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Great concept.

Devil is in the details.

Imagine it is you or your business, looking at a situation where a loophole will give you a truly consequential big tax savings, maybe 30% of the annual top line income (for you, your company, etc.). It is perfectly legal. What do you do?

OK, now your company is involved in something that promotes general good, social welfare, clean energy, etc. You are at the edge of survival, and using this legal loophole will make the difference keeping you alive for the next year, and actually help poor people or endangered species?

Or, you are merely in the finance division of an ordinary company, with a responsibility to deliver maximum shareholder value and maximum profits to go to employee bonuses, and your job depends on properly and legally maximizing income and avoiding taxes?

While it's easy to proclaim from on high "do what was intended", the actual situation is quite different.

The only solution is better laws, without the bugs, or laws written for situations (such as transaction taxes) that aren't so bug-prone.
Just look up Maglev from Google. I mean, that stuff is years ahead of CF (don’t get me wrong, CF is fine).

Argo from CF is a year or so old and that sort of stuff was done like 10+ years ago at Akamai. Cotendo had a great system that was more impressive 5+ years ago.

Stackpath don’t have the sort of resources that CF has but have been doing edge compute for a while now (though not WASM).
> "A trans woman's biology is a female biology" is just a statement I cannot agree with at all.

It creates real problems and exacerbates existing ones. In finance, you need to predict a person's likely spending, longevity, income, etc. to plan investments, insurance, etc.

The best data is from longitudinal (tracking individuals over time) post-retirement surveys. These take decades to run, and you need a large body of people committed to consistently doing lengthy surveys each year. Hopefully we'll get additional research to show where we can safely match trans persons into the larger surveys.

The issue is, if you dogmatically make claims about someone's biology, you could be right by chance, but everyone providing these services is ethically (fiduciarily) bound to have a justifiable reason for the advice they give to customers.

Some predictions don't seem like they'd be wrong; a trans person is likely to behave the way you'd expect for, e.g., spending on clothing and similar consumer goods. (Though that's pure conjecture.)

But there are critical numbers like lifespan that have big effects on your investment strategy, and men and women differ by 7 years. (Err that a person lives longer and they lose out on growth. Err the other way, and they're overly exposed to risk.)

I suspect many firms will just say, "you have very specific health needs and need to consult a doctor." But that's the industry standard, "our advice is to figure it out yourself," cop out, technically ethical but useless.
It's interesting to consider how commodified music streaming has become. I'd be interested to see how many people actually have any kind of loyalty to one platform over the other, or if their choice is more reflective of which one fulfills one or two preferential details better in this relative moment.

Thinking about my personal choice, I choose Spotify over apple music because I like the library interface better. I also used Apple Music exclusively from launch until two years ago because I previously had a large local library of my own through iTunes. Both are great services, but once I transitioned into a fully streamed library, Spotfiy became more appealing to me for smaller and smaller reasons. My impression is that with the ubiquity of streaming and general consistency of quality, preference largely becomes a product of what platform is the most readily available.

While I am fairly staunch in my preference for Spotify at the moment, but I am not sympathetic to their position against Apple's terms. I fully acknowledge that not all apps that operate in Apple's ecosystem are treated totally equally, but remember, equality and fairness are not the same thing. It is their ecosystem after all and it is in their best interest to be selective in how they maintain it. So while it Spotify may not be treated equally, it is my opinion that they are treated fairly within Apple's walled garden.
Subtitles are an extremely effective way to learn a language. And this extension makes it that much better.

But these edge use cases will actually become less and less common as big copyright tightens its grip on how content should be consumed.

Like, how can you get this functionality on an iPad?
> They're rich enough to be insulated from it

This is solved by taxing very high wealth, not just very high income.

> it hits those who might actually try to get rich in the future.

Not those who try, just those who actually get very rich. None of the current tax increase proposals target the wealth or income of even slightly rich people (low millions of net worth or low 100ks of income), just the very rich (> 50mil net worth).

That still leaves a ton of room for incentivizing getting rich below that number.
I think it depends on which "Wireguard thing" you're talking about, there were several semi-controversies.

If you mean "Warp doesn't support generic clients", I commented about that over on the Reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b9sznr/im_join...

If you mean "CloudFlare pursued BoringTon outside of the general WireGuard project", well, I don't have any real insight into the specifics of why that was chosen, but it seems extremely open source to me. As far as I know, BoringTon is just an implementation of a protocol. There's a ton of reasons to want to do things on your own rather than work on upstream. And if anything, for protocols, independent implementations can be a good thing, more than a bad thing.

