skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By getting market monopolies (or oligopolies) and making you pay more for your things. (This one is quite straight forward, I don't think it needs examples.)

By getting monopsonies (or oligopsonies) and making you receive less from the things you sell. (Like in combining labor prices, and non-poaching agreements.)

By taking public property or outright coercing you into a less desirable outcome. (Like taking the tax you pay, or buying laws.)

Way too many (too many to ignore) rich people got rich by doing one of the above. And even some that did get rich honestly end-up doing that once they have the power.
Some more info about Washington's B&O tax (which I believe you are referring to): http://www.seattlebusinessmag.com/article/infamous-bo-tax
Well, I just created a lonely people discord channel. https://discord.gg/wrkqpXA
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Because you can!

It's fun. You get creative, it's a chance to build a persona and perhaps under that persona discover your authentic voice.
The problem more or less unique to DU munitions is that it gives off tiny aerosol particles when it hits its target which can contaminate a large area and are very easy to breathe in for a long time afterwards. And breathing in these particles are linked to an increasing number of health issues.
Not the OP, but I suspect that it's less about bikers and cyclists in particular and more a matter of coming into contact with other people who share an interest. Taking up golf or tennis would likely have the same effect.
All reasonable people are for equality of opportunity but no one can legislate for equality of outcome and that is something that tends to promote a return to the items on your list.
> Also, I am told by industry insiders, a “blockbuster” study on media performance in the UK is coming in the next few days. It will make the digital ad industry apoplectic and have them screaming.

Can't wait to see this one on hackernews in a few days. Is 2018 going to be the worst year yet for digital ads?
> it was the recipe cards

All of which they post online, e.g, https://www.blueapron.com/recipes/beef-mushroom-stew-with-ro...
> if EU successfully does this, you bet that the regressive South American countries will try to ape it.

Oh, I forgot I should feel sorry for the richest corporations on this planet, they're being repressed, aren't they? It isn't them defrauding workers by wage fixing, not paying their fair share of taxes etc. it's the EU and the oppressive South American governments, (damm communists! there isn't enough redbaiting in the U.S. these days), thanks for reminding me who is the real victim here.
Very little, 3.1 GPA and I'm in accounting, where GPA actually is important for internships and first jobs.

Got a job with Deloitte in consulting.

Now an incoming PhD student.

GPA means nothing if you have an ounce of personal skills.
2 engineers, 2 weeks because we had to evaluate every change we made with production traffic.
If your economy is "jobs" in the exchange for favorable taxing & EU access that just makes you a Rentier state. All the value is in the tax avoidance scheme, not whatever the employees are doing. It's not far removed from Saudi-Arabia, the biggest game of the Sims ever played.
Don't mistake my HN comment as being my _only_ action.
My own personal opinion is that most of the time ads don't work.

They're noise that might, at BEST, bias the result of a decision I was already willing to make. (IE: I know I'm going to go somewhere for lunch and MAYBE an ad makes me pick one place over another.)

Really I see ads being useful only in three categories:

* Reminding a prospective customer your store exists
* Reminding a prospective customer what you sell
* Getting a customer to crave something you can provide.

The first two are generally good, however they don't really need to be done all that often. Once someone knows a service exists they'll likely return for more if they liked and need more of that service.

The last one is arguably amoral. Encouraging (needless or extra) consumption and trying to make someone dependent on the ad buyer for happiness. It also sounds a lot like what drug dealers do.

Even that third category, if a product was adding actual value or quality, needn't be done that often to reach effective saturation.
I didn't get my CS degree so none. But I also don't have an amazing career, there may be a connection.
What’s the minimum revenue to be considered a tech giant?
I belong to one. My wife is a Christian and I am not. They do enthusiastically welcome me, which is consistent with what they should be doing in my opinion. Nobody pressures me to act in any way that I am uncomfortable with and rarely (only when I invite it) does anyone discuss my beliefs with me. I think that this church is unusual; they have a huge focus on being a "family". I would have never gone if not for my wife (it would be awkward), but it is very rewarding to me and I get to meet and befriend people who are very different from who I would meet otherwise (as a scientist/programmer type). It also provides many service opportunities and people to help.
I recall that Microsoft Azure Service Fabric SDK is also based on the Actor Model.
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From the last year alone "Good Time" and "The Florida Project" were amazing movies that were about or contextualized by poverty.
Tragedy of the commons regulation for global shared stocks/sinks - e.g. there's a single shared global atmosphere that we're collectively not managing very well.

I don't believe world government "would" necessarily solve this, but it might help.

Another question might be "what are the issues that a world government might cause".

