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I'm sorry but why is what Visa does considered "pure rent extraction" versus any other for-profit business?

Merchants may often gripe about the fees they're paying per transaction, but this ignores the tremendous benefits they receive. Yes, a huge retailer like Wal-Mart or Costco has the resources to extend credit, develop POS software, establish relationships with thousands of banks, etc. But do you think the corner bodega does? Or a restaurant that has 1% margins? It may sound simple: "eliminate cc fees and the merchant's margins go from 1% to 3%". But then you're hunting down customers for payment, mailing invoices, extending credit for 30-60 days. There's a real benefit to working capital to getting paid as soon as you swipe that card.

As for why this is the structure...well, it used to non-profit and co-owned by all banks and it worked okay for a bit, but it's harder to balance incentives. And, banks were strapped for cash in 2008 (time of IPO).

- https://money.cnn.com/2008/03/21/news/companies/visabanks/
- https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/visa-bailing-o...

I would also disagree with your assessment that it "sucks profits from their economies". These networks truly create far more economic value than they themselves keep. And what they do keep isn't going up into outer space or getting incinerated....
> I bet the typical human knows very little about life and culture outside of their specific environment. A typical city-dweller knows little about rural life even in their own region, and vice-versa.

I think this is certainly true, but at the same time, I've never met an American (even an otherwise 'uneducated' one), who was under the impression that London or Berlin are backwoods villages that struggle to keep the lights on, whereas I have certainly met people that think Hong Kong is. So then the question becomes "yes people are generally unaware, but what is it about Asia specifically that makes it seem like there is an even larger lack of awareness compared to somewhere like Europe?"

In regards to the rest of your comment: I wholeheartedly agree, but I don't think it comes down to "time or resources". Some of it does just come down to personal habits/preferences. Without passing any judgement, there are plenty of people who spend their evenings watching The Bachelorette when they could just as easily be using that time to watch The Travel Channel (or Discovery Channel if it was still actually educational), but they actively choose not to. I think that's a societal thing much more than it is a time or resources constraint.
That’s because places like the Bay Area are skewing it up.
It doesn't necessarily tax everything but the IRS does seek God-level knowledge/insight into every transaction - and then it just exempts certain things based on size or other factors. If you are deducting charitable contributions to the church they actually do expect you to subtract out the value of coffee, meals, etc. Donate $100 to some non-profit that sends you a t-shirt as a thank-you? Your deduction is $87, not $100, because the t-shirt has to be valued at $13 or something similar that they consider reasonable. Somewhere they actually have federal employees tasked with determining this year's acceptable minimum value for a t-shirt.

The $20 gift from grandma is exempt, but not because they don't demand insight into intra-family transfers.. it's only non-taxable because of its size. If you have a rich grandma and she gives you $20k, that needs to be reported.. even if no tax is ultimately due, it probably reduces the future value of her estate tax exemption. Dying is a very complex taxable event!

If you want to follow the thousands of pages of rules to the letter - sufficient to sign a letter declaring under penalty of purjury, etc - the tracking and compliance burden on many US taxpayers is enormous, even with assistance from the commercial closed-source SW packages that you are more or less forced into buying each year because they won't let you e-file with them directly over HTTPS+JSON or whatever.
I did the same, plus used Karabiner to disable the Touch Bar escape "key" and set the touchbar to only show volume, brightness, kbd brightness regardless of app running.

In that mode it's OK, but I still have to look down to mute the sound, which is inconvenient.
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Eh, i skipped the whole 5" era - i guess i saw them as too fragile. i developed and wrote my dissertation on 8"ers (mostly the "newer" ones with a capacity of 1MB).

But i also, in that same endeavor, used a TTY for I/O and used its tape punch (by holding the tape still) to edit snippets.

Of course earlier i used to play sonnets on an IBM 1620 (which was free for use after midnight) with sorted decks of Holleriths. To edit them i would use the adjacent keypunch (also holding to edit).
You can browse recent approaches at:

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

To isolate to really near stuff, choose +/- 30 days, and Nominal distance <= 1LD (lunar distance).

The asteroid in OP is linked to here: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2019%20OK -- there's an orbit diagram.
> Name one consumer software company from the 1980's that still exists, besides Microsoft.

Adobe (1982), Intuit (1983), Electronic Arts (1982), Activision (1979), Symantec (1982), McAfee (1987)

Nintendo should probably be on that list with EA & Activision as well. The only reason they still exist is due to their consumer software business. They've shipped an enormous amount of consumer software.

