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Many people correctly surmise that the benefits to individuals are temporary and will sunset, after which their taxes will be higher than when they started.

Also, provisions such as repealing the individual health insurance mandate lead to an increase in other expenses, though admittedly those are not federal taxes. I work for a health insurance company, and earlier this year the company filed with the state regulators to say there might be close to a 50% hike in premiums, depending on whether or not the individual mandate was repealed. Whatever your feelings are about that politically, the increase in premiums will be real and directly related to that bill, and the money is fungible so people can't be blamed if they consider it an increase.

One more thing, a deficit funded tax cut today means a tax increase tomorrow to pay for principal+interest. People could be thinking of that when they say their taxes will go up.
The economy is not a mechanism. It's just a term we use to generalize about the production of goods and services.

Capitalism, socialism, fiscal policies and such are mechanisms that are used to influence the economy.
Something you didn't touch on is that there may be a different viewpoint on whether people are getting "handouts" based on assumed counterfactuals. Say one person makes $30K and another makes $5M. What is the "fair" amount of tax and who is getting a handout? The rich person may think "society provides people with $10K of support per capita, so if I pay more taxes than that, it's generous and if someone pays less, they're getting a handout". The person making $30K may reason that "if it wasn't for society catering to the privileged, nobody would make millions, so nearly all the excess over the average income is a handout if not paid in taxes". It all depends on where you anchor your assumption of what is deserved.
$14k now. Told ya. This is easy free money.

Too bad I can't really take advantage of it. But if anything, that just makes me a disinterested player. Rather more persuasive than someone with a vested interest.
I actually didn't notice the McD placement, but I swear every episode namedropped Uber very, very obviously.
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This sounds like the dreamy infinitely versatile paper design for countless failed projects.

"And our database will be one table with Int64 possible properties and Variant data for any type, and..."
Alternatively, I can envision them being more skeptical about advertisements. It'd be great to see some long-term studies done on this.
There's also r/bitcoinmarkets slack... one of the oldest around along with whalepool..

https://signup.bitcoinmarkets.co/
I don't follow, but I think what's more likely at work here is nostalgia glasses.
Here is an excerpt from the about page, I don't know enough to argue for or against the architecture but this part caught my eye.

"those who believed in Harvey were thought to be insane, but eventually found not to be."

So they recognize that many will think it is an insane idea but are playing a long game to prove that to be incorrect.

================================

About the Name

So, why “Harvey”? Mostly because we liked it, but there are at least 3 other good reasons based on the origins of Plan 9 operating system:

Harvey is a movie, Plan 9 is a movie too.
Harvey is a rabbit, Glenda is a bunny.
Most importantly: in the movie, those who believed in Harvey were thought to be insane, but eventually found not to be.

https://harvey-os.org/about/
> That is simply not true, firstly most cartoons and anime...

https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4257/have-there-be...

Those are just the most obvious product placements, recognizable to folks who can't read all the little japanese labels on things that appear in the background.

There are also shows which are nothing but vehicles for products.
Yeah, I've read that too and it seems logical; but again, the account I linked above says it isn't (which is what I found weird) - it says mostly you experience weakness but not pain, at least not after a few days.
How come so many people buy houses in the US, while most of us Germans rent? Even people considered of average income talk about their "condos" all the time.

I always think, how can they be average if they own a whole house?!
Because it's a pointless answer that basically just repeats part of the question, providing absolutely no new information.
this is the simplest, most correct understanding. there are some things that drive the price of bitcoin that are more fundamental, like instability of various currencies, and government regulations on btc. but none of those have changed drastically recently. so what is driving the price? hype, and the price itself. i think you should be pretty skeptical any time you made money and youre not sure why.
Wanting all contracts and actions performed by them to be immutable is an odd point of view in my eyes, but I'm not sure I would call it perfectionist because the perfection depends on whether you think a perfect system fulfills the contracts to the letter or the spirit.

In the physical world, we arbitrate contracts with authorities vested with the power to make decisions over them, such as courts, governments, mediators, etc that both parties have agreed has the final say, because the alternative is unworkable.

In a consensus system such as a blockchain, that consensus is based on a majority of the participants. Wanting them to have no say on the outcome of actions is like wanting the courts to have no jurisdiction over your contracts.
This sounds a lot like Pachyderm. I know a team that is having a lot of success with it.

http://www.pachyderm.io/
It's less than zero sum, right? Each transaction has a cost.
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I don't think you'll find many libertarians who say people couldn't share property in a community - only that it must be the choice of each individual¹. Which is how open source works - each person decides what to open source, and many even take from open source to create their own proprietary products.

