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Class is a determiner of the type of fraud, and the type of fraud determines the auditing procedure.

Working class people commit fraud related to EITC, child tax credit, American opportunities tax credit, and medical expenses. Capital class tax fraud covers pensions, annuities, rents, fellowships, scholarships, royalties, business expenses, bad debt deduction, property, and capital gains.

Those who commit the first types of fraud get one treatment while those who commit the second types of fraud get another. The end result is that working class people get treated by the IRS in one way and capitalist class people get treated another.
Well that literally was their marketing 1999, no?

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Companies purchase cyber insurance for a small fee and avoid risk of paying ransoms directly.

Make cyber insurance paying ransoms illegal and you'll see boards start funding IT security.
the thing is that 'simple' solutions are never that. and if you find that boring or whatever than maybe its time to think a bit further before making some arguments.
if a case is so easy to dismiss, it might not be a good case after all.
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Right, you don't. I think people are overestimating the pushback they'll get from other lobbyists, and also overestimating the amounts that motivate elected officials.
> One thing which concerns me is the integrity of my files. It's no good backing them up if they become corrupt without me knowing. Most of my files like photos, old emails, etc will never change and I want to keep it that way.

Look into par2 files (https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline).

Arrange your 'backup data' in some logical way, then generate par2 files for logical "groups" (i.e, per directory containing a set of files, etc.) with an amount of 'redundancy' you feel comfortable with.

You can then periodically run par2 scans of the static backups to both detect changes, and to repair the changes (provided the changes are not larger than the amount of redundancy you originally requested).
This is purely a spec issue. At first there was the abysmal Headset Profile with audio at 8kHz (SCO Codec). Maybe that was the quality of telephony generations ago, but I find it barely intelligible (and definitely not useable).
They then followed it up with the Hands Free Profile using a version of the SBC codec at 16kHz. They call it „high quality“ but it still sucks and is barely usable (that companies who are even pushing proprietary codecs for Bluetooth audio haven’t really attempted to fix this [FastStream is a one-way solution] is mind boggling to me).

Maybe, just maybe, LE Audio will not actually suck for audio recording. Maybe.
Bit of a weird argument they make there. Banking keeps the world spinning.

What does bitcoin do, right now, to make this even remotely comparable?
Idk if WebGPU will ever be fully supported by enough browsers to be viable for the web. Even if it is eventually supported people are saying it will take 10+ years.

I do think WebGPU can be a great cross-platform compute shader framework outside of the web. My experience with compute shaders is that they're really really platform specific: you need not just the right OS, but also the right graphics chip. It would be nice to write cross-platform high-end 3D apps without relying on Unity or Unreal.

Also, hopefully WebGPU has better debugging tools (if they're even possible). I tried GPU programming before but it's a mess: almost every example I tried to run crashed terribly (e.g. system reboot), and even at best, I couldn't get much debugging output other than "code = problem".
This is one thing I've been wondering about new projects that start with PoS. How do they have enough distribution of the coins in order for them to be resilient against attacks?
I'm not a user of Facebook, but is their electrical use near bitcoin levels?

The quick google says facebook uses 5 while bitcoin uses 143 terawatt-hours
> I have mixed feelings about this one because rightsholders essentially have a monopoly on their content. 5+ video streaming platforms is bad for consumers, and this exists because rightsholders are allowed to control their content.

I find this to be sort of self-contradictory. On the one hand, monopolies are bad, but on the other, having 5+ platforms is bad. Which is it?

My (perhaps unpopular) opinion is that having more and more streaming platforms ("balkanized", to use your term) is extremely good for consumers. The low barriers to entry and the near-zero marginal distribution costs make this the perfect industry for competition (and as a result, consumer welfare).

It's a common misconception that having N streaming platforms necessarily means that consumers spend N * subscription cost dollars per month, but that's not a sensible user pattern. Nobody consumes from every single streaming service at the same time. Instead, we have a sort of TDMA style consumption of media that allows us to constantly subscribe/unsubscribe/resubscribe from services as we chew threw our respective TV show backlogs. Savvy consumers have benefited the most from this reality, and it's only a matter of time until we see subscription management products that extend this benefit to un-savvy consumers in seamless ways.

One day, streaming services will look to consolidate so as to be able to extract monopoly rents. These are horizontal acquisitions that would be terrible for consumer welfare, and those are the kinds of acquisitions the US FTC would likely police.
Apple has tried to collaborate with Microsoft on making HLSL viable for the Web and standardizing it. IIRC, we figured that we can't accept HLSL as is anyway, and we'd have to develop a flavor of it for the Web, in which case the point about using an existing language becomes moot.
Having now started / run 3 different small businesses in the US in 3 different states, I would say the paperwork and tax compliance is the second biggest headache of doing business here. Sales tax is especially annoying. But the #1 biggest headache is providing healthcare (not mandatory for small businesses, but you need it if you want to be able to hire anyone).

