skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is the purpose of taxes to fund the government or punish the rich?

Obviously it should do both.

Joking aside, if the purpose is to fund the government as good as you can (that is, societies central pool of resource to be able to produce democratically controlled and publicly available "nice stuff") then it makes sense to take as much as you can from the rich (which can afford it) and a normal amount from the average/poor (which can't afford to pay much).

A tax could be:

1) None. Then a country wouldn't be able to maintain e.g. an army or basic infrastructure, and either the country would be at the mercy of other countries that can, or the majority would be at the mercy of moguls that can afford to pay for those things. Some third world places are close to the latter.

2) Flat ($10K for a lawyer making $2M/year, $10K for a single mother of two juggling 2 jobs and making $40K). Most would agree that's bad.

3) Fixed ratio (e.g. 30% of said lawyer's income, 30% of the income of the single mother of two juggling two jobs). The lawyer is then left with $1.4M, more than enough to live in luxury, pander his kids etc, buy 4 new cars per year, etc, whereas the mother can barely survive and do basic spending or cover an emergency with the $28K that remain. Not sure how you find it, not a big fan.

4) Progressive scale. The government gets more from the lawyer (and as people getting richer) and not a fixed ratio. The reach still keep more than enough to do whatever BS they want (e.g. $2M - 60% is still 800K/year). Plus most of their money is not in income but wealth, and the ultra rich have already hid it through 2000 schemes.

>In the US, billionaires make just 1.3% of all income.

Property beyond a certain level should be taxed way worse than income. It's just hogging resources from society and giving to much power to money-based, as opposed to bloodline based, neo-feudal lords. Let's throw that majority of the wealth that they own into collective infrastructure for that "bottom 99%" (which, after all, earns 80% of income and pays more taxes).
> I agree with you here. It would be great if Apple offered two classes of iPhone, one where such a switch was present and one where unsigned code was prevented from executing by hardware.

You don't even need two classes of phone, just a setting to allow unsigned code which requires a factory reset to change.

Nobody can compromise the data on your phone with unsigned code if switching to unsigned code requires erasing the phone, and you're going to notice immediately if your phone has been wiped, which is no worse for you than someone with physical access smashing it with a hammer and replacing it with another phone.
> Feminist analysis of Gamergate first exposed the online radicalization of legions of angry young men for whom misogyny was a gateway drug to far-right politics.

Um. I feel that the article could have done without this snipe.

Like I once wrote¹, this came out of nowhere, and is presented as if every reader should obviously agree with it. Is “far-right” supposed to be something which is obviously inherently bad? I can see the case for using the term “alt-right” in that sense. But right/left? The whole point of the right/left terminology is that it’s not settled which of them is correct. If it were, we’d just call them good/bad instead of left/right.

In an article which has nothing to do with actual politics, to bring up “far-right” as a stereotypical bad thing, shows that it’s written by someone living in a bubble.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18160488
you are reframing (weakening) the OP's standard.

the standard is not "care", it's "gave as much of a fuck about software and personal freedom as Stallman did/does".

RMS used an absolute garbage computer because it was, in his words:

> the only laptop one could buy that could run a free initialization program and a free operating system.

i'm certainly not taking it on some contributor's word that these 20 or so odd people are as principled as RMS that i trust the project to be led by them. my guess is a large fraction are pragmatists (like most normal people) who use a nonfree BIOS setup for productivity, or have an iPhone/android because "normal", etc.

so, while certainly more like normal people, they aren't as principled. and what you want in a position like RMS's is someone so principled that they basically are immune to attack and inspire others to take on those principles. nobody's taking RMS seriously if he's giving talks from his macbook air.

as far as i can tell, RMS is so principled that it actually hindered the long term success of GCC. it would have behooved the long term strategic goals to make GCC the best/"only" compiler by making a BSD/MIT style version, so as to accept more liberal contributions, but he didn't.

he seems to be principled to a fault. is this group of 20 or so people as consistent as he was? i sincerely doubt it.
I can see CLT replacing steel, and possibly CMUs, but concrete in general?

- It can't be poured into arbitrary shapes.

- Much lower acoustic isolation
This reminds me a bit of A Canticle for Liebowitz, which in turn reminds me to re-read it. Thank you.
The person receiving should count it as income and have it taxed accordingly.
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Very cool stuff! I highly recommend that everyone visit Yellowstone, at least once in their life.

It's hard to believe a place so beautiful actually exists.
Sam's Club (Walmart) != Costco

Please refer to this documentary about Walmart. They're not just anti-labor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart:_The_High_Cost_of_Low...

