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It is not just the super rich running this scam but almost every multi-national.

Just take Apple as one example.

Apple is sitting on close to $300+ billion in cash in some offshore tax haven, just to make sure that cash is located outside of the USA to insure it does not attract any tax.

This wide spread multi-national tax avoidance has been running at epidemic levels for many decades now.

From what I recall Google started this scam and it is still the master of avoiding tax and while the populous is happy to vote in governments that turn a blind eye to this practice, it will remain a very lucrative endeavour.
Depending on how handy you or a family member are, these also can be hand-made. My wife made one for me, and all our kids, each with sci-fi/geeky fabric patterns, so it was not only something to help us rest, but was personalized to some things we like. She found making them to be tedious, but not difficult.

They really do help me get better sleep. My kids don't get as much direct benefit, but they love having them anyway.
Looked it up, 11.82 bits per word, 2.62 bits per letter.
The Tesla damage control astro-turfing is out in full force.

Between the surveillance state they've built and their complete disregard for safety, Silicon Valley will eventually be forced to atone for this from the public at large. Make sure you're on the right side of history.
Nice job OP. I noticed that you used word2vec for the embedding space, do you think more modern ones like seq2seq or BERT might give better performance?
Tom's Hardware report that it maintained 5GHz on all cores on a standard 240mm AIO liquid cooler.

https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-core-i9-9900ks-ships-oc...
X is dependent on you using a Operating system supporting X. Ssh can be used across all operating systems, even as an Android app. Sometimes that can be useful.
User agent strings discourage feature detection and proliferate as browsers converge and imitate one another. They should be dropped entirely.

Sadly maintaining exceptions for broken sites that demand them is too much for one person.
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IMO people earning 6 figures should still be paying more taxes than they are (I earn less than that, and I'm pretty sure I should be taxed more than I am), but they're not the people that are really the problems. It's the multi-millionaires and billionaires that are hogging a disproportionate share of the worlds resources.
Oral History of Avie Tevanian starting with the Mach segment: https://youtu.be/vwCdKU9uYnE?t=3995.
TSMC has already shrunken their die to 7nm. Intel can't keep up anymore. AMD wins this generation.
I think the argument against taking money from him centers around influence.

Taking money from someone is perceived as them gaining influence over the opinions and actions of the person receiving it. When the person donating is a "bad person" then they are a bad influence and taint the receivers actions also.
There are many things they could do with software only without having to change their current scheme.

- Use exponential backoff when looking for network (although I find this part of the story hard to believe, my phone survives much longer when there is no network)

- Have a larger grace period. Let the key card just work for an extra day or indefinitely if the car's last known location is not the garage. Charge the customer for the usage.

- Fail open especially if the battery is low. Once the car starts, you have all the electricity you need to do updates.

- Make the updates small and efficient, so long as a few signed UDP packets get through, you can update the schedule. You can even use SMS. Sync non critical things (e.g. logs) opportunistically and asynchronously.
A weird, semi-random, yet improbably worthwhile essay (by the creator of The Living Dead) on the impact of people's tendency to substitute simplifying stories for more complex underlying reality. Interesting take on the intersection of cosmology (astrophysics), obscure films and television, macroeconomics, geopolitics and cultural psychology.
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That tidal wave has many faces. Corbyn, Trump, Sturgeon, Brexit, AfD, Bernie, AOC, Syriza, and more. It is global, and radical, and across both the right and left.
The part about divers crying into masks hit home. It was on my bucket list to dive in the Great Barrier Reef but it’s now been declared dead. 95% of my diving has been in the last 25% of my diving career because I know I have a limited time.
Nope. We're not friends but we are on friendly terms (occasional hellos, zero tension, etc.).

During that first night my thought process went something like this:

- How the fuck can someone be so rude to put a light so bright on?

- I'm going to get the loudest portable stereo I can find that can be remotely turned on / off, load it up with one of my favorite deathcore playlists and put it onto their roof tomorrow night

- I'm going to leave passive aggressive notes on their door with shawshank redemption quotes (the light resembled a prison light)

My mind just raced with scenarios that involved retaliating. Those were the highlight thoughts after spending hours ruminating on it.

But then after a few nights with the bag I didn't care anymore about the light. I ultimately came to the conclusion that I was missing out for years by not blacking out my room and I would continue to black it out even if the light didn't exist.

