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This is generally the outcome when “normal” journalists try to write about high level tax stuff. They’re not equipped to understand let alone authoritatively opine on it. Same with the offshore stuff - very few people have visibility on that world and journalists as a general rule don’t. Doesn’t seem to stop them though
This is great actually. I never thought I could find an Open-source A/B testing platform until today. I would surely give this a try.
Okay. How about buying something that was legitimately food when you bought it, but updates to poison - and there's really no choice about allowing updates, since previously safe foodstuffs can become poison if left as purchased - in your cupboard?
There's no need to be so angry about a hypothetical situation in which you by a laptop that you never wanted. I just prefer simplicity right now. I'm a PhD student and I don't need the code to be super fastz just need it to work right now. As it stands j just got it all to run under native so I guess my slight modicum of patience you don't have lags dividends :)
How is this a meaningful distinction whatsoever? There are countless apps that allow you to sign up for an "always on" service. Should they be exempt from allowing you to delete your account as well? Or is that privilege reserved for built in bloatware?
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It's clear that the author of this article has missed the point brought up by the ProPublica's story. The system isn't fair for everyone and it's relaxed towards the upper echelons. The author also assumes that everyone is part of the stock market and it's a community wealth pool. Why is it wrong that Jeff Bezos has to sell stock or have an actual income paycheck to pay for his wealth tax? The author says it would be bad because it would affect every shareholder negatively due to the lower stock value. Yes, it probably would, but value of stocks is impacted by externalities all the time, why would this possible scenario be the bad one? My point being, the author starts by stating how the ProPublica's article is at fault by technical standards and proceeds to give biased subjective opinions on how it did so.
I don’t see any reason to delay practicing simple phrases like “Hello”, “How are you?”, etc., or practicing the pronunciation of the vocab that you’re learning. It takes years to be able to reliably comprehend naturalistic conversation. You can’t realistically delay speaking until that point.
A simpler example: Today you buy $100 of Theranos and $100 of Uber. Tomorrow your Theranos is worth $0 and Uber is worth $200. You put in $200, you still have $200, you use the Theranos loss to offset the Uber win. This is good, this is how things should work.

But some here would say "OMG he evaded taxes on the $100 Uber gain!"

Tax loss harvesting is not a loophole, it's exactly the right thing to have, and it's available to everyone.
What? Yes it does, directly. You said he is held to a higher standard, and I gave a (hypothetical) example of how he is held to a lower standard. HN readers (IMO) give an outsized amount of attention and respect to his articles due to the author's name rather than the quality of the work, thus applying a lower standard.
And emissions-cheating devices.
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Did you hear about integrated circuits in school?

Did anyone offer you a course on how to design ICs in university?

I heard that Singapore NTU has 100+ graduates with PCB and IC design skills each year. If I was a chip-foundry-to-be, I'd build my factory where the employees are.
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Story:

https://www.bosch.com/stories/bosch-chip-factory-dresden/
They already do, but mods have a vested interest in keeping communities clean.
This is either the best or the worst thing that happened to Bitcoin.
And it was released almost a month ago with the CVEs saying "these fixes will be backported to previous branches that are still supported" but releases for those branches haven't happened yet, so if you're on an older version and just want to get the security fixes you have a problem.
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What I would wish that I could do is just make it so that there was a link to the HTML file in the Readme. Click it and there you go. My impression is that this is discouraged. (Am I wrong about that?)
Both Windows and macOS do dodgy telemetry and who knows what data they harvest.
I don't know anyone doing programming seriously who doesn't use Linux.
> Delaying a tax is not avoiding a tax.

Delaying tax is part of normal tax avoidance strategy. A tax that is endlessly deferred, or deferred until there is a tax amnesty, is one that is avoided (or evaded). Deferring the payment of tax is good for the payer both for managing cash flows and from increasing the freedom tax accountants have in finding favourable terms when taxes are paid.

The main use of the term "avoidance" is its contrast to "evasion": the distinction is between those things an accountant does to benefit the client that are legal and those that are illegal. If you misrepresented your affairs to the IRS in order to defer a tax liability for a year, that would be tax evasion.

(FWIW, I used to be a tax accountant.)
That's pretty funny, I never thought I'd be accused of peak HN :D

I meant it the way asveikau replied.
To be fair, it’s not directly true, but it’s commonly done. You just start an offshore trust, sell the loss to them, by which means you realise it (even though you’ve just moved where it sits in your network of entities), and you can then write it down.

This definitely sits in “evasion” rather than “avoidance”, but it’s such a common practice that accountants recommend it like it’s just another normal service they offer.
> Should I pay taxes on that unrealized gain?

