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did they? does jeff bezos spend his wealth efficiently by launching himself into space for a billionare popularity contest?

all that money could have been invested into people who actually spend it in the economy, instead of hoarding all that excess wealth.
Nobody earns their inheritances, parents, or upbringings.
Well, I certainly wasn't speaking about you specifically. However, did you not say that language promotion is what you do and that you quit Mozilla for not paying you enough for it here: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/thank-u-next ?
Not being facetious at all. I'm replying to "there really isn't a good excuse to stay with Microsoft." and last I checked browser video acceleration on linux with nvidia was still broken, no matter whose fault that is.

I'd love to use linux but It's hard to say everyone should use linux when in 2021 not everyone even has proper video acceleration.
>It reads like a list of stumbling blocks and how to get around them. This is not the same as listing the major problems with the language.

I mean, if by stumbling blocks you mean all of the things I thought was bad and all of the work arounds you have to know to get work done? I think the difference is that normally when I gripe I like to then elucidate why the bad things exist. To me that's more productive because digging into "why is it like that" starts to point towards "how do you fix it". But yes, giving the full detailed backstory behind what leads to the gripe naturally softens the blow because the reader then understands its purpose, but that's just reality. Very few things are truly and purely awful when you really see the full reason for them. Usually it's just an engineering trade-off.
> They make you pay for what it generates, not what you use.

It would be a shame if the roof got sufficiently dusty to balance generation and usage.
Actually this does NOT hint at an answer the counterfactual. Because spending is unchanged as a result of lower taxes from the government. Government spends as much as it did before cutting taxes (this is because the federal government doesn't spend taxes, but spends regardless of tax income. This is what is called the deficit).

If a study was done to answer the counterfactual, my bet is that the result of higher taxes would actually increase GDP because the rich will do everything possible not to pay for those taxes. So they will do things like spend more on R&D, or increase wages, or buy equipment. In other words reduce their tax burden. If given the choice between the government burning profits via taxes, or spending more on wages and investment, they will choose the latter.
this works fine for me

import Dates
Dates.today()
Bezos is no more “Amazon” than the president is “the United States”. We’d still have all those companies if their executives had to pay more in taxes.
The problem is the strong desire (requirement?) to accrue wealth is the foundation stone of all capitalism - if you remove reasons to pursue wealth such as desire to support your offspring, you undermine the incentive to build bigger and better things.

It seems to me that inheritance should be taxed at a rate that it dwindles to zero after a few generations to balance equal opportunity and distribution of wealth with the incentive to build things to provide a better existence for our offspring.
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merit is not compatible with advantage
I was happy to hear one of our recent new grads negotiated for full time WFH. Either way I would be fully remote from them -- I'm just glad to see the younger generation willing to fight for it.
I think there are two problems --

1. Good education hard to come by in the US, and immense wealth allows some people almost automatic access to the best education while others are outbid (either via property/school districts or via private school "donations" for entrance or via access to best prep services or via influence which is used to navigate "leadership" based entrance applications for k-12 schooling )

2. See item 1 -- this should not happen in the US, but it does. Our population has grown, but we've underinvested in schooling and all the foundational systems. The number of great schools has not necessarily grown with population. I see it myself in my hometown as skyscrapers rise, but schools are not built in proportion.

Allowing intergenerational wealth to bypass Problem 2 allows the plutocracy to avoid the problem with money (Problem 2) since it isnt their own problem anymore.
The "20 year rule" applies.

Though I'm hopeful. The cost advantages and resource availability look promising.
Agree with all of this except

> 5) I really like official libraries, not SomeBasicFunctionality.jl dependency. I am spoiled by Python.

Python's standard library is full of bad code that nobody has time to improve [1]. Over time, Julia packages will surpass the standard library too but we'll still be hauling it around and spending core-dev time on it for for backward-compatibility reasons. We should have a much much smaller standard library.

[1] https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2019/05/amber-brown-batteries-i...
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> Wealthy people have taken disproportionately from society

This seems like an uncharitable statement. In many cases (although maybe not the majority), the wealth generated is additive to society and and not "taken" because it might never have existed otherwise.

Consider PayPal. Did the development of PayPal take or give to society? It seems to me that it increased the wealth of everyone both in a direct sense and also indirectly through the enablement of large scale secondary and long-tail economies in Ebay.

This statement isn't to suggest a reason for "tax breaks to the wealthy," only to offer an alternative theory to "taken disproportionately."
Yeah and? In a meritocracy, they wouldn't be given positions of responsibility and power without earning them. So the unearned economic advantage will dwindle within a couple generations unless they can produce something of value.

In no scheme can you regulate away all forms of unearned advantage. The skills, capacities and potential we are born with vary.

