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plenty of the most populous areas in the world are not liberal and progressive. There are at least 20 cities in China larger than NYC. I'm sure India has it's share. So does the middle East and south East Asia. Let's not make assumptions based only on majority populations of European descent.
I reckon humans can actually go MUCH faster than what their software allows today. I often feel frustrated by software on my various devices that make me wait around for non-network operations even though I pay a premium often for top of the line devices. Those little micro-frictions really mess with my mood.
Well, if you have 1,000 workers operating at the lowest wage, you have a choice to give them all raises or fire all of them.

Whether or not this can be gamed isn't the issue here. I think it's good to increase pressure on companies to treat their employees fairly.
By my reading, it applies regardless of place of incorporation:

> The proposal would only apply to companies that post at least $10 million of taxable income from business conducted in California
>Philosophically, if our existence has no purpose, then it seems that everything else we believe and value is built on a foundation of sand.

Only if you assume that only "inherent" or externally supplied meaning or purpose is valid.

Why make that assumption, though?
I moved to Texas, because it actually has weather.

I hated the way SoCal was always sunny, always the same weather, mostly the same temperature, and no interesting weather events. I hated how whenever it rained it made the evening news. I found that days blended into each other, weeks, blended into each other... the monotonousness made me bizarrely depressed.
The main problem here is how the "justice" system can be manipulated to put someone in jail with simple faked screenshots or spoofed SMS messages. I'd expect them to get call & text records from the cell carriers before putting anyone in jail, but clearly that's too much to ask.

The main question is whether whoever decided to put an innocent person in jail without properly checking the evidence is going to be punished.
A man took over an airport monitor to play video games until officials told him
great - seems like it works :-)
Why are you making financial decisions for strangers? Esp in a way that benefits you and has no value to them?

What is the sense in extending their lines of credit to PAY TAXES?

Are you suggesting that they should go into debt to pay taxes? It is equivalent of highway robbery. Akin to saying.. mortgage your home again to give us the money?

Real estate markets are not liquid. Liquidity is exchange of monetary and financial instruments for an asset. A home is an immovable fixed asset. As long as it’s owner occupied, it’s domicile and not an asset. When it’s rented out, it accrues rental income which is taxed.

Right to property is a fundamental right. This is not a feudal economy and it’s not the Middle Ages. Stock options are speculative financial instruments and relying on them is akin to gambling.

Your understanding of finances ..if representative of the wider California working population..sheds light on why the current generation has no financial management skills. I am beginning to suspect it’s by design starting at public schools where children are taught to suckle at the govt teat and think taxes are nourishing food.
Why have a real business selling things people want when you can just stalk people and pollute the visual landscape?

I hope this trash company dies completely. It's just a waste of resources and oxygen.
It may be worth noting that as of two weeks ago AB5 makes the "just recharacterize your employees as contractors" play much more difficult.
I suspect that a large fraction of the software in use is written at least in part using that method. Now you can debate whether that software actually works or not, but I think that its value is not net negative.
Prohibition didn't require an amendment, except insofar as the people pushing for it wanted to make it hard to overturn.

State and local governments had outlawed alcohol since the founding. If outlawing alcohol were somehow special, that wouldn't have been possible.
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"The universe doesn't care about us" =/= "the basis for meaning doesn't care about us". That is, "the laws of physics" =/= "the source of meaning".
Can you imagine california favelas? Doesn't seem that farfetched.
> A large contingent of Republicans wanted the top-two primary system, believing it would benefit them. (Though the GOP opposed it.) It didn't work out that way.

It does benefit them, by giving Republicans more influence on what candidate is elected in districts where they have no chance of electing one of their own.

> California is a one-party state because of term limits.

No, it’s more because the California Republican Party followed the national party to the far right over the last couple of decades, while the California electorate didn't.
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Good point. That is an upside, I agree. For random days like that it's nice not having to think about deducting 8 hrs.
I believe the city budget also includes the budget to operate SFO.
True, although this would also capture revenue from companies whose executives don't live in CA, and therefore pay no taxes there. This actually raises an interesting constitutionality argument — it's arguably an indirect tax on the income that would have been paid to a non-resident executive. Sounds sort of like taxation without representation, but this is probably too much of a stretch. (I used to be a tax lawyer.)
We like to try and think of other maps that we could adapt the code for. I don't think we would have ever come up with publicly-accessible pianos!
Lots of excitement in the comments. Has anyone considered the possibility that California wants to create the appearance of solving real problems, without actually solving them? Politics, like social media, contain quite a large amount of virtue signaling. What places California somewhat uniquely is as its liberal ethos clashing with moneyed interests. There's the Abigail Disney's out there, but wealthy egalitarians are vastly outnumbered by wealthy capitalists who oppose redistribution. As many others have pointed out, there are potentially obvious workarounds to optimizing for expensive pay ratio.
> got top upvotes

Is it really? That’s disappointing.
> My leftist friends seem to have a self-righteousness about them that I can only conclude they gain from their empowerment on a campus lacking intellectual diversity.

