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I agree with your premise of equality - that you can't have it both ways. My point was if the government uses that power against its people, the people should be able to use that power against their government.

However in this case it's actually different, as police officers are meant to be public servants.
Are you referring to the B&O taxes (seems to be based on industry) or are there others around as well?

I could imagine some reasonable arguments for having a low tax like that around.
Eggcorns! I've been needing a word for those phrases, thank you.
Pretty much yes. Locals used to reply to bemused foreigners with "It's Belarus, baby" when questioned on police brutality and state-sanctioned killings.
If it’s so clear to everyone, why aren’t the protests bigger?

It seems like there are millions of people in Belarus who are equivocating in some way.

I’m not questioning whether the dictator should go.

I’m saying that for each person in the situation, whatever their role, the calculus of what action to take is not black and white.
I love this idea that they think Kiwis, with the huge and growing wealth inequality problems there too, somehow will welcome the billionaires from America and won't come for them in their Queenstown mansions.
Yep, same reasons.

My printer prints PETG pretty cleanly with no fuss. I imagine if someone used the same exact printer (Prusa i3 MK3), the same exact filament (eSun), my same exact settings (https://github.com/dheera/3d/blob/master/settings/slic3r-con...), and my same exact textured bed sheet, same exact procedure (Windex, then Magigoo, then print), they should have zero problems as well. It's not even tricky. It prints just like PLA with this "recipe".

The only problem seems to be that there is a lot of conflicting information about what works for PETG but people just need to think in terms of configuration sets like the above. If you use the Prusa PETG settings with eSun filament it fails miserably -- the prints come off the bed mid-print.
What's the efficiency of such generators? Surely you lose 70% of the energy?
Can someone tell me - what's to stop me fro taking my assets and buying land/assets in a foreign country? Will the US claim jurisdiction over all countries? How will they audit this?

BI sucks but even they said as much for why Europe has scrapped most of their wealth taxes:

https://www.businessinsider.com/4-european-countries-wealth-...

The US is a country with a terribly funded IRS. They can barely audit those who obviously don't pay their taxes. If you are someone with 10 or 100M of assets it's easy and obvious to hide them in assets that can't be tracked.
I would like to see a graph that correlates this phenomenon with the output of the FED's printing presses.
So basically a non-profit. That's why non-profit managers sometimes have huge wages.
Alternative is to not subsidize inefficient suburban land use. That doesn't mean everyone lives in apartment buildings. It doesn't mean "ban the suburbs". It just means, if you want to live in a subdivision, you'll have to pay your share of the cost to maintain it (which is more than what you're paying now).
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I disagree. We have evidence of this happening repeatedly. Income tax being the prime example.

I believe the problem is this: we hardly ever describe the end state. We don't define a metric that we look to achieve and then what we change about the policy when we've achieved it. So what happens is bloated bureaucracies become established and fight for self preservation, even if the mission they were on is complete.
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How are you going to get anyone to become a policeman? This whole doxxing your opponents movement scares me.

I will grant you that allowing police to use tape to cover their name tags is wrong on many levels.

But if protesters use this technology to target policemen's families, why would anyone in their right mind take the job?
Police in Belarus are literally kidnapping and torturing protestors [1] so yes, that's pretty much exactly right.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-17/belarus-torture-prote...
Just installed a 3rd party app on my pixel 3, made it the default and tried this. Worked just fine and popped up the 3rd party app.
In Argentina thats not true. In fact you need $44.000 for a family to dont be considered poor. But if you earn more than $50.000 you start paying income taxes.
Don't ventless N95/KN95 masks protect both you and others?
A more capitalist solution to the random ware problem could be ransomware insurance ideally mandated. You get hit and the company pays. But your premium rises the next time and till forever. You can get premium incentives to do audits and update software.
Lower premiums show up in the balance sheet as profit and therefore there is immediate incentive to act on security issues. The insurance company has enough incentive to track the victim that some action might get taken.
There's a third option - effective policing.
It's a fallacy to believe that making the rich less rich makes the poor less poor. There are a lot of things in between which must go right.
It seems this law is intended to benefit those with the most resources to implement the best security, leaving smaller businesses to pretty much pound sand.
Actually, history bears out that higher tax rates result in corporations re-investing more of their profits in the company and less in tax-avoidance accounting.

The difference being that the former is low risk and can grow the business, while the other has a good chance of triggering penalties that wipe out the savings and could even result in jail time for one or more executives.

