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> we can create a wealth tax that doesn't have that problem

It's fundamental to the problem of valuation, so probably not.

> there aren't many billionaires who actually are primarily invested in illiquid assets

Most assets are illiquid, e.g. real estate.

To be clear, as a capital-markets guy, I love the idea of forcing more of the economy into the financial system. But as an American, it's totally unnecessary. Increase the take on transactions and remove the loopholes. Taxing wealth just creates artificial transactions to be taxed.
> healthcare and education are both already spending way too much on.

Huh? Currently on mobile so I don’t have the CBO file to link but I will when I get to my PC.

Anyway, Healthcare spending is not actually “too much” and instead is too low. When we expanded Medicaid and implemented the ACA, estimated costs were below actual cost by hundreds of billions to one trillion dollars due to the unknown number of people accessing healthcare. Healthcare is the one area in which there is not enough money being spent on lower income brackets and Medicaid/Medicare users.
1. Why wouldn’t a private secondary market appear in response to the need for wealth tax share liquidation? It seems little different from a venture capital operation.

2. If you are worth $100MM you should be able to borrow 1% annually of your net worth until you can liquidate your shares.
https://azure.microsoft.com/
We definitely do, and get huge value from them.

Particularly referencing down for when you hire managers.
Interesting that the website for CloudKitchens (his new gig) has a lot of stylistic similarities with Uber -- especially the Uber from a few years back.
What you do is what all the billionaires do: take out loans backed by you assets rather than sell equity.

In this scenario the banks start profiting from startups, probably more in interest than the govt will get taxes.
Could we put "Concept" or "Design Student Project" in the title? I'm sure I'm not the only one who expected a real thing someone built.
Or rather silence requirements were stricter. The military is not in the business of publicising failure and weaknesses.
Yes, and don't forget the Epicureans. And Quohelet.

And maybe a dash of Walt Whitman: https://www.all-creatures.org/poetry/ar-I-think-I.html

"I think I could turn and live with [the] animals..."
How generous. That would bring him in line with what his secretary probably pays[1].

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/economy/buffett-secret...
Right. You could use F#, and get the pretty big .NET ecosystem with it. I think some people are mainly attracted to Rust due it's novel and open-source attributes. There is certainly a hype factor involved in it. In my opinion Rust is great (I use it), but I think it's main strength are in different domains than web applications.
It's a definitional problem. Building lasting relationships takes time because it's only after a long time that it will be considered "lasting."

The question is: how quickly and how can you tell if a relationship will be lasting?

What are the signs?

What if its just a numbers game? Meet enough people. Some of them will last.

That said I'm "too trusting." I get burned all the time. Taken advantage of. I have a scarcity of natural love in my life and thus an abundance to give. Makes me a target for the narcissists.

Those who do love me think I'm brave for loving so freely -- everyone. Even those who hurt me. They know it's driven by a deeply personal isolation within my soul that waters my eyes in this moment. But they can never empathize and am happy for that.
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Here's a thought experiment. A million people read HN every day. Maybe one of them will go on to have this problem.

Meanwhile, inequality is stifling global growth and leading to protests that lead to riots that are starting to look like civil wars in several countries around the world.

But, you know, let's all pretend like we're future billionaires and only think about the future and not the present.

P.S. -- I'm sure there would be no less than 3 startups that would attempt to solve this problem if it ever materializes (which it won't because everybody in the US thinks they're a future billionaire).
Medicare for all will drastically reduce the amount of administration for health care.
Can't you just share a volume to the image? That's not hacky (in my opinion).
This is the reason I don't use else much and use explicitly matching.

`if/else` is pretty much only use for boolean with exact 2 states.

Not like this issue but the use of `if/else` can lead to thing like:

loop do
# do thing and increase i
break if i == 10
end

If i go from 9 to 11, we never exit the loop.

In language like Erlang, when you write `if/else` it force you to handle all the cases with pattern matching which I think may help reduce amount of unhandled state check error.
I think historically the "←" was preferred but many keyboards (card punch machines) did not have the "←" so the used the ":=" as a simplified (more commonly accessible) version of "←"
App Engine Flexible for .NET Core is fairly low effort to go from code to deployed

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/dotnet/an-o...
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a UK think-tank, produced an amusing (by pensions standards) video explaining the recent shifts in pension schemes, especially for government workers like teachers and nurses, and how some groups benefit while many lose.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wXz85VuFMcU

Unfortunately pensions are an intrinsically boring topic. I recently met a professor of economics who lamented the £23bn deficit in the UK University pension scheme but admitted he was unable to get even his fellow affected economics academics to care.
> The education system is not poorly funded.