People are tremendously motivated by providing for their children. Taking that motivation off the table will drive people to places where they can achieve it.

The long-term, highest-net-value producing system of distributing power / responsibility will be a meritocracy.
> Some are still uninformed, or in disbelief, despite the data and scientific consensus.

I think calling this a "scientific consensus" is a bit inaccurate. There's very little consensus in economics (and one can argue about the level of science as well).
It looks like 2020 and 2021 models all use L4 with MPG around 32, if I am not mistaken.
In the Williams case, I feel like the key information is how likely ShotSpotter is to miss a gunshot completely.

They have video footage that shows the suspect and victim in the suspect's car alone at 11:46. If the victim was shot at 11:46 then this is extremely strong evidence of guilt, especially as it would also show the suspect lied. It seems reasonable to me that an algorithm might mistake a gunshot from inside a car as a firecracker out on the street. The classification aspect is not important. What the defence have to argue is not just that this sound is a firecracker, but the actual shot that killed the victim (which by the suspect's account happened in the same place), was not captured.
Tesla has no door to door salespeople. That was all SolarCity. Tesla Solar has it's own shortcoming but old contracts are kind of a weird situation that I don't even know what the right solution would be. Obviously they're not going to just wipe them out.
I'm not rich and not a proponent of tax cuts for the rich, but there's one bit of insight that ideologically flavored reviews of tax reforms often seem to miss: almost any imaginable (income) tax cut will disproportionally favor the rich in absolute terms, even if proportionally they pay more. For example, even if the only change you make is to drop the rate on the very lowest tax bracket from 10% to 0%, the rich will benefit more than the very poorest because the rich will max out that tax bracket but the poor won't. Therefore, if someone proposes a tax cut and it turns out that it benefits the rich, that doesn't mean they have some nefarious scheme in mind, more likely they genuinely believe that lower taxes help the economy or that a smaller government works better. I'm a bit of a leftie myself, but this is one area where I think it'd be nice to have some mutual understanding between different ideologies.
What about njalla?
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I think one could make a case that the disconnect is even more fundamental than that. It's a conflict between people who (for the most part, I presume) prefer consequentialist ethics, and people who prefer deontological ethics.

If we take, for the sake of argument, (edit: what I'm guessing is) your unstated major premise of a deontological approach to ethics, then yes, you're absolutely right, no amount of positive economic outcome could possibly justify forcibly depriving people of their rightful property, because the ends never justify the means.

However, for the sake of keeping the discussion sane, I'd argue it's important to come out and say that this is where you're coming from, rather than just saying that "this misses the fundamental issue." Because, to someone who prefers almost any other general approach to ethics, it is absolutely central to the fundamental issue. And you can't really just dismiss all those other ways of thinking by just ignoring them.
The number of cities crossing 50C during the summer is getting larger and larger. Is that practical?

India had basically no cars at all in the recent past. The country would survive going back to that state. It would not survive months of lethal heat every year.
I am trans and have also followed this habit. But I'm not fun either.
>I think browsers should download a full copy of each bookmark [...] and make it fully searchable.

This, outside a browser, could be implemented as a server/client self-hosted solution with a back-end taking care of downloading/searching and an extension acting as client. Maybe it could even be made entirely as extension?
> It may indeed be that they are collateralized now, but they got there via fraud

They claim to be collateralized with commercial paper which, without further information, is worthless. They could print a billion Tethers, sell them to a buddy for an IOU, and be "collateralized" by that definition.
Shotspotter concerns me - the city I live in has paid millions for a system and recently expanded it. I am not aware of _any_ data that has been published from the system, even fuzzed data. That doesn't pass the sniff test for me.
Toyota is greener than Tesla because it focuses on the impact a world society can make rather than on the individual level.

Luxury EVs like Tesla are consuming too many limited battery resources. There were 300k EVs sold in North America, if these batteries went into hybrids, you could make 14 million hybrids, which would save 7900% more gasoline than the EVs [1].

Not to mention that Toyota is bringing to market 4 types of electrification: Hybrid, Plug in Hybrid, Battery Electric, and Hydrogen Full Cell. Don't get me wrong, Tesla has pushed consumers and automakers in the right direction, similar to what happened in the advent of the Prius.

Also remember that the average car sits idle for 90%+ of the time, and when they are being used, they aren't being used for the full range of the vehicle, which is why a Plug in Hybrid is a great option for those whose commute is less than say 50 miles.

It's slowly shifting to electric vehicles not because it's anti-EV, but because the world's battery supply can be used much more efficiently in reducing the amount of gasoline consumed (79 times at that).

[1]: https://youtu.be/8Fub8AdysmI?t=264
The definitionally-poor in the US generally pay minimal if any net income taxes (the earned income tax credit will be greater than any due taxes), so there's not a lot of room for improvement here.
This is the issue: it's unreliable, and its results presented as a matter of fact.

