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Ask HN: How can someone use my email to purchase service or products?
So I get random receipts of services being paid or needing to be activated and eventually almost immediately that service becomes active without any submission from me. This includes product purchases. I do understand emails can be mistakenly entered and some receipts are obviously that. But I get my email used in places like Africa/Philippines etc where I never do business.

So I ask this seemingly weird question of how can someone pay for services and products using my email address without actually using my email (i.e. clicking on links to activate etc)? It's gmail and I check to see where it's used with "Last activity" link that shows IP's and device endpoints. Nothing shows my email is being accessed outside of my home. I change passwd and use 2FA.

Can someone shine some light on what's been baffling me for quite sometime.

PS> Also check my credit and shows no new loans/CC etc...

PPS> Jesus.. is it possible that a trojan living on my PC stole my session info and is able to use my opened browser and hijack emails??@!
> AOSP + f-droid

It might or might not be considered significantly different from AOSP, and at least most of the free apps in their "store" must come from F-Droid, but there's /e/: https://e.foundation
Three cheers for F-Droid anyhow, and I'd have thought it should be mentioned under https://doc.e.foundation/projects-looking-for-contributors
This kind of psychometric and physiological data will only become more valuable as the viability of operationalized neuroweapons[0] increases.

[0] The Brain is the Battlefield of the Future, Dr. James Giordano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N02SK9yd60s&feature=youtu.be
You’re (edit: sorry, GP was) espousing the broken windows theory, though. Corporations already have a natural incentive to re-invest in themselves when it’s a profitable decision to do so.
to add a little context;
~100ug is a solid single dose
~75ug is a light dose
~25ug is just a bit above threshold - this is generally the upper range for a microdose.
~10-15ug are the absolute minimum for any effect at all.

That said, the short-term tolerance curve is incredibly steep. What ends up happening with a lot of folks who microdose for extended periods is that they'll increase the 'micro' until they make a rounding error and then all of a sudden your desk is melting and your mouse has a half-minute delay. Best practices are to stagger days and take occasional three-to-four day long breaks.
I agree with most of this.

I would say leave it off the resume when applying to companies or areas suspected of having a negative bias. Add it to your resume for all other companies/areas.
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This is obviously fallacious, just consider the extreme case of 100% taxation. At the macro level the only source of investment funds is income that does not go to consumption. Lower the expected rate of return through taxation, and the result is inevitably a shift from investment to consumption. At the individual firm level it's obvious that taxation lowers the NPV of the firm's available projects - they are obviously not going to respond by investing more.
I have an automated Google Takeout > AWS Glacier workflow. I'm trying to de-google myself as much as possible though.
> But once you understand a concept, you understand it. You don't really need to review it again.

I disagree - if this were true I would still understand all of calculus and linear algebra, which I took years ago.

I think part of what you say is true - some concepts that are understood stick with you more than the sort of fact memorization you might find in a history class. But there are still many math skills that would benefit from spaced repetition. What are line integrals used for and how do I compute one? What does the determinant of a matrix represent and how can I find it? What is Stokes' Theorem?

It's one thing to understand a high level concept (e.g. an integral can be used to model continuous accrual of some quantity) versus details (e.g. how do I integrate common trig functions?).
If that helped him solve Fermat's last conjecture, it can probably help me relax
Open Question: Why don't taxes actually go down over time? Who is capturing the value generated by productivity gains that might make things cheaper to run?
Why should churches be more important?
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1). is very subjective and I think depends quite heavily on what platform you are using it on. FF is my daily driver on Windows and I much prefer it over Chrome (which I also use frequently).
Govt and low cost schools have outdated or sometimes no computers at all. Internet is the best means of learning today, they are deprived of it.

Heck even top universities don't have good infrastructure in India.

Our maid's daughter wants to take up CS after high school, she saw us working on laptops from a young age I guess, but her mother cannot afford to pay for college fees + a laptop + broadband.

India's silicon valley, Bangalore, cannot provide its residents uninterrupted power 24x7 in 2020, villages are lucky to get 5 hours of power a day. Can you believe large tech parks in Bangalore run on Diesel generators ?

There are hardly a few datacenters and associated jobs in India, reason - hardware and bandwidth is prohibitively expensive, cause - taxation. Think of all the small jobs that would be created in the surrounding ecosystem (foodcarts, cafes)

When the govt only talks and doesn't walk the walk, most high skilled Indians leave country due to lack of opportunities, not only would their spending create jobs more importantly it drains the country of mentors for the young.

