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>Online retailers still have this problem. Sales tax is literally based on the zip code you enter during the checkout page.

Can't you ask the zip code before checkout, a popup like "If you want to see the real price enter the zip code now"

On the physical store don't you have in US prices printed on paper stickers? Are prices printed on the bottles and boxes and all stores will have the exact same prices? So if this is something you never seen in US let me explain how is done, some products have a recommended price printed on them but shops can put their own larger or smaller price. You will see also labels with full prices s tricked through and discounted prices printed under.

I also seen shops rotating the prices daily, like if they have 2 products A and B , you have prices like

Monday A: 10$, B:20$
Tu: A:11 , B:19
We: A:12 , B:18

so on, I am surprised that the US does not use this scummy price rotating tactics. The "scam" is that the shop will put an ad on radio and say "bananas only X$" , next day the ad will say "milk only Y$" , and each time you will hear the ad you think "this shop has cheap products, I should buy from there" but when you visit the banana will be cheap but in that day mil is expensive, 3 days later will be reversed.
I am not claiming that there should be such an alternative, merely querying the existence of such.
What if people are contempt? What if the found out that games, bread and netflix, are enough to be happy. That all you need in addition is the company of other people and not a festival of useless consumption? What if today is the new maximum?
Who doesn't enjoy a good minimalistic puzzle game! Do you have planned to launch it on Android as well? Why focusing on AppStore?
So all you need to do is rewrite the first 18 years of your history to obtain a "relatively good education"....

People are not paying their life savings to get smuggled into Europe on a small, overcrowded boat because it's easy to move here.
It is cost effective if you charge the federal government 3-4 times more than you charge private interests.
Jonathan Blow is going to love this.
I believe it's the same exploit, check out this reference here [0], and you should see the JS snippet

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/15007/fi...
Reading the other comments here, I think the argument is that when most people say they came from nothing, they are ignoring roads, electrical grids, sewer systems, fire departments, police to enfore property rights etc. "Society" provided those - before the person was rich.
Of course, there are some people who got rich without any of those things, but probably a lot fewer.
> Americans tend to treat taxes and social security as separate, though.

Here is similar, but for some time now the government can transfer money between pots (e.g. spend social security money on something else), so essentially this is just cosmetic.
The Medicare levy has never actually covered the cost of our public health system. It's theoretically a hypothecated tax that goes to health care, but the system is funded, like everything else, out of general revenue.

The system in Australia is:

* All Australian permanent residents (and some travellers) are able to access Medicare services. The services are funded by a combination of Federal and State governments.

* GPs/Surgeons/Specialists get set amounts from Medicare for different services delivered to patients. The amounts are set by the Federal health department and is the subject to ongoing arguments between the service providers and the government about the amount paid.

* For GP and out patient services, if the provider is willing to deliver the service at the set amount, then they "bulk bill" and the service is delivered "free at the point of delivery" to the paitent. If the provider charges more, then there is a "gap" that must be paid by the patient and cannot (by law and regulation) be covered by private insurance.

* For in-patient services, patients are either "private" or "public". Publicly funded hospitals accept patients of both types, private hospitals only accept "private" patients.

* Private patient services still receive the same reimbursement at a set value from the government. However, if the provider charges over that rate, private insurance is allowed to cover that "gap". Insurance companies can offer differing plans with different levels of cover for that "gap", as well as offering things like single patient wards, choice of physician/specialist etc.

* Public patients in a public hospital receive exactly the same services as private patients, but they: a) don't get to choose their doctor, b) are subject to waiting lists based on capacity, degree of urgency, etc.

* A public patient at a public hospital receives all services "free at the point of delivery". Private patients receive the same reimbursement, then their private insurance will reimburse according to their plan, then any remaining "gap" is payable by the patient.

* The "Medicare levy" is a theoretical additional tax that is added to a person's marginal tax, but it has never really covered the cost.

* As an incentive to get private insurance, the government subsidizes it at 30% and there are sticks and carrots (increased Medicare levy, age related reduction in subsidy if insurance is not continually held etc).

* Private insurance price increases are government regulated and require approval of the minister each year.

Subsidies for prescription medicines is a completely different system (the "PBS").
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Let's talk about numbers:

- In 2019, the rate of forcible rapes in the United States stood at 29.9 per 100,000 inhabitants. it has decreased from 1990, when there were 41.2 forcible rapes per 100,000 inhabitants.

- In 2014, rape rate for Japan was 1 cases per 100,000 population. Rape rate of Japan fell gradually from 1.6 cases per 100,000 population in 2005 to 1 cases per 100,000 population in 2014

What lesson can we learn from this in your opinion?
Buh... but the GDP went up? That's good right?
Putting a license on the internet isn't innovative. Putting a license that can be owned in fractions is.

