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Don't know how it works in the US, but in most European countries sales tax/VAT is mostly just a general tax, like income tax.

The problem with a lot of these things are that the costs of disposal aren't counted in the purchase; the company doesn't have to worry about it, the consumer doesn't have to worry about it (until they want to get rid of their fridge or whatnot), and for smaller stuff like Pringles tubes no one seems to pay for it.

This actually applies to most environmental costs.

At some point, someone's got to actually pay for all this. There are a few ways to do this; and an explicit "disposal surcharge" is one way. This could (should!) be higher for hard to dispose products/packages, like packaging that have the the infamous vaporized aluminium applied, and less for easier to dispose packaging. In short, it should reflect the actual costs of disposal and other environmental costs. Just as the costs of raw products, labour, etc. are factored in to a product's price, so should these kind of things.

Aside from the "disposable products" issue, a lot of packaging exists purely for reasons of marketing, to make the product "stand out" more. Makes sense economically right now as no one is paying for those costs, at least not directly. This would change the incentives and what made sense economically beforehand will now make a lot less sense.

I'm not dead-set on a tax as such, maybe there's a better way. The point is that the price of a product should account for all costs of manufacture, not just the costs of the manufacturer pays directly.
Does anyone know where the audiophile products will land? E.g. where will the HD820s land?
That is according to your definition of "living life and being happy".
The person in the article is clearly happy and has found his place in the world that he's happy with. For that, he has found the thing most people miss out on or just don't get. Leaving home just for the sake of it, more so if you're just happy wherever you are is just wasting time.

I would like to travel the world because that would give me the happiness this person has found just by staying where he is. That doesn't mean he should change his way because my definition of being happy is different that his.
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/888/
Harvesting information from people when you don't absolutely need to is bad, always. That's why honest people call it "spying" and not "telemetry." There's no such thing as "innocuous" information: the history of tech is rife with examples of seemingly bland info being pieced together to reveal something that was supposed to be secret.

Beyond that, if a mechanism for spying is constructed, there's nothing to stop it from being hijacked to collect other information down the road, either by bad actors or the new owners themselves. "Telemetry" increases the attack surface of a fucking free audio editor for no reason at all. "But we have to spy on users or we won't be able to fix bugs!" is the laziest thing I've ever heard, and also the most disingenuous. The real reason to collect this info is so you can start doing fun things with it, like targeted advertising.
The box is usually stuffed pretty full of unwanted books. And I really don't want the responsibility of policing what books end up in those things. If they're full of trash, they're full of trash.
Is his way better? Nah, it's just what he prefers. But he's smarter than them, because, he doesn't try stuff he's not committed to. He just keeps doing what he loves. But they try things, but don't commit to it, and so they miss out. His ROI is higher. He invests in 5 things, and they all pay off. The cuckoo "fly overs" make a bet on the cuckoo, but don't persist enough to see it pay off. We can definitely learn something from this guy, in our "ephemeral age".

As Dang says about attention on HN: people give it their all, only the moderators do that, and that's what keeps the place from descending into madness. But everyone else can only give a part of their attention to HN. Fair enough, but you need some people giving it their all if you want HN to be good.

Caveat is, he's probably great at narrating his solitary life and justifying his seclusion. We don't hear from him about all the stuff that isn't great. It's possible there's lots of that stuff, too :) ;p xx
They are (were?) doing some research around using a network of DME stations. The research was mostly about how to improve the accuracy of TOF measurements by changing the envelope shape to reduce (or at least measure) the effect of multipath.
You can't combine it with power line internet out of nothing - you need an appliance already installed in the first place, and usually the data is encrypted over the power line anyway.
A man living in the same place all his life has no basis for comparison. I would be more convinced that your great-grandfather's village is something special since he experienced elsewhere yet still returned.
Why should we be forced to chose?
Eh? Seems the same as hatetris, an endless stream of s shapes!
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Nothing is sensible about forcing telemetry functionality into a project like Audacity. It's a blatantly hostile act toward the user base, and likely the first step toward attempting to monetize them.
i was born and raised in california. i left a year ago for the midwest.

the situation in california is depressing. and im not talking about human poop or homeless people. im talking about jobs, culture and general lifestyle. california is filled with lots of very ugly urban wasteland. its filled with lots and lots of very disadvantaged people, hordes upon hordes of people who might not be homeless but are involved in crime and smoke meth and shoot up heroin. there is broken glass on every other sidewalk. its basically legal for people to steal things as long as its less than a thousand dollars, in that the penalty is so small that it might as well be legal. im just rattling off my lifes truth, my memories.

