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With a 20% sales tax on used items you might as well buy new instead

I don't see why this follows. For example, most states currently charge sales tax on the sales of used cars and there seems to be a thriving market for used cars. Do you believe that raising this rate from 5-10% to 20% would significantly impact the sales of used vehicles?

especially for durable goods which wouldn't trade at much of a discount

While I don't think it's a likely outcome, suppose that for some reason all buyers balked at paying a 20% tax. I think it's likely that this would cause sellers to reduce their asking price to clear the market. Why do you think sellers would throw the item in the trash rather than reducing the price?
Metrics are "will this push more users to use the mobile app/give us more ad impressions vs ???"
Ken Thompson talks about this in 1984, when giving his acceptance speech for the ACM Turing Award.

Reflections On Trusting Trust, http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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If the rich cant live good, who will ? What will poor people look up to and work hard to become ?
My family moved around a lot, and I saw many types in the US, including Blockbusters with almost nothing but newest releases, Blockbusters with almost every movie & video game I could imagine, and several in between.
Anything that's using a web view is affected, so this definitely affects ad tracking in mobile apps like Instagram. It shouldn't affect the apps themselves unless they start making other workarounds to persist identifiers for their advertisers, which they almost certainly will do.
GWT is a little different in that it didn't use HTML Canvas to render the UI, but rather the DOM.
Believe me, it is just as depressingly amusing for me, coming from Europe. Cars were simply the most important to have first, since they offer both short and long distance travel for simulated citizens. I very much want it to be possible to have pedestrian/transit only cities and everything in between.
This depends on your library system. In parts of New York, ILL will send you DVDs as well.
I definitely agree with your statement about how vehicle-centric cities are; I wish it was different in real life!

It would be cool for Google to do that, if they open sourced it and didn't put any tracking software in...
Thanks for the link to prior discussion. I missed that yesterday. I modified the title since the original was over the character limit.
Businesses aren't infinite sources of money. Money should be spent paying people to do useful work, not paying them to produce products no one wants. Rich people spend money, supporting jobs. Layoffs aren't the problem here, inequality of income is the problem. A person's number of hours worked per lifetime is not the important variable, income per lifetime is.
A mild inconvenience doesn't normally cause one to take a rage-walk.
I still like to browse reddit.com/.compact on mobile.
Yeah, I hear you. Replacing 10s of thousands of JS lines with 100s of thousands of Java lines doesn’t feel like progress. Most Java (only) programmers look at JS as an “inferior, weird” language, but it’s actually much more powerful and concise if you dig into it.

However, there are other, better (than vanilla Java) languages that generate class files for the JVM which this tool can apparently convert to WASM. Might have some redeeming features. Clojure to WASM maybe???

It’s not like CSS is all that fun — this approach gets rid of DOM manipulation for use-cases where a more pure graphical layout is appropriate.
One coffee every working day was 1% of my income.

So it's not huge but it's not trivial at all.

Especially considering I live in one of those western cities with stagnating wages and absurd property costs.
I was one of the poor folks who could only afford the Matrox m3d (aka PowerVR PCX2), which shuffled video data to and from the 3d accelerator over the PCI bus, and was therefore slow as crud.. but, I had GL Quake!

http://www.vintage3d.org/pcx2.php
The theory is correct it's just not feasible or reliable to apply. Lots of things have a correct underlying theory but are too difficult to apply. Nuclear powered aircraft is correct in theory. There's no reason why we couldn't use thermonuclear power to spin a turboprop to generate thrust. But in practice, there's no way to make a nuclear pressure vessel light enough to mount on an airplane. At least not with current technology.

(Maybe we just have a semantics mismatch of what we refer to by "theory")
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Yeah. That's included. It's 3.3 cents/kWh. Electricity prices go negative in some regions when it's really windy and sunny as people try to deal with having so much renewable generation, and they offload it to whoever can take it at pennies or less. So it kind of is free. This study included very cheap electricity on the assumption that the batteries would be filled during these peaks in renewable generation, which always coincide with cheap electricity prices on the auctions.
I think one thing that needs to be considered is for HVAC you can time shift your demand via thermal lag. So for air-conditioning you can pre-cool the house during the day and just let the temperature rise during the evening.

Would people live with that? They would if doing that saved them $250/month.
Fair enough. Double it. 1.2% of GDP.

The cost benefit calculations for global warming are similarly wildly speculative.