Most deals in the real world are already fractionalized. If someone is building a new housing complex, he is likely going to raise funds from a bunch of investors, each of which will get a share of ownership based on their investment and negotiation skills. The only way to invest in these deals is if you know people and are in the right place at the right time. There are gatekeepers aplenty and you need big capital to get in.

If you were to tokenize the same new housing complex, anyone, anywhere can buy it up. Ownership records are transparent. There are no gatekeepers. And ownership is fully democratized. You might have $1 to your name but you can still claim to have ownership of this spanking new housing complex (even if its 0.0001%) - no intermediaries involved.

It opens up previously unavailable opportunities to anyone, not just the people with the connections and the big wallets.
I love the music video for the library: https://cms.replit.com/assets/kaboom/kaboom.mp4 -- can you tell me any code library which has a music video about it? That's a great way of introduction.
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Except there's a gov't ban and now you can't actually get dollars into your brokerage account to buy crypto (and neither can anyone else), and then the price starts dropping.

There's only so much effort someone will go through until they'll just put the money in Robinhood or something and buy some random meme stock.
I once worked on a product where the idea was the end user would write a lot of custom regexes to parse the output of commands on network devices. The system was written in such a way that the regexes were nested and looped depending on the depth of the output. The overall result is you could read and update config on a device based on what output of these regexes.

It seemed bizarre to me that it was considered an appropriate solution. The end users were network engineers so they were _able_ to write the regexes but it seemed obvious to me that providing the user with a higher level parsing library would be much easier. It was something I wanted to POC but never found time in the end.
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Can't Adobe? We know they can, I believe they should be required.
Frankly, we don't have a choice. I favour Putin, but mostly because there's no alternative. There's not a single opposition leader that is trustworthy and competent.

But it's not like Putin is a bad leader. Maybe the lack of choice is due to his actions, but he's doing lots of good things for Russia. For me, clear sign of this is how he's hated by the western media.

Bad Russian leaders are loved by western media (e.g. Gorbachev, Yeltsin) and good ones are hated.
Also what exactly is so "scary" about failing? Do people think they end up homeless under a bridge or something? I see a practically zero chance that could ever happen to someone who fights. You need to have some serious mental health problems and probably drugs to fall this deep.

Well this is just not true. You have a fantasy view of life that does not ally with reality.
The Economist is owned by 'The Economist Group', which seems to be controlled by the Agnelli family a wealthy Italian business dynasty.

What conspiracy do you subscribe to about Central Banks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Group
You have a very limited idea of what it takes for people to reach their potential.
Aren't official things supposed to be public? The french govt. can easily run a mastodon server for the municipalities.
Ah, good tip, I see we have the ACM: [0]. I sent it in.

[0] https://www.acm.nl/nl/contact/tips-en-meldingen/tip-ons
> Can we at least be honest about the problems with […], rather than make them the random big baddies in areas that they're not?

I feel like this applies to basically everything recently. I don’t know what to do about it :(
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I don't think so; Russian government doesn't need a martyr, they will discredit him thoroughly before they make any kind of move on him at this point.

You see the same behaviour with Snowden and the US. The US security industry for sure would prefer this man to be quiet and away from any spotlight, but all they can do is make up some rumours about how he's just a disgruntled employee or maybe a pedophile fleeing for that reason or a rapist. Obviously it doesn't gain traction but I've seen those attempts.
I left Ubuntu because of snap - and I don't see myself going back. It's funny, I feel like eventually every distribution has to do something to irritate long-term users, but endear themselves to others. It's part of a weird growth phase.
Do you perhaps have some awesome-kakoune cheatsheet for it, which you can recommend?
Why would that be a bad idea? I don't know a single musician who says that record labels stealing 90% of their work is a good thing.
NFTs!
What else can the US realistically do about this situation?
Why do you think you're entitled to emigrate there?
I have good news. For years there were campaigns to remove croatia wiki moderators but all were unsuccessful until recently when, with the involvement of global community, some moderators and their sockpuppets were removed. Subsequently the rest of the controversial moderators were removed since without the others sockpupets they could not maintain their position.
It is interesting to see how the war with Syria started as a means to remove Al-Assad from power because of his veiled dictatorship and somehow there is people like Putin sitting in his throne for 2 decades and nothing happens.
It's purely a Western (USA) view that this is a bad thing (although not even European leaders change that often). I'd love to see Putin rule for many more years because I don't see any sane alternative. Why would I want him to be replaced with somebody else, especially inept and low-brow Navalny?..
I would agree with you 100% if it weren't for absolutely ludicrous house prices (for reference, I'm in Melbourne, but I've heard similar complaints from people in Canada and Hong Kong). My wife and I have a far higher than average household income, and even we're worried about how the hell we can afford to own our own home. God knows what the average single-income, working class family goes through.
> The Nordic Diet

Need to check this out.