Conservatives are plenty self-righteous, you only hear ad-hominems like "anti-American", "hates freedom", and "naive" from the right.
Part of the problem is that there are too many edge cases.

Consider when Steve jobs had a $1 salary but the rest was stock options. This tax would not apply in these instance, but should. Wed also find that it does apply when it shouldnt.

The biggest issue with any tax is the disproportionate impact on middle tier/s. The richest always find a way avoid it, and it doesnt target the poor.
You can use tariffs to correct the imbalance, although they seem a dirty word until recently
I know this. I don't care. I use `-march-native -mtune=native` specifically to point other developers on the team to the two relevant compiler options. And if they don't look, nothing's lost.
I see the wealthy person as someone who is clever and disciplined. The government is neither clever nor disciplined. I believe letting the billionaire keep his or her money is more likely to increase world utility.

Elon and Bezos send people to space with the wealth they fairly gained. The government prints trillions of dollars every year to fund their deficits and wars. If the government needs another billion dollars, it’s quite easy for them to create it.

Why seize money from the rare person who is talented enough to make so much of it?
I'm not sure this is relevant. You can bring in an outside company as a contractor, and that company can have employees that effectively work for you but aren't employed by you.
Also I don't see any battery life benchmark, which I care about a lot more than some performance microbenchmark
How would you possibly be able to estimate the probability of nuclear annihilation? There are 13,000 nuclear warheads ready to launch on a minutes notice.
@GavinNewsom must be running out of funds for more hair gel.
In Asia, most of our listings are in Japan. That's because we have a dedicated administrator there who is eager to document all the machines. Outside of Japan, there are only a couple locations.
Definitely true. As other commenters have noted, you can just outsource the function to another company. That is, I don't think AB5 has any impact on a worker who is an employee of a janitorial firm that is contracted to a tech company. I think it only applies to workers who are directly contracted with/employed by the main company itself.

The law would be agnostic about this because the worker is getting the benefits of employment so long as he/she is an employee of some company. This new proposed legislation would make it matter which company is designated as the employer, for purposes of ratio calculation.

Note: I have not been able to find the text of this bill, nor have I read AB5 (just read news about it).
> the free market won't really address the needs of people below 30% of the median income.

Why? Do you think a poor person's vote is worth more to the government than their wallet would be to a house builder?

Is it impossible to make an acceptable house at 30% the cost of a median earner's house?

Your reasoning is valid for people whose productivity approaches zero, in which case welfare can indeed be needed. But the current housing problem is systematic and touches a far bigger percent of the population, and thus shouldn't be solved with charity.
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On-Topic: [anything that] gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Satisfying people's curiosity improves the conversation, and calling someone out in the public square is a good way to create accountability that doesn't exist in private communication.
Yes, nuclear duck and cover drills is what I was referring to.
Emotion has nothing to do with it. A strong, functional middle class is critical for the economic health of the nation, as will as it's ability to survive as a Democracy. With very, very few exceptions - wealth disparity is inversely related to the health, stability, and happiness of a populace. Nations with greater wealth disparity generally have less freedom, choice and social mobility. This was recognized multiple times in the nation's history, and upon action, economic growth was spurred. These are not emotions, these are facts that I won't even cite because a simple google search results in many scientific studies backing them.

On a slightly more emotional side:

With individual productivity increasing annually, it's a shame that individuals are not seeing proportional wage increases in return.

And none of that even touches upon the reality that those making the billions are rarely those with exceptional talent or skill. It's those who had the connections and financial wherewithall to build networks that are unreachable for those born into lower socioeconomic circumstances. No, I don't have data for that, but a simple unscientific survey of Execs making hundreds or thousands of times more than their employees are rarely from anything less than middle-upper class backgrounds, and most often have family money that allowed them opportunities never imaginable to lower rungs of society.

I do not like the idea of paying higher taxes, but I also recognize that individuals and companies are sitting on trillions upon trillions of dollars because they are making so much money that they can't spend it all. Just ask Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, both who agree with this and argue for higher taxes.

