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Why should only bigger communities together own something? If I want to fuck out in the middle of nowhere and do my own thing, why should others be allowed to harass me there?

Additionally the government printing money, giving it to us and then requiring us to give it back does not create value, it creates a loop that causes work for nothing.
Because downvotes are not supposed to be for disagreement. This is HN. The standard is to downvote low quality comments only.
From 2003 to maybe 2019 Medicare was explicitly forbidden from negotiating drug prices. Second bullet point in this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_Prescription_Drug,_Im...

The first world has successfully encouraged the drug makers to sell their product cheaper in the third world. If you look on wikipedia drug articles you'll see the price for the generic in the developed and developing world.
A whale fall was discovered (top commend in this thread): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZzQhiNQXxU
These guys were driving an Audi A8. Definitely a white, non-criminal car. More of a CEO’s car.
Most economists agree that taxing capital income lower is more efficient, and our capital gains rates are in line with those of Germany, Sweden, etc., so that all seems fine to me. I don’t want to be to the left of France or Italy on tax policy. That seems insane to me.

Beyond that, taxes are just a means to an end. I accept that taxes are necessary for providing social services. So I find it extremely disingenuous to focus so much on a potential source of tax revenue that won’t cover 90% of what we need to provide universal healthcare, etc. I find it disingenuous when people like Warren talk about Medicare for All (which by her own math will cost $30 trillion over 10 years) and then spend the rest of the speech talking about wealth taxes (which by her own math would raise only $3-4 trillion over that same period), and then also promise not to raise taxes in the middle class. It’s rank manipulation: you’re trying to make voters believe we can pay for these services through higher taxes on the rich, and burying in the fine print the fact that the middle class will have to pay 90% of the bill. (This manipulation also undermines the prospect of us ever getting universal healthcare, because no real plan can achieve that without the massive middle class tax increases you’ve convinced voters are unnecessary.)

The motivation seems to be more focused on taking money away from certain people (because “the billionaires shouldn’t exist” or some such tripe), than raising the money we need to pay for social services people supposedly want, and figuring out how to do that with minimal distortion to the economy. I think that’s a toxic brand of politics. It’s also a departure from what other developed countries are doing. Economists agree that the most efficient sort of tax is consumption taxes, which is why every OECD country relies heavily on VAT. (If our taxation profile was the same as Spain’s, payroll and consumption taxes would go up $2 trillion per year, while income taxes—paid mainly by the rich—would actually go down $1 trillion per year.) So this rhetoric seems both spiteful and empirically unwise.
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A Ruby game engine was recently released https://dragonruby.itch.io/
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In reality you would end up on Medicaid. There would be limits to what hospitals you could go to for treatment, but you wouldn't be stuck with the bill in the end.

Basically the way the American healthcare system works, they will eventually pick up the tab. They just go out of their way to bleed you dry on the way.
I think that would require the same architectural changes needed for offline deduplication (i.e. probably not going to happen any time soon, unless I've missed some recent developements).
What a crazy mixed-up world: on desktop we ask if there's a future for native apps, while on mobile we ask if there's a future for web apps.
“Code Survivor”.. Outwit, outlast, outplay. ;)
They're worried that there isn't testing code to prove that it's correct. If it's proven correct in other ways, it doesn't need unit tests.

Yeah, the code's bad – so what? It wasn't written by programmers. Most simulation code is bad, but if it's been proven correct it doesn't need to be good.

From what I can tell, this is a matter of conflicting conventions in different fields meeting head-on.
Caps lock is uncouth here in hackernews, please tone it down to lowercase.
I agree that the current state of the company is important: if it has just hit traction and there are fairly risk-free payoffs for everyone employed to work 60-80 hours, then the fact that everyone is working so hard might be a good sign--it could mean that everyone believes in the product and are bringing their A+ game. Additionally, if the market they're in is a fast-growing one, and it seems like it may be a winner-take all, then the effort can be justified.

However, if (1) this company is still looking for a product-market fit, or (2) has been pulling this kind of hours for years, I would see that as a red flag. (1) seems to signal a frantic attempt by the founders to hit a milestone before they run out of cash, and (2) means you can expect this kind of culture for a long time ahead, which, as others pointed out, benefits the large stakeholders at the expense of employees.
Oops. Ya, 15. Off by 10 error!
Same here - I was a Cakewalk user back in the 90s, and decided on a whim to find out if it was still around.
Yes, but he smart landowners will realize that the same farmers will now need to pay more, and have a less direct and shorter-term connection to the land.

The farmer will have less means, and less motivation to invest in proper fertilization & care of the land.

This pushes everyone to a pure extractive business model, and away from investment.

