skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a big undercount on the civilian, and opposing force side.

If you count in excess deaths, and missing people, the count will more than double.
If you're making $10 million per year in a high tax state like California, your effective tax rate is still only 52%
> Some obscure mittelstand firm in Germany will be the world leader in ball bearings or thermostats or something like that, in a thousand little niches.

The German reputation for precision engineering is certainly well-deserved. Part of this is because their economic system is designed to support these kinds of businesses. Surgical equipment is another great example.
You don't pay 37% federal. 37% is only for the top bracket.
I firmly believe that there is no way to discuss this issue in depth without being censored or derided by one or more organizations (or disorganized adherents of the same premises as those orgs).

I won't even go into the details of why, for the same fear. I will only say, for now, that loneliness as an epidemic is a direct consequence of disconnecting modern human interaction from many many many years of working solutions. You can take from that what you will.
> That's the usual situation for first responders, who usually try to block as little of the road as possible but often don't have enough shoulder space.

Actually, from talking with friends who are first responders, many times they will park fire trucks, etc so that they are blocking enough of the road to protect the first responders and the victims. The last thing you want is to have another car come and crash into first responders or victims of the initial accident. That is why they will deliberately park the truck at an angle to protect the people.
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You don't get it. It couldn't have been spent on something else. If the day before 9/11 Congress had passed universal healthcare, free college, and basic income, they still would have spent this money on a war. Are you saying they could have said, oh we got attacked, let's estimate the cost of a war and put it into healthcare?
Thanks to Opioid Hysteria, far too little attention is being paid to the War On Pain Relief. I live in one of the states that limits pain Rx to a 3 day supply (which most Dr's are unwilling to give) and the single allowed 3 day extension is all but impossible to get. Dr's are so spooked by Gov/LEO's heavy hand that they're likely to Rx Tylenol to post op patients in severe pain - guaranteeing they remain in severe pain.

The pill mill problem largely wound down over a decade ago; cheap fentanyl and heroin are what's driving overdoses.

Hazing Dr's who Rx pain meds doesn't touch the fentanyl problem. It just leaves millions of people in needless pain - which suits most pols & LEO just fine.
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> you will not owe the full amount of the accrued interest

Yes, you will. "accrued interest" is "unpaid interest as of the time of ___"; at the moment you sell the house you will have paid all of the interest up to that moment.

There's no early-payment penalty on mortgages, as of the last many decades; maybe that's what you mean?
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Have you looked into OpenLayers? Maybe this is something that could be useful: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/apidoc/module-ol_layer_Vect...
That said, climate change means that California's climate will get hotter and more arid over the coming century.
You borrow money, they want it back with interest.

Have you ever borrowed money from mommy for lollipops? She probably didn't want it back, but other countries are not so nice.
Of course changes but afaik it's backwards compatible.
I’ve been using Go at a large software company for 4 years. It does the job, my biggest complaints are the low capacity for abstraction, verbosity and ergonomic pain points. It can do certain things well, but in a large enough project you’ll inevitably find that it doesn’t give you the best tools for certain types of problems.

I don’t know what to think about the upcoming generics. It feels late to make such a big change so long after the language has been established. At least a plan for it should have been integrated into the language from the start.

It feels like a missed opportunity - an effort with similar funding but a more sound theoretical foundation than being Newsqueak 3.0 could have become an industry game changer. Instead it fills a niche, which is a success, albeit smaller.
I hit the same limit and couldn't read it. Outline worked: https://outline.com/xqvh3u

(just prefix any URL with https://outline.com/ – including the original https:// – to get a "reader mode" version of the page)
I think you may be indexing a bit into your exposure and painting the industry in a broad brush.

I've seen impressive things done with Lua, from literate AI programming with coroutines to building compostable component based language constructs instead of standard OOP. You have things like GOAL[1] which ran on crazy small systems (the Lua I saw ran in a 400kb block as well).

On performance, data oriented design and efficient use of caches is the way you get faster. I've done it in Java, I've done it in C#, I've done it in Rust and C++. Certain languages have better primitives for data layout and so you see gamedev index into them. We used to do things like "in-place seek-free" loading where an object was directly serialized to disk and pointers were written as offsets that were fixed up post load. Techniques like this easily net 10-30x performance benefits. It's the same reason database engines run circles around standard language constructs.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
You buy a pregnancy test and pre-natal vitamins. This information is sold and put together as part of a “profile”. Your employer buys these profiles, sees you’re pregnant and fires you because who wants to deal with maternity or paternity leave. You never told them you were pregnant, they can claim they didn’t know.
Patriotism is a sickness that the world would be better without.
> Regarding your hypothetical, anything that's actually legally mandated by the government generally overrides contract law

Which means this action is just a charade, as I pointed out. Because fundamentally it doesn't really matter. The gov is going to do what they do, and Apple is not going to create a situation in which an external group can determine how or if they can be sued in court based on how overreaching they feel that day.

