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It's an okay feature. The feature I really wish they had is to auto-reject any calls not on my contact list. I'm just glad they finally added auto-rejecting any calls considered spam by their systems.
I doubt there’s any more or less concentration of wealth either way. The question is whether it concentrates to preexisting homeowners or to the new productive industry and its imported workers.
I think it is pretty much impossible to learn mathematics without a teacher beyond a certain point, multiple teachers are ideal. The reason for that is in order to do mathematics you need to solve problems and develop intuition. It will be very hard for you to solve problems (write proofs) without someone that evaluates the quality of your solutions, and it is very easy to deceive yourself that your reasoning is without gaps without experience. The same is true for intuition, without a master at whatever field you want to study it will be hard to work through most books (Hartshornes, Algebraic Geometry comes to mind. His seminars and lectures contained plenty of simple examples. The book itself is famously an uneasy compromise, which no one was really happy with but also with few better alternatives)
He founded a mobile app development company. Speaking at a conference for $1000, and getting a single customer from that conference would probably get him $10,000 in revenue.

I agree that they're pretty shallow ramblings. Also, of course he's not going to get much business from his instagram. He's not selling a lifestyle product, he's selling mobile apps.
> We can artificially create a complete diet of strictly plant matter with intelligent choices.

That's very hard to distinguish from supplements. Some nutrients are hard to find in useful quantities in plants, so you need a ton of them. The most practical approach is to extract and put them in a pill. Supplements. Nothing wrong with it.
Why the focus on income as opposed to capital gains?

It's always struck me that only the very-very rich count on investment income.
I think you might be surprised how much money is in the top 1%, and would probably find mind-blowing the amount of money in the top .01%
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I don’t know where you are getting this info from. Both legitimate data (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol...) and my personal anecdata support the fact that the US isn’t even close to being the country with the most normalized attitude towards alcoholism. Just visit South Korea and try to count the number of drunk salarymen passed out outside.

For those lazy to click the link: the US is 24th in terms of alcohol consumption per capita on that 2015 list of developed countries, out of 33 total. In the older list from 2010, which featured more countries, US was number 48.
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> You can't possibly believe that 70% marginal on > 100k is anywhere near reasonable.

Well, that's the rub: it depends on who you ask. If you ask someone making $30K per year, $100K is a fantastic sum worthy of a high tax rate. That's the problem with the "soak the rich" rhetoric: it's all a matter of perspective. Just pray that someone without any insight into your financial situation doesn't deem you "rich"!
Controversial, but I’ll say it anyway: the fairest tax is a flat tax. Take, say, 15% across the board for anyone making above a threshold. Then combine that with eliminating most if not all of the current tax deductions, so that everyone actually pays the amount they should. Someone who makes $100k/year pays $15k in taxes. Someone who makes $1M/year pays $150k. That’s fair.

I’m certainly not the first to propose this, and I seem to recall that Intuit and others (H&R Block likely) lobbied hard against any attempt to simplify the tax code, as their services wouldn’t be needed any more.
Food availability is important, and productive farms help realize that but it comes at a cost. As a society, we are pushing the boundaries in so many areas with respect to the environment and we are really starting to see the consequences for these actions. I feel like there are many possible solutions to these problems but very few are actually viable and widely accepted. Big farms aren't going to accept the limitations we want to place on them and people aren't going to let them continue to destroy the environment around them. In my own opinion, money means nothing if we can't live long enough to use it.
how do you smoke without inhaling the smoke? Genuinely curious, I thought the whole point was to inhale the smoke, otherwise you don't get any flavor.
The effective tax rate has been steady at 17 +/- 2% since World War II regardless of how the government changes the nominal rates. Totally agree that lawyers and accountants would ensure that this remains true. Good luck taxing rich people.
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Same, although I had a friend who signed up around the same time who needed to go through some verification after using it for a few months.
This is a distortion of what actually happened. The reason why there was a massive expansion of benefits granted to top employees in the mid 20th Century is exactly because the 90% taxes on income over $100,000 (adjusting for inflation, roughly $1.6 million in today's money) -- and this was necessary because that $100,000 limit felt real to the employees.

This is when the era of travel on corporate expenses became lavish, because it was a tax-free way to offer an extra gift to top employees. If a company can not pay its top executives more than $100,000, then the company might as well put together a lavish bash in Las Vegas -- this can function both as a sales opportunity, but also a way to reward top employees, since the company can not really offer them more cash.

If you like, you can refer to the growth of benefits as a tax shelter, but that distorts the original meaning of the word.