The result will be land that is worth less until it is worthless.

All for a few more bucks up front.

Capitalism is not solving any problem here, it is creating a massive problem. What's the solution when a massive portion of the arable land is worthless?
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Germany's average tax rate (according to the OECD) for a one-earner married couple with two children is 34.3%, while the same in the US is 18.8%. Taking these, the difference for your $100k/year example would be about 15k. You'd have about 80k in the US, and about 65k in Berlin.

Now to compare cost of living - let's say you wanted to compare Berlin vs SF, for similarly ridiculous housing markets. A quick search[0] suggests that living in Berlin costs nearly half as much - Berlin's $65k is more like a San Francisco $130k.

Now the downside is that you're not actually going to get paid as much in Berlin - maybe $68k as a senior software developer, as opposed to $135k-ish in SF. Plugging these numbers into a couple of actual quick tax calculators rather than using the averages, the Berliner makes about $41k, while the worker in San Francisco makes about $87k - although these are both without going through an accountant to massage the numbers. After our magic divider, that's a difference of about $2.5k.

Perhaps the US allows an accountant to massage the numbers more than Germany, but honestly, as someone currently in Germany, that doesn't pass the smell test.

So all in all, you wind up with $2.5k a year over the Berliner with which to cover everything that Germany's system does. And this is one of the best case scenarios - a high-salary tech worker with good benefits. For everyone else in the US, their quality of life and access to effective healthcare is likely to be significantly lower.

[0] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Wikipedia seems to say people making viruses is a fairly routine thing.

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

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding.
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How much of the rent on your apartment is due to its location? might be 10% in a small town, but it is likely more like 50% in most cities (unless the landlord is providing a lot of services -- doorman, flowers in the lobby). In his land value tax, he'd be paying for the value of the site. In a highrise, that value gets used by dozens of housing units in each column.

You wouldn't see a tax bill because you're not a landowner. But you'd be paying your share via your monthly rent. And your rent would not rise: your landlord is already charging what the market will bear.

And if there is a vacant lot next door, its owner would be motivated to build on it or sell to someone who would. That would likely reduce the rise in your monthly rent.
Sure. But the standard way of driving production is private consumption. Given that you have disincentivized the poor from consuming, what is the counterbalance that incentivizes the rich to produce?

(There are a couple of standard answers, including government consumption / public works projects, that can address this.)
I was thinking about this as well, Yahoo was basically a Whale fall
> Browsers and platform defaults could go a long way to improve video UX but they don't. Not having to open my network tab to save video would be a place to start.

Uh... Right click, "Save video as..." in Chrome. Has been that way as long as I can recall. I'm 95% sure Firefox works the same way. No idea about IE or OG Edge because who really cares, presumably Edgium behaves like Chrome.

A lot of sites override the right click menu in one way or another, but that's not the browser's fault. A standard video embed is easy to save.

> Being able to right-click to copy/paste them would be another.

I think that might run in to some practical limitations, both in terms of simple clipboard data limits and the fact that while an image is loaded entirely in to RAM to play a video may not be. If the user does a right-click>copy five seconds in while the video is still loading but has already started playing, what should the browser do? How should it handle extreme situations like someone clicking "Copy" on their Plex Web Player embed of a 100GB 4K UHD movie?

Copy/paste with video in a browser is not as straightforward as images.
Assume a perfectly spherical farmer in a frictionaless socioeconomic vacuum... sounds like physics.
The word whale is pretty common in econ slang
None of that changes the fact that there is no inherent value to land (improved or unimproved). Different people value the same piece of land (or any good) differently. This is just reality, regardless of whether someone is appointed to imagine a price for the purposes of taxation.
Is there anything preventing you from adding other maintainers to the project?
and living it as a well-paid white collar employee is _alot_ different than living it as everyone else
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1 gig for Slack ? I count < 300 MB on my Windows C:\Users\[MY USERNAME]\AppData\Local\slack
counting app-4.5.0 and packages folder

And currently taking < 300 MB RAM
> you just stop by Reddit and HN. And assume anything you don't find on Reddit/HN is probably dead or dying, you're not going to look

So you saying that browsing reddit had replaced the “old ways”. That is exactly the problem, this was not an option. If those blogs or sites never appear in search engines, blogrolls are gone, archives have been deleted (eg Tumblr), delicious/stumbleupon/etc are gone, how do you find them? The internet and how content is distributed has changed a lot, it’s disingenuous to just dismiss it as nostalgia.

