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>That fourth paragraph is an over the top perfect storm of woe-is-me.

I've had my credit card declined when I tried to buy gas 2 hours away, late at night, because they assumed it was fraud. For 2 years and change, paying a hospital bill every month, my debit card issuer would flag it as fraud every single time, I'd have to contact them and say it wasn't, then attempt to pay again. Every single time.

It's wholly plausible, even without the card balance being near or at the limit, that they are having their card declined.

It's quite realistic that they have no one they can call and ask to have money wired to them, to buy their ticket, etc.

It's quite realistic that they are sleep deprived if they've been in an airport for even a day with no means of leaving which can severely impact mood and mental status, add this with the defeat of not only not getting the job but having their return flight cancelled as well as possibly being unemployed with no savings at all, it can be incredibly easy to go full-Eeyore.

Ticket price out of a smaller airport likely means one or more connections, last minute flight also often means considerably pricier.

I had a company interview me last year 3 times via video for an entry level customer service type position including a half hour with one of the co-founders as the 2nd interview, he wanted me to talk to a different department about an even higher job so I did for the 3rd interview, he started the call "I'm not sure why we are talking, why did co-founder have us schedule a meeting" and after talking to me for 45 minutes "well I don't have any positions right now, I wish you the best of luck". This is 12 days from the first interview, for the position I applied to, so I pinged the co-founder stating 3rd person said he didn't know why he was talking to me as he didn't have any positions an was busy training his most recent hires, and mentioned it had been 12 days since the first person interviewed me and I'd not heard anything on that front and if he could update me since the interviewer never gave me their email address. Within a few minutes "Caught up with first person, they mentioned you're likely not a good fit for us on THATPOSITION side either. Definitely encourage you to keep honing your skills. Maybe find a relevant side project or a local company..." so I fully buy that a company would show that level of interest and then "sorry bout ya, by!"

Here in the midwest if you get 3 interviews, one of which with the CEO that also tells you the starting salary, you've got the job not "yeah bye Felicia". I was in a funk for 3 days and I was comfortable in my bedroom, not stuck in a random airport.
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Of course! You're free to post anything they approve of.
For those taking notes, your girlfriend may respond negatively to going to bed alone while you have one-on-one time with her friend or roommate (or any other woman) late at night, especially if the other is being "nice."
Constantinople Hard Fork Makes Us Rethink What Reentrancy Is
I can kind of understand how people get addicted to Video games, spending all their days and nights behind a screen. I dont understand how you can do the same feeding money into a random machine with flashing lights and nice sounds non stop.
I find it hard to believe that any of the professionals you list make $10 million in taxable income. There are a few outliers but to act like all lawyers and doctors would be poor from a 70% rate over $10 million is just wrong.

Your sentiment that the truly rich make their money outside of a typical paycheck is correct though. It’s a balancing act of how do we tax people who have accumulated so much wealth in capital vs taxing capital so much that people don’t invest in it.

I don’t pretend to have the answer there but spreading disinformation that professional working people would be hurt by a 70% rate on every $1 over $10 million is pretty irresponsible.
Reasonably, AirBnB has already served its purpose. It has bludgeoned the hospitality industry forcing it to be more competitive. [1]

There is real opportunity for hotels to earn back customers and they should get this chance.

Due to hotel architecture they do not have the same problems as one-off airbnb units in neighborhoods. So they should reasonably consider offering greater privacy and reliability.

That said, the Marriott hack did not do them any favors.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2018/02/27/...
On the computer graphics side of things, there's a 2006 paper based on essentially the same underlying idea:

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOvYyJ6r1c

paper: https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/crowd-flows/
No, he doesn't. Any of those alternatives you mention (apprenticeship, etc.) require someone senior to you overseeing your tasks/progress. That someone can be a colleague, boss, CS teacher, etc. It's up to the entity overseeing your development (be it a school, or a company) to provide such expertise.

Once again, it's OK that you (person, programmer) don't know that. But as a company, there should be a strong guarantee that you (company) have the knowledge to build a good product. It's fine for a company to have some people who don't know this stuff, but not to not have anyone capable (and in a position that allows them to) notice these kind of mistakes.
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Can you give me an example of a scientifically demonstrated (not just speculated) consequence that we don't know how to deal with?
> because there were so many exemptions.

The effective tax rate was lower primarily because 91% was the top marginal tax rate. Even those who paid the top marginal rate still had most of their income taxed at lower marginal tax rates, just as it is today.