I think the question as a whole doesn't really make sense, since "open source" can't be separated from the whole economies in which it is created.

(¹ communists would object that the choice is often illusory or even non-existent, but that's another issue)
I had a bad experience with an ATI card many years ago with a Ubuntu box. And line you, I said that I would never buy an ATI GPU. Actually my computer have a RX580 and work like a dream (On windows and Linux)
This is a plan9 descendant.
Product placement and ads both serve the purpose of promoting something, but they're not really the same thing at all. I mean, both cars and bikes serve the purpose of transportation, but I don't think many people would argue that driving a car is basically riding a bike.
They do hold underlying and have to hedge their risk in various ways. A large spread helps a lot.
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> Most everyone will get a break

No, that can't be right. I saw that only the five richest people in America with solid gold toilets are getting a tax break, and that everyone else is going to be fed into a wood chipper. It was on TV, so it must be true.
Interesting.

The one good thing with ads on the web is that it works as a micropayment.

I wonder how a service like Youtube would work without ads ?

I currently have a no-ads subscription on Youtube (packaged with a google music, so it is pretty attractive to me) but I don't think this service would work as a gated subscribe only website.
The security on most IoT products is terribly lacking. I don't blame you for being wary of them.

I have a bunch of cheap WiFi cameras, but they don't require a cloud service to operate so I can segregate them all onto a WLAN/VLAN that doesn't have access to the internet. This is a reasonable measure to secure these devices, but for cloud-required cameras (like the Blink appears to be) this isn't an option at all.

Of course, by taking the vendor's cloud service out of the equation I either have greatly reduced functionality or I have to spend time (and money) to build out that functionality locally. The route I've gone has Zoneminder doing motion detection, recording, and storage, with an IPSec VPN to provide remote access.

It's not perfectly secure (nothing is), but it's a lot better than the default.
it's too much work, e.g. time spent to look for clients...
Troff isn't that bad once you spend a bit of time familiarizing yourself with the syntax - and possibly buildings your own abstractions on top of the available macro packages, -ms works but... SH? NH? .NaH. Or build a new one from scratch if you feel masochistic enough (not that I would know anything about it, nossiree).

It's lightweight (I like to think the feather typesetting-Anubis uses weights a bit more), fast, produces a decent output, and it is simple enough you can use it to make shell scripts spit out pdfs.
What would you call it in order to appeal to the equations==math people as well as the math>equations pedants?
It's amazing how many channels do "in show" advertising as well.

It started with station logo water marks and now its amazing to see how much of the lower right hand corner of the screen is seen by networks as acceptable to use for advertising another show while the current show or sporting event is running.
An engineering degree is foundational.

For all the responders who suggest this kind of thing can be picked up on the job by competent professionals, in my years at Boeing, I never saw a single tech pick up stress analysis, calculus, kinematics, heat transfer, dynamic analysis, etc., on their own. Not one. Frankly, I felt that was a crying shame.

Nearly everyone needs a structured environment and program to learn that stuff.
What ads? I block everything for my family. While I do have cable for certain things, my wife and I DVR everything and FF through the ads. I find advertising distasteful and I don't suffer through it. I will likely go straight Internet in 2018.

I can get straight unlimited 1GB connection Internet for $99 month. I pay another $45 for the cable. It's difficult to get BBC and BBC America without cable or satellite, and I watch both all the time.
Yeah, but then why shut the fund ?
Sadly, such tools tend to be used also by bad actors. One of sound principle surely supports folks defending themselves against genuine oppression, yet I question the net effect of commoditizing what was once the domain of cypherpunks and criminals.
Agreed; but they were probably referring to big beefy GPUs, so you only have team green and team red.
Or... AMZN, I've Been Here Before. 5.97 in August 2001
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"On track for a 2018 release" is not a timeline, IMO.

Elizabeth Stark said we were <6 months away in Dec 2015.

https://twitter.com/starkness/status/676599570898419712

And for the downvoters: I am no shill. I've been holding BTC long-term. I am just a realist with a good understanding of the reliability of software engineers' estimates, esp. in this case.
I only started watching west wing least year.

I was shocked that network tv could produce something so smart, balanced, thoughtful, albeit 20 years ago.
50$ in fees per transaction, I never thought I'd see this day.

For the last 3 years, there has been a bitcoin civil war about how to scale bitcoin, as people have warned that the problems we are seeing now would happen.

And unfortunately for bitcoin, the side that wanted high transaction fees, and wanted to prevent all scaling won the war.

