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A little known huge advantage that the allies had during WWII is proximity fuses in shells- these are bullets fired from guns, not rockets! They experience both the tremendous linear acceleration from the explosive charge (>10,000gs) and high centrifugal force from the rifling (rotation). The fuse is a complicated radio electronic circuit of the 1940s, meaning it used vacuum tubes. It was powered from a lead acid battery. The firing would release the acid to start the battery.

Anyway, to get this delicate circuit to survive the firing, it was encased in a solid. So perhaps the tardigrades could survive the impact if they were frozen in ice instead of suspended in liquid? I read that they can survive ice...
That is a 顔文字 not 絵文字
Why should I care? It works beautifully… I have zero concern for what rendering engine Firefox on iPad uses.
In my experience you actually don’t need additional traction on the front tire during ascents. You want more traction on the back tire, so leaning forward is more likely to cause slipping. Wider bars makes balancing easier and frames designed to keep the back wheel on the ground (by distributing more weight to the back tire) make it easier to climb.
iFixit tells the sad story of how Samsung “ruined” its upcycling program
Cross licensing definitely had a part in it. Some of that was necessity, either practical or contractual. In the 70s, before Projection Masking as a fabrication technique came into play, more complex designs could have yields as bad as 10%.

As a result, 'Second Sourcing' was more frequent, and while Intel and AMD had some Cross Licensing before x86, the main reason the agreement expanded to include x86 was because IBM was still requiring Second Sources in the 80s.

I know at one point, Chevron had it's tentacles on some NIMH patents via their control of Ovonics. Not sure if there are/were any similar situations for Lithium Ion technology.

Also the price fixing done by Lithium companies between 2000-2011. That likely hampered adoption and perhaps improvements.
> This makes no sense. Is the IRS a global institution now?

It makes perfect sense if you take them as separate concepts.

1. Joe Biden wants other countries to work with the US and set a tax floor for corporate taxation.

2. The US Congress can pass a law that brings corporate foreign taxation in line with how real people (not just fictional ones) are taxed on foreign profits. This doesn't make the IRS any more global than they have been for 100 years.
I think you may be underestimating the extent to which the rich attribute their success to merit (ie. they will assume that they won't stay poor), and the allure of relatively modest improvements in lifespan and healthspan (say, an extra 10 years of lifespan, and 20 of healthspan).
We have these things called "tax treaties" that have existed for decades.

Tax agencies around the world already cooperate with American tax agencies on matters similar to this. In fact, the proposal would actually reduce the amount of inter-agency cooperation required as it would great reduce the amount of treaty-related work the tax agencies have to carry out.
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Do you see any visible fingerprints on the photo? I don't.
> If you really need a 16-tuple (unlikely, but...) you could copy paste the code to make one with the same features. This isn't compiler support, so you could just do it yourself.

There's one wrinkle in that strategy in that you might run afoul of the orphan rule[1][2] where you can't write:

impl ForeignTrait for ForeignType {}

because if we did it would be brittle and changes to an external crate could make your unchanged crate stop compiling. So you're restricted to either implementing your own trait or any trait on a type you declared. To "get around this" you can use the new-type pattern[2]:

struct MyArray<T>([T; 33]);
impl ForeignTrait for ForeignType {}

[1]: https://github.com/Ixrec/rust-orphan-rules

[2]: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Batteries are getting better, but we'll almost certainly never reach the fantasy of replacing petrochemicals with batteries 1:1. Instead, what we can do is change our patterns of energy consumption and then we'll start to feel the gains from battery improvement in a more visceral way.

Different technologies are just different. Improvements to batteries will make them a little better at being dropped in as a gasoline replacement, but exponentially better at use cases designed with the lifecycles and energy densities that batteries can comfortably support.
Nothing I've read about Shannon suggests that he felt "cursed" in his later life. Is there some reason to think otherwise, or is this just assuming that anybody who does something big early feels sad about it later?
"Please note: The .edu Cooperative Agreement allows registrants that registered .edu domain names prior to the Agreement taking effect October 29, 2001, to retain those registrations regardless of whether the registrants meet the current .edu eligibility requirements, so long as they renew their registrations and otherwise follow domain policy"

https://net.educause.edu/eligibility.htm

FWIW the Smithsonian also has a .edu address.
If you can show that "just follow the spec" ends up opening up more opportunity than it closes off, then you can convince people. However, when gmail, outlook, etc. do not allow these zany e-mail addresses, you're going to have a hella hard time convincing me of this unless you are in the 1% of spenders.
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>I think it's equally wrong to point a finger to a Windows machine and shout "Why you don't have a command key"

