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> Social benefits accrue to everyone, including wealthy people. They just accrue equally to everyone rather than unequally to your specific wealth. That's an important distinction here because you're basically saying you should get favoritism for your wealth because you happen to have more of it. That's a bit of a weird stance.

I'm not arguing for any kind of favoritism. You're saying we should welcome a wealth tax as a kind of management fee. I'm only pointing out that that is not the case. The government does not have any responsibility to act in your specific interest the way a wealth manager does. It is a false equivalence.

> In case it's not clear, the US doesn't currently collect enough tax revenue to actually pay for a well-functioning society. Take a look at [1]. If you want a first-world society on par with Denmark or Sweden, guess what...

Your chart shows taxation as a percentage of GDP. There are two ways that your tax revenue might be a low percentage of GDP, one is low taxes, the other is high GDP. The US also has a much higher GDP than any of these countries.

Are you arguing that the amount of money needed to "pay for a well-functioning society" is proportional to the GDP? That if our society produces lots of valuable goods and services then this means that it needs to spend more government money? Intuitively I would think the opposite would be true. A high GDP means a lot of people are producing valuable things, which should mean they need less assistance from the government.
>Not controllable ones for which we now have an answer.

We do it all the time?

How far are you from the nearest fire extinguisher? Can't that number be reduced? That is but one example.
No, you responded to arguments you thought I made, namely:

1) That a wealth tax is good because you should be making more money than the tax.

2) That a wealth tax is right simply because it's affordable.

I didn't make either of those arguments. For 1 - regardless of whether you're making or losing money, any sensible wealth tax is marginal, only on net worth of amounts over $10mil (or whatever). So the very worst a wealth tax will do is keep you at that cap - you don't pay anything on your first $10mil (or whatever).

For 2 - no, I'm saying a wealth tax is affordable, so it's clearly not wrong based on that alone. I'd say a wealth tax is right because it's progressive, not unaffordable, and ultimately not significantly impactful on the people it would impact (rich people).

We need to have taxes of some kind. What do you think is the most "right" kind to have? Why is it more right than a wealth tax?
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Made me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_the_shape_of_a_drum , not sure if the mathematics is related or not
Even with those caveats the narrative is complex. Some condo prices are dropping, but I'm also seeing some 3BR condos listed (not necessarily selling) for $1.6-1.7M, which is about $300K over what they were a couple years ago. Also, with the conventional COVID narrative you'd expect that houses in the hills or away from civilization would do better - but many of those houses (some in very prestigious locations like Saratoga or Los Altos Hills) are going for < $2M and sitting on the market for 6-8 months, while prices are rocketing up in Mountain View and it's getting hard to find a SFH for < $2.7M, even if it's on a tiny 6-8K ft^2 lot.

It also looks like both inventory and prices are rising, which is contradictory to standard economic theory but would make sense if we're nearing a market top.
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Technically the Government prints currency, money is created by banks. It is a subtle distinction that is often irrelevant in microeconomics but it is an important distinction in macroeconomics.

If you have idle time when you can listen to lectures on audio, I highly recommend "Economnics" by The Great Courses[1] (which is currently on sale for $70 bucks for the DVD edition) Chapter 29 covers just this topic and it's fascinating.

[1] https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/economics-3rd-editio...
This is super cool!

FlightPHP looks nice, too, what didn't you use that for the backend?
You're vastly underestimating how high resolution film is.
How about Pico’s line of devices?

https://www.pico-interactive.com/us/neo2.html
If you want to constrain the actions of corporations, you need to pass laws banning their abuses. Whining will do no good whatsoever. Makers of popular platforms ought to be required as a matter of law to keep those platforms open, because it's in the general interest of the public that infrastructure be a platform and not a product.
I'd say the New York Times is far more influential than murdoch's tabloids and fox. But that's just my opinion.
Maybe [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superlens &

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative-index_metamaterial

can change that? Also I'm sometimes wondering what happened to Holography, and if something like

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act came into play?
In one of the graphs, the x-axis has the language code for the languages they used I think:

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You sue; they restore access to moot the lawsuit, but then tie your real info listed on the suit to your account, no longer making it anonymous. Win-win? /sarc
One of the apps on my roku, which also is one of the "quick launch" buttons on the remote, was removed. Now I have a button on my remote that will forever be useless.
love it! Send me a link to my email (it's in my profile) when you finish it.
>There was a podcast recently wherein someone who sold to Apple (I’m sorry I can’t remember who it was, will try to dig it out and update) ....

