skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone here do this? Seems like a powerful thing - I might try it. I'll need to come up with some good names.
Counterpoint from another well-known Silicon Valley-ite: http://www.cosmicweenie.com/wealth_tax.pdf
I love it. Coroutines make async code concise and much cleaner than Java completable futures, Kotlin is a supported gRPC language, and the gRPC service signatures are much cleaner than the java gRPC service signatures, and there is decent Bazel support. I think the biggest threat to this language is the $399 iPhone.
It’s much, much more expensive to be poor.

Reread this comment and find why most of “regular” America hates the coasts and tech elites.
They aren’t diversified?!
I think its a way to get people to admit to things. Like even knowing they don't work, it's stressful to be strapped into that chair, and even knowing the technician is probably lying when they say they're detecting deception on a particular question, it's stressful when they accuse you of lying. I bet a lot of people crack and admit to things they were hoping to hide.

The trouble comes from the fact that in order for all of this to work, you need to say the polygraph works. If you admit it's fake, or even if your procedures imply it's fake, it loses its magic. And so you naturally develop procedures that put a lot of stock in the polygraph. People start to believe in it. You build up a culture that relies on the magic of the polygraph. And then things like this happen.
Curious what your background and life experience is to make such statements? You're quite dismissive and claiming all of those foods are fine for the absolute majority of people is quite the grand statement, along with the statement that Beyond Meat burgers would be better than real meat burgers.
I was confused as to why Apple would buy beats as a brand when they were clearly planning around AirPods and Apple Music. I'm sure that combo would have beaten Beats with enough time.
That's a good thing. Taxing wealth more, and income less, helps equalize wealth disparities over time.
I think your comment is off-base. One, because I posted a link to Scientific American, where an expert in the effects of cellular telecommunication on human health wrote an opinion piece on why we should tread cautiously with the rollout of 5G transmitting equipment. I'm not spreading misinformation, I'm not claiming 5G to cause COVID-19, and I'm not saying anything that should be controversial.

However, I do think there is an echo chamber here, and I think that anything that cautions against the cavalier use of untested technology is not permitted, which I think is very dangerous.

What you think is a 'lazy defense' is really just a guy trying to subdue what he could already recognize as a geyser of vitriolic, and frankly wrong, comments. But, hey, this is apparently a place where everyone's opinion counts as fact, and no criticism at all of 5G is allowed.

I'm going to stop commenting now.
A clear channel billboard (roughly phonebooth size) in my area of London has a screen and a camera, it projects locally personalised ads for, among other things, a popular lager beer saying it’s available at a bar 30-100m away. I assume they’re all networked - and gathering literally all of the above.
I view the US tax system as unsustainable and they say so themselves if you read the long term outlook that the treasury puts out.

There needs to be a cycle out of large concentrations or it's an unstable system.
Yeah sure. But how about, did he do any more physics? The guy was defined by that. If he lost anything there, it would be more significant to history. But nothing mentioned.
The board is unlikely to agree to give a CEO or board member enough stock to maintain control of the company. I don't even think this is an unintentional goal - most wealth tax proponents I've seen are explicitly trying to prevent situations like with Cargill or Walmart, where the founder and his descendants can control the company forever.
Your graphic only goes to 2009. Note that long-term capital gains moved up from ~15% to ~24% under Obama, and Biden has another plan to increase it[0].

[0]https://taxfoundation.org/joe-biden-tax-plan-2020/
Wow, Piwik is now Matomo, how fast time flies!
See also: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
Imagine you want to send a few photos - currently stored on your disk - to your mom. File manager, select a few files, right click, "send via e-mail".

Or a letter you're typing, to some company: in your word processor, File -> Send as E-Mail.

For these features to be able to work, the email client would need to have an API so it can create an e-mail with attachments directly attached.

Sure they're not important, but they're convenient. You might not like them, but hey am I glad you're not a product owner of a mail software.
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Years ago, back when I was living alone, a bachelor, and had no dependents, my main way is to shut the lid to my laptop. That told me it was not work time. (Conversely, I left it on during working hours). I also set Slack not to notify me during off work hours, but told people to text or phone me.

At some point, I started to tag some Slack messages with [async]. It meant that I did not require an immediate response. I tried to be conscious of people's local time. People started reciprocating the [async] tag with me.

These days, I have a family, and family time can also intrude into work life. So they tend to bleed together.

I also have a garden. Because I need to take advantage of the natural cycles, I work in the garden in the morning (at around 6) and in the evening (at around 5). There are chickens, dogs, cats, and rabbits, and they all have habits that go with the time of the day. That helps ground me into the daily cycles of the other members of the household.

The garden time helps shift me out of work time. If I still need to work in the evening, after dinner, it is something consciously chosen and I would inform my wife ahead of time.

