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> The issue is that the government cares deeply that you pay taxes in the year that you incur them. The US government, as you may know, has massive debt, and so getting the tax later costs it money in interest payments. They care about this so much that if you owe a lot in taxes, you actually have to pay them in quarterly installments, so the Feds don’t have to wait a whole year to get your money.

Which is very silly, because the government pays a lower interest rate on its debt than the average returns from the stock market. So the government would actually come out ahead to carry more debt now and allow you to accrue more taxable appreciation, because the tax paid on the market gains from the money not paid in tax until later are more than the interest the government has to pay on its debt in the meantime.
Who said anything about them? Or complexity?
If I sell my car and buy another for the same price, should I avoid sales tax?

Making it possible to trade stocks without tax consequences may make it easier to better deploy capital, but it would also have a destabilizing effect, because it could make the markets more exposed to emotional reactions and poor information.
i’ve done it for free. You can have your identity back by sending btc to ...
Perhaps not better, but there certainly have been worse.

As for the comments. Yes. But at least they're there, and quite often helpful. Plenty of times I've read other docs where I wished they had commenting but alas didn't.
Most people don't end up taking 5 weeks, and I think 8 is more along the extenuating circumstances - i.e. at one job I needed to leave early on a regular basis to deal with trips to the vet for a very sick dog. My boss was very understanding and since I was one of the more senior and productive team members, no one minded.

Honestly, I don't think I would take a job offer that only included 2 weeks vacation, even if the pay was exceptional. Early on in my career I didn't mind not having much vacation, since I rarely, if at all, used it. Now that I'm older, the added flexibility is more important.
> now, everyone has a voice, even if they shouldn't

Can you elaborate on this? I mean the part that someone shouldn't have a voice. By what mechanism should we take or deny someone a voice?

Perhaps you meant it as nothing more than a casual remark, in a "I just wish the world was somehow magically different" way. But I think it's really important to think about what actual mechanisms are we desiring be implemented in that world, and what such a world would look like.
Matt Levine (author of this piece) is amazing, and I suggest everyone subscribe to the ‘Money Stuff’ newsletter. It’s this column, every (week) day, and it’s absilutely hilarious. I describe it to friends as “The Daily Show in written form for finance nerds”
Consider instead that the person is an investor. But instead of investing money, they invest not only the initial idea, but also help solve some problems along the way. So, very similar to investors, but instead of money, the investors also provide the idea. 20% sounds reasonable for that.
the person who bezos used was mentioned in the articles v.v. his recent confidentiality breach
> You probably don't want someone who steals your laptop to get access to your secrets after a few days

Obviously. I was describing the signature chain management. The encryption key management would be as it is.

> how would you know your "brand new" laptop wasn't interdicted by a hostile party while it was "having problems clearing at customs"?

>> The actual signing key that is loaded needs to be percolated up through the UI so the user can verify whom they're actually trusting

> It is clear to me that your threat-model and Google's (they dogfood ChromeOS hardware extensively) are divergent. Chromebooks are not for everyone, and that's OK.

Here we go again with the condescending simplistic conclusions...
you mention psychology, then go on the mention the hard sciences.
I love me a good Levine piece.
I feel that this is something many more countries across the world should do considering that equivalent Western services are blocked in China.
I think we are approaching another tipping point towards decentralization. As more and more people become aware of the privacy and other abuses from Google and Facebook there will be a growing migration towards anyone who offers alternatives and more choices.

I remember the great excitement of those early days when the internet first started to become a mass public phenonema. It was going to change everything, become
the great leveler. Those huge entrenched monopolistic corporations would have trouble competing against small quick startups. And for a while that happened, entire industries were changed by tiny startups in garages, like Google. But as it became bigger Google changed for the worse.

I think this is going to be a continuing cycle.
But one great thing is that we will be creating new tools such as blockchain and will have a clearer roadmap of what to do when somebody amasses so much centralized power that they start to limit our choices, to enrich themselves.

Another thing, today people are walking around with enough combined computing power in the phones in their pocket to dwarf the resources of even Google, Facebook, and even the CIA and NSA and I know we have enough hackers that would consider it a challenge and even fun to organize all that power to counteract any serious abuses.

For instance many phones these days have at least 8 processors around 4GHZ and it now is possible to add a 1 Terabyte SD Card. That is more than enough to use it as a DNS Server.

