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There are lots of existing wealth tax proposal, including annual taxes on all things above some exception. Realistically vast majority of wealth is held in stocks (or other ownership interest instruments), bonds (or other debt instruments), and real estate. These things have common valuation methods (and a wealth tax on real estate is already a thing — property taxes).

At the same time, I do support progressive (and at the high end very high) estate tax.
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That's what I want more politicians snooping on my porn surfs
If you step out of the tech bubble, you will see that these mega consulting firms are considered prestigious places to work especially in India and other developing world.
Can confirm, have it running on xfce right now.
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This doesn't answer the question being asked.
Moore’s Law Is Dead (2016):

https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/05/13/245938/moores-la...
Building a B2B customer discovery platform: give me feedback?
I'm building a b2b customer discovery platform to help early stage companies reduce the time and effort associated with getting in front of potential customers/buyers to get feedback on their ideas/products. It's going to be a 2-sided marketplace where founders can search through people profiles in their ideal customer profile and then pay with cash or very small amounts of equity to schedule an hour over video with an expert to have a customer discovery call. Imagine SuperPeer + Linkedin for b2b customer discovery.

Today this is usually done through warm intros through founder and VC networks or, even worse, through cold emailing. It can take a founder 6 months to have 20-30 customer feedback sessions. I want to reduce that to 1 month. On the other side, experts are incentivized to join for 3 reasons: 1. comp - either cash or micro-equity, you're rewarded for your time. Getting paid $200/hr and doing 5 of those a week = $36k/year. 2. broaden your network and find new angel investing opportunities 3. guide founders on building good software - no one likes shitty software. Shape the software of the future.

People have said "can't i do this through linkedin?" And my response is - "what's been your success through linkedin? 10%, 20% response rate? What if it was 100%?" I've met with about a dozen founders and buyers and have gotten really promising feedback, but I'm always looking for more ideas and thoughts.
> haven't been spending the last half a decade doing something meaningful like working for an ad-retargeting conglomerate while complaining about cryptocurrencies

best line in this whole thread!
Gave it a quick spin, it looks potentially useful. The mortgage calculator seems way off though; I put in some toy numbers ($1m 30yr fixed mortgage @ 3%, copying in values from the external calculator that's linked) and it's computing the payoff in about 5-6 years instead of 30. Ideally you could enter the mortgage terms like period, APR, and have the calculator back in to the mortgage payment, since the monthly payment is more of an output rather than an input in mortgage planning calculations.

Mortgage details are likely to be the dominant term for homeowners, so seems like this one would be important to fix. Plus mortgage interest compounding calculations are pretty opaque to most people, so it would help with explaining different structures (e.g. ARM vs. fixed vs interest-only, what portion of your payment is going to principal vs. interest over time, etc.).
CIA, NSA, FBI, what else is new? Our society is doomed.
I had no idea Randall Munroe of XKCD has had a column at NYT since 2019. His illustration style is so distinct.
It’s a bit easier to see the value of trade when there is some schlepping involved. Buying fish off the boat and selling it in the grocery store provides a useful service for the people shopping at the grocery store, since they don’t have to go to the docks. Reversing that would be nonsensical and destroy value; nobody needs more fish at the dock.

Just because it’s the same commodity doesn’t mean it’s worth the same amount at every time and place. Transportation and storage are technologies that add value by taking surpluses and moving them where they are needed more. This is still true when the cost of transport is very cheap.

Amazon is clearly doing something very useful with its warehouses and delivery. This is all about getting stuff to people whenever they want it.

How much this is really worth is unclear. You can’t take prices at face value. A monopoly could charge higher prices than other companies would charge for the same service in a competitive industry, and the difference is how much of the value goes to the company versus the buyer. But doing calculations using prices is often the best we can do.
I suppose I could have Googled instead of complaining, so thanks for doing the work for me! :) [I like how the first citation is from a 1920's paper (by Betz).]
(Am author) Google's FLoC cohorts are determiend by browsing history. If your page is excluded thereby giving other pages a higher weight, it doesn't necessarily reduce the bits of entropy in a user's fingerprint. Cohorts will still have roughly the same number of people and thus make it about as easy to identify users.

If you add the header to your site, do it for the right reason. It could mess with unsophisticated ad targeting, but it won't necessarily make a difference wrt. privacy. Energy is better spent getting users off of any browser that supports FLoC (Chrome, probably Chromium too).
I mean sure but it turns this:

- Checkout different branch

- Continue working

Into this:

- Checkout branch into new location

- (Close project in IDE)

- Browse to branch location, open IDE

- Move all terminal $PWDs to the new location, as needed

- Make a coffee while the IDE re-indexes everything

- (Compiled languages: Hit make, enjoy another coffee while the build runs)

- (npm and similarly structured projects: Hit install, enjoy another coffee while all dependencies are being fetched/checked/installed)

And I just don't see how that's desirable. With git I can create, merge and switch between branches in seconds, and don't really have any problems (I've almost never felt the need to have two branches checked out at the same time). But with tree-per-branch I only see problems, and all branch-related operations become slow and annoying.