E.g. there isn't a guarantee that world government is going to be representative, care about interests other than its own, not be repressive. At least with smaller scope governments it is in principle easier to flee.

Perhaps another question would be: why would member states / individuals voluntarily join a world government and choose to stay part of it? How would that be a good tradeoff for them?
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Unfortunately, that's what I thought as it means I have to greatly improve my post-processing skills.

Do you have tutorials that go into detail about how one can improve? I've spent the last decade using Lightroom but largely going by what feels right rather than being more technical and deliberate.
No one who is employed is paid "the true value of their labor". Every exchange, whether it's dollars for a good or dollars for labor, happens because of the subjective value the exchange provides to the exchangers.

>Business owners exploit the basic human need for food and shelter to underpay low-skill workers.

You could equally (and wrongly) say that workers exploit businesses basic need for labor. It's economic nonsense.
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I can not talk about how things is done in other countries... but everyone who reads Psychology (and/or psychiatry) in grade school knows about Aaron Antonovsky and the "sense of coherance" theory. Everyone in health care who study assistant nurse and up knows about this theory.

So this is not something new or unknown about. It is not biology or social.. it is biology and social. Both play a part.

I live in a Scandinavian country and we are very aware that loneliness is an important cause for depression. The problem is.. you can't force people to be social. Family might be the problem. So drugs can be a solution until you find a more permanent solution.
I think you have a very good point.

For example, if I want the very best smart phone, no matter how much money I have, I really can't do much better than an $1200 iPhone X, even if I spent a 1000x that much money.

If I want a safe, reliable car, I can't do much better than a Toyota Camry/Honda Accord for ~$25,000.

If I want to go somewhere by airplane, commercial airline travel is actually safer than private jets. Business class and even first class with lie-flat seats and even suites is definitely in the upper middle class range.

Most middle class people in a developed country have access hot water, clean drinking water, a wide variety of food,flavors, and spices that would have made even the wealthiest person of 50 years ago green with envy. In addition, there is more life saving/life prolonging medical technology.
It only gives you that clarity if you're getting the data unfiltered, though. As I read the article, the problem P&G was running into is that it was outsourcing the placement of its ads to third parties, meaning they didn't get access to the raw data on how those ads performed -- they only got whatever data the third party chose to share with them, packaged up however the third party chose to package it. That kind of relationship opens up all sorts of opportunities for the third party to fudge the numbers to serve their own interests, which is what it sounds like P&G decided was happening.
Yep, check out CBC's undercover investigation on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYwB63YslbA

Some don't even bother to take the stickers off!
Right. In addition to that, I was simply going to write "make it not fail". In the plane example, what the author doesn't mention is that there are many mechanical failures, or human errors on a plane that lead to, well, death of 100% of its passengers. Yet we still fly.

So in this respect I see the Hyperloop as being very similar to air travel: make it not fail.
But one can argue that his biggest problem with a profit tax is that it disproportionately punishes “low volume, high margin” business models over “high volume, low margin”.
DSC wasn't a first mover there were other people in the market including amazon subscriptions. You defend yourself with brand and scale. Thats the Amazon moat. Biggest costs for these food in a box companies is shipping and packaging which are solved at high volumes.
That an adult showing sexual interests in images of post-pubescent minors is not a behavior associated with pedophilia [0] any more than an adult showing interests of such images of other adults is.

[0] “a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children”; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia
> Relative poverty is also a form of poverty

I think this is a point that many miss since we tend to think materialistically about wealth. But wealth is power and power inequality is a problem, no matter if your basic needs are met.

Trying to reduce inequality to a matter of exceeding a threshold of basic need is very disingenuous.

Outcomes in the legal system is one obvious example of how corrosive inequality can be to society.
I actually own one of those YubiKeys but the issue with needing an app is the portability (or lack of).

Ideally I'd love to have a hardware token that I can use for TOTP authentication regardless of the computer I'm working with.
(the irony of avoiding my own noprocrast settings)... For a university course, I managed roughly 600$ a year (local prices) with a (few-constraints-)diet of peanut butter and rice sandwiches. Even lower price for directly consuming spoonfuls of flour. Thus the added commentary:

- you manage what you measure (linear programming is really powerful, but also simplistic for this model)

- the human body is great at survival (general requirements are easily achievable, but surely something is wrong with the spoonfuls-of-flour approach)
So infect those poor people with memes that encourage having tons of kids so that there's a lot more poor people to compete for less and less jobs (as automation moves the means of production to family owned land / equity holdings)?
Nobody claimed it was science; it's just advanced pattern matching. I think it's very doubtful somebody would be convicted on the basis of this analysis alone. It seems like it's more useful as an investigative tool rather than something you can present as evidence in a trial.
re: Relative poverty is also a form of poverty.

