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"[W]ealth redistribution" -- I smile when I hear this fiscal conservative talking point. I put this term in the same category as "penalising savers with low (central bank) rates".
Hello Thatcherites!

Do you consider the wide and deep social safety nets of Canada, Uruguay, Ireland, France, UK, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark/Nordics, Spain, Italy, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan as "wealth redistribution"?

From the perspective of an academic economist: I do.

From the perspective of an average working Joe, who is lucky to not yet fall into such safety net: I do not.

The social safety net is essential for a well-balanced, modern, highly industialised, capitalistic, wealthy country.

To be clear, when I use the term "social safety net", I mean (at least): healthcare, education, housing, unemployment, and retirement pension.
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Yeah right. Because banksters would never all run the same scheme, right? They are so "competitive", you would never find the same conditions on every bank account nation-wide.
I ran a Federal FA school for years. You might be surprised to learn that this type of thing is actually fairly common. The DOE operates largely on the assumption that federal aid so-called drawdowns (G5 financial transfers) for tuition are made in good faith. They don't realize there's a problem unless or until there's a red flag, which is sometimes years after a school has been doing this.
Not really "bought and own"... These places are not for permanent habitation - it's like say, building a house on an agricultural land - simply not permitted. Except here, temporary housing is permitted, with limitations.

Reason is that they are located in areas where actual residential construction is likely in foreseeable future. So on one hand, it would be a waste to keep the land completely unused, but on the other, building anything permanent there would be a waste too because it will need to be razed quite soon.
> Most highly industrialised, wealthy countries would have much less income inequality with vastly higher inheritance taxes.

Its trivial for someone with lots of money to find ways to avoid dying with money but still ensure the next generation has a good life. As grandparent comment suggests. I don't think any tax or any plan that is not destructively over-burdensome can avoid people ensuring their next of kin have a good life.
Politicians never approve spending unless they have a way of pocketing some of it.
Definitely need one with a larger screen.
Antiperspirant has been linked to all sorts of things, so far with little to no evidence. A few years ago it was breast cancer. It seems to be a favourite target among the alt-inclined crowd.
I discovered the strategy of testing out of subjects at the community college then transferring the credit to my university. This worked for many courses for which the university offered no credit by exam.
I guess a better way to phrase it is that there's no over-the-counter cure, and if you're at the point where a front line doctor is giving you steroids, things are already going worse than most people's vaccine side effects.
what is your definition of "success"? Is the divergence between productivity and wage growth success? Also, over and over countries have tried to stimulate their economy with the printing press and had some rather... unsucessful experiences, with extreme examples being yugoslavia, zimbabwe, venezuela. And some more mild but still painful experiences including brazil and argentina.

Predicting timeframes is tricky. An inflationary spiral by its very nature is an exponential process, so you can seem fine for a while and then all of a sudden there's no way out except through a singular process and things are really bad.
If you knit a scarf, you have a scarf at the end of it. You can keep it or gift it to someone.

If you write a playbook to install some software on your home network, you have some YAML that took longer to write than it would have taken to do the task manually and isn't likely to be useful to anybody else. And without maintenance, that playbook will eventually decay and stop working. The scarf will continue to keep you warm forever.
What do you mean by saying punishing them? Poor people needs food, clothing, housing and education, these are essentials. You give them the essentials and they should be able to figure out the others when they manage to get a job.

It's everyone's best interest to make sure that they get on board of a better life as quickly as possible. You spread the money on multiple fronts, it just slows down and wastes the money.

For sure we can debate what's "essential" but I really don't think cigarettes and alchohols are among them, unless stapled by a medical doctor.
If the cop doesn't have a reader that can read this on his belt, he is not going to accept it anyway, just like they wouldn't accept a photo of an ID. They'd require the physical license.

If he has a reader on his belt, you would still not need to hand over the phone, you would just tap it on his reader, which would then prompt you to agree to share the specific fields from the driver license that he needs.

