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The problem is that under the current tax scheme in the US people are taxed on their total income and companies are taxed on their profits. This is a huge difference. So rich people, who can have companies do what they want, get taxed very little and people, with just income, get taxed a lot. I think if we could just get rid of the income tax somehow (like have a land tax instead) the country would be so much better off. You could just work for whoever you wanted without any paper work and people could just pay you. Rich people would have no need to create all of these companies and foundations. Everything would be much more free and efficient.
Which means that Business Analysts need to save the world by proving to the shot-callers things similar to what Amazon found (a few ms of lag in the site load caused $$$ of revenue loss). The ever improving Observability stack combined with strong analytics on the client-side can make this possible. Perhaps regulation around Climate Effects (or carbon taxes on inefficient software) might also bring about an industry-wide change of attitudes (and incentives).
Oftentimes systemic crime manifests more as an erosion of trust in institutions and the healthy functioning of a society than as something which impacts individuals in a direct way on a regular basis.

For instance, consider Mexican organized crime (cartels). Cartels wield a huge amount of illicit influence and generally make everyone's lives much worse, but most people aren't being kidnapped or confronted by cartels on a daily basis. Their lives are certainly affected by them, but in mostly indirect ways.

Cancerous organized crime and its enablement by coerced and voluntary corruption within Government and business represents an existential threat to developed societies. Many of us take for granted our nation's peace and prosperity, in spite of the creeping threat of organized crime and corruption being ever present.

Law enforcement not being able to access encrypted data severely limits our ability to prosecute and convict criminals who use these secure communications to conduct their business, and brings the creeping threat of social decay ever closer.
Yeah, and most places that experience a lot of travelers already have paid storage options (albeit pricey)
The electric company where I live is upgrading service to the pole everywhere in anticipation of this.
I, for one, took about five weeks off when working for a company with unlimited PTO.

It took some preparation and coordination, understanding my reasons (I had to settle some business overseas), but it was granted and paid for, and I was welcome to come back to work.
> A local administrative law judge makes a determination that you are "disabled", you are placed on SSDI and cannot work without losing it.

It's not easy to get SSDI, it requires many requests, hearings before judges, and lots of forms. However, I agree that once you get it, you're basically trapped within it. There's definitely room for improvement (e.g., if you have SSDI and a job, some progressively increasing percentage of your income is subtracted from your SSDI benefits).
Too true. And no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
You know, there are some people that just like to do things themselves so that one day instead of buying from the big guy like everyone else, they become the big guy. You can build a distributed datacenter yourself for 500$ a month that can compete with the more expensive network until you grow your user base large enough to afford it. Sometimes VC magic is a bad thing because when you don't have that option, the only other one is to innovate.
Do you have access to codepen, scrimba or jsfiddle or something similar. There is a lot of front end stuff you could learn just with that to keep you busy for days. Bring in a book or use your phone for a tutorial. G’luck
Ooh, thanks for the additional details.
Do you have any preferences for alternatives than Jenkins? (especially OSS)
The EU might ban facial recognition tech for five years
Interesting use of the future perfect. I guess it suggests they have confidence in their models!
The source is looking at nature and all the species?

But that doesn't mean we, the smartest of them all, can't make some changes. Nature is also killing the weaker etc, things that we don't agree on as humans.
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The differences in opinion on this topic are almost entirely defined by whether or not the person has the most basic understanding of what cryptography actually is.

Comment #1:

> This argument is pointless. No government has jurisdiction over the laws of mathematics. No government can prevent encryption. No government can keep people from layering their own encryption over whatever flawed system the government mandates.

Comment #2:

> Encryption is an issue that Congress needs to resolve. However, there has not been any leadership on this issue for several decades. Apparently, there is no lobby and fundraising money to be made by either party and it does not win any votes, so Congress is not interested. Until the leadership vacuum in Congress is resolved this problem and many others will not go away.

It's obvious where Barr falls:

> Mr. Barr was surprised and puzzled, according to people familiar with the meeting. The government was struggling with similar problems when he first served as attorney general nearly 30 years ago, he told advisers. Why had they not been solved?

Maybe we should be teaching this stuff in high school. The pseudocode for RSA is like twelve lines. Outlawing it is not practical.
It makes no difference with a substantial area rug, I'm currently using one with a grippy porous rubbery backing which forms quite the thermal barrier.
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This whole issue is confusing to me. It's like no one ever heard of fork. It's hardly mentioned in the comments. The author owes people what they paid him to do, which is nothing. If he wants to go unsafe and fast that's his business. I don't have to ride with him. I can make a copy of his car for free and drive it the way I want.

