skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am citing them as places that are not "failing inner cities with bad schools and high crime rates have been run by democrats for decades." as OP claimed. Chicago doesn't fall into that category either, but that is a discussion for another day. Bringing up cost-of-living or homelessness is simply moving the goalposts from the original claim.

The focus of my post was that it seems clear that economics is what forced those cities to crash. Look at Rust Belt cities (Milwaukee, Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit, Buffalo, Gary) and you will find significant population decline and high crime rates. Trying to make it a political discussion brings in personal bias.
I have a slightly different point of view:

In Linux, I can easily monitor how much data, what kind of data are transferred to the remote IP and disable them on per apps base anytime I want.

In IOS, I can't do any of that. At most, I can only disable an app from using cell data. If anyone else know how to do monitor/block network connection on per APP base in IOS, I would love to hear about it.

For me, it is a different between "trust" and "trust and verify".

I use IOS and have some level of trust on Apple/IOS. But I don't trust majorities of the IOS APPs for security/privacy.
> It is well documented that health insurance companies hire people to look for loopholes. To delay and ultimately try to deny coverage. This is not disputable.

Everything you said before this point is irrelevant.

It's trivial to find the list of lawsuits lost and fines paid[1].

Read this excerpt:

> In 1999 a California jury awarded $116 million in punitive damages to the widow of a man whose death from stomach cancer was alleged to have been caused by the refusal of an Aetna subsidiary to approve treatment approved by its own doctors.

$116 million for failing to pay what would have been $100k max for treatment. Aetna certainly has a financial interest in upholding their agreements. They would have to deny 1160 identical cases before breaking even. Assuming that none of those 1160 sued for damages.

1. https://www.corp-research.org/aetna
The CBO projects that those with income of greater than 1M a year get a tax cut.
Red states also tend to have a lot more poverty and less economic development. Why should rich areas of the country receive just as much federal aid as poor areas? It makes sense that different states receive different aid.
Microsoft announced they were going to make vanilla Windows 10 run on Snapdragon.
My brother took his to uni and couldn't log into the Wifi - I assume he has to enter uni credentials for it and the Chromecast doesn't support that Wifi authentication model.
You got it mixed around. Income is equal for both parties, but the family in the 300k house pays more in taxes because they deducted less interest from their income.
> The government is trying to simplify the tax code

False; the tax reform creates a whole host of new targeted tax breaks; it's not about simplification, just moving the tax burden. And, in net, moving it to the poor.
But how exactly can you pull a website off, i mean it is a web site..
Your points on 2+4 are not based in fact and are extremely general statements.

On point 2 - All of these agreements work, sometimes the agreements where more money is at stake take longer to sort out but they do get sorted out. The biggest fact involved is that when the agreements are slow to get sorted out, the parties involve lose customers and revenue.

On point 4 - in areas where competition for the last mile is able to exist, it does in fact exist. If you want to address the last mile there are a lot of other things that can be done aside from hamstringing ISPs.
Is it? I had some plumbers doing work in my house last year. They were pretty happy guys. Playing music on the radio, singing while they were at work. Meanwhile i'm here sitting at a desk all day.
Name aside, the Republican Party of 1854 has nothing to do with the Republican Party of 2017, that has very little relevance.

My comment is about the "muh states' rights" crowd, back in the 19th century, they were Democrats (quite literally since the Republican Party was founded by anti-slavery democrats splitting off and uniting with the northern Whigs).
> The number of engineers they have is irrelevant to the point. The point is you pay someone to worry about a specific thing so you don't have to and (hopefully) their expertise leads to a better product than you could have built.

Yeah, and in my experience, that frequently fails to materialize which why I mentioned point C.

Now, that could be arrogance on my part but it doesn't change my experience on the quality of the vast majority of outside software vendors.
Single payer does not mean single provider. In fact, with capitation, incentivizing wellness, providers earn more while improving outcomes while reducing costs (per capita).

It’s all about the incentives. A small detail that gets ignored by the Freedom Market™ zealots.
Probably this [0]. They can get phone companies to issue a SIM for your number, which will then receive the SMS reset or 2FA code.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/hey-stop-using-texts-two-facto...
> hundreds of thousands of dollars more earned than if you were to not achieve a degree.

But will that still hold as the percentage of people getting degrees rises?

In the limit everyone gets a degree, and the average wage for a degree holder is the average wage.
I love the Roku. It’s a competitor to the AppleTV in our house. Great device.
I assume this was a typo, but to clarify the family with the $300k mortgage pays more in taxes.
I suggest you look into how power is regulated in most states, its not that cut and dry. Its pretty wacky TBH.
The incident was late July, 2016, but before the date on that blog post.
Bingo, that's exactly the issue.
See it as a silly but efficient cache.

