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> You frame this as though this is somehow beneficial to shareholders, but if that's the case, they can work out this arrangement themselves.

I was showing how a wealth tax need not necessarily discourage endeavor and industry, as is commonly alleged.

> Also the idea that SpaceX or Tesla would continue to be valued as highly as they are if he continuously relinquishes his ownership stake is also dubious.

Why? I thought they were valued highly because of Musk's leadership, not ownership. Is that not the case? Even without his ownership stake, he can continue to be the CEO as long as the companies do well.
Chamath Palihapitiya's Social Capital Adopts Warren Buffet's Investing Strategy
Urbit's programming language Hoon uses two character "runes" instead of keywords. Here's the standard library and compiler source, for example: https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/master/pkg/arvo/sys/hoon...

There's a full rune reference available at https://urbit.org/docs/reference/hoon-expressions/rune/, but tldr they're group into families, with the first character being broadly what it does. AST nodes that have to do with "conditionals" are ?:, ?., ?@, etc.

I don't think anyone uses non-ASCII diagraph fonts for them, but it wouldn't be a big jump.
US Fed printing money, igniting inflation and letting US economy going down the drain.
Best bet is probably to get a computer monitor.
>> optics are way better though

That was going to be my question. Doesn’t the NRO need big optical lenses for their missions? Are there any “telescopic” advancements that can fit into small sats that can meet their mission objectives?
Most of the super-wealthy derive their wealth from owning significant ownership in extremely valuable corporations. Outside of hedge fund managers and Warren Buffett, most of the super-wealthy do not have sufficiently diverse investments whose annualized returns may cover the annual wealth tax bill.
They would never take me seriously with 0 sales. I plan to apply to PepsiCo's accelerator but they only look at companies with $1M+ sales. Help me get to the scale where I can!

As a matter of fact, my competitor which is making GMO miraculin just raised $6.9M from Kraft 3 weeks ago. Me thinks there be potential here....
>>I'll keep the "unproductive" savings, thanks.

You're sitting on greater than 50 million dollars? That what a wealth tax would most likely target
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24205416
> It sounds like you're saying that profit is all that matters and you can't contribute to society without making a profit.

Those who advocate for a wealth tax seem to only care about money too, don't they? Why taxing wealth in particular? How about "taxing" beautiful and healthy? There's a huge prettiness gap in this country.
Property tax is already 1-2%, and it doesn't even depreciate! Yes, that means you don't get to keep your propery forever. That's the point. Use it or lose it.
1) They do pooled tests, so 500,000 tests per day aren't needed.

2) the packed testing lineups likely spread corona!
>> Brave new world....

Did you mean Orwellian? Unless I have my dystopian novels confused
I do not like the idea that I need a social media account to use a VR headset, regardless of the realities of using the oculus account data still ending up with facebook.
I set up a fake Facebook profile 10 years ago, because I needed a profile with no friends that I could use for testing some stuff at work. It is still alive and kicking; Facebook keeps sending it emails suggesting friends.
Of course, you also have to check that your vote was not counted for any of the other candidates.
I hadn't considered that!

How are you thinking about danger from those types of items? Now that you've got me thinking, maybe like faulty wiring and my apartment burns down?
Android 11 is taking away the camera picker, forcing use of the built-in camera
This seems to mean that Facebook's account review/policy process and lack of customer service - basically, that you're the product - now decides who can use Oculus.

A week ago, I tried to sign up for Facebook in order to buy some ads[1]. With nothing remarkable about the account or metadata[2], the first page I saw after the signup form was

> Your Account Has Been Disabled. You can't use Facebook because your account, or activity on it, didn't follow our Community Standards.

That page was shown immediately after the signup form. I jumped through their hoops of providing an SMS-able phone number, then a photo, and a few days later got this final result:

> Your Account Has Been Disabled. You can't use Facebook because your account, or activity on it, didn't follow our Community Standards. We have already reviewed this decision and it can't be reversed."