The big era of tax shelters, in the regular sense, does not get going till the end of 1960s, and then goes wild in the 1970s, then comes to an end in the 1980s (with obvious exceptions such as "horse farms" which allow the rich to avoid paying real estate taxes, while also enjoying their horses).

But during the first 30 years of those high taxes, from the 1930s to the 1960s, those high nominal rates lead to high real tax rates. This is the main reason that income inequality shrank dramatically during this time. Read the vicious attacks that the wealthy expressed towards these high taxes and you realize that these high taxes were very real.
> They need to have a simple message.

It's hard to imagine a simpler message than "people who make more than $10 million a year should pay more taxes."
"I drank what?" — Socrates
The reason 17% is so often raised as the right flat tax is that it has been the effective tax rate since the 1950s.

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/margin...
This is my complaint too. People rant about the rich “paying their fair share”, but the problem here isn’t the tax rate applied to the rich, it’s that they don’t pay anywhere near it.
My favorite response to this is the one called out on the story a few months ago about Keybase's exploding message feature[1]:

> I have nothing to hide

> Because no one is trying to hurt you

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17357992
My primary point is that we can't look to the past and say "rates were super high before, and look how great we did". We need to realize those were nominal rates that no one ever really paid. It may make sense to raise rates on high-earners, but we can't justify it based on the past economic results during periods of high nominal rates.
Technically our planet will be fine even if there is manure in human water supplies.

We could even go insane and nuke ourselves into oblivion by having every society launch every nuclear weapon at one another.

Even in the face of such a catastrophe the Earth would be here afterward. Albeit in a vastly different form that is incompatible with human life.

Climate change is basically our way of saying that the environment for human life is being adversely impacted. Doesn't really matter how because if we don't start to make the environment better for human life we won't be able to live on this planet any longer.
I think there is a line between accepting that accidents happens, and assuming that it does.

Imagine assuming that every time you cross the street you’ll get hit by a car. Assuming every time you see someone it will be the last time ever. Assuming ever day you live might be the last one.

That’s no way to live, I find it incredibly mentally taxing and insane if actually followed.

Sure security breach can happen in any service, we should still treat most of them as reasonably private for any casual use.
Feel free to "opt out" by getting a VPN and putting your browser in private mode.
Someone set us up the data breach
At the time of its death, it was almost entirely moved over to "OneCore", supposedly: that is, it was using the NT Kernel and a lot of shared NT Services with every other SKU of Windows (and Xbox One). It seems doubtful that they could open source it if they wanted to without open sourcing a lot of the critical internals of Windows.

I think Microsoft may be in the closest place it has ever been to the possibility of open sourcing Windows, but I don't think the death of the Redstone 3 fork that Windows 10 Mobile has been running for the last year plus would be the reason it happens.
They likely just hit an inflection point where it started making sense to do their own fab.
Deniability is not the same as privacy and can't be used to replace it.
GDPR is nice on paper, I'd like to see it actually enforced as its been written. Seems like strong words and weak teeth so far. However, most companies are more concerned with hockey stick charts and are willing to ask for forgiveness later in terms of all things privacy related. I wish it weren't that way, but Ive yet to see that happen successfully.
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Love it: you have to scroll down four sections before they get honest and talk about the fact its just another blockchain thing. Then again, the "based in Switzerland" thing sort of gave us a hint.
Nitrogen runoff is huge problem. Multi-billion dollar idea? Autonomous tractors applying N only when the plant needs it (a couple small 2 week windows).

Cant wait for the startup to bring this to market
no, its worse than that. everything you do [period] will be available to the public.

the reason the twitter story is news is because they were private tweets. yes on an "internet service" but do you think your operating system is your own anymore? microsoft uses MS accounts for default windows installs, onedrive is installed automatically, icloud backup, etc etc. this is still in the purview of the "digital" world but the privacy concern is indeed larger than the "internet" world.

beyond this we have the IoT. your google home devices (or if not yours, someone elses) recording everything you do when not even digitally engaged.

we had best be ready for it. i really hope it doesnt turn into self-censorship. i hope it turns into more open mindedness and acceptance (oh, my neighbour isn't perfect either??)
Nigeria has now lost 96% of it's forest. Here is an animated map to demonstrate
Sorry to hear about the farm. Can you talk a little about the financial aspects...cost, milk price etc of your small farm? Do larger farms make a little on each cow but multiplied by 5000 ends up being a decent sum? I guess buying tractors, building sheds etc might be more cost effective with larger farms--spread over more. Also pricing power.
> If you like, you can refer to the growth of benefits as a tax shelter, but that distorts the original meaning of the word.

