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A missing piece of this discussion is how American wealth got there in the first place: 19th century industrialization.

In that era you're either a farmer or an entrepreneur. America had a literal explosion of engineering, innovation, and entrepreneurship such that by Lincoln's death America was already the top global economy GDP (including per capita) and spearheading the industrial revolution.

This was much due to generally high edu levels especially technical education, specific regions of innovation (e.g. CT river valley creating interchangeable parts), and a lot of openness and mobility in the culture (and probably the general cultural obsession with commerce).

America doesn't exist like this anymore however it's a blueprint how inequality could be lowered... bring back a radical culture of entrepreneurship and innovation (not "go have a career at someone's company"), bring back widespread technical education, and bring back a whole lot more of our former industrial-manufacturing economy (which was like 80% of our economy in 1950 to like 10% today; "knowledge economy" is not going to get us there).
Kroki.io is integrated into the text editor I've been developing:

https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite#screenshots

Would configuring it to use a local Kroki install be useful?
> But you can use gradle to build from an IDE and gradle will do incremental builds

Not true in my experience. For a gradle project intellij offers me the choice of building with intellij (incorrect) or gradle (slow - the actual compilation may be fast and incremental, but it takes a couple of minutes to start up, build the project definition, and so on. I'm sure this is because me and my colleagues are using it wrong and some theoretical gradle wizard wouldn't have this problem, but it's been the behaviour of every gradle build I've had to use in actual real life).

> correctly and fastly (as opposed to maven where you should be doing clean install)

Not my experience at all. Maven may be less incremental but miscompilation is a lot more common with gradle. And more to the point, IDE-based build is a lot more reliable with maven than with gradle, to the point that any slowness of the maven-based build is irrelevant.
> This could be a country specific thing but Adobe’s Australian site does not say that at all, quite the opposite.

Nope, perfectly normal business practice and not even unethical.

Please learn and understand how contracts work. They are a legal _obligation_ and you cannot just unilaterally change the conditions after signing a contract without provoking a contract penalty.

It’s really just how contracts work, everywhere in the world.
The climate has always changed. Nothing in the universe is ever not changing, so "climate change" is not the real name of this issue. Maybe the concern is actually CO2 emissions. Humans have added about 100 ppm of CO2 to the atmosphere over about a century. It's unknown and unknowable what effect this is having, because we live in the most complex of complex systems. People often try to simulate it via "models", aka garbage closed-source programs, but they're toys and cannot possibly tell us much, because complex systems are fundamentally not amenable to simulation. But if we look at Earth's history, 400 ppm of CO2 is not much. Not long ago, CO2 ppm was twice what it is today, and there was no disaster. Stepping back and trying to analyze the situation more fundamentally, we know that the planet has encased itself in ice and then thawed itself multiple times, all without human intervention.

But climate change is a perfect bogeyman for the left. It invokes primal fear, guilt about our decadent living standards, etc. And most importantly, it happens so slowly that by the time the predictions are shown to be false, everyone's forgotten about them, or it's been so long that it's easy to suggest that the predictions weren't serious. There's a vast graveyard of false predictions that the MSM doesn't want to talk about, because "Things are actually OK, there is no crisis" is not going to get anyone to click.

Point being, someone near you is actually suffering, and you have the power to help them. The problem is happening now, it's verifiable with your own eyes, and you can improve the situation with your own hands, in a reasonable amount of time, and witness the aftermath yourself. IMO, that's a much better thing to work on than an alleged crisis that, twenty years hence, will still not have arrived. Doomsday will have been postponed, and nobody will believe you when you tell them about the false predictions that were made about the poor polar bears, or the walruses, or the penguins, or the glaciers, or snow in general, or sea levels, or the coral reefs, etc.
Have a look at Meilisearch.

I love it for its simplicity. No schema's, no clusters, no transformations, no calculations.

Just documents and search over HTTP.
If you want to do money laundering, don't you just:

1. Have a legit company/ies with sufficient revenue.

2. Bill for imaginary goods/services.

3. Receive and deposit dirty cash as payment for them. Any questions, just say "oh, they're foreigners who do everything in cash."