Again, there's no activity on the account because I never saw any FB pages, let alone used it. I'm not concerned - I cancelled my personal account back in 2013 and never looked back, and other than wanting to buy some public-service ads, I still have no interest in it. I sure would care if I had an Oculus, though.

[1]: Because Twitter prohibits or applies extra terms to many types of issue/advocacy ads, and while I applaud their approach, those of us running public-service campaigns get stuck in unpredictable policy enforcement.

[2]: Signing up from a residential Comcast US IP that I'm the only user/client on, using an email address at a domain I own, am the only user on, has been registered for 10+ years, etc.
I used to agree but turning off these settings on a modern (IE. OLED) TV and you might as well throw it out. 24 FPS on a OLED without these techniques looks like something is about to shake apart. It is completely unwatchable. Didn't check the date but I hope this is an old article because it doesn't hold on any good screen these days.
Yeah haha it is an MVP (classic YC move). I just got an investor and we're rebranding but all my stickers are miracle-nutrition. Hopefully it will look more professional and trustworthy when the pros take the reins here.
Cryptocurrency was invented to remove middlemen and counterparty risk. Yet every week I hear about middlemen and the tokens they control, and the actions they take or don't take that harm their investors... This is the opposite of crypto. By the way, all file storage coin projects are beyond inefficient, because backblaze is always going to win on price due to vertical integration.

Adding a "distributed" network in there is extra points of failure, not less. But in crypto, price tends to not care about actual efficiency or utility at all, and is really just a roulette wheel of ticker symbols. Disclaimer: founded a crypto.
> it's more fun

I recommend everyone spend some part of their career in a 1 to 20-person shop, a 20 to 200-person shop and a 2,000+ person shop. (I don’t have experience in 200 to 2,000.) They are vastly different work environments.

I thought I was a 1 to 20 guy; I’m not. I want enough structure to let me specialise without letting bureaucracy get in the way. Twenty to ~two hundred.

Start-ups are fun, but they’re also stressful. If you get unlucky, they can also leave you materially less wealthy than you could have been with more stability.
Netflix testing a “Shuffle Play” feature
I made one as an experiment a while ago: https://github.com/sordina/japl
Has anyone analyzed the viability of a compressed-air energy distribution system? It could be simpler and safer than electricity distribution.
Our BYODB plan lets you connect to 1 of your own databases. It's not quite self-hosted but you are in full control of your DB.
To be clear, I understand that the rate of gets lower every year in negative feedback cycle. I am not saying a wealth tax takes your money at an exponentially increasing rate.

I am saying that it lessens your ability to grow your wealth at an exponential rate. It mitigates the miracle of compounding growth.

Think about if you create a startup and you have to sell shares to pay your wealth tax. What if Larry Page did that in 2001. He wouldn't be out the $100 of the stock price in 2001. Today he is out thousands of dollars of what it would have been if it could have grown.
Environment pays a big role. I have a separate room just for work. Some of my friends work in the kitchen. Maybe you can try with changing your background view or move some objects around when there's a work time. Move a big plant into your vieport when you are working and move it to a different place when you are supposed to end your work day.
I've lived by this rule too ever since I got a bottle of "One A Day" multivitamins that invariably made me vomit 10 minutes after taking one. (Embarrassingly, I didn't give up on them until maybe the fifth time it happened.)
Arweave has a pay once, store forever model where after the initial payment to upload (~$0.005/MB) the file is stored forever on the permaweb. You can get started with some free tokens to play with arweave here:

http://tokens.arweave.org/

I also suggest you check out the latest Arweave x Gitcoin Open Web Incubator Demo Day from last week to see the latest stuff being built. Looking forward to ArDrive, Verto, WeaveID and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slzyw1w5Ric&feature=youtu.be

One further advantage of decentralized UI hosting on Arweave is simply resilience to website outages:
https://twitter.com/rleshner/status/1278444807011139585
Yes, we've lived here since 2013 and there has been maybe a week of snow per winter (it was above freezing the rest of the year). It is almost unheard of to have icey roads and sidewalks (which was normal every winter when we lived in Austria before that).
Did they have a reason for changing from OSS to free/pro?
What sort of adversary do you imagine would carry out an attack like that?