Well, npm may implement some kind of content-addressable storage to transparently deduplicate the dependencies tree on disk. It's not quite easy to do well.

As long as your bundle size is small, and the build times are fast, it's a clear improvement, at the expense of spending like 0.15% of even the cheapest 60GB SSD.
Looking at the new tax law as a whole, you are right, but the focus of this article is on changes to the state and local tax deduction, which currently favors rich states with high taxes.
>every tether is always backed 1-to-1 by traditional currency held in our reserves

>There is no contractual right or other right or legal claim against us to redeem or exchange your tethers for money. We do not guarantee any right of redemption or exchange of tethers by us for money

Then it's not backed by anything, is it?
I've never thought of it exactly that way - but it makes a lot of sense. One way to summarize that idea is "cost-of-goods" public budgeting are much more efficient to run vs "value-of-education" priced student loans.
>you are correct that people often don't describe something as racism if they feel it is justified (or at least excusable) based on history.

They also don't describe something as racism if it's not based on race.

>It still is racism, and a lot of what is described as racism has similar roots; people are highly selective (and often racist) on which ethnic bigotries they describe as “racism”.

It seems like you fall into the error of describe something as racism if you feel it is not justified and non-excusable, not caring one iota whether it has to do with race or not.

Most ethnic bigotries are totally unrelated to race. And not forgiving some country for bombing yours, or gasing your parents in concentration camps is not an "ethnic bigotry" anyway.
>>seamlessness that chromecast

how is it seamless, I want a independent device to watch videos on, not a device that have to connect with my phone, tablet or pc then "cast" video to it.

I want a self contained video streaming device with its own physical remote, processor and OS that does not need anything else but a internet connection

Roku and FireTV are different classes of Devices than a ChromeCast
> 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?!

Renters already are paying a piece of the property tax. It's built into the rent. They just can't deduct it.
Health insurance companies recruit providers (hospitals and physicians), negotiate prices for services, manage patient records and billing, detect, prevent, and prosecute provider fraud, determine market prices based on their predicted population of insured live, and other random tasks. It's a stretch to call this no value add, in my opinion. We can, and should, compare the efficiency of medicare administration to private insurance administration, and study the best practices of each system. Even in countries with state-sponsored universal healthcare, like the UK, there are robust private health insurance systems, which indicates to me that they offer value to consumers and fill some market need.
The median home value in Alameda County is $796,600. Median income is $97,000, total comp for software engineers at your company ranges between 100 and 255K/year, so you are already above the median income in that county.

According to: https://www.investopedia.com/news/how-much-income-puts-you-t... "The top 5% of households earn an annual income of $214,462 or higher"

Most folks in the US, or the world would consider you rich and deserving of paying more taxes.

For comparison, "the U.S. Census Bureau reported in September 2017 that real median household income was $59,039 in 2016".
>You can make the same argument about every single deduction.

And there's a good reason to eliminate most deductions. A lot of deductions complicate the tax code, and many likely exist to create loopholes by which people can avoid taxes.

The purpose of a deduction usually is to promote a certain type of activity (buying homes, giving in charity).

>Out of all these, there is a reason only SALT was chosen to be eliminated. It is not some equalizer of burden. It is a political deduction.

While it may be politically motivated, I should point out that interest on mortgages and property taxes were both considered at some point, but ultimately ruled out as being politically untenable. So it's a bit of both.
I use textise.net

I tried setting up my own, but it was quite a bit harder to manage everyone's broken SSL than I first assumed.
> There are tax breaks to the middle + lower classes.

The net impact is a tax increase on the very poorest in the short term; and on pretty much the whole segment up to a bit above median income over the 10 year period. Yes, there are individual provisions that, taken in isolation, benefit the working class, but in net it's a loss not a gain.
I would disagree that it is way too easy to get money for college. I co-founded a company that is aimed at giving loans to students who are often denied credit in the traditional market, primarily because they lack credit worthy cosigners. This amounts to about 2m students every year.
Bitcoin will eventually pull in the fungibility of Monero. Monero will stick around only as long as it remains relevant in point out that flaw in Bitcoin.
#1 in gross collections, but per capita is a different story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state
>NOT being backed by any one country or central bank is Bitcoin's primary value proposition.

Absolutely.

But if no one is backing it and it has no purpose that supports its value, it shouldn't be worth a lot.

Monero is underpriced because it is actually useful and can support that price.

Bitcoin is worth something, just not 11k in my opinion.
I am happy with my Roku Streaming Stick. I have access to every major media provider except Apple and Spotify (who neutered their app earlier this year). My biggest complaint (which isn't applicable to most users) is the limited SDK. I imagine this is why many of the basic video apps look alike.
> If we taxes people based on the benefits they receive from the government, then the homeless would pay a fortune.

