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Money printing is always inflationary. Either it causes CPI inflation immediately or it's stored up for later. When money printing does not cause immediate CPI inflation, surplus money is stored in scarce assets which creates asset price inflation and increasing fragility which will inevitably lead to CPI inflation later.

The fact that new money is mostly backed by debt is irrelevant because those who own a lot of capital assets know that they will always be able to use their assets as collateral to take increasingly large loans in the future... Wealthy capital holders can always take new, bigger loans to pay off old smaller loans.

Those who value growth above independence must enslave themselves to banks in order to guarantee that they can keep borrowing in perpetuity. If you know that you can borrow in perpetuity to buyback your stock and make repayments on your old loans, then you can rest assured that debt is never going to be a problem for you. You can just do what the government does with treasury bonds; issue new bonds to pay off your old bonds; the government is not the only institution which can do this.
> Brave removes ads "pre-render" so it is the fastest experience one can get.

Tell that to Pi-hole.
Almost certainly not. They do many things in parallel
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If they print money to build new roads, bridges, (clean) power plants, schools -> good.

If they print money to put in stocks and real estate -> bad.

The one thing creates real value and enables more real value creation in the future.

The other one has no effect on the real economy and wages.

Driving real estate prices is even bad: at some point, no real economic strategy (aka. business model) is able to sustain the needed profits to pay for it, and no company can be profitable enough to justify the high stock prices. It therefore literally becomes to expensive to do business, because nobody can match the returns of the central bank buying up your garbage!
It is also a Tax on Saving, Retirements, and responsible behavior

It encourages irresponsibility and debt, and discourages people from saving, planning for their future, and over all acting in a way that is not filled with instant gratification, or extremely leveraging themselves

That provides good short term growth, but then you have recessions and depressions because at some point those balance sheets have to be balanced
While China outgrows the US, and the US pursues ultra loose monetary and even more expansionary .#fiscal policy, an enduringly weak renminbi scarcely seems unduly threatening https://archive.is/rHE3t
I really hope so - one gets very used to it while traveling in Japan becase it's so convenient! And then one misses it a lot when getting back.
I prefer architectures that have a vector instruction for computing one or two Newton iterations instead.

That way you can quickly get the precision that you want ;)
Response to Anthos I suppose.

Speaking of which, has anyone ever seen a company use Anthos? (Software so seems a lower lift)

Anyone seen a company use AWS Outposts? (Hardware so seems hard to imagine anyone actually using but I'd love to be proved wrong).

I'm thinking AWS may realize the hardware model of Outposts is prohibitive so may target a software solution.
What good does a high exhaust velocity if your fuel stays all inside the ship?
Here, "inverse" is an abbreviation of "multiplicative inverse" (aka. the reciprocal). Granted, shortening it to just "inverse" is misleading, but the name has stuck.
"But corporations should be required to publicly account for the gap between the income they report to the IRS and the income that they report to their shareholders."

I suspect this is a far greater issue than companies who pay $0; his proposal would apply to ALL with shareholders, and I (as a layperson) believe most companies have some gap there.
State being assigned to a single thread removing the need to use locks is a major selling point of Erlang/BEAM.
I’m afraid not. My skills are limited to reading the spec sheet. Most likely this is a software issue.
Well, if you thought Congress was co-dependent on corporations to fund their campaigns before and that the US has become a country "by the corporations, for the corporations" (something Larry Lessig would probably say), then it's going to be even more true now that the Fed is illegally buying corporate bonds.

I guess that for the foreseeable future Congress will continue to rescue large corporations with taxpayer money ad nauseam - tax money to which the same corporations contribute almost nothing these days, too.

Wonderful.
My reply was more to what tptacek said - observing that for at least some configurations a stolen mail spool from a laptop won't have signatures on sent emails.
Very very few companies are actually like Google to the point where I'd say making an argument that assumes you are like Google is a fallacy. When you have a near infinite stream of ad money to pay developers million dollar salaries then amazing things are possible.
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But a duplicate of the actuator failed in a lab on Earth after almost exactly as many turns as the actuator in space lasted -- that's how they determined the cause of the spacecraft's going offline.
Maybe the average HN user would rather keep cryptography in the cryptography discussions and ideology in the ideology discussions. I don't necessarily agree with that, but it's not evidence of "bias".
This tax shenanigans happen because we have built an absurdly complex tax framework which can be gamed/abused with economies of scale. The solution is to streamline the tax framework as to make its implementation almost unavoidable.

