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> Those who work wouldn't necessarily be taxed, so they don't need to support those unable or unwilling to work.

We all know that those who work will be taxed more highly as that is the simplest way. It will have to be quickly as it has to be done within a few years (because that is a term limit of most politicians).

> The world today has the wealth to pull this off.

No the world today is very good at printing money, which destroys the middle class (as their savings and investments become increasingly worthless). Without the middle class you typically don't have people with disposable income which is normally used on goods and services, so you end up with less actual wealth in the economy.

> The government (or some other entity) could employ people to generate wealth like traditional corporations do today.

Governments do not generate wealth (it only takes from others and enriches the bureaucracy). Why would another entity freely give away its money?

> So the billions tied up in mega corps could be used for something that actually moves us on as a civilization.

Pure utopianism.
The status quo is insane, IMO. I call our mixed ped/car transportation networks the "mayhem lottery" (As in, every time you go out there you're taking a chance that you won't come back with all your limbs, or your life.) It was years ago, but a neighbors son was crossing the street in a crosswalk when someone ran a stop sign and knocked him fifty feet. I've twice seen little old ladies lying dead in the street from hit and run drivers.

Making bad imitations of KITT from Knight Rider is not the solution here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming is cheaper and easier, for example.

Look I want robot cars, okay? I even want them ASAP.

As soon as possible without testing robots on public ways.

Build a fake city, populate it with people who have signed waivers, test there.

Sure it's expensive but at least you don't risk killing more innocent people with your experimental car-shaped robots.

I mean, what if I built a television with H.E.M? (Human Eradication Mode)
If it escapes and kills someone, isn't that my fault?

Maybe if I put a human in there, give her a phone to distract her, and call her "Safety Driver", I can deflect any blame for my robot's killing spree onto her and get away with murder scott free! It's the perfect crime!

Okay, sorry, I got a little carried away there. But I hope my point is clear: Safety: Yes. Robot Cars: also yes, but obeying the First Law of Robotics. Testing robots cars on innocent people: hard no.
>Declawed? I never even heard of this. I do not think this is even a thing in Germany.

Generally speaking declawing is illegal in the EU, per:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_for_the_Pr...

and particularly in Germany and a few other countries it is considered "cruelty against animals " (unless if performed for medical reasons)in local laws also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onychectomy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onychectomy#Europe
My cats aren’t/weren’t subtle when they catch and eat prey. Neither are birds of prey or other vultures, when devouring another bird.

The cats I own and had over the past decades have gifted me hundreds of dead of half dead animals. Some of those cats were prolific killers.

I never witnessed a successful bird hunt, never received a bird as a gift. And most importantly: If there is any single animal which can easily leave traces of inedible stuff like feathers, down, beaks, claws — it’s birds. I never even have found traces of a killed bird, on the ground or in scat.

Despite this, I have no doubt cats kill a lot of birds. It’s just that a lone study with p<0.1 (rather than the classic p<0.05) is so far removed the reality I actually observe I can’t help but to have my doubts.
Anyone who finds themselves tending towards this nihilistic, fatalistic worldview desperately needs to recognise the extremely harmful predicament they find themselves in and work instead towards a life of meaning and purpose. I would further urge them to reflect on who is playing the fiddle that is leading them down this terrible path so that they can go forward with knowledge of their enemy.

Children are your purpose. Not your travel or dinner dates. Not your goddamn career. Your Excel spreadsheets will not be there holding your hand on your deathbed. Your dinner dates with equally-unproductive and increasingly-ageing friends are little more than a coping mechanism. They will mean nothing compared to the memories of childish giggles over the family dinner table.

You didn't come this far to just shrivel up and die. Your ancestors didn't build you a nation, defend it with their lives, bestow upon you and awe-inspiring culture and history just so that you could hit your sales projections and get drunk in Ibiza.

Your employer will hire someone else, your friends will move on, your clients won't even remember you. All that matters is family. And in your children, and their children after them, you will live on forever. Just as your ancestors do in you.

Don't be these forty-somethings realising they've left it too late and now have the last 50 years of their lives to twiddle away doing meaningless junk. Don't be that pitiful retired couple trying to fill the void with cruises and musicals.

You know that pang in your chest when you see the beautiful family walking down the street? You know the one. Bright, happy kids full of life, parents full of the pride and joy that can only be found in love and family. For god's sake don't deprive yourself of that, not for the shallow hedonism of a pay packet and extended youth.

You want that too. You know you do.
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> Yeah, well you could have asked politely what I actually mean

Says the guy who's been calling me a fascist.
At least in the US people a break like this during a crisis.

