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There is no reason for pushing tax accounting into businesses to be better than for it to be on the citizens.

It does not make it a better tax, it does not make necesarily make it cheaper to manage, and it has the gravest of dangers of misaligning the incentives between the net tax payer and the net tax consumer.
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I don't think AWS RDS scales like that with "a lot of instances". The only time you would have so many instances is from how many read replicas you setup, and if you have a standby instance. RDS isn't like an EC2 ASG. I might be wrong though ='(

Source: An AWS Certs Scrub
I think this thread is conflating election contributions/outcomes with lobbying. The main point of lobbying is not in the direct, (historically) small campaign contributions but in the large staff of lobbyists who spend time with congressional staff and leadership.

Lobbyist groups don’t care (too) much about who’s elected. They want to influence the lawmaking process.

The election examples above are not particularly relevant to lobbying. But they are relevant to money in politics, so I for one upvoted your comment. You definitely hint at the distinction between elections (and the relative lack of effectiveness) and lobbying, but I imagine people were confused by your reply (though “game the political system” is also vague).
> Eventually the lunch part was skipped, but it was a helpful way to expose potential culture or tech fit problems that were missed earlier.

Maybe it's due to how you wrote it, but this is a big red flag.

Firstly, lunch should not be an interview. Everyone enjoys themselves except the candidate who is carefully trying to navigate a high pressure unknown situation that's mixing professional and social expectations.

Second - "culture" is a bad word, it's loaded with bias. What "culture" are you exposing during lunch - that the candidate is vegetarian? Halal? Sober? Are you looking for someone "friendly" aka an extrovert?

Third - What are "tech fit" problems, and how are they identified during lunch? The candidate is busy trying to eat very politely and be friendly after a day of interviews, you shouldn't be expecting any technical performance.

Lunch is lunch. Give the candidate the option to take it on their own, or with a non-interview employee who's there to answer the candidate's own questions.
I'm curious what your definition for "full backing" is.

Trump had a banner advertisement on youtube on election day. NetPAC and similar corporate pacs donate as much or more to Republic candidates as dems. Similarly, you have many powerful people in silicon valley, including Paul Graham criticizing companies for dropping the veneer of impartiality that favored trump, and moving to actually uphold their own values.

Wallstreet similarly didn't exactly do much to favor biden.

You can't talk about the media without mentioning fox, which is the largest single media institution, and favored Trump until at least December.

Yes, biden had much stronger support from individuals, and in some cases that translated to endorsement from institutions. But it didn't really translate to institutional support like you seem to be implying. I mean the only sort of institutional support you could argue is that generic GOTV efforts favor dems, which while true isn't strong favoritism.

There's a vast difference between targeted lobbying for a particular policy position (especially when there isn't a clear opposition, who is the group that lobbies for clear govt managed tax handling?) And political campaigning.

For the first, you don't even need to appeal to voters.
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I think the ultimate solution needs to come down from UN in setting a legal framework for parts of the country to secede.

I.e. it's generally an economic interest for separatists rise to power, and I wonder if we could stymie that by making it legal for parts of countries to secede under a certain set of terms (paying "damages" to the parent country, obligating parent country to allow free travel and similar for a preset duration of 10 or 20 years).

In the end, I don't think we'd end up with a gazillion small countries, because there is value in having a larger market and freely moving people, even if it might start off with a spike in new countries being established.
It was already successfully used to "Scam A CEO Out Of $243,000":

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessedamiani/2019/09/03/a-voice...

Probably it' easier because phone calls aren't high quality.
If you wanted to make a progressive tax, certainly income is way better than the proxy of what poor people or rich people consume differently.

In any case in practice this is obviously not done, as cigarettes, alcohol, food, basic online purchases etc have sale taxes.
> Their coverage leans left like Fox News leans right, particularly MSNBC.

I don't think it detracts from your points, but the coverage of all these outlets leans Democrat, but not left. They are centrist papers. Left voices (think Chomsky) are almost completely absent from mainstream media.
It's not the race, it's the economic and class changes that happen when whites move into a mostly black or hispanic neighborhood. And concerning US cities, it's pretty much never an instance of middle/lower class whites moving into a middle/lower class black neighborhood.
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Have you thought about how you're going to "dickproof" this?

What's the plan for when trolls descend and start using it to anonymously host hate lies or abuse?
It's a dumpster fire of an article. Claiming they can break a range of encryption algorithms, including AES and can reverse hash functions.

Then at the very end promoting their patented "quantum key distribution" to fix it which is asymmetric cryptography and has nothing to do with fixing AES if its broken.

There's an ongoing NIST competition for post-quantum key distribution right now that they don't seem to be participating in. Scrutiny probably isn't desirable when you are VC backed though.