Microsoft hasn't been a pure-play software company in a very long time. So I would also include Apple and IBM on that list, as both have shipped huge volumes of consumer software at various points (Apple is both still alive and still ships consumer software; IBM still exists, but no longer ships consumer software).
When I read this, I think back at the chaos in Hong Kong right now. I wonder what's going to happen in the weekend?
Even if it hit the earth the odds of it landing anywhere near a city are slim. 3/4 of the time it hits the ocean, Siberia, the Canadian north, or the Antarctic.
This is a relatively new change though, as in the last year/couple of months. So I wouldn't expect the IRS to have shifted it's treatment. Especially in the context of 2018 taxes.
No we're not.

Many species have disappeared before we even began to walk. Many will after we are all dead.

The earth, and life as we know it, have both faced and survived much worse.

We are merely ruining one of the many ecosystems our planet has supported and will support.

It just so happens to be the only one we definitely know we can thrive in ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How is this different from just converting 1-x% of your pay schedule into bitcoins yourself?

I'm not sure the option to be paid in numerous currencies concurrently is a big feature for payroll.
Typically, if the shareholders vote to accept an offer by someone to buy a public company, everyone including the people who were against it is involuntarily cashed out at the price that was accepted by the majority.

This is a pretty common experience for anyone who owns growth stocks. It's why you can't just get rich by finding a fantastic public company, it has to stay public and independent.

Common sense should tell you that there must be some mechanism to deal with holdouts any time a collective action problem is overcome.
I spend a lot more yen than you do rupees, have USD denominated reporting and payment obligations, and have asked my professional representatives about this. I was told a variant of "De minimis non curat lex." ("The law does not concern itself with trifles.")

This is similar to income-shaped small transfers of money within families; there would be Congressional hearings if the IRS found a deficiency in mandatory withholding taxes on babysitting money, which is unambiguously earned income of a statutory employee.
Yes, if you can avoid polling by getting events it can be a good system. But really you want to be notified when a file is closed successfully, not closed after a timeout of other error.

For me, in a previous system I uploaded as a .tmp file, then the uploaded renames to .zip at the end of the upload. The rename is atomic so no chance of the consumer reading a partial file.

I was dealing in CSV, TSV and XML files. I chose to upload them all in a zip wrapper not only because they compress well, but also because each file has a CRC and the file won’t be extracted if the file is damaged or truncated. It’s hard to tell if a raw CSV file has been truncated.
Anyone with even a basic knowledge of farming knows how specious this statement is.
> In a string literal?!?!

It's a thing literal as it is literally dumped straight into the generated .s file by the compiler, as most C compilers don't do the actual assembly or generation of object file.

Of course these days it's not literally dumped in unmodified -- various compilers do substitutions for you. But that's the legacy.
What would your preferred config file formats be, and why?
It's not different at all. Copying from my other comment:

When my RSU stocks vest, I pay (regular income) taxes on the vested amount. It's treated as if my company gave me the money to buy these stocks I now have. Later when I sell them, I'll pay capital gains tax on the gain/loss.

What you describe is exactly this, with stocks instead of BTC. If my employer gives me any stocks, I have to pay income tax on the value of the stock calculated on the day I received it.

Now I know stocks are volatile. If I decide not to sell them immediately (at essentially 0% capital gains tax), I am deciding to take the risk in price fluctuations.

BTW, if your BTC drops to $100 value in under a year, simply sell them and claim the loss. It will typically be taxed at the same rate as your income, and you'll effectively only pay income tax on $100.
Arguably, keeping evolution going aka providing our offspring a good future is pretty much the only purpose of life. I don't have a problem with anyone choosing different goals for themselves, but the crowd advising "shouldn't have children because outlook not great" just seem crazy to me. We should do better exactly for those to come after us, so at best this mindset is the same as "giving up, to late" all over again, just in a less obvious form.
I bought a pinebook late last year. It's so terrible that I consider it e-waste. I hope this new version is at least usable for folks.
Markets are incapable of optimizing against externalities. For example, no one owns the air, so no one pays for the exhaust produced by their cars as they drive to work.

If there were air rights-say every property owner gets rights to the air one mile up from their property-, the holders could sue polluters for the damage they cause.
" most of the population in India claim to be vegetarians"

At most a third of India is vegetarian.

http://theconversation.com/the-myth-of-a-vegetarian-india-10...
"More than 90 percent of those (extinction-level) asteroids, which are 1 kilometer, 0.62 miles, or larger, have already been identified by NASA and its partners."

How do they know it's 90%? I mean, if the denominator is unknown? If the denominator is known, then doesn't that mean they've identified them?
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Whether the unit of measure is kg or bits or unicorns doesn't make a difference since the value at the time of the transaction is what is taxed.

Also your example is very convoluted, and with all due respect, I can't tell if it's satire or not.
> Between 1500 and 1867, some 40,000 voyages carried 12.5 million Africans to the Americas, where they were sold into slavery.