Soon we will be seeing more and more peer to peer mesh networks, decreasing the need to use an ISP. I think more and more local Co-ops will be formed with people networking together their computer resources. And these Co-ops could network together themselves. For example they could form an online buyers club with all purchases going through a specific IP Address and no transaction being able to be traced to individuals. And a small percentage of the purchase price can be earmarked to pay people running the DNS or other services or pay them for any useful specialized software they have developed for these uses.
If anyone wants to dive deeper into Piketty’s work Just check out his website and lecture slides.
The intention is to pay for an idea, validation and first customers (by being an idea from someone that lives/works with the current problem).
OP here. I added a reference to the original article, which was titled "Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil".
>Make it easy for people to pay you.

There's definitely a startup opportunity for this - making it super easy to receive payment as an OSS developer (either as a business or sole developer) and making it easy for businesses to pay.

If I saw a new issue on github and it came from a corporate "OSS gold account member" which potentially comes with $$$ attached I'd be much more inclined to implement it.

As it is my motivation drops off fairly quickly unless it's a serious bug or it's a relatively easy ask.

I think it would be much easier to get budget if the cost to get expedited OSS bugfixes were subscription based and accounts gets to deal with a professional billing department rather than "One Man and His Hat Inc. in Iowa".
Shit I’ll pay you $10k and only keep 10%. Finding real life problems that (truly) require a (tenable) software fix are getting harder and harder to find.
Reminds me of Joel osteen
Seriously? On the spectrum of things worth ad blocking, this would never even hit my radar.
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> You start a tech company because you want to do something new, not to get rich.

Unfortunately starting around the first Internet boom a ton of people showed up here feeling differently and it really fucked things up.
> I'll add a file to my node then request it from a gateway and it will take multiple minutes before the file is resolved.

Sadly, I've noticed this myself. Have you reported these things to the IPFS developers?

> you need to keep the http request alive for the multiple days it might take to pin something

I didn't understand this part. You make the HTTP request towards your local IPFS daemon? Why does it take several days to pin something?
who's being fooled ?

- the investors ? most likely they know your four man team is not capable of doing any solid AI work and are aware that your CEO is bullshi$$ing but they are actually betting on this ability to sell what does not exist being a personality quality.

- the customers ?
why should they care. if they care, they should ask where's the ai. "show me the ai"

- you ?
your not being fooled. you might have been when being signed up for the job, but now just accept it. if AI becomes a thing it might eventually find a way into your product. otherwise id just play along now while the cheques keep coming.
It's bad when it's one way because the internet is supposed to be open. In this case, I am entirely for an eye-for-an-eye approach if it helps to show these companies what a level playing field is.
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Of course it’s not for everyone, but it seems pretty ideal for people that want to focus on work. I personally enjoy having a lot of free time but people are different you know, all jobs are not for everyone.
You may decide that tax ought not to be due when you take one of the houses, but under the law it IS due. For me to take one of the houses, we would have to change the ownership structure and there would be a transfer price for that.
I had this idea to build social network where people could share photos with friends.

Where I can pick up my $500?
Transaction costs are not 0. So even if it seems like that would be a nice and stable equilibrium, getting there might be simply too expensive.
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I agree. I glanced through the list and noticed a couple problems myself too. Their `replaceWith` doesn't provide the functionality that jQuery offers -- it doesn't take into account event handlers bound to DOM elements. Also, their `extend` does a shallow merge, not a deep merge.

I don't particularly understand the rush to rip jQuery out of everything. It seems like a lot of people are doing it just because it's the trending thing to do. There are some things that jQuery does very well -- even in today's world where modern web dev is dominated by SPA components.

I'm the maintainer of https://github.com/elliotnb/observable-slim and https://github.com/elliotnb/nimbly -- the latter of which is an SPA component framework whose core requires jQuery. It uses jQuery to update DOM nodes with `replaceWith`, merge deeply nested objects with `extend`, among other things. Nimbly components are not required to use jQuery -- only the framework core uses it. Aside from the eliminating the extra 69KB footprint from adding jQuery 3.1.1 slim min, I don't see any reason to rush to rip jQuery out of the Nimbly core. On the contrary, using jQuery helped us get the framework built faster and helped us keep the code expressive and easy-to-follow.
I guess it's a bit ambiguous, but I think the thing that he says was "patched way back in 2017, and again in 2018" is not the hack to use adversarial dots on the road to fool the system, but the other hack where the they inject malicious code into the autodrive system over Wifi and then the CAM bus, and then take over control of the car from a cellphone.

So maybe the lane marking thing is still unfixed?

I'm also a bit amused by the suggestion that we should feel even safer because it was fixed twice! :)
At least for me it's not about being protected from getting fired or having a giant pile of money. It's more the knowledge that I can find something, worst case within a week because even today everybody is searching devs like crazy. Of course one needs also enough money above credit limit for going at least a month without income.
It's especially bad since sometimes you can combine orthodox science in novel ways to get a result that is seemingly ridiculous.

