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I get what the article is saying, but I feel like they are playing word games. Hate speech laws are not increasing freedom, they are trading off freedom for social cohesion, which all societies do to some extent, just not necessarily with censorship.
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In case you're wondering how they justify keeping the system the way it is, the going line is, "If you allowed auto-filing taxes, the government will sneak in new taxes that you'd never even know about!!"

The other argument I've heard is, "it should be painful to file taxes, to make people support the idea of getting rid of taxes".
It's because Don Lancaster refuses to sell outside of the United States, not even to Canada. He says in one of his articles that he had too much trouble with foreign orders, so he decided to never take a foreign order again. He set up his eBay store to reject IP addresses outside of the U.S. I tried connecting to his site from both a U.S. IP address and from a non-U.S., and I can confirm that outside of the U.S, you get zero results.
Also zero transparency for users and publishers.

On one browser installation I stopped getting payouts, reached out to them via reddit (like they asked for) and provided all the information they asked for: ghosted.

I'm also a publisher, for weeks now I can't login and it seems like I'm not getting payouts anymore either. Never got any mail about it. Sent them an email about it February 23rd, no answer so far.

If I'd have to guess, the one client somehow got blacklisted maybe because I used too many Brave installations and they think they're fraudulent? (Though I only used like 5, Brave & Brave Beta each on a desktop & laptop, then on another desktop just one installation. Also, I still get payouts for the other installations.) Or it's just another one of the bugs that eats payouts and users' BATs.

Publisher account I even have less of an idea, it's totally fine, teen-rated gaming websites with a couple of thousand organic (search traffic) uniques/month. I did sent BAT from my unconnected Browsers (you only can connect a maximum of 4 browsers to a wallet, ever) to my site to tip myself.
As far as I know that isn't against the TOS either (even makes them more money because they douple dip).

But, even if they don't suspend you without any notice, it's completely non-transparent as a publisher too.
You get zero statistics, just a bundled payout each month. I'd never use them like this as a publisher for bigger sites, pretty sure I mailed them about that too in the past and also did not get any reply.
2008 report from 2D Boy: ~90% piracy rate for World of Goo

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/world-of-goo-vs-piracy

It was one of the first reports with halfway solid data. And the argument dates from way before that.
Well not all injection vulns deserve this level of scrutiny.

I'm not familiar with that vuln, but I don't see how it could be the "same mistake". My guess is there simply wasn't support for parameterization or there was a non-obvious concatenation problem when building the query string—but please correct me if I'm wrong.

This instance is novel because the parameterization protection was removed in favor of concatenation and that the vuln is so obvious a first-year CS student wouldn't struggle to identify it.
Reals are a digital model of analog reality. Is just a model enough for your definition of existence?
This is less well-known, but worth noting: Gerd Gigerenzer is a long-time critic of Kahneman and Tversky's work (quite popular here, understandably). So it is instructive to see the other side of the coin.

I'm a little embarrassed that I only learnt of Gigerenzer's work only a few months ago, when I accidentally discovered an EconTalk podcast[1] with him.

He talks about the "fast and frugal trees"[2] heuristic, criticism of the "Linda Problem" (mentioned in the article; and, incidentally, was also discussed on HN last week on that 'cognitive bias' thread[3]), and other interesting bits. It's definitely worth a careful listen—especially if you've previously read Kahneman's book.

[1] https://www.econtalk.org/gerd-gigerenzer-on-gut-feelings/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-and-frugal_trees

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26263458
Seems to me that for a lot of people, maybe the majority, the government already has all your tax data and you shouldn't need to file, only accept the government's numbers. I am in the opposite situation, especially as I have to file in two countries. Not living in the US doesn't give you a pass on filing US taxes. I get to buy two different versions of TurboTax :-( We don't worry much about a US audit (some say the IRS is starved for funding by anti-tax politicos?) whereas in our other country they quickly catch even the smallest error.
I unerstand the feeling. But I don't understand the valuation on Tesla shares since they sell about 5% of the cars Toyota do and only make a profit effectively because of government subsidies. Yet many people act like Tesla is showing everyone up. I don't get it. Yes they've used bulk money to pull back this massive slingshot of potential and people are excited about what's going to happen. But I believe the established car co's will just say, thanks for spending billions preparing the market for EV's, we'll be eating our usual share of that pie now thanks Elon. Who knows.
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Ah yes, the "let the hospitals get overwhelmed" plan. Far more people would have died that way. The US's response was absolutely abysmal, I agree, but your plan would have been much, much worse.
Women are looking for natural solutions to help them get rid of aesthetic defects such as stretch marks, and Revamin Stretch Mark is the answer.
First, you have to understand that Google as a company has lost all credibility in much of the community. There have been too many issues like this one where Google gives you the impression they are turning off tracking... but doesn’t actually stop tracking you.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

There was also the Do not Track setting, which Google ignored. So in my book (and I’m not alone here), anything coming from Google is taken with a huge grain of salt.

