base any argument upon.
UK here. I have several Roku devices.
Why is that interesting? After working for 40 years, saving religiously, it’s entirely possible that they’re living a solid middle class lifestyle not much different from someone else who also lives the same lifestyle but rents and doesn’t save money.
This is not a reasonable tax reform - its a net negative 1.5 trillion dollars to the federal budget, but really it's giving even more than that to corporations and the rich while increasing taxes on people who primarily make their income from labor (vs capital rents).
Honestly the upper middle class should do pretty well, if you're not currently earning income through a pass-through s-corp I'd suggest looking into setting one up.

We dev folks will be fine, it's the classic american middle-management folk who will be put through the ringer with this bill.
what's wrong with a 4-year vacation where you enrich your mind?

That sounds perfectly healthy on an individual level, and tolerable on a societal level. Perhaps even necessary if you consider the deterioration of discourse in this country.

Also, It's not like food and housing becomes free when tuition is removed.
Interesting that the multi-core score is a lot lower. Probably you're seeing thermal management in that multi-core score, meaning a macbook with active cooling should be able to reach much higher multi-core numbers.

The A11 is way too overpowered for a phone or tablet. Apple is clearly in the awkward phase where they've almost gotten the right CPU to put in their laptops. The A12 will be a no-brainer. Same performance as i7, way better battery life, way cheaper to produce.
However the billionaires will pay less.
I thought it was supposed to be for phones. That's what I read last year: "I'm hearing this Cobalt [x86-on-ARM] technology is aimed at phone and possibly tablet/desktop devices." [1] I'm confused when it became a laptop thing at all.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-x86-on-arm64-emulati...
We do subsidize poor states. You speak as though Red states contribute anything to the federal government. With the exception of Texas, Georgia and some oil rich states, all of the Red states are takers and just about all of the Blue states are givers.
If they would give me an actual controller for the chromecast I might consider it

I have no desire to control my TV with my phone.

I may look into Roku as an alternative to FireTV now though,
Something I wanted from Apple.

First time Microsoft seems to be more focused than Apple (which works on semi-innovations like touchbars).
> 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.

This assertion isn't true. Federal policies already heavily favor funding Red, rural states over more urban states. It "sounds" true when you think about a person/household but when you factor in the other state services being funded (i.e. roads) it falls apart.

https://taxfoundation.org/federal-taxes-paid-vs-federal-spen...

5 of 24 years (1981-2005) CA has received less. And if you look up the scattering (but less concentrated) stats from 2005-2017, CA has been getting less than 80% of its money back from the Federal government. So its really 31 of the past 36 years that CA has been drained to help red states.

https://taxfoundation.org/states-rely-most-federal-aid/

> 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.

That is a strawman.

Progressive taxation has nothing to do with aggregate wealth and everything to do with individual wealth.
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As a bus rider, I love the toll lanes. They can set it to $1000 for all I care at this point. It makes my ride to work so much faster. It's just too bad that public transit is so fragmented and damaged in California. Anything that allows me not to drive makes the state 10x more livable.
Hmm. Did you buy it officially or did you import it?
The assistance we’ve requested should not require a subpoena. State and federal agencies cooperate all the time, especially when they are engaged in law enforcement investigations into illegal conduct. The FCC has worked with my office in the past under such circumstances, and there is no good reason for them not to work with us here. Regardless of any legal constraints that may exist on a state law enforcement office’s ability to compel a federal agency to cooperate in an investigation, cooperation always should be -- and usually is -- provided voluntarily.
How do you know that the second family is vastly wealthier?

Either way, if you want to tax wealthy people then you can introduce a wealth tax.
Interesting, I've only ever run into these kinds of speed issues on the iOS client. I've found the web client (and usually the mobile client) loads a large inbox (hundreds to thousands of messages) much, much faster than Gmail; in fact, that was one of the first things in testing that told me I'd like using it.

I will say that Gmail handles threading better, as you said. Fastmail goes for a more traditional native-client-like approach; it didn't take long for me to switch back to that paradigm, but someone who has only ever known Gmail would definitely see it as a pain point.
Go, Polymer, Redux.
If net neutrality fails, would it makes sense aggressively pursue a legal effort to break up "big cable"? Back in the long distance/DSL days, the local telcos were forced into allowing alternate vendors to sell long distance & Internet service over the copper wire running to one's house. Can we bust up Comcast's strangehold on the Internet service available to my apartment by forcing them to allow any vendor to sell Internet over that single Comcast-owned coax line? They lobbied against neutrality, so take away their monopoly!
Are you kidding me? $6k deductions is about $2k in rebates. A $150 accountant fee would take care of any paperwork. Taxes aren't that fucking hard.
I think hyperthreading with the i7 also gives it an edge with multi-core
>You need to remember that an individual is not the average person.