You might not have gardens or pets, but you might have a non-work activity that you like doing after the working hours. I suggest some kind of physical activity, even if it is just a walk. It can also help if you change your clothes, from your "working" clothes to maybe something like your "workout" clothes. Those can signal to your subconscious mind that you're shifting into something else.

If you don't have a laptop, at least shut off the monitor or do something with the setup to visually indicate that the work day is done.

Finally, the human brain does something funny when it crosses a threshold into another room. It changes context. You can use that to help shift your context -- go do something physical outside, even if it is to go to the balcony.
Sure, but that's a completely different analysis. There's no shortage of land.
Citizen X is an American drama. If it depicts what you're saying (I've seen it but can't remember it) then it's just another Western dramatization depicting post-Stalin Soviet Union in cliches from the 1930s.

In the real life case Citizen X is inspired by[0], nobody was tortured for a conviction, even the guilty man, who was simply put into a cell with a police informer to gather information and questioned normally by investigators who only had ten days under Soviet law to release or charge him.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Chikatilo
I don't support the wealth tax, but this is too simplistic coming from paul (probably meant to be, to hide the facts).

The real picture is incorporating stock growth and probably calculating a $ amount. If you are a founder that made it, and your stock is growing and growing, you can easily take a loan and pay it without having to sacrifice the equity.
Why not both? Also, good design and technology markets itself - especially when it's needed.
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Lots of free space! Look at how relatively sparsely populated the area around Berlin is: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Pop_dens...

Germany has a very low fertility rate & even immigration isn't enough to make the population grow more than very slowly so if a lot of people moved westwards and into the cities it means a lot of people moved out of the east and the country side.

Also almost the entire country is fairly flat & with a mild climate.
Wealth tax is majoritism and nothing else. And we all know how that ends.
Slippery slope is a logical fallacy [0], which you likely already knew. Of course, that doesn't make your argument wrong, just fallible.

I think it's arguable that taxes only ever go up. Income taxes on the rich used to be near 90% in the top bracket, so it's not a one way ratchet. That said, I agree government tends to expand and needs to fund that growth somehow. But I think it's much more likely that need manifests as an increase in the wealth tax rate rather than a lowering of the wealth threshold. The billionaires have so much more money than everyone else (and so much more than they need) that it will be much more politically popular to raise the wealth tax on them than it would to expand the pool. Not to mention, there are more of us.

I'm not advocating a wealth tax, and I think it's problematic for other reasons, but I don't think the slippery slope argument is much more than fearmongering in this case.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
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Very sad to read this, but also an important lesson to every entrepreneur :(

The answer you never got from Apple was actually already in your own E-Mail all along.

Pay-Per-Install Ads will be a $118 BILLION industry by 2022. [1]

While you've missed out on millions of dollars, Apple sure saw this coming (Facebook probably was having quite a lot of success with it at the time?) and wanted those billions for themselves.

Protecting the user experience IS important to Apple, too, of course.., and it will always be the story they tell on the outside, but Craig, Phil or whoever was responsible for the AppStore at the time will have given a very different answer to Tim

[1] https://www.appsflyer.com/blog/app-install-ad-spend/
>also, people should be speaking of monopsony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony

For some strange reason the term never really caught on, even having been reported and used multiple times in mainstream media.

I just wish more people understand and use it. Especially in discussions like the current issues.
Esp. w/ someone who has the constitution of a secret agent, who is literally trained to lead a secret life. If they can't fool a device like this how can they be expected to fool high-level operatives in their adversary's intelligence agencies for decades on end?
You're cherry picking. France imposed a wealth tax and they repealed it.

"At least 10,000 wealthy people left the country to avoid paying the tax; most moved to neighboring Belgium"

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-14/france...
Not the only reason at all. So many people are concerned with inequality beyond its connection the USA’s inability to fund public goods.
Most countries phrase it like this: you owe 30% tax on a presumed 4% gain on your 100K.

That's an identical amount to a 1.2% tax on 100K, but phrased in a way that I think meets your objections.
> any founder who's reached millions in personal gain from their single, undiversified startup, will begin to employ financial strategies to diversify some of that gain into other instruments to reduce risk

This is literally not true for the wealthiest founders. The vast majority of billionaires (and even high $100M) only enjoy that net worth because the vast majority of their wealth is in a single stock: their own company. Even if 10% of their wealth is in diversified portfolios, that isn't nearly enough to offset the tax required to pay off the remaining 90% of their wealth.

Second of all, even for those that have decided that they no longer care about maintaining a majority of their net worth in their own company, they have to liquidate their existing holdings in order to buy into diversified portfolios, at which point the wealth is taxed. And then any appreciation within their new portfolio is ultimately taxed when any capital gains are realized.

