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Well yeah, what's the point of having rules on an instance if you can just break them by moving to another but still participate?
> wtf does "overpredicted" mean? That's the second largest font, and it has no visible meaning?

Honestly, it reads to me as being along the lines of "overestimated" - and in this sentence would mean "reality wasn't as bad as our predictions, so we have a lot more leeway than we thought".
They have a good return policy. They let me return three LG V30's in a row purely on the basis of customer dissatisfaction(LG's shite poled technology creating areas of uneven color temperature.)
While I agree, in our current political climate it’s not going to happen.

In the interim I would be willing to settle on significant punitive damages. Eg. Make getting caught very expensive and those corporate nudges will start nudging in the directions of protecting employees, consumers, etc.
Or the one product that has like ten different "variations" which are actually totally different products, yet share reviews. A review on one of them means nothing for the other nine.
I think you have to be careful with semantics. If the marginal effect is small, a higher tax rate might be better described as "slightly less motivating" or something, rather than as a disincentive.

The idea that there's a substantial aggregate effect on behavior if you increase taxes from 40% to 41% probably needs a little more proof than just assumption.
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I'd agree that NASA is stagnating but without them there would probably be no private companies building rockets right now. They have done a lot of trial and error figuring out how rockets should work and now private companies are commoditizing this knowledge NASA has accumulated. We would know nothing about Mars either without NASA and Musk could not even dream of going there.

NASA should go back to working on big leaps instead of being forced into things like the SLS by Congress. But private companies would go nowhere without the public investment through NASA.
Definitely not, long-term. But plug it into a product manager's A/B test and I guarantee it boosts things short-term.
Corporate taxes shouldn't exist in the first place. They're just a sneaky way of double-taxing people.

Corporations are really just groups of people. Those people already have to pay taxes on the income they receive from the corporation. They shouldn't have to pay taxes on it again when the corporation reports it as income.
> The origin of the term is kind of comical to modern ears

It's interesting, but I don't think it stands out as "comical" from the finance realm, given that programmers unironically talk about "race" conditions during the "handshakes" from "tunneling" with a "certificate" in order to to "serve" up "pages".

On a far-more-obscure note, the etymology of "computer" itself can be traced back towards "something which counts using small pebbles of limestone."
> One issue I see here is that time protection would need to extend to anything shared,

We might see this issue as an opportunity. That is, by thinking about a concept called "time protection" we expose all these things subsystems are doing and make them easy to argue about. We can now say "Oh good, XYZ improves best-case speed, but sadly it also compromises time protection".

Having such a language means the industry can slowly start improving these things rather than sweeping them under the rug. It will not stop the improvement from being slow and difficult.
I can’t pinpoint exactly when it happened, but at some point in the last year or so I completely lost trust in purchasing goods on Amazon.

I’ve been a Prime customer since Prime launched. I loved it for a decade. It used to be an automatic reflex for me: need something? Type it in Amazon and click buy.

But now I don’t trust Amazon search results at all, and when I do purchase I only do it via direct product links from other sites I trust (like Wirecutter or the manufacturer’s site). Increasingly I buy direct from the brands websites.

I wanted to drop Prime this year. My wife argued we should keep it because the kids watch a lot of Prime Video. But we’ve already got Netflix, and with Disney launching their thing I think I’d rather buy that than stick with Prime any longer.

Not sure where Amazon is headed, and I wish the fate of AWS and Whole Foods weren’t at least somewhat tied up in the fate of Amazon’s retail operation.
I knew about this unlimited memory for years Chrome uses all the memory it can get.
This is why I was testing firefox the other day.
Ah, I think we have a deep "philosophy of science" disagreement. Basically, it is not just "falsifiability", but also "probability" of being correct. Probability that can be informed by things like formal versions of Occam's razor (e.g. Kolmogorov complexity, Akaike information criterion, etc).

Here are a few premises on which I based my statement (I will pick one particular venue of scientific research, so I will not speak in all generality. You can of course disagree and say that it does not generalize at all, but I think this would be a philosophical discussion, i.e. it does not matter at all that we have different opinions, as both are equally valid ways of pursuing scientific truth):

1. Computational complexity is a science on its own. Computational complexity also makes useful statements about the limits of the physical laws in our universe (a la "extended Church-Turing thesis" or Aaronsons "NP-complete problems and physical reality").

2. NP=P vs NP!=P is a question that has a definite answer within the relm of science but we do not know the answer yet. The answer will constrain what the permitted laws of physics are due to point 1 above.

3. There are a lot of clues that NP!=P coming from very separate disjoint fields of math. Mainly because we already know there are a lot of "phase transition"-like phenomena when we apply approximate algorithms to problems that can be parameterized to be NP-complete only if some ε is larger than some critical value.

