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Wealth is zero sum, only economic growth is not zero sum. If
your stock goes up by a billion because you made it possible for the economy to produce an extra billion worth with the same resources, then sure. If you just bet on the market and win, or an angel drops one billion dollars on you from the sky, everything you buy with it is taken from someone else.

Money is just an accounting for the actual goods and services the economy provides. There are only so many materials and laborers available at any one time and your wealth determines who gets access to them. If you buy $1 billion in chairs, other people will have to forgo things made from wood (or forgo other things to attract new lumberjacks). Your wealth represents your power to bid against them and win.
The article's most prominent example of an idyllic, walkable, “car-free” city is Venice, Italy, whose residents do have motor vehicles with full access to the city; they just happen to run on separate waterways.

This would imply that the optimal land-based city could have cars, but they'd have to have their infrastructure more sequestered from pedestrians.
Geocities all over again.. Why can't they go into readonly mode? Or even a downloadable archive? How much storage could it possibly be?
The invisible homeless aren't the ones who would get harassed by the police.
It's not simply a risk of a loose nuke.

> It is feared that removing the weapons could signal the end of relations between the Nato allies, while leaving them in place could put the weapons of mass destruction at risk.

From your wikipedia link:

> The conventional explosives needed to start the chain reaction are tailored to the characteristics of the fissile material in the core of the weapon. If the detonation does not occur exactly as planned, such as in the case of a misfire, a nuclear reaction is unlikely to occur—the explosion will be no greater than the amount of conventional explosive (although radioactive material—the unreacted nuclear fuel—may be dispersed).

The anti-tamper protection results in a misfire.

One does not need to have a ballistic nuke to cause unspeakable damage. Misfire 50 nukes in a water supply, eg Lake Assad[1] and you could have a major humanitarian disaster on your hands.

If a misfire is safe against dispersal (as some googling indicates might be true), why not detonate them in a bunker, then retrieve the nuclear material for incorporation into a dirty bomb?

Now, yes thanks to PAL it may not be a risk like 9/11, but it's much more than a non-issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...
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Exactly.

For example, if you have a $10M net-worth, according to Gabriel Zucman & Thomas Piketty, you get higher returns on average than the little guy. Not sure the exact number, but let's say an ~8% return on average (believe it's higher).

You would make ~$800K a year in "capital gains" and pay $133K in federal taxes. If you earned $500k in income, you'd pay ~$164K in federal taxes. You'd pay another ~$35k+ in states most people live in for about a 39.8% tax rate. Not to mention, your employer is paying another 5% in payroll taxes to employ you. So, really, it's a 44.8% tax.

But if your income comes from "capital gains" instead of working, you'd pay less than half that percentage in tax -- at 16.25%.

Why is there a distinction between "capital gains" and dividends and fixed income? Because only the very wealthy get most of their income from capital gains.

Even people with $1-5M in wealth... they're mostly the people that worked really hard and still got a little lucky with their investments. They're almost all old. They've paid off their house. So... 1) most of their wealth is tied up in their house, and 2) most of what's left over is tied up in fixed income like bonds -- which are taxed as "income" and not "capital gains".
You mention removing "most" unit tests from the app, not all of them. Does that mean that you find some of them valuable and some not? This might suggest that perhaps you feel like you are maintaining too many unit tests, a little different perspective than dumping them all. Adapting to a more effective/useful/manageable amount of unit testing seems like a reasonable goal.
Diversity is not an unquestioned good. It means more fights, less common ground, more misunderstanding.

There are plenty of examples of relatively insular cultures (e.g. Sweden, Paypal) producing great stuff.

I don't hate diversity, I just don't buy this unquestioned "diversity is good" idea. It has pros and cons.
This approach typically fails quite bad in practice. The subjective impression of success depends on the people around at the time of the decision and the set of queries they chose to inspect. As corner cases pop up with significant cost in production (e.g. surfacing nudity in an image search for a query where it’s highly inappropriate) you become less and less capable of understanding why or hacking business logic in to an already brittle system.

The same problem appears for A/B testing different result orderings. It all hinges on the metrics you chose. If you only looked at e.g. top 5 click through rate, and then later a page redesign brings the top 10 results above the fold, and 6-10 are garbage, you’re suddenly screwed with no systematic way to adjust underlying parameters of the search model that control these things, or really even to get analytics data about it because you felt you could just outsource to a place like Algolia and not have in-house expertise, or that some engineers without statistics backgrounds could just hack it.
Oftentimes. I gave you an upvote just because sometimes around here you will get downvoted because the gods of zeitgeist decide it must be so.
See the documentary "The Corporation". The basic premise of this doc is that corporations are sociopaths / psychopaths. Corporations do not "care" about anything - only people can do that.

