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> You're spinning all over the place trying not to address that.

Except where I addressed it above:

"capital is a productivity multiplier, so...the growth rate is naturally a multiple of the labor growth rate...at least as fast as inflation...You'd expect labor growth rate to only match inflation..."

So labor only grows as fast as inflation (unless it's getting a larger piece of the pie) and capital investment is a multiple of that, and returns at least as much as inflation, or it doesn't exist. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

The "already taxed" comment followed a "savings in a mattress" example, so no appreciation, no capital gains. I saved 10 years of income over 40 years. I have wealth. It's already been taxed. Do I owe society another part of my unequal wealth?

> Why shouldn't capital gains be taxed at least as much as labor?

Maybe they should not be taxed as much as labor. Maybe more. Maybe less. It's not immediately obvious that either should be taxed more. Thus the reason for the wealth inequality even with zero capital gains example (capital loss after inflation).

Reasons to tax capital gains less would be to promote investing, because we want to encourage people to save for and invest in the future, and because that is the mechanism to create wealth & jobs for the country.

Reasons to tax capital gains more are mostly that the rich can afford it more (taxing luxury spending rather than necessities). Also if seeking tax revenue, it's like Willie Sutton's career choice of robbing banks - that's where the money is.

What I'd like to know is, what's the best tax strategy to increase the overall standard of living in, say, 100 years?

Unfortunately, economists differ strongly in answering that questions - but most people just say "more! less!" but have no "the ideal is X".

> > The fact of wealth disparity does not imply unfairness.

> It implies fairness even less

I can agree with that - wealth disparity implies neither fairness nor unfairness.
"Within the same state or metropolitan area, inequality today is large and extreme, in part because of the continuing effects of racial discrimination"

What is the ratio of discrimination to starting from a historically disadvantaged (i.e. non-recompensed) position?

This article reads like a narrated census rather than a true insight into the problem.
I have a slightly different take on this. I also experience joy most days these days but God has nothing to do with it. Rather, I manufacture this joy from within myself through sheer force of will, simply because I find living this way more pleasant than the alternative. I wasn't always able to do this, I believe it is a skill that grows stronger with practice. It is a matter of both shifting perspective and (re)structuring one's life/environment to support joyous moments.
There's a lot of correlated factors in all-cash businesses. Yes, they don't pay CC processing, but they often sell lower-end goods, are in worse neighborhoods with lower rent, may acquire some of their merchandise in sketchier ways, etc...
I would ask people to stay away from Starsky. Terrible recruiting practices -- I met some of their senior staff and they assured me, well even guaranteed that someone will get back, but no one did.

As job-seekers, we should start maintaining a black list of firms that treat prospective employees badly, and urge others to not apply.
Without status everything is fungible. That changes drastically as your status on any given provider goes up.

Making me take anything but United means no business class upgrade, making me take anything but Uber means im waiting way longer to be picked up from anywhere, making me not stay at SPG means no room upgrade or check-in/checkout perks.
Since this is using Bash, it might be nice to mention that you can't use Bash's built-in math evaluation to solve the problem because Bash uses fixed-width integers and therefore

let 2**64==0
So abusing youtube's copyright bs, we all know is bs. Got it. Last time I read anything from your toxic website.
Yes, from the looks of it, they are well behind in self-driving tech. If it’s inevitable that self-driving will bankrupt them, why would anyone invest in them at all?

The two scenarios I can see are

1). That their ride-matching platform will still play a role in a self-driving world. However, I think a worst case for Uber is Waymo gets there first and then Google can almost trivially replace Uber with their own matching platform.

2.) They acquire a startup that has a successful direct self-driving play.

Either way, the economics of their core offering changes drastically. I have a hard time believing investors in Uber aren’t pricing this in at least somewhat accurately.
Perhaps you're unaware, but a major part of the Waterfront Toronto project is, in fact, a Google office. A decent chunk of the higher class housing built there is also likely to be for Google employees. An article from 2017 suggests teams from unrelated branches of Google, such as Google Brain, may have personnel relocated there. So, yes, it's actually very comparable to the Amazon situation.

And again, this isn't Toronto contracting out for infrastructure they want or need. This is Google, who set out to experiment with running cities, seeking a location to let them use as a testbed. The buildings and infrastructure assembled there will be for Google's benefit, not for Toronto's.
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It is a pretty hard-hearted thing to say, but if the WHO doesn't think there is enough evidence to count his death in the Chernobyl statistics, what evidence does he have they are wrong? I mean, it isn't unprecedented for crippling damage to not surface for a long time (eg, asbestos/mesothelioma), but on the other hand cancer can strike at any age [0] and people struggle to attribute things to chance if they have a potential reason for it.

