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> We could just make all our energy usage net neutral in a matter of months/years by finally establishing a Free Market there and then let humanity sort out the best way to reduce the cost of that.

You really think that making business tens or hundreds of times more expensive to take part in will just solve the problem, rather than businesses going under and simply not being able to exist anymore? You don't think any other country will capitalize on this, emit all they want, and sell the products we can't make? You think we'll be able to tariff that enough that it makes up for it?

> the cost of rapid industrial removal of a ton of CO2+margin.

It's not like this is actually being done at scale yet. Do we really think gigantic fans and energy-intensive machinery for CO2 capture are going to work? Shouldn't that energy be being used to replace coal / gas / fossil fuel electricity production first and foremost, and battery (/battery-like technologies, like pumping water behind a dam and other potential-energy schemes) rather than burning the energy off?

Doesn't it make more sense to look at ways of improving the reefs, like making artificial reefs with geo-engineering projects, iron fertilization, etc? Don't plants do a better job of capturing carbon? Maybe we should embrace rapidly-growing invasive alpha species like Japanese Knotweed, Kudzu, etc. and just mow it on down and let it regrow? Shouldn't we spend more money on massive-scale tree planting, soil redistribution, and anti-desertification efforts that we actually know how to do at scale, rather than some pie-in-the-sky unproven carbon capture mechanisms that can somehow only be fueled by strangling everyone's productivity to an unreasonable extent?
> The problem is that apps are just too big.

At least in part, I expect this is because of the AppCompat library that Google recommends using. If you pull in the whole thing, as tutorials show, it adds a huge number of images (icons and such) that don't get trimmed during compilation (which they're supposed to, if unused) - these make up something like 95% of the size of an app I'd recently been working on. I'd only noticed it because this was a rework of one I'd made ~10 years ago, before AppCompat existed.

I can't help but wonder if some of the "optimizations" done by Google when you turn over your keys and let them compile the apk is just removing this extra bloat.
Thats just a crazy habit to have :)

I feel already bad when i order food twice a month.

It even never occurred to me to do takeout all the time. I have already feel guilty when i see all the packaging for take out and regret it at the moment.
> The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States

We absolutely do have that right in the US.
Meh people over-estimate the wealth of billionaires. A $1 billionaire can only buy 1000 houses in the bay area for example, and then make something like $6m/yr in rent from it.

If we take all the wealth of the top 100 billionaries and put it towards the US annual budget, it wouldn't fund it for more than a year or two also and then you'd soon be out of billionaires as you go down the list.

Governments are the real 'wealthy' organizations out there.
You are right that the discourse is not nuanced, but it highlights a very basic problem with taxing an asset again and again, especially on unrealized gains.

We gladly support this idea, because it affects "the billionaires" but not when it comes to everyone else and for good reason. Repeated taxation on an asset can erode your wealth really quickly. Here in California, your house gets taxed on the purchase price, but not the current valuation. Therefore you have people sitting on more than one multi million dollar houses that they bought for low 6 figures 3 decades ago. (Ironically this is one of the main contributor to sky high real estate prices and housing crisis) But we don't tax people on those unrealized gains, that too again and again, because if we do, most people would lose all their wealth in a matter of couple of years.
Thanks! We also added shots and short videos of the product. We don't like it when we can't see what we get ;)
> AFAIK they have kicked out all non-Chinese journalists

No, that's not correct.

It would be hard to verify, of course, and there could well be some unreported cases, but it's simply not plausible that China's seeing a US scale outbreak, or even an EU-scale one, without anyone noticing.
another quite fun thing is that this depends on your site vertical and demographic: on some of the esports-related properties i've worked on in the past, adblock rates (that also block analytics) may exceed 80%. i have seen 90% before (along with per-device differences, like you suddenly think almost all of your traffic is mobile - because all desktop users are blocking client side analytics)
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I'm not sold. In the cases where you lose the raw vs a post processed image, one of those is significantly more lost information. It may be non trivial to reproduce a post process image from a raw image, but the other way around is usually impossible.

In one case you've lost original sensor information, in the other case you've lost some parameters and possibly the algorithm used. The former is infinitely more difficult to synthesize from scratch.
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Crypt will encrypt all files before they leave your device, yes.
Thanks for your comment :)

These are all very good points. We are in the process of figuring out a natural way to express user-specified semantic types. We have some ideas but more on this coming soon!
What if your site is a SPA? You would not know, for example, the time spent on site, what pages are visited, where exactly users leave, if there are client-side errors, right?
My guess is that you're the one misunderstanding the math here.

At a 1% wealth tax, you will end up being 45% less wealthy in 40 years than you would be without the wealth tax.

