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>401k are extremely easy to administer, or at least much, much easier than defined benefit pensions.

Definitely so! They require filing the Form 5500 annually with severe penalties for not doing so, and if safe harbor criteria aren't met, I believe an actuary may be required. I helped setup a small business 401k a few years ago and found Human Interest to be about the cheapest option overall at {employer: $120/month + $4/user/month} + {employee: 0.5% AUM management fee + fund expense ratios (good funds available, coming in around 0.07%.)}.

The direct employer cost is still $1,500/year for 2 employees before any match. Simple IRA's are an option, but have much lower contribution limits.

>However it would be ideal if the US government stopped giving large companies subsidies (via the 401k tax deduction)

Do you mean the administrative expenses and employer contributions being tax deductible, or a more specific nuance to the tax code?

The intent of the 401k safe harbor rules is to ensure they don't only benefit the highest compensated employees. For someone earning 30k/year, saving for the future is a legitimately tough proposition. I haven't fully fleshed out how I'd best handle ensuring all groups can reasonably be able to retire.
Interesting, yeah, we were doing something closer XP, not Scrum. I've never done Scrum. Haven't done "agile" in the last 10 years, as it's not really a thing where I work now.

But yes, in XP, the 'customer' or 'product owner' would not attend a daily standup. The purpose of the meeting was for developers to sync and maintain velocity and social and work cohesion.

Meeting with customer/PM was something that happened at the end or start of iteration.
All workers banding together and presenting a united front? Sounds familiar..
Simply restating my argument and pretending it applies to Windows equally doesn't fly with me. But thanks for re-affirming that the Linux community isn't worth dealing with.
The Practical Extraction and Reporting Language thing is not Perl's name, it's just a backronym that Larry Wall came up with. My personal favorite backronym is Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (I say this as someone who really loves Perl).
But even given all that negative sentiment a solid free press is a good thing and should be protected.

Yes it is, but I haven't seen people like this CBP officer suggest that the solution to their concerns is taking away press freedoms.

This officer clearly believes that the "free press" is a theory, not something they observe in practice. That is, the underlying assumption is that if the press is free to attack the government then it always will, whereas what he actually perceives is that the press is virtually the same as one party of government and will only .. as a whole .. attack the other side, not their own.

And he's right. Only 7% of US journalists claimed to vote Republican in 2014:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/ju...

Most journalists claim to be independent, but you wouldn't know it from their output. How many newspapers opted to back nobody in the 2016 election? And how many backed Trump? IIRC it was "none" and "all of them".

The press have made their bed, now they're lying in it. Trust in them has been in freefall for a long time, especially amongst Republicans, who this CBP officer most surely was. And they deserve this lack of trust. I routinely read stories in the press that are blatantly false, and always in support of the same political narrative. Why should anyone feel strongly about the freedom of the press when they have come out in strong support of a particular political ideology? That isn't what freedom of the press is meant to be about.
> Some of that information can be regained by making some assumptions about what you’re looking at, explains Aeppli. For example, we know that real interconnects can’t have certain shapes.

This sounds like the beginnings of the silicon obfuscation strategy: hiding things in silicon that lie below these assumptions
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Let's say you started out with a 3% effective tax and a 30% ineffective tax. Would adding that 120% be effective or ineffective? If effective it would break their backs, and if ineffective it would kill whatever small businesses couldn't employ the dodge.
That's a bit of a simplistic argument about ingratitude though. Let's say he takes his $150,000 that is deducted each year in taxes and then fractions it down by state and federal taxes (federal taxes almost certainly being the majority of it) then fractions that down by what percentage of his taxed income represents federal or state programs for all the things you listed instead of other huge parts of government spending bloat such as military industrial outlays, assorted federal or state pork and so forth. The relative percentage of his $150,000 that actually goes to the things that ensure clean air, good road, parks, safe milk and etc would be much smaller. This is also taking aside just what percentage of any of the useful things any given tax payer actually benefits from personally (maybe he doesn't visit parks at all, or own a car for travelling along the interstate highways). That's where we could argue about someone being ungrateful while benefiting from public funds.

Where things get tricky and shitty (because they heavily lay the criticism on private individuals wanting to keep more of the money they worked for instead of on government not spending so fucking much without pause or careful control) is when you think it's by default somehow whiny to complain that a majority of one's income tax payments that go to a government which inevitably spends the majority of that money on things like the military budget or bureaucratic bloat. Does so much money deserve to go to these things without at least considering the complaints or reasonable debate of tax payers? The Etc etc etc you mention conceals a huge amount of government spending that is validly debatable and shouldn't just automatically be taken as a given because "progress".

