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>The fix is to remove the loopholes.

Is it, though? This is a situation where Chesterton's Fence is important to consider.

No single government regulates tax worldwide, and each is iteratively attempting to balance a multitude of concerns, while remaining competitive to capital.

Additionally, many of the loopholes aren't legislative tax exemptions on the books. They're determinations regarding how and when certain things are recognized on the books. 'Fixing' those problems doesn't 'remove' loopholes. It just creates new rules which are then exploited.

Finally, with respect to tax simplification in general: Simplifying the tax code is akin to refactoring code. Sure, there are some areas where it could be engaged in without causing problems (and which would result in efficiency gains!), but much of the appeal of refactoring code lies in how we ignore the tricky edge cases when designing a new utopic system in our heads.

The legal project of re-digesting a highly complicated body of law and producing a more functional version would take, at the very least, a decade of work. So now we're hitting the complexity limits of an administration's compute ability too. Shit.

All in all: it's a bit harder than that. I wish you were right, though.
A show about Stanford's student founders
I don't buy the "essential to modern life" part. I've quit FB cold turkey, because I concluded that it was making my life worse. And I seem so far to be happier for it, and to have lost very little.
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> How is it age discrimination?

The share of the employment pool with student loan debt is much lower over 40; it's a benefit focussed on the younger.

> There are tons of people in their 40s and 50s still paying off student loans.

Not nearly as great a proportion as those under 35.

https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/average-debt-age-2018/
No, I'm equating one business refusing a customer to another business refusing a customer. That is how analogies work.
More Than My Share Of It All by Kelly Johnson, himself (well, through a ghost writer)
Office Depot computer scans gave fake results
I think based on the outcome of this action, it has the potential to do real harm to the internet.

If the current executive branch decides to get tough, they could withhold section 230 exemptions from the private companies.

The net effect would be to destroy the companies platform as no company in their right mind would operate with that potential liability.
Reduce inputs. Thanks.
if part of the compensation is equity than the financial health of the company is very relevant.
One thing my late father wanted to do was start his own rail line, one without the track. When Oldsmobile closed there were suddenly a lot of executives in Lansing having to make the commute every day to downtown Detroit. My Dad located some combination train engine passenger integrated car units that had been in storage since the late sixties. He simply wanted to rent the track.

Even at a pokey 50-55 mph he could get to downtown Detroit 30-45 minutes faster than driving because of traffic congestion. He demonstrated that the demand was there. But sadly the railroads wouldn't even take a meeting.
> > Any reason that could be stated in layman's terms?

> None at all, in fact, the source article does so ….

Did you really mean "None at all"? The rest of your post seems to say the opposite.
Not speaking legally, but speaking ethically, it is of course both possible and good to suppress the speech of e.g. white nationalists.
You can't understand what White Nationalism and Separatism if you're happy to come conflate it with "praise for your ethnic identity".
This right here. But a key aspect of using the expected value idea is that you have to be able to make lots of these bets. If you have a good expected value decision but only make it once or twice, you could just get burned by luck. Only if you can make that same high percentage play many times does this work.

The book Antifragile is all about this. His advice for entrepreneurs specifically is to "avoid your risk of ruin". Starting a business is never guaranteed to succeed, and if you stake your entire life savings on one business venture and take out loans, you could just get unlucky regardless of EV. If you, say, kept a part time job and worked on your business in the rest of your time and had infinite runway, you'll eventually succeed if you don't quit.

This idea has strongly impacted the way I face decision making.
Firefox containers go around that nicely, as Economist offers several free articles per month
And when you get to about mach 33 you might as well leave orbit.
Seriously?

1. Is a poorly worded "what's your passion" question to the CEO

2. That's a red flag, you can redirect and say minutes are posted ... question to gauge transparency

3. No more arrogant than asking the employee

4. Poorly worded... "how do you plan to keep me here when the market turns in 2-3 years to the next fad"

5. Is a perfectly fine question, not asking about your wife

Some of these are poorly worded, none of them are out of line. If you are not comfortable answering them speaks to your character greatly.
Machine learning used to understand and predict dynamics of worm behavior
Ah, that makes more sense.

So in Keybase, what does device to device provisioning look like? "Hey, you've just set up this device - a message has been sent to all your other devices, OK the message and come back here and you'll be good to go"
It's a bad race to the bottom. If everyone and everything in on Spotify, then everyone is happy (so long as Spotify is a benevolent dictator). However, the value to consumers rapidly declines the second something they want is not on the platform.

