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> If a state wants to tax, they should tax, but that shouldn't then reduce the federal government's ability to collect taxes from those same people.

I don't understand this. Any tax a state levies on its residents will necessarily reduce the federal government's ability to collect taxes from those same people, because it will make those people poorer.
Great job. Small nitpick. Agree —domain should probably be called —url instead. Domain implies no scheme.
If the move is not long distance, it may be possible to mix do it yourself and using a moving company, which can save a lot of money but spare you dealing with the hard things.

When I moved from an apartment to a house, the house was between my apartment and my office and I had a couple weeks where I owned the house but was still living in the apartment.

Each night after work, I'd pack 2 or 3 small boxes and load them into my car. Then on the way to work the next day I'd stop by the house and unload the boxes.

By the time the moving company came, all that was left for them to move was furniture and a 61" DLP TV. The cost, which had been estimated at $1500 when it included moving all my stuff, ended up being $150.
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> What makes me mad is that my speedometer goes up to 140mph! Why?!

It's a standard dial they stick in all models / engines
By that reasoning South African apartheid was also good, Google would support that if it existed today if they got enough money for the cause.
On top of that, here you can feel like you are working hard day in and day out, and you meet someone just like you, working just as hard, but they have $5M in stock because they worked for the right company at the right time.
The underlying assumption here is that women take care of kids, while men work. That's what an union should address IMO. Instead of maternal leave, have parental leave that men, too, can take. That way, the playing field is leveled more.

Of course, there's no quick fix here - it's a deepset cultural issue, and getting men to take that leave when it's available to them still seems to take some pushing.
If the feds charge X% and the state charges Y%, then it is entirely possible that x + Y > 100%. When SALT is deductible, it prevents that scenario.

That isn't the case today, but it is well within the realm of possibility if, say, one the Democrats' maximum-tax-rate proposals are enacted (which I broadly support).

The states and the feds historically don't coordinate taxes well, but the SALT deduction was one way of coordinating. It hasn't been replaced by anything, and it needs to be.
I think it's the other way around. The question should be why state taxes should take priority over federal taxes. And my answer is they shouldn't.

If you can deduct state taxes from federal income taxes, then any increase in state tax rates will take some revenue away from the federal government.

If your income is X, why not just have the federal government take Y% and the state take Z%, and have those numbers be independent, so that the total tax you pay is (Y+Z)%?

If you want to have higher state taxes to provide more services to residents of the state, that's perfectly reasonable, but why should it be the federal government's role to soften the blow of a state-level policy decision?
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I never went deep into this idea: why would sales/import export taxes be any better?

Sales are regressive taxes, and import/export are distortive af.
A better way to get good performance is to thread your switch statement, which is hard to do explicitly in Rust last time I tried (maybe you could do this if you mark functions as inlinable?).
> Funny that it is the red states that tend to get more federal dollars returned/pumped into their states than they contribute.

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?

> Republicans typically talking about being for smaller [Federal] government should like that the [blue] states are trying to solve the problems most important and local to them via their own means.

Again democrats say taxes should be higher, and more of the wealthy live in the blue states, so this matches democratic tax proposals.

What exactly are you complaining about?

Here's a bit more detail: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-02-05/think-...

Do you want a less progressive tax code? To weaken or remove the social safety net, or turn it back over to the states?
And it became an issue immediately or was it only an issue in the last 2-3 years as bad actors found and exploited holes in the system?
Unrelated, but I really enjoy this trend of people disclosing potential conflicts of interest relating to sponsoring at the beginning of a show or video like they did here. It’s so refreshingly honest and respectful of my natural distaste for being shown propaganda.
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For phishing attacks
My girlfriend got me this book for Christmas! It's an absolute trip. Some of the Area 51 patches (for black site tech development, etc) have such surprising on-the-nose humor regarding aliens. It's nice to know that even people that work on top secret stuff have a sense of humor!
Could there be negative unintended consequences here? If someone else sells your product cheaper than you do on Amazon, could this be used to remove them and keep prices higher?
Commenting without the presumptive and condescending "calm down" and "decaf" would make your point just as effectively without making you come across as petty and/or unable to argue unemotionally.
Why is there that cucumber though?
Ding ding. Corporate taxes as a policy is one of the incredibles where economics and politics clash complete.y
Shoutout to Google and their "Screen Call" feature in android. I screen every call from an unrecognized number. If I see it's my Doctors office I pick up. If not, mark as spam. I can do this in the middle of a meeting without interrupting anything.
I can imagine how multiple dispatch could make a numeric tower a little easier to implement, but the limitations I see in Python and other languages don't appear to stem from that. You can already take the math.cos of most types of numbers (int, float, even fractions.Fraction, ...) just fine, or add a complex and a Fraction. Python has long dealt with two types of strings, several types of numbers, etc., with the same interfaces. This isn't a difficult problem to solve with single dispatch.