If you're defending against your own government, they already control the network and could hold on to your S3 network traffic until they can decrypt it.

If you're defending against an individual how would they know where to download your file from? I assume the network doesn't broadcast a connection between real life identity and the data you're storing. And if the individual can monitor your physical network, then they can again decrypt the network traffic eventually.

If you're defending against the server hosting your content, they would have to host your old data for years past you stopping the service before they could decrypt the content, which would be a massive investment.

Finally, do you have reason to believe that our current encryption algorithms will be cracked anytime soon? The last big innovation I heard was SHA-1 generating a hash collision in 2017, but even that took thousands of dollars in compute resources, and SHA-1 was known to be defective for a long time before that. I imagine if we use our best algorithms they'll hold up for quite a while longer.
Maybe as engineering got more advanced economies of scale paid off more and more. We don't get all our food from family farms either.

Not trying to be some fascist statist, let's just recognize that since the 1980s, we've not been in a new gilded age so much as a gilded age cosplay (e.g. we are not actually closer to well functioning free-market capitalism for the "real" economy), and growth and large-scale investment have stalled accordingly. A lot of libertarian and decentralization ideology has grown up in the era since under false pretenses.

I would love devolved power and decentralization to actually work, but we need better, more honest theory on how to make it good, and less blind faith that centralization and monopolization will fail because that bad and "the arc of history bends towards justice".
I'm guessing you work at Wasabi and already know :)

Just looking at the pricing pages, pure storage is cheaper at B2, but the API calls and egress are not free.
This thing is a total meme generator...
According to 2020 in science (the Wikipedia article)
Astronomers report that the interstellar object ʻOumuamua (1I/2017 U1) is not likely to have been composed of frozen hydrogen which had been proposed earlier; the compositional nature of the object continues to be unknown.[127][128]
So?
That is, admittedly, a lot of work, even if it does bypass this absurd requirement.
For the project I'm talking about there wasn't an existing swagger implementation. The bottom line ended up being that since we had tests in Postman anyway, generating documentation became a few small steps (Add nicer descriptions for folks outside the org to consume, then click a button basically).
People can question all they want about why wealth is not trickling down but that doesn’t change the underlying analysis or outcomes around why this is a bad idea. You may get income redistribution and trickle down but if it changes the underlying systems that create wealthy, those same people will just end up poorer but more equitable.
If things go well, we'll soon enter a new technological boom.

Like computers. I am surrounded by these things. Something like a smart watch is only feasible after a drastic decrease in cost and massive increases in capability. If you went back a few decades and suggested people would be strapping supercomputers on their wrists, you'd likely be committed to an institution. It would be unthinkable to devote the required amount of resources to such a frivolous task.

A similar thing will happen with spacecraft. Right now, it is still expensive, but SpaceX dragged down the price enormously. This is likely to decrease even further, either due to competition, or with the likes of the Starship(how many satellites could we fit on that monstrosity?).

This will enable entire new industries, both existing(satellites will become commodities), and also ones we have no idea about - yet. Pretty sure some "frivolous" tasks will pop up once this is cheap enough.

And that's only unmanned flights.

EDIT: I've found this amusing - that's in the direction of what I'm talking about, we are just missing the "1-click launch": https://www.rocketlabusa.com/book-my-launch/
> The coalescing and hoarding of wealth results in the deterioration of the average value of a human life.

This is not true at all. If Bill Gates walks into a bar, the wealth distribution changes dramatically, but the absolute standard of living of the existing people doesn't change at all. In fact, you could even argue that the absolute standard of living increases, since almost nobody is super-wealthy in a vacuum; they enjoy their wealth because they provide value to others via goods & services. That's the whole point behind the argument that "wealth is not zero-sum".

