skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I could focus on it by simply quoting the article farther down?

> UC Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman, whose research helped put wealth inequality back on the American policy agenda, played a part in designing Warren's wealth tax. He says it was designed explicitly with European failures in mind.

> He argues the Warren plan is "very different than any wealth tax that has existed anywhere in the world." Unlike in the European Union, it's impossible to freely move to another country or state to escape national taxes. Existing U.S. law also taxes citizens wherever they are, so even if they do sail to a tax haven in the Caribbean, they're still on the hook. On top of that, Warren's plan includes an "exit tax," which would confiscate 40 percent of all a person's wealth over $50 million if they renounce their citizenship.

> Warren's tax is also only limited to the super rich, whereas in Europe the threshold was low enough to also hit the sort-of rich. This higher threshold helps it avoid problems like someone having a family business that makes them look rich on paper but, in fact, they're short on the cash needed to pay the tax.

> Also important, Zucman argues, the higher threshold means only a small group will be affected. And smaller groups have a harder time fighting for exemptions, which hurt European efforts. Some countries, for example, exempted artwork and antiques on the grounds they were hard to value. It's true, but it creates a huge loophole: Buy lots of art! Economists hate incentives like these because they distort markets. Warren's proposal calls for no exemptions.
Or just tax them differently than a primary residence.

Stable and long term living arrangements are something the government should be incentivizing so primary residences should be taxed minimally.

Vacation houses and income properties should be taxed higher.
> If a bid-ask spread can be positive (as in a stock where the bid is lower than the ask) and can be negative (as in your house example where the bid is higher than the ask), why can't it be zero?

It can be, and indeed the Micro 101 model is that in ideal conditions it will be for an infinitesimal slice of transactions that actually take place, as all potential transactions with a 0-or-higher bid-ask spread will occur, but that the average across the market of all voluntary transactions will always be positive.
Well compliance and "avoiding the promised blocking" are same at this point.
What is it that a writer gets from this that they don’t get from Google docs?

Genuine question.
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Do you really think BTC transactions are private? BTC transactions are open to public.
The "corrupt" banks are clearly an arm of the Chinese government. Keeping them weak and poorly regarded makes them easy to control. Capitalism creates a desire for equal access to information. It naturally promotes democracy of information, at first, and eventually, democracy itself. How can one be a "capitalist" and invest in companies when the government is not transparent and can do this type of thing at will? China is on a collision course with itself.
The word "investor" is conflating two things. On one hand you've got "investment" where someone pays up front for materials, construction workers, and equipment, producing a building, and then makes money by selling or renting that building. This is good, because it resulted in a building that people can live in. On the other hand you've got "investment" where someone purchased a preexisting building, in a way that's disconnected from the process that caused it to get built in the first place. This is usually neutral or bad.

So yes, it's sticking it to different investors. But that's a good thing! Stick it to the investors for whom "investment" means pushing dollars around, rather than the ones for whom investment means construction.
Also I see trains as network design. You have to commit to the train size upfront (network block size) and you can hit throughput limits
If you’re politically connected and influential, you get bailed out. Also, Blackrock is intermediating people’s pensions, so they’re ultimately just levering up retirees against the future generations of home buyers (empowered by the Fed). Think the politically connected Fed/DC/Davos crowd is simply going to just hand over power and influence?
What does failing look like to you?

If that doesn't happen will you revise your opinion on bitcoin?
> When you are in El Salvador you use actual, physical US Dollars for all cash transactions. This is not a de facto standard as in some other countries - it is the official legal currency in the country.

El Salvador has very strict cash regulations. Most transactions over $100 in cash require an ID. Even paying for a new laptop in cash would require you to fill a form stating source of income.
The canal has economic advantages as well.

There are some proposals suggesting (I don't how practical this is) to use geothermal plants in the Salton area to power the desalination.

As to the pumps, isn't the valley below sea level? Therefore power could be generated from the flow?
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Cabals really should coordinate better to avoid confusion.
https://archive.is/aBK10
from the abstract of pdf:

"We combine our esti-
mates with the available literature on host immune response and
viral mutation rates to demonstrate how antibodies markedly out-
number the spike proteins, and the genetic diversity of virions in an
infected host covers all possible single nucleotide substitutions."

in particular this V should not be overlooked.

"...the genetic diversity of virions in an
infected host covers all possible single nucleotide substitutions."

this is similar to brute force exploits, as in trying all possible combinations, then filtering down to the instances that have effect, followed by selection a priori

as most of us have experienced, brute force attacks can be very effective where immediacy is not an issue, and there are few bounds to number of iterations
Second this

Assuming "really [good] option"
This is funny, thank you.