In the EU they keep milking you just the same because the cost of gasoline is just a bunch of taxes used for reckless government spending
No, that's not the thinking at all.

As your sibling points out:

"The article does a bad job at explaining it, but companies that take aid cannot pay dividends or buy back stock until they return the aid."

So it has nothing to do with historical dividend payments - you just can't pay dividends while receiving the state aid.
Great points. Some interesting survey results from Gartner here that may be interesting to you: https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-04-0...
> The majority of the games do not support multiplayer on Linux, due to dependency on Windows-specific anticheat software.

Definitely not majority. Maybe majority of the top 10-20 most popular/most cheated games? The very long tail of games works with multiplayer splendidly

There have been reports that Valve is collaborating with EAC to improve Proton support: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/apparently-valve-are-...

> Many, many of the games themselves aren't totally stable on Linux.

https://www.protondb.com/ is a great database to check on the stability of games. Many, many games are very stable. Games that I happen to play regularly are more stable than Windows (especially with alt-tab and such).
There's another water park that does something similar in the pools. There are lifeguard chairs stationed around the pools as usual. There are guards in the pools as usual. There are also guards roving the edges of the pools doing visual inspections. To check over the edge, the lifeguard leans over the pool and purposefully traces a sight line with a full-sweep head motion.
Every Arab ruler has tried to do this for decades, but this is a HARD problem:

1) Their climate sucks
2) They have very little arable land and lack water
3) Production of electricity is expensive
4) A lot of interior cities - not a lot of port access

So, from a geographical perspective, what is SA supposed to produce that gives them a comparative advantage against the rest of the world? Then you move into the political/religious aspects:

1) Uneducated workforce, despite offering scholarships to study abroad for every one of their citizens
2) They import most of their labor from other countries, ergo, their labor costs are higher with respect to the rest of the world. A factory in India will be cheaper than a factory in SA, all else being equal.

These disadvantages make the only real route to a viable economy a service-based one. This is what Dubai has done - Dubai has done their damndest to establish free trade zones, a legal framework, and a tax regime to get companies to establish their MENA HQ's there (and they've done so accordingly). SA is WAY behind on this (I would argue irrecoverably behind).
Depends on scale. American Airlines in the US used 80 percent of their profits for several years for share buybacks ($12.5 billion from 2010-2019). Not R&D, not salary increases for workers. Does that deserve a bailout that preserves existing ownership? That’s the target. That sort of behavior should be nuked from orbit.

I’d agree it’d be different if your business is small (less than $10M/year in turnover); you’d look at the books with a less critical eye.
Can't say it better.
How hard would it be to take that less detailed image of that specific piece from the verification telescope, and turn it into a believable fake of the proof of work picture?
This. I am in a similar boat to you in regards to having kids (minus the medical aspect, as far as i am aware at the moment, at least), and I absolutely don’t get the whole ultra-childfree rhetoric on the internet that borderlines on hating children and, very often, crosses into it.

It feels like those people cannot justify their decision to not have children without either painting them as the devil or painting the people who choose to have children as some brainlets.
> Well first off, dividends are a normal method for business owners to make an income... they take all the risk

I'd disagree strongly on that account. The business owners take the monetary risk, but that is a small portion compared to the overall risk of the workers. If somebody moves across the country, that is a risk. If somebody invests time in learning a skillset, that is a risk. If somebody is going to need to choose between rent and groceries if they are laid off, that is a far bigger risk than the monetary investment of a venture capitalist.
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I can relate to studies like these in many ways.

Growing up in India, I faced a hell lot of issues. At the age of 2, I was able to remember names and faces of all my relatives, at 3 I was able to read fluently. By the time I was 5, thanks to my relative I was made to repeat a grade because I was born on a certain month. By 9, I was able to do 10th grade math with ease. My mom observed this and asked the school things can be accelerated. I was placed in 10th grade and just got myself bullied. School's verdict was I was that I am socially inept and hence I must have cheated to solve 10th grade problems. School saying that broke my mom's heart, and mine. I was eternally depressed (was not aware of it though) from then onwards till college. Throughout my school life all I faced was bullying cos I don't share the same interests as the others.

College wasn't any different. I grew up watching OCW physics and thought college would be similar. Turned out wrong. I have ruffled feathers with every faculty there that I wanted more work, to be challenged more. And all I got was "you should be more humble and patient. You should wait for the other students to catch up. Go with the pace, don't run, walk. blah blah" After 4 years, I came out as a person with no motivation, mentally lethargic, depressed, just wanted to coast through life. It had been hammered into me that I was the problem, not the system.