but worst of all is the grey dread everywhere. people in california do not think for themselves. they are so career oriented and so entangled in the bureaucratic system of formal societal infrastructure that basic common sense is dying a brutal death and you can feel this when you are amidst it. i always felt anxious because its a society resting completely on its laurels. there is nothing propelling it forward besides the momentum created by the previous generation of single minded, abrasive intellectual mavericks who raged against convention and dogma. now california is the embodiment of convention and dogma. its largest companies have transitioned over the past ten years from pioneers to custodians of entrenched power and market dominance.

i could feel this when i was a small boy growing up in the san francisco bay area. my peers seemed super petty and intellectually average. easily pulled into dogmatic, fuzzy ideas. most of them anyway. when i imagine the country now being the result of my generation growing up and using their dollars and tweets as their votes, it all lines up.
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Beside when I travel, I have only had 3 type of breakfast for the past ~35 years. First 20 milk and cookies (a specific type from a specific brand), then honey bunches of oats with almonds for another 13 years, and the past couple of years I switched to a different brand with less added sugars.
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For me it's a toy at the moment, but from time to time I want a Linux GUI to test something.

My assumption this is more performant than sticking something in VirtualBox (purely assumption).

Could be handy if you have an industry specific Linux only GUI app and give out remote access to it.

I'm currently a bit of a fan of the LinuxServer.io stuff. I'm clueless about docker and they have packaged many cool open source applications. So far I have used one, and it just works.

And the people on discord were quite helpful when asking docker questions.
Calling it the Anthony Bourdain version resonates so well with me. He was someone I admired and pity at the same time. Looking back you can see the deep sorrow in his documentaries.
We've normalized coercion as part of user engagement and retention....sigh...
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Its not just one or a few people that one guy disagrees. Sorry but the openion of a guy with no experience or professional degree in a field is not the same as people with 20+ years of experience and a phd. And the openion of a piedratician is not applicable to an epidimic as someone with years of experience in that field. Least of all, the openion of a politician is completely irrelevant to anything where they cannt back up their claims with expert sources.
People leaving may decrease housing prices but it also increases the cost of public services per capita. It also can lead abandoned areas as in Detroit.

On the other hand modest growth accompanied by significant increases in the housing supply would also cause the COL to stagnate, but they increase the tax base and decrease the per capita cost of public services, especially if the resulting developments are dense and mixed use.

What we don't want is CA to become a place that's inaccessible to middle class, working families, and the population to skew towards people who are too old to want to move. An exodus of working families just as infrastructure and pension liabilities come due is a recipe for economic disaster.
Have you tried eating the same thing every day?

You might find that you love it and didn't know you loved it.

You're expecting anyone to take your opinion seriously?

...etc
Yeah, it's weirdly frustrating. It seems to give you the best piece to clear lines right now, even if you want something different to set yourself up for a tetris later. So you have to arrange things up so that the best piece for clearing lines is also the best piece for setting up for a tetris.
If the satoshi wallet holder would liquidate its position, he/she would do it like Micro Strategy and Tesla, no body really notice it over time.
Given bitcoins open ledger and the wallet address its quiet easy to anticipate that traffic. You already have chain analyses tools.
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fairness is of zero relevance to this discussion

...looking at emissions per-capita is unfair to resource-rich countries that have reeled in their population growth and pulled themselves out of the mud. /s
> you’re telling indie developers that no matter how hard they try, they won’t be able to match the functionality of Apple’s special friends.

To note, the entitlement switching from private-only-zoom-is-in-the-loop to public-and-documented doesn’t mean that indie devs get access to it. Apple still will grant it to special friends only, and random indie devs can request but will just be rejected.
I love this, this is awesome. If only life was like this. I guess it is sometimes, when you're in the golden flow of everything going good...How to keep that? Maybe just keep grabbing fortune by the forelock 'cause she's bald behind.
The Economist is pro-market but, from my interpretation, advocates for systems of governance that yield a reasonable compromise between capital and society (which is the mechanism that allows for private wealth to exist in the first place).

Fiscal policy is a tool in a larger toolbox. I agree that it’s not currently being used well, particularly in the Eurozone where a zero-sum game is played out between the “export based economies” and the “economies screwed over by the export based economies but are stuck with a currency they don’t control”.