4. These "phase transitions" are purely mathematical constructs, but due to the previous points they constrain what is permitted in the universe as strongly as any 5-sigma measurement in a particle accelerator.

To bring this back to the discussion of speculative theories of quantum gravity: if all of the competing theories of quantum gravity (all of them being very speculative and unproven) have a handful universally agreed on predictions (although derived in completely separate ways), this is as strong of a constraint as any 5-sigma measurement in a particle accelerator or cosmological observation.

Or if you permit me to attempt to phrase is it in yet another way: there are a ton of theory assumption behind any 5-sigma (or 10-sigma) experimental measurement. These assumptions are the same ones that inform the purely mathematical constraints. If both the math constraints and the interpretation of an experiment are based on the same assumption, why are you taking the interpretation of the experiment any more seriously than the pure math.

Sorry for the length of this text - I am finishing my dissertation this week (doctorate in physics), so this is very much on my mind at the moment.
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I prefer "buyer cartel". It sounds more sinister.
B&H is my go to got certain electronics these days. I've always gotten exactly what I expected. Shipping cost seem higher, but I can deal with it for most part.
Definitely so. "But my boss told me to kill that person, else I would lose my job :'("
Per seller stickers on items in inventory so fakes in comingling can be singled out. Bad sellers perma-banned.

Those would be two things you could easily start with, and Amazon knows it.

Allow users to report bait and switch listings and ban repeat offenders.

Require a $1-5K USD deposit to sell on Amazon with a clear fine structure.
>It's like saying Australia didn't really exist when we couldn't observe it (or see any effects from it reach us).

This is a straw man, and I think you know that. It's more like saying Atlantis doesn't exist, and, well, to the best of our knowledge - it doesn't. I'd be happy to re-evaluate upon receiving evidence that Atlantis may have existed, just as QM physicists should be happy to re-evaluate when sub-Planck-scale phenomena can possibly be observed using a theory which is also consistent with the rest of our observations of the world.

Oh and an even better analogy than Atlantis - it's like someone saying Australia didn't really exist when we couldn't observe it, and claiming they would prove it by sailing from Chile to Africa without encountering any large land masses.

So no, he's not making any weird philosophical claim at all.
That works fine when an application just wants to protect a private key in memory. But if you want to build, say, an application where a user enters via keyboard information that you want to protect from another application, you have to worry about keystroke timing attacks. That means the application needs to hide whether it did anything at all in a given time slice, which can be inferred from the micro-architectural information discussed in the article.
> It puzzles me that people hate taxes so much.

People's problems with taxes typically fall into two buckets, sometimes both.

1. On a fundamental economics level, the Government is an inefficient third party spender: it spends other peoples money on services it doesn't utilize. There is no feedback loop there besides bureaucracy.

2. We actually have a pretty moderate tax burden already, mostly footed by the average US worker. Everyone talks about the top rate, or federal taxes, but we also have sales tax, property tax, estate tax, in some areas a county tax on top of city or municipality tax, and additional education-related taxes, not counting the outlier states that have even more taxes on top of that. (There's a saying in NYC: Every day is tax day). The common worker pays the majority of the taxes, and they are the ones who are most sensitive to any increase in taxes, and feel pinched already, so they naturally, and very expectedly are against being taxed more. (Realize that the typical HN'er is not the average US worker, making ~60k median salary with few benefits)
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I'm not sure if you're in America, but in the US it federal income taxes largely goes to 14 giant aircraft carriers, a huge network of nuclear weapons, corporate farmers intensely growing carbs that makes our nation fat and payoffs to various politically well-connected lobby groups. State and local taxes probably are more useful for the things you think benefit society. Social Security and Medicare are of course funded separately. There is nothing for the endless army of homeless people living on the streets.

I know in many countries people are happy to pay taxes, if I saw everyone was treated well, got free healthcare and free universities I'd probably be happier about paying tax too.
Or grouping 20 distinct products under one item.
I wonder if high resolution timers were privileged, we could get by with lower resolution timers. I'm not sure any timing attacks would work with second or even millisecond resolution timers.

I don't see handling this at the programming language could help, and I think that whether timing is privileged or not is built into CPUs so there's nothing we can do about it, but this seems plausibly acceptable to deal with speculation. Permit speculation, but make it privileged to detect if speculation occurred.
Ironically, people who are being “discriminated” against with progressive, cashless initiatives, live in states where capital one branches and ATMs are on every corner.
Any chance you're going to get the uBlock name back? Explaining the story every time I tell someone to switch to uBlock Origin is annoying.
That doesn't seem to quite square with them being reassigned. In Ham's particular example:

> "Ham's attitude, and her dismissal of dissenting points of view from engineers, was identified as part of a larger cultural problem at NASA.[2] After the report's release, Ham was demoted and transferred out of her management position in the space shuttle program."
> Government has shown time and again that it’s one size fits all approach towards schooling isn’t working. Combine their poor execution, purposeful lack of civics training, with special interests and rent seeking, for example, school textbooks.