Well actually I think the control/option/command paradigm makes more sense than ctrl/alt/super, so yeah, I'd love this being copied by Microsoft. It's harder than just supporting Cmd-X in the Finder though. Adding Cmd-X to Finder is just a net gain, it doesn't even require deprecating or breaking anything. It just brings a standard to an app that should support it.
I would assume because it's only 2-chars (me) and they're filtering anything <3 as invalid.
Previous discussion of the related earlier WSJ article is here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27257862
You say it's not unique, but this is exactly what used to make Amazon great, and they stopped. They couldn't help themselves from carrying everything under the sun from anyone willing to give them a couple of bucks, and they will never go back. Even NewEgg, which has traditionally been the counterpoint to Amazon, is now doing much the same thing. So, to be pedantic, it IS unique to brick and mortar, at this point. That's the point.
You mean something like Hyperdrive (formerly Dat) + Beaker browser?
China will likely ban all Bitcoin mining soon
Hey everyone, the wording dictates how you are misled.

Think about the alternate title for these benign actions:

Annual Report on Isle of Man financial sector

Hackers breach Cayman National Bank and Trust’s Isle of Man subsidiary, the second of major breaches for this institution

Post-Mortem, Cayman National Bank and Trust breach and client behavior

Aggregating Customer trends sourced from hacked bank, using pytorch
Budget increases will not increase enforcement of rich, politically connected individuals. It will just increase the number of "low hanging fruit" middle-class people they will go after.

Besides, many of the best tax evasion strategies are legal -- you just need an army of lawyers and a large pile of cash to deploy them.
International intercept procedures are that one of the intercepting aircraft flies next to the intercepted aircraft.

https://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/2015/media/intercep...

Of course, they could also intercept from a bigger distance or threaten the plane with surface to air missiles and no jets at all.

Intercepting from a bigger distance has the downside that the pilot cannot see the fighters except on electronic displays, all of which have zero security (just like the radio used to communicate with ATC). I wonder how long until someone "intercepts" an aircraft with an SDR and a directional antenna.
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> consistent, discoverable

I think that's what 'intuitive' means, practically, in this context.
Yeah, this is an age-old issue -- in the early 00s, my mom got a domain and used the email <first_initial>@<domain>.com. She gave up battling the deluge of spam after about a year. We looked through the logs, and saw that her next choice of handle was also getting tons of spam, too, because it was also short.
What shortcuts do you have in macOS and not in Windows/Linux?
Also worth noting, compared to the 90s, bars are much wider (5+in ) , making it more dangerous: catch more vines and when you catch one, more leverage for a disaster.
Yes, lets go back to the old ways. We’ll exchange seashells instead
Pretty hype about this TBH. There is a long history of companies domiciling in say, Monaco, The Cayman Island, Panama etc to avoid taxes and regulations where they mainly operate. My understanding is that the current process in vogue for the mega cap companies is the "double irish dutch sandwich" https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dut...

No one, including tax lawyers, will tell you with a straight face that this is the way things were expected/designed to work. All of these tax avoidance strategies are emergent properties of complex systems that are the result of uncoordinated action amongst individual actors that cannot be fixed without collective organization. I support this and 15% seems reasonable to me.
The vastly more likely significant differences are:

1. We don't (yet) inherit antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 from our mothers.

2. SARS-CoV-2 has not been forced to make evolutionary sacrifices to evolve to escape immunity.

The virus has the freedom to become optimally bad and our immune systems were optimally naive.

Over time the warfare between our immune system and the virus should cause SARS-CoV-2 to look a lot more like HCoV-NL63.

That's a sufficient explanation of the differences in disease severity without having to troll through medical articles.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-c...

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/police-say-android-phones-are...
Seated climbs are faster with a lower heartrate.

https://youtu.be/4zvP4DQgwQE?t=568
Care to explain or just snark?

As best I can tell, Brookings would not be eligible since the rule change in 2001 but was grandfathered in before this (domain goes back to 1996). It's not clear why they weren't purged with the other non-universities squatting on edu in 2003 - I'd guess Brookings's political connections, frankly.
Macs were intuitive in the 80s and 90s. Hands down the best thing in the consumer computing scene in that regard (not to mention non-consumer computing scene, which was a joke in terms of usability). Apple basically wrote the book on UX.

Now it's a has-been reputation, based on ancient history attached to the brand name, which only brand loyalists blindly believe.

It's like believing that a Toyota is good because of hearing your dad reminisce about that good old 4Runner truck or Supra he had in 1988.
When you are done with all the windows in your editor, do you open a new window by choosing File > New? You don't open a new window by clicking the dock icon?

