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Your scenario meets the definition of 'using margin as a financing option'. It is the same as the overdraft option provided by credit cards, only it is more dangerous since in the margin call scenario they actually liquidate your stocks without asking you (if I recall from reading up on how this works at most discount brokerages a few years ago). The fact that you rarely do it helps some but as we know the thing about rare events is they happen every day :). I have held myself to a "current ratio" of over two, which is considered 'healthy' by most finance people when evaluating businesses. I would encourage everyone to calculate their current ratio and make sure it is ALWAYS over two as well. It's literally the current assets (cash you could get access to in a year) divided by the current liabilities (all expenses due in a year). Easy to calculate and immensely freeing once you decide it's a rule you'll never break.
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You are.

My custom house is almost complete and we only put a single 40 amp circuit in the garage. I've lived with an EV for a few years now. 40 amps is plenty. When we get two EVs, 40 amps will still be plenty. The garage is also close enough to the breaker box that we can run another 40 amp circuit if we need to.

You don't need both of your Teslas to go from 0 range to 300+ miles in two hours everyday. If you did that much driving you'd be running a taxi service.

In our case, the charger will be between both bays. Assuming that both EVs have 300 mile range, we won't need to charge both cars everyday. (Edit) I'm also assuming someone will come out with a 40-amp dual-car charger that will split the load between two cars when both are plugged in.

Anyway, I did ask about 400 amp service because I wanted to use tankless electric water heaters. What he told me is that he'd have to wire in a second panel and second meter.

At that point I decided that 200 amps was plenty.
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I had skimmed over the titles of the other coverage, but actually read this one. Good job, OP.
I'm not worried because I made best effort to report and pay taxes properly on my crypto holdings just like I do on my other investments.

I really don't see the big deal here. People who were thinking that crypto was going to magically be exempt from taxes were delusional. The only open question is if the IRS may change crypto->crypto trades to like kind. As of today with the current guidance though, no - crypto is property similar to a stock.
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Halfbaked idea: somebody should start a service where you upload a 3d design of a keyboard, including a mapping of keys to keycodes, and they will build the keyboard for you.
Yes, I should say that I'm not necessarily advocating for it, just giving a hint as to where to look the ideas up.

Personally I'm just fine with either. Particle physics makes it pretty clear IMHO that the idea of a weakly interacting massive particle is perfectly reasonable, because the particle zoo that we have is already rich far beyond "normal matter" and adding a few more isn't conceptually too difficult. (It'll break our theories, of course, but we kinda already know there must be something wrong with them, so that's not a huge shocker.) And the idea that physical laws may not be exactly perfectly the math we thought they were is also not that shocking to me, for all kinds of reasons, again not least of which is that we know something is wrong with our current theories.
If the outrage over this law is perennial, why on earth hasn’t it become a campaign issue for Alabama state legislature candidates?
My friend's dad was a cop who "abused" the pension system. He retired at 45 with a full pension and immediately began working in the private sector, essentially giving him dual income.

Prior to retiring from the police, he was paid $15k to $35k annually over the course of 20 years (I adjusted for inflation, so those are 2018 dollars).

Sometimes "pension abuse" is "getting a fair salary after I've left the job" (not always of course).
The tactility of the Cherry MX Blues is not particularly satisfying by the standard of other clicky switches (e.g. buckling springs, Alps, etc). I've recently tried out the Kailh Box switches which have a different tactile mechanism, and they are (IMHO) a big improvement over the MX Blues.
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outside of this there already exist smooth fractals

https://www.emis.de/journals/em/images/pdf/em_24.pdf
I haven't added power to my detached garage yet, but when I do, it's getting 200 amp service. I don't have an electric car (yet) and I may not before I move out of the house, but somebody is eventually going to live in that house and have an electric car.
They were not talking about through-hole LEDs in that section as Alps styles switches (Matias is resurrection of the simplified Alps style) cannot have both a through-hole LED and have a tactile or click leaf. They are talking about how Matias used a transparent switch housing along with SMD RGB LEDs which allow the light to shine through.
"We rendered assistance to Swiss law enforcement working on this case without having yet received a court order, but with the understanding that an approved court was on its way to us."

Conveniently the page is never update to say whether these court orders were actually delivered.
But the EPA hasn't been dismantled, and we've had many Republican presidents. Regulations and budgets have been cut, but that's consistent with the belief that the EPA is too big and bureaucratic.

It's just so needlessly pointless to frame things this way. It'd be like posting pictures of people in bread lines in the USSR and saying, "this is what a country looks like with left-wing politicians in charge." I mean, yes, it's true, but it's straw-manning all left-wing politicians as full-blown communists.