4. Remit clean funds to "investors" as "special profit dividends," minus your take.
Regardless of the physics content, if the constructions he proposes turn out to be well defined they might be a basis for some nice mathematics.
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90% of the companies do not know how to manage software. They got weird dogmas, no KPIs, no ability to measure performance or debug problems. This is why they got external consultants and cloud vendors. What is really funny how they think internally about these issues. If Netflix and Amazon was publishing efficiency numbers and we were able to compare with the bottom 95% of tech users people would be shocked. The difference between the numbers I am aware of (number of computers / engineer for example) is 100x.
I don't care what anyone says, I love the skeuomorphic look - knobs, buttons, toggles, even the subtle CRT glow on the scopes. Not everything needs to be clean & minimalist. Great work :)
My hypothesis is that we use substances that hurt us because we are conscious about our own mortality. Using a mind-altering substance, a.k.a. poisoning yourself, is like turning on the light to see the big monster in the dark is just a pile of clothes. It gives us a sense that death won't be that bad.
Maybe the premise is flawed...it may cost less to fight climate change. For example, looking just at greenhouse gas emissions, transportation, electricity generation, and agriculture account for roughly 2/3 of emissions. I have solar panels on my roof that generate 100% of my electricity, and it saves me money over what I was paying before. I have worked from home since 2015, and have averaged half the miles driven per year versus when I worked in an office. This saves on gas and wear and tear on my car. I also eat vegetarian one day a week for both health reasons and to cut down on the impact to the environment. This depends on what meat you swap out and what vegetables and fruit you swap in, but for me it is a savings. The total savings for all of these isn't huge, but it is about $400-$500 monthly
It would be great if we start democratization with some fundamental needs first: the drivers.
> Are you saying someone would need to post more than the value of the share?

Yes, as an alternative to not allowing the trade.

If the bank considers something highly risky, it makes sense to protect themselves and the customer by making sure they've got some money locked up outside of the trade (a bankrupt customer is no longer a customer, after all). It would basically cap the percentage of net worth that they could put at risk, where they'd need to have $10 set aside for every $1 in the risky position.
Ah makes sense, thanks for the info.
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None. I don't believe climate is changing because of humans. Climate has always changed and always will.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't overlook pollution which is the serious problem here imho.

There's already a CO2 tax on everything you consume. What do they do with the money?

> we can figure out the best allocation after we solved the initial funding problem

Right... this is the best way to get your money stolen by some con artist. The fact is the problem isn't money (look at central banks printing like there's no tomorrow) but what to do with it.
To complement, in the EU, if you have two prices, one on the shelf and one on the box, the cheapest one is the right one. The only goods where prices are printed on the "box" are not in boxes, they are books or clothes.

When items get individual prices, they are usually small sticker prices and effectively only in small shops or discount prices in bigger stores.
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Would love to know your feedback.
You do realize that a wealth tax of 1% on 5% gain is basically a 20% tax on idle asset appreciation. American middle class pays 1% property tax on their primary asset without flinching.

It is not applying taxes on income. There is a separate tax for it - it is called income tax. A tax cut friendly premier repealing tax laws means nothing. France did not implode in the decades it had a wealth tax. Its not like the USA with a rapidly declining middle class is a fine counter example.

And why are you so hurt at the thought of a 20% tax on asset appreciation on the idle rich? No one really gives a shit.
Buying or shorting this stock to the tune of billions of dollars might be a good way for a drug dealer to mitigate the currency fluctuation risk to his big pile of illicit bitcoins stashed under his bed.
I don't see why it couldn't be removed from a future release after a period of deprecation.
HSBC does a lot money laundry for rich people around the world, and now it is worrying about risks? I don't think so. But it is a telling for potential direction of US government is taking for bitcoin. HSBC is doing many things to please the US government, this may be one of them.
> Well then move to high-income country.

You can't just take an Uber to a rich country. You have to do a lot of work to get there. All that work is wasted years compared to someone who was just born there in the first place and can focus 100% on their actual path of getting rich.
Renting is often cheaper in major cities.
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If you're employing "ignore it until it goes away" as a debt mitigation strategy you probably aren't in a position to be buying a house (or a car, or whatever) any time soon. Having a 400 FICO score is not a "real consequence" to anyone who's in this situation.

At any rate, I'm just pointing out that it's a thing you can do, not advocating it as one you should do.

As an aside, I think a lot of the HN audience would be surprised at just how many people in America do take advantage of this. Being constantly broke really changes your decision making paradigm.
> What authorities?

In Germany, the creditor can just go to court and they will send a bailiff to get the money from you.

If someone legally owes you money and they don‘t pay, you can always have the court send a bailiff for you.

You don’t have to be a multi-billion Dollar company to have the right (not privilege) to have your debitors pay their debt.
You do realize that using the phrase "you do realize" does not make your argument any stronger.

France did quite well in the decades it applied a wealth tax, irrespective of Macron's actions.

You seem to be obsessed with France. Have you considered Switzerland, one of the wealthiest countries with the highest standard of living and super high minimum wage.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-16/swiss-wea...
Even simpler: https://github.com/piku/piku
But there is nothing about pricing in there.

I mean, I'll be honest and share that I didn't know the housing regulations are so f-ed up in the US, but they are pretty complicated everywhere.