If you close all the tabs in a browser window, should it close the window or display a new tab page? Or just do nothing but show an empty tab bar and a blank window pane? That seems like the worst possible solution, because it always requires more clicks to do whatever you were intending to do. At least closing the window or opening a new tab will save you some clicks 50% of the time.
My main tool for ensuring we're working on the most important thing is simplicity. A kanban board with strong limits on unit size and WIP.

Humans are bad at grand strategy. But if I insist that stakeholders order granular units of work by priority and then my team delivers at least a few things a week in that order, I put the questions back into a realm that humans are reasonably good at: I can give you X or Y by Friday. Which one do you want?

So honestly, my biggest fight isn't to find new tools. It's to stop people from introducing more tools so that they can sneak unhelpful complexity and the resultant chaos back into the way we work.
> The fact is, if it did come from a lab, what difference would it make? Everybody does gain-of-function research. Everybody has lab accidents. The only reason why anybody is pushing this idea is as a geopolitical stalking horse designed to make China seem like a legitimate target for agression.

I don't see how this follows. Yes, other countries do GoF research, and accidents have happened in the past. It appears that this lab was doing some particularly risky things by handling these Coronaviruses in BSL-2 labs.

The real difference though is that the Chinese government's actions after the outbreak are shown in a new light if it was in fact a leak. You'd have the first cases presenting in November, with the government having a very good idea what the cause was. However, China was denying human-human transmission until Jan 21. China also lobbied heavily to keep international air traffic moving and borders open. The Chinese government also appears to have tried to suppress the publication of the sequence of the virus -- the lab that uploaded it was subsequently closed for "rectification."

In the context of an evolving situation with an unknown virus, these actions would be more excusable. In the context of a leak that had been going on for two months, it starts to look like China would bear some liability, in the same way that a hit-and-run is treated differently from accidentally hitting someone and stopping to render aid.
You're completely missing the point, or else trolling.

The Ryanair plane didn't deliberately violate the airspace of Belarus in violation of withdrawn permission, they filed a flight plan to Vilnius just like they had every day for years and years. It was an airliner on a scheduled flight.

Your counterfactual involving a deliberate invasion of another country seems... extraordinarily weird. I mean, yes, countries defend their airspace when it's invaded by other nations in violation of established treaties. Duh. That is not what happened yesterday at all and you fucking know it. Stop this.
US Dollars in one's bank account are used by people to measure their self worth.

Unfortunately they are also the tool which the Fed uses to stabilize the financial system and to inject liquidity.

6.5 trillion dollars printed, people feel that the Fed is effectively diluting their self-worth... and they are scared as hell about it, that's the reason why BTC is flying .
The issue is not all owners live within a country. So, in practice it’s significantly less efficient to tax people than companies even if in theory it’s beneficial.

Also, increasing employ income tax rates incentives the company to provide tax deductible benefits and lower salary. The actual solution is to make employee benefits non tax deductible. For example personal use of a Company Car by an employee is taxable to the employee as a non-cash fringe benefit, which is why company provided cars have become uncommon.
No, that's jargon - and I explicitly said it's ok. You can read the word just fine, and you can also easily search for its meaning. Compare with this:

> ...that much harder to stay ∋⌞0x21,0x7D⌝

It may be just me, but I think there's a huge difference between the two, even though both are equally made-up.
The US is actually not that bad. One thing I think many ppl who have not spent time in developing countries overlook is how much stuff just works in the US. Compared to most EU countries US taxes are much lower. People like to point to Singapore as low tax example, but the difference in scale is such that the comparison is not meaningful.
That’s the standard (and sadly mistaken imho) answer for this everywhere.

It’s a kind of gatekeeping reaction (the article is not meant for you) that doesn’t acknowledge that people today read far and wide.

The Google thing is a fair point, but having a text definition inline is literally hundreds of times faster, and zero touch, and friendly for screen readers, and doesn’t slow in-the-know readers down a bit because our eyes and brains are so good at flitting past that stuff.
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> The Human Rights Act (which enabled domestic courts to give effect to the ECHR) is considered to be as much of a constitutional document as one can be in the UK.

