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It’s not even a secret. Outside, in Lake Merritt are roughly 50 people daily working out with weights in the grass. No distancing. No masks. No fuss. No china flu. No china cold.
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Norway's wealth tax starts at ~$200K and has minor discounts for main residence and volatile shares, but that's about it.

And, yes, it is often possible to take dividends from an established, profitable business - but it is horrible for the way the startup (and investment in distant future) economy works, which is likely pg's frame of reference -

I start a company, a very promising one, but it needs 20 years and billions of capital to get there. I raise $30M, still keeping 50% of my company at this point; Oops; on paper, I'm worth $30M, and have to pay (at e.g. 1%) $300K wealth tax in the first year. I cannot get any dividend; I usually can't even sell my shares or borrow against them. And it gets worse each time the company valuation grows (whether I raise more money or not). Seems far fetched? That's Amazon. Okay, Amazon is one in a million you say - but notice that the bad parts apply to ALL founded companies, whether or not they were as successful as Amazon.

So, in addition to the wealth tax, something's got to give.

Either you exclude non-liquid assets (which is a huge hole that will render wealth tax moot). Or you accept wealth-tax-payment-in-kind (that is, you put 1% of your shares into government custodianship every year, and then can convert them to tax money whenever this becomes a possibility).

Or, the entire investment world changes - either investors will have to get used to paying an extra 1.5% to cover the founder's tax liability; or valuations will drop an order of magnitude to let founders pay out of their own pocket. Or investment will be diverted to places that don't have this tax. Or it will just drop significantly.

But the assumption that wealth tax will have minor (if any) effect is ridiculous. Somewhat comparably, Israel put a very small turnover tax on stock exchange trading (which is not wealth tax, but is close enough for practical purposes) and as a result, the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange volumes went down by an order of magnitude.
Cool! One question: I wonder why they didn’t just use GHIDRA to reverse engineer the MIPS binary? GHIDRA can decompile MIPS and does quite a passable job. IDA is an awesome tool (and still edges out GHIDRA for ARM/x86 if you have the decompiler), but my experience is that GHIDRA is way nicer for pretty much any other architecture. YMMV.

I appreciated the writeup, especially since I’ve done some firmware decryption and repacking myself (although in my case, the encryption was just repeating-XOR!).
I'm not an historian or a lawyer so I'm not sure exactly what the founding fathers had in mind or if they even held a consistent view of the question.

However two things seem clear to me.

1) In practice in the US today the "general welfare" clause is interpreted expansively when it suits the purposes of the politicians. This is also supported by the article you link: "To date, the Hamiltonian view of the General Welfare Clause predominates in case law. ".

2) I think that most people throughout the developed world believe that ensuring the general welfare of a country's citizens is an essential function of government. Outside of the US, especially in Europe and democratic Asia this is probably an extremely dominant view. In the US you hear a lot of very vocal people, apparently such as yourself, argue against it, but I think that's a minority view even here.
Yea the workouts obviously won't be similar because you're not going to simulate that weight properly without a squat rack, but there are plenty of workouts you can do that will have similar positive effects on your body mechanics.

The exceptions are sport specific exercises which require certain movements that may require certain equipment.
Because complying with the government is a good idea when that government keeps giving you tax breaks and favourable treatment. Most companies, even ones that oppose some state policies (particularly surveillance), cooperate with government or get funding from them still. So not burning bridges is important. I'm sure the expenses weren't too significant but letting the project go free gives them tons of goodwill from the leaders.
Test it in production.
I know research is hard, and these issues are fraught with complexities and challenges in acquiring data, but it still boggles my mind just how many macro economic theories don't have strong empirical data to support them.
I doubt Steve Jobs would have submitted to the burdens of getting and retaining top secret clearance.
They won't make enough on rentals to break even on the amount that people steal and never return. A single 45 lb plate costs $60-$100 with covid pricing.
You're moving goalposts.
A variety of issues? So not something simple like alcohol killing her liver? Then I'm skeptical. There's nothing special about plain water.
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It's not true to say that Covid is only risky for the elderly or folks with pre-existing conditions. Many many young people have been hospitalized and even those who caught the disease and were not hospitalized are finding they have long term health impacts such as difficulty breathing, strokes, and heart problems that can lead to sudden death.

It's extremely dangerous to give people the impression that the disease is only serious for those over 65 or with pre-existing conditions. That sort of impression is why people are engaging in risky behavior such as going to gyms.
Both of your links seem to have to do with the United States

and I was more specifically commenting towards they who are apparently the arbitrator of "cool and uncool"
Actually that's only part of their intended use. The data is also used to collect tax (registration) and maintain records of ownership (titling).

