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If it is so critical for the welfare state why is there even a debate about cutting it? Why was it cut down to 85% from 180%? Also historically the taxes weren’t always this high and the welfare system did just fine.

None of the Danes here have given any convincing answer on why they support the higher taxation on car registrations.
The oldest name on this list that stood out to me is Weihenstephan brewery, founded in 1040 in Bavaria, Germany. They have some of the finest lagers I have ever tried. If you enjoy crisp, refreshing lager beers, I highly recommend their beers. My favorite one is probably the Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier, followed by the Hefeweissbier Dunkel.

Note: I am not affiliated in any way with the company, I just highly enjoy their beers.
One HCI book I read had a point that relates to Tesler's law:
If your change requires users to make more clicks to perform the same task or action, it is probably a bad change.
Digital marketing in China is complicated
The limit for polluting traffic has been in place for a few years, it's called the Low Emission Zone. Only some larger vehicles are affected, and the fee is either £100 or £200 — I assume the idea is that you can move your rarely-used special construction equipment, but for pretty much everything else one should either upgrade or replace the vehicle: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/low-emission-zone

But the additional charge for the worst diesel cars is new: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/emissions-surcharge
Crowd sentiment is very important (to many circumstances and understanding), so reading the 20-comment deep flame war is useful too. You just need make sure to read it from outside but not into it.
Amazon sent me questions about a product I gave a one star review to. I really should have sent it back.

Their system isn’t too bright.
> If you look at "less woke" developing countries around the world, they don't have this sense of social justice because they don't have the luxury. So they do whatever is possible to increase their GDP.

They don't have that sense of social justice for a number of reasons. Having lived in the developing world, one big component is that the legal system is not set up to prevent exploitation of the many by the few who are rich.
Corruption and exploitation are entrenched because the culture accepts it and those crushed under it don't feel they have the power to change it.

There's more than enough money in many developing nations to significantly raise the standard of living for the average citizen, but those taking the lion's share of the spoils have no interest in changing that system.

> That's why a lot of developing countries are corrupt.

No, a lot of developing countries are corrupt due to weak rule of law and an entrenched culture of back-scratching. The corruption is not there simply because they are relatively poor countries.

So for example, in Latin America, Brazil's GDP is around $1.8 trillion, and Costa Rica is at $57 billion. Yet Costa Rica performs MUCH better on international corruption scale. And there are plenty of examples of that. Look at Russia versus some of it's former satellite states. Corruption is much worse in Russia than it is in Georgia, even though Russia is a much bigger economy.

It really is about the strength of institutions and rule of law. Being a developing nation doesn't mean that out-of-control graft is inevitable.
I felt quite sad to read the fate of the top of that list

> Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組 Kabushiki Gaisha Kongō Gumi) is a Japanese construction company which was the world's oldest continuously ongoing independent company, operating for over 1,400 years until it was absorbed as a subsidiary of Takamatsu in 2006.
Except, nothing new if you pay yearly, still $99 a year.
The applications and stacks nowadays are so complex that yes, it's basically "anything you do will be used to lowball you" situation. Unless one creates fully compliant, fully featured application running on CI server. For free. And then begs for feedback.
Alternatively, You could make the argument that what Bitfinex has done here is really smart. It's really expensive, engineering & risk wise, to setup payout links at consumer scale. There really is no difference between me holding Tether's and holding a USD balance on Coinbase. But in actuality Coinbase is in more danger here than Bitfinex. If all the Coinbase users cashed out, they'd be unable to payout, but Bitfinex is secure from this.

This is the pattern we will see moving forward. Robot Cache is adopting it, and we'll see more. It'll be easy to put money into crypto, move crypto around and trade crypto. But to get money back out as real physical money will always be a hard problem, and I predict it will come down to a distributed effort by the banks. I'll walk into my branch and they'll transfer X USDT to they're account from mine and hand me physical dollars.
8x150. Presumably the originators were on multiple such pyramids. And if they're smart then they won't pay out $150 to anyone, just start a new one. Or maybe start themselves in the middle of one.
Well id like to move to central London and cut my commute but I could not afford say a two bed ex council flat on red lion square.

And neither could my boss (a director) or his boss (the MD of a subsidiary of RELEX)
It's explained in OP's link. Among other things, because people didn't really use it and stackoverflow is good enough.
The plan was to automate generating all the paperwork in a very specific format, with it always being a little different. How complicated could it be?

:)
Thanks for the heads up! They just passed my value threshold and I'm making sure to set my auto-reknew to off. I have plenty of patience to wait a week for packages.
Yeah you have to do all that you mentioned, and more. For example, with EU SaaS sales to individuals, it doesn't matter where the customer lives or what citizenship they have, what matters is where they are at the moment of the sale.

