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If this is the same methodology as they've used in the past, I personally own as much as the poorest 30% of the world. (And so do you.)

Aggregating wealth gets weird when you look at debt and measure net wealth.
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I know it's possible for billionaires to pay a lower effective tax rate (the percentage) than a secretary.

I wish we had raw data showing they paid less in the dollar amount. I believe this happens, I just wish we had a good idea of how common it is.
That's a good point. In 2017 there weren't widely available managed Kubernetes deployments, and now each platform has their own and much more reliable integrations.
The whole idea of the government stealing from people makes no sense to me. You live in a democracy, the people choose their government and it does what it's elected to do. If the government starts actively stealing money from its people, the problem isn't the way in which you file your taxes. The problem is that the government brought by your democracy isn't working as intended.

For what it's worth, in the Netherlands it takes most people 5 to 10 minutes to flip through an app that has all your tax info filled in already. If you need to add anything that isn't already filled in, you get every chance to do so.
It doesn't stop you from getting an accountant to do it for you either, if you'd prefer.

> How would you even know if it is right?

Because it's still the same tax system you had before they made it easier by filling it out for you already. It doesn't get automatically filed, you still have to check it yourself and approve it.
26 (left most) = 3'500'000'000 (right most)

That is one staggering statistic.

If I were one of those 26 people, I'd consider myself a superhero. Wake up every morning knowing that I am capable of saving and improving lives of an entire (small) country!
How do you propose that poverty be eliminated without some people holding proportionally less of the world's money?
If management is rude and naive enough to be bad at hiring, they can be expected to be equally bad at promoting and retaining internal talent.

For example, there's the simple pattern of ignoring employee careers and expectations until, after the least patient ones have left, suddenly there's a lack of personnel, and the best remaining people are needed in their current dead-end role.
You write as if withholding was an error in calculation. Maybe it is, don't know how it works in the US, but here withholding follows a different, very simple formula, since it's impossible to know the real amount ahead of time anyway.

I disagree that the IRS has an incentive to maximize taxes. They have an incentive not to lose time with disputes.

But even if you don't trust them, so what? You can still check the numbers yourself, and file your own if you disagree.
I know a lot of engineers who like the ultrawides. What I don't like is that they sacrifice vertical height. So it's not the best, in my opinion, for coding. An ultrawide that had the same height as a 30" would be really nice!
>Are there advantages to this communication style that I'm missing?

It does make the author feel superior, which saves on psychoanalysis bills.
It happened to me to have memory leaks and eventually OOM errors using Node.js as static files server. Switched then to Nginx...
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I think the difference a senior person can make is to see what things the new language/framework/paradigm still doesn't solve and think of ways to evaluate their risk to a particular project's requirements and how to mitigate that risk. Things like downtime for upgrades or migrations, handling dependencies on ecosystems of community developed libraries without quality and feature change controls, the ability to update the system when it's been in production for 3 years and see few changes have been made and the original developers have all moved on, etc.
>Pedestrians need their own space. These scooters shouldn't mix with pedestrian traffic at all

Not sure how this is any different than suggesting that cars need their own space and that bicycles shouldn’t mix with motor traffic at all.
We've had them for a few months now where I live and I see them many times per day.

I think it's because pretty much every street here has a bike path, but I have yet to see people riding them in the way of pedestrians. I've seen one or two poorly parked ones, but they are usually parked next to bike racks.

I love that they have always on headlights though, with wind, rain and bad lighting here crossing a bike path is dangerous since so many don't follow the laws and use lights.

I just wish Lime-scooters were a bit cheaper (10 sek + 3 sek/min).
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This is really misleading, as most people have very small or negative net worths. A homeless guy with a few bucks in his pocket has a higher net worth than most young doctors or lawyers.

The statistic as presented could make one think that you could just rob these 26 people and solve world poverty with their money. That’s just not true. What makes the world go round is not the stored up wealth of the ultra rich, but the much much greater sum of total output produced by the economy every year.
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Much a matter of taste I guess; I like 11-12 inch displays with crazy high resolution. Unfortunately there are no ideal laptops that fit that criteria as far as I can see so I must be lonely in that demand. I really liked my 11 inch macbook air although the resolution was crap; that one with a very hd display and 15 hours battery life would definitely be my perfect machine. But I know i'm lonely in that; I never sit in a chair while programming; I program on the couch and have been for the past 30 years (I used to have a keyboard with a long cable and a couch in front of a low table when laptops were too expensive in the 80s/begin 90s); I shift position often and find screens that don't move with my line of sight incredibly annoying just as I find heavy things annoying and cables annoying. I use i3wm/ubuntu on my x220 which is currently my setup, but it's not ideal; too big and low res; great battery life though (19 hours). The resolution of the GPD Pocket is perfect but the screen too small and it's too slow; I used it when I do something urgent while travelling. If that would be 10 inch it would be perfect (I got used to the keyboard which was annoying at first; that would also benefit from a few sizes bigger).
Personally, I find things to be easier for my brain when there's a clear space between windows. Not nearly as extreme as in the article, sure, but I felt sufficiently in need of window gaps that I actually hacked them into my StumpWM config back before I switched to herbstluftwm (which is - you guessed it - configured with gaps).
>Part of the code we want right now requires a unit test with dependency injection to match an interface.