For some time, there has been a sort of cat and mouse game between advertisers and browser makers. Do you know Google isn’t using fingerprinting to identify us? Or just IP or some other means?
Crazy, I know. But, these are not contradictory strategies.

You can have everyone work hard to reduce their energy usage. You can have tax-funded subsidies to motivate green supply increase despite targeting reduced demand. And, that's all lovely and great.

At the same time, you can have a voracious, highly mobile demand for the cheapest energy around. You know, the kind that solar and wind is supplying, but sometimes in mildly inconvenient locations. This does not actually reduce the supply for everyone else. It's not a zero-sum game. Supply follows demand. This horrendous cadre of buyers directly pay for increased production of cheap green energy that otherwise would not have been set up at all. Thus, ramping up equipment production and economy of scale. And, motivating the creation of supply that otherwise would have been too risky to invest in.
this legend is decades old actually

the US hegemony relies on a perception of omnipotence, so there will always be a lot of boisterous claims
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Proof-of-work systems don't use ever-increasing amounts of electricity. For example the electricity consumption of Bitcoin is proportional to its price. It won't increase unless the market price of Bitcoin increases, or electricity gets cheaper.

More power consumption also doesn't mean the efficiency is reduced. You would have to quantify the value that users are getting from it to judge the efficiency. If the value goes up with increased power consumption, then the efficiency hasn't changed.
These are easily done and in other countries, are fairly simple. Sure it turns your 10 minute tax affair into a 25 minute one. Declaring child status is just a simple form box. Declaring "side hustle" money is a similar affair. Charitable contributions just register with the IRS instead of it going directly to you like a 1099 or W2.

It's still a far cry from the "entire Saturday morning" affair, even using online tax software.
You'll have to ask Sen Joe Lieberman. Please share his answers. I'm dying to know too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman
> but it feels like the majority of the stuff is just... sitting there...

It gives you the ability to actually save your money for a future use. If you need liquidity, you can borrow against it to spend money in other endavors.

Nobody wants to bring their coins to their grave, but whatever you spend it on needs to bring more value than this just sitting there, which means you would expect a lot of unprofitable or very low profit investments to go away (ex: empty housing used as real estate investment in Vancouver).
I think this advice is not 100 % serious but still has its merits. Sometimes, for me at least, this premise completely applies.
The part about it being easier if you're looking for a life partner is not true in my experience since most young women on dating apps will just assume that any man on there just wants sex and is lying if he says otherwise.

The other part which I forgot to mention is that social capital has been declining since the 60's (see the book Bowling Alone), so it's become harder to meet someone off of dating apps. The institutions which used to facilitate finding partners are no longer there so apps are becoming the only option.
This article has several inaccuracies

1) "blockchain inventor David Chaum"

Chaum developed methods to do blinded ecash, there's nothing "blockchain" about a central database checking blinded signatures for double spends.

D. Bayer, S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, and N. Szabo were working on methods of how to distribute property titles and timestamp data to reduce trust requirements of the data through out time.

Chaum's design never solved the problem of how to create bits that people can inherently reason about how much they trust them as money/scarcity. He was ardent about turning fiat currencies into digital tokens -- drastically different than making bits into money.

2) Does it make much sense for Bitcoin's author to be, as the article claims, highly experienced with asymmetric cryptography but also soliciting advice from "real cryptographers" on the cryptography mailing list? Sassaman's archived site doesn't show much cryptography work (but much cypherpunk work)

3) "Len joined Network Associates to help develop the PGP encryption central to Bitcoin"

The curves used in bitcoin's -- and very limited amount of -- cryptography aren't used in PGP.

4) "the remailer technology that was a precursor to Bitcoin."

Much of this article seems to be straining to make connections. Remailers don't have anything to do with Bitcoin. If anything remailers are the precursors to Tor / i2P. Identification of bitcoin nodes in the early version of bitcoin code was as shockingly easy as... joining an IRC channel.
I'm not sure that precludes that cracked software being redistributed with added malware.
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"Owners of QC-35s" can easily be a cohort, especially since there's a lot of people in that group and it's easy hit the anonymization score required.
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That would be a fun legal rabbit hole to descend into.
This story is so strange.

