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>No, you need to compete with the labour rates which isn't the same thing.

could you point to me 1 government in north america who has lowered minimum wage? That's how you would compete with labour rates.

>Interestingly total tax take vs GDP isn't much different between China (20%) and US(24%)[1].

I'm not sure we're comparing apples to apples here. Tax to GDP while also looking at the entire country. The free trade zones are certainly not 20%. Mainland is around 20% for sure. In fact some of the zones are lower than hong kong on purpose. Which according to that source is 13% but that seems high.

>It's somewhat easier to compare two similarly sized countries in Europe. The UK and Germany for instance. Germany has a total tax take of about 45%, the UK is at 35%. Yet German exports are much higher than the UK[2].

I believe we're missing the forest through the trees though. so many missing factors, for example Germany also has very low debt but they also benefit greatly from the Balkan countries. Germany sits well because Crotia and neighbours are the ones heavily in debt.

>Globalisation means taxes will shift away from corporations and towards consumption, dividends and land value which are much harder to avoid.

they may shift but the balance is what matters. What's more important is what's about to happen. The governments of the world are increasingly bankrupt. No politician will consider dynamically changing the fundamentals of how taxes are collected. If land value taxes come about, it will be a new tax that is in addition. they will be raising taxes. The exact opposite of what they need to be doing.
Can anyone from/formerly of Mozilla explain why XUL had to die? When I was a kid it seemed utterly fascinating, I wonder now if we'd ever needed Electron if there was a modern XULRunner
Ah HN, where the utopian cyberpunk dreaming of a decentralized uncontrollable currency meets the utopian environmentalist to whom any cause is evil that uses carbon.
> It’s a store of value

A typical store of value doesn’t have annual 80% price swings.

> Holding USD is a terrible idea

Strongly disagree, the USD is still the main flight to safety in the world. I don’t see that changing any time soon.
What many don't realize is the reason open/free software doesn't easily make it in the corporate zone is that there's no company behind them to put their name behind an SLA. This and integration with the ecosystem (MS has an easier time selling Windows+365+Exchange+cloudstuff).

The jump from "providing an email client" to "providing a privacy focus email service for independent professionals and small businesses" is already quite large. Being able to sell that by giving some guarantees (in signed SLA form) is yet another jump on an entirely different scale.
Hi and thank you for the compliment!

It takes no time at all to set up a new email alias, you just make up an alias and it will be created automatically the first time it is used, it couldn't be easier.

Most of our users rarely login to our website.
Interesting. The NYT says:

"Each kit, which tests a single swab sample, is expected to cost about $30 or less, said Bella Zabinofsky, a spokeswoman for the company."

So it sounds like a one time use kit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/health/rapid-covid-test-e...
I don't use either now, but Google Finance always felt like an also-ran product. It started out with some good features but never quite matched Yahoo Finance. In particular, the GF portfolio tool was quite basic next to Yahoos. That said, it's been a few years since I've used either. Dealing with options on GF was a bit of a pain also.

Now, I either stick to the really basic stuff in the stocks app or use Amaeritrade's iPad app which is pretty decent for low level research and I can trade from it.

Feels like the days of having a stocks/ business web page are gone, at least for me.
> because google advertised it

For a time, chrome was bundled along side JRE updates. I went over to my mother's multiple times and saw that Chrome had, yet again, replaced Firefox.

Not to mention the constant advertising/banners to switch to Chrome on all of Google's web properties.
Why is the headline editorialized?
Why not instead just have foreign govts buy and own the Amazon, instead of ranchers? Let the govts of the world, especially the Paris Climate Accords signatories, collectively own the Amazon and put it all into a nature preserve that can’t be mowed down and turned into farmland?

It would still be under Brazilian jurisdiction and law, of course, and the Brazilian govt would likely be contracted to run such a preserve. But the property rights would be owned by an international group of govts who do not allow destruction of the forests on their property.
If you want to dive deeper into the issues look into Developable Surfaces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developable_surface
> You then proceeded to move the goalposts so far that now we’re talking about wether or not an app is free?

I didn't move the goalposts. The goalposts were always about data collection.

> fake accusations of privacy violations.

There is a real privacy violation going on here. The author has simply externalized it from his app's code. My point was that privacy can be violated outside the app itself and in the ecosystem where it is consumed. A publisher who cares about that, like GGP claimed to in the original comment I replied to, would work to mitigate that data collection as well.

To take the argument to the logical next step, it's like saying you can get my app, which doesn't collect any information at all, for free; however, to get it, you have to link your Twitter and Facebook accounts to the store website and share that you downloaded the app on those platforms.
Getting malware into air-gapped computers is order of magnitude easier than getting information out.
Which sites are 'locking out' Firefox?
They could have released the PC version and wait a year or two to release to consoles. It's similar to what Rockstar did with RDR2.
> These are the people who were tapping the lines between Google data centers.