And now we are seeing those problems come home to roost, as segwit (which was marketed as an immediate fix) adoption has been minimal, and the mythical lightning network and layer 2 or 3 solutions that the core development team promises will that will solve everything is perpetually 2 years away from completion.

Things are going exactly as people had predicted.

Those of us who are fed up with these problems have moved on to other coins, such as Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash.
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I agree that equations should have been introduced, but I disagree that your example is not hard to understand, which is the point. I'd rather read about the concepts than look at esoteric equations.
The author makes a valid complaint about the examples these senators used to promote the tax bill but he doesn't further my understanding of the bill. In fact, what little he says about it seems wrong:

> All changes to deductions, for example, only affect people who itemize their deductions (almost always high earners)—and within that group, only the subset whose deductions topped the new, doubled standard deduction. And this means that if your income is in the bottom half, your tax return won’t showcase many of the ways the law is changing.

Let's break it down:

> Most people who itemize are high earners.

From what I found[1], 1 in 3 tax filers itemize. Most deductions come from mortgage interest and state and local taxes. I pay a mortgage and a hefty NJ state income tax. Am I a high roller?

> The amount you pay in taxes will not change unless your itemized deductions top the new standard deduction.

That's exactly wrong, right? If your itemized deductions top the new standard deduction then you will still itemize, so your deduction won't change. If you do not itemize (looking at you, non-high rollers) then your deduction will double. If your itemized deductions are lower than the new standard deduction (peasants like me), your deduction will increase to the new standard deduction.

Also, I can't tell if he's saying you won't pay less in taxes, or if he's saying "your tax return won’t showcase many of the ways the law is changing". The latter is vague enough to be non-falsifiable. The former is just wrong because the tax rate is changing for every bracket but the lowest one.

This is a contrived example, but a single filer making $50k who took the standard deduction last year would have remained in the 3rd tax bracket (25%) without the bill. With the bill, he'll deduct an additional $6k, which drops him into the 2nd tax bracket, which is now 10% (down from 12% a year ago). That's a nice chunk of change for a deadbeat!

1. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/who-itemizes-ded...
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perhaps in a different game! Unfortunately, currently popular competitive video games all demand fast reactions and hand dexterity, and the strategy typically comes second to mechanics. For example in counterstrike you still need to be able to hit the shots, no matter how great your tactics are. I highly doubt that really old players can compete in these kinds of games.

maybe older folks getting into games will help spur the creation of more strategic competitive experiences where older players are on a more even playing field
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> none of the colledge Comp Sci "training" has yet been of any use in my 20 years of programming work

I don't have a CS degree. But I have taken college CS courses, and have been able to apply them directly to solve problems I worked on later.
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Every minute a kid watches a stupid Netflix kids show is a wasted minute they can be stimulating their brain positively instead of numbing it with manufactured industrialized content.

Having said that my kids do get a couple hours on the weekend and it's actually fascinating to see what happens when they put the iPad away. It's almost like they need a half hour or so to re-adjust to real life after all the stupid content they just watched.

Then they go outside and do what kids do best - be kids.
Commercials are mental cancer. Online ads are mental cancer.

Cancer pays.

People like money.

People are selfish.

They will opt for seeking for payment from cancer when given the option.

looking at you google
Freedesktop.org has been doing what you're calling for for a very long time now, and with a lot of success. I remember a time when you couldn't take cut'n'paste across applications for granted... that kind of problem has been 100% eradicated for a long time now, thanks to fd.o. I'd argue that the API and protocol problem has been solved.

Flatpak isn't about APIs. It's about making easy-to-use application bundles.
Ask HN: What book changed your life in the last year?
I have a couple, Captivate by Vanessa Van Edwards has taught me, among other things, to think ‘murder’ anytime I put my hands in my pockets. And The Warrior diet has changed how I eat, even though I have read it yet.

What about you?
So far, it seems to me that a level-headed crypto bull would have had an advantage over the average crypto trader. Winning strategy, historically, would be to be biased towards holding Bitcoin, but selling when the price rises start to reach maybe 20% /day, and resisting the urge to buy back in when the price is rebounding a few months after a major bubble burst, choosing instead to start buying when the price has gone down to 20% of the previous top.

One problem is, it's really hard to follow that strategy since most if the time, it'll look like the market is moving against you. A bigger problem is that the strategy assumes Bitcoin will continue to rise in valuation for at least one more bubble. Which is a huge assumption to make.
Ha. Reminds me of reading stories about Japanese children's robot hero tv shows in the 90s where the merchandise planning came before the tv show creation itself!
Yes, I'm aware many problems don't have a gradient. Before this paper I'd have said you don't do anything, you just throw compute at it but still don't really solve it well.
At least with broadcast TV, you see different commercials once in a while. Streaming, I usually see the same three ads played in a row every break. It makes me actively hate and have negative associations with whatever product they are trying to push.
It reminds me of a text that Feynman wrote about when he gave classes in Brazil, the students knew all the theory and the math behind it, but they could not recognize the phenomenon when it happened in the real world.