Did you find this? I would be curious to listen
You got everything right, but in my experience TurboTax handles the AMT credit just fine. I personally recouped 6 figures of credit carried over across multiple years, and TurboTax always automatically calculated the usable credit every year, and when I ultimately sold the exercised shares it also properly computed the different AMT cost basis, allowing me to recoup even more that year due to the higher spread.

I would still recommend folks to properly understand what it is and how it is calculated so they can double check the numbers, but that really applies to pretty much every tax form.
Nothing in the announcement limits this to the Quest. It says Oculus "devices" including peripherals. What is the justification for requiring an account to use a peripheral that you plug into your computer?

Even if it were just the Quest: How is it reasonable to require an account to use a "stand alone computing device"? I have many stand alone computing devices in my home without the need for an account with their manufacturers.

I was already skeptical of my Oculus Rift when after buying it I learned I needed to create an account just to download drivers (WTF!) No other device on my computer requires an account to obtain drivers. I would love to hear the justification.
"Job" or "research job"? I mean, yeah, it's tough to find a job purely navel-gazing without a PhD (if then), but we hired all the refugees from PARC, Digital Equipment WRL and Olivetti Research Center we could. Most of them made the transition to a more product-focused, results-measured workplace. Maybe adjusting expectations would help.
I know people that live there. Many worry about the safety of using compressed air below the town and wonder if it would cause collapse of any tunnel in the current salt mine.
because that's not how societies work, you live in a state you benefit from the expenses and investments and other people in the state and you pay in to that, sorry it is the deal, in the last 40 years there has been a reversal of where the tax burden falls not to mention there are trillions of dollars of tax fraud https://www.taxjustice.net/2020/07/22/tax-justice-networks-o...
Well, both Linux and Windows let you have offline accounts (though the latter heavily discourages it, and I can’t speak for macOS), so there’s precedent in the desktop world for that functionality. Of course, why would Facebook bother to support it?
Not to mention that the money printers have been running like crazy through this pandemic business, which means that the increase in prices is largely down to currency value decline. Modern economic policy pushes inflation to fixed assets rather than consumables, which is why it doesn't show up in CPI figures much, but anything you might normally consider to be an investment have all be jumping in price alongside each other. Same reason they stock market is pushing record highs.
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I'm sure you are silently judging the fact I don't really like bagpipes too... Groundskeeper Willie fist shake
I have an esp32 board with a MEMS microphone embedded in it that's about the size of a quarter, and can be powered for hours with a watch battery. So yeah, I can get a clean recording while hiding behind a fence... I just won't be holding the microphone.
Ok. You one upped an idea I didn't mention here and my wife ridicules me for.

Instead of train stations you have railgun station funnels and personal "coffin gliders":

- Railgun shoots you to your destination.

- The coffin/glider employs "smart bomb" like guidance

- Similar "railgun like" device to capture the energy when you land.(Think regenerative braking like in cars).

New suburb developed? No requirement for laying track or organising trains or schedules. Just program the new longitude/latitude/altitude coordinates and shoot 'em there!

But my idea doesn't keep you young. I love your solution being the answer to "I am wasting my life in commute"!
I'd argue that people conflate "having an impact" with "creating a product" rather than "having an impact" with having visible prestige. I used to think the former, but not after having experience interacting with people who want to be middle managers of middle managers. Those people want power and mostly don't care about impacting anything outside revenue increases that can be easily tied back to their name.
This was my primary question as well with the Zillow report. I could have missed it, but I didn't see how they define "urban" vs. "suburban" markets. I mean, in Austin TX, only the very downtown urban core has typical high rise apartments and condos that, anecdotally, I've seen become much less desirable in coronatimes, while there are lots of single-family-home neighborhoods (which were already getting exorbitantly expensive pre-Covid) that are still very centrally located. If those neighborhoods are considered 'urban' it would throw off the whole analysis.
This strikes me as a bit pessimistic. I think you are mostly against _bad_ standards than standards per se.

If the consortium does its job well it will produce a good standard that all the major libraries like: from a UX as well as a performance viewpoint.

If it produces a bad standard, all that will happen is that nobody will sign up. No libraries are going to be _forced_ to do anything.
Walk me through how you have property rights without the state enforcing then.
Country music is pretty popular in West Africa be user the topics they sing about are universal (e.g. Love, family, overcoming hardship) and the lyrics are easily understood. Why shouldn't country be popular? It's basically pop music but with only guitar chords, vocals and themes about rural living.
> This development was trivially predictable right when Facebook acquired Oculus. Which is why I bought Vive instead.

Did you just predict it happening "eventually"?