Macros are easily misused, true, but so can any language feature. I can go on r/programminghorror and see misuses of if-statements. It's the classic argument against macros, and I hear it a lot, but I can't say I've seen it happen.

25 years ago, conventional wisdom said that closures were too complex for the average programmer, and today they're a necessary part of virtually every language. Could we be reaching the point where syntactic abstraction is simply a concept that every programmer needs to be able to understand?

I think "macros are easy to misuse" comes from viewing macros as an island. In some languages (like C), they are: they don't really integrate with any other part of the language. In Lisp, they're a relatively small feature that builds on the overall design of the language. Omitting macros would be like a periodic table with one box missing. It'd mean we get language expressions as native data types, and can manipulate them, and control the time of evaluation, but we just can't manipulate them at compile time.
Where does this community of hobbyist language designers gather online?
Just to be clear-- in reality the game is rigged by the dealership and salesperson such that it is extremely likely one will pay too much for the vehicle. Or at least the sale will not be optimized for TCO. And that is regardless of whether one plays the salesperson's game or tries to "beat the game."

What I'm saying is that either OP will accidentally give away information at the outset that virtually guarantees overpayment-- "Here's what I can afford"-- or robotically repeat a fair price calculated ahead of time and request TCO optimization until they are thrown out of the dealership.

It'd be like going to a shell game and requesting to pay $7 so your kid can have 10 guesses at where the shell is. Then when they ignore you, start asking what's wrong with that, I mean, those are the odds, no? I've even rounding up for that pure profit. Why wouldn't someone with a big crowd of good faith players want to accept that?
The coloured top navigation will not take the focus away, people are too used to navigation areas for that. It will help them however to separate the areas of the page. It's just very strange for you as you are too used to the existing design :)

However, the contrast between the inactive menu elements and the background might be a bit low. And sure, there is a visual branding part in play here as well that you might want to think about a bit longer. Something else than a black bar could work better in that regard, maybe white with a small border and a shadow below? Something a bit more in line with the current design will ease the transition.

But I think it absolutely works a lot better than the current whitespacy solution. Maybe ask a few people more for their impression? I'd be very surprised if it does not work better for most.
Hiya handles this for me so it's not a problem https://hiya.com/. It will block spam calls and whitelist contacts. It's kind of annoying that the caller can still leave a voicemail but at least you don't get bothered by your phone ringing.
Yeah, I expected this article to be about leaving. Instead it's about pretending to leave.
> This article seems to have come out in a vacuum while there has been notable research published in the last months.

No. The article skipped early research based on weak studies that most likely won't hold up once it's looked at closer.
That's a good thing. It means the journalist understands something about science.
In order to make it work, I think you would have to force men to take the parental leave, otherwise the implicit value of a man would still be higher. If the goal is to mitigate the consequences of giving birth and taking care of an infant, and the consequence is that women have less time for work, then you have to force men to also have less time for work.
>Hence the change is a soak the rich change would you would think that progressives would like. the same tax law changes included raising the standard deduction to twelve thousand thereby giving the poor, the middle class, and even portions of the upper middle class, a bigger write off.

Even filing as a single male in a state that collects tax like it's going out of style and making a respectable tech salary I had a net decrease in taxes paid this year compared to last. That increase in standard deduction helped a lot of people. The inability to deduct SALT only hurt people who itemize and with the higher deduction very few people need to itemize.
> Under the old system, if your home state charged say, a 10% income tax, that would reduce your federally taxable income by 10%.

No, it would reduce federally taxable income by more than 10%, because an income tax will lower income levels in the state. Even after eliminating the deduction for local taxes, the state income tax is lowering federal tax receipts. States can always eat a chunk of the revenue that would otherwise have gone to the federal government, by destroying that revenue.
How so? The current system is income-based, not wealth based. Under the current system, where you cannot deduct state taxes, the federal government's revenue is not reduced by state taxes at all (after the $10,000 limit).
Haha. 10 years ago the carriers were flogging the voip ISPs over putative origination fraud and _robocalls_. Lots of us in the industry proposed solutions(mine)[1]. We also built some interesting and very effective ML systems to detect the originators in real time.