My hope is that more effort is put into society building, and a versatile toolbox is needed.
last year China intruded and occupied indian territory, dozens of casualties on both sides.

China has been doing it for nearly 60 years with its salami slicing doctrine. Both countries consider the other as enemy .

India is exercising its right to do punitive damages by keeping china away from key industries. India is also working on developing local industries to substitute chinese imports of full products and components.
Just wondering: would you know the total tax and fees for such a salary. (there is probably federal tax etc). I am not to familiar with the US system.
If it’s just housing prices, then people leaving will reduce demand until an equilibrium is reached. Of course, that really isn’t happening because the big popular cities are still gaining people.

I also don’t see how NYC scale density will improve things that much, it’s not like NYC is much more affordable than the Bay Area or LA.
I find it useful to say: "I don't know, let's figure out how to look it up", or occasionally "Whoops I made a mistake", but not too often.

If you make mistakes regularly on curriculum content, on content that students are expected to perform in a test without mistake, students will quickly lose confidence that you can teach them anything.

What is a mistake and what is new material often looks the same, to a student: strange processes that they haven't seen before. They will have to overcome your mistakes in order to figure out what they are supposed to be learning.
11 days after the exposure, if contracted I'd have a ~95% chance of already showing symptoms and exposing others. There is a higher chance I'd have realized I have COVID before the exposure notification system told me I was exposed. So not too helpful.

But if my thinking is wrong, please correct me.

[1] - As per the CDF on pg. 5 of https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/10/8/e039652.full.pd...
It completely removes privacy that physical cash allows.

It also allows for a true negative inflation rate. Imagine being unable to remove your cash from an account that earns negative interest.

Digital currency enables this. And _does_ massively shift power away from the individual.
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Yup. This open source software will do that for arbitrary star fields: http://astrometry.net/

You still need the camera’s orientation relative to earth and time to get your coordinates though.
There are various calculators you can find on Google. This is the one I used to get the numbers above: https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#rSyRW...
What's the evidence that CA's problems are caused by just too many people? Do you think the East Coast (from Boston to DC) is oversaturated?
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All those problems get better as the population declines.
Somehow one of the tastiest memories I have is as a kid being outside and eating rye bread with butter.
Powerline internet to the fusebox where you turn it into 4G with another device.
I haven't managed a big project before, but is spying on your users really the only way to handle bug monitoring? Couldn't people just...report bugs when they happen? Submit logs? You know, voluntarily? Hey, you could even have a version with telemetry, quarantined off by itself with a bunch of warnings that people can download and run if they want to help, similar to non-release builds. But forcing it on everyone, even if it's "off by default," is no good.
He's not expecting much, he only shared his life with a journalist. You on the other hand expect a lot from him it seems.
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I got my dream job by reading the twitter messages and slack messages of my critics. The only problem is that they seem to be running out of steam. How do I motivate my critics to motivate me to be my best?
That gold or bank notes would be hard to forge is somewhat of an exaggeration[1]. History, old and recent, is filled with forged money of both metal and paper kinds.

What actually prevents forgery are the harsh punishments for it. Historically, forgery of money was often associated with death penalty. Authorities know that centralised money (both metal and paper) is a brittle illusion that must be maintained by force.

All of this to say that ease of forgery might not be a good argument against a currency. Difficulty of forgery might, on the other hand, be a very strong argument for one.

[1]: A bit of an anecdotal story, but still illustrative: a few years ago I paid for a thing with coins. The seller asked "What is this?" And I thought to myself "Money?"

It turned out there was a good reason for the question: one of the coins was a Canadian cent. I live half a world away from Canada; it just looked a little bit like one of the domestic coins, so I had accepted it from somewhere, who probably had also blindly accepted it from somewhere else. Despite it not being legal tender, it was accepted at a value far above its nominal value in the country where it would be legal tender.

This was a coin that didn't even try to look like a domestic coin. It just happened to share some superficial similarities. All of this to say that with just a little bit of effort, you can probably create something that will circulate just fine for a few hands at least.
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I was a heavy WhatsApp user and deleted my account in January. I’ve had full coverage of contacts with iMessage, Signal and SMS. I notified most important contacts before deleting.

