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Yes, inequality is about morality. I'll push back on any current thought that requires abandoning morality.
The question if billionaires are bad for society is pretty much the same question as asking if the aristocracy was bad for previous societies. The existence of billionaires clearly undermines the core principles of democracy which is that all people have essentially the same political power. The existence of many laws which clearly aim to benefit billionaires only is enough evidence that this power balance does not exist when there are billionaires. Essentially strong wealth imbalance leads to unstable societies.

I find it ironic that the US which was largely founded by people who left their home because of entrenched economics and limited opportunities and who used to have some of the highest taxes for the top brackets and strong eversion to the development of a new aristocracy have after Reagan developed into a nation of defenders log the superrich.
I dated someone who had prosopagnosia.
She didn't know that she had it until she was in college on a trip to South East Asia, and she ran into her sister in a market in Malaysia and didn't recognize her sister! She normally can recognize people but uses other cues and the fact that they were in Malaysia meant she wasn't ready for it.

When we first started dating, I had a beard. The day I shaved it off, we met up for dinner at a restaurant, and I'd sat down while waiting for her. She arrived at the restaurant and scanned for quite a bit and didn't recognize me until I waved.

The brain is quite an interesting thing.
If you like these stories, check out Oliver Sacks book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_f...
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> "Even a .5% wealth tax would start to keep founders away from a state or country that imposed it."

This sounds absolutely absurd. The last twenty years of entrepreneurs not fleeing the "tax" of Bay Area salaries seems like proof that they are a lot more interested in maximizing the chance of their start-up's success than maximizing the equity they keep if it does succeed.
The word "obscene" used that comment literally means "offensive to the prevailing standards of morality", so I think you'll find it does claim morality as its basis.
It's Gmail, not GMail. :)

Also, I believe all Google products have to support takeout, just like they have to support deletion within whatever the legally mandated time frame is (months?).
I don't know much about S3, but isn't S3, by definition, online, not offline?
Keep in mind if you're using a CDN (ie CloudFlare) your absolute numbers will be way off.
From a quickscan of the GitHub repo [1], this is a JavaScript client, like Google Analytics, that sends data to a self-hosted Node.js backend that stores the data in MySQL or PostgreSQL using the Prisma database toolkit:

[1] https://github.com/mikecao/umami
We have a similar system in Islam: the Zakat. It's a 2.5% wealth tax that is only paid after a reaching a certain threshold (around 15k). The zakat is mainly distributed to the less fortunate. The idea is that in the long run (over generations) the wealth is redistributed from the rich to the poor, keeping the society more just, and lessening social unrest.
> This foundation’s first task will be something Rust is already great at: taking ownership.

Oh, I honestly never expected that line. Good job, and good luck to the foundation efforts.
Eighth generation consoles (except the Switch) have a drive that can play DVDs and Blu-Rays.
If the stock is public, none. Take a loan, and let the equity grow
This is great news for Rust! Maybe I missed it in the post, but what is the name of the foundation? Rust Foundation?
It's one of the most advanced examples on the linked page, definitely not the "most trivial".
Sure, if you get recruited by a $100m startup, and you hear that the founder sold half of their stock "to diversify", there's almost not chance you're working there.

Diversification is a solid strategy for most people, but founders that own highly valuable companies are not "most people"..
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I'm reminded of the bit in Silicon Valley where Jared turns into Ed Chambers. Of course that was a pretty dramatic character swing, but I had no idea that this was a real thing people did.
The difference is percentages. I am highly confident that if we looked at a large number of high-growth startups and then at the top ~10 paying tech companies and compared the work/life balance, the disparity would be abundantly clear. In other words, you are much more likely to have good work/life balance at a large tech company than at a high-growth startup. Individual examples to the contrary will obviously exist on both sides, but don't negate the reality of what the average employee is likely to see.
This is a strawman argument, but the logic actually does hold: If the original premise is true, "taxing the poor to give to the rich" would accelerate economic growth.

The problem is of diminishing returns - it would have a disproportionate negative effect on the poor and a minimal impact on accelerating growth, so it would be considered one of the most inefficient ways to achieve the latter.
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To me the sad thing about the wealth tax is that it distracts attention from the value-added tax, land-value tax and carbon tax, which, while not as progressive as the wealth tax, are much better as potential revenue sources and can easily be paired with better welfare programs (e.g. universal tax dividend née "basic income") to be similarly redistributionary in practice. The wealth tax satisfies a combative urge in our politics to stick it to the rich, but if there's one thing consistent about wealth taxes, it's that the actual receipts are not so high. France's much-ballyhooed wealth tax brought in a measly ~5B euros (about 7B USD) per annum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_tax_on_wealth#Reven...

