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"The tax rate would be 0.4 percent of net worth, excluding directly held real estate, that exceeds $30 million for single and joint filers and $15 million for married filing separately."
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> A good solution is probably a redundant solution, but pushing the solution too far towards only government versus privatization likely decreases the service that underserved populations can expect.

You hit the nail on the head: you need both public and private.

I will push back on the idea that “privatization likely decreases the service that underserved populations can expect”, because that’s just not true for the other goods and services that rural people require (food, clothing, etc). If there’s a market need for something, it will be met at the fair market value for that thing — provided there are no exogenic barriers like regulation or endogenic barriers like monopolies/cartels.

At best, you can probably make the case that rural areas will no longer receive subsidized service, but it’s worth asking ourselves if that’s even a desirable goal. And even if it is, it’s worth considering if nationalization is the best way to achieve subsidized rural delivery, or if direct subsidy or a UBI is the better way to achieve that, or perhaps even regulating the private carriers just like for eg food quality is regulated by the FDA. I’ll also add that the rural population is overwhelmingly the set of people who are aggressively voting for the kids peeing in the pool.

> Taking that generalization and concretizing it to the topic of a post office, there are several alternatives in the private sector already to USPS

Unfortunately this is not true. The USPS has a legislated monopoly on first class paper mail. UPS/FedEx/DHL/Amazon couldn’t send mail to a mailbox if they wanted to. Crucially, this means that mail-in ballots cannot be delivered by anyone except for the agency that a certain political party is trying to kneecap to suppress those very ballots — even if there is a market need for reliable ballot delivery.
It's really a shame, and I've mentioned this before. If Mozilla sells a 'Developer' version of Firefox that is technically fully open source, but the idea is that it will directly support Firefox development, I will pay, you can add tiers, a VPN (since they're going to offer this anyway) and other goodies (maybe I can finally have a cool @firefox / mozmail.com / foxmail.com email or whatever) and I would probably subscribe to pay for higher tiers if it brings me other benefits, the email bit I mention because they do already provide an email client, it's a shame they never produced their own email service to subsidize their efforts elsewhere.

Mind you they already have Firefox Developer edition, they can keep it free and add a Firefox Professional Developer Edition that guarantees funds go to better funding Firefox development and I will be one of the first to pay for it, if it's got a monthly subscription or yearly. No "discount" tactics either, please, it makes no sense for someone trying to maintain a lot of non-profit open source projects.
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I'm a frugal guy, have enough dividends/interest from the conservative long term holdings to cover my basics, algo for providing long term prosperity and luxuries only. So far in the backtest it performs at 28% ROI with 10% max drawdown in the testing period of april 2009 - april 2020 vs. 11.5% ROI for SPX and 36% drawdown
I'm running an AlphaServer DS10L here! It cost me about $275. It feels pretty quick for a ~20 year old machine.
The US does recognize certain protected origin products, just like the EU does. The lists of items aren't the same though. "Parmesan" cheese is not protected in the US but "Parmigiano-Reggiano" is.
They're making it mandatory to constantly bump your targetSDK.

They're adding new requirements one has to follow in order to get access to certain permissions.

They're updating their content rules which make anything with user content very very difficult and might just kill your app one day.

They're updating graphics and icon requirements rather often.

It's a rather big amount of work if your app isn't super simple and relies on functionality they change.
Ah, so only when Microsoft does it is bad, but when that generation worships Google for doing the same it is suddenly alright.
0% sounds pretty good to me....
From the article:

>No one wants their most private activities secretly monitored...Who authorized the makers of Apple’s Siri and their vendors to listen to private conversations in my home? Not me. So why should Apple be allowed to do this? This is what we must find out.

So Apple should be allowed to do this, and we must find out why. But why is there any need to investigate if we’re not going to change anything?
Oh sorry, didn't notice you're talking about the first half of point #1.

To be honest, I have no idea what he's expecting with that "return true". How would that be different in any other language?
Why push axing it back until November 12th? Is it more likely someone lobbied President Trump for more negotiation time or is this an election play?
State your authority or go out like Cartman you imposter. Shitty mod name if I have seen any. Or complete lack of distribution of time. Civil-modding is fucling retarded. I bet your browser pays you 1300$ after tax for this.
I'm not sure I follow. Why does the drivers been written to handle chip disablement imply that they are FOSS?
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In certain places there are already systems that can handle when the system load is > available generation. When this occurs, the frequency of the grid drops and these automated systems begin dropping load. [0] has a report on such a system in New Zealand that triggered.

