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With the way tax brackets work couldn't this result in a net loss of revenue for the city?
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Isn't the whole idea of "money" for the government to provide a "stable currency", as a store of value and means to make financial transactions? How is it a good store of value when you take 2 to 3% of the value away every single year? Imagine, you're a retiree with 200K in savings and you loose 6K every single year, just to what's considered "moderate inflation"!!!???

People will tell you, you need to invest in real assets, like real estate or equities. In other words, barter, which defeats the whole purpose of using a currency in the first place.

Honestly, How is it that 2% inflation is so acceptable?
1) Lowest-income jobs that can easily be outsourced are very likely already outsourced. If the company has the option to do this, why should it hold off doing so?
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This is actually a good point. The government know you've been paid it and you've paid tax but that doesn't mean you can't rightfully hide the rest of the money away somewhere.

They don't know if you spent the rest of it immediately or kept it if you never put it into a domestic bank.
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Got it now. I wonder if it's likely that a deputy sheriff would keep a record of such encounter, during which I assume, they might ask a hiker to provide identifying details.
Casual international use isn't much of a concern for most people in the US.
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Or just use the Flatpak version on Flathub, which doesn't take a ridiculous amount of time to launch
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.Thunderbird
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I actually still use dokku for my side projects and it works great. Very little learning curve, minimal headaches. Sure it doesn't scale out but that's not been a problem so far.
> does this target only CEOs?

No, "CEO Tax" is a popular term for this style of tax, but its not tied to CEOs specifically; its triggered by the pay ratio between the "highest paid managerial employee" of the firm and the median full-time-equivalent pay of full-time and part-time employees based in the City.
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Git actually does not work with deltas; each commit contains the hash of a tree object [0], which contains the hashes of the files within it [1].
This tree is effectively a snapshot, since it contains every file hash in the working directory at a certain point in time.
Since Git uses the file hash instead of just the file path, it doesn't have to download the files whose hashes haven't changed since the last commit, which is what makes it behave somewhat as if it is operating on a delta.

[0] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects#_gi...
[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects#_tr...
OC didn't claim they should do nothing. He just said that this specific way was short-sided.
> sources is a very hard problem

We're talking about virtually unknown blogs that get 1 http request from my server's IP, which is not blacklisted anywhere. It's not hard at all , i just think cloudflare's tech s not that good
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I am not changing topics, my point is that when you see a price of $15000 on the exchanges, what you are actually seeing is mostly btc/usdt pairs, that is, you are getting 15k usdt for a bitcoin, not USD. You can see it in e.g. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/markets/

It is currently pegged 1:1, so you can exchange it for actual US dollars for the most part, which allows exchanges to claim that USDT=USD and they merge them all into a single thing. But there is no reason to believe USDT is actually equal to USD as they keep printing billions of them without any proof that there's any real money behind it.
This thread compares holding your wealth with a third party (such as in a bank) with holding your wealth yourself (such as in Bitcoin).

Your example isn't about Bitcoin, it's about third parties.

Far more $$$ has been lost to third parties than to Bitcoin.
There are foundries that do multi-project wafer runs for very small customers. It's not motivated by yields, though, but by sharing fixed costs with other customers if you don't really want to do mass production.
Is there something like Code-Server/Theia for IntelliJ?
Nix/NixOS for this purpose is very nice.
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Brings to mind the last paragraph here (see my comment below for the ending):

> By the time of Plato’s death (347 B.C.) his hostile analysis of Athenian democracy was approaching apparent confirmation by history. Athens recovered wealth, but this was now commercial rather than landed wealth; industrialists, merchants, and bankers were at the top of the reshuffled heap. The change produced a feverish struggle for money, a pleonexia, as the Greeks called it—an appetite for more and more.

> The nouveaux riches (neoplutoi) built gaudy mansions, bedecked their women with costly robes and jewelry, spoiled them with dozens of servants, rivaled one another in the feasts with which they regaled their guests. The gap between the rich and the poor widened; Athens was divided, as Plato put it, into “two cities:… one the city of the poor, the other of the rich, the one at war with the other. The poor schemed to despoil the rich by legislation, taxation, and revolution; the rich organized themselves for protection against the poor. The members of some oligarchic organizations, says Aristotle, took a solemn oath: “I will be an adversary of the people” (i.e., the commonalty), “and in the Council I will do it all the evil that I can."

> "The rich have become so unsocial,” wrote Isocrates about 366 B.C., “that those who own property had rather throw their possessions into the sea than lend aid to the needy, while those who are in poorer circumstances would less gladly find a treasure than seize the possessions of the rich.”

