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Indeed. Wealth tax != Income tax.

You can grow your wealth without virtually no taxable income. It's real wealth - you can buy houses and yachts with it - but you don't need to pay tax unless you choose to.

In reality most money at this level is made by speculation, and speculation is spectacularly under-taxed.

For example Forex trading in the City of London moves $6.6 trillion of money around, every single day. A Tobin Tax of 0.1% on that would raise $2.5tn a year - which would almost instantly wipe out the UK's entire national debt.

Of course you'd lose some transaction volume - you might earn "only" $500bn - but the principle remains. A lot of economic activity isn't taxed at all, mostly to the benefit of the rich. This has huge effects on the quality of life of most of the population.

There's a principle you won't find in econ books, which is that in an industrial economy basic maintenance spending isn't optional.

If you don't pay for good education, you pay for it in lost economic activity. Likewise for infrastructure. And health care.

The idea that these are somehow nice extras that the population shouldn't expect because they're "too expensive" is so wrong it's borderline insane.

Everyone pays anyway. You may as well organise this properly so the work gets done and prosperity increases, because the alternative is instability, loss of opportunity, and ultimately a real risk of complete social and economic collapse.
It's the reading and writing. Highschool doesn't teach reading like it used to. They are getting promoted because they are better at learning and then expressing themselves on paper, something all proper university programs still teach. Ask the average highschool grad to read a 100-page manual and thier eyes glaze over. But a BA history major could probably do it over lunch.
I like this a lot. Publishing open source libraries and using them in private projects is a form of dogfooding.
> I don't think there are any successful quant strategies that don't rely on speed

There are plenty of successful quantitative algorithms that are in use by non HFT firms

> so basically anything with a proprietary API

If you’re not a direct market participant, colocated in the exchange, you’re not in a position to be talking about speed at all. Also most exchanges optimising for speed are not using FIX.

> is solely for amateurs

You’re not necessarily an amateur, you’re just leaving money on the table for someone else as you’ve not optimised that area of your trading infra yet.
I suggest: https://www.sql-workbench.eu/

lightweight and JDBC compatible
"extremely slow" One of the reasons why I decided to make Treenga. Our daily software should work instantly now, this is so strange to see that many apps work nowadays slower than decade ago. Maybe product managers don't focus on speed anymore?
Being friends with neighbors can be mutually beneficial. People borrow tools, easy advice, don't have to go far for a beer, someone to watch your house when you're gone, or get in if you left the stove on, etc.

I'm not saying that having online friends is bad, but being friends with your neighbors is a mutually beneficial. Pretty much for the same reasons living in a society is beneficial to all players.

You should really have both.
You can add tremendious value just by publishing your research and linking to the sources, even if you have not added anything, those hours you spent searching - that your readers dont have to, and likely your readers dont have the same experience as you, so they wont be able to read the sorces critically. So by not adding anything, you can still save someone years of time.

There is also nothing wrong with serving good knowelage, even if you can find the information somewhere else. Maybe your source is 10 years old, what has happened since? Or maybe its hard to understand for laymen. Or maybe the other sources will fall off the web, great websites disappears in the thousands every day.

Maybe someone is looking for a tech, but there's little info out there, even if the i info is good, it can still be dismissed. Help spread the knowledge.

Then there's the noise to signal problem. Your blog will be a light beacon - for others to navigate around all the crap.
This skips the steps of choosing and installing a JVM, which is a bit daunting. My distro gives like 4 different versions. And worse, some applications only run on certain versions. By default, there is no 'java' command.
Literally what it says: https://github.com/left-pad/left-pad/blob/master/index.js

Now if you ask "but why?", ultra-small packages like this are popular in JS because of the lack of a standard lib. Lots of devs prefer to install a dependency for each one-liner utility rather than write them themselves.

The only added value of those packages is that they're usually unit-tested against weird edge-cases that you might miss if you wrote them yourself.

Edit: related discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20223190
Yes, that would be really useful. Currently looking evaluating forks can be really a pain.
>Germany: 399 billion / 83 million people = ~$5,000/person/year

>US: 3.8 Trillion / 328 million people = ~$12,000/person/year

Apples and oranges comparison. The US subsidies most EU militaries. NATO spending is a great example. US is the only member who actually fulfills their obligations.

Basically GP is more right than you
I reject both assumption and conclusion. To the limited extent such control is needed, virtual threads with pluggable schedulers are superior in every way, and certainly less intrusive. There aren't any "magic scheduler hints", either. You can assign a scheduler to each virtual thread, and that scheduler makes the relevant decisions. That's the same separation of concerns that native threads have, too.

