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why should the Federal government finance the tax methods the states impose on their citizens. this change is good because it will bring the methods of taxation, the value of taxes taken in, and their usage, to light.

far too often high taxation states have lived with the idea that the rich won't complaint too much since they can deduct a large portion from their federal taxes. yet all those not rich enough to itemize got stuffed.

people need to understand that deductions of state, real estate, and similar taxes, only serves the wealthy. Yet oddly the very same people who complain about the wealthy and taxes instantly pivot when they learn how its all done and that they will be affected.

We are the rich, the vast majority posting here make far more than the average if not in multiples. people think it takes millions to be rich, but its not true when you look at the numbers.
I second others that blaming scientists isn't the right thing, and punishing them certainly isn't. The life of a scientist is incredibly stressful and poorly paid. The average salary for a postdoc is like $45,000. These people have graduate degrees from the top schools in the nation, are often in their early to mid thirties, are doing research that can lead to blockbuster drugs that massively improve human health, are incredibly passionate about and good at their work, yet make little more than minimum wage

A better solution, counterintuitive as it sounds, is to increas public funding for more research. If scientists can make a reasonable wage that doesn't force them to pursue tenure by living and dying by the whim of a few top journals, it will be much easier for them to stomach the financial, and possibly career, hit of publishing open source

I wonder how robust the open source movement would be if engineers only made $45k / year
We did this interview with Sam a few weeks before he posted his recent essay on the topic. Not having to coordinate illustrations definitely helps with publishing speed. :) During the interview, we realized it was the first time I had heard him talk about the GDP idea as an answer to the branding problem of bringing UBI to America.
I've had dealings with the publishing industry over the years and some of the "Open Access to the rescue!" comments here badly underestimate the business acumen of Elsevier & co.

They're no idiot. Do you think these guys have been asleep at the wheel for the past 6 years, oblivious to the Open Access debate and the general sentiment?

When it comes to Open Access, the new distribution and sales channels have already been accounted for, new policies (and policy makers) worked out. Open Access will be the second coming of Christ for that industry, a new golden goose.
Good question. It actually doesn't have to be symmetric, it just has to be distributed in such a way that a random sample will not give you a biased return. (A symmetric distribution is sufficient but not necessary.) The reason this has to be the case is that if a random portfolio gave you a biased return, then the sum of random portfolios would give you a biased return. But the limit of the sum of random portfolios is the whole market, and that can't be biased.
As implemented, all these "enterprise security" things are mostly indistinguishable from malicious attacks. Of course they break when you start tightening security.

Forging DNS responses is a horrible idea (and already breaks with DNSSEC). I have a hard time to comprehend how this can be considered a reasonable security measure.
A fully specced Model X weighs 5,531 lbs vs a fully specced Yukon at 5743 lbs, hardly significant, but thats beside the point.

I was specifically referencing semis, where an incredible amount of road damage comes from, and the need for new road funding to account for the transition from diesel taxes.

The logic is that road damage does not scale linearly with vehicle weight, and with current battery tech, an electric semi will need to complete more trips for the same amount of cargo due to the battery's weight eating into the load capacity.
Sad thing is we don't need the tax receipts to pay for those things. Its a political problem , not a fiscal one .
I think the author means "late binding" - the method lookup is done at invocation time rather than compile time. (There is caching, etc, to make it fast.)
I like the q/kdb spirit but not the syntax. I'm building a toy lang based on the ideas.

So, what about build a transpiler? Make a more verbosed variant and transpile to q/kdb.
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American biker gangs in particular benefit from deep cultural roots. They originated post-WWII as associations of disaffected veterans, and continue to have a well of support in groups that follow that culture without any illegal activity. These Japanese biker gangs seem to have a much lighter base of support.

(Interesting side note, gay leatherman culture grew out of specific gay biker gangs, and mainstream biker groups like Hell's Angels have a positive view of leather culture despite their macho image.)
Most ad network campaigns are bought through politics and relationships, especially all the branding objectives which are a majority of the market, so it's not that simple.

Performance marketers are definitely more sensitive but they're happily served by Google and Facebook for now.
I actually reported this same issue but under the context of a bug rather than as a security issue, exactly 2 months ago: https://public-inbox.org/git/CACcTrKctqAWeWWrc9Q+Y7ewXGc_o+u...

