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> Isn't that just because there are higher incomes in the blue states, and isn't it a democratic policy to tax higher incomes and transfer wealth to those with lower incomes?

That doesn't necessarily need to be true, it just appears to be the case (I have the personal opinion this comes from some sort of religious ideology). A flat percent based tax system does tax the rich more effectively, it's just people seem to think they should take a larger percentage from the rich. This is likely because they have less voting power and thus cannot resist the masses taking their wealth.
Thanks, it's nice to be reminded of these things. I try to remind myself partially to ease my mind, but also to take a moment to appreciate how (perhaps subconsciously) grateful kids really are, as you mention. They do accept us (sometimes to my surprise) and they are loving in return. It's part of the 'glue' at times, holding together the structure amongst the chaos a bit. We all do our part. Kids are good people though, regardless of the daily grind.
I do on the race track. There are a lot of HPDE and other types of driving schools where you can safely test the limits of you and your car's abilities. They are not that expensive. At first, that is ;-)
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I don't hear anyone complaining right now about unsolicited texts

Really? You must not be listening. Do a quick Google News search and you'll find dozens of articles about it.

My T-Mobile hotspot has 133 unsolicited (and unread) text messages in it right now because spammers think it's a cell phone.

During the last election I received 50 or 60 unsolicited political text messages from both parties on my work phone.

Unsolicited text is a problem.
> red states that tend to get more federal dollars returned/pumped into their states than they contribute

Not that I think you're wrong, but citation?

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I oppose both state/local tax deductions and farm subsidies.

There's no good reason except "because life is being unfair to me otherwise".
> And at that point, if the model is calibrated for everage compensation to be the same, it’s obvious that some people will get compensations below the prediction of the model and some people will get compensations above the prediction of the model.

This is true of most models (in practice - any model which models salary in the real world) yet not every company is being accused of these payment discrimination lawsuits.
from my experience women get promoted to managerial positions much sooner and much more ease than men. Upper managment finds women more agreeable, less threatening, less combative and more likely to run with their plans without question and make upper manager look good. Women are also eager than men to move out of coding roles into JIRA management roles. My last two managers were women both of them given that position for purely reasons I described above.
Calling it "apples to oranges" is overlooking how some fields are broadly underpaid, which often (though not always) overlaps with gender disparity. For example, primary and secondary school teaching is a 'traditionally female' field that gets massively underpaid compared to tertiary education, despite if anything being much more important to society.
A family can benefit from it's collective merit by having a parent take care of a child.

You not taking your family's money only hurt you and did absolutely nothing for anyone else. It didn't make anything more "fair".
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If I were automaker I'd consider allowing bursts above the maximum speed limit for a few seconds.

I'm not a fan of limiting (besides for warranty, electronics reasons) and prefer to educate rather than restrict. However, if taking this approach I believe you should consider that some people might drive in the limit and they deserve to be in power of their vehicles regardless.

Imagine if you drive near this software-limited speed and suddenly need to speed up a little bit more to avoid a dangerous situation. You simply can't. This may dangerous specially if you don't have in your mind that your speed is limited by software.

Just allow breaking out of this limit for, say, 5s so your drivers can get out of a dangerous situation instead... And if they try to abuse the system, disappoint them by blocking acceleration.
I did something similar about six years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhBa11gdbeU

I used a (Python) natural language parser of my own creation (this was before intent classification was a big thing), Nuance speech recognition, and a javascript (node) interface to the AR.Drone.
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Wait... hmm... now I'm going to have to track down some code where I did this trick and figure out why or if I was just being stupid.
By msan, are you referring to this? https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MemorySanitizer.html

(I'd never heard of the tool before.)
I probably didn't put all the caveats in that post that I could have. To be clear, you're not going to change biology, and as long as women bear children and men do not, they will require more leave for childbirth. But that doesn't mean they have to take all the parental leave, and it certainly doesn't mean that childcare much later on should be a women's issue.
I disagree. I'm point out simple facts. We have mental illness growing as a problem, the more that people eat less fat and less cholesterol.

This is a matter of chemistry.
In addition to other arguments the ability to go faster than speed limit is quite useful safety feature (and in many jurisdctions it is perfectly legal to do so, when your intent is to prevent collision)
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I don't hear anyone complaining right now about unsolicited texts

Something that works for me is to have a phone number in a low-value area code. My Seattle and New York numbers get robocalls. My phone numbers in certain other parts of the country are left alone.
It is offered as "Teen Driver Mode" from multiple manufacturers.