What sucks though is that when you delete your account, WhatsApp doesn’t hide or delete your threads on other people’s phones. That means that people continue to send messages, and don’t realize they aren’t delivered unless they come back to the thread and are tech-clever enough to realize there is only one light grey check-mark, and not two.
For me, it was Unix that introduced me to Linux. At work, we had Sun Solaris and the console ran CDE[0] WM which for some reason I really liked. At the same time, I started to learn/write shell scripts and loved the experience. Later when I bought my computer, I wanted to install Solaris on it so that I could have CDE on it and practice shell scripts at home but me and a colleague couldn't make it run on x86 (I think we had the right build but some hardware wasn't compatible). At the same time, PCQuest[1] was the first magazine that I bought that had a live-cd with PCQLinux on it - can't remember how it was. Later I got another issue that had Knoppix with it - that basically blew my mind because practically everything just worked - KDE was a nice WM and I could write shell scripts on Linux at my home! I also found many programs/utilities that were included in Knoppix to be fascinating. Eventually managed to get the dial-up working too and there was no looking back after that.

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

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCQuest_(magazine)#PCQ_Linux_I...
Agree 100%. You are 100% right, and I don’t think their executives are “stealing” money. I am the first to jump in and defend charities, like the Mozilla Foundation, or even Goodwill, who pay their CEO’s appropriately. So perhaps that part of my comment is a red herring. It’s just that Goodwill is extremely odd in that the business IS the charity. Most people don’t put a lot of thought into it, and assume that they are somehow giving all of the junk we drop off on their doorstep to needy people - they aren’t. Or that their thrift stores are earning them money off our junk to fund relief programs and feed the needy - they don’t do that. Their charity is … to pay people (generally not very well) to sort and clean all of our junk, put it on display in stores, and take our money for it when we buy it back. It’s just … weird. It does beg the question of where all the money goes.
Here's another example focusing on just market makers and the value they provide...

Many people disparage used car dealers. The used car salesperson is a trope punching bag. They offer bad prices versus what someone can get by using Craigslist or AutoTrader or something and putting in modest effort.

But those businesses serve a purpose because they allow folks to buy or sell a vehicle real darn fast relative to Craigslist or AutoTrader or something. Like, hours instead of days.

Market makers are used car dealers. They collect a spread every time they buy then sell the same car. Or when their car inventory goes up in value. They don't have perfect information, like a used car dealer, when someone is selling them a lemon so they build that risk into their quoted spreads.

The market maker's mission is be the most profitable used car dealer they can be. Unsavory? Perhaps. But they are kept in check by competition from every other used car dealer in town. Consequently, you get a reasonable price for reasonable amounts of liquidity. Just like you do when buying a first, used car one afternoon for some lucky teenager.

The other types of market participants you mentioned also accomplish useful things. I won't go into other examples nor will I field questions about any specific firm.

And, sure, everyone wants to be as profitable as they can be. That's business. Providing valuable service to customers for the highest possible profit in the face of competition isn't unique to the financial industry.
I'm excited for someone to make randomtris - tetris which always gives you a random piece.
Looks like “a solution in search of a problem” given that long noodles/pasta are already at maximum compression. So is rice, flour and so on.

I’m not sure what the beyond is, if not purely culinary.

The idea is also not really new, as it’s common to slit e.g. meat and bread to make it behave in certain ways when heated.
I was just learning more than I already knew about group/Lie theory today on 3b1b today and then this video came to mind. (I took a full load of maths but was a philosophy BA).
“ I will ignore the “powered from mains” requirement for this round of the board and feed in 5V elsewhere.”

I feel this will be a challenge. The wall wart is the size it is because that’s the size of a transformer/rectifier for 120/240 to 5v. Trying to add a Linux machine to that but keep the same size is the tricky part.
In other words "We're sorry you don't like what we're doing, but there's nothing wrong with it and we're going to keep doing it." Wow. I don't want fine-grained control, I want it out of the code.
This is the biggest asshole response to real problems that I see Californians say all the time.

Maybe I just know too many assholes – but there has to be a better answer to “people are fleeing California for legitimate reasons” than “good riddance.”
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China has enough people to consume their own goods.
Ah, sounds like the common trend in the hard sciences of putting "difficulty" on a pedestal. Can't make it too easy to learn, need to make things generic and obtuse so only the most dedicated can master the material!

You can apply context to any generic abstraction/formula, otherwise the math is useless, by definition.

Teaching people effectively requires context.

I hope I don't have to read your code with single letter variables everywhere then! There's a reason that's considered a bad practice. Math gets a pass, why?
That’s a good point aside from “trying a new dish” and “trying out a lifestyle for a decade” being entirely unrelated aspirations even if they have eating in common.