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> How is it relevant to giving up citizenship and owning property or company? There's no death involved. If their children are not citizen either, they are not hit by inheritance tax too.

Doesn't sound right but I am not an accountant. If someone makes money in the US, they should have to pay income tax in the US regardless of citizenship or residency status, even if they have never entered the US. I consider anything less a loophole we need to fix.

If the property is just sitting there not making money, they are welcome to keep paying property taxes and pay income tax if/when they sell it. I sincerely believe you have to pay income tax for any income in the US regardless of citizenship status or residency status.

> Otherwise everybody would bring in whole production chain in-house and we'd be left with huge conglomerates and no SMBs.

Don't we already have that?
> By what measure?

Did you even read my reply?

I looked at those studies. They do not at all address issues like PTSD, personality disorders, trauma and other mental health issues which, for example, would certainly characterize huge numbers of people in the interwar and post-war period. Yet, where as these numbers?

PTSD didnt exist at the time. Trauma wasnt even considered, in part, because it was so wide spread.

Domestic violence, murder, rape, assault, theft, etc. were crazy high only 30 years ago.

Western societies were incredibly violent and predatory placeo, and this gets significantly worse the further you go back. At the beginning of the 20th C. 1 in 20 women were dying in childbirth, murder was 10-a-penny, almost everyone was impoverished. Children routinely went hungry.

But oh year. Now we're a bit more depressed.

THe 20th C. was a century of trauma. Child abuse was institutionalized. Domestic violence was how families worked. WW1, WW2, Vietnam (and many other wars) left a generation of men absolutely traumatized.

The studies have no reliable data to work with, as there was no empirical psychology for the bulk of the 20th C. collecting societal-level information on mental health.

Subjective "happiness" reporting has not much to do with mental health. A financially secure person who was routinely sexually assaulted as a child may well report being happier in 1985 than a poorer, less economically stable person today with otherwise excellent mental health.

For several decades economic securiyt has been decreasing in the west causing people to feel less "happy" (ie., to be more often worrying). This has an impact on their mental health, but I'm sceptical it comes close to the impact of the vietnam war.

The 20th C. was horrific and a horror for everyone. Any "psychologist" nostalgic for the 20th C. either knows nothing of psychology, nothing of history or both.
My most extreme version of this was a hiking group in Denmark.

The recommendation was to arrive by train. The event time was 13:00. On Sunday, the trains arrived at 12:32 and 13:02. Naturally, I chose the latter, and found everyone had left half an hour earlier since there was obviously noone else coming!

I've still not got the hang of what time to arrive in Denmark. I've made an effort not to be on "British time" for social events, which has made me 15-30 minutes earlier than the Danish guests as often as it's been the correct time.
great work, i was looking for something like this. Thanks for sharing
The problem is that content providers have a financial incentive to create an environment that penalizes anything controversial and rewards unchallenging posts that regurgitate whatever the lowest common denominator of that community happens to be. Reddit is by far the worst example of this, but it feels like HN is becoming more like that as time goes by.
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Ask HN: Advice on going from contractor to consultant in big city?
Hello all!

I'm a developer/contractor living in London UK.

While it's pretty easy for me to find well paid 6 months contracts (£500/day, =~ $675/day), I'm wondering whether it would be more profitable on the long run to open a consulting company.

I'm not afraid of accounting, I actually enjoy it, or marketing, and basically the day to day of running a business.

I just don't know whether I should expect to be making more than contracting after 6 months, and if so, any idea of how much?
Or Gambia Maybe Time, GMT, in The Gambia.
Netscape Communicator, anyone?

Never mind Opera 12 and older.

Could be that we will see Vivaldi revive this, if they ever get that far...
What’s the connection between being highly trained and being “intelligent, skillful and diligent”? Circus animals are definitely highly trained after all.
The urban legend is that cows can't get back up on their own. Even if you tipped a cow (or 50), the cows could still just stand right back up.
Traditional pen plotters usually don't take ordinary pens and run on HPGL instead of G-Code (and I for one find HPGL a lot easier to generate and debug). The AxiDraw sure looks awesome, but you can probably pick up four working used HP 7475A pen plotters or similar on eBay for the AxiDraw's US$475 price.

There's an introduction to HPGL at http://www.tobiastoft.com/posts/an-intro-to-pen-plotters. It's really easy, and you can get started a lot more cheaply than with AxiDraw.

Don't get me wrong, EMSL makes really awesome stuff. You just don't need to go for that kind of premium cutting-edge engineering in order to play with a pen plotter.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/derekkhanna/2014/02/03/50-disne...

Specially interesting those from works made in the 1800s: Most of those would have been copyrighted under the current law if it applied at the time they made the movies!
>MTurk workers are incentivized to answer quickly, not truthfully.

Which doesn't prevent truthfulness if it doesn't take more time.