People sure do pay taxes on "unrealized gain" of the houses they live in when the real estate market heats up in their neighborhood, and the property tax assessor gleefully changes their assessment that year.

"But equities can go to zero!"

Sure, just as a house can go to zero (fire, acts of God-level insurance incidents).

"But those are covered by insurance!"

Sure, just as you are free to buy options to insure the equities.

I'm not really seeing strong arguments based upon some intrinsic property of financial instruments used at scale granting them capital gains treatment against taxing financial instruments like any other property / real asset. There is the whole "hold Grandma's retirement hostage" policy aspect that can be mitigated by a generous cliff and age means test perhaps, I haven't thought about that mitigation much, as well as capital gains at different scales. But at the policy level, capital gains treatment being so non-linearly favorable at scale compared to income tax treatment seems a reasonable topic to explore in public discourse. I'm not averse to capital gains continuing at smaller scales, even at millionaire scales, but I am curious what the economic rationale is to continue that treatment at the billionaire scales when it seems much like income on a more complex level.
I know you have the option to convert to USD, but haven't seen yet if there would be any fee to doing so. Also, it might be difficult to get every merchant in the country to be able to accept bitcoin. The other thought I had was if they would start accepting other crypto as well if this works out.
Do you have a link to that tweet?
Thank you. I was looking for a salvadorian to explain the situation. How is your president perceived by the general population ? He seems to have an interesting personality
This claim is patently false. Even though M95 masks were found to be beneficial against respiratory viruses in a clinical environment, disposable or cloth masks haven't - and currently real-world testing of mask efficacy is nearly impossible due to all the other measures that go along with mask mandates.

https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/masks-dont-work-covid-a-...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-inf...

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/65/11/1934/4068747

It seems that pro-maskers vastly overestimate the efficacy of mask wearing, especially of the kinds of masks most commonly worn in public. This over-exaggerated focus on mask wearing disregards all the other factors that contribute to lowering risk in all scenarios.

To put things in perspective, there are documented cases of people going blind from COVID while indoors. This is a bullshit point, and has no statistical bearing, but it's true.

What makes this sort of argument regarding the use of masks particularly dangerous is that it is only about 50% true, but treated as if it were gospel and everyone who doubts the policies is branded as dangerous by the people in power.

Lastly, although wearing a mask is not likely very important (though likely somewhat beneficial!) to keep you from catching COVID (or any airborne respiratory disease) the main goal of wearing a mask is to enforce conformity through social cues, thereby treating people like cattle and not allowing any reasonable discussion or nuanced approaches to better solve problems during the pandemic.
Newbie can also be yourself looking at your own code a year later. You will have forgotten a lot and will have made it harder for yourself to re-understand what you were doing.

There's a difference between learning stuff and applying stuff.

Its about not making the code more complicated and obscure than necessary. Using generic language constructs like switch/case - sure. I don't think that falls in the category of "clever".
10 of our clients called and asked why they are paying us if the sites are not working today. I think a proper 503 browser message could help us a little?
Great. Hope to help more users.
From what I understand the government wants to promote the country to bitcoin investors and companies by offering no capital gains taxes on Bitcoin. They also promoted that El Salvador doesn't have property taxes.

I wouldn't call El Salvador a laundering capital though. Our local regulations are super strict.

Most payments above USD 100 require and ID. It is impossible to pay or deposit, even one cent, in a bank without and ID or passport. Other countries are much more lax.
They were referring to a completely different incident, involving compromised authentication to a camera system. I’d love to hear an explanation of how a zero-trust model would apply to this situation with Fastly. Seems like it would have to apply to a lot of multi-tenant resource exhaustion issues since we know so little about the specifics on the Fastly incident.
I once bought a VW and intended to pay cash. After the price had been fully negotiated, the salesman said he had done me favors on pricing and asked that I do him a favor by financing, which helped him. He asked that I keep the loan outstanding for at least 2 months so he would get credit for the origination. I agreed to do so only on the condition that they reduce the price of the vehicle by the amount of interest I would have to pay during those 2 months (I think it was around $250).

But it was all for naught; the car ended up being a lemon and VW of America bought it back from me soon thereafter.
Server OSes are not tuned for enterprise spinning rust drives by default. If not mind pointing me towards a "server OS" image I can download right now that will destroy SSDs out of the box?

Besides even if that were the case. People have no issue running these "server OS" on their laptops which almost always contain an SSD.
That's what Puppeteer and Playwright do, and I think that's what they wanted to avoid given

> instead of tons of browser-specific implementation code and a custom automation API.
I did that once and got this reply:

Hi <real name>,

I’m sorry to disappoint, but Hacker News doesn’t delete entire accounts because that would gut the threads it participated in. We do sometimes remove specific comments if users are worried they’ll get in trouble, and we’re also working on the ability to rename accounts. Would either of those help?

