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> I know you have a prolific reputation, and I mean this sincerely, but did you actually read the link?

I did, and all the comments, to see where you were mistreated so badly that you'd drag it up 8 years later, like the Bourbons, having forgotten nothing and learned nothing.

> The point was that with power constraints, the class of possible algorithms is restricted heavily, requiring development of an understanding closer to what algorithms a person must use in their mind.

That's not true at all: it is not true that intelligences must exactly imitate humans to be intelligent, and if it was, it would not be true either as a lower bound, upper bound, or average case that an algorithm using the same energy as a human must be isomorphic to the human algorithm. Consider deep learning. The more compute it uses, the better it gets, and the more human-like the results are, and this is true despite the fact that they typically use more power than a human brain even at the smaller scales where they are often among the worse-performing and still-power-hungry of methods, and power consumption goes up from there; by your logic, they would be getting even less human-like, if power consumption and algorithmic equivalency were so inextricably intertwined. But they aren't. 'The bitter lesson' is itself a disproof of your claim that power efficiency has anything to do with potential for future progress or human-like-ness of algorithms.

> But that doesn’t mean it’s an ok trade-off for the philosophical side of the questions, like approximating a Turing test or understanding how far we must go from modern deep neural networks to the algorithms an actual brain is using. And, ultimately, these will move from being philosophical issues to being practical ones.

None of that follows. I made this quite clear, that this is why your complaints are irrelevant or applicable only to the most narrow economic situations. Does a plane not travel faster than a bird because it uses many more joules to do so? We can use far more resources than we do, and all of the consequences of AI can still follow. (This also holds for the silly arguments that computational complexity somehow means that AI can't work or can't be a threat: https://www.gwern.net/Complexity-vs-AI ) Everything about superintelligence, AI risk, new breakthroughs, all of that can still follow even if an AI uses 10, 1000, or 10,000x more joules to accomplish a task. Humans themselves use astronomical amounts of energy compared to, say, insects; does this mean humans are not intelligent, and insects should be questioning whether humans are, on a philosophical level, as powerful intelligences as insects are, since we need so many additional calories to solve basic vision and navigation tasks? Who cares if we are being eaten by gray goo and you go 'ah, well, it requires several orders of magnitude and therefore isn't really real AI, this gray goo would be more impressive if it solved stuff within human-level time or energetic constraints'?
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Bookmarklet I use for this. Agree it's fun.

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> I don’t think developing a keyboard for it is too difficult.

I've made IBus input methods for conlangs before and it's literally as simple as making a plaintext table of physical keys and corresponding characters. I can't imagine it'd be any more difficult on IOS or Android. Despite this I can't find any Inuktitut keyboards on the Play Store.
Fortunately four states lost a lawsuit[0] attempting to overturn the 2017 Tax changes, specifically they went after the cap on deductions allowed that could be deducted off Federal taxes with regards to taxes paid to states and cities.

In effect what they wanted was for their citizens to be able to write off a much higher level of state and local taxes against the Federal tax debt owed. This is how high tax states in turn claw back money their citizens would other pay to the Feds, by being able to write it off Federal taxes State taxes can be increased and the burden passed along.

Not much different than some subsidies that favor wealthy households over all others in the form of "saving the environment". Watch how holier than thou a hand out is defended with to understand how money is given back to those least needing it. I am guilt of accepting the $7500 handout TWICE for EVs. I have always though that it should have been restricted to much less expensive cars to encourage their development but instead the Federal credit has no limit, car price or income level. IF you pay that much Federal Tax you got it back.

So don't just focus on how much the "rich" pay or don't pay, also focus on all the handouts to people with good to great incomes just masked behind feel good names. (education - in particular master and higher degrees is a subsidy to the same)

[0] https://reason.com/2019/10/07/federal-court-rules-against-bl...
1 Country 2 Systems has been shown to be a scam so things have changed. I can't speak for people of my generation but the kids are alright.
Active duty personnel aren't allowed to take on a second job, side hustle, etc. without written permission, and I understand that that permission is relatively uncommon. That doesn't completely answer your question (maybe generals get that permission more often), but it may point directionally.

The other thing that can confuse this issue is that Generals and Admirals generally (sorry) keep their titles after retirement. So if you have "Gen. James McClinton" on your board, that doesn't speak to whether or not they're active.

From looking around, it looks like board recruitment efforts toward Admirals and Generals are targeted at those who are retired or nearing retirement: http://blogs.reuters.com/financial-regulatory-forum/2012/01/...
Real estate taxes are a form of wealth tax. One thing about real estate and salary is that there is a clear geographic origin (you work in a state, your property is in a state) that I think makes it a lot easier than going after total wealth.
If I would get fired for not wearing clothes, should I get compensated for the time it takes me to get dressed?