There was a recent thread[1] on twitter by Noah Smith on this topic, related to a study[2] that suggests that a) relative life satisfaction tends to correlate with their relative ranked income and that b) upward comparisons matter more than downward comparisons.

From those premises, Noah Smith appears to be arguing that high inequality has a negative impact on overall happiness.

[1] https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/969676076912750592

[2] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797610362671
Is it? That sounds like the subject of a Steve Yegge rant.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali... (search for legalization)
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I think super asymmetric societies are less just. I'm not sure I'm a Utilitarian in all things, but I think we should try to make as many people as happy and content as possible, not the 1% or 0.1% of society. I'm OK with there being unhappy or less privileged people, but a just world should be closer to a normal distribution (and your outcome should be based on the content of your character, not your birthright).

Maybe something closer to the Star Trek vision of the future (vs. the other two sci fi visions I mentioned).
It's about using something in one language for its features and only porting the critical sections to C++ via a clean API. This is the sort of advice we've been giving people for decades. Choose the language for what you want to build, measure and profile performance if necessary, find the bottleneck on the hot path, decouple that from the bulk of the code, and reach to a lower level for performance only in that clearly defined section.

They managed to generalize one application that meets their feature needs to be a front end to another existing application with fewer features but better performance as a back end. They're optimizing their hot path by decoupling it from the rest of the application and handing off to C++ code they didn't even have to write. Adding pluggable storage engines to Cassandra means that if they make the API smooth enough they can have engines in C, C++, Erlang, Go, Rust, ML, or whatever in the future without changing their front end. That's a big win even beyond this tail latency issue.
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Sure thing boss, and maybe I'll drag the country over and connect it to the mainland and then see if I can seed the place with valuable ores, oil, etc. That'll solve the problem
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As I mentioned, the lowest we found here at work was 1Gig for $40.
> True, in that it would better to fix the underlying problems that allow companies to pretend they have no profit

Profit is a complex calculation when talking about cross-borders. If you company spends $20B in country A, $0 in country B, has revenue of $10B in country A and $10B in country B, how much profit did it generate in country B?

Just because information services have a near-zero marginal cost, it doesn't mean they have zero cost.
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> How far can the EU push before these companies decide it is not worth having actual businesses there?

Why would they leave? Just raise prices in the EU to compensate.
It seems like an unusual problem. Zagat reviewers[1] were volunteers, but they remained anonymous so there was little opportunity to promote themselves. If I remember people seemed motivated by getting a guide sent to them and feeling like they were part of an in group. I don't know what would work now to avoid fake reviews and reviews promoting the reviewers.

It would be interesting to see what happened if it were limited to a subset of people who used OpenTable for minimum number of reservations per year or some other metric, and then was based on a Keynesian Beauty Contest[1], where a consensus is divined by reviewers earning prizes for correctly guessing which restaurants other reviewers like.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=CfS7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA46&lpg=P...
Don't forget, most Europeans also speak English.

But tech companies don't have profits here because of their tax optimizations. So, I guess it's not difficult where they got their sauce from.

Edit: (downvotes not agreeing with the term "most")

> robinson7d mentioned 38% as second language, 13 % as first language. So => 51% (or, "most")

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language_in_Europe#Oth...
Exaggerated testimony, bad forensics branded Jeffrey Havard a baby killer
Regarding GP's comment, then... is that type of closed-mindedness actually bad?

If they've finally changed their mind about a deeply seated belief, that means they must have had some pretty compelling reason to do so... why would they backtrack casually?
Everyone in the game pays the same sales tax.

The issue is that some of the bigger players avoid making a profit on the operation in the EU. The national budgets expect a certain level of corporate profit and tax on sales to make the numbers.

When you have many massive players avoiding that tax - plus smaller players unable to get the same tax structures/advice to even compete - it starts to become an issue.

For a long time the megacorps have argued they create a lot of jobs - but they've likely crested on that now as they push to eliminate jobs - and there is a lot of evidence that government is supporting many of the low paid jobs these companies do 'create' (£11BN in UK in 2014 according to this report - https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/apr/20...)
How does that help people who don't even have that $100 to spare? They'd benefit far more from meaningful access to an economy's growth, wouldn't they? The people who can afford to do that in a way that truly pays off already have plenty of money.

The stock market is open to more people, but it still biases disproportionately for those that have more money.
If you were to blend the benefits of services like Soylent (nutritionally balanced meals) and BlueApron (delicious delivered recipes), you arrive at a service where you pick from a list of healthy ingredients and the service uses linear programming to build "solutions" aka recipes for meals that balance the ingredients such that they provide proper nutrition and then provide you with the list of ingredients to purchase (or ship them directly to you).