I remember there was a paper[1] where someone proved (mathematically mind) that you can change your position in curved space time by simply changing your internal configuration in a loop. By taking advantage that your center of mass behaves weirdly in curved space time.

Essentially, this would allow you to move in space without having to throw mass out via a thruster.

However, sadly, the displacement is too tiny to be practical.

[1] stackexchange which explains this and links the paper: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/46180/can-a-defo...
I think the theory of skill being nearly worthless in comparison is correct. But I don't think that has really changed from the past. The majority of products & services in this world don't really bring any value to a person.

I think the main problem in society is overpopulation. We're getting to the point that too many people exist for the old systems to function and as smoothly & unnoticeable for the mainstream as before.
>It is true that the F.A.A.’s current delegation rules have been around for more than a decade — and that America’s commercial airlines have assembled an enviable safety record over that period. But the available evidence also suggests that America’s refusal to adequately fund the F.A.A. allowed corporations to gain inordinate influence over a public-sector function — and many people died as a result.

This is classic motivated reasoning. The authors know that the US Airline safety profile over that time is stellar. Knowing they can’t base their claim on the actual statistical safety record, thy resort to using a comparison with vague words such as ‘suggests’ and ‘inordinate’ and emotionally charged phrases: such as ‘corporations to gain inordinate influence’ and ‘many people died.’

They are hoping that your emotional brain will overlook the lack of argument of real quantitative evidence and jump on the emotional bits of the argument.

This is similar to how anti-immigration groups will seize on a high profile crime committed by an immigrant and use that to say that immigration should be stopped/cut back without discussing if immigrants are actually more likely to commit violent crimes than natives.
Labor laws were a carefully negotiated compromise between economic chaos and workers rights.

I think the lesson here is that that they’ve been weakened to the point of irrelevance, people still need to (and will) strike, and it will cause more harm to employers than the system that was intentionally dismantled after the last few decades.
These are very hard businesses to run.

Pubs have to deal with liquor licenses, rowdy clients, high staff turnover, and very high rents to be anywhere other than a dive.

Bakeries have extremely high turnover, razor thin margins, expensive equipment, large kitchen, odd hours, and significant hours

Gas stations are all franchises. It is notoriously difficult to make money on a franchise (e.g., you might make 30 or 40k a year take home) and there are huge lists of things that a franchisee can be penalized for. Plus you are hiring the least educated staff on earth and have to deal with all that shit.

Compared to white collar work, which can pay 4-8x what you'd make doing any one of these, for a fraction of the headache.
That's not really the full story though. The CCP was worried about the passive soft power of an uncensored internet. The concern stated here is for soft power resulting from the active influence campaigns and censorship originating from the CCP.
I may equally lose that money. There's a reason that government debt pays less. The sooner they get their money, the less time it is exposed to that risk.
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I use uBlock Origin and its :style() feature to remove and modify parts of websites that I don't like.

I don't block user comments on PHP doc pages out of spite, I do it because they are very long, making it harder to scroll vertically on the actual documentation.
> As an entrepreneur I don't strive to "make money", I strive to learn, adapt, and survive. Money and success depends solely on how well I can iterate those three things.

Beautifully said!
Thanks for your point. There are a lot of details which need to be discussed but depend on the idea, clients, product type, implementation etc. Ownership and exact targets being one of them.
> If I sell my car and buy another for the same price, should I avoid sales tax?

Did the person you sold your old car to have to pay an equal amount of sales tax? Because in that case yes.

> Making it possible to trade stocks without tax consequences may make it easier to better deploy capital, but it would also have a destabilizing effect, because it could make the markets more exposed to emotional reactions and poor information.

This sounds like the argument a monopolist makes for why competition is bad.
Of course if you put bad input into a system you are going to get bad results, whether human or computer. You periodically read about dumb kids messing with stop signs and causing accidents.

https://www.abc12.com/content/news/Stolen-stop-sign-leads-to...

https://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/national/article218...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/charges-dropped-against-1-in-stop...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/06/21/3...
Because the majority of businesses don’t fail in 5 years....
> Literally all employees are only worth employing because they free other people to do other things.

this is true but it glosses over an important distinction between skilled and unskilled labor. skilled positions in engineering and sales (just for example) require specific skills and probably some baseline aptitude that can't be quickly acquired. that is, you can't just assign your engineers some sales duties if it becomes too expensive to hire sales people, and most sales people can't just pick up engineering tasks if it's too expensive to hire more engineers.

