skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You buy an alpaca for $x,000 and declare yourself a breeder.

You can depreciate the cost of the alpaca much more quickly than most assets. You can also depreciate related assets - barns, fencing, farm machinery - even if you own these already, as long as you weren't previously using them for business purposes.

You can also deduct your losses against capital gains made elsewhere. And potentially save on property taxes, if your property becomes "agricultural".

Essentially there's a difference between an accounting loss created by depreciation and creative categorisation of spending and/or use of legitimate tax breaks, and a genuine out-of-pocket spending loss created by losing money on an "investment".

Your taxes are calculated on your accounting losses, not on your spending losses. The difference can be written off against taxes due on other income, reducing your final tax bill to zero - without having to spend the full "loss".
There is no canonical neutral in politics. “Neutral” is just code for “stuff I agree with”. You don’t really want neutral content, you just want content that validates your existing beliefs.

The article lists a bunch of facts and numbers, why do you consider it “non-factual”?
Even if there was (I don't know, am not a HK lawyer), you would probably have a few problems if you complained about THAT exact feature being removed. Of course, this is just speculation on my part.
https://www.tesla.com/support/body-shop-support

> In addition to Tesla Body Repair Centers, we’ve partnered with the world’s best body shops to form the ever-growing Tesla-Approved Body Shop Network. We demand the highest standards from our Tesla-Approved Body Shop Network, through rigorous training and assessments of all the technicians that will work on your car. To schedule an appointment, please contact the body shop directly.

I've entered my address and I found a dozen near me. And I live in the middle of nowhere.

Looks like they released this program 2 years ago. Seems they are addressing the problem.
There seems to be some disenchantment about quantum computing in the comments already, but I'll add my take:

This sounds similar to the AI craze that took off in the 80s (or was it the 70s?) where we were making such great progress that general AI was just around the corner. Tons of people got on the hype train and then we just never delivered. Investment dollars fell off, and we got the "AI winter." But then a few advances were made such as deep learning, and another craze has taken off with AI (now called machine learning) with slightly different expectations.

It sounds like quantum computing promises a lot, and we have mathematical proofs that show that a proper quantum computer could do great things. Right now we are making tons of progress, and money is flowing in. But eventually I think that progress will slow down considerably before we reach the level of every corporation having a general quantum computer in their server room, and investment dollars will fall off. Then a decade or two later another breakthrough will happen and the hype train will start rolling again.

Edit: I guess what I wanted to get at is that you probably shouldn't call people stupid for investing in promising technologies. The bubble will probably burst, but a venture capitalist probably shouldn't hold back their investment money because they think the "real" breakthrough will happen next decade. If real breakthrough is happening now, but the VC waits, they may have missed out on one of the most profitable opportunities of their lifetime.
I still have my H320, though I haven't powered it on in years. I even replaced the battery (with an iPod battery, with the wires swapped on the connector), and I replaced the hard drive with a 30GB model. I also got some accessories for it: a dock for your desk, and also a remote control. It was great for listening to music on airplanes.

I'm planning to try selling it on Ebay now, since I just use my phone now.
I disagree with the proposition that performance and reliability are categorically mutually exclusive.
> It's well known that despite the high marginal tax rates of the past, very few people ever paid those. Deductions abound that have since been eliminated.

Read the article again carefully, paying attention to the interactive graph, you will notice that it is discussing the change in total effective tax rate, which is why the total tax rate for the super wealthy in 1950 was 70% when the top marginal rate was 91%. Still massively higher than today's effective individual tax rates on the wealthiest.

> What you should really look at is real effective tax rates by income level.[1] What you'll find is that the top 1% make 19% of all income, but pay 37% of all taxes, with an average tax rate of 27%.

That's not the effective individual tax rate at all. That's burden of tax revenue by population income percentile. You appear to be mixing terms.
future shock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock
It was the Supreme Court's job to change the laws about abortion and gay marriage and school segregation when Congress obviously messed up or failed to act.
Nah we don’t need to be careful here.

The threat of violence is the only blocker to raising taxes. All out war is bad for business.

The rich are absolutely not special. And our system does not give on shit about being careful about fairness for the poor.

Where are the billion dollar bailouts for average workers?

Wall Street however: oh you fucked up? Try again on us!

