skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No serious economist advocates for a return to a fixed supply of currency.

I am not advocating for its return or extolling its virtues or claiming the world will be better or worse with fixed supply currency. I'm simply stating that a rational individual or business will avoid an X% tax on their stored wealth if they can legally do so.

I appreciate your anecdotal willingness to have your wealth devalued as a patriotic sentiment, but have to assume you are in a small global minority who would so if it can be avoided with the flick of a switch ('store my money in crypto') - consider countries where the tax is XX%, XXX%, XXXX% or even beyond (ie. Venezuela). Even X% is a rather large voluntary tax for US citizens with meagre savings.

> This is comically untrue. It may be true in cryptocurrency circles, but it's absolutely not true in economic circles.

It's true in the sense that fixed supply currencies exist today and usability will meet and eventually surpass 'traditional' currencies. The goodness or badness of the idea according to economists doesn't stop them existing today and won't stop them existing in the future.

> On the contrary, countries that cannot effectively control money supply will continue to be at a disadvantage with countries that can. It's precisely because of its usefulness that countries will continue to employ it. What could possibly make you think otherwise?

No government is going to voluntarily give up control of money supply but their mechanisms to do so are very limited in a world where every citizen and business stores their value in FixedSupplyCoin.
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For individuals doing it on their own, sure, but if it’s a service (like this but with “deepfake”) it wouldn’t last long before the lawsuits come in.
They've always done price matching, that's how they got their name when they came out in the 90s. But they still don't have a great selection and in my experience it's rarely worth it to shop there compared to Amazon for all the reasons stated above.
No, it will be around 20 cents to store 1MB
This is the difference between hacker news and indiehackers. People here are still dissecting the javascript virtues of the website in disbelief. Most indie hackers would agree it doesn't matter.
It's always been fascinating to me that "things that poor people spend most of their money on" is subject to a sales tax but "things rich people spend most of their money on" isn't.

Services from beauty shops, car repair, home maintenance and repair? Taxed. Services from lawyers and accountants? Not taxed.

Buying a TV, food, gasoline? Taxed. Buying a piece of land or stocks? Not taxed.
I totally agree that Target and Walmart filled the vacuum really well, and TRU reentering the market isn't going to change things back.

I'd expect TRU to have a decent, but not great holiday 2019, then pretty much fall apart after that.
> does this data live alongside transaction data?

Yes.

A Bitcoin "transaction" is actually a short Forth-like program running on a stack-based, non-Turing complete virtual machine. When Bitcoin has been sent to an address, the output script of a transaction is something like this:

let HASH = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
if (check(HASH, pubkey, signature) == True)
return 1;
return 0;

And recall a Bitcoin address is a RIPEMD-160 hash, which means any 20 bytes binary data is a legitimate Bitcoin address. So earliest and simplest method of storing data is simply submitting a payment that sends pennies to a bunch of garbage Bitcoin addresses corresponding to your binary data.

This method was controversial in the early days, as it created a lot of not-actual-transaction garbage in the blockchain. Bitcoin developers later introduced opcode "OP_RETURN", which is seen as a standard and less-evil way to post data. In this case, the script is something like:

let DATA = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
return 0;

Also, from the perspective of the system, it's just a transaction. Although for a OP_RETURN transaction, it won't be added to the UTXO (unspent transactions) list, because the script always returns false, it's not spendable.

The limitation of using Bitcoin blockchain as a data storage medium is the astronomical transaction fee. The larger the transaction (i.e. the script), the higher the fee. Typically, nobody can afford to store more than a few hundred bytes.
99.99% of time when people say "99.99%" it's just made up.
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Try that "voluntary parting" with a rental car and see what happens.
So... large countries should be broken up?
> Reminder that during the time generally pointed to as 'the good old days' (the 1950s) the top tax bracket was 85%

...but pretty much nobody in those brackets actually paid those rates:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-29/hollyw...

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To the people who don't get the point:

Taxes never were that high in reality, so we can't draw any conclusions on what such a high tax would actually do.

People may have this fantasy about rich people that they're just hoarding money like a dragon hoards gold. In reality, rich people invest their money, which the government wants them to do, so they don't tax investments (capital gains) that highly.
I take your point on joy, and art perhaps has a broader spectre, like music. I can enjoy nice simple pop song but I don't confuse with Chopin.

On technical level. I disagree. There's a difference.

A piano player that plays a flawless Beethoven, is not Beethoven because there's a difference between the ability to compose and ability to play a composed piece.

And so it is with your analogy of Da Vinci vs. forgery.
The other responses were accurate. Part of it is to be able to afford a little extra help, part of it is to re-spark excitement in the project with people, and part of it is to buy a little extra time to work on it full-time since the sad truth is that without my other income we're not actually able to live in the Bay Area with a family of four even on this revenue. An alternative is to move somewhere cheaper, which we're also considering.

