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> The wealth tax is unconstitutional unless the amount collected is apportioned between states in accordance with their census population.

Or the implementation involves a Constitutional Amendment.

But, sure, just fixing income taxes so that they incorporate the function of payroll taxes within the progressive scheme, and do not favor capital income (but do accommodate irregular income in a manner which is fair by allowing advance and deferred recognition of income to smooth spikes from non-repeated events, which will often involve capital income) is both constitutionally more straightforward and simpler method of shifting the overall tax burden more onto the rich.
I don't think it includes anything to actually.. cook with like a stove.
Playing rec league years ago, I had always played with a full cage. I decided to go with a half visor to be one of the cool kids. Went to my local shop and it was a bit more expensive than I had planned so I figured I'd wait until the next week to buy it. That week, I took two pucks to the cage. I never did go back to buy the visor.
Cool stuff! Is it different from electrolysis?

The way I see it, you're somewhat in a different ballgame since you're not buying explosive/toxic gases from anyone else. You're producing an explosive gas from seawater. Still, I imagine you need some pretty big safety zones if you're operating at scale, no?
I haven't had a reference check in a long time. The last company that asked for them didn't even check them. Any hiring people out there feel that reference checks provide any meaningful insight?
My state has digital insurance and registration cards. I guess this is the next logical step.

But I do worry about when people get used to using these digital identification and then get pulled over after their phone battery dies or when their phone breaks on vacation or something.

A simple traffic stop with a warning suddenly becomes a day in jail while the police "verify"a person's identity.
They don't need it. You need your voter registration card or some other way to identify yourself (like a piece of mail with your name on it) to vote in your precinct and they take your name off the list once you vote.

Voter ID laws are intended solely to make it harder to vote by requiring a specific ID (driver's license or state issued ID) to vote. They won't accept your passport, a lease, a library card, or any other vetted and validated way of verifying who you are.

This is intended to suppress participation by people who are unlikely to have a current license or state issued ID which is disproportionately people who don't own cars (poor, young, and/or urban) or people who have to move a lot. If your ID isn't your current address or at least within the precinct, once again, you're barred from voting. It's meant to privilege property owners (less likely to have their address change frequently) at their expense of people with less stable residential situations and it undermines the premise behind universal franchise.
They aren't is the point. They would be if we lived in a democracy, and according to OP we don't.
Why Does My Memory Usage Grow Asymptotically over Time?
It’s controversial because one party favors strong voter ID laws which means in the American system the other party must oppose it. A more concrete answer is that the party that favors less restrictions on voting, believes that everyone under the governed regardless of disposition, nationality, age, etc. should have the right to vote. The other party believes that the law says you must be 18 and a citizen to vote in federal elections, and that’s how it should be, and if the law says that then there must be someway to verify that.
The power supply and the energy supply will not have a single solution. It is analogous to the levels of caching in a Von Neumann cpu. L1 will capacitors, L2 batteries, bulk storage is pumped hydro and other GWh energy stores.

The duck curve is a smoke screen and should only exist for a region that doesn't have solar to the west of it. Those solar farms in CA should be feeding users a timezone over to the east.

Any source can then feed into those stores, wind, solar, hydro.

If your power solution is involves hydrocarbons, it should be a closed cycle.
Went to lunch and timed a compile of the linux kernel (v3.19) (default options) at 14 minutes on my 13" 2015 macbook pro. (3.1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM).
Either? Dozen children is hyperbole, but 3 to 5 children, as well as an extended family for support. But it takes a lot of sacrifice to achieve, which no younger person I know of is interested in.

One can also plan to off themselves once they're unable to support themselves. I say plan, because I'm sure saying it is easy, but when it comes time to do it, it'll be much more difficult.
It's not that voter ID is controversial, it's that the Republicans make it really difficult to get ID in their states.

Canada makes it easy to get ID, we don't de-fund our government offices to make it difficult to get registered. You can renew your driver's license online now, so we invest in programs to make it easier to get and keep your ID.
That article is so evocative and well-written, I feel I'll be coming back to it just to steal some expressions.
Reminds me of protopage where beside the default feeds, you could create your own list of links. Always useful to have a curated list.

https://www.protopage.com/web/help/overview
It can easily be argued the Zuck is the one punting to Congress. It's a hot potato subject: whoever holds the potato when the music stops is gonna be badly burnt.
All a dentist would do would be to wipe off any large debris (as long as noxious chemicals aren't involved, you don't really even want to wash it) and then stick it back in the socket. Maybe pack some cotton rolls around it to keep it in one spot for the first 12 hours or so. Doing this on-scene ASAP is strictly better than waiting until you get to a dentist.
Idea HN: Cross check rental listings for valid cert of occupancy
A strange thing happened to one of my friends.