> access to opportunity and capital, hope, must be universally available

Again, it's not clear at all how one's theoretical net worth negatively impacts someone else's access to opportunity / capital. When my rent goes up, it's not because I'm in a bidding war with Jeff Bezos. An MRI doesn't become unaffordable because Jeff Bezos exists.

> Money isn't really either. Cash is simply a tool that a capitalist society uses to encourage the exchange of goods and across markets where it wouldn't otherwise be obvious how to make an exchange.

Money is arguably zero-sum, because there's a finite amount of it. When someone else hoards billions in cash, it means that there is a significant portion of the total money supply that is out of circulation. That's what's bad for society. When wealth turns into money, we already tax it..

> It seems that the point is really about how to mitigate the tendency for institutions that have extracted much wealth from society

Wealth isn't "extracted from society", because it isn't zero-sum. It's not like there's some finite amount of wealth, and the super-rich have taken it from everyone else.

> So I guess my question is if as you suggest access to capital is more available than it's ever been, why isn't it being deployed?

I'm not sure the premise is correct. There is more capital deployed today, per capita, than at any time in human history, even after adjusting for inflation.
If you're a citizen of a country, you automatically get all of the benefits that come with it: personal safety, transportation networks, infrastructure, etc.—all things that enable your business to be successful. Since you can't opt out of these benefits (without leaving the country), it makes sense that you shouldn't be able to opt out of their cost.
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The more they keep the artificial prices, the harder will be the fall. You'll see that, and 1929 would be a child's play compared to that.
Yeah, I think I'm noticing more brands offering direct purchasing on their own ecommerce portals.

They're almost always worse experiences* but I figure it's worth it to support companies as they try to prop up retail channels other than Amazon.

* Long aside: For example, I'm dipping my toe into learning how to write Python scripts and I wanted to write one to check if Cookies and Cream flavor was In Stock on Optimum Nutrition once a day or so, but I'm pretty sure the website doesn't work (or maybe just every flavor is out of stock)
> Or you could just wait. ... 2: governments printing money inflated investor assets like stocks and real estate.

Waiting will only help modestly. In the meantime, while you wait, your purchasing power is being destroyed, which is likely to put you in an at-best net break-even scenario on waiting.

2a) Asset prices - such as housing - have been permanently adjusted higher because the real standard of living, the real value of the currencies in question (USD and Euro in this case) have been debased by the central banks and their wildly aggressive 'printing.'

Skeptical? You can see this vividly in the permanently set higher price of things like gold, oil, platinum, copper, silver. Gold isn't going back to $200 or $400 ever again. A gallon of milk will never be $0.25 again. Housing isn't going back, either. What you're seeing are permanently higher lows and higher highs on housing prices, as the currencies are getting destroyed. The average person can't outrun the destruction, only people with liquid assets can attempt to keep up. That isn't to say there can't be a drop in real-estate prices, rather, it's to say that the drop won't roll prices back to a prior band/range.

Occasionally we get a very dramatic demonstration of this destruction in action, as in ~2003-2007, the commodity bubble, caused by the disastrous US financial policies during the Bush years, which smashed the dollar and sent everything else soaring when priced in dollars (also nicely represented in the extreme skyrocketing in GDPs - when priced in dollars - in every other nation on the planet at exactly the same time; eg Czech's GDP went up 300% in just seven years, 2002-2008, priced in dollars; needless to say, their economy didn't actually expand by 300% in that time, that was the USD imploding).

The US has seen very modest real growth over the last 20 years, and a lot of inflation (housing, healthcare, education, vehicles, maintenance costs, etc.). Most people can't keep up with the asset inflation vs their incomes. The same is true in most of Europe, the EU has seen net zero growth for about ~13-14 years now (and that's ignoring the setback from the virus). People can only tolerate this situation for so long before you get hefty civil unrest or political revolution, we've prominently seen a taste of it in the US and France, and elsewhere.