Companies do not have ethics, morals, etc. Only individual people have those. The film also talks about how any group of people tend to lose their humanity because in any group, it is easy to fall back on "someone else made the decision", "it's someone else's problem", "I didn't have the final say-so on this", etc.

IMO we too often have given companies attributes and rights of individuals that they don't deserve because they don't behave like individuals, and are incapable of having things like morals.
I wager you could find similar entities walking around LA.

edit: Or NYC.
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Theo said it best:
"But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia." -- Theo de Raadt
This is not an authoritative list, and you can imagine that people with vast amounts of inherited wealth prefer to keep that non-public. It's easier to track wealthy people who created their own fortune, as it usually involves participating in the economy in some obvious way.
The "we're not being political" approach also fails at an earlier hurdle; which is that the decision to not allow "political" discussion at work -and the decision to refuse to review taking business from hate groups are themselves inescapably political decisions.
TechReviewHQ aggregates thousands of tech reviews from across the internet into one place, whether from TechCrunch, The Verge, or MKBHD.

I'd love to get some feedback on the site. Check it out and let me know what you think!
As a general concept, I agree, more police would benefit from the perspective of riding a bike.

But the problem I'm describing is not that cops don't care to ticket, it's that enforcing the rule incentivizes the wrong behavior. Traffic is so choked and sporadic that it's hard to know whether you will end up in an intersection, so people would be afraid to enter the intersection entirely, further slowing down traffic.

If you actually enforced the law and ticketed it would just effectively be a stochastic congestion tax. Far better and fairer, in my opinion, to just do the real thing.
The fissile material would still be available to build another bomb. You don't even need to use them, just disappearing the weapons and insinuating you know where they are is a powerful threat.
I've been in Australia from 12 years, though an ex-pat from the UK. I visited Barcelona for the first time in a decade less than a month ago and coming from a country that's so very car centric (Australia), I found Barcelona to be an absolute delight for just walking around as a pedestrian.

I agree with your sentiment wholly.
People travel for about 3hrs before wanting a break. Cars killed all small cities a 3hr drive away from a major city.
It's like a nuclear bomb went off in most small cities.
It is a slime mold.
As somebody who avoids the news except during elections, what the heck is going on? Turkey and Russia is invading Syria? The USA pulled out suddenly? I’ve missed a lot
>IQ is a model.

Everything is a model, but IQ is literally the most statistically significant idea in psychology.

Your strict resolution that IQ doesn't mean intelligence is just your own opinion not really backed by any fact, just an opinion that people are more complicated than numbers.

It's true, people are more complicated than numbers, but nonetheless they can be accurately rank ordered and IQ, as you said, means something. It doesn't say anything about accomplishments, or quality of character. But it does say something about fluid intelligence.

Nobody cares if it perfectly matches some arbitrary thing you decided it needs to match to count for you. The mozart comment doesn't even fit into the conversation. Nobody said anything about contributions to anything.

Fluid intelligence is a measurable property, even if its not measuring it to your personal satisfaction. The question becomes why are you more of an authority than those mathematicians and psychologists who did the research?

You're not. Your opinion doesn't invalidate theirs. It just says you didn't do the research.
Police wouldn't be so trigger happy if guns weren't so pervasive.
A single person in San Fransisco with an income of $500,000 and the standard deduction has a takes home $288,646.

A single person in San Fransisco has a cost of living of $1125.83 without rent, according to numbeo (whatever that is). Median rent in San Fransisco is $3700 for a one bedroom.

That leaves a measly $230,736 of post-tax, post-living expenses money. Assuming this person does nothing more than hide a monotonically increasing pile of cash under a mattress, it takes just over 43 years to amass $10,000,000.

Presumably this financial cretan started working right after college, at the age of 22. This means they've acquired the full sum at the age of 65, which is not an uncommon retirement age. Cuts close, but checks out.
Is there a reason why they don't have a street address in 2019? Do they not want them or is it funding or something else?
The article, oddly, only states this in the photo caption. Not sure why.
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> Is there any way to set it up in Amazon (or ebay, too) so that their fulfillment never uses a certain delivery brand?

No, unfortunately not. Well, unless you're open to moving outside of Yodel's delivery radius.

eBay has no fulfillment network, so you can reach out to the seller and ask for a different shipping method. You should expect to be asked to cover the cost difference though.

You can also do this on Amazon as well, just make sure that the product you're buying says "ships and sold by XYZ". Send them a message prior to ordering and they'll let you know if they can accommodate.
> ...but the idea that space is expanding implies an outer "edge"

No, it doesn't.

For example: consider an infinite number of marbles in an infinitely long line, all of them are touching each other.

Now, get an infinite number of helpers stationed along the infinitely long line, and have them all move the marbles in front of them to the right and stagger them out in the process, so that there's now an inch between each marble.