Yes - that is, it can be overruled by a simple majority of MPs plus the unelected House of Lords. So constitutional change can be achieved with the support of only a minority of voters.
Unfortunately, the sideloaded-JIT support seems to have been an accident, as Apple killed it off in 14.4.

https://twitter.com/altstoreio/status/1354096048650809349
They used to be. These days spinning rust is cheaper than optical.
I’ve used a PC heavily for 15 years and 6 months ago switched cold turkey to a Mac. There is only one thing I found Windows to handle better and that is file system navigation (via UI). I just cannot get used to finder, from the default lack of an address bar, to individual windows not showing up on your tab switcher, to the lack of an equivalent run dialogue, etc. It just isn’t as intuitive to me and dealing with the file system is unpleasant.
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> uphill has been de-emphasized over downhill

Why is that? I used to do mountain biking and I loved the challenge of climbing a large hill more than the adrenaline of descending it, which I found a bit too risky to my liking :D ...
Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)
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(1) bars are significantly wider. Like 30+ cms in some cases. This focuses on skeletal alignment vs. muscular; think wide push-up position vs. narrow. Putting bar ends on these bars would make for an odd posture.

(2) bikes are way longer than they used to be with much slacker head tube angles. this allows you to keep more traction on the uphills in a seated position; standing (which was always less efficient) is not required as much.
Most of this notation predates ASCII and computer typesetting in general.
Remember Russia was effectively experiencing its industrial revolution in one massive big-boom over barely 40 years. England experienced it over more than a century and still cities like Manchester ended up hugely overcrowded, with people living in squalor.

The English experience was very well-understood by socialists and communists (Marx and Engels themself had kickstarted their efforts in Manchester, after witnessing - and arguably exploiting, given their ownership of factories - the terrible conditions of the industrial working classes). It makes sense that proper housing would have been at the forefront of the industrialization efforts in the USSR, to avoid ending up in those same conditions; but industrialization itself was being pushed at breakneck speed, forever negating any progress achieved on the housing side. Hence a perennial state of "we should do something about housing!!"...
Corporate income taxes don’t matter with this as corporate income gets deferred even longer than individuals.

So I think it’s neutral for wealth inequality, since an individual getting $1B in income or a corporation getting $1B in income to a single individual is the same. Or deferring income with trusts, credits, etc.

I think for wealth inequality, the goal is to have more individuals with greater wealth, so this doesn’t seem to affect the number of people impacted.
I have a conspiracy theory that Forbes created the rich list

Which intentionally does not have despots oligarchs or royals to skew the conversation to a business matter which can get lost in the left/right divide
Personally: no. But I can see how it would for someone else.
>I don't think it's at all obvious which way is _correct_.

From a UX perspective the answer is pretty clear. Copy/Cut/Paste is the winning paradigm, which empirically makes it the correct way.
> This feels so much like the Iraq "weapons of mass destruction" fiasco. Any time news outlets are credulously repeating the words of "government officials," you need to seriously devalue the reporting. Reporting isn't just being a mouthpiece for the state, and these outlets fail us when they express such a high degree of certainty before there's any independent verification of the facts.

Interestingly, the inverse happened here. Most of the initial claims of a lab-origin for Covid were being disputed by mainstream media in no small part because the Trump administration was echoing them. A lot of them pointed to scientists claiming that there was no evidence of lab manipulation or gene editing as proof that it was conspiratorial thinking, despite the fact that that was not the same thing as a lab-leak. Very little of the evidence we have to support a lab-leak hypothesis wasn't available and known a year ago. But literally within a couple weeks of the Biden administration taking office, mainstream outlets like the Washington Post started publishing pieces supporting the credibility of lab-origins of the virus.

I am no Trump-fan by any means, but I've found this whole saga, and much of the last 4 years, to be a very mask-off period for the media, to the point where its hard to take much of anything being said too seriously.
You’re assuming a 1:1 relationship between company country and stockholder’s country. That’s simply no longer even remotely true.

So, in practice lowering US corporate taxes is a tax break on the Saudi royal family etc and a net increase in taxes for American citizens.
There is probably an easier conclusion and that is the cost/benefit analysis of chasing illegal money.

Firstly, a lot of what is happening is legal or at least a grey-area. Secondly with the complexities of multi-juristiction money and 100s of layers of obscurity that a rich person can afford to put between them and their money (legally), would you bother spending 100s of 1000s of dollars looking into it after which you might not find anything that can be prosecuted?

It costs little to look at a much simpler Joe-Blue-Collar worker. Sad but true.

The only way I can imagine it being resolved is by requiring full traceability for all financial transactions so I can literally tell where all the money in an account originated from. Can't see that happening.
This seems to be the ongoing story with Windows Phone / Surface: interesting and well-made hardware, let down by mediocre software and UX.
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A large percentage of U.S. corporate ownership is held by foreign taxpayers that would not be subject to U.S. taxation on dividends or capital gains absent a fairly large and radical change in tax law, including breaking more than a hundred tax treaties.

It's much easier to simply impose an AMT and eliminate a relative handful of expense shifting mechanisms (many of which are already covered by a regime known as "transfer pricing").