The only place where this could be important is when dealing with Java code that cares about the identity of the native thread by querying it directly (because native code will see the native thread, but it's hidden from Java code). But, 1. such code is very rare, 2. almost all of it is in the JDK, which we control, and 3. even if some library somewhere does it, then that particular library will need to change to support virtual threads well, just as we require for most new big Java features.

Having said that, I don't claim async/await isn't a good solution for some platforms, and in some cases there's little choice. For example, Kotlin has no control of the JDK, which is necessary for lightweight threads, and languages with pointers into the stack as well as no GC and lots of FFI might find that a user-mode thread implementation is too costly. But I think that in cases where usermode threads can be implemented efficiently and in a way thar interacts well with the vast majority of code, they are clearly the preferable choice.
I beg to differ, having been doing GUI coding since a couple of decades.

Guess what, what in most of them I never had any issues to center elements, or create fake UI elements out of list items.

Also layout managers were already a thing back in 2000.
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> Universities are and always have been expensive

Why are they any more expensive than High School? In fact, in Australia until the 80s University was free in the same way High School is free. Many people are angry that it still isn't.

And of course it's still free in that way in more than a few developed countries.
Amazing that people chose to operationalize Kafka with this completely unnecessary dependency. Good riddance!
"They aren't assuming anything. They know that healthcare in the US is hit-or-miss, that it is normally for people to move between having and not having healthcare throughout a lifetime."

That's a general complaint that has nothing to do with insurance being a cost you pay out of your take-home salary in the US.

Your anecdote seemed to be predicated on an accounting difference between the US and Canada, that the Chinese supposedly didn't know about. I'm saying that doesn't really exist. The sort of people who adopt would have a job with insurance, but the price of the insurance would not be included in their salary.

In my lifetime, I have been uninsured, insured by my employer, on an ACA (Obamacare) plan, etc. But never been in the situation where I was making a good salary and paying full price out of it for a health insurance policy, like people do with car insurance. Nor have I ever known anyone who did. Of course, somebody probably has, somehow, but it's not common, let alone a norm that some government would assume.
Animated WebP is the answer instead, and now it's supported everywhere [1] except Safari. Or animated AVIF in the future.

[1] https://caniuse.com/#feat=webp
Kingston is quite a ways North of Detroit in Michigan's 'thumb' region, lots of great farmland just North of there.

You can buy large acreage in the city of Detroit pretty inexpensively. The city itself will sell you individual house lots for $100.
Depends, if you are coding C in C++, or making use of idiomatic C++17 (eventually C++20).
I have not yet been able to find a simple "Hello World" example of starting a new project with Go modules instead of $GOPATH.
It's fast if you measure throughput or median latency but it tends to have pretty monstrous worst case latencies due to GC.
I really like the idea of this assuming it’s some kind of vote credit rather than money, and the vote credits are distributed equally per person. However, it doesn’t take into account that the number of things to vote on might not be fixed (or even finite). As more things to vote on are added, do people get more votes? How are they distributed? This would create a whole new variable to gerrymander.
“ Because via massive wealth, control of resources, and other power someone will ‘rule over us’. We see this now with money in politics. They've already chipped away much of the people's claim to government.”

I guess I don’t believe this accounting of the story. At least not for the United States. I don’t see it as “we used to have democracy but corruption has tarnished it”. The USA wasn’t founded on democracy in reality - women and people of color couldn’t vote, and it went on like that for 140+ years. It seems very powerful men ruled the country for a long time. What bit of democracy won by the people has been resisted by the state, and still powerful interests rule.

Also I think you are saying that if the government doesn’t rule us the wealthy will. Well I think we need to resist all attempts at rule from above.

I’d rather focus on bottom-up solutions to bring power to the people. The state is a big awkward tool and I think it has its place, but think of Wikipedia bringing free knowledge to all - that doesn’t rely on the state. How can we make our whole economy like that?
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> or from an employer where they don't pay cash.

I only heard of startups doing this. Outside of that you pay x % for healthcare per paycheck the employer covers some other amount. Healthcare might not be socialized but at least I can always find a new provider if I absolutely wanted one just pay out of my own pocket is the only downside. The subsidizing happens for bigger corps usually and negotations between healthcare providers vs insurance companies. The more clients you have the more effective the negotiations.
I usually give them an honest chance. I think over the years I've had one or two that were marginally useful. Most of course are of the type "let me run search on what you typed on the background and regurgitate links to site's pages that match". Or fixed menu ones like "if you have $NOT_MY_PROBLEM, press 1, if you have $ALSO_NOT_MY_PROBLEM, press 2, otherwise press 'tough luck'".
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And by loaning out shares to short sellers [1]

Which to me begs the question: do you actually own the shares when you buy them with those brokers? What happens if supply is limited and the loaned shares actually have to be sold?

