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Yes. Not all spending can be deducted. But for the ones you do, you have the right to ask for the "electronic invoice" and the business has to give it to you.

When that happens they ask you for your TAX ID and then the business generates the invoice and your taxid and their taxid makes the tie. The Mexican IRS systems see all of this. So at the tax reporting moment, the system will have all that info.

It is pretty neat actually. However I think it is possible bc in Mexico people are not that concerned with privacy and all that.
> the video contains numerous misconceptions, errors, and dubious bits of hand-waving.

Would you care to give a few examples so that I can appreciate their significance? Are they major errors or are you nitpicking?
Not just enrollment, but also % of applicants accepted.
The meteorite impact provided an ecosystem for microbial life (fracture zones, heat and water). But why speculate that the actual microbes came with the meteorite? Why not a terrestrial origin? It's not like we're lacking microbes here.
I find that awful, because now half your subject line is burned by completely useless information: the JIRA ticket number doesn't provide any useful information when reading a git log / summary.
But aren't you just the amalgamation of all those distributed processes?
I am assuming that, in your statement of my position, where you wrote "figuring out what it looks like" you meant "figuring out what it looks like elsewhere." I also want to make it clear that I take "based on" to mean that the deduced remote measurements are a necessary part of the argument. Nevertheless, it is still not quite there: as it stands, even after these adjustments, it leads to the conclusion that Swebs' argument is circular, yet we are both agreed that it is not.

This goes back to the part of Swebs' argument that says, in effect, "if we were to observe the expansion of the universe from a distant galaxy, it would look like it does from here" (specifically, that we are at the center in both cases.) My position is that I do not think one could make any successful argument of that form - i.e. which depends on comparing what one would measure at a remote location with what one observes here - without it being circular. My reason for thinking that is so is that I suspect that, if the argument is valid (Swebs' was not), you cannot deduce what those remote measurements are without begging the question.

Now we get to the critical part: my reason for thinking it would be begging the question is that, if the measurements are capable of resolving the UEIS/UEOS issue, then I think they must have a causal dependency on which way UEIS/UEOS goes, and thus, on account of that dependency, one could not deduce what would be measured remotely without first picking one or the other.

Update: Let's look at it from the other direction: if your deduced remote measurements do not differ depending on whether you assume UEIS or UEOS, then how are they going to resolve the issue? This is what makes Swebs' argument an invalid one.

Note that this does not rule out UEIS/UEOS being settled by local measurements, and in fact, early in this thread, I mentioned what I thought might be a possible candidate: directly determine the Hubble constant without reference to redshift, through measurements over time of objects whose distance can be measured by other means. Such methods would not depend on comparing local and deduced remote measurements, and would render moot the whole issue of whether we can deduce relevant remote measurements, as well as all arguments that rely on doing so.

So my position is that I do not think there are any arguments that are both valid and non-circular, that depend on comparing deduced remote measurements to local ones, that show we already have observations that resolve the issue, and I will stand by it until I am persuaded otherwise. One valid counter-example would be sufficient.
I'm really, really skeptical that if Amazon (or whoever) suddenly finds efficiencies through drone usage then those efficiencies and lower costs for them would translate into lower prices for consumers...
He borrowed money against his WW shares. There are rumours a margin call may be due.
New York is something of an exceptional case. Not that other cities are quiet, but the busy areas of New York take horns, sirens, etc. to the next level. Even someone generally used to urban living will find the general noise and congestion level exceptional. (By US standards. There are obviously other world cities that are very noisy and crowded as well.)
If someone as dumb as Neumann can go so far, how smart are all the people leading all other tech unicorns and corporations?
The name is the one thing coming from that company that I actually believe.
Is there a specific reason that WeWork comes up so much on HN? I've never heard of it otherwise, but I see at least one story on it hit the front page a week.
I agree the current system has become so warped and profiteering it needs an overhaul. Not sure dropping requirements altogether is the way to go though. At least the tests required people to work for a better score and get some idea of how to seriously study. Considering the abysmal academic skills of most college students I've taught, I can't imagine what fresh degree of ineptitude awaits.
Babies don't have (ossified) kneecaps - their knees are already padded. And, as 100% of parents will agree, babies will definitely, definitely tell you when they hurt.
Why is this news? This guy has been pretty solidly shamed, removed from power, and his former company practically destroyed.

At this point it seems pretty shallow celebrating more stories of missteps here.
It often works and may even be required for corporations that exist for centuries.

The United States was founded by a group of men based on ideals strongly influenced by a fraternity. That fraternity has steered America for much of its history. Otherwise common ideals fracture quite easily under duress.