This is also the latest I've heard of, in a long line of the criminal justice system presenting what's often closer to fiction as an indisputable fact of someone's guilt. One of the cases that made me incredibly angry was the junk arson science surrounding the conviction and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham in Texas in 2004:

https://innocenceproject.org/cameron-todd-willingham-wrongfu...

But I also think of how unreliable eyewitness testimony is, and yet people's recollections of events (when we know, and have known for so long, that memory is plastic!), sometimes years later, are treated as fact:

https://www.ncsc.org/trends/monthly-trends-articles/2017/the....

I don't know how to solve this, since the "proven" part of "innocent until proven guilty" seems like it's built on a house of cards, and the only people with a direct incentive to change it are suspects (i.e. the people that the criminal justice system has already decided could've done it, and how can you trust a criminal's motivations? eye roll)
That kinda was how GNU got started in the first place, though - bringing an open user-land to propiatary platforms?

If nothing else, the ability to run Linux on an m1 makes me feel more confident that the hw won't stop being useful when Apple ceases support, and moves on to m2 or whatever.
Feature Request: Could you also add a "Tune down 1/2 step" since a lot of metal songs are tuned that way.

Other than that, it managed to keep up with Yngwie, so it does seem to work well.
There is also XAUT (Tether Gold) by the way.
Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans (2018)
I disagree. When immersed in a language it doesn't tend to be an issue, but switching between them absolutely is. Over my career I've had to deal with a ton of off-by-one bugs in code that was prototyped in Matlab then ported to C++. My hope with Julia was that the language was fast enough that you wouldn't have this divide between prototype and production, but given the overhead in using it anywhere but a REPL, it doesn't look like things are going to work out that way.

On it's own, 1-based indexing certainly isn't enough to keep me from using a language though.
You might have some sort of dangling config issue somewhere? I use the emacs keybindings in the Julia REPL all the time. They work fine out of the box (at least here).
You can’t buy a Mirai, you can only lease them. And they’re only sold in CA because they’re a so called “compliance car” designed to appease regulators.

Personal story, when I tried to lease one they wanted me to share my social media info because they only wanted to lease them to “influencers.” Seemed like a bizarre way to run a business, and since I’m not an influencer I looked elsewhere.
A better alternative is not trusting any of them. Realize that they're all distorting the truth, and yet also sharing a part of the truth, and dig deeper.

Uncritical acceptance of any source leads to mistakes like believing the Steele dossier and claims about collusion between Trump and Russia, whose claims even the NY Times itself now admits "have never materialized or have been proved false".[1]

That was one of the biggest pieces of disinformation in the last five years, and the NY Times pushed it wholeheartedly for many years. Their mistake here is summarized well in their own article:

> To learn from the dossier episode, news organizations would have to examine their ties to private intelligence agents, including why they so often granted them anonymity. But as long as the media allows private spies to set the rules, journalists and the public will continue to lose.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/media/spooked-pr...
I'm not so sure all those foosball tables and one beer on Friday afternoons make up for spending as much as a cumulative 10 hours per 5-day work week commuting.
They have clauses for this in the contract and also penalties for that.
Design and documentation before implementation.

Elevate “developers” to “Engineers” and treat the situation like building a bridge or a tunnel or an aircraft.

Of course there will be some small changes along the way, but that doesn’t mean we should hold twice daily ceremonial meetings.
I've been thinking a lot recently about math curriculum and how i think students would be well served by an earlier injection of set theoretical topics. At once more abstract and yet possibly more concrete for many of the "never-math" brains one encounters in a typical school setting.
hmmm ... it appears that I might be the one that is not quite right ... I was positive that there was a less-featured usage mode over plain old SFTP.

Either way, having the borg executable on the server side is the "correct" way to do things.
>What TFA fails to articulate is that Toyota is NOT pushing congress to slow the shift to electric by interfering in the market to prevent a natural disruption. They're asking them to interfere LESS so that there's more time for the market to adjust naturally rather than respond to artificial pressure that makes electric more competitive than it is without special favors. It's presented as lobbying, but it more like lobbying against lobbying.

Complete, utter bullshit from you. The ICE market is horribly, fantastically warped and subsidized by lack of carbon cost internalization. Actually there are lots of flat out fossil fuel subsidies/tax breaks on top of that too, but massive externalities trump even that. Your "interference" is just the barest most minimal effort to start to right that. If all fossil fuels were made by law carbon neutral (by pricing in the cost of emitting a ton of CO2 at a competitive bid on the price of rapid industrial removal of a ton of CO2), along with any other externalities, then we could talk about stopping other interference to let the Free Market properly work.