I mean, for example, is it unreasonable to ask why an $800+ billion dollar defense budget is necessary for a country neighbored by Canada and Mexico? Is there a real risk that Russia and China will suddenly invade if the U.S doesn't tax its higher income citizens more heavily to pay for that much spending on this huge part of the federal budget? Then of course there's the question of just how much more expensive ensuring even the more "reasonable" basics of public spending that you mentioned is than it could be if there weren't all sorts of known inefficiencies in government services. For example: Federal and state healthcare spending in the U.S is a major part of both state and federal budgets, but how much of it simply gets wasted on terribly administered public health policies?

In basic terms, debates on taxable income also encourage debates on better public spending, and that's not something anyone should dismiss as "privileged whining" if they really think government also needs to be monitored and restricted in how it does things with public money.
North West of England. My circle skews international, educated, Scots and perhaps city. I've not noticed it as specific to any of the many regional or international dialects. So I can't pick it out as Scots or Mancunian for instance.

It may fall under the generic UK North-South speech and language split.
I used Rockbox a lot, I even made my own build so I can configure some buttons to tigger specific actions. Sansa Clip+ with Rockbox has been my music player for a long time.

The problem now is that mobile phones have killed multimedia players and it's hard to find new players with Rockbox support :-(
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I don't get this spiteful jealousy over the freedom from the slavery through taxation. Why would we not all want everyone to pay as few taxes as possible, rather than being spitefully jealous that some can manage to free themselves of the slavery of taxation.

I get it though, the rich who both benefit most from the slavery of taxation by being individually great beneficiaries of that slave money taken from the middle class, are also the ones who add and modify rules that allows them to skirt the condition of tax slavery.

If you don't realize that taxation (beyond the fundamental costs of operating the core Constitutional roles of government) is proportional slavery; then you really can't contribute anything positive to this discussion at all. No slavey who does not realize they are a salve can ever hope to free themselves.
I think Op is some parody / troll account. It's too unhinged and it's trying too hard to offend. I don't see any other explanation.
> how much new code is being written in Perl?

Nothing like a full answer to your question:

https://metacpan.org/recent

Alas, not nearly so active as it used to be, but still a fair amount of activity.
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Amazon gets all the attention because it's Amazon. Work a retail job anywhere and you will discover that MILLIONS of retail workers must do similar checks.
The difference is still substantial, it's a 13% drop in the effective rate. This is compounded because the top 1% have doubled their share of income since the 50s [1].

1. http://cepr.net/publications/graphic-economics/income-share-...
A bit off topic, but why can't you just use the Music app? It plays local MP3s just fine.
Oh man, Silk Icons in the navigation bar. This is true Web 2.0 nostalgia.
We should establish a checklist of common ideologically biased fudges.

Sounds like you're doing the "pretend SS and medicare don't exist" fudge, right here.
Tesla is focused on growth (and not profit) at this time. So the stock has that pressure on it. Tesla is worth about the same amount as GM and GM sold almost 10 million vehicles in 2017. It isn't so simple though and a crude analogy could be made for Amazon and Walmart 20 years ago.

I don't think profit will be the focus for a while as they keep investing in new tech, new factories, new product lines. All of those things will increase the potential for Tesla and its stock.

Back seat quarterbacking.. but they might want to strategically focus a little bit on profit though (show profit -> get added to S&P 500 -> more stable stock price).
thats what "gold rush" means. something useful and real, where MOST people who go after it dont get it, but a few do. the majority of people get caught in the hype and rush, and never see any profitable gold.
Does Amazon still use Perl/Mason for site template rendering? There was still a surprising amount of Perl there when I interned in '08/09
China's economic rise began when barriers were removed and foreign companies and products (machines, materials) were allowed into the country. Shenzen, the most open of all Chinese regions, has become the richest. The decades before, when China had isolated itself from the outside world, did not work so well.
I disagree with this decision, but Amazon are fairly well known for being one of the few big tech startups that don't have fully stocked snack supplies on every floor, and expecting staff to pay for those out of their own pocket. In all the Amazon offices I've gone to the only thing being given out for free is borderline acceptable coffee, hot water, tea bags, and milk.
Which one? Isn't the Hellcat their top-end one? A Dodge Hellcat's 0-60 is 3.6 seconds. A P100D Tesla Model S's 0-60 is 2.28 seconds. Tesla doesn't win max speed against really any of the muscle cars until they actually produces the Roadster v2, but I was referring to acceleration.
I don't see how you can justify without using a double standard the idea that its okay to use coercion to take advantage of a minority to enforce an idea of "acceptable" that they might not agree with.
Some of the biggest employers of US “native” workers are immigrants. Some markets/industries wouldn’t exist entirely without immigrants. You can’t turn it into a black-and-white “immigration bad” summary.