What drives housing prices is a deflation of living goods coupled with an inflation of luxury goods which makes finding safe investments for large sums of money with relatively high yields hard to find. This is driven by an increasing inequality gap, which makes rich people desperately trying to find more things to invest their money into. And they have found housing in urban areas is the safest bet right now. So houses are bought and sold for the millions in hopes somebody else buys it for higher prices or the area justifies the rent.
I found this page that summarise the whole thing https://jorgemorais.gitlab.io/justice-for-rms/
I've had a slightly irritating problem with ants this past year---considering everything else.

They were using electrical cables (Romex) as a highway to my house. They were also using the spaces between wood to gain entry.

Cleanliness did help, but there were times where I gave up. They just kept coming over the same routes no matter how festidious I got. One time they were eating the coating off a dropped Ibuprofen pill.

I bought the ant traps. For a few months they worked like magic. Then the ants walked right past the traps. It's almost like they knew not to go into the white houses?

I think insects are much more intelligent than we give them credit for.

What did work, or I just got lucky, is finding the openings they were coming through, and blocking off the access, and as much as I didn't want to spray Raid, I did. I didn't spray it all over though. I used a small amount directed to the point of entry. No more than a few sq. inches of spray.

So far it has reduced the number of ants, but I wouldn't be suprised if they were holding a meeting right under me right now, looking to find new entry points to my house though?
The wealth gap has gotten so bad it’s almost unimaginable. I fear however that as bad as it is, that it’s going to be peanuts compared to what could theoretically be possible as AI and body modification Tech continues to advance at the pace it’s currently at. At some point the contradictions will be so massive, for all intents and purposes, they just won’t be visible.
> This book has deservedly won an Academy Award. I believe it should also be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize — Donald Knuth

It's hard to beat that book review.
My story - for a hobby project - is that I wanted to use ElasticSearch. Heroku's ElasticSearch pricing was per document.

I wanted to index billions of very small documents. Billions was in the "phone us" pricing category.

Switched to the smallest cheapest VPS I could find and that did the job.
Looks more lackluster than gruesome to me. But I think they‘re going to have to slash their margins to keep revenue from falling off a cliff when data center ARM chips become competitive.
nginx buildpack + python buildpack == nginx to serve static content and gunicorn for the python backend. Of course you now have to know how to set up an nginx config file so it does take away somewhat from the "just works" simplicity of Heroku.

Although even whitenoise is still ok if you're going to set it up with a CDN as the frontend for your static assets. If you want simplicity then you do it using one of the CDN addons.

Whitenoise is not a limitation of the heroku platform, it's really a symptom of suboptimal documentation.
I’m familiar with ARUCOs, but in my experience they tend to be somewhat finicky (Eg: mid-identified with a little bit of noise or unfavorable lighting), and accurate poses tend to require a lot more fiducial markers than might be considered “reasonable”.
> What would the banking industry look like if HSBC executives had been personally indicted for the many money laundering issues they allow to happen?

It would look the same, we already know that harsher sentences do not provide effective deterrence.
If you ever want to see "deleted" (flagged/dead) comments like that one, turn on "showdead" in your profile.
I use heroku for the majority of my projects. I tried DO app platform a few months ago, it was garbage. I wasted an entire day migrating my heroku rails app to DO only to come to realization I am much better off paying for heroku
The real problem is that the whole concept of laws against money laundering is operating at the wrong layer of abstraction.

You have these criminals. Drug cartels. They sell their drugs and send the profits back to Colombia where they own the government and are immune from prosecution. The theory is supposed to be that you prevent them from getting the money or using it to pay their operatives in the US, since you can't actually put them in jail.

The problem is that it can't make their business unprofitable. It can't because the demand is relatively inelastic. Heroin addicts gonna buy heroin. You make it less convenient, the price goes up, the drug cartels make more money and use the money to bribe whoever they need to or buy submarines etc. And all the AML rules can ever do is make it more inconvenient to launder their money. Can't ever actually win that way.

It even makes it worse, because higher barriers to entry induce market consolidation. You get bigger, more violent cartels. Because AML drives some producers out of the market, but the others figure out how to evade AML and keep the higher margins from the reduction in competition, and increase their production to satisfy the demand left by the exit of the weaker producers. It puts more money into the hands of the cartels. It's a dumpster fire and should be utterly dismantled.

The answer is to solve the underlying problem. Do the opposite on the supply side; increase competition so much that nobody is making any money at all. Decriminalization. And then address the problem on the demand side through regulation and treatment programs etc. rather than prohibition.
Did you even read that comment? Or just skim it?
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How much deception are you ok with before it becomes an issue? Would it be ok if the second screen was also missing the "annual plan" text, and it only became visible on the payment-confirmation screen? What if was only visible in the fine print at the bottom of the page? Where do you draw the line?
That doesn’t make a lot of sense. The EITC is a direct cash transfer to low income individuals that offsets inequality and is there money to do with as they wish.