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/shortsalebenefit...
Right; however, the problem is that ML is generally pretty good at finding underlying patterns in data, so even if you make an algorithm race-blind it can still construct a dummy variable that is effectively race.

Unfortunately, it does this by codifying pre-existant social outcomes which are often not free of bias.
I thought the old lie with statistics trick of starting the Y axis above zero was debunked in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s etc. The blog name above the X axis and gray shading make it look like the costs are approaching zero.
I deleted mine years ago. It increased my offline interaction. But like my sibling comment suggests, I had to be more proactive. Yeah, it is more work, but it has felt more rewarding and the relationships feel more real. It gets a lot easier real fast too. Basically you have to get your friends to realize that they can't be lazy with you and if they want to be friends they have to put in effort too. "Why didn't you show up to my BBQ?" "Because you didn't invite me?" "What? I told everyone on Facebook". "I don't have one. If you want me to come you'll have to text me." And people end up texting you. I can say one of the reasons if feels more real is because you're showing up to an outing with an explicit invitation, not a generic group invite.
There are a couple of different issues.

1) The author's point. That we don't agree on what's ethical so how can we program it?

2) But also, today's AIs aren't mechanism for understanding and balancing a multitude of interests and requirements. They are effectively pattern recognition machines, matching data with categories (or outcomes or etc). So even if you had some criteria formulated, an AI couldn't really do that. I mean, if you true, unlimited intelligence, you might just say "decide like the US supreme court would" and the might be able to do. But we don't even have something that could remotely be challenged that we.
And without Mac hardware their sales suffer.
I am guessing professors salaries and a lot of university infrastructure.
Unfortunately, it seems most people don't understand UTC. For a brief period, when talking to customers and other employees who I knew were in another timezone, I would always refer to times in UTC, e.g. 14:30 UTC. A lot of them didn't understand and either got the maths wrong or thought I was referring to their timezone, which is why I stopped doing it. They would rather use their timezones or mine.
With pandemic-era acquisitions, big tech is back in the antitrust crosshairs
A play on Berkeley's claim to being the #1 Public University
Do you recommend that book and/or any others? Interested in automated trading + functional languages
How would you do that without including a variable that raises a flag with the regulators? There are ways to improve access to credit for marginalized classes but this is generally done by adding variables that are independent of those related to protected classes.
It's one form of possible insider trading among many.

In any case, one of my points is, say you want a fund that tracks the stock market, a Vanguard index fund maybe, and you are concerned about their S&P 500 fund being gamed or "front-run" or whatever you want to call it. You don't trust it. They have a "total market" fund with the same 0.03% expenses. Plus, the AUM are the same or a little more, so you don't even have to go against the herd. So if something did happen to the S&P 500 fund, it seems like it would be inconsequential. Who needs it? And people are going to notice if something is wrong because the differences between the S&P 500 fund and the S&P 500 index, or between the fund and the total market, are so small.

What you need to worry about is some obscure index fund where everybody is not aware of what it should return. Like, I don't know, USO?
A few points:

1. I mean I'm all in favor of ethics, but it's like saying "I believe in God/god". Everyone seems to have their own interpretation of it. When people are talking about ethics/God/etc., how can they be sure that they're talking about the same thing? Centuries of debating over what is "ethical" has got us no where. Kant got close, but then there are caveats to his definition of ethics, too.

2. Who says AI should behave according to "our" ethics (whatever those are)? Sooner or later, with the emergence of ASI (artificial super intelligence) we'll have to accept the superior form of consciousness the ASI is. Expecting it to behave according to our rules is like monkeys asking us not to take away all the bananas because for them, it's unethical.

3. Even without AI, people have all sorts of biases and prejudices against certain ethnicities/races/colors/etc. You're not happy with the results that AI provides? Fine, hire some people instead and see where that leads you. The only thing you lose is the higher performance of AI.

4. Expecting AI systems to have no bias (while employees replaced by the AI certainly were prone to bias) is equivalent to expecting technology to change our world for the better. That doesn't always happen. You think smartphones are necessarily a good thing? Think about where they produce those gadgets and how they treat the workers.

5. At the end of the day, companies will stick with whatever "works" for them, regardless of what label we put on it (good/bad/ethical/fair/...). If it adds value, then most of the time it's enough. If being ethical (according to some definition) doesn't bring in more cash, companies are unlikely to invest in it. At least, with explainable AI, there is benefits for the firm to improve the accuracy of the AI in the long term. But pushing companies to adopt some ethical/unbiased/fair AI that doesn't add value for them is itself unethical (in my book).
Many universities these days have students scattered around the world in various distance education programs, or have students/staff/faculty at various other locations doing research in collaboration with other labs, facilities, etc.