Just to be clear, I wasn't talking about employee benefits at all.
Exactly. And all this money sloshing around is what leads to inflation, so the central bank has to make up for it by doing things like "tapering" QE, raising interest rates, and generally crashing the economy.
You're surprised that baseless conspiratorial speculation is downvoted on hackernews?
In 2007/2008 as I quit Facebook after this happened and a bunch of other settings would without notice.
I imagine it like being in a boat. There are people in the boat running around drilling holes in the bottom and then there are those trying to cover the holes, the Leak Fixers, but they do this very poorly, and sometimes their efforts create just as much water leakage as the hole drillers.

Then there are those who are bailing water out of the boat. Most of them have small cups, some have nothing but spoons, but some have enormous buckets, and all are bailing as much as they can.

Then the Leak Fixers turn around and see that their efforts are not yielding the results they expected. Rather than stop the hole drillers, or improve their hole fixing, they turn to the Large Bucket Bailers, and demand that they double the hours they spend bailing water.

If I was holding a large bucket when that happened, I would be very very angry.
> it may taste slightly different

Slightly different? I like vegetables and tofu as much as they next person, but 'textured protein' meat alternatives taste nothing like the real thing.

I prefer just to spend a little more on a non-battery chicken.
> at this point I think it's prudent to assume that pretty much anything you send out into the digital network world is public

So....what?

I can't do my banking online?

I can't send private correspondence?

I can't file my taxes electronically?

I can't pay my medical bills online?

(Actually all my medical information are put online my insurance co.; I'm pretty sure I can't do anything about that.)

I'm not saying you're wrong; I just don't see how that prudence as leads to any practical conclusions or advice.
Milton Friedman (who is a few steps above AOC when it comes to economic policy knowledge):

"All things considered, the personal income tax structure that seems to me best is a flat-rate tax on income above an exemption... I would combine this program with the abolition of the corporate income tax, and with the requirement that corporations be required to attribute their income to stockholders, and that stockholders be required to include such sums on their tax returns. The most important other desirable changes are the elimination of percentage depletion on oil and other raw materials, the elimination of tax exemption of interest on state and local securities, the elimination of special treatment of capital gains, the coordination of income, estate, and gift taxes, and the elimination of numerous deductions now allowed."

However, this won't happen because those on the left and the right (i.e. "politicians") use the tax code as a means for punishing and rewarding to garner favor with contributors to their political campaigns.

Here's Friedman speaking on that: https://youtu.be/TruCIPy79w8?t=13
>> If you objectively try to figure out the most dangerous drug in the world, you'll quickly find out it's alcohol. Alcohol makes people act dangerously and kills tens of thousands in car crashes(in the USA at least).

Well no. If you want to be objective (in the USA at least) it's opioids. Also, If we had better stats on suicide I bet more would be done with opioids than alcohol, but I'm speculating at this point.
> One of the most obvious (among many) differences we noticed when moving to the US from Europe is the taste of chicken meat. It just tastes very bland and almost chemical

Everything tastes 'chemical' :)

Snarky comment aside, I agree. Chicken in the US tastes quite bland, generally. At least compared to the Brazilian counterparts.

Vegetables are ok. Most berries are delicious. But bananas taste like cardboard. Some are less bad than others, but still. They do "look" perfect; I'd rather have an ugly, but tasty, banana. Mangos are crap. Most oranges taste like they have already been packaged in a box (there are some good ones though).
Can the CNC machine computer not simulate the program and see if it violates some safety rules like cutting into the table or removing too much material at a time?
It's pretty clear that US laws don't treat alcohol the same as most other drugs with regards to the potential for harm, but I think it's a big leap to say that Americans are "straight up delusional and entirely detached from reality." I'm sure people do underestimate the dangers of alcohol, especially for long-term health, but I feel like it's very well-known that alcohol kills way more people than e.g. marijuana.
I've been wondering lately if there is a profitable business model to be made out of this problem. Could you collect manure from giant dairies and hog farms, and use solar-thermal-assisted pyrolysis to break down harmful compounds and kill bacteria? Turn it into more generic chemical feedstock / fertilizer?

Maybe once the Gates Foundation sorts out toilets they can work on this next.
I'd be very interested in something like this.
Couple the above article with

Crisis on the High Plains: The Loss of America’s Largest Aquifer – the Ogallala

URL = http://duwaterlawreview.com/crisis-on-the-high-plains-the-lo...