It has features like:

- Maximum speed limiter

- Maximum speed warning

- Audio volume limit

- No seat belt audio mute (i.e. if someone hasn't buckled up, the infotainment unit won't play audio)

- Cannot disable safety features inc.: Stability Control, Traction Control, Daytime Running Lights, Forward Automatic Braking, etc
Here's a cite: https://www.apnews.com/2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c
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How much revenue would you levy from each state? What would be a fair way to decide that?

The point of income taxes is, that we (the society) consider them fair - the high-income-earners don't only pay more taxes in absolute terms, but also in relative terms, because of progressive taxation (personally, I think that tax rates should be based on wealth, not income, and that capital gains should be taxed equally as income, but I'm clearly in the minority with that opinion).
In software, productivity is really, really, really hard to measure. I realize this is an unpopular opinion, but I think employers are absolutely right to be skeptical of arguments that claim a 30-hour-a-week developer is as useful as that same developer full time.
Because libertarianism takes as a fundamental tenant that each human owns his or her self.
I do, in a huge way.

I became a single parent when my youngest was still a baby. I was juggling my career, my family, and my home all by myself. It was brutal and I felt incredibly lonely and isolated. Every time I tried to find services or groups for single parents it was always "Women's support services" or "mums and bubs meetup". Parenting babies solo is a difficult experience, there is a reason that a ton of government-funded support services exist. I can't grasp why they're all exclusive, however.

On the other hand in my professional life, I was having inclusivity rammed down my throat. I was being banned from using certain words due to them not being inclusive in my professional life at the same time I was being shut out from everything in my parenting life.

Not one woman I spoke to about my issues seemed to see the double standard, the response would be "oh, but most mums do the parenting". I don't think these educated women would have been impressed if I'd replied: "oh, but most men do the work so why do you want a promotion". Of course, I'd never say that but I wanted to. I was simply stunned how educated women who have spent their entire adult life pushing for inclusion could be so blind.

EDIT: For the sake of presenting a fair argument I just googled support services in my area and it now appears that there are gender neutral ones available. This is a change from 3 years ago, which was when my experience was lived. Importantly the governments' official support services now have gender-neutral terms in their names. Most of the independent ones are still women exclusive but at least some change has happened.

I feel good about this. I personally wrote to government members and influential media about my issues when they were occurring. I might have had a horrible time during my experience but hopefully, the next generation of parents has it better.
> I was underpaid relative to what I could make in another industry, but I wasn't underpaid by my game-dev company.

If a company underpays all its employees equally, it's still underpaying. Companies that do this are taking advantage of how people are not rational actors.
Heh - first time I read that, I thought it was Satire Flakes... which also would've worked...
It's called "neighborhood" spamming. You're supposed to think it's a neighbor calling.
The only reason to go fast is for thrills. Going fast is dangerous to other people, hence: fuck you, go slower. I don't care what situation you pull from your ass to give a counterexample, 99.99% of people driving over the speed limit by more than 10-20 are driving dangerously.
> Yes, options are like a lottery ticket but that doesn't make the ticket worthless, and you need to know how to properly value the ticket when a company offers you an option between shares and salary.

The problem is, there is no reliable way to value the options in most cases. Valuations are not very realistic, especially for young companies or companies that are overhyped. Your ownership percentage might also get diluted as a result of future financing rounds.

Besides all of that, the chance that your options will end up being worth zero is the most likely outcome at most startups.
The justice system in the US is skewed towards profit. No real justice can prevail if the system favors money above all.
Because knowing your craft is important? Besides, if you don't find this interesting why become a programmer in the first place
I sometimes find that I have to write a comment questioning the very premises of the discussion, whether it's Net Neutrality (Title I vs Title II) or the Pay Gap (women vs men). This is one of those times.

There are many factors for why women are paid less than men for the same type of position. Many of these factors have to do with hours worked and expectations around child rearing. And when this is taken out, the women are found to make as much or more than men.

My position can be summed up like this:

The corporate world is about 100 years old, with its crazy commutes and uses of energy just to sit in a chair. This comes at the expense of future generations (fossil fuels), and current family values (taking care of children, elderly, etc.)

Why do we say that women have to keep learning from men on how to move up the corporate ladder, work long hours and get paid more. Perhaps men should learn more from women about how to have a healthy work-life balance, take care of the kids more, and their parents.