> her veterinarian recommended she purchase one

Every small animal veterinarian I've ever met (probably dozens at this point) has said in no uncertain terms that no one should ever use flea collars on their pets.

I wonder why this one said otherwise.
Wow, it looks great! :)
Don't worry; this is just Chapter 11. It gives Alamo time to restructure their debts, and likely is a prelude to a big cash infusion from somewhere. They're a fantastic, profitable business in normal times; tearing the company apart and selling it for scrap would not be in anyone's best interests.

On the downside, as the article mentions, some of their lower-performing locations will likely close.
>More than energy issues, what is sad is that Bitcoin is kinda becoming what it was started against - huge amounts of bitcoin is in the hands of whales. Most

Was there ever an expectation that cryptocurrencies were going to solve the concentration of wealth and/or inequality? Bitcoin's whitepaper only talked about being able to transact without a trusted third party (banks) and the famous genesis block message of "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" seems to be more against government interventionism (ie. "too big to fail") than inequality.
All of the above. Yeah TurboTax is great because they make it easier to do something nearly everyone hates to do and doesn't understand. So most people don't care about why Intuit is a terrible company because TurboTax is their only option and it works well.

Intuit has excessively lobbied the US government to prevent simplification of the tax code, they struck a deal to offer a free option in return for the IRS not developing their own alternative, and then deceptively hid access to the free option so that users are tricked into purchasing it anyway.
SMS was just easier to use to allow for anonymous comments and questions...the web app didn't post what number the comments/questions came from, didn't require any registration, easier to share a phone number to text than a url to enter, etc.
I think this is a big part of why games have moved to the continuous development/games-as-a-service model. It's not just for longer-term recurring revenue; continuously adding new content is the ultimate DRM, as pirate versions keep falling out of date (for single player games) or the content isn't even accessible without a legit version (for multiplayer games).

The confluence of DRM, recurring revenue, and the social nature of humans are why the biggest and most successful games these days are centered around multiplayer elements. I believe it's also why so many companies are trying to produce e-sports titles or shoehorn competitive spectacle into their games.

Honestly, the only piracy that's really a problem is larger studios ripping off indie games and either beating them to market (off an early release), or out-marketing them. I'm not a mobile dev, but I've heard tons of stories of independent devs with a decent release getting their games rapidly cloned by the likes of King, who have bigger marketing channels, more money to spend, more devs, and preferred access to spotlight spots on app stores and industry publications. This isn't the kind of piracy the article is talking about, but I think it's the more relevant discussion around software and IP theft.
I do think that fewer things need to be free. But there’s no reason to believe that free means we must lose our privacy.

OTA television, for example, had been providing decades worth of extremely expensive programming for free. And this lost us absolutely no privacy.

There is no reason that ads have to invade our privacy. They can go back to targeting based on broad geographical and age demographics.

Let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s say the government passes a law that says that ads cannot be based on any factors more privacy invasive than your zip code and 10 year age range. It’s not like companies would stop paying for ads. They would pay less, but probably still enough to maintain free services, like Google did in its initial days.
This is also the weak link in client web apps for security products like 1Password, where the weakest link is the integrity of the static files loaded by the browser. Break into their static file server or CDN/edge cache and you've effectively pwned any browser sessions started after that point.

(This also applies to builds of client software, but for most operating systems those builds have to be signed with a private key, which makes them more difficult to compromise. On Linux, SHA256 checksums are usually provided alongside binaries - which are especially important to use against security-related client software.)
Yeah, truthfully I would rather not have to use TaxAct either. Since the IRS already knows what I owe, what's the point of filling out forms by hand?

Every year when I manually copy information from my W2 onto an online form, I think that tax season must be the biggest data entry clusterfuck in the world.
> It’s pretty simple to do your own taxes unless you have your own business and partnerships and whatnot.

IDK about that. As a non-resident alien for tax purposes for a couple of years I couldn't use any of the existing software (TurboTax, etc). I even tried to contact a tax accounting firm like HRBlock and they had no idea about things I needed to file that I discovered on my own reading the IRS publications. So I did the taxes on my own and every time it was the most painful thing happening that year (yes, that likely means I lead an otherwise stress-free life), it took 3 weeks at least spending most evenings a few hours making little progress on it each day. And at the end of it I never felt very confident about it and I likely left on the table possible deductions.