Probably that's what Adam had in mind. A family based institution culling certain ideals that serve as the guiding light for the company.
OTOH, most of the Web is slow and crappy thanks to layer after layer of piled up “saving 95% of a small number isn’t worth my time” attitudes.
From a bird's perspective, windmills move in novel and unpredictable ways. Birds have not evolved to be concerned with gigantic, sword like objects swinging perpendicular to the plane if flight.

Drones move like birds.
I feel like the blog argument could be made for using garbage collected language (Java?) over assembly.
Anyway, stepping from C to C++ is a lot of overhead.
Yeah, I know how it works, and the level of automation is the same in all modern languages - as you note, Java's equivalent of "par" is writing ".parallelStream()" instead of ".stream()" so no real difference, beyond the language enforced immutability.

But it doesn't actually matter. How often is parallelStream used in reality? Basically never. I would find the arguments of FP developers convincing if I was constantly encountering stories of people who really wanted to use parallelStream but kept encountering bugs where they made a thinko and accidentally mutated shared state until they gave up in frustration and just went back to the old ways. I'd find it convincing if I'd had that experience also. In practice, avoiding shared state over the kind of problems automated parallelism is used for is very easy and comes naturally. I've used parallel streams only rarely, and actually never in a real shipping program I think, but when I did I was fully aware of what mutable state might be shared and it wasn't an issue.

The real problem with this kind of parallelism is that it's too coarse grained and even writing par or parallelStream is too much mental overhead, because you often can't easily predict when it'll be a win vs a loss. For instance you might write a program expecting the list of inputs to usually be around 100 items: probably not worth parallelising, so you ignore it or try it and discover the program got slower. Then one day a user runs it on 100 million items. The parallelism could have helped there, but there's no mechanism to decide whether to use it or not automatically, so in practice it wasn't used.

Automatic vectorisation attacked this problem from a different angle and did make some good progress over time. But that just creates a different problem - you really need the performance but apparently small changes can perturb the optimisations for unclear reasons, so there's an invisible performance cliff. The Java guys pushed auto-vectorisation for years but have now given up on it (sorta) and are exposing explicit SIMD APIs.
If someone where paying a decent salary, then I could see someone being interested in getting to live in the tropics and SCUBA dive all day; even if it probably isn't the most interesting SCUBA diving in the world. Maybe they could convince some water sports companies to fund it as community service/publicity?
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>well he is a layperson

'Mark Zuckerberg is a layperson on the subject of free speech'

You don't see the problem with that statement?

He's the major head of one of the largest communications networks on the planet. His opinion is one of the most important to sway for those of us that have any opinion, for OR against, freedom of speech.

His ignorance on the topic is pretty unforgivable, given the intrinsic nature of the business he runs and moderates.

Personally I tend to think that it's political double-talk rather than ignorance. He's just trying to space his answers away from any 'hard' questions so as to maintain a more vague (and politically enticing) persona.
If the trend in current valuations is to be believed, it's not even a company.
the noise of a bunch of cars is also a much less annoying frequency than your typical drone, which is more of a buzz. I say this as a drone enthusiast myself; I only feel comfortable flying mine when other people aren't around.
I think "plastic in the ocean" is more easily imaginable.
Until very recently climate change was pretty abstract and in many ways it still is, even though we see the effects.

Not to be forgotten: Obviously the two are related, the petrochemical industry is a huge contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and ultimately a part of the oil industry. If people cut down unnecessary plastic use because they're worried about plastic particles in the ecosystem, they're also doing something good for the climate.
For a product to become huge it has to be general and appeal to many users, not niche. If someone knew what the next huge product opportunity was going to be, why would they tell you instead of pursuing it themselves?
This is like that episode of the Simpsons when Apu is getting his citizenship and taking the quiz, they ask him the cause of the American Revolution and he starts going through a list with nuanced analysis. The testmaster stops him and tells him: "Just say slavery." There were some other very minor causes, but slavery was the biggest.

Similarly, you can just say illegal purchases. The other things have been largely debunked. Interestingly, you didn't even mention the giant primary use case of buying illegal things.
Social media is designed for emotion, not dialogue
This is an interesting topic and reflects an obvious double standard among developers.

On the one hand, popular opinion in the profession is to encourage you to launch your product as quickly as possible and then revise rapidly. That naturally leads the developer to reach for time-saving libraries, templates and frameworks. Even, if you're not launching a product, you still reach for a framework because it makes you - to use a favourite term among developers - 'productive'. In other word, everything for the comfort of the developer.