There is a 100% cap on what the government can take from you. And, with a 1% wealth tax, they are taking 45% of it (spread over 40 years).

Put another way, the 1% wealth tax is similar to a 45% capital gains tax (where the cap is also 100%). Capital gains is just more front-loaded (paid upon liquidation) whereas wealth tax is paid over time.
> necessary for efficient resource allocation in the absence of (hypothetical well-implemented) dictatorial central planning

Replacing a singular dictator with multiple agents that concentrate power is not necessarily more efficient. The biggest inefficiency with disproportionate wealth/resource accumulation is that the incentives/competence of the wealthy doesn’t match up with the money they sit on. Note that I am not talking about only billionaires, rich corporations that employ the smartest of humanity is equally culpable. Although venture capital tries to cure this problem, it is only a small percentage of the outbound money of the wealthy.

Think it this way, Apple sits on billions and only innovation we get year after year is slightly thinner devices. Google has tons of billions and machine learning PhDs that work on classifying your cat’s pictures. Elon Musk’s puer aeternus dreams fixate on getting out of the planet instead of fixing it.

For all the power they hold, the innovation and improvements in society we get is abysmal. This is not that different that dictatorial central planning, in which a narcissistic entity thinks they can have the wisdom and competence to manage our collective resources and potential as humanity. (Yes, that is exactly what money is, it is being owed other people’s goods and service should you choose to transact it)

Why do we have to be capped by the best these people can think of? Accumulating wealth and using it wisely turns out to be very different skills, just like getting elected and governing wisely has been.

So billionaires are a source of inefficiency and a part of the market, not a consequence of it because they don’t get out of the market once they are rich. If anything, the more rich they get the larger their participation gets, with all its downsides.
She was not on the IBM board.

She was on United Way's executive committee with the IBM CEO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates
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3d DS games look terrible on larger screens, because there's not much of anti aliasing going on in the original hardware.

Luckily if you play on something like DraStic, you can add AA yourself which looks much better upscaled.
The vast majority of beef is not grazed on lands incapable of naturally supporting more intensive forms of agriculture.
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The math here is so lazy its dishonest.

Is anybody surprised that a wealthy man has come out against a wealth tax?
I think the intent is great, but what is the percentage of the population that would utilize such a thing in their daily life? Not trying to be a downer, but I think most people don't have the bandwidth to be carrying around little cards reminding them to buy this/don't buy that, "oh, and is that tuna line-caught or pole-caught?", etc. If eating a certain kind of fish is causing environmental damage, we need regulation as a chokepoint somewhere in the chain, whether it be to stop it from being fished or at least from being sold.
Something I heard a long time ago is they basically 'are' voting. The vote is they do not care. I personally think it is a bad position to take, but it is not 'wrong'.
> Say what you want, but this makes holding the asset or investing a lot less attractive.

Not really. Where else is that money going to go? It's not enough to just say there is a disincentive, you have to show that the disincentive is so great that it makes other opportunities more attractive. But those other opportunities don't exist, because it is a wealth tax, it doesn't matter what instrument you use, the tax will still hit you.

Also, those numbers are pretty much non-sense in today's economy, with inflation consistently below 2% and nominal capital asset growth being closer to 10%, a 1% wealth tax represents a tax rate of ~12.5%.

I'm not losing sleep over a startup founder who owns so much of a company to be worth over $100MM on paper or otherwise. Startup founders have the ability to sell a part of their shares in liquidity events. If they choose to hold onto their shares above all else, it's on them to figure out how to pay the tax. It might even create a whole new financial instrument or class of investments.
From some googling, It seems like the median movie costs about $18M to make, while the average is about $70-100M and something like the avengers is around $200M. Oscar winners seem closer to median or average cost than avengers cost.

For shows, it seems to be in the $0.5-10M per hour range. I'll wave my hands lazily and call a season $5-100M.

If about half of US households spend $20/mo on these services, that's $16B per year. If half of that went to making movies and shows, it could make something like 500 median movies per year, 100ish average movies, or 40 avengers-caliber movies. For shows, it'd be 80-1600 seasons per year.

Apparently something around about 500movies and 500 shows come out each year.

I'm sure these numbers are way off, but the orders of magnitude are probably reasonable and suggest to me that $20ish/mo for everything ever is likely a little low, but not insane.
There are a lot of different ways to lie, and the method you point out is one of many.
Great to see an analytics product finally telling me what insights I should be looking at!
You are right, I was focused on the sustainability to feed all the people with that method. From the comments here it seems I was a bit too pessimistic and that there are some working examples, pretty exciting! Probably have to get back to my friends, after I looked through the material.
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Relatedly, I've noticed that video game youtubers almost always refer to themselves plurally (as in, "We're going to take our main army over here" or "We won!").

