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> In before the JavaScript gripes begin. How about we skip the Electron whinging this time?

I have a feeling that it's used to farm hate (as karma or "acceptance"). In a less accusatory way, let me say, I think that people really like to see that other people share their hate. This is just my gut feeling though, as I don't share their passionate hate,even though I don't "love" electron.
You'll still make more than the next guy and honestly that's all people care about.
> Pretty colors when running dmesg!

My most disliked feature. The colors in everything always clashes with both my background color (the best one for my eyes) and my vision in general. The first thing I do on any new system is to figure out how to turn of the colors. Otherwise I can't see any of the output.
Yes that seems a pretty odd combination, you want more secure email but using IE11 at the same time?
NT can not run Linux binaries. That is why Microsoft are now shipping a full Linux kernel for WSL 2. WSL 1 translated Linux syscalls to NT in the same way that WINE does in the reverse.
You're not wrong, but "the government should be well run" is true no matter what.
It's the same problem that they have with most of their products. All design considerations are controlled by people driven exclusively by thin, light, minimal. It's getting tired and cliche.

I don't live in a place big enough for an Apple forest grove or whatever. It's an undersized store in a mall that was remodeled two years ago. The people who designed it never were in such a store before. It's crowded, too loud, and stripped of basic functions. The old version of the Apple store felt busy and energized, the new ones are disorienting.

The old Apple store in the same retail space was much more functional. It had a nice little kids corner with a lower table and fancy toadstool chairs. It was a great way for kids to explore iMacs and iPads. Now purged as a lower table isn't symmetrical enough. The training area is just a table in the middle, and it's just not as pleasant -- people can't hear and leave.

Apple has a great thing going with people there though -- it's a real asset. The staff are incredibly friendly, patient and helpful.
This seems like a bit of a cop-out. States and municipalities have regulatory power and are much closer to citizens. Many states are roughly the size of European countries.
Tax assets and not income.

Income = social mobility, and is directly related to "money you earn" and cannot effectively be inherited (you're dead, you are no longer earning).

Assets = wealth, and is directly related to "money previously earned" and can be inherited essentially forever ( https://anarchimedia.com/2019/01/15/rich-families-in-florenc... https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/apr/17/who-owns-engla... )

I now believe that the only effective way to end the excesses of inequality is for effective tax on assets, land being the most obvious but all assets should be up for taxation.

And as strict as asset taxation should be, so should income taxation be reduced.
It should also be mentioned that Magic effectively "ate up" D&D, when Wizards Of The Coast (owners of MTG) bought TSR (owners of D&D).
The difference with system shell scripts is that you can't accidentally clobber libraries that the system tools require to work - shell scripts don't really have any notion of installable libraries.
“The insane software developer in me wants to just smear the time across the US uniformly and do away with timezones all together.”

I think China has that. Why not do it world wide? The math would be much easier.

Also let’s get a 10 hour day with 10 minute hours. Ideally I would have a 100 day year but the sun probably won’t cooperate.
The top marginal tax rate in the US only kicks in if you make more than $500,000/yr.

Unless you're already making that much, how does a higher marginal tax rate on income over $500k affect you at all?
There isn't a history of issues with people wanting to update to a newer bash causing issues though.

Generally sticking with whatever bash your distro comes with is fine, whereas the services you deploy often depend on a particular version of python.
So, let me get this straight: I'm supposed to spend half my life getting educated so I can go out and make good money only to then have it confiscated? How about no.

I didn't even start making anything until age 30, actually 31, because I graduated with my PhD then it was a massive recession and I basically sat around in my underwear for almost a year watching the world burn down on CNBC (2003). I got on my feet in 2004, but it wasn't until 2005 that I made anything decent as far as income.

Fast forward to 2019, I'm in the 7 figure net worth range and on target for retirement.

WTF and I supposed to do? I'm now considered "rich" after having lived most of my life as a poor sucker without two pennies to rub together. I'm totally serious. I grew up very blue collar, lower middle class, and busted my ass to get where I am.

I will never make $500K a year, not ever.

Fuck your taxes.

ETA: Not sure why you're downvoting me. Do some of you not live in any sort of reality about how difficult it is to make money in the US?
Unlike any other organisation of its size, government is never held liable for efficiency, nobody ever questions government for "return on investment", even though it's the largest one all of us make.

What this article is suggesting is largely suicidal, taking cash from a far more efficient business community government by "laws" of competition, evolution of markets etc, the impact here would be catastrophic at best, I really don't think you can debate this in the space of one article.

My number one would be move all government money on blockchain, and make that public, then see if it's really so smart to "give them more", through any means.

Inequality has always been a constant throughout human history, and it's far better now than in the middle ages, where we are all entitled to education, healthcare, and have extremely fast access to information.