Today's kids are overmedicated with methamphetamines for ADHD, there is an opiod crisis among adults, 1 in 4 middle aged women is on antidepressants, the elderly are in nursing homes.

The wages have stagnated largely because both sexes flooded the labor pool, globalization and outsourcing and automation caused everyone to go into a race to the bottom. Now both parents are working for corporations. Fewer working Americans are becoming parents. They're in a Red Queen rat race, 1/3 of Americans are one paycheck away from homelessness. Is this really the best outcome for Americans?

Today's world isn't that of your grandfather, the company man who had loyalty both ways for decades and got a pension. Today we have two year stints, gig economy, part time work.

Andrew Yang wants to do what Nixon almost did, and institute a UBI for all Americans like the Permanent Fund in Alaska (lowest inequality of all states, year after year).

Why do we think Corporate Careers should take so many of our hours a week? Why should we trade time with our children and elderly for more money, just to survive? In the past, indirectly, child rearing was valued because one of two parents simply didn't take the job, so there was less available labor, so one parent could pay for the whole thing.

The system is broken, and we are accomplices by talking about how women can match the men in their "career opportunities" of long hours, instead of talking about parental leave for men like in Scandinavian countries, making the school day shorter, etc.

Read this for more info:
http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=286
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
> people on Hacker News tend to be smart enough to understand how to estimate probability distributions and how to compute expected value off of these estimate

That's a strange assumption to make. If anything, I'd argue that people who think they are somehow smarter than others because they're an engineer/programmer/whatever are more likely to put too much faith in their intelligence and make financial mistakes.

> His advise is the rational approach

Being smart is orthogonal to being rational.
It's only "apples to oranges" if you're willing to beg the entire question. Why is elementary teaching less highly paid than university teaching? Why is nurse practitioning less highly paid than anaesthesiologizing?
In that light, I cannot see how it's different than "not as described". If there is no damage (no one can be hurt), then this does not deserve to be called fraud. Any mitigation would also be wrong on the grounds of wasting time and resources for zero benefit.
I wonder if going bankrupt now (prior to a recession) is a good strategy because it means you will emerge from it sooner than the bulge of others who become bankrupt after the recession. Serious point...
Verizon has my cell phone in some kind of trial for a new service that's supposed to filter out robocalls.

They'll want to charge me for it soon, I'm sure. I'm betting that as soon as the trial is up (one that I never asked for, btw) that the number of bogus calls will skyrocket, and I'll be forced to whitelist.

My response will be letters to the FCC [nothing will happen] and the FTC [nothing will happen]. Companies and powerfully-placed individuals make a lot of money from these calls. I don't know how difficult the ESS-level work is for call filtering, but fixing the landscape of corrupt practices is a LOT harder.
Ok, so no more medical aid, military bases, or food growing subsidies for red states. Thats surely going to work out well
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> I'm not saying your argument is incredible because you are X, I'm saying that I am fairly certain I have you dead to rights that you believe X, and that X is bad and you should feel bad.

Yes, except the thing you claimed people believed has nothing to do with what anyone claimed.

You're baldly asserting that people who disagree with you on tax policy additionally hold this bad belief, and hence are bad people. That's a gussied up ad hominem, and is extremely common in certain political groups.

> "We", in this formulation, are already pulling our weight. "We" have also recently increased what weight we are pulling.

...with a tractor paid for by collective money.

Your whole position is that California or New York created this wealth on their own, through their own policies, and that's factually incorrect.

What you describe as "pulling our weight" is merely hoarding the returns on others' investments into your state -- the exact kind of hoarding wealth frequently decried as disequity by people within those very states.
This is annoying.

I deleted my facebook account years ago and only created a new one last year for the purposes of having access to my companies facebook page.

Obviously, to secure that, I added a phone number for 2FA. Now, I've started to get annoying, sometimes daily, SMS from Facebook about how "my friends are looking for me." Really discourages me from properly securing my account.
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>There's really no good reason for this.

My state taxes go to fund schools and roads. My federal taxes go to fund bombs, warplanes that can't fly in the rain, a failed drug war, and mass surveillance infrastructure.

That is reason alone for the SALT.
"Women specifically"

Childcare doesn't just affect women.
>people do still manually indent or rely on their environment to indent it for them

Nobody manually indents their code. Almost any language other than Python is unambiguous to indent, so the computer does it for you.

>I for one cannot read Java without it also being indented correctly.