Government has not shown that at all, look around the world an you'll find plenty of examples of government providing quality education to all.
How big is that? The writing suggests that it could fit in the palm of your hand - I actually expected it to be a lot bigger.
I find it unlikely, since they don't really have much customer lock-in, so reputation matters a lot. It doesn't make many disappointing purchases for customers to start looking elsewhere first.
So 10 bucks for it to save me from having to paste this into the shell:

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/whitewaterfoundry/wslu/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

and they recommend I spend another 10 bucks for an x server so I can see they've applied a Windows 10 GTK theme?
In fact, it was The Guardian that was responsible for unintentionally exposing the password to an archive containing the unredacted versions of a great deal of the State Department cables they had received from Wikileaks.

They were somehow under the impression that the password they were given only applied to the copy of the archive that they were in possession of.

When they wrote the story of the events, they included a copy of the password for the archive, despite the fact that the archive had ended up on BitTorrent.
Trying to interpret this.

First of all $300M isn't a lot of money for this sort of operation. I guess it barely buys a good line of equipment, installed with an operable workforce, if that. Secondly, the amount of manual labour in iPhone assembly has to be pretty minimal with respect to margins. Can anyone enlighten us to the management situation?

I guess perhaps the true story behind the 'asserted' transition to an additional base in India includes other factors like: freeing Foxconn capital from China (currently their largest production base, with rising costs, a slowing market and perennial foreign exchange hassles), gaining additional internal production operations experience within a foreign non-'Chinese' (ie. Taiwan/China) environment, and cross-jurisdictional legal/tax/tariff/exchange rate hedging. (The US-China trade war has to have scared the pants off anyone in a consumer electronics this heavily.)
Pretty meaningful change. Hopefully the advent of this will result in increased social mobility and the rise of a homegrown hardware technology industry in the coming years.
Funny you ask, I was looking for the board to measure it - and then I realized I could just count the pixels!

I made the photo by scanning the board on my Brother MFC with a 1200 DPI scanner. The image is just shy of 6000x6000 pixels, so that makes the board about 5" square.
How do you resolve that? You let the market decide. By buying Amazon, you’ve decided that Amazon knows how to reinvest that money better than you. If that were not the case, you can sell Amazon shares and buy a company that gives you dividends that you can reinvest as you see fit.
Not at all, and I didn't make that argument. But as a member of the editorial staff, he has put his name behind numerous editorials railing against Facebook and their impact on personal privacy (just google "New York times editorial Facebook privacy" for many examples). Given that, I found the author's brushing aside of privacy concerns in this article ("it's government information, not personal information" - yeah, that the government requires everyone to provide or else they put you in jail) extremely weak.
Funding varies wildy based on location as it comes from local property taxes. Not all schools would need such increases. Thanks to that local funding scheme, the US tends to spend the most on the kids that need it the least.
As long as you are not experiential as the developer of react, it is likely your 10000 lines of code would create way more bugs than the 10000 lines of code react team wrote, it just not explode yet, while your colleague only need to debug the extra 1000 lines of code he wrote.
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Yes, definitely, thats a nice description. He tends to miss quite a bit, and can be a quite frustrating experience just willing those arrows to hit.
Unfortunately this is the sacrifice that needs to be made if you want permissionless money. Regulation is not necessary.
> I wish there is a way to allocate the tax that I pay yearly to the programs that I want to fund

Isn't that what voting for representatives that represent your general viewpoints is meant to do? You delegate decisions to representatives because it wouldn't be practical to keep up with everything you need to make a large number of informed decisions.
The Bloomberg article links to a blog post by Warren, which is headlined by a graphic that says: You probably pay more in federal income taxes than America's biggest, most profitable corporations.

This strikes me as an inflammatory — and generally untrue — statement. Even if you assume that all of these corporations pay zero federal income tax (they don't), then roughly half of Americans don't pay more (recall Mitt Romney's impolitic-but-true statement about 47% of Americans not paying any federal income tax).

But of course, most companies do actually pay federal income taxes, and when they don't it's often because of loss carryforwards. This particular aspect of tax law is not a "loophole", and lumping it in with lobbied-for tax credits/deductions doesn't help move the discourse forward.