France's annual government revenue is easily above 100B euro, so the wealth tax -- which, as 'thomasdullien appears to have argued, was too high -- brought in around 2% of government revenue.

Maybe the antisocial effects of billionaires nonetheless justify a wealth tax -- maybe their ability to buy all of the best land and city governments justifies a tax that serves mostly to prevent their untoward influence on society -- but when considered as a way for the government to make money, I have yet to find an example of a wealth tax that works.
Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/show and try to follow the style of the titles.

Did you ask a bunch of regular users of HN of people that don't use HN? Each site has it's own personality and it's very difficult to understand the details from outside.
We already have the equivalent for houses--property tax. Every year you have to pay x% of the value of your house to the government.
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Yeah, it's just really hard to get things right. And time spent managing a foundation's business takes time away from managing the project itself, at least in the beginning, where there is significant overlap.

Basically, bootstrapping is always a hard problem :)
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> I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. This sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and I would really like to avoid it

Paul Graham, as quoted in Maciej Cegłowski's blog post "Dabblers and blowhards"

- https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
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This is still a open question! We made no decision on the name yet.
I know right! It almost like Disney is using some magic (Constant Authorized Side Help (CASH)) to convince the US Gov politicians to keep moving the goal posts.
You say in the article that the 3D engine can only display to one screen at a time, but some games definitely play 3D content on both screens (like Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass). How do you think these games are accomplishing this?
I like Mobian. It's based on Debian and allows you to do the same stuff as on a normal desktop (technically).

That's also the reason why I almost immediately threw UBPorts off my PP UBPorts CE. You can't do anything like you would it in Linux. For example, mounting the SD card automatically on boot with fstab wasn't possible as it always reset itself to default values. The root partition is also read only. No thanks.

For trying other OSs. Just flash them to an SD card and put them in the phone. It'll boot from the SD card before booting from the eMMC.
I've been happily paying for GoatCounter for several months. I don't imagine I'll ever need to self host but it's nice knowing I can if necessary.
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I agree it would be best if FF was it's own foundation. I would like to hear some arguments from Mozilla about this. It seems an idea that only has upsides to me. I get the feeling Mozilla is kind-of hijacking the donations people think are going towards Firefox.
Luckily, a wealth tax isn't constitutional so the socialist can stomp their feet as much as they like they are going to need to gain a lot more power than currently feasible to make it a reality.
> Mozilla and the Rust Core Team are happy to announce plans to create a Rust foundation. Our goal is to have the first iteration of the foundation up and running by the end of the year.

Good idea. I can definately see this working out for Rust.

> The various trademarks and domain names associated with Rust, Cargo, and crates.io will move into the foundation, which will also take financial responsibility for the costs they incur.

Very important folks.

This direction looks very interesting. We'll see what happens.
Uber employees who joined in 2015 actually saw their RSUs decrease in value by the time the lockup ended in 2019. 4 years of working at a pre-IPO unicorn for negative growth.

Heard this from multiple people but here's an article: https://www.financialsamurai.com/how-uber-employees-failed-t...
The Chamley-Judd finding of a 0% optimal capital tax is a very sticky result in optimal taxation theory. One way to think about is you want your tax system to walk as softly as possible while getting from point A to point B. Don’t distort intertemporal decisions if you don’t have to. Don’t tax elastic things when you could tax inelastic things - impose taxes on things where the optimal allocations don’t change much with the new disincentive. A wealth tax takes this result and compounds it. I should really consume my wealth instead of saving it. So you’re rewarding the spendthrift and hurting the saver (the investor). Investment and growth (and overall welfare) suffer. The caveat to all this is that a wealth tax that’s a one-time unexpected confiscation of wealth shouldn’t distort incentives, which is kind of approximated by the estate tax (poorly approximated since its still expected). But the wealth tax is really not about optimal tax theory. It’s about saying the quiet part out loud - taking from the wealthy because there’s a belief that it improves democracy. This belief is unfounded but has high political ROI.
What you've described is a p-zombie. Living without qualia would (if you buy that theory; there are various levels of rebuttal) look exactly the same from the outside. Behavior and decisions would be the same, and I'd pass any possible test that I'm a real person (at least with current neuroscience).

