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> Android would need to be a separate unit

Android is a separate unit, AFAIK.
Yes, but they've expressed a desire to get rid of it in an upcoming update.
Nope, I'm a real person! I swear :P
Deno 1.11 Release Notes
The purpose of a wealth tax is (mostly) not to raise revenue, it is to provide a downward pressure on the wealth of the wealthiest individuals.

I also think you're making a poor estimate of what the distribution of wealth looks like. Yes, there are lots of small items, but the vast majority of wealth is stored in items/things/land/etc. of significant value. Perhaps more than anything it is stored as equity in companies. For income taxes the top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (38.5 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (29.9 percent). For wealth the distribution is even more skewed.

I agree there are a lot of things to figure out. That was and is true of our current system too. At one point the rules for all its loop-holes didn't exist and they had to be created and that didn't happen overnight.

If your asset depreciates, then you say its worth less next year. You decide what your random painting is worth. If you don't report an asset that should be reported, I can see multiple mechanisms:

(1) You sell it for more than X. At this point it becomes clear it should have been reported and back taxes are owed.
(2) You bought it for X. If you don't report, questions would be asked.
(3) There is no record of purchase and you never sell it. You might avoid paying taxes. I'm not sure what assets of significant value (over $500K) would fall into this category.

I don't have a great answer completely off the cuff about how to deal with things like a collection of rare coins. Perhaps the best answer is the easiest answer: they are just treated separately.
If you want to write a 1 bit retro game at this point, hardware is not what's holding you back. There are thousands of hobbyist 6502 kits you can buy, not to mention retro computers that people keep in like-new condition and put on eBay. (There are lots of people still writing new C64 and Apple II games.) Or you could use an Arduino and LCD. Or, you can just only use one color in a <canvas> tag.

I think what people want is a platform where a captive audience has to play your game, because there aren't any good games for the platform. If you target modern computers, you're competing with games like League of Legends or Overwatch, which have large teams behind them. If you target this shitbox, your competition is some game where you spin a crank so you aren't late to an e-date. Your chance of "winning" is high.

It remains to be seen whether some exclusive game is so good that it sells the console. I only buy Nintendo products so I can play their exclusive games. I would much prefer to run them on my PC, but they demand an extra $500 tax. Good business model! Maybe it can be yours too.
Mike DeWine in Ohio is fairly reasonable and was among those whose lips were not attached to Trump's behind, but now the Republican base in rural Ohio is angry at him about that.
Do you add up in your head how much that fast food meal will actually cost before you order it? How about when you try on new shoes? Probably not...
https://e360.yale.edu/features/despite-pledges-to-cut-emissi...
Zoom Apps [0], On Zoom [1], and more.

[0]: https://zoom.us/docs/en-us/zoom-apps.html

[1]: https://on.zoom.us/
GP: Maybe you are just crazy.

M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teaching as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true.
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Air Force 2025 (1996)
Stuff like this is enjoyable to look back on and compare to the current day, but I also think it's important to treat it as speculative fiction and not assume cause-and-effect between one and the other :)

That said, my favorite parts:

> Most strikingly, the team found that the Air Force three decades out will be oriented far more toward space than toward air. This shift in emphasis will be so profound, said participants, that they grappled with whether the Air Force should spin off an all-new “Space Force” or, at a minimum, rename itself “US Aerospace Force.”

> Information–as a commodity as well as a combat medium–will be “more influential than bombs” in thirty years, and expertise in manipulating information will offer the United States its most telling advantage over future adversaries.

> Industry, not government, will be responsible for developing critical new technologies, and government more often than not will borrow, license, or lease systems rather than buy or develop them on its own.
No. I get a "sense" of what the room looks like/feels like, and I can usually catch clues about the mood the author is intending to portray, but there's no room in my mind.
Wouldn't that effectively be yet another number, as it lacks the range of 70-100k?

I tried following the citations on that page, but many of them fail to load.
This exact law exists in Australia, the "Assistance & Access Act". That these laws exist in Australia is also a reason why there is a lot of co-operation between US and Australian law enforcement. I am not sure how but it gives the US an ability to do things they can't do on their own shore. The US often works on other countries, like Bucharest in the An0m case to work around their own laws.
I just wanted to come back and say thank you for this fantastic list.
Did you write the article and then post it to hacker news?
Re warships: I suppose the price is the problem. Israel have developed a seafaring system based on the iron Dome on the Sa'ab 6 class, to protect their oil platforms
They could use their flexibility on scientific ethics from their libertarian values on hypnosis drugs and steroids (and weirder super power drugs) to maintain an (at first) easily controlled slave labor force to keep themselves safe (at least until the inevitable rebellion and/or disintegration of the society). Such a drug-based culture might be quite the shock to the bio-logy.
> Wells dug with modern equipment are a perfectly good alternative to municipal water

... in certain geologic areas. And this doesn't work if you live in an apartment. I do feel like this is a big example of the "why don't you just" discussion from last week.
Stencil support is being worked on too: https://github.com/snowpackjs/astro/pull/266
The question is, will it take the crown for "best book about combinator calculi" from To Mock a Mockingbird? At least, Raymond Smullyan's writing style is much more enjoyable than Wolfram's.