The scope of the proposed tax hasn't been fully fleshed out, and I won't comment in-depth on it (as a former tax lawyer) at this point. But when I click through to see the original proposal and am greeted by this inflammatory and untrue statement, I am reminded that even the wonkiest of policy wonks will spin things pretty hard when it's election season.
Tell that to these US "helpful regulations" that prevent me from buying what I choose with my money.
What’s ridiculous?
Choose the tax number.

"Accounting for Growth" was a classic book written after the late 80's stock market bubble in the UK about how people were fooled by bad accounting and how to spot fraud. One of the main pieces of advice is that the tax number is usually more correct. If a company says it makes huge profit while paying little tax its likely not real profit.
I run several of the bots listed in the covered paper (Figure 6) and can prove ownership of these addresses to a mod. I can tell you right away that there are not hundreds of bots "running wild" here, but a handful of entities that operate multiple, sometimes seemingly independent bots, with almost all profit captured by the top few entities. As others have pointed out, the vast majority of bot activity on decentralized exchanges is not in fact front-running, but simply filling limit orders that cross order books of other exchanges, or that move the price of an automated market reserve. It's just arbitrage. To compare this type of activity to centralized exchange manipulation, as this article does, or to suggest that this is somehow worse than the structural deficiencies in traditional financial exchanges is just disingenuous and untrue. The paper that Philip and others authored is great in highlighting how miners have an advantage in capturing profits over non-mining arbitrageurs in the latest version of Ethereum DEXs, and there are many designs in the pipeline that aim to rectify these issues (zero-knowledge proofs, proposed changes to the 0x Protocol, etc). Several of the other problems can and will be fixed by moving to proof of stake and implementing finality. Again, we're talking about problems with rewarding the arbitrageur's efforts, not at all with the security of the user's funds. The $20,000/day is not far off the mark, but it has since declined considerably given the downturn in price and decreased interest in ICOs. The real story is what is going on with the unregulated centralized exchanges, but we can only guess.
And it’s still valid if you haven’t lost a war because no one can make it valid.
That’s a road to not only maintaining the status quo but worsening the root cause. If you ask people if they’d like their home prices to fall and new people to move in, of course they’ll vote no. The problem is that many people who are hurt by NIMBY laws don’t live in the relevant cities. They live somewhere else in California, or in Wisconsin, or Nebraska, or Georgia.
Incels? How is that relevant?
> The only point in taxing corporations vs. people directly is

I disagree, you're skipping a huge governmental benefit that almost all the biggest corporations request/receive: "Limited Liability."

If Nuclear Asbestos Infant Toys goes bankrupt, everybody else is picking up the tab for land-cleanup and tumor-removal.

In other words, those owners have chosen to socialize their company's risks, so it's only natural and fair for some of the company's profits to be socialized at the same junction.
What doesn’t surprise me is Wipro refusing to comment. This would have never come out if they weren’t targeting from inside the house.
I was with you up until the deposit. What about someone who is just starting their own business? $5k is a lot of money
not personally but a work colleague had an experience with a load of fake tea bags (big saving on amazon? I wonder why!)
At this point, I trust the Amazon brands less than the knockoffs. Half of the amazon labelled products I've used didn't work well or very long.
I disagree. Most 5-star reviews are garbage, but sometimes you find one that goes into great detail about real-world device specs from their own measurements, and even disassemble them and note various upsides and downsides of the design.

And conversely, many 1- and 2-star reviews are also garbage - the most common case is when the reviewer complains about item not being delivered or delivered late, or not what they wanted due to some misunderstanding.

What's really needed IMO is some kind of reputation for reviewers, that is easy to track.
You’re confusing inflation with real prices. Inflation means that the level of prices rises. If house prices rise because local government forbid new construction then that’s an increase in real prices.
After receiving fake items a few times, I just stopped buying from Amazon altogether. Especially now that Amazon collects taxes for my state, it is just easier to go to a brick and mortar store and buy legitimate products in person.
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I'm definitely guilty of the blank picture solely for streaks. For me, the value comes from a feeling of connection when keeping a streak, mostly with friends I barely ever see. There are people that I've only really met once at events etc., but we
have remained acquaintances through these 'substanceless' conversations over Snapchat. If I ever travel and end up near these friends I wouldn't hesitate to message them to hang out, where as if we never started a streak I'd most likely never see them again.

I've never liked keeping in touch with people over the internet, but 'streaks' lets me do it with dozens of people without sinking in hours of my time for conversation.
There are other places to start off... also, it doesn't have to be $5K, just cost prohibitive to lose if a knockoff company keeps getting closed out on.

There are also other selling options when starting out... not everyone has to jump onto Amazon.
I was actually at an AWS event and they mentioned that, so I searched and found this article...
https://www.jeremydaly.com/aurora-serverless-data-api-a-firs...

...that says it’s REALLY slow.