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Mitt Romney's statement was not primarily in character a factual observation that 47% of people pay no income tax. It was something far more opinionated and in my opinion, deeply inhumane and unethical. The full quote:

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax."

This is Protestant work ethic taken to a corrosive extreme. This is Romney playing to an audience that believes those who take government assistance are conniving malingerers looking to squeeze every penny they can out of hard working taxpayers. It is an indictment of people who had the audacity to be born without the ability to fully support themselves. It begrudges them for daring to ask for a home, food, healthcare and maybe even a few spare moments of happiness.

In my opinion, this type of thinking is the greatest moral failing of the 21th century. It frees the thinker of any social responsibility by demonizing those least equipped to defend themselves.

I do not agree with many of Elizabeth Warren's policy proposals. Her thinking on technology is dangerously benighted. I will not vote for her. But the essence of Warren's argument is that we need to rethink the relationship between the most successful members of society and the least. Tax loss carryforward is a standard accounting practice that makes rational sense. Nevertheless, it's the type of policy that helps those who need help the least, and I think we need to start to rethink these kinds of policies.

We as a society can continue to pass legislation that favors the strong and punishes the weak. What we can't do is look at ourselves in the mirror afterwards and continue to believe that we live in a humane, compassionate, egalitarian society.
I agree with an above poster, this seems to me like a political or legal concession just for Apple to be able to sell in India more easily (or maybe at all?).

The infrastructure and political circumstances in India are just laughable.

Read all the articles about the manufacturing ecosystem around Apple factories in China, the special bonded customs zones the regional governments set up, the incentives, and workers they help recruit.

India by comparison is a disaster. You don't even know which official to bribe to get the power to stay on properly. Almost more trouble than it's worth to enter that market.
CO2 capture will unfortunately never be practical. Assuming we can get the cost down to $100/ton (which is very optimistic!), the cost of capturing all CO2 emitted by fossil fuels per year would roughly equal 20% of the total US GDP. Limiting emissions will always be orders of magnitudes more efficient.
Surely you exaggerate. Azure is great I think AWS is garbage in comparison.
More like 80 km or 50 miles US Advisory Zone and a 20-30 km evacuation zone initially. The actual pattern is a 50 km by 12 km trace extending NNW.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_reaction_to_Fukushi...
Amazon pays for road repair. That happens through fuel taxes.

The main problem with taxes used for roads is that they are grossly distorted. We should be paying for roads on the basis of vehicle miles traveled multiplied by gross vehicle weight per axle. That would force those responsible for the most wear and tear to roads to pay for the maintenance. This may increase the cost of goods and services to cover those costs, but at least then those goods and services will be accurately prices based on the input costs and that will determine if they should be produced in the first place and if so, in what quantities.

If trash needs to be moved, charge for that service. That's what most businesses do. It's part of the costs of doing business and ends up impacting the price of the goods and services produced.

For crime and military, even those are being paid for, directly and indirectly, by the business. By hiring people or making purchases, they are paying sales and payroll taxes and the people they employ are paying income taxes. The amount of taxes paid is proportional to the economic activity they produce. If they reinvest more, they pay taxes on that additional activity.

The idea that some companies pay zero taxes because of zero profits is a blatant falsehood. Their activities still result in taxes being paid, just not on taxes on profit.
Why would you believe journalists over STEM people about workplace conditions in STEM?

Journalists will write whatever sells the most clicks. They're not some kind of scientists.
I don't think it is that hard, technically. At least not in broad strokes. You'd want to have some way to tax investment gains, even if unrealized. Then you levy that tax on rich people. One big problem with the corporate income tax is that you're also taxing pension funds, and middle class people who have small investments. And you're actually taxing them at the same rate (as a fraction of their holdings) as ultra wealthy people. In that sense the corporate tax is actually rather flat, which is normally something we progressives are not a huge fan of. The only thing that makes the situation even a little tolerable is that pension funds are going the way of the dinosaur and truly poor people cannot afford to invest, so the tax is mainly incident on the super wealthy. But the middle class is definitely getting a raw deal from corporate taxes.
That might just be their strategy to take back their store.
There was a release, perhaps the lazerdisk box set not sure, that had both the theatrical cut and a (I believe) BBC tv edit. Although the BBC tv version could be characterized as more up beat, the commentary and inclusion in the box showed it great respect. They discuss the editing choices that needed to be made to reframe the story as if it had been conceived that way from the beginning.

It's one of the most educational discussions of cinematic storytelling and editorial technique. It is absolutely worth seeing both versions and listening to the commentary if you can find them.
First, this is quite condescending.

