skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of them are buying second homes and not living in them for 183 days despite claiming residency.
It's in the built-in music app, not something extra on the app store.
> Other features of the tax system more than offset the 0.3% wealth tax.

vs. the article

"Even a .5% wealth tax would start to keep founders away from a state or country that imposed it."

> I'd like to see a more nuanced and thorough discussion, to be honest. Perhaps that's a bit much to ask.

Well, here you missed all the nuance, so...
This is the first “employee perspective” criticism of equity incentives I’ve read that makes perfect sense. Hat off for that! :)

Sadly in the country where I’ve founded startups (Sweden) the government mandates that the terms must be really shitty, or there are immediate tax consequences that somebody has to swallow.
You might of made a stupendous amount of money if you worked at Uber 2014 or sooner. 2015 or later and you had a stock that was flat or worse for 5 years at this point.
Healthcare is controlled by the government because it enforces licensure artificially limiting the number of doctors. Prior to the AMA's lobbying for such restrictions in the early 1900s, medical care was cheap and plentiful; people even had doctors go to their houses.

Education is also artificially influenced by the government because it gives out special loans and makes it illegal to declare bankruptcy on them, allowing colleges to keep raising prices because they know students will always be able to pay via student loans.
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I can't fathom another tax in the USA. 30% of _MY_ income is removed forcefully. If I refuse, someone would show up with a gun eventually to force me to pay.

We have an enormous budget already. We need to tighten ship first.
If your company, or your ownership value in said company, is valued at over the wealth tax floor ($50M?), and is "flat or depreciating" every year over the (according to PG) 60 years you control the asset, then you have much bigger worries than a 0.5% wealth tax.
> would prefer a list of common examples instead of a detailed man page

This. I have always complained to myself that man pages should have had this option.
That's perfect! I'll keep an eye out for that.
The IRS allows many people to file taxes electronically for free (https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...) as do some private companies.

Sure, it's not fun, but it's not an overwhelming burden for those with a simple 1040.
+ - % * > < = Σ ∈

if you are not familiar with the symbols and their meaning they might as well come from a dusty old book hidden away in the depths of a dungeon guarded by tiny dragons

yet if you are familiar with them they are not intimidating nor inscrutable (anymore)
> Not to derail the topic but “taxing the rich” was one of the bullet points that was supposed to answer where the money for a UBI system would come from.

Obviously this could as easily refer to any form of taxation that comes disproportionately from the rich. Which, because of what a UBI itself does to the effective rate curve, is actually pretty much all of them. You could use VAT and VAT+UBI is still a progressive tax system, because everyone at the lower income levels is still receiving disproportionately more than they're paying. It actually solves the biggest drawback of a flat tax and allows you to use one while still having the money come disproportionately from people making more of it.

> This is exactly how globalization will impact UBI as well, because at the end of the day the manufacturing firms, big corporations and everyone else who is vested in making money will uproot and go elsewhere, where they won’t be taxed so harshly.

If you're funding it with VAT or some other consumption tax then it isn't the companies manufacturing there who pay it, it's the ones who sell there. Which they can't avoid by moving their operations somewhere else, because the customers are where they are.
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Hopefully this platform can help your startup save money in legal bills.

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> I hope they will pressure Android architects to replace dalvik with openjdk.

Android hasn't used dalvik for ~5 years now. Switching from ART to OpenJDK runtime is both non-trivial in complexity (can't break existing apps), and doesn't bring any obvious benefits, either. OpenJDK isn't tuned nor optimized for the constraints that Android operates in, and ART isn't exactly a slouch, either.

The only benefit it brings in theory is just updated bytecode support, yet Android is still going to be stuck with dex, and still has the backwards & forwards compatibility issues, and OpenJDK doesn't help that situation at all. Nor have there been any significant bytecode changes/improvements in Java anyway, so you still don't get any benefits from it.
Given the tone of the poster who this reply was for, it seems entirely warranted.
If length of support is your concern, why not iOS? Apparently, iOS 14 will support the iPhone 6s, which means that this 2015 phone will be supported until at least 2021.
I don’t think they deliberately thought they were doing something inadequately, these problems are always obvious in hindsight. Issue is that eventually most companies will have this moment seeing through the lens of hindsight, the reasons are always different.
Replication includes replicating deletes (and overwrites, and subtilier changes). Replication is READ / WRITE.

Backups are WRITE ONCE. They persist if the original is deleted or modified.

Separate infrastructure and geographical distribution are orthogonal.
I don't think your skepticism is warranted. EamonnMR provides a link to an article describing the paper Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes [1]. This animal was a pre-cursor to modern crustaceans like shrimp and crabs. The compound lens in this fossil has about 16K lenses.

