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> [..] this taxation is in place effectively due to rich people in the first place hiding money in accounts overseas.[..]

I think that was the original intent but:

1. It affects everyone including many people not paying taxes in a amount where it matters.

2. I'm not sure if it works, the really rich people (i.e. the ones you would want to be "captured" by this law the most) have way to many ways to avoid paying taxes and reduce the
amount they "in person" have to pay.

It might be reasonable to have a cut blow which you you don't have to bother with this.

I also have frequently considered if it would make sense for the country I live in to have such a law.

But in the end I realized that this is probably not what I would want.

In the end the problem is much more countries which intentionally create tax gaps to benefit from it but directly hurting other countries with that and even potentially undermining their governments independence.

Through without question even if that is solved there is still the fact that even wrt. countries which do not do so their can be huge differences in taxation, but "somehow" "disabling" tax havens would be a much bigger step in the right direction then this regulation IMHO.
Do you have a source for the 60%+ number?

I think paying 60% tax or higher on income above a certain threshold (e.g: $300,000, just throwing a number out there, so you'd pay 60% tax on $1 if you were earning $300,001, and a lower tax rate for the lower portion) is reasonable.

Regardless, sure, one way is to give the choice to opt out, another is just to lower taxes if it's generally agreed they're too high.
The interesting thought experiment is what would happen if the US dropped its worldwide claim to taxes. I suspect there will be a pretty big exit migration of wealthy US citizens to capitol gains tax havens like Singapore.
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The early-20th-century sci-fi novel Earth Abides is about the lives of some of the remnants of humanity after a virus wipes out most of the population. Even then, California had a reputation for wildfires, and in the story large parts of the state burn after there are no people to fight the fires.

In addition to excessive fire suppression causing fires to become ever more extreme, I suspect that the fact that people move around so much caused there to be no "living memory" of the natural conditions of an area, and thus people collectively "forgot" that their areas burn, and need fuel removal and careful management, not just fire suppression.
I would say that money is more than just personal pay. It’s paying for enough personnel that people aren’t overworked, and can safely take a day or two off if they need it for mental health. Its in paying for the items and tools and spaces to make the job easier/less stressful for the employees, instead of nickel and diming. I agree that there are culture people who aren’t just bullshitters out there, but a lot of that comes in them being able to argue upward to the top brass for the resources the employees need to be comfortable enough for a good work culture to take place. There are other things a good culture person has to do of course, but as always resources are so foundational that its hard for other things to matter if money isn’t taken care of first.

In the case of hospitals, it’s almost always the top brass’s lack of willingness to hire more people that causes the greatest pressure of culture. Without a person willing to argue that the admins should be paid less so that each individual doctor has more time for each patient, the culture will remain toxic due to the stress that causes the doctors.
yes, this is a good example!

We model events this way: endpoint, network, web logs, click streams, anything with entities like pids/IPs/users/files/urls and supporting metadata like hashes and timestamps. Connections can be discrete like "same hash" and trickier, fuzzy like "similar shape" or "time-correlated". Microsoft's Matt Swann has a great talk on how they do that at BlueHat, and Graphistry's talk there gives a bunch more examples (see our site + pinned on Twitter.)

Emerging GCNs from last ~year can mix many discrete + continuous attributes, and for why graph vs tabular, better pull in connected data ("process recently accessed a file and communicated to another process, who also recently made an outbound with similar bytes to another server that few others use.") Before, GNN tools struggled on either the heterogeneity or scale of most event data tasks, so were mostly academic research or super specialized like protein folding. Imagine 100K+ events, or distinguishing connections like someone positively chatting with a colleague vs negatively blocking them. Recent algs have been solving these scenarios at scale, tho tools are still hard even for most data scientists, and still a time suck for folks not already breathing GPU neural networks.

The Graphistry team has been trying to make graph tech easier and more snap in, initially by doing GPU-accelerated visual graph analytics + visual graph investigation templating for teams here, such as if you are on an ir/hunt team using a logs DB or even a graph DB. Ex: You can use directly from splunk queries, drag-and-drop with csv extracts, or data science notebooks with dataframes. That can be a nice launching point for seeing event data as graphs and the types of graph-enabled insights you get that are hard with just log dumps and bar charts. We are now in R&D with sec/fraud/etc teams and our GPU partners to bring GNNs into workflows w hopefully similar ease

If anyone is interested, Leo@graphistry.com or swing by our Slack. Very cool time for graph + GPU tech!
love this ! so much fun with kid pix ! thanks a LOT !!
Congratulations, I would do the same but I do not have the means to do so.
In Romania where I'm from, people no longer want vaccines. The authorities had to sell them before they spoil.