Also, a large number of exemptions still exist today.
This would never pass due to Grover Norquist & Americans for Tax Reform's strangle-hold on the Republican party. They have a "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" they leverage Rep. candidates into signing. When they are elected, if they ever vote for anything that could be viewed as a tax increase, ATR campaigns heavily against them in the next election.
When you think about it that way & then combine it with some type of 2FA, it starts to make a lot of sense.
The polling is not about raising the current highest tax bracket to 70%, it's about adding a new one. From the article:

> The New York Democrat kicked off a debate within her party in a Jan. 6 interview with "60 Minutes" during which she said she would support setting the highest tax, which she said would kick in at individuals 10 millionth dollar of income, at 70 percent.
Nobody I’m aware of is suggesting we tax the current top bracket at 70%, but that we make a new top bracket.
Agreed. It seems an odd inclusion for a visual proof. And afaik there's no simple visual way to demonstrate the impossibility of angle trisection. The proofs use the complex machinery of abstract algebra.
Thank you.

I'm still having trouble visualizing it, though. I reckon it's the kind of an idea where, if you don't give me a clear-enough image, I'm stuck no matter how well you pick your words others.

Not to put any kind of pressure on you, of course. I'm grateful for the explanation. It's my brain that does its tricks.
Ironically one section of the article refers to an article by Guardian which states that one of these regulatory agencies copy-paste Monsanto's texts.
It reminded me of one of Richard Feynman's stories where he was part of the commission for reviewing new school books which were according to him complete garbage, but other members of the commission approved them. Turned out their reviews were in fact written by the publishing houses and they just published what they were given. It wasn't a case of corruption, rather, people were lazy to even open the books.
Insurtech is changing. Here are five questions that will matter in 2019
Besides rare exceptions (that do exist!), there is nothing a co-founder can give that you can't hire.
Great. Increase that too.

Not many devs are making 1m+ salaries.
This is amazing!!

This goes into every depth of what happens from the physical pushing of the keys on the keyboard to the page rendering.

For someone who constantly wants to understand how things work, this page will be my reading for the next week.

>The "g" key is pressed
The following sections explain the physical keyboard actions and the OS interrupts. When you press the key "g" the browser receives the event and the auto-complete functions kick in. Depending on your browser's algorithm and if you are in private/incognito mode or not various suggestions will be presented to you in the dropbox below the URL bar. Most of these algorithms sort and prioritize results based on search history, bookmarks, cookies, and popular searches from the internet as a whole. As you are typing "google.com" many blocks of code run and the suggestions will be refined with each key press. It may even suggest "google.com" before you finish typing it.
Cockroaches in a residence in Hawaii is not uncommon, you are after-all, in a tropical rainforest. I have come to expect them in the rainforest/jungle housing. It is inevitable. The houses in these areas are often not well sealed due to local construction quality and/or the need to vent humidity. That said, the crumbs of food can/will exacerbate the problem and probably should have been kept to a higher standard of cleanliness.
absolutely. "War is a Racket" is on my desk right now. But literally everything was terrible in the 20th century. Still yet, as a proportion of world population things in the 20th century were arguably better than before, and the sins of state-sponsored capitalism were vastly vastly smaller in magnitude than state-sponsored "alternatives-to-capitalism", without even taking credit for the huge swaths of population whose quality of life has risen from subsistence due to it. Would you rather have one Stalin or five x (US invasions of Haiti, Nicaragua, and Iraq)? I know which I pick, every time.

Moreover, in its idealized form, capitalism has less of the state, whereas in its ideal form, marxism/communism has strong involvement of the state, versus classical socialism/anarchism in the Proudhon/Benjamin Tucker sense. There's even an essay by Tucker from the 19th century where he predicts the rise of leninism, gulags, venezuela-like conditions etc, as a natural consequence of Marxism, long before they even happen.
Heckel’s Elements of Friendly Software Design [pdf]
> If it were deliberately manufactured by a sentient alien civilization, why choose that specific shape? A light sail based probe doesn’t seem to be a sufficient enough explanation for the shape.

Why not? Assuming a civilization is (or was) technologically advanced enough, they would probably be doing lots of things we couldn't understand, especially given how little we know about this thing. He wasn't saying it was definitely, or even probably, a light sail, just that we should entertain the possibility.

Besides, we don't actually know what the shape is, only that its changes in brightness would be consistent with an elongated object, which is the simplest explanation. Or, maybe the object is perfectly spherical but the brightness changes are due to seeing a light sail at different angles, which is extremely unlikely but within the realm of possibility.
A little while back, a project named Supportify was posted here. It looks at your most played tracks, and tries to find Bandcamp links for the artists, so you can support them directly.

https://tomduncalf.github.io/supportify/
The point is valid. Every measure has a cost, including changing the tax code. If there's some certainty that the cost of implementing this tax hike won't be offset by the actual new revenue, there's no point on implementing it.