Second, the "self-interest" argument doesn't excuse shitty behavior. It might be in my self-interest to steal my neighbor's wallet he forgot outside. It has money in it! Doesn't make it a good idea nor something I would consider as a "self-interested" person.

Plus, it's also in my self-interest not to contribute to lowering the bar of a review system. As someone who uses Amazon and other review sites, I don't like the idea of phony reviews, so even if I worked for a company that "depended" on these reviews, I wouldn't feel good about adding to the problem (nor would I feel good that my employer supposedly needs to rely on falsified reviews).
I'm confused about this. People said her code contribution on the repo was minimal. Others in the field came out and said "yes but her algorithm was key here, not lines of code". Fine. Her own statement then says that "no one algorithm was key, it was a group effort", but her colleagues say her algorithm wasn't used at all. The obfuscation doesn't seem accidental at all.

Why is a person sexist and homophobic [1] for wondering why two major news articles say the opposite thing [1,2]:

[1]: "Katherine Bouman, a 29-year-old postdoctoral researcher who developed an algorithm that was key to capturing the stunning visual."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/12/trolls-hija...

[2]: "While she led the development of an algorithm to take a picture of a black hole, an effort that was the subject of a TED Talk she gave in 2016, her colleagues said that technique was not ultimately used to create this particular image." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/katie-bouman-blac...
The bells really are something when hearing in person. What a loss.
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Can we publish open source examples of school architectures?

What about some 'near term science fiction', publishing examples of people-powered schooling that could emerge in places. I want to see how we can use cheap computing resources, peripherals and models of human interaction to help schools create themselves.

Nucleos is a company working on bringing education resources to developing world areas:
https://nucleos.com/blog/2017/02/portablecloud-supports-e-le...

I hope to do something with educational software abroad, including it with the 3D printing computer labs I hope to set up. They can make about $50-$100 of surfboard fins a day, using about $10 of filament. I'm linking to my site below, it works now but I've not done much to help with formatting issues. I'm just getting the content out and cleaning it up along the way:
https://stormfins.com

PS In case you're wondering, this post motivated me to set up a new account. My last one was sacrosurf, and prior to that it was toddio. This moniker matches the other .com I have, which I plan to use as a "School of Surfing" concept: thirdsurf.com
I want to get surf instruction to happen in an easier and more empowering P2P manner, but I'm focusing on completing enough of the stormfins website first.
Any support or assistance it welcome. I've got a B.S. in Computer Engineering from '97-'02 at UCSC, and a fun list of prior gigs and projects including helping get https://www.beelinereader.com/ started, and getting T9Space.com's app setup generalized into a browser, helping 100,000s of flip phone internet users have access to the internet like they had a desktop computer to use.
This would break a lot of standing marketing/long-term lead nurturing efforts. It sort of forces marketers to engage with users they have in their actual database or do everything in 30 days. Some sales cycles are a lot longer than 30 days. In publishing its pretty relevant to know if long term visitors stop coming back in the aggregate. There are lots of legitimate business purposes for anonymous longer term tracking.

Counterpoint: if a data collector stores the ad id or derivative of it with anonymous activity then later links it to a user account with PII that could break a lot of basic assumptions the user may have about their privacy. That would be difficult to prevent from happening with a technical solution.
Businesses that do not fake reviews will be buried in the search results and they will be forced to shut down when their sales stop. Its essentially evolution for companies.
At least they haven't purged it, if this were Google then there would be no ZIP support in newer OS versions.

They even killed ChromeOS ans Chorme updates for a bunch of 3 to 4 year old Chromebooks recently, despite the hardware being fine to run newer ChromeOS.
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They are trying to fix the problem, but the number of scammers dwarfs the number of Amazon employees:
https://blog.dshr.org/2019/04/what-is-amazon.html

That said, Amazon could buy Fakespot or one of its competitors with small change from Jeff Bezos' sofa, and they are clearly doing a better job than Amazon at rooting out fraudulent reviews.

Ironically, Amazon's enforcement was turned against them. Unscrupulous merchants are planting obviously fake five-star reviews on their competitors. Amazon then takes down the framed competitor. Genius!
I'm with Amazon on this one. Reviews are for the product, not to side-talk other reviews. Report the other reviews if there's a problem. Of course they probably aren't likely to do anything even then, but cross chatter between reviews is not a trend they'd want to allow either.
Thanks for sharing Tridi! I found it very easy to use and I liked the fact I could dump my images into a local folder and be done. With js-cloudimage-360-view, I first had to create an account on cloudimage.io to get a token (for CDN delivery) and then put my images on S3, Google Cloud or Azure Blob which require credit card information for the free trial.
Thanks - my next sabbatical is going to be Rust + APL
Gdp per capita for India is around ~$2000. India does not have much of a market for +$500 phones nor does it have a contract system where the +$500 can be paid over time. So I don't see it help Apple much in gaining market share. At the current Apple prices I have seen multiple long time Apple users leave Apple. Unless Apple is willing to cut its margins dramatically I don't see them getting much of a foot hold in India.
I worked for a company who outsourced a few times and found that the cost was actually higher in some cases and as you describe there would often be immediate turnover to folks who were far worse, and at worst a liability.... and even those guys would turn over all the time. They'd try another company, same result.

