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The tax code is completely different today from what it was when there were considerably higher marginal tax rates. The actual ratio of tax to GDP has not changed considerably since then.

Try to actually understand the totality of the circumstances you're talking about.

Too many people think they have just-so solutions to a problem they can't even characterize in any useful way. Please don't add fuel to the fire. The problems facing America can not be reduced to a misunderstood slogan or the name of a president or a street name or a single policy strategy. "Fight for fifteen"-ism and "the one per cent!"-ism do not magically make ordinary Americans richer. The catchier it is, the more likely there is a hidden beneficiary you aren't considering.
With much less features. hyperscan only works with very limited regular expressions.

Russ' re2 just cannot do backtracking.
>For me to have 100% freedom of my property, it must be legal for me to bribe government officials, foreign and domestic, in order to gain an advantage.

So for you to have 100% freedom of your property mean to let the government to do whatever it wants with your property if somebody bribed it?

>well before there were strong regulatory regimes.

When, exactly, were times before there were strong regulatory regimes? You know that monarchies of the past were significantly more invasive than the contemporary liberal democracies, right?
You have to consider a majority of deniers either believe it's a "phase" the earth goes through, it's a scam by the liberals or God will fix it.
This is not a realistic solution.

SMS-sized messages are the least hard part of this for me. What I want is to be able to point at a file or folder on my computer and say, "sign that with a public key so I can prove I wrote it" or "encrypt that with someone else's public key so only they can read it". At that point, I don't necessary care all that much about how the file gets sent over the network.

It doesn't need to be integrated into email, but it does need to be a low-level enough operation that I can use it on an arbitrary block of text, file, or folder of any size. Is there a replacement that does that?

I use Signal, and it's great. But Signal is not a replacement for PGP, it's a replacement for one, very specific use-case for PGP.
The revenue model of Bandcamp, the interactivity of SoundCloud. I think that's how I would describe it.
Yeah, rules like "wheelchair accessibility" (1:21). Clearly the disabled citizens should just crap at home, so we can save a few bucks. And sustainability? Who needs that?!

Frankly, ReasonTV seems like a left-wing caricature of the libertarians. There's very likely a good case to be made of wastefulness, but that video didn't have it.
Yet, TransDigm's stock price thrives because Wall Street loves monopolies, regardless of who they are taking advantage of.

Implicit in this passage is a judgment of Wall Street, a laying of blame, but that is misplaced, because while investors may be in a good place to assess the national security implications of the company's strategies, they are not in a position to address them. Failing to maintain critical supply chains and human capital is not their mistake to make. If the government (or governments, the 50 states matter just as much) allows or encourages certain mergers, permits off-shoring of critical industries and does little to ensure the technical capability of a new generation of Americans, investors are basically stuck with that. They can choose to buy or sell; they aren't policy makers.
> Try to actually understand the totality of the circumstances you're talking about.

Please enlighten us.

> The tax code is completely different today from what it was when there were considerably higher marginal tax rates.

I'm aware. (I was in law school taking a couple of tax-law courses during the 1980 election debates about Reagan's proposed tax cuts.)

> The actual ratio of tax to GDP has not changed considerably since then.

Please explain how this is relevant to individual incentives and the "emergent behavior" that they create.
Again: not the point I'm addressing.
Some people are earning good (government) money from the ruin of the airport just sitting there, every day.

Not sure it is all just about regulations.
Protest in Madrid as conservatives suspend ban on most polluting cars
I think they downvoted you because that is totally different context than what discussion is about. We are not talking about CEO level agreements but simple workers.
When you have gapped computers that need private communications there are still few options

Has nothing to do with friends
That's because some of the cost you pay by changing the way you think so that it doesn't even occur to you to write programs that the type system won't like.
What amazed me was learning that you can fly across country and never have to talk to ATC. I'm not sure on the details, I'm sure it's VFR, no class Bravo airspace, not sure about flight plan, but the fact that you can cruise around up there without ever announcing yourself or communicating with anyone is really surprising.
Overpopulation is not helping either. Would it be this bad if there were only 500million people?
This also ignores a huge reason for having these bulbs in the first place- the ability to dim or change their colors. As someone who gets migraines having the ability to turn off white and blue light at will is pretty life changing.
> How anyone can experience it and keep acting like nothing's happening beats me.

I look around my workplace, nobody seems to be compelled to change their lifestyle. Nobody seems to mind using a disposable cup every day, buying latest gadgets they don't need, talking about traveling to new places, etc.

I bought people on my team reusable coffee mugs to reduce the amount of disposable waste, but inevitably they get too lazy to clean it and they are back on disposable cups.
Thank you for being honest.