That isn't PRISM.
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I am a subscriber. The Mobian community is very engaging, and worthy of the support.
Boost your opt-in rate by gamifying the ask
Good! That means it's working!
> Judgmental as it sounds, it's hard for me not to see it as at least a little sad.

Perfect example of why SV shies away from this industry.

People, humanity, are capable and willing to do a great many things. Morality is very subjective.
Chrome/Chromium/Edge has more features, does more things. Why would I use Firefox except for being stubborn?

I personally moved to Edge from Chrome after they forked Chromium because of better integration with Windows. I wouldn't have before, because it was lacking. Now with feature parity, the integration with Windows has a value.

Chromium can be configured for all of the privacy things Firefox has. There is no inherent other difference. Normal people will always value utility over privacy.

Mozilla can chose to fork Chromium, and come ahead. Chromium/Blink was a fork of WebKit. They made it better. Mozilla can chose a better starting point with Chromium.

I still remember moving from Internet Explorer to Firefox to Chrome now to Edge.

I was blown away by Chrome when it came out. It was just better. Way better.
Coinbase seems to be the most trustworthy of all exchanges. Most coins in cold storage plus insurance on top of the hot wallet. They also offer Coinbase wallet where you control your keys.

I’m considering moving to a trusted exchange.
Do you see disadvantages in storing and managing all on your own? It also carries risk. I’m more frightened to loose my Trezor T than Coinbase screwing me.
What Successful Startups Have in Common
> for the average user

I think this was the key. No average user I know uses an email client on their PC, outside of the corporate one. It's one more thing to take care of and average users rarely want that.

It's easier on mobile where people are used with the "app" concept, not really on the PC. This is one reason why Thunderbird doesn't enjoy the kind of popularity browser based email does.
Thank you for the feedback. If you like Emacs4CL, please do take a look at the "Show HN" post for it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25440690

Indeed the intention behind the .emacs and detailed documentation for it was to make it easy for beginners to set up a Common Lisp development environment with Emacs and SLIME quickly while understanding every step of the setup process. I am glad you like it!
There's a major difference. Antigen tests identify a protein of the virus, which can be detected only if you have infectious viruses in your respiratory tract.

Less sensitive, but highly useful in absence of symptoms, because you know that you need to isolate as you're infectious.
I think you can be down for 4 days by the standard.
96% sensitivity rate for people with symptoms. 91% sensitivity rate without symptoms. Given the ramp of virus replication between the time that one is asymptomatic and when one is infectious (ie hours), this sensitivity rate is excellent for an at-home test.

Imagine if such a test had been available to everyone nine months ago. The pandemic could have been effectively ended.
Assuming the project had any headcount to do so. But Google has (apparently) not invested much in Google Finance which is . . . fine? Tons of alternatives. Are we now saying it's a bad thing when Google cedes part of the web ecosystem to other companies?

I have no idea what you're getting at with the comment about Google recruiters.
Interesting. Although, now that it has become the ubiquitous logo to identify recyclables (moron in a hurry principle), they should probably recycle it accordingly.
Can't disagree with this.

Measuring anything in USD is self-flagellation.
> worshiping the wealthy

"Over the years, [Elon Musk] cultivated a media persona that was “part playboy, part space cowboy,” Vance writes. [...] Musk sells himself as a singular mover of mountains and does not like to share credit for his success. At SpaceX, in particular, the engineers “flew into a collective rage every time they caught Musk in the press claiming to have designed the Falcon rocket more or less by himself [...] In fact, Musk depends heavily on people with more technical expertise in rockets and cars, more experience with aeronautics and energy, and perhaps more social grace in managing an organization. Those who survive under Musk tend to be workhorses willing to forgo public acclaim.” [1]

“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.” [2]

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/08/04/166593/techs-end...

[2] Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
> Print to PDF is better in Chrome, comes with a preview

Wait, isn't this something the OS print dialog is supposed to provide?

> Search marks matches in the scroll bar.

I'd like to see this implemented as well (just as another commenter mentioned).

> There were probably 5-10 more annoyances in Firefox for me that I don't recall right now. Maybe it was my familiarity with Chrome but overall I still think Chrome has better UX defaults.

Which is mostly because you're more familiar with Chrome overall (and it's also a matter of taste). As an example, I strongly dislike the downloads "bar" in chrome and the fact that bookmark/history/downloads pages are pages and not dialogs. Many people dislike dialogs tho, because they seem bloated and difficult to use to them.