You can point to some carefully contextualized economic math and I can point to Greenspan saying in 1997 wage stagnation is keeping people in jobs which is good for business.

They know and have for years what they’re doing at a policy level. They’re benefiting the rich.

Shove careful up your backside. We don’t owe them servicing debt their profits foist on us. Tbh I don’t feel any obligation to support “careful” politically. Let the elite play the same game of “where is my next meal coming from?” roulette.

Stay home, figure it out with your neighbors.
Maybe not to someone who has a million dollars, but $10,000 to someone who has $10,000 is 100% of their net worth. "People are not saving enough for retirement" and "people would get significantly hurt if their retirement savings were damaged" are not contradictory statements.
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This is called the single lump of labor fallacy otherwise known as the brown people are coming for my job. In your interpretation there is a finite or relatively nonelastic number of jobs and importing a bunch of people drives down the cost by substantially inflating supply.

There are multiple problems with this thought. The imports are in many relatively low paying sectors already an expected part of the market and withdrawing them would actually be the shock to the market. Americans may in some cases not be willing or legally able to pick fruit for a price that results in a price you would actually be willing to pay at the super market.

More importantly the surge in population creates jobs. The new citizens need cars, food, doctors. Their children start operations like Google that employ thousands.

I would suggest this post is more appropriate on your personal Facebook.
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I've tried that before too, but over-zealous mods still closed as a duplicate - I really believe a lot of them do that without even reading the question, or the question they say is a dupe :/
Well, charging for it. Yes, they'd lose a big chunk of the userbase who value it a little bit but not really. But is it worth, say, $1/year to most users? Probably! And Reddit has 330 million users. Even if your conversion rate at that price is only 10% you should be able to run it for $33 million / year - it deals primarily with text, the software is relatively stable, it doesn't advertise. I suspect Reddit could be run very cheaply.
Iceland already has those industries.
If Apple's VoiceOver can't read your website, then yeah, you have some work to do. Because it isn't just visually disabled people who suffer (though they suffer dis-proportionally), it's the rest of us, too, who might benefit from some automation. An Apple Shortcut on my phone to just slam a $MY_USUAL in the queue with a button press or Siri command, for example. And if JAWS can't read it, VoiceOver can't handle it, then I'll bet Selenium doesn't have much of an easier time with it, so how much did you really test this, and how much ongoing testing is there?

I could go on but at the end of the day, JFC, Domino's would rather let this go to court than add some alt-text? (Which all it would have taken to shut this guy up and made him go away.) I hope they lose just on the principle of their stubbornness.
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What I always tell everyone is that the car and I together driver better than either of us on our own.
Aspiring rich and powerful. Most people here (myself very much included) remain part of the precariat, and the fangs-out defense of the rich and powerful is most frequently done by those who, in the end, may manage to not lose but likely will not win.

John Steinbeck wasn't wrong.
What's your evidence that electric vehicle are more reliable than non-electrics? EV advocates make this claim quite frequently, yet I've never seen any evidence to support it. In the case of Tesla, their EVs are actually much less reliable than ICE and diesel vehicles (though I blame their problems mainly on Tesla's rush to production, and not on producing EVs per se).
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Humans are just as buggy, they're just buggy in ways you're comfortable with. I can almost say with certainty that a tesla will never rearend another car while self driving while texting humans do it often. A tesla on the other hand will see a half painted line and veer into a concrete barrier while a human probably won't.

They both have their risks so it's whatever you're comfortable with. I ride a motorcycle in los angeles and own a tesla model 3 so I have a pretty good feel for how drivers behave and I've been equally pissed off at both drivers. haha.

I will say that the Model 3 is definitely an amazing car by what it does already. Last night I had it pick me up in front of my grocery store and I loaded the trunk and took off. It honestly makes me giddy what it can do now considering the flaws.
The degree that China goes to censor things reminds me of kindergarten. Pull the shades down, and kids won't want to go outside? Is it simply a reminder to their people of who's in charge, at this level of pettiness?
> For everyone who thinks that privacy is a right you can find someone else who thinks that safety and security is a right.

You can't strip away people's privacy without violating their safety and security in the process. These positions are not in conflict.

And "society" doesn't get to decide what is or is not a right. Individual people decide that for themselves.
>Redeveloping Magnolia’s Fort Lawton was first floated in 2005 and the possibility remained a tension point in the community for over a decade as the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to move forward on a major affordable housing project at the old Army Reserve Center site earlier this year.