As fun as the puzzles and whimsical framing are in the latter book, I have been looking for a more straightforward book to suggest to people learning about combinators. The table of contents is intriguing, but I doubt this will be the concise introduction I'm looking for.
What might be a better mechanism to bring the best content forward, which doesn't suffer from this issue? Would you just advocate against downvoting in general, or is there something else you have in mind?
Are you starting a company to solve a meaningful climate-related problem? Or are you pining for a giant centralized hand to just dictate solutions? Like what is your actual delta or solution?
Still, can clamp it as long as the attacking frequency is out of band. Also, no real need for telemetry in most cases anyway.
"Don't hate the player hate the game," is what comes to my mind.

I would guess it's all legal. It is still good to have transparency, which might potentially change things. I am not so sure though. After all, politicans are usually rich as well.

But: All of these super-rich have probably created many, many jobs. I guess all-in-all it is a positive game for society.
Not just humans can misbehave, machines can also. I work in industrie automation and there is often the question should we produce just errormessages or should or machines produce a product. If you wanna catch ever error, every low or high temp, every whatever, no machine can even start to produce a product ever.
Non-obvious is necessary to avoid appending "and also the sun rises in the east and sets in the west every day" to every prediction to get it to satisfy the other three. That a fact is observational does not make it non-scientific. I have no problem calling a description of a human cell science.

I'd also add that you absolutely do not need 500 years to verify natural selection, see e.g. this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8
Agreed - in this awful scenario where the US is fighting China, their economy would absolutely crater as the US shoots any ship heading towards Chinese ports after the embargo was declared.

China can't feed itself.

China only produces a third of the oil it consumes.

If your people begin to starve as soon as war starts and you all of a sudden have 1/3rd the oil you used to.... well, that's not exactly a recipe for success.
Ask HN: APIs for getting books and author data
Hey ya'll,
I wanted to build a personal project for better tracking the books I read. I was wondering if:

1. There are any good apis for getting book data and author information (including demographic information). Paid is fine as well, if it's not too much I could consider that.

2. Anyones built something similar which collates this data from different places. Would be interested in hearing the how of that.

Cheers
On the other hand, I hate it when people take this mentality to the extreme and withhold the mathematical definition and insist on only using examples or "simplified" definitions. It's similar with language learning. Sometimes I just want to see the grammar rule (there often is one, at least to a very good approximation), but the teacher has this didactic philosophy that I wouldn't be able to "handle the truth" or something. If there is an adequate definition provide it.
It's similar with computer science papers as well. On the one hand, a free-text description of an algorithm or a simplified pseudocode is helpful to get the gist, but very often I also need to see the actual unambiguous code to see exactly how it is and to check if I understood it right because no description covers all the corner cases.

Both are important, practical examples but also the abstract definition (if one exists to a good approximation).
Zoom Apps [0], On Zoom [1], and more. Things like breakout rooms, SSO, hosts/co-host, polls, whiteboard, raising hands, webinars, live streaming to YouTube and Facebook, etc. Do you even know what Zoom offers today?!

[0]: https://zoom.us/docs/en-us/zoom-apps.html

[1]: https://on.zoom.us/
If you have $2b in wealth, and lose $1b of it, you do not owe taxes on $1b.
> These pluralities are unable to exist on social media. There must always be objective truth, there must always be a side that wins, a side that loses [...]

But neither side "wins". They both just shout louder and louder in their own side's echo chamber, with only a tiny porthole into the other's echo chamber, until it finally blows over.

Getting bent out of shape on twitter is like screaming obscenities into a pillow, but there's a public record of what you screamed.
I worry that if it's anything like the music.apple.com experience, it will be frustrating to use.

I spend a lot of time on my PC for streams/gaming, and I put up with music.apple.com because I'm normally a happy subscriber using my iPhone.

But the website is just terrible.

- I get logged out if I don't visit for a day which requires a whole 2FA dance. Why not just leave me logged in?

- If I am still "logged in" after some hours, all songs become "previews" and I can't actually listen to anything. The fix is to log out and log back in, and it's a dice roll whether I'll get to do the 2FA dance again

- Songs routinely just don't play when I click them. Only fix seems to be leaving the album that I'm looking at and then returning to the same page

- Navigating away from albums occasionally makes Chrome pop up a "you have unsaved changes" warning. Why?
Too hard to monetize, too high costs, competition by the phone company.