Thank god I met my wife, we both were very similar and had experienced very similar situations in life. It took a long while to understand that the problem is not me. We identified as gifted children, reading up on articles, matching traits. My mom regrets that she didn't know about any of these "gifted stuff". All of us recognize the negative intentions of the people who grew up / lived with us. Both my wife and myself are trying to get back into the groove, finding ways to challenge each other, to learn to work hard, to motivate, to get back the lost years from when we could have been accelerated. Hopefully we catch up on time.

I am positive that my kid will most probably be a gifted child. I will be doing everything in my power to take care of him in a proper manner.

I relate to so many people in this and many other threads in HN. You all have my deepest support and sympathies for your bad experiences. Please don't let go of life. You can still be the smart person you once were. Being smart isn't being entitled, it's just who you are.
Like other EU countries :-) the Isle of Man is still part of the EU
How is it white nationalism to want to secure a future for white children? This seems highly illogical to me.
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Deliberately dense? 20K vs 100K is 5X difference. 100K vs 100M is … quite a bit more than 5X.

The executive suite has absconded with almost the entirety of the company's wealth, in almost every industry. Engineers are simply 'necessary evils' who haven't been outsourced yet. And curiously, seem content with 0.1% of what the executives say they need to simply to sign our paychecks.
Pretty common understanding among biblical scholars. Christian scholars often understand it as dual prophecy, referring both to contemporary (i.e. Roman power structures) and later eschatological ones.
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You're absolutely correct.

Is it perhaps possible that this was parent's point? That this is not something to which one answer fits all people?
Saudi makes up shit when they say their extraction costs are $3/barrel. A lot of clever accounting in that one. Actual extraction costs are roughly $10-$15/barrel.
> My question is, what's the "secret sauce"? If this is in fact that much more successful than Wine, what's different?

Mainly configuration. You can almost run everything with wine but it implies quite a lot of tiny config changes and know how.

The force of proton has been to do all of that out of the box without user knowledge.

It's honestly a success, and a big one.
This is actually new to me. Thank you!
This is exactly why we need to learn these signals - to recognize people who so strongly want to identify, with something that would seem strange or benine to the uninitiated.

About a celtic cross and 1488 written below, someone in this thread said they can't "tell that much about a person based on an accessory."

I believe it is a grave mistake to ignore such extremely strong signals, especially the person seems aggressive or inhebriated.
> It’s not a great world to be raising kids right now.

I was born in the late 60's and lived through 20 years of nuclear weapons proliferation fearing all out nuclear conflict (when Reagan won the US presidency my nuclear apocalypse anxieties stepped up a gear). My parents lived through the Cuban missile crisis as early 20-somethings wondering if the world had just bitten the big green banana. Add to that the destabilising proxy wars and games between the Soviet Union and the US around the world.

Was that a great world to be raising kids? Probably not but they still went ahead had me and then my brother. The world has always been a dangerous place but it shouldn't prevent you from bringing kids into the world because that generation might be the one that nudges the world towards being a better place. It's a bit of a failure of imagination to think the way the author does. Also I suspect the author is much younger than me, perhaps with parents around my age, they wouldn't be here if their parents had thought the same way, lucky (I hope) for them they didn't.

That being said, I don't have kids, not because of any of the reasons listed in that somewhat flawed article, I just never got around to it and I'm terrible at sustaining relationships that last long enough for me to have been comfortable being a dad. There is a part of me that wishes I did, but I don't obsess over it.
That's essentially how we interpreted it as well. Tools are still important, and useful in the right context, but we're in a period now where tools are not hindering remote proliferation.
>> mechanisms for enriching shareholders

It's important to point out that "shareholders" could include "managed retirement plans", especially when talking about stocks that pay dividends.
Sounds like a great time to shore up state budgets by raising the gas tax.
More at https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/04/20/helping-survivor...
Exactly. And to be fair, I doubt Valve is making a lot of money off of Proton on Linux. I consider it more of a philantropy project from Gabe Newell.
Yeah gas prices mostly correlate to oil prices but also to demand for gasoline (hence the price always going up in the summer).
That might be my plan too.Copy pasted answers despite my length and detailed questions are quite off putting.Also, saying that i am a high risk business while other bigger companies like Shopify is fine,it's also quite immoral.
You've filled in a lot of blanks in a way quite different than I would fill it in. But I'm not really talking about those blanks; I really am talking just about the questions I posted. Who are these "peers"? What are they going to decide is "fair"?
Julia has the type hierarchy that you're describing and it's very easily extendable.
In the last 5 years, sure, especially with MBS holding the reins. But you can't just move your entire country onto solar power in 5 years unless you have huge hydro or battery resources already.
I have a pair of cheap mechanics gloves with my flight gear and I put them on when start my preflight. I touch everything I am supposed to check. The gloves make it so I'm not worried about touching something oily / greasy / etc.

