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To be fair to you, there is not a lot that can be done about the other two things that you don't like. Everyone knows that gaming on the Mac is limited, as is hardware choice. The reason that most people latch on the mouse comment is because it hasn't been true since the last century in all reality.
Right. So then how do you justify intergenerational wealth if you also support the idea that a meritocracy is the "most fair" system?

OP's point was that you can't, you either support the meritocracy or you support inheritance providing some people an unjust advantage.
I believe you're thinking of CAFE standards:

https://www.transportation.gov/mission/sustainability/corpor...
A Prius will not last as long as an EV. Their lifecycle emissions are worse than an EV, even on a coal powered grid (which can only improve and isn't even that prevalent).

Batteries can go on to have second lives replacing peaker plants. Scaling batteries for EVs means improving production efficiencies, lowering costs, and reducing the most contentious metals.

Moving to hybrids does not improve things as much as a direct jump to electric.

Toyota specifically is not helping by fighting for reduced emissions regulations, lies about 'self-charging' hybrids, and producing large quantities of non-hybrid cars, trucks, SUVs, and crossovers.
Most people can charge at home overnight. According the US census 65% of adults own their own home. Sure infrastructure needs built out for the remaining 35% of renters. However the demand won't be there for a while since most renters are likely younger and/or lower income and not the current target market for EVs.
We're a small startup and we use Brex, but just FYI a lot of the "cash back referrals" are fake — if you sign up using a referral, e.g. $400 cash back for spending X amount — Brex sometimes won't honor it. I guess they fall outside of the CFPB since "they're not a bank"? Kind of sketchy but you get what you pay for.

Other than that it's been a pretty good service. I'm wary of putting more than a few thousand dollars into our Brex account though.
Citizen seems to be taking the uber/airbnb "do it until we are big enough to make it legal" approach to... crime.

Weird combo. I bet their legal war chest is bulky.
Yeah, but the American middle class got absolutely wrecked. Cheap sneakers don't make up for a lost job.

Also, the numbers you cite seem pretty dubious. Yes, if you want to do onshore manufacturing today, it's twice as expensive, but propagating that all the way into the cost of the goods assumes 100% of the cost is in manufacturing, that there would be zero economy-of-scale benefit from retaining our manufacturing base, and it assumes no benefit to your income from the increased economic re-circulation. Those... aren't neutral assumptions.

This is a separate matter from the one in TFA but the players and strategies are similar.
The middle class in America is largely buying $40,000 vehicles with debt and in middle age, not in cash at 18 (and a very long life ahead of them).
People mostly inherit when their parents die. By that time, they are probably themselves retired or near retirement, so it won't really be a factor for how well they do during most of their lives.
>Hydrogen doesn't have that problem and in the end accounting for lithium mining destroying the environment I still don't think it's that clear cut.

99% of the hydrogen currently produced come from natural gas. Of course, it could be made from water but lithium can also be extracted cleanly from clay with with table salt.

Besides, making hydrogen from water uses over 3 times the energy required to make and charging a battery (the well-to-wheel efficiency of hydrogen vehicles is that low).

So for now and the foreseeable future, hydrogen is far worst for the environment than Li-Ion batteries.
The average life expectancy in the US is 78 years, so this plan is fantastic for all the 8 year olds with $40k just sitting around waiting to be invested.
Prices wont go up that much. Don’t overexagerate.

It’s related because economists and politicians say it’s good for everyone, when in reality it’s only good for the wealthy.
If you just did the S&P 500 you'd have an average return of between 8% - 10%.
It probably is for Germany... I don't see it happening in the US or UK, for instance. Not German enough.
100% agree, fungibility is key advantage of currency over personal IOUs, and that it enabled specialization and scale.

My point was more that serves the same purpose: purchasing services and power. It just does it better.

My post was more a reaction to the moral sentiment that prior to currency, transactions were more equitable and somehow less coercive.
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Your praise for Rust combined with the list of Julia problems left me curious what you find redeems Julia even though it has all these problems.
Any job that doesn't allow full-time wfh has a horrible work culture by my standards. This isn't even an age thing but just a complete lack of understanding just how much some of us hate working in an office.
Corporate socialism. What a loaded phrase. I can't wait to use it in different connotations to bring more attention to the flip flopping of perspectives on fiscal policy between individual and corporate.
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How in the hell is $40K a relatively small amount of money?
The parent comment didn't mention Bezos. Since the majority of individual wealth created by Amazon is reflected in the price of Amazon stock, then taxing executive salary would have the likely effect of shifting more compensation to stock grants, etc.
I don't know a single parent that doesn't want to have their children accumulate advantages, giving them access to resources experience and wisdom. I think this is very natural and desire to pass on a better life to children is what keeps society functioning.
Not the person you replied to but I've been to Japan twice, with different people, each for a month across Honshu/Kyushu and can definitely say there's a duality in how they behave towards foreigners...