Besides, they didn't say that they're super popular and cool -- so why'd they lie about not having a rich social life?

>Internet polls are bullshit.

Not really.
In the reasonable world, people will understand that "soul" here is meant figuratively, not literally, and avoid starting off-topic tangents :)
Because the dominant ideology in America (grotesquely) equates Capitalism with justice. The poor and the weak must suffer and die to prove the rightness of Capitalism’s ordering principles. And to stand as an object lesson to anyone who might think about veering to far outside these boundaries.

Rationality doesn’t even begin to enter into the equation in the way you describe. It’s about reinforcing a system of human sacrifice as insane and archaic millennia as old pagan traditions for the sake of preserving this order.
Yeah, if one of the projects stands out as having the most benefit to your users or clients then I would focus on talking about that as it would help the listener realize that you care about the _business_outcomes_ of your work.
Very good problem description and nice list of countermeasures!

However, the following countermeasure made be wonder:

> Manually retype excerpts to avoid invisible characters and homoglyphs.

Isn't this something you can automate? We should create linters for plain text (rather than code)? For example, depending on the language, reduce the text to a certain set of characters. Every character not in this whitelist is either replaced, or causes an error message the user (journalist) needs to deal with (i.e. remove it, or replace it with an innocent alternative, perhaps even proposing this replacement back to the linter project).

Of course, there are multiple ways for linting, which might become a fingerprint on it own. But then, if there are only 3 or 4 of such linter styles actually used (ideally, standardize on exactly one linting style), you can only tell which linter was used by the journalist, without any information about their source.
Because people also want to discuss their OWN answers, with the HN community, do some people not realize that?
The most important HTTP headers for scraping
I can relate to their enthusiasm.

For a pchem thesis my advisor was seeing unexpected experimental results and asked me to try explaining from first principles. I started with Schrodinger's equation, let the math do the work, and wound up with a fairly reasonable match.

Looking back on it now, perhaps I had a few too many free variables (J Neumann – “with four parameters I can fit an elephant…”).

In any case, to me, it was so cool to see how such a fundamental equation connects to very complex experimental processes.
Ya but with BCH, being a hard fork where the asset was created from everything to a certain block of the BTC chain, it effectively created new coin balances out of nothing. Now imagine when people start trying to cash those out to fiat.

In this situation, there was no fiat laid out to get it but it is indeed worth fiat in the case of a withdrawal.
I couple of months ago I found a good TED talk on the same topic as your first link:

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dy...
Shipping cost difference will be marginal, spread across a container of goods. Less than $500 extra for the container.

You're paying a sales tax on products bought in Australia. You don't see that tax on American websites, and if purchasing from them you would be liable to pay import taxes.
First note - "mods" - only the people who have a diamond after their name are mods - https://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=moderators - its a rather small group.

Everyone on the site who has 15 reputation or more can participate in community moderation to some degree or another. There are people within that community who use the community moderation tools of voting frequently in an effort to have the site match their vision of what it should be... but they aren't mods.

When dealing with thousands of questions per day (90% of which are crap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law ), the amount of time they have to work with any one post is very limited. Often people are terse in their comments - it takes time to sit down and write a thought out reply... and that is very limited in comments if it isn't an answer itself (and to that point, that is by design).

This terseness of communication is often interpreted as rude. Its not intended to be - its just the medium and limitations. Yes, sometimes people are rude. The thing to do in these cases is flag the comment as rude - if there is a pattern with the behavior, the moderators (with a diamond) handle the flag and will take it up with the user who is rude. Saying that your code does not work as described in the question, however, isn't rude.

I applaud your use of google first. There are so many people who fail to realize that the goal of Stack Overflow is exactly for people like you - who search with google and find an answer and never need to ask a question on the site themselves.

The significant amount of incorrect cruft laying around is a side effect of people not using the moderation tools (downvotes on questions can make the questions get deleted and make search results better) or a value proposition that has entered the collective community moderation of "anything that attempts to answer the question has value and shouldn't be deleted." Unfortunately, that later point reduces the value proposition of the site and diminishes its utility.
>You do realize that Standford prison experiments had such a flawed methododology that they are not considered scientificly accurate anymore?

You do realize that that's not relevant to what the parent said?

Which (whether correct or not) boils down to that *Exchange sites attract authoritative moderators and gluttons for abuse and punishment users, akin to the Stanford prison experiments.
With a client side library (gifjs). I might switch to video for a better quality though.
A lot of European countries have free health care provided by the government. It is an apples to oranges comparison in many ways.
I was super disappointed after having read about this in books/news for years being referenced as in the spy museum, and finally got a chance to visit (it takes living in DC area to fully experience DC) only to realize it wasn't available for viewing.