I don't know if that's true. But it makes sense that people earning more than $10M don't show it in the W2.
Yes, so was gender identity disorder (i.e., transgender) which was often classified with pedophillia or body integrity disorder.

There is no frame of reference for psychology to use except society and general assessments of normality and expected behavior. That mean the only method to determine whether or not something is a disorder at all is a) determine the impact of the condition on the individual's ability to function, and b) determine whether or not the condition results in harm to the individual or others. These are both very subjective measures. The fact that we think we're more right today than we were yesterday is really pretty immaterial.
It appears I am in the minority.

I do not support raising taxes on anyone. I support cutting spending and removing most government programs. Raising taxes has always had the impact of removing disposable income which impacts businesses and eventually impacts the individual. [1] I would rather see all government expenses become fully transparent, in addition to showing all money spent on lobbying down to the cent. Every government project should have public documents that detail a full project break-down and what money what spent specifically on what.

[1] - https://www.infoplease.com/homework-help/social-studies/fisc...
The appeal of AirBnB is that there is a much lower barrier to entry. I rarely spend more than $50-100/night on airbnb. (With the $100 being in expensive areas and usually a whole apartment)

I can rarely, if ever, find hotels that are below $80/night (short of them being extremely sketchy or in the middle of nowhere). Meanwhile those hotels don't always have kitchens, sizable refrigerators, etc.

It's allowed me to travel to places much more and for longer than I would otherwise. One could argue for hostels but private rooms in hostels usually are not any cheaper than AirBNB and they are insanely more noisy/disruptive.
Well, let's see:
One could argue that, compared to the solar system average, the center of the earth is quite cold, since nearly all the mass is in the sun.
The energy didn't originally come from the sun, it originally came from the big bang.
Since wings are appendages of propulsion rather than manipulation, they should count as legs. Yeah, sure, that brings the total to 10 since they have 2 pairs of wings, but the question doesn't say exactly 8 legs, and something with 10 legs also has 8 legs.
Earth only has the appearance of great age but it was actually created just 6000 years ago.
If a single change in a gene makes it count as a different gene, it is not true that humans share a majority of genes with chimps.
Chromosomes don't determine gender, self-identification does.
Since in general is just a tool of patriarchal oppression.
"Filling business needs" is also not an objectively useful thing. There are many businesses I would prefer not advertise (e.g. cigarette and gun companies) and many more industries that are nearly zero-sum (and thus advertising just moves a fixed pool of money around). I'm not sure where this idea that growth for the sake of growth is inherently good came from. In fact, we've demonstrated many ways it's harmful.
I was thinking in terms detached from typical system architecture.

What if we don't tie paging with memory protection when designing CPUs?
What if we don't assume, build, or run 32 bit applications?
What if we do actually put a hard physical 4GB (or whatever) limit on processes?
What if we don't need hypervisors?

What if we trade off hardware and software complexity we've built decades ago for limitations we had decades ago, and build something simpler from scratch?
I automated my social media by deleting all of my accounts
The top rate would apply to annual income of $10,000,000 and above. Maybe you know something I don't, but at least of the people I know there aren't many doctors, lawyers, software developers, etc hitting those numbers.

The super rich make about half their income via capital gains, and the rest via various forms of income such as dividends, business income, etc. So such a change would certain impact at least a reasonable portion of their income. It does raise the question of whether a flat rate for capital gains makes sense.
The issue is that this "target group" is typically "people that visited your website and stayed there for some time".

Unless you have a promo, you really don't want to advertise to them... But that is exactly what you end up doing, because you can't target "people that visited my website 6+ months ago".
How long did it take you to become adapted?
It is unfortunate that the poll asked about changing the highest tax bracket, whereas Ocasio-Cortez suggested creating a new $10m tax bracket. They are very different things.

Edit: I stand corrected. The picture in the article doesn't mention the new $10m tax bracket, but the actual poll question did.
The question used in this poll seems to be "Do you favor a 70% tax rate to the 10th million dollar and above?"
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Yeah, IMO that’s also a lot worse than what people are going after Google/Facebook for.
Blind Guardian has their full discography on Spotify now, in case you hadn't seen :-)
I will also ask you to provide an example of a scientifically demonstrated consequence of climate change we don't know how to deal with.

Climate change is a fact of life and we have always had to deal with it. Nature doesn't give us an environment we make dangerous, nature gives us a dangerous environment we then make safe.