Today's OP describes the paper Insights into a 429-million-year-old compound eye [2] in a trilobite fossil with about 200 lenses.

Logically, I can't imagine how free-swimming predators could have evolved in the Cambrian without eyes. Having two very distinct species of arthropods with fossilized compound eyes is not "his-story" but key evidence that furthers our understanding of the Evolution of the Eye [3].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10689

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-69219-0

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_eye
Older US Country music is pretty popular globally. Modern country, less so, but the classics of the genre actually have really large global appeal.
To be fair, very few people buy Android tablets nowadays.
Upscaling is always a problem, no matter how you approach it - weighted neighbours of various sorts, fractals, vector transformations... they all do some things reasonably well and look like poop at least half of the time. When Gigapixel AI works well, it works really well. When it's the wrong program to use, it leaves you no room for doubt about that.
I'm not sure european examples are a great comparison.

First, most european wealth taxes (including recently defunct ones) have much lower floors than US proposals. $1m instead of $100m. That changes a lot. France did experience "capital flight," famously Gerard Depardieu.

Second, "capital flight" has always been present in Europe. There's a long history of it, and practical realities make it relevant.

I do agree about depth though. One point that PG does address which is often skipped over is that a wealth tax is a "deplete billionaires" policy... or a "curb billionaire growth" policy. The premise is that the very wealthy are too wealthy and that this is bad.

A wealth tax is not like a VAT, corporate or personal income tax. The tax revenue is secondary, and relatively small. It's more like a tariff, tax as an economic policy tool.

I agree that considering a 2% wealth tax as a 70% depletion of wealth over 60 years is... not nuanced. The most important nuance being that you control most of this wealth for most of this time and will be paying your taxes out of interest. If you apply the model to actual examples (say Bezos or Buffet), you'll find that their wealth will still have increased... just at a reduced rate.

But, to be nuanced we also need to address the core question: "are billionaires bad for the rest of us?" That is the premise of a wealth tax, at least the currently popular one.
This is one of the biggest reasons I’m a loyal iPhone user. I experienced this first-hand when my iPhone 5 still received updates for a year after Google’s Nexus 7 tablet despite the Nexus 7 having come out two years later. And the Nexus tablet stopped being able to charge...

Phones that cost $1000+ are fine when you can keep them for 5+ years.
It depends on what one sees as reasonable (also see the difference between reasonable and rational). Take the gun control that you referenced as an example. It's likely that there is a vast difference in knowledge of the technical as well as legal aspects of firearms between gun owners and non-gun owners. So the law could be rational, but the two groups could differ on the reasonablenes. I see the slippery slope argument less today than I did in years past.

In my opinion, most proposals by either side on a variety of topics are not good options. They have become hard-line battle cries for their respective party in order to motivate hardcore supporters to come out to vote, particularly in the primaries in which the radicals comprise a larger share than in general elections.
Luxon makes for a good date lib stop gap while tc39 works on something built-in that is (hopefully) a bit nicer.

https://moment.github.io/luxon/

https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/
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From what I gather he's quite genuinely popular with the lower and rural classes. But abolishing term limits was a big mistake. The issue is no longer whether elites domestically are going to go along with it. China is so big these days what happens in China's domestic politics affects the entire world.

Imagine Trump abolished term limits, that doesn't just affect internal U.S. politics it affects the whole world.
Well, yes, but then they would run afoul of the GDPR, which may prevent this from happening in the first place. But it can't prevent them collecting aggregate stats.
Ask HN: Thoughts on this social platform and self-hosting your social profiles?
I'm in the tech world for many years, and I've seen the birth of many social platforms, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I love the fact that I own my websites 100% and my email 100%, and I wanted to own my social profile 100%. So a few months ago I started researching and building, and with some help, I've managed to build something I really like.

I would like to show it to you and have your honest feedback because there are a lot of things that can be improved - it was hard to stop and just release v1.0 :P

It's open-source of course, and more info is available at about.dotsmesh.com

My own self-hosted profile is available at dotsmesh.com#ivo if you want to take a look at the current UI.

I'll be glad to discuss with you the idea of self-hosting social profiles, the implementation, and everything else you like.

The end goal is to build the best possible open social platform.
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>Inequality is à at stupid levels in the US currently and infrastructure is crumbling ?

The US government spends a tiny fraction of its budget on infrastructure (https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324). Increasing its income more is unlikely to have much effect on this.
Just curious, what country would this be? I know many European countries favor a more theoretical approach.