On the other hand, when the developer is on the receiving end of a memory-guzzling app, or a bloated website, they will complain loudly and eagerly point the finger at the designer, the Product Manager, the stakeholders, the boss or whoever - always someone else to blame. What developers won't do is acknowledge that attitudes and practices in the programming profession are the root of many of these problems.

I sometimes wonder if programming is the only profession where so many people aspire to the lowest possible standard, while holding everyone else to a much higher one.
Regarding mandatory attendance - welcome to the German model.
Most universites don't have mandatory attendance, which is good for subjects where there are many more students than available seats :).
Also it's very handy for students who (have to) work in order to finance their studies.
Mark Zuckerberg's free speech drive is mostly just a political game to try to stave off the threat of regulation by Republicans concerned about "silencing conservative voices."
Drivel is a verb.
Terror management theory
Many words in your comment were stolen from the dictionary.
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> There are no life lessons (...) involved in doing dishes

Couldn't be more wrong.
Fair enough. From a purely business perspective, maybe even baby kneecaps make sense irrespective of their utility.
Excuse the intemperate tone but you could also consider this is a move by the financial institutions in London to remove some competition.
Most Australian states require grocery stalls to charge for bags.

While a nice idea, instead of reusing my grocery bags as bin liners, I have to buy bin liners as well as the occasional bag when I forget. The net result is more plastic waste for me.
Free will is, in common parlance, a mechanism which produces decisions which stems from that consciousness and perception. If the decision precedes it, then free will does not exist (and in my opinion cannot).

Humans are still demonstrably able to perform decisions which vary based on input, of course, so in that sense, "free" will is indisputable.
And yet they invented another technology (amp) to solve the crappy situation. Thus, people added more layers over existing layers.
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>Colleges are held financial accountable to enroll students they can retain, so they can collect a full-term tuition. They aren't going to risk giving a valuable spot to a student that won't be able to perform well academically, just because they are 'diverse'.

One would hope this to be the case, but considering only about 50% of college freshmen come back for a second year, it doesn't seem like they're doing that well picking applicants with staying power.
"Children of Time" is fantastic and "Three Body Problem" is good. I haven't read the rest of the Three Body series but it seems popular.
> I completely agree that it's a pity such nice feature isn't known better among wide audience and yes, Firefox bookmarks management ("Library") UI leaves much to be desired. [2]

My main worry is that I mainly use tags to sort my bookmarks before using folders, and even after many years they (tags) aren't showing up on mobile. I'm afraid they'll eventually pull tags support out and become way less useful.

Tags are IMO a better sorting system than folders.
I give you points for optimism and arguing in good faith :)

Unfortunately the extract I quoted is very clear. They aren't talking about understanding that engineer is a person adjective and thus could refer to an entity of unknown gender, which is a separate subfield of AI to word vectors (it'd entity analysis/knowledge graph). They're talking pure probabilities here: given a sequence of words, what is the most probable following sequence? The model gets the answer correct but Googlers are weak and cannot handle the truth, so in an Orwellian twist they label measured reality "biased" and set out to edit the model to convince it that there's no difference in probability between "Yes he did" and "Yes she did".
I like the "Discipline is Freedom" on that guy's t-shirt.
Its arguable, but its deep.
I love reusing empty cardboard boxes. They are useful for around the house too.
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No, it's a noun. 'what a drivel' sounds wrong because it is a mass noun, just like you can't say "a sugar".
Bot finds bugs and submits patches, masquerading as human
I swear i’ve been reading versions of this essay since about 1985.
Some would say that's a sign the SAT should be improved to be a more accurate prediction of college success, rather than that it should be done away with all together.

I mean, if a graphics card review told you how many FPS you could expect on Half Life 2, it might not show the differences between modern graphics cards. But that's just a sign the reviewers should use a more modern game for their benchmark, not that they should switch to reviewing whether the card's designer sometimes volunteers at a soup kitchen or whether the maker spends a lot of money on ads in the magazine.
I am grateful for RSS feeds, without them I wouldn't be able to keep up with so many websites.
Isn't Walmart controlled by the children of Sam Walton? [1]

"Sam Walton's heirs own over 50 percent of Walmart through their holding company Walton Enterprises and through their individual holdings. "

Where does this writer think shares go when someone dies?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart
It's another detail in the picture.

It's bearing witness, if nothing else. Showing a pattern (or showing a behaviour which may prove not to be a pattern) of fraud / control / incompetence.
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Generally speaking, people know how to spot a con artist intuitively. The difficulty is figuring out who is part of the con, and who is a mark. Sometimes one person is both, or changes from partner to mark overnight.
Same goes for politic, yes? Because "in this day and age where pump-and-dump short term trading often prevails, the security benefits of limiting the power of public shares often seem worth considering."
Eh, in my experience (entirely in USA) attendance is only part of the grade when the course is kind of squishy. Attendance was never even mentioned in the math or physics courses I took. However, it was very important in history and literature.
If you can quantify the time you spend on this activity and the value you get, it seems that the value only decreases over time. (If you count time "left" as your only currency)
You've never heard of dual-class shares? When you're an investor you have to read the prospectus, dude.