in contrast, most able-bodied adults can learn to sweep, mop, etc. in a couple weeks. maybe extend it to a couple months if they need to use heavier equipment to clean a large space. this inherently puts a ceiling on the value of janitorial work. if janitor pay gets too close to pay for a skilled role, it's just not worth hiring the janitor anymore.

you can see this dynamic play out in restaurants and convenience stores. most businesses like these don't hire janitors, because they would have to pay them as much or more than they pay the waitstaff, cooks, or cashiers. instead, the normal employees are usually tasked with cleaning the workspace at the end of their shifts.

to be clear, I am not contesting your greater point. the fact that some people don't perform extremely valuable work doesn't mean it's okay to treat them like dirt; it doesn't make them less valuable as people. but the claim that a software company needs a janitor as much as it needs an engineer just isn't true.
From the perspective of the government the risk is extremely diversified -- across all taxpayers and all investments. And it remains the case that the average returns from the stock market exceed the average interest rate on US government debt.
You need to share more context.

TBH, a lot of AI does not do things better than a human. It merely does them more cheaply or more scalably. Thus if you are prototyping or building an mvp, it's not necessarily terrible to have your "AI" be a human. Even the best AI systems are often a mix of humans and software, where eg the humans label or the ML code sends examples near the decision boundary to humans for review.

Building an initial system that is human operated and transitioning that to machines is how a lot of companies are built.

Of course, if you're lying to your investors, that will not end well. Ditto future employees.
Also wanted to add- Piketty has and continues to focus on data collection. We should be thankful people are out there doing tough work like this so we can all make more informed decisions- even if we come to different conclusions.
It took a Great Depression to get the original New Deal. I think there’s enough political headwind still from the Recession to afford another ND, but just saying.

The crazy thing is there was a big market correction in the early 1900s. I’ve read it helped create the environment and had many of the same bad market actions that eventually brought about ‘29. History might rhyme sooner than later. There are definitely worrying trends too.
China have not specified reasons for their blocking.

At least the Taiwanese authorities have.
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Anyone in the u.s. doing this? I'd be willing to give up 50% equity and no cash for what I think is an awesome idea.
Humans have a much broader suite of capabilities, usually allowing us to a) recognize that this is happening and b) work around it.
Agreed. Dang, please update title to "Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil".
From your other comments, I see why you don’t want it to be this way, which is a valid philosophical point. However, this is how the tax code treats any transaction today. You’re right you don’t owe tax if you hold a single company’s stock, but you do if you hold a mutual fund that trades its underlying shares during the year, or if you trade one stock in your portfolio for another. You owe it even if you sell a stock for a net profit and buy it back for exactly the same price ten minutes later. ETF’s are treated differently ...
https://kevinbinz.com/2019/02/17/domestication/ - this article points out the "mild neurocristopathy hypothesis" to explain gradual removal of aggression during domestication.

"domestication syndrome is a byproduct of changes to the NCC migration pattern" in the development of the neural crest. In this scenario, Seratonin inhibits the Negative Valence System, in turn giving domesticated hominids a longer window of time to collect social information to determine how to apply aggression towards other animals.

NCC migration patterns are also suspected to change facial characteristics, part of neural crest development, that are observed in domesticated animals: hair, ears, mouth, teeth, etc.
Do you happen to have any benchmarks with JIT and libries like swoole?

I thought the same some days ago, but in theory, the output from JIT lives across requests so it shouldn't matter if its a long lived process or simply a normal PHPfpm process.

Also, the usual bottleneck in PHP is I/O.
But the same group of people has in fact spent dearly on skill for their children, from bassoon lessons to math and computer coaches, and overseas experiences. It's just that an insane amount of skill isn't enough to get all of their kids into Harvard at once, so they're willing to chip in a bit more to make up the difference.

My kids are at a competitive high school, so I know these parents and their kids. Nobody is calculating the value of social networking. They simply see Harvard (or other similar places) as the best and they want the best for their kids.
> They care about this so much that if you owe a lot in taxes, you actually have to pay them in quarterly installments, so the Feds don’t have to wait a whole year to get your money.

That's really not about interest, but about credit risk. If a tax payer goes broke, they don't want to lose a whole year of taxes.
Just like @klodolph said, TypeScript to JavaScript is what C++ is to C, I.e it offers SUBSTANTIAL benefits while there are still some dark sides of the language to be discovered. (My personal view: TS metaprogramming is the hardest for me so far, enum mess, Babel TS preset lacking metadata support etc)
This is where globalisation really hurts. You used to have to hide 24 hours under a rock to avoid it, but with different time zones and all that jazz on the internet, it starts early and ends late.
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