But it puts limits on the cost in 2100 which is really interesting.
From the article:

Let’s consider five reasons why you should occasionally treat yourself to a cup of Joe.

It's arguing against the people saying "Your daily coffee habit is costing you a million dollars!" It's saying that is nonsense.

That isn't the same thing as issuing the opposite edict that you, yes you, need to rush out and drink coffee every. single. day.

Defending your right to make such purchases as you see fit isn't actually the same thing as insisting you spend $5 a day on coffee.

But I imagine this comment will fall on deaf ears. Like the time someone asked how to foster independence in their toddler and I told the story about locking up the breakables when my toddler began hurling his dishes into the kitchen sink like it was a basketball hoop so as to let him do his thing without it going bad places.

The eager young parent replied "I like that! I'm going to promptly start making my toddler put their dishes in the sink!!!!"

(facepalm)
For what it’s worth, this is what a fire sale / acqui-hire looks like for a large-ish hardware company.

Were investors and early employees screwed? Sure. But these execs could likely have gotten similar payouts over similar timeframes by simply jumping ship. As for Eero the company? Sounds like it was dead.

I don’t want to sound like I’m justifying this kind of behavior. But the main deceptive thing is calling this acquisition a “successful exit” — it was far from that!
It can be enabled in the stable release too.
Assuming you're talking public libraries, it depends on the state. Some states do ILL much better than others, including lending through multistate compacts.

Having both a family member and a couple friends who are/have been librarians, I seriously doubt it is a competitive instinct. I'm sure there are exceptions, but most librarians are genuinely dedicated to information freedom. (They certainly aren't getting MLS degrees for the money...)

I doubt they'll ever mail it direct to your home, though.
Sounds like the company failed and Amazon paid the people they wanted to keep. The headline is pretty misleading, as the story details that Eero received > $100M in investment before the sale, so investors lost money too.
Unfortunately, there's nothing different he can say at this point. If he wrote it they way you and I would like it to be, he'd probably be facing shareholder lawsuits and SEC fines and none of that would lead to a productive outcome. And it wouldn't change the fact that 300 people are still dead. All we can do at this point is hope they don't rush the MAX fleet back into service before its really ready and that the Boeing board really inspects the company's culture to ensure the whole fiasco has a lasting impact. Almost a "never again" sort of approach. Boeing has been doing a tremendous amount of innovative stuff and pushing the envelope in way more areas - commercial flight, space, military - than ever before, but apparently at the expense of what got it to its dominant position in the first place -- uncompromising engineering excellence. I would agree with you that before we, as the passengers of their products, can move forward, a stronger statement needs to at least address the specifics of how this is going to change.
There's so much CO2 in the atmosphere that planting trees can no longer save us
>we should work to solve the underlying problems which are causing them to make those decisions.

And in the meantime, we should be educating and encouraging them about avoiding making bad decisions. But by removing their agency, you rule out that option as part of the solution. Instead, it seems you would rather hold your breath until "the system" is fixed, than address how to encourage people to make better decisions while also working towards a better system.
Honestly as a game developer I would use it even if it was closed source and full of tracking as long as it was performant and flexible and easy to use, things which google is good at.

Unless I was making a game focused on protecting the privacy of my virtual citizens...
The issue is founders won regardless of which side the coin landed on and the employees got screwed.

I hope stories like this continue to break, and potential startup employees internalize the economic reality of working at a startup.
Their actor implementation / event loop works on a higher level than mine. Mine is super simplistic intentionally to offer high performance. Being optimised for cache locality, processing similar actors in batches, using custom allocators and having encoding-free communication, it has many parallels to data-driven game engine design or even entity component systems.
What is surprising indeed is the use of SMS in US, nobody uses SMS outside US.
The article pretty much lists all the reasons I still get discs by mail. No compression artifacts, no drop-outs at peak times, significantly deeper catalog, no need to hop between (and pay) multiple streaming services.

And it forces me to curate & plan, instead of taking whatever became available this week.

I'd like it if they offered more discs from The Criterion Collection.
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Yes, we know they are getting away with it, but that's not the subject...
Capitalism coupled with a tax and social service regime that hasn’t been torn apart over the past half century, for one.

It’s not all or nothing, and all or nothing thinking by fanatics of “Jesus” and Capitalism has destroyed America.
I actually considered using that title and perhaps should have. That said I can no longer make the change.