There is an endless supply of people who are willing to do this work for you, for a fee. Essentially this is the classic get an accountant advice.

You could also do all of this yourself if you consider yourself smart and limited on cash. Frankly it isn't that complicated to understand. There's plenty of information available online. In my case (Estonia) the local tax authority is even giving regular education classes for free that you can attend.
Seconding. Weihenstephaner is usually my beer of choice if it's on the menu.
There are two kinds of companies: those with a high hiring bar, and those with a low one. It's less work to get a job at low-bar companies, so why would you apply to a high-bar company?

If the caliber of people you work with is a major factor in how much you enjoy working somewhere, you should be applying to high-bar companies even though it's more work.

Caliber of co-workers matters more or less with different kinds of work. In a tight software development team, a small number of doofuses or toxic people can make working there awful. In a typical outside sales team, co-worker competence might not matter as much because you're each closing deals independently. So there's no single answer.
voice.google.com uses their wildcard cert, which is valid for me and was last changed Jan 10

https://i.imgur.com/CouTrxC.png
I kind of feel all pricing should be transparent.
Running a Germany-based SaaS startup at some scale, so I feel confident to chime in.

To put it bluntly, you're right. We have to do more work just to get started accepting money than our American counterparts. Yes, the insanely complex EU-VAT rules actually need to be followed. Yes, a lot of your customers will want to pay via bank transfer and not through credit card. Yes, the American folks will still want to pay in USD and not in EUR.

We use ChargeBee (https://www.chargebee.com/) to abstract away most of the pain. I would greatly suggest using such a service (Recurly and Chargify are more enterprisey alternatives). We had a selfmade implementation before switching to ChargeBee, and one EU rule change caused us to have to re-issue all customer invoices for one quarter. Not fun. ChargeBee prevents you from doing the biggest blunders in taxation, and also allows you to keep track of invoices paid through credit card or through bank transfer (and specify the Dunning rules accordingly). Overall, I'd greatly recommend it.
Probably greater density -> cheaper shipping.

Also they probably are working to lock people in initially with low prices and hike prices overtime once they are dependent (monthly scheduled shipments, etc)
> 4x150 = 1200

o\
The conclusion that they downloaded the rom from the internet because it has an iNes header is kind of ridiculous to start with; if you build an NES emulator, you're going to need to have some sort of header to indicate what mapper (if any) was used on the cartridge and what stuff was present. Given that the community has already built a standard for that, why not use it?

If you go ahead and use the community header format; of course your rom image will be indistinguishable from a pirated rom -- the header and data should be the same. It's not clear if they downloaded the rom from the internet, read it off a cartridge in their archive (or obtained from employee's collections or the used market), or from a possible archive of all roms they've ever had made.

Given the long life and mass distribution of almost all their titles, there's not a danger of loss of the published material. Certainly, unpublished roms and the occasional title that was not widely produced are in danger of loss if they aren't archived. The source materials are also subject to loss if Nintendo doesn't archive them.

There's some indication that Nintendo may have an archival program after all; Star Fox 2 was recently released on the SNES Classic from a ready for release, but never released or leaked rom; different than the leaked prototype roms. They also add in-memory patches to some roms that run in virtual console and nes/snes classics; I haven't seen anything indicating if they do that based on disassembly of the roms or based on the original sources.
> I don't get it? That doesn't sound too bad. A brief interview with candidates, a short take home project, and then a final interview seems quite reasonable.

Maybe because once you have finished there's a fair chance they won't even tell you what they think?

This thing is often deeply asymmetrical and smart people realize this and try to avoid it.

In other words: if it is well known that doing the assignment will lead to a real on site interview, meeting the team etc you'll probably see more experienced people take the test.

Hey, even just being known for giving real feedback would put you in the upper tiers.

(Is it this bad? Yes! I've crossed the mountains to be told they couldn't interview me that day. I've been held waiting for months, been told under no unclear terms that my results where almost perfect, - then radio silence.)
> Tax funded roads being gated off to those without higher incomes doesn't sound fair to me in any case, even if there are alternatives.

Okay, so as a solution to that, let's stop paying for roads with taxpayer money, and instead let roads in Manhattan be funded entirely from private funds, collected from those who use the roads instead (either individuals who don't mind paying, or businesses who pay fees on the deliveries, the same way ships pay fees at port).

That way, taxpayer funds can go entirely to public transit instead, so (assuming we solve the problem of rampant corruption and fraud within the MTA and NYS government[0]) it's a win-win for all!