I say let everyone do whatever they want, including letting the doctors go home when they are tired.
The comment reminds me of an old joke:

A mechanic sits down next to a doctor at the bar. They get to talking. Before long, the mechanic says, "hey, you and I aren't so different. We both open things up and fix 'em. How come you get so much more credit than I do?"

The doctor says, "You get to turn the cars off before working on them."
I thought this stuff stopped happening in the 1960s.
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The only unexpected ads I've ever gotten on my Windows 10 device were from MS.
Money can be used to care in different ways. It can be in cash for your current workload or it can be to hire others so your workload is less.

But both cost money.
Surely this happened in some third world country. right ? No. It happened in Hawaii. And the actual person was already in prison in Alaska.
I almost mixed this up with Apache Arrow DataFusion for a second: https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion
I'm saying that the argument in "arguably" is one that could be made over just about any safety/security measure implemented by a government, and so it isn't much of an argument.

Your little snipe was arguably unnecessary.
I don't think it's intentional but think it's still possible for it to be a net positive. All it takes is one person who was on the fence or else too rich to bother deciding "oh well" to make it worthwhile for Tesla
I think in this case, I think hospital staff at least would like to be paid more for the hell they've been going through over the last year vs. having folks stand outside on their balcony and clap at 7PM and pretend that will fix everything.
I assume we're talking about Bezos here, Amazon pays above the prevailing wage in most markets and if workers don't feel they are being treated fairly they have the choice to work elsewhere. Bezos is flying to space not "just because", he's flying to space in order to build another company we all might benefit from, like AWS or Prime. He's flying to space because he's earned it, by improving a lot of developers and consumers lives. The timing was just unfortunate and a "gotcha" moment for those who complain about anyone with more than $100 in their bank accounts.
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> I love that "Bradford Road" reference. That is New England code for an old and well connected family.

Maybe I'm missing something, but you posted an article from a local news site in Scarsdale, NY. I'm pretty sure that just means that her family literally lived on Bradford Road.

I've never heard Bradford Road used as code before, and I grew up in New England. (And besides, NY is not in New England.)
The original claim was “widespread panic”. I provided a link which argued against it. You said “Snopes "debunking" something doesn't mean it didn't happen at all.”, which I took to mean that you argued that widespread panic did happen. Do you mean to say that the only thing which you are claiming is that at least one person panicked? Because that is something we can agree on. But that’s not what the topic was about.
> Another aspect of this is 51% attacks are recoverable for PoW

You can switch the protocol once. Making ASICs useless. But you can't do it twice.

> but are a permanent takeover condition for PoS networks.

This is false in both theory and practice. It is true that PoS does not offer in-protocol solution for the problem. But there is a historical precedent of people forking away money of Justin Sun in Steem project, creating Hive. Community has followed the fork, basically destroying Justin's Sun funds.
I think the issue is that when you're looking for "less severe weather settings" you have limited options - California is in a megadrought. Meanwhile, China has invested heavily in weather modification and is reportedly conjuring up rain storms all while weather modification science here in the US is treated like alchemy.
Agreed, this article is laughable and the picture of "head back laughing" is additionally trite.

The world also needs a mass of people doing the hard work of making the little things tick. Let's honor them.
That seems like a real problem, and of course it could be misused, however nothing so far revealed actually tells us whether it is possible.

E.g. how the hashes are computed, where they come from, and what happens when a positive match is detected.

Until we have a clear understanding of these things, the rest is just speculation.
(As someone strongly against adding new features to languages,) I've never understood where there would be any need for anything more complicated than list concatenation when assembling bits. In some language with list notation, (++ being concatenation of two lists) you could do something like this:

[0] ++ sendSeq ++ recvSeq ++ [poll]

say sendSeq was one bit but we still wanted it to take 3 bits:

[0] ++ pad 3 sendSeq ++ poll ++ recvSeq

given some "pad" function defined in a library

The only reason it's "hard" in C is because the operations are induced from what the machine can do efficiently and without "a sufficiently smart compiler".
I suppose the surge of infections from the Delta variant have made developed world governments re-think their approach to vaxing younger citizens. In the UK a fifth of hospital admissions with covid are 18-34 years old and we're extending vaccination to 16-17 year olds.