Also go check how many arbitration clauses exist in your ToS, just as an exercise. I'm all for banning arbitration clauses and allowing consumers recourse in actual courts. I don't believe we should have companies sign their death sentence prior to doing business, this raises the barrier to entry and results in even less competitors who have to do the same.
Is there a brakedown of where does this money "spent on war" finaly go? Military personel salaries, rifles, tanks, airplanes, r&d?
The 37% and 13.3% are on marginal income, as I'm sure you know. The effective tax rate is much lower.

California and some other states also have required disability insurance that is taken out with the state income tax. It's 1% in CA.

And I would count Social Security and Medicare too, equally 7.65%. But the SS part has a cap so the percentage goes down the more you make.

All put together, someone making $250K pays about 37% on that to various income taxes listed above. If you were making 1M income a year, that rises to 47%. For 100K, it's about 30%.
From a distance it looks difficult to write in. For example, two recommended ways to delete from a slice:

a = append(a[:i], a[i+1:]...)
// or
a = a[:i+copy(a[i:], a[i+1:])]

Both seem harder than necessary.

Is that code just idiomatic, and Go programmers recognize it instantly? Or maybe they don't deal with slices that often?

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks
In a previous life I used Leaflet in some digital art-history publications for the Getty Museum in LA [1]. Leaflet was the MVP of our static-website software stack ("JAMstack" before that was a thing). We used Leaflet to provide maps of the Roman Empire as well as deep-zoom functionality for images of artwork. The library is a gem of open-source web technology, versatile and reliable.

[1] https://www.getty.edu/publications/romanmosaics/
I trust someone posting here to driver safely and safer with it.

Forget the average, how about the bottom 10-20% of all drivers? I don't trust the bottom 10% driving with "Autopilot" at all, zero. They are going to use it to go on autopilot while driving, exactly as the marketing implies. I mean there has to even be people who think the car itself is conscious. Car has advanced AI, must be conscious.

To think otherwise is just highly underestimating how clueless some people are.
There's probably more metal in the solar system than the volume of Earth.
It's not so much sleep duration (unless we carry a gene that require 11 hours sleep)

Thanks for the info, I'll look into the tongue tie, this I did not know about. Sleep apnea and stuff I've looked at but it doesn't seem to be that.

The other aspects, I don't know yet. They are young so doctors would not do much yet as they are fine once they get out of bed (maybe they'll grow out of it, I don't know).

I also had this issue most my life. I spent a lot of money checking for deficiencies or known causes. I do on occasion have to supplement b12, vit-d, iron. I came to the conclusion that some people absorb nutrients better than others or if there is a reason then very difficult to find the cause.
Not everyone has to use it, private and public systems can coexist, as it works in many countries.
Absolutely, it's a general concept.

To give some examples, it's used heavily in US med schools, and I achieved great academic results using it to study CS in university.
I've always wondered why no one has taken this formula and developed an MMO.
years of expected life lost is the more important metric imo.

would still be a big discrepency.
Because they are the ones who lent the US the money. China is the #2 holder of US treasury bonds and currently own about 1T worth. (4% of the US national debt) Japan is the #1 holder at 1.2T. Source: https://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt
No, I’m saying the USA didn’t need to make it a multi-decade war, killing civilians while they were at it.
Its not livable on it's own, but it could improve living conditions.
Climate change will destabilize the world more than any "terrorists" could.

Also would've been nice to have seen 6.4 trillion go into renewables tech and investments ~ 20 years ago.
Right, if enough people buy the non-apple, non-android phones, perhaps we'll get a viable competitor.
I use the cheap new motorola models, currently motorola 2020 model e,

Motorola usually has a model they market as the "best cheap android" phone, usually runs for about $100-$200 dollars. They arent very repairable in design, but is doable as tutorials are offered online, authorized repair shops can fix the phones but it costs about the value of a new device. Parts can be purchased relativly cheaply online if you are up for the challenge of fixing it yourself.
Eve Online is the MMO/spiritual successor to Escape Velocity in my mind
> $1000 a year would have made a nice universal basic income for the last 20 years.

I think you mean per month, not year.