China is going head to head with the US in AI and world class software products, despite their handicap in English, where is India ?
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Great question! Unary operators are really simple to add: you just look for the operator symbol first thing at the right level of precedence. Same idea as "if (peek == '(') ..." for parentheses, but outside the code that deals with '*' and '^' (if you want those to bind more strongly).
Because it is an action with a huge negative externality? You're funding criminals.

We've banned voluntary actions with externalities in the past.
Imagine the government intends to cut a social benefit that you use. A person from media reaches out to you to get your take, what are the odds you will try to protect your interests? Depending on how you answer this, it becomes easy to see how people with the means and resources try to protect the resources that they have worked for or received.
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I don't trust they wouldn't find a way to still lock them up (note that pardons only apply to federal-level cases, not state)

I also don't feel the current administration (or future ones that prescribe to Trump Doctrine) would even entertain the idea, being that hardcore military support is a large part of their narrative.
Any kind of class divide that grows over time is bound to become violent. A stable society may have classes, but these classes have to remain relatively the same for a long time (even if there is movement of people between classes). For example, medieval society was unjust, but at least the difference between classes was stable over several centuries. In the modern world we now have a class of owners that increase their wealth astronomically in a few years, while most people are seeing their incomes stagnate or decrease.
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Higher-risk people are more likely to be pro-lockdown. Poorer people are more likely to be pro-reopen.
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The problem with relying on philanthropy to fund the public good, instead of taxes, is that it is one dollar, one vote, rather than one person, one vote. This means the more you have to give, the more you get to decide for the rest of us what counts as “public good.” I’m not sure I like the idea of a handful of billionaires deciding for us what public projects are worthy and good.

Today, my neighborhood's roads get paved the same as Jeff Bezos's neighborhood. If taxes were voluntary, then I might not be able to afford more than dirt roads for my house, whereas I bet Jeff's house would be fine.
30 dollars a month from crypto mining (real on my own pc not some scam or online BS)
1.5 dollars a month watching ads
2 dollars a month surveys
0.5 dollars a month for saving account due to walking
Total = 34 dollars
I wanted a "none" or "default" option there. Also the one about communities (reddit etc) was mandatory and no option applied.
In my experience after starting breathing exercises (not Wim Hof...more freediving oriented), it has the opposite effect to what you're positing.

Rather than just raising body temperature to become impervious to cold, it's actually giving your body a greater ability to regulate its own temperature. So in cold you're warmer, in hot you're cooler. When I started doing the exercises, I was living in Southeast Asia and sweating profusely whenever I left AC environments. After about a month of the breathing exercises, I stopped sweating almost entirely. I originally attributed it to my body adjusting to the climate, but when I returned home to the US, I also found that the cold no longer bothered me.
Federal income tax is what matters. So yes, everyone pays some sales tax, some property tax, FICA, etc.

But what matters is income tax (for individuals).
No one "forms their own opinion" in a vacuum. Your beliefs and opinions are influenced in a multitude of ways by your environment including the media you consume. Asking how the biases you have were formed is something everyone should be asking of themselves, and certainly doesn't seem like an inappropriate question.
I think the GP is saying that one avoids taxes by investing in things that grow the company, jobs, R&D, etc.

I don’t know if this scales all the way up when all the big co’s move their HQ’s offshore. Perhaps we need diff positions for diff business sizes.
Which is better, creating a generator to make electricity to run an engine with one moving part.

Vs. creating a rendered biomass pipeline to feed an extremely fiddly engine with hundreds of moving bits and bobs?
It would be their ace in the hole
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Not sure if people still do the "upload PHP file automatically to production server via FTP on save" way of development. Most web developers I know run servers locally for development, where you can easily set your own headers and/or meta tags.
Hahah, I finally got to the point of standardizing on that and now everyone wants to throw away a well working system to move to container orchestration.

All to get to slightly less downtime and faster deploys... idk. Hard to know if the months of work will be worth it.
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I have $1,000,000,000 in my checking account. This is my wealth. I am not going to be taxed a single penny on this money. Why tax my "shares" wealth and not my wealth from my checking account?

And if I have my shares, I don't want to sell them. I currently own X number of shares of dozens of companies, I don't have IRS breathing down my neck to sell them, why should Bezos have them breathing down his?! I pay taxes when I sell my shares, not just due to the fact that I own them...
It’s questionable whether the police are the ‘oppressors’. Individual officers don’t have much power and aren’t members of the ruling class.