Let's try to avoid straw-manning and demonizing political opponents and maybe we'll be able to improve the discourse a little.

> Not to mention that conservative politicians endlessly rail against the evils of the EPA in terms not even remotely nuanced.

Yes, sometimes politicians are a big exaggerated with their rhetoric. That's not unique to conservatives, though.
> Citation needed.

Oh come on: this is a well-known property of garbage collectors and should have been covered in an entry-level CS class. Did you even try to find this before pulling out the "citation needed" trope? Hacker News needs an auto-responses to any comment that has that phrase in it with "have you tried Google yet?" :/.

With just ten seconds of Google searching (so surely less time than it likely took you to type your "citation needed") I was able to find a meta-reference (a Stack Overflow answer with links to papers looking at this result). The results were "similar or up to 4% faster" and "much faster with lots of ram".

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/755878/any-hard-data-on-...

(At least one of those links is dead, but it is to the same paper that thesz linked to in a sibling to this comment... a comment which provided a citation and which someone downvoted, because people care more about opinion than actually finding citations. I upvoted his comment back to being rendered in black text :/.)

What is so strange about this being controversial is that it is truly an obvious result: a real heap allocation is really really slow, and a copying collector never has to allocate anything (it just bumps a pointer). So only when you have memory pressure does it eventually prune objects, and until then it runs lightning fast: faster than the malloc/free code could possibly dream of.

The advantage of affine types (as in Rust) isn't actually that it is avoiding GC: it is that it makes it possible to avoid allocation itself by making it safe to allocate things on the stack (where you get the speed of bumping a pointer again instead of the painfully slow malloc). That is the kind of analysis that is often attempted by languages like Java ("escape analysis"), but is only available in limited circumstances.
It's shameful to see those responsible for upholding the law not acting in the spirit of the law, when it applies.
So Hardins theory is addressing tthings like the ocean and the air.

No, Hardin himself intended his theory to address land usage; it's this article that argues the theory doesn't actually work properly in that context.
> since the wiring standards have some overhead in them for this.

And there's a good reason they do.
Swapping does solve the charging time problem. There was a pretty big effort to build out a swapping network, but it ran in to business issues:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)
... down, right, whatever. "Delaying" it half a line might have been better worded to describe what's happening.
> The sheriff gets to keep the budget surplus. It's his personal money now.

How on earth is it possible for taxpayer money to legally end up in an official's pocket?
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In the case of the Three Miles Island Accident, modern sensors and more automation would have helped. With Fukushima, automation wouldn't have helped, what they were lacking was better tsunami protection, more resistant construction, bigger battery backups. At Tschernobyl they had an inherently unsafe reactor type, operated the reactor outside the safety parameters and had safety systems deactivated. Not much you can do about that.

Automation would help, but more modern reactor designs that are less prone to causing problems likely have a much bigger impact.

>Or maybe with efficient manufacturing like 3d printing, we could tear them down and rebuild them each year?

Tearing nuclear reactors down on regular basis sounds like a much worse nuclear waste problem than the power production already is. All the stuff that would be interesting to tear down and rebuild is contaminated from radiation exposure.
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There's very possible still some value in the keyboard. Someone over at /r/Mechanicalkeyboards would certainly take a look. It might be a matter of removing the current controller chip and putting in something custom. Or removing the switches and using them in a new design. They've put more effort into less.
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In other countries it called corruption. Not in US, because it is legal, what don’t you understand?
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"Write Yourself a Roguelike" is an Open Source project that started as a ebook by a former Thoughtbot employee. https://github.com/thoughtbot/write-yourself-a-roguelike

It's very much still in progress, but certainly fits the brief.
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I can only imagine what sort of chaos exists in Windows and OSX. Unfortunately I can only do that: imagine, because it is closed source. With Linux, I can at least see the mess, and well, make a map out of it.
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Does that mean Coinbase will give me a 1099 at the end of the year?
Just FYI: you can edit your original comment, which is likely the better method in the future.
Ethical nit-pick: In degrees of 'evilness' it shouldn't matter whether or not the person being tortured is convicted or not — unless you subscribe to the rather unenlightened notion that condemned criminals by default deserve worse than what the judge handed down as a sentence in a fair trial.
In their whitepaper [1] they mention storing cryptographic proofs on the Bitcoin blockchain (Section 3). However they do not seem to specify what proofs exactly.