What exactly do you mean by this?
>>Even if I had only a million dollars to freely spend, I would still choose to travel and make an impact where it counts.

So you spend $4500 on travel tickets to help a family gather wood? Labor, they have plenty. Now if you brought a water pump or a solar panel is different. A lot of "charities" in USA do that. Gather millions a year, pay themselves a nice salary and go distribute flyers once a month.
> The alternative to a boost in ridership is a boost in car commutes.

Or walking... Do you walk a quarter mile or do you ride the bus? If the bus is free the number of able bodied people using the bus for trivial distances could increase.
It’s unlikely the effect would work at all like that. Insects are certainly able to estimate the full figure, and with the hard break in stripes down the center the results would probably be tainted
Any parameter pushed to the extreme produces perversion.

I don't get this obsession with how much those at the top managed to accrue. My only metric is is it getting better on average for me and other people?

I hope capatilism lasts another couple of hundred years and everyone gets to level 3 or 4 and no one can harp on about "but the 1%!" anymore like a whiny entitled asshole because eventually everyone will have it, if not good, at least acceptable.

It's a pretty long process. It's only taken 300 years to get where we are. Even the last 30 years have been remarkable. Give it another 50 to 100 years. 200 even. Be patient ffs.
Anne Hidalgo is actively working on the second point.
A reminder: it's usually not a good idea to sum up the net worth of the poor, as many people who are net-negative (have debt) will bring down a couple thousand of actually poor people.

The poorest person in the world by net worth is Jérôme Kerviel [0], the Paris banker, who is worth about -5 billion euros. You can add the entire net worth of all the population of a couple of African countries to get to total net worth of 0.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jérôme_Kerviel

Edit: Rebuttal for their previous report: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/04/04/stop-adding...
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>The author is just expressing their frustration of having to constantly correct this particular strain of naivete

Why do they have to "constantly correct" it? What is their business?

Besides, it's not really "naivete".

Eating uglier fruit and vegetables is still good advice, to not get sucked buyinh tasteless but nice-looking produce that selectively breeds for size and color over taste, and even uses BS tricks like coloring and such to make it more appealing.
Comfort is exactly what people seek. You can't make something both comfortable and undesirable.

If you're prepared to countenance a world where all people live a comfortable life, then you're implicitly countenancing a world where all people have equal worth - monetarily and otherwise.
> transient high end frequencies. My hypothesis is that the presence of frequencies outside of the range of our ears affect the frequencies within our hearing range

This is something I wonder about, too, but by my limited knowledge of signal processing the low pass effects of the signal transmission path do simply not admit any such frequencies. I wonder whether that counts for all orders of derivation, though.

I wonder if higher frequencies can cause resonance in lower frequencies, undertones instead of overtones so to speak, maybe in exotic geometries like the inner ear. Echo location famously works better in the ultrasonic range and involves higher order derivatives. We don't talk of constant sinusoids, but ultrasonic sweeps and chirps (not sparkle :D). We can't hear ultrasound, but perhaps we can sense it similarly to how we can sense lowest frequencies as rumble.

I really don't know the maths, what is a really low frequency note played for nanoseconds? High frequency Pulse Width Modulation is used to modulate sound in the audible range, which is quite tricky to get right mathematically and in hardware. The common problem is the introduction of ringing, indeed.

By the way, I really like to listen to music under the shower in the next room. I hear, or rather hallucinate, the most wonderful sounds under the noise.
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Can I suggest homemaker. Based on your other posts your wife is the big earner so make it your full time job to support her as I am sure her job is very stressful.
Capitalism is definitely not like communism. However, people who push for it are promising things and argue by what we all gain by having capitalism. Not just that, they use past economic successes of capitalism and past economic failures as argument why we should keep things as capitalist as possible. They also argue by some moral values and so did communist proponents.