Every SpecialEd teacher and student would politely disagree with you. Not every aspect of education is funded differently, even when factoring i’m better budget management.
Relevant reading: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-europe-axed...

Before repeal, European wealth taxes — with a variety of rates and bases — tended to raise only about 0.2 percent of gross domestic product in revenue, based on Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data. That is only 1/40th as much as the U.S. federal income tax raises.

Yet for little revenue, wealth taxes are difficult to administer and enforce. They may require taxpayers to report the values of financial securities, homes, furniture, artwork, jewelry, antiques, vehicles, boats, pension rights, family businesses, farm assets, land, intellectual property, and much else. But owners do not know the market values of many assets, and values change over time, so costly wealth-tax compliance would only make accountants wealthy.

And what about wealth held abroad? There is no way the Internal Revenue Service would be able to track down and value everything U.S. residents owned on a global basis.

And here’s the kicker: Since the base of wealth taxes is net wealth, debt is deductible. That allowed wealthy Europeans to jack up their borrowing and invest in the exempted assets to shrink their tax bases. If a wealth tax were imposed in the United States, the farm lobby would most certainly get farmland excluded. Then rich people would borrow heavily and invest in farmland, thus shrinking the tax base and distorting the economy.
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A cascading if/else construct can have up to 2^(N+1) possible combinations where N is the number of if-else constructs. That can become very hard to test. If you have more than two levels of nested if-else's you should probably refactor especially if it is security sensitive code. The mental model you have of your code is as complex as the code itself and there is no way that you will be able to accurately model some more complex than what you can see all at once. Scope reduction is super important if you want reliable code and function extraction is one way to achieve this. It also allows for much cleaner test setups.
I personally would like to see it go to public universities to fund basic research in areas related to climate change.
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> Valuing assets is complicated; for some assets, it's impossible.

And yet you can insure most assets against destruction and theft.
In this case not even TypeScript can rescue you. You might naively implement:

const head = (input: A[]) => input[0]

and it will happily infer a return type of A. Then you'll fall flat on your face the first time you encounter an empty array:

head([]) // -> undefined

To make it correct you need to explicitly define a return type of (input: A[]): A | undefined, just as the Maybe. It's obviously impossible for TS to guarantee that an array will not be empty at runtime, but I wish this specific case triggered some help from the type checker.
Lots of paywall entries in Hacker News today. How are you folks viewing the articles?
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The biggest problem with these tax plans is that they're always focused on collecting more money without ever talking about where that money is actually going. The government is absolutely useless at spending it well, and it won't magically get better with even more money.

Wealthy powerful billionaires is a valid issue but there should be a better strategy based on incentives for the greater good beyond just "tax them more". A look at how much the Bill Gates foundation has done proves that wealth can be deployed with positive impact, but sadly it's not something that gets much news.
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Perhaps, but I'm finding that the resulting discussion surfaces a lot of wisdom, good ideas, and different perspectives.
I didnt see stove on their website but it has listed these things :

Three Compartment Sink,
Hand Wash Sink,
Shared Dry, Cold & Frozen Storage,
Commercial Exhaust Hood,
Stainless Steel Work Benches,
Commercial Refrigeration.
> my parents got a free education (with a living allowance)

Pell grants get pretty close depending on the school and how poor your family is

> mortgage tax relief on their mortgage payments

Still exists.

> a pension based on their final salary

Social security still exists (for now)

> a state pension that is growing about twice as fast as unemployment benefits

If you decide to work for the State this is still the case - especially in safety jobs.
> If it wasn't possible to craft cross-site HEAD (which devs use in real life like.. never?) the bug would stop right there.

You're still focusing on the wrong thing. HEAD requests are largely obsolete at this point, yes, but that doesn't mean browsers would be right in changing the semantics of a HEAD request. The problem here isn't that browsers use the same security model for HEAD that they do for GET (as that's absolutely correctly) but that Rails decided to only partially support HEAD. Another simple fix for this bug would have been for Rails to simply give no special behavior to HEAD at all, and therefore any route that doesn't explicitly specify :head wouldn't be used for a HEAD request. The fact that Rails decided to deliver HEAD requests to a GET route without changing the request to actually appear as a GET request is a serious design mistake, and not one that browsers are responsible for.
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I would like to see an example on something less trivial than encoding `not empty` on the type. At some point the difference between what the author calls "parsing" and "validating" gets blurry, or the type system can't encode.
If you cannot find a buyer who will take a cut of a $50MM valuation, then the company is in fact worthless. Liquidity is no barrier to this — there are plenty of financial instruments available to do this transaction, even if you can't actually transfer the asset itself. Taking on debt, for example.