[1] https://agora.vote/Agora_Whitepaper_v0.1.pdf
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I have similar experience - you dont know what will be useful in the future. Someone put in Cat5 cables 20 years ago into my place - nice idea. There is cat5 to the kitchen which is a waste of time now that wifi is here. Meanwhile it isn't fast enough for gig ether to my server so I put a new cable in. Likewise I have analog component video wires in the wall which is useless when I want HDMI.
Given that speeders more often harm themselves than others, your equation gives a negative answer.
I don't think that naturalness is something that can be disproved, but it is not necessarily the case that finding out the universe does not work in some particular way is just as useful as finding out that it does work some specific way. That is because there are so many more of the former.

The issue of the article is a resource allocation problem, and there is something unethical about bending scientific prognostications (these cannot be distinguished with the label 'hypotheses') to that end.

"Pursuing exciting results over the truth" doesn't come into it - no-one is accused of falsifying anything here (though it has happened elsewhere.) At worst, the truth will be delayed, though that might be the outcome of pouring resources into a bigger machine, rather than of not doing so.
> "guaranteed to be safe" (which will most likely require tooling) rather than merely "safer" - and I will be the first one to promote it myself :-)

Well I hope so, as SaferCPlusPlus could use a little promotion :) At this point, despite the name, I think the dialect itself is "safe", not just "safer". Potentially unsafe features are relegated to the "mse::us" namespace and are generally only needed for interop with legacy code.

Of course there's no way to enforce that a programmer stick to the "dialect"/subset without some tooling. But I think the "rule" for adhering to the SaferCPlusPlus subset is pretty simple and generally intuitive. That is, "any potentially unsafe element of C++ should be avoided". And I think most of us have a pretty good sense of which C++ elements are potentially unsafe. The (few) unintuitive ones might include things like the implicit "this" pointer (which is a native pointer, so it should be avoided). A tool to enforce adherence would be fairly straightforward to write. When there is sufficient demand it will be provided. At the moment an "auto-translation"[1] tool has higher priority.

> quite simple: there are only 3 concepts, with 2 of them ('naked' and 'owning'=unique_ptr<>) being already very familiar

It's the same with SaferCPlusPlus, but the 3 "concepts" (pointer types) are "reference counting" pointer (=std::shared_ptr<>), "registered pointer" (= safe, unrestricted naked pointer), and "scope" pointer (basically a naked pointer that is restricted to stack allocation (i.e. a "local variable") and can only point to objects guaranteed to outlive it). The Core Guidelines also has three "concepts"/pointer types (shared, unique, and naked). I suspect that some experience will reveal that SaferCPlusPlus has the better set of pointer types.

...

Oh wait, you're the author of the article? In which case, I think it would be worth your time to get more familiar with SaferCPlusPlus. Even if just as research for your own dialect. But with some experience, I think ultimately you might be convinced by the SaferCPlusPlus solution. In fact, there's no reason why your (Re)Actors couldn't be implemented on top of SaferCPlusPlus, which would automatically provide the safe "collections" that you need.

Don't hesitate to post any questions in the "issues" section[2].

[1] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus-AutoTransla...

[2] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus/issues
I think it matters
> "Sheriffs across the state take excess money as personal income — and, in the event of a shortfall, are personally liable for covering the gap."

Does that ever happen? What could cause it to happen? Could the state not just say, "we're reducing your budget by 750k this year, make up the shortfall Mr Sheriff." and he'll have to cough up?
One of the tax implications I’ve often thought about is those that heavily trade among different cryptos.

If I buy $10k of Intel, it grows to $15k and I sell it to buy $15k of Google, I owe tax on the $5k gain.

Now, perhaps one could argue that there is no “liquidity” event by trading one crypto for another. But perhaps the IRS argues there is a phantom liquidity event during such a trade. The IRS generally doesn’t like someone to be able to trade assets without recognizing a gain, otherwise it breaks down the fundamental framework upon which the entire tax system is based. The law provides a few provisions for tax free trades, but they are specifically prescribed by the tax law, such as a 1031 exchange between real estate holdings.

If you’ve heavily traded between cryptos over the past year with massively appreciating values, I would be worried that the IRS would claim you should have recognized a tax gain with every trade. For some, the ramifications for such a perspective could be huge.
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> if you were American, had a coinbase account, and made significant capital gains in the years under investigation, would you not be worried?

Well since I wouldn't have committed tax fraud (and potentially other felonies) by not reporting capital gains, I wouldn't be the slightest bit worried, no.
Glad to know that I'm not the only one that felt this way. 4 copied images and a few lines of text that add nothing to the discussion of the original article. I even refreshed the page, because I thought that I was missing something.