One small UI gimmick I'd like to see implemented in major browsers (at least on macOS) is an option to use the fluent/vibrant blur tab bar background instead of the default white/gray/black. Firefox already kinda does that (at least when using the dark theme), but I still have to write my own userchrome.css to get the full effect.
https://www.coindesk.com/ruffer-confirms-744m-bitcoin-invest...
https://www.kevinrooke.com/post/microstrategys-bitcoin-debt-...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/08/square-buys-50-million-in-bi...
The Paris agreement was not enforceable, and the US is one of the countries that has actually done most to reduce carbon output.

But hey, at least the rest of world leaders are virtue signaling about their greenness, that’ll help the planet!
I am NOT a fan of Bitcoin, but...

Watch a real-time visualization of the global Bitcoin transaction flow, as it is happening right now:

https://dailyblockchain.github.io/

Each square is a bitcoin address (like a cryptographic public key)

Each graph component is a transaction. The components appear as transactions are broadcast into the bitcoin P2P network (but before they are verified and committed to the blockchain)

Each transaction simply transfers bitcoin: from one or more input addresses, to one or more output addresses. In other words, money flows from one or more previous owners, to one or more new owners. That's how a currency works

Coin ownership flows from green to red (yellow is in/out: I pay you and take some change back at the same address)

When the output of one transaction becomes an input for a new transaction, the components are pulled together

This illustrates how Bitcoin is used. What do you notice?
How long does the "game of musical chairs" have to go on before you consider the possibility that this isn't one? It has been a decade since BTC was launched.
Edit: Abbott test availability

Meanwhile, US-based Abbott has a $5 rapid test that is approved for use in the EU but not in the US (for home use).

If we're getting rapid tests, they need to be absurdly cheap and available in great quantities.

https://www.abbott.com/BinaxNOW-Test-NAVICA-App.html#/
The Cult of the Criterion Collection
I’m unfamiliar with the oso architecture so this might not be how it works, but I’d be interested in particular in the performance with ‘large’ input objects (~5mb+ in JSON). They have a good page in their documentation here: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/policy-performan... which explains the loaded data is around 20x the input - we’ve had to work around this. Though we are using OPA for something which it’s not really designed for too...

EDIT: I see this question below is answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25443354

Another question would be around how one extends oso. For example, OPA supports custom built-ins: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/extensions/. The other option is to add functionality to the language itself, e.g. https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa/pull/2538

Oso seems to support this by ‘registering’ objects in the host language, e.g. https://docs.osohq.com/using/libraries/ruby/index.html#worki... in Ruby. I like the look of this and I presume that this is how you’d rather have users build more advanced policy than extending what seems to be a pretty lightweight language (https://docs.osohq.com/using/polar-syntax.html). OPA seems to have gone the other way and has a lot of functionality in the language for common cases, e.g. x509, jwt, etc. Would I be right in assuming that the current design decision is not to add such functionality to oso?
Let me put it differently, market share does not equal profit share does not equal revenue share does not equal total number of people employed by does not equal share of ownership in a particular store or platform. So what is the measure?

Apple owns 100% of the App Store, but they do not recognize 100% of the revenue from the App Store on their financials.

An arbitrary number of people like 45M EU citizens choosing to use your service or buy your products or shop in your stores? I don’t see the merits for this distinction.

Don’t get me started on antitrust laws.
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Websites can be free. Wix and Webflow will let you create and host one at no cost if you're OK with a subdomain of the vendor.

The cost and effort of moving that subdomain to a self branded domain is relatively cheap as well

Besides that, Google My Business also lets you create a barebones site, which is especially useful as it's integrated with Maps and shows open/close hours, manage reviews and feedback. Bing Places does this as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... does not agree with the claim that Americans are the biggest per capita polluters on the planet, if pollution is measured by carbon emissions.
> BTC works perfectly fine without carbon output

I’m not sure I follow this (admittedly I don’t know much about how BTC actually works). Doesn’t mining also serve the purpose of verifying transactions?
Even Microsoft seems to be moving to the cloud, but your point has been valid for a very long time.
I didn't have cases like your example in mind. If you couldn't know that the speed limit would decrease soon, eg you had no idea the speed limit was going to change until you were nearly level with the sign, then presumably the law should require you to slow down promptly but safely. The opt-out button shouldn't be required in that case.

The opt-out button would be for rare situations where you actually need to exceed the speed limit for reasons of health or safety.

I don't want information getting into the hands of powerful people without a very good reason, but I think the safety benefits of universal speed limit compliance with exceptions for health and safety would constitute a very good reason.