Here we are 10 years later no further down the road. Sad.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080240082A1/en
Republicans would never do this. Republican states are net recipients of federal money. Wealthy democratic states are net givers of federal money. Poor states like Mississipi are funded in large part by the wealth democratic states that their politicians like to attack.
Lots of feel good ideas in the post, but no actual good ideas. Back when Congress created the Do Not Call Registry, and then forced law abiding companies to pay $10,000 for it, they pretty much just compiled an amazing list of active phone numbers that non-law abiding companies could acquire for a pretty good price and then sell them in batches to smaller companies that couldn't afford the full thing.

Once virtual phone services were invented, companies didn't even have to worry about dodging the Feds, they just moved all their operations overseas. Feel good laws will not solve this problem, it's going to take actual technological solutions.
The Fit's estimated top speed is 115. Applying logic to the problem I'd say it goes to 140 because it probably supports switching to km/h mode (e.g. if you need to drive through Canada) and 140 km/h = ~85 mph which as you say is probably the reasonable limit to take the vehicle
> Funny that it is the red states that tend to get more federal dollars returned/pumped into their states than they contribute. It's ridiculous to say the the blue states are stealing.

And the reason this is true is because states that receive more than they contribute are ones whose citizens make less money. It's like saying we should tax the poor guy a higher rate than the rich guy since the poor guy uses more public services.

> Republicans typically talking about being for smaller [Federal] government should like that the [blue] states are trying to solve the problems most important and local to them via their own means.

One could take that to mean that states ought not to need the SALT deduction subsidy to finance their state-level government.
> State government's revenue collection shouldn't funge against the federal government's revenue collection.

At an aggregate level, this argument makes some sense. But when you look at individuals who pay lots of tax, there actually is a good reason to allow a deduction from a tax policy perspective.

States like CA and NYC have progressive income tax rates, so the people paying a lot (and whose deductions are being capped) are high-earners. If their incremental tax dollars were being used to essentially fund consumption-like services for high-earners, then it would be proper to deny a federal deduction. The argument would be: well, your state took taxes from rich people in order to fund fancy museums/opera houses, so we shouldn't allow a deduction for this sort of state-intermediated consumption.

But CA and NY's high-earner taxes aren't used for this, for the most part. For example, CA's "millionaire's tax" (Prop 63) is specifically used to fund state-provided mental health services. Presumably none of the rich people who fund this actually receive these services because they already have their own doctors.

Of course, these taxpayers do see an indirect benefit from the provision of social services, insofar as they help keep crime rates lower and such. But in general, the income taxes paid by high earners are not akin to consumption, which would be the tax policy argument that one would make if trying to get rid of the federal deduction.
I stopped to buy paper books ~10 years ago, and it was great decision.
What do you mean by "thread your switch statement"?
I'm a big fan of this "Just watch me do this thing, the video speaks for itself" style of youtube. No animations, product placement, voice overs. No stupid jokes!

I watch these hypnotically after work.
Read hacker news.

Fiddle in green house.

Walk.

Look up old friends and give them a call.
Show HN: The State of Ecommerce – 2019 Report
“Especially bad”? It’s not bad if more people can buy them. It’s good.
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I must say this is the sort of quality comment that makes me come back to HN again and again. I've never been fully able to articulate why the "safety" argument is a farce, and I think you've done a cogent, lucid, commendable job here.
Yes, this seems so strange to me as well. Like, true, this is quantifiable in terms of dollars, but there are worlds with out money. The 'family' has always been a world without money (define family as you will).

If anything, having other family members in the child-rearing process is something of a luxury. If you have 'good-enough' parents and siblings, I'd imagine that you'd want the whole family involved.

I can't imagine how toxic a relationship you'd have to have with your family to see child-rearing in terms of dollars and cents.
I'll echo another commenter's "trash" qualifier for the article.

Dr. Bredesen published a study in 2014 that found his protocol effective in people in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Some (all?) of his protocol is listed here: https://www.apoe4.info/wiki/Bredesen_Protocol

It includes interventions ranging from dietary (daily fasting, autophagy promotion, minimise inflammation & insulin resistance, prebiotics and probiotics), lifestyle (stress, sleep, exercise, sleep apnea, mitochondrial function), vitamins & minerals, hormonal balance, and more.

The recent articles linking Alzheimer's with insulin resistance, gum disease, HIV/herpes, and more are just bite-size recycling of what Bredesen talked about back then, but strangely without mentioning the whole protocol.