Reminds me of my father, who claims there's no better wine than Carlo Rossi, and no good movie since Dr Zhivago.
"Here’s how B-2 bomber pilots pull off grueling 33-hour flights": https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/04/29/heres-how-b-2-bom...

Reading the article it seems the pilot's personal 33-hour record was actually in a B-52. Here's an article that says the longest combat mission for a B-2 was over 44 hours: https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/the-stealth-bo...
Your numbers are off for most areas. There has been inflation in construction material prices, but that's only one part of the total price of building homes. The other major components include land prices, labor, and permits. So costs could have only doubled from $300k to $600k in areas with very cheap land and permits where materials make up the dominant share of the total cost.
> The country’s most prolific home builder [DR Horton] booked roughly twice what it typically makes selling houses to the middle class—an encouraging debut in the business of selling entire neighborhoods to investors.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-sell-a-house-these-days-...

I see no future for this model.

The reason is simple. Individual buyers avoid high-rental areas because they know the renters will depress home values. This sets up a reinforcing cycle. The neighborhood fills up with renters with no incentive to invest in the costly maintenance required to keep properties attractive. Landlords have little incentive to invest in long-term improvements, either.

Tragedy of the commons. Step by step, the neighborhood slides into the abyss.

So let the Blackrock's of the world buy up entire neighborhoods and turn them into rentals. As soon as the inevitable mean reversion happens in house prices, these home rental businesses will be toast.
The device does not know where the other device is exactly although it knows it is clode because of Bluetooth. It will assume you want to move to the device you interacted with most recently when you move your mouse pointer past the edge of your Mac. From that moment on it will assume the device is on that side.

Source:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/8/22523613/macos-monterey-ww...
It depends on the price, it would need to increase ~10x to maintain hash power with today's fee

(Fees are a little more than 10% of miner's reward)
Why so? You don't see that gain unless you sell, at which point you'll probably buy another house that has also risen 10x.
For me, for TOTP, I use one that backs up to iCloud. that obviously weakens the security, but increases the availability.

With some applications, you can add additional devices, so you can add multiple, if you have 'em.
You're right, evil is not a universal plot driver. But at least one of exceptional evil or exceptionally high stakes drive the majority of fantasy, sci-fi, crime, horror, and political novels.

And not without reason -- if you want drama, they give you that. But I don't think they often do much to usefully inform a person about anything.
Perfectly in sync with hairstyle of the day - the mullet. (Business up the front - party at the back)
Tyler Cowen: Spending a lot on health care is the American way
It was used for blackjack and hookers.
First fastly blows up, now my certs are lasting an extra second?! OpEng is off for the week or something?

(/s)
Just for clarity because the title is a bit muddy:

This is the first time an unmanned drone has refueled a manned aircraft.

Specifically, a prototype of the Navy's future unmanned carrier based tanker drone transferred a small amount of fuel to a 2 seat F-18 super hornet. They used a 'probe and drogue' or 'basket' style refueling where the receiving jet initiates contact.

The Navy demonstrated the reverse capability...unmanned drone receiving fuel from a manned tanker aircraft...in 2015.

more details and history: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40955/the-navys-tanker...
They likely believe they don't need our buy in.
How come when a company is not American the intro is always:

[Country's]+[company name]

Whereas if the company is American it's always:

[founder's name]+[company name]

I don't know if it has to do with media or with the fact that foreign founders might want to be more in the dark compared to American ones.

In Europe wealth is historically frowned upon so people might be trying to get their millions or billions in the dark and only speak and be relevant among decision makers circles.

If that's the case then those people will dominate American corporate world in the future because it's appearent that being famous only means trouble.

Besides it makes tremendous sense. Wealth gives you a megaphone but such megaphone is useless if people are able to look your speech rehersals, while you sweat,strutter and stop mid sentence.

It's my opinion that the journey of an entrepreneur who wants to get into politcs should be:

Money > Sports franchise > social relevance ..or

Money > Own Rock band > social relevance

Money > your own movie > social relevance

It's really cringy when these SaaS guys or EVs guys try to appeal to the masses. You end up being hated by those who hate the rich and ignored by everybody else
No one else can tell you how to live your life man. I enjoy time with friends, family, and hobbies. People like Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates etc value working more. Plenty of non financially successful people also value working more. These are decisions that one has to make for yourself. If you both have a deep and loving relationship, as well as a job you love, it is up to you to determine how to allocate your time. There are tradeoffs that some people weigh differently.

Finally, if gaming isnt a fun hobby anymore... it is hardly the only one out there, and arguably one of the biggest time sucks on the planet. Maybe find some different hobbies you consider more valuable uses of your time outside of work. Maybe art, music, sports or nature?
While I agree that it's healthy to keep a broad set of sources, I find that once a source has shown to be untrustworthy on some topic, I discount them on other topics too. There is a difference between having a certain worldview and twisting facts to your narrative.