I live two blocks from this area. The concern many in the neighborhood have goes something like this. The city is viewed to be deep in the pockets of developers, who cash in on valuable public lands but put no effort towards supporting new or improved infrastructure.

So, a new housing project will be built into Magnolia. There are currently only 3 bridges that connect Magnolia to the city. One of those bridges - The Magnolia Bridge - is falling apart and the city says they don't have the funds to repair it. This would lead many to assume it will be demolished at some stage in the near future (hopefully they aren't waiting for tragedy to strike first). Even without the new housing project, squeezing the population from 3 bridges down to two would be a nightmare. Add hundreds of families into an already crowded peninsula and the lack of that 3rd bridge is hard to fathom.

Not to mention Magnolia was bypassed for easy access to the future light rail, too (which we also pay for).

So yes, build more housing even if that means Discovery Park, one of the crown jewels of Seattle, will get filled with more humanity. But at least invest in the infrastructure and schools in a more balanced way to support all of those new folks and the ones who live here.

You can probably imagine why tempers are rising.
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JAWS is horrid. There needs to be better open alternatives sponsored by Congress.
I do recall that, and recall discussion of it after 9/11.

As for what I infer is an implication of the 9/11 attack being motivated by a desire to cover this up, I can't find any reference to the outer ring of the west wing of the Pentagon being "the accounting wing". Even if it were, I can't imagine that we're doing our federal accounting in the 21st Century on paper that's stored only in one central location.

That said, the military is in fact missing a ton of money and is not in compliance with laws that require annual audits of all federal departments. That's a huge problem that should be addressed, but I see no evidence whatsoever that it's in any way related to 9/11.
Maybe I'm being naive, but it seems like a better response would be to add a bunch of other "not real country" flags. Flags from ancient civilizations, or countries that no longer exist. Then they wouldn't be taking a stand as the people responsible for defining what is and is not a country.
I don't know if things are different now, but when I went to school in HK a long time ago, most Chinese people in Hong Kong I talked to felt Taiwan should be part of China.
Both the OP's article and yours have Zucman and Saez as a primary source for the data, so I doubt they'd contradict each other. It's 2 different arguments, one about the legal tax rate and one about the effective tax rate. In both cases the 50s were higher.
> The Confederacy’s hostility to taxes ultimately hampered its ability to raise money and fight the Civil War.

That's a great footnote! I had thought of this several years ago and found a paper detailing the finances of the Confederacy, and boy were they ugly! The Civil War could have been won without a land war at all! It would have gone bankrupt either way. It couldn't issue debt and its farming citizens were selling crops to the government at inflated prices, which it was hoping to use and sell. The blockade prevented the selling, and it had limited use.

When I think about it, the union which won learned to resort to sanctions almost exclusively.
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Serious question. Kavanaugh lied during his confirmation hearing about sexually assaulting many women (https://www.salon.com/2019/09/16/republicans-know-brett-kava...). We have evidence that the POTUS, attorney general, and vice-POTUS are all complicit in international corruption (and they were major sponsors of Kavanaugh). At what point are Supreme Court decisions non-binding as the justices themselves are criminals?
Yes - I have Rockbox running on a Sansa Clip+ and it's superb. The only music player apart from Winamp that has a built-in out-of-phase stereo option! (aka 'vocal remover', though the effect is highly variable)
That's the point: the stand up is for the team, not the manager. She/he should stay out of it.
I don't recall the exact article, but I believe they "crowd source" the data via repo-men & tow trucks with automatic scanners.
https://drndata.com/
Think of Tesla as maximizing the expected value of its entire profitability over its lifetime. Although you would like it to cease investing in new cars and maximize its profitability now, it has a good chance of making a lot more money by continuing to invest in itself. The odds are good that there will be a generation of Tesla cars which primary job is to make money for shareholders, and they will make so much more than is possible now (we can look at the existing automakers for examples of this level of earnings) that the profits exceed the present value of possible profits.