I'm being half-facetious here, but those are the implications of the argument you're making, and I'm not going to say they're necessarily a bad idea.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
The state of the interview process in tech shows that unfortunately many developers are seen as pushovers and weak people by wider society, mostly importantly by the people hiring. They put up with a lot of crap that others would say 'uh, no' to. Worse if promoted to middle manager they'll turn around and whip their own kind hard all in an effort to server the masters.
StoraEnso is marked as Finland, but that is due to a recent merger and the location of the HQ of the current company. The company Stora Kopparberg operated a mine in Falun, Sweden from which company shares exist from 1288.
I think it's some of each? There does appear to be a slight plateau towards the end, and the graph does seem to bear some similarity to a sigmoid function[1]. I know it's more theory, though, I saw an article in nature about it a while ago.
>targeted at the wrong markets

What would have been the right ones?
Does anyone know why this was flagged when submitted a few days ago?
It seems to me that pyramid schemes like this are orthogonal to many other types of schemes, particularly in politics and entertainment, where the buy is sometimes primarily time but the end result is the same, a waste of resources which was supposed to result in happiness or achievement, that only benefited the charismatic SOB's at the top.
I'm not sure if this is the same as "Mobile Passport", but Mobile Passport allows you to complete the kiosk information on your phone and in most airports (IAD/BWI tested) if you tell the usher (non-CBP employee with the airport) that you're doing Mobile Passport, they let you skip to the immigration counter bypassing several long lines.
"What's funny is you can buy embargoed goods on Amazon."

Can you provide an example or two ?
I really don't think that the speculative execution _implementation_ was in any spec whatsoever.

The fact that it did the protection domain check later in the process was not documented by Intel at all for example.

Having said that, the implementation was (obviously) available for Intel engineers and they didn't spot the problem in 10+ years.

Bugs will happen, especially this kind of bugs that people generally haven't had in mind in the past.
Getting Over It: With Bennet Foddy breaks all these rules and was wildly successful.

The Witness sold at $40 and people bought it anyway.

Good games will sell. But you might not have a good game.

The market doesn't owe you anything.

Also what kind of bogus metric is "price per MB"?
It's back up. Was down for about 2 minutes.
I think it's more that pre-reddit/twitter/facebook we all had separate online forums, chat rooms, etc and now it's all centralized to the same few sites.

For example before reddit we didn't have popular fascist subforums hosted on the same site as a liberal politics subforum, where people could cross-post and PM between them.
Take home assignments are as perfect as it gets (the assignments need to align with the role you have and there are also some challenges related to the scalability of the process and, in some cases, cheating). It filters those who think they are too good for it and it gives an opportunity for those who are competent and eager enough and those who don't do so well under stress when they are interrogated in front of a whiteboard (most people).

Those who complain that it takes too long to do homework assignments are not being honest about the actual time it takes to prepare for the traditional trivia-based interviews where it takes weeks and sometimes months to prepare. Somehow it's hard to find 2 - 3 hours for a homework assignment, but 6 month to prepare for a quiz interview is totally ok. Exaggerating a bit to make a point ;-)

Technical interviewing shouldn't be a separate skill engineers have to master because nobody wins here. The companies get people who are good at interviewing instead of doing the actual work the companies care about. Of course, the communication part of the interview is important because the engineers will need to work in a team environment.
It's still worth it. The amount of money saved with shipping, and the comfort of last "minute" shopping is priceless. Plus you get a few extra things like storage, movies, and music.

This past week I paid $12 for ground shipping at another site and was reminded about how much shipping added to the price of the product.

Update: Also forgot about the convenience of using Amazon lockers.
The thermoelectric generators with Pu238 don't use fission. The energy is released through alpha-decay.
Everyone keeps talking about Manhattan, but the GWB bridge serves more than Manhattan. I don't have any numbers to back this up, but I would guess the vast amount of traffic over the bridge serves commuters between Jersey and the other boroughs.
Any reason why it would go down for ~2+ minutes?
How to plan development budget for your VR apps?
The one thing I consistently wish for, and maybe I should get on it...

Field trips. Highly accurate (to the best of our ability) and high quality, free-roam field trips. Present day, or through time. I would LOVE to visit historical sites from various time periods, to see them in their (as known) beginning, prime, and decay.

The amount of research and work to be done to accomplish that would be staggering... but the potential for improved global and historical understanding, the impact on education, and just weeknight entertainment would be immense.

I've seen a couple primitive efforts, and they were a bit disappointing.

Let me walk around a living 19th century England. Let me visit Dylan Thomas in his writing cabin. Let me see the Parthenon and Han Dynasty China.

I would love to have this 15 years from now. Sooner, if possible!
IANAL (not a lawyer).

Be very careful with advice like this.

Patents of different classes of claims, dependent and independent, for example. Some stand on their own, some don't. Patents encapsulate lots of claims, and violating any one of them can represent a significant IP infringement and could lead to damages.