I would love to see significant reform to simplify taxation for small businesses, but more than that I would love for the US to have a simple, high quality universal healthcare program so that I didn't need to worry about healthcare provision as part of my company.
The evolution of sleep may or may not predate the evolution of brains. It might have evolved twice, once in predecessors of hydras and once in predecessors of beings with brains.
Yes, but that doesn’t answer my question about what the statements I am responding have to do with it? They look like unrelated political sentiments.
Thank you for taking the time to explain that a bit more. Yes we're talking about two different things.
The main problem isn't CPU and GPU performance, those problems had (to some extent) already been solved with asm.js and WebGL, at least for some types of games. It's all the other APIs and the general "feature churn" in browsers which are problematic for games.

Some examples:

- The fullscreen and pointerlock APIs show popup warnings which behave entirely differently between browsers.

- Timer precision has been reduced to around 1ms post-Spectre/Meltdown, and jittered on top. This makes it very hard to avoid microstuttering (we don't even need a high-precision timer, just a way to query the display refresh rate... but guess what, there is no way to query the display refresh rate)

- WebAudio is ... I don't even know what... all we need is simple buffer streaming but we got this monstrosity of a node-based audio API. And the only two ways to do this in WebAudio are either deprecated (ScriptProcessorNode) or not usable without proper threading (audio worklets), and guess what, threading is also disabled or behind HTTP response headers post-Spectre.

- Games need UDP style non-guaranteed networking, but we only get this as a tiny part of WebRTC (DataChannels).

...and the list goes on. In theory there are web APIs useful for gaming, but in practice those APIs have been designed for entirely different and very specific high-level use cases (such as creating an audio synthesizer in a webpage, or creating a video chat solution for browsers), and those rigid high-level APIs are not flexible enough to be reassigned to different use cases (like games). The web needs a "game mode", or better a "DirectX initiative", a set of low level APIs and features similar to WASM and WebGL/WebGPU, and if not designed specifically for games, than at least low-level and generic enough to be useful for games.

This isn't a new idea, see the Extensible Web Manifesto:

https://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/

(backup: https://github.com/extensibleweb/manifesto)

But the ideas presented there didn't seem to have much of an impact with the web people (with the notable exception of WebGPU).
Yep, it literally codefies "rich gets richer" down to the core of the protocol.
testnets are great, but cannot approximate the economic impact of technical decisions as they have zero value.
Just because it works on a testnet is not a good justification that it would work at scale on a chain worth billions.
> The stakers (and their adjoints) can collude and decide to reorg the chain for a different outcome. This can be done indefinitely at no additional cost.

No, they can't. As a part of the attack they will have to produce a two different signatures for the same decision (block N has hash X). This is where slashing comes in - anyone can submit those signatures to the chain to slash signers.
I'm not convinced that it's a bigger problem now. In many ways, the ancient world was much stickier. A king could have a bad idea, and it could persist through generations before it falls to better ideas.
trading is only a small portion of bitcoin's market cap. most coins are outside of exchanges, in noncustodial cold storage. even without smooth trading platforms people will trade bitcoin peer-to-peer because bitcoin solves real world problems
> Ban their trade because global society shouldn't accept rampant incentives to literally burn up energy

Videogames run GPUs at full capacity too, we should ban them too. No one NEEDS to pretend to be a cowboy for 100+ hours each across 36 million GPUs.

Actually maybe there should be a ban on computing power above mobile CPUs available to non-government bodies, if this really is so devastating to the environment we need to limit the amount of damage people can cause as individuals, why does a normal person need a GPU anyway when smart phone graphics should be enough.
Because now they can sell you two pairs of earphones.
"gratuitous use" is completely subjective, so the anti-economical assertion isn't provable. You're suggesting there are no trade-offs between PoS and PoW, no tradeoffs between solar+batteries vs coal or nuclear.
I wasn't referring to Israeli actions vs Syria, which are clearly not comparable, but the difference in reactions. If you think that the protests calling Israel an illegal state are just trying to hold Israel to a higher standard then you are clearly misinterpreting what is happening. They're chanting "From the river to the sea" not "Hold yourselves to a higher standard".
I'm not saying it's a cartel. But you can't tell me manufacturers stopped making batteries swappable in notebooks, phones, headphones and many other devices for much other than planned obsolescence. Of course they always make up some other excuse, but it's very obvious e.g. the Surface Laptop wasn't made impossible to repair for technical reasons.

