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Agreed. He's not trying to "make a donation", he's saying that everyone should share the burden - including himself and people like him.

It's not just that the rich kids should pay for the park, it's that everyone but the rich kids are being asked to pay some extra.
Ah, see, confused me even more. Might have something to do with the green coloring, green = better, yet it's related to the car's year.
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There's also several cars for $299, but in the description are $2990 down...
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Now that she's 8 and has a better understanding of math she's moved on to http://inventwithpython.com/
>...teaching aid for bringing programmers from other languages up to speed with Python.

Off-Topic, is there anything similar for people wanting to learn Objective C?
I wonder if this could be used in a game to get units to sneak closer to the player... but they were there the whole time, and scare that user.
Now i can't help but wonder, would it be wise for the government (likely local) to lay pipe and license room in it to ISPs? Much of it could even be done when working on sewers and roads, I'd imagine.

(Cue complaints of government interfering with business.)
If Warren owned 100% of Berkshire would you still think it's unfair to consider what Berkshire pays in taxes a tax on Warren? Then why is it not fair to consider it on a percentage basis like I have?

The owners of corporations are the people being taxed by corporate income taxes, since without these taxes, that money would be theirs to spend as they wish, either by investing in their business or taking it out by paying dividends.
I keep trying to formulate my take on this, and failing, but here goes anyway:

The democratic party and American leftists no longer understand non-college working people and, for the most part, no longer reach out to them. Working people think that the left today advocates either for weirdos or for the completely screwed up, and wants everybody to pay for its programs to help said weirdos and fuckups. There is some valid reason for this impression, with the Great Society programs and affirmative action in the sixties and seventies being partly funded by taxes on the middle classes, along with fiascos like school bussing and over-compensated hiring practices screwing over people who didn't feel like they deserved it. (And poor management of government agencies making them ineffective at cost effective delivery of services.)

However, working people don't see themselves as fuckups (because they're not), and they don't have a lot of patience with weirdos. So they aren't going to feel comfortable with the gay marriage/ social worker part of the left (the old union guys were socially very conservative for the most part).

Also, most of the left today seems to me to be made up of people who really have no connection to actual poor working class people, so there is automatically a divide that is mobilized by the Karl Roves of the world.

Furthermore, if you have ever been lower middle class or "working poor", you learn early that very traditional personal character values can make the difference between you and your family living in a