Thanks, that's my point exactly, which I tried to explain in my response comments. I never talk about the individual in a general discussion -- and don't even care what one might or might not do.
"Why should workers in other states subsidize local taxes for higher cost of living areas through federal deducations"

Because those workers do not in fact subsidize my local taxes. As a Californian, I subsidize those low tax states as CA residents pay more in federal taxes than the state gets in federal benefits.
roku is freaking terrible. have you even used one? compared to the seamlessness that chromecast plus the price, why would you use anything else.
I like the other replies, but I'd like to add something that I haven't seen discussed much. The median income in New York and California is probably much higher compared to any random flyover red state. Your average household in NY and CA is going to be at a higher marginal tax rate than say Nebraska. I haven't done the math, but I'd suspect the deduction flattens this difference to some extent.
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It truly is a win-win. Take a good hard look at the kind of people complaining or trying to paint this tax bill as "bad" or "dangerous". Consider the source!
"Data is the new oil."

These are the new oil spills.
The definition is easy: by market efficiency, people mean time (labor market being the only market Adam Smith concerned himself and invisible hand being a reference to how the people themselves will tacitly protect their own interests).

And right now, the sense is that we're spending a lot of our time in jobs that overwhelmingly benefit a rich minority, which is not time spent well it.

When our ability to focus on self-preservation is being expropriated, people revolt

This interpretation isn't even up for debate, IMO. It's been investigated by biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, medical doctors, philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists.

A curious omission: economists. Very few of re-known willfully admit their own field is being twisted into undermining the majority for the minority.
> 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?

High tax states tend to pay in more than they see back in benefits.
... And then it removes the alternative minimum tax, starts to phase out the estate tax and lowers pass through income tax rates. This tax cut might hit some really stupid rich people hard, but anyone wise enough to hire an accountant is going to get a lot more take home.
There are tax breaks to the middle + lower classes. Lower bracket rates are lowered, the standard deduction (which is used by people on the lower end of the income spectrum much more) is dramatically increased, and the child tax credit is increased.
Thank you for your comment on the usefulness of the multi-kernel setup of SoS Notebook. Please feel free to try SoS Notebook on our live SoS server (click the rocket button on the top right corner of the SoS homepage).

The architecture of the SoS kernel, if we ignore the SoS workflow engine part, is just a Python3 kernel that sits between Jupyter and all other kernels. The SoS kernel starts the subkernels, collect user inputs (interpolate them if needed), send them to the subkernels, and collect and display outputs from the subkernels. Data exchange between subkernels are implemented by executing hidden statements in SoS and subkernels, with assistance from SoS language modules for supported languages. This simple setup introduces minimal changes to Jupyter users: they can use multiple languages in a SoS notebook but can also use the SoS kernel as a wrapper to their kernel for an improved frontend, and they can enjoy all the tools that Jupyter provides (e.g. JupyterHub, template, conversion tools) with SoS Notebook.

Finally, the name SoS Notebook comes from the fact that it is a frontend to the SoS (Script of Scripts) workflow engine. We know it does not sound great and places SoS well behind the real "SOS" in a google search, but let us just hope that some day SoS would appear in the first page when you search for SoS. :-)
Devil's advocate here (but not really): it means it prevents your pc from booting on unsecured code, that it doesn't recognize. It's how you can fight stuff like the kernel root exploit that were starting to plague the windows world.

The issue here is that Windows at first was asking not to provide a way to disable it back on x86, we got a compromise (we can disable it, and big distros could get signed).

Now Microsoft is trying the same over ARM, so the fight starts again. Microsoft holds over ARM is mostly nothing though they're newcomers here and there are far manufacturers, so I'm sure they will end up losing their bet again.
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> Both states still recieve the same benefits from the federal government, it's mostly just demographic and economic differences that cause different states to receive different amounts of aid. Or do you really think West Virginians, who are mostly poor, should receive exactly the amount as New York, who is much more rich overall?

That isn't correct. Pork spending and state-targeted spending to bribe lawmakers has been a traditional political activity since the founding of the US.
Which? The first one (the one I'm running on my laptop) doesn't involve custom mode at all - I'm using an MS-signed bootloader to exit boot services and do some stuff, with no changes to SecureBoot or PK or any other variables. I have an actual Secure Boot-enabled platform with only Microsoft keys enrolled.

The rest involve changing EFI variables, yes, but my impression is that "Custom Mode" refers to a UI in the BIOS which permits you to change the variables, and those variables are always writable by code running in boot services. The requirements say, "On non-ARM systems, the platform MUST implement the ability for a physically present user to select between two Secure Boot modes in firmware setup: 'Custom' and 'Standard'." Nothing I'm suggesting involves going to firmware setup.