In the US, we do not tax wealth, we tax income, dividends, and capital gains, because wealth is not money.
The Netherlands also has a wealth tax. Other taxes are not low (income tax of around 37%-49%, 21% VAT).
If you go in buying the hype you’re a mark, but it does happen. I think people here are in such a hurry to devalue equity compensation that they forget there can be an upside, maybe a big one.

I took my current job because they were offering what I was already paid, plus a better workplace as well as options that, at the time, seemed like they could be a nice bonus. Over the next couple years they gained a lot of value, and I recently sold a fraction of my holdings for several hundred thousand dollars. So I dunno, maybe not everyone holding “lottery tickets” is a rube.
I'm not advocating their use. Just arguing for a less politically-motivated description of a technology's accuracy.
your response seems to lack the creativity and imagination of a financial industry that brought us cdo's, cds's, mbs's, and a global financial crisis or three. greed and money will find a way.

edit: it seems folks don't like being reminded that the point of capitalism is to redirect greed toward productive use.
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Welcome to the last 5-25-55-75 years

170 nations "goverments" signed the UN Agenda 21 pact in 1992
to form a single Global Dictatorship lead by Global Zionist Jews

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Since 1992 no Western or EU nation has been free

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None have declared ISRAEL + RUSSIA + CHINA the enemy of humanity and freedom
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If anything in the last 5-6 years we are finally waking up to the scam of Globalism, Government, corporations and how all parts of our society structures are compromised ..

- Maybe all nations need to go thou Left wing National commie or left wing global commie to finally reject the left , authoritarianism and demand freedom ....

Then again no one in china, HK, Russia has walked into the parliament as a collective group and got rid of the corruption ...

Truth is Taxation is socialism , its wealth redistribution + state force thief, its also often takes 3-5 working class citizens to fund 1 person on welfare, which is often , female, disabled, old, children or non ethnic native person imported into the nation ...

Also list ONE nation outside AMISH and ISLAM that actually holds women accountable...
If our government doesn't operate on a balanced budget, and we seem more than happy to fund out current existence with endless debt why should a wealth tax be seen as anything but punitive?
I would like to work for a startup as a way to move/improve my stack but looking at some startup job postings show that they want Googler-tier devs with decades of experience while paying nothing
I don't have a dedicated room and also not a dedicated desk so what works for me is just changing into dedicated work clothes. If I'm sitting around in sweat pants all day the difference would be too blurry for me.
Super-wealthy founders are not sufficiently diversified, no.
We already have extensive experience in the U.S. with a particular type of wealth tax -- called property taxes. I've been paying them in California for 23 years, and they haven't ruined me yet. (The nominal rate on those tends to be about 1%, too.)

Many people with personal wealth of $50m+ start steering significant money into foundations of their own devising. There's a good debate to be had about whether society is better off with the richest people creating their own philanthropy and social-reform strategies, or having them hand over the $$ to the government for its version.

I'd rather see individual strategies proliferate, on the belief that the government doesn't always know best. But the idea that a 1% tax will bring ruin on successful entrepreneurs grossly underestimates the way that fortunes keep growing.
The lump sum tax is only possible for non-citizens, who do not have direct W2 income from Switzerland. Local governments (if the state allows it) can use it as a shortcut to estimate the tax amount. Nevertheless wealthy Swiss citizen don’t leave Switzerland either. Probably also because there is no capital gains tax which offsets the wealth tax easily.
Hey Sean, Dan here and I wrote this blog post.

Thanks for the effort on the detailed response!

We have a core value at LinearB to empower the dev community and I can see you share a similar passion. The tone of my blog post came off more critical of Jira than intended and it’s great to see the improvements your team is making.

Although LinearB is not a Jira competitor, the issue remains that once story planning ends and coding begins, development teams are left with a major gap to stay up to date in real time to support the hundreds of micro decisions dev teams have to make every day. We are eager to address this problem!

It takes hyper correlation between Git and project management tools combined with a developer first mindset (not project management).

Since you are open to partnership, I will reach out to you so we can meet and pursue!

Thanks again Sean.

(I also responded with the annotation tool you used here: https://hyp.is/A_Sb1N2gEeq1_E8AuivgVQ/dzone.com/articles/jir...)
Beware of the 'almost a co-founder' trap where the company is already incorporated and you join 48 hours later and find yourself with 1% instead of 25% and the three MBA types that are now CEO, CFO and COO tell you that those are founder shares too.

This still happens way too often to tech people. Another way in which that can be arranged is that everybody puts some money in relative to your inability to do so as well.