Many states also use this information to register, or solicit the individual to register, to vote. Law enforcement also uses this data for enforcing all manners of law when they look up a person to question or cite, not just immigration. Since drivers' licenses are used for identification, you can see that they are used on many government forms such as tax returns or background checks. Along these lines, the only way to ensure the government will not use your data would be to prevent the government from collecting and storing it (rough paraphrase from Snowden). But if you prevent the collection of the basic data referenced in the article, then how do you provide the same benefits to society that the systems do today?

The issues you have seem not to be about the state releasing records but rather with how the government uses the data. The basic information referenced in the article is also available in other country's systems to many of the same organizations authorized under the DPPA. Given the system is also about titling and registration, the access by debt collectors would be warranted, especially if it is dealing with a vehicle. How exactly is this system enabling stalking given the protections of the DPPA?

Do you have any examples of countries that don't aggregate data for government use and don't allow PIs to search many kinds of official documents? What system do you see that would replace the current one and maintain all the societal benefits but somehow increase privacy?
Hey Kenton. I recently migrated a few of my static sites to Workers and was hoping you could clarify what the teams plan is around security headers. The only documentation I could find was some random blog post from 2 years ago that didn't help as the way workers function has changed since then and it's no longer as simple as just dropping in a few lines of code.

I'd love to easily configure security headers so my sites are getting good ratings again, but I couldn't find it in the documentation and it doesn't seem like there's been any update to support this. Is your team working on making security headers easier to enable for workers or is there something I missed for setting this up?
> Is this the first time a US Gov't org was caught selling data to the private sector?

The DMV is not being caught selling data; the DMV is legally required to sell this data.
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>It's worked in the past and most consumers (outside of HN) still don't care about the failed products.

I singlehandedly moved my entire extended family into the iOS space because I got tired of dealing with Google's bullshit messaging apps. I'm not going to waste my life teaching non computer literate people how Hangouts/Meets/Talk/Duo/Allo work.

WhatsApp came along and took the messaging space, while Skype and Hangouts and Talk or whatever couldn't figure it out. And Facetime was the only decent video calling option that didn't need to be troubleshooted.

It was ridiculous that I couldn't easily send a contact to anyone in the world until WhatsApp came around. Then I didn't have to worry about who had what phone, I sent them a contact in WhatsApp, they got it for free and it worked.
I think the very first exercise is a great one, and a challenge for many this year (including myself). "What am I grateful for that happened in the last 365 days?" A sense of gratitude is extremely healthy and remembering to acknowledge it is hard in the face of adversity.
When I was a kid, we carried a game system to restaurants and we usually played while waiting for the meal to arrive.

The game system was a notepad and pen. The game selection included Hangman, Tic-Tac-Toe, and dots-and-boxes.
> I find it amazing we can not see short term sacrifice for long term gain.

That seems to be a very widespread societal issue. Feedback and gratification are very effective conditioning loops and it applies to basically everything directly socially linked. Advertising, education, law enforcement. Everything which shapes anothe life whether done knowing or unknowingly and can come to bite the conditioner one way or another. Like the "tiger mom nightmare" case of forcing a son through med school only for him to show it to his mom say "There I am done it, happy now?" and working in a convenience store because of the sheer weight of negative conditioned meant that poverty was preferrable to six figure income and working days calling back decades of resentment.

Defying it successfully is a way to make or save money and everyone hates it essentially is rare and doing so is an outright resentment magnet. The majority will dislike anyone who points it out as a potential component to a solution. It gets one outright dehumanized even for optimizations innocous as meal prepping the same balanced and cheap meal daily to save up for something.
I don't think there's any data to prove that they wouldn't?

Honestly what's more likely to happen is, the people who have always been self motivated to drive themselves towards goals will still succeed, the ones who would be pretty happy just playing video games and getting stoned/drunk will have an easier way of doing just that.
I still remember the hate I felt when I watched my sister turn from a really calm child to a screaming brat because of Hannah Montana. I don't watch the TV, now around 12 years.
Suppose there were no taxes. When would you stop taking on additional leverage with a 1% loan given historical returns of 6% ? I guess kelly criteria puts it around 2.5x. Now suppose you are already there, but now you add back taxes. Do you pay taxes or lever up ?
The other factor is likely the US's general lack of a professional civil service leadership. The leadership of the US civil service is largely appointed, en masse, by the new president every four to eight years. This is unusual in other developed democracies; there usually is a mechanism for the executive or legislature to get rid of senior civil service officials, but doing so is controversial, very visible, and not routine.
> AirPods have become and ubiquitous sign of the technological times where people buy on brand and not on quality or functionality (plus they’re ugly imo).