The article is trash not because vitamins aren't helpful (they are, but not on their own without the rest of the protocol), but because the Bredesen study has become quite well-known, and not mentioning it seems akin to malpractice. They might want to present the Bredesen study skeptically or critically, but pretending it doesn't exist, when it's shown success, is eerie. It's like writing an article about sugar in 2019 without mentioning its toxic effect on the body.
Try fishing, one of my favorite hobbies for relaxing.
"A bit more than what most programmers need to know about memory, but would be nice if they read anyways"?
I could be wrong, but I don't think Elm re-triggers side-effects when you go back in time. It just brings back the state as of that moment in time.
Ask HN: OpenAPI (v3), API Blueprint, RAML – what do you like and why?
I'm evaluating OpenAPI, Blueprint and RAML for primarily API documentation but code generation might be neat too. While there are lots of comparisons out there, I'm also curious on the pulse of usage - ie among this crowd, which is most used? Most used often means most tooling support and etc, so this isn't just a popularity contest.

So - if you have an opinion on the matter, what do you use and why?
Good luck ever fixing SS7. Just abandon it, seriously... If you can. Your life will be easier.
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Because it's an easy line to draw. Don't take the money. Problem solved. The other things you listed do not have such a simple solution.
after re-reading the article I think the similarity is nom. It probably ends there since the usenix thing is quite old in comparison.
You must not talk to many Republicans.
The early (first?) retina macbook pro's (sold from mid 2012 till 2013) have a design flaw on the motherboard, this causes external 4k displays to show noise, weird colors, lose sync or not turn on at all. Apple 'solved' this by not listing the 2012 macbook pro on the supported device list for 4k monitors [0] (this list appeared in 2015)

It seems like a signal timing issue on the early motherboards. The macbook negotiates 60Hz with the monitor, but as soon as the monitor switches to 60Hz it loses sync. If you install linux you can work around this issue by forcing the output to 30Hz.

The issue was solved in the following motherboard revision, somewhere in 2013. So that's why your MBP plays nice with your monitors.

[0] https://support.apple.com/nl-nl/HT206587

(btw, I was not complaining that my almost-7-year-old 2012 device does not work with modern 4k displays. I was just trying to explain why a 200USD pinebook would be an upgrade over my 2012 macbook.)
I'm not sure I follow you. How can they eat the federal government's revenue by destroying income if it can't be deducted?

Are you saying that the economic equilibrium of a higher income tax will be lower pre-tax incomes? That's certainly an interesting theory, though it doesn't comport with any of the empirical data.
Re: icons, sorry if I was unclear — I'm not suggesting you add more icons, and I think your opinion in the article is good! I'm saying that it's not obvious to me what the right arrow means specifically, and (IMO) it's common enough that it adds visual clutter. For example, in the tree summary, "browse" and "log" have the right arrow, but the repo URL under "read-only" doesn't, and it's not clear why.
> The fact is that the very very rich do not notice.

Of course, that's why Eduardo Saverin renounced his citizenship.
The market's not going to fix this one. Imagine if we tried CFC taxes and incentives for recapture to fix the hole in the ozone layer? You'd be wearing a lot more sunscreen. The answer is good old fashioned "make a plan and carry it out". Don't know why that's so hard to do anymore. Build the infrastructure to replace it, with public money, and then ban it.
I don't know why this is being downvoted. It is certainly true in Sweden that while we have parental leave, men take a lot less, and the left wing parties are trying to create a law forcing men to take time off.
It takes more effort to read a number, than a relative position on a gauge. Yeah, you don't know the exact speed, but you do know the rough speed while taking your eyes off the road and being distracted for less time.

Of course, a lot of new cars can do both. ;-)
Why have you framed this as though it's an exclusive benefit awarded exclusively to NY and CA? Everyone can deduct their state income tax from their federal obligation regardless of what state they live in.

You might even argue that this is a states rights issue.
> Until then, it is going to be business as usual for them. How hard is that to understand?

First of all, workers have the full legal right to demand better working conditions, and to even use the media to help get their way.

Secondly, there are legal issues to consider. Companies are required by law to provide reasonable accommodations to employees.

And perhaps if a company gets to the size of Amazon, day care facilities may count as a reasonable accommodation.
That's because it's not merely a cultural issue, it's a biological one.

By necessity, all women that have children need to take time off, at least in the pregnancy/birth stage. The productivity lost is generally less if you only need to coordinate one person taking maternal/paternal leave. So the obvious choice is to extend the leave of the person that absolutely must take it.
Switching products like this seems to be very common on Amazon. I always make sure and go to all reviews and check the most recent before ordering. Review Meta is also a great resource for weeding out less trustworthy reviews.
I think they just meant debts you owe compounding versus debts owed to you compounding (as in savings accounts or treasuries).
I've always been impressed with how professional they sound. I want to know where is this seedy marketplace of robocall scam companies and desperate voice actors.