More on topic, the real discussion this piece of work enables for me is the reduction in the gap of power between the government and the individual citizen due to technology as a force multiplyer. So they used to say the gov was ~10-20 years ahead of the civilians. I think the gov is more like 5 these days. It's corruption has weakened it's effectiveness.
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is actually the second book in the series, even though it was written first :)
I agree that are very different, but in the technical part, for regular users (those who make massive this products), you just have a phone number (email address) and download the WhatsApp app / login to web.whatsapp.com (download Gmail app / login to gmail.com).

This let me think, what happens if you send a WhatsApp message to a phone number that is not registered on WhatsApp? Its saved till the user create an account with that number?
Ask HN: Optimal ratio between creating and consuming?
What do you think the optimal ratio between creation and consumption is in terms of hours spent each day? What is the 'optimal' ratio in terms of, e.g., wellbeing or productivity? 50/50? 80/20? 20/80?

I take creating to include writing, designing, programming, composing music, etc. and consuming to include reading, watching videos, playing games, etc.

Inspired by mlmartin's new year's resolution [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16044527
The answer is simple - benefits systems. They're almost universally designed to avoid providing help to anybody, and any help they do provide is usually tied to requirements of the person receiving them.

There is no system for giving houses to the homeless without forcing them to get off drugs/alcohol, seek employment, etc etc, which many of these people are unable to do (and yet don't qualify for disability benefits because somebody in an office with a mandate to deny a certain amount of people benefits has decided they're fit for work). They also often have extreme difficulty cooperating with social programs, where they still exist (again, they've been receiving heavy cuts over time). So from society's perspective, we've done all we can to help - providing people with a roof over their head in return for nothing is something so far from any system we currently have that it's unthinkable.
I think of it as an additional tax on people who can't make their own cheese on toast.
I wasn't saying you shouldn't do it, just mentioning so you'll be aware. I think we need something else than Pinboard.
That's not a fundamental flaw with the idea though, it's just that the specific community Yik Yak developed was terrible. You could do the same thing but have it target, say, LinkedIn's demographic instead of old-time MySpace's.

There actually was a startup in DC that was doing something like this, called SocialRadar. They had a lot of funding but failed due to lack of adoption. They had a real name policy and didn't have any of the same problems that Yik Yak did.
>I just don't know enough, and I think a lot of other commenters in here don't either.

That's not going to stop people from pretending they do. DJing well is hard, and it's obvious that most people in this thread have never attempted it before.
As far as I'm aware, in the Netherlands wrt health: specialised sites. Google is all WebMD or unverifiable claims, or just doesn't go in depth. So you check your UpToDate, or pubmed, your country's/specialization's current guidelines, farmacotherapeutisch kompas for medicine (https://www.farmacotherapeutischkompas.nl/ - search for medicine and find dosage, interactions, etc). Google is often good enough for a reminder, but won't hold up for specific knowledge or minute details. So at most that Google the name of the service to search on there. Which is why I use ddg - if I know what website/information store I'm going to end up going to, I might as well use the !bang to go there directly. And you know which tools to look at because you're given them when you're studying.
>on disconnection from the service, which would be too costly to repeat exhaustively in integration tests.

Um, disconnection from the service is the exact kind of scenario I'd want to repeat exhaustively in an integration test.
Is "white male" just the catch-all for "privilege" now? You can be white, male, and homeless. In fact men are more likely to be homeless than women.
Rod Machado, in one of his private pilot manuals, has a story about a Blackbird returning to the US across the Gulf of Mexico and requesting flight level 850 (85,000 ft) from the Houston ATC. The traffic controller, apparently not recognizing the call sign and thinking it was a joke, said something like, "If you can get up there, it's yours." The pilot replied, "Ma'am, we're coming down to 850."
> Doesn't sound right but I am not an accountant. If someone makes money in the US, they should have to pay income tax in the US regardless of citizenship or residency status, even if they have never entered the US. I consider anything less a loophole we need to fix.

Which is not the same as estate/inheritance/death tax at all. Which is double-taxing what a given person already paid for. Being a (grand)son of someone ain't a job to pay incomes tax for.. :)

On top of that, there're lots of ways to dodge the US income tax. For example, many countries have double-tax agreements. Where you pay taxes in your residence country. Stay 185 days in the other country, do most of the business remotely and you can forget US incomes tax.

> > Otherwise everybody would bring in whole production chain in-house and we'd be left with huge conglomerates and no SMBs.
> Don't we already have that?

Huh? There're lots of SMBs in pretty much any country in the world. And most people are employed by them, not by a bunch of mega companies.
Because the interpreter for mathematical proofs is far more forgiving than the interpreter for code.
He was comparing countries from all over the world including Singapore, Ukraine and the USA.
There was a reply to this, now deleted, that I thought had an excellent point. I suspect the poster did not enjoy the immediate downvotes that come from criticizing Silicon Valley orthodoxies, so I want to paraphrase it.