These systems need to drop load before the frequency gets so low that it causes damage to generating stations. In the 2003 blackout in the northeast US & Canada, load wasn't dropped fast enough and the protection equipment at generating plants tripped them off before damage could occur. For base generation like nuclear plants, you generally need to wait up to 72 hours to restart the plant [1]. One key reason for that long time period is the need to wait for Xenon 135 levels to stabilize. [2]

The paper actually considers these systems, but dismisses them because "Third, we disregard the possibility that power utilities react to the sudden increase in the demand either by increasing the available generation or through load shedding. As for the former reaction, it would be ineffective since the primary cause of the blackout in our simulation is the violation of the line capacity limits rather than a generation deficit. The latter reaction may also be ineffective in protecting the residential loads considered in our study since power utilities typically prioritize commercial, industrial and critical loads during such contingencies."

So in other words, end consumers would lose power, but the grid would continue to function as designed for critical loads. Hardly seems like the sky is falling.

0. https://www.transpower.co.nz/resources/report-2-march-2017-s...

1. https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/7394/why-doe...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine_pit#Iodine_pit_behavior
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At my last job they liked to play diplomacy online. With 2 day turn times. I ended up quiting the game because I couldn't think about anything else.

Trying to work out which of my colleagues would betray me, and what the best position for my units for the next turn.

I don't consider myself particularly competitive, but the need to minmax was strong with that game, and the social/diplomacy element was just infuriating.
“Dismantle the nuclear family” ... “currently one of the stated goals of BLM”

This is patent nonsense. Why would you ever believe that’s the goal of any widely supported organization? What happened to Occam’s razor?

The absurdity of this claim inspired me to “do my own research” on the matter.

The notion that this is a “goal” seems to stem from this portion of the “what we believe” page here:

https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/

> We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work ‘double shifts’ so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.
>
> We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.

Family friendly spaces and supporting each other as extended families are hardly “dismantling the nuclear family”.
It's not clear what domain he actually registered.

xn--jxb.fi would appear to be unregistered.

(U+2167) (U+002E) (U+FB01) is not a valid domain name.

viii.fi (all ASCII) is registered, and the registrar is gandi. But so what?

I don't get it.
We only use monospace fonts around these parts
I say solo founders perform research better.
The FDA and USDA make it rather difficult to import food in the US.
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Yes, the anxiety at the beginning and lack of purpose was strong, but over time it has faded and now I am used to the lifestyle and make my own purpose. I do plan to contribute more to society in the long term. I want to eventually start my own research institution (if algo goes bonkers). Algos do add liquidity to financial markets and help prevent bubbles like 2000 and 2007 from forming through greater market efficiency as well. However, right now I'm still enjoying my "rest" phase as the 8 years before that were not fun, long hours, long commute, so I don't feel bad about getting some break.
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That is very specific to Indians. What percentage of them make up the people in unis/research? From your comment it seems like rest aren't that affected by this.

The stock grants in US ones definitely are better off, a lot of Europeans also use this and go back.
Heck I wouldn’t move to SV for any realistic amount of money I could make and I live in the southeast US.

Once you have “enough” you don’t have to make choices based on making more.
Swiss cheese is produced in the US and hamburgers are not always from Hamburg. I don't really see the problem. If consumers want to know where it's from then the country of origin can be included on the package.
The Consortium will reiterate their approach to privacy, ensuring that no federal agencies can access your ham records.
It's soo more than that. They'd destroyed all the old UI in favor of Chrome-style HTML+JS instead of platform-native XUL

They added all sorts of weird commercial initiatives to someonething that was supposed to be privacy-oriented and nonprofit

They torched an entire ecosystem of extensions so they could be more Chromelike

They put out landing pages and press releases full of weasely PR speak instead of the "mainstream engineering" vocabulary they used to use

Maybe Firefox should get in touch with the Pale Moon guys and use their code as a basis for resurrecting everything that made FIrefox great
I agree with dinamic 1. Not suitable for a blob on hacker news. It would be cool if it had the text + translations but... Also there are some obvious errors. One item is noted as being from a periodical from the year 4.... Hmm I think not.
You can lose thats the point of socializing the losses and privatizing the gains

Make your own choices
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Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the USA, but your towns and cities are full of rule-followers doing herd-passive-aggressive self-enforcement, and live-and-let-live is a rare feeling. The article is right, it's probably corona and other issues causing the shortfall, but having watched your guy bringing that undercurrent of nastiness out into the open, is anyone actually surprised by this?

I moved from Nicaragua to Mexico before Corona, and I'm waiting it out here: I was so surprised by this place (and by Nica before it).