There is definitely a possibility to go much more local by just foraging. I ate probably tens of kilograms of golden chanterelle, bilberries (local equivalent of blueberry)& lingonberries last fall - the forests are spilling with food and a lot of it rots because people don't take advantage of it.

Healthy, free, very tasty food - and you get exercise and fresh air while foraging. Clears your head very nicely too if you do computer work. Almost makes me wish summer was over already and I could be in the woods picking mushrooms and berries.
Money-laundering would be less of a problem if private companies (or people) would be allowed to help - for a percentage of what the state recovers.
I use a very simple solution for this: whenever I'm handing my credit card information to some service, if there is a slightest chance of such bullshit (which is always the case with any subscription-based service), I just use a virtual card with just enough money on it to pay for whatever I intend to pay. Then they can prolong the subscription, sneak their stupid extras all they want.
You mean if you stay on long enough to be automatically resubscribed for another year you don't want?
Thank you for making me rich by the way! You can keep your wonderful fiat and menial job.
> I think less people are interested in actually owning their housing.

How do you reconcile this impression of yours with the fact that housing prices are shooting up in all major cities, and have been so for decades? Why is this happening if fewer people are actually interested in owning their own housing?

As a sidenote: in my own personal experience housing is the single major issue of all my close friends and family, but it's only an option for a small minority of them. In fact, I have never met a single person who was in the financial position to buy a house/apartment and didn't do so.
It is not that they can, it is that the US used the freedom pretext to start wars all around. What about Russia?
While I agree that many bad actors have been enticed by crypto, I'm sure that was true of other technologies/systems in their introduction (I imagine muggings increased massively as Fiat cash was adopted).
The tech itself is clearly useful in some applications, and it has spurred on a lot of conversation and thought on wider topics such as decentralised identity, trustless networking, etc etc.

A few people being bamboozled into poor investment decisions or getting scammed by people under the name of "crypto" doesn't take away for that imo.
See also this interesting series by Google Project Zero https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/introducing-i... about some recent Chrome 0-days that seem to have been exploited by “Western government operatives actively conducting a counterterrorism operation”.

This is to say that with enough time, a sufficiently sophisticated and motivated actor can always find 0-days and achieve their goals.

The related article was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26590862
What you mean is called absolute poverty in the social sciences. What most other people talk about is called relative poverty. Almost all OECD countries measure relative poverty as a share of median income.
No more Adobe for me!
Yup Affinity and OS are great unless you have very specific needs.
He seems to be popular enough for people to risk going out to protest in the tens of thousands. And "harsh" is pretty subjective. Witness testimonies from similar penal colonies are pretty grim; guards beating inmates, sleep deprivation, demeaning chores. I'd consider that harsh, but YMMV.

That being said, Navalny probably won't suffer from actual violence or anything too explicit. The government isn't stupid, and they know he'll get the word out if it happens. And it doesn't really serve their purpose. They just want to shut him up. Keeping him locked up with restricted access to communication is probably enough.

I sort of agree with your last point though. Navalny does seem to have a checkered past to put it lightly. He comes from a nationalist background, and seemingly still hold some of those values. It's hard to reconcile that fact with his (in my mind) positive influence as a catalyst for change.
I get what you are saying. But 99% of people reading this will have some kind of degree. Prolly 90% a tech one.

Yes without education, no chance.
When I read the news (and I mostly don't try to) I get it from Russia Today. I know they're probably not 100% objective, but so is any news source.

For a person living in Russia, I cringe every time I read news from western media about our country and our people. It's a collection of blatant lies targeted at people who don't know what is Russia, where is Russia, how Russia lives.

E.g. how would any westerner fact check any news source like this without being able to read Russian? Rely on opinions of CIA-ceritified translators?
I'am happy to know that that stuff can have closures but I'm not smart enough to implement them. I am a retired architect and not a professional coder. Meanwhile this is the workaround I use. For instance, the area of any triangle of sides[a,b,c] is given by the formula

area = √s*(s-a)*(s-b)*(s-c) where s = (a+b+c)/2

If the intermediate variable s is provided alone in an IIFE, like this :

{def area1 {lambda {:a :b :c}
{{lambda {:s} // it's an IIFE where :s will be replaced ...
{sqrt {* :s {- :s :a} {- :s :b} {- :s :c}}} // ... here ...
} {/ {+ :a :b :c} 2}}}} // ... by this value computed once
-> area1

{area1 3 4 5}
-> NaN // Not a Number

it doesn't work, simply because [:a :b :c] are not in the inner function's arguments list and a function knows nothing about its context. It is necessary to manually add the arguments of the calling function

{def area2 {lambda {:a :b :c}
{{lambda {:a :b :c :s} // :a :b :c are redefined ...
{sqrt {* :s {- :s :a} {- :s :b} {- :s :c}}}
} :a :b :c // ... get values from the outer func ...
{/ {+ :a :b :c} 2}} // ... and from the new computed value
}}
-> area2

{area2 3 4 5}
-> 6

For information lambdas are implemented at the beginning of this javascript file http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/meca/JS.js I wouldn't want to complicate the code too much and especially lose the automatic partial application, which seems to me incompatible with closures.