I'm not suggesting there isn't a problem, but you haven't found a solution. "Tax the rich" is something everyone can scream off the top of their lungs, until it comes to bite them hard the next day when their pay must be cut to keep the company they work for profitable.

Step 1 would be removing the biggest inefficiency of capital allocation in most of these "high growth" western economies, measure and publicise return on investment of public funds, and proceed to realise raising tax "just like that" is a very very bad idea.
Ubuntu had dash - a minimal sh implementation.

For the system I think it is a good idea to limit library interactions with things related to keeping the system running or booting.
That was one of my first thoughts too. I am curious if/how deadly the lasers are, and I have resisted the Dr Evil quote fingers until now.
What are the perceived benefits?
You can't make widespread culturual, social change on an individual basis like that. It's like asking people why they don't just cut the government checks if they think taxes should be higher- even if I cut the government a check for everything I had it would increase their coffers by ~0.0000001%. It's not significant on that level.

I'm not asking everyone else to do it first. I'm asking everyone to do it together.
>Isn't that what the Nazis tried to do, somewhat successfully?

No. The Nazis did not post spicy jokes about genocide to the internet. They committed genocide. Slight difference.
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I really hate ads on phones. There is relatively little space on phones and for any of that space to have ads is really distracting.

I’m really disappointed that Apple is going anywhere near ad-tech. I stay in the Apple ecosystem because they have my preferred value system - I give them money and they give me stuff.
only on HN would a completely insane idea like "move all government money on blockchain" be the top comment.
They appear to have existed explicitly to finance wars?

They are in fact unheard of outside of that?

What am i missing?
Want to and can are different things.

They likely want to used pulsed lasers assuming average power output stayed the same, but physics is a bitch. So, they don’t get to arbitrarily chose.
Commercial and independent gay and lesbian manga have existed for 40-50 years, and there's also a significant number of gay/lesbian anime and games.
I don't know that much about decay processes, I'm afraid. I'm kinda hoping to turn to worm food, whatever that is.

Still, animals die and decay in the wild, they don't get cremated in the wild[0]. That suggests to me it's the more natural and sustainable way to end.

[0] Except in forest fires, I suppose.
I gave up on Hyper about 8 months ago after only using it for a few weeks.

2.1 was close to unusable on Windows. Major prompt / cursor bugs (it would disappear all the time), ~200ms input latency (but a terminal's only job is to make typing feel awesome) and it took 5 seconds+ to open on an SSD. I reported a number of those issues but the maintainers didn't even respond even though people were commenting that it was a problem for them too.

Since then I've moved to wsltty for WSL and it's great when combined with tmux. Lightning fast with all of the terminal features you could ever want thanks to tmux (separate windows (ie. tabs), split panes, buffer searching and session saving / restoring). Close to zero input latency too as of wsltty 3.0.0.
Correct title for this submission: "What to Do About Inequality"
A useful analogy I once heard: suppose I want the government to build a dam somewhere. It would be totally pointless to go to the riverbank and start piling up rocks myself.
Not only is this patchwork idea dumb, but many of these have already failed in their legislative sessions.
No, I think people who have developed a UIKit app are going to port them to OS X because of Marzipan.

The incentive is easy port easy reach of a new, even if smaller, potential market.

To make the idea even clearer, if "porting iOS to OSX with Marzipan" was just a true/false toggle on XCode, almost everybody would toggle it and sell their iOS apps on the Mac App Store -- since it would take no time to do it, and it will reach a few dozens of millions on untapped potential customers (desktop mac users).

Well, it's the same situation, but now with Marzipan instead of trivially easy, like with the imaginary XCode toggle, porting an iOS app will be just "much easier" as opposed to "considerable effort" that it was before.

Also, I understood your comment "People with iOS apps on the App Store are a small subset of developers. That's the reality now." as meaning, "people with iOS on the MAC App Store are a small subset of developers" -- and responded to that.

If you meant: "People with iOS apps on the _iOS_ App Store are a small subset of developers" then that's crazy talk. They are hundreds of thousands of people making iOS apps -- and 1.5 or more million such apps.
"IE was replaced by Microsoft nearly 6 years ago, and doesn't meet current security requirements."
>[Angela Ahrendts'] overhaul of the Genius Bar has been especially controversial. Customers looking for technical advice or repairs must now check in with an employee, who types their request into an iPad. Then when a Genius is free, he or she must find the customer wherever they happen to be in the store. Ahrendts was determined to get rid of lineups, but now the stores are often crowded with people waiting for their iPhones to be fixed or batteries swapped out.
[...] Some employees speculate she’ll [Deirdre O’Brien] bring back the original Genius Bar.