Same response, “it’s the pager’s job,” in that case.
Congrats on your exit! Any lessons learned? Would love to pick your brain :)
What astonishes me is how often I see a BI proponent is also a bitcoin proponent. The government can’t be trusted not to devalue our currency but at the same time we should introduce a system which makes our livelihoods dependent on the whims of bureaucrats.
Designers are next on our list!
Has WSL gotten more stable? I found it unusable when it first came out.
Oh no, it was definitely a serious question. When the product came out, I was excited about replacing atleast one of my meals (probably dinner) with Soylent. I held off because I was uncomfortable switching to something that can potentially have negative long term health consequences. I was just wondering if there were any studies done on people that were purely on a soylent diet to feel more comfortable about drinking it.
Blaming the publishers is not very useful, they are just acting according to their self interest. Their interests are not well aligned with those of the public or scientific community, but they won't care about that until they have to.
Have to focus on building up the alternatives, so that the publishers lose the power to dictate the terms. It's happening though, slowly...
Post with direct link - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15917516
You'd be surprised how many people would be upset at $5.50. Especially since that $0.50 is going to be multiplied by the number of creators a single patron supports.

For me it was enough to put "just pay an annual lump sum to my favorite creators and drop the rest" on my TODO list; I'm glad Patreon came to their senses.
We are talking about sexual harassment here. How could nudity not be the problem? The fact that nudity in film is common allowed Harvey the pretense to demand full-frontal nudity, "the senseless scene," as Hayek described it.

The point I'm trying to make, apparently too subtly, is, how many nude scenes were coerced just like Hayek describes the one in Frida in order to satisfy the lusts of the male director/producer/writer just like this? It doesn't seem far-fetched, with all the revelations of sexual harassment coming out, that it's a lot of them.

Maybe it's so many that we should simply not tolerate nudity in films. If there was some way to certify that the nude scene wasn't "forced" then it would be OK, but if we accept that this was an act of force on Weinstein's part (Salma could have chosen not to do the movie, yet we all seem to agree this was still evil on the part of Weinstein), then how could that certification ever be done?
This is simply wrong. Conquering parts of the flat lands could have been pretty easy but the Swiss strategy was retreat into the mountain area.

And if you have ever looked at the modern american army in afganistan then you will know that you can't just show up with some people and resources and take everything over.

Effective defense is about causing more pain then it is worth conquering you.

Also lets remember that in WW1 Netherlands was not attacked either in WW1. Generally its just not worth attacking small neutral countries.

Banking is just one of many aspects, its simply false to claim that it is the major reasons.
This is assembly, not pure Go, but it doesn't use CGO which I probably what they mean.

Intel Cannon Lake processors will support the SHA instruction extensions (currently available only on Goldmont). It will be interesting to see how that compares with this approach of running 16 SHA computations in parallel. You would be able to get rid of the scheduling overhead of having to first queue up 16 SHA calculations from other threads.
In ancient Rome there were a few honest reformers who felt bread subsidies (classical UBI) were deserved by the people. It was an economic argument (as is Sam's) since Roman conquest generated massive wealth that did not reach the masses who made it possible.

It was an honest attempt at economic reform by a few forward thinking leaders. Within a generation the movement was captured by politicians who used its popularity to further their ambitions. The fight against opponents self-perpetuated and wins became more important than change. The program morphed to the infamous bread and circuses, subsidizing a city of a million people that ultimately collapsed.

I will aplaud the reformers but some things never change.
I largely agree with what's being said in this interview, except for a few comments:

> "But in countless ways it’s much harder to convince lawmakers and politicians to give every person in the country cash gratis than it is to guide a start-up to a nine-figure valuation."

You don't have to convince lawmakers to do it. It's possible to implement basic income without any direct government support.

> "The question I’m interested in: How do we unlock maximum human potential?"

This is almost the right question, but not exactly. The right question is "how do we unlock the economy's prosperity-maximizing capacity?" It's not about how how we get the most out of humans. It's about how we provide the most for humans.

> "Obviously, there are a lot of people who could do great things that would benefit all of us. Create art, start companies and yet they can’t."

This is true, but human labor is just one of many resources that we're not using to their full potential. By narrowly framing things just in terms of what we can get out of humans, we're limiting the possibilities of basic income.

> "One of the things that people forget is that if the robots really do come, yes, they will eliminate or change a lot of jobs, but the cost of goods and services will just go down and down and down."

Sort of. Monetary policy will prevent deflation. So the price of the things people need to buy will always remain stable. It's just that people might get more stuff for free.

> "What I would propose is a model like a company where you get a share in U.S. Inc. And then, instead of getting a fixed fee, you get a percentage of the GDP every year."