> The poorer citizens captured control of the Assembly, and began to vote the money of the rich into the coffers of the state, for redistribution among the people through governmental enterprises and subsidies. The politicians strained their ingenuity to discover new sources of public revenue. In some cities the decentralizing of wealth was more direct: the debtors in Mytilene massacred their creditors en masse; the democrats of Argos fell upon the rich, killed hundreds of them, and confiscated their property. The moneyed families of otherwise hostile Greek states leagued themselves secretly for mutual aid against popular revolts.

[1] Will Durant. “The Lessons of History.” p. 58-60
It would be good if they said something like "staff from other companies who spend more than 50% of their work week at your office will be included in your company average wages, even if hired through a subcontractor" — like residency requirements but for employees — to cover catering/security/reception jobs etc. that may get outsourced.
It's just an example. Do you know the ipv6 address of your router? The fe80 one? Likely not. 10.0.0.1 is much easier to type.
This assumes that the performance of companies is driven by the CEO much more than the employees. If the Bay Area has great FANG companies because of talented workforce here, then CEOs will gladly take a pay cut to be able to employ the best workers.
I vote for IRC ;)
Then they will realize the majority of landlords already don't live there: domestic and foreign investors.
What happens when other cities want to do the same thing to large companies with a national footprint? Is Sundar Pichai going to have to pay 0.6% to every city Google operates in who wants in on this?
Brilliant idea: introduce a city tax in the middle of a pandemic which makes everyone work remotely from anywhere they want. Couldn't possibly backfire /s.
As a California outsider, I had a very difficult time making it to the end of the article you linked. Maybe Chesa Boudin is a terrible person, but that article alone just reads like someone's angry rant and told me very little about Boudin himself.
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Is it possible to do inoremap jk <ESC> yet in Evil? That's a huge optimization for a really large minority of Vim users and without that, Evil definitely isn't Vim's equal.
I tried to look up the actual bill, but it doesn't provide any information on how stock options are valued [0]

I am curious how you would determine what the fair value of a stock option is when it is granted. Assume the option's strike price is for the current stock price. Theoretically, that stock option has a current value of "0" (assuming that it is non-transferrable so we don't have to worry about market price)

That stock option is expected to increase in value if the stock price increases (which then aligns the CEO's salary with shareholder value). So in five years, those stock options might be worth millions of dollars. But would you then say the CEO got paid millions of dollars five years ago? But the stock options when they were granted were 0 - they increased in value when they were the property of the CEO. If the CEO bought artwork 5 years ago and the value increased 10x in 5 years, would you also add that to his taxable income?

I am sure there are ways to value these options. But I can't find the details in this bill. Do you know how it might work?

0: https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/...
Maybe a tax like this is not the only way to address inequality?
Around 2007, a gentleman named Steve Jobs invented the iPhone and unleashed another tech boom, driven primarily by the increased adoption and use of the smartphone and apps within them.

The spoils from this boom primarily benefited companies and people based in and around the Bay Area. People there didn't realize that the rest of the country (and much of the developed world) were still struggling and haven't fully recovered from the 2008-10 recession. The increased prosperity and resulting tax base growth papered over the fundamental mismanagement and poor governance in that area. Some of the highest incomes and highest taxes in the country and yet some of the most dilapidated infrastructure, highest poverty rates and poorest quality of life in the country. "European taxes and third world quality of life" is how I describe the area to people.

Yet, people moved here for the jobs and then new jobs followed the people.

14 years (i.e. half a generation) since then and at the beginning of what is another major recession and economic reset, it's perhaps difficult for most people to imaging that the appeal of the area has diminished and that things aren't magically going back to 2019. People have moved out, companies are hiring elsewhere, the tax base is down >50% and budgets are deep in the red. The local governments can try and raise taxes to squeeze a few million more here and there, but fundamentally, they will have to cut waste and cut spending in the next few years to survive.

I'm not saying SF is going to become the next Detroit, but I remember NYC in the 70s or Seattle post-Boeing (also, early 70s) as an example of what happens to cities when a major industry leaves town. It's a death spiral of lower tax collection -> poorer services -> more people leaving.
Could you share a bit more context? What happened with U-Haul?
No 'lol' because gains/losses on those assets relate to taxation, also, in many regimes you'll have to declare it anyhow.
would you sell the secret how to break privacy coints for $625k?
Actually not DEC PDP's had multiple OS's and not all of them where bundled RT-11 vs RSX-11 or RSTS/E.

You brought the system that suited we (as a Lab) ran RT-11.
> If that’s the case, they’ll make a single 300 km trip or day. I doubt that the business case for that is strong.

Europe is much denser when comapared to US. You can do a lot within 300KM in Europe. Volvo openly states that the trucks are "to be used for regional transport and urban construction operations in Europe".