I mean yeah, of course they could still demand your phone, they can also demand you get out of the car, handcuff you, search the car and take anything they find on the most vaguely worded suspicions, but there's no technical solution for that problem.
We're very close to 250 people (but probably under, I need to check) but we're over the 10M / year line.

And yes, the company could pay, it's just they don't want to.

Just an example, I need to vent: I wrote a program that pilot all the lights in the company. To my great shame, it was failing spectacularly despite hours spent debugging the thing.

I received a lot of criticism about my coding skills.

Until I convinced him to buy pro dedicated hardware instead of cheap Arduino knockoffs to be the interface between my program and the light switches.

It's working like a charm since 2010.
I think he is talking more about long-covid and not the actual hospitalization. Since he is talking about symptoms and not hospitalization explicitly.

Even persons who don't end up in the hospital can have symptoms. I'm leaving up to the reader of these are ok or not.
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I pay $1200 a month for my toddler's education and now you want me to pay more taxes for someone else's college?

Or were you arguing against a straw man that I was talking about whether the public should fund K-12 at all?

Public investment in collegiate system is already non-zero. Perhaps you've heard of them, they're called "public college" like "North Dakota State University." Do you understand where the "state" comes from? Which is why I made the statement about spending even more money, not whether we spend it at all.

The US gets some of the poorest returns on K-12 education, and we need to get that sorted out before we look at funding the collegiate system further.
"Git protocol" to me means git://, and they are not really improving this one so much as removing it.
Aren't they just reselling Mullvad? So is everything said here true for Mullvad generally?

Edit: I use an always on VPN on my phone but I can only have one, and that's taken by my local wireguard so I can access the not-cloud services that I run remotely.

I've figured out how to connect Mullvad at the same time on that server, such that all traffic on the server goes through Mullvad. I can't figure out how to chain them. I want to make a request to my local network wireguard (wg0) and have any traffic that isn't local be routed through to the mullvad connection (wg1) so I can both access my local network and use the internet over the VPN. Has anyone don this or could anyone point me in the right direction? This is on a linux machine...
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I have a Purism laptop, over 2 years old now so out of warranty. The USB system had a problem last month. Purism shipped me a new motherboard at cost within a few days. I happily swapped out the old motherboard (a bit fiddly in places, but perfectly straightforward). Laptop is fine, I'm typing this on it now.

I've had problems with Dells before - if it's out of warranty then tough, nothing we can do. I had a screen fail on my 2014 Macbook - luckily in warranty so I got a new screen, but it took a week for them to do it.

And, of course, I can upgrade the memory and/or drive any time I like - they're easily accessible and stock parts that I can buy from anywhere.

I think the trade-off on price for this repairability is well worth it. If I'd bought a Dell instead of a Purism I'd be SOL and looking at the cost of a whole new laptop now.
> keeping a legit cohort of impactful peer reviewers, [who are time-constrained and unpaid, as well]

"Ask HN: How are online communities established?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24443965 re: building community, MCOS Marginal Cost of Service, CLV Customer Lifetime Value, etc
> Therefore the claim that an injection of RNA could modify your DNA is possible.

Absolutely not. This is like saying water is a neurotoxin because a tiny subset of neurotoxins contain water. Or that almost any food can modify your dna, since mRNA, RNA and DNA are in any cells you eat.

reverse transcription doesn't just happen. Retroviruses work because they carry reverse transcriptase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_transcriptase

No reverse transcriptase, no DNA integration. The vaccine leaves out any other parts of the virus besides the spike coding. That makes it SAFER in that respect than conventional or monoclonal vaccines, which include tons of other viral parts! You know what might do reverse transcription? Covid: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/21/e2105968118

Good thing the mrna vaccine leaves out all those parts that could be activating LINE1 retrotransposons!
It definitely is a thing, but those people are spending their time being loud and annoying while other people are quietly releasing libraries and shipping products.

Also, give it a few years and the loud and annoying people will have moved on to being loud and annoying about something else.