Most confusing was when things were straight horrible ... there was nothing anyone can do. I don't know if the contracts say "you give us your money and just deal with whatever we give you" but that's how people would act. The outsourced company could do all sorts of absurd things that would have serious consequences had it occurred with domestic support / new procedures and etc. But when the outsource company did it and it was as plain as day "nothing we can do about it".
When has google ever pretended to care about privacy?
I'm reaching for my popcorn while you rage away at this guy.. while my design synths in Vivado..
Thank you for posting the full deck. The conclusion is pretty clearly stated that the engineers thought the shuttle would return safely, even with missing tiles. The focus on this one slide out of context seems totally wrong.
Is it so difficult?

Amazon already has the number of helpful vs unhelpful votes for each review.

They could start with that voting data, and then use metadata (geoip, account usage/posting timing, client fingerprinting) to create quality metrics for each user. They could even have separate trustworthiness ratings per product category (a good book reviewer might not be so good at rating appliances). From there, they'd have a rough idea of which reviews are real and fake, and they could start training a NN on the text.

Figuring out when sellers are complicit, and when it's competitor sabotage, is more difficult, but Amazon has a ton of data about sellers and reviewers and buyers and the social/commercial graph connecting them. Amazon doesn't appear to be working on solving simpler problems, such as incorrect product/book comingling. Therefore, I have trouble giving them the benefit of the doubt that they're working on hard problems like addressing fraudulent ratings/sellers.
I use it self hosted, it's excellent.
It's easy to turn off. About:config

Search for pocket. You'll see extensions.pocket.enabled

Double click to set it to false. That's all.
One possible reason: pathology labeling can be prohibitively expensive. You're looking at paying highly-trained specialists to sit down and hand-segment regions of cell types on an entire slide.
To simplify the grand-parent said "all flowers are white", I said "no, some are yellow" and you said "isn't it true that most of them are white?" Your statement is probably true but is not related to my point that the grand-parent comment is overly simplistic and needs to be qualified.

> I was talking about the sale price of a house (getting your money back) compared to paying rent (not getting your money back).

This is biased framing that favors owning. In both cases you sign up for ongoing sunk costs and for an investment. You sell your investment then subtract the sunk costs, that is what we are comparing.

> You want evidence that most housing sales aren't normally 0 and a total loss for the owner, is that what you mean?

Even this is a bit biased. If you simply look at home sales you will miss all of the people who are not selling because their house value is too low for them. So they sit there making all kinds of sacrifices to avoid selling.

> It's fairly easy to Google average house return rates, I guess, but I honestly don't think my statement that housing returns aren't normally 0 needs any numbers to back it up.

It doesn't seem that easy and I think the fact that you don't think they need backing up tips your hand.

> "Average annual returns in long-term real estate investing vary by the area of concentration in the sector. Average 20-year returns in the commercial real estate slightly outperform the S&P 500 Index, running at around 9.5%. Residential and diversified real estate investments do a bit better, averaging 10.6%. Real estate investment trusts (REITS) perform best, with an average annual return of 11.8%."

I don't buy these un-sourced numbers for a second. For starters, averages are completely useless here. A few booming places can hide thousands of cities that are underwater. Zillow [1] has median data for the entire country for the last 10 years and it shows prices went from 170k to 230k. That is 3% yoy. And you can even lie with this number because it doesn't capture variance. 3% could be 6% in half the country and 0% in the other half. Unlike with the stock market you cannot fractionally diversify unless you are mega rich. This 3% is also not purely profit as it is missing local property taxes and other sunk costs. Also let's not forget inflation is 2-3% yoy...

In terms of renters taking on the owners costs, sure renting is more freeing so the renters pay a premium for a short contract and no down-payment and such. Sometimes that is done as a choice and not because its the only option. And some fees like repairs are amortized by landlords as they own many units. It's not the same as you hiring a third party to fix something in your house, it will cost more for you. And, again, to my point, this varies by locality and living situation.