It's plain as day why certain design decisions are made, and calling it a tradeoff might not be wrong, but it's clearly too kind to these practices.
Your reduction is, I think, too simplistic. Some bacteria appear to also have some basic passive/active cycle, for example. It's really fascinating and there's tons of functions interleaved.

edit it's not just multi/unicellular modes - REM is very close to awake state, cell activity wise (looking from PoV of brain waves emerging), with source of sensory input being switched to internal; and in deep sleep NREM, large parts of the brain (depends on the animal, hemispheres take turns in some) are in a sort of slow-mo sine wave "sync" (kinda amazing!) Etc. etc.
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Note that current best practice is simple password rules, with password expiry only when there is reason to do so.

Generally the suggested rules are: be at least 12 characters long, check the password against lists of known passwords.
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> even if Covid is natural the research is just too risky. GoF research should be banned

This was actually the reason we stopped the research in the US in 2014: Risky with no clear benefit. It was restarted in 2017 after investigations and new guidelines for the research to hopefully improve safety measures.
> Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that destroying the Jala high-rise block in Gaza on Saturday was justified

There’s a pretty big difference between a politician (even one less flagrantly corrupt than Netanyahu) making a claim about their conduct of war and that claim being true.
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Paying the ransom should make you an accessory to the crime with jail time and all for the executive who cleared it. This should put an end to it pretty quickly.
This is a national security issue — malicious actors based in other nation-states are raiding American companies. It seems that US defense forces are not up to the task of repelling these invaders — yet we're expecting individual companies to go up against them??

It will be a long, long time before the marketplace evolves sufficient technological measures to guard against state-sanctioned/possibly-state-sponsored malicious actors operating with impunity in a lawless environment.
So:
- I have read it.
- It was a while ago (several years?).
- I should probably read it again.

But... I didn’t think much of it the first time. I don’t think the claims are well motivated. I think she assumes “Amazon bad” from the beginning and contorts some not-very-strong arguments in favor of that conclusion.

I do remember the claim in the first quoted paragraph that there was something unique about the threat (I guess that’s how she sees it?) posed by Amazon. That had the potential to be an interesting claim, but I really didn’t see any evidence to back it up in the article.

The second quoted paragraph contains one suggestion which is just completely false: that consumer product variety is limited by Amazon. I mean, have you ever tried to wade through pages of junk to find the thing you searched for? I have. There is an absolute profusion of goods on the site. That claim does not stand up to the slightest scrutiny.

If the idea is instead that the fact that most consumers choose amazon instead of some other retailer is the channel by which variety is harmed, well... that also does not stand up to scrutiny in a world with Walmart and target and Etsy and a million other online retailers.

The thing in the same paragraph about the “legislative history” of antitrust is Khan’s idea to try to reorient antitrust law with (from my recollection) a specific desire to punish or break up Amazon in particular in mind. The claim that Amazon does not compete in a competitive market which is supposed to justify this does not stand up to scrutiny either.

I don’t agree (in the third paragraph) that antitrust should be reoriented away from a consumer welfare standard, but even if I did, I think Amazon does compete in competitive markets already! (Why would we orient away from consumer welfare anyway? Would we like (e.g.) all consumers to pay higher prices (lowering welfare) but have the “product variety” provided by hypothetical, post-break-up Amazons 1, 2 and 3? What would be the point of that?)

My overall impression was that the entire article was written with the conclusion “Amazon is bad” in mind.
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I misinterpreted OP's comment, thanks for the clarifications. A company deliberately choosing not to adhere to accessible web standards because dark patterns benefit the company by converting more users in their sales funnel.

This needs to be regulated against, it only grows and gets worse over time.
Why not just use the default browser?

FF is my main browser, so for anything behaving in a finicky way, I use Chrome, which doesn't have any extensions or Google IDs attached to it.
> However show me an alternative with a UX that is simple enough for my 6 year old to use, that works on iOS, Android, MacOS, and now Linux.

I have my keepass vault in my dotfiles repository. All i need on any device is keepass and if i want to write to that vault, git.
Of course i secured my publically accessible vault with a strong password and an additional token.
Works fine for me but i have to admit, using a lot of devices with write access to that vault would get cumbersome.
Why is there such a strong status-quo bias among people I thought were technologists, and what do you guys defend? the banking system?? really?

Do you all remember the energy FUD that the internet got back in the late 90s [1]?

Please! lets not sleepwalk into another PoS system on the internet to replace the previous one.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0531/6311070a.html?sh=3e2...
The M1 is already better at that than most Intel Macs.
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> So there is a corrupt system, and the only solution is to just destroy it?

There's merit to this idea. Often enough the correct fix for a broken system is to throw it away and replace it with something more resilient, even if you lose some theoretical optimality.

This is similar to the people that want to legalize all drugs to reduce crime.
It isn’t ideal but this isn’t for average playback.