Consider that the historically highest rates of tax fraud are during the current administration, despite historically low levels of tax on corporate income.
Halide dev here. We _might_ write more about our upgrade strategy in the future, but we did explore app bundles. There were a number of concerns. For example, many blog posts out there point to the old version of our app in the App Store, and App Store Search is non-deterministic, so it's way less confusing to replace the existing SKU than have folks buy the wrong version.
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US Treasury announced recently "Advisory on Potential Sanctions Risks for Facilitating Ransomware Payments."

I wonder if these will reduce these kind of payments in the future, which seemed to really be ramping up.

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/126/ofac_ransomware_a...
> many of those bugs have been covered up for years by the relatively friendlier x86 memory model vs weaker models like ARM

I had to take a peek at a friend's Cavium's ThunderX2 kernel issue a while back, which stops having concurrency when release build is swapped with a debug build.

So the specific part that drives you crazy is "Atomic can be reordered with stores - Y" for ARM and N for X86_64.

And changing the compiler optimization flags can turn on/off this bug.
Very curious. Can you elaborate more? Do you use Go in the finance world, and hope to use the unikernel to lower your attach surface?

I didn't realize Go was a very common language in finance.
Letting people decide where and how to live without deciding for them through tax structuring
I said rarely. Not never.
My previous job does the opposite. We create a branch on for a release, then everyone works on main. Whenever a feature is done, we merge to the release branch, run tests on it and release the software. Worked very well for a long time. I guess it makes agile more difficult?
To counter-nitpick... :-)

Could your place of employment handle a 2-month long, 5x spike? Would the processing chain break down? Would it make a difference which it was?
This is about accountability, not right vs wrong. The courts can decide that (in theory, anyway).
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I disagree. People paid by the public must be accountable to the public and all their (paid) actions should not be private. (Exceptions may apply to this general rule, though they are debatable)
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Of course opinions are shaped by outside factors, but the reason those kind of responses are annoying is because they're just so... uninteresting.

I'm not the guy from above, but responding with "I disagree with you so are you sure your opinions are your own" is dismissive and doesn't lead to a more interesting or thoughtful discussion. Instead, asking WHY he believes gives you the opportunity to engage in the discussion, maybe change your views a little or change the other persons' a bit.

That's why comments like that are annoying, they're a way to dismiss discussion instead of engaging in it, and engaging in discussion is the point of this silly site.

I'm someone who also isn't wealthy and disagrees with wealth taxes. Responses like that one aren't an honest attempt to engage, and I'd also ignore it and move on :)
I don't think that matches reality. Wealth tax is supposedly for the rich, people with high assets already -- not the everyday taxpayer. Getting Joe or Susan to itemize their assets and report it yearly (including depreciation) seems like a lot of extra work -- albeit perhaps you already have to do this for insurance purposes for some house items, not sure, I am Canadian.

I just did some quick research and it looks like the tax failed in Europe [0]. Thousands of millionaires in France just left the country and eventually it was just axed and declared a failure.

Which seems interesting -- the measure of success of a wealth tax seems to be how many rich people stay.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/26/698057356/if-a...
Whew! I had a bit of a "PTSD" flash, there. I worked with the Halide language (https://halide-lang.org). It was...interesting.

It sounds like an excellent app, and I wish you the best!
just FYI telling somebody to "read a 101 book" or take a class doesn't really help them see your side of things.

I agree that Zimbabwe situation was a combination of bad decisions by a state actor. All I'm trying to say here is that bad decisions are always going to happen when money is controlled by state actors.

Bitcoin exists outside the politico-economic decision-making system we currently rely on to uphold the value of our money. Therefore it's a hedge against inflation.
I’m a bit embarrassed I didn’t pick that up first to be quite honest. And it’s a great point.
That's actually an example of why wealth taxes aren't a great idea. If you invest money back into the business, that might reduce your profits, and therefore any corporate or income taxes. But that investment it will increase the long-term value of the company. Under a wealth tax, that would cause taxes for everyone who holds the stock to go up! In fact, if investing in say a new line of business causes the value of the stock to go up by more than just parking the money in the corporate treasury, a wealth tax creates a perverse incentive to not invest back in the company.
> were given an address that they can mmap for direct reads/writes from/to the peripherals address space

Kernel-mode drivers indeed do that under the hood, but the majority of GPU I/O bandwidth doesn’t go that way.