Until they publish something, the only valid stance is that this Bloomberg reporter got taken for a ride with big baseless claims like they always do.
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IBM wasn't the only company or person developing software.

Consider TeX, released before 1980. Is that open-source?

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sourc... , which includes a link to the work by SHARE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE_(computing) .

> In 1959 SHARE [a volunteer-run user group for IBM mainframe computers that was founded in 1955] released the SHARE Operating System (SOS), originally for the IBM 709 computer, later ported to the IBM 7090. SOS was one of the first instances of "commons-based peer production" now widely used in the development of free and open-source software such as Linux and the GNU project.
Rich people consume more than the poor. Even if you have illegal income it gets captured by consumption taxes.

And yes it is done. Food, clothes, toiletries aren’t tax in most states in the US or Canada.

Of course alcohol and tobacco aren’t exempted. You’re trying to discourage use not encourage it.
Nope, then it would be logical. Especially on servers it was all standard stuff.
Stuff like this happens on iOS all the time and everyone just ignores it because it's mostly sandboxed. Apple is terrible at stopping malware until it ends up in the news.
Ha, I came here to say the same thing. At the least, I recognized:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampopo

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo-Ga

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_Point_(1990_film)

All good films, though maybe acquired tastes unless you are into Japanese film. The second is a documentary by Wim Wenders exploring the work of Yasujiro Ozu, mixed with Wenders' visual impressions of 80s Japan.
Why hire mercenaries when you can just hire some lobbyists and let the taxpayers foot the bill for the muscle?
The biggest mistake I've made, once myself, and once inheriting a network someone else passed on to me: Picking a theme that's too small.

I inherited a couple servers "jules" and "vincent" [after the Pulp Fiction characters]. I added mia and ringo, I started finding remaining names weren't great. Butch is a bit homoerotic. "zed" is one I've used, but I can't wait for the day someone without a sense of humor figures that out. I've also used "chopper" now. "Marsellus" is too hard to spell. "watch" is next on my list, but that's really dredging the bottom of the barrel.

The other network, we used Scooby Doo characters because there was no way that room would ever have more than five systems... of course the next tranche of added systems had to go with a totally different theme. So the room now has the mystery machine occupants, and ... dragons from how to train your dragon.
Why don't you disclose the cheaper competitor's name? Are you trying to be respectful to Turbotax?
As always, “Stop doing $negativebehavior” is less useful than the actual advice:

Schedule multiple blocks of time per week of sufficient length to allow for meaningful, independent work, rather than try fruitlessly to fit this work in around countless interruptions of, on average, less importance.
Reminds me of ".feedback" TLD/stunt.
I don’t know. The term “small” made it sound — small. You can argue the other points of the article, but this doesn’t seem like a real mischaracterization.
I'm not sure "good guys" is correct. They went seeking to further their own fortunes (whether financial or political), which is mostly amoral – you can increase your own fortune by collaborating with others but you can also increase your fortune by taking advantage of others.

I think the carpetbagger comparison is rather apropos. In the same way as carpetbaggers, you can be a lobbyist who genuinely suggests things that are good for the American people and also are good for the corporate interests you represent. Alternatively you can lobby for things which benefit your corporate interests at the expense of the American people. Unfortunately seems like lobbying in the US is almost entirely the latter. And maybe postbellum carpetbaggers were in fact more of the former. But it's a similar scenario.
I wonder if there's a coordinated effort to exploit barcode reader apps, because (at least where I'm from) its becoming a government mandated Covid tracing thing to use a QR code to "check in" to certain classes of businesses/venues?

I bet there's a _huge_ increase in use of QR code scanning apps compared to this the last year...
I did the same comparison with the opposite results. Turbotax correctly handled a situation that freetax usa didn't (how much of a state income tax return was refundable from the previous year when my state refund was based on SALT taxes beyond the $10,000 maximum that the feds allow you to deduct). Technically my own fault because I incorrectly answered a question in freetaxusa that contained a double or triple negative, but Turbotax got it automatically without me having to answer any questions
Pulses reason for existing was that ALSA couldn’t handle multiple sources running at the same time _yet_.

It was always on the table though and now it has been implemented. That’s why there’s significant overlap, those projects are not complementary, they are somewhat competitive.
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IMO there should be a cost for inviting ppl to meetings. Eg, the department should pay the attendees salaries.
On iOS, you can use the Camera app on your iPhone or enable the Code Scanner button on the Control Panel: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/iphone/iphe8bda8762/io...

It would be interesting if Apple added support articles or how-to videos for built-in features to their App Store search results though…
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> There may be ways for parents to impart this trait, but just making them is probably not it. Boys who clean because their mothers are angry become men who clean because their wives are angry.