One use case I could imagine where this is useful if you are simultaneously maintaining several mainline branches. But even within those "work areas" I'd rather be able to quickly switch branches.
You're ignoring the game theory of abusers exploiting the cost of making an accusation such that they never get accused.
I had a similar story. My day in High School was from 7:28 AM to 2:08pm. Getting up to go to school wasn't a huge deal for me, but I did love having so much time after school to play a sport, hang with friends, etc. and still have plenty of time to get my (way less than kids seem to get nowadays) homework done.

I'm conflicted on this, mostly because that after school time was very valuable to me, much more than being able to sleep in a little more. This was extra true in the winter, when the sun set by 5pm. I also recognize that not everyone to be as easily up and awake that early in the day.
Too bad bpf isn't allowed for non root yet. A bpf futex program like xok's wake programs would be more general, and way nicer.
Rights groups question Columbia over professor's interview wrt Uyghurs
> ProjectiFi

You might want to reconsider the name -- it looks way too similar to Google's Project Fi. Or at least the logo, which looks like cell phone reception bars, which even further reminds me of Project Fi.
The exploration of his motivations could have been deeper. I suspect the basic problem in espionage work is that being interested in it at all is precisely the reason not to hire someone to do it. I'm imagining a trade off where either you take some very earnest people who want to serve their country and then manage the risk of disillusioning them, or you find a cluster of people who really just get off on deception and find a way to somehow exploit them.

I can say I harbour no envy for any of them.
OMG, I wonder if this is why Trump has his own charities that also happen to make frequent donations of paintings!?
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As a member of the old Thinkpads/OpenBSD masterrace, I appreciate the concept. It sure can be a pain sometimes though, plus I'm lusting after one of those M1 Mac Minis.
> the problem I have is that sometimes the devices lose sync with each other if they've been off for any length of time. Opening the KDE Connect settings typically fixes this, but it's not ideal!

A slightly better solution I have found helpful is to pull down Yakuake (or krunner) and run `kdeconnect-cli --refresh`. Beats having to open a QT window, only to be closed off immediately.
'Intellectual property' is mostly just postmodern nonsense...
Great question! Keycloak allows for some customization of the login page, but not to the degree that we wanted. Specifically, with Keycloak, you have to redirect to the login page running on their UI and that page is only configurable through adding themes. Since we already had a style defined with our previous auth0 work, we wanted to keep a login page that we can control.

Additionally, the architecture of Ory is microservices oriented vs. Keycloak’s large monolith. A microservice auth architecture means that updates to either platform can be done more easily which is important for managing API breaks. i.e. Kratos updates to new breaking API, no new security vulns found. Security researcher finds vuln in Hydra, Hydra patches that. We can just update Hydra to the security patch and delay our Kratos changes.

Finally, our product offers debugging of golang applications in prod (without recompiling code), so we slightly prefer go services so that we can use our own product.
If he allows another language in Linux, there is nothing that could piss him off anymore.
Looks like a useful method.
Yeah, exactly. I was in that role, though it took me a few months to figure out that that's really what it was.
In a lot of cases, it automatically updates.
Which part specifically is confusing you? Like, it's a long TOU, so I don't think anyone's gonna write down the whole explanation here, but let's pick one paragraph:

> Commercial Use: Unless otherwise expressly authorized herein or in the Site, you agree not to display, distribute, license, perform, publish, reproduce, duplicate, copy, create derivative works from, modify, sell, resell, exploit, transfer or upload for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Site, use of the Site, or access to the Site. The buying, exchanging, selling and/or promotion (commercial or otherwise) of upvotes, comments, submissions, accounts (or any aspect of your account or any other account), karma, and/or content is strictly prohibited, constitutes a material breach of these Terms of Use, and could result in legal liability.

This means: don't use the content of the site to make derivative works to make money, otherwise we might sue you.

It's mostly straightforward stuff like that. If there's a specific part that you're having trouble with, I'm happy to have a crack at explaining it.
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> I think advertising is positive [1]

That link only works if we buy into the premise: "One way to think about this is, what would the world would be like if we didn't allow advertising? No internet ads, TV ads, magazine ads, affiliate links, sponsored posts, product placement, everything."

