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There is nothing wrong with moving to a better tax jurisdiction because you want lower taxes. It is perfectly legal, happens all the time, and is not something subject to a 'government review', because firms are expected to optimize their behavior in order to avoid taxes as much as possible, and even legally required to do so if they are to meet their obligations to maximize shareholder value. The whole idea that people change their behavior to avoid taxes is the basis of sin taxes - this is how things are supposed to work.
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try performing all calculations mod 10.
My heatsink case is cool to the touch these days, over the summer it was nearly too hot to touch. I thought it was down to the weather, but there is clearly more to it ;)

Nice work, guys!
Remove value and determine pay based on effort? Overtime people would take on unsuitable roles and productivity would go down.

We would be better off paying people more for easy work. People would target what they exceled at. Productivity increases. Our quality of life would increase but some jobs wouldn't get filled.
I sympathise with you. It certainly seems that those people who do best at mathematics in school are just those who are best at abstract manipulation of symbols.

The example you give is an interesting one. Logarithms are quite hard to motivate[+]. Once they could be introduced as analogous to a slide rule as something to speed up multiplication (indeed that was their actual original motivation). But that isn’t convincing these days. Perhaps a motivation could be found in science (something about gradients and log-log plots). The problem is that the real reason you learn about logs is because they are related to exponential and exponential are important. Consider the differential equation:

dy/dx = k y

This kind of equation comes up a lot in modelling things in science and other parts of the real world (eg compound interest). We can solve it:

k dx/dy = 1/y
k x = log(y) + C
log(y) = k x - C
y = exp(k x - C)
y = A exp(k x) (where A = exp(-C) is chosen to fit initial conditions)

But this motivation isn’t much use when one doesn’t have differential equations or calculus. When I was in school I think differential equations where only in A-level further maths (age 16-18). I’m not sure whether we had logarithms at GCSE (14-16) but I think they were in A level maths which included calculus up to integration by parts and integrals/derivatives of various trig functions.

[+] By motivate I mean “put into context of some practical application”.

In the “real world” such mathematical things aren’t necessarily well motivated either. It may be that one has to calculate certain weird things because that is what clients/customers/taxes/regulations/circumstances dictate.

In applied mathematics things aren’t so well motivated. Either “we see these equations in physics sometimes” or for fluids you mumble something about boats or planes. In pure mathematics the motivation basically always boils down to “we need this crazy thing to solve a certain problem to tell if two objects are the same/different/somehow interesting because we are interested in this sort of object and in particular how to classify the different kinds of it.
Managers always say this, but usually it doesn't work out. And anyway, a job is not a marriage. It's good to experience different environments and moving around is the best way to get promotions/raises.
Might be the types of people I met in Texas, but I generally feel people are receptive to counter view points if you dont look down on them. I never had issues with debating people in Texas.
How do you tag releases? Wouldn’t the commit hash change out from under the commit you cared about?
I have never seen an account banned under that rule for supporting globalism, only criticizing it. Can you post an example to prove me wrong?
> Fido 51 is an extremely busy system; they receive 125 messages a week through FidoNet alone, so please be patient.

Holy crap how the times have changed.
Before reading that article, I was intrigued by the hyperbolic title of the platform: American Greatness. My alt-right BS alarm was immediately triggered. So, I opened another article to get a feel for what it was about. A wave of unsubstantiated lies and storytelling that rivals anything published under Political Fiction.
I think the "resistance" is partially based on the fact [1] we all did see an introvert, quiet, bright engineer promoted to an influential and senior (s.a "principal engineer" or "system architect", and less often CTO) position - solely based on her technical expertise.
If AI can be cheaper than human pilots, then the cost savings can easily be thrown into massive parachutes for cabins like those in smaller private planes. That, or solid state emergency landing thrusters.
> Oh wait, let's talk nurses and schoolteachers. They pretty clearly contribute very heavily to society, and they get paid pretty poorly. Are they really contributing less, by factors of tens or hundreds, than Larry Ellison?

On an individual basis, leveraged through his organization - I think that it is objectively clear that the answer is: yes.
> Do you really argue that the people in the top 0.01% are contributing to society at a rate hundreds or thousands of times higher than the rest of the people?

Yes. That is because of of the impact of their actions.

Let's take the example of a CEO of a major company. The difference between a good CEO, and a great CEO might only change the value of a company by 1%. But 1% of a 100 billion dollar company, is 1 billion dollars.