So it goes.
I think you have to be a bit of a shameless self-promoter to be successful as a pro photographer too. And I don't mean shameless in a purely negative sense either - I think a lot of introverts like myself unjustifiably feel shame when selling themselves at all. The photographer in the article has a travel blog at travellikeanna.com and I simply can't imagine myself registering a domain name like that. What business do I have inspiring people to do something like me? And why would I want to share so much about me, personally?

But she's not only a talented photographer and writer, but she's built herself a confident yet approachable online brand, so if you were hiring someone to take photos of a far-flung place, she'd seem like an easy choice for the job.
Another possibility is cost reduction as these are lower-end models. At least some of higher-end models (G7 and Alienware) have 180W and 240W power adapters, instead of the 130W included with this model.
QEMU can be built on older distros even though it requires fairly new Meson, because Meson is easy to embed in the QEMU tarbell's (and in the repo as a submodule).

The port only required two custom-developed features, though. Contributing those was a minor piece of the whole effort.
Most people probably just want to buy Windows for less than full price.
Use it, and they will come...
The Framework laptop is a cool concept and I can see myself getting one eventually, but the link is about a Lenovo (Android?) tablet. Not even remotely the same market or even thing.
I highly recommend giving this a read: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/Bre...
We actually do know that we can not get permanent robust immune response to COVID-19 from the vaccines that are in use because the statistics are already there, immunity starts wearing off after about 6 months.

That’s why the new push is for ‘booster shots’.
They took my German ID's front with all content blanked that want babe, DoB, and expiration date.
Took about an hour in probably done human "review" queue to check this isn't some bot-submission/low-effort fake ID.
Same. Docker definitely had some performance issues on Mac a few years ago but it's fine now.
I am equally excited about cross between WASM (and its nanoprocess model) and k8s: https://krustlet.dev/

Things are looking up for serverless + edge computing, given 5G deployments are also gathering speed.
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Can 5850U run fanless at full load? That's the table-stakes that Apple has raised.
"But the average person has much more marginal utility for their amount of wealth."

Not while it's invested and locked away in a 401k, according to your comment about it not being used (presumably consumption based):

"Wealthy people aren't using money that society could put to great use." Emphasis mine

"What else am I missing about utility in this context?"

This thread was in response to someone claiming money has less use when you have more of it, which isn't really what marginal utility is about.

"At a much lower rate than income, further cementing the advantages of the ultra-wealthy."

Ok... we aren't really discussing rewriting the tax code.
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It's the bait-and-switch aspect I suspect most are reacting negatively to. Given how many of these 'pivots' we've seen, let's be honest is observing that generally the plan for a sustainable model all along most likely was "don't start charging for it until we're sure we've become a user habit and killed the competition." They knew long ago, if not on day one, that "give it away for free and make it up in volume" wasn't a serious long term plan. On the one hand, I don't blame companies for pulling this because the market continues to go along with it. On the other, I have no sympathy for the backlash they get for doing it.

Choice and competition are good. Companies taking a scorched earth approach with extended "free... for now (because we've got the runway to do it)" business models are bad for the ecosystem.
I don't care, but if you were a customer, and price([A,B]) was greater than price([A])+price([B]) elsewhere, who would you buy from?

I mean, I'll happily sell you $100 Amazon products for $150 if you'd like. I can even charge for shipping, and not pass on the 5% cashback I get.
"Turning off the unencrypted Git protocol" They are killing it instead.
> My father always said that taxes are a problem of the rich. Middle class and below rarely complain about them. If your family is moving around money like that to avoid taxes, then you are a lucky and/or wealthy person!

Your father is simply wrong. It can, and is done in my family to avoid losing out on university, rent, and health insurance subsidies that only apply to the poorest segment of society.

By moving our assets around, the poorest members of the family can continue to receive them all the while effectively being slightly over this treshold.

There is much to gain from creative accounting for the poor in countries that provide assistance to the poor by making one appear poorer than one is.