Why would you not include that?
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My guess is it's Docco: http://ashkenas.com/docco/
But the problem is the supply of housing hasn't kept up with that demand due to artificial limits placed on the market. Single-family zoning has made it illegal to build more of the dense housing that's needed in cities today.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/18/upshot/cities...
Use console.log for it's intended use, formatting string output, but for debugging purposes, it is a bad practice because the reason it's used usually do not usually justify the sloppy unfocused mess it leaves behind. A poorly written log statement is tech debt, as well. Debugger provides all the benefits one would expect with console.log usage:

1. You can see where you are at that moment of execution in code

2. You can see variables and arguments within scope

3. You can forget about it and a linter will pick it up or it will be ignored unless run in debugging mode

All of this allows you to focus on the actual bug and not looking for something like:

`MY SPECIAL VAR: [object Object]`

I forgot to format, let's run it again.
Contracts that involve money over time should state the exact amount you are obligated to pay in total, including any and all fees. Adobe does not currently do that. In Australia at least, they can renew your annual contract at a higher rate without notice. That's not OK with me.

The fact that you defend this practice shows where our ethics differ. I do not know how you can justify: A company signing you up for another year at a higher rate without telling you.
It does have power over what it allows to be published, although it does not have the staff to enforce violations. As a Croatian-American who speaks Croatian, it is best to avoid the Croatian language Wikipedia pages about wars, with some more recent than others. It is quite hateful, xenophobic, and nationalistic. The news source I provided is investigative journalism for Balkan countries funded via European Union.

> "Wikimedia Foundation Inc, the US-based non-profit charitable NGO, is the owner of the Croatian version of Wikipedia." [1]

> "However, the Wikimedia Foundation is not the founder of the Croatian version, nor does it accept that it is responsible for the accuracy of its articles. It insists that it does not have any power over Croatian-language Wikipedia entries." [1]

Other reads are provided for reference [2][3][4].

[1] Wikipedia Not Responding to Inquiries on Croatian Entries: https://balkaninsight.com/2018/04/23/wikipedia-not-replying-...

[2] Croatian Wikipedia Removes ‘Polish Genocide of Germans’ Claim: https://balkaninsight.com/2018/03/29/croatian-wikipedia-remo...

[3] How Croatian Wikipedia Made a Concentration Camp Disappear: https://balkaninsight.com/2018/03/26/how-croatian-wikipedia-...

[4] Croatia Wikipedia Alters Jasenovac Camp Entry Again: https://balkaninsight.com/2018/08/29/croatia-wikipedia-furth...
Because it's more nuanced then that: the point of the uber-wealthy is that their net worth is tied up in investments. But because those investments have theoretically actualizable values, they can still "spend" them in the form of taking out loans against their assessed value.

Which then compounds because a loan devalues with inflation, the bigger the loan the lower your interest rate and so on and so forth. So it winds up taking very little increase in their theoretical investments to offset a slow drip of "actual money" they're borrowing to fund their lifesystems or buy off politicians or what have you.

They don't pay income tax like you or I pay income tax because the volumes involved are large enough that the "startup capital" for tax evasion is practical.
Its very similar in many european coutries. The problem is that cities are owned by someone else than people living in it. Many flats are empty because development cartels can wait long time before they rent it. This way they push the price and cost perception more and more. They will do so to infinity because they have monopoly.
The poverty line is supposed to mark the very bottom of the scale, not the middle. $2200 is still a ton of purchasing power compared to almost any other country.
What, like George Galloway, Sputnik TV presenter (mentioned in the article?)
There's a little company called MyTeksi. My is a for-profit social startup with a mission to revolutionise the taxi industry.

They started GrabCar, which killed off the taxi industry with higher wages, higher quality services, lower prices. To win the war against Uber, they'd lie about how long it took for a car to arrive, and they'd deceive drivers as well. A driver might be promised a $100 bonus for driving into an inaccessible area. And for the bonuses they could claim they'd be paid 70% because their fee was deducted from the bonus. Sometimes they'd ban a driver for small reasons like a customer complaining about leaving a water bottle. Not only would they fire you despite your 4.7 star rating, they'd take all your earnings.

Eventually, they outlasted Uber, acquired them. They didn't raise prices but they no longer offered discounts. Now they're simply called Grab.

They still hold on to the idea that they are the good guys who are improving the lives of others, but whose lives? It's billionaires getting rich off the hard labor of others. Don't get me wrong - the billionaires worked hard and took risks, but is it as hard as the drivers that they kick off the platform?
I think the point of that quote from the guy is that he realized what it was but he's not ever going to tell. The recipe in the article is the guessed one not the secret one.