Then again, it seems clear you’re not against immigration that happened decades to a century or two ago; only immigration happening after a certain class of people benefited from it for themselves, right?

Also, you do know that western countries have a birth rate less than that required for replacement, right? Without immigrants, who will pay for the “proudly native” aged populace’s social security and Medicare benefits?

Anyway, your entire rant is completely off topic and irrelevant to the court case at hand.
That's strange. It's working on my side.
If it were actually reversing the ageing process shouldn't cancer be less likely?

Cancer rates increase with age so younger cells in theory should mean a lower likelihood of cancer.
If my options are a 15 minute standup vs. not being able to respond texts for the entire day, I prefer the standup.
Please add evidence to the comment. A lot of your statements are vague rhetoric that could be flipped in the other direction.
ZFS supports snapshotting and rollback, meaning failed upgrades can be rolled back (by booting with another ZFS capable image).

ZFS supports send and receive, meaning a volume can be sent to another ZFS pool for backup.

Compression can save on disk space, and in some workloads be a performance benefit trading CPU cycles for IO savings, but this is probably more beneficial on data volumes compared to system volumes.

All of the above will be dependent on any limitations present in the options the installer provides, which apparently will be expanded in the forthcoming 20.04 release.
But needs autoplay=true which works less and less. Even with "muted"
Good choice - Chevy Volt is one of the most under-rated cars ever!
> Tech is the softest industry ever created.

I am pretty sure that this is the tech people who created this industry and all the jobs evolving around. Softwares are generating a lot of revenue but are incredibly used too.
Perl is dead like punk is dead.
As always, nobody asks what we the people could do if we were just taxed at the same rate as these hated class enemies.

We might spend it on things we actually want, which of course is to be prevented at all costs.
I dunno, for certain task I think Perl is unmatched. Anything that would take more than a loop in bash to accomplish, but bash style work.
> 7,000-8,000 petitions for certiorari each year, rendering judgment in the merits after oral argument on about 80-100 cases per year

That's what this line refers to: petitions for cert are requests to have the Court hear a case. They only accept ~10%.
> Up to 60+ FPS AAA gaming

Great marketing.

https://www.xkcd.com/870/
If watching the Boomer generation has taught me one thing, it's that people do not necessarily grow milder and wiser with age. I think it would be catastrophic if society gets locked down in its current model because people simply will not vacate their place (in work, in housing, in use of resources) by dying.
>There are biological organisms who don't age like we do or even go back and forth; young to old then young.

Citations please? If we're talking about slime molds or amoebas this might be interesting trivia, but is completely irrelevant. Multicellular animal models would be more interesting.
They are also obliged to arrive at the workplace, but their travel time is not necessarily compensated. At least this was put through both a judicial and legal process a long time ago in the ruling before and the Portal-to-Portal Act[0]. I do wonder why this was re-litigated; if this will change it seems like it will have to be through an act of Congress.

[0]: https://content.next.westlaw.com/6-508-0673?transitionType=D...
Move Chattanooga, TN

* Lots of progressive tech with SF ties

* Municipal Fiber Internet - gigabit speeds!

* startups!

* rock climbing!

https://www.inc.com/peter-cohan/how-chattanooga-created-18b-...

Move to Knoxville, TN

* Fastest super computer in the world

* Oak Ridge National Lab

https://www.wired.com/story/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-bre...
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Highly compensated employees in Amazon can't contribute the total yearly amount to their 401ks.

>In the simplest terms, contributions made by HCE’s can’t be excessive when compared to those of non-HCE’s. For example, if the average plan contribution by non-HCE’s is 4%, then the most an HCE can contribute is 6%.

Not that I hear much complaining about the compensation, they're rolling in after-tax dollars and RSUs.
ZFS is 100% better for RAID and resiliency. If you care about your data, ZFS is the answer. Even if you only have a single disk with no redundancy, at the very least you'll know when your data is corrupted, so you can avoid polluting your backups with that corrupted data.

It's possibly better for performance, depending on use case. If you're dealing with easily compressible data, then you can enable compression, which can speed up your reads/writes since you're reading or writing less data. You shouldn't get a performance hit on non-compressible data, since it will adjust its compression when it gets non-compressible data.
In the last code example image names are probably mixed up, huge-cupcake.webp should probably go to (min-width: 800px) media size, not (max-width: 799px)
These socialist countries have better economic mobility than the U.S. does...

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/14/american...
Lol. I remember Chomsky saying GE is not about manufacturing much as it ought to be, but rather about moving money in very complicated ways.Who foresees its collapse in the next 5 years?
Indeed, one of the complaints of the rioters was that only 10% of the new tax was going to be reused in programs that help poor and average people to drive less. And at the same time, there was still no tax on kerosene for planes (that poor people cannot afford anyway).
With the price difference between a Model 3 and a regular car, you could install an entire theater room system with absolutely top-of-the-line sound quality and power, a cutting-edge HDR projector (or a big OLED TV) which would absolutely put to shame anything the Model 3 can do as a theater experience.