There surely is a lot of asylum woe on the border, but I can't really believe anyone would want to leave here and go there, and nor can any of the other delightful cultured sweet kind and wonderful "bad hombres" who live here.
Do you know if RC communicates to future participants: “Join this meeting, or you will be removed from the program.” ? Maybe all this theory about weeding non-serious people out is true, but I’d hope each prospective student understands the stakes.
However, current VMS releases won't run on a VAX, and there's no plan to change that. See their FAQ (which links to the product roadmap for projected future releases):

https://vmssoftware.com/about/faq/#faq5

(I dimly recall reading someplace that they haven't done a VAX build in so long that some of the build chain has suffered bitrot, and some VAX-specific innards might have been misplaced.)
It's a learning experience, it doesn't have to be production quality.

It will teach you skills that are applicable in other contexts and give a deeper understanding of what makes a VM tick.

And sometimes, a tiny VM is just what you need.
Yes. Well, capital used correctly gives you leverage. Sort of the same. That can be used for a social net good or bad.

Related, I definitely agree with others in the thread that profit can be a measure of social impact. Whether your impact is positive or negative however depends on what solution you offer as an entrepreneur, and to what problem. Two farmers might have the same profit, but one is selling ecological greens, and the other one is selling high-fructose corn syrup. One is contributing to the obesity epidemic, the other one isn't.

In any case, the core of entrepreneurship is solving problems for people and organisations. The more people value and use your products and services the more profit you'll make, assuming your business model is economically sustainable. And you should want it to be! If your costs grow faster than your revenue, there's going to be a point where you have to shut down and can't help more people.
Yes, I'm glad you mention that; unfortunately I think sometimes the idea that causation may be multi-dimensional (in other words, that there is not necessarily a single implicative model capable of wholly explaining all things) gets mistaken for some sort of dualism.

But that view does not imply that mind and body are disjoint, are separate "essences", etc.
Above is great.. but your role as a fiduciary also requires you to NOT allow development and deployment costs to get out of hand.

You are personally responsible for ensuring underlying technical costs don’t undermine the viability of the enterprise.

Many CTOs just say, “we’ll cloud everything”, and are “shocked” when they get a $500k monthly bill from AWS because a developer wrote errant auto-scale rules.

Development and deployment should always be costed using both on-premise and cloud solutions, weighted with the associated risks of hacking, cost, and time.

My strategy: budget cloud, implement on-premise.

Nowadays, you can simulate AWS using docker-swarm or kubernetes, and that will give you a reasonably accurate scaling cost for your deployments.

My two racks at a datacenter cost me $2k/mo all in with 1gbps bandwidth. The cost of clouding, which I check regularly, is over $18k/mo. I can always scale TO the cloud, but it’s an order of magnitude (or more) harder to de-scale to on-premise as developers take liberties with AWS provided shortcuts that they really should learn to deploy locally.

De-scaling will cost time, and developers who prefer cloud may leave as a result, requiring costly re-hires and schedule slips.

Ultimately, the CTO’s role should include: inform and educate, minimize technical debt, and maximize the company’s return on investment in technical staff and capital expenditures for computing needs, all while understanding the risks of the associated decisions to the bottom line of the company, financially, legally, and in terms of time-to-market.

As a 35 developer with 35 years experience, I can tell you that if you let the development team decide, 95% of the time you will lose control of the costs very quickly.

My suggestion to keep development costs low is to buy 10 used or new Dell servers and rack them on-premise, and use that for your development “cloud”.

Having physical limits on capabilities will force devs to think “lean”, and gain personal experience building the supporting technologies they need to run whatever they develop.

Your development team will be better, and your shareholders will appreciate your thriftiness.

You can always scale up.

Cheers!
Many of the frequent horror stories on here about account suspensions and completely unresponsive support are coming from people or companies with paid accounts.

I do believe that there is a level of spending where you can actually get a hold of someone competent who can look into things. But that level appears to be rather high.
When does Iran come back in season?
this reminds me of the scene in the movie Booksmart where the nerdy girls who did nothing but study and work towards their academic dreams found out all the "dumb" party kids also got into top tier schools while also having fun.
I'm very frugal, it would be difficult for my stash to be depleted. My conservative long term investments provide more than enough cash flow for my basic necessities - I only put extra in the algo for now, though the algo is less volatile so far than my long term investments.
> Here in Lisbon, you can live a perfectly comfortable life forever if you hit around 300-400k € in equity.

Is that assuming single with no dependents?