Also related: https://discourse.soylent.com/t/genetic-algorithms-automatic...
If you want to keep data off heap you need to use sun.misc.Unsafe and allocate / free by yourself. I guess it is called unsafe for a reason. With G1GC you can do magical things to reduce the GC overhead which I always recommend as the first step before trying off heap.
Making the vaccine free is a social solution. Getting people to subsidize the vaccine is inherently political.
Taxing on profit rather than revenue feels wrong. If I use the very same resources the competing company is using but I buy expensive cars instead of energy efficient ones I am taxed less. If I use country's resources like roads and pollute I am still not taxed, my more efficient competitor is sponsoring my existence by their tax revenue. Hell, if I have any profit left I will just buy Ferraris as company cars so I pay even less taxes and hey, now I am driving a Ferrari while my sucker competitor is driving Nissans Leaf and paying more taxes to top it.

Taxing companies on profits is just punishing efficiency. The tax has other disadvantages like being very easy to dodge by big corporations and difficult to dodge by small/honest guys. It's the worst possible tax and I hope it dies soon. Taxing on revenue is at least something new that seems more fair.
So would this be more of the original Buzzfeed model then where brands would get sponsored posts written for them, and then Buzzfeed would handle the marketing of said post?
Eh? There's a lot of information here, even without familiarity with the code (and really, most people have at least a partial understanding of the codebases they work on).

I can see that the thing returned from getAccount() is an Account object! It's not an accountId, or the name of the account, or an AccountDTO, or an Optional<Account>, or any of the dozen other things I've seen people return from methods named getAccount().

Depending on how methods are named, the implicit documentation can be very helpful:

Account from = transfer.getFrom();

I don't think that var is particularly evil, but I think it has a poor case for existence. Meh.
Hey, off topic but I have to say this, we use a bunch of libraries authored / maintained by you. Thanks!
90% is still a ginormous reduction over 0%. And as with most communicable diseases, once their incidence falls below a certain threshold, they fail to spread in effective numbers to keep themselves alive.
The EU is originally an economic union with aspirations for political unity. Taxes is actually really appropriate for it to be involved in if you consider why it was formed in the first place.
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One thing to keep in mind that a natural wetland area in the LA basin in 1800's is going to be full of mosquitoes that carry malaria. People were highly motivated to eliminate all standing water that mosquito larva could breed in. Thus, fill in the marshes/wet meadows to create dry land and/or dredge to make lakes/ponds. Most current First World inhabitants greatly underestimate the scourge of malaria, especially before modern medicine allowed for a cure. The herd immunity like situation of modern California to endemic malaria is due to a wide assortment of factors and is maintained with relatively small cost today, but I imagine malaria could tip back to being widespread pretty quickly.
Given that perspective it is quite a somber phrase. Assuming you are living in America, do you feel like the standard 'things you should care about' package offered to us by government, cultural-shaping institutions, and the economy-shaping institutions is rather lack-luster when the standard distractions do not apply?

I guess more specifically, given the variance off the 'standard american life' you have experienced, most of the 'escapes' don't quite fit the mold of your experiences. I know there isn't really a question there - I guess, if you don't mind, I'd like to hear your thoughts on those ideas.
The minimum deduction is the "d x 0,286". Don't get confused by the French. It's for the "smallest" type of car, I think you actually need a motorbike to reach that rate.

The most economic Prius from this year would fall in the rate d x 0,332.

Yes, there are high taxes on gas but it's not significant when discussing the total costs including maintenance, insurance and depreciation. Keep in mind the exchange rate as well.
> there are many mechanical failures, or human errors on a plane that lead to, well, death of 100% of its passengers

That's true, but there are very few failures that lead the entire system to grind to a halt.
How straight forward is it to fix licensing and fiscal laws in 30 “independent” countries which have their own agendas without introducing new loopholes?

I agree that it’s rediculous that the double dutch (irish) sandwhich is still legal, so they should work on closing that hole.

As a datapoint:
"Apple's 2017 accounts showed they made $44.7bn outside the US and paid just $1.65bn in taxes to foreign governments, a rate of around 3.7%. That is less than a sixth of the average rate of corporation tax in the world." [0]

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41889787
Extremely cool until even the smell of navy beans makes you wretch.

Also, given the generally poor state of even contemporary nutritional science this strikes me as something akin to a particularly beautiful set of solutions for a universe in which the luminiferous aether is real.

BUT it is still a really neat optimization problem, and that is likely the spirit under which it was submitted.