If you predicted it would happen before your headset was obsolete, I'd say you were wrong. And that's usually the important part for making a purchase. Six to seven years is enough lifetime for an early VR kit.
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Still wondering how they’ve handled interconnecting beyond each reticle limit/exposure. Are they staggering the exposures for each layer? And how do they handle packaging/IO/power delivery?

I guess these are the secret sauces and we are unlikely to get in depth information.
I consider that to be part of the point of voting. If everyone's opinion on societal matter produces a statistically significant effect, there will be endless turmoil.
I mean, not everyone lives in a city. Someone could spend hours picking the lock on my front door at night and no one would even see them.

Plus, in the majority of break-ins, does knowing how they got in matter? If someone broke into my house and stole my valuables, does the fact that they picked the lock make all that much of a difference? I mean, I'd almost be relieved they did that as opposed to something more destructive.

(For the record, I have security cameras, please don't pick my locks)
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It seems like the risk on this one is pretty high, assuming the SpiKey software is available. Say you have a job where you need to be let in and out of a locked area by someone who is trusted with a key. The only thing you need now is a smartphone and to be standing not too far from the person putting the key in the lock and you have access!
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I don't think it is.
(disclaimer: I do live in the EU)

The current US administration is already trying today to force close allies to conform to their will using economical pressure. I can imagine a future where this might escalate, so in my opinion forcing US companies to block certain origin countries if not that far fetched.
She, as most politicians, compete in a primary - that is where the real election is. Her district was going to vote for the Democrat candidate no matter who was selected in the primary. Lastly 57% may seem like a lot or whatever, but it's ~16,000 votes out of a potential ~700,000 for the district. Hell, 16k out of ~100,000 that voted last time isn't a huge amount.

REF: https://ballotpedia.org/New_York%27s_14th_Congressional_Dist...

But that's just a minor point, overall.
There is nothing generic about it. It is the truth. If it were generic we would not still be slaves today. Plus Graham would not have to explain to people how they get robbed.
It's also used by top performers the world over.
Now imagine if someone had founded a corporate research lab around Babbage's work...
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Left me wondering whether this would also work in Detroit? Detroit sits atop a huge abandoned salt mine. There's a mine across the border in Windsor (Canada) but that's still actively being mined.
To clarify what they turned over were lens and optics assemblies that are a sort of cousin to the hubble space telescope's structural body and lens, not whole satellites. No power systems, no control electronics, no batteries, no comm systems, etc.
My understanding is that they could sell to both and still have surplus.

If I'm not mistaken, there's also unbuilt capacity that could be further expanded if there was a buyer around.
I actually do this when I give presentations. It helps a great deal.

Projecting a presence and working on humor or even just levity really helps me do better presentations.

Instead of framing myself as doing a presentation I decided to attempt to think of what kind of a presentation I would be interested in. I eventually figured out would be some kind of exaggeration of myself that was more sarcastic and it actually played out quite well.

I actually discovered that I was good at stand up comedy by attempting to crack jokes while the presentation video wasn't working. At the end of the presentation people asked me if I was a stand up comic and I responded I am one now.
I fucking hate bagpipes.

Maybe England only wanted control over Scotland to shut the fucking bagpipes up.
Again, at the risk of explaining the basics of how publicly traded companies work...activist investors may disagree with other shareholders as to whether “Musk is a value add”. It’s not some objective truth, it entirely depends on what the majority shareholder thinks. Today, that happens to be Musk himself. Under a wealth tax, that’s no longer true.
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Or you could just bring some lock picks, and then you don't even need someone with the original key.
What is the fundamental difference between a factory owned by a cooperative and a factory owned by a corporation with workers of the factory having shares in that company?

The profit objectives are identical. They have to be, because the basic realities of factory processes mandate profit for ongoing operations and expansion.

If that's true, then why is one excluded and not the other?
How do you connect such an enormous chip to a circuit board? What packaging and wire bonding technologies are available? I don't think it uses a conventional package like a (Flip-Chip) BGA - the process of soldering a 65535-pin BGA, and instantly losing millions of dollars if there are defective joints is simply unimaginable. The huge chip also have a heat dissipation problem that conventional packaging is unable to solve.
This was really cool to read, but I’m disappointed that the section on the touchscreen didn’t answer something I’ve long wondered about the Nintendo DS: what was the extent of the touch screen’s multi-touch capability?