The poster, a European, said that one of the things they liked about HN was that when the discussion drifted too deep into an SV-centric view, people from other parts of the world would often provide a useful corrective that would then be upvoted.

I appreciate that too, although as the treatment of the poster's comment demonstrated, it's not perfect. I think too many SV orthodoxies are vigorously defended here. The poster gave a footnote with a short list of what they called "Silicon Valley mindcuffs", and I suspect that's what got the instant downvotes.
The "New" redesign of the Hilux 2018, is a Faken Deal for its followers; in change of the New Redesign of the Mitsubishi Strada is a good post of the awarded 7 times continuos winner of the Paris-Dakkar Worldwide Rally Championship... Farewell Fellows... ;)!
You mean to use wording like "Sign in/up" instead of just "Sign in"?
Related: we built a homoglyph linter for Go source code, to help detect potentially malicious homoglyph substitution: https://github.com/NebulousLabs/glyphcheck

UTF-8 source code is nice for i18n, but it also opens the door to these kinds of attacks.
"...whatever masochistic reasons, avid viewers of Mayday (aka Air Crash Investigations),..."

Hey!
Isn't there always everywhere more people interested in a subject than experts and groupthink with wrong and not well informed opinions becomes inevitable? At least on HN you are free to attempt to influence the groupthink.
A deep analysis on social bots, fake news, hate speech and filter bubbles on Twitter. This is questions the existence, as well as quality of studies about, the co-called "social bots" (which turned out to either have no influence, or to be real people with "too much" free time):

Michael Kreil: Social Bots, Fake News und Filterblasen

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_f...

(German talk, but the video contains an audio track with a good English translation.)
Historical anecdote: Algol-68 disassociated variable assignment from mutability already 50 years ago. Whenever mutability was desired, a reference to a mutable value holder was used.

Example of immutable assignment: int n = 2

Example of reference to mutable value: ref int n = (heap int := 2)

However, in order to make Algol-68 code look more similar to Algol-60, they introduced backwards-compatible shorthands, so for example the declaration int n; was actually a shorthand for ref int n = (loc int);

This shorthand magic probably contributed to why Algol-68 syntax was perceived to be difficult.

Footnote: loc and heap were the two memory allocation operators available in Algol-68.
i really wish they would get off this 'we lost the election because of misinformation on facebook so something has to be done about it' rhetoric.

leaked emails (by help of the russians) surely helped trump, but even democrats concede that information was TRUE. this has nothing to do with social media, but training in the DNC about phishing scams might help.

but honestly, there were so many huge flaws in the hillary campaign (relying 100% on data that was already proven in the primaries to be next to useless, disgust over the shadyness in how the clintons took over the dnc and stacked the deck against sanders, etc).

and lets face it, they didnt have a problem with the internet when obama was using it to win, such as 'obama universities' training people to use a pyramid network on social media to basically create broadcast storms to get the algorithms to push their content to the top and shout out dissenting opinions.
Don't worry. I've lived here all my life, and I probably still haven't got the social niceties properly down. I just arrive on time. Never been a problem, but yes, there are subleties going on which I am not aware of.

The train part though: Definitely catch the early train. Two minutes late for something would generally prompt me to get hold of whoever might be expecting me: "Sorry, I'm running late".
Piwik? I don't want a Piwik-compatible option. I'm not even complaining about Google Analytics, I'm just saying it doesn't sound well to just tell people to open Google Analytics.

I would complain the same way if a website promised a guide to calculate interest rates and started the article with "Open Excel...".

Adding a "For this to work you'll need Google Analytics installed in your site" notice would solve everything.
Can a Computer Make You Cry? (1983)
I Helped Popularize the Term “Fake News” and Now I Cringe Every Time I Hear It
Free tiers are probably the least economically interesting aspect of cloud services. If you're using gae to do valuable work, you shouldn't mind paying a little bit for the service.
The people that originally brought hot code replace to Java were smalltalk people (well, strongtalk, but same diff). Yes, it was never meta reflective as smalltalk, but it was useful enough. It still wasn’t as nice as full on live programming since the replacement was never retroactive (as it wasn’t in smalltalk either). We’ve definitely moved on since then.
Intuition is a feeling, AlphaGo is a mechanism
Engine-off (so-called "dead stick") landings are absolutely possible even in a commercial aircraft, and are something you practise pretty much from day 1 of flight training:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadstick_landing#Deadstick_la...
Yes, this seems like a dubious idea. Tax on alcohol is all over the place, internationally. Average pricing of a basket of shopping in, say, Tesco might work better. And that is still cheaper in the UK, due to a combination of cheaper labour and better competition (and weak sterling, though that’s likely to be short-lived inflation in the UK ramps up).
That's actually a really good idea. Of course it is probably (unfortunately) politically impossible.
It's all about COPYLEFT people!!! Stallman was right, wake up to foss. OSS is not enough.