> Silly? Yes, I agree. I favour about 50% inheritance tax with almost zero minimum. Inheritance is fuel for the fire of income inequality. Families create dynasties by avoiding inheritance tax. Most highly industrialised, wealthy countries would have much less income inequality with vastly higher inheritance taxes.

The problem is that it is very easy to avoid it in a number of ways such as simply creating a shell company jointly with one's heirs and then donating the assets to the company; the heir then becomes the sole owner of the company after death, as if such taxes were to apply to stakes in a company, then companies would go defunct upon the deaths of some of their owners.

Tax laws in many ways rely on citizens not being clever enough to exploit the numerous loopholes, — but then again “idiot tax” is not something I'm entirely opposed to.
I also found ringworld pretty unreadable. But I guess thats mostly because I find the world that is being built too hilarious and unbelievable. It lacks a sort of seriousness that cyberpunk usually doesn't.
If I understand the OP well, the question is, how can Mozilla justify charging twice what Mullvad charges, and lock you into a 12-month contract, for what is largely a repackaging of Mullvad.
You said that you don't need platform specific code, but it turns out that's because you just skip the platform specific stuff, resulting in a product that I would not consider ready to ship.
AB: 75bps for equities lending (I assume). Woah! I assume you are not ultra high net worth (UHNW) @ >100M USD. Where can you borrow so cheap? Interactive Brokers? Please share!
With ML-assisted drug discovery in, say, kinase inhibitors we search the molecule variation space for test candidates. What stops us from applying this to the protein scale by folding binding sites to discover variant candidates that would be more virulent? I'd like to understand this better.
I have actually seen that claim elsewhere. The issue is, almost all of them know about reverse-transcription enzymes and use that as part of their argument, while the people attempting to debunk them have never touched on it, instead treating them as if they don't know the difference between DNA and RNA.
> enormously better solutions

Strongly disagree, even if you disregard price point. Unless you are limiting your criticism to the USG/UDM and routing. Which I think you are, but just want to be sure.

For the wifi and switching they are very very hard to beat. For normies and techies alike. I only dislike that the APs are underpowered so you need to carpet bomb your house if you have a large footprint. For dense living it's great though. Even for large area (blocked by walls) it's ok if you don't mind filling in the gaps with mesh. By the time you buy 1 AP and 1 mesh you are at $400 though.

The gateway products are absolutely abysmal, even before considering the buggy new hardware.
For performance reasons
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I've seen someone experiment with using https://6b.eleuther.ai/ to post comments on 4chan. The results were impressive, nobody realized that those were comments created by an AI, and the posts almost always got some replied from people genuinly engagine with them.

A bit related to that, it also makes me think about the story with games published on itch.io that had "fake multiplayer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCqnD40Q5T8.
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The article seems very fuzzy around the difference between signing up vs. requesting financial aid

sentences like

> finding that 20% of recent traffic on its main portal for online applications was “malicious and bot-related,”

> the fake applications are roiling the ability of college officials to determine true student enrollment numbers

Fake enrollment is done, for another reason, to harvest .edu emails. There are websites that easily allow you to get such an address, that works to get some student perks (some websites giving student perks intentionally block certain community college domains, because they understood long ago the fraud going on). There are scripts to automate this (including DOB, they're complaining about 90 year olds signing up) on Github

The harvesters then go and sell the accounts on eBay openly

So I suspect this might be a subset of the fake sign ups, and they aren't really explaining how many of the suspected 20% bots actually officially filed for financial aid

Here is an example of such a Github repo

https://github.com/MrStark-XD/Edu-Mail-Generator

Use at your own risk, it literally just signs you up to community college with random information
To me it's more of a time-saver as opposed to an analytical approach. Having a framework saying (for example) "these four chords tend to sound pretty good together and here are some thoughts on what to play over them" allows me to get right at using those tightly-scoped set of sounds in new ways instead of spending a bunch of time noodling around just trying to find tones that mesh well.