To motivate a careful reading of this work, I'll quote at length from the introductory remarks:

The Enlightenment may be coming to full maturity in the late 20th century, or it may be on its deathbed. Many Americans seem to believe both that we can perfect future history-that we can deliberately shape future outcomes to accord with our wishes-and that there will be no future history. Some have arrived at deep pessimism and some at resignation. To them, planning for large social systems has proved to be impossible without loss of liberty and equity. Hence, for them the ultimate goal of planning should be anarchy, because it should aim at the elimination of government over others. Still another group has arrived at the conclusion that liberty and equity are luxuries which cannot be afforded by a modern society, and that they should be substituted by "cybernetically feasible" values.

Professionalism has been understood to be one of the major instruments for perfectability, an agent sustaining the traditional American optimism. Based in modern science, each of the professions has been conceived as the medium through which the knowledge of science is applied. In effect, each profession has been seen as a subset of engineering. Planning and the emerging policy sciences are among the more optimistic of those professions. Their representatives refuse to believe that planning for betterment is impossible, however grave their misgivings about the appropriateness of past and present modes of planning. They have not abandoned the hope that the instruments of perfectability can be perfected. It is that view that we want to examine, in an effort to ask whether the social professions are equipped to do what they are expected to do.
Cheers, apologies for piling on.
Because the work isn't needed. They arguably should pay workers more so workers can weather a future layoff or furlough, not pay people to come to work and do nothing.
I think this article is very misleading and would've been more clear if it had started from the angle that currencies are constantly accumulating trust and confidence - where that trust can be spent to reduce the debt of the issuer.

This article seemed to fall victim to the clickbait temptation in making the premise of the article "Modern Monetary Theory is somewhat accurate" in favor of just hyperbolic-ly stating that it's true.

In actuality currencies are a sort of stock issued as part of the value of an economy, if that economy does better or worse then the value of that currency does better or worse - it is much more resistant to change since it is far more liquid (imagine that apple said, you will always be able to exchange stocks for a new iPhone at this rate which is pretty steady but will adjust slightly over time). In this analogy printing more money is equivalent to the act of the company issuing more stock (and not equivalent to the act of an owner selling some of their stock) everyone's proportional stake in the company will go down, but as long as you don't issue too quickly then people won't mind, if a company does start over-issuing stock then that stock becomes diluted _and_ rational actors further devalue the stock by jumping ship and trying to convert their partial ownership into a currency they have greater faith in.
No, you have a lot of pop culture myths in your comment that are just not correct.
I suspect you're right, but explain your reasoning?
> This study included very cheap electricity on the assumption that the batteries would be filled during these peaks in renewable generation

Ah, ok. I think that's an optimistic assumption, but I see where it comes from.
A much simpler, but faster version of some of Erlang yes. It was a huge inspiration. If I hadn't done some stuff in Erlang before, I would never have invented this architecture, and probably would never get the idea to do multiplayer.
I changed the title because the title seemed to be click baity and a personal attack.

I didn’t want the discussion to be about the couple but about charter schools.
You could at least quote it without editorialization. Monks did come up with the scientific method.

The modern idea that "religion is against the science" is hilariously Freudian: holders of power (almost entirely atheists in the west) will often be against science. There are countless examples of this. You could crack the NYT editorial page on any given day and be confronted with learned anti-scientific nonsense that would make the persecutors of Gallileo blush.
It doesn’t. That part is just a foul move on Mountain View’s part.
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Unstable employment is the price we pay for stable employment?
I don't find his/her attitude infuriating.

If you're on a wage where you're not sure if you'll ever be able to afford your own home, that $5 does add up.

It was around 1% of my income recently. I want a house yesterday.

I think the best solution to all this is what I ended up doing: buy a cheap but good espresso machine and enjoy delicious cheap coffee.
Your post was great until you started framing that spending money you don't have was evidence of freedom. Whether you like it or not, when you do that you are giving money power over you that it shouldn't have. If you make almost no money, but can be content with the basics you mentioned and spend less than you earn, then yes you are more free than someone with millions who is obsessed with getting more. But if you can't help but spend money you don't have on things you don't need, money will continue to be a problem for you and something already has power over you. Maybe you don't have a money problem, maybe you have a money problem and a coffee problem.

The real problem I have with the author's mentality is that in real life it seems like the coffee is the symptom, not the disease. It's an easily identifiable marker that there are probably a lot of other things you are wasting money on. Sure the coffee only adds up to a couple years worth of income at the end of your life as the article points out, but everything else adds up quick, and you wonder how you aren't really ever earning enough to start saving at all.