If I were single, I could definitely see that working. But with a wife and three kids, it seems less possible.
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It's not the law, it's not economics, it's ethics. I know that's a hard concept for some.
There have been layoffs, like ClassPass fired 50% of staff, but there's still work too. The author is a little strange, quitting a job to go on six week retreat instead of taking a leave of absence, but if he is acting that way, he clearly wanted to switch to a new job anyway, had plenty of money in reserve, and likely won't have trouble finding one. RC doesn't seem to have any value beyond them acting as a recruiter for you at the end, but recruiters are free and happy to help you find jobs without that anyway.
Something like the sharper Cabot cheddars aren't bad for a day-to-day cheese. But it certainly is a completely different cheese than artisanal long-aged cheddars whether from the UK or the US.
I don't get the Python3 bw-incompatibility hate. Getting rid of cruft is literally the only way to get rid of cruft. It's literally the Pythonic to not have cruft.

I dread the day Python will be as bloated as C++ or Java, neither that dare to remove things.
Am I the only person that finds it odd that a self-professed throwaway account is anonymously attempting to speak for RC?
That's quite timely. I'm writing a soft real time piece of code for use in the browser. It's a nightmare. So many layers underneath that it is very hard to get any kind of idea where latency and throughput issues are coming from.
I also wrote extensions and I did not find them to be an "ungodly mess". XUL was rather pleasant to work with compared to some of the other technologies I was programming with at the time
The point of writing your own vm isn’t to come up something that is on par with Sun’s or Microsoft’s vm, but rather have a hands on learning experience of the inner workings of a vm.
> Win32 binaries I wrote in college still run on Win 10.

Hell they said they were dropping support for VB6 in Windows 8 if I remember correctly, but I'm pretty damn sure I can still install the IDE, I know VB6 apps aren't broken for darn sure since I've re-downloaded some old ones I used to use.
I plan to get wealthier during this "break" if the algo performs anywhere near as well as the backtest, 28% with 10% max drawdown. If all goes to plan, in 20 years I will be running my own research institution part time, but I hope to always have plenty of leisure time in the future. The 8 years before I quit were hell in comparison to my life now and I don't want to ever go back to that way of living
cf. Dan Luu's page on computer latency:

https://danluu.com/input-lag/
so you are willing to work 20 yrs of your life in southeast of US vs working 10yrs in SV and retiring to wherever you want?
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It's definitely not all about compensation, and it's not just an industrial move away from the US. I personally chose to do my CS PhD studies in Canada rather than at (better funded, higher-status) American options, after leaving a US undergrad. Those other options would've been strongly preferable had it not been for my experience with US culture during undergrad; as it was, US culture made clear to me that staying there was out of the question.

More than a dozen of my friends who graduated at the same time did similarly, both those who went on to grad school and those who went into industry. This wasn't because there weren't options for us in the US — we all had choices. The honest truth is that, among those bright people I knew in undergrad, the large majority (Americans and international alike) were wholly disgusted by the US in recent years, and being unable to effect any change, they left the country.
What I hear you saying is, they'd need to build out an actual CDN service that individual companies would have to sign up and use. This service would allow Starlink to be able to use their own certs themselves or have the owner's certificate.

My understanding is Cloudflare's service works this way. I believe this would be a good partnership between both companies.

I'm guessing the other approach is similar to Netflix's open connect. Where Netflix is given the option to run what they normally run on their open connect boxes but in a virtualized environment on the satellites themselves.

Now, I know that wouldn't seem all that practical if the service was seen as something anyone could sign up and buy because it isn't like these satellites are the same as EC2 instances and it isn't easy to just rack a new one but my gut feeling is that a very tiny portion of content is a substantial amount of bandwidth.
Quantum effects apply even to physical objects. Only they are small enough to ignore. Trying to use quantum mechanics to justify free will feels forced. Surely, none of the people who believe in free will also proclaim that the will is completely random, or is something that can be modelled probabilistically.
It has been done many times over the last 25 years. I think that's a pretty thin rationalization to having a program freeze when you click a button.
As if Google ever replies to tickets.
Agreed, that is probably why you wind up with a lot of versioned Microsoft C++ runtime installers on your computer, but damn it at least the reliant software works as intended.
> Photosynthesis is so efficient because electrons jump multi-molecule gaps due to quantum effects, as we’ve found only a few years ago.

That's true, but is a short lived and very local effect.

> The theory that most biological brains heavily leverage quantum processes is rapidly gaining ground as well [...]

No, there is only some handwaving. It's impossible to keep the quantum coherence in a system that weight 1.5kg at 310K.