Assuming even mediocre speeds, an average album in ALAC is likely around 350 MB. That’s about 32 minutes at 1.4Mbps.

They could start listening around the 17 minute mark and remain uninterrupted.

I suspect most APM owners would happily load the music to the headphones in advance to perform this playback. This seems so obvious to me, that I suspect it is held back by licensing issues more than cost reasons.

The playing device would need to do a good job with the interface but this is not a big ask—-people have been buffering for media they want since RealAudio.
Who is working on this problem today?
See related discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27196526
If one didn't need to prove they'd done something difficult, then cryptocurrency didn't be a workable idea.
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There is a lot more to the economy than W2 income. If you want to tax worker compensation, you need to decide what is compensation. Is a nice office compensation? A company phone? A company car? A company apartment? Company-paid airline travel and hotels? Meals? Employee discount? The answer to most of these is "it depends."

If you want to tax business profit, you need the idea of business expense. Well, there are a lot of small business owners in this country. What is a business expense vs. a personal luxury for the owner?

If you want to tax asset appreciation, you need the idea of cost basis. If you don't want that to be arbitrarily cruel, you need the idea of capital loss, and capital loss carryover. Now you notice people are cheating, and you need the idea of wash sale.

A lot of this complexity is essential.
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Redistribute the proceeds as a tax credit then
Not the nightly half-inch, but like your growth from 18" to 6' over the course of your life happens while you sleep.
I'm on the PoW side. But you should note that PoW is also oligarchic in the sense that individuals have no ability to compete in terms of mining. The rich get richer is still a thing here.

That being said, PoS is very much a human centric valuation (rich peoples opinions being the value), so yes: politics and then war seem likely.

Pretty much every fiat currency has the same issues as PoS, where eventually war becomes the cheapest way to retain value.
Depends what you focus on as your definition of "living beings". If you look at our cells, they behave more naturally while we sleep. While we sleep, they're "awake". So yes, that's their natural state.

But the "multicellular organism" mode they switch while we're awake is necessary for them to be more than a pile of cells. Which indeed is very important for our survival, as complex behaviors that only multicellular organisms have, are crucial to our ability to adapt.
Not quite that simple: Using AOM AV1, a 12-core Ryzen 5900X beats a 128-core dual EPYC 7763 (same Zen3 architecture) in every encoding benchmark, according to https://openbenchmarking.org/
Exactly. I have an open source password manager on my Linux laptop and the data files are backed up weekly to 2 different locations (along with other valuable information). Granted, I have little need for password management on the phone, but even if I did, why would I trust someone to keep track of my credentials? I just don't get it why so many people seem to be ok with this...
You obviously belong to a very unique AE community then. Every audiophile I know loves vinyl. And vinyl is definitely not lossless. Audiophile is way less specific than "give me more bit rate." Whatever your community is, it doesn't sound nuanced or very self-examined.
TIL "fierce" in the nerd world means having a massive ego and a severe over-estimation of how awesome you are. These kinds of people make me sick, regardless of whether they're nerds.
For general purpose workloads maybe, but the target-audience for the Mac Pro is really for people who are using applications that are highly multi-threaded. Just look at the use cases Apple describes the existing Mac Pro for:

> From production rendering to playing hundreds of virtual instruments to simulating an iOS app on multiple devices at once, it’s exceedingly capable.

> Increased speed for Logic Pro X, MATLAB, Adobe Photoshop 2020, Autodesk Maya, Wolfram Mathematica Build Time, Final Cut Pro X

> Tasks like animating 3D film assets, compositing 8K scenes and building lifelike gaming environments.

This is the target market - and pretty much everything listed here tends to be multi-threaded. Making multi threaded applications aren't easy, but for high performance tasks all these use-cases have to be multi-threaded where possible or they are just too slow.
If you lock a dog in a cage and starve it, who's the aggressor when it eventually bites you?
Assuming those traits come alongside the ability to get shit done, that’s patently false.
I love this! I know the original text, did you write this variant?
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I’m still using an iMac from 2007 with a core 2 duo. No software updates but it still hums along and functions as a YouTube machine.
Surely you understand that most people consider being awake to be our default state and sleeping is just something that we need to do sometimes
I have been using the beta version of PlanetScale for a while, and it is extremely cool. It's using the mature technology that powers Youtube to provide a developer experience for databases similar to what Vercel and Netlify provide for hosting: It will give you a database branch for each Git branch and help you manage the workflows around it.

And it is the first truly serverless relational database offering that I am aware of. The cost scale to 0, so it is perfect for small projects, but that same instance will scale to support massive load when you need it.
My advice, not that anyone is asking, is only do Elixir if you love it. If you are doing it expecting it to become the next Node thats definitely not happening.
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