I definitely learned linear algebra from the numerical and matrix perspective (though yes, we did cover the idea of vector spaces and linear transformations too). In engineering school, the focus tended to be on the craft rather than the theory, and in retrospect I think it was the right approach for engineering majors, whose primary concern was execution. It helped engineers use MATLAB to solve problems. The syllabus looked like this:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06sc-linear-algeb...

And this:

https://math.nyu.edu/media/math/filer_public/a4/00/a4008ffa-...

A syllabus for math majors might look quite different.

The US approach to linear algebra continued to be useful for me in grad school as an engineering major (I have an engineering Ph.D.). To be honest, for what I was/am doing, I don't think I would have derived much benefit from a more theoretical approach (but that's just me. People who work closer to theory may have a different opinion).

In my work, math has a retrospective role -- I first build something and later recognize patterns that fit a certain theory.

For theory-builders however, math has a constructive role. Theory builders however are relatively rare.
>Switzerland has a wealth tax (of up to 0.3%), and there is zero evidence that this has any deterrent effect on wealthy people settling in Switzerland

The model in PG's post appears to predict around a 12% "lifetime" (60-year) rate from an 0.3% wealth tax and thus suggests (at least to me) that this would be at most a minor concern for most wealthy people. So this does not seem like contrary evidence.
> coach my kids in baseball

--

Having a child has provided me the easiest and best reason to switch off. I know its not the right choice for everyone, but it sure has worked for us.
That's one way to look at it. Another way is to say that if wealth tax offsets growth exactly, then the government has taken the difference of what your wealth would have been after 60 years. For example,

1 - 1000*(1-.01+.01)^60 / [1000*(1+.01)^60] ~= 45% taken from the government

Which is the same as the author of the article found.
> I tried to ask @rabois for the source of a claim, and got crickets in return.

It looks like Keith did in fact reply to that tweet with a source, yesterday: https://twitter.com/rabois/status/1295357875187904512
Not out of the box but snowplow does if you model the data on your own.
Wow interesting idea. I am probably way behind you on the thought process, but my first thought is: I wonder if you are just shifting the meta game and adding an extra step for those wishing to push malware etc. They would need to become list curators and promote some percent of legitimately good apps while also pushing their bad apps.
If the agent state is symbolic, that’s cool and interesting, but isn’t reality sub-symbolic?
If the argument is "but rich people will move"... Make it impossible.

Tax wealth accumulated in the US regardless of where you move to. Rich people can't just up and disappear entire industries. They will act like they can, but they cannot.

Having said that... Wealth tax can also be progressive. Depending on how much wealth you have. Taxing those with $20MM could be at 0.1%. Taxing those at > $1B could be at 1%. I assure you, even if we tax Jeff Bezos 95% of all his earned wealth, he'll still be a billionaire. Or close to.

Being a billionaire _should_ be impossible. That comes with extreme power. That power should be reserved for an elected government, not the whim of individual kings or lords.
The real test would be: can you do this?

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This is a strange response.

A). The parent doesn't claim morality as the foundation.
B). Thriving in a capitalist system is also not a foundation for morality.
C). There are no underlying structures that dictate/require the sum total of individual actions have to correspond to societal good (not that i'm aware of). This would be akin to claiming that drug dealers have moral superiority.

What we have here is a version of the tragedy of the commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#:~:text...). Something that benefits the individual on the short term while negatively impacting large swaths of connected infrastructure. In a society where money == votes I can't seen how that's a valid and functioning path forward.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I have a similar issue: just way too good looking for large companies. I could make more money and have less stress at a large company, but my good looks keep me out. Fortunately, this dinky startup is willing to tolerate someone this handsome.
Another thing that may be hard to understand for non-US citizens. For me, exercising options costs me just that, the option price + bank fees; I owe no tax. I have to pay full tax when & if I sell the shares. This seems like a much fairer taxation regime - I pay tax when I earn something - just having un-sellable shares didn't suddenly increase my wealth.

With this, it actually makes sense to exercise options and stay employed at the startup: you now may not be qualified as a short-term seller when you sell the stock, since you held on to it for a while.
That's because of corrupt American politicians and lobbying by Intuit, not something inherent to an income tax. Many countries have a simpler income tax process.
You're cherry picking as well. There are other European countries with a wealth tax [1] — notably Belgium, to which these wealthy people allegedly fled to avoid wealth taxation.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/4-european-countries-wealth-...
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What's Ironic is some of these agencies that require them for classified information, also teach field operators to evade them. The other fun part about them is when you're in an unclassified situation getting a poly and they're asking questions that if you answer you divulge secrets, if you don't you're lying.

