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> Google creating a desktop OS market share is not really on the horizon.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/the-worlds-second-mo...

>> For ages now, every annual report on desktop operating system market share has had the same top two contenders: Microsoft's Windows in a commanding lead at number one and Apple's macOS in distant second place. But in 2020, Chrome OS became the second-most popular OS, and Apple fell to third.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chromebook-units-surge-275-in-...

>> Chromebook units surge 275% in Q1

Oh, ok.
Most recruiters use a software to screen CVs before an actual human even reads them. If you don't have enough of the buzzwords then unfortunately it doesn't go through.
Not literal swords but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Justice
I have no idea if we agree given how little you've said.

The simple and brief assertion that the Indian Act needs to be removed, given the history of such statements, and where they come from (ie. white paper), is begging to being misunderstood in the worst way.
The billionaires don't get regular income, they get asset appreciation of the corporations they own. You need both higher capital income tax in a progressive way, and an incentive to sell. Borrowing against this assets for anything should be illegal until you have paid income taxes on them.
This is fantastic honestly. Now we join the legion of nations that don't have a tipping culture because SJWs have now declared tipping "racist". That's a win in my book.
Switzerland is a third world country. This classification is outdated.
tax evading conspiracy nuts do not apply
you do need some sort of off-site backup for disaster recovery. House can burn down, get burglarized, flooded, and you absolutely must account for that if you really want to mitigate the risk
While our donors appear to be happy to pay for us to contest this, it's very difficult for me to imagine anyone paying what it would cost to implement compliance.

We'll see what happens once the dust settles.
Well I guess you should have both. That’s the point point right? Redundancy?
I wonder if in the depression era, people who could not afford to travel read travel books as a fantasy to see what a different place was like, not as a literal travel book.
Some links to archive.org scans:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27556986
Generally the movements come with a rubber gasket that you're supposed to put over the shaft before attaching it to the back of the face. The rubber cuts down on the ticking noise. Of course, if you buy a Crazy Clock that has novelty firmware, you probably _want_ to hear it.
Excellent job!

The less the better - taxpayer money is mostly used against the people - to grow Federal bureaucracy, limit freedoms, wage wars, and so on.

This is but one example of how overpaid US government employees are, by the way.

Congrats to Thiel.
Agreed, cool, but more so for the study/analysis/comparison of the composition before and after cropping, revealed by Lunden's copy. Repairing missing/damaged canvases is a understood problem, tackled by reversible inpainting, by an art restorer. I agree, not really sure why the AI approach is that interesting/significant.
> Well, I didn't know that race is determined by your chromosomes. TIL I guess.

Is that sarcasm? Do you know what chromosomes are?

> And I don't see how someone would identify as black if they aren't

By simply claiming they do. Is that not the criterion you're using for gender?

"I don't see how someone would identify as female if they aren't."
Such as?

The Supreme Court in UNITED STATES v. CAUSBY says "The landowner owns at least as much of the space above the ground as the can occupy or use in connection with the land" They say nothing about structures being the only use, in fact they implicitly say in the ruling "The fact that he does not occupy it in a physical sense—by the erection of buildings and the like—is not material."

In that case the Supreme Court held that a plane flying at an altitude of 83ft violated the property rights of the land owner. It should not be much of a stretch to then claim the FAA regulating my use of airspace 0-83ft is an unconstitutional taking.

Even today I believe the FAA Navigable Airspace starts at 500ft above ground elevation.

It would be an interesting case if ever made it to the supreme court, I dont think the FAA's position is as strong as you believe it to be
I was surprised by that also and asked a friend who has a CPA, but doesn't work in tax law. Their first comment after briefly scanning the legal code is that "disqualified person" is only used within the context of "prohibited transaction". The definition of "prohibited transaction" concerning "disqualified person" doesn't seem to address this case. Instead, it seems to focus on dealing with the Roth IRA assets in a manner to benefits ones accounts outside of the Roth.
If you read elsewhere, they've got him on a couple cases. He technically wasn't allowed to put any shares of confinidy (Eventually paypal) in his roth ira since he was a founder. Also, he's not paying US taxs on his personal international income and using his dual newzealand citizenship to park it there.
> I'm surprised to see this downvoted.

There was some snark that was edited out.

> Plenty of founders are receiving salaries below that threshold in 2021, even after raising money.

Yeah, that's the mechanism, but being in a position to decide what what your taxable income will be is a loophole in itself, one that's pretty much only available to the wealthy and people who run businesses. I'm sure Thiel was both at the time.
12-story residential building partially collapsed in the South Florida community
You won't find the answer, because you're innocent until proven guilty. The laws are not formally defined, it would need to go in front of courts, and then people could argue whatever interpretation and evidence they want to convince one way or another.