As far as I'm aware, the majority were sold into slavery in Africa, and then resold elsewhere.

(making the distinction because it's important to why there are still open slave markets in parts of Africa)
>And yet this is what people using cryptocurrencies are expected to do.

Maybe because the IRS declared years ago that cryptocurrencies will be treated similar to other commodities?

And while I don't know the tax code, I suspect if you convert your USD into rupees, and those rupees suddenly increased value tenfold, and you started buying Mercedes with them, the IRS likely will come after you there as well :-)
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Yeah the page wasn't clear what it was until I saw the video on the Oculus page.

Thought they were releasing a headset or something.
Why would you do any of that? Comment without reading? Comment while knowing you are not informed?

Are you just commenting for the sake of commenting?

Is this satire?
Planetary defense from Planetary Society if you want to help or participate http://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/planetary-defense/
It's cheap crap.

If they had real buttons that could be be completely dynamic it would be better. Basically what we see with a stream deck.
This seems like a ridiculous hypothesis.

America works longer hours, but not the most. Canadians save even less than Americans and have more debt.

And the US has one of the highest median incomes in the world (with a few exceptions).
China is not a communism these days (not sure if it ever was). It’s a market economy, just much less state-controlled/-directed than most Western economies (if you dispute that Western economies are state-controlled, just see US subsidies for agriculture and their political lobbying for Boeing)
Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works
The US is actually causing incredible harm by its trade sanctions against Venezuela, with the US being that country's main trade partner:

http://www.economywatch.com/world_economy/venezuela/export-i...

A special UN rapporteur sent to Venezuela suggests the sanctions are causing death due to lack of things like Insulin.

https://therealnews.com/stories/un-rapporteur-us-sanctions-c...
I chose NOT to exercise options and let them simply expire because they will illiquid and I didn't expect the company to every be worth anything. (It turns out that was wrong!)

This is why I was annoyed when Congress bailed out these dot-com specu-vesters. They knew the risks, or should have. I chose not to exercise because of the tax consequences. They were no secret. Anyone buying stock options should know what they are and how they're taxed.
I second this. Personally, I'd prefer to see the world working in unity to mitigate or even stop man made global warming, poverty, wars etc. won't happen, though. from a global perspective humanity is basically just a disease. I know it's rather cynical but I actually see a terrifying beauty in the vision of our civilization just fading away. I'm not looking at it from a moral perspective. the world is not a better place without us, but it isn't a better place with us either. I have difficulty understanding why someone would want to subject a child to this drama unfolding. most people seem to be living and thinking in some bubble it appears to me.
> Over the last 20 years, humans have really mastered cooperation on a global rather than a national scale.

There may have been improvements, but mastered? I guess a lack of global scale cooperation has nothing to do with our failure to address global warming....
I'm glad I got the heap MBP in 2016 (with function keys).
I think software is one of the only industries where customers are charged for defects in the product.
As someone who learned Russian and am interested, do you personally say "в" или "на" Украине?
Perhaps there's an alternative to trust, which is to accept and plan for a finite risk of betrayal.
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I imagine you’re being downvoted because your post comes across as another smug designer/product person saying “I know better than you, you uneducated philistine”, with a side of “you just haven’t seen it done right and your personal experience is wrong.”

I’m sure Reddit’s abortion of a redesign has went through hundreds of rounds of UX testing and has been signed off on by the masters of the field, but it’s still slow, unnecessary, and buggy. It does everything worse than the existing design, except perhaps for increasing some sort of pointless dashboard metric users don’t care about.
> The fact that they take 3% to 4% of every transaction and then extract a usurious 20% annual interest rate at a time when loan rates are 4% should be criminally prosecuted.

The fees seem to vary a lot by region. Here in Finland majority of cards are VISA/MC (with no local version like described above for Norway), but the card-present merchant transaction fees are low - e.g. ~0.3% for EU consumer debit cards and ~0.9% for EU consumer credit cards.
Maybe it's because of historical ties to Europe, both a partially shared culture and history?

As for the asymmetry. The US has been considered one of two, then the only, global superpower for the last 70 years, inundating the whole world with their culture the whole time.

Reminds me of a course on models, where they talked about "celebrities". Those who are seen by and influence most people, but don't know and aren't influenced by most of said people (might need to clarify that)
They certainly don’t come with anything nonessential anymore.
Wind power really needs something to level demand—either a battery scheme such as Tesla is selling or pumped storage (where you pump water uphill when the wind is blowing and let it flow downhill when it isn’t) it’s
Primary Source: http://www.ercot.com/content/wcm/lists/172485/DemandandEnerg... (Excel file)

You can find the data they're referencing in the "Energy by Fuel Type" tab.
It’s a statistical argument based on the observed distribution of asteroids. It’s not precisely true, and could even be widely incorrect, but they think it’s likely to be in the correct neighborhood.