With DMA, GPUs have full access to system memory. They have specialized piece of hardware (exposed to programmers as copy command queue in D3D12, or transfer queue in Vulcan) to move large blocks of data in either direction between system RAM and VRAM.
Ephesus and Bergama are great, but a lot of what's left is Roman. Paestum and the temple valley in Agrigento in southern Italy are very well preserved and mostly Greek.
Well if you think of matrices as linear maps then saying a vector is just an Nx1 matrix is like saying that a vector is just a linear map from a vector space of dimension 1 to a vector space of dimension N. It isn’t really a very useful thing to say
If all choices are reduced down to luck that would include moral choices. If morality is a matter of deterministic luck, there is hardly any meaning between right and wrong. If there's no way to be morally right or wrong, what's motivating you to be so upset with others' pseudo-random choices and opinions?
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Let's take a market dynamics perspective. There are N number of financial contracts which 100xN market participants may choose to accept or bid their time on. The cost of vacating such a contract is substantial, as a career based on these contracts rarely transition to the family supporting careers one may need to replace it with, less an ambitious actor finds a suitable passion to replace it (common among LEOs is the practice of Law). So there exists a high cost to the participants to vacate these contracts and place them back on the market for bid.

The goal of fighting oppression this way is to drive the number of willing participants down and keep as many of those contracts open/unfulfilled. Quiting vacates 1.

However, given the high cost of such a decision, the desired benefit tends to be attained, as there is always sufficient numbers of willing participants to bid on those vacancies. Every year people graduate, separate from the military, migrate here.

Fighting labor market dynamics is unscalable. Changing labor markets via political mechanisms on the other hand is.
Oxidative stress can be reduced by eating foods that produce less metabolic waste, e.g less unstable polyunsaturated fats and getting all the necessary nutrients that are protective against the damaging effects, e.g vitamin E.

If you just eat less, make less energy, do less, you get net neutral state of a longer life lived more slowly. Not worth it in my estimation.
The good thing about accounting for wealth is ofc that we can measure inequality much more precisely. That's good right?
You do realize that nobody keeps that cash on hand, right? It’s in banks where it gets lent out, thus participating and contributing to the economy.

"Hoarding" is nonsense.
It's almost like acting like a domestic terrorist group should have consequences or something...
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> they routinely gobble up the narrative that the US is less free than Russia and other autocracies

I have seen little or no evidence to support this contention, and plenty that does not support it.

There are certainly periodic discussions suggesting the US is less free than it's own PR would suggest, but that's not at all the same thing.
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> Then there's the possibility that all the honest officers who don't want to follow those orders quit or strike or otherwise refuse to report to work to do these things.

No it's not, not generally. When the police goes away, in a lot of places, society falls apart because the vicious prey on the rest without hesitation. Especially the good cops don't want that, because they're in it to serve and protect. "I'll just not go, lol" equals "some drug lord will take over the city and rape and pillage with impunity". They don't want that, and the super majority of citizens also doesn't want that.
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There're articles (as in more than one) on Wikipedia with lists of all the known illegal things the US does as I'm sure you are aware. Like the overthrow of governments, mass surveillance, use of torture, etc. Some are illegal internationally and some are also illegal by US laws. It's very disingenuous trying to pretend NSA is the only entity in the US that breaks the law habitually.
> How are you going to get anyone to become a policeman?

Ideally, you aren't; you are going to disband the centralized, omnipurpose paramilitary law enforcement entities known as "police departments", redistribute law enforcement responsibilities among domain-specific entities that for the most part are not exclusively, or even centrally, law enforcement, and not violate the public trust the way police departments have broadly and systematically done over an extended period of time.
True. But while I don't disagree that Police is often as culpable as the ruling class, I'm weary of these methods.

You don't doxx police officers and paste their IDs online. The chance you're taking, the certainty indeed, is that someone will follow through (perhaps even an agent provocateur) providing the justification for waves of ruthless revenge.

Nope, you bring your dossiers to a higher court and ask for Justice (EU, ICJ, UN.)

Edit: unless of course the situation has deteriorated so badly that the prospect of civil war with all its casualties and pain is on the table.
Why is it acceptable that police use facial recognition to target protestors, but "doxxing" when activists use that same technology to hold police accountable?
ARM is smaller due to simpler instruction decoders mostly, which leaves more room for a huge cache in the transistor budget.