If you mean something else, well, I'm not sure, those are the only ones I can remember :p
So much pro-western sentiment in the comments, a little shocked, but not surprised
I didn't play it enough (yet) to feel comfortable putting it there, compared to the other things I listed as inspiration. I feel like it deserves a more in-depth comment/comparison. I've only watched let's plays of it so far.
What stops that is the likelihood that the climate deniers "take the money and run"? Believe it or not, it has happened to donors in the past. That's why the system is so intricate today. People want to be sure they "get what they pay for" so to speak.

Which is just a terrible thing to say, but it's unfortunately our political reality right now.
What are called "miracles" are simply disruptions of natural progression by influence of something outside of or above nature. There's nothing scientific that states that there is nothing outside of this black box we call nature other than a simple creed.
You duplicate the data in dev but remove the names, SSNs, emails, addresses, phone numbers, etc?
"Whatever happened to them?" says every Boomer and Millennial ever.

Sigh.
Why wouldn't they?

No matter the app store, I imagine the developers would want their users to have recent versions installed, at least the ones who would update them on Google Play.
If you're going to add inflation, add inflation to _all_ your numbers. i.e: the cup of coffee will be subject to inflation, and what you save will also increase with inflation. If you run the numbers propagating inflation everywhere instead of cherry-picking, over 40 years you get:

total coffee cost: 84k

total investment: 220k

assumes 5% investment return, 2.5% inflation, and 20 coffees/month

spreadsheet here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_-5SuX3mn_3GBQEOMoIs...

As for whether you should buy yourself a latte daily or not, do whatever makes you happy. Personally I think 220k in 40 years will make me happier, but I can also see a life-long morning ritual going to a coffee shop and reading the paper while being served a latte appealing.
Hi Joel. In case you didn't see my top level comment (it's buried quite low), I'm working on a similar project to document evidence for and against claims: https://www.wikiclaim.org

The tech is dumb (just MediaWiki on Heroku), but it's been sufficient to allow me to spend several hundred hours creating about 200 wiki pages so far.
I ripped the bandaid off at an early age, actively trying to avoid subtitles. At some point it just becomes distracting where you're looking at them when you wouldn't need to.
Personally speaking, I'm a conservative.

I'd ideally want a better champion of conservative values who doesn't make us look like bigots. There's a wave of socialism that is becoming popular... but this is getting more into irrelevant politics.

The Heritage Foundation is a very, very big organization. Very conservative group, and yes, there are bigots in the party. Nonetheless, I'd rather see conservatives champion the tenants of the free market, anti-regulation, personal freedoms, etc. etc. Heck, one or two people who are openly religious and aren't afraid to say "God" once in a while would be great.

Its a bit hard to discuss these days, because of the President in the room which is tilting conservative thought in one major direction... but there's more than just that branch of conservatism going on.

In any case, it shouldn't be too difficult to pick out a non-bigoted conservative champion. Well... it's become difficult, because the non-bigots have spoken out against the current party leadership and are now ostracized by the party. (IE: Jeff Flake, McCain, Kasich, to name a few). So I recognize the failings of the current party as well as the "brain drain" going on among conservatives. But I'd imagine non-bigots are still around somewhere, at least the more quiet ones have to be sitting around somewhere.

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In any case, I'd want a GOOD conservative to sit on a major board like that. First, to show the world that conservatives are more than just... the current leadership... and second, to ensure that conservative values can be kept in a modern world.

It is possible to proudly proclaim your religion without necessarily hampering discussion from others of other religions. A Christian who asks for a moment of silence or a quiet prayer doesn't necessarily exclude the Hindu or Muslim communities. (As long as Hindu / Muslims get a turn for themselves) Etc. etc. There's definitely this strain of strong secularism that liberals have (nothing "malicious", but when was the last time you saw a liberal discuss their religious views publicly?), and I think that having a few openly religious "conservative leaning" viewpoints can help with diversity.

Etc. etc. There's a lot to discuss, but its all politics and kinda tangential to the subject. But those are the sorts of things that a good conservative would bring to the table.
My favorite corner of YouTube— lengthy, thoughtful, and often artistic video essays and skits addressing culture and politics— is flourishing right now. Some examples:

Unfolding Ideas – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPHPNgIihR0

ContraPoints – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtj7LDYaufM

Philosophy Tube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qihG6AGjkRk

Lindsay Ellis – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJEtCvb2Kw

Innuendo Studios – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzNANfNlTs

HBomberguy – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnPOQr1pxY8

and so on. And it seems like it's only in the past couple of years that many of these channels have reached their current levels of artistry and production value.