I don't want to prevent this. For some companies I want voting rights controlled. I don't want other people in my position telling Google how to run. The founders do a better job than the short-term shareholders. So let them have Class B. As a Class A, I prefer this.
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This one's a bit beyond the pale. No one is upvoting mundane tabloid gossip, this is bigger because it's not something ordinary.
Since it's usually not the CEOs that spectacularly and completely failed and don't get up again are writing those books, they may also simply start drinking their own kool-aid. If you talk about how you are X, even if you started doing that knowing it isn't true and only to mislead the public, you're probably find rationalizations that say you really are X and your brain no longer has to simulate two competing realities to allow you to function at your job. The power of positive thinking weaponized and run on a well oiled machine of ad creators that can absolutely make you believe that you are solving the world's problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Roland_Murphy they were led by "Murph the Surf"
There is an interesting column in the data:

F10: 10.7 cm radio flux index [10−22 W/(m2 Hz)]

It seems to be some sun radio activity index, but why is it relevant to collisions?
FYI - The article keeps talking about cornstarch filaments - that’s PLA, a very common filament material.
The first half of the article is just a list of zingers with no substance:

> Facebook’s content regulations have been incoherent in design and in practice

> Zuckerberg’s unsophisticated thoughts on free speech generated a manifesto that can only be called incoherent

> ... listen to billionaire who seems to have barely cracked a book on the subject and can’t seem to form a clear line of argument

> weak undergraduate essay that would earn at most a B- from any university professor

> shallowest of platitudes

> so weak and poorly structured that it could not have served as worse evidence in an argument for the value of speech itself
I find your comment exceptionally interesting, because I find it really easy to square what you’re saying and what the article is saying. A couple hypotheses that I’ve been chewing on for a few years now:

- the “grow huge or go home” startup is one path, but not the only path. Looking around your own city will make it obvious that smaller profitable businesses that provide goods or services do exist in this world and are a perfectly reasonable way to make money. I, personally, am perfectly happy to be involved in a business that makes a consistent healthy profit, rather than being perpetually in the red, chasing hockey stick growth.

- putting time/money into things that will pay consistent dividends is huge leverage. In your case, you put time into your product upfront and are now reaping those dividends. You don’t say explicitly whether you built it yourself or hired someone to do it, but either way... over a decade, you either invested time or money into it to turn it into a dividend-generating machine

- in a lot of ways, the ultimate goal for a business is to turn into something that can continue to run without the owner/founder’s involvement at all. It may not get 100% there while the owner is still around, but if the business isn’t something that can eventually be sold and managed by someone else, it’s more a job than a business, and when the owner retires, the business disappears too.

For me, your model of a lifestyle business is beautiful, but it’s significantly different than the 4 Hour Work Week model of a lifestyle business. Those two end up getting lumped together and depending on which model people are thinking about when they read “lifestyle business”, they have significantly different reactions. My own reactions:

- “I spent 10 years building a SaaS product that makes me enough money to go rock climbing all the time”: AWESOME! Nicely done! That is fantastic!

- “I spent a few months tracking down suppliers on AliExpress that can dropship cheap sunglasses. This makes enough money to go rock climbing all the time”: Urgh... well... hopefully that works out well for you long term I guess.
It’s worth noting that equal temperament predates the concept of a logarithm function, so the methods they used were both clever and imprecise.

Also worth nothing that mean temperament was an intermediate step between Pythagorean tuning and equal temperament, musicians didn’t jump directly from simple fraction into equal temperament.
Most of it was the Saudi royal family’s money, they were the biggest investors in the Vision Fund.
I don't think those CEOs can answer those types of questions. Some of these types of questions seem to just be gotchas, where engaging with the question at all leads to a bad outcome. Any kind of public deliberation on "well, what if your company just fails/is evil" could negatively impact how well the company does. Why would a CEO even tempt fate like this?

If the world wasn't so keen on taking sound bites out of context, then maybe you could have CEOs give you meaningful answers about these questions in interviews. But the world does love their sound bites and thus the only thing they can say is PR-speak.
Yes. Ford provided good automobiles for Nazis. Family business works if money is your only value. Human values are not inherited by genes.
This kind of sounds like what governments do. Or civilization in general.