I think what's more clear is that it's clever and probably an unintended loophole, be it technically legal or not isn't so important. What matters in the end is a bunch of money didn't go to maintaining society's infrastructure, paying for military, and all that, instead money from other sources and other people's pockets was used. Do you care? Do we care? I think that's the more relevant dimension to think about and discuss.
Of course they issue a CYA about their cloud systems not being compromised, but then bury the fact that other systems were compromised by using the passive voice when they point to "threat actors".

I'm assuming the My Books phone home in some way to facilitate file access over the internet. If so, that WD system got cracked. That seems more likely since-- at least for my ISP and I'm guessing most home ISPs-- don't expose individual device ports to the world unless the user sets NAT for that.

Anyone know if NAT configs are required to use the feature that let's you access files from anywhere? If so, someone simply cracked bad security 6 years out of date and scanned for devices.

Given typical IoT security, it might only have been using the default user & password.
Within reason.

https://www.reuters.com/article/swisscom-court-idUSFWN20M0KT

We'll see what happens.
Alas, there are 3 rules of (ordinary) Lavet stepper clock movements:

1. You can't make it go the opposite direction.
2. You can't change the gearing ratio between the hands.
3. You can't know where the hands are actually pointing.

What you're left with is the ability to alter the timing of the second hand and everything else falls out from that.
Google and Jio showcase jointly developed smartphone JioPhone Next
I hope studies like these are included in the lists of Ivermectin studies that have been popping up here recently whenever this topic comes up.
> I have one exception: Installing personal apps on a work computer is not really OK (unless the application has already been approved for work too).

So the approved usage is more-or-less only the web browser? If the user can make do with that for their personal stuff, they would probably be happier with a tablet anyway. If they can't, then, well, they need two laptops.
Quad9 does not make money. Quad9 is a public-benefit not-for-profit foundation. It's supported by donations. Which are very much appreciated right now, because German lawyers aren't free.
I'll just add that there are also non-novelty firmwares available - alternate timebase clocks. I have Martian, Sidereal, Tidal, Lunar, weekly, annual and quadrennial clocks.
ANY backup solution can go down with a big enough disaster.

An on-site backup is A backup, but it shouldn't be the ONLY backup. Typically you want a hierarchy of backups, one of which is on-site and on-line but a different machine, another of which is off-site but on-line, and possibly one or more offline backups. But on-line backups are fine, IF (and only if) they're copy-on-write/append-only.

Of course if the data can be deleted or overwritten too soon (even tape drive backup systems have some period over which they start re-using tapes) it's worthless. But that's an entirely separate concern from whether it's always-on or internet-connected or on the same national power grid segment as the original.
One does what one can. :D
Liquidity only eliminates the type of risk that is associated with liquidity. Having less liquidity risk does not in any way mean you're more likely to lose money in general.

Less liquidity means there's a larger bid-ask spread: if you're in a rush to either buy or sell, there's a chance you'll pay a premium for a quick trade. If you're not in a rush, you probably won't pay this premium at all.
Any suggestions on the other end: where to sell a business that is both profitable and should continue to be? Asking for a friend who is looking to retire in the next couple years (at the normal retirement age).
Anec-tangent: when I left a start-up, I turned in the company laptop. Then when I asked if I could buy it back (since it nicer than my personal laptop), they just gave it to me for free. That was a really nice and totally unexpected gesture.

Later I gave that laptop to someone to learn to code on and now they're a full-time software engineer.
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"I think you're missing the thrust of ProPublica's reporting. This is not an article claiming that laws have been broken. It is pointing out the difference in intent and reality for a part of our financial law."

If that is what it is trying to point out then it is failing.

This is the intent of a Roth IRA. This is not an accidental feature or a weird corner-case or an unintended consequence. One cannot borrow against a Roth IRA and one cannot withdraw from it without paying taxes. AFAICT there is nothing interesting here other than the dollar value.

"... and I think you should be embarrassed to say that the people who created the Roth intended this."

I am not your comment-parent but I think they should neither be embarrassed nor not-embarrassed.

Are you embarrassed that Billionaires can deduct mortgage interest on their primary residence ?

Are you embarrassed that Apple Computer can write off business lunches ?
I do both: I backup to my Synology NAS, which then in-turn uses Synology's Hyper-Backup (which is very nice, btw) to my Azure storage account - costs me about $15/mo to store a few terabytes with PITR recovery back to when I started doing this in 2018.

The thing is... I can't help but worry someone's going to compromise my NAS and DBAN the drives and then extract the Azure storage key and use that to delete all my backup blobs...

(Yes, the backup client needs read, write, and delete permissions, unfortunately - and Azure doesn't offer a Blockchain-style "append-only" mode for blob storage, unfortunately - still, better than nothing).