He discovered that the converted church he was renting an apt in for $6k a month in Williamsburgh (NYC) didn’t have a Certificate of Occupancy.

This meant the landlord couldn’t legally collect rent, nor could they collect back rent should they ever get one.

So my friends lawyer advised him (and 30 others in the building) to stop paying rent. This was over a year ago and the building owner seems unwilling or unable to make the changes needed to get one.

There are many such properties in NYC and usually people are paying rent that don’t legally have to do so.

A useful tool would be a mashup between craiglist apartment listings and the cities C of O database.

This would effectively be a directory of free NYC housing. One could sign a lease, write a check for first and last months rent check, move in and immediately stop payment with no legal recourse from the delinquent Landlord.

Depending on where you fall on the political / economic spectrum you’ll either love or loath this idea, but it should be built either way!

I’d do it myself but I’m busy working to decriminalize entheogenic plants in NYC, do someone please build this for fun and / or profit (priority alerts for free apartments in your fav hood?).
Isn’t the TurboTax / Windows monopoly with the IRS a similar case? Defacto standard gone monopoly for digital tax returns.
I agree that the government cannot lock consumers into duopolies but you still have a choice to go and get a piece of plastic. They also really don’t have a choice if the objective is digital convenience —- outside of Apple and Google, there really isn’t any competition. If there were a proper, open mobile platform with no vendor lock in, I am sure NSW would support that as well.
In the era of algorithmic recommendations, curated lists are worth gold. Good job.

May I suggest crawling the links and hosting a mirror? Maybe IPFS? We never know when a link will break in today's web.
It's a vote suppression tactic when the IDs aren't trivially easy to obtain. A county in Wisconsin only issued them from a DMV that was only open on the fifth Wednesday of every month[1].

>That DMV service center is inside the Sauk City Community Center. And, sure enough, as Oliver’s piece stated, it’s open only on the fifth Wednesday of every month, from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m.

> The DMV doesn’t list the actual dates, so we looked them up. The four fifth Wednesdays in 2016 are in, as Oliver noted, March, June, August and November.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/feb/19/...
What about your local synagogue or mosque, how many billions do they have? What about some small non-denominational Christian church, how much have they got?

Even with the Catholic Church, sure the Vatican has billions in the bank, the parish around the corner definitely doesn't.
> Energy storage isn't really feasible

You couldn't be more Dam wrong.
Aviation is a topic anyone can understand. It's mostly used as a luxury, so it's easy to justify lowering its usage.
There's a great video[0] on contrapoints' YouTube channel where she talks about racism in Baltimore and US and covers exactly this topic.

[0] https://youtu.be/8r6GBo_7UNc
I specifically mentioned that the range and applications of this initial version is very limited. I was mostly just pointing out a company (with a very unique service) that is at the point where it's possible. It won't make its way to major carriers for a long time (i think a decade would be quite optimistic, given lead times in aviation)
People like simple answers (Snowden good / Snowden bad). A manipulator makes you believe THEY trust YOU. The message: well crafted, packaged, and distributed. Today he profits from national security secrets, whatever that may mean. How do you know you have enough information to make a correct assessment? Capturing a pawn at face value may get you a piece, but how do you know it's not a gambit if you can't see the whole chess board?

Perhaps these assist your question more than this harangue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Reaction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_global_surveillan...
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You could prohibit targeted advertising based on membership in a "protected class"[1] (race, religion, sex, etc.) - I think one of the problems with targeted political advertising on social media is that a lot of it seems created for the purpose sowing conflict between these groups. I struggle to come up with a legitimate reason a candidate would ever need to tailor their messaging based on those groups.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
Just put it in the emergency medical information section that can already be accessed when the phone is locked.

(On an iPhone, anyway. I haven't tried To set this up on my Android.)
It is required for almost every other conceivable activity that an adult might want to do. However when applied to voting it suddenly becomes some sort of suppression tactic.. Mind boggling
> most software devs (including in the Bay Area, FAANG) are recent immigrants

The only data I can find that speaks to that (from 2015) has far less than half foreign-born (39.2% of "software engineers", 27.4% of "computer programmers", etc.), and obviously not all of those are going to be "recent immigrants".

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/foreign-...
Each bad model that is learned is typically a valid model on some energy/velocity/ mass scale. Newtonian mechanics is a valid for sub-lightspeed velocities. Solving those problems using full general relativity is possible, but not useful. Modeling molecules as masses connected by springs is valid on short time scales and low energies. You can go on and on. These models are not "bad", they are just approximations that are only valid for a subset of all problems. Without these approximations, you cannot even solve most problems.