So if you are effecting a large enough company or area, then only being a little bit better than everyone else, turns out to be massively valuable, and therefore this value needs to be incentivized.
As someone overly familiar with cancer, my hopes could be higher, this will inevitably turn out to be only applicable in a small number of cases a decade and a half from now
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Indeed, but we're not even talking about WebGL's high draw call overhead (that overhead is constant between all the demos!), just the overhead of updating ThreeJS's view of the world on the main thread, which should be a matrix mul at the most. The rest of the overhead from ThreeJS rendering, and from WebGL, that's the same in both demos!

Matrix multiplication should not have to be scheduled!
Rightfully so, as they won't be able to actually afford or pass what they promise without destroying some part of the economy.
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New York does this in NYC for traffic court... they use administrative law judges who are civil service employees to adjudicate traffic violations.

Most places outside of NYC prefer to have elected judges “town/village justices” for revenue purposes. Basically, they plea down as many state violations as possible to local ordinances, as more of the fines go to the towns instead of the state.
what's your recommended alternative?
Providing a lightweight, democratic substitute for the common open source foundation was definitely one of the goals.

> If they sell a version with a difference license to a company, how do the make the bill?

Under the current draft, the contributor that proposed selling the license takes the payment. Then they distribute equal portions to other contributors:

https://xlcollaborative.com/agreement/1.0.0-pre.3#distributi...

For the legal eagles out there, the effect is similar to accounting to joint owners.

> What about donations or grants?

There are no rules about donations as such. But the terms don't do anything to stop contributors accepting donations, either individually or through another facility. I haven't checked it, and I can't stand behind this as legal advice, but at least conceptually, I don't see any legal reason contributors to a cross-license collaborative couldn't also sign up for OpenCollective, GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, etc.

> In case a nasty angry fork of the 45% of the contributors, does the other 55% effectively retain all the right? Can they remove the rebel 45%?

The project may fork. The collaborative doesn't. Contributors remain contributors. Voting works the same. But new contributions to the fork won't be covered by the collaborative.

They are not strictly equivalent, but as a thought experiment, consider: What happens to a foundation- or company-stewarded project when it forks?

> Can they just add more and more phantom contributors to decrease the size of the rebel vote part? Who verifies that all the voters are real humans and not just sockpuppets / meatpuppets?

The process for admitting new members, and the qualifications and requirements for admission, are spelled out in the terms:

https://xlcollaborative.com/agreement/1.0.0-pre.3#contributo...

Strongly encourage you to have a read through the terms. They've been prepared to be as readable as possible without legal training. I'd greatly appreciate feedback on what's confusing, unclear, or legally worded. We should fix that.
> It's perfectly reasonable in our democracy to expect judges to be trained in law in order to effectively do their jobs.

Manifestly not. If it were reasonable to expect this, then the founders would have written it into the Constitution, or the People would have changed the law in order to require it. The former didn't happen, and the latter hasn't happened. It may seem reasonable to you, but the whole point of democracy is that the law is not based on what seems reasonable to one person, only on what seems reasonable to the majority. And in this case, requiring judges be lawyers clearly doesn't seem reasonable to the majority, or things would be different.
"Competent" at IBM was defined around "being able to jump through the correct hoops after filling out the correct forms".
Huge +1 to this. Selecting text is how I visually and mentally keep track of where I am. I've found the Firefox Reader mode (or various equivalents) work around this 80% of the time, but I rage-close websites that have this and have somehow managed to defeat reader mode.
When Windows 95 launched I was largely underwhelmed. It was like an ugly version of OS/2 with more bugs.

They stole the right-click menu and the Blue Screen of Death.
I love Don Norman. He is the curmudgeon we all need. 83 years old and still spritely. You know he (and Tim Shallice) also developed one of the most important theories of executive functions and working memory?

His Human Information Processing textbook is still one of the best intro-to-psych textbooks out there.

He ran the first cognitive science department in the world -- brought in Geoff Hinton at the beginning of his career.

And, he always writes with the hope that people will disagree with him. That's his jam.
This is why 2-party consent to record laws will become increasingly important in the future. Eventually, AR virtual presence software with chatting avatars will proliferate in the corporate world. It would be stifling if you can’t be sure that the other party isn’t recording you. Unless you specifically agreed to allow your company to record all interactions, you should be afforded a reasonable degree of privacy: merely the same amount that you get around the watercooler in an office setting. Companies that record every utterance would face pressure from the labor market, though I’d prefer a law against that too, for the sanity of the populace.
This looks like it could have promise.

I like the presentation. The analysis seems shallow though. It feels like your thought process is, "I have some free time, let's open up this app and see what I enjoy or think is clever, or critique some places for improvement".