I don't see how the old dedicated space for a Genius Bar would work better. The problem is that the old way tied tech support to a spatial location in the store. The new way assigned tech support to a person instead of a location. This allows any and every table in the store to become a temporary "genius bar" for that customer session.

In theory, if you had a dedicated area for the Genius Bar, you'd hope it would be free of crowds and be very inviting. An example photo showing open seats ready for instant service for the next customer: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Apple_Ge...

But reality turns out differently. In the following photo, notice the long lines crowding the back of the store at the Genius Bar: https://tr4.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2006/10/03/fce299cc-c3bf-11...

If an Apple exec wants to bring back the dedicated area for the Genius Bar, how does one avoid the logistical nightmare of those lines? You still have to work within the same finite retail floor space.

I don't like the new Apple Stores but I do know I'd rather sit down at one of the retail tables instead of stand in line at the old store layout.
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Almost every piece of acadamekc and practical research shows that this is not true (Ariely has 3 great papers on this).

People love things, power, sex and connection. Most of the things that lead to those things are exchanged directly or indirectly for money.

You’ll almost certainly always find a personal narrative as to why you want money.
I am neither the smartest, best athlete or best looking by multiple degrees of magnitude. Why I should be the richest by multiple order magnitudes is a complete miracle to me.

Yes, there will always be inequality. Yes, that is a good thing. But that is no excuse to the current level of wealth disparity.
I thought most really wealthy people don't earn "income" in the first place? Don't they generally pay capital gains tax, or no tax by just borrowing money against their assets rather than selling them?
17% of a large number is still a fairly large number.
Yup, that makes more sense :)
Usually advocates of progressive tax systems are more concerned with inequalities in the access to food, shelter, education, and health care.
Being colorblind, This map is completely useless. At least the table is there
IMHO windows needs a beginner friendly & built-in tiling window manager. Then nobody would care about the lack of tabs in cmd or explorer.
Me too. Same day, even. This is in NYC and I live within five minutes’ walk from the nearest store. Compared to phone support from PC makers (even including the glorious no-questions-asked IBM hardware days), it’s a vast improvement for me.
While I agree that ad sales are disheartening, App Store search has never been that great.
A real inheritance tax with teeth, or a land tax, would be worth trying.

In the US, an asset tax is probably unconstitutional.
Inequality in all its forms is not bad per se. Economic inequality is bad because (1) on a moral level, it is grotesque that some people have so much while others struggle immensely (and we can do something about it - money can be transferred, looks cannot), and (2) money amplifies the political voice of those who have it, undermining the concept of democracy - especially when they use that voice to direct benefits of the political system to themselves, at the further expense of the have-nots. Socialism for the rich and capitalism for everyone else, as the saying goes.

Plus, the sheer magnitude of inequality is immense in the area of wealth. It follows an exponential distribution; those other things you mentioned follow a normal distribution.
I would work less. A lot less. I'm at 7 days a week working, I would cut back to 5 days or fewer. Why would I continue to push hard for money that will just go to the government?
Sad commentary on the state of the world when you feel the need to comment on the speed with which a computer can pain text to the screen.

If you read their changelog you'll see that Hyper 3.0 uses WebGL to achieve this.

OpenGL. To draw text at a reasonable speed. It's not individually an insane thing to do within the context of Electron, etc. but take five steps back and talk about using a sledgehammer to crack a nut...
More taxes would be a much easier pill to swallow if the people advocating for said taxes at least paid lip service to increasing government efficiency. Some do, but most don't. At best you can get them to acknowledge that suburban police departments don't need MRAPs. There's a lot of fat (mostly related to institutional risk/responsibility avoidance IMO) that could be trimmed and that money could be put into things that actually improve quality of life for people.
Well, it's at least as complex as a Turing machine. That's a statement of complexity.

Maybe you are asking whether it is possible for the winning strategy of a very simple deterministic game to be non-computable. In other words, maybe there's a possible way of defining computability which is orthogonal to complexity. The CS definitions of both terms are closely connected to Turing machines, though. Can you imagine a simple deterministic game that couldn't be "solved" by an algorithm?
They meant most of the 60 chosen are lands.
Yeah you really got the point here, it was the technology to use, not the transparency and traceability.. you're completely right, it's worth 0% of my time arguing over the internet. Thank you ever so kindly for reminding me of that.
I think it's distorting what Piketty has always stated in his own study...you really should spend some quality google search time and get the study and invest some time in reading it and the critics rebuttals
Why’s that? I’d happily take 17% of a billion over the ~50% of what I make now, average tech salary. I feel like tax rates are irrelevant to my ambitions.