The WHO is using a statistical model to account for the fact that individual deaths might be cancer or might be something else. There is pretty concrete evidence that in terms of deaths nuclear meltdowns are benign, and the major concerns are land contamination and how big the exclusion zones need to be when things go wrong. Some of the better science-based counterarguments to nuclear I've heard go to contamination in the food chain.

[0] https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-...
are we at the point where we are criminalizing the behavior of people who choose to avoid credit cards and only accept cash?
Maybe this is a Cunningham’s Law type attempt at finding prior art for a new patent.
Also the part about one VC passing the buck to the next, allowing them all to benefit reputationally from asset inflation - until the bubble pops. Then only the last ones holding the bag lose.

Edit: VC is actually not passing to VC, but larger investment funds like PE.
> Wonder no more as that is the end goal.

We don't know this.
It sounds far too good to be true. According to the actuarial tables at [0], 10% is the expected 20-year death rate for 40-year old men. This is for Americans in 2014, I'd expect the outcomes to be worse for Soviet citizens in 1986.

[0]https://www.finder.com/life-insurance/odds-of-dying
Restaurants are the most price-sensitive, tight-margin business you can think of. Groupon was a famous disaster for them.

Who is going to pay for these discounts? Uber's investors?
Do you have a source for the ride subsidization? My understanding is that for mature markets they're making a decent profit; their losses from subsidies are from new markets, or new initiatives in existing markets (Pool, Eats etc).

There have been a number of "Uber is cheaper than taxis because they are losing money" newspaper articles, but they usually point to the loss of the company as a whole.
How does a group form an industry wide union? The level of coordination required seems very very high.
This is a high quality comment and yet it's at the bottom fot some reason.
Is it just me, or is humanizing these things so much itself kind of creepy? I prefer not to call Siri "she" for that reason alone.
Why bother contacting Uber at all? Just call your bank and report the charges as fraudulent.
More like a sheet of paper held up to the light. Some light gets through, and if you have thicker paper it will allow less light through, but it doesn't noticeably damage the paper.
> Up to you. An hour or 2 seems ok as a general rule.

Oh, I meant how long after you click the link should you stay logged in for? My bank makes me reenter my password after maybe 1 hour of inactivity for example which would be super annoying with magic links.

> Does that really come up? I've never experienced this. If I'm signing up for something on my desktop workstation, it is always capable of retrieving email. A lot of password confirmation links (as an alternative to magic links) would also expect you to click a link to verify your account, which means you would have to do it on the same machine you signed up with.

I haven't used magic links enough to be honest but when I sign up using dev/test email addresses I don't often check, the hassle to get the email is annoying. I guess that's true for account verification emails as well though, which is a good point.
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And that's how we are going to get mandatory https proxies in networks... The arms race will continue, making the lives of everyone more difficult.
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The belief system here makes me incredulous. How exactly does the average upper middle class worker support 'occupational licensing' and 'restrictions on the immigration of white-collar professionals'? Can you outline the exact steps that they've taken to, say, support occupational licensing? When did a pro-occupational licensing candidate run for office? The latter is especially ironic because so many people believe the opposite, that the US has supported the H1B and other visa programs to drive down programmer wages.

While I agree that superior education etc. absolutely helps the children of the upper middle class, the 'social connections' part is pure fantasy. The vast majority of regular people secure employment based on actual credentials and not 'connections', especially in tech
Although OP's situation is different in that they have 2 years of experience, I can definitely say that companies won't just hire someone full-time with zero experience anymore (even into "new grad" or junior positions). College internships weren't always a thing; a career switcher might not have any tech experience to put on a resume, and a lot of companies and recruiters don't even look at personal projects. It's a very tough row to hoe starting from zero and getting a job as a developer.
The cheap labor is part of the equation. Less environmental restrictions also contributed significantly to cheap goods. But the final blow is the low cost of shipping / transportation.

There has always been differences in markets. It's the low cost (and ease) of shipping / transportation that changed everything.
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Folks who are downvoting, please care to explain your reasoning. Thanks.
I posted this on another thread, about ideas I'd like to work on:

1. Uber for private tutoring/students. I live in a university town and there's plenty of college kids wanting to teach schoolkids.

2. Random story/character generator based off tropes.

3. Punch card for babysitting, especially for the late night tiers that babysitters are reluctant to charge extra on.

4. Recipe app, focused on instant things like bread makers and pressure cookers.

5. Github but for recipes (this is really just an excuse to make fork puns)

6. A chat with anonymous strangers community, similar to Omegle, except you post something similar to a tweet, and people can chat with you based on it. So you could make a post complaining about your boss, or how happy you are to get a job, then someone can chat with you about it. My main worry is that this could degrade into 4chan and it would be an uphill battle to moderate it.

