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I agree that property taxes are wealth taxes, but they’re particularly pernicious ones.

The big issue is that schools are primarily funded by property taxes, which creates a system by which the children of rich Americans get better educations than poor children, reinforcing existing economic positions.

That being said, a state level wealth tax would go a long way to smooth these things out compared to property taxes.
Xi Jinping's actions are only minorly influenced by Trump. China are on a 100 year strategy. Trump's Presidency is a tactical curiosity at best.
There was a post on HN before saying something like this: non-profits do better with teams but for-profits do better with solo-founders.
The Epic fight against app store monopolies (Epic Games)
Cloudflare Spectrum seems to be for companies or good paying customers - my budget is limited as this is a personal mailserver ...

The article about iptables rules looks very promising :)
Perhaps the current SAT is, but remember SAT I and the "oarsman–regatta analogy" question? That could explain why some people continue to suspect it's racially biased against non-whites.
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Because they should be based on merit.
It seems that those days are gone.

Their recent Nord phone shipped with the full and uninstallable Facebook services suite (1). In a forum post(2) they claim it was done to improve battery life and performance. Reading about this Fortnite launcher deal makes me doubt the honesty of that claim even more.

A few months ago they also started pushing strange and invasive system apps to my OnePlus 6T like "OnePlus Zen Mode", "OnePlus Game Space", their own custom File Manager which - in India - even sent data to a Tencent server for some strange file cleanup functionality that could not be disabled (3)(4)!

I love my OnePlus 6T but writing this out made me realise how distrustful and wary I've become of this company that has access to a huge part of my life through my phone.

I'm now seriously considering replacing this device way early in its lifecycle. No idea what brand to turn to next though.

1. https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/08/05/oneplus-is-poisonin...

2. https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/allow-user-to-choose-whic...

3. https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/petition-against-file-man...

4. https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/07/oneplus-6-6t-users-...

Edit: Added link 4.
Yes, Planetary Resources. I remember the announcement.

They folded - asteroid mining is too much of challenge even now.
Maybe if you need right now hot fixes then you also need to start asking "Five whys" style questions.
By all means, yes, mock away and raise awareness. That's good, it helps.

But I know too many people who are very vocal about how Apple is bad and how they should be stopped, and yet these people keep buying a new iThing every year.
How is it locked out of the box if you haven't set it up yet?
Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Resources ? Several similar companies were founded but really the business model is very far from being realistic. Asteroid are very difficult to reach and automated mining is even harder, plus mineral resources on earth are not even actually that scarce.

This is a very silly article, the interesting investment in space right now is in LEO communication satellites and to a lesser extent in launch services.
But you do know that they don't know that the OP doesn't know that doesn't happen?...
Probably Planetary Resources, this has been talked about for years. Several companies were looking at doing it but the time lines are always like 30 years out or something. Here's and article from 2015 talking about it

https://www.space.com/30213-asteroid-mining-planetary-resour...

The Colorado School of Mines even has a graduate program in it.

https://space.mines.edu/
For some reason this is no longer the top post in the submission.
- Possibility of implementation errors

- A reader can't really reason about what a macro might be doing, since they're immensely powerful.

- Tooling can't necessarily understand macros correctly, for the same reason. E.g. automated refactoring like extracting a repeated expression can't be relied on to work correctly.
Arch looks tempting but my feeling is that a lot of software built by devs who run Arch needs initial help to run on Ubuntu/Debian. The other way around works better (software built to run on the latest Debian usually runs everywhere).

Maybe that observation is incorrect, please give me data points. Also this won't mean you have to run Debian (but maybe a VM with Debian in it).
Because the Play Store is less restrictive.
Even if you gatekeep and hand-wave every positive thing they do as "PR" and "shifting focus away from their own shortcomings", it has benefited users.

> The real news here is that iOs14 allows unrestricted clipboard access.

Every OS does, no? Which steps has Android or Windows taken? (genuinely curious)
At that point your unlikely to take the plunge for various reasons:

Once you have saved that amount of money your only going to be a 'few' more years from hitting some version of FIRE.

You've grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle and friend group that will be hard to walk away from.

You've lost skills having worked with some internal tech stack your entire career and don't know how to do anything.

Skills you learn at your FAANG equivalent job don't transfer over to entrepreneurship its just a different domain.

You've never actually 'worked hard' and it's just going to seem plain silly to quit your 250k+ job to work all the time when the chances of success are low.

People who get into entrepreneurship generally can't stand their jobs and have ideas running through their head all the time to the point where going to the job is pure torture.

Why not work at a FAANG equivalent company for long enough to give you 2-3 years of runway and then take the plunge? The longer you wait the less likely you are to do it.
Governors Island has a really interesting history! Link for the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_Island
Wealth is moveable, but often not very far. Closely packed states have a big issue of people moving across state lines to escape taxes; think of hedge fund managers moving to New Jersey.

