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My first thought was, "Is 2 million tons of CO2 a lot?"

According to Wikipedia, "Human activities emit over 30 billion tons of CO2 per year..."[1], so that's 0.007% of yearly CO2 emissions. Germany alone emits 700 million tons of CO2 per year, so that would be 0.3% of their share.[2]

It seems like increasing adoption of electric vehicles would do a lot more to solve this problem. Ground transportation is responsible for 161 million tons per year in Germany (23% of their emissions).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#In_Earth's_atmo...

2. https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/germany
Turns out that greenhouse gas emissions are proof that trickle down economics works, but it's just CO2 that trickles down and not money.
> I'm sure it would be possible to write a super interesting analysis of a document like this

Which would be a much better thing than the text itself for HN.

Though, given past experience with the topic, still likely to devolve into nationalistic flamewar.
Yes, but there was $1 billion recovered for the victims. I guarantee the lawyers that did the work got a share of that money. I think the whistleblower should have gotten, at the very least, his expenses covered.

That's how bankruptcy works. There's an amount of money recovered then all interested parties tell the court how much they are owed. An finally, a judge decides who gets what. Like I said, the lawyers got their share. I think he should too.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27702432 and marked it off topic.

Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents.

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> The unsub link is worthless. I have to log in with the nonexistent account, in order to unsub.

Ah, hey, that's the same level of incompetence as British Airways. I'm in the same boat there, but that's why /dev/null exists, of course :)
You can even specify your favorite kinks such as: incest, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, and lizard people cosplay.
I can get behind the idea that SQL is a bit too powerful to allow it to talk to other databases easily.

And not automatically joining by foreign key is a mistake that's going to haunt us for a while I bet.

However when we're arguing capability then it's just as capable of querying a graph as graphDB is. More if the version of SQL supports recursive joins.
That's totally fair enough. You have to pick the fights you think are worth taking, and if it's just going to cause you stress then maybe this one simply isn't. I hope you manage to sort your phone out one way or another.
You should have linked to the bill that just came out of the Judiciary Committee
Honest question: what is the reason for there to be a corporate tax at all? When corporations distribute profit to their owners/shareholders, those people must pay income tax on it. Why not have the government get its share from income tax?

Corporate tax seems like double taxation, and its existence seemingly means that all companies have a lower margin than they would otherwise, meaning that they need to charge higher prices to be equally profitable. For companies that sell products to consumers, one would presume this would result in higher prices for everyday items.

In other words, isn't a corporate tax ultimately regressive because it causes companies that sell products to consumers to have higher prices? Companies that sell everyday items like food and essentials will pass on that corporate tax through higher prices to consumers. Meanwhile, any business owners/shareholders who receive substantial income pay income tax in the highest tax bracket for any income received from the company.

Corporate taxes just seem to hurt margins, resulting in a regressive effect on the economy through higher prices, and discourage companies from conducting research and development, by again hurting their margins. Why not eliminate corporate tax and rely on income tax, or better yet a model like sales tax/VAT?

There will be exceptions like business owners who start a business from nothing, see the net value of their shares rise into a billion dollar valuation, yet pay little in taxes -- however they haven't necessarily sold those shares to receive income yet, and when they do they'll be taxed at the capital gains rate.

You could argue that the capital gains tax (or qualified dividend tax) should be higher, which is an entirely separate matter from the corporate tax, but if you raise that rate then you discourage prospective business owners from starting businesses, and you discourage investors from investing and holding shares in companies for the long term.

The top 1% of people by income already pay 40% of all taxes. Meanwhile, the top 2-5% pay the next 20% of all taxes; so the top 5% of earners collectively pay 60% of income tax. Given this fact it surprises me that people say that the rich need to pay their "fair share". https://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/1-chart-how-much-t... (Note that this is considering income, not wealth. We don't tax wealth, and I don't personally think we should while people live, beyond generally taxing real estate to pay for the services provided near that real estate, such as roads, police, schools, etc. I have mixed feelings about the estate tax i.e. taxes paid on inheritances at death).
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Might be worth putting an employee data freeze in place: https://theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/
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Agreed, it's not really any different than an increase in taxes. Tax money does get spent, so it's not really lost at all.
Who says they buy it? They probably just call up a buddy over at the NSA and have them send it over
Prominently featuring the exact text of my listing title has, so far, been a 100% perfect match for scams, for craigslist ads. Doesn't quite catch all of them, but the ones that do that have always been attempted scams.
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This seems like a good way to annoy people more than anything. With electric cars and solar energy it won't really matter how fast anyone goes in a decade.
The problem is less about the specific act of stifling the virality of police recordings and more about what this says about the mindset of this cop and police culture in general.
How was it that the US version of the Note 9 (with a Qualcomm SoC) had a locked bootloader while the EU version (with an Exynos SoC) had an unlocked one? Is that still the case?
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It started on just niche devices like the TiVo. It's been slowly branching out to more and more devices since then. Also, have you never seen an Android device where sideloading was disabled and you couldn't re-enable it? Because I have.
I was simply adding more information, not refuting your answer, so "chill" out a little.
While it's blatantly obvious from the context and subject matter that they're fake, I did find quite a few of the Sassy Justice[0] series' examples to be quite convincing from a technical standpoint (I imagine they could have been undetectable given more subtle context & subject matter)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM
In Germany everyone drives above 130km/h (~80mph) on the sections of the Autobahn that do not have speed limits.