Yes, it sucks, but forgive me if I don't shed a tear for someone who has to find a way to pay taxes on their $50M of assets. They absolutely do have options which aren't terrible.

If a "wealth tax" did pass, then expect countless startups who specialize in handling the arbitrage of this.
> have the owners valuate them themselves. With the twist that the state has the right to buy the asset at that validation

This was used in ancient Athens [1]: "By the procedure known as antidosis a person who was appointed to perform a liturgy could challenge another he considered better able to afford the expense....the challenged person either had to take over the liturgy or to accept an exchange of property with the instigator of the procedure."

It was a private system, i.e. the payer and challenger were individual Athenians. Neither party was the state. (If it's done automatically, it's easily gamed. Own a Superfund site? Value it at $1 and put it to the state. Have a buddy in government? Great! They just bought your WeWork shares at a $47bn valuation.)

Given the history of civil asset forfeiture in America, we'd want to think twice before enumerating this power to the executive branch.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03585522.1992.10...
But Google isn't foreign and he explicitly says to keep blocking it?
What "loophole" is being closed here? Having wealth?
A random web search is cool, but how about a scholarly article on the topic? http://www.projectvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/Politi...

> Most voter fraud allegations turn out to be something other than fraud. A review of news stories
over a recent two year period found that reports of voter fraud were most often limited to
local races and individual acts and fell into three categories: unsubstantiated or false claims by
the loser of a close race, mischief and administrative or voter error.

Tellingly, the first hit in your search is for an article where the loser of a close race is making unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud.
I gather the US GPS system has "Autonav mode" where each satellite has long-term ephemerides, allowing 60 days of reduced-precision operation if the ground segment fails. Does Galileo have no such thing, or had the errors propagated into such data by the time someone sounded the alarm?
You're really worth more than $50M?!

Congratulations.
I've spent some time playing around with it and it seems like this particular implementation is unsafe.

Scenario:

1. I enter my email address on the sign in screen on Fast.co in Tab A.

2. I get an email with a "Login" button in it in Tab B.

3. I click the "Login" button and it opens Tab C and tells me I'm now logged in in Tab A.

4. I go back to Tab A and I'm logged in.

Here's the problem: A hacker sitting next to me see's me type my email in to Fast.co or some site that uses Fast login. They type my email in too. I get two emails with Login buttons. How do I know which one logs me in and which one logs in the hacker? If I click the wrong one, the hacker gets a cookie on their machine that gives them access to my account for 30 days.
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Jose... wow.

Reading between the lines, he committed to this candidate that the candidate was getting an offer; the candidate declined other offers on that basis, and did not actually get that offer.

The candidate should have retained a lawyer.

For anyone reading this and starting their careers, just know everything a recruiter says is bullshit until the docusign lands in your inbox.
Huge indicator that he still hasn’t learned the value of being ethical in business.
If you're only considering direct first order benefits then nearly all taxes are quite progressive. Even a flat 10% income tax would be progressive using that model because people's direct consumption of government services doesn't scale linearly with income. The only way to have a non-progressive tax was to charge everyone a flat rate.

"Why should I have have to pay a penny more in taxes than that teacher over there. It's not like I'm consuming more units of military protection than they are."

Hopefully you can see the problem with that.
Women's college lacrosse is effectively a different game, as different as baseball is from softball.
BTW, you're banned, if you didn't already know.

All your comments are hidden to most users unless someone who chose to see them vouches for them.
Excessive wealth (and therefore, power) is a bug. A wealth tax is a hotfix. Foundations can be addressed through the requirement that donations and control of the non profit receiving the gift is arms length, with punitive penalties for a failure to abide by said requirement. Gates and Buffett can still donate to a foundation, but then they aren't able to control it.

Most Americans will never be a millionaire or a billionaire. This is statistics, not feelings. There's no point in them supporting policies enabling such disparity in the economic system.
HN, you're supposed to be sharing news stories. When you put up on your front page material that is behind paywalls for various reasons, you degrade the ability for the community to actually discuss the story.

If it's behind a paywall, ban it immediately if you are unable to find a second source. Your ability to actually have a meaningful conversation dies rapidly with this nonsense.