Most stuff on YouTube is trash, but there's plenty else to watch.
That Jason asked Cloud Flare to contribute to an actual sanctioned Rust port of WireGuard --- important to Jason because the current userland implementation is Go, and thus not as fast as it could possibly be, which is a priority for Jason --- and they refused and built their own instead. Also, WireGuard-the-protocol is not a collaborative effort, and so Jason's presumably a bit concerned about a divergent fork this early in the process of getting WireGuard fielded. Particularly because Jason is just one dude working on this with a couple volunteers, and Cloud Flare is, well, yeah.

It was a pretty weird move on Cloud Flare's part. I'm not saying it was "bad", just, weird.
With the number of companies planning on launching satellite internet constellations, I wonder if there would be enough customers to keep them all afloat? Or would we likely see a consolidation similar to what happened with Sirius and XM radio?

This type of system would be great for people in unconnected areas, but those are typically low population density. For customers in cities, I'm not sure there would be enough bandwidth to server million+ city populations. And in cities you can typically get better bandwidth / lower latency using landlines. (Of course, there is the case that SpaceX made about thing like London to New York being faster over satellite).
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Your point? The Federal reserve system is still part of the government. The banks that joined it form the sub-branches of the federal reserve system: https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/structure-federal...

Any natural born citizen can become a member of Congress (provided they are over 30 iirc). Does it follow then that Congress is not a part of the government because any persom can become a part of it.

A formerly private citizen now sits in the white house. Does it follow that the executive branch is not part of the government?

I cannot comprehend why the fact that non-government entities can joint a government entity makes you think the latter ceases to be part of the government.
Hey, saurik, do you know there are plenty of people waiting for you to upgrade Substrate for A12?
We know you are maybe too busy to upgrade substrate but can you tell people when that thing will come? We all are looking forward to seeing this happens. So can you reply me?
So, fun fact: Workers is based off of the Web Worker standard https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers...

As part of this, you have Service Workers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...

> They are intended, among other things, to enable the creation of effective offline experiences, intercept network requests and take appropriate action based on whether the network is available, and update assets residing on the server.

So yeah, you can already do something like this today!
Exactly. People on here treat companies with nuance and analyze their pros and cons but often with unions they get lumped into the all unions are bad bucket without considering what aspects of unionizing are good and bad with any real depth.

I could compare all companies to the worst examples too (e.g. all startups are Theranos) but that would never be taken seriously nor would it be fair yet somehow with unions that level of analysis is taken seriously.
After accusations of being a Russian mouthpiece during the 2016 election it might help their public image by releasing information regardless of how it might affect a former member.
For my language choices I'm constrained to reading Anna Karenina as my material, haha, but I still consider this pretty good! Thanks for the tip.
Personal attacks like this have no business on Hacker News and will get your account banned, no matter what you're replying to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Nothing about taxation is fair because it's not intended to be fair.

I agree with this 100%, and thank you for stating it so clearly.

> We agree that society as a whole benefits from [...]

Well, not all of us agree, but certainly a large majority.

> To pretend like taxes should be associated with the consumption of government services is a-historical, fallacious, and based on any number of lies that vilify the poor for being poor.

It also sets up a hell of a strawman for the abolition of taxation in general - if the goal is for the individual to pay based on their consumption, then the most effective means of achieving that with the lowest possible overhead would be to allow a competitive marketplace to develop for those things.

For the record, I do support the abolition of all taxation, but find this argument to be very poorly constructed. My justification is that taxation is instituted through the implicit threat of violence.

That said, from a practical standpoint, if we're going to have a government funded through taxation, it's in our best interest to ensure the overhead for collecting it is as low as possible. That means the ruleset should be as simple as possible, and that using taxation powers to modify behavior should be done rarely if ever in order to maintain that simplicity.
Same for me: spending time in a coffee shop is part of the value proposition, not wasted time! Buying a latte provides the excuse to hang out there for an hour or so.
That’s pretty neat. I remember when SimCity (5) came out and being extremely disappointed that the underlying agent system was a complete farce. If I recall correctly, think they had to “cheat” because they couldn’t scale performance on lower end hardware. With this you can just spin up a faster EC2 instance if you want a bigger city or region. I can totally see small groups of hardcore players coming together to pay for a dedicated host.