It’s also rarely the case that when there is a transfer of power, for the police to all be fired, which you’d think would be the case if they were the oppressors who had just been overthrown.

Doxxing police may be an effective strategy, but it’s also true that social media driven mobs end up killing people, sometimes in error.

Standing up against oppression is necessary, but it’s also messy, and nobody really smells of roses.
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I like how you lump it up to top 10%. The top 1% of Americans pay 37% of the tax burden yet own over 60% of the wealth. They are grossly underpaying.

Cutting entitlements and putting MORE of a financial burden on people who have nothing isn't going to fix the problem. AT BEST it'll result in massive social unrest and the end of the American Experiment.

"I know you can't afford healthcare, and can barely afford food, but we're going to need to take away your food stamps, and your subsidized housing because Larry Ellison just can't afford another 1% increase in taxes". That's what you're going with?
Activists, more like domestic terrorists.
You say “one volcano” as if this wasn’t one of the biggest eruptions in recent human history.

To give some perspective... The main eruption was heard as far as 2,600 kilometres away. The estimated energy was more than 4 times that of Krakatoa. Before the eruption it was a mountain 4,300 meters tall. Afterward it had a crater rim with a peak height of 2,850 meters with a crater depth of over 500 meters. It shoved more than a kilometre and a half of mountain into flying debris and produced over 100 cubic kilometres of pyroclastic debris. The eruption lasted for over a month!

It also got right back to building a new tiny volcano in the crater in less than 30 years. It’s one hell of an active volcano!
It is already illegal if the payment is to a group that is sanctioned by the US gov
Oh yeah, I totally agree there. Personally I think this stuff should all be legal for recreational use anyway.
Capital gains is not a wealth tax. The money in your mattress will also be taxed. Why stay in America if the government not only take 22% of what you earned, but also 2% of what you have.
Would that explain why a lot of companies these days are doing stock buybacks?
2020! alone is 5,802 digits long.
Well, Elon Musk's Neuralink is claiming they're close at least, but I could also imagine someone coming from the other direction entirely, and making a robot limb that was autonomous and worked with the wearer instead of being directly controlled (but the failure mode would be no fun...)
Yes, the person who brings the baton down on your head is an oppressor. They can literally just quit if they don't want to be oppressors.
If they were terrorists, sanctioned by the US government it is already illegal.
Yes, they pretty much are unless you're in the business of linear codes—then they're actually 1xN matrices. A pretty annoying convention for someone coming in from the general algebra: takes a time to stop mentally transposing everything.
I meant selling a “Full Self Driving” package and the doing (for example) this:

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-autopil...
As a business owner, when taxes are low, I see that as an incentive to pocket profits. But when taxes are high, I see that as an incentive to hide the profits by investing in the future.

Let me introduce you to how private equity works. They have figured out how to hide the profits by buying out the original owners!

They buy companies by having them borrow heavily to "invest" in buying out the previous owners. And then try to keep the corpse of the company looking good enough that they can flip to someone else. The trick is that debt payments count against profits so the new owner saves on taxes.

The people who set up the deal get paid in a variety of ways. But in the end what they get paid tends to be roughly proportional to how much money no longer goes to Uncle Sam. So when you see someone who got rich in private equity, like Mitt Romney, it isn't a bad approximation that their personal wealth reflects how much money the US no longer receives in taxes due to the deals that they structured.

Note, if you're over 50 you may remember the "junk bond kinds" of the 1980s. That's the same thing as private equity. They just rebranded themselves after their actions gave them a bad name.
They didn’t have to put this comparison together in the first place.
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>Twitter has nothing to lose from admitting that it did happen

Um, what? That would be exceptionally bad press for Twitter.
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If you're talking about single family homes - that's a property tax, which is not what people are normally talking about when they discuss a wealth tax
That's not surprising, nor necessarily a problem. The top 20% of earners make ~50% of the income in the US. And those people will have more margin to make up for that bottom 10% that makes 1% of the income.

Per wikipedia
I mean it makes sense socialism removes any real chance of your country being successful so if you think your country has a chance accepting defeat would be horrible.
Thank you for the link, good data!

To nitpick though, it does not quite answer the question of whether "the bodies were piling up" because totals exceeded pre-COVID processing capacity or because the processing chain broke down. That is, was the level during Spring of 2020 (higher than average Spring, your link shows it) also higher than previous spikes that included other seasons.
What other SRS apps are people using here? I've used Anki, but I dislike the GUI interface (especially the way it weirdly formats copied text) and would prefer a Linux friendly, more text-based system. Any suggestions?
A flat tax is a big tax cut for higher incomes without reducing complexity. The complexity of the tax code is to determine taxable income. The flat tax doesn’t help with that. Once you have determined taxable income then calculating taxes owed is easy no matter how the curve looms.
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It's been surmised that "resign and get pardoned" may happen again in our lifetimes.
The article this comment section is on is entirely about the united states and the wealthy in the context of the united states.