I also added a breakdown of costs to another comment deeper in this thread, in case that's of interest.
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I mean, you can do both. I would argue it is the responsibility of a good and just society to take care of all its members. You should still try to feed, house and treat that person even after poor decisions, but you should also have systems and policies in place to help prevent those poor decisions in the first place.

System such as:
- Keeping more of their own money via taxes for Employment Insurance when they lose a job.
- Arming them with better decision making skills via education
- Having a system for healthcare that works fro everyone, funded via taxes, such that having a job or money is not relevant to receiving lifesaving medical care.
There are lots of these already
https://song.link/
https://songwhip.com/
https://listen.lt/
https://www.linkfire.com/

It might not be worth the trouble for you.
When there are multiple cost-effective public health measures that can achieve the same end, we should pursue all of them.

In the case of Truvada, we already did the hard part (inventing it). Now it’s just a chemical that can be infinitely duplicated a low cost. It would be a huge wasted opportunity, a moral crime really, not to give it away for free to everyone that can benefit from it.

And the same is true for the flu vaccine, the birth control pill, the seat belt, etc. These are miraculous technological advances. If you support the use of these advances, but not Truvada, I would take a hard look at what factors might be playing into that.
I really don't think that's an unreasonable amount. Most people are renting this equipment for professional use and should easily be able to put that money down.
If you want to kill ticks around your lawn without going nuclear and covering everything with permethrin (which kills most insects), try tick tubes. These are cardboard tubes filled with cotton that has been treated with permethrin. The mice which most often harbor lyme disease will take the cotton back to line their nests. This will kill just the insects that the mice carry, and hopefully bees etc won't take an interest in the tubes themselves. The tubes are a little pricey on Amazon but you can make your own with cotton balls and a bottle of permethrin.
>The initial analyses show that something went wrong in the back-ups,’ Grapperhaus said. KPN is now trying to establish what happened and, the minister said, the results of that investigation will be double checked.

When money is at stake, downtime matters. This, however, was about lives and matters so much more. The public deserves the utmost transparency and a full explanation of what happened, how three separate backups failed, how the issue was resolved, and what the plans are moving forward. I only hope we receive it.

Some questions I would like to know:

How did three separate backups fail?

What was the process on verifying the backups, or was there one?

How many lives were lost during the outage?

What systems are going to be put in place to ensure this cannot happen again?
We lost. You'll feel better if you give up, too.
Drop the journalism charges against Julian Assange
I feel like I have to say this to everyone all the time when they try to defend the US as having the greatest healthcare system ever. It's literally impossible to offer the same service as a socialized, government program for cheaper when the non-socialized option has to make a profit. If a non-socialized system can drive costs down, so can a socialized provider. There's literally no situation where the socialized system loses on this.
ticks natural hosts are mice, deer, moose and other wildlife that lives in scrublands and mixed forests. This means optimally they will be on grass or scrub that is between mouse and moose height which, coincidentally lines up with human height. Ticks will hold on to leaves and grass with their back legs and hold their front legs outstretched. When a potential hosts passes by they will quickly climb aboard. Many ticks will climb aboard from low grass or even leaf litter which is why treating your shoes and socks works. However they can be on hanging branches or taller grass and shrubs which is why treating all your clothes with permethrin is a good idea.

Ticks do not jump run hop or make any fast movements. They are slow crawlers and do not drop out of trees onto you. They do have a very sensitive organ called a Haller's organ[0] which is an olfactory organ that can also sense humidity, C02 and Temperature.

Lyme's disease isn't the only thing you have to worry about getting from Ticks. They can also carry Tularemia fever, Powassan virus, Ehrlichiosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Ticks are resistant to cold weather but one of their primary hosts, mice, are not. So after a particularly cold winter there may be less ticks the following Summer. However, many people would say the Northeast U.S. had a long cold and snowy winter but the early and long lasting snow cover provided the mice and other subnivean zone animals with lots of cover and protection from the cold so this Summer is actually turning out to be a bad one for ticks (at least in the NE U.S.).

In our household, we do thorough tick checks on everyone after a day spent outside or in the woods. This includes meticulously checking hair and armpits and a self-check around the groin.

You can help your own property by cutting 1.5 inch PVC pipe into 3-5 inch sections and stuffing it with permethrin soaked cotton balls. Mice will use these to build nests and any ticks coming into contact with the mice will die on contact[1]

Do not get Permethrin near any invertebrates or aquatic wildlife that you do not want to kill[2]

Edit: product we use in our household which we buy at the local outdoor store but is also available online[3]

[0]https://entomologytoday.org/2018/01/16/up-close-look-tiny-se...

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1941927

[2]http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/metiram-propox...