While Walmart didn't invent bad behavior, they're pretty good at it.
In the US, we have a legal framework to resolve disputes with the government. In China, they don't.
Very good points, but I wasn't able to find videos of comparison with those cars you mentioned specifically, but check Volvo's S60, which also scores the highest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGgoPOGgOcc
I don't want to contradict the statement.

My point is that the even the more taxes they pay, they're not enough. They should pay way more than the poor, not merely more.
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> they sold their souls at 230 dollars per share

I realize you are referencing something specific, but I wanted to make sure I got it correctly. Current TSLA share price?
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I would read this book. Fictional [alternative] history is always fun to read for me.
Ah yes, socialism but only for white people. This is my favourite stage of right-wing co-option of leftist politic.
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> I agree RMS is not a sociable person

Project leadership is a social task. Sometimes, being well-suited to be a chief-of-doctrinal-purity or chief-of-technology is not being well-suited to being a chief-of-chiefs.
No, this is how you get things that take more effort to make. Bloatware does fit though.
The entire concept of mana being generated from land.
Unshortened: https://avc.com/2019/10/cross-laminated-timber/#comment-4643...
Property beyond a certain level should be taxed way worse than income. It's just hogging resources from society

This is an argument for taxing consumption, not wealth.

If I have $100M sitting in a bank account it isn't consuming any resources at all.
I won't say so. SV is willing to kill anything that threatens it by acquisition. If TikTok was a US company, SV would have made a nice offer. VCs would have pressed and possibly faced the founders to sell talking about how there's no more room for new players in the social network space. They will point to Snap & Google+ as an example. Then point how instagram was snap for taking the $1Billion. Google, Facebook, Apple all have enough data to see how fast an app is growing and buy/kill it before it becomes too popular.

I think we can still see innovation out of SV, but it will take someone with restraint, and who's not willing to sell out for cash. For a first time founder that's very hard.
Okey.. But the gardening club won't try to censorship all information out there that it views displeasing? I'm not sure what you are suggesting with your rhetoric, but there are differences when the organization at hand is either authoritarian or non-authoritarian. And I'd argue that some gardening clubs aren't even seeking for any "expansion of their power" at all. They are simply clubs to hang out and talk about gardening. You suggesting that they both share the same, ominous intent is kinda dishonest.
The last time I was in China, HN was already banned.
It's not Open Source in the same sense that Unreal Engine is not Open Source. Apparently the term "source-available" license is used to describe software you can access the source but don't have permission do use it freely the same ways as "open source".

Aesprite was open source until 2016 thoughs so maybe the reason it's on the list is the list was created before 2016.

https://www.aseprite.org/faq/#if-aseprite-source-code-is-ava...
macOS Catalina has been released
Gotcha. Thank you for clarifying.
Reminds me of Global Village Construction Set

https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization
> The vast majority of other income is taxed in the year it is earned, so there is no/minimal inflation.

but our annual raise are often in line with inflation should they be excluded? what about sales tax, thats directly effected by prices going up, should that be excluded to. and what about the receivers of these payment, its the hotdog I paid for is taxed already then why should the vendor have to pay tax again? there is no end to it. this whole distinction of earned & 'gained' income is farce and created just to favor wealthy class. I home more 'commoners' see that.

> Gains from HFT would not be LTCG (held less than a year), so it would be taxed at ordinary income rates.

that may be, but my argument is that it should be taxed higher not lower for discouraging the activity. and what about the hedge funds clients that primarily benefit from HFT, should they have tax breaks for holding that capital in fund for long term?
Something I like to do to minimize this effect is to forward my calls to a dumphone whenever I don't need the smartphone.

My family uses alternative messaging with me while I'm at work and you'd be surprised how people really don't care if you don't text them back until the end of the day.

When I get home, the smartphone goes upstairs where I'll hear it ring if someone calls. At this point, it's a glorified GPS and Spotify/Audible device. The only time I'm actively on it is in between sets at the gym in the morning.
That doesn't include FICA, state, and local taxes.
> I think most people are simply unaware of the many problems caused both by consumerism, and the moral spinelessness of pretty much all large corporations and how that is brought about by market forces.

I believe this is one of the fundamental flaws and challenges of capitalism. Corporations are great usability wise because serve as an abstraction for accessing a product. You put some money in and you get a widget out, without having to worry or know about where that widget came from.

But the consequence of that is that you are insulated from all of the negative externalities involved in creating that widget. You just wanted some cheap eggs, and you didn't realize you were inadvertently causing chickens to be raised in inhumane factory settings. You wanted a bottle of water and you didn't realize it was being pumped out of a national park.