Also we could also talk about: dry clean suits, taking showers, cutting hair, shaving, putting on make-up, etc.
I think I picked up my first Sansa Clip+ new for £15, and my second one (just after they were discontinued) for about £35. I imagine it's gone up again since then!
It's been quite a long time since capital actually invested in things whose goal was to deliver something and make money by selling it. These days most capital chases hype with the goal of cashing out before the hype collapses.

This works because we have a severely demand constrained economy with monstrous amounts of money sloshing around at the top with no idea where to go. The idea is to get a hype train rolling to scoop up some of it. Nothing of value has to be produced.
I guess I can’t read English anymore. The headline to me reads that the WORKERS appeal was rejected, but it’s a ruling FOR the workers, rejecting AMAZON’s appeal.
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> An actual democracy on the scale of a country would be way more complex than what we have now. It would probably be closer to the economic market in terms of complexity.

In fact, it would be exactly the economic market. The ultimate form of democracy is 100% economic means ("vote with your wallet") and 0% political means (force).
In Perl, "\n" has a similar kind of platform-specific behavior like it does in some other languages (such as C). Its output is more or less defined as "whatever is appropriate on this type of machine". It's useful for printing for the console or writing to a text file that will be used on the local machine, but not for everything.

If you're building a message to go on the wire as part of a protocol that needs certain specific characters, and if you're trying to write portable code, then you shouldn't use "\n" (or "\r").

This is actually covered in the "perldoc perlop" documentation under the "Quote and Quote-like Operators" section (available at https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Quote-Like-Operators):

> All systems use the virtual "\n" to represent a line terminator, called a "newline". There is no such thing as an unvarying, physical newline character. It is only an illusion that the operating system, device drivers, C libraries, and Perl all conspire to preserve. Not all systems read "\r" as ASCII CR and "\n" as ASCII LF. For example, on the ancient Macs (pre-MacOS X) of yesteryear, these used to be reversed, and on systems without a line terminator, printing "\n" might emit no actual data. In general, use "\n" when you mean a "newline" for your system, but use the literal ASCII when you need an exact character. For example, most networking protocols expect and prefer a CR+LF ("\015\012" or "\cM\cJ" ) for line terminators, and although they often accept just "\012" , they seldom tolerate just "\015" . If you get in the habit of using "\n" for networking, you may be burned some day.

So, arguably it is a bug to write it that way, but not exactly a fault of the language since it is providing a facility to do something useful and also explicitly warning you against using it for something else.

One way to think of "\n" is that it's similar to localized strings. In both cases, you have a need to let the system render something differently depending on context (platform or user location/language/etc., respectively). It's helpful to have that abstracted away, but you should realize that magic is happening and that you generally shouldn't use it for machine-to-machine communication.
Well, it's hard to deny that life is easier for people using English-compatible writing systems. No trouble with physical keyboards, anglophones can take a stab at pronouncing things, and a lot of older computer technology predates modern unicode and nobody seems to be in a rush to replace it.
Thanks for your message! Our biggest difference with Vault on Secret Management is ease of use, specially on installation. But Bunkr is also a one-stop solution to do a lot of other things. We think by tapping into threshold cryptography we can now replace hardware keys too, and having everything under one platform is really useful.

Hope this solved your question!
Cadillac sold about 154,000 cars last year, but they're not listed.

The Tesla Model 3 is heavier than the Cadillac CT5 and CTS. All are 5 seats. The Cadillac CTS has a 1.5" longer wheelbase than the Tesla Model 3. The definition of "small and midsize" seems to have been carefully chosen here.
Yeah. It's not a soul thing (since they don't believe it souls) or an ownership thing, it's that you're taking blood into your body. Fractions and such are considered a grey area since it's not technically "blood" aymore.
IYE what is the case - what is their motivation for their position?
This is the freedom we give up when we choose proprietary systems. China has its problems with authoritarian government, which is enforced at the barrel of a gun. But we (the worldwide society) gave up our communications freedom to Apple and others willingly, for convenience.
... and making these "celebrities" kowtow to Chinese censors.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/26/20883993/tiktok-censorshi...
The Pro Publica link you provided does not show they "audit the poor instead". It shows that the IRS audits poor and rich at the same rates. Unfortunately it seems Pro Publica is succumbing to the same forces as other journalistic outlets and has started to engage in sensationalist headlines.

Here is their title verbatim:
> IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor

Here is the article's first sentence, verbatim:
> The IRS audits the working poor at about the same rate as the wealthiest 1%.

They go on to say this:
> ProPublica reported the disproportionate audit focus on lower-income families in April.

Per their own sentence, the poor and rich are audited at the same rate yet they go on to label this "disproportionate". That makes no sense.