Then there are their research partners, which again may be scattered around the world, etc.

So, no not customers in the traditional sense, but they depend on University services, and many of them are paying for the privilege.
This matches my experience. Reducing my online activity has really made me "miss out" on all the "crazy stuff" happening. Basically it is like if someone took Trump's Twitter account away. It is much more relaxing.
But for a certain kind of person the fancy food etc is the learning. It's a social environment for making social and professional connections and (often) a life partner.

Sometimes there's some academic work too.

In reality there's no such thing as "university." There are different experiences and different goals for different demographics.

They all happen in the same environment, but there will always be [double figured number] of social, economic, and political games going on at the same time - sometimes in the same classes - and the demographics involved in each will often be barely aware of each other.
Argentine Diplomats Scoff at Threat of War @20:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V887sYcmIAc

The same thing happened with Iraq, and this is typical. Unless you have a credible force, there is always conflict.
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> everyone who is in charge went to one

This is an illusion. There are of course people in charge with a degree, but most people I know who have a successful business don't have a degree. They even often dropped out of school because they were too ambitious for wasting their time there.

I do see heaps of people with a degree applying for shit jobs though. But that's what most people and parents don't want to hear of.
This is why disparate impact backtesting and go-forward monitoring should be done on all credit model releases
Investors are not given access.
It doesn't matter what the money is being spent on. For purposes of budget and tax, all that matters is that the money is being spent. The US chooses to spend more, to have a big government. Other countries choose to spend less and have smaller governments. They both have to get the money somewhere.
Is IB "Interative Brokers"? I'm trying to figure out if Aus is Australia or Austria. I'm in Australia, and have been looking at who to go with. Almost signed up with CBA last week, but definitely more expensive to what I'm used to in North America.
Well, Vulkan is also not supported on PlayStation, XBox, Win32 and UWP sandboxes, Android devices until Android 7, and until version 10 only flagship devices actually had any kind of proper support.
Everyone is still catching up to Zoom's features; many companies still don't have background replacement, or can't take as many simultaneous users.
No one would say that they believe in automating ethics if you pin them down and ask them honestly. But lots of institutional speak still talks as that's the goal. Some portion of Nick Bostrom's book effectively argues for something like that, for example.
How many people do you know who know things like statistics, analysis of algorithms, discrete math, calculus, to the same level as someone with a Master's degree in math or comp. sci. and just learnt that by watching YouTube videos from Stanford or MIT? I know some people (including myself) who got some exposure to some of this without getting a degree (I got one eventually) but finding someone as well rounded as a good curriculum is very rare.

Watching videos is more like thinking you're learning. In order to learn you need to practice and internalize.

Now you might argue all this stuff doesn't matter. And if you're just cranking out some mundane code maybe it doesn't. But sometimes it does. I'd imagine it'd be hard being a CTO of in a deeply technical business without having the in-depth theoretical knowledge but CTO can mean lots of different things in different companies.

All that said universities are far from perfect and their curriculum is a mixture of practical and theoretical trying to balance preparing future researchers and scientists and preparing the future workforce. Software development also tends to be very diverse. I do think software developers need some of this background and unfortunately it's much harder to get it without going to university...

The other thing is IMO universities can't make someone who has no aptitude to software a good software developer.
> a bit of a disclaimer in the readme should be expected

Every project already has these. They're in the license files.

> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This disclaimer is clear, self-explanatory, legally binding and a standard feature of all licenses. So why do people assume they can use random code from random developers they never met without even looking at the source code?
No doubt. But we cope with September, October and December not being the 7th, 8th, and 10th months respectively. If it was your regular language, you would probably hardly notice.
Why would Microsoft want to adopt a less technology interesting kernel stuck in the age of monotliths?

WSL is there to sell Windows laptops to those that would rather buy Macs without any interest in Apple's eco-system, rather using them as pretty UNIX for GNU/Linux work.

They realised the mistake of not giving first class support to the POSIX subsystem and nowadays Linux compatibility is more relevant than POSIX.
From the video:

"If a philosophy is to bring happiness, it should be inspired by kindly feeling.

Marx is NOT inspired by kindly feeling. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat, but what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeoisie.

It was because of that negative element, that hate element, that his philosophy produced disaster.

A philosophy which is to do good must be one inspired by kindly feeling and not by unkindly feeling."

Absolute genius.