It’s different than the scenarios parodied in Silicon Valley, where companies with no business model, who can’t be profitable with their product, posture in order to be acquired to the extent that their founders believe the posturing.
china has no problem destructively reverse engineering chips. they aren't validating them, they are copying them. and the destructive method may be time consuming, but surely for China it's cheaper?

this technique would be more like CMM validation of a part after manufacturing. very, very useful but with a different goal in mind.
I have a fever dream where the most popular Linux distribution is Windows 11. 0_0
I think there is a reasonably balance to be found somewhere between not being able to give your friend 5$ and being able to make everyone even tangentially related to you into billionaires that do nothing but collect and spend the interest on their wealth.
> The overall tax rate on the richest 400 households last year was only 23 percent, meaning that their combined tax payments equaled less than one quarter of their total income.

The total income of the top 400 is just 1.3% of total income, so the tax rate on these people is largely irrelevant. The top 1%, who make 20% of all income, do indeed pay higher tax rates than everyone else. Any smaller grouping (billionaires, people making $10 million a year) comprise too small a fraction of the tax base for it to matter. Hell, you could tax the wealth of the top 400 at 100% and it would just pay for a single year of Medicare for All.

Articles like this are political cover for the upper middle class, to shield the fact that the real reason we don’t have European-style social services is that the American middle class pays vastly lower taxes. American corporate taxes and top bracket income taxes are in line with that of countries like Canada, Germany, etc. https://taxfoundation.org/sources-of-government-revenue-oecd... Until the Trump tax cuts, the actual effective corporate tax rate was higher than those countries. For example, New Zealand’s been a media darling recently on the left. But it’s got a 33% top income tax bracket, a lower corporate tax rate than California even after the Trump tax cuts, and no capital gains taxes. What it does have is a significant GST and a top income tax bracket that kicks in at $70,000.

The article paints this narrative about what’s happened since the 70% top tax brackets of the 1940s. That narrative is incorrect, because it ignores that the tax base was narrower. (Many things like corporate expense accounts were not taxed.) In fact the top effective bracket has been remarkably stable at around 40%.

It is also misleading by omission. It dismisses, without any citation, the notion that tax reform has had any effect on economic growth. In fact, the whole developed world has broadened the tax base while cutting rates, especially for businesses. While it’s hard to establish causation, Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, before Reaganism, Thatcherism, and Merkelism, was a lot less economically competitive than it is today. Canada did the same exact thing, under both liberal and conservative administrations. (Trudeau, another media darling, presides over a country with a 33% top income tax bracket and a 16.5% capital gains tax rate).

There is a proven model for how to get the kind of society the New York Times evidently wants. Look to Europe. Deregulate, cut corporate taxes, and make the middle class pay for its own benefits through high sales and social insurance taxes.
It is hard to believe when the fact it is electric makes it cheaper to charge, more convenient, and provides quicker acceleration. Not to mention the environmental reasons.
"I" and "you" are pronouns in the post.

Rewrite the post without them; it will be awkward.
This stat is disingenuous when used out of context. The bottom 45% still pay SS/payroll taxes, which is quite regressive due to the $127k cap. When you consider that along with consumption and property taxes, their effective rate of taxation is still moderate.
Here's how this works. Imagine you don't recall this event. And then he says about you what he said about me (I don't remember the words, and I don't want to, but sounded like I blew my top). Now further imagine that having lived with yourself a long time, you know that isn't how you react to things like that. How would you feel?

You're only telling me how you feel. But you're forgetting that I am not you. And I got a lot of that kind of childish BS. You wouldn't believe how people project on you.

One time at a party in Menlo Park, I had to go take a leak. So I walked to the bathroom, relieved myself and went back to talking with my friends. Sounds pretty ordinary right?

The next day this guy blogged about how I WALKED RIGHT BY HIM without even looking at him. He got all kinds of empathy. I had no idea who he was. I guessed that I mustve walked by him on the way to piss.

It got to the point where people would video me in parties, conversing with me with a camera in their pocket. Or when I went to a meeting at Blogger, and they video'd that, live. We were there talking business. And I got visitors at my house, that was fun. Knocking on the door wanting to know if I lived there, saying shit like this guy was saying.

As a result I pulled back and traded my influence for a bit more normal life.

I haven't even told you the worst of it. It was pretty fucked up.

So this little story here is a reminder of how fucked up people are. His memory of me, a guy who he says created software that he used and liked, is the time he treated me like an object. Sad for him, and also sad for me. And sad for the world that there are limits on how much you can do before they start hurting you for it.