It's interesting to see the effects of something as trivial as a light being on at night to disrupt your sleep patterns and thoughts. Unintentional lack of sleep is no joke even in short doses.
If you give driving jobs to a series of remote workers you'll end up creating a lot of new jobs. EMTs, doctors, ambulance truck assembly, etc.
And as usual, at least in developed nations, the middle class is footing the bill for this top 1%.
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I remember my father, a mainframe programmer, spending years correcting code for Y2K for the bank he worked for. COBOL and assembly. At the rollover, it went without a hitch, but there was a lot of sweat to make that happen
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Will it though? It's a comforting thought, but is there more to it than wishful thinking? There's a shroud of secrecy around this money, so how will all this resentment will be targeted, exactly?
Yeah, but the one I put together. It saves time, reduces number of decision points when starting a new project. I can concentrate on the product itself instead of the libraries and architectures.

In between projects, I try to update libraries or switch to new ones. It really helps if you assemble the boilerplate yourself, cause you know the logic behind every decision.

Of course I looked for inspiration in other people's boilerplates, it took me two weeks for the initial research and experimentation.
The Nixon White House used its illegality to discredit political opponents and drum up support in their base. When
and how it became illegal is irrelevant (even though, ironically enough, the original motivation was still politically and racially motivated against Mexicans).
Good question. There's a body of literature on 'employee silence' in the workplace. Off the top of my head, silence is almost entirely fear based. Those in lesser positions are worried about a number of bad individual outcomes from speaking up.

Frances Milliken out of NYU is whose research I read the most, although I think the Wikipedia page is fine as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_silence
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I wrote code for his first connection machine (it was SIMD, not MIMD like later models) in Star Lisp. Good times.
> Vast majority of top 1% don't even have much capital to speak of.

I disagree, they have vastly more capital than the 99% of earners below them. Unless you're comparing those 1%ers to someone like Zuckerberg specifically, there's really no way to square this statement.

According to the Economic Policy Institute, the earnings threshold to be in the top 1% of earners in 2017 was $718K.[0] That's a pretty incredible amount of annual capital for an individual. Sure, it's not enough to start a hedge fund, but even after taxes, you're able to seriously invest in things like real estate, which fewer Americans are able to do.

0: https://www.epi.org/blog/top-1-0-percent-reaches-highest-wag...
> There is unfortunately no way to prevent that part.

Couldn't each buyer get their own "auction ID" as well as their own "user ID"? Am I completely misunderstanding things?
I love this.

The part where socks are used to dim the bulbs brightness is funny and nice way to move forward.

I’ve been looking for project ideas to showcase during wedding. It seems like a really large friendly audience to demo games and other fun experiences. This project is inspiring.
> The Channel Islands, Gibraltar and the Isle Of Man I believe are constantly being used for the purpose of tax evasion, money laundering etc... that’s what frightens me about Brexit - I think the hard Brexiteers actually want to make this easier, not harder.

It's the one single thing that makes me most pro-EU. I don't see how we can fight tax evasion on a country-by-country level. But a economic and geographical bloc as big as the EU has enough clout to have real enforcement power.
You know, there was this guy that made a fool of Christianity when he predicted Jesus would return in 2011. When nothing happened, he said oops and adjusted the date. (People fortunately paid much less attention to him then.)

Kinda getting tired of hearing "the sky is falling" all the time from environmental folks. When you hear "the world is ending next year, it's gonna be too late" every single year, it seems like a thinly veiled push for suckers who want to make campaign donations and bad laws.

Ironic that the author makes this exact point, and then doubles down on it.
And the Faeroes have never been part of the EU or Schengen. But being part of Denmark for defense purposes, I think they are in NATO.
> The only rational path is a virtuous cycle of better politicians enacting better policies and promoting better public understanding of climate change. But as of today, there is no sign the world is moving in that direction.

Suppose my politicians fight the good fight and we enact the necessary policies. What about the other countries, especially those that aren't as well off?
...by incredibly small amounts that have little to no measurable impact on performance. I'm not defending it, it's just such a hilariously overblown issue compared to how bad Intel's gaff is here..
They sound like terrible, self-centered people.
You got downvoted, but this sound very similar to a discussion I had with an Indian friend recently.
Whenever I hear whinging about Y2K, I always jump in and say that the polio and smallpox scares were also overrated. "We also spent all that money on polio and smallpox vaccines and shit and look there's no polio or smallpox anymore, what a waste of money that was."

Might not work on anti-vaxxers but it has shut down more than one stupid conversation about Y2K.
You missed the whole point of my post. NIT and UBI are not different models! When you take into account taxes from earnings, they are just different interpretations of the same model.

Here it's explained a bit more:

http://www.scottsantens.com/negative-income-tax-nit-and-unco...