Unfortunately, a good chunk of the Republican party in the U.S. is happily ignoring facts around the last presidential election. There is little use in exposing yourself to their faux complaints. Much like it was not useful to read up on the "Russian connection" that was invented to attack Trump. So when people fall prey to these ideas, I discount their opinion. I stop reading them. No reason to willingly absorb noise.
Not to be picky but: "Then I tried pinging it from the same machine, another machine in the same room, another server on the same continent and then finally another server on the same planet. "

Could just be 4 machines in the same room.
Aha. So, basically, there are some failures in this particular market that make it more difficult for prices to correct themselves?
They might also be aiming to preserve their ability to send mail to russian mail servers, and to serve existing russian users, and to let new russian users sign up by signing up with a IP address outside of russia.

I.e. a choice between "russia is ineffectively blocked by us" vs "russia is effectively blocked by the russian government".
My process for evaluating pitch decks and advising early-stage startups
Corollary: if you're buying a house, your competing bid might be a pension fund.
I pay for a second inexpensive mailbox at Mailfence and sync the contents of the Fastmail account to a subfolder of the Mailfence account. There is rate-limiting involved, so my config is dialed down on "pipelinedepth" to ensure I don't hit that problem (you can easily overrun the Mailfence side pushing too much too fast). The cron runs via a unique user account on a cloud server every 4 hours using unique passwords (see below).

cron runner's ~/.mbsyncrc

# Source
IMAPAccount imap-src-account
Host imap.fastmail.com
Port 993
User <user@domain.com>
PassCmd "cat <redacted>/.secure/psrc"
SSLType IMAPS
SystemCertificates yes
PipeLineDepth 1

# Dest
IMAPAccount imap-dest-account
Host imap.mailfence.com
Port 993
User <username>
PassCmd "cat <redacted>/.secure/pdst"
SSLType IMAPS
SystemCertificates yes
PipeLineDepth 1

# Source map
IMAPStore imap-src
Account imap-src-account

# Dest map
IMAPStore imap-dest
Account imap-dest-account

# Transfer options
Channel mailsync
Master :imap-src:
Slave :imap-dest:SubFolder/
Sync Pull
Create Slave
Remove Slave
Patterns *
CopyArrivalDate yes

Note: use the Fastmail option to set up a READ ONLY IMAP user password! (it's a really cool feature of Fastmail that many others do not support) Mailfence also has per-service passwords, set one up for IMAP as well. Do not use your main login passwords if you can avoid it - $0.02.
Or maybe property tax shouldn't be a thing... Or be substantially smaller.
Interesting. I’ve been to Stockholm a few times extended and definitely heard of Lapland, but not Norland.
It's impossible to take a "market-oriented" approach to parking when street parking exists. Either you remove the street parking, you regulate the space somehow, or you have a tragedy of the commons that pisses everyone off. In context, it sounds like the developer was obviously planning to take advantage of existing street parking to reduce the number of spaces built; it was, as described, the densest development in the area, at a below-normal spaces-per-unit for such an area.
I was surprised to find that after replacing most of the op-amps in a ADA MP-1 pre-amp, most of that orientation-sensitive remaining buzz that you still get with humbucking pickups was seriously reduced.

When I'm playing at a low volume, I can just mute the strings and put the guitar on a stand to get it to be quiet. On a high-gain program using the tube board and all.

The reason for some of the buzz is that the circuits are amplifying common mode. The op-amps are operated in feedback meaning that the - and + inputs are at nearly the same voltage. However, the incoming common mode noise moves that entire voltage; and it's possible for the common movement of +/- to itself be amplified.

So that is to say, suppose you have this representative single-ended stage:

|\
in --)|---+------- |+\
| | > ---+--- out
< ,- |-/ |
> | |/| |
| | GND |
GND `----------'

The guitar cable's shield is connected to GND. Now suppose that GND is oscillating at 60 Hz due to the cable shield picking up EMI. (The cable shield is a big area of copper bathed in noisy electric fields, with nothing shielding it, and is galvanically connected to your amp!)

This means that the (+) node of the OP amp is seeing this fluctutation, and due to the feedback the (-) node is following.

An ideal op-amp will not amplify any voltage offset that equally affects (+) and (-). But real op-amps do. The degree to which they do not is the CMRR (common mode rejection ratio) which is a data sheet parameter that is better in some parts than others.
They have to be able to issue a new SIM card without a pin in the case of a lost phone though. In that case they should probably check government identification, of course, and not be available remotely.
you dont use graphics card to mine bitcoin.
You use ASIC
I didn't read the advice as literally get yourself replaced. I think it's more of think about your value as how you work with others, influence an entire organization, and what you can get done together. Your value isn't about silo-ing knowledge.