I think this is a case of the end justifies the means. The end: get the maintainer to change his code the way I want. The means: bully and abuse him to force him into it because that sometimes works.
It’s been paywalled , but I think that geely's expansion of their stake should be a positive sign for the company, esp if Aston is able to leverage their know how of electric cars
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21919785
I know quite a few fairly liberal people who moved explicitly because they wanted to do this. To a lot of people in my social circle, it seems inherently unfair that at a federal level your vote counts for more in a lot of conservative rural areas.
Tip $5.50(long story, they hide almost any amount over $8.50) before delivery then either tip cash or adjust the tip after. I only say adjust after because DD will usually low ball us with less of a base pay($2 instead of $3) if the tip is higher. Cash is obviously better since it's not reported on our 1099.
"Bill Clinton's "quiet war" on Iraq set the stage for George W. Bush's bloody invasion." [1]

1. https://jacobinmag.com/2016/05/war-iraq-bill-clinton-sanctio...
In fact the simulation of any timeframe would be constrained by physical laws.

For example for a Boltzmann Brain with a similar chemical composition as ours the speed at which chemical reactions occur would limit the speed of experience.

For a Boltzmann Brain that simulates ours with a very different physical substrate the speed of light would still be a limit.
It's like having a monopoly and not having to compete.

Really you want both sides to be strong and for there to be a healthy push and pull. So the best ideas from each rise to the top and then do battle via good faith debate. With the ability and willingness to steelman each other's arguments.

Instead what we tend to see is an eagerness to interpret everything in the worst way possible, attacking strawmen and talking past each other. Which accomplishes little aside from increasing polarization.
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> mainstream climate change research seems to be lacking skepticism when it comes to claims that we're all doomed.

That isn't enough. Mainstream physics research lacks skepticism about the laws of thermodynamics. Mainstream biology lacks skepticism about cell division.

When evidence for a proposition is strong, skepticism is weak.

If you want to argue for climate change skepticism, you have to provide evidence for to raise that skepticism. Yet every time someone does so, it gets shot down.
Yes, encouraging everyone to vote is bad.

I agree with many of the Founders that the people often get in their own way, not thinking rationally and focusing only on the short term.

The will and petty desire of the mob needs to be balanced against what is really good for the nation in the long run.
It is actually easier to introduce an undefined behavior in unsafe rust than in C, since rust use the guarantee that two mutable references living that the same time cannot aliase to optimize code.
“in times of war, the law falls silent.”
Maybe it’s just me, but California’s future seems to be echoing New Jersey’s.

Wealthy state, high tech industry (there was lots of Pharma in NJ). State starts to get really onerous on business, businesses start leaving, state goes into the toilet.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the difference is amazon is telling the company to make up the difference between grey market price and the price they're selling the non-grey market ones on amazon.

In other words:

- amazon price $100

- grey market version amazon threatens with: $90

- amazon asks company for $10 for the ones sold at $100

Do I understand this correctly?
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I never used BitKeeper or TeamWare and consequently don't know how their capabilities were similar to or different from arch's at the time. Did you use them?

Tom had a pretty clear vision for arch which is more or less what Git ended up achieving. Everything he wrote publicly about it derived the feature requirements from his social agenda; he never mentioned BitKeeper, and I don't think he knew about it. He must have known about TeamWare, but I don't know if he had ever used it, and from the little I can glean, TeamWare lacked some very significant things crucial to what we think of as a DVCS today. But maybe I'm wrong about that.
The 1% still pay 37% of all Federal income taxes.
The Apple Store sells both and will let you compare the two models if you ask nicely (with new/clean AirPods). I found AirPods have noticeably better noise cancellation (for me) than the QC35s, but YMMV. Subtle but better. It's hard to say if my impression was due to better passive noise isolation or improved active noise cancellation (does the QC35 have an error-correction microphone downstream?). One thing that is absolutely true is that the QC35s do not work as well mechanically for those of us who wear eyeglasses: the cushions can't seal around the temple pieces of the frames, so some sound will always leak under the eyeglasses. For that reason alone—even if the AirPods have equivalent noise cancellation tech—the AirPods can work better for people with glasses as long as the tips seal properly. My wife, an eyeglass wearer with long hair, also found the AirPods more effective at reducing noise when we tried them both at the Apple Store. I certainly find them effective for commuter rail travel.