When I was 18 I always floored my crappy very old Ford Fiesta going around 158 km/h (on a good day, downhill and probably with a tailwind haha). Driving my family's nicer cars I frequently drove 200+ km/h. When there is a good amount of traffic I would see a more realistic average speed of 160 km/h.
Every little bit counts, but it's really disheartening to see just how little it is in the grand scheme of things.
Joseph Stiglitz has written some interesting books on corporate behaviour in developing countries, such as "Globalization and its Discontents".

The argument is, is that poorer countries, especially those with natural resources, would do better nurturing their own corporations, rather than creating policies to attract foreign corporations.

The end result of preferring foreign corporations is a race-to-the-bottom where the end result is that corporations become a law unto themselves, operating as if they miniature states within the host state.
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Well-disposed as I am towards laziness, you may well not want short-circuiting, depending on the application. I just re-wrote the C implementations of logical reductions using bitwise operators instead to && and || to get them vectorized -- avoiding "conditional in loop". (They're Fortran-callable.)

Incidentally, gfortran treats the reduction like C, which seems a deficiency as the standard allows it not to.
A lot of distributions doesn't support secure boot, or it's difficult to setup, look at the guide to setup secure boot on ArchLinux.

A lot of distributions supports secure boot trough generating your CA, using it to sign the bootloader and the kernel and installing it in the UEFI, to do this you need to put the UEFI in "setup mode", that is a mode that permits the OS to add/remove keys, and then put it back in "user mode". Of course not being able to disable secure boot will not allow you to do so.

As far as I know the only distributions that supports secure boot without the need to put the firmware in setup mode and install custom keys is Ubuntu, since they bought keys from Microsoft. But that is just as bad as running Windows...

You can say, but I can simply turn off secure boot. If the firmware allows it, you can. The problem is if you have a dual boot with Windows: you would need to enable secure boot each time you want to boot into Windows and disable it to boot back into Linux. That is a complication that would make some potential new Linux users just stick with Windows (you have the WSL and you can run all the Linux programs into Windows, why would you need to install it really? That seems to me the policy of Microsoft).
This comment gave me a chuckle, but I don’t think it will last very long on HN ;-)
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The difference is it can be a realised gain that you'd then not pay tax on. Eg the Corp makes 100 in profits but at zero it doesn't pay out anything.

For unrealised gains you're right, there's no difference.
It's like, you could upload videos to YouTube all you wanted all the time, but TikTok made it more accessible.
> He is just playing it for those immediately around him. That doesn't count as a public performance.

Yes, it does; most public performances other than radio/TV broadcast are, by nature, only for those in the immediate vincinity.

> By your logic, if someone is playing music in a park or beach, I could start filming them and they'd have to turn it off.

No, because asserting that this case, independent of how other Fair Use factors might apply to it, doesn't fall into Fair Use because its purpose is to suppress commentary does not indicate that your counterfactual would not.
When it's at full heat, I can't touch the laptop directly... but that only happens if the fans are blocked.
's ok, I'll take one for the team
It's a collusion agreement amongst the government industry to not compete with each other on this one aspect.
150,000,000 records * 4000 bytes per record = 600GB.
Next year the US will spend $715 billion on military budget alone, a $10 billion increase from last year. Shouldn't the government try to cut spending before thinking of how it could increase tax revenue?

It's like an obese person wanting to lose weight while eating more each year and thinking of increasing time spent at the gym to make up for it, shouldn't they try eating less if they want to lose weight?
> But I also don't see what's wrong with attempting to distribute (some of) the revenue in such a way to compensate for harms.