I assumed this was to cultivate a sense of belonging or identity for their followers, but separating their performing-identity from their regular identity could have a lot to do with it as well.
We should fix the mental image of having meat/fish every single day.

And the rest of it.

A few month ago we were in a nice restaurant, my wife got a non meat dish and i got a meat dish (i also order non meat dishes it just happend that time)

The waiter told me exactly what meat i had and for my wife he said 'the vegetarian dish'. No its not the vegetarian dish. It has a name and its tasty.
I was diagnosed with ADHD 5 years ago, and it's been quite a struggle.

When I started in tech, I had a difficult time focusing on the right tasks at work. Sometimes I would hyperfocus and complete an entire week's work in one day, but most of the time, I was suffering and fighting myself to keep focused. Context switching was a tremendous drain on my energy, and my organization was chaotic at best.

I felt like shit all the time.

Two years ago, I started interviewing other "out" ADHD professionals to see what they were doing to manage. My goal was to be productive AND happy at the same time. I succeeded.

I found several patterns from these interviews and started compiling notes. I was also shocked at how poor our experiences were with therapy! The majority said therapy was NOT helpful with ADHD.

Other ADHD books seemed to be focused on "coping" rather than thriving, or they made overzealous claims about ADHD being a "superpower". It's a neurodevelopmental disorder with pros and cons, not magic.

When the pandemic hit, I quit my job and started writing. I took my own advice, and this project has been completed with minimal stress. I can't believe I'm actually launching something that I didn't have to grind on. I was able to maintain sustainable productivity, and I think you can too.

If you have (or think you have) ADHD, I think this book can help you build a better strategy for how to maintain happy productivity while avoiding burn-out.

The book is DRM free and available in all major e-book formats, and the companion videos are all recorded at 1080p 60fps.
"Do any cloud providers create backups on top of replication though?"

We do.[1]

For exactly 1.75x our normal pricing, we will replicate your entire account, nightly, to a geo-redundant site which is not open for normal customer use (and, therefore, has a lower risk profile). This GR site is the he.net core datacenter, in Fremont.

It's also worth pointing out that replication to rsync.net buys you malware/ransomware protection since your account is snapshotted, by ZFS, nightly, and those snapshots are immutable (read-only).

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Hey, thanks for the feedback!

1) We are aware of the problem that navbar and footer are not responsive for very small browser window. However, we did test it on mobile devices. It is a different layout but both navbar and footer are showing up correctly on mobile (just tested on iPhone). Can you clarify what problem you are seeing on mobile device?

2) Agree that login links can be simplified

3) We did talk to a branding guy rather informally. He mentioned the chance of misinterpretation, but that the chance is very very small. An alternative is to use whiz instead of wiz. Looking up the urbandictionary.com, even "whiz" has this alternative connotation, but much lower in the list of possible meanings. What do you think? Is Whiz better than wiz?
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I agree with what you are saying. But by relinquishing ownership they are gaining the ability to receive far more capital than they would without the public market from what I understand. If this is reinvested in the business it allows said company to grow to levels that would not be possible as a privately owned company. Even the largest privately owned company, Cargill, is making interesting restructuring moves that point to it possibly going public.

I'm actually fine with companies staying private because I fundamentally believe this seriously restricts their growth. I do not think a company like Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, or Google (20% of the S&P 500) would be able to reach the size they did without access to going public.

Of course I fully admit I could be wrong and would love to hear interesting arguments why.
I'm tempted to try a cover of the old 80s/90s era song Right Said Fred "I'm too sexy for your startup"

Thanks for unglooming my day!
Statistically, people with wealthy parents are far more likely to be wealthy than those of poor parents. Bezos would have been far less likely to create Amazon did he not get that loan. Do you dispute this?
https://scala.epfl.ch

"A new not-for-profit center established at EPFL."
That doesn't seem line up with anything I've read about. Can you elaborate?
A physically separate workspace was what make the difference to me. I used to work in the kitchen and I honestly thought I could disconnect when the day was over.

Then we moved to a bigger apartment and I got a full corner of a room as my mini office, and it's a world of difference. I would not have expected it to be such a big deal had I not tried and experienced it myself.
They have an option in software to enable encryption. You provide a key and supposedly the encryption happens at the client in your end. Obviously you have to trust their software and terms like you mentioned. Though backblaze has a great track record and is very open. If you don't want to trust them there are other softwares you could use to encrypt your data before giving it to backblaze.

But one of the benefits of backblaze is the simplicity. Simplicity of setup, backups, and restores. If you muddle with that by encrypting before giving to backblaze you lose out on part of the value.