Netflix is already seriously less useful than it was a few years ago now that more and more copyright holders are pulling their content and starting their own streaming services...
Best Buy vs. Apple Store
But we have this shiny new credit card that you can use..
> Can take off on it's own, assistance (RATO, catapults) is allowed for short take-offs (like from a carrier);

Well, by that definition I think the X-15 isn't a plane - it required a B-52 mothership to launch after all. IMO it's hard to find a definition of "plane" that includes the X-15 but not the Space Shuttle stack (not the orbiter on its own - the full stack).
people get outraged over tax policy discussions and no one is talking about banning them.
Remember the U2, the predecessor that was shot down famously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Gary_Powers.
Given that a lot of people have been having troubles with their keyboards and Apple seem uninterested in admitting their design is garbage, I think high profile people expressing their frustration can be productive.

I'm sure DHH could just go down to an Apple Store and buy a couple of new MacBooks, but he doesn't because he'd rather make a statement.
> Basically, take the numbers 1/3, -1/3, and count how many terms you need to produce something that sums to a whole number.

Shouldn't there be +2/3 and -2/3 charges as well? Otherwise the only way to do this is with an equal number of +1/3 and -1/3 charges (so not 5 total, for example).
I spend $180 on the family plan per year and I have for nearly 10 years because it's certainly convenient and allows for music exploration for my kids. Before spotify we used zune music pass.
It's also kind of the philosophy behind "fail fast and often". The outcome of any given decision is affected by so many things that all have to go right, it might as well be random, the only mistake is not making the decision. Eventually, things will line up if you just keep swinging.
The trick would probably be in scheduling your access to the tracks. I'm don't know but I suspect that it's not as well formalized as filing a flightplan with the FAA. Probably many man hours involved in tracking down the right people to talk to, getting them to agree, and figuring out the fee structure, and that's before you even plan the trip.
The root problem with Lightning Network is that it is not settlement. Money must be settled to be useful.

Worst case, a client or protocol flaw is found, and everyone in the world is expected to close their channels (settle) at 7 transactions per second?

Please. Bitcoin Cash is the large block scaling we've needed all along.
The 2017 bubble was a pretty steady ramp from $200 to $20,000. When your frame of reference is a 10,000% increase, then yes, 80-85% doesn't seem that terrible: you're still at +2,000%. Roughly adjusting for volume (you can never tell what's 'new money' vs. trading) about half of the people that bought into the last bubble are still in the green.

This past 'crash' has been downright tame. That's not some kind of swaggering nonchalance, just a very simple assessment of the history of price action. It was suspiciously orderly until last November when some old coins moved and tanked the market.

Even if you were 'new money', you'd have to be extraordinarily unlucky to actually have lost that much. Prices were only over $15k for a brief period, and buying into a white-hot market is such an absurdly greedy play that it's difficult to sympathize with such losses.
I can't speak for "founder/tech startup" scene in China, but I did spend 4 years as a manager in the property development arm of a large foreign retailer.

1) As far as I know, the overpaid expat days are over. A lot of Chinese have returned from long stints overseas, and they're bringing that experience back with them. If you want a good position, now you actually need to offer something unique.

2) It's not impossible, but you will struggle if you can't speak Chinese. It's funny how this working generation were all forced to learn English at school, but many of them can barely string a few words together. Depends on your industry, of course.

3) Most of your business interactions will be unpleasant. Chinese companies will lie, cheat, steal, and anything they can to sell you down the river. Most of your time will be spent watching your back and trying not to get screwed. Same goes for employees.

4) The pollution is horrible, and one of the main reasons why so many people left at the same time I did.

5) Managing teams can be a nightmare. Chinese employees love empire building, and their answer to any problem is "you need to give me more people".

6) Decisions are very much top-down, and noone wants to second-guess the boss. This means companies are constantly lurching from long periods of inaction (waiting for the CEO/ Chairman to make a decision) to mad sprints/crunch time (once they make a decision and insist that it be carried out in a ridiculous timeframe).

7) "Face-time" is very much a thing. Many employees are working 12 hour days, but most of that is spent on WeChat/mobile games/etc.

In short, would I recommend someone do it? Yes - if you can speak Chinese, have no kids and can swing a well-paid, time-limited posting (say 2 years) with your existing company.

It's an eye-opening experience and really makes you value things that you take for granted in the West.
Easy, want to use the work of others for free? Receive the same as you are willing to give others.

Feel like earning money? Then pay back some of the dues, so that upstream can stay in business.

That preacher is the reason many anti-GPL folks can enjoy Linux, GCC and a comfortable POSIX like userland.

I wonder why they aren't all making FreeBSD a huge commercial success if GPL is so evil then.
I feel I have done original research but in a more piecemeal way because I had a full time job. I also feel that I need to be given an opportunity even though I only have a master's degree
Yes, but what do you think of them?
I don't think you understand the concept of "privilege" very well.