That calculator is a great starting point to get you to realize all of the factors that go into making the decision. It's actually still missing a lot of them. Any diligent investor should make their own in spreadsheets before making that big decision.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/home-values/
It answers this question: if the language is so great and has been around for so long, why haven't we heard about it?
What's with the apostrophe in that New York Times headline: "When Doctor's Slam The Door"?
I run my own instance too: @djsumdog@hitchhiker.social

I also made a guide for making your own Mastodon CSS:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/using-custom-css-with-mastodo...
Even better is "Made in XYZ" in description. If you are putting something in/on your body, this is absolutely important. But even if you are not, my experience is that products made in countries with trustworthy legal systems lasts 2X to 10X longer.

One thing that surprises me is that why online stores are not forced to display this explicitly. When you go to brick-and-mortar store, you can almost always look for this label but Amazon doesn't enforce it on their listing.
Looks to me like where Apple is heading is offering some kind of "Apple Plus" subscription that bundles all their services, including iMessage. I predict that over time this will evolve to encompass more platforms. So iMessage will be available for Android but not for free.
They are not encrypted using the user's password. They are encrypted using a standard PGP public key.
I mean I get why people say it. But we have to also be honest with ourselves. If it is something (strongly) pushed by societies that we utterly despise (be the Nazis, the dystopian writing of Sinclair (origin), or Voldemort's puppet state), it probably doesn't align with the beliefs of a free society.

The phrase is too frequently used by societies that we consider to not be free, being pervasive enough that a single use in literature would tell you that the characters live in an oppressive regime. Yet somehow we can make that connection but don't make it when actual politicians and citizens repeat it.

Personally I feel sickened that the phrase is so pervasive in our society (goes beyond the US). Just as I'd be if people were constantly saying "Work will set you free."
Maybe you have just been lucky. I am in Amerina and have gotten poor quality items before from Amazon. I now try to check everything I buy from there and avoid the site altogether if I can. Some examples of bad products I have gotten are cheap usb cables which did not work, phone cases which peeled after 2 weeks of use and a coffee mug with a blurry poor picture printed on it. I have also found many very suspicious products that are very underpriced and have all 5 star reviews which get an F on fakespot.
The company manufacturing on the outskirts of Bangalore is Wistron. Not Foxconn.
Apparently low resolution timers do work, but you need more data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16068631
Adversarial attacks. You tweak your fake reviews until fakespot is convinced your reviews aren’t fake.
Is this in clinical use anywhere yet?
What happens when you get bad kids that don't care about their grades that distract the good kids and prevent them from learning. Ideally the teacher could bring them all up to the same pace, but at a certain point it's on the parent. In some cases you do need separation. I always enjoyed my GT (gifted and talented, separated classes from 1st grade to 8th) and AP
(dual credit college/highschool 9-12th grade) classes more than others because they moved faster and my classmates were well behaved.

The schools weren't fully separated, the GT classes was one designated class (1st-5th was English, 6th-8th Science).

The AP classes were highschool and college credits and you could choose English, Math, and/or Science.

This was in Texas. Though they no longer do GT classes anymore I don't think. Those were my favorite as a kid though.
Okay. That's pretty darn cool. I ended up trawling your blog a bit too. Really interesting stuff! Wish there were an RSS feed I could subscribe to!
I've also heard many good things about Labdoor. I only use ConsumerLab because I've been a member for years.
> if they did hire remote workers, the same thing would happen in their communities.

That's nonsense. There's a severe shortage of housing in Silicon Valley despite the fact that there's an abundance of housing in most of the country. Hiring remote workers means that you're hiring all around the country/world and people can move, not hiring in any one community. Also, hiring remotely means you can pay much less than Silicon Valley compensation because landlords aren't leeching an enormous bulk of it.

Silicon Valley could solve its housing problem tomorrow if it fixed its ultra-restrictive zoning laws, ended Prop 13, and built a ton of apartments. It won't do that because the people in power place the interest of wealthy landlords above that of the average people who live there.
Ummm if cub porn is what I think it is and it is frowned upon which it sounds like it is then imho I suggest not using a community-specific euphemism as the euphemism implicitly grants it a place and status within your community.
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Perhaps Nial would be of interest: https://github.com/danlm/QNial7
My wife uses it for our family as well. If you watch you can catch really good sales as well.
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I've likened it to going shooting, and you're wearing ears, but when the person in the lane next to you pulls the trigger, the blast just kicks you in the chest.

Now imagine that kick-in-the-chest continuously a dozen times a second for the better part of a minute and you're not 4 feet away but more like 2 miles.

What I take from your comment is that I need to go see some top fuel dragsters! ;)

I've seen the H1 Unlimited hydroplane races, but they're turbine-driven so there's whine and a tremendous roar as the prop beats the water, but a distinct lack of thump. (It's hilarious listening to one spool up and head out of the pits, though...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTZLiqA2qjY
Note to self: When writing fake reviews, just make them 4 stars.
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