It becomes a big political fight over how much of the revenue should be directed to social programs, so the tax policy changes every 4 years. A straight rebate gets wide support and taking it away becomes more and more unpopular as people get used to receiving it.
If you're driving below 150km/h on the middle or left lane in Germany, you're actively putting yourself in danger.
The law to prevent cash hoarding is just a tax, no?
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You are probably right, but let's play it from the other angle to see why people are suggesting that they try to pursue a copyright claim against the police, using your post but turning it the other way:

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Absolutely nobody, in the entire world, would ever have a recording of police brutality taken off of youtube because the police played a couple seconds of music, on their phone, while walking down the street.

Don't pretend. Don't make up funny narratives, because you think that the recorder "deserves" it.

This silly hypothetical just isn't going to happen. And people are lying to themselves that something like that would happen, because it sounds cool.

The youtube moderation is not a piece of code that is run through your computer, and if you can find some technicality, or "well actuuuaaallly" argument, then it means that someone is going to go get their video removed.

Instead, the law is interpreted by normal, human beings.

And any actual normal human being, is not going to remove a video that is attempting to keep the police accountable because they played a couple seconds of a song, in a public street, on their phone.

The technicalities, and debates, and loopholes that you think that you found in the youtube algorithm simply do not matter.

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Obviously the above does not describe reality. The police seem to get to take advantage of the system to hide their misdeed, but as you (probably correctly) point out, citizens are NOT able to take advantage of the system to expose police misdeeds. This is why people are angry, and this is why you were downvoted.
I remember the comp.compilers moderator calling C a Fortran-like language.
Even if this is the case, it's still terrible that such unintuitive, undiscoverable behavior (1) isn't documented as being the case, and (2) isn't known and explained by their tech support. And why would it only work like this if you bought from Amazon?
Indeed. Still, I think these shared CPU thread VPSes work pretty well up until a certain point, and it's probably true of a fly.io shared CPU thread MicroVM. It's good to be aware of the options and to switch. I would recommend using OCI containers with VPSes, so you can easily switch between plans and providers.
Frankly - and please don't punish me for what I'm about to write - I'm shocked by the endless litany of absurd issues with this Lenovo Thinkpad T14s I just bought.

For some reason the W10 kernel chokes when handling network streams, huge load on the CPU0 core and barely nothing on the other. I'm also constantly thrown off by the inconsistent and sometimes roughly cut UI.

Booting into Linux is a litany of horrors: desktop fractional scaling is blurry, Gnome 40 won't properly handle the alternatives to NetworkManager or PulseAudio which I had to install when WiFi or audio suddenly stopped working for unknown reasons. KDE is cute, but will crash spectacularly taking down the whole session. Tried Ubuntu and Fedora, Same.

I'm a software developer so I can deal with quite a fair amount of tinkering and tuning but frankly I don't have time to learn and debug multiple implementations of entire OS subsystems in order to pick the less unstable one and meticulously integrate it with the rest.

I regret straying off the Apple path, and counting the days the new "M2" (or whatever it will be called) is announced.

Sigh.
I have no idea what kind of control you're insinuating.
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Robinhood is the example I use for showing that good design can be a company making differentiator. In many ways Robinhood is much worse as a trading platform, but the usability and simplicity of getting started is orders of magnitude above all other competition.
> In a globalized economy we need lower taxes. Zero would be an even better number.

Isn’t that point precisely addressed by the Biden administrations of setting a global minimum tax rate? If every country, or at least every country without signify the trade barriers (who cares what happens in North Korea) has the same tax rate than there’s no incentive for companies to move their profits - or the entire company - abroad to save on taxes.
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Smaller screen size is what the iPhone SE is for! It's what I use, precisely because pockets :)
Yeah, whatever you say about Robinhood, the fact that they came in from nothing and massively disrupted a trillion+ dollar industry is undeniable. Mainstream brokers used to charge $10+ for a single trade, and the fees today are all down to 0. They are also starting to build half-decent apps.
I can't speak to the actual legality, but I strongly feel that a less-dysfunctional system would account for the intent of the officer. It is undeniably an attempt to suppress widespread dissemination of video documentation of their actions, by taking advantage of a known flaw in the technology most commonly used to do so. At the very least, this should be a fireable offence on the first infraction, akin to tampering with their body camera.
Email, mail, or fax a PDF form. Nice. /s
It seems like the agreement to pay could be read as the money being more or less extorted from the twitter troll.