Toyota is absolutely seeking to slow the shift here and preserve their existing subsidized profits. And they are wrong to do so.
Restrict its use to the original intention: detecting potential events police might want to immediately respond to. It (and any other gunfire locator) seems like it'd probably be an extremely useful and publicly beneficial technology even if it had a low true positive rate.

The problem is allowing it to be used as evidence in criminal cases. That's the part that should be taken away.
That's exactly the problem: arguing that taxing the rich less will lead to trickle down / more economic activity / jobs etc sounds like it should work.

As the linked study (and many others like it) shows, it doesn't actually work in practice.
Intergenerational meritocracy.
We can, but if a person announces to the world that they are an asshole we can also choose to spend our valuable attention somewhere else.
No, you can prevent certain types of land ownership. Which is the second one, but it's more nuanced than "don't let people own land."

The real issue I think is that modern wages can't support the cost of new construction. If they could people would simply build more houses themselves.
His expectation that he would be successful may have rested on several misapprehensions: He thought he had engaged dynamic braking and thought it would be effective at that speed. On account of the first issue, he did not realize that increasing the engine output would cause the train to accelerate (as opposed to merely energize the field windings, as it would with dynamic braking properly selected.) In addition, "the engineer seemed to believe, in error, that an automatic brake application would improve braking power on single locomotive with the independent brake fully applied" (from the conclusions of the report.)

Plus he was acting in haste, and therefore not thinking it through.
I hear the Czech Republic is back above replacement.
> Sparta was a North Korea of the antique world

what do you mean by that? this has been debunked [0].

0: Werner Jaeger, Paideia
You'd never have to pay $500 for sneakers made in the us, other than fancy designer shoes, prices unrelated to costs. You can already pay 2k for a cell phone.
It doesn't really depend on the base rate though. The idea is that a high precision model will have all the targets at one end of the distribution, regardless of base rate.
> I wouldn't go as far as the author saying TTD is useless as it's genuinely useful against most obvious bugs

The obvious bugs should already be accounted for if you have decent param checking in most functions. Is the string empty? Is the array nil? Did the init succeed?

Inline unit tests anyone? :-)
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Since he's quoting his wife, who is actually Japanese, I think we non-Japanese have to accept her word that it is "alien."

Also note that not all uses of the word "alien" are negative.
Let's hope 4 day work weeks are next. Even if a "10/4" (which many already do) or lower comp.

Two days are not enough to decompress, take care of the personal chore backlog, and still have hobbies. Especially if you have ADHD, dependents, or other complications.
Yeah, most will call a few neighbors to get let in and someone will let them in.
If nothing else, that README is fantastic!
By "load balancing," I meant that people leaving San Francisco is a win both for SF (less crowded) and wherever else they go.
Really? Wow! Do you happen to remember their names?
I'm talking about reasoning in day-to-day life. It's cool that you are able to use bayesian models & kalman filters to decide whether you should try diet X, or whether someone is lying, or if crypto is a sound investment, or whether to take an umbrella with you when going out today. This is not even scratching the surface of the kinds of nuanced & personal problems that people go to therapists for.

I'm a little dumber, I just overgeneralize to "fad diet X is probably not that great" and skip the hours long scientific paper review & construction of bayesian models and priors.

Here is a recent tweet[1] claiming this paper is badly flawed because of changes in the content of the Google Books data this study was based on. Make sure to update your bayesian models accordingly! Should I lower my prior of "this recent scientific study is trustworthy so i should take it at face value" by 1%, or 5%, or 50%?

[1] https://twitter.com/benmschmidt/status/1419497587296571395
Not really sure, we have our needs met for now, but most people having EVS would be a huge constraint drain on the power. I honestly feel what will happen instead is just that cars become too expensive to drive period, with only a relatively few owning private vehicles. A lot of people are surviving on 20 year old cars mostly.
Some definitely are.

Consider someone being gifted $999,999 and earning $1, then bragging about being a millionaire.

Or more realistically someone bragging about coming from an Ivy League when their parents are alumni and big donators.

Plenty of accomplishments become lesser when more context is revealed.
My understanding is that wealth inequality is suboptimal because it leads to political and economic power being concentrated in a few people, which makes the system fragile and leads to instability, thus causing less investment, and then it becomes a fallout.
If you can take a relatively small amount of money (e.g, $40,000-- the price of a new car, which is something the middle class does buy), and invest it for say, 70 years, earning a 7% annual return, you could leave your heirs $4.5 million:

40000 * (1.07 ^ 70) = $4,559,575

If you can buy a car, you can make your beneficiaries multi-millionaires, if you want to.
> For example, the Taiwanese use traditional Chinese whereas Mainland China use simplified Chinese

It may be political though. As in Taiwan keeping up with the "true" Chinese tradition -- as opposed to post-Cultural-Revolution China.