On one hand, as you mention, we experienced lots of acts of politeness, as I would put it, e.g., being helped to find some location as in your example, being helped to understand some menu dishes when I couldn't decipher them (I had at most intermediate level of Japanese), being bowed to upon entering hotels, ryokans, etc.

On the other hand, we also experienced straight up nasty behaviour, e.g., someone standing up and leaving the train wagon when we sat next to him (and then reentering through the next door and sitting far away from us), being forbidden from entering a bar because of being foreigners (despite the fact I can speak Japanese, not great admittedly, but more than sufficient to order, pay, etc.).

When talking with people from my country settled there the common negative theme is "you'll never be accepted/treated as one of them".
I'd expect work from home + daily lunch stipend.
I've read that CEO pay started increasing much faster once it became public; the number itself became a status symbol. Well, what if the amount of taxes that rich people pay were public as well? I wonder how this whole debate might change if paying a lot of taxes were rewarded by public recognition.
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That's my point, the paper doesn't answer the counterfactual or even hint at what the answer would be. You implied higher taxes allow the government to spend more, but this is not true since the government doesn't need taxes to spend. In other words, taxes are not necessary for spending.
Indian Rupee is INR (₹).

Definitely not IDR. That’s Indonesian.

And here you go https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=...
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Yawn. How many times do we have to read this article?
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As a practicing software engineer for more than 30 years. My pet peeves are in the opposite direction. We lost some of the XP wisdom.

- Teams do CI/CD but most teams don't do Continuous Integration (sync and merge daily or more). And they hardly understand why CI is important since that is how they have work for ever.

- "Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work" has been forgotten. People add a lot of complexity that is not really adding a lot of value (See YAGNI)

- Agile were supposed to re-capture the power and give it to the developers. That didn't happen. There is a lot of emphasis on the process but little on the principles.
I see a way to change this implementation with FlowTime where the duration of the interval is determined by how long the user spent on the give task.
interesting wrinkle in the story that going back is going to help younger workers via lowing the threshold for mentoring opportunities
Can you recommend a biography on Morphy?
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Its not Tesla that is pushing electric (they're basically irrelevant number wise) it is the Paris climate accord.

CO2 emissions need to go down fast and governments are panicking.
Would you say the same thing about writing all the documentation? Or writing all the marketing?
Ironically, it's the parent to that post that makes me think, "This is why I should give up Hacker News".

A post of the form "This must be biased, because my anecdote is X". Your specific experience is the most biased thing there can be.

I think they're trying to get at "deliberately altered for political ends", but with no basis for that statement. It feels like projection: "I know what I want the result to be therefore you must be deliberately saying the opposite".

To see it expressed so baldly like that really takes the wind out of my sails, regardless of the cogent and coherent reply.
The American middle class didn't get wrecked though. People had more capital on hand due to cheaper goods that they were able to spend on other industries and services.

If manufacturing didn't go to China it would've went to Vietnam or another country with cheaper low skilled labor. Long term automation will eat those jobs anyways
Yes, it was so muchb easier when we had 5 or 6 day work weeks but none of the "challenges" you reference
Most of the lower cost hotels in the Tahoe area still don't have charging stations.
It's all about velocity of money. I'm not sure taxes help, any more than the central bank's monetary policy tries to help. They both are ineffective and both exacerbate the inequality.

More incentives for spending and investing - the creation of transactions - will accomplish velocity better.
The motivations of the average person are not aligned with efficiency.
Second this. Used this in production to train custom detectors with headgear on.
> In programming I tend to think the whole computer and its OS and so on as the programming tool. My impression is that for Julia folks Julia is something totally separate from anything else in the computer. But I don't understand why. Is it that its felt that changing syntax on the fly is too cognitively demanding or something? This is something that one gets used to very fast.

This comment really does not resonate with me. It sounds like a criticism of Smalltalk, not Julia.
Not sure what it means to change "syntax on the fly", but that does sound like the sort of design that is maximally flexible, at a considerable cost to readability. Macros already allow you to embed DSLs (as long as they parse), and almost everyone agree that they should be used sparingly.

> And also tends to ease the IMHO weird hung-ups on syntax. In fact, I think Julia has made some (IMHO misguided) syntactic decisions because they just want to do something differently from Python just for the sake of being different. I find this totally senseless.