Furthermore, they have defined rich and poor in arbitrary ways - the top 1% of taxpayers by income versus EITC recipients. The latter group is 25 million people - 7.6% of the US. So per capita, the "rich" are getting audited more frequently.
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/by-the-numbers-tesla-mode...

The Model 3 is 20 inches longer, 3 inches wider, but 6 inches shorter. It looks like it has more comfortable passenger space, but comparable cargo space.

Overall, the Bolt is not that much smaller on the inside so I don't believe it's accurate to say that it's really really tiny compared to the Model 3.
In an 'agile' process people should only be working on any particular 'story' for 3-5 day period. Everyone on the team should be interested in what they other people are doing, because they may in turn be pulled into work on some part of it next. In a healthy team everyone should be invested in the success of the product, and have some knowledge of most aspects.

Frankly, once things scale beyond that, where you have large teams of people disinterested in what's happening beyond their choice of specialization -- "agile" starts to not be a good match anymore.
Working remotely from home. But I used to have one at the office when we had one, and nobody complained. Although they were entertained by the artifact of years gone by.
> console "foo" print

Sorry if I misunderstand -- Wouldn't this send "foo" to the console object (which it probably wouldn't understand), and then send "print" to whatever that returned, which isn't what you want? You don't want to send "print" to "foo" first and then send that to the console either. You want to send the message [print "foo"] to the console object - you are delegating the action.

[Using ST syntax] If you wanted to do it w/o a reified message, you could do:

console print "foo"

Where "print" is really "get-default-printer-object" which uses something like doesNotUnderstand to respond to "foo" as a message, or

console print: "foo"

As a keyword send, or to combine the approaches somewhat:

(console stdio-printer) print: "foo".

I will RTFM again so I can get a better handle on the Potion syntax - unlike ST which I'm more used to, it's not as clear to me yet at first glance what is a msg and what is an arg.
For not falling down. By the time you have slipped, you are already in pain.
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I asked this question a few weeks ago to someone at a conference who uses both C++ and Python and if I remember correctly his recommendation was Pybind11

https://pybind11.readthedocs.io/
It's time some big companies donated tech and resources to screen reader software.

Today's software is terrible, and there are certainly massive improvements that could be made.

For one thing, a screen reader should actually read the screen like a sighted person would. It shouldn't say text outside the viewport, hidden text, or 0 sized text. It should read text in images (central to memes, adverts, photos of roadsigns, maps). It should understand common layouts, styles, and able to summarize verbose text.

A bit of machine learning could easily make a screen reader say "You are on BBC.com, the news headlines are X, Y, and Z, and each has more detail. There is a navigation menu at the top with links to Sport, Weather, and Local News."
Payroll taxes are included in the total federal tax rate of around 2%.
Nice how we mirror slashdot these days
Money is nearly always enough to get someone through an immigration system. Even if immigrant X did avoid taxes at home and can be relied upon to do the same, the wealth they're bringing over will typically end up benefiting the new country's economy somehow. Canada's made a strategy of exactly this.
In other news, when you were able to visit Google Maps in China you would see the Chinese view of the world where disputed regions are part of China, while the rest of the world would see something else.

https://qz.com/224821/see-how-borders-change-on-google-maps-...
My link gives monthly figures, not weekly figures.
I'm more impressed in how much effort they do and money they spent to be able to put ads.
This can be easily and trivially fixed with some simple taxation to transfer wealth from the ultra-rich to everyone else. If that isn't happening, it's most likely a failure of the voters to demand such laws.
Ah. Yes, I assume that's what the wine bar idea they were talking about a bit a number of years back has morphed into.

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/starbucks-reserve-store-sea...

It makes sense although I suspect it's more difficult than is obvious to handle rather different uses at different times of the day. (It's also probably notable that they're doing this in locations that are already pretty differentiated from the standard grab a Cafe Latte in a paper cup on the way into work.)
This has already existed for a while!
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Reminder that there is also CMUS[1] for those of us who prefer pointing to a library of MP3s.

1: https://cmus.github.io/
It was implied in what I said.
I promise you that less people by the Bolt because it looks like an electric car, a bean. The i3 looks like dogshit too. The model 3 just scratches that itch for a cool looking car. The i8 does too but I think it only gets like 13 miles on its battery?
The crux of your observation is "fairness"

The crux of our observation is that "we're all getting hosed and you just want to ensure we are getting hosed equally?"

these things can't happen in a vacuum, no matter how much you respect something with the label 'government' on it you do have to factor in what its doing with its passive funding source. Even this article correlates tax policy that benefited the rich with low GDP growth, suggesting that the government would have been a better steward of additional money. It should consider other revenue regimes.