So I guess that is not only in math, but in the entire corpus of knowledge, our system makes us prepared for grading tests, not for applying the knowledge.
Does anyone here know how fqr along this effort is? Is it usable today (in the sense that one could develop TF backend which uses ROCm)?
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There's a shitload of product placement in Netflix and (particularly) Amazon original content. They're still telling you what to buy, you just don't notice it as much.
> Publish the Same Result Several Times

Is this not frowned upon? Serious question. Serious journals and conferences ask you to certify that you didn't publish that work elsewhere. Yes, you can work around that by doing some extra experiments/ minor tweaks/etc. so that it is "different" .. but I thought that's a sort of "tolerated cheating", not something you'd actively/publicly advise others to do.
And if it went to $8K today it would be up ~1000% over the last 12 months.
> the best option is to alternate sitting/standing and take as many walking around breaks as possible.

Agreed. This works great for me.
Hill climbing doesn't use a gradient, that's gradient descent. Hill climbing is pretty much the same as GA with a population of 1. There's no reason you can't design an antenna with it, and before this paper I'd be convinced hill climbing would actually do it better.

The person I was replying to was also advocating the use of GAs to solve the antenna problem, which don't use gradient information either.
In the sixties some people experimented with fluidic logic gates.
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I don't operate in the EU, but that does not stop the EU passing laws that they claim apply to me. I can't believe that anyone thinks this is a good idea.
It's a combination of factors. First off, culturally, it's just one of those "things you do" if you're pursuing the American Dream. Many people believe that owning your own home is one of the major milestones to living successfully.

Secondly, for most people in the US who own homes, their home is their only source of equity or savings. Very few jobs in the US offer any type of pension, and many people don't have enough left over at the end of the month to put away in an independent retirement savings or investment account.
even when I was young I questioned the cost of putting 15-20 people on an airplane, the cost of daily breakfast of 15-20 people, let alone the fact they they appear to be affluent and live in a small mansion. When I got older I began wondering what the parents did for a living, but I never investigated it enough to see if it was explained.

Glad to see i'm not the only one that questioned it.
Yes, thank you. I find many of Stallman’s personal views reprehensible, I’m purely talking about FSF stuff.
Doesn’t Windows phone also work like this?
What does that readjustment period look like to you? Pure curiosity.
Yes, I have friends who liked the larger phone who (say) commuted on the train and did lots of reading with it. I never found it particularly easier to read on the larger screen, but to each their own. I wasn't trying to malign the phone as just for those looking to stand out, just that I felt there weren't many other advantages -- other than, in the case of the 7, the dual camera system.
Product placement is difficult in the shows I watch most: The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, Vikings. Luxury items don't and didn't exist in the aforementioned shows.

I watch TV sitting with a laptop. I mute during the commercials and look at whatever for 2-3 minutes and return to watching. Done this for decades.

I will likely go straight Internet connection in 2018 once I figure out how to get BBC and BBC America.
> You can just turn it on and you don't have to make a decision about what to watch.

That...doesn't jive with the limited exposure I've had to cable television. Hundreds of channels and very little good on, I suspect people waste a lot of time flipping through.
I learned troff/groff pretty recently. Two reasons: 1) I hate WYSIWYG with the passion of a thousand suns, but sometimes you need pretty documents; 2) troff is a fast, tiny, ubiquitous tool.

I found that the existing macro packages (such as Mom) can produce beautiful documents, but they are limited to the specific types of documents for which they were created. Going "against the grain" of a macro package is nothing but pain and heartache.

A macro package can be learned in an hour.

Without existing macro packages, troff source is just control lines and text lines. It can be learned in a day or two. The "Troff User's Manual" technical report by Ossanna and Kernighan (yes, THAT Kernighan) is very readable.

* NOT A STORAGE FORMAT *

Troff (with or without macros) is meant to be read as a stream, top-down, producing a formatted document split into pages on the fly. Its formatting structure was not meant for specifying semantics or using the document outside of troff.

Therefore I think troff can be a wonderful output format. Its battle-tested tools are capable of directly generating, say, PDFs. But I'm personally not going to write anything I want to keep directly in troff.

Jeez, now I need to go write that *roff_mom backend for acsciidoctor...

Edit: unwanted italics via asterisks - the irony!