But emotions aside, it's simple economics. When social mobility is poor and inequality high, there simply aren't enough consumers to support the level needed for a country to remain 'first world'.
Yes, right now it is. Nothing lasts forever.
That's correct. I wasn't saying it was nihilism but proposing that by discovering nihilism (meaninglessness), you can employ existentialism or solipsism to your advantage as a response.
I dunno. When my state ends up with more homelessness and sanitation problems and police ignore low-level crimes, I'm not inclined to give it more money.
which one? a street one or something else?
Why fire all of them when you can give fifty of them promotions to middle managers in charge of training "contractors"?
Regarding 1: Sexual dymorphism in hominids is not regarded as large compared to other close primates. I don't know where you take this opinion that physical abilities between males and women are "massive", but certainly not from actual measurements.
Here are some, conveniently in a single table, for those interested:

https://www.geo.arizona.edu/Antevs/nats104/00lect13dimorph.h...

(Note:
We are homo sapiens, pan troglodites is our closest relative still alive the social ape chimpanzee, pongo pygmaeus is the solitary orangutan, gorilla gorilla is the small group living usual gorilla, others are extinct relatives)
On the flip side, there is a finite supply of housing. A retired senior citizen living in a house prevents a young professional from living in that house. Given that the former is going to provide far less benefit to society than the latter, there is an opportunity cost that needs to be accounted for somehow. A property tax is not a bad way to account for the opportunity cost.

> Seniors and retirees are such low impact on society.

IIRC, medical care accounts for more government spending than all other discretionary spending combined. And most of medical care is going to be caring for seniors.
It doesn't and isn't. All the location and machine data is generated by users on this site.

We use OSM vector tiles for the map.
Something tells me other states won't be happy with more California expats coming to vote in their elections.
Why does the medical profession think 16-24 hour shifts are okay? I really hate hazing, and it just stinks if it.
From reading the linked article, I think an interesting thing if people can pull it off is the reorganization of businesses/functions to add value to the system as a whole.

Discord adds value to individual games. Each additional game adds value to Discord. Both add value to users.

It is a model allowing more innovation to come from individual companies instead of domination by a single company providing all productivity tools.
I started skimming your reply and, well, you had me at virtue signalling. Buh bye.
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Did you just comment to tell me there are more than 2 types of people in this world? TIL.
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Climate impact is the most important thing for any employer to care about it. If they don't care about it hugely how can you ethically be on board?
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right?

the rich can afford the accountants that can minimize their "income".

the low income should theoretically have fair low tax rates.

You're left with the middle ground where people earn enough to pay significant taxes, but not enough to afford gratuitous tax accountants.

Not helped by lobbying determined to make taxes intentionally difficult in the US.
I wrote a post about the so-called "law of advertiser atrophy": https://hua.substack.com/p/everything-i-have-ever-learned-ab.... TLDR: the author correctly identifies an issue, but misdiagnoses its root cause and how it will play out moving forward.

In fact, I would endorse short AMZN, long GOOG/FB, as an investment strategy (but not as investment advice)!
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The biggest pay imbalance ratios in the US are in professional sports.

The top 30 NBA players are earning a combined $1 billion per year in salary.

122 players in Major League Baseball are presently earning $10 million per year or more.

The NBA + MLB + NFL is around $14 billion per year in salary for the top 2,000 active players. Probably $200 billion in salary over the next ten years.

It's more than what the top 2,000 executives are extracting from corporations in the US.

I can't wait to see what the Lakers, Clippers, Kings, Warriors, Rams, Chargers, 49ers, Dodgers, Giants, Athletics and Angels look like after California makes things right.

Lebron James should only be allowed to earn a maximum of ten times what a janitor in the stadium earns or a secretary in the front office, were California to be consistent.

Oh wait, they won't do anything about that extreme inequality because no professional athlete would want to play for a California team ever again?
> Im really thinking to create or start a business myself. ... I think the best fit at least from my ignorance is some type of SaaS. ... What are your thoughts on this?

It's a great idea. Starting a business will open you up to a whole world of new skills. As a programmer, you can probably start something with zero capital, just your free time, so the risks can be generally low. To make it successful, it will eventually become all-consuming, but it doesn't have to be at the start.

I've started two SaaS businesses, one successful, one not, and looking back I still think the most gratifying moment is going from $0 in revenue to $1. Doing that still takes many nights and weekends, but you can still psychologically treat it like a hobby. The emotionally hard part comes after that first dollar, although you should just cross that bridge when you get there.

Happy to chat more about this offline if you're really interested, feel free to lookup my profile and email me.
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However, everything has its downsides. For example:

> 1. YOU are responsible for your dependencies.