Regards,

<name> (a moderator)

I don’t quite agree with it but have to recognise I have no leverage here.
Let's be realistic here too: it will cost the company more just to use a lawyer to draft a letter than to abandon two monitors that probably cost a few hundred bucks tops. From the sound of it,nobody wants to deal with it in the company.
Could not agree more! Firefox begining to support V3 is also extremely troubling; regardless of the compromises they are offering for adblockers. We need to resist this.
Entertainment was a poor choice on my part - it’s the hardest expense to justify, if you’re audited, but in the U.K. at least, you can write an awful lot off against costs of acquisition and disposal. For example, you can claim the mortgage interest on your primary domestic property as an allowable expense, as you can argue that you took the mortgage in order to finance your capital activities.
GDPR notice? Do you mean a Right of Access/Subject Access Request? What for?

What is the issue around moderators of a service you signed up for, contacting you via the email you provided to use this service?
No, it's actually common, at least in Germany. You can have a clause that allows the other shareholders to force someone out if they argue that it is necessary to retain the stability of the company. You have to pay the forced-out investor for his/her shares, though.
Let's say the electric company wants to start a restaurant. So they shut the power to the competing restaurants in the neighbourhood. Everyone agrees it would be outrageous.

Now, what about Apple dictating payment policy on apps in the app store?

Google premiering their own services in the results? Forcing their own apps onto all Android devices, impossible to remove?

These platforms turn themselves into natural monopolies, and therefore they can not be treated as "private companies". Decentralisation would be a technical solution, but meanwhile I think regulation is what will happen.
The strictly limited amount of BTC makes this into a land grab. First comers are entitled to the services of the real economy due to their virtue of being first(or lucky to be on the right place at the right tweet).

Musk is right on this one: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1401251430015582209?s=21

Unlike fiat money, BTC is not an accounting tool for value exchange.

Unlike actual land, it doesn’t have any intrinsic value.

I’m very curious to see an elite class whose core virtue is based on being an early adopter.
Looks great! I used perl a lot when I started programming and it is lovely to see it alive and kicking with scientific computing!

As a "heavy" user of scientific computing, I must say that the name "data language" is a bit disheartening... It echoes of useless "data frames" not of cool "sparse matrices" which is what I actually need. Does PDS support large sparse matrices? I grepped around the tutorial and the book and the word "sparse" is nowhere to be found. Yet it is an essential data structure in scientific computation. Are there any plans to, e.g., provide an interface into standard libraries like suitesparse?
CEO with attachment issues, the worst kind...
Agree and somehow if the Government could abstract away all the complexities involved with Storing Bitcoin, Private Keys Management, Fees and Coversion this would be a major step forward
I'm closely tracking an effort by Microsoft that aims to do a lot of what you're describing since I find myself bridging between these tools and deploying stacks that span tools and roles. [CNAB](https://cnab.io/) and the front-running implementation, [Porter](https://porter.sh/), enable one-step infra deployments, packaged as a single OCI-compatible container, with any number of steps, using the best tools for each of those steps. Think of using aws-cli for some initialization step (create or verify presence of a state bucket), applying some terraform to create infra, and finishing with a helm chart to complete deployment of app components. Each stage in a bundle packages not only the code to run it but also the execution binary of the tool that runs it. The spec and porter are still a moving target but it's a promising space and a nice adjacent evolution of the current state of tooling.
It’s a pretty bad piece. I love the part when they calculate the “true tax rate” (love the “true” part).

Elon Musk pays half a billion in taxes on $1.5B in income, which is 33%! But no, they divide his tax payment over all his assets to come up with 3%.

Maybe we should try that same math with other mid-career middle class tax payers? Oh, pay $50k in taxes on $150k in income. That’s not a 33% rate. The “true tax rate” is determined by dividing by your investment account, 401k, pension vesting, RSUs, vehicles and real estate holdings. Well holy shit! Your tax rate is low single digits too? Amazing.
As long as the Chinese are willing to produce goods at cheap for dollars, printing some more shouldn’t be a problem ...
Sounds like a novel way to reduce bad cases in short text classification!
"can" can mean a lot
thats really a good news for us.
> This claim is patently false. [...] real-world testing of mask efficacy is nearly impossible due

"Patently false" is vastly different to "unsubstantiated."

In addition, here is an entire page of studies substantiating mask efficacy: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-0948_article
Or like Cardano/Ethiopia. Just a fluff.
I think neither. El Salvador is very small country, and not big economical actor.
Nice dodge with your last paragraph.
>"- Styles are global

- Styles are targeted via brittle, untyped, and opaque
'magic strings' basically.