But that only works for an outside observer. I can't be tricked into thinking I'm conscious, because it's recursive: who, then, is getting tricked? I know that I'm conscious because I'm the one experiencing things. You know that you're conscious for the same reason. Neither of us has a good way of being sure that the other one - or anyone else - is, at least not without some deeper philosophical reasoning.
Saw this link in another comment, might be what you’re looking for https://goaccess.io/
In some cases there is additional requirements as well... For some types of data... HIPPA compliant backups for example must be stored in multiple locations at least 500 miles apart.

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=hippa+rule+%22500+miles+apart%22
There are plenty of companies that are private that have large ownership shares. The point of going public is to raise capital buy relinquishing some ownership. Owners don't want to give their shares unless they have to. If there were mandates to sell out of a company that you started and at a stage before you realized the gains on the capital you raised, it would incentivize companies to stay private and find their funding through private channels.
In order for your snarky statement to be correct, the wealthy would have to be a 'social minority'. Sure, they're a statistical minority, but they're not in danger of being oppressed because they own a greater share of social power in any given country than the majority of people. I can't believe you've gone around thinking that 'minority' just meant numbers and nothing else.
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Certainly, I just used yachts as an example.
Personally I like to work with startups because:

- they pay more than enough for my near-term financial goals

- the equity is ok

- they let me work on sidehustles

- I get to work on stuff that is truly make or break for the company, not some bullshit pet project a PM needs to get promoted
> What's interesting about that is it would work for companies like Amazon that intentionally engineer zero profits so as to avoid taxes.

They "engineer" zero profits by re-investing their surplus back into R&D — a behavior explicitly encouraged by the government and the tax code. In 2010, Amazon had about 100,000 employees. Today they have almost 1 MILLION. That's what "reinvesting profits into R&D" looks like, in practice.

> Your company can pay dividends and you can use that to pay the tax.

You're essentially talking about adding a countering incentive away from investing in R&D, and toward paying shareholder dividends, which...why? There are way more intelligent and non-distortionary ways to raise funds for a government (eg increasing the capital gains tax).
I have found that using a separate Macbook for my work stuff and then shutting it down and putting it in a bag when I'm done with work helps a lot.

I live in tiny apartment and my spouse in WFH too. I have no dedicated work space. But it helps that Outlook isn't generating alerts when I'm browsing Reddit in the evenings on my personal laptop.
Yes, but it doesn't integrate with my native window manager.
Interesting. Sounds a lot like stacking in astrophotgraphy, where you take an hours long video of Jupiter or something similar and software identifies the couple hundred frames with the least atmospheric distortion and uses them to bring out detail.
Main reason: it's more fun.

I could be a cog in a giant corporate machine, or I can have a measurable impact where I work.

I can stay in my lane and do my specific job tasks, or I can run around putting out fires and helping wherever help is needed.

I mindlessly build the specific design product handed me, or I can guide my own work in accordance to the needs of our customers and the business.

I can follow policy and fill out forms when making any decision, or I can just do what's right because who has time to write policies and look over approval forms?

tbf, tech is relatively good at a lot of these. As I understand it, Facebook gives a fair bit of latitude to engineers, and Google used to be famous for their 20% time. But the longer a company exists, and the bigger it gets, the more bureaucracy and controlling it'll get. Every big disaster means a new policy on how to prevent future disasters.

I think pg wrote an essay stating that the most valuable skill in an early startup employee is "helpfulness" (maybe not though -- cursory search didn't find it). You do what needs to be done.

This is roughly your "wear many hats" point, but more than just different technologies, and not just being new. If you just want to have a well-defined, steady, sane-every-day job, a startup is terrible. If you every want to say "that's my job", a start-up is terrible. If you're the sort of person people will come to for help with whatever comes up (and enjoy being that), start-ups can be great.
Solution: X11-over-websockets with display in Javascript.

(Actually now wondering whether this nonsense already exists?)
Once a democracy realizes it has the keys to the treasury...
All organizations are not created equal. Do you really distrust the NRA and farming studies from the UN to the same extent? For me that sounds very black and white.
A good indicator whether public schools are good enough is this - the moment private schools can't compete, then public schools are good enough.

Private for-profit schools can use their money to get political influence and reduce public school funding in order to further its economic advantage.
Ironically how big is web on advertisements, but when the time actually comes to tell what the product is and does, they forget words.
Of the remainder, how many are the Amazon tablets? They are Android but are specifically designed for content consumption.
But I'm not sure that geography is the best way to segment & present music going forward? I live in Texas, but that doesn't mean I'm always in the mood for Texas music.

This will be interesting to watch—variations in music scenes around the world have made music rich and diverse, but most artists now (at least attempt to) launch to a global audience. In this new scenario, the diversity I think pulls from being able to gain traction without going through the traditional gatekeepers. There's also a lot more interesting fusion happening as artists are exposed to so many other artists worldwide.