[3]https://sawyer.com/products/permethrin-insect-repellent-trea...
Downvoting the truth doesn't change it, sorry!
the flurry of articles about 'hypersonics' have me questioning the nature of the propoganda value of these articles, regardless of any discussion on the substance of how 'true' the existence of these technologies is claimed to be.

really, first strike in a 'nuclear war' is nothing because it's unlikely.

the real thing you should be worried about is how these wespons change the calculus of those who don't have them or have ways to detect them, when dealing with the superpowers that have them.....

that , and drone delivered bioweapons being used to genocide the third world. that's what's more likely to be used , and that's what you should be thinking about.

the endless stream of propogated media coverage on hypersonics has a reason. and that has nothing to do with the truth or falsity of 'hypersonics'
My father nearly died of [what we believe to be] Lyme disease. A few years ago he started getting awful bouts of pain all over his body. He couldn't eat, was losing weight, was losing muscle mass fast. It got the the point where he was using a walker (he was less than 60 years old at the time) and could barely lift a 5 pound weight. He went to a bunch of different doctors, had all kinds of scans run, and only kept getting worse. At one point my mother noticed that every test any doctor gave for Lyme disease came back "inconclusive". She pointed out to one of the doctors, who said that it didn't mean anything as apparently the test is not very reliable. Finally, they found a doctor who prescribed medication to treat Lyme disease without a definitive test because apparently there was a low risk of side effects. Within a couple of weeks of starting the medication, my father was visibly better, within a few months he was basically back to normal, and is basically fully recovered now. (Sorry folks, I don't know any of the specific drugs or medical terminology.)

We have no idea how or when he got infected. As far as he knows, he never had a bullseye rash, although apparently that doesn't always happen. Now I slather myself in DEET whenever I go into a an even semi-woodsy environment.
I did that, and was told by the doc there's minimal chance of transfer unless the tick is attached for 24h.
Is your argument that because people can evade taxes that we shouldn't collect taxes?
looks cool, but that website is a bottomless pit of "learn more" buttons and pages of feature lists.
Can you clarify why you believe this is a "virtue signal?" You're the second person in this thread to do so.

My understanding of "virtue signal" means promoting "virtue" over "action." And yet:

> Two decades ago I turned full-time to philanthropy and threw myself into supporting public education, scientific and medical research, and visual and performing arts, believing it was my responsibility to give back some of what had so generously been given to me.

In the article he's saying this isn't enough. So, why use the term "virtue signal?" Are you arguing that he's doing nothing about the issue but writing a blog post?
Correct, my issues with Libra's centralization has to do with the Association, not Facebook alone. I see what you're saying though where Calibra could itself be used used as leverage by Facebook.
Fewer target demographic being produced?
It's pretty hard to ascertain the value of a company and the required exit size from a a single investment round's size alone. There could be warrants to buy more stock, liquidation preferences, ratchets, etc. The math from this alone can get pretty tricky.

This seems like a revenue generating company from the get-go, unlike something like facebook, so I suspect they already have revenue and it's growing pretty fast. Given America's (and other countries too) fascination with Celebrities, I could see this as a pretty highly valued company.
> I'm kind of shocked that no healthcare providers have offered price guarantees as a selling point

It would make sense if there was enough competition pressure. Lack of price guarantees pretty much proves lack of real competition / price finding.
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I'm not going to out myself by listing my local PD, but I can see a 9 digit number that, when I've called in the past, routed me to dispatch.

If 911 is down, you should call a specific police station. They will be broken down into zones or districts in larger cities, and I can see phone numbers for zones in two cities I've lived in on their sites.
Can confirm. Both stores in Atlanta carry them. Including a semi-dedicated room for Adruino’s and Pi stuff.
Thanks for all responses, a lot to explore!
But why raise income or wealth taxes when you can raise land value taxes or carbon/pollution taxes instead? My income does not harm anyone else, nor does being wealthy. But my hoarding of land does exclude land from others. My release of carbon / pollution into the atmosphere even more obviously harms other people. I think we're doing a huge disservice taxing the wrong things, when there are things that are useful to tax (apart from the government revenue).

This is why I think we should lower (or remove) income taxes -- because we could raise the same amount in more useful ways. I think there are also economic reasons to believe income taxes make the labor market less efficient. If your goal is to tackle inequality, why insist on doing it in a sub-optimal way? It absolutely matters not just how much you tax and who you tax, but also what you're taxing (and therefore discouraging). Let's start with some revenue-neutral changes to the tax structure. We might see both a stronger economy and less pollution because of it, for free.
As a pre-Oracle customer of DynDNS because they had some obscure TLDs at good prices - geez. Oracle took them over, tripled the prices for these TDLs, and then torn DynDNS into pieces. Brutal.
What do you mean? Aren’t we talking about the price of hospital visits, etc., meaning the performance/quality is expected to be good?
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Taxation is well-acknowledged a trade-off between liberty and social responsibility.