You would have had to make it explicitly clear that you were talking about something other than the rest of the comments (the whole world) for your comment to be read as such.

Anyway, comparing wealth between the developed world and the developing/less-developed nations is tricky, and needs to be done with care. I don't think using that number in this context is useful.
Ah yes, I did miss that, thank you.
Just throwing some thoughts out here. Wealth and income need to be broadly distributed to create somewhat equal power dynamics between people and communities. If the market is not creating that type of outcome government has stepped in through taxation and spending to mitigate this imbalance somewhat. If you want a smaller government more people need more wealth and income so they don’t need government services and can do it themselves.

Wealth taxes are great in theory but tough to implement. The value of large pools of assets can be easily reduced by marketability and liquidity discounts. See the real estate industry. I’d like to see wealth taxes work but I think having value accrue to people over capital is a better approach.
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I just see tax dodgers as morally redundant people. I try hard to think about it another way, but I just can't.

It seems obvious to me from reading extensively around this that we have very little basis for arguing the case for free will. Our entire existence: our personal lives, our business lives, our investments, our health, our wealth - are driven by luck.

I run a successful small business in the UK. I can squint and pretend that everything about this success is down to me, but the reality is:

I'm white

Middle class

Have a great family

Have had the luck to have a wonderful family background including supportive parental influence as well as a generational (mother + grandparents) financial safetynet all the way through my life.

Have (so far) had great luck as far as health is concerned.

Are ANY of these things down to me and my skill? No, none. They are down to luck.

Am I a good business person? Yes, I like to think so. What's that down to? Luck.

So for me, now, to turn around and say "No, I'm not paying my taxes. I don't believe in taxes. I don't believe in helping those less well off than me. I don't believe in helping people. I don't believe in the state"...? That is bullshit. Utter, total bullshit. And it makes me f*g sick when I see people gathering vast quantities of wealth and then somehow making out that they are somehow separate from the [majority] of people in this world who really badly need help.

We should all be getting off our fat, lucky arses and doing more to help people instead of squirreling away our wealth and pretending we're somehow special. And we should start by taxing the bejesus out of the wealthy. They [we] [I] can afford it.

Rant over. As you were.
> You pay taxes on all of your income. But businesses only pay taxes on their profit. It's a big, big difference that changes the incentives.

It’d be insane to have it any other way for businesses. Whole swathes of low margin businesses would be impossible to operate. For example a super markets average margins are 3-5%.

Corporate tax is (generally) on profits because you can deduct costs. It allows for the flow of money to efficiently find a sub supplier for the parts of a good or service.

The real scam is when things like health insurance premiums are deductible for a company but not for an individual.
Of course there's a difference! Any time you have two things with different identities, you can point to a difference. The important question is whether they have a difference that is applicable to the defense/failure explanation that was offered. My point was that Katzenberg does not.

Katzenberg claimed that "gosh, you just can't make money on a short-form video content service right now, there's covid and the lingering effects of 9/11 blah blah blah."

Oops, major counterexample: Tik-Tok. YouTube. Instagram/FB stories.

Dubious defense: "Oh, those aren't remotely comparable, because they paid less for their content. Obviously, the world turns upside down and the two become incomparable once you fill that service with content you paid too much for. You can't go with the much simpler explanation that we were just much worse at finding content people would be willing to view at a price sufficient to cover our costs."

>There is a difference between being a librarian who sells 1000 books and being a librarian AND author who sells AND writes 1000 books

Okay, if you want to go that route, the analogy would be:

Pointy-haired boss: "I'm going to make a fortune creating and hosting books."

PHB: <fails>

PHB: "Well, gosh, you know, people just aren't really reading that kind of content now, so of course it's going to be unprofitable."

Creators: "What? We make plenty providing content."

Bookstores and conventional libraries: "What? We make plenty of money buying and hosting content."

PHB: "No, you can't compare that, because I try to do both!"

Quibi is just the same, except that you can also add:

YouTube/TikTok: "Huh? We make money hosting free content where we share a cut of the advertising with the providers."

At what point do you say, "No, dude, the market is there, you're just bad at it"?