But if there's one thing doing that helped with is appreciate how easy and painless is to do it as a resident alien with something like TurboTax (takes a few hours instead of weeks) and it helped me understand the terms and instructions of some of the more complex issues that you may have to deal with even with TurboTax.
> their biggest money maker

Correction: if you go by the profit reports from Alphabet, Google Display Ads is not their biggest money maker by a long shot. That's still Search Ads
This is not entirely true. You have to file if your income is above a certain amount for your age and filing status. If you owe or get a refund from the federal or state government is entirely dependent on your tax obligation and the amount withheld from your paychecks throughout the year.
Because Flutter came from Google, I've never considered it.

EDIT: to those downvoting, this is a serious, sincere question:

I realise it's a UI framework, but are there any investigations into it phoning home/tracking users etc? Does it pull any resources from Google at runtime for example?
Expanding on this, if you had a machine that let you see 100 years in the future, you could nearly perfectly and objectively evaluate your security team's performance by looking at the number/severity/value lost through data breaches over that period.

With AI ethicists... if you could look 100 years in the future.. there's not an objective measure of ethical outcomes you could use to evaluate the performance of your AI Ethics team. I suppose a cynic would look at the total cost spent defending and paying settlements / judgements in ethics-related lawsuits. As far as a non-cynical objective metric for AI Ethics performance, I can't think of any.
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Making who's information accessible to whom? I'm pretty sure a lot of information on me is made available to parties I'd prefer privacy from.

Also one could say cash dollars promote crime. Most terrorism is cash funded.
Just a question, what's stopping NYT from using their own native ad experience embedded into their web page instead of relying on Google and Facebook? It's not like building an onsite tracking ad is secret stuff, is it? Rather, if ads are going to be better than those on Google and Facebook, they could charge a premium simply for eyeballs right?
Well this is kinda obvious - and a good thing I guess? If Google can sell ads without tracking everyone, that seems like the best win? It protects our privacy and removes them from the fight for more tracking in pretty much the easiest way possible.
Even if they stay with cohorts, I assume people will be members of a variety of them.

New parent. Lives in Springfield. Works at a power plant. Drives a car. Owns house. Horrible credit rating. Married with 2+ kids. Voted in last election. Ex military. Ex astronaut. Once purchased an effective baldness cure. How many seemingly large cohorts does it take before you are really talking about one clearly identifiable person?
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Decent quants know about the shortcomings of Markowitz allocation. The mean is more or less impossible to measure, and covariances shift over time and are awkward to measure concurrently. So the art is in specifying the parameters. I've used zero mean and block-diagonal covariance in asset allocation before, which isn't far off 1/N allocation.

The issue with Kelly betting is the same as with Markowitz: knowing the parameters of the problem. If you overstate your probability of win by mis-estimating, you'll get ruined. For what it's worth, the version of Kelly betting I'm familiar with is for Bernoulli trials. I think the Gaussian version of the Kelly criterion essentially reduces to Markowitz.

Side note: kelly betting isn't new! Daniel Bernoulli knew about it back in the 1700s. Kelly just connected the formula to ideas in information theory.
Why is it awesome? Why should I believe that Amazon “embracing the OSS community” will have some desired effect?
IIRC it was $5 on the alpha, $10 on the beta and $20 on the final version. I recall getting sad that I waited too long until buying it and it was already out of the alpha.
ideally, an SVG layout optimised for web app design would be somewhat more flexible than just grid and flex - such as anchoring an element to 2 other separate parents (or in other words, supporting a directed graph rather than a tree). A pure constraint system would be nice, but is probably not viable if fast rendering is important (which, it is).
There are some approaches that seem difficult to implement at first view, but that can be improved when more people work on the difficult pieces. The most important thing in a paper like this is the general strategy. Even if there are small issues or if the implementation is too complex, if the general ideas are right we can find a better way to solve these problems over time.
I personally trust Firefox way more than Brave.
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with killing animals for sustenance. Animals die and get eaten without needing any help form humans.

My main objection is to the manner of which animals have to be raised and harvested in the most efficient manner to satisfy the ever increasing demand for meat in the world while still being bottom of the barrel in price. Has there been any evidence this can be sustained without wholesale suffering?

If you can ensure all the meat you purchase comes from the opposite of such conditions then all the more power to you. The meat I do eat I also try to purchase from better farm conditions, but I don't think that's always possible.
Ugh, the Mads are calling again. Crow, can you get that?
Another physics PhD chiming in here. I have never before noted the difference between "multiplier" and "multiplicand". The whole article has me rolling my eyes.

In fact, I would argue that multiplication being associative shows that this distinction is meaningless.
when has a cat ever died of having fleas?