My first encounter with the DS’s multi-touch capability was in a homebrew drawing program, Colors! (https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Colors%21): I noticed that if I touched the screen with my finger at the same time as the stylus, the brush drew at the midpoint between my finger and the stylus. My second and last encounter with multi-touch was in the published game Hotel Dusk: Room 215. It had a puzzle where two switches were displayed on the touch screen, and the solution was to put two fingers on the touch screen and pull the switches at the same time. I tried dragging with just the stylus at the midpoint between the switches, and that didn’t activate it: I truly had to put both fingers on the screen for it to work.

My question: why wasn’t this capability of the Nintendo DS more widely used or advertised? Was there some technical limitation on the multi-touch feature that made it only work under certain conditions? Did it require some private API (that was somehow figured out by a third-party game developer and approved by Nintendo nonetheless)? Or was the only reason that most players didn’t have two styli, and developers didn’t want to encourage players to put their dirty fingers on the touch screen (which was, admittedly, prone to scratching)?
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Until you get to a extreme rural most people do the same things with the same density. Grocery stores and the like tend to have similar densities everywhere because if you get any more dense someone else opens while any longer less and someone goes out of business. This is my observation in towns from as small 3000 to as large as 2 million.

Similar for other activities, there are less people at the school games or theater, but the density is the same.
Thanks, I misunderstood.

This change does not improve privacy, and may even reduce privacy by preventing the user from switching to a free and open source camera app, assuming that the stock camera app is proprietary.
In terms of actual dollars, those ads are worth about 20. The value isn't much different for a TV.

When many commercial displays are hundreds of dollars more, it's pretty absurd to suggest ads are a large factor.
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It's still sort of hard for me to believe after all the growing inequality how much things have truly bifurcated in the past 6 months. A huge chunk of the country is broke, and their extra unemployment money and govt bonus checks are going to those that already own lots of assets (e.g. landlords, mortgage holders, Amazon, etc.) while people with stable jobs that hold assets are essentially getting richer.

I just don't see how this ends well, for the economy or society.
Todd Herman wrote a book about how develop an alter ego. He used the technique through his professional career.

Through media interviews you can piece together that Kobe Bryant was one of his clients.
We shit where we eat, and then we get angry at the turds in our cereal bowls. Who put them there? Is this satire?

Yes, fisheries in decline means that, voluntarily or not, we will lose our cedar plank salmon and our sushi-grade tuna. We will instead talk up the pleasures of the sardine, its ennobling humility and its clean taste, but it will be self-delusion covering up an obvious sense of loss, just as celebrating a birthday on Zoom is a pathetic loss no matter how much we try to put a happy face on it.

We are all getting a taste of what it feels to lose things, maybe lose them for good. This is the experience of our parents and grandparents, survivors of war, refugees, people thrown into sudden poverty. It's a common experience around the world, but many of us have forgotten it. It's time to get reacquainted. Families who lose everything in stock market crashes and hurricanes look at the wreckage of their lives and ask, "Is this satire?"

In 40 years, I fully expect to be an out-of-touch antebellum grandma, talking of lost pleasures to people who've never tasted coffee or traveled across the Atlantic, the same way I have never ridden in a phaeton or tasted ortolan.
It's often a joke among far-left communities that garden variety liberals are more contemptible than right-wing organizations, so I believe it.

When you get to the fringes of political ideology, infighting and corruption tend to be insane. There's constant backstabbing (sometimes in a literal sense) at both extremes.
He tries to compare a wealth tax to an income tax. But they are not comparable. If a person's gains from capital are above a certain threshhold and exceed her gains from income, then that person can afford to pay an additonal tax, not based on income.

CEO's can infamously "work" for $1/year because they do not have to rely on income (labor) to support themselves.

At a certain point, "income tax" becomes a misnomer. Thanks to the value of capital, some people do not actually have to engage in labor. Through work done by well-paid advisors, it is at this point that many of them have also reduced their income tax liability to zero, more or less.

Comparing a wealth tax to an income tax makes little sense.

If Piketty is right, in today's world gains derived from capital always exceed gains from labor (income) over the long term. That excess just keeps accumulating. The wealthy keep getting wealthier. Quite the opposite picture from Graham's, where gains from wealth dissipate over a lifetime.

I will say this, his model looks great in a text-only browser. Wide margins, a basic table; succinct. The simplicity is pleasing to the eye.
What about > Does Epic allow players to buy Fortnite content from outside of Fortnite, without giving Epic any money?
As I'm reading it, they would both be allowed if the corporation is owned by all the workers with equal split. I'm not seeing what in the license differentiates between the two.
Where the APIs are compatible anyway, but only the names or order of arguments are different, it sure would be nice to have a standard so you didn't have to look up whether it was count or len or length or size.