I do agree with your larger point that centralcasting can make for boring playlists, so this product isn't for me. But I've also found that there are people who don't want to do all the effort of discovery and curation of their music—they just want to hit play and have a soundtrack for the day going. This feels like Apple trying to solve for that use case.
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One problem with a wealth tax is rich people who are not in publicly traded corporations are not extremely liquid. Often times this means having to sell off assets which is hard to do if their assets are largely in private corporations.
This is such a condescending and arrogant response. What makes you the moral judge over whether Epic deserves to make the money they do? Who put you in charge of deciding what "good causes" or "bad causes" are? You might not care, but they have employees who have families that could use the money to better their lives. What the hell does Apple need the extra $30M for? You come off as a bitter and jealous person with this comment, perhaps upset at their own business failures.
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The source is the incentives theory of motivation and the work of behavioral psychologist such as Pavlov and BF Skinner.

Also the "magic" of compounding gains that wealthy people understand (at least intuitively).
While I don't doubt that this rhetoric may be raised, the 19% are already exposed to much more wealth tax than the 1% because of property tax. However emotions and rhetoric about tax make people easily fooled in the political sphere.
Very interesting; thanks for sharing!!

I've not been interested in pursing that cert. (my day job has been lots more pointy-haired boss type of work rather than sysadmin, dev, or devops, etc.). However, i do have a colleague who is pursuing this cert., plus your note about learning manpages (as one benefit), and other anecdotes that i've heard similar to yours...makes me think that maybe i should pursue this cert even if only for my own personal improvement. Thanks again for that interesting tidbit!
$7,500 per person per year is actually higher than I expected. I 10000% agree with the general point that people seem to think the rich and/or corporations have wildly more than they really do.
Idk. It's about time rich people got to pay for the wealth they enjoy on the back of the USA. It's not free to send multiple carrier groups into the south china sea/SE asia region when we're forcing TikTok to sell itself to us you know?

And we've also seen a complete and utter reduction of the middle class over the last 40 years, resulting in a much richer 1% and poorer 50%

https://equitablegrowth.org/the-distribution-of-wealth-in-th...

The other aspect here is that the people with wealth have seen it increase at a fairly linear rate. They can handle a small tax on it just fine. and it's about time they start directly paying for a service that the rest of us have.
What other programming languages have established foundations like this? The other one I know of is the Python Software Foundation.
Yep, this is the comment I came here for!

On a related note, I attended Dr. Gerbasi's research results at Anthrocon a few years ago, and she noted from her furry survey that the experimental group (furries) rated themselves higher in response to questions such as "I feel good about myself" versus the control group. (her college students)
> Nor have there been any significant bytecode changes/improvements in Java anyway, so you still don't get any benefits from it.

Java's core capabilities aren't just expressed as bytecodes -- there are lots of intrinsics, too, which, in this case, mean "native" capabilities exposed as library APIs but implemented in the VM and cannot be implemented in bytecode. Neither Panama nor Loom add or change any bytecode instructions, yet they drastically change the platform's core capabilities. Same goes for the module system -- it changes the accessibility/visibility rules in the VM but does add or change bytecode.
It's telling that you conflate basic safety and healthcare rights with "envy". And that someone stuck in a poverty cycle, working multiple jobs for less than a living wage, is somehow less hard-working than a salaried 4-day-workweek white collar thought leader.

"hard-earned wealth" is a myth. It's a combination of luck, connections, who your parents are, and where you were born, among other factors.
> People are different all over, they're not the same, so they don't all want the same thing

You are right, but right about the wrong thing.

A few weeks ago there was a submission here on HN about a site that shows a world map with the locations of radio stations with internet streams marked, and plays one at random from a circle around the center of the map.

I spent quite a while going all over the world at random listening to what their stations were playing.

Yes, I heard a vast difference between pop stations in the United States and pop stations in Australia and pop stations in England. I heard a vast difference between pop stations in different states in the US, too.

But I also heard a lot of similarity. No matter if I was listening to random stations in Russia, or South Korea, or Nigeria, or New Zealand, or various states in the United States, I heard a lot of the same artists.

So yes, people don't all want the same thing. But it seems that in most places there are enough people who do like the same thing enough to want to listen to it along with the things that are more specific to their region.

That's all that Apple needs to get listeners. They won't become the only station for many people, but they could easily become a station that many people around the world do regularly listen to in addition to stations that focus on their regional music.