Everyone had one, they were ubiquitous. Without the internet ads are much harder to sell, huge barrier to entry for customer acquisition compared to google. Without real time auctions and targeting ads are worth less, i.e. you can't target search terms in a phone book, only prefixes, let alone things like demographics. The cost to distribute a book to everyone is a lot higher than the cost to serve some traffic. I suspect ad density was too low too.
Digging a well would be creating your own search engine. You can pay someone to come in an drill that well for you that doesn't exist a paid search engine.

Ddg would be like taking the water from a public fountain.
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> I would guess it's all legal.

When it's all secret, we can't make an informed decision on whether or not it should be legal.
I think they meant V-lang is making false claims about itself.
Society doesn't decide shit.

People need to stop thinking about the free market as some kind of oracle. It's not. It's a collection of feedback loops between greedy optimizers. It drives people down the local gradient of profitability, which has only a minimal relationship with long-term social utility. It can, and will, drive us all off a cliff if there's enough money to be made stepping off the edge.

And yes, I'm with you here. I just don't see it as society deciding. If asked, most people will also be baffled how it is you and me get more than a climate scientist or a nuclear engineer. They also can't directly express their individual preferences on this using their wallets, because the market isn't structured in a way to allow that.
What you see as "useful" is subjective. Bitcoin is mined because for some people it's useful.
Maybe a lawyer can say that with a straight face, but I'm a human being.

Google ad revenues mostly come from 3 services: Gmail, which holds a disproportionate share of all email for what started out as a federated network. YouTube, which basically holds a monopoly on video sharing. And Google search, which basically holds a monopoly on regular web searches.

I count at least 2 monopolies here, both held by Alphabet. The fact that Facebook is able to make advertisement in some other part of the web is immaterial, the same way TV ads are immaterial.
I'm sure many serfs felt they same way about the local baron.
From the article: "[...] the BBC has not been able to confirm the claims, [...]"
I don't see a problem with the word "alleges" in this context, regardless of the pedigree of the publication.
I want some demos. One demo=thousand readmes.
> Google Cloud is big enough to be significant in terms of revenue, but AFAIK is only maybe breaking even in terms of profit.

Google cloud gotten profitable enough that they only spent $5B to earn $4B in revenue last quarter. After a dozen years that's the best ever (classic case of monopoly leverage to get into a different market).

Advertising is "only" 81% of revenue but almost 100% of profit.

Some other commenters have proposed that properties like YT and Android drive ad traffic but when I looked at the last 10Q it looked like YT was about 10% of ad revenues. I believe Android is a net loss but worth it in that it's an offset to reduce payments to Apple. But I just skimmed the filing because this is just an HN comment.
There are plenty of rational reasons for not wanting a smart meter. Don't let the irrational people detract from the fact that there are many real problems with smart meters. Especially lots of privacy issues.

In the UK, I report my own meter readings and the electrical company probably only really ever goes out once every few years when tenancies change. So I actually don't see what money it saves them asides from the money lost from chasing up issues where people are trying to cheat the system.

In this example it really makes me wonder if replacing all the meters in the country with non-intercompatible smart meters really saves that much money. So you have to start asking what else is in there for them to do this. Probably money for the data I would have to imagine.

Also, given how absolutely atrociously shite the security of these smart meters is (and you'll have to trust me on this, I don't know how public this information is) I wouldn't want that crap anywhere near my house in the eventuality that someone hijacks it to make it look like I'm using more electricity when they're using less (while keeping the overall books balanced so to speak) or some other nefarious purpose.

Certainly these meters won't give you 5G cancer, but they're really a horrible idea as they stand and I don't recommend anyone install them, at least not in the UK.
Convince the market that you have a solution to a problem and they’ll reward you. Plenty of climate-focused companies out there looking to hire software engineers.

If you’re not happy with the employment that gives you the income to pursue your hobbies and fund side ventures, why not join one of those climate companies or start one?
To those downvoting parent, I assume This is fine is a reference to the dog in the burning house meme.

Not sure if that changes your vote, but FYI :)
They're getting capital gains any time they sell a stock for more than they paid.

There's no magic threshhold of $500k.
Mean drug effect is possibly a bad metric to measure. If the distribution is bimodal, or has very high variance, the FDA could take that into account when approving a drug.

I believe SSRIs often vary in effectiveness, for example; some people are just very good responders. Fortunately, their mean effectiveness is high enough.

(Not a doctor, etc)
It conflates income with unrealized capital gains.

You can make an argument that income and capital gains should be taxed at similar rates, but it feels like they are being purposely misleading in their presentation, when they use unrealized capital gains as the denominator.

No one else’s taxes are viewed through that lens.
Did I say I supported fracking?