I think I would enjoy it if you presented a wholly new alternative UI, instead of small changes here and there. Obviously, you would only post the new UIs that are compelling, instead of trying to fit a new UI into existing apps by default.
That’s exactly my point. Property tax is a tax on wealth. You are not taxed on options until you exercise them. You also can’t sell part of your house to pay taxes on it. You also aren’t taxed on the increase in your stock portfolio until you sell it.
Not a practicing physicist anymore, so I may be hopelessly out of date.

This noted, I've been under the impression for a while that dark energy/dark matter is more likely a detailed accounting error. That is, it's likely that it is not a "new" thing, but old physics that we have an incomplete understanding of.

Science is funny that way. Early results considered groundbreaking are refined and extended over time. And sometimes, as we gain more information and comprehension, the effect we think we observed is subsumed into "boring" physics (this is how it was described to me by a friend).
Not buying this. Players have an extremely keen sense of the mechanics and physics of the ball and what force they are imparting to it. Sure there are borderline cases where the touch was close to simultaneous in the same direction or there was a glancing blow they didn't perceive, but reordering of events imparting different forces to the same object? This is a very different question from the perception of two independent actions that the researchers measured.
This is not an example of judges making political rulings that some people dislike. It's an example of judges failing to follow clear-cut basic rules.

> Shortly after the ACLU filed its lawsuit, South Carolina’s chief justice sent a scolding memo to the state’s magistrates. “It has continually come to my attention that defendants, who are neither represented by counsel nor have waived counsel, are being sentenced to imprisonment,” [chief justice] Beatty wrote in the September 2017 memo. “This is a clear violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and numerous opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States.”
This thing may sound obvious to you but for newbie like me it wouldn't be the first step to make when optimising website performance.
AMD has consistently been a winner of a stock to buy and sell for the last 15 years with basically no risk.
I listened to Lua, and I like it better than some of the others, but it still doesn't resonate. The lyrics are.. mundane and superficial, to me. But, I don't know, I might warm up to it with some more listens.
Ameritrade has always been based in Omaha, but the T in TD stands for Toronto. So headquarters locations is a pretty malleable designation.
The #1 use for an SPA is called “resume padding”.

If you’re a front end dev who wants to look important, making the entire application reliant on your fragile client side code can give a lot of hutzpah to your resume.
As a visual learner, I have always struggled to intuitively grasp mathematical laws and concepts from words or equations in a textbook. This type of illustration makes so much sense to me.
>Oh wait, let's talk nurses and schoolteachers. They pretty clearly contribute very heavily to society, and they get paid pretty poorly. Are they really contributing less, by factors of tens or hundreds, than Larry Ellison?

I've been thinking about this lately. A schoolteacher generates huge value for dozens of people per year. A CEO of a big firm may generate tiny value for millions or billions of people per year. If the schoolteacher is generating a thousand times more value for each of their students than the CEO does for each of their customers, then the CEO still generated a ton more value to humanity.

My napkin math is that teachers make about $200B/year in the U.S. (3.2M teachers * $60k/year). The top 0.01% seems to make about $100B/year (16k families * $7M/year). So we're in a situation where yes teachers make more value than the 0.01%, but they also earn almost twice as much. (To be fair, it seem reasonable that teachers should earn more than 2x more, but that's a separate conversation).

The scale factor is a weird one for fairness. If someone's value to others is the value per person (X) times the number of people (Y), it seems like our society or technology or something is set up so that it's much easier to maximize X*Y by making Y huge and lowering X than it is to make X huge and lower Y. You can make your firm serve a million times more people, but you can't teach a million times better. Framed this way, no wonder a "value" maximizing world is getting less personal and more corporate as people lower X wherever they can to explode Y.
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The problem is that the cost of housing (to purchase and rent) is so out of line. I would guess that the "bottom 60%" pay more for housing in ca than they would in taxes in Texas. That payment is wealth transfer to people and not taxes for services.
What about all the longtime existing homeowners who make it very difficult to build new/denser housing?
... been dragging this acronym as a definition around since the 90's, of course its probably way older. A hippie is a, "highly intelligent person, pursuing infinite enlightenment."
I'm confused, does this have anything to do with the Clojure Kafka client also called Jackdaw by FundingCircle?
The difference between a good and a bad CEO might only change the value of a company by 1%. But it turns out that 1% of 100 billion dollars, is 1 billion dollars.

The reason why CEOs get paid so much is not because of how hard they work, it is because the effect of their actions is massive, and eaking out that extra 1% is worth it.
They dont "need" more nor even look for it so much in fact.

What makes inequality increase is actually the mindset of poor people that their poverty is "someone else's fault" like this kind of comment ( and also that "the state should do something" like it is their mother ).