This is the point I was trying to make in my downvoted post - thank you for stating it more clearly than I was able to.
I grew up in the the same neighborhood just a few years prior from the author. It gave me chills reading this because I had such an incredibly similar experience with drugs. I saw a lot of my friends die or disappear into the city while their white upper-middle class families had no idea and were devastated to learn their seemingly healthy son or daughter's body was found rotting in an abandoned building. I got wasted in the same woods he did just a few years before. I knew the same homeless man he mentioned. I'm sure my old forty bottles and graffiti were in the backdground of his experience.

I think about it all the time - how lucky I am that myself or my brother stayed just one step away from heroin addiction. Like the author I tried percs early on with my drug experimentation and hated the feeling. I was more into uppers. Just a few years after I graduated, early on in the opioid epidemic, a lot of friends and old classmates just started dying. I remember one month in particular I must have went to a dozen funerals several of which were close friends. I would see people like coworkers, bosses, teachers, and second cousins at some of these funerals whom I had no clue knew this person. There was a weird reckoning of community grieving. I once lied about being sick to call out of work for a funeral only to then see my boss across the room during the service crying uncontrollably. I asked how she knew [Sara] who was good friend of mine. It turns out she was her neighbor and basically helped raise her. It was surreal.

That one month was horrible and looking back I wonder if this was one of the first times fentanyl started circulating around the community. So many people who were closet heroin users or light "party" smoker/snort users perished all in the same two weeks or so. Of course this was before we knew about fentanyl being sold as heroin or cut into it.
Not if you have any kind of executive-function disorder, which is one of the common traits of ASD and ADD/ADHD.
My phone was affected by this, and I can confirm I had the original barcode scanner app in your first link installed, and I'd had it installed for years.

I now use Google Lens through the default phone app.
By the way, something I always meant to ask you, Brad:

How does "C32" fit into your acronym theme of gemstones and rocks? Is it a teeny tiny 4x4x2 carbon atom block of diamond? How many carats would that be?

>Brad Myers wrote several articles in that book about his work on PERIDOT and GARNET, and he also developed C32:

>C32: CMU's Clever and Compelling Contribution to Computer Science in CommonLisp which is Customizable and Characterized by a Complete Coverage of Code and Contains a Cornucopia of Creative Constructs, because it Can Create Complex, Correct Constraints that are Constructed Clearly and Concretely, and Communicated using Columns of Cells, that are Constantly Calculated so they Change Continuously, and Cancel Confusion

>Spreadsheet-like system that allows constraints on objects to be specified by demonstration. Intelligent cut and paste. Implemented using Garnet.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/acronyms.html
I up voted you, the voting system on HN is a mystery to me.
At most you'll annoy your internet service provider. MAC addresses don't leave the immediate network they're used on, so you can do whatever you want within your home network.
Because you only hear the loud minority that's been complaining for the last decade. I've never had a problem with systemd, I remember the days before it became ubiquitous with absolute dread, but I don't spend my days proclaiming my views on every corner of the internet like the opposite side does.
They should do their job regardless, but I’d place all bets on CMakeLists.txt. With two decades of experience, only this one I can read and get fucking nothing of it.
I really don't like the wording on the question for the

> Just 23% of people say there’s “too little” regulation of business. 45% say too much.

poll. Most people will pretty sanely say that pointless regulation is just anti-competitive so "broadly more regulation" is easy to be against. It'd be more difficult but I think some health or environmental specific policy would be better to poll about.
They're wrong. The reason that every athlete should train every part of their body is because it raises overall testosterone and promotes blood flow throughout the entire body, which speeds development and healing of the muscle groups that are predominantly used in whatever sport... e.g. I'm a sprinter, so I train my upper body as well because it helps my legs grow and heal faster.
The death of Brian Sicknick by a fire extinguisher at the capital riots is false.

It is still uncorrected on the NYT.

It matters because it might have been due to irritants used inside the building and we need to know this stuff.

But NYT won't risk passing blame.
That attitude has always existed about news, post-modernism just tried to wrongly apply it to literally everything.
I don't even know what they taste like because I can't get past the awful texture of red delicious.
Your dogmatic approach to updating would prevent you from installing a version _without_ malware attached. For example, a version of Xcode circulated in China was infected with malware and once Apple had detected it, they asked all developers to recompile and update their apps immediately.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-malware-finally-infected-a...

With your attitude, you wouldn't have necessarily seen the efficacy in updating the apps and could still be infected to this day.
> just by naive estimation

This isn’t a serious critique. It’s some guesswork and assumptions on your part.