You don't understand the product. I bought it because:

* I don't think they're ugly.

* The functionality and convenience is unparalleled. They nailed the balance and it's one of my favorite products in the last decade - period. If I lost mine, I'd buy some again no questions asked.

The iPhone is a multi-decade product. We've only seen the first decade. It'll serve as the foundation of Apple for decades to come. It's obvious to me and I have real money behind it. I think you're missing the big picture and you'll probably pay for it in missed opportunity (I've been hearing something similar to your opinion every quarter since 2012 and have ignored it every time)
Plausible deniability is a great idea if the CEO has to testify before congress every once in a while.
The Champions League finals definitely aren't an indication this part of the world has dealt with it and is moving on. There's a huge amount of intrusive Covid-19 restrictions around those, from obvious things like no spectators to putting the entire teams in isolation (compliance has been... mixed), and even then I have my doubts that they'd be able to finish the season if it went on any longer due to the exponential growth in cases again in Europe.
ten years ago they all had an obvious stylus that hadn't been ripped off the machine yet
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And today, the once best feature for finding new stuff: the front page / popular, is just misery porn and American politics. If you don't already have a healthy list of subscribed subs with actually good content, I find that it's really difficult to find new stuff.
I consider that an emphatic benefit looking at these statues. Why couldn't they have hired a sculptor?
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You'll have to talk to your local grocery store or bank manager about that.
> where is the proof that it won't hurt long term productivity,

By that measure couldn’t we say the Capitalism pilot program has failed? Sure productivity is ever increasing and business productivity per employee is at historic highs...but all that productivity has only resulted in a larger wealth gap with all the benefits going to the investor class and net negative to workers whose real wages have been stagnant for decades?
The ancient Romans used lead acetate as an artificial sweetener. It's shocking to consider this practice in the modern era though.
If you look at the ratio s&p 500 vs gold we are still down a fair amount.
I keep a budget as an adult with ADHD
You had a bad flu, once and that make you think flu is as bad as covid-19?

This isn't just one bad case, it's millions of bad cases. There's no flu that killed that many people in that short of time, ever.

From a quick research, it seems like the flu kill between 12k and 61k people annually in the US. The US is now near 3x the worst estimate and the year is still young, and that's with all the precaution the US is taking against the virus.

Personally I hope that this pandemic also makes us improve how we deal with the flu season. Wearing a mask at the supermarket during a season ins't that bad. Seeing more disinfection too isn't bad. More remote works too.
higher chance of infection. you don't live in a vacuum.
In a lot of urban environments access to the obvious outdoor alternatives is pretty limited.
I imagine a permanent study with a few hundred people is still a lot easier to implement than permanent UBI for everyone.
... which is a terrible idea
I don't claim to be super-successful, but these are things I've thought about quite a bit. Some people are good at being happy. Even when their situation is objectively lousy, they still find humor and love and fulfillment and so on. Other people just aren't good at being happy. Can't relax. Can't take a compliment. Can't enjoy when things are going well, without worrying about when it will end.

The thing a lot of these have in common is being in the moment vs. looking forward. Absolutely nothing wrong with looking forward, it's how we all progress and ensure future good times, but you also have to be able to turn it off (which is another item on OP's list). Learning how to shut up those internal voices for a while can be hard, but it's worth the effort.
How much of that government policy was created in reaction to lobbying by corporations though?
Do they really need to access thousands of C++ API calls from Rust? Doesn't this defeat the purpose of writing safe code in Rust? This smells of "not invented here" which applies to Google projects pretty often.

They should focus on integrating Rust in portions of the API instead of exposing a gigantic unsafe API surface, essentially making all their code unsafe. Unless the Chrome codebase is really such a mess that they can't do anything without exposing this giant API surface. In that case they should rewrite it to... not do that.

"We can't use Rust unless it allows us to write all our code in C++ without showing unsafe warnings"
Did you mean "unlike under Lenin"?
This is a fascinating thought. I suppose the key is 'everyone'. Passive investing is premised on the idea that markets rise. And markets rise based on someone providing proper valuation to the stocks in the market. If there's no one doing the picking, does the system fall apart?

Possibly consumer, buy-and-hold investors are out-influencing Wall Street traders? I find that hard to believe, but it does seem like a long-term possibility.
Thanks for putting this thought experiment into numbers, even if they are arbitrary. It really helps to form some estimation of a mental model, and shows how goddamn complex all of this is.
Bond yield dropped drastically back when the market crashed due to pandemic. It was caused by people panic-rushed money into bonds for safety. Classic case of more demand chasing fewer bond supply. The lower yield drew more companies to jump in to offer more bonds.