It sure beats swapping SC4 files on file sharing services for “region play”.
You’re right about the ease of switching. I think buying a wholesale club membership card is more analogous. You could buy a Costco card and a sam’s club card if you wanted, but there’s likely not many people who do. People actually prefer the shopping process at Costco for example, and they pay a yearly fee for it, just as people like the shopping/app purchasing experience on an iPhone, and they paid a substantial amount of money for the phone.
It seems like "S+" for "sex-positive" pretty much captures the intent.
PotPlayer actually has a feature that allows you to click on a word in subtitles and open it in a search engine within your browser.
The react thing is cool, I have toyed with JSX to immediate mode OpenGL UI rendering with a JS runtime engine. I stopped working on it because I need to move over to a Vulkan API or something because my primary OS is OSX. Im feeling a bit of inspiration for this project. Very neat!
I'm gay. You should believe me when I tell you that plenty of people still believe it is wrong and it does impact me in very big ways. Times that by 10 for transpeople. Do not attempt to speak for these groups when you have no idea of what their experiences are.
Fundraising While Female
As Urbanization Accelerates, Small Towns in the West Find Paths to Growth
> I technically told Billy, but I don't think he bothered to tell anyone else :)

Billy actually told Joaquin and I, but we were more psyched that Steve was joining than worried about how HN would find out.
Seek attention and ye shall find it, perhaps not where you were looking.
I've found that clearing my search and watch history is unnescessary - after aggressively pruning any such video I see with "not interested", and also taking the personal initiative to just stop clicking on anything that looks like it's probably clickbait, I've largely stopped getting such reccomendations.

So with that factor removed, my search/watch history actually seems to be driving cleverer selection of videos to recommend, not worse.
Show HN: Myplane.info – Find your aircraft model before your flight
You realize the scientific method was invented by medieval monks, right?
During WWII, Germany was also trying to build the bomb. All things considered, it's probably better that the Manhattan Project beat them to it.
Hello, main reason I've made this tool is to provide a quick look into the flights bound to the flight number with mobile-first design. Compared to other flight lookup services, it only shows future flights, prints the plane model and respects the crappy airport connection. Technical background: flask + flightaware API + milligram.css. It has been an enjoyable UX project. Thanks for trying!
Don't worry - thanks to a horrendously mishandled scandal related to prosecutorial independence, our Liberal government is struggling to survive and the Conservatives will likely take power federally.

Once the CPC is in power, we'll reposition ourselves on poverty into a place that the USA can more easily catch up.
You are correct they have index funds, and the people selling off BA stock _may_ be investing in one of the other 499 S&P listed companies, or they may not be.
Hindley-Milner type inference and linear types (used indirectly for lifetimes) spring to mind.
> As I was responding to a comment regarding similarities between the app store and a common retail store

I read that comment as regarding similarities between two different apps that stream music, and two different brands of the same product in a store.

The store the two brands are in isn't really relevant past the fact the same company that that owns the store owns one of the brands, and certainly the nature of the store doesn't affect the comparison.
The whole board should be composed of ethical individuals.

Should we invite influential amish personalities to our confs going forward? You know, so they can contribute their diversity of opinion to the techno-hacker community?
How to test software: mocking, stubbing, and contract testing
So... my personal experience is that many people who make less than median household income do buy $5 lattes or similar drinks/beverages multiple times a week.

While I do not believe that this is a big retirement issue, I do think many of the people I've been acquainted with who have habits in this ballpark would be quite well-served by getting the $1-dollar-any-size regular coffees at McDonald's instead, which would amount to increased savings of about ~$1500/year.

Why? I think this is, for many, more an issue of having a solid emergency fund or paying down moderate credit card debt, than making or breaking retirement savings (which would, in any case, generally come after debt/emergency funds). (Though it's still probably not make or break for most people.)

The above said, which I'm kind of meh about, what I find really jaw dropping is estimating the amount that many people in all income groups spend on alcohol. I don't know how people have the money.
I agree with your take on it.

If they got their billions of taxes they'd have bankrupted this guy and put Continental Tire and a bunch of other companies out of business.

There would be a ton of lost jobs and a lot of value in society destroyed.

All because they couldn't back out of a deal because of the law in the first place.

Definitely a weird international thing going on here too with the IRS potentially bankrupting a German company and the Germans being stuck with the fallout.
No. Again I'm really not sure why you insist on saying so given the fact that the Federal Reserve saw fit to dedicate a whole FAQ section to say otherwise.

Publicly traded companies area still owned by private people and organizations. The publicly traded nature subjects them to additional oversight, but they're still private enterprises.

Where can I buy stake in the Federal reserve? What was it's stock price history?

We can't because nobody "owns" the federal reserve, just like nobody "owns" the FBI or the Navy.
> And so what?

What you propose is not much different from the social security many countries levy.

Typically it’s not an economic efficient way of saving. The absurdity of the forced savings proposal becomes apparent if you cannot afford a life saving operation at age 59 because you cannot access your savings. Please don’t try to add exceptions now. Forced savings is just a bad idea.