For the author, who presumably makes millions a year, and his clients who do the same, it's good to not get tripped up on the small stuff to focus properly on the bigger picture. Doesn't mean that advice applies the same to the rest of us.
We're the population designing and deploying these JS driven SPA things, so maybe someone should ask how Reddit could have done it right, and why we always seem to get it wrong?
The part you're leaving out is that it's the shareholders who instigate that motivation. If enough shareholders want the company to do something else instead, then there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

The underlying problem is that almost everybody buys stock as an investment, not to take active roles in running companies or make political statements.
Do yourself a favor and spend a few of those hours researching how much you can reasonably charge for programming work.
Communism too, for an example directly related to economics. If the central planning board has perfect information about all consumers' desires and all costs of production and acts perfectly rationally, communism is significantly more efficient than capitalism. The central planning board never has perfect information, and in the absence of it, usually tries to maximize the welfare of the individual humans that make it up. The result was nearly 100 million people killed and widespread suffering, for what was supposedly going to be a utopian society.
I know latte is the common reference but I'm shifting my mindset lately, especially having a family. I brew my own coffee at home and pretty frugal. But now if things cost a but more and is convenient, I'll pay for it. For example, parking at the venue vs free street parking. Having two kids in tow is pretty difficult to get them orderly in the car.

Paying a little extra for 2 hotel rooms, versus squeezing youe in laws, 2 kids and yourself and spouse in 1 room...
I lived in a small fishing village, barring the occasional tourist and surf expedition further afield, and it's still my favorite place in the world.

I loved the only street noise being the occasional donkey. I worked over a tiny EDGE connection for years until real connectivity got to my area, working over a 'screen' session to a beefy VPS in the states.

I can't help but agree with some of the characterizations of the cities in Ecuador. But then again, personally I wouldn't understand someone who would come to the country with the primary intention of seeing those cities, saying to themselves "oh, wow, I want to see Quito or Guayaquil." I wouldn't get it. Guayaquil is kinda like Bangkok or other big cities in underdeveloped areas; bustling and alive and joyous in its own sort of way, but not something that'd draw me around the world to visit. FWIW, Loja and Cuenca are more pleasant cities to visit.

But a laid-back fishing village with good neighbors? With good sand-bottom beach breaks and warm water? Tuna and dorado right from the ocean, fresh local produce ... that's ideal for me, and I was already comfortable with small-town and rural life from my time in the United States.
There are already ice-based thermal storage systems exactly based around shifting the electricity consumption for cooling to off-peak times:

https://www.ice-energy.com/technology/

So you don't even have to let the temperature rise during the peak-demand period.
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i believe the more commonly used term is technocracy
I can't help but think I would be much happier if I had never seen a computer or cell phone in my life. Maybe its just my personality type. Maybe its because I started at a very young age. It could be anything but I am fairly certain that the constant stream of stimulation to my brain has done plenty of damage.

This article seems analogous [1] to an article that states "I use hard drugs and I'm not ashamed" authored by someone who manages to keep their use under control. Sure, it works for them. Great, but they are not the failure mode of drug use.
Renewable + storage are competing directly with peakers. The storage makes renewables dispatchable and if you look at the performance of the battery in Australia it appears to be much higher performance. The system dispatchs power in a fraction of the time a peaker plant can.
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And not to diminish this one issue - but if this can happen to Boeing, imagine the risks that many other companies with less of a track record in engineering may be inadvertently taking with introductions/reliance on ML. We've focused a lot on the ethics of AI making life/death decisions but in this case, based on what we know today, the prime culprit seems to lie in the decisions of humans (i.e. not to put two devices in place, or three as many have suggested, the decision to place engine mass in a different area, the lack of UI in the cockpits, etc)
Intercept every irq?!?

Ouch, my performance!

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Write to kernel code pages?!?

Ouch, my cache! Oh, and my security!
>Replacing 10s of thousands of JS lines with 100s of thousands of Java lines doesn’t feel like progress.

In no way is that true.
Strange stuff happens when exiting France when you're not white too. I was in line at the exit control, and the black family ahead of me had issues because they couldn't provide the passport they entered the country with (they came for renewal of their French passport, the Prefecture had it, they were exiting on their Canadian passport). I was completely baffled at the policeman harassing freaking Canadian citizens exiting the country.