Couldn't that purpose be served by hiring people who know how to communicate and are not political, and using technology for group communication and planning?
Have probiotics been independently proven to be a net positive?

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)31102-4
At a past company, we used https://brainbrowser.cbrain.mcgill.ca, which may come in help to you.
What you are calling an "educated guess" is basically the definition of insider trading.

> On Friday, August 25, 2017, Ying texted a co-worker that the breach they were working on “sounds bad. We may be the one breached.” The following Monday, Ying conducted web searches on the impact of Experian's 2015 data breach on its stock price. Later that morning, Ying exercised all of his stock options[.]
I don't think I agree with your premise, but even if I take it as true--- it's the unit tests of the other modules that help me out, by ensuring I haven't managed to totally bust the module I'm working on.

Some people argue that a unit test of a module should mock out its dependencies and not rely on them. For unit tests like that... well, I endorse the article.
> unusual programming language called OCaml

> obscure programming languages

Huh, I knew OCaml was less popular; I did not know it was "obscue". Doesn't Facebook use OCaml?
AWS S3 leaks data from Fortune 100 firms
Can somebody explain to me a legitimate use for a single key cross signed by e.g. 100,000 other keys? Is the goal group communications?

I get that arbitrary limits are bad. And that an attack on a system can be converted to an attack on a key, I'm not seeking mitigation in this question.

I just want to understand in some six degrees of Kevin bacon manner, if there is a real use for a single large sign set rather than eg a merkle tree of decomposed subsign sets?
Fair enough, I'll delete the responses here. To be fair, though, we both know that the linked editorial is a deliberate exercise in insincere outrage. Demanding that one side assume good faith while the other is allowed to feign as much outrage as it wants because their media feeds the narrative isn't a good path to clean discussion either.

With no one to challenge the framing (which, yes, includes accusing people of being conservatives) topics like this become echo chambers. I don't want that, and am willing to tolerate some flamage as the price.

But yeah, it's not my forum. Like I said I'll delete the responses here.
I'm not arguing against the point. I'm simply clarifying-- for everyone's benefit-- that the assertion that "non-competes are unenforceable in CA" is not universally true.
I haven't used it for this, but I think Keybase might be a good system for filling the role of keyservers. If you just want encrypted messaging, it has it. But you can also store your PGP key in there and people can trust it if they trust Keybase's other proofs (which are not necessarily a leap of faith, you can go to the source and verify them).
Get charged with larceny and see what happens

Go over $500 and get charged with grand larceny and see what happens

As Nancy Botwin said on Weeds “maybe your people need to steal bigger”

Since it wont be called stealing if its big enough
"but most governments work somewhere between “well” and “adequate” most of the time"

Until they don't. The last major crisis is less than 100 years old.
Ha! I always forget about Glassdoor. :)
https://youtu.be/JVbliFdOuOM
Absolutely. The problem is not that Wall Street loves monopolies, but that every other part of the American society that was supposed to _not_ love monopolies, has been asleep at the switch in this regard for decades.
In the Deep South, deep wrap around porches also allowed you leave windows open on two sides of the house for a cross breeze, even in very rainy/stormy weather.

They still sleep on porches in India and "porch sleeping" was common across the US until not that many decades ago, even in New York City where they would sleep on the fire escape or roof in hot weather.
Sure is unusual how a lawyer, versed in California employment law, drafting a contract and including terms he knows are unenforceable, in an attempt to mislead a worker and cheat them out of their rights, isn't considered fraud.
That takes me back. I wonder if I can find the old One Must Fall game?
I have a single switch that controls 6 recessed lights in a room. I want to control them individually. Replacing the switch won’t help. I had to get Hue lights and use Alexa to control them. I will cover the existing switch, but I won’t disable it. It’s useful to reset the bulbs.
I sincerely hope that they do learn and when they do, they do not give up.
That sounds absolutely horrific. The distinction between individual and group monitoring is nothing but window dressing. You still monitor every kid all the time, its just currently not analyzed that way, at least publicly. And kids know that they are constantly monitored. Great Britain is becoming more and more the chilling example of a western style police state.
Using a re-usable cup in the face of climate change is like passing by a burning house, spitting into the fire and feeling good for having helped.

We need political action and economic incentives. Individuals changing their lifestyle isn’t going to accomplish anything.
(“Substantive version”)

Talking about the consensus is against the rules here
So even in circumstances where the consensus is just inaccurate, and even though that results in rate-limiting you removing your opportunity to engage in a discussion, merely talking about this circumstance simply exacerbates it

This is considered to keep comments constructive and substantive, just like this comment!

Welcome to HackerNews!
You don't have to trust the signal backend.
"The tax code is completely different today from what it was when there were considerably higher marginal tax rates. The actual ratio of tax to GDP has not changed considerably since then."