It also usually seems when people roll their own it opens up risk of forgetting something. BB is easy, set up their encryption and you should be fine.

Just some thoughts.
It is not a matter of them being more "fundamental"

There is no way for a government to provide you with healthcare (positive rights) with out infringment of my negative rights to my labor (i.e they must take a part of my labor via theft what you call taxation in order to provide you with the right to a service). The only other way for a government to provide a service would be indentured servitude where they require a person to provide the service under threat of violence / imprisonment

That is why I reject the concept of positive rights, because they require that other people have their labor, property, or self ceased by the government to fulfill those rights that is fundamentally unethical to me

negative rights do not have this ethical problem
Thereˆs also https://ackee.electerious.com/, quite simple but a good option.
You need a percent or two every year. Depending on ROE assumptions, after several decades you may find you've taken on a turn or two of leverage.
True, but it at least respects the privacy of your visitors by doing very minimal tracking. Basically, all you get is country, some device stats, and a time stamp. Last time I used it, it didn’t even track return visits and used no cookies iirc. It felt nice
Right but filecoin isn't a centralized service, it's a decentralized network. Just like how ultimately your facebook post is stored on a server somewhere, stuff you stored using filecoin is stored on a random computer somewhere. At least with facebook there's some central entity that gets to decide where their servers are located and who gets access to them. You don't get that with a decentralized network.
If you use Cloudfront (AWS) they have the option for server-side tracking built-in. You just tell them which S3 bucket to dump the logs into and you get the raw HTTP requests with timestamps. I personally use a service called s3stat which takes those dumps and turns them into pretty graphs.
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This makes me think of China, where the government forces board seats in many companies.
read "the case for mars" to get the story on the dysfunction at nasa and the presidents changing every 8 years. It's from the 90s and talks about how bush wanted to go to mars but the space station won out for the funding.
We can just open up right now, if the government and especially media communicated the severity of covid realistically and appropriately.

Too much fear mongering and over reaction is what cause the damage.

Flu kills thousand of people as well, flu causes long term damage as well but yet doesn't cause this kind of panic.
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Then now you have two problems ;)

I guess your options here are, do collect metrics in JS and hope that whatever the reason that 20% of visitors don't show up in Google analytics isn't preventing them from using your site.
A startup founder can end up owning 50M worth of stock in an unprofitable company. What happens then if the company is worth 1M by the time it's time to pay the tax?

In my country, there are people who's had to declare personal bankruptcy from this situation.
I need to be around plentiful water and trees
You're partially correct. They'll increase the rate from 3% to 5% and then a new rate of 1% for the 30m-50m bracket and make it progressive.
I think that's essentially what such a service would do. You might throw in some periodic less frequent syncs (maybe you sync down to the main backup every day and sync that backup to a secondary backup weekly or monthly) and maybe some of those successive syncs are done to hosts that are usually disconnected from the network to add in a firebreak.
You have 2 knobs:

- ownership percentage (0-100%)

- company value (50M - $2T)

The Cartesian product of all ownership * value that work out to > $50M is substantial enough that it's 1) probably not fair to individual business owners to force them to divest to raise a minuscule percentage of the Federal budget, and 2) probably not worth the potentially disastrous 2nd-order effects on pension funds and investment funds that are largely predicated on stable/competent corporate ownership.

In any case, it sounds like you've conceded that there is a forced divestiture, and now the argument boils down to: "is that justified?"
I hope he was sarcastic.
> of which only 7 were using Firefox

Were reporting using Firefox.

Also, not surprising, Firefox security leaves a lot to be desired.
hmm, doesn't seem to work on either of the clients that I Use (Foliate/Kybook2).
Low End Mac had a poll on their Facebook pages asking if we read the articles.

There are now two "articles" that are basically "I don't like Apple anymore" rants. This being one of them.

I have a strong feeling that this is also a "there's more to the story" situation.
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> aristocracy was zero sum and rent seeking where billionaires aren’t necessarily

How can you look at companies like Google, Apple and Facebook and conclude they aren't rent-seeking? Google's entire business is essentially renting space on the most valuable real estate in the world. Apple routinely shuts down or replaces apps that compete with theirs. All of these companies seek to just barely toe the line of not being subject to anti-trust laws. Of course these are companies rather than individuals, but the nature of capitalism is such that rent-seeking happens via corporations controlled by the wealthy.

> But Bill Gates being born to a middle class lawyer and making billions

Other people can litigate the specifics of Bill Gates or others, but the US has poor income mobility compared to other wealthy countries, largely due to the capture of our political system by the billionaire class.