In the past a lot of people have claimed they’d be demotivated about raising taxes, but it’s never stopped someone from being richer. More is still more, even if the government takes a greater share.
The infrastructure for this at scale is not feasible and also not efficient for helping those most in need of help.
I never really understand this perspective. it's not like there's some magic cutoff where finally an organization has enough money to do something good. unless there's some significant economy of scale or transaction costs at play, the 83% of your wealth funds just as much "good" whether or not other people pay. why are you only willing to pay if it solves a huge problem in one fell swoop?
I went in a few months to get a hardware thing fixed with an appointment set and nobody helped me. I waited for like 10 minutes past by appointment time and everyone was booked up. I tried pestering people but everyone was helping someone else and asked me to wait for another associate.

Eventually I gave up and left the store. I'm sure their analytics never even noticed me, their data says I just never showed up for the appointment. It's a bad outcome, I sold the old half broken macbook and switched to a thinkpad.

I still think their phones are better than android, but mainly that's just because I don't want anything that Google touches anywhere near me.
I really hate their store pick up because you have to find the same random employee to go fetch the item for you. What should be a 69 second in-and-our is at least ten minutes at the store near me.
>Unless you're already making that much, how does a higher marginal tax rate on income over $500k affect you at all?

We're on the ycombinator website, presumably the concept of stock options is not foreign to those here. Taking less salary for years with the potential for an IPO is a lot less lucrative when your payout goes down by 50% due to taxes.
With central baking the purpose of taxes is managing inflation, not funding government.
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But first you have to cross the valley of death. Elsewhere you refer to having to limit capital spending, wouldn't getting CO2 from a 3rd party instead of building a massive air capture facility do that? Everything I've seen says that its cheaper to capture from a point source than from the atmosphere, why would you make your costs higher than they need to be? You can of course build air capture down the road but I'd guess that you'd want to get off the ground as easily as possible.
I can only guess that most people commenting don't understand how tax brackets work and have not read the article.

I'm certain that at least half of the comments right now are from people reflexively spouting off without having read it.
I think the slam of less user-friendly products, higher comparative prices, and worse customer support will make any company lose its luster. Apple's done all three, and unless there's a change in the ship's direction, it'll continue bleeding out cash in stock buybacks and dividends and losing premium customers and great employees.
"I will never make $500K a year, not ever."

Why are you complaining about something that won't affect you then?
Thankfully there's Google Translate. That's a great start, thanks!
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I understand them wanting to discontinue browsers that have very low usage and have discontinued support from Microsoft, but I can't help but feel a little sad about the narrowing browser engine ecosystem.
Thank you for the insight! Much appreciated.
Both systems are cutting edge and a the limit of what we can build. They are not using a continuous beam because it’s inherently better, they are using it because it’s the best compromise.
Most of the super computers today have their own power station on site. I know blue waters at UIUC had one, which I believe caused a power outage at one point.
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Once more the blue line stands.
I agree.. the issue tends to come down to...

CITY: Hey, we paid for this, but these other cities using it aren't funding (chipping in) for further development...
It’s the bottom comment at the time of this comment.
What it says on the tin and what people actually pay may be two different things. As a hypothetical if the rate is 100% it may be that no one would make anything in excess of where that rate kicks in.

I doubt very much that no one will be compensated in excess of the rate though. People will just have to go to the trouble of making sure the compensation isn't affected by the rate. In effect you're paying people to make an income inequality statistic look better.
The in store experience has changed with the staff. Two examples that come to mind. I remember going in to buy an iPhone 8 after new prices announced. I spoke to a rep for 2 minutes for him to then to say: “let me get someone for you.” Then the actual transaction of buying occurred. Are there so many window shoppers that they have staff just to talk to non-buyers? The second was the genius bar. A speaker blew-out on my MBP, I made an appointment and I am trying to get someone AT THE BAR to tell me how long the repair is going to take before I send it in for service. Meanwhile the person to my left is there because they ran out of hard drive space and cant check their emails. And the person to my right has been there for 4 hours about a phone repair only to trade it in instead. I couldn’t believe the genius bar was inundated with those requests. I know I don’t need special treatment but I literally need actual hardware help. /rant
Yeah, I'm really surprised that anyone would even use an array across object boundaries like this. I've never been in a situation where that would be preferable to providing a pointer and a size_t instead. It's been far more common throughout my career to do it that way instead of how the author is describing.
Somehow I think we'll find others to blast assess.
So you're saying it would get rid of people in powerful positions that were only in it for the money?

That you could finally relax and spend time doing things of value to you instead of acquiring wealth?

Sounds good to me.
And on the other end of the scale, this one is a cool real-world example: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/super-charging-the-git...
No, open source software has been a regular thing since the 1980's and arguably with 1970's with richard stallman. It was already 20 years old by the time I was explaining it to the lawyer. He was just unable to understand anything that wasn't part of his paradigm.