The trucks in question and the possible range is very well suited to this kind of operation.

Also, there's another important factor: Noise. Some European countries are more sensitive to noise than others. The Netherlands and Sweden comes to my mind.

These trucks will be a huge win on that front because a 44 tonne truck is not exactly silent, especially under load.
The original Tesla Model S had a grill. Also, their name and logo weren't known when the Model S was launched, it is now, but it wasn't when they launched. Tesla wanted their vehicles to be "Normal" looking. If there was any signaling going on, putting a token grill on a car which doesn't need one was signaling this is a normal car. It was only after Tesla had built up a strong enough brand and reputation that they removed the needless grill on the trunk.

The door handles are not an EV design cue at all. They are only on 2 Teslas and no other EVs. They are meant to look and feel luxurious and futuristic and would not be out-of-place on any higher end car. Like the gull-wing doors, I suspect they were done that way because Musk thought they would look cool.
> In many other countries, parties are routinely bootstrapped from the ground up and the big dogs need to form alliances for majorities.

That's essentially a function of the electoral system, though. The US system more or less makes a two-party system inevitable.
Then fine, run sudo snap revert to go back to a hopefully older stable build/revision. Certainly a better as an option than going back to version 68.

Also I don't really care about startups when the difference is on the order of 1-5 seconds. It is not the dominant factor in my boot times. The slowest aspect for me is still typing passwords. Services which are waiting for online for network interface also take longer.
Well, yes. Why wouldn't you? They hire engineers, and they have programming projects. Meets all requirements.
I'm in complete agreement that 4.39MB in any number of requests is too much, but I've got bad news for you about the average webpage: It's that or worse, and you pay a similar cost every time you navigate to a new page on the same site. At least for a webapp you pay that cost once and then can navigate freely within it.

Devrel people from the Chrome team have been beating the drum on this for ages - large web content excludes huge chunks of the world from being able to use stuff, no matter what toolchain it's built with. All these huge frameworks and ad networks and in-page video ads eat up so much bandwidth...
Hey thanks for the feedback. Yea you're right that I was intentionally gendering the term here. My goal was to have someone notice that I used Congresswoman in a negative context.

But I definitely appreciate your comment here and it's something I'll continue to evaluate. On one hand it's shouting into the void. On the other... well... it's probably still shouting into the void.
I'm sure they could figure out a way to get that revenue to be transferred elsewhere. That said, Stripe doesn't likely pay its CEO 100x the average employee wage since it's a pre-IPO company. The CEO likely earns a few million in raw $$$ and the average salary at Stripe is likely past $100k. So, I doubt it's a real issue.

So, for now, it's probably a non-issue... and they have time to adjust.
I absolutely love magit. I tried using to emacs as my main development tool but couldn't be bothered to learn a proper workflow yet. I also tried learning org mode but I have no use case for it yet. But magit is just the best frontend for git.
Here at PhotoStructure, Inc., there's a remarkable amount of access and harmony between the engineering staff, the UX and product team, customer support, and executive teams. It's like we're all thinking with one mind.

In companies that are larger than 1, however, crossing team boundaries can be rough.

UX and design teams can be either "embedded," where a design/UX person sits with a product/engineering team, or they can be kept all together.

The first approach can be great at facilitating communication and iterating on something that results in something not obviously "designed by an engineer."

The second approach, where all the designers sit together as a team, helps homogenize the overall UX esthetic across products, but their comments and input provided to engineering teams can come off as "drive-by critiques" that aren't always warmly taken.

A great approach, if you can swing it, is to have the UX person "loaned" to your team for a couple days a week. Then that person has a chance to be "adopted" but the team, and not have as much default latent friction/discord due to being an "outsider."
> Also, try telling your friend over the phone,

Try telling your friend a URL over the phone! They were designed to be human readable but they're usually far more impossible than IPv6 addresses.

If you're going to complain about something, you should have an alternative solution in mind. Otherwise it might be possible that there really is no better way and nature just hates humans. Then your real complaint might be that humans are bad at long strings or there are too many devices on the internet or too many people in the world or whatever.
Sounds like a dream to compromise! Rather than one attack surface, there's like 25. Crack one and you take the lot.
One thing I'd like to see them do is radically simplify the ability for regular people to start regular businesses. One thing we could do is pick some small industry and run experiments with it. An example might be food trucks. There's a lot of regulations around these today. As a thought experiment we could eliminate all sales tax, special licensing, etc. for food truck companies under a certain size (We don't McDonalds food trucks to count). We could see what happened, is there wide spread food poisoning? Are families brought out of the lower class?