The corporate bond yield has since recovered as the stock market doing better and money moved out of bond into stock.
I’m sure Apple’s government relations attorney was involved in some way and helped keep the project siloed. There was likely some contract, but is buried now.
"Your code should reflect your ontology."

Meaning that you should strive to program so as to encode the structure, relationships, and qualities of the objects of your task/domain. If you do it faithfully, then your code will be logically consistent and bug-free. I think this is most directly possible in declarative programming.
Thanks! Yeah exactly, this way it doesn't matter how a document was created, anyone editing later can toggle at any time.
The repo is linked all over the docs. It what I used to track down the problem.

> By "off-GitHub" do you mean you'd prefer there were some other way to edit the docs directly?

Yup.
This budgeting system might look a little complicated at first glance, but it’s actually pretty simple, and very efficient.
IIRC there have been similar issues in the past with other hardware (what comes to mind are "smart" items such as locks, wifi cameras, etc.).

As for software, there was an issue earlier this year with Exchange Server failing to generate unique keys [0] (prev. discussion[1]).

[0]: https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2020/2/24/cve-2020-0688-remote-c...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22424260
If anyone likes the ergodox / moonlander, but wants a keyboard with curved keys, look up the Dactyl Manuform / Dactyl keyboard. It’s a split keyboard that also has curve keys so it takes less movement to reach keys.

Unfortunately you have to have them custom built or build one yourself, but there are sites that let you easily order one.

Here’s an example https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/ak8d0m...
I don’t think any honest UBI proponents would dispute it — or be particularly surprised with what the GP said. It’s obvious that significant change to the economy would have hard to predict effects when human behavior is at the center.

That doesn’t mean it’s not worth it.
For some, its very easy to get consent of all the people they interact with in a week.

I have no supermarket cashier to request consent of; amazon fresh contactless delivery.

I live a pretty wealthy lifestyle away from the coasts, no shared elevators here.
It isn't so simple. I think the federal government/parliament has to agree with the 16 state governments or so. There is a so called 'Rundfunkstaatsvertrag' (a treaty between states) governing the rules.
It's because it's trying to create simple formulas for a complex system with people involved at all levels.
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I am neutral towards your comment, but I feel you're judging me for my beliefs and opinions, even though you don't know where I come from and what's important for me.
The cold air will contribute, but this is an accurate description. A person constantly radiates a blackbody spectrum determined by temperature, as does the surrounding room. We perceive ourselves as in equilibrium when we radiate as much as we receive. If a wall is cooler than the rest of the room, the person receives less infrared from that direction and perceives cold, even in the absence of convection.
But indeed corporations (which are "people") have moved en masse to Ireland.

And New Jersey saw a significant exodus towards lower tax states among its richest.

It's not empty threats - it's just that the cost of the taxes has to be higher than the cost of moving. For most people, the cost of relocating is higher than the taxes. For the richest people, this wealth tax might just tip the scales.

Ted Arison and Eduardo Saverin are the most famous examples I'm aware of - it's mostly because laws were changed after they managed to move without being taxed. Do you think there are no more loopholes? Do you think these are the only cases?
Proper authorities, photo of car, and a set of local news organisations, plus a few tweets and your state reps, might get some attention.

Play interests off each other.
Yeah, you are right about that. My main point was just about messaging in general where Google couldn't evolve Gtalk into a smartphone era messaging app.

XMPP I consider as an advantage personally as with lock in to platforms like Messenger/WhatsApp we complain about the total control these companies have. In an XMPP world, at least you could have had more control over clients and the ability to talk to a different Jabber server from the same client app.

I agree though that the XMPP bit, no normal user cares about.
What happened to our infrastructure when a customer got over 10M views?
Sadly education is not historically a factor, as highly educated people are among the first to flee a doomed economy while government 'economists' keep assuring everything will be fine.
> Textbooks state that, in the absence of a minimum wage, a worker is paid his “marginal product of labour”, which means the value of what he produces.

> Just as a monopolist can set prices higher than would be the case in a competitive market, a monopsonist can set prices artificially lower.

A lot of economic arguments forget these ideas. The labor market is not a free market: companies have more power in negotiation, they have more information and, most important of all, they can deal with a job opening not being covered most of the time. Workers can't usually live too much without finding a job.

That's why minimum wage laws and workers rights are important. Companies will always push for lower wages wherever they can, without a care for the actual wealth created by the worker. The only way to counter that push is by giving more power to the worker, and in low-skilled fields with lots of available workers, you need to do that through regulations and subsidies.
The risk exists of getting impaled with a piece of rebar falling from a construction site. So how dare you criticize people for stabbing others?