Its not like you want to teach and understand all of chemistry from a quantum chromodynamics perspective. Perhaps I misunderstood your point, but the history perspective is useful, because each of the models builds upon one another and slowly reveals the stranger and harder to describe parts of nature.
France has a similar setup to what you described; however, in towns and cities with >1000 voters, they do require a state-issued identification document specifically because using mail/other forms of id and a large list of names doesn't scale well.

See here: https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1361
It's unfortunate they couldn't get the name/domain/trademark for Friendster
The cost for dealing with the spent fuel isn't externalized. The problem is that the government promised to deal with the waste, charged a fee for doing so, forbade utilities from dealing with the waste themselves (Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982), and then... did nothing.

That little bit of waste can be dealt with, and comparatively cheaply. Think about it, you can produce 8TWh of electricity, sell it for maybe $400M, and you only have to deal with one ton of waste. That's not a big deal, but doing it is illegal.

Don't blame the industry for a dysfunctional government.
Let me know if you've got any questions or feedback.
I miss these fixed recommendation lists from when like everyone had a personal blog.
I think Project Loom would fit. It's a remarkably sane approach:

https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.ht...
What classical government had the right to vote for a representative? Rome? No. Only the elites could vote. Athens? Same story.

The old distinction between a republic and a democracy was elected representatives passing laws versus the citizens voting directly on laws themselves.

The U.S. is of course, a hybrid and has some republican elements and some democratic elements, but in the classical sense, at the Federal level, it is more of a republic than a democracy.
Judge Says Police Can Search Company’s Entire DNA Database
automated (ATO), but not unattended (UTO)
I'm pretty sure "a lot of people" here never go past a "Hello World" project in Rust.
> No one looks at a Linus rant and says "Wow I want to try my hand at adding a patch for Linux!".

He probably just thinks the kernel itself is more important than the people hacking on it. He's probably right.
I sure wish qemu were better documented. There's a lot of qemu documentation out there, but much is incomplete or out of date. A lot of Red Hat's documentation is virsh rather than qemu/kvm. It's fairly easy to get something simple up and going, but there are shortcomings when you try to do something more complicated.
> If someone 'called me out' on a 'violation' of this document, I'm not sure how I'd respond. Probably with laughter? I honestly don't know, perhaps I'm just in a bubble.

Let's say, hypothetically, because this is neither you nor me, that I wrote something like "Were you paying attention in CS100?" to a dumb mistake in your pull request. We all slip sometimes, so generally these shouldn't be big deals. Quick fix and move on.

You said to me: "Hey, in your last code review you openly insulted my competence by saying '______'. Please don't do that."

I responded: "No, you deserved that for the type of mistake you made."

I know 1-2 developers personally who would genuinely believe that. I've encountered far more here and on Reddit that would as well.

I think the real versions of us would both agree that the hypothetical me is being a jerk. Having a guideline that says "Don't criticize the person" gives you a way to take this up your managerial chain with a specific problem, as opposed to a general statement of "munchbunny was being a jerk."

While you might not need this in order to manage the situation, I know of several fresh college grads who have not yet learned the communication and political skills to manage this, and so having a document spelling it out is helpful for both teaching and enforcement, even if the line items are not explicitly rules.
Need a way to track, compare, explain and reproduce your ML experiments?
So let's change the rules to make them more easily attainable, instead of throwing out the idea of something that we desperately need in this country.
Spring water I've encountered at the source has always been exceptionally clear. That's sort of the thing about slowly passing through layers and layers of rock - mud doesn't get through.

And around here anything labeled natural mineral water must by law come with nothing added or removed (bar co2). Of course that will differ by region.

Go outside!
A new type of genetic profiling
How much does 1 megapack cost?
Sometimes if I go for a walk or to the park without my wallet I feel like a criminal. I have the misfortune of living in one of the states where going out in public without ID is illegal.

At least it was the last time I looked at the ACLU web site.
> No one looks at a Linus rant and says "Wow I want to try my hand at adding a patch for Linux!".

People who think it would be awesome to get their code past Linus, and at least very funny and instructive to have their code shat on by Linus, do :) Some of us just don’t care about or even like ‘hazing’. You know, cause once you show you can take the hazing, you’re in the group.

Yeah I don’t want to be, like, epically pwned by my boss on a code review at work, but neither do I want my coworkers believing that I may find a smiley emoticon or “I don’t understand this” to constitute some sort of hostile environment.
Hey semi-extrinsic, cjbenedikt posted more about this on the platform. If you'd like, you can engage them there and drive the conversation forward!
> Why did you do it this way?

I think that's a high load question (in terms of time and energy required to answer). It's best used sparingly. Instead point out a specific problem and supply an alternative that does not have that problem.
> Yeah no, after the billions the catholic church has nobody can claim with a straight-face they are a non-profit.