Putting $10K of your own money or not in at the beginning of a start-up should not have a 90% discrepancy in share allocation as a result.
Jobs don't just grow out of thin air. That $7.25 job is self-evidently better for the worker than whatever other opportunities they had available, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. Taking away that opportunity won't make their life any better, just means they end up on a worse job.
From the screenshots, the design looks very slick and I can’t wait to give it a try!
Nope, just use the search bar.
Routine and context change can make a big difference.
The whole script is 502... https://stats.umami.is/umami.js
Yes. Since he is the Roger Stone of the PayPal Mafia, he’s not going to go away anytime soon.
This is as hand-wavy and un-falsifiable as the argument "the invisible hand will solve all our problems".
This means the government only takes the money of non growing companies. It’s encouraging the new to replace the old, which is a good thing.

Inequality is à at stupid levels in the US currently and infrastructure is crumbling ? Don’t we want the rich to participate in society ?
Stewart Lee nailed it in this 90-second video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyGND49CBYk
It's not that strange. These are the kind of tricks I learned from NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and helps orient the psychology. It is certainly why I make my daughter dress for school and change out of it after the school day is done, even if it is online school.
if you make $100,000,001 under a 100 million wealth tax at 1%, you pay $.01, not $1,000,000.01 so there is no point trying to stay under 100 million.

Further, a flat wealth tax has immense inefficiency in that it forces people with $100s or $1000s of dollars to their name to calculate their wealth for a $1-$100 payout to the government rather than do something productive with their time.
> Frugal savers don’t really help the economy though.

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man really help the economy"
This is a ridiculous comparison - of course pure cash depreciates, but we're talking about the literal opposite of that - an asset.

Take a building, any building. Sit on the building for 50 years. How much is building worth? Probably way more.
good. it's a terribly cheesy brand
Which will never happen unless they rebuild all their Java tooling with Kotlin/Native.

Or switch to something else like ChromeOS or Fuchsia, both with zero dependencies on anything Java related, including Kotlin.
This is perfect.

I looked at working for startups as though I were an investor, because while an investor is putting maybe 1/30th of their fund into a company, I'm putting %100 of my time into it and it will be my sole source of income and wealth, which means I have way more to lose as an employee than someone who YOLO'd a few million of hedged, other people's money into it. As an employee, my risk/reward has fixed upside (+lottery tickets) and an asymmetric downside that includes opportunity cost.

Most people are just doing jobs, and that's how they manage, but money is made in direct inverse proportion to how much physical work you do. If you are doing work, you are rarely providing as much value as someone delivering just the value of yours and others' work. Arguably, the most value is provided by people who do the breadth-first search for opportunities than the depth-first search for technical "solution" leverage. A company needs both, but as the post implies, figure out if you would invest in a company before deciding to work for them.
UX research finds skeuomorphism softens the adoption curve sometimes
First you need to map geometric concepts to language. What is grammar, what is syntax? (I propose that 'syntax' is 'local coherence', and grammar is 'global coherence'.)

And the trick of these figures is using symmetry to fool the brain into creating imaginary 'grammatical structure' that simply are not there.

What is important to note is at symmetric axis, graphical duals are present which are syntactically correct -- a beam intersecting a plane for example -- but are no longer semantically equivalent.

So probably, homonyms will be required liberally.
Oracle 'Seriously Considering' Acquiring TikTok
Find a hobby and start doing it when you want to stop working. For me it's surfing, working out in our homemade gym, or Warzone.
is a 1% change sharp?
Where's the incentive to fiddle your taxes? Yes you can donate your money to bring yourself into a lower tax band but you will still never have more in your bank account by doing so. e.g if there is a system where tax is 10% then it goes up to 20% at a $100 income. If I earn 99 then my take home is 89.1 (99 * 0.9) if I earn 101 then my take home is 90.8 (100 * 0.9 + 1 * 0.8). Yes, the effective tax rate is higher but I can never take home more by deliberately earning less money.
Great point.

However, Amazon (as an example) does not pay dividends.

And also, this creates an incentive to pay dividends to shareholders, as opposed to re-investing profits in R&D, which is an odd (IMO bad) incentive.
no, only the most obstinate would not diversify their holdings once they reach tens of millions, let alone billions.
A later reply identifies the xdg-utils package responsible for the issue. As reported by author of the tweets:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/issues/177
Can this be installed on premise? Especially in the light of GDPR it might not be possible to do something like this with data stored "on the outside" (even if it's only a "model").

I know for sure, our customers wouldn't allow this.
You need to use wp-cli to carefully find and replace urls and filesystem paths inside the db. Many professionals don't even know about it.

Another way is to perform the find and replace with PhpMyAdmin.
For something this simple, I was hoping to see an option for SQlite, not just MySQL and PostgresSQL.
Clothing is a good way to trick your brain into “work mode” and “fun mode”, second only to having separate spaces (which you unfortunately don’t have). I change into tank tops or something similarly not work appropriate once EOD comes as part of my “I am no longer at work” process.
When MVP is a bad strategy