When viewed that way, it could be good advice for anyone.
I agree, which is why I wrote “generally”. It’s definitely not absolute. Munger is a clear outlier. But it’s a fair generalization in my experience.
You can just Google "Marriage Tax Penalty" and you'll get more details and history than I can write in a post.

I imagine it's not a super common problem in the general population. But for the HN demographics, two high earning bay area tech people getting married is pretty common, and they'll often be hit with the penalty.
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mbsync supports syncing in both directions. In my case I have an hourly cron that syncs imap -> local.

And then if something goes wrong I make a copy of my backup, and invert the configuration to sync local -> imap.
Positive Psychology Goes to War
Vscode/vscodium may be nice for a lot of tasks, and probably preferable for many users overall, but I think there will always be a certain mindset of developer/writer/person who prefers the Emacs approach. When I tried Emacs after Vscode I was blown away by the ability to write my own customizations that can affect every level of how it operates (and I'm not part of a generation that learned Emacs by default).
I didn't think you were shilling, but I was a little disappointed not to get a deep link to the docs for that specific capability :)
Best events/techniques to build professional network?
Looking to get to know small to midsize groups of people better. Currently thinking of evening sailing trips, board game nights, archery, etc.
I'd agree in general for consumer use-cases but not for business use-cases. With an open source business tool that may be used in non-business context, charging for features required for business use makes sense.

Even among consumer use-cases, lack of privacy may be a feature. In spatial chat, for example, being in able to overhear conversation within 'earshot' is a feature. Selling private space in that context makes sense and similar to selling improved voice quality, at least to me, and there are stark operational cost boundaries in the involved tech that can complicates the picture.
https://archive.is/zAWPg
I would think this helps with yield issues on your new manufacturing node as well.

If you have a 33% yield on one new chiplet that doesn't triple the price per unit for the package.
Since yours is, you'll see that the original comment didn't say it would be sufficient. Those were two separate sentences.
Agreed, I use euromomo to look at total mortality across Europe and it's difficult to deny that something was killing lots more people than usual last spring and winter (northern hemisphere).

However it can also be the case that COVID deaths (and hospitalizations as well) may be over-reported. We have recent reports that seem to be pointing strongly to this possibility.

[1]: Alameda County revising COVID deaths downward by 25% - https://oaklandside.org/2021/06/04/alameda-countys-new-covid...

[2]: Research in CA suggests COVID hospitalization in children overcounted by 40% - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/study-number-of-kids...
And that's only the AD, if we add old articles for the last century from other sources, the HN will be flooded over. But would be they news?
It's just not like that in reality. There is a townhouse neighborhood near me with 1.25 spots per house, and it is a disaster. A lot of places are occupied by people with roomates, not families. It's the kind of place where most people need a car for their job- work trucks abound, people drive uber or doordash, etc. Not everyone takes a laptop to the office every day. The roads are nearly impassable, people park 1km away. I knew someone trying to run a small business out of their home there (piano lessons) but there was nowhere for customers to park. There is bus service there, but they reduced the number of routes due to insufficient usage.
It's tempting to say house prices and interest rates are opposite sides of the same coin, but the situation is messy.

I mean ultimately what I want is to pay 35-40% of my take home salary on a mortgage, just I like I pay now in rent.

The reality is though, here in the UK, that I need to save 2-3 years of take home pay, to put down on a deposit for a mortgage that will see me pay 50% of my take home pay, and I will still end up living in an inferior property to what I'm renting.

Meanwhile my landlord, who bought the place I'm in the 90s, is making a profit.
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> But the government can’t really prevent you to meet a “dealer” cashing in/out on your cryptos.

If that “dealer” doesn’t report your transactions under KYC or either of you don’t pay taxes, you’ll get a hard reminder that governments can and routinely do prevent things like this. It’s especially risky to break those laws with cryptocurrencies because you’re leaving a full irrepudiable history of every transaction so when they bust your dealer they get _every_ transaction, not just the one that was caught, and that’s for everyone they’ve dealt with — and since those transactions are all by definition illegal, they have both grounds to investigate and an easy lever to pressure each person to turn in bigger players in exchange for leniency.
Why bother with Bitcoin at all if you need a trusted third party? Crypto maximalists have let greed blind them from the initial mission of crypto.
This really depends on too many variables of the surrounding area. There are places this could work, but I would argue there are more areas where this would not.
As long as there’s enough countries mining, it’s decentralized enough
Except construction costs are insane nowadays, and there is a massive shortage of trade workers. Your theory could hold true if we just considered existing homes, but the costs to build a new home have went through the roof in the last decade.