That only considers a single tax bracket, but with a multiple brackets or a curve they can be made identical for everyone.
This is just the inifinite scalability of success in the digital world, right? How can we complain if we are all actively working on the same thing?
Thanks. I found their technical paper to be approachable as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01917
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If this is a topic of interest, I can recommend this independently created documentary 'The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire'. It's the story of how Britain's elite created a financial web spanning the globe, replacing the old empire with a new financial one, running from the Commonwealth countries back to London. That's why so many overseas British territories are associated with money laundering and tax evasion. Free to watch on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8
It's 64 bits. The rate of information is measured in bits, and so 64 was the closest binary (2^6) denominator to 39.15 bits/sec.
On what do you base that claim?
In the BP World Energy statistical review for 2018, they showed that though renewable energy had fantastic falls in prices, there wasn't enough addition to meet new energy demand, especially in China and India for industry, and for the USA regarding its huge growth in natural gas. They then asked the question, how much faster would renewables need to grow to JUST meet this new energy demand (nevermind decarbonizing existing demand). They found renewables would have to grow over 2X as fast (from 800 TWh up to 1,800 TWh).

Let this sink in: We are literally adding half the renewables we need just to keep the emissions curve flat. We probably need to go 4X faster to bend the curve downwards on emissions.

Can engineers solve that? They are a piece of the puzzle, but their most fundamental innovations will take years to kick in. We need policy, we need individual behavioral changes, we need everything we can get.
This is absolutely not a requirement for consulting ;) (perhaps sales)
Echoing the recommendation for Remote elsewhere in this thread. I also recommend Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace.

Cubed does not address remote work per se, but it does help explain the history of the office and how that became the de facto workplace for cognitive labor. It also discusses the history of the theory of management, which is a relatively young scientific subject, maybe 130 years old, which is predicated on one assumption: everyone is in the same building!

As a proponent of remote work, I believe what is happening right now is practice is outstripping science. It’ll take several years before science catches up to study what entrepreneurs and companies have already figured out through trial and error.
It doesn't always work like this. In the Netherlands you can find big parts of the cities built by housing corporations with people renting them for decades, yet very few of them you can define as ghettos
To be fair, it's 5GHz turbo frequency - not an expert but isn't the entire point of the turbo mode to run in short bursts when necessary? Seems like for occasional 100% usage short workloads like compiling code it'd be great to go up to 5GHz even just for a few seconds and shave maybe a second or two off a 10s build. That's my understanding of what this could be useful for anyway.
Kek, in 1970 crude oil was predicted to run out in 2020. They also predicted the world will be inhabitable by now because of intense pollution.

How are we? We breathe cleaner air and use more petroleum than 1970.

I will be 55 in 2050, and I bet my entire fortune that the world will be better then.
Either the provider has to support it or the SMS app on the device has to (TBH the provider support also requires some level of integration with the SMS app but that level is more common).

Google has rolled out a provider independent implementation to it's own SMS app, but that SMS app has no marketshare.

My experience is that, without going and hunting out an app to install, my Samsung handset has no support. I have a number of test devices, some of which do have support and a few even have support by default, but those have no marketshare.
due process of a judge does not provide the benefits one would expect. far too often most are merely rubber stamps and even if they do grant authority beyond what they are permitted by law the circuit courts have upheld warrants and such in good faith
This statement is often used and is misleading without the context of income of this 1% as a percentage. So, if this 1% earns 80% of all income, then 35-40% is relatively low. I'm not sure if your intent was to mislead or just reiterate stats that you saw from some where, but please give the appropriate context and data to support you claim that this is unfair.
My uncle (a COBOL programmer in the 60's) got together with some other retired guys and made a lot of money doing exactly the same thing in the late 90's. One of his contracts he landed because they found his name all over the code.
> ... if you're actually feeling better because of something the root cause of it is irrelevant.

It can certainly be relevant, especially on a long-enough timeline. Suppose the root cause of feeling better is because of opiate usage. Long term, you're going to have a bad time.
It's not threshold. It's an average value. Threshold is a lot, lot lower, must be around 350K. The table say those in top 1% but not top 0.1% make $492,311 on average so clearly threshold of 1% is a lot lower than even that. No figure in your sources but my bet would be it's ~$350K
According to IPCC projections we need to hit zero emissions worldwide within the next decade to avoid a 2C increase. Can politicians do that?
This takes me back to the early nineties, when these articles where published in monthly installments in Doctor Dobbs Journal and, later, PC Techniques.

Incredibly, these 2 magazines were stocked monthly at my local newsstand in a sleepy suburb of Antwerp, Belgium, and every month around publication time, I’d bike there daily to check if the next issue had arrived.

