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The you paying taxes in question might be different from the you that is unable to afford healthcare.
Love time.is. You can embed JS from them in your own webpages for custom clocks.
> People who move abroad still have to pay taxes in the US, unless they renounce citizenship.

There are almost no countries in the world that milk their citizens that way.

Two exceptions I know of:

- USistan
- Eritrea

Nice company you guys keep over there.
All of those corporations are in the business of development and integration of satellites as well as satellite operations for commercial, public, and military customers.
Haha, the reason we use computers is because the work more reliably than humans. By using indeterministic processes, commonly called AI, we effectively make them human. This can yield interesting results, but you don't want a monkey controlling your staged rocket.
> but they are democracies

I really don't like democracy mixing with my business. It's the best, terrible system we have for when we have no other choice but to come to a mutual decision. But it really should be your last option.
Your comment is an excellent illustration of how everything is "political" in some fashion, some things are just inconvenient or uncomfortable to think about in that way.
Oh, shades of my favorite bug ever, doing commercial product QA two decades ago.

The product had an external license file you'd need to drop alongside, and on boot if your licence key didn't match for your name + connection settings, the retail build would spit out both the key in the file, and the expected correct key for your settings.

It was not a priority fix for them, either. At least this one is merely informational, and not a potential gate on revenue.
Primarily indoor cultivation of oysters (most cost effective), but also lion's mane and shiitake in lower quantities along with a lot of screwing around with other species for fun. I began construction of my small scale farm just before the pandemic started looking serious (~December 2019), and my business plan was reliant on getting higher-end restaurants as customers (which have fared poorly during this). So it's been somewhat on pause, but I'm hoping things clear up soon, as I've been gathering some nice equipment for good prices over the last year (in large part due to covid, ironically).

It would be great to be able to do assays for protein content at home or for nearly free at a lab to work towards better genetics. An ~86g or "one cup" serving of raw oysters supposedly has around ~3g, and it's worth noting that a raw cup cooks down to maybe a quarter cup or less, which is probably comparatively substantial for those that don't consume meat. The Vitamin D content is also noteworthy, as apparently they're the only considerable source of this in the produce aisle (which I didn't fully appreciate until binge researching last night).
>it will be a natural form of selection for old age, increasing human longevity

I don't think genetic sequencing falls into the category of "natural selection".
By primary display do you mean new app windows are created there? If so you can use window rules to force windows to be created on a particular screen.

You could put different windows on particular screens or just punt everything to the desired primary monitor.

This functionally is also available in i3wm/sway as for_window and as a stand alone application under x called devilspie2.
> When it works, it's smooth as butter and works great

Come on, Wayland was released 12 years ago! And it still has all kinds of problems that don't make it qualify even for beta software. I'm highly skeptical that Wayland will ever be as useful as X11 is right now.
This is a great blog, and if you find it interesting it's certainly worth reading regularly.

I don't think each post needs to end up on the front page of HN every week.
In some states in the US. In other states, there are “right to work” laws banning closed shops.
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I'm struggling to see how you don't think this scenario is exploitative.

Services rendered may or may not include you being dropped off in the desert with no food, water, and left for dead, being stashed dangerous transport situations, being subject to rape, or forced sex work, being forced into working as a mule or other criminal activity.

Children in the holding facilities have been observed engaging in sex acts with each other, indicative of being abused on the journey there. Children are showing up with damaged vocal chords. Women are routinely raped by their smugglers.

I'm amazed that every response I'm getting is questioning how what is going on at the border is not human trafficking.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-w...

We are talking about Facebook providing a platform for advertising for these transactions. Do you remember FESTA/SOSTA, craigslist, and backpage and all the uproar over that? But Facebook gets a pass.
I came to say something similar, but without the reasoning. I found that when I used a standing desk over a treadmill, the mechanics were alright as I type code (rather than mouse designs). The problem was in the thinking. The level of exercise increased bloodflow but didn't sync with the careful deep thought needed for working through complex/detailled situations.
In Europe free healthcare is guaranteed even if you lose your job, and there are essentially no limitations (if you need an expensive treatment, you get it, no matter what).
> Crunch the numbers, find out how much you need. If you don't have exact, precise numbers and a precise plan on how to get to that number, the idea is worth nothing since you don't even have a starting point to analyze viability.

Mean personal income in the US is ~$54,000:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MAPAINUSA646N

For a $12,000 UBI that would yield a flat tax rate of ~22%.

In real life it's more complicated than that, but not so much more complicated that the number is going to be off by an order of magnitude. It's completely viable. People are already paying nominal rates that high.