"Non-profit" doesn't mean "doesn't have significant assets", it means "doesn't have shareholders or similar stakeholders with a claim on assets". (It is about not returning a profit to someone else, not about not making profits.)
Of course there exist automated trains. The question is whether automating an existing system makes sense, in terms of cost. The simple model chosen here is to assume that automation requires platform screen doors -- and showing that the cost of installing those is on par with the cost of the drivers. Meaning the drivers represent a small amount of the total cost of the system.
Canada's voter identification laws changed for 2015, then reverted for 2019. This was due to change in governments.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-election-2015-voter...

Realistically, in the short term the law is going to be "whatever the government wants it to be until the Supreme Court sets a precedent".
author here - if anyone has any questions or remarks, let me know!
The same day as async/await hits stable, the next Prisma alpha is released and is the first alpha that's based on Futures and async/await.

https://github.com/prisma/prisma-engine/

Been working with the ecosystem since the first version of futures some years ago, and I must say how things are right now it's definitely much much easier.

There are still optimizations to be made, but IO starts to be in a good shape!
We're using React for our client app and bridging the connection using websockets.
Most poor people have better amenities and work conditions. Probably even in the areas you mentioned. Basically, this is similar to the whole question of whether you'd be better off as a king in the middle ages, or an average joe now; or the idea that relatively speaking everything is better than ever.
That other party has a long history or preventing "the wrong people" from voting by any means available: murder, intimidation, "literacy tests," gerrymandering districts, and making requirements that are very difficult for the "wrong people" to obtain. The level of hysteria over election fraud is wildly disproportional to the number of documented cases of said fraud.
I am all for that.

I just think it is more realistic to first build nuclear power plants within 50km of every city with a population greater than 1mil people in China.

I am not sure a there has ever been a UHV line longer than 3,000km? Efficiency loss only increases the longer a UHV line is.
In the US elections are hyper-local, so you can generally only vote in a specific precinct based on where you live. If the list of names is getting really large, that's a sign that you don't have enough precincts/locations for the neighborhood.

That, incidentally, is another voter suppression strategy to make the lines so long that people are forced to choose between being late for work/appointments or getting to vote. And this has a fun additive effect with other voter suppression strategies. If the lines are long because the precincts are too few and under-staffed, you can make the lines EVEN LONGER by making the poll workers review IDs, explain to each person what is and isn't a valid ID, have to explain the provisional ballot process because they don't pass some arbitrary rule, and so on and so forth.
Can you elaborate a bit on how the bug worked and why Rust would have prevented it? I'm genuinely curious because the only bugs I've ever had with comparable presentation and consequences have been logic bugs which no set of language features could possibly prevent.
I keep a similar collection here. Less organized but I include ratings and little reviews.

https://reviews.mgraczyk.com/
This looks like really interesting & useful. Couple questions:

What copyright is assigned to the posts from contributors? Creative Commons?

Could there be a way to allow users to accumulate a local copy of the discussion threads? This is something I appreciate about mailing lists and Usenet -- being widely distributed & redundant minimizes the chance of important content getting lost to the sands of time. Also allows for reading offline in situations where internet access might not always be available.

I see there are RSS feeds for individual discussions, but on a quick look through a few of those it wasn't clear to me how well this would capture threaded conversations, if it would require continually adding additional feeds for newly spawning discussions, etc. Maybe db dumps could be utilized similar to how Kiwix creates an offline Wikipedia?

Anyhow, great idea, I hope to be able to contribute.
Can you explain why the current system, under which voter fraud is astonishingly rare, is something we desperately need to change?
This is awesome. I'm working my way through The Garbage Collection Handbook and it's always nice to see a GC link on HN.

"What does “low on memory” even mean, especially on modern computers with near-infinite virtual memory?" is a question that I've been wondering about for a while.
No, it's a republic.
Value is expected value to the user minus total cost of ownership, and a value proposition is a promise of expected value to the user.

Products which sell for higher prices and avoid getting into ‘feature/function’ type battles are those that are able to make clear, measurable and defensible claims about the positive impact that they will have on people’s lives.

These usually begin with a real pain point that the customer is experiencing with their current situation (to give an example of say, Dropbox, users having to email files to themselves and use USB drives, losing data as a result) and move to something more like ‘Never lose a file again’, or as they do at enterprise level talk of the costs and confusion of time wasted of legal departments emailing documents to each other.

Some of the HN crowd would love Dropbox to describe themselves as ‘Distributed file storage and sync across Windows, Linux and Mac’ but there are good reasons why they don’t.
People pay a lot less for that, see https://www.goruck.com/find-an-event/

(minus the death part)
My biggest nitpick is being unable to mount an external volume during a build (without doing hacky stuff).
The alternative is to email / direct message / snail mail your family members. It works just fine.