I'm sure it's true these vaccines would save more lives in developed nations, but politically governments are still accountable to their own citizens first. It's an ugly situation. Delta has seriously thrown a spanner in the works, and I'm sure there are more variants to come. Suppose a variant pops up that's deadly to children, but the current vaccines protect against it. How would governments explain shipping vaccines abroad instead of vaxing children then?
For many people these are not valid options, no. If you grew up in a low-income household and entered a low-wage job, the likelihood of having sufficient savings to choose not to work, take time off to improve your skills, or move is very low.
It looks like Korean still needs a fully localized interface and a sufficiently large collection of sentences to record. You can help by translating the interface https://pontoon.mozilla.org/projects/common-voice/ and collecting public-domain sentences https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/sentence-collector/ and of course by getting Koreans you know excited about the project so they'll help, too.
There are coins like Monero that are ASIC-resistant and can only be mined with CPU, not GPU.
plus now they have to do all kind of new ridiculous covid protocol

testing tests all patients being admitted to the hospital

no wonder they are overworked
This made me smile. I loved this as a kid.

Next do Spider-man Cartoon Maker ;)
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Also, unlike say a trucker, the work of doctors and nurses is very reactive to environmental conditions (feast or famine), so it allows for limited downtime where you might sneak in a nap between 20-60 minutes, or might be 100% your entire shift. It might make scheduling slightly easier is some regard, but it's actually a very expensive way to staff.
> they dont seem interested in enforcing anything

Or are not able to. Weather it's because of risking more people with money fleeing before
changes take into effect, to much influence of wealthy people in politics or being forced by external forced, e.g. in context of not-so-public trade agreements.
I think about it time to time. But haven’t come to any conclusions. Some things about Italy are great - the geography and people. And compared to the USA they treat me very well as an Italian abroad - they proactively send me a ballot to vote every year and even give overseas Italians our own representatives in the legislature.

I’ve certainly liked visiting a number of places in the EU - it might be fun to try to live there.
Gnome shares some of the same aesthetic choices and its co-founder famously went on the record as preferring Macs but I'm not aware of any substantial connection between Apple and Gnome. Gnome is strongly connected with Red Hat which naturally supports a lot of Linux development.
Indeed, at which point we’ll know if Apple has implemented an obviously broken solution which opens us up to egregious government surveillance, or whether that is all just speculation without a factual basis.
That only works if $X is over your what you feel is "required" to sustain your life style.

Generally Speaking in all but the biggest cities that is probably around the 60K-70K annual mark anything over that a person might put other things ahead of salary

However if you are working for $60K you bet you ass MONEY is how a company should be showing their love...
It would

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1--KU5eBXBQ
> Apparently going on shifts working 72+ hours non-stop is the norm.

Absolutely not and it’s insane to even think that could be true.
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It's one thing to move from amazing to not bad for 50% more pay. It's another to move from a good work culture to one that abuses your off time, expects you never to take time off, or forces frequent overtime.

I just recently moved from a place with very good culture and benefits to a contracting company with much worse benefits. Just going from five weeks vacation to two weeks alone really stings. And my pay only went up 10% ... it wasn't only the money, it was because I wanted something new, but I still have a growing sense of regret.
If I had the means to do so, I would do it just to avoid the politics of the US.

Better cuisine is a big driver for me too - hello Italy or France.
Most JS programmers are utterly unaware of how their "numbers" work.
Is the bottleneck in deploying vaccine to poor countries strictly the amount of vaccine? Or is it logistics? If the former then rich countries should send more vaccine to poor countries before administering their own booster programs, but if it's logistics, then I don't see the point in holding off on booster campaigns.
This is false.

"Among practicing physicians, 96% have been vaccinated. The rate drops to <50% among nurses"

Arkansas, where this story is taking place, has only a 37% vaccination rate among the general population.
Is Dark Matter actually SciFi, just read the synopsis and sounds more like horror.
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> I love How It's Made.

I'm hoping that covid is the only reason they didn't make a 2020 season.
If this was easy to do, it’d already be a problem because Apple is already scanning some iCloud services for CSAM per their terms of service.
This sounds like proposed changes, I'm not seeing these rules reflected on ATO's guidance:

https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/coming-to-australia-or-go...

This suggests it wont come into effect until 2022:

> Since draft legislation is not yet available, the rules likely will not apply before 1 July 2022.

https://www.taxathand.com/article/17653/Australia/2021/New-t...

> If you spend more than 45 days in the country or tick two of the following dot points

The proposed secondary rules only applies after spending 45+ days in a FY, not OR. Which is important because this new criteria basically applies to most people born in Australia, so it basically reduces the 183 day test to 45.
You may be unfamiliar with just how serious the allegations against Cuomo are, there's a link to the state AG report in this HN thread. Arguably, they paint a comprehensive picture of a guy who simply cannot be trusted with any leadership role, or any authority over people more generally. There's simply no excuse for his treating people who were working with him as he did.