Also, after a certain size things become significantly easier to detect with your existing instruments, so there is some confidence from that.
Impounding isn't the same thing as throwing them into a dumpster.

Likewise, unless it is registered as a vehicle (and I doubt these scooters are), impounding probably wouldn't happen, and there is no law against tossing abandoned "garbage" that appears on your property.

Interesting. Precedence will eventually be set and then we'll know.
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Thanks! We also find that a lot of our users really like watching 360 or even 2D videos, taking advantage of the ability to resize the screen to get their own personal theater.

Right now, we only have Firefox Reality available for standalone VR headsets, but we're bringing the experience to desktop VR and a variety of standalone AR headsets in the second half of this year.
Depends on how many pixels there are in total. I have two blue pixels on my 4K 28" display… if I'm able to see them, that means I'm sitting too close :D
That is sort of the thing. It isn't so much that people don't know as that it doesn't register as important. Hans Rosling ended up devoting much of his life promoting a fact based view of the world after learning first hand that some of the absolute top students in Sweden had an obsolete world view. The West is used to being "the first world" were most important things happen. But increasingly we are the ones "on the other side". In most of the West large government programs aren't on the table, so that doesn't register as important to us. I am not even sure there is much that can be done about it. It is literally history in the making really.
Believe it or not, those really are the main reasons why taxes still suck in the U.S.

There's a recent Planet Money podcast on it. The regulatory lock in for tax filing is ridiculously profitable, and companies like Intuit certainly rent-seek to solidify their revenue stream.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...
I think you commented on the wrong thing
On galactic scales it’s a meaningless analogy.
And replaced it first with a authoritarian state that strived to be communist (i.e. collectivization, banning private businesses, etc.) but is now simply authoritarian. Optimal? Of course not. Are Tibetans discriminated against in their own lands? It seems so. Is the typical people worse off than before? Only if you have a rather odd world view and definition of "worse off".
then don't buy it and don't cry on a webforum about it? I'm not sure why everyone needs to treat everything like its being sold at Herrods
That is a problem of fiscal policy (Congress) not a problem for the Fed (Monetary Policy)
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Hitler had some great social programs too, what's your point?
Usually people of that caliber don't willfully give up power.
what crispy means is that s/he is doing well.
Those single hose ones are a bit idiotic. They take air from around them (i.e. the room air they just cooled) to transfer heat into and move out. That will then replaced by air from the outside, transporting new heat inside.

Still better than nothing, and cheaper to buy / easier to use, but I'd hope this is one of those kind of tech we'll see replaced by something better rather soon-ish.
The 50s were during the Cold War so building a moon base was absolutely a political challenge. It just so happens that it was an internal political challenge rather than an internal one.
> If you are the sort that is excessively bothered by our use of the comic-sans typeface. Then perhaps you are not a good fit for our project.

This is exactly what happened to me. I was thinking about installing OpenBSD, but then watched a presentation were Theo used Comic Sans and it put me off the whole project. The thing is: every OS has specific details turning me away from them: Linux, the BSDs, Windows, Android, MacOS.

Maybe I should stop using computers altogether, or maybe I should go with the flow and accept that everything and everyone in this world is mediocre and being a perfectionist is a fatal weakness.
> But imagine if you believed the Uyghurs/Kazakhs are inferior peoples, and that Tibetan temples/monks are evil.

That's a big stretch. More likely that

1. The author, like many Han Chinese people, was raised in a completely atheist environment, and just don't put any value on religious activities at all.

2. Again, like in many East Asian countries, Chinese people value/praise hard work above "enjoying life".

So, what you see as horrific and dystopian is seen as progress and a sign of a thriving community.
Every laptop manufacturer says this. It's the single reason I stopped buying anything from shops. When you go back to the shop and try and explain you don't care what the description/contract/website said - you want a display with no dead/hot pixels, they just shrug. When you buy it online (in the EU) you have a couple of weeks where you can just return it for no reason for a full refund.
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Once we have some concrete designs, we'll have issues open and on our public roadmap for comment and we often have early builds available in our releases page for sideloading if people are interested in testing and giving feedback.
Does that mean that the era of whistleblowing and political dissidence is over?

Did we really go that deep?

Is society now a perfectly closed loop of "ideal" principles?
If there is no inherent conversion rate then how does the government define how much you owe?
It was definitely for the banking trojan he created and sold, that would later become Kronos. That said, he also became sort of a public figure in the field due to stopping the initial strain of Wannacry, so news articles were popping up talking about how he was at least tangentially related to Wannacry, and was recently arrested for malware charges. People saw that and started drawing the false conclusion that he created Wannacry.