California is big, and has a lot of stuff in it people find desirable. Moving from CA is to commit to moving hundreds of miles to get to another state, which is a pretty extreme ask comparatively.

Historically CA has managed to get away with high taxes and disastrous housing policy because it was desirable; good jobs, weather, etc. With remote work it’s yet to be seen exactly where the balance of desire and cost will settle back out to.
Using nuclear options to transform ordinary metals to gold should be less pricier than running a gold mining operation on an asteroid flying by, I think.

Do we have anyone as an expert on any of those options?
It is not tough at all: your hardware and your OS are oblivious of good vs. bad and you want it to be that way. Why not a platform? You want Microsoft to curate your apps? Then why FB to do it for the content you can see? You should make the choices, not others make it for you.
Eventually they will deorbit.
> Security doesn't require a 30% cut of every transaction though

How do you think that the iOS platform is paid for? Apple's current business model is supported by paying the Apple Tax. If they don't get that tax revenue, they're going to have to either reduce the quality of their platform, or get more revenue somewhere else, like selling my data to advertising companies.

Right now I have a choice to buy a phone whose software ecosystem is supported by hardware sales and appstore taxes, or a phone whose software ecosystem is supported by spying on me. If Apple is forced to give up their Apple Tax, I will no longer have that choice.

If Fortnite wanted, they could just make things more expensive on iOS, passing the Apple Tax on to consumers. That's how stores treat sales tax and VAT in different countries; there's no reason app developers can't do the same thing. If users don't like paying more they can go to other platforms; and if users like the iOS platform, they should accept that paying more for apps is part of what makes it possible.
The invoicing standard in France and Germany (factur-x) embed the XML inside the PDF, which is very convenient.

Here is a python lib that does it: https://pypi.org/project/factur-x/

Odoo, an open source invoicing software, produces factur-x invoices systematically (whatever the country): very convenient as it's parsed automatically.
I feel like the percentage isn't that important, it's more the fact that you're not even allowed to direct users to your own website or payment processor to have them sign up. I think changing that tiny rule as a starting point would go a long way.
Oh absolutely he was more targeting FOSS software in general than Linux specifically.
Most people already lease phones, to them it wouldn't be that big of a change to just say you can only rent them
> That it exists at all, as a democracy, is due to the immense efforts of the British....Indian citizens should be grateful to all of the above groups of people who have given them democracy as it is today

What? Are you serious with this line of thought that Indians should be grateful to the British for democracy? I'd like to quote Shashi Tharoor's arguments here from an Oxford Union debate [0] -

> It's a bit rich to oppress, enslave, kill, torture, maim people for 200 years and then celebrate the fact that they're democratic at the end of it. We were denied democracy sir! We had to snatch it, seize it from you! With the greatest of reluctance it was conceded.

[0] - https://youtu.be/f7CW7S0zxv4?t=722
afaik google kicked them out of the store too.

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/8/13/21368079/for...
Windows has chocolatey, which works quite okay. I usually use this with with automatic update scripts to keep the software on my parents windows machines up to date.
I understand where your arguments come from, and I do agree to the fundamental economics of it.

It all holds well too, until you realise, however, that Apple is sitting on 200 billion dollars in cash.

Also: Epic did actually give an option to pay less for their microtransactions if you paid them directly, and were about to refund people for their transactions in the past month for the Apple tax itself. Their rebellion is the main reason Apple retaliated like this.
Ah, that is a very interesting detail. A compelling argument to stop with the whole “we’re going to zip around teslas” and just promise to make subways cheaper.
Main change: "Ansible engine" is decoupled from "Ansible content" (modules and plugins).
I don't think the court case is the only thing that matters. iPhone sales might see a noticeable drop if Fortnite fans pull off. That would make a lot of sense, if Epic would not try to combat Google at the same time.
Ah it makes sense now.

Epic is the maker of unreal engine, which collects a 5% royalty on licensee game sales over $1M.

So they would stand to profit somewhat more than just from lower fees on Fortnite.
This, it get's overlooked so much. It feels almost arrogant when a VC thinks like that. Yes I can get some friends working parttime on my startup but going fulltime? They also have rent to pay.

But I also think lot of pitch decks witha team slide contain parttimers but just don't tell the VC.
There are two important differences:

1) Head of Executive branch is limited by law (constitution, etc). CEO is not limited

2) The Raison d'être of government, at least de iure, is to do good for its citizens, while the raison d'être of corporation is to make money.

That makes them very different - not a lot of people would object to removal of nonproductive employees or customers, but many would (I hope!) object removal (through whatever means) of "nonproductive" citizens.
That is precisely why I lament the loss of a precise pointing device.