No, I should NOT have to turn off private mode, or use Temporary containers, or any other stupid workaround in order to be able to read a story and then be able to actually have a discussion here regarding it. I click a link, I expect it to load fully. Period.

@dang
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Sun Locator predicts the sun's position at a specific location during the course of the day.

The 3D Terrain Simulator is the newest feature, which simulates the lighting conditions in mountainous terrain. The user can fastforward the time to see how the shaded areas change in the course of the day and the year.

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And the full version here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.genewarrio...
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Having a disproportionate amount of wealth while others can't even meet basic physical needs in the same country.
The best part, the stated reason for his banning "tone policing"

https://twitter.com/cmaxw/status/1192261086810116096?s=20

Don't tell people to be civil or respectful or you'll get banned.
Might be hard to fit everything in, between the space consumed by the tape recorder, batteries, and expansion slots/connectors. I also seriously doubt that you could power a device like this on a reasonable number of AA batteries, but using an OLED/LCD instead of a CRT and modern lithium cells would make it more plausible.
Quote from BI "It's the first known investment by the kingdom since the murder of the American journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year."

Not something I'd want myself or my company to be associated with. As usual, I suppose it shows what's really important to these people. $$$
The math becomes interesting with the Warren's proposed 6% tax for billionaires. After 12 years, the founder will have lost half the ownership of the company [ (1-0.06)^12 ].

There are some proposals for the owner valuing the company or giving the government shares in the company in lieu of cash. However, if you do that, within 15 years, the government will have a controlling stake in every pretty much every private company.
This seems like a bad idea for almost every consumer. For those who know how this works, it builds distrust about how the company is using one's data; for those who are unaware, I think it would scare them.
The other cases discussed are plumbing firms which were limited companies. The fact they complain that its a problem because they can't sell on the business or pass it to their children tells you that the liability is with the business, not the individual.

That's actually a pretty good situation to be in. Plumbing strikes me as a very easy business to walk away from - just take your contact list with you and you'll be back in business in no time.
Who in the government is going to decide which assets to buy from wealthy individuals?

This system seems ripe for abuse in the form of the owners overvaluing their assets and having corrupt/coopted government functionaries rubber stamping their purchase (and likely getting rewarded for it in some way by the owners who just made a huge profit at the government's expense).
I also wonder this when looking at the "Workplace" Stack Exchange site or at Reddit's /r/legaladvice. So much CYA stuff, "you must collect a paper trail", "email yourself your recollection of the situation, so it's time stamped", how quickly you can become a liability for HR and how much companies are scared of getting sued for, to me, frivolous reasons.

Sure this also exists in corporate Europe, but it seems America is more "robotic" in this respect. Well, they'd just call it being professional I guess.
Not really. If the offline license is in a digital format (QR code, etc) it can still be checked whether it’s been signed by a trusted authority (the state’s digital certificate, etc).

So you can very well have an offline system where the documents are signed during enrolment but then stored offline.
Good point - if you watch carrier launches, the planes actually fall a little as they go off the end of runway because they aren’t lifting yet. But presumably with a longer runway like you have at an airport, you could get to higher speed and truly liftoff.

But having also launched from a carrier myself, I wouldnt want that g force everytime I fly commercially.
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...really? Why? I mean, it looks cool, but it is pretty damned useless. If you want a portable C64 your phone can emulate one and it'll probably consume fewer cycles than your clock app.
Doesn't scale. Not enough sites.

Mind, where it does work, it's phenomenally effective, efficient, and responsive.

There are a few sites at which seawater-based systems might be possible, in which the ocean forms the "lower reservoir". These are dependent on suitable terrain. Matching terrain to consumption patterns is difficult: the Netherlands and much of Britain are sorely lacking. Some of the best potential sites are along the Balkan coast in Serbia and Croatia. Chile's Atacama Desert, along the Pacific coastline, is nearly ideal geographically, but is far from most use (North America, Europe, Asia). Portions of the US West Coast might be suitable, though would all but certainly face major political resistance for environmental impacts.

And: working with seawater is complex from an engineering standpoint: it's corrosive and sea life has a pronounced tendency to foul large-scale water-handling systems, though this may be tractable. There've been several pilot projects, though those have since been decomissioned, excepting Rance in France, designed as a tidal power plant, though capable of working as a pumped-hydro facility.
Yeah OpenMP is mostly for problems with much less data-dependency than games.
Okay. That's so serendipitous and hilarious.
No. Cassettes were one of the worst storage media of their age. Replace that part with a micro SD card and then maybe you're on to something.