That part, was a good and highly relevant addition to the conversation. It would be given more attention, if it were not surrounded by the rest.
You asked (among other things) how to send messages securely without PGP. Don't use PGP to send secure messages; use a secure messenger, like Signal or Wire.

Someone else asked how to email securely without PGP. Email isn't secure with PGP. Don't use PGP to send encrypt emails, and don't use email to send secure messages; use a secure messenger, like Signal or Wire.

I acknowledge there are use cases not well covered by secure messengers. The current state of file encryption, which is practically the "hello world" of encryption problems, is a travesty. If you're simply looking to sign something, and later verify that it was you who signed it, use minisign. But that's a very narrow use case.
> You don’t get to repair that karma with some donated vaccinations and mushy blog articles.

I'm sorry, but why don't you? He's literally saving millions of lives through his foundation, and through getting other billionaires to give to charity through the giving pledge.

He was the richest man in the world. He could have done anything he wanted to with his life, and he chose to do good things. He deserves some praise for that.

While he was a tough business person and sometimes may have done things that were borderline unethical, he never murdered anybody. He's certainly redeemable. And I think he has more than redeemed himself the past two decades for any of his past transgressions.
A sensing system to constantly track the performance of workers
Found the store! https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/products.html
I have co-authored several academic articles in Org mode with exporting to LaTeX. The main reasons for choosing Org were that (i) we wanted to include the analysis code, table generation and figures in the same file as the manuscript, and (ii) the workflow was Emacs-centric. The Org markup was simple, readily allowed for inserting most LaTeX, had nice tables, but was fiddly for some more complex tasks. I recently needed to convert one of the manuscripts from Org to Word - pandoc was very helpful.

We could possibly have used TeXmacs, R markdown (especially with RStudio), some variant of noweb, or even Jupyter with conversion to LaTeX using pandoc.
Face-Reading AI Will Tell Police When Suspects Are Hiding Truth
Well I’m not typically a real conspiracy guy but if I had to really think on this I’d say it’s easier to have a loss event like this and consequent writeoff vs some unexplainable long term 5% buyer.

I also don’t think if I needed tons of storage like this I’d want to acquire it over a 20+ month period.

Obviously I think I’m kidding but the thought is interesting.
This looks to be the discrete random variable problem with the alias method:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_method

but they don't seem to reduce each choice (1-10) to just two options.
I remember something from years ago regarding tracking boardroom compensation before and after executive compensation transparency laws were brought in, that made this exact point. It also said that because it became an investment signal, the situation developed that companies could raise far more money from investors by inflating their executive compensation, compared to their competitors, than the compensation itself cost them, so it for a while it almost became dumb not to, resulting in a large part of the escalation of executive compensation in publicly traded companies.
You have a Collection, which is where music you've purchased resides. If an artist decides to remove their track, but you purchased it, it's "soft-deleted" - the artist themselves cannot access the track, but you still can.

At the moment, the upload limit is 15 tracks a month. Since this is a subscription-less service, there's no way to subscribe to a plan for unlimited uploading. We can always override the limit on a per user basis, depending on your needs.
Charles Dickens was obsessed with detectives, too
I've always wanted one of those NDC boxes to use - they're just kinda hard to get working on a modern network.
The fantastic Walt Disney Family Museum [0] in the Presidio of San Francisco features a working animatronic programmer that you can use to see what the process was like for an Imagineer to program a figure. I highly recommend the museum, especially since it's run by the Disney family and not the Walt Disney Company.

0: https://www.waltdisney.org/
I always assumed a non-compete would be unenforceable in Europe because I don't see how it can fit within the European convention on Human rights.
Show HN: A platform to encourage friendly competition within your office
Surely risking to sound just like one (not a fan, btw, just watched a couple of videos) but I think his opinion of Apple in terms of hadware quality and attitude towards customers in need of service has more merit than most people's - given that he's dealing with it all day, every day.

On top of the quality getting worse, so has the repairability too - but not only that - customer's ability to have the device repaired anywhere else except by Apple directly (difficulty for independent repair businesses to order parts, obtain service manuals, renew licences etc...) has taken a big hit in the last few years. And Apple's suggested course of action has increasingly been very costly replacements of half of the laptop for even the smallest issues...

Since it's hard to spread that to the broader public, and people notoriously love to see other people ranting and throwing rocks at stuff, he seems to have taken that approach - and earn some additional money from YT along the way...So, yeah, partially agree with you, but I think the intentions are more good than bad, and more people need to be talking about it in any case, if something is to be improved.
Note that an 'image' for DICOM software can mean many things, from a collection of slices through a volume from an MRI scan to x-rays and ultrasound along with a whole pile of annotation and other meta data. DICOM is fairly complex and a good reference implementation of a parser in any language is a fantastic gift if it will be maintained long term.