As an aside, one slightly annoying usability issue with the AirPods is that in comparison to the QC35 they behave differently when part of a multi-output audio device under MacOS. My wife and I often watch video using two pairs of bluetooth headphones paired and synced to the same Macbook Pro[1,2]. It's great for late-night movies in city apartments. Using the QC35s and her headphones, the aggregate device remains selected when the QC35s are paused or turned off (meaning, she can still listen if I go out of range or turn off my headphones). With the AirPods, if I take one out of my ear (to scratch an itch, say), the AirPods suddenly become the only audio output device when I put it back in, and the second pair of headphones goes silent. A small annoyance, but curious.

1. Set up your own bluetooth audio "splitter" to allow multiple people to listen togther: https://support.apple.com/guide/audio-midi-setup/play-audio-...

2. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202000
The only folks over 45 I've met who cry ageism are those whose skills stopped growing 10 years prior, yet they continued to demand wage increases year over year. The worst offenders were "QA Professionals," who would get paid $200k to write a JIRA claiming that a page wouldn't load because the favicon 404'd.
PSA, Landmark Forum was banned as a cult in France after the release of an investigative documentary [0] which they tried vigorously to suppress.

The group is a magnet for vulnerable people who respond to authoritarian style leadership and coercive psychological techniques including public shaming and gaslighting. They strongly discourage participants from taking notes. Anyone with a history of trauma, abuse or adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) should know that attending this kind of group can cause severe psychological harm.

There is a way to do deep personal transformation safely, but this group isn’t it.

0. https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Suppressed_French_documentary_on_...
Certifications can be abused when incentivized incorrectly.

Our company has a specialized product that offers multiple certificates with names like Core, Advanced, Expert, etc. The Core and Advanced are free certifications. We provide free access to prep guides, videos, and a community forum.

These two exams are not easy and many fail the first time. But they are free and designed to help identify weak areas while learning the product and its resources. Fortunately our users love our product and many retake a second time.

It has helped create a community within our industry to learn and help each other. It's been wonderful.
> Have you done the math, though?

I haven't but others have (e.g. Warren). A 2% wealth tax on assets over $50M will generate $3.75T over 10 years. Even if the actual number is half of that, it's still plenty to pay for many progressive programs.

Source: https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/ultra-millionaire-tax
I think it's actually a great take. In my opinion there always has been something downright creepy about justice. The way some people talk about justice and the good society is eerily similar to Norman Bates in American Psycho or corporate modernity which the movie mocks.

There is a thin line where justice crosses over into complacency, maintaining order or just being a hollow PR slogan that instead of rallying people actually pacifies them.

I think the author is right that there is something liberating about pessimism and cynicism because they refuse to play, actually challening and mocking whoever claims to know what is just or correct.
Thanks for that! Appreciated! I have another person help with support now, but I really enjoy the dev stuff so I jump on those. It’s what got me here in the first place :)
> The top 30 NBA players are earning a combined $1 billion per year in salary.

Saving this one for the next time I hear some canard about unions preventing top performers from their deserved compensation.
The U.S. troops are in Iraq because they killed just about everyone who tried to stop them from being in Iraq. What's a little more economic warfare to throw on the pile of atrocities?
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To moderators/downvoters: It is said that defending a cause with bad arguments is the most pernicious way to combat it. Similarly, resorting to authority and censorship to defend a cause must be the surest way to ruin it.

We have seen sexism actually grow in the last decades in this field, and i start to worry that this attitude of dealing with it with the argument of authority or other threats on one's carrier may just be one of the causes that we are slowly losing this ideological battle. Or maybe just a symptom?
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"Why does it seem like the less people are affected by crime, the more they abhor it and feel the need to root it out to the last, no matter the cost?"

Frequent problems are invisible. Rare problems are news.
> A utilitarian could claim that after the point where the marginal value of the dollar to the rich person is so low that seizing it results in higher global utility, even taking into account the angst and disincentives on the rich as a result.

A utilitarian could (and has) claimed that this marginal dollar occurs at the point where you have the bare minimum to survive: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Y4Adk743X2ZoMBSBi/does-utili...