The idea of UBI is to give everyone a subsistence income so they can devote themselves to skill development and career advancement, even/especially while caring for kids. $1000/year doesn't remotely accomplish that.
And a sizable portion of the population believes the government should take on more responsibility, as if those outcomes will be better somehow. It’s Gell-Mann amnesia of another kind.
just an fyi: you can use the -diff_base flag to diff the profiles without opening both profiles side-by-side.
It’s been tried and it really works better as a 2d story game. Earth above and beyond and jump gate were the attempts
I was chatting with a couple of software engineers, one of whom had just come from working at a research hospital on a project involving some imaging devices. The other engineer asked him if the physicians were tough to deal with, and he responded that no, not especially. But the physicists! Oh, the doctors hated the physicists for thinking they knew everything!
Some consider $1000 too low to be a real UBI, so $83 definitely wouldn’t count.
I love space genre games (Spore, Starsector, FTL) and I remember getting addicted to Endless Sky. It's difficult to get started but once you do it's pretty fun.
In another vein, it would have been cheaper to build a house, give a Ford Mustang, a tractor, and home appliances to every household in Afghanistan than to pay for the war there.
I remember years ago, probably in physics circles, hearing modulo [this or that other consideration] . Disregarding.

Edit: Live quote. Most recent Scott Locklin:

A friend of mine tested positive for ‘rona antibodies; he felt a bit run down and wondered if he had been exposed. He had been (modulo false positives).
Yes. But it was not available more than a decade ago.
The average 20-year cost of Afghanistan was $100 billion per year. At that cost you’re either getting really crappy healthcare or the program is means tested (which means it’s not so universal.)
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Seems like inflation is skyrocketing to me. Specifically asset inflation. Housing prices, stocks, bitcoin, etc. Basically dollar becoming worth less against these assets thanks to QE.
In some ways yes but eve slows everything down to a tedium this game is fun because progress is fast and meaningful
The money was mostly spent domestically, the US military wants domestic suppliers to minimize risks in an actual war. This means they is domestic manufacturing for everything from missiles to socks.
Basic living expenses consume the entire income of ~15% of US households, per government and Federal Reserve studies. That's around 20 million households. For these people, an extra $1000 is a lot of money.

$1000/year may not be UBI in a traditional sense but it also isn't nothing. In many parts of the US that is more than the average monthly rent for an apartment.
Hard to say. Maybe just paying attention to detail is enough. Or, maybe some understanding of mathematical notation (such as logic and sets, elementary algebra…). You might want to peruse some other of his primers [1], particularly the topology series (of which the one about homology is part).

Homotopy has is origin in topology (but eventually transcended it), so learning about it first in a more “tangible” setting of where it came from might indeed be helpful.

[1] https://jeremykun.com/primers/
I guess if you live in a high income tax state, make more than the AMT threshold, max out your 401k and health insurance, etc. and compare your employer's cost to employ you by what gets deposited in your bank account at the end of the month, you can end up with a number like this. I agree that it's misleading, because your 401k, health insurance, etc. aren't taxes, and neither is your employer's payroll tax (for you anyway), but on some level it makes sense -- $200,000 a year leave your employer's bank account, and $100,000 a year ends up in yours. It's misleading to call that a 50% tax, but more like 50% overhead-some-of-which-goes-to-the-government-and-some-of-it-pays-for-other-peoples-healthcare-and-some-of-it-makes-up-for-how-useless-social-security-will-be-when-you-retire. That's a mouthful, so I can see why people map that to "tax" in their mind ;)

BTW, reading some of the other comments in this thread -- they point out property tax and sales tax. Good call.
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I don't think the policy helps much. For example,

> We share your End User Information for a number of business purposes:

> - With the developer of the application you are using and as directed by that developer (such as with another third party if directed by you);

> - With our data processors and other service providers, partners, or contractors in connection with the services they perform for us or developers;

This is so vague that I don't know what it's even supposed to mean. What Plaid lawyers will argue it means when pressed is a further question.
Remnants of the Precursors is an open source modernization of Master of Orion
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> Maybe it's a white American parenting thing, or an artefact of how French highways are built where you're not stopping if you just missed the rest area and they're all the same anyway?

American highways have terrible rest stops. (Okay, it varies at the State level. Ohio's rest stops are actually really good for example)

For actual comfort for a decent stop, you wanna stop at a highway town / tourist trap. These are towns scattered across the US Highway system. There are chain restaurants (ex: McDonalds) if you're trying to make good time, but a nice sitdown place is often more comfortable.

Cracker Barrel is a nice chain that caters towards the highway travelers in particular. It has a children-oriented gift shop approximately the size of the restaurant. Its a good place to stop if you have kids. They stock all sorts of games and toys (simple peg-puzzles like solatare, backgammon, chess, checkers. Harmonicas / Kazoos too but don't buy those unless you wanna be annoyed while driving lol.) while also offering a good sized dining area.