This is a new type of tax that has never been implemented in the US. If the goal is to reduce poverty, it won't do that. So what is the goal?
I am curious how they are uploading malicious content without encrypting it to evade detection. I've had coworkers (red team) use special packers to return "all green" on virustotal, but it doesn't take long for it to get flagged.
I appreciate it's a hot potato in the US, however in my opinion these kind of thigs should only be sold to military,in which case no CRM is required,as there are only a handful of countries as potential clients.I used guns for many years and can't see a single reason why anyone would need it for personal use.
I think you're getting downvoted for using a term like "virtue signal" to describe someone who devotes themselves full-time to philanthropy, and then diverging into a political flame-bait comment about "democrat scam."
It's just a ploy to reduce inventory and fill the empty space so it doesn't look like a wasteland.
Microcenter is like that except the employees are only knowledgeable about gaming rigs.
All our users are running interactive sessions under X2Go (and it’s far from ideal). Will this still work? Even worse than today? (I could be mistaken but the impression I get from Wayland appears to be a dramatic emphasis on the local desktop with a near-complete disregard of the remote scenario).

CONTEXT: heavy, expensive, licensed EDA tools imposes this usage model and there’s really no way around it.
Errr you can’t just hand the government money randomly. You have to owe it to them. It all has to add up in some way and be accounted for.
You should avoid pulling, instead hold it with a tool and turn it. After about two or three turns it usually comes right off.
It is golden brown.

My mixer is 50 years old. Over the years, I've pulled the head apart a couple of times when it starts to squeak, and it's obvious there is a very gradual loss of grease - I've re-spread it into the gears.

There is no seal on the shaft that holds the beater.

Kitchenaid is made by Hobart, and they are the lead manufacturer in this market. The design is fine and very rugged.

I don't want use any grease that has traces of heavy metals or, e.g., moly disulfide. There is such a thing as food grade grease for use in mixers, candy machines, etc., but I just haven't yet laid my hands on any.
SUSE Linux bridges the gap between the server and the cloud
What do you use for receiving the radio traffice, something like an RTL-SDR, or something else?
As someone living in Mexico, I am always frustrated when reading horror stories from people in the USA about medicines. I have always been 100% willing to help getting any required medicines if needed.

And here I am today in the USA (visiting for 1 week of work), with what appears to be a stomach infection, and I'll have to just survive it maybe with Pepto, until I go back to Mexico, or otherwise pay a lot of money to see a GP to give me a receipt for a something that will cost me $6 USD back in Mexico ( https://www.angloinfo.com/blogs/mexico/mexico-city/more-adve... )
Medicare's reimbursement rates are already higher than every other developed nation. The idea that it doesn't pay enough is, frankly, bs.

Of course, reimbursement rates are hardly our only problem. We also use more expensive treatment options for the same conditions, give doctors (and thus patients) a level of flexibility unheard of elsewhere that allows to spend money on unnecessary medicine just to make a patient happy and have ridiculous administrative overhead costs.
Remember the paper slips you'd pull out to take to the register? I must have had a collection of dozens of those things at home.. Just in case!
I appreciate your reply, but I don't believe the vandalism and arson metaphor fits. There are just people you let get away with crap and ones you don't. His goal was to antagonize me while flying under the radar, and he succeeded. My goal was to antagonize him in retribution, and I failed.

So where are we now? I'll go back to reading the headlines instead of the comments because I'm not clever enough to keep people like that from getting under my skin, and he'll go on to piss off someone else the next chance that comes up.

Anyways, I regret snapping at you. Take care.
I stand corrected. Agreed, Butt-buddies = Gay.

Attached at the hip is more like it. These are guys you grow up with and know their darkest secrets :)
Unethical, but the best course of action for someone is to simply find a smashed up piece of equipment and claim it was returned damaged and not stolen. Sounds like they would insure damaged equipment but not stolen equipment. However, that also would be fraud.
I may or may not have had chronic lyme disease. I definitely had many many ticks. (Never cared about em, just pulled them off). And I definitely was sick for over a decade. And I definitely tested positive on the Western Blot multiple times. (And chronic lyme is definitely a bit of a catch-all diagnosis for a host of auto-immune stuff we don't quite understand yet)

It was awful, something I wouldn't wish on anyone.

If you do get a deer tick (they are the small ones, not the giant gross ones) save it, there are a number of places you can send it for peace of mind that it was not infected.

Also consider brief antibiotic prophylaxis: 1-3 doses of doxycycline are often recommended. I'm not in favor of anti-biotic overuse, but if lyme can turn into chronic lyme and that was indeed what I dealt with for 10 years of pain and crushing fatigue, then you want to avoid it.

(edit: typos)