You now have an infinite number of marbles an infinitely long line, but it's a longer line than it started out, because there's now an inch between all the marbles.
Let us be clear and erase some baseless speculation: a "misfire" is 100x times better than a nuclear explosion. A "dirty bomb" is still somewhere between 10x and 50x better.

Also for education purposes, the B61s in question are stored in hardened "storage bunkers"[1] under the control of US personnel at the airbase.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_Storage_and_Security_S...
I believe it's a previously undiscovered form of clickbait.
> After all, the median (50%tile) wealth is nearly zero

Median wealth in the US ~97k. It’s quite stunning one could think a society would work with the 50-percentile being zero.
Some of this increase is attributable to lowering taxes brings more income out of the shadows and on to the tax return. If we lowered the marginal rate to 1% I think we’d see a lot more income appear on tax returns that is either unreported or creatively expenses at present tax rates.
Stock options are distinct from units. They have a clear value, current market value, discounted by your fear of the future.
See also the UK's Beast of Bodmin Moor, the Fen Tiger etc. etc. etc., still evading the ubiquitous gaze of the camera phone after all these years, a couple of blury images of obvious domestic cats notwithstanding.

Surely it must be that the feline predator looming deep in the human psyche is what lies beneath these apparitions.
Slime mold is interesting. There's one species that, if you assemble food sources in the population densities found in Tokyo, will grow to look very similar to the Tokyo subway system:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwKuFREOgmo
Nothing here either
Oh yeah... also worth mentioning, if you use google domains for your registrar you get free mail forwarding, to send someone@yourdomain mails to foo@gmail etc. I use this for a few domains I don't feel like setting up, it's been useful. Won't handle your collaborative needs though.
Totally false. This is like massively overfitting a high-order polynomial regression to your data. The fit looks good enough, then the next data point comes in and breaks in a way the existing model cannot be hacked to account for.

The search results you believed were implicitly tuned to some feedback mechanism slowly experience creep as the customer cohort changes and data distribution changes until before you knew it your management of the search solution is a ceaseless game of whack-a-mole siphoning off engineering resources at a rapidly increasing rate. It’s the same false promise of just having some engineers stand up Elastic Search.
Because you can't disarm police while every criminal has a gun.
With 50 bombs to learn from, I would be amazed if the clever engineers in charge wouldn’t find a way past those measures given enough time and money
Not that I disagree with you, and I don't know about others, but I've seen lots of cool one time things I've never taken pictures of because I'm too busy watching it and honestly never think to take pictures until after.

Animals are also hard to take pictures of. I've been trying to get a good picture of a squirrel from my yard for a friend of mine for weeks now but the little bastards are quick. By the time I get the camera app open they're gone.
When did Reuters get so sensationalistic? I remember years ago when they were the matter-of-fact news agency that other journalists got their info from and built their sensational articles around.

From TFA:

> This newest exhibit of the Paris Zoological Park, which goes on display to the public on Saturday, has no mouth, no stomach, no eyes, yet it can detect food and digest it.

> The blob also has almost 720 sexes, can move without legs or wings and heals itself in two minutes if cut in half.

Yeah, it's a slime mo(u)ld, we get it. You don't need to get all carnie shouter about it.

Back to my original question, when did Reuters decide their strategic shift into their own souped-up content?
These devices can be defeated however the skills required are likely beyond anything Turkey has, I doubt if you transfer these nukes in a faraday cage to some bunker in Russia or China they wouldn’t be able to disarm the PAL and arm the physics package.

However it would likely take weeks or even months of careful reverse engineering of the mechanisms involved.

The likely scenario if those nukes are put at risk is either some sort of a self destruct mechanism that is designed to disable to physics package without detonating the core itself and an immediate military response to deny any access to the area.

The US can stage in Greece, Cyprus and Israel if need be as well as Saudi Arabia not to mention that they can move a carrier group into the region fairly quickly.

And they would have to do so because if they don’t Russia is invading turkey in full force and after the purges in the Turkish military and their out dated equipment (they just rolled into a Syria in M60 Patton tanks) they don’t stand a chance against either really.

However even a hint of this being possible would likely end Erdogan’s regime over night.
Define "harm".
As an email mailing list, the Yahoo Group will continue to work. The website functionality is what's being lost.
In that case one can just spam the same (or similar) post every second and your feed will likely be filled with that post.

I know I'm setting up a bit of a straw man here but my point is even chronological order can be exploited.
Somewhat. If you don't have the knowledge (math and skills) you really can only threaten a dirty bomb in the worst case. Al-Qaeda did that for years. We didn't know if they were bullshitting or not until way later (they were full of shit).
If "many Cherokee" can be classified as a "Cherokee alliance", Pemberton and Cooper, actual Confederate generals, should as well, applying these laws in context of the 14th ammendment. So no more representatives from PA or NJ?
Princexml did a good job when I used it years ago, as well as TCPDF did.