> Observe the real world, see what happens when you "just increase tax rate". You'll find that very often when you increase taxes you actually end up collecting less, as more people decide to illegally dodge taxes or simply close up shop.

The primary causes of this are that higher taxes give people less money to spend which hurts the economy and that higher marginal rates deter working.

A UBI is a transfer payment, so on net nobody has any less money to spend and in practice people with less money would have slightly more and those people are more likely to spend it. So this factor goes in favor of economic growth.

Meanwhile half the point of the UBI is to get rid of the crazy marginal rate cliffs created by means-tested benefits programs. The status quo deters work more than a UBI would, e.g. you lose unemployment if you take a job. Terrible incentives that would go away.
What I'd want is a bot to listen in for me *while I'm on the call*, take notes (and give them to me like this afterwards[1] ), and pull up relevant information as it is needed.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6786093...
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The COL in Bessemer is going to be less than in Western Europe. Do you live in America?

You're right that healthcare could be more expensive, but there is also employer-covered health insurance.
I don't see how "you should just hope for an employer who is benevolent in spite of every possible economic incentive otherwise" is less idealogically motivated.

But anyway yes in my case it is idealogical and I won't dispute that at all. Anything that reduces the power of companies or increases the power of works is something I favor regardless of political practicality.
What were the 2 counties and in what state. I'm sure this is all true but I like verify.
https://intel-hpc-ai-pavilion.gallery.video/detail/videos/hp...
Son works at a (corp, worldwide) ALF that has mandatory vaccine req. A few staff opted to leave.

Corporate's assertive responses to Covid have resulted in a zero (or near to) infection rate, for all of their facilities in our region.
> It only gets called activism when it scares someone with power.

My impression is that calling something activism is a seal of approval by the journalist.
I believe Co-ops are a nature progression to merge the split between business and labor unions.
You make it sound like everything is subjective and there are no bad or good workers. And since we can't accurately, objectively measure performance, let's just pick metric we can measure even though it has no correlation with performance.

Bad performers can absolutely be spotted, at least in the extreme. People that don't show up to work, or are chronically late (for work where this matters) or violate safety rules for example. They get protected by unions and are hard to remove.
It also has an unexpectedly great Linux app, IMO.
Amazon Warehouse workers have medical coverage here too. So they're leaps and bounds ahead if you want to go ahead and say that.

Of course the US healthcare system is broken so I know what you're getting at but I don't know that I want Amazon to pay their workers > $15 to subsidize a broken healthcare system for their workers I just want a functional healthcare system and for them to continue to make $15/hr.
Not surprising. I just wonder how trivial is to exploit it and if it's not one of many "honest mistakes" that some companies sometimes commit. Some trivially exploitable and very reliable stack overflows on some routers come to mind ...
Which is obviously a problem. The US more or less has two sides, and both are routinely responsible for(or at least align with) morally reprehensible things. It should not be a problem to choose truth regardless of where if falls in a political spectrum. And no one who wants to just find the truth should have to second guess their findings because they're politically inconvenient for someone.
I suspect that the Chinese government actively works to conflate criticism as xenophobia. This same strategy is exactly why it's so hard to discuss Israel in anything other than a positive light.
Build a scheduling software that can take into consideration multiple stakeholders.
For instance, a simple calendar just takes a person and the available time throughout the day. However,if you have a situation,where a person, a room, and some equipment have each of their own availablity, planning becomes more difficult.

I wasn't able to find any easily available solution that could do this.
> Most of the warehouse workers we're talking about would probably choose the Kaiser HMO that has $0 deductible and 100% coverage;

No. We're talking about workers in Alabama, and Kaiser is listed on that very page as regional: Kaiser Permanente HMO (California, Colorado, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Washington)

I'm assuming Amazon charges employees some portion of the insurance premium, as most employers do? Also, there's this:

> Amazon’s benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment.
Have you lived in Alabama on European unskilled-labor wages? I don't think it's a good idea.
Regular movement is key, and even switching between sit and stand every 30m is not enough. We are working on something along these lines by supporting more frequent useful movement, every 1-2m, without impacting typing with a smart robotic chair. Looking for early beta users in Silicon Valley and Boston for May- https://movably.typeform.com/to/y5NPOA2U
This sort of attitude contributes to the affordability of Montreal. Thanks!
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The problem is that elite colleges aren't building the best education. They're building the most elite network of future leaders. Education in terms of content is all but free now. MIT, Stanford and others give away so much of their course materials. The one thing you can't replace is the connections and reputation. In this way you can't just keep bump up the number of students .
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I read that as Siphilium ;)
My "original source" is my wife who grew up poor and started working at 14 to pay for things like clothes for school. Every dollar her union took was money she couldn't use to pay for necessities and they never once did a single thing for her or any of her coworkers, no matter how egregious the discrimination or behavior of the store's management. Their union rep would 100% ignore every single complaint. But they always got a cut of her meager paycheck.