Capitalism has political component and is dependent on laws and its enforcement. It is also ideology. None of it makes it bad thing inherently, the past economic successes of capitalism are real, through we really should learn from cases where it cause trouble, so that we keep our capitalism not going to excess.
We've grown tomatoes every year for the past 10 years or so so this sounds very familiar. It's not difficult - to be honest all you do is stick them in the ground and leave them to it!

I should add that tomatoes freeze very well as long as you're using them for sauces, soups etc.
McDonald's is offering a 99₵ burger as part of a nation wide promotion. Where I live (Florida) it's $1.06 with tax. In Oregon, it would be 99₵ (no sales tax). In North Carolina, it's $1.03 except Ashville, North Carolina has a 7% tax rate so it would be $1.07 there. What price does McDonald's advertise for their promotion?
I stick to 80-character line limits, too, but I highly value the ability to have two (or more!) source files side-by-side on the same screen. It's like having two vertical monitors, but with just one horizontal one :)
Capital accrues capital faster than income ever can. This gap is one of the reasons why we have right wing populists. They offer easy answers to a complex problem - namely low income growth, jobs and immigration.
Generally speaking, there are Good Samaritan laws that avoid that. The issue more often is that stores don't want to deal with the headaches that can stem from being a place for those who are unhoused to congregate for free food. It's rarely good for business.
I suspect they mostly wake up wondering how they can make even more. You need an insatiable appetite to get on that list. Poor buggers.
Dude where is the Python support, the fastest growing language after Javascript, and much bigger than some of the other included languages
This is all fine for personal/proprietary purposes, but open source can't be that cutting edge. While type annotations are probably fine (3.5), f-strings (3.6) or dataclasses (3.7) won't make it to mainstream OSS anytime soon. But they are great features nonetheless.
This is just bad produce management from the shops.

Longer-Expiry products at the back, newer at the front.

But I know at my local supermarkets nobody gives a shit, Frequently I'll buy the same product twice in a row, and the item on the second day expires before the one on the first.

All their staff just chucks the new shit at the front. The milk is even worse, as they just combine the half-empty early-date trollies and wheel out a fresh late-date one.

I'd say it all gets sold. But I have a /marvellous/ view of their bins. They throw so much stuff out.
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For me, "blurry" ie. antialiased is much better, so long as it results in better defined letter forms, as it does on MacOS or when using freetype with hinting set to low or turned off. HiDPI simply means there's no tradeoff.
This is awesome. Note to site owner; I'm getting "Mixed Content" warnings because some scripts are served over HTTP instead of HTTPS.
The metro is full because people commute to their workplace. I don't think a significant fraction lives within walking distance of their job.
I hate how you can only have 1 instance of the settings app open, unlike the old control panel, really leaves people who wanna see multiple parts of the settings app no choice but to open the old control panel
Is there any theme like ambiance theme available on Visual Studio Code?

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Yup and I've not seen many children that would use tickets and not go through with their parents. Or they have passes of their own if needed for school commute.
The don't need to hold proportionally less. It's a red herring.

The focus rather should be on health/nutrition outcomes, education outcomes, physical safety, quality of housing.

And this question is... is it getting better?

Factfulness says yes. Slowly, but surely, yes.
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>Do you really need those extra few days of milk expiration?

The only thing I use milk for is in my morning coffee. I usually buy half liter cartons and even then I often end up with the milk going bad before I'm through with it. So yeah, I do.
Most of their wealth isn't money, it's property, land and businesses.
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I would advice reading "Software Craftsman" by Sandro Mancuso. It contains a chapter about hiring "craftsmen" (best kind of developers).

And many things from the article check out in regards to that.
99cent.

In Europe they have a 1 euro menu regardless of what country the burger was sold in (countries have different VAT rates). Some advertising is even shared between smaller countries that speak the same languages.
> you need to give an example of a western country that has simple/automatic tax systems and have a lower tax rate than the US.

How is a higher tax rate related to the government's ability to provide simple/automated tax returns?

Oh, right, it's not.
I love Plex Mono also. It is on this site under Plex Mono although the info & download link is wrong.
> If you're asking questions related to "raw algorithmic skill" you're filtering for people who either: 1) Have had a computer science education and happen to remember the algorithm at hand.

Probably true. But perhaps that could be accounted for in the assessment process. After all graduates from Neuroscience, Maths and Physics degrees have got to be some to smartest people around.
That's only true if somebody else wasn't going to give them a big deal. Your premise requires a scenario where all cities work together to specifically avoid Amazon getting a deal, rather than any of them competing. All it takes is one city to breach that and start offering incentives, then it all folds.