Recently, I only used weasyprint, which works like a charm for my needs.
Well, no. These people, with their outsize influence, have aligned themselves with the wealthiest for political reasons: when they're grouped together, it's easier to fend off attacks on their income and wealth.

The fact is that the vast majority of people in above the 5% mark come from comfortable families. This would be fine, except that 1) they live in and influence a society where many live in exceedingly uncomfortable circumstances, and 2) instead of recognizing this as a moral travesty and acting accordingly, they hoard not only resources but the opportunity to better oneself.

We passed the point where "personal responsibility" was a reasonable justification for systemic suffering when we stopped hunting with rocks. Much of civilized history has been marked by the apparent ability to provide generally for the populace and the baffling decision not to. I don't think it's radical to say that we're discussing a manifestation of this phenomenon, more than anything else.
> This applies to very few sellers.

Fair enough. I am one of those few sellers and I tend to assume it's more commonplace than it is.

In any case, I don't really understand the desire for instant disbursements. Certainly you eliminate the risk of Amazon carrying a larger balance than necessary, and in rare cash crunch situations it may rescue the day... But beyond that, why is it so desireable?
- Engaging in illegal, unlawful behavior.
- Encouraging violence or discrimination against legally protected groups.

You might need to clarify what legal jurisdiction you apply to those rules. California's definitions? Another U.S. state? Another country? As a global company where illegality varies by country, I think those statements present an opportunity for different interpretations without clarification.

- Related topic: We generally don't discuss religion or politics.....

Too much waffling added. Political discussion in the workplace can devolve into a hostile work environment.

I'd suggest this simplification of the two versions:
We do not discuss politics in the workplace. However, we encourage discussion and iteration on any company policy.
I don't think many people should expect to get into the top 1% of assets by just sticking money under a mattress. Presumably most would invest it and expect an average rate of return of 7% or so from decades of investing. Eventually the investment grows more from compounding than new income.
Are nuclear bombs good? In the end it largely depends on how they are used.
IQ is a measure of how fast you learn things. In jobs where problems are novel, high IQ tends to predict success. In monotonous jobs the ability to learn faster doesn't help you.

And again, its completely true that IQ does not mean success. The world is full of poor geniuses. but as far as psychology goes, its the best predictor available.
Good for them for trying to avoid the "Get woke go broke" phenomenon.
I learnt a lot just looking and hacking at these [1] Glitch examples, all sorts of methods used here not just a single library/technology stack...

[1] https://glitch.com/@glitch/bots
4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456864

2 days ago https://lobste.rs/s/02ziqt/how_build_low_tech_internet
Assuming most of those people are 65+, wouldn’t most of them be dead in 20 years?
I was lived in Spain for some time not too long ago. Wife and I visited Pontevedra and we fell in love. I wish there were some way for me to get a good remote job and live there.
> High inequality does not mean low quality of life.

There's research to indicate that it does, once you've surpassed a certain level of wealth. I've been reading Utopia For Realists, which does a very readable job of summarizing work on the topic, and one publication cited that is available online is:

https://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/default/files/jrf/migrated/file...

I'd also suggest Sapolsky's work on the physiological effects of poverty.
With energy becoming more and more renewable, does it really matter if BTC uses a lot of it?
I found Digital Design by Mano and Ciletti to be a nice introduction to the basic building blocks of digital circuits. Four weeks later I'm studying laplace transforms and transfer functions please send help.
A knowledgeable person can certainly take apart the devices and reuse the material. The devices are well protected and would require completely overwhelming well trained and equipped personnel who suffer no lack of clarity in their mission. If that did occur, the US certainly has significant options to prevent unauthorized parties from getting their hands on the devices.
A retail investor in the stock market is playing an almost entirely zero-sum game. You're not supplying valuable information about which companies deserve capital. You're not providing scarce savings to stimulate investment. You're simply laying claim to the future earnings of society by bidding against others.

It's like buying a home in San Francisco -- it's not adding value that makes your wealth go up, it's the fact that other people want what you have and you got there first. And there's a healthy helping of government interference making sure that your stake is protected against outsiders.
> happiness has a logarithmic dependence on income

Citation Needed!
The compound interest of saving 19k/month @ %7/yr rate results in 10 million after 21 years, which is under half of 43 years.
A tautology - US has disenfranchised and cheated the native
Americans before so it should continue ?
If you're going in that direction, you may as well say that the universe is a simulation. Planck limits on measuring time and space as a continuum would pretty useful for putting a hard cap on required rendering resources per volume of space-time...