This is provably and patently false. Homeless people don't have their good protected by the police, don't get fire protection, don't drive, don't get deductions for businesses, don't get inheritance from their wealthy, millionaire parents, don't get lobbying influence. The entire system is set up to the benefit the rich with a few social stability benefits for the poor, which in turn keep them from uprising and storming the gates of the wealthy.
User-agent tracking will work just fine.

In a more non-corporate environment this would be the beginning of an arms race to try to figure out how to fiddle with headers to either block or not block the device, but since we're discussing corporate behemoths with legal teams larger than most companies, it'll stop here, because no legal team would sign off on the idea of fraudulently identifying yourself in a header in order to obtain services from a hostile competitor.
People don’t live in “most of America,” they live in their specific real estate and job markets. The bill punishes expensive areas indiscriminately, not people who are rich in context.
"If your deductions are about $60K, then whether you feel like it or not, you are rich."

You are confusing income with wealth. They are somewhat causally related to be sure, but totally different. Case in point: I started receiving a high income at the age of 40 in SF, where before I earned a poverty wage. At 42, I have much less wealth than your average SF school teacher of the same age.
It's really an app on the device that uses the YouTube HTML5 API. If you violate their TOS they can prevent access to those API's anytime they want.
And just like that... it's gone.
Why would you prosecute something that doesn't harm anyone?
The main argument is that richer people buy more expensive houses and get bigger deduction then lower income people and basically lower income people are subsiding rich people mansions. BUT there is a cap which I would guess would work good enough to mitigate this.
Yes. From a computing freedom point of view, the only way I have freedom over my computing is if I control the code that's running on it. If I'm running code that I don't have source for, I don't quite control it as much as I'd like to. But if someone else is running code that I don't have source for, I sure as heck don't control it!

Running a closed-source bootloader on a platform with firmware enforcement of signed bootloaders is not good. But the problem is not the signature requirement, the problem is the closed-source bootloader. The signature requirement is only a problem in the case where (as on Windows-logo machines running ARM) it requires you to run a closed-source bootloader, or even an open-source one that you do not have the ability to make changes to. If you want to ensure your computing freedom, the best thing to do is to have your firmware ensure that you and you alone, or someone you trust and them alone (e.g. a vendor of a free OS that you think is reputable), can boot code on your computer.
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I know it is at least available in the UK and France.
Yes, Nerves is an Elixir project. Essentially it’s a wrapper around Buildroot + Elixir based runtime stack + Firmware management. Extremely convenient and could be helpful for the OP as there’s good support for Beaglebone’s, but you do need to know/write some Elixir to use it.

Though it’s entirely possible to have Elixir run say python or any other scripting language via ports. Perhaps one day someone will make a general purpose runtime image from it.
Monopoly in action? Anyone familiar with the business here, how is this going to play?
Microsoft won't sign third-party ARM drivers or bootloaders.
Sure, but a modern day University is not a great model for education. All of the information from a 4 year degree can be found on the internet for free. Essentially you are buying accountability and for some majors getting past their barriers of entry.
Authentication is one issue. The biggest is the fact that UPnP is disabled on many university networks. Chromecast relies on UPnP for device discovery.
> Americans get so upset about this because they've come to believe that free road usage and free parking are fundamental rights. They're not.

This is such an odd portrayal of Americans. Americans (compared to the rest of the world) are routinely lambasted for being too concerned about the cost of government-provided services and infrastructure compared to the rest of the developed world. Besides, Americans grow up learning, "Driving is a privilege; not a right". I'm guessing you're basing your generalization on a handful of out-of-touch Americans.
Gah, I had a typo while explaining a mistaken interpretation. Thanks for point that out!
We've received and we welcome submissions from people across the country. As New York's Attorney General, my responsibility is to the people of New York. But what happened in the NN comment process affects all of us. I think that's why we've had AGs from other states reach out to us for information along these lines. So if your identity was misused, I encourage you to notify your state officials as well.
"but in the end those on the lower brackets will see nearly all their tax burden decreased and isn't that what we all keep saying we want, to help them up"

Go read the CBO report. This is blatantly false. If you believe this and are not a troll, please educate yourself.
It's a crap analogy, but in this case it means they do content management really well with a good design and seamless integration.
The cool thing about chromecast is that you can drag and drop a video file into chrome and it will play on your tv. I don't want to see ads on youtube, so instead of using the built in chromecast support i just stream the window to my tv with ublock origin installed -- no ads.