I am personally more concerned about a lot of other things before climate change even enters my list.
People here dismiss the linear search, but for a small number of items (and yes, even thousands can be a small number), I wouldn't be so fast without testing it. Cache locality also has a say here, and depending on the exact circumstances, a linear search might make sense (even more so as a first version).
I thought it was understood in this subthread we're playing a game. Yes, we all know what the intended correct answers are.
there are places here that will let you vote for the president of the united states without requiring proof that you are a US citizen. what do you expect.
That was the question. Scroll down and you'll see the details of the poll. The question was about taxing past $10M/year income.
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Ok how about the introductory paragraph that states

> The following October, Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, co-wrote a paper (with a Harvard postdoctoral fellow, Shmuel Bialy) that examined ‘Oumuamua’s “peculiar acceleration” and suggested that the object “may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth’s vicinity by an alien civilization.”

or another spot where he says

"Every now and then we find an object of artificial origin. And this could be a message in a bottle, and we should be open-minded."

Seems to me like he is saying it could be worth considering that maybe this is an alien object.
So much of the focus is on science, and so little on how GMO further expands the domain of businesses whose interests do not align with consumers'.

Perhaps we should fix the incentives first, otherwise we will see the equivalents of perpetual copyright, DRM, and food stuffed full of salt and sugar, replicated in life itself.
> Provided the allegations are true, whatever sentence he gets will not be enough...

He has already been sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison (and federal time has no parole).

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/massachusetts-man-sentenced-m...
> I don't think it's unreasonable to want to eat real food, the same we've eaten for thousands of years, or to think it's the healthiest option for us. It's common sense, which doesn't require years of indoctrination in high school and university.

I think people need to be taught in school that there is no such thing as eating "the same we've eaten for thousands of years". Ever since people first started doing agriculture those thousands of years ago, the food we grow has been constantly changing on genetic level. Wheat today isn't the same wheat it was 500 years ago, and wheat 500 years ago wasn't the same as it was 1000 years ago, all because farming applies a new set of selection pressures.

The difference between "real food" and GMOs is that genetic engineering is a scalpel, where our age-old farming practices are a combination of sledgehammer genetic engineering, and throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks.
I don't see where we disagree.
Calm your tits. Everything is going to be fine.
Occam’s razor is a thought-terminating cliché whose only utility is to allow rubes to convince themselves they’re intelligent.
100% agree. Once you know what you want the tree to look like it's usually just a matter of making a branch/tag (in case you mess up, and need to start over) and not being afraid of reset, even with the --hard flag.
Are those "specific, long-considered reasons" revolve around your religious belief? If so, could you share them? I'm an atheist, and I'm looking to understand the mindset of people who are religious. It was never self-evident to me, and I'm curious why it may be to others.
If you're interested in something along the lines of the latter, you can sign up for an early access preview here: g.co/serverlesscontainers
From the embedded results table at the bottom of the article:

> "AB2: Currently the top tax rate is 37%. Would you favor or oppose a tax proposal that would apply a 70% rate to the 10 millionth dollar and beyond for individuals making $10 million a year or more in reportable income?"
I might be wrong but I think that's part of the reason why the proposed rate is 70%. If they're just going to obscure so much of their capital anyway, you might as well tax what they can't at an especially high rate to compensate for that.
> Overheard conversations between strangers, for example, are fair game.

Wrong. It's insider trading if you have material, nonpublic information. It doesn't matter how you got that information.
I mean, if you're into room service, then AirBnb is obviously not for you...
This tactic may work in the 90s and 00s era where crowdsourced campaign funding and modern online organizing didn’t yet exist.

Nowadays people can pressure their friends and family to vote and dilute lobbying pressure.

How impactful was the Norquist crowd in 2018?
Climate change doesn't affect the world the same way globally and never have.
And there are all small things. We have never had this much heat in the neolithic era.

https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/last-time-eart...
https://www.inquisitr.com/5111067/what-the-earth-was-like-th...
https://mashable.com/article/earth-warmest-temperatures-clim...
That's a bold statement. Still, the NAR has data that suggests realtors are more likely to be involved in transactions than 18 years ago:

87% of buyers purchased their home through a real estate agent or broker—a share that has steadily increased from 69 percent in 2001.

Source: National Association of Realtors (https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/quick-real-e...)

... But I'm curious if the definition of "broker" includes online marketplaces or other digital services.

It's true that realtors (and other players, including real estate lawyers) do have expertise that can help buyers and sellers deal with the unique issues that come up with each home, not to mention the mandated paperwork. Streamlining those requirements may be extremely difficult.

However, I think realtors have a demographic tidal wave about to hit them, consisting of first-time young home buyers and some slightly older home sellers who are used to doing things online and want nothing to do with realtor-mediated transactions ... or will scoff at the ridiculously high fees charged by brokers.
Yes, but it is important to close the tax loopholes first. Because it is also quite logical to spend 10% of your income on a fancy tax expert if they can save you an extra 11% on taxes.

That work is of little value to society or the government.
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Mass migration and civil war.