Does seem like we're running on fumes.
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But not really. If the person who now makes 85k is struggling to survive on that amount of money (ignore the fact that it's 85k... it could be 40k after taxes for example), then while its "fair" in that they both pay their percentage, the person who is struggling to survive gets the worse end of the deal.
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This is the first time I've encountered people using the word monopoly incorrectly like this. I'm not really minded to just roll over and accept wrong usage because a few other people object - the usage is wrong so they need to improve their English.

Also for what it's worth I don't believe the article author misunderstands the word monopoly. I think they abused it to get clicks.
hey one of the authors here. We are planning to create some notebooks on recommendation about recommendation algos :-)
That’s not the point being made at all (that we need to force people to pay the high rate). The point this commenter is making is that you cannot point to the nominal tax rate and use it as evidence that high tax rates don’t cause harm, because it is not the nominal tax rate that matters, it’s the effective rate.
HN doesn't like jokes. Too Reddit-like.
I saw that today and though the same thing, looks like they are getting it from email but I do wish I could limit what I let google link to these kinda things.
raises hand Uh, I know where we can find money before we start adding more taxes.

China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, France, United Kingdom, and Japan, combined, spend less on their military than we do.

I get that she's a politician and all politicians have to play to their base, but can we not all agree, in any political arena, that the 674 Billion dollars spent on the military (over half of federal discretionary spending) is perhaps too high?

I mean, what the actual fuck? How can anyone justify this? We're not even fighting any real wars, our Navy is in fucking shambles, our brand new fighter planes are a joke, and we're soon going to hire more contractors than actual soldiers. Just replace heating oil with $100 bills from the military industrial complex's pockets, it'll do more good for us.
"Also, as a tax-lawyer-turned-startup-founder, if we saw rates like this again, I guarantee that the biggest beneficiaries would be the lawyers and accountants who would restructure contracts to avoid these taxes."

That makes sense, but I have to ask, how is that different than what we have now?

And, if that is true wouldn't it be a short term benefit for attorneys that would settle back to what's the current norm now after a few years?

Finally, doesn't that assume the changes in the tax code would provide a means to accomplish that?

The goal is to move more of the profits of and gains in productivity back to the working class and there no reason to change anything if that's not wired into the new laws.
Not completely. I can still imagine a few overheads:

- code size is bigger, taking up space in the cache and memory;

- instructions need to be decoded (whether this affects performance depends on surrounding code);

- this branch will take a slot in the branch predictor state (same here).
Thanks for that link - I didn’t realize that was the case. I remember 15% as the number that Malcom Forbes proposed when he ran for president in the ‘90s.
The way I see it, it looks like the original internet, remember 4chan? the rise of bulletin boards? We can't all be complaining about the current services being exploitative or broken without being a part of a solution. I'm all ears to move away from decentralization if there is a better solution. Currently, there are none.
Acid3 was not updated when people decided to change the specifications. There are 3 things that are known to fail. Two of them are related to one change (see https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/319#issuecomment-296345... for details on that change). The third test is one where Acid3 mandates something that every browser did but was wrong per the specification, and it took several years for people to notice (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1311329 for some more details).

The Acid3 test on that website is officially unmaintained: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2017Jul/000...
God, I hate how G commands are sticky in Mach 3. Much sadness indeed.
>ignores the 800 lbs gorilla in the room

the defense budget?
Underrated place

The problem is that a large portion of the nation enjoys clinging to their stereotypes of Texas and Texas cities.

A place could be more liberal than Berkeley, but if it's in Texas a certain segment of the population will think it's nothing but King of the Hill.

This is what happens when people get their information from the internet echo chambers and talking political heads instead of going places.
Would you like to work on the UX and make something new? They are open source, volunteer-driven and open to new contributors :) We all start somewhere!
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That is a big benefit, and I will be honest they have saved me from an expensive hotel at times, especially around packed conference areas. I just have had more bad experiences especially at those times, and would have in hindsight payed the higher rates at the hotels. Maybe this is just my rant, but the inconsistency and lack of some peoples awareness when it comes to hosting really puts me off.
Nope, taxpayers do as much as is efficient. If a tax lawyer says "I can save you $50k in taxes by setting up a new corporate structure, but it will cost $25k to set up and another $10k per year to maintain", then the taxpayer probably won't do it.

But if rates go up, then it turns into saving $100k, but with the same costs of implementation and upkeep. Basically, as rates go up, it makes sense to do more tax planning.
Sure, but isn’t there something to the argument that we should fix those loopholes and go after offshore evaders first before we crank up rates? Seems that ensuring the existing tax code is tidy and evaders are held accountable should be done first before making changes with potentially dramatic macroeconomic effects.