Do you know why software developers are now earning a median of $110,000 per year in the US? Because they're one of the few segments keeping up with inflation at all (thanks to the super fat margins in the industry and global reach of US tech). $70,000 in 2000 is about equal to $110,000 today (and that's a poor adjustment, because major costs like education & healthcare & housing have soared over that time). Or price it in gold over time (up 500%+ since 2000), and then you'll see, the software developers are actually struggling to keep up, and everyone else is de facto drowning.
>I'm not familiar with either J or NumPy... I have no idea what the first line does

In that case, you owe it to yourself as a programmer to go and get familiar with some APL-isms, for they are for numerical arrays what regexes are for strings and are rapidly becoming ubiquitous[0]. I wowed my boss once because I was able to mold an array into the shape we needed it in a few seconds... in Mathematica, a language I had never used before that moment, because I knew what to search the documentation for. It doesn't matter where you get it from, just pick a language with APL-isms - I recommend NumPy if you like popular stuff, and Q'Nial if you like esolangs - and work through Project Euler without writing any loops. It'll be fun!

And of course, if you're unfamiliar with the core concepts, then naturally both syntaxes will look equally opaque. That doesn't mean they are though. Once you understand what they are trying to express, then you will be in a better position to judge.

[0] In Julia:

b = reshape(1:12,(3,4))
cumsum(b,dims=2) #Julia is 1-indexed
Yeah, this article just read super weird to anyone with even a basic understanding of the field. It's very clearly targeted at managerial folk, and even then it is as shallow in its arguments as it is transparent in its motives.
So far, inflation appears to be un-ignited. I'm not sure we can keep doing this forever. But so far, evidence for your fears is missing.
Practically every corporate acquisition in the history of ever goes something like: day 1: "Nothing will change." Six months later: "All you knew is gone."
I totally agree that stuff get's harder, but in my specific area of expertise, programming languages, I see the perfect example of untapped engineering potential. Thus, when others say there is an R...D pipeline problem in other fields, I'm inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Also, if I my toot my own horn, I think better programming languages has the potential to revolutionize all knowledge work, making everything else more productive, and helping unlock whatever other basic research might remain woefully untapped.
If you don't mind my asking, where is 'here'?

In the US if you get a Bachelors at 30 you'll probably be paying for it until late 50's or 60's
Please excuse my lame pun:

> foc-u-lus
Not everyone is a Milarepa of course, but it does go to show you that a well-timed path-switch can be advantageous across lifetimes.
No, they wouldn't want to encourage that at all. Employees doing work off the clock and unpaid, especially for the betterment of the company as a whole, is exactly the sort of thing an employer want to steer very far away from.
Can you confirm that it is no longer possible to install or run unsigned binaries on macOS, even if you enable it in System Preferences?

Or has that setting been removed?
New rocket engine concept stuck – help out
Idea is to lower the dry mass to achieve higher acceleration by shooting fuel pallets from a space based platform to be then collected and ingested by the accelerating spaceship "riding the fuel trail". Problem is kinetic energy of pallet impact on ship seems to equal energy density of monopropellant at relatively low speeds. Thoughts?
In the quantity and pressure required to match even a fraction of the existing energy grid, wouldn’t transportation be insanely dangerous? A cylinder of highly pressurized air is basically a bomb.
For opiates a UK study found that people eventually get bored of them and quit. For other drugs it is not necessarily clear, but other experiments exist indicating it is likely the same. E.g. mice will intentionally go through withdrawals when there are enough resources available to procreate and other mice present.
One site that has really risen due to this, imo, is Etsy - there you know the person making the product, you can see clear examples of their work, browse their website, look at their previous work, talk with them, etc. It's the opposite of the no-name Amazon experience.

Definitely not cheap and has issues of its own, but worth checking out if, like me you thought it wasn't useful before.