However, no. I don't buy that premise at all. The state of ads as it is now is actively harmful with very little to show for in terms of "new non-stickier products" etc.
The Fuji film sims are pleasing to the eye but by no means are they close to their namesake film stocks.
>But when someone accuses the US we never add any salt. Not that I don’t think it’s false, it’s just that the lack of consistent skepticism is interesting.

This thread also isn't full of calls for sanctions against the US or talk of overthrowing the government.

I don't actually doubt many of the reports claiming North Korea or whoever were behind some attack, I know they are likely engaging in such activities. I just don't think the evidence is convincing enough to use as a casus belli or similar reason to take our own malicious actions. I would take a similar stance with this CIA malware, but nobody here is calling for punishment based on it.
KDE is the best DE for low memory computers. I use it on an old HP streambook 11, with 2GB of RAM and a 32GB internal disk. (openSuSE)
Do you think visualizing CloudFormation is helpful?
I wrote this blog post about visualizing IaC and am wondering if I missed any points... or how others feel about CloudFormation visualization.

https://www.stackery.io/blog/%20visualize-cloudformation-templates

And yes, I work at Stackery so this is a self-serving article. Still would love to hear other peoples opinions.
I had a moment like that when I received a call. My smart watch sent a pause command to the playback notification, which was KDE connect, connected to my PC's audio player, which was controlling Kodi on my TV, pausing it nearly instantly.

A single pause command bridged four devices and it all just worked together. That's the true power of interoperable software standards.

Sadly, Google added a privacy constraint to Android, taking away the ability to monitor the clipboard in the background with no way to bypass the restrictions without rooting your phone. Automated clipboard sync was just great, and I'm sad to see it go.
> I wonder what changed and made them add the new terms of use.

Probably a lawsuit, mandatory arbitration avoids lawsuits. I’m just guessing, I have no concrete info.
"For the lack of in-house expertise to supervise private parties, look no further than Boeing. They relied on self-certification, and we ended up with the 737-MAX."

That would require a major shift in mindset, policy, and even law for the US. Even stuff like drugs and medical devices are tested by third parties, not the government itself.
Maybe it's less suspicious to have benign metadata than no metadata.
ToS;DR has your back: https://tosdr.org/en/service/636 (Though it's not complete yet.)
That does make sense though. At city level people are way more likely to be interested, because they can actually make a difference, and it will help the community they live in
if linux people focused on offering compelling ecosystem for app/game distribution, they wouldn't need to bloat their os with slow and bloated emulators like wine

the reason why linux isn't gaining shares on steam anymore is because valve openly said linux has no ecosystem and is forced to emulate windows -- proton
Can you comment on https://weatherspark.com/y/4750/Average-Weather-in-Amarillo-...? It suggests that although during winter north and west are the strongest wind directions, in the summer you get south winds up to three quarters of the time, and precious little north wind at all.

This is pretty consistent with my loose understanding of how these winds work and my experience in south east Australia: the predominant wind directions vary very significantly by season, and even within seasons substantial deviation is much more common than people often think.
I'm not sure postmodern is the right word to use here? It's pretty standard liberalism in terms of creating/enforcing property rights over things.
The best explanation I've heard:

If I pay you $10,000 to eat a pile of horse manure, then you pay me $10,000 to eat a pile of horse manure we have:

Created $20,000 of "value" for the economy and increased GDP $20,000. That's all great for PR!

In reality we both just have s--t eating grins.
There are lots of these stories. Remember when the FBI contracted SAIC to build a new case file system and it was so badly implemented they decided it couldn't be used?

https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/fbi-virtual...
Awesome. I'm going to try that next time. Thanks much!
Could you perhaps just divide all of your financial numbers by some linear factor N that you keep secret?

But yes, this should really be an client-side / offline app.
We have to be careful about moving the goalposts to measure Autopilot according to supposed qualities it never claims to have.

It’s likely that implementing the suggested solutions would add more problems than it solves. For one thing some of them would exacerbate one problem you seem to be concerned about, driver overconfidence and over reliance on the system.

So while these bureaucratic opinions are fascinating, like many such committee driven conclusions they should be taken with a grain of salt. Tesla has thought things through pretty well.