Pinching to zoom is infuriating, and I'm glad that at least Android provides an alternative (double-tap and swipe up and down).

I also don't see how anyone can say that the loss of the scrollbar is a good thing.
IMHO, YC tends to launch these kinds of programs around summer.

The first iteration of this was launched in July 2015 and it was called the YC Fellowship. Participation was accomplished remotely via video chat and grant money was $12000.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-fellowship/
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Are there any ethnicity statistics (or estimates) on actual applicants to yale?

It's apples vs oranges when we compare to the US population.
Yes, that's the one - thank you! I could not remember anything until seeing that name.
Well, you get serious eye strain from focusing too close, so it would need optics to create a virtual image at a comfortable distance that your eyes can focus on.

In reality some lens(es) take the screen's light and bend it so that the angles of the light rays correspond to the light of a screen at that comfortable distance, but your eyes can't tell, just like they can't tell that the things are actually smaller when you look through a good pair of binoculars.
Not an expert but here is an article on turning lead into gold. Spoiler it's radioactive.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-l...
Not at all, I wouldn't care who gets the money. Often company structure and relationships are complex and many times people who boycott a brand end up buying from the brand owned by the same company.

More importantly, It's a well know that people in the game industry are overworked and underpaid and it's not because of the Apple's cut. I don't know about the situation in Epic, but if it happens that Apple lowers the rates most certainly the difference will go to C level executives(that are not underpaid already).

If Apple gets the money, they at least will pay a decent salary to their people. The game makers can consider cutting bonuses if the money is tight.
My money is on e.g. Alibaba eventually doing the same to Amazon. One of them has a market that provides an obvious cost leadership advantage.
> Rule of thumb for a boat motor is 1hp for each 40-50lbs of weight.

For a planing hull, maybe?

Displacement hulls (sailboats, trawlers, etc) don't need (and can't make use of) much hp. It doesn't take much to get to hull speed, and basically no amount of power will make it go significantly faster.

For example my 8000lb sailboat has an 18hp engine (~440lb/hp) and it could easily reach hull speed with a smaller engine in most conditions.
I have the privilege of being the space startup founder.

If you have any specific questions - I am happy to answer them.

P.S. Going offline now, but send questions anyway - I'll to reply them later.
I don't think Trump (or anyone, really) would have had much impact on China's internal politics during that period, and opening up is very much an internal matter. It's generally hard at this point to see external pressures (small as they are) having much impact at all.

I don't deny that Trump has potentially enabled Xi to make some moves faster and bolder. But those moves would likely have happened anyway and on the bright side it's maybe easier for the world to see what's going with the lies being so obvious nowadays.
You sound like a pissed 8-year-old who missed to invest in Apple :D
I don't live in the US and I didn't go to college in the US, so my experience is largely irrelevant to the topic.

But in my own country (Italy), even though grade inflation is a thing both in high schools and universities, I see something here that is in stark contrast with some statements in the article: italian students definitely study a lot, far more than in the 60s/70s/80s. In those times the university, although useful, was seen "just as a school", and very often students had a part-time job or worked at their parents' small business, learning "to have a real job" and they weren't chasing the best grades all the time, just a degree. On the contrary, nowadays you can meet a lot of students who are fully dedicated to their degrees, and strive for high grades in all classes. The perceived value of university is far higher, and students commit far more to it.

It may be more uncommon to fail an exam; but an high score won't be automatically granted.
That's baffling, jakear.
Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to be disparaging. What I meant was that if the application needs to handle lots of in-memory data, then thinking of it as an in-memory database seems like a great idea. The ECS architecture seems to be pulling in ideas from column oriented databases, there are probably lots of ideas like that which could be repurposed. (Of course there is the other side of that, which is if you can avoid storing lots of data in-memory at all, possibly using an off-the-shelf relational database, then that's a great approach too.)
Paleontology.

You can't dig up the same fossil twice. But you're not going to claim that the study of ancient species using the fossil record is unscientific, I hope.

Paleontology is very similar to archaeology, but because humans aren't the object of study, it's less affected by politics, and I haven't heard of any fights within paleontology over whether to call the field a "science."
Do you think defending bad practices and stereotyping is going to change anything?
That is against TOS.
Private schools sometimes give poor grades internally and then have good grades externally.

A friend of mine went to a high school where you got a grade which went on all your interim reports and such.

When it came time for report cards and transcripts, the grade was multiplied by somewhere between 1.06 and 1.2.
I don't think your analogy is making any strong points, because there aren't just two supermarkets in the whole world.