On RSS, maybe you forgot that google mangled it in 2013? They shut down the most popular RSS reader without warning, and around the same time most large platforms stopped providing full content via feeds, to drive traffic to their site == ad revenue. RSS went from being a major source of traffic for blogs, to 1-2% of visitors. Of course people will stop using it if stops giving you content and your software is gone.
Totally agree, ideas like this is why i read hacker news
Depends on who the clients are. I've got a todo / schedule / calendar thats purely text. But thats just what I like.
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Like the Hunger Games. For most people it works great, as long as your name isn't drawn.
For some. For others it's abortion, or gun rights, or a desired theocracy (but only for their own religion).
So it's all on the assessor to decide the 'proper' unimproved land values to raise enough revenue while not driving the wrong people out of business? At a national scale?

On that note, is the inherent land value of a lot in Bushwick way higher then 20 years ago now that they've gentrified? Is neighborhood desirability an 'unimproved' attribute?

I very much get where you guys are coming from in a philosophical sense, but I feel like there are a million wrenches in the works that everyone's ignoring because the theory is so nice.
They really are!!!
As long as you use reasonably secure way to add entropy into the pool, ie. don't XOR stuff into some kind of pool buffer but use something that at least partly resembles secure hash even for adding entropy (as using full-blown SHA-x to process interrupt timings and similar high volume low quality entropy sources is not exactly practical due to both performance and synchronization issues).

Also, total entropy is not necessarily the same thing as attacker's uncertainity of the pool's state. The difference seems mostly theoretical, but there are practical issues for both cases of these two quantities beeing wildy different.
sd(1) looks super cute.

https://github.com/chmln/sd

Very UNIX-y imo.
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>"...expected to be able to produce up to two hundred thousand doses per month "

When the cases are growing 25K/day in the US, so that many new cases in 8 days, it'll take some real testing & focus to start to catch up, but could definitely help for front-line workers. Presumably, if it really works well, could also use/build other production facilities, but it takes time.
So, for this to work
- you need a reasonably large set of decisions to be decided in one big election,
- rational agents, even though the topics is emotional.

And how do they reach the conclusion that "the system will be predisposed to dominance by special interest groups with strong, concentrated interests"? That might be in some limit towards infinity case, but in practice? And why that would be a good thing, is beyond me.
I guess a closer analogy is the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (https://www.ioccc.org/): something that requires ingenuity and mastery over the language (Sanskrit or C respectively) and all its dark corners, but is more a dazzling display of cleverness than something appropriate for everyday use. :-)
A stronger global government.

Facebook is one of many global companies trying to abide by (or cheat) national laws and regulations. If they want to abide by the law, it can be very expensive and burdensome. If they want to cheat the law, they can play nation-states against each other.

Global governance should better match global companies. Right now, many of the global laws and regulations seem more like suggestions than enforceable laws.

I wonder if Facebook and other global companies want stronger global governance or prefer the status quo. In other words, would these companies want more standardization across regions or prefer to play the regions against each other?
According to the "Game Loop" chapter, the "intent" of the Game Loop pattern is to "Decouple the progression of game time from user input and processor speed."

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/game-loop.html

The chapter goes on to assert:

> Game loops are the quintessential example of a “game programming pattern”. Almost every game has one, no two are exactly alike, and relatively few programs outside of games use them.

It seems to me like audio programs would typically be organized using something very close to the Game Loop pattern, though? A loop with where a batch of data is rendered on each iteration, decoupled from the processor because of the need to match the sample clock.

Is there a resource out there that describes audio programming patterns for organizing the whole program? Most of what I've read describes how to use an existing framework — e.g. how to write a plugin — and while that's not surprising, I'd really like to explore all the possible options for high-level organization of a real time audio app. I haven't ever seen something similar to this "Game Loop" chapter for audio.
How do you have more "control over your software" with a web app? With a native app, I can do virtually anything. With a web app, I can really only do what (Google ∩ Apple ∩ Microsoft)'s web browser teams decided to prioritize, and allow, and optimize.

As for 'pirating', is that a serious concern these days? I've only ever heard about it being an issue at big companies selling software to other big companies, where it's solved with "license servers".
This is exceptionally cool. Thanks for sharing and building!

When I'm using Sketch or Movie Maker or Logic or some other GUI-based >>x<< editing tool, the thing that keeps going through my head is: "Dammit I wish I had the abstraction tools that I have as a programmer. It would literally make this task 100x faster."

To me Ronin is some strong validation that all these editing tools would be much improved by a human-readable and programmable intermediate representation of what you're doing with the GUI. The GUI is just an editor for modifying this representation.

John Carmack did some work when he was at Oculus on something like this for VR:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydyztGZnbNs

These ideas are all in their infancy, but really excited to see people starting to make moves in this field.