I was once told that I was too calm for my poly and then asked why. My response was I didn't trust the science, or the fact that it was a couple week course. That didn't go over well, I ended up taking two more after that and they gave up.

I've seen the other-side of it though where good people failed their poly because they had too low a baseline like I did, caused by medications.

It's really a bunk science. I can get it as a scare tactic, but the fact the the Govt. still relies on it at a higher level is ridiculous.
This seems pretty relevant:

>Watch how the ultra-wealthy in America gradually raised the taxes of the poor and eventually bent the curve downward until they paid the lowest tax rate of all

https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/1260645957651185665
The original poster refers to sending your SSH private key, not RSA. Your SSH private key can be used for very malicious purposes. For example, if you use Git over SSH to upload code to your remote Git repositories, someone malicious can take your SSH private key, and hijack your Git repositories.
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Yeah, this is just how the human brain works.

The big thing to understand is that we lie about these things to ourselves, so we can easier lie about them to others. Unconscious parts of your brain lies to the conscious part!!

I learned this here: https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Brain-Hidden-Motives-Everyda...
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I listened to it a lot when they launched but the problem with it is they really treat their shows as live radio. There's no way to save them or subscribe and get notifications when they're live. There is no way to follow them. Searching for them is weird. Discovery is also awkward. There were and probably still are a lot of good shows but good luck figuring it all out.
I did vouch it. I wasn't aware that the blog wasn't being run by Scott.
Here's the article:

https://psmag.com/magazine/the-lucrative-art-of-chicken-sexi...

Yeah, subconscious decision making is probably the wrong term. "Instinctual" decision making?
> there is no capital gains tax

As long as capital gains are less than half of your income.
Or you could just use SQL (which is what I did).
Sorry but a wealth tax is simply morally unacceptable. I don’t think it is appropriate at all to have worked hard, made choices, committed time/stress/etc, earned wealth, paid all taxes along the way, only to have it confiscated after the fact, in effect as an undisclosed but retroactive penalty. What does ownership and private property mean in such a system? Wealth taxes more closely resemble theft than a typical tax, and it erodes fundamental rights in our society.
To everyone who is saying "this doesn't take into account asset growth": please simulate this for yourself to understand that it does.

If you have shares of a company and, assuming that you have to liquidate stock to pay the wealth tax, then it doesn't matter what the growth in the value of the company is.

i.e. if the growth rate is 10% p/a, then after 40 years the value of the original stock is about $4500. A 1% wealth tax will have taken about 33% of the stock away from you at this point.

If the growth rate is 50% p/a, then the value of the original stock is over $1bn. That 1% wealth tax will still have taken about 33% of that stock away from you.

Obviously, with the higher growth rate, you'll be wealthier, but the proportion of your wealth that the government will have taken is the same.
> Isn’t the idea to make the wealth of huge excess fund something more of our society?

You think the US government is going to make better use of that money than someone like Musk or Bezos? The vast majority of the budget is spent on warfare and welfare: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324.
I have seen many instances of "slippery slope" fallacies actually happening. While I don't want to name specific examples, due to it getting into unnecessary politics, I am able to recall at least 3 BIG instances of it happening.
> IIRC Bezos sells over $1B in Amazon stock per year to fund other things, but there is no outcry about how un-american it is that he has to "sell off his stake in his own company" to pay for his hobbies/lifestyle.

Sure, but that's voluntary. It's fine for me to sell my house if I have other plans. It's less fine for me to be forced to sell my own house even if I want to continue to own it / live in it.
Here in India Switzerland is mainly famous for their bank accounts where all the corrupt politicians store their ill gained wealth. Everyone here knows the phrase "swiss bank".

wondering if 0.3% a good tradeoff for secrecy?
what do you mean by very few?

In the UK, Apple market share for tablets seems to be ~65%
Currently, capital gains is on taxed on sale. Even on sale there are ways to reduce or defer it (opportunity zone investments for example). Some also donate appreciated shares to charities that are suspect (Trump comes to mind).
Most billionaires don’t sell most of their stock during their entire lifetime.
Here's one we are working on: https://volument.com — it focuses on conversion optimization.
It was supposed to be a temporary tax to fund the Civil War, but like most/all taxes, the "temporary" became permanent. (1)

From Wikipedia - In 1913, the top tax rate was 7% on incomes above $500,000 (equivalent to $12.9 million in 2019 dollars) and a total of $28.3 million was collected.

1 - https://www.mwattorneys.com/blog/first-income-tax-was-suppos...