Short of implementing a federal law against it, there is no scenario where cities were not going to compete to lure Amazon. Fortunately no such federal law exists, which enables cities great leeway to compete for both citizens and businesses, through tax and regulatory structure, incentives, zoning laws, et al.

If I'm Detroit and I want to rebuild my collaped city, one great way to do that is to forgo some purely theoretical new near-term taxes - which you're not actually getting anyway because businesses don't want to move there - and offer up incentives such as tax breaks for businesses to go there instead of somewhere else. For a place like Detroit, that also means jobs, luring population to rebuild the tax base, rebuilding the housing stock, rebuilding the small business base that services that population, and so on.
I actually think that we're underpaid since we live in a country where labor is cheaper even though we get more and more experience, we can't compete to get the same compensation as to the Western part of the world. How do you negotiate something like a raise that much even though there are these circumstances?
Pretty interesting. One thing that bothers me is "The way our economies are organised means wealth is increasingly and unfairly concentrated among a privileged few while millions of people are barely subsisting".

I don't fully understand "unfairly" in this context. According to the thefreedictionary this word means:

1. Contrary to justice or a sense of fairness
2. Contrary to laws or conventions, especially in commerce; unethical: unfair dealing.
3. Not kind or considerate: It was unfair of me to laugh when he felt so sad.

I am not sure I understand which of those description of unfairness applies to, say, Jeff Bezof (mentioned in the article). I have only limited knowledge about him, but I haven't heard that he had done anything that could be described as "unfair". One might even argue the opposite - he enabled many people to but cheaper goods in an easier way and he also enabled many people to sell goods efficiently and earn good money in this way.
Probably yes, but that approach has its disadvantages as well.

First, the biggest problem I see is the huge vendor lock-in you accept with the PaaS offerings such as AWS EBS or GCP App Engine. When you commit to one of these platforms, it is really hard to get out of it; it requires engineering effort to move to another provider and feature parity between the providers for your application to be supported. Plus, you get to learn platform-specific stuff which has no standards across providers. Plus, it is usually slow and bloated; have you ever tried deploying something to EBS? It takes at least five minutes without any meaningful information about what is going on or if your deployment succeeded.

Second, the tooling you get is usually very small compared to what Kubernetes ecosystem has. Each and every platform ask you to use their own tools, but there is a high possibility that the tools don't fit your usecase, or you may need to modify your workflow. With a solution like k8s, you only need to support the standard, which is k8s itself roughly, and you are free to use whatever tooling you want.

Third, done right, Kubernetes allows you to move to another provider very easily without changing a single line of code in your Kubernetes definitions or your application. You define the desired state of your cluster, you check in all these stuff into your VCS, and since k8s forces you to do these stuff from the beginning, at the end you usually have a nice, reproducible system that is more or less cloud agnostic. You have logging, horizontal scalability, isolation, easy deployments, easy rollbacks and all that stuff. I have migrated from GKE to DO's Kubernetes offering without changing a single line in my Kubernetes definitions or my application. Of course, my usecase is very very very small compared to most of people around here, but that was my experience.

FWIW, I think Kubernetes is still a good learning to understand about current state of infrastructure, deployments and the ideal state we all try to achieve. Whether or not a business should depend on it is a whole another topic.
It is removed from a lot of MS office software (online versions) and it is a complete disaster, because nobody took their time to evaluate some of the most basic use cases.

Users often use a document as a template. Better teach them to SAVE! it under a different name first before editing anything. If they fail that step, content vanishes regularly.

I love how concepts like "folder structures" apparently get deprecated. Yeah, sure, because a tree is bad to model relations. It is like when we removed table of contents from books and just added the required meta information to a long list. Sumerian literature can suck it.

Sorry for the rant, but I already know the transgressions we will have to endure. I want to just save documents in a defined state. No, I do not want to tag it.

This rolling save mechanic would have been possible without a persistent cloud storage. Why just have these bad ideas now?
The available research is incomplete.

The Opus "Comparison" cherry-picks the sub-128 kbps bitrates, where the format is evidently strong, but it doesn't include references for high-bitrate music compression.

Actually, even their (partial) diagram hints that there is virtually no difference at over-160 kpbs bitrates.

I'm struggling to find high-bitrate music compression (blind) listening tests lately in general; it seems that the internet crowd enthusiasm in the subject vanished in the last decade.
Agree. A lot of coding is simply banging your head against the wall, search SO over and over, changing things around, until it does what you want.

Raw algo quizzing skill isn't necessarily the same thing, though you'd think it was somewhat related because when you're learning to code up "find longest continuous run" you also need to change things around for a bit.

Difference is in real life there's never an end. The algo quiz leaves you at some optimum eventually due to being quite a small thing.