The hard truth is that inequality increases because poor people dont fight against and do nothing about it except complaining. Its always the fighting that has brought any of the social improvements, not the goodwill of politicians or anykind of "fair invisible hand".
I've never heard that (or anything else) called 'engineering form'.
They do show signs of affection and empathy, but it's different, a lot more nuanced and subtle.

If you're comparing them to dogs, which are pack animals where those skills are critical, it's not fair. They project their feelings.

Introverted animals have a lot in common with reptiles.
without using a 3d scanner, i can take very precise measurements by hand with a result that rivals the scan. so in that case it becomes a question of resolution or fidelity. the question is, how accurate does a reproduction need to be to violate copyright?
author here; i wrote this quite some time back (2014). I'm now studying Chinese and would like to write a Chinese version for Sinophone audience (with more Chinese humor, etc). Anyone knows a good place to share articles like this if it's in Chinese? Thanks!
Animals works well as tools, but they don't work independently. In all of the situations you described there are humans present to direct the work and life of the animal, something you don't need with humans. I'm not sure why we can't get them to work independently, I guess they lack the attention span or the ability to associate the work with the rewards.
Of course that specific case should be taken seriously. I'm not sure what made you think I thought otherwise.
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You are correct. In every case so far, SCOTUS Justices have been attorneys by profession, but as the internet makes it much easier to research law and legal precedents, it might be interesting to see what happens if someone with a different background joins that club.
While the museum motivations are quite shady, this is the first time I see the CC-BY-NC-SA license being described as "legally meaningless lawyer language", "scary" and "giant keep out sign". FWIW, I saw plenty of people taking photos of the bust anyway...
What's your point? Do you think the Cybertruck is more dangerous than every truck and large SUV out there on the road right now?
Here is a very quick "sed" hack to replace vertical and horizontal lines: https://dot-to-ascii.ggerganov.com/staging/

Definitely looks better. Might look into fixing the corners and arrows as well before merging in master.
This looks like an awesome resource for learning new languages and also for understanding Lisp at a more fundamental level. I'm going to share this with my students next semester when I teach PL.

Are there any other projects like this that let you compare implementations using many different languages (e.g., Rosetta Code)?
> the traditionals haven't been able to survive the second wave of disruption

Pretty much all major American brokerages now offer zero-commission equities trading. It’s been a long time since retail equities traders depended on commissions to butter its bread.

This merger was driven, in part, by the greater fraction of revenues commissions represented ex ante for Ameritrade versus Schwab.
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Text editing wasn't the best example here, because it's very technically involved and much more difficult to optimize than you seem to imply. (In fact, VS Code is much faster than any of the popular Java-based IDEs.) But replace "text editing" with "instant messaging" and your point still stands.
They performed one on JFK's sister: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy

It's a very sad story, although that's pretty common for lobotomy cases.
Are Slack private messages accessible to anyone? I've never heard this before.
Please cite a case where this has actually happened.
A major gotcha for using file-based UNIX sockets for communicating with containers is that UNIX sockets have far shorter path length limits than anything else. This bit me when I implemented Nomad's Consul Connect integration and used a UNIX socket to allow Envoy in a container to contact Consul on the host:

https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/6516
The fact that there are no alternatives to something doesn't make it good.
Games don't face an impossible amount of data. It might look like an impossible amount of data, but they play all sorts of cheats. In you have a crowd with 8k people, there might be 50 animations being computed and shared between the rest of the skeletons.

All members of the staff -- environment artists, character artists, level designers, animators, FX artists -- are all very technical and have the power and wisdom to use the framerate wisely.

I'm not even sure why you're bringing up frustum culling -- you're suggesting that we have too many objects to run the cull math on so we schedule across frames? But we don't; that results in visual popping. If culling is a bottleneck, we usually solve by broad-phase data structures like octrees, or ask the artists to condense multiple separate models into one so we have less objects to manage (another big cheat, artist labor).
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It wasn't clear but did the Baboon ever do the work without James being there? I agree it is impressive, but if the monkey couldn't man the position on its own, like doing the work and only getting the beer and pay once a week and no other rewards, then I don't think it counts.
AD let’s you provision file system/share permissions. It isn’t a file share in and of itself.

Just like in the AD world, other tools allow you to configure them either partly or fully via ldap.

I’m not sure what you mean that ldap doesn’t let you “manage users”. That’s literally the most common use case for it.

I don’t know why you felt forced to use Perl. The primary interface of any ldap compliant directory is just ldap, which has bindings in practically every language, and if you want to do bulk operations, you’d probably use LDIF.

Blaming ldap for you using Perl is like saying “I hate the web it requires you to write java”.
The reason is because the future value of a company was a part of his compensation, for creating the company in the first place.

There is nothing wrong with selling away the future value of your contributions, or for other people buying the future value of your contributions.