Privilege is basically the logical inverse of discrimination. If driving while black means getting pulled over more (discrimination), then driving while white means not getting pulled over more (privilege).

Hope this clarifies how even poor whites are "privileged".
Yes, FB is a private company and all that. But they have clearly been censoring speech and cannot be protected by common carrier rules, as they are a publisher.

This change of designation, of course, would be a significant financial blow, once they started losing lawsuits. But you can bet that if one considers their gov't influence and status as a money-spigot for leftist politicians, they have no fear of this actually happening.

It's only the little people who have to worry about running afoul of the law---not HRC and not FB. Welcome to the late Roman Empire.
I see this argument a lot about how bad it is to be stuck and I really can't wrap my head around how its presented. Laid bare its "you've been underpaying so long you won't be able to afford overpaying."

If the landlord suddenly demands double the rent and you don't have rent control, and everywhere else in town demands double the rent, you are homeless. If you have rent control, your landlord cannot double your rent, but it still goes up at a fixed % a year, and you aren't gonna go homeless.

Housing prices have rose faster than wages can keep up, either you offer some limits at how much you can gouge from a tenant or you accept the consequences of low income workers forced to live far from their low wage job (increased vehicle usage due to being far from convenient transit, more congestion on the roads, more pollution in the city), as there's just not enough jobs in these far flung areas.

The great irony is that all of these debates and issues and perilous environmental and economic situations could all be avoided if we simply built dense supply to match demand. This is the U.S., we do nothing better than create heaps of supply to exceed demand. Distal suburbs hastily constructed in wildfire lands aren't the answer; you have to build housing where you've built the jobs. That means building UP so people don't have to travel for hours and hours sideways to find something they can live in with their wages.
All censorship is bad! The supreme court has ruled that there is no such thing as hate speech. Stop letting someone else's words ruin your life...shallow weak minded snowflakes. What happened to "sticks & stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me?"

Just because you are offended does not mean anything. Who cares if you get offended its a personal thing, keep it to yourself and stop crying! And the word "offended" is definitely a vaginal word, no self respecting man would ever admit to being offended!
Fuck you Facebook!
"If it looks right, it flies right"

Quote I've heard attributed to WW2 pilots, but google isn't helping me with.
That doesn't mean he didn't consider himself an extreme Green, though. Where you accept funding from and what your political beliefs are can be rather different...
FaceTime is great. Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp might also be viable options depending on the situation.
I was careful to say "unmodified." C++/CLI is hardly that. It's also not at all sandboxed the way wasm is.

Why the chip on the shoulder?
> (albeit a horrible one I never want to work with again).

As a current Salesforce developer this hits home. I cannot wait to get out and back to using real platforms and languages.

I'll honestly write any language at this point just not to do SFDC.
FYI this is not terribly new – BLE was already extremely power efficient and could easily run for > 1 year on a watch battery

you're not going to be able to stream audio or video from a device like this, but BLE was not designed for that anyway.
Eh. Weapons of maintenance of American military hegemony aren't exactly my idea of the pinnacle of human ingenuity.

It certainly looks cool though.
We do, collectively, as a society.

Sometimes we'll get it wrong, and need to correct it. That's fine. We're capable of that.

What's not fine is throwing up our hands at even the concept of performing that judgment, because it's subjective or whatever. That cedes the public square to extremists, which results in a shittier society.
> It's a bit contrived, but the internet itself is such a place.

The Internet isn't a place and that's what makes it a carrier. Just like the telephone system, the Internet connects you to other services.

Websites are not principally public repositories; they are privately owned services. If they allow you to post, that doesn't make it public in an ownership sense or carrier.

> If they want to offload the risk of hosting the content.

But they aren't. The law doesn't allow companies or individuals to get away with hosting copyright infringement. It simply makes it possible for companies that accept user uploaded content to function in any way as the alternative would make this impossible. That's all. Implying this requires a moral imperative to allow any content is a stretch at best.
+1 on the G11. Any bullpup rifle already looks reto-futuristic; combine it with caseless ammunition, the ability to fire a 3 round burst in 80ms before buffering happens and the 90 degree rotating feeding system, and you've got something that still feels sci-fi today.-
I'm sure there are some sort of rules on mixed consists of freight and passenger, the freight railroads also wouldn't have access arrangements to use station facilities. If you're talking about buying a locomotive and running a completely private consist, that would work, but you would have to start your own private railroad company, get FRA certified crew, and satisfy the Class I host railroads that your company was able to follow their rulebooks and not be more trouble than you're worth to their traffic.