This is a mistake. The economy has the capacity to produce a certain amount of wealth for people. That amount is difficult to calculate ahead of time. Measures like GDP are probably not going to help. But the appropriate amount of basic income is always going to correspond to the amount of spending that the economy can productively respond to.
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Probably still pretty robust, much of the open sourcing that happens, especially these days, is companies open sourcing aspects of their infrastructure. People then use the fact that they built a platform that became popular to start their own companies or be a valuable candidate at all kinds of companies.
In a similar fashion, Diesel is not charged for the social cost that its carbon and NOX emissions cause on the health of the communities through which they drive. They should be, but regulations will take time to catch up to technology effects in both cases.
That may be true, but the political problem is one where American politicians put low taxation above almost all social issues.

Having the political will to collect that money is the first step to correcting the political problem you refer to.
PayPal fees are high because 1) people pay it and 2) fraud.

Credit card "processing fees" however are high because of the stupid rewards programs that Americans are so addicted to because it makes them feel like they are "sticking it to the man" and getting money back, to the point of having dozens of plastic cards in their wallet. Of course with processing fees at >1% of gross value no cashback or airline miles program is ever going to make you come out ahead.

In the EU there are no silly rewards games and fixed processing fees of at most 0.3%.
Ripple completes XRP Lockup, eliminating concerns that it could flood the market
If character creation screens in games has taught me anything, it's that people love taking time to customise things like this. I don't think you should try to make your competitive advantage speed.
the US levels of taxation are higher than the vast majority of other countries. it even goes further in taxing profits made overseas than other countries.

how can we honestly hold that against these companies?
Built this Atom package as part of my Software Developer Track with Bloc. This was an exercise to get my foot in the door with developing and contributing to open source software. There are some todos that I plan on working on to create some customization for the user.
I think that's not corporate policy and is something individual franchisees do, hoping no credit card company compliance officer will refuel at their store and notice (or possibly not even knowing it's prohibited).
I will love to have a verbosed variant of the interpreter, like if "Q" were a eso-lang. This for understanding how it work on the internals.

Also, maybe thinking what if make Fortran-like arrays or similar.
GitLab makes it really easy to see what changed between commits while reviewing a merge request. Parts of the diff that are identical to the upstream branch are automatically ignored, and you can view a diff between of last two pushes.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/merge_requests/versi...

Edit: GitHub has similar functionality, but it doesn't know how to diff force pushes, so you would end up having to review the full diff again to ensure integrity.
Not sure when the article about butcher Ding came out, but it's absolutely my favorite whenever I feel like digging it up again. Of course the original story was great in and on itself, but the article really managed to bring the story into today's pace of storytelling.
Going down a different containerized route, if you use Docker for this you won't even need a separate WSL installation for each project but you'll still get your own container based isolation with an "open terminal and start coding!" work flow.

WSL plays nicely with Docker for Windows[0].

At this point Windows running Docker connected through WSL offers me a more productive Linux development environment than running Linux natively (mainly because certain apps I depend on don't run on Linux).

I've been running this set up for months and it's super solid.

[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows...
Saying that Slack and Reddit don't compare because they're "locked in" really misses the point that most users don't care about that.
Would love to hear more about how Robinhood is able to offer options trading for free.
An unfortunate reason to see a former university classmate of mine in the news. It always feels strange to see this story come up every so often.
I was never a friend of Jha's, nor was I every really close to him, but I remember him exactly as his attorney described him: "Paras Jha is a brilliant young man whose intellect and technical skills far exceeded his emotional maturity." Jha was not the only former classmate of mine whom I felt lacked emotional maturity, and it is harrowing to imagine how a command of technology can give anyone the power to do something like this if he chose.

Jha intentionally used his skills to inconvenience those around him and he was able to do a great deal of harm to the world at large. While technology makes us better suited to solve problems and help those less fortunate, it also amplifies an individual's ability to do harm.

Intentional malice aside, all of us have the ability to greatly effect the world around us. It is imperative that we consider the impact of our actions. While I was a student at Rutgers, there was no mandatory ethics class for computer science, nor do I remember a class on ethics for computer scientists being offered.
> One fear that investors have with companies holding excess cash is that future management teams will waste the cash on frivolous M&A and other questionable investments. This results in the value of the cash being discounted, leading to a lower stock valuation.

Great example of why I maintain that price != value. The former is an objective metric while the latter is probably subjective to a problem, context, application, etc..
> I have thrown a dozen or so darts, and my rate seems to be around 80%.

The odds of that happening by chance are <50% but still quite high, about 6-7% depending on exactly how you reckon it. So one person in 15 will get this result purely by chance.