Is that a good enough source for you, or does that not count?

I'll never understand the people who think "You have a differing opinion. It must be because you don't know what you're talking about and have just consumed a bunch of propaganda".
>There will be false positives, but the rate is low

What do you base this on?

My experience is that if you are perceived to be good you can get away with being a low performer for a lot longer than if you are not perceived to be good, I have seen it quite a few times.
I see (at least here) a fair number of people who self-identify as left criticizing the anti-free-speech tendencies of parts of the left...
> These re-namings always follow the same pattern. Some professionally oppressed people contact a project, provide mostly secret evidence to members of the project's progressive faction.

Hello, I'm the woman who chimed in with the story of the Uber driver harassing me. I'm not just a Coq expert (check my publications), but also a contributor to the proof assistant (check my Github). Every year during non-pandemic times I go to France for a week for the Coq Users & Developers Workshop, and I am quite close with the team.

I also hear "Coq" before "cock" when people say either of those words, naturally, since I spend so much time working on Coq. Unfortunately, this means that in public I frequently forget that almost everyone who has never heard of it before hears "cock," and this is what most often gets me into bad situations like in the Uber.

The problem isn't that we are community outsiders; it's that you can't imagine us being community insiders.
"Houston, I have a bad feeling about this mission."
Covid-19 is a biological weapon released by "the elite" in order to achieve there agenda.
Which basically reinforces GP's point about it being a monopoly?

> If you don't want to work for the union that's at a particular workplace, you can always choose another workplace.

Or, if unions weren't forced down onto the workers, they might choose to work with the same employer and not deal with the union.

Why can't workers have a choice - whoever sees the union's being a better fit can join the n number of unions operating at a single employer. Whoever wants to remain free from the union can choose not to join, and negotiate with the employer directly.
The problem always comes down to bad actors.

If I, as a vendor, could have my people do the work of moving and set up and elect not to use the convention center staff, then there's a way to circumvent the convention center staff and fire them all.

You just hire a "vendor" with their own crew to do all the stuff. With no actual work to do, it's justifiable to fire the convention center staff.

If people weren't bastards, we wouldn't need such weird rules. But then again, if people weren't bastards, we wouldn't need unions either.
TBH I don't care too much what someone does with a button or link, but if hold Ctrl and it doesn't open in a new tab, I'm gonna be grumpy.
Yeah, completely don’t understand this. Do they mean FaceTime?
Perusing the Wikipedia page for the Laffer Curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve), it seems that most studies find we could double our current tax rates and still be on the left of the peak (65%-70%). Given that our current federal revenue is appr. $3.5 trillion, it seems we could afford Yang's $2.8 trillion in UBI without issue.

Source for UBI total cost: https://freedom-dividend.com/
note: I ignored his ~$0.9 trillion in predicted savings/economic growth but that would lessen the bill even more.
I think that's right that pwn2own exploits are generally new to the public, but that only means it's not provably out there.

Just to be clear, I think programs like this are great and they do improve safety, but only because they result in patches. This news shouldn't make users feel safe until there is a patch.
1. They're the only ones complaining about "activism". Everyone else benefits from that activism, which is why white men are so threatened. When you're used to being superior, equality looks like a threat.

2. You're right that nobody is required to work for Raytheon, but that's kind of my point. Someone who voluntarily works for Raytheon is at the very least not bothered by their actions, which does reflect on their politics. You merely assert that it somehow doesn't, with no reasoning behind it. Someone working for Greenpeace (for example) shows exactly the same thing on the opposite side of the political spectrum and illustrates my point that you can't really leave your politics at home. There are no apolitical companies or organizations.
That's just not true. Well known and widely used libs such react-router are an evidence of that.
Everyone points to SAG as an example of a good union. But how many of these are there? If there are dozens of examples of "bad unions" and a single example of a "good union", that doesn't exactly give someone voting to unionize high confidence.
time.is is pretty great! Their calendar is real handy as well, especially to see duration between two dates: https://time.is/calendar
Great writeup! I did something similar for the (much dumber) DeskCycle which has a simple odometer. Conveniently I was just able to plug it into Aux In and track pulses.

https://github.com/lfowles/deskcycle
Python is downstream of C. Anyway you can package a C application, you can package a Python application (with some massaging).