It's probably doable though, there are some very short Class 3s with only a few employees that use small portions of Class I tracks and yards.
Are you saying that point 3 is incorrect? Will there be more than 21M Bitcoin?
This is a critique of "short-form" mediums, like TV, Twitter, Facebook, etc. This is, of course, not a critique of blogs or podcasts (or books, or essays, etc.)
The question boils down to "what can an attacker learn by owning the server" and right now you don't know. You can pretend that doesn't matter, but it's not inane or FUD.

You have to model the whole system to understand the threat model. Anything less is blind trust.
"I guess a Finnish person living in Finland can now no longer use Facebook to express a wish that the demographics of his home country stay unchanged?"

Your guess is probably correct.
Pretty sure you're white bro.
I believe if you do dpkg --contents keybase.deb (or whatever it's called) it will list out what files are in a debian file. You should be able to see if they're including their own that conflict with the rest of the OS, but also if a package is going to mess with a file the OS installed, my experience has been that the package manager will warn you of this or not allow it, but I can't remember off the top of my head. Sane use of dependencies on Debian means depending on the specific dependency from that specific version of Debian.

I've built my own Debian packages at work, but I'm not a total guru yet. I've never ran into issues with KeyBase yet on Linux, but honestly you could always open up a GitHub issue with your concerns to find out.

Edit:

Best I can tell from their github they install KeyBase to /opt/keybase specifically, or at least the main stuff, which is what third party packages usually do.
Academic geopolitics. The "deep learning mafia" has striked again, excluding the guy from the other side of the Atlantic, Schmidhuber
MIDI Maze
A silly example of a movie like that I've looked for off and on in a digital/streaming form for a long time is my favorite Marx Brothers movie, "A Night in Casablanca."

(I know, I know, it's one of their least 'significant' movies -- but IMO it's their most fun and watchable one).
Somebody should Airbnb this. Who wouldn't want the opportunity to cross the United States in their own personal rail car? No airports to deal with, no impersonal hotels. Sounds like a retirement dream.
> "Bubbling" per se is essentially defined as that portion of Google's ranking algorithm that incorporates its opinion of you.

It's about incorporating Google's opinion of what you want to see, but you seemed to be implying that it is about incorporating Google's opinion of what you ought to see. I think that is somewhat misleading.

> The rest of it, the generic part of Google's algorithm, can and does reflect Google's desires as a company.

True, but what does that have to do with bubbling? Any sufficiently advanced search technology will have that problem whether it uses bubbling or not.
There's this weird uncanny valley effect in every music recommendation algorithm I've tried.

Most every song hits a "I 100% understand why you're recommending this. It's superficially similar to some stuff I really like. I hate it though".

Almost like a bad cover band of your favorite artist.
To the extent that their object and memory models match the JVM's, you might say they were. To the extent that they don't, their JVM implementations wind up with warts and inconsistencies.

(But this is pedantry, you clearly know what I meant.)
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As we all know, Trump is a reliable narrator of events.
These are both written by the same person, and amount to spreading FUD about liberal bogeymen and painting conservatives as a victim.

For example, he is quoting Hillary Clinton instant search debacle as an example of bias, which was debunked as being technical illiteracy:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/google-manipulate-hillary-...
> "For an avid student with great skill in mathematics, rushing through the standard curriculum is not the best answer. That student who breezed unchallenged through algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, will breeze through calculus, too."

That was me. I was great at calculus type things, but Matrix Theory hit me like a ton of bricks. I still have that text book, sitting on my other desk, staring menacingly at me from across the room; Matrix Analysis, Horn and Johnson. Geometry in High School gave me a taste, but would have been nice had we had available another proof based class in the math curriculum; Formal Logic or Discrete Maths at a high school level. Maybe even Linear Algebra?
The Chinese must be furious.

I was at a local government plenary session at Chengdu (long story) a couple of year back. The lead speaker kept waxing about how China invented and contributed AI to the world.

I mentioned some points about about China's AI contributions/influence :

0. Algorithms -> The OGs as celebrated by this Turing Award (Canadian, but mostly led by American universities. On thing I did mention was due to the sheer factory production of Chinese PhDs, there is a lot of stuff arxiv from China )

1. Frameworks -> Tensorflow, PyTorch (American)

2. Hardware -> Nvidia (American)

3. Distribution -> Github (American)

4. Education -> Medium, Github, Youtube, Fast.ai (American)

5. Cloud -> AWS, Google, Azure (American)

China has some equivalent for all of them, ie. PaddlePaddle by Baidu, AliCloud, etc. but none of them have the reach, influence or domination of the American counterparts.

Suffice to say that my points weren't taken too well and have been disinvited since then.