I am hoping Apple does this with their desktop chips: basically take the fastest phone/tablet processor, give it better thermals, and pump up the cache. That would be an easy path to beating Intel on a laptop.
Ingress in K8S is too complex. We need some sane defaults. It seems like there are more decisions to be made upfront then are really necessary.

We are setting up our cluster and we ended up going with Traefik and I just published an interview with our architect where he explained why he choose Traefik. Excuse the plug, but its here:

https://blog.earthly.dev/building-on-kubernetes-ingress/#kub...

The short version is that he finds it easier to setup than Nginx. I think learning curves are an important metric that must be considered as well.
So what's your point? If it's rare than we should not hold the police accountable?
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You'd be incentivizing the accumulation (and importation) of the sales-taxed goods as long term stores of wealth, and dis-incentivizing domestic investments in businesses and construction. I think that's a bad idea.
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Hope this wouldn't be prosecutable as hacking?
Then you just end up pronouncing things wrong.

How many American children grew up reading Harry Potter pronouncing Hermione as "Hermi-Own" until the movies came out?
Most likely https://ds26gte.github.io/tex2page/index.html but I wouldn't have raw HTML. I'm not sure how well Pandoc does with LaTeX input generally.

Edit: Fix the link.
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> How are you going to get anyone to become a policeman?

If the police have lost consent of the governed, then the problem is with the government.
It wouldn't be a burden for most people; it would just be a yes/no checkbox alongside the many other checkboxes when you're filling out your taxes.

"Do you have assets in excess of $X million?"

If you claim you don't, and the IRS has reason to suspect you do, you're opening yourself to a brutal audit and potential jail time.

Most people would not have to deal with this.
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My family has two die directly to covid, one to complications from covid, and one from an accident not related to covid. We have a few more that are very susceptible to covid due to a few factors. It's not been a good year.

I can tell you from very personal experience: Zoom funerals are horrible.

They scream and cry, but you can't comfort them, you're hundreds of miles away, and you can't leave the call either. And when you do finally turn it off, you're just there in your quiet room again. It's just so surreal.

Please, take this disease seriously.
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I don't know, but they should have an option where it can have 200 200W thin film panels in the back that can unfold. That would make it the green solar renewable version of the Canyonero from the Simpsons.
You can't break the site guidelines like this. We've had to warn you more than once before. Would you please re-read them and stick to the rules?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

As for "the bias on HN"—when it comes to $BigCo arguments, it's very much in the eye of the beholder. The people with opposite views to yours (for example, who like G and dislike A) complain of exactly the opposite "bias".

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
You did not answer his/her question and proceed to use petty argumentive/debate tactics to villify rather than expand dialogue.

You are not discussing in good faith
These arguments sound truthy, but economists generally agree that lowering corporate taxes is good for the economy: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-...
Matrices are a fun way to stretch the mind. They are easy to grasp yet very dissimilar to numbers. Sometimes they can be used to represent numbers and we can use our matrix intuition to answer questions about regular numbers.

You can define functions on matrices just like you define them on numbers. Multiplication is a function. The determinant is a function. You can even take derivatives of these functions. The derivative of the determinant function is written in terms of the trace of the matrix. Yet another matrix function. Who would have guessed that the derivative and trace are related in this way? There's really a lot of depth here.

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The parent's rather obvious point is that some police officers are bad, but police in general aren't behaving this way. If you disagree, then fine, but at least disagree with the parent and not some straw man of your own making.
If people were taxed less, housing and rent would be even more expensive in SF.

The solution to the problem is not taxing people in SF less. This is the same flawed idea that the solution to houses being unaffordable is to have a mortgage interest deduction and (previously) a property tax deduction for home-owners.

All this did was make houses and land more expensive to make up for the tax deduction.
You mean a pretty basic backup, that your grandma probably has enabled on her phone?
The expenses do pay for themselves. Assume you have profits in Year 1.

If you pay for an expense with pre-tax income (i.e., in December, assuming a calendar tax year), that reduces your tax liability on your profits for the year, for an effective discount of X% on that expense (where X is your effective tax rate).

If you buy that same expense with post-tax income (i.e., in January of Year 2), you don't get the effective discount, and you won't know until the end of Year 2 if it will reduce your Year 2 taxes. Also, you have to wait a year to get any tax benefit out of the expense.

The cost of waiting just a few weeks can be huge. This is why many companies (or corporate departments) choose to blow the remainders of their budgets rushing through projects at year end rather than just taking the time to do things properly after the holidays.
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