It's like using some really nice, convenient API and only discovering later that every time you called getFoo(), the backend went out and killed a kitten.
Women will never "be able to contribute and simply be part of the free software community without harassment", because any online community is a reflection of society at large, which is becoming more fragmented, agressive and embittered.

Did female harassment get solved in society at large? No. You can't solve it in online communities, you're only building bubbles of false-safety which will pop once the pressure from the real world becomes high enough.

America in particular is under so much political and social tension that it's starting to show cracks and online lynch mobs are a part of the problem.
Hence why I followed up with saying that that supposed behaviour over the years does not justify this either. But I don't think that behaviour is what this is about to begin with. Everything about this smells of "well, what about that time you ..."; reaching back in time when they can't justify their outrage. A problem is being manufactured to justify bowing to public outrage caused by yellow journalism.
I learned C and open-source through hacking on this. Fond memories!

PS: We have a Quake port - https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/PluginQuake :)
Import substitution is when the local population creates competitors for some steps on a production chain, replacing a foreign industry piece by piece. The process is caused by relative advantages that say that an industrializing population must create something, so a mature market is the most likely place to go.

Tariffs have no direct relation to it, and are a large indirect hindrance, since the entire process requires a mature importing market.
Almost everything that’s happened since 2008 has tilted in their favor.

Low interest rates to finance deals? Check. A friendly political climate? Check. A long line of clients? Check.

The PE industry, which runs funds that can invest outside public markets, has trillions of dollars in assets under management. In a world where bonds are paying next to nothing—and some have negative yields—many big investors are desperate for the higher returns PE managers seem to be able to squeeze from the markets.
My thoughts exactly - I can easily see a business in taking
chips out of a supply chain and performing this analysis against the expected layouts.

Its possible that Intel / other chip manufacturers / board manufacturers would pay for just to improve confidence in their supply chain.

At some point this is a few millions a year, and a nice tick box in the pitch deck.
We already have experiments being performed on ocean floor labs and arctic outposts. Building habitats on remote places on earth and building them in space are not mutually exclusive, in fact the former is part of the space program today. (Astronauts are trained on the ocean floor before being sent to the ISS).
That brings back memories! Installing Rockbox, switching the battery… I also found out later that you could get a ATA-to-CF Adapter and basically switch it to an SSD.
I'd feel much better about that if there was a way for the court to guarantee the question would be addressed by the legislature where as right now they usually just continue to exist in the grey area status quo.
Unless I'm dramatically misreading all the various articles, only a few women that were directly approached by Stallman for a romantic encounter felt discouraged. This did not impact a vast majority of the women who have, and do, contribute to GNU projects.

Yeah, he fucked up in approaching those women and making them uncomfortable. However, a couple of data points do not a trend make.
I always see comments like this, but never understand where they come from.

To be clear, I'm not telling you that you are wrong, or lying. I do believe some people see this. I just don't understand how it's normal. I've -never- had anything like this. Am I the odd one out?

My system now has 32GB of memory. I have two chrome windows open, one with 14 tabs, the other with 2. Below is the memory situation of the entire machine.

$ free -m
total used free shared
buff/cache available
Mem: 32094 3164 26741 864
2188 27612
Swap: 0 0 0
It's kind of the reverse: The mod in question adamantly refused singular "they" in particular, not for religious or transphobic but rather stylistic reasons (from what I could find). But that's hours of chat and months of context boiled down into one third-hand sentence.

SE has not said whether this in particular was the cause for the firing, but it seems evident. Regardless, there is no indication that SE intends to undo the firing.
... from the sounds of it, I assume the pull-aside convo happened and failed.

Maybe I'm too trusting. I have no evidence that kind of a convo happened. But the allegations are that RMS has been a missing stair for well over 20 years. I find it very hard to believe that someone who's been causing problems in a community for 20+ years has never had a friend pull them aside and ask them to change their behaviour.
How is it non-sustainable, it's booting up. It's not like they keep paying for every time their users use it. It's already viral, folks are now talking about it. I keep seeing TikTok videos on twitter posted/retweeted by users not ads. Hell, I installed it and I never did install Snapchat.
Global Village Constriction Set
An edge case on the programming sites certainly. But they've grown beyond that.

The site in question deals with religion.
Is this paper published somewhere?
keep reading after that sentence and this article continues to undermine itself by actively portraying feminists as the greatest thing ever and men as evil.

> Next thing you know, women will be wearing trousers and thinking they can vote.

what does this sentence in the article have to do with anything phone related? Women can wear whatever they and they've had the vote for over 100 years.

the article makes a decent point and then goes full crazy. Too bad.
Peak oil.