Your advice about 'enough variations that you can prove doesn't meet...' is dangerous. What you mean to say is that, "if you are willing to spend up to and potentially beyond $100,000, a jury might make the determination that you did not infringe." Lawyers don't determine whether or not you infringe, juries do. And, the most common resolution in IP is ceasing activities or licensing, which are usually settled out of court.
For me, it's cheaper to simply pay for the quick shipping when I really need it
> If your screws are longer than 2”, you’ll need different ones, otherwise they will poke out the top of the board and stab you in the foot.

Actually nominal 2 inch lumber has thickness of 1.5" [1].
So your screws should be shorter than 1.5".

[1] https://www.archtoolbox.com/materials-systems/wood-plastic-c...
I think you're seriously underestimating how much thought goes into the risk-benefit analysis during drug development. The FDA does create some regulatory burden but they certainly aren't the main driver of why drugs fail. Drugs fail because they don't work or they cause unintended toxicity.
I agree with your assessment, yes.
Especially now that Amazon owns Whole Foods, the vast majority of my disposable income is theirs. It would be very difficult for them to make Prime no longer worthwhile for me.
I agree that there is no value of saying "I don't know" in general. But sometime people would say "I don't know" as an emphasis on his "understanding" that there are something deeper than the current common understanding, and that is reasonable.
Also why use “sites” in the wording if the laws are about UX in general and not web app UX in particular? Why not say “applications”?
IMO this is a good opportunity for them to learn how a scam works before they go out in the real world with real money and really get taken for a ride.

Everyone falls for a scam at some point in their life, better to learn early with minimal loss of money.
Yep locking was my best guess...
Clearly you've never MS Comic Chatted ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
The best I've recently encountered were "1-2 hours" assignments with the words "enjoy the task!" or something similar. FUCK YOU. I'm going to print it, I'm going to find you, and I'm going to stick it up your butthole.
Building a GraphQL Server with Spring Boot
It definitely seems to me like older entrepreneurs concentrate on either providing a service to established industry or on craftsmanship, selling a luxury good to a slightly older crowd.

They are over “you can be anything you want to, Billy” and they have justifiable fears.

But if you ran your own deli for years and ended up building your own bagel slicing machine because nobody else had one or they mangled too many bagels, why not sleep in a little in the morning and sell bagel machines instead? You know your customer because you were your first customer. You can just ask the deli owner in your head what they would like.
C-c-c-c-class action anyone?

This seems ripe for a class action lawsuit against either amazon or the USCBP (are you even able to sue them). Obviously suing each brand wouldn't work because there just wouldn't be enough litigants for a class action, but maybe we can hold amazon responsible for this and make them change somethings?
Exactly this. Let's torture people (or drone their families) to make sure they don't commit terrorist attacks. What could go wrong?
A boy can dream...
> I can't speak specifically to the Beijing system but rationing (or lotteries) as a general approach are often seen as a fairer way to distribute a limited good than letting whoever has the most money have it.

Lotteries are an absolutely terrible system. They fail the basic test of Pareto efficiency. Or in other words: lotteries result in outcomes in which one person could be made better off without making anybody else worse off. The only way to avoid this with a lottery is provide a secondary market, and that defeats the whole purpose of a lottery - at that point, you might as well skip the lottery and use a direct market.

Not all Pareto-efficient scenarios are good, but all scenarios that are not Pareto-efficient are bad, by definition. If Alice could be made better off without making Bob or Eve (or anyone else) any worse off, we know there's a problem.
Amazing beer, agreed. Another recommendation: My favorite Munich-style weiss beer is from Franziskaner (founded in 1363). It's in my top 3 beers of all time.
Those who’ve been drawn into this craze don’t seem to realize the risks involved. I’ve had several people with barely any technical literacy who’ve “invested” or asked about what it is. None of them understood the purpose, mechanisms of transfer, or risks.

When your your dry cleaner is telling you about a sure thing, you know the bubble is already over.

Once cryptos are roped off from money laundering, we’ll see the prices fall back down to Silk Road levels because black markets were and seem likely to remain their sole utility for some time.

Blockchain tech is really interesting. I think there’s some amazing stuff that could come out of the space. But anyone watching this closely should realize that there is a lot of magical thinking going on, largely because of the deflationary nature of many of the coins.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is quite smart with some deep understandings of the world (along with some less good ideas), as best I can tell. I've definitely learned interesting things or been sent down interesting paths from articles of his that I've read.

However, he would be served very well to work on eliminating the moderate pomposity that permeates much of his writing. He is also overly verbose sometimes. Fixing those two issues would reduce a lot of the beef he gets, I think.
There is a narrow exception for public health, e.g. plant quarantine laws. But the usual tools countries use: tariffs, immigration controls, capital controls, etc., are unavailable.