In terms of text, the original article does not have much either, but at least you're treated to about 30 or so images. It actually gives the reader a glimpse of parts of the US pre-EPA.
True, but they did add some tools to the tax center tab to make it easy to calculate your gains/losses for tax purposes.
ok, this is a little more complex:

When Entrekin's predecessor died while still in office, all the money in the food provision account went to his estate — as state law dictated, a county official told NPR. Entrekin had to borrow $150,000 to keep the inmates fed. He was paying down that debt for years, The Gadsden Times reported.

In 2009, while he was still in debt from paying for inmates' food, Entrekin told the Times that he personally thought the law needed to be changed. But he noted that it might cost more money for taxpayers if the county commission had to manage jail kitchens through an open bid process.

David Akins, the chief administrative officer of the Etowah County Commission, agrees with that assessment. He says the commission is not eager to take on that duty, as some other local governments have done.

"The sheriff can feed inmates cheaper than the county can," he said.
That's a shame, because regular grammars have a very important property: they're processed with a Finite State Automaton. This makes them blazing fast and quite memory efficient. (Heck, even with a non-deterministic one they're fast.)
>there's no need to embellish.

You know I feel similarly as you, but with all of the research I have been seeing lately about how propaganda and emotional manipulation are far more effective than facts and reason, perhaps it is the case that to achieve positive change you do need to embellish, or else the forces pushing for negative change, who have no problem embellishing, will win?

I don't want this to be true but maybe it is.
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It's not just a matter of tracking those that cashed out as taxes are on the net profits of individual trades. Even converting between coins (ex: sell BTC, buy ETH) is a taxable event.
It was probably written to incentivize the sheriff to lower spending. To prevent abuse, the sheriff has to personally cover any budget shortfalls.

What probably happened was people abused the law as way of giving the sheriff a raise without actually giving him a raise.
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I'm actually a Libertarian myself. And I agree with all you say. Except of course the anarchist part because it directly contradicts me :)

> But the whole movement is being hijacked by people who either don't care about much else than not wanting to pay taxes

Many of those people have moved to the Republican party. Often the same people who think that liberty only applies to you if you have the right income level, color skin, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. As I said in my first post, an dI'm sure you agree, you can't pick and chose who gets liberties.

Unfortunately the anarchist have chosen to use the Libertarian party to give themselves a voice. And while I agree they are not true Libertarians, they are the extremist in the party and are the party's demons to fight.
Just pray they don't give you a 1099 with grossly incorrect values like they generously did for me.
Regulations aren't much good if you don't have personnel with the technical expertise to monitor compliance, enforce them and arrange for damage limitation or mitigation. A lot of environmental protection activity has a positive return on investment for tax dollars because cleanup and health hazard mitigation is really, really expensive.

$8bn per annum is a tiny sum of money to spend on environmental protection for a developed country the size of the United States.
Badly written laws, that's how.
You do both. You come up with a test, yes, and you come up with an idea of what it will mean if the test either confirms or rejects the hypothesis.

And no, promise can mean exactly what I said it can mean. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/promise

From the article:

> To justify substantial investments, I am told, an experiment needs a clear goal and at least a promise of breakthrough discoveries

That sentence is meaningless if "promise" means "A declaration or assurance that one will do something or that a particular thing will happen" -- the "at least" is totally redundant in that interpretation. If it means "the quality of potential excellence", then "at least" makes perfect sense.
What would happen if someone was to lose access to their wallets? Would they still have to pay taxes? If my memory serves me right, close to 4 million bitcoins are missing.
I've gone through a lot of keyboards. IBM, Unicomp, Sun Type 4 and 5, Apple ALPS with ADB converter, a bunch with various Cherry switches including Filco, Leupold, etc.

I had two Matias keyboards, the tactile pro (I think original) and the 2, and while the switches are okay neither held up to daily use with keys that wobbled, cracked plastic, and both suffered from keybounce and had poor NKRO (enough that I noticed it in Emacs). No thanks.

I settled on a KUL tenkeyless board with Cherry Green key switches[1] which feel similar to buckling spring and it takes up less deskspace. The caps have worn slick and the printing nearly gone but the feel is still good.

[1] https://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_MX_Green
The volume of whale oil used back in the 19th century is laughably anecdotic compared to petroleum.

When we talk about our energy needs, scale matters a lot. So yes, when it comes to climate change and energy use, you can ignore the rest of human history completely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/fossil_fuel?wasredirected=tr...
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Measurements have been averaging a little above 3mm per year for the last two decades[0]. This is believed to be about double the post-Ice-Age background rate of a century ago, and it is predicted to accelerate further (though it has yet to do so noticeably).

[0]http://sealevel.colorado.edu/