7. Gamification productivity app. Probably just a checklist, ala Habitica, or it could be integrated with Pomodoro Technique.
Because the children are people, too.
I mostly use Lyft and don’t really see a big difference with Uber. But I agree with your basic point. Status tends to be more valuable to me than any points. The flip side of that is it’s not worth unnatural acts to stay at a particular hotel chain if it’s net more comfortable and convenient to book elsewhere.
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Is there a reason more merchants don't do this?

I've seen it done at gas stations (of all things), but never anywhere else.
Forming a cartel is not "winning a free market battle" it is kicking the free market out of your business domain.
Is there any combination of settings in Chrome that will disable this behavior?
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Thanks. Is this already being done? Or is it a tech waiting to be delivered?
> Nuclear maybe would have helped us avoid the worst of climate change

Not even that. People seem to forget that most utilized energy is eventually dissipated in heat in the atmosphere!

Any unlimited and extremely cheap energy source would only encourage more unsustainable consumption.

Not to mention that many industrial products that lead to pollution (e.g. plastic) are correlated to the cost of electricity. Give the world free energy and people will want a new smartphone every month.

(let's sit back and count the downvotes now...)
Florida is drowning. Condos are still being built
Google isn't exactly secret about the fact that Chromecast connects to Google's data centers.

Especially if you're using it to, say, watch YouTube, as Paul Vixie was.

Chromecast connecting to Google is not a "secret requirements that go far beyond user expectations." Expecting a cloud-connected product to continue to work when you've randomly blacklisted IPs that belong to that company is, however, an unreasonable expectation.
I use a debit card. All the convenience, but if I overspend, the transaction just gets blocked, end of story.

(I always have money in other accounts for emergencies, but this keeps day-to-day spending in check.)
Different kind of bank relationship. There are two banking roles involved in card networks: merchant acquirers and consumer card issuers. Visa/MC are the intermediary between them.

Stripe only partners with a merchant acquirer bank. To replace Visa/MC they'd also have to get into the card issuing side of things: get a bank or banks to issue "Stripe cards" and get merchants to start accepting them.
Apple buys AI voice startup that helps companies build Alexa and Echo apps
Notice how Netflix has rushed to create content?

If they hadn't, the entertainment companies would have just taken all their profits.

I don't know what Uber's equivalent moat is, but they are desperate to find it.
Fad and clueless politicians. Govt gave credits for Solar and wind but apparently never did the math for other ways to save energy. Again nuclear is too risky politically...
When you order an Uber, you are buying an included 2 minutes of wait time plus the option to pay by-the-minute for wait time thereafter. This is part of the contract. One way you can tell is that if they wait 90 seconds for you and then you cancel, you get a bill for ~$5.

Shared rides (Uber Pool) is different. In that case, you're making other riders wait and, unlike the driver, there's no reasonable way to compensate them for the time. Thus, being late is rude.
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Ok, so I don't know a ton about this, but it feels like the wrong solution. We know how to effectively treat opioid addiction through things like methadone or more modern equivalents, and those can be broadly deployed across the country. We also desperately need policy changes and huge, huge changes to how these things are prescribed (which this won't help).

Unfortunately, these things are decidedly low-tech solutions so there can't be nice articles in the verge about them.
> this causes us to delay cutting emissions

Nuclear VS "delay cutting emissions" is a false dichotomy.
The point that 8.8.8.8 doesn't always work. The linked article is about highlighting exactly that.
Attacks on free speech in USA and Europe have nothing to do with offensive language and everything to do with control. Be careful what precedents you set and what things you celebrate. Pendulums swing.

Are you referring to this? I don't think anybody tried to censor her for this, even though it was incredibly offensive. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tlaib-going-to-impeach-mo...
Then why, as mentioned in the article, does Twitter say the exact opposite?

>Once an account has been deactivated, there is a very brief period in which we may be able to access account information, including Tweets.
Probably nothing. But the general topic of prime constellations, which subsumes all of these examples, is an interesting one.
(Also, my company Clever still has one or two internship slots for 2019! https://clever.com/about/jobs/software-engineering-intern#gh...)
As a biological organism, life means literally everything.

Every part of you has evolved over millions of years for the sole purpose of sustaining your existence within this universe. The core intent behind all rational thoughts that a specimen can have is survival; either at the level of the organism or at a genetic level.

From the perspective of the organism, survival is literally the only thing that means anything at all. Therefore it makes perfect rational sense to be terrified of death.

What if there's nothing after death... for the rest of eternity? This thought makes most people extremely uncomfortable. It is the root of all fears. If death didn't exist, the word "fear" would probably not exit either.