I can choose from 4 different supermarkets within walking distance, and an additional 3 if you count online supermarkets that deliver to my area. That is not the case when it comes to choosing a mobile OS/app store.
There is only one Snap store as this is what Microsoft is actually buying if it buys Canonical and turns the Snap store into the Microsoft store.
If you're getting overwelmed with bounces for mail you didn't send, setup SPF, DKIM, and DMARC so responsible mailservers can reject spoofed messages early and not bounce things as much.
> This overstates the problem I think. It will be an issue for wide-field astronomy.

I think you are downplaying the problem. They are already reporting issues with Starlinks and there are "only" a few hundred of them right now, Amazon wants to deploy 3k low orbiting satellites.

Look at this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronomical_observato...

The very large majority of the world's observatories are doing wide-field astronomy.

This is not scientific progress, this is just two billionaires trying to one up each other and muscling their way around the world to rub their egos.
> I'm using Windows, OS X and Linux for 30+ years, didn't have a virus or a malware or anything else.

Sure, neither did I, but Apple also has to provide a secure platform to my dad, my grandparents or any other non-tech-savvy person that will wreak havoc on any fresh Windows installation in record time.
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I saw some names recommended in the leasehackr.com forums, but only the forum handles. I haven't gone back to track down proper contacts. But that piqued my curiosity and when Googling one of the first hits was https://automatchconsulting.com/. I haven't dug any deeper since then. The other recommendations else thread look promising, too.
In many cases you can’t extract cash from non-public common stock shares with sale restrictions.

I am, on paper, a multimillionaire from my last company because of the restricted common stock I hold. However I cannot sell those shares, and the current CEO seems determined to run the company into the ground. My actual liquid assets are just enough to cover rent for a few months and I still work for a living. A wealth tax would kill me (although thankfully my paper wealth is below the $30m threshold).
By running your products via a browser, you're both handing more control over to Apple via Safari, the platform they'd have to run on (only Apple can create a web browser on iOS remember), and leaving power/performance/features on the table for your competitors (ex: netflix/youtube can only stream lower resolution content via the web vs via their apps).
You can't expect them to be in proportion to the population. Asians are more intelligent than most other races so a top university selecting for the most intelligent people will disproportionately choose Asians. Perhaps the natural amount is greater than 25% but discrimination is holding them back.
They are trying to brute passwords and i found out my fail2ban settings are too low - fail2ban detected them but the ban time wasn't long enough
Unpopular opinion and I don't want to degrade the probably most prominent landmark of Paris, but it is quite ugly.

It distracts from better objects like the Louvre and others.
I’m guessing that was a corporate approval thing, with any new resources requiring approval by a human.
> their monopoly on their hardware

This way of viewing things leads to some really silly conclusions. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on the iPhone, the premise is intrinsically absurd. By this argument literally any non-commodity product is a "monopoly" of the company that distributes it.

Moreover, what Apple sells isn't hardware, it's hardware with software on it. That's the product. As far as I know there is no official way to buy either iOS or an iPhone that doesn't have iOS installed. Sometimes companies take an opinionated stance on how they distribute their products, like a firearm manufacturer that only manufactures firearms that have a safety. Framing that sort of thing as an antitrust issue is unreasonable.
I wrote a Heroku-like mini-PaaS (https://github.com/piku) to escape containers for a bit, but it now acts as a stepping-stone: I iterate quickly on it, then add a Dockerfile :)
> I'm struggling to understand how they're great examples.

Taking 'Six U.S. Presidents read "Fuck Tha Police" by N.W.A.' I certainly agree there are long sections where the synthesis is obvious - stilted sounding, overlong pauses between words, changes in tone in the middle of a sentence, background noises / changing audio quality accompanying different words and speakers, and so on.

But there are sections where it manages to generate several words in a row without those problems. Like at 23 seconds, the section "so help your black ass? / Ya goddamn right / Well, won't you tell everybody what the fuck you gotta say?" sounds pretty realistic.

If you blame the bad sections on lack of training data for older presidents, take the good sections as proof of what's possible, and imagine the entire recording will be that good in 3-5 years, then it's an impressive demo.
That was true a few months ago, but things have changed.

Many North American factories closed down or curtailed production in the March-April-May timeframe. There was a rebound in demand as spring turned into summer (which was a major point in the article), but the supply chain to deliver the vehicles to meet that demand had stalled.

"growth in supply has yet to catch up to demand" (11 Aug)

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...

"Auto dealers in states with new virus outbreaks have a bigger problem: low inventory" (20 July)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2020/07/20/...

"The car shortage is a big story. Between people moving to the suburbs and avoiding public transportation (so they need cars) and the factories having shut down or slowed down due to COVID, we're running out of available cars." (5 Aug)

https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1291110174879514628
If a virus cannot transmit itself at all it will eventually die off completely as it cannot reproduce.