When doing my run up or cruise checklists (where I'm not hands on controls for critical flight phases) I point / touch each gauge / instrument I am checking (in steam gauges this makes more sense).

My CFIs have made fun of me but I don't care. I had one that asked if I wanted a borescope too but it doesn't stop me from being as safe as I want to be.
This doesn't refute the concept that now people may choose to live somewhere in part due to its transportation options.
I get it - 'the state' is at fault in every case, either by doing too much or too little. Whatever.
So, the business then has the choice to use last year's profits to keep the business afloat or pay investors. Seems like an easy choice unless your only motivation is lining investor pockets.
It is difficult and dangerous to handle and store crude oil:

"After revealing a long-held plan to try to buy a barrel of crude, I was now receiving a disappointingly stern lecture on the dangers of hydrogen sulfides. The wine tasted vaguely sulfuric, too."

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&...
I would second this. It might be, though, because it is much easier to overdose 4-Aco-DMT than shrooms. Even most milligram scales don't reliably differentiate between 30 and 50 mg but the trip on the latter would be immensely more intense. 4-Aco-DMT seems also to be much closer to DMT than, say, LSD.
No need to worry. A trillion here, and a trillion there, and the US is headed for a default in the next 24 months.
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> Certainly it makes sense to prevent them from issuing future dividends based on aid

...which is exactly what the rule is about, see the press release from the Danish Ministry of Finance:

https://www.fm.dk/nyheder/pressemeddelelser/2020/04/regering...

> Regeringen og alle Folketingets partier enige om, at der i den forlængede og udvidede ordning for faste omkostninger, indføres en betingelse i kompensations-bekendtgørelserne om, at ansøgende virksomheder som en forudsætning for at modtage kompensation i den forlængede periode på tro og love skal erklære, at virksomhederne ikke vil udbetale udbytte eller foretage aktietilbagekøb for regnskabsårene 2020 og 2021. Betingelsen vil gælde for virksomheder, der modtager mere end 60 mio. kr. i kompensation i 2020 i kompensationsordningen for faste omkostninger. Virksomheder vil senere kunne frigøre sig fra disse begrænsninger ved at tilbagebetale udbetalt støtte efter denne ordning ud over 60 mio. kr.
"Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang."

They do tag their project as "actor-model" so there is some similarity. However I see their communication model is designed to be more protocol agnostic.
I'm not sure about GUN
But one obvious pro of IPFS is you leverage the huge network of IPFS nodes.
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Also the problem is most houses don't have a separate room for WFH let alone if a couple are both WFH
Yes, on the surface. You’re assuming that the business owner is some uber wealthy person that doesn’t mind missing the dividends because he’s happy on his yacht.

While that is true for a lot of large companies (kind of like the ones that shouldn’t be asking for state aid), for the small ones it’s very different.

As a small business owner myself, it matters hugely - if the company makes $100,000 in profit and I have to pay two employees $40k each, I’m barely making ends meet.
There has been some serious changes there these last 9 years.
All this dogwhistling stuff is fun and games until you start to put innocent people under fire for dogwhistling. If more people start reading Nazi propaganda just to avoid dogwhistling, you will have created more enemies as a second order effect of your actions.

A better approach would be to fill the whistles with noise, so they lose their use for the people trying to use them to identify allies. There's a reason why the phrase "normies ruin everything" is so common
If there are not, then it is likely for reasons other than the cat population.

Cats in the UK kill a lot of birds. But they are well, well behind habitat destruction as a cause for decline of bird populations.
Probably buried in a very different environment?
Return from investment is nothing like salary.
This makes me angry. I know this is probably "The Right Move™" financially (for the shareholders), but it really seems like they could earn a lot more goodwill by continuing pay.
Is delaware a tax haven ?
Almost no one keeps 12 months of cash reserves. Apple, with is famous cash hoard, is around that mark.... I can't think of other large companies offhand that are.
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Dividends are how an company owner gets the profits from his investment. A salary is how a worker gets paid. In small companies, these may be the same person, but the nature of the financial flow does not change.

When a company requires more cash, in times of need, it can issue debt or raise capital. Capital is usually paid last, in the pecking order. If government is lending to companies, it is reasonable to require them to avoid depleting its cash reserves paying capital.
That was only used as an example as the other extreme.

Edit: Very few business have that cash on hand, but will usually have access to credit revolvers that could carry them through this. I am aware of many firms that have drawn down their entire revolver.