There are studies that show that very few (like <<1%) professional money managers can beat the market consistently. You may well be one of those rare people, in which case you could make billions on Wall Street. But until you amass a much longer track record than you have, the odds are much higher that you are just one of the lucky ones. There are a lot more lucky people out there than most people realize.
So define "forced" here. She could have said no and not made the film. Does that mean this was OK?
I haven't seen anyone here argue that it's difficult to invest foreign money in the US. Apple's only complaint is that they couldn't funnel the profits from such investment back to their US shareholders, without paying taxes.
Walmart, Huge U.S. Employer, Will Let Workers Take Pay Before Payday
Why should states like California finance the federal government's handouts to other states that refuse to actually tax their own population, do you mean? And why are you ok with the federal government financing states that use property taxes, but not other types?
Apple Pay takes all of about two seconds. No way you are paying with cash faster.
OP here (disclaimer, I work for Microsoft, but I'm a Linux and Mac guy on the Azure team). Yes, it really has. Originally many things didn't work, node, redis, others wouldn't even run. Now I can't find anything that won't run at all and my only complaint overall is that disk IO is a little slower than on the Windows side of things. Overall it's really nice. Zero changes to my Ubuntu dotfiles.
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Except OP was saying that groups of people do act like people, and was disturbed about that.
> Before we start, Objective-C is a runtime-oriented language, which means that all of the links between your methods and variables and classes are deferred to the last moment possible to when your app is actually running, and this gives you great flexibility because you can change those links. The alternative, where Swift is most of the time, is compiletime-oriented languages. So in Swift everything is a bit more harder bound, and you get more safety, but it’s less flexible.

> This is what this debate was all about.

Not just safety, but also performance. Swift offers significant performance gains when you don’t need the dynamism. Swift lets you opt into dynamic features (as he later explains), and you can seemlessly interact with Objective C on Mac platforms. But you don’t have to pay the penalty for dynamism in the vast majority of your code that doesn’t use these features.

Edited: I also pointed out some additional mistakes in the post, but removed that because this comment got too long.
That's one way to do it. Another is using the contact link below to request a title change by the moderators. Obviously, it has additional dependencies.
Most browsers have remoting capabilities - if you have the access needed to run OSAScript, you could also run ChromeDriver against a local copy of Chrome...
You usually want to scale revenue, not costs....
The creator of Duolingo was also the creator of ReCaptcha I think. He has a really interesting ted talk about it here: https://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_...
That is scary. I think it would be a nifty feature for a code review tool to show only the conflict resolution for merge commits. (Although I suppose it would need knowledge of exactly which automated merge method/options were used to create the pre-CR merge, for any given commit with multiple parents.)
If you only use it that way, type providers are only slightly more convenient than doing what everyone already does for every other language: code generation.

See quicktype, for example, which supports a lot of languages.

https://quicktype.io/

This isn't built in to the editor, but can be run from the command line. A benefit is that it does not suffer from the other problems with type providers, like not supporting the full language, (e.g., records and discriminated unions in F#).
I think reinstituting a 2 year (or whatever length of time) national service requirement is a much more realistic, practical way of moving the country, and this general discussion, forward.

UBI feels like a tactic with too many complications and opportunities to distort incentives, motivations, etc.
How well has that worked to combat harassment?
This is assembly, not pure Go

Well, if you're going to dip into pedantic mode, couldn't the language maintainers just define Go to include a few relevant Assembly instruction sets? (Not taking a dig at you but rather at the above level of pendantry.)
Are you serious? The Internet shouldn't have to know the financials of a private company to comprehend a significant change to their fee structure. If they did need to know it, Patreon should provide explanation (they did not). This is 100% Patreon's fault.
A question for physicists - how do we know that some process in the nature is truly random and conforms to some ideal probabilistic distribution? The link between math and real world is not clear to me. Thanks!
I think you are describing a Public Private Partnership.

http://ppp.worldbank.org/public-private-partnership/overview...
I really like your blog layout/theme. Clean and readable. Have you tried mounting code from WSL into a docker container and using vim/emacs in a shell in docker?
I was with you until that consume the rich business.
Whilst true this is also misleading in that road wear is not completely from trafficking, and so the 1400x just looks at the marginal difference. The proportion of wear accountable to your relatively fixed externalities (weather, water, utilities) depends on the type of road and the location. But say if 60% of the wear is due to weather and water, the 1400x factor comes across very misleading.

To put more simply - if you banned semis roads would not last 1400x longer, nowhere near in fact.
That could be really useful to deploy on browsers without native WASM support.
Can you give us an idea of the perfs though?

Since WASM is used for some performance intensive applications it would be useful to know how does this polyfill compare to native WASM /asm.js or regular js.