That's easy, just copy paste Java code into an editor and press a button to indent everything. Voila! Good luck if you're dealing with Python code which got misindented somehow (e.g. copying from some social network website which uses markup that doesn't preserve whitespace, which is most of them).

>What tools are you using that don't do indentation for you?

Python code cannot be re-indented unambiguously. So if you copy paste a chunk of Python code from one place to another, you can't just press a button to reindent everything. You have to painstakingly move it to the right level and hope that it still works. In Common Lisp I just press Ctrl-Alt-\ and everything becomes indented correctly.

>The most you have to do is hit backspace after finishing a block.

That works if you only write new code and never have to change existing code.

>There's a reason environments highlight do-end pairs together: because it's hard to know which ones match which.

No, the open/close brackets allow the IDE to highlight them so that the programmer can clearly see the scope of the code block. This is a useful feature of the language. In Python it's almost impossible to see which deindent matches what if the function is long enough/deep enough.
Well, my wife and I always say that when it came to tech companies, we were "lucky but not that lucky." I worked for one startup whose IPO was filed the day before the bubble burst, and after that had a job offer from pre-IPO Google that I turned down because I figured the stock would be lower than my strike price by the time I could exercise. Oops.
The “underpay” of teachers is due to supply and demand.
We're nowhere near any common definition of what a fair wage should be. Especially for knowledge workers whose work ain't easy to value.

Say I build some engine and buy a bunch of identical bolts I need: each one obviously costs the same. But now I'm building a business and need some human cogs to run it, why would I have to discuss the particular cost of each one?

Same work, same pay.
But... unique person and custom pay?
How do we reconcile this apparent contradiction?
Nope, not that, either: the supply of doctors, for instance, is deliberately restricted by the American Medical Association; whereas the supply of elementary teachers is not restricted by the CAEP. Supply and demand are still second-order effects here.
Thing is that in Germany there are parts of highways without any speed limits, so OP probably wasn't breaking any laws nor it's "a massively luxurious thing" to speed test your car there (other than owning the car obviously).
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It's extremely difficult to actually hide all signs of gender, even with the measures you mentioned. Even simple things like the way a job advertisement or a resume is worded can suggest the genders of the people involved in a statistically predictable way. For example: http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/static/documents/Gauch...
> The last time I saw 2fa and fido talked about on here, someone recommended a set of 2 keys, but they ones they recommended are now out of stock.

There isn't really any reason to have a backup 2FA key. Just have TOTP set up on each account as a backup, so that way if you lose your 2FA key you can still log in that way. Then just order a new one. But having an extra 2FA key just sitting in your drawer on the off chance you leave your laptop in a taxi or whatever isn't really necessary.

Right now it's only major sites that support U2F anyway, so basically all of them allow you to have TOTP enabled as a backup. If you want you don't even need to enter the TOTP codes in your phone, you can just store the secret keys encrypted somewhere.
There are plenty of libertarians who value the well-being of animals. Those and most libertarians would be in favor of boycotting those who abuse animals.

But what libertarianism isn't about is using physical force (which includes the state) as primary means to solve every problem in the world.
It's a very personal choice on how you allocate money. My grandfathers worked in a steel mill and a coal mine. They scrimped and saved for my parents and their siblings to have a better life. My parents were the first generation to go to college and became teachers. They scrimped and saved to give my generation a better life. I'm saving to give my kids a better life. If they needed it, I'd also step up and give money to my parents; fortunately, they don't need it.

If I were in your situation, I'd want to secure my own family's housing and retirement at least as much as your parents' housing and retirement, so as in many things, balance is going to be key. But if you truly value changing their lives at the expense/delay of your own, there's nothing stopping you from doing it and obviously nothing wrong with it. It's a very personal choice.
The recently released Linux 5.0 kernel supports energy-aware scheduling, which should help out with this: https://lwn.net/Articles/749900/
One of the new things with grandparents today is divorces.

Because all of my child’s grandparents are divorced they are not able to retire / and have to work. This prevents them from being able to offer the same kind of child raising assistance as grandparents that stay together.
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Thats right. Innovation lead to this. With more innovation from telcos, we'll get a "Now! from $9.99 a month we'll block all robocalls."
Bummer for track folks.

It's easy to get a new set of rubber that has a speed rating higher than what the factory provided; It's a lot more difficult for a layman to flash out a speed limit.

It's a shame that less and less companies are producing products that take into account that perhaps the potential buyer might actually know better.