Long-story short, my bet is:

- Sales tax (VAT)

- Inflation

- UBI

Sales tax is far less gameable as it's linked to concrete economic activity. It also has the benefit of tracking the added value produced by an economy (it has the right properties as a tax). It has a problem though, it's regressive, see last point. Every economic activity should be included (e.g. stocks should have a VAT; you sell stock you collect VAT, you buy stocks, you pay VAT). Some progressiveness may be included by using different VAT rates for different products, to be done judiciously.

Inflation is a fantastic tax, very hard to game as it's quite pervasive and taxes the accumulation of capital so it tends to be distributive, anti-regressive. Cash sitting idle does nothing for the economy so disincentivizing it makes sense. This doesn't mean that inflation has to be high (the usual moderately low and positive that economists aim for may be reasonable), just that inflation should be seen as the taxation mechanism for the accumulation of capital. And we shouldn't reduce it to a single number for the entire economy but understand how inflation is evolving in the different parts of the economy to make sure monetary and fiscal policy are hitting the targets.

UBI, fixes the regressiveness of VAT. UBI is not too different from having a lowest tax-free income bracket or even negative-tax income bracket if you prefer to look at it that way. UBI can also help hit the right inflation rates in consumer products which we have been having great trouble achieving through conventional central bank policies.

I think this mix is far less gameable, tracks better the size of the economy, places the right incentives and disincentives and will survive better the ongoing economic transformations (good luck taxing income when most of the economic output is produced by computers).
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Absolutely, it would be trivial to create some kind of program that could spin up LLCs on the fly once you have founded the main series.
Generally enjoyed this, but I thought it was kind of odd to finger wag at businesses for being “over-leveraged” because a lot of them were in distress after a global pandemic shut down the economy.

A huge exogenous shock with no potential for moral hazard seems like a pretty clear case where a sort of social insurance (i.e. a government bailout) would be the optimal solution.
There's a difference in weeks and years. I think the main reason was the OS and nearly all hardware was developed and tested by the same company - no 3rd party graphic card kernel drivers etc.

It was also a fact that a lot of these machines were expected to be up 24/7 - running mail/file servers etc. OS updates, including kernel updates wouldn't require rebooting.
Hum... I suggest you take a look on how taxes on profit work.

That's literally a tax on value added.
You’re arguing against a straw man. OP wasn’t saying the self employed incorporate in Estonia. They said they are efficient with taxes. They even gave a specific example: business expenses.

For example, I run a business in Canada, and know that food and drinks are only 50% deductible. Therefore, at a 50% marginal tax rate those items effectively cost business 50% more than, say, buying office supplies. And that informs decision making.

It’s also vital to know how different capital cost classes and depreciation schedules affect things, or to properly set up a home office deduction , and to deduct everything deductible.

Most of these things are set it and forget it. It’s absolutely worth doing correctly even at a self employed scale.
> Noone is going to splatter the whole countryside with 4G LTE high-speed coverage

You are welcome to come check out our excellent unlimited and uncapped 4G coverage in rural Finland.

Proper network coverage isn’t an issues in countries with functioning telecom regulation and coverage minimums in frequency licenses.
Can't say them not knowing them at all, or them being outright lousy.

When it come to CS fundamentals, algorithmics, most were better than me, who never studied CS academically. This was the reason we ever took interest in them.

It's just you cannot compensate for training, and experience with overall feel of skill. You can hire an ACM olympian, and the guy will still loose it unless he did C professionally for 3-4 years.
No, the task is still on you to defend your strange belief in the nonexistence of free markets.

I went into a small one this very morning, to buy some apples and eggs. Looked very real to me. And free: nobody told the sellers at which price to sell and nobody made me buy if I didn’t like it.
Drones with knives will fix this.
Technically, that was systemwide inconsistent behavior.

Readline compatible keystrokes came from nextstep (sorry, I don’t dare to guess how to capitalize that). Traditional Mac OS used completely different key combinations (command left arrow instead of control-a, for example). Because of that, Carbon apps didn’t support readline-like key combinations (but system input fields did)

The two could happily coexist only because the Mac originally didn’t have control keys (it only got them for supporting terminal programs, as part of trying to make Macs sell better in business), so none of its navigation keystrokes used the control key.
VAT is not tax on revenue. Only the end customer pays VAT.
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Great post!