Is there anything known about the reason for a fork rather than contributing back to the original?
If it was easy to provide the same services with 20% less tax, they would’ve already done it or lost elections to someone who would.
You can be a simple worker and fall afoul of the above - if you have any options or stock you would be considered a part owner and then subject to a possible non compete, even as engineer #n
Drawbridge [2011]
the roots of pico process i think this is where to start vivisecting the development of WSL
Same age as you, and I'm doing the same thing.

I'm continuing as a software engineer to pay the bills, but I pursue music, games, and at one point in my career was a graphic designer and illustrator (though perhaps not very successfully; I'll get back to it at some point).

I'm about to start learn electronics as I'm interested in building robots and making custom guitar pedals. I don't think I could ever be laser-focussed (95% sure I'm ADHD; used to think I was bipolar but not sure about that diagnosis anymore). Embrace your neurology.
Historic Maps of Kraków
Agreed, this was a truly refreshing article. Not least due to the 'conservative' perspective and the view of the finance sector. The finance sector is the enemy!

Globalisation has been a big thing in the arms trade for the last twenty years. Obviously sales have always gone on but what happens if you end up with one monopoly defence contractor that sells to both sides in every conflict in every corner of the globe?

In the UK the government used to make its own stuff. The shipyards were state owned and the Royal Navy really did rule the waves. The bullets and shells were made in state owned factories. This provided an anchor to the rest of the industry that needed and went through a lot of consolidation in the post war years. Projects and costs did over-run but a project could be put out to tender with 3-4 competing concerns submitting proposals. If the proposals were no good the government could do it in house.

But then when everything gets sold off to private finance and then resold to giant trans-national mega corporations, the giant mega corporations get to be bigger and more powerful than the governments. They then become in charge so democracy isn't for the people and by the people.

A similar thing has happened with property in the UK. The government and local councils used to own a large part of the housing estate. This provided an anchor in the marketplace so people could afford to rent affordable housing. When this was sold off it meant that prices skyrocketed and nowadays the government has to give a lot of tax revenue to private property owners to put up benefit claimants. Again the speculators and the interests of finance capital get to be in charge.

I will take up your John Kay recommendation. Anyway, the article was most interesting as normally it is a left-wing anti-militarist, anti-capitalist viewpoint that sees finance capital as the enemy, not any view with 'conservative' in the name.
> 1 in 600,000,000

It's a strange ball park, why 600,000,000?

US has ~300,000,000 so you'd be saying there's a ~50% chance it won't happen in the US in a ~lifetime.
Seriously. The original post states at least three times they knew about the issue for over a decade. At what point does "full disclosure" become valid if not after over a decade of warning?
A surface mounted switch and a tiny hole in the casing would be easy and cheap... but it would ruin waterproofing, which would make the bulb unsuitable for places like a bathroom. That's probably too big of a market to lose just to simplify a reset procedure that will rarely be used.
When I make yogurt, I usually hold the milk at a high temperature (> 180F) for a while first — it improves the final texture. Raw is not necessarily better.
Hello, author here.

Eeeaggh. Yes, this took a while. I started after lunch and finished sometime after midnight (look at the clock in the bottom right hand corner of the screen). I'm still kicking myself at some of the dead ends I went through.

The result (even after I cleaned it up after the stream) is still a bit slow. The biggest issue is that it redraws the entire line every time you press a key in insert mode; fixing this is moderately straightforward, as I have all the information to know where the first modified character is, but it'll require some refactoring.

The biggest think I want next is a yank buffer, but the only realistic option is to store it on disk, which would be painfully slow. Being able to do repeated inserts would be nice, too.

I actually know Bram Moolenaar; maybe I should ask how he did it...
1/600,000,000 was made up and wrong, sorry
To sign or encrypt emails you could use S/MIME. It is much more widely supported than PGP for signing and encrypting emails as well.
I wish these toys were available today. This one is not particularly dangerous (U-238 is barely radioactive), yet very educational and entertaining.

I try to perform some chemical and biological experiments with my daughter, however, it is much more interesting when you can do such things without adult supervision; and e.g. home CRISPR kits, while available, require precision and many difficult steps to achieve the results (there are no guarantees).
How does this work in practice? When you accept employment, you sign a non-compete which commences at the close of a future acquisition? I don't doubt that it's possible but I'm skeptical of the idea that a company can make a unilateral decision that's legally binding on you as an individual simply by virtue of the fact that you're a stock-holder. Has anyone here signed such an agreement? I'd be genuinely interested in reading the non-compete language.