Ultimately the best solution for now imho is to keep full responsibility with the driver.
If anyone is considering T-Mobile Home 5G Internet, you can dramatically improve your connection speeds by getting the devices to connect on the 5G n41 band, where T-Mobile has much more spectrum. Unfortunately n41 is 2500 MHz, which means it's readily absorbed by building materials. Hooking up external antennas to the hotspot requires a bit of playing with the device [1], but can be a big help.

https://www.waveform.com/a/b/guides/hotspots/t-mobile-5g-gat...
The ultimate designated driver.
Just out of curiousity, Would you become really a happy person when you become so much focused on financials, investments, growth, independence etc I wonder.
I personally have a good income. But I do not invest at all. I hate it. I just spend whatever I think is possible and needed for a happy today. And so far money is something I barely have to think about. I see so much people around me busy with cryptos. Busy with stock markets. And they always talk and dream about the future. Live a life today I always tell them.
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Speaking of getting things wrong... if Comcast runs some half baked DB query to flag problem customers and it flags a false positive on you you're just gonna get your service turned off. When the states and feds make those mistakes there's a body count or at the very least lives ruined. Comcast, or other BigCo will generally do the right thing to make you go away, after all, every dollar spent on fighting people is a dollar that could be profit. When government does wrong and gets called on it digs in its heels much, much harder.
I have no opinions on the American industry, but I have known folks that have run local (NY) construction companies.

They have all said that you need to deal with the wiseguys. They also have told me that they are nothing like what TV makes them out to be.

Sort of like the famous "widgets" scene in Back to School[0].

I can tell you that the Japanese (at least in Tokyo) construction industry is awesome. They build incredibly ambitous and robust buildings, in a really short time.

I traveled to Tokyo regularly, for 20+ years. I tended to stay in the same hotel.

I remember looking out my window one year, and seeing a big field.

The next year, it was a big hole in the ground.

The next year, it was a 30-story skyscraper; fully occupied.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlVDGmjz7eM
Stories like these make me wonder why don't I start a consulting firm. Pretty much every mega consulting firm seems to hire subpar developers and deliver low quality code. It seems like consulting is ripe for disruption. Or is it too hard to scale?
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Hopefully this will lead to better treatment of brain tumors and other diseases.
I thought Bezos was attaching a monetary amount ($) to that value though — so pointing out that a fruit swap is zero-sum, monetarily, seems on point.
What’s the best practice for making a Terms & Conditions or Privacy Policy page these days? Eg if you start up a social network like hackernews
Yes. Although with Google and other tech giants, they have good security, but really bad privacy. So there is little chance of your Google searches being leaked onto some shady darkweb forum, but a better chance it is being leaked to NSA etc. Also haven't you heard about NSLs[0] & Prism[1]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
Unfortunately, I took their announcement at face value but looks like from this article, that their intent was to eliminate company criticism theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-political-speech-policy-controversy
no need to label other people's comments as rude.

Also, the suggestion to make products more deadly so that they are used less seems like bad policy. Reduction of harms usually does not mean killing the patient.
Why anyone has the authority to compel public expectations based on the arrangement of bits.
> I wonder what changed and made them add the new terms of use.

CCPA's April enforcement deadline, most likely.
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They are comparing large American cities to large cities in other countries, so it's apples-to-apples.
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next/image has been terribly slow to generate optimized images since 10.0.7.

This issue is a blocker for several people, including myself, and there hasn't been any team response on GitHub yet: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/23637
I think the OP was sarcastically noting that "socialism" is often used to mean "anything the government does that doesn't benefit me". Including many farmers, at least by stereotype.
Intel Xeons have huge price differences at the top tier for relatively minor performance differences.

So if you get 4% for free here, that could mean hundreds of dollars savings compared to having to buy the next tier hardware. Multiplied by the number of Intel customers.

4% could mean the difference between "I can still use my old computer" and "I need to buy an upgrade".
Is there a link to any actual posts or blog by Kaspersky on the matter? This seems to be missing from their official communications...
> In summation, I have absolutely no idea why Accenture is worth $140B.

I'll tell you - because there are no alternatives.

If you're a non-tech company (or the government), there is simply no way to hire the number of people needed for a large project. It's very, very difficult (if you aren't a software company) to build a team that's any better than what a consulting company will assemble for you. And besides, you might need them all only for a few years.

That leaves the company (or govt) dependant on an IT services vendor. Now why Accenture? Scale. If you're the government (or Coca Cola), you can't risk going to a vendor who has a 1000 employees. There would just not be enough depth if something goes wrong, and they'll lack mature Business Continuity processes. That leaves you with big IT vendors with global prescence.

Now, you could take a chance with a smaller vendor. But if anything went wrong, you're going to get fired for it. With Accenture, you are less likely to.
Back in the 70s to 90s the CIA had presidents of Mexico as operatives (see LITEMPO). So, I wouldn't be surprised that nowadays some high level people at Google, Microsoft, etc are CIA assets.
Given the public image of North Korea is one of a time capsule from the 60s I think it's more a case that the North Korean effort is considered inadequate or incapable, whilst the US TLAs have virtually limitless resources.
Yeah, updated to make that more clear - though I wasn't insanely far behind on Linux (and had I been a bit older I might have been closer to the beginning).

During the source control wars I was firmly in the Bazaar camp, however - but it seems everything but git is now moribund.