It doesn't have to be food trucks exactly, that's just an industry that people like in a business that's relatively simple and imo has low systemic risk.
> If the Bay Area has great FANG companies because of talented workforce here

The talented workforce is there because of the companies. Why would someone deliberately choose to live in San Fran when given the choice of many cleaner, nicer cities with a lower cost of living?

I guess if you really like fog and hills
Long read (already read it previously), but very good.

Should be more fodder for breaking up and beefing up regulations on tech companies
How naive to think salaries are not paid out of that wealth
> Underlying _that_ problem is a lack of supply

And underlying that problem is Prop 13 - the insane multi billion dollar tax break that Californians bestowed on all land speculators. Until it's gone nothing will change.
You can indeed 'rightfully stash $1B in cash under your mattress' - but almost any other private/public storage mechanism will involve gains/losses which have to be disclosed.
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I've been using Thunderbird for more than 15 years without experiencing inbox corruption. Granted, the first years the volume of mail was low compared to now.

About 5 years ago I tried other clients, including Evolution and Claws, and stayed with Thunderbird. Evolution's UI was significantly slower than Thunderbird's, Claws and the others were less functional.

I'm really happy Thunderbird development was rekindled, because it was getting noticeably behind. I manage six emails, two calendars and three USENET accounts with it, all in the same application, fast, and using less RAM than it takes GMail to display one inbox.
I don't know about Anu (haven't looked at it yet), but with Pijul it would be perfectly possible to take advantage of semantic knowledge. Line-based changes is a default, but you could certainly apply file deltas based on a richer understanding of the underlying filetype.
It seems to me that what "previews" really want is an API for the page's content in a structured format: OpenGraph tags and other microformats are one representation, but it's annoying to have to load _all_ the HTML just to grab title and the OG tags.
> As a consequence of this issue, I had to manually downgrade librsvg on a older machine in order to get Buster functional.

How old is your hardware? AIUI, this should only affect Pentium Pro to Pentium III hardware, which is often limited by other factors anyway (particularly RAM). Even old netbook CPU's ought to support SSE2.

In fact, that bug report was closed with a suggestion to use i586 as a build target if you have an early i686 machine - would that be satisfactory for your use case?
> What this does is, it collects money from today's FAANGs while disincentivizing future startups from starting here.

How many startups are there where the executives make 100x to 200x the median employee pay? That only happens via stock-based compensation at public companies. If that's the case, they're not a startup.
For work I currently have to use an old Eclipse version in a slow virtual desktop infrastructure. But yeah I know it's worth paying for good tools.
> My cat eats something like 300g of food per day

Multiplied for 365 days a year it's more or less 110-120kg of meat

The average European human eats less than 90kg of meat a year (which is already a lot)

So a cat eats on average 25-30% more meat than an European human
> Containerization is not a win here. Where's the second machine to fail over to?

It would probably take an hour or less to add another node to this set up. The author made some choices that block scaling, & changing that, installing service-lb, local-provisioner, would take a bunch of that time. Finding a resilient replacement for local-provisioner is something I wish we were better at, but the folk at Rook.io have a pretty good start on this.

To me, the real hope is that we move more and more of our configuration into Kubernetes state. Building a container with a bunch of baked in configuration is one thing, but I hope we are headed towards a more "cloud native" system, where the email server is run not as containers, but as an operator, where configuration is kept in Kubernetes, and the operator goes out & configures the containers to run based on that.

I agree that running a bunch of service on a Debian box with a couple different releases (testing/unstable) pinned into apt is not really that hard. But I am very excited to stop managing these pets. And I am very hopeful that we can start moving more and more of our configuration from /etc/whateverd/foo.conf files into something centrally & consistently managed. The services themselves all require special unique management today, & the hope, the dream, is that we get something more like big cloud style dashboards, where each of these services can be managed via common Kubernetes tools, that apply across all our services.
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> ...if we do it right, the Devil himself could build the voting machines, and we could hold an honest election,” Jones says. “And doing it right means having genuinely auditable technology...

Volkswagen proves this to be an unsafe assumption - their technology intentionally behaved differently during an audit.

I'm pretty sure it would be straightforward for the devil to know when they were being audited or not.
If you run a single server, getting a Let's Encrypt cert is as easy as running a cron script. Then you just run a single instance of Nginx with the cert directory mounted as a volume. You will have to do a little extra work to maintain the nginx configuration to point to all your other containers, but it's generally just copy/pasting a block and changing the port to add a new service.

Kubernetes is cool but the only reason to run it on a single instance is because you want to.

Also docker-compose isn't used to host stuff in production very often but it is used to manage running local instances quite a bit. I wouldn't write it off as not worth learning.
How did the poor fare in the end?