Also, "middle ages" are going to take a good century at least. Think instead of the collapse of Soviet Union (with some places playing the part of the Balkans / Caucasus), but worse...

Btw, rare earths are not so rare - it's just that the US got rid of this industry.
Main one is Tax relief at your highest rate on income tax you get an extra 20% into your pension - if your a higher rate tax payer you can reclaim the extra tax relief.

For a higher rate taxpayer you put in £60 and get £100 in your pension.

You can also do salary sacrifice and reduce you income tax and NI lability
Actually an interesting question: will Apple be happy to sign third party app stores and package managers? Including those that, say, sell apps and take a percentage?
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Lua is really not a nice language...
So the Apple users would read some instruction from Google to go into a hidden area of the Settings, tap some button 10 times, then lick Apple log 10 times, then enter into an input "I am aware that this is extremely risky and Steve Jobs will hate me" and then enable the different app store and later get infected AND they would complain to Apple "Why did you did not protect me from my stupidity, I did not knew what I was doing" , Really are this iOS users that stupid ? how could they use MacBooks without going monthly to a shop to remove viruses ? Or only iPhone users that don't have laptops are stupid?
I mean, AFAIK my blog isn't. Yet. I get visitors from China on my post about controlling the world's cheapest quadcopter from a PC via arduino and nrf24l01+...

edit: I just checked, it's accessible from mainland China, though quite slow.
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The z80 is an 8-bit processor released in 1976. It's not an appropriate target for Linux for many reasons, including: no processor support for process isolation, massively divergent hardware setup in different applications, lack of processing power, lack of modern c compiler, etc. I don't think any of the mainstream Linux ports run on anything less than a 32-bit processor; although there are some fringe ports to 16-bit systems.

I'm somewhat surprised there's no Z80 support for GCC, I recall running a gcc for Motorola's 68HC11 which is a similar processor. That said, most general purpose C compilers are a bad fit for 8-bit processors; you really want to write assembly for these small systems to ensure your code is compact and fast; it's much too easy to write code in C that will be significantly slower than if well written in assembly because of limited memory indexing modes or lack of registers. It's probably possible to carefully constrain your C usage to encourage reasonable assembly output, but then you're not going to be able to use existing C code. You won't have that much code that fits in your roms anyway, so you may as well dig in and write assembly.
> Multinational companies conforming to local laws and customs isn't scary, it's status quo.

You are missing my point. The fact that it is status quo is the scary part.

I do not accept that companies should be let off the hook for empowering and enriching oppressive reigns because of "local laws and customs". I do accept that companies should be let off the hook for destroying environments and ecosystems because of local laws and customs.

What should a country have to do for a person / corporation(group of people) to stop supporting it? I don't expect everyone to have the same answer, or even that my answer is better than another, but if you are in a privileged life-situation you should think of your personal line and decide if it has been crossed.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or foment regional flamewar here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is this a major concern? How often are people in accidents on average? I supposed one day this could happen to me. Or hopefully I wouldn't get unlucky and have a normal experience in this case. Regardless, I just haven't needed much body work over the last 15 years at all.

I assume this issue is improving too.
I would not call getting rid of these regulations as progressive. They exist to protect the environment and enrich the lives of the residents. We just need better, cheaper solutions to construction even if it's something as far fetched as robot labor.
I think even most people mocking Bernie for saying "there should be no billionaires" are more open to much higher estate tax rates.

At least when a wealthy person dies it's easier to count their wealth because there are strong incentives on the parts of the people who stand to inherit their wealth to make sure it's all counted correctly.
99pi episode "Built on Sand" talks about mass timber aka CLT: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-on-sand/
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These people are not in any way the leaders of a group I belong to. I'm not part of GNU. So I'm not doing the same thing at all.
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As a California resident, this is all very familiar, except our equivalent NIMBY-enabling law is called CEQA.

Can someone knowledgeable about CEQA/SEPA compare and contrast the two?
The atrocities of the US are not strictly in the past, though our biggest and boldest known atrocities are. That being said I would say that we have benefitted from the atrocities of the past; the land I live on was once populated by people that my government participated in the genocide of. More importantly, I said nothing about people. Does the average Chinese citizen benefit directly from the atrocities of the Chinese government? Is the answer to that question even relevant to whether your prior condemnation of China was fair? Why shift to examining citizens in the case of the US but not in the case of China?
Korea is different. South Korea actually does require mapping servers to be ran on SK soil, but it does not put requirements on the data center owner or the workforce running the services.

I'm sorry if this comes off as nit-picky as it is not my intention, but comparing the mapping services requirements of China and SK are worlds apart. The intent of each policy is important to think about.