Thank you for your kind remarks
You're making a giant leap between getting out of poverty and becoming a business executive. Most people don't aim to manage other people, they're happy doing whatever they want to do (doctor, nurse, teacher, whatever) while not having to worry about having their basic needs met (food, shelter, similar). Can they achieve that under our current system?
But I really really like shell history files if I have to come behind someone!
> I believe this is going to be a big milestone in raising awareness of cryptocurrencies and making them more mainstream.

'Mainstream' as in a stronger argument for cryptocurrency regulations. We are only going to see more retail investors throwing in riskier investments with leverage and will end up bag-holding in another bust cycle.
>> I'd love to see Putin rule for many more years because I don't see any sane alternative

Does it ever occur to you that it's exactly by design?
> "it's no different than a 12 month phone plan in places like Australia."

No major phone carrier in Australia charges cancellation fees on a 12 month contract. None of them even offer a 12 month SIM only contract.

If you have a phone payment attached, you just pay the remainder of the phone which you keep. With Adobe's contract you pay half the remaining amount and immediately cannot use the software anymore.
The point of the parent was that you aren’t in net debt if you own a tangible asset, like a house or a car, on loan. If push comes to shove you could sell off your house, move into a cheaper rental house, and clear the debt.

Student loan gets you into negative wealth territory but not housing loan.
Being a quant does not mean being very wealthy. On his podcast he has said himself he is in no way rich. He has a day job, one which probably pays well. Calling him very wealthy can not be correct.
The rebuttal starts at 1h 9m.

I don't think you can consider Sabine a critic that understands what [s]he's talking about. She is a popularizer of science but hasn't produced anything to suggest she's near the top of her field. And she has some really fringe ideas, like the support of super-determinism.

I do think her guest poster Timothy Nguyen came across as knowing what he's talking about.
People like you are the reason you don't have any choise, World is increasing turning to dictators, same thing is being propogated in India in form of Modi, anyone else is being ridiculed.
Indeed. Do you know any decent quality t-shirts that don't put logos? Seems like simple task.
Or money. Money works too.

None i guess, but gladly many people have the possibility to get some kind of degree these days. Just because you come from a poor country does not mean you have no means of learning a job.
> lack of competition in the regulated US crypto space

That's what I thought as well. People complain about monopolies but these over regulated spaces make it so difficult for startups to get going. It shouldn't be necessary for a non tangible asset company to need an angel investor that pays for tons of bureaucracy and license acquisition.
"Even nine years ago, it was easy to see that, outside of high-quality DSLR and mirrorless cameras, standalone cameras were over."

Hmm hard to disagree with that.
For pros and experienced enthusiasts, sure nothing beats camera system with bigger image sensors.

But for casual folks who just want to take image quickly (and publish them to social media), smartphone is way more practical. And cheaper.
This reminds me of this xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/959/
I agree, I think some sort of universal income payment for each child would be the least controversial version of UBI.
Assuming by "equality" you mean everyone is given the same amount of money regardless of what they do or achieve, then no it's not better than bare necessities.

A degree of struggle is good for us. It pushes us to become more than we could without it. Don't take this to mean I want everyone in poverty--that's not what I'm saying. But being motivated to work towards a financial goal is a good thing. I do not believe a life without struggle is a good life.

There are struggles outside of financial struggles too. So I understand that even if you remove the financial struggle by giving everyone the same amount of money some struggle will remain from other factors in life. But in general I've found I grow the most in difficult times. It's painful. But it's richly rewarding when you come out the other side of the struggle. Robbing life of struggle will rob you of a rich life.
This is starting to be a longish debate.

I am partly influenced by my own personal history. I grew up with a single mother and no child support from a father that lived abroad. We were somewhere in the lowest fourth of the income distribution.

Yet it helped me to be an independent person, paradoxically. I never had to take into account what my neighbors or rich, soon-to-die relatives think about me, what are "suitable" careers for a young man of X years and Y parents, what kind of real property binds my feet from moving anywhere. No one was interested in me and it felt very liberating.

Knowing my colleagues from school who were restrained by all those concerns and had to play a "role" instead of being themselves, I did not envy them the least.
Awesome, I hope they expand their crypto listing to include Dogecoin sometime in the near future.