I learned a lot of good stuff in college, but I don’t remember anything as exhilarating as this series, which eventually would lead to a career in the computer graphics industry.
It's pointless. One can have multiple temporary residences. The Swiss have already solved this. You pay the same amount of tax regardless if you keep the property empty, live in it or rent it. It's calculated as a percentage of average rent in that area which gets updated with market prices every 6 months or so. They also have low VAT and corp taxes.
To be global 1% means earning $32k/year (source: investopedia). It’s a catchy phrase but ironically basically any Westerner using it is part of it. The archetypal Occupy protestors clutching their latest-model iPhone in one hand and a Starbucks in the other
Yeah, that's a hard stop for some folks -- me included. I'm sure the AF material is a big contributor.

The glass for my Sony A7ii is significantly larger than (most) lenses I had for my Olympus m4/3 body. The exception is the main prime on both systems -- I have the Sony 50mm/1.8, which is about the same size as the Panasonic/Leica 25mm/1.4 that filled the same role on my Olympus.
It's "kun det bedste er godt nok" alright and I would translate that to "Only the best is good enough". Just for the record.
I use black nail polish to cover up bright LEDs (particularly blue ones)
It’s in the best interests of the owners of capital that capital be free to cross any borders with a minimum of friction, but people be stuck where they are. That’s the basic dynamic that creates this kind of situation, and it’s not accidental.
FedEx reps love to tell you they are "totally separate" when anything goes wrong with Ground, too
I can relate to this. I started cooking as a way to cope with the stress of grad school. It's a sense of instant gratification I don't get from research, and it really scratches the itch to make something with my own two hands.
> Your attack is an odd one.

I wouldn't call wmeredith's comment an "attack", it's a civilly written challenge.

That aside. It may be true that baby boxes in and of themselves aren't directly responsible for the reduction of child mortality rates (say from sudden cot death); there doesn't seem to have been any research into the long term benefits of the "box" itself. But it's the holistic approach to ensuring kids get a good start in life and the box, the contents etc is one small part of that.
nothing exciting here - Intel is still pushing 8 cores as its flagship consumer chip when AMD is releasing its 16 cores 3950x this month.

this is a very good reminder that for over a decade Intel tried everything possible to convince people to stay on quad cores so it can maintain unfairly high profit margin on its high core count Xeon processors.
So the obvious question is how it has changed over the years. What has apple done to pull latency down to a comparable time?
It's like selling a car that can go to 140 MPH. It's nice but won't make your commute shorter.
Not quite what you asked for, but I'm finding it enlightening:

https://daedtech.com/developer-hegemony-the-crazy-idea-that-...
> Give it a few years after die-shrinks

There is no guarantee that after shrinking the transistor it will be possible to reach 5Ghz.

For example Intel has multiple problems with 10nm process and newer CPUs have lower clocks.
Y2K was indeed a real threat, AND there was also a good bit of apocalyptic scaremongering. No conflict.

Those writing apocalyptic scare stories were poorly informed and deliberately trying to activate people’s base fears. AND there was a huge effort by very smart folks to avert it. No conflict.
This is essentially the idea behind alienation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
I have one filled with sand (silicate). It's not very warm.
Having experienced insomnia, I am curious what you believe this means in practice?

Imagine that you got a poor night of sleep last night, and that this is a fairly common occurrence. You then slogged through a workday where you felt terrible and accomplished almost nothing. It is now 10:30 pm, and you're about to go to bed. You are well aware that the same could happen again. To worry is absolutely natural. If you find yourself worrying, then how do you ease it?

In large part, insomnia treatment is designed to slow down your worrying. Certainly that's a major focus of meditation and mindfulness. Psychotherapy is also a frequently recommended treatment.

The sleep hygiene routine is also designed to reduce worry. You've resolved to stick to the same routine every day, regardless of how well or poorly you sleep. This means that you don't have any decisions to make, eliminating one source of worry.

I very much agree with your end goal, but I'm not sure why you're dismissive of the strategies adopted by people who want to reach that goal.
T2 is a variant of A10 and runs XNU for the main CPU.

Firmware cores and AirPods run Apple RTKit.
Are you referring to 1% of wealth or 1% of income? I think you are correct in regards to income as it is mid six figures[0]. But I think the general complaint about the 1% is in reference to wealth which has a cutoff of about 10 million[0]. Also I was skeptical of your claim about the 1% (of income earners) paying that much (at least in terms of income tax) but this[1] does seem to support that you are at least in the ballpark.

https://dqydj.com/top-one-percent-united-states/[0]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-14/top-3-of-...
There is huge then there is huge. Having a bunch of smart people think about something is a huge deal and a lot of attention that could probably have been better spent elsewhere. For a business. Businesses are under constant pressure to demonstrate that they are using people's time effectively. As in, more effectively than the competition that is nipping at their heels.

But as a one-off thing it isn't really a big issue to a government, civilization or even an industry. At that level what does it matter if a few weeks are spent unnecessarily, once? Governments burn more resources than that on a slow news day.
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