I am not aware of any decision that is done just for the sake of being different. If there are any, then yes that's senseless.
It's good for anyone that buys consumer goods as well.
A woman was saying (on Reddit, I think) that she is not comfortable sitting for an hour at the charging station. If I hadn't read that, I would've never thought of the safety angle for female EV owners.

I hope EVs surpass gas guzzlers, but there are some issues to fix before that can happen.
The reality is that Toyota has an antique model of amortizing an engine design over too long. the CAFE regulations put them in a tough spot because the overall fleet has to reach a certain MPG. For a long time they made it work with the prius bring the average high so the 5.7L v8 in the Tundra, Land Cruiser, and sequoia, and the 4.6L in the 4Runner, Tacoma, and FJ Cruiser could continue to get very low specific power output / liter and very poor mileage.

They reacted to the regulations by creating 1 very effective vehicle, and letting all the others suck.
Looks like HN prefers to suffer. Yesterday I watched a video that talks about this kind of human behavior. You are welcome to "hell". (This might be inappropriate to say. To the atheists out there.)
Interesting point. I guess US print and media companies get globalization nearly for free because everyone wants to speak English.

There's a lot of people who want to speak Japanese though. Issues getting money into the country?
> they are the world's leading solar producer and have heavy investment into bringing more nuclear online.

And yet their emissions are growing at an out of control pace [0].

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/us-leads-greenhouse-gas-emis...
I get these articles coming out a month ago, but given the rise of delta variant and the strong uptick in COVID cases in this past month [1], how do companies justify or even consider asking employees back into the office? This is an article from today; that seems really weird to me.

1: https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
Sounds like the disagreement is just about what is required for "playing chess well". If we raise the bar to 2500+ maybe you will agree?
Better? Maybe not

More democratic? Yes
Where does this end? What if someone is born with good looks and thin genes and becomes a supermodel, or someone that has genes that makes then 7 feet tall and becomes a successful basketball player? Is that less meritocratic because of god-given talents? What about people that are naturally good at math and have an economic advantage as a result? If you keep moving the line further and further over, eventually you will hit communism.
> I don't known how boosting works or what is it exactly

> I strongly suspect, I know about ads and ranking and boosting no less than you do

Does not compute.
Does Citizen break regulations in some way? I thought that filming crime and police was solidly legal.
Huge agree. When are re-iterations of this going to start to be considered spam?
Given the time constants (decades to centuries), it's almost certainly too late already! The time to "do something" was back in the 1970s.

Of course, the reality is that 1) it's only a problem for humans - nature doesn't care and will be fine, and 2) even losing 99% of humanity is not the end of the species. Some will adapt and thrive.

A lot of this comes form "Me the center of the universe" along with "Me living forever" thinking. Neither is a viable axiom for any decision making.
This isn’t really how most engines work. Reducing the depth that engines calculate to, or altering how they weight certain aspects of evaluation, are both perfectly natural ways to reduce an engine’s strength. They still won’t play like a human, but they don’t need to be forced into random mistakes.
Just a quick reminder that signing zones with DNSSEC is not in fact a security best practice; while there's little practical overlap between DNSSEC and TLS (you need TLS regardless of whether you use DNSSEC), I think it's fair to draw an "or" line between the two, since in fact that's the decision industry has made: near universal adoption of TLS, which eliminates almost the entire problem DNSSEC attempts to address. As a result, almost none of the zones managed by serious security teams are signed.
There are a large number of workers in Japan. Even a mid-range percentage of a large number could be "so many".

By all means, the statistics could very well be wrong or misleading, but the number of stories you've heard isn't really evidence.
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The key difference between Toyota's approach and Tesla's was simple: Tesla built out their own charging infrastructure.

Just like with battery-electric-vehicles, there's a chicken and egg problem: no one will buy a car if there's nowhere to charge/fuel it, but no one will build fueling/charging stations if no one has that type of car. If Toyota was serious about hydrogen, they should have done what Tesla did, and built a countrywide network of hydrogen stations.
Hard. Batteries are unavailable in required quantities, and extremely expensive to spool up. Doing so would make most of their existing factories and tooling worthless assets. (They will be anyway, just unwilling to make the transition proactively, and likely be a tiny shadow of their former selves)
I don't think you can assume this from the conclusions or data of this study for a couple reasons:

- The effects of increased spending are not necessarily the same as the inverse of the effects of decreased spending. I think you'd need to do a lot of work to get that relationship clear, or do a study specifically on raised spending vs. gdp. And historically the period in the US with the greatest growth in tax rate (the post-WW2 period) was also a period of tremendous gdp growth, but obviously there are a lot of confounding factors there.
- Government spending is largely decoupled from revenue these days anyways. Tax cuts rarely come with proportional spending cuts and no matter what the US is still dumping ~a trillion a year into defense and related industries.