>"For example, utilitarianism apparently endorses killing a single innocent person and harvesting their organs if it will save five other people. It also appears to imply that donating all your money to charity beyond what you need to survive isn’t just admirable but morally obligatory. "

So I don't think a strictly utilitarian argument is sufficient.
I’m a bit skeptical of this for a few reasons. If Amazon is in breach of contract then why is PopSockets not taking them to court? What is the gray market in this case? Buying a product similar from a different company? That just seems like a smart business tactic, IMO
At some point open source got morphed into being about free as in beer and gratis volunteer work by generous souls. But its origin and what the licenses themselves are about are freedom to read and freedom to modify. The entitlement that has crept in and the social contracts that seem to have formed around expectations for people writing Free code are concerning.

Shame on people who forget this, and demand more than those freedoms from authors who so generously grant them to others. Based upon what I’ve read, I would have checked out from this project as the author well before they did given the harassment they’ve apparently been getting for not merging PRs into their repo.
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> If nothing has inherent meaning then you are the one who has power to give meaning to things. You can avoid giving meaning to mishaps, mistakes, past, nasty comments and anxiety while cherishing and making other things more meaningful (to yourself).

Yes, that's exactly it.

It's amazing how just noticing that I'm making myself miserable can bring a smile to my face. Or at least, a grin.

> The feeling of being able to do anything devolving into sleeping like a rotten piece of meat within a few months.

Yeah, been there.

> Obviously, I can ignore the emotions and look at things objectively but then, I would start disagreeing with lot of people including doctors and become more 'robot' like.

Some doctors are competent, and some just push whatever's trendy, or heavily detailed. Generally I recommend ignoring them all, except for some psychiatrists. Based on my experience, SSRIs are dangerous for people with bipolar disorder. They made me seriously hypomanic, but emotionally numb.

Also, I used to think that emotions determine how I think. But eventually I got that patterns of thinking determine what I feel.

It's just that stuff reminds us of a morass of similar past experiences. And there are associated feelings, which have been reinforced through repetition since we were very young.

The three canonical ones:

there's something wrong / I'm wrong (1-2 years)
I don't belong (early school years)
I'm on my own (teens)

But you can train yourself to realize that you're being triggered. And then decide freely how to deal. But it's never fixed. You just get better at catching it.
Sometime in the last 6 months, on Mac and Linux both.
You could argue that the whole gun carrying ethos in the USA is flawed for the same reasons.

There was a time when it made sense, and now it's driven by other forces (nation scale emotions?)
There is actually a 4/4/4 rule of thumb; 4 hours at room temp, 4 days in fridge, 4 months in freezer (source: newborn baby care class at large hospital in CA)

Still agree with the rest of your thoughts about other hurdles to overcome in the work place
Yup -- my apologies -- No Income tax.
You are missing purposely the fact that women have to bear the child, which is quite incapacitating especially in the last months. Then there is a recovery period. All in all that already about a year.

So yes, it’s totally normal that the expectation of caring for children fall on women because it is the prolongation of their pregnancy. Actually this is not even disputed except by a minority of people in a minority of countries (the Western world).
Could you provide a source, because im fairly sure that's not true, so if i'm wrong i'd love to know why/how?
> Law enforcement not being able to access encrypted data severely limits our ability to prosecute and convict criminals who use these secure communications to conduct their business, and brings the creeping threat of social decay ever closer.

The impact of organized crime pales in comparison to that of authoritarian regimes. The "creeping threat of social decay" argument gives me chills; it's exactly the slogan I imagine at the head of the movement that finally ends democracy.
I am indeed talking about making something up. Similar to how an the signal to noise ratio for rating signals is made up. It can't be that hard.

Following the analogy for the SNR, you can indeed prove that one signal is "better" in terms of SNR to another signal, simply by calculating the number.

I get a bit more into something like this in another reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22071522

Obviously the "ratio" I describe in my example above is something I pulled out of my ass and has serious flaws but I'm talking about traveling in a similar direction to find a rigorous "proof." You would need to define a minimal turing complete assembly language and and do the same for OOP and FP to even begin to proceed forward with such thing.

Of course what I describe can only say a given FP program is "better" then a given "OOP" program. The way to a general proof would be to find something like all the ratios of all possible foundational programs with one or two assembly primitives for OOP and FP then by induction we prove that because all programs are built from these foundational primitives the paradigm with the the foundational primitives with the "better" numbers are indeed better.

There's probably other numbers as well like the amount of references.
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I love hearing all this stuff about how California is so business unfriendly when it routinely ranks near the top for largest economies in the entire world.

If anything, it’s massively underegulated when put up against to comparably-sized economies in the developed world.