- Styles are often 'far away' from their target which makes mistakes more likely; ie this deeply nested HTML element in one file is coupled to a deeply nested style sheet in another file"

You can get a long way to solving those three issues with good organization, but only if you control your whole project, stick to the plan, and don't have any libraries.

But over the course of a long lived project CSS is a real foot-gun that even well meaning developers will shoot themselves with. It's hard to unweave a tightly woven CSS nest, and once you introduce third party libraries and custom CSS things start to get wild. Who hasn't seen a "custom.css" overriding the "global.css" which was itself just a bandaid to fix an issue with some third party library.

I use a method I called "Contexts and Components". It starts with a reset. 98% of the CSS is inside the component files, and target component classes, eg <div class="product-card">. But of course things can change depending on what page they're on, and those are called contexts. Maybe a product card on the home-page has a border or whatever. That gives you a way to address client requests for things to differ but without making crazy complicated configurable components.

That way things are really shallow, only one level deep unless they are modified by a context, which makes it two levels deep. I find I need way less CSS, no crazy hard to reason about selectors, and it's all very easy to understand. Best of all, it's easy to remove stuff entirely, so you don't end up with overrides over overrides.
Everything webdev works great, Docker is the only thing in my workflow that is still a bit of a hassle but that is quickly improving.
As alternative, you can try to understand how Project Oberon linker works, given it is quite basic.

Chapter 6

http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.System.pdf

Or the re-implementation of Turbo Pascal one for MS-DOS,

http://mail.turbopascal.org/linker
> Is it a whale?

TikTok is my guess. ByteDance is valued at 250 billion. Plus, the change was pushed in the middle of the night, which would be daytime in Asia. Certainly there are other development teams in Asia, but considering the scale of the change it likely comes from HQ, and Fastly's whale in Asia would be them.

edit They may have lost TikTok at the end of last year, either partially or completely [1]. Anyone know what they use now? Akamai, or maybe they stealthily switched back to Fastly?

[1] https://www.barrons.com/articles/fastly-lost-tiktok-but-ceo-...
At present, by requiring the use of Apple's IAP system for subscriptions, this is already taken care of.

Given the Apple vs. Epic stuff going on, this may change soon -- In that case I'd also like to see rules against excessive retention tactics / dark patterns.
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Installed these - which seemed to work bar a few messages about `numpy` not being installable - but trying to use `textgenrnn` ran into a whole bunch of Keras problems (for which the internet's answer is "use tensorflow.keras" expect `textgenrnn` is already doing that...)

I yearn for the day when someone makes a nice, simple, "install this and python ML works fine with your GPU" package.
Isn't the whole point of Bitcoin to bypass the entire concept of "legal tender"?
I hope they finally crack down on Instagram (and maybe some of Facebook’s other apps?) which make you go to the browser to deactivate/delete your account. I’ve done this a few times (temporarily deactivate) and requiring me to switch to the browser first and login with my IG credentials — something I would never otherwise do — seems like a sneaky way to drop a tracking cookie in my browser before I leave for a while.
Full copy of the law in English https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/140244839617106739...
Groovy maybe?
You can do that with Github Pages, but I'm not too knowledgable. But I copied your code in an codesandbox:

https://ijlkq.csb.app/

Fork it if you want, I will delete it then (or on your request)
When all browsers were finally coalescing into a unified API for WebExtensions, Google comes in and just throws in a whole new namespace with a new API...
The intrinsic value argument is a funny one. What's the idea behind it? Assume you have asset X but then one key assmption fails. Now, is asset X still valuable considering the failed assumption?

For land, you can say that even in the case that society collapses it is still valuable. Or is it?

What exactly is the assumption that deems BTC's intrinsic value zero and land's value more than zero?
There is no centrally defined "point of Bitcoin".
This seems to aim by calculating the trajectory of the target. How will it fare if the target is flown in first person perspective by a human in an unpredictable way?
It'll be interesting to see how they use BTC specifically for this use case. Looking at https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f... the transaction fee for directly using BTC is $4.6 at the moment. That's obviously not workable for small transactions, so some kind of overlay where the transactions are batched before commit, would be needed.

Also the volatility piece will be hard to manage in anything other than instant transactions. If it's legal currency will people have to denominate larger assets (e.g. cars, houses) in BTC and commit to a price where there could be considerable shift before settlement? I know they mention that stability fund in the article but I could see this getting more complex than that.

What the policy will be where BTC appreciates before settlement will be interesting too, so in a bull run will a buyer have to hand over the number of coins they committed to, and will the gov. get the excess, or the merchant?
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