I don't think that it's the rarity of death in developed countries which makes people more afraid of it; it's the other way round; that people's fear of death (which is a side effect of better education and weaker religion in developed countries) make them less likely to take risks which might cause them to die.
Because they're waiting for me a 3 minute walk away from the location where I requested they pick me up?
Yes, definitely. The products that I help develop for my day job contain numerous custom components ranging from machined parts to high-level assemblies.

Sometimes it goes well, sometimes not. Sometimes it's our fault, sometimes the vendor's. I'm often not the only person involved in the purchasing process, and there are a number of different interests from engineering, operations, and so forth. Likewise on the vendor's side, we may be talking to salespeople, engineers, and so forth.

I'm often the one who has to bear the bad news: "Hey, this thing doesn't work at all."

We do a great job of tracking service and warranty replacements, and the top-ten list is entirely populated by buy-in subsystems.

Certainly "don't trust any salesman" is an over-simplification that may hold pretty well for consumer products, but not so well when a product is complex and technical. But verifying that the vendor is actually capable of what they claim to do, is still considered to be vital.

The vendor isn't always being dishonest. They may believe that we are over-spec'ing something, and that their product really will fit our needs once we are able to lay our hands on it and use it.
Link didn't work for me. This may be the correct one:
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2019/...
forcing paid jobs will reduce the number of jobs available.

that is correct, yet totally not useful as a statement.
So if you run out of food you can just eat batteries? Unless you are the AI I've been waiting to meet, that's not going to work so well.
I disagree, the children ended up knowing the mother's mortality before she passed and hopefully had time to make peace before the end. The thing the children were deprived of was the years of slowly wasting away - I don't think witnessing that is a particularly strong experience.

And... I suspect they did help, I suspect the kids did more chores to keep the house up, doing things that the mother was too tired to keep up with. If it was revealed correctly the children could find comfort in the fact that they had been helping all along, they were just being shielded from the grief (and temporarily)
And the OP was wrong; Chromecast Ultra is being sold here in Europe.
I'd rather not know.
I tried to make my comment rather unbiased, but yeah, it's still a step in the wrong direction IMHO.
Why didn’t he just return the device if he doesn’t like the way the Google product used Google services to function?
Or, a bicycle. You can get a good one on craigslist for a hundred bucks if you're patient. You may get a bit sweatier but you'll get an exercise ;)

Or, there's no hills, and you go your own pace, and it's fine.

Having tried both I do feel bicycles are safer - those tiny scooter wheels shake me to pieces.
I got the impression snips was offline.
While surely unintentional this headline is in incredibly poor taste.
> dangerous pick up/drop off points

Dangerous in what way? By what measure?

> public transit

How does the previous danger measurement compare to your average ride on public transit?
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I submit that people are far too willing to judge the choices of others as irrational.
Yes, it was like magic when you first saw it.

I was delighted to discover that the translations weren't always symmetrical, with the best example being going from English to German then back to English with:

"I'm going to kick your ass"

-->

"I will step on your donkey"
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I love these comments on Hacker News - Someone briefly skims the title and the first couple sections, and then makes some snarky comment about how unrealistic the article is. For some reason, these comments are almost always the most upvoted as well. You do have 8 hours of free time a day, and the whole point of the article is learning how to most effectively utilize those things. The article even has a name for all the things that get in the way like laundery, dinner, relationships, etc.
I used to use DO, but switched off after they decided to disconnect my droplet for 3 hours when it got DDoS'd. It didn't matter that my node was able to handle the traffic. I was only using it for a Mumble VOIP server and an IRC bouncer, so it's not like I was going to lose money by having some business going offline, but still frustrating and enough to decide that should I ever need to run an actual business, I definitely won't use DO for it.
I have never had an Uber arrive as fast as the estimate. Usually takes about twice as long as app displays when requesting the ride.

Also, there is absolutely no recourse if a driver starts driving in the opposite direction of you. I had a 3 min estimate, then driver drove 15 mins away. Called driver and he had the audacity to ask me to cancel the trip (so I'd still be charged). Was 30 minutes late and had to contact support to get the cancellation fee waived. Uber used to be the faster way to get to work than walking/bussing, but no more.
If the author reads this we’ve used VPython for simple simulation visualizations such as this and it has worked great both inside and outside of Jupyter notebooks.

http://www.glowscript.org/docs/VPythonDocs/index.html
And it's not like he just flat out didn't invest all the money he wasn't putting into Geocities and Lycos. He was just putting it into other things, mostly stuff that was less the hot new thing, and therefore less in demand, and therefore more favorably priced.

I don't think he regrets his conservatism. From 1990 through now, BRK.A is up 4,200%, while the NASDAQ composite is up only 1,500%.
What airlines include card miles in your million miles count? Having a million miles is different from the million miles status which seems to be based on the first kind of miles you mentioned.