Besides, I don't work in the fracking industry, I work in the software industry. And it's painful to see my industry contributing to the problem in such a thoughtless way. Maybe if this was Fracking News and people were bashing on bitcoin you'd have a point.
Frankly the only time I ever see someone using a browser without JS is here on HN. Every person I know IRL or on other social media uses a regular browser like Chrome, Firefox, or sometimes Edge.

I don't think even 1% of the global population knows it's possible to browse web pages without a GUI.
Actually what I saw was that it conflated wealth with income. Just because there are unrealized capital gains in someone's account doesn't mean they are avoiding taxes.
Most of those tools are focused on giving you a full SPA on the client (and therefore load a lot of JS). Astro is focused on sites that are mostly static with "islands" of interactivity. To that end every component is server rendered only, by default, and you opt-in to client render when you need it (with different loading strategies).
I was just saying, it sounds an awful lot like forced communism through taxation. A share in a company is a portion and a vote in a company, however small.
> Calling it sexist seems a safe way of attack.

Not really, this article is sexist. But alright, this is not reason enough to dismiss it.

The illustration of nihilism show a complete misunderstanding of what nihilism is (the enlightment strawman is pretty intersting too).

Theologians usually do have an education in philosophy and in history, so the man writing this is probably not one. I'm not saying only theologians have the right to reflect on religion, but they are often more thoughtfull than random bloggers.

Although i was educated with classical/continental philosophy, i did read a lot of analytic philosophy, and if the writer is American or from the commonwealth, he was exposed to analytic philosophy (or at least more than i was). And that shows in the development of his article.

But before you craft, you should learn from your master and from your peers, and the writer pretty much ignored all modern analytical works and wrote something that is so behind his time that it becomes interesting to read and to understand.
The income tax is a massive violation of privacy rights. You are forced, under pain of imprisonment to disclose this intimate information, only for it to be leaked to journalists who disclose it.
Yes, the grandparent was implying games didn't make good propaganda because the flaws in their model are exposed by playing with it, as if propaganda needs to be dishonest or false, but it doesn't. Following their reasoning, and your example, games could be effective propaganda tools for a specific category of ideas; those that have the self consistency needed to be made into a compelling game.
Seeing what the electric utilities did in terms of essentially buying passage of referenda and laws to their satisfaction in Ohio [1], I'm expecting Google to just open its wallet.

[1] https://energynews.us/2020/03/05/dark-money-dominated-ohios-...
The line between drone and missile is fuzzy at best. Most of the distinguishing characteristics often cited in these conversations are wrong. For instance, missiles are usually powered by rockets, but many missiles are powered by jet engines instead. Drones are usually meant to be reusable, but the first drones ever made were specifically expendable (which is why they are named after drone bees, which fly once before dying.) Loiter munitions are sometimes considered drones instead of missiles, but nobody doubts that a tomahawk cruise missile is a missile, and yet, a modern tomahawk is also a loiter munition that can cruise in a circle for hours.

Sometimes autonomy is cited as a key characteristic of drones. But the first drones were pure-RC with no autonomy at all, while there are a myriad of autonomous missiles and non-autonomous human-guided missiles. So autonomy is not a distinguishing characteristic either.
I think you’re missing the point, capital gains is when you sell an asset. The article is talking about how much net worth grew due to asset appreciation. Not how much stock they sold. The article is arguing for a wealth tax, without admitting it.
Yeah, it would need to be customized for sure. Antennas can be filtered pretty effectively even in high rf environments, but they might be jammed. The Magnetometer will work in a box.

Straight consumer drones should be easy to disable though.
I understand how they work. That doesn't make the API any less insane.
We do tax capital gains. You pay taxes when you sell. Do you mean tax unrealized capital gains?

There is a reason you don’t owe taxes on a stock you haven’t sold yet. For one thing, what if you have to pay tax at one valuation, and then it goes down later.
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It absolutely enrages me that in 2021 printers are still the absolute horror show that they are. Things were better in 1999.

The article covers the driver story so I won't go into that, but in addition to the horrible Linux support it amazes me that a cheap affordable printer and ink is still not available. Ink is now not only outrageously priced but commonly has DRM in it.
Meh… Python zealots abound. Folks often say the same thing about Fortran but frankly, those are the engines that power ALL scripting languages math features. You’re running on C/C++/FORTRAN. If one needs better text-parsing features on top of that: use Perl; if you use a Python environment: use Python.

Perl is superior in many ways and I think using it for data-exploration still has tons of merit.

Folks “shoot themselves in the foot” when they don’t understand the language. In Perls case: list/scalar context is usually the culprit, but it is quite easy to understand. It’s more flexible and concise which in many ways makes Perl better at exploratory programming.
Look into HB6 and you will see the red is bought and paid for by the energy utilities no matter how pellucid.