If someone has done a real analysis that produces results similar to yours, it would be helpful for you to link to it.
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The root of the problem is a tax system that requires complex software to use optimally. Remove this complexity and the need for specialized, expensive software companies will disappear.
Why not? A company called Lavo is selling such a thing right now.

You should realize that weight steals from your efficiency. A fuel cell can be less efficiency, but still gets you a similar distance on the same amount of energy.

If you can accept that a fuel cell car can match a battery powered one on efficiency, then it’s conceivable that it can be as cheap to drive too.
Generally, the DOJ won't block "buying out a competitor" unless you're approaching monopoly levels of consolidation.

It's fine by the DOJ to have the number of players reduced from even 4 to just 3 and they are only really forced to act when it comes down to an attempt to reduce from 3 to 2
To add to what others have said--

The spectrogram image contains amplitude, but not phase information. (There are partial exceptions in special cases involving oversampling.) Conveniently, the human auditory system is primarily sensitive to the same information present in the spectrogram.
I tried this but I didn't work. When I googled it, I found out that Apple has disabled this in BigSur.
Here is the link to it: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/106768
I always understood the argument to be that for rapidly changing projects you might be forced to upstream your GPL code or face an uncomfortably high maintenance burden of constantly rebasing it. Linux almost purposefully does this, it's kind of like a "soft" vendor lock in. Linux kernel interfaces change regularly, and if you don't upstream your code you need to commit time to fixing what breaks. If you upstream, then someone else will handle updating your code for you for free. The more regularly they churn the internal interfaces the more it costs to maintain external patches and the more appealing upstreaming becomes.

The end result is lots of companies jamming their code upstream because it is cheaper (or they are soft-required) to do so, not because it is good for the project. The benefit is you have large corporate contributions, with the possible downside that the companies want to take your software in a different direction than you do (i.e. Microsoft embracing/extending).

The BSD license doesn't try to strongarm people into contributing, and the BSD projects are open to being a base for other projects. This is bad because companies may not contribute back to you. It is good because it means that you don't have 20 companies pressuring you do make decisions. They've gone in their 20 directions and they want you to continue to be a solid base for them to build on.

I think a lot of people (me included) like the feel of this way more. When you read through FreeBSD you don't see the legacy code from a bunch of corporations mixed in, you just see the good stuff. People contribute because they want to even though it's more work, versus reluctantly contributing because it's less work. Not saying permissive licenses are perfect and don't have their own problems, just explaining why they might have different advantages.
This happened on ios for me years ago.

I had two apps that radically changed their business model (owner?) through updates with no recourse.

I had an app called gas cubby, which let me locally - on the phone - keep track of all my vehicles. I could enter detailed information about each car such as year, make, model, vin, insurance policy, gas purchases, oil changes and the like. It would tell you gas mileage and remind you of upcoming maintenance.
One day, I updated the app and all my local data was uploaded to the cloud.

Another app I updated was camscanner from tencent that basically did the same thing. Think of all the PDFs you scan going to their cloud.
Unless you need to drive beyond the limits of your battery, at which point a gasoline powered vehicle makes more sense. I get the feeling your belief system is a post hoc rationalization since you’re just ignoring a major use case.

If it really bothers you, then you probably be able to refuel your fuel cell car at home at some point in the future. So you can avoid the refueling station altogether with fuel cell cars too.
I would strongly disagree with

> Republicans are up and down the line opposed to easy tax filing because they think it’ll make it easier for government to raise taxes if people have to manually do their taxes every year.

I think republicans tend to be against easy tax filing since it would involve wider access to the plethora of loopholes that exist in our tax system. Automatic filing would really level the playing field if small businesses and individuals got access to some[1] of the loopholes that corporations regularly exploit.

1. Ignoring, of course, accounting tricks required to set some of these up by offshoring profits/income and other advanced techniques around valuation.
Thank you for taking the time to write this very in-depth comment, I can say I understand some of these words now!
Switch to Google Lens in the Camera app. It's way less reliable but it usually gets the job done.
If you look at the latest research in neural network based approaches to text-to-speech, you'll find plenty of examples of realistic synthetic voices. However, due to the nature of the available training data (audiobooks), these models 1) are restricted to reading text in a narrative style and 2) aren't generally trained on speech of recognizable public figures. There was a paper a while back that was trained on TED talks and produced fairly convincing voices, some of which you may recognize (Bill gates, Stephen Wolfram and some others - see here https://sjvasquez.github.io/blog/melnet/) Definitely not 100% convincing, but I wouldn't call it absolute trash.
Nonsense, if your abs aren't visible as a man then you are carrying too much fat.

What's unhealthy about body bulding, beyond the direct effects of the roids, is that these guys are like 300+ lbs. That and becoming severely dehydrated from taking diuretics before competitions.