UPDATE: Apparently Azure Blob Storage does support strict append-only blobs that cannot be mutated or deleted, only appended - so I wonder if Hyper-Backup can use that…
You misunderstand it. The holding is not illiquid. It's fully liquid, it's just that Peter and Max's access to the cash proceeds aren't. If someone buys the shares in the Roth, their position is fully liquid: they can sell the next day and use the cash for anything. And the sellers can take the cash and use it for anything that looks like an investment. Like, invest it into another company, or into real estate (like a mansion or yatch)
I downvoted not because of what was said but because the tone was unnecessarily rude.
> Not our military, not foreign country, and not aliens. That leaves…

A prototype jet owned by Lockheed and flown by a civilian test pilot. That could be called "not our military" without lying. A weather balloon launched by some civilian agency could also be "not our military."
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Oh god. Here we go again. The academic "innovation"-measurers have reached a "conclusion."

Is "innovation" found on a napkin, a table, or a clock?

Does it need coffee?

How many people are required for "innovation?"

If you whisper too loudly, does "innovation" evaporate?

Does "innovation" go on vacation?

Can you learn "innovation" in an MBA program classroom? Answer: Fuck off.

Does pointing at the sky as the innovators do (because that must be their secret to "innovation") make you also more "innovative?" (stolen idea from a late billionaire no one's ever heard of)

Can you buy "innovation?"

Any discussions of whether offices are "good" or "bad" inevitably reminds me of the Crimson Permanent Assurance. Office buildings do need more pirates and defensible offensive batteries.
The transaction was dishonest from day one. Those shares were worth more than 1/10th of a cent each. Had he offered to sell them at that point (if he were willing to do so and legally allowed) he would have gotten far more than that. He (rather, the company that he controlled) just declared a value by fiat.

The stock had no true market price because there was no market: at that point, the shares could not be sold to outsiders, so there were no willing buyers or sellers to set a price.
> The only downside to cloud backup is the slow restore process.

If you use BackBlaze, they offer multiple options to restore data quicker if you're willing to shell out more money, including AWS or sending you a physical drive with your data on it, albeit the latter is kinda expensive, but if you have a ton of data and need it ASAP, is probably worth the cost.

I recently lost a 16TB drive for the second time in 6 months and my local backups were out of date by a couple months, meaning I needed to restore ~200GB of data. Aside from the web interface file explorer window being cramped (and support telling me to basically go fuck myself after suggesting that), I was able to make ZIP files from recently changed data and use their downloader tool which IMHO is a piece of crap and probably designed by some intern, but at least the download speed was fairly fast, even in Europe, in contrast to upload speeds capped at around 250 KB/s (though thankfully support multiple threads).
> I will never buy a business, real estate is a much safer bet.

Get richer doing absolutely nothing productive. Good work.
I really hate the hidden charges at restaurants. Tips are generally calculated as a % of the final bill. But the bill includes tax (often higher than normal Sales Tax), and now other bullshit fees like CA Health Mandate. So $100 total of menu items easily becomes $120 post tax. If I want to tip 20%, do I calculate this based on the pre or post tax? Since post is at the bottom of the bill, I use that, but now I am effectively tipping 24% of the base menu price, which is kind of crazy, and my bill is now close to $150, making a meal ~50% more than what's on the menu. I understand all this before ordering so its no surprise, but it doesn't make it any less frustrating.
"only way to win is not to play the game"
Spot on. From the first paragraph I could immediately tell Propublica is trying to paint Thiel as some sort of evil tax dodging criminal. Quite an agenda the author seems to have.

You outraged by this? Then you should be advocating for dramatically simplifying tax code and laws. I know most don't want to hear this on HN but Trump tried to do just that with his tax plan. Obviously did not go all the way unfortunately.

> Get a sweetheart deal to buy a stake in a startup that has a good chance of one day exploding in value.

Ummmm that's called being an angel investor.
This is by the far the most succinct way to debunk the OP's misguided thinking.

There is simply no way to argue that what Thiel et al have done was an intended use of the Roth IRA account. Any attempt to advance some form of that argument is jaw-droppingly disingenuous.

The easy fix here is to either cap the tax free gain (the cap could be as high as $1M and have the desired effect w/o hurting the people meant to benefit) OR revise the eligible asset definition.
Google Sheets sucks.

me to you: "You obviously never tried to use a spreadsheet for anything actually useful"

AGGREGATE doesnt exist, INDEX and MATCH don't work properly in Google Sheets (I have a live example of it not working properly), SUBTOTAL, any of the stats functions...

Try to know what youre talking about next time, it helps
yes that's the point, they pay less taxes than mutual funds.
Amazing website! Recruitment is definitely an area that could do with some improvement. Go for it guys!
Interesting - is it reliably between those times? What is the panic?
It wasn't the extradition that I was confused by, that I get. It was the arrest. I thought extradition only applied to people who had been arrested in one country for another crime and were then being tried in a different country for a different crime.