That's actually all i want, a wireless hdmi cable. But I'm in a tiny minority.
Thanks for your perspective! I totally agree about opening up APIs, it is a relatively small task that any company should be working towards.
Yeah but does that imply phones? Or is it about Snapdragon tablets or something?
Okay, but how is Amazon violating TOS; they are using it the way it is meant to be used.
You missed my point. In multiple ways. I already accounted for remotely fetched JS in my previous comment.

It is relatively easy to find JavaScript execution points (there are only so many ways to parse and execute text string from a server in JavaScript—eval, new Function, script element, on... DOM attributes, ...), and thus it is quite easy guarantee that an application does not intentionally execute remote code (intentional is what is inside the control of the source code—an image decoding bug in the browser causing code execution is outside the scope here).

A local deployment (with proper protection of the deployment) guarantees that an application remains static, and cannot be changed arbitrarily for malicious intent. Combined with a relatively easy inspection for intentional remote code execution, you can conclude that there is no direct way for the application to turn malicious.

If you do not inspect the source, a local deployment still reduces the chance of a malicious modification being possible from "100% guaranteed" to "maybe, if the application is written in a specific way, or if there is an unintentional code execution bug somewhere in the browser".

You will of course never be able to reduce the chance of any application turning malicious to 0 without full verification of the application and platform it runs on (including all other applications running with permissions to interfere).
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Indeed, and likewise when someone does something that seems irrational.
Also people who buy are subsidized by those who rent. We don't need a cap, the deduction shouldn't exist at all. In fact, homeowners should pay taxes on imputed rent like they do in The Netherlands, Iceland & Switzerland.
So ultimately, it's the same core issue as the 2008 housing collapse. When lenders don't have to give half a crap about the borrower's ability to repay a loan, they just keep issuing bigger and bigger loans.
Perhaps we could make only the first time through college free. If you fail or drop out, the next time through, the student covers tuition themselves.

I have no real opinion on that idea, or any idea how effective it would be, so I'll say nothing more.
For setup, it need to be on the same subnet as the device you're using to register it. Most university networks are split into many subnets making this extremely difficult to do, and use after registration. The best workaround is using a router as a middle man for the phone and chromecast, but it's a pain.

I have a chromecast, but gave up on making it work in university.
Just because other states have weaker economies doesn't mean the residents aren't contributing their relative fair share.
$35 for something that does nothing (a brick) is expensive. I'm not in the habit of throwing away that much money, and there are many other things I could use it on.

Interpreted more literally, $35 is quite expensive for both an actual brick:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/8-in-x-2-1-4-in-x-4-in-Clay-Bric...

And a plastic brick:

https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-DUPLO-Creative-Duplo-Building/dp...
Once you have a customer-impacting issue with Apiary, and Oracle is completely unresponsive, you will realize that this was a beautiful gift of a warning sign that you just threw in the trash.
I love Roku and use it alongside my AppleTV. Haven’t used Chromecast or FireTV as comparisons but I have nothing bad to say about Roku.
>Does the release of parcel mean you can no longer use webpack, or gulp, or grunt or whatever you’re using now?

If it takes away from their community and momentum, then yes.

Attention in FOSS is close to a zero-sum game.

Not to mention when the devs themselves get bored with tool X they've created and jump to creating some newer tool Y, dropping the whole community...
Awesome product. And a free developer plan you can actually use for live projects, too!
My point was that we are not taxed based on the benefits we consume (if we were they'd be fees not income taxes). I did not mean to imply the homeless have it easy.
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[citation needed] - the government has paid newspapers to run stories that were not advertisements?

Paid for logistics for reporters? Paid for placement? Bribed? Care to clarify?
The tax bill has multiple ploys, most central of which is a giant corporate tax reduction. (Note how that tax cut is permanent, while personal tax cuts are temporary.), along with long standing GOP wish list items like elimination of the estate tax and pass through income.

That said, there is also an animous towards the rich Democratic states, which this disproportionately hurts. The short game is to stick it to the libs. The long game is to try to eliminate state income taxes.
Which is possible because we trust those businesses to keep proper records, instead of putting them on a public blockchain that doesn't require us to trust anyone.

Another example which is physical is real estate records in some third-world countries, where the central government wants to enforce property rights but bribes to the local register of deeds are effective at getting the records changed. (I read about this in an article in The Economist several years ago, so don't have a reference handy.)
As a partial aside, I'm going to gloat about how incredible my alma mater's networking infrastructure and usability is.

Tell me how long it takes you to find explicit instructions on connecting a chromecast from this site[1]. I think most schools are just incredibly bad at managing their network infrastructure, and its really sad.

[1]: http://www.wrecktechs.gatech.edu/