Capital tax is only perpetuated by inequality, as it is a stretch of taxation theory and a mere convenience. The state says "so you want us to take the money now, not gonna say no!" the non-capital class cheers
It's interesting that someone thinks that people of one region have a relevant opinion about what government people of another region should be controlled by.
If they were going to fly a plane into the pentagon to cover up 2.3T in missing funds, why would they bother to announce the shortfall beforehand?

You don't orchestrate an elaborate cover-up, and also publicly announce the thing you're trying to cover up.
Five decades into their career Sparks are still flying
Adding the pidfd abstraction to the Linux kernel
Maybe! I've got some experience with tomographic algorithms, and what they're referring to is correcting for the "missing wedge" in the Radon and/or Fourier transforms - the measurements that tomography produces - of the chip (https://images.app.goo.gl/HWPX2LKBsDd7eeBe6). There has been lots of interest in statistical or data-driven algorithms to reconstruct missing measurement areas from the existing ones. It sounds like a key technology here was better algorithms to accommodate a larger missing wedge, so they didn't have to tilt the chip to extreme angles when getting projections.

It's possible you could fool the algorithm in some way, but you'd have pretty weird and severe constraints on the shapes of your hidden parts to hide their presence from low-angle projections. They're probably not actually hand-crafting geometric assumptions about chip structures or anything like that.
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South Africa must use technology to help fix its problems
You know who's not stupid? The Chinese Communist Party is not stupid.
Without some concrete statistics, it’s hard to analyze that. A non-trivial number of officers have family money.
What does this mean:

Have you considered HTTP/2 that supports multiplexing at a protocol level
This list is missing tons of app for Mac OS that are written using JavaFX.
A couple of points regarding the lower rate of taxation for capital gains:

• Capital gains are not inflation-indexed, which is one reason to have a lower rate. Consider three individuals:

* Person A earned $100,000 working at BigCo in 2019

* Person B sold shares in 2019 that were purchased in 2017, for a (LTCG) gain of $100,000

* Person C sold shares in 2019 that were purchased in 1965, for a (LTCG) gain of $100,000

There's essentially no inflation to account for in cases A and B, since all of the relevant transactions happened relatively recently. But what about Person C? The real value of her investment has not increased by $100,000 — it's much less than that because of inflation. So one argument for a lower capital gains rate is to be fairer to people who have held investments a long time.

• Investments are more mobile than wage earners. This is just a fact about the world: I can invest in a different country more easily than I can move to a different country, which leads to "tax competition" for investment income moreso than for wage income. However, this doesn't mean much in the US, where we tax worldwide income (so it doesn't matter where you earn investment income, for the most part).

• Capital gains is "double taxation". It is true that if you tax capital, that is likely post-tax money. That is, it was earned at some time in the past and tax was paid at that time.

There is a notable exception, however: basis step-up at death (inherited assets don't trigger capital gains when passed to heirs. If the total estate is under the current limit, I believe around $10M, then no tax would be paid at all). There are other tax preferences like the primary residence $500k exemption, qualified small business stock exclusion (look it up, startup founders!) that allow people to realize lots of gains without paying any/full tax. There are also less-sexy things like muni bonds.
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It won't solve it, but it certainly won't make it worse. I fail to see how immortality would cause any problems at all, instead of actually making things better, though it won't be the cure-all that some people seem to think it's being pushed as.
Tesloop released a very interesting review and summary of using "eHawk", the 2015 Tesla Model S over 450,000 miles (724,000 km), which is one of the highest mileages globally.

https://www.tesloop.com/blog/2018/7/16/tesloops-tesla-model-...

https://insideevs.com/reviews/350883/tesla-model-s-review-45...

What makes this particularly interesting is that the car was mostly charged using super chargers which accelerates battery degradation compared to regular home/Level 2 charging.
I agree the title is click baity, but the ultra wealthy do pay a lower effective tax rate than me, and I'm probably in the top 10% of income percentile.

But the observations of the article itself check out. The tax system has gotten radically less progressive over the last 50 years. The argument is over whether or not it should be made more or less progressive given current realities.

People can differ in their opinions on that, but the historical trend is clear as day.
What I feel is more interesting, is that TikTok did it with aggressive traditional Google and Facebook ads. This is directly at odds with the SV playbook for social media apps which relies mostly on viral and network effects boosted by growth hacks built directly into the product.
That's not how it works in China. Plausible deniability, benefit of the doubt, etc, is not in the CCP's vocabulary.
My 2002 Civic with 250k+ miles on it had free service done on it maybe 3-4 years ago as part of a recall. The fact that a platform that old had enough cars still registered on the road is usually a good sign for that specific platform even given the need for a recall.
Compare their crash test videos. The difference is evident.
It’s not a cop out, it’s the objective reality. I and MOST other people choose not to pay.
There's some disagreement over who originally made up the quote, but it may have been a neo-Nazi named Kevin Strom.