For e-mail provider you can also consider Posteo.de, and for e-mail application on Android and AOSP (forks) you can use P=P (a material design K-9 fork with PGP support).

I'm using Soverin, btw. Happy with them.

As for AOSP forks there's a lot of them, not all equally ready. There's CopperheadOS, there's /e/.

There's also PostmarketOS which is like a mobile Linux foundation for other OSes much like Mer was. There's SFOS (SailfishOS) which has Android emulation (if licensed), and all kind of mobile versions of Linux distributions such as Manjaro, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, PureOS, etc. If you're into that, Pinephone might be interesting. They got 13 OSes ready to be loaded.
That's still a problem, if you think companies minimising their tax is a problem. The game shifts to creating the correct structure to qualify for tax credits.
ebay has so much red tape to be able to post anything on there im surprised people still use it. Not to mention the fact that they take 15 percent of whatever you make, so any potential profit you thought you might make on selling something is diminished...
VLC probably doesn't use the hardware decoders. Linux video acceleration is a mess, and without the exact correct versions of every component, it doesn't work and will fall back to slow software.

Hardware decoders tend to be picky about the exact video format. VLC wants to work with anything, which also makes it not a good idea to use the hardware decoders.

Even Chrome on Linux doesn't use hardware acceleration on any GPU for video.
MMT is a neat theory. The mathematics are quite elegant. Unfortunately, like a lot of beautiful macroeconomics, it isn’t a policy prescription. (Though it provides ivory tower cover for bad policy.)

Reserve currency status does afford increased deficit-spending capacity. But it isn’t an immutable, environmental variable. Deficits and reserve currency status interact. If a country runs up large deficits in the name of its reserve currency it affects others’ inclinations to hold the currency in reserve.

Precisely where this happens is difficult to predict. It involves many levels of animal instincts. That it happens, however, is well evidenced.

By analogy: we know the plane will safely travel at a 300 flight level. There is theoretical work for higher FLs. Do you point up the nose of a fully-loaded plane until the wings or engine or fuselage fail?

Piloting federal fiscal policy on MMT is akin to steering the plane to FL 100 and keeping an eye out for a stall. You might get lucky. But you should have experimented in smaller and more-controlled settings first.
> of course private.

Why "of course"? Keep your signing key off the repo, but you can very much keep them open source too.
As someone who really doesn't understand economics: if the government prints money to build infrastructure, where does the value they've added come from?
I can't follow the logic of it: the government makes some money and pays a load of workers to build a bridge. It seems like the bridge is 'free', paid for with bits of paper they printed. Is the real cost the increased price of bridge building for everyone else, because demand for bridge builders is pushed up?
Only if power is concentrated as it is today.

Concentration of power in congress is a feature, not a bug.

You can remove concentration of power and simply aee corruption/bribe/lobbying dissappear overnight

See my post above for how to do this with 3 simple laws
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I can only express myself in English, but I laugh every time a developer explains how easy their tool is to use because one types “ctrl-f” for find and “ctrl-s” for save, etc. The day these developers learn that the latest Cool Tool uses non-English command mnemonics is going to be a rude awakening.
Yep, I completely get the "the grass is NOT greener on the other side" sentiment. I've been a victim of it many times and I am much more careful these days.

> I love OCaml is well, and most of your points could be reduced to simply "it's lacking manpower" (Scala is lacking it too).

For the better or the worse, this is literally the #1 priority one has to have before trying to technically evaluate a language / framework these days. Otherwise you get sucked on a joyful ride at the end of which you find lack of employability. :(

I personally much prefer OCaml's syntax but since Rust has much more mindshare and is mostly serving the same niche (with GC being the apples-to-oranges comparison here), I preferred to work with Rust. I still would like to work with OCaml but the odds are stacked against the financial incentives of doing so.

> Because all of the "why is stdlib vs. Core vs. Batteries and Async vs. Lwt still an issue" we have in C, C++ and many other popular languages too, but it's not a big issue. People complain on meson/cmake/autotools/boost/glib/qt but not leave for some reason.

Sure, many other languages suffer from that but it's still a very good ideal to strive for -- namely have very few (ideally one) ways of doing things. I personally look for such languages / frameworks and sadly they are very few and far between (Elixir and Clojure come to mind as refreshing exceptions and even they don't follow it everywhere).