The report lists many cases of grossly intrusive, invasive and inappropriate behavior; if even a single instance had some merit it would be more than enough to immediately and seriously call into question his ability to lead people effectively.
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> The minute you get to the point where the law is ambiguous, you start seeing law enforcement using it as leverage to get what the want.

Regulations are rarely explicitly legislated because legislative bodies don't have the time or expertise to maintain the specifics of regulations. Of course, you always want there to be appropriate scoping, but some division of responsibility between the executive and legislative branches is necessary.

I think a good middle-ground here is the updated language from Wyden et al.. I'm not sure how much leverage they have, though -- (D)s won't defect over this issue and it's unclear whether people like Toomey could be brought on board. And if it's not going to flip votes, then changing the language isn't really worth the lift. I would guess the best way to get this change adapted would be to pressure Toomey to vote on infra but insist on this change -- a single additional (R) in the Senate would make this language change over night. But, again, I kind of doubt Toomey considers this a wedge issue.

> If the bar is "can they convince a judge that this should count", then they an use it to screw someone over. I'm in favor of strong limitations on the powers granted to government officials, because there ARE bad apples; and giving the good apples power means the bad apples can decide to ruin someone's life because they can.

It's not just a judge or a single official. The Secretary will create rules through the regular rule-making process. And then those rules might be challenged in court.
Although this could happen elsewhere in the US, as it has before, people should really take a closer look at Hawaii. The standards of legal review are primitive, along side many other administrative aspects, no matter how much residents will try to convince you otherwise. One should also not discount prejudice as a factor here in the treatment, specifically towards the dominant groups from US/Asia mainlands.
I'm currently using one in a personal app because I'm learning a lot about a new language for me (Crystal). It's why, like this author[1], I also like writing useless apps.

[1] https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/makinguselessstuff.html
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> Healthcare staff have great animosity towards the unvaccinated patients. They aren't victims here, they did this to themselves.

That seems strange to me considering there are TONS of diseases that are completely the victims fault. Diabetes, heart diseases, lung issues, etc can all be caused because someone chose to make unfortunate decisions. Why would you get into a profession where you're in contact with this kind of person in a daily basis and then get upset that you come into contact with them?
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I suspect one could go a long way towards solving this by announcing that unvaccinated covid cases will get zero health insurance coverage. Make exceptions for those that truly cannot be vaccinated but to hell with everyone else.

Going further, make society difficult to navigate for people unwilling to be vaccinated or wear masks and our frontline workers will have much better lives.

Why are we compromising our quality of life, national security, and economic well-being to cater to these sorts? Just the economic damage alone from an indefinite pandemic seems like more than enough of a free market incentive to eliminate their negative impact on everything around them.
While the taxation due to US citizenship has occurred now for a hundred years, only now is the US govt enforcing it, mainly due to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) signed into law by Obama.
What is this voice database? Do they have russian voices?
Literally the next paragraph of my post addresses that. If you are accurate enough to predict your life spending needs to within 16% of the actual number, more power to you and go on living. It seems like a tall order to expect people to predict multiple decades into their own future though.

However, let's do the math: if you expect to live to be ~80 years old and are currently 40, then with the 200k buffer you mentioned you only have 5k per year or ~416/month. There are numerous eventualities that could eat up such an amount, like unforeseen illnesses or children or both. Having a bigger buffer means you will have a bigger chance that you will not need to stress out over unexpected costs.

So the point (IMO, YMMV) is not to maximize the number but to minimize the chances of life's surprises catching you off guard. The extra money buys peace of mind. (And yes, after some amount any extra money is just excess and time would be better spent enjoying hobbies/romantic partners/friends/children, but how much that extra buffer needs to be can only decided by everyone for themselves)
We should just put new doctors into an emergency six month fast track program.
News flash. There is no way they can get that money back. She can walk at anytime
Same here, market(s) over time will be cornered without control policies that counter monopoly.
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It's a legal system, not a justice system.
I think this proves it’s politics and not based on principle (which is what these are sold as). They don’t say, yeah, he’s a lout (or a sexual assaulter or whatever) but he’s our guy, so let’s keep ‘im, it’s like shhhhh, let’s not make any noise, let’s do some party platform things to wash your sins and let’s get on with it. If it’s the opposition it’s, we will not rest till they are out of office, they cannot represent us, it’s a travesty, yes he did blackface decades ago but he’s still a racist (look at all the decades old sins they dig up on people they don’t like).
Im sure they signed on adopting "something", otherwise it would be receiving $1.5 million grant for closing open source initiative. $3 million a year lawyer wouldn never be this blatant.
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