As the sibling comment points out, this study was done on taxes not spending. The government has more sources than taxes for its money supply.
I guess it sort of works for surgeons
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>There is practically no way to change that.

This is irrelevant. The morality and ethics behind why something is the way it is doesn't matter. Users including me only want something that works. What I need matters because it's statistically representative about what most users need and therefore representative of what classifies as usability according to most users.

Linux is inferior from a usability perspective, and that is literally my only point. This point is factually true. The politics behind operating systems involve ideological battles that really only very few people care about.

If what you say is true and that this usability issue can't practically be changed then linux will always be doomed to be less usable than windows. This is the consequence formed from your logic.
I have many issues with Tesla and Elon Musk as companies, and they are no saints. But I cannot deny the impact that their cars have had on the industry. An electric-car startup has nothing to lose from shifting from ICE vehicles--every other automaker does.
I think there's clearly a spectrum. Giving your kid $100K while my kid gets only $25K doesn't make the society not a meritocracy, even though your kid got 4x as much. If your kids gets $100K and mine gets $100M and then we see what happens, I agree that that's not a meritocracy with respect to those two families.

Personally, I came from a family of public schoolteachers. Even though many families had many millions more than we did, I think our society, as experienced by the median and mode citizens, is far more a meritocracy than a plutocracy.

Does everyone get a full reset and the exact same starting point as everyone else, as if life were a board game? No, of course not. Would the world be better if it worked that way? It would undeniably be more "fair", but I think less desirable.
> we can replace "Toyota" in your comment with most of the companies in SPY and it would sound very similar

Yes. Does this make the previous comment any less true? I'd say it's likely neutral or might even make it more true.
There are a few superchargers there, destination chargers aren't that important.

I think non-Tesla EVs are a lot less viable an option for this reason.
But this also means that wages would be higher than in Dresden which makes Dresden the more likely location... But ultimately it probably comes down to tax credits :D
> I’ve had a lot of frustration with the Julia community being unwilling to see faults in the language.

A related thing that really turned me off in the early days was one of the main developers constantly criticizing other languages. That wouldn't be so bad by itself, but much of it was uninformed, and it told me at least one of the core devs was not going to learn from other languages. There was always an attitude that "I know what to do, unlike everyone else".

The reason I never moved heavily into Julia was that it was too easy to write slow code (back then, things may have changed) relative to compiled languages like Fortran. Maybe I'd have stuck with it longer if I found the community to be pleasant, but an unstable and often slow language plus an unpleasant core developer was more than I was willing to put up with.
I ended up buying a Kia (which shares it's DNA with a similar Hyundai model), and I can confirm that their automatic cruise control is stellar, FWIW.
See my edit, I was talking about real returns including inflation.
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Damn. Even in Australia? Yeah, I mean, the employee should decide if they need medical help. The company should trust the employee if they say they are sick. Staying at home in bed is a valid way to deal with minor sickness and minor injury. Not all health issues need a doctor. The body is wonderfully good at recovering from minor issues by NOT trekking out when you don't need to. That fact should be recognized.

I generally didn't understand at all the bureaucratic trust issues in such a well-educated place where most people were trustworthy to start with.
Wouldn't you know SolarCity was run by his cousin/brother who runs it into ground and Musk thinks its appropriate for Tesla to acquire it.
Meritocracy is a myth. The government cannot create meritocracy. The government can only steal resources from some people & give back less resources to other people. This process of wealth redistribution is not 100% efficient. There is significant waste. The government will have to take away public freedom by increasing regulations to enforce this redistribution of wealth. The people bear the brunt of compliance in time, freedom, wealth, etc.

We are allowing the government to build inter-generational wealth by reducing the inter-generational wealth of the citizens & their families via taxes & printing fiat. The tax revenue & money printing benefits the people who control the aspects of the economy (aka the wealthy). Estate taxes only gives more power the largest, most entrenched power, which is the government, corporations, & it's beneficiaries. The ultra-rich families who would have to pay these taxes also benefit from the consolidation of wealth via government & corporate control even more aspects of life. This leaves out middle-class families, where parents can longer pass along a house & land to their children/grandchildren without being heavily taxed. Instead, the house & land go to "the people", aka under the control of the government, corporations, politically powerful, & the ultra-wealthy. Independent families lose, the well-connected utra-wealthy win.