I didn't understand that the Spanish police would arrest somebody on an accused crime commited in another country.
Fortnite was launched outside of Play Store. You needed to firstly sideload Epic Games Store from their website and then download and install Fortnite. People got mad because they couldn’t find Fortnite on Play Store and started searching on the web. Malware bad boys created a lot of fake pages with malicious Fortnite APK files which in result started stealing personal and finance data. Tim Sweeney failed with that idea and moved to Play Store, but got mad since Google forbids you to bypass Google Billing in games. That’s why his Fortnite was removed from Play Store after malicious hotpatch with their payment system. Clear example how sideloaing failed.
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You admitted previously that there's companies with remote cultures that are tremendously successful. By definition of their very existence, they have replaced "face time with online" - which you claim can't happen.
To explain the discrepancy in absolute numbers, I'd likely turn to pattern of behaviour: most (95%?) of the world hasn't gotten COVID yet, and most of those who are or would get vaccinated early exhibit a pattern of behaviour that's less risky anyway.

But saying the actual numbers like you are 3x more likely to die if unvaccinated with equal exposure, doesn't quite sell it the same way (because it means 30% would die anyway).

I still believe it's worth it, but that's what the numbers say, and it's not as black and white anymore.
Anyone know if there have been attempts at concurrent garbage collection in any of the major lisp implementations (whether CL or Scheme). Maybe Clojure?
huh, would that be part of the jewel encrusted platinum insurance plan? Because I've always just assumed that once you started getting into the experimental drug desperation phase - insurance carriers were totally off the hook for the what would otherwise be an infinite increase in their risk exposure. It sure would be nice if there wasn't such a massive asymmetry in pricing data.
There is no censorship. This is an ongoing dispute between a court in Hamburg and a non-profit in Switzerland. When the dispute is eventually settled, Quad9 either will or will not be providing service in Germany.

https://quad9.net/service/privacy

"Quad9 commits to obey the law in any country in which it operates. Therefore, it will only operate in countries with a rule of law compatible with Quad9's ethics and moral duty to protect users. If a government were to use national law to attempt to force Quad9 to act in a way that would harm users (such as collecting information that might de-anonymize an at-risk individual), Quad9 would withdraw from operations in that country. This does not mean users within that country would be prevented from using the Quad9 service (unless the country itself prevented them); the service will operate from locations in nearby countries."
very unpopular opinion here, but I think we need to retain the mega-corps to be able to compete with the mega-corps from China in the future. In 20 years China is going to have dozens of state sized companies and if we're breaking up companies because they get too big, we're not going to be able to play their game.
For me, the issues were mostly related to the period of time I started using FreeNAS, and getting a bit too creative with plugins and jails.

On the first part, there was a period of time when the project was going through some upheaval (quite a few years ago now) and I had some issues with upgrades.

This goes hand in hand with the 2nd thing - I was trying all sorts of plugins and using it as a BT and newsgroup client. These did not upgrade well.

I suspect that a fresh vanilla build (TrueNAS now) would probable be zero maintenance. I need to upgrade my drives (a bunch of 1TB drives from the era I built it), and I’ll probably use this opportunity to start fresh.
Island (https://island.oasisfeng.com/) let’s you have multiple sandboxed apps running.
Good luck getting them to a) admit they have it and b) send you a copy ;)
OK, looks like many responses have the same misunderstanding here.

To find out if something is a backup or not, ask a simple question: does the availability of the data on it correlate with what's happening to the system it's backing up?

If the answer is no, then it's not a backup.

Whether your tape storage gets nuked or not does not, in any way, correlate with whether your system gets hacked into, or whether someone who has a grudge against you messes with your system.

Then P(data loss) = P(system is fucked) x P(backup is fucked).

If your backup is not decoupled from the system, then P(data loss) = P(system is fucked) -- which is a far larger.

You don't need to take your tapes to Everest. You just need to decouple them from the source.

TL;DR: if you can destroy a backup from the system it's backing up, it's not a backup :)
this is hilarious, do you have a substack
Asana is the shocker for me. I've seen many, many enterprises big and small and barely a handful were running Asana. And none of them liked it.
That is not exactly what the blog says.

None of us will be traveling to Germany until this is settled.
Neat, didn't know that. There are of course other issues like how do you keep them in proximity while you do the work that could stretch days, ships don't usually free fly that close to each other for long the Hubble missions done with the shuttle all included hard captures of Hubble with the Shuttles.
1 is widely broken then by Win11 not supporting 32 bit machines anymore.
Instagram is intentionally annoying to use on browsers. Business users who have all their media in a folder and share an account between staff might welcome this. Post schedulers exist but are unreliable and annoying for adhoc posts.