This contributes to the prejudice against `unsafe`. If I wanted to be a full-time auditor, I wouldn't be steering clear of C and C++.

Since I'm a responsible coder, I avoid depending on `unsafe` outside of `std` or the simplest of FFI wrappers with extreme prejudice, to the point where I consider NIHing an alternative or just sticking to a managed language with a more mature ecosystem, depending on the project.
The rate of wage increase for the lowest earners in America is higher than for the highest earners. Unemployment is lower than ever. I won’t even cite because you can prove this with a simple google search.

The fact remains that you think it’s morally correct to take money from people simply because they have it. To me, that’s theft. What is the salary at which we should seize money? You still haven’t answered this original question.
> The typical cry is "We should do the same". Well, we can't. Government did not grant, nor does it own that right.

No, we can do that. The government can merely assume the power, as governments so often do.

Paper is not a defense. A "Bill of Rights" containing only a single right would be of zero value.

What is a defense is the bundling of recognized rights, as in the Bill of Rights. It's like an alliance: an assault on any one right is an assault on them all. If a large majority of people would rally behind a single right (maybe freedom of speech?), then the right is not seriously in danger (for now). The rights which are in danger need to be bundled so that the whims of a particular time and place do not permanently sacrifice a right.

When a particular right is borderline unpopular -- perhaps the right to keep and bear arms -- that provides a lever to pry away all of our rights, and we must prevent that. When you look at the wave of gun laws being proposed and passed, you'll see how obvious it is that they are an assault on the entire Bill of Rights (for instance "red flag" laws are a clear violation of due process).

The Gun Safety movement is a rerun of the Drug War. A bunch of reasonable-sounding people concerned about their community used as pawns to push a very different agenda. In the case of the Drug War, it was violating the 4th, 5th, 9th and 10th Amendments to oppress political enemies (hippies and blacks). In the case of the Gun Safety movement, it's violating the 1st, 2nd, and 5th Amendments to oppress political enemies (rural/Christian/whatever).

The reason we end up with ridiculous laws -- like harsher punishments for crack than powder; or laws restricting foldable stocks on rifles[1] -- is because those laws are not ridiculous when you understand the real agenda.

[1] If the goal is to reduce murders, then rifles are an absurd place to start. Knives are a much more common murder weapon. So are "Hands, fists, feet, etc.". Even in Texas, where there are few rifle laws. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Executive pay ratio is mostly determined by the size of the company. We have allowed mergers and more mergers, even ignoring monopoly concerns, creating huge companies.

Think of the corporate structure tree, with perhaps 5 to 15 people reporting to each manager. In a large company, there are many individual contributors per executive. With those numbers, total executive pay is not a large portion of total employee pay. This is what makes extremely high executive pay possible.

The fix is simple in concept, but politically difficult. Break up huge companies into smaller companies.
Shame that newer devices can’t have this
Cool project!

I never loved pinball growing up, but I played my fair share as I cruised around the arcade. I think I appreciate it more now as I’ve gotten older.

There is something very satisfying about playing an ‘analog’ game, in a world where digital video games and the internet dominate our attention.

Good to see the pinball community is alive and well, and people are actively contributing. Keep up the good work!
It would be a nice side effect though!
The article says they mentioned gray market suppliers. Gray market is not the same as "knock offs" or the black market. Gray market usually just means "sold legally without manufacturer warranty."
One thing that nobody here seems to have mentioned is that, as far as I can tell, the actix.rs website was not created by the author of Actix itself. Just compare the writing on the website with the author's own postmortem. I don't know who wrote the website; I can't find an author's name or a Git repo for the site itself. But whoever they were, it seems that they, not the author of Actix itself, did the marketing that gave many of us our primary impression of what kind of project this is. If anyone reading this knows more about the history of the website, I'd appreciate any additional background or pointers to more details.

Edit: After running some git blame commands on the https://github.com/actix/actix-website repository (thanks Nikolay for keeping it there), it seems that the most eloquent marketing for the project was written by Armin Ronacher. I'm sure this was all done with Nikolay's permission, since it's under the actix GitHub organization, but my point is that Nikolay himself didn't say the things that have been quoted from the website, and they didn't necessarily reflect his own attitude about the project. So that might have caused some confusion.
If you think Texans pretend Austin doesn’t exist, I doubt you’ve ever been to Texas.

I said no such thing. I said people who like to stereotype Texas as Republican like to pretend Austin doesn't exist.

As for visiting Texas, I lived there for many years.
I'm just not sure how the various US courts would interpret that?

Eg. lets says CA said you have to pay business tax if you make more than $X in CA, would that hold up?