I think it’s cool that Tesla is finding new ways of getting value out of their cars, but to answer your question: Many people would prefer a proper theater or music experience. Also, while Tesla’s sound quality is among the best out there for cars, no car audio can hold a candle to the music (or theater) sound quality you can get from large high-quality speakers (far too large to fit in any car) in a well-damped room (with acoustic treatments if necessary, e.g. if you have hard floors or too many windows).

You could install the best speakers in the world in a car, but it would still sound worse than in an average house due to all the acoustically reflective surfaces at many angles (e.g. glass) and oddly shaped compartment which distorts the sound in ways that cannot be perfectly corrected even with DSP.
Forgive me if I am misinterpreting, but wouldn't the taxes of an individual general in the Marines be completely different from the Department of Defense itself?
Good. FCC caught its own tail with Pai getting the taste of his own medicine. They reclassified ISPs under Title I, and lost any ability to impose such kind preemptions in result.
I mean the only compensation between an employer and employee should be cash (withheld at whatever taxes according to income tax rates).

If the government wants to then incentivize retirement or healthcare savings via tax deductions, it should offer that to everyone, regardless of employer or where the income came from. However, I'm also against using tax deductions as it allows for price obfuscation.

I would be okay with government providing incentives such as matching contributions. That would allow for clear accounting of government expenditures.
The primary issue is the sweetheart deal New Orleans gave to Donaldson. The rest is just information asymmetry that this article will serve to correct.
Software. Software. Software. Just two companies, Google and NVIDIA, have publicly launched a viable service or software stack. Just two companies have successfully written a "sufficiently advanced compiler". Just two companies actually have a product. And Google refuses to step into the arena and actually compete with NVIDIA. Man, what a time we live in.

And no, AMD doesn't count. ROCm is a mess.
we have a sitting US Prez who has a whole bunch of pass through llcs as it makes tax auditing such a complex personal return nearly impossible due to cost constraints.
It's misleading because the rich that they're talking about already paid a much higher rate when they originally got the money in earnings. It's just the 2nd round of taxation: the capital gains which is lower, as it should be.

And let's not forget, taxes are extremely high on everyone. The US Govt spends 38% of all US GDP, currently (recently above 40%!). https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-spendi...

And that's not even including 2nd order effects. When you go to spend it, your costs are much higher because part of what you're paying is someone else's really high tax rates. IE: the plumber has to charge you 300$/hr instead of just 200$/hr.
I don’t have an opinion on this case, but this may be a useful analogy (and may not; I’m not a lawyer): employees are required to commute to work, but they are not compensated for their commute. There are plenty of jobs, in construction for example, where the job site changes on a regular basis. Some job sites require longer commutes than others. Compensation still doesn’t include commute time.
That’s my biggest gripe with stand ups. Management has as much if not more access to all the project management tools the developers do, so if they need a daily standup they should be able to get a sense of what’s going on simply by correctly using the tool.
> including your own blood previously stored

Wait, really?
Posting a libertarian think-tank link adds no value as an answer to a comment asking for someone to explain their perceived bias of NYT articles on tax policy.
I stopped using perl in '95 when I tried to make a multidimensional array and the syntax was nearly impossible to figure out. Switched to Python and was happy to see that the Numeric library was released that gave matlab-like array behavior to python.

I know some folks in the bioinformatics community who still write CGIs in perl and I really have to wonder why.
I'm afraid that people able to save for retirement are less and less average these days ?
Build quality... not so much.
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Independence war 2 is the closest I've played.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_War_2:_Edge_of_Ch...
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I have seen it, it is great movie :)

I am not sure if you are trying to convince me that memories are like movies?

I mean I can describe my memories as movies to, in a way they are like movies in certain ways.

But they are not movies, they are memories, they have properties that movies don't have and movies have properties that memories don't have. They share some properties but that does not make them the same thing.
I would guess a bunch were about perl 6 since it was the new shiny.
I really wish we'd optimize for me owning my device rather than me entering my bank details on someone else's device.

One of these use cases is a lot more important than the other.
The number of deepfake videos online is spiking. Most are porn
I'm all for it, but I think you're overoptimistic. Climate deniers aren't generally making a selfish but rational calculation that they're unlikely to be affected - many have children they care deeply about, after all. Instead, they're flinching away from uncomfortable ideas and refusing to acknowledge the unfolding catastrophe.

Maybe the benefits to brain plasticity would undo some of this retrenchment, but that's a big maybe.