In terms of privacy, this idea seems more or less equivalent to traffic cameras that capture images of license plates when drivers fail to comply with traffic signals.
Because for many "first-worlders" people in the third world are little better than exotic animals. They dont want to go to Mexico, Thailand or Kenya and find modern malls, hustling executives and last generation cars, no, they want pristine nature, exotic animals and smiling natives who treat them as gods and provide them with service for 1 dollar tips ("Dont give them more, you will spoil them").
> They meant that online ads have enabled small businesses to target niche clientele and make cool things

I feel they did acknowledge this. But added that this doesn't justify privacy invasion on a massive scale - something your not countering.
Spooks were on the design committee.
The implosion of the 35M startup meant to fix the Democratic Party
real USD is losing value to BTC lol

i don't envy the americans, they are not ready for what's about to come

insert_mushroom_emoji

ask yourself why people are leaving california for texas (center)
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> 1) "23% more likely to die" seems _huge_, but it applies to an already very small chance. The mortality rate just goes from 5.6% to 7%. Using this logic, moving from 0.1% mortality rate to 0.3% would mean "you are 3 times more likely to die".

But that is indeed precisely what it means. The 737 MAX might have increased the accident rate from 1 in a million to 3 in a million, and that would have been a tripling. That is not sensationalistic.

> 3) Where are the confidence intervals?

In the paper: "(7.2% v 5.6%; adjusted difference 1.6%, 95% confidence interval 0.4% to 2.8%; P=0.01)"
Or just nobody to write the RFP. So many ways of doing business assume that something will be purchased.
My understanding is that it was done in a legal manner. The majority of the investors were "friends" and had to give sign off. They got a smaller stake in the new venture and promise of larger returns, etc.
I just never understood how Google, with 100,000 employees, could let such a mainstream product display such shoddy functionality that is not rocket science.

Their interface couldn't drag and drop stock tickers, reorganize your list, update correctly, etc. Basic usability.

Maybe I don't know how tech companies' product management works, if it's underresourced or what, but such a giant company allowing a product (a simple, basic, not even requiring huge product innovation) to sleepwalk is hard to understand.

Do their team not get rewarded for working on basic, non-flashy products? Is that why it stagnated?
Is there a full featured editor that's hosted in the SBCL image itself? I vaguely recall CMUCL had something of the sort. It used to be you had to actually specify GNU Emacs, but nowadays it's pretty much the only Emacs anyone means.
Exactly. I run Windows 10 everywhere -- and Windows Servers in the cloud. None of these problems that the Mac and Linux folks talk about.

They're basing everything on what they read in Mac printed magazines about "Windoze" back in the late 80s.
Yes- the OP means to say the issue isn't necessarily the tech but how the energy powering the tech is generated. For example a large amount of miners in China run on the cheapest local electricity source which happens to be hydroelectric.
> Apple only allows webkit and safari clones on their platform.

Firefox runs on macOS
It looks like they charge for support. https://www.osohq.com/developers/support
Super interesting. I wonder if the metamodel of the differences between reliable and unreliable could be related to whether the overall lexicon (and implied ontology) of a given article is more focused on the endogenous logic of the subject and the events it describes, or relies on "callouts" to exogenous ideas. ( for exmaple, this comment is a callout, instead of a discussion of their methodology)

It would be a kind of subtext analysis, where the question is whether the article has more of an internal logical consistency, or if it resembles a form that is a vehicle for an external idea. The concept worth exploring might not be "reliability," but "value."

Sorting news into tribes is pretty simple and doesn't really require ML, so their examples of unreliable news sites are useful to prove the apparatus tech for a surveillance scheme, but I'd suggest less scientifically meaningful. Their sample sites were more about social class than reliability (the same thing to them, probably), as there are definitely news sources that are both extremely unreliable and high value.

That unreliable/high-value quadrant is probably more useful to study for determining how to discover value than just numbering people for their class and beliefs.

Instead of a sentiment analysis, the question is, "is this article about a subject, or is the subject of this article a vehicle for another idea?" Wonder if that's possible. It would be like determining sentiment to separate reporting from criticism.
Same configuration across different machines (apart from hardware.nix). I have a configuration.nix, networking.nix and packages.nix that pretty much covers everything. Then there's my .emacs, bashrc and my i3/config files. There's probably a way to get those last three into my NixOS config, but I haven't really investigated that.

I only use i3. Haven't found a reason to install another WM yet. I tend to use xrandr, pavucontrol and wpa_supplicant quite happily for most of the stuff people use a GUI WM for.
> The "one place" to find businesses is your local search engine

What businesses want is to show you these things without your explicit desire to find them, which isn't the "one place" a search engine needs to be.
> this crap

Sounds like your opinion. Not seeing much in the way of justification.
See the video here

https://youtu.be/z0mb0NteYjg