But still, python has no mature tools for distribution? From wheels to pyinstaller to Kivy, you're just wrong.
I always get confused reading/talking about the definition of a zero-day with people... But this is what Wikipedia states, which is most consistent with my understanding.

> A zero-day (also known as 0-day) is a computer-software vulnerability unknown to those who should be interested in its mitigation (including the vendor of the target software). Until the vulnerability is mitigated, hackers can exploit it to adversely affect programs, data, additional computers or a network.

Seems like someone knows how to exploit this, and zoom / the general public don't know how to mitigate or perform it. That seems to fit this definition, no?
How in the world did he only serve 16 months in jail for stealing that many bikes?
I jumped into DragonRuby myself and considering my current work involves Rails it was extremely easy to dive into DR and code in two game jams solo. Love it at minimum as a hobbyist tool and I see the potential for shipping to all platforms with the Pro license.

Thank you!
It's tricky to balance user expectations with semantic HTML now that the web has evolved so far.

The easiest example I have from my industry is a product card in a grid of products. There really is no correct spot to link it in some designs, but the user expects to click any part of the box and be taken to the product page. So you wrap the whole box in an anchor tag, which has its own host of problems.

As you said though, that is a bygone problem, this ship has sailed in the land of SPAs. Even a simple blog is an SPAs these days.
but does your manager? or does s/he actually only see the pizza guy delivering the pizza?
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I think we may be saying the same thing from different angles. So are you saying it's easier to move from middle class to upper middle class today than before?

My point is that feels true only for a much smaller subset of the middle class today (maybe I'm wrong). It would seem that it's only attainable for a group with a specific skill set. To the original point, I'm not sure this convincingly makes the case that 'The middle class is shrinking because more people are moving to the upper middle class'
What a pretentious thing to say.

Maybe your critical thinking is eroded if you refuse to try to understand why people would vote against a union. I'm not saying you have to agree with their decision, but it's ridiculous to assume everyone who disagrees with you is stupid.

Are you an Amazon employee at Bessemer? I'm pretty sure any employee there is more qualified to make a decision about their own lives than you.
Are you questioning the source of a specific piece of data you interpret to be anti-union or you questioning what is the source of peoples opinion on why they are anti union.

If you are questioning the source of a specific piece of data than be clear about what that data is.

If you are asking people to cite a source for a general opinion they personally hold, they don't owe you that.
Then don’t. Take a break. Too much time doing the same thing will make you ineficient. The old rich people knew this and they had diffent types of activities scheduled. Variety and the freedom to choose.
What you’re talking about is highly variable based on college choice and location. Federally, the student aid situation isn’t great, but there are many universities that will fully cover all tuition (and sometimes more) if you are under a certain income threshold. See: University of Texas.

You’re also narrowly scoping this to talking about one of the largest and fanciest universities in the state. Meanwhile, there are plenty of other colleges in the area that cost fractions of Bama. And of note, Amazon actually pays for up to 95% of tuition/fees for warehouse workers who choose to pursue associates degrees.

There are certainly societal problems in the US regarding education costs and healthcare, but these are both areas where Amazon is actually providing for its workers way, way above what the federal government provides, and even way above what is normal for most Americans (the health insurance that Amazon warehouse workers get is likely better than the health insurance of most of the people posting in this thread). This is the kind of stuff that needs to be kept in mind to understand why Bessemer residents don’t all see Amazon as evil.
Could be. But the motives remain the same, it's just a feedback cycle where whether you're for or against you call it activism.

It's pretty clear from many of the comments in this HN post's replies that many people find this particular form of political activity a threat in ways that they don't find more status-quo enforcing forms to be.
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You're off by a day. We just passed 24 hours to minimum distance.
As a bonus you get more fine hand exercise -- on both hands!
>University isn't 'basically free' for low income students. My parents lived below the poverty line their entire lives. I graduated with my bachelor's degree and $80k worth of loan debt.

You must have done something dumb.
It won't ever be fixed until Python C API remains in it's current form. The problem aren't pure python extension, but you can't do anything sane once part of your application is not Python.
Neither have I. You are right that they are quite similar but not identical.

Ps. Never thought I'd discuss Yle subtitles at Hacker News. Thank you for your comment! :)
As long as what is scraped is what is publicly available, I'd agree. If it accesses data otherwise locked to "visible to contacts" or the likes, then I would no longer consider it scraping.

(not saying this goes against what you said, but I'd like to add some nuance to the inequality)
I'm not arguing, if anything I'm agreeing, was just trying to clarify some things.
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