Thanks again!
Bigger difference is the breed of plant. Commodity corn for instance is not something a human would eat normally without extreme processing.

One way it becomes human good is as feed for animals and another is being processed into adjuncts.

Sweet corn on the other hand is delicious to eat.

I tend to think commodities vs food is if there is a mainline futures contract for it.
Agreed. If you have a CPU from 2012 onwards, 16GB of RAM and an SSD, that’s a respectable hardware setup. It might not be the fastest piece of kit on the planet, but I don’t see any reason why it couldn’t last another 3 to 5 years without feeling slow.

Electron apps invariably make such kit feel slower than it actually is. You can get good performance out of even older hardware if you treat it well and load it with good software that respects the hardware.
Is it possible to do falls for other creatures? For example, a Human fall, where instead of being buried when you die you are lowered into the ocean and allowed to fall deep into its depths, where you become a new ecosystem.

Or perhaps you wouldn't make it all the way down because you'd get eaten all at once by some larger creature? Or destroyed by pressure?
I think we are more in agreement than in opposition. The two point of views that you mentioned should not even be complementary. Delighting in the intellectual marvel should not stop one from calling out abuse.
That is among the more fascinating things I've read in a long time.
Which doesn't really address Walter's point that, in practice, people who have to pay from their own wallet (not their parents) for an education at a non-prestigious school do tend to work hard.

In my observation those who do not engage with the material are more like to just drop out, rather than waste their money.
Ownership of land by individuals within any national border is always subject to local government power (taxation, eminent domain, police power, escheat). True exclusive land ownership is prohibitively expensive for individuals, since it would require military defense.
This is a pragmatic approach to the reality of the situation: Disney and other large copyright holders have historically been able to leverage their position to increase copyright universally to absurdly long levels. The idea of a COST based mechanism for copyright tries to address a few practical approaches to copyright:

1. Copyright that's not assigned value defaults to the public domain; this provides an avenue for copyright to devolve to public domain immediately which does not currently exist;

2. Copyright that's no longer maintained by its owner devolves to the public domain (similar to 1), taking it out of "copyright limbo";

3. Any group with sufficient resources can take a copyright into the public domain as a public good, e.g., "we" could buy Wolverine into the public domain;

4. Copyright can be maintained for very long durations for entities that choose to do so;

5. The ever-increasing cost means that eventually the copyright "buys itself out", that is, when the COST is assessed at 100%, the Fed has sufficient funds to simply buy the copyright outright (this is a choice, btw, the Fed could happily accept 130% of COST!); and,

6. Absurd copyright lengths no longer universally apply.

I think (but I've not completely thought this through) that such a system could help with patent litigation. Specifically, consortia of entities can buy out a patent if the patent is weaponized. Mind you, the patent holder can no longer "squat" on a patent for free: they must pay the COST of a patent portfolio! This naturally handles the asymmetry of costs between NPEs and regular old entities.
It’s mentioned in TFA - up to 30% of biomass
I know the exact expected behavior before I start coding. But I am having trouble translating that expected behavior into my TDD test cases. For example. an expected behavior could be the functionality I am building should periodically look into database, compute some metrics and then generate a report.
This is a broad piece of expected behavior, unlike a unit test when you test small functionality.
As per the TDD principles, it is advised to write tests at your interface and avoid any dependency on your implementation details as these may change in future. I am having a hard time trying to understand how do I do this for the use case I just mentioned ?
The dictatorship criterion is slightly more wide-reaching than that specific construction which makes it sound silly (though, honestly, not really tremendously unfair). Your link gives a decent enough definition:

> (No dictators) If a single voter prefers X to Y, but all other voters disagree, then the voting system should override the wishes of that single voter and rank Y higher than X.
That means going for the lowest denominator.
>because they make overly complicated mess

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Fizz-Buzz-from-Outer-Sp...
In react's case you put your trust in facebook and because of the size most issues get discovered and someone has an article on how to fix before breakfast.

When you include left-pad in your own project you should audit it. In the end you are the only line of defense. With react it's larger so you can trust others.
It's a yelling programming language. Lowercase characters are ignored.
Though I love a good fatalistic Jamie Zawinski reference, I’ll resist and stay on-topic. I think you mean “for the kind of software I typically get paid to write, software is never finished.”

However, if you widen your perspective a bit, you’ll find plenty of examples. I assure you, “space invaders” was finished in 1978, and it will never see any “maintenance”.
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054093,00...

For the lazy
Well I define async as being able to run many things without spawning a separate thread for each thing, by somehow swapping the current task every so often.

Call it an implementation detail if you want, but in my eyes, it is what makes the difference between all-async and all-sync.