Its a good place to take a break as an adult, while the kids can browse for toys that will amuse them for the rest of the drive.

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That's the thing. I make a decision to stop there for the comfort of myself and the kids. That's a very different thing than going to a supercharger station for 30+ minutes out of necessity.

If you take enough road trips along the same route, the kids remember these locations and ask to visit again. The kids aren't the only ones who want to stop at the Cracker Barrel over there, I do too.
No, $20,000 per tax payer is $1,000 per year over the last 20 years we've been in Afghanistan.

Which comes out to a whopping $83.33 per month. I think this just illustrates how expensive these UBI plans really are... particularly the ones that flaunt several thousand dollar payments to every tax payer per month.
Got any non-paywalled sources handy?
Leaflet rocks! We use it for https://legendkeeper.com, CRDT-backed knowledge management for RPG game-masters.
I can say so for politics.

Average Americans don't understand American politics.

To me, the transition from Bush to Obama was paradoxal.

One thing, Obama marketed himself as a change man, as well pretty much everybody. It's very generic.

On the other side, his true colours weren't even hidden, his electoral programme told very candidly about his national security views, views on civil rights, and etc for which he got flak later.

If I haven't seen the name, and explicitly liberal branding on these electoral materials, I could've said it's coming from a conservative, doctrinaire statist very much like Bush.

The point is people are angry at Obama exactly on the points they elected him for.
the resale value of a secondhand war is very low.

"20 Year old slow-burn war available for reasonable price. Population w/ low morale, lots of growth potential! Motivated buyers only please."
I don't think the structure means that the designer is not shared. I think it means that they don't change the designer between asks, unless the original is unavailable.

Which makes sense IMO, then the designer can take on as many clients as they have bandwidth for.
Without their bizarre accounting, the actual number is closer to $2T spent.

It's apples and oranges, but since people love making the comparison, the last 20 years of war would be enough to cover the cost of Medicare for All for... 6 months.
it’s not unlikely at all.

esp if you consider your employer also pays income taxes for the value you generate to the tune of another 20-40%.
Maybe they looked at the Fire Phone and didn't want to repeat that disaster.
Healthcare spending is currently $3-4 trillion a year. The important number is the difference between M4A and the status quo, not total spending. The sleazy hacks quoting him intentionally equivocated about this.
Given the current state of Afghanistan, the return on investment is definitely not worth it. Our grandchildren will be paying for this debt.

This is $2T that could have went towards this country’s dismal healthcare system, funding social security, public education, and miscellaneous social programs.

Instead it has went directly to the DoD companies and private military contracting companies. $2T was literally stolen from the American people. This doesn’t even include the costs to support the few Afghan immigrants that we were able to extract and the healthcare towards the veterans that gave their limbs and life to the service.

As an American, I feel sick just thinking about it.
It's very frustrating that most banks have not implemented hardware 2FA (Yubikey or Titan support) let alone authenticator based 2FA. Bank of America is still stuck on SMS. SIM swaps are happening on every carrier.
> This total omits many other expenses, such as […] future interest on war borrowing
Can't comment on why the other things weren't enough, but do you have a "real" phone number or is it VoIP? I was unable to verify my Twitter account until I contacted support, nor could I get the IRS website to take my number when doing taxes, and I think the reason is that my (small) carrier uses VoIP: https://help.republicwireless.com/hc/en-us/articles/36002509...
Do you know many vehicles $40K+ that don't have BLIS and rear/front cross traffic alerts? While a radar-based blind sport alert (one that warns if a car behind is moving too fast to safely merge) is probably irrelevant for the city driving, the cross traffic is extremely useful when pulling out of driveway obstructed by parked cars, I personally have seen several accidents just on my street that could have been prevented with cross traffic detection. I think the expensive models (S/X) still have the front radar so they may have the front alert but I don't think any model ever had the rear radar for the rear cross traffic alert.
You don't really have much choice about corporate surveillance unless you live in a cave and never communicate with anyone, and I have no power over Amazon.

The government is limited by the voters, Constitution, laws, and two other branches of government. I have no power over Amazon.

Anyway, I don't see why the government is relevant: Amazon is the topic, as you said.
Selling it off to a data aggrigator that sells the information to the FBI so you get investigated for buying too much hummus after the next terrorist attack.
Simply spending it on already-researched healthcare would be more than sufficient.
If you have the polio vaccine, you basically cannot get polio and have lifelong immunity. That's an effective vaccine. It doesn't require everyone else to get frequent booster shots. The current covid vaccine does not measure up to the polio vaccine.