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In the end, we all do this for money. If I could work without charging for it then I'd likely know more languages and even work more overall, but it's not the reality we are living in currently.
That seems quite naive. I don't think "I just accepted child porn had to be on my computer as a fact of life." would go down well in court.
Wouldn’t this be a natural selection for the fastest growing coral? Or temperature resistant coral?
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ebay, facebook and amazon blocking the sale of masks and hand sanitizer is likely a reason for spikes of viral infection.... as if blocking the sale of these items has anything to do with keeping people safe, quite the opposite.
It's not even mini HDMI. It's micro HDMI. And those cables are insanely fragile. I went through 3 in as many days when I got my Pi 4 recently.
Allocating the h1bs by how much the receiving companies are willing to pay is solid.

The real issue is decent the number of h1bs, and thus the cutoff
Yes.

If there's an illegal number X and I give you a number Y with the intention that you obtain X from it by some transform then Y is also illegal because I "tainted" it when I did the original transformation from X.

If I just need Y (or X) for some operation that's not related to the "illegality" then those numbers are not illegal.

The essay that droffel linked to explains this very well.
MkI was the absolute best tool to do that one thing. Respectfully, MkII compromises on manual control to an unacceptable degree for my usage and an investment in education for beginners along with dumbing down the UI with explicit text labels (the font is indeed nice, but why do things with clean and clear iconography need these additional labels?) is not what I'd consider part of "that one thing". Of course, these issues could be fixed in the future, at which point I'd gladly eat my words.
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Yeah, I get the feeling that this theory is mostly based on the fact that the consent of elected representatives is required to raise taxes, but not to print money.
I recently showed an OSX based colleague some bash key bindings. He was amazed that I knew these, even more when I replied emacs has the very same key bindings.
Oh thank goodness!

I'm constantly reflexively reaching for ctrl+s and then correcting myself just at the last second.
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Just get rid of corporate taxes, and get rid of capital gains taxes. Treat all income the same.

Kills the double taxation issue, and removes the incentives for corporations to avoid taxes.
Hi.

I've just had a quick look, and I've already found the fretboard.py app useful. I have a 9-string guitar (low C#, F#, B below the usual strings) which I've never really made much use of, and adding a new tuning to the .json file was easy enough, and straight away I can use it to map things out on the fretboard.

When I get some time, I want to look into using this to produce PDF output for worksheets as it'll be a lot quicker than my current workflow for producing scale diagrams for pupils.

Thanks!
> Numbers who's origins are tainted by an illegal number can be illegal [..]

Two thoughts:

1. This appears to show a complete disregard for basic mathematics...

and

2. Do lawyers ever wonder why people make jokes about them?
I would turn this around. As a guy who was doing OSS here and there (and still got burned out by doing only a little) I completely sympathize that nobody should ever expect people to do important work for free. Absolutely.

At the same time, it's a good response when somebody muses in a saddened manner "I wish my favourite language was more popular". Then I can spring out of the bush and tell them why it isn't. This doesn't mean I expect the OSS community around the language to serve me -- of course not! But it's a good explanation on why language X isn't more commercially popular.
Things like the Agricultural Adjustment Act came about because Overproduction of commodities (in this case crops) lead to its collapse. The prices go down decreasing the margin so the producers put more in the market, pushing the price down further, reducing their margins further, leading to unpayable debts and bankruptcies.

An abundance of commodities disrupts the conditions for the creation of profits. Nobody really disputes the overproduction phenomena and consequences. At the macro-scale this can have a contagion effect and cause what's called a "general glut" identified by both Smith and Ricardo.

We saw that in the shale oil bust just recently. Price controls and making the government the buyer of last resort (for instance, the Commodity Credit Corporation) are remedies for fixing this flaw. They are there because of a fundamental flaw in market economics.
YouTube has gotten way better in the past couple of years. When they first launched DASH streaming, it was terrible on high-latency international connections. If a US-based content creator uploaded a video and you were the first to view it in your region, you could actually notice how it was populating the CDN and it was unwatchable without disabling DASH and using the old-fashioned buffered player. These days it's flawless for me in nearly every situation.
As an emacs user, one of the things I really wish it had was robust support for arbitrary file sizes and shapes.

(It'd be fine if not all features worked on these files.)

Sure, most files are reasonably sized and shaped, but sometimes you do find yourself needing to e.g. dig into that single-line 1GB json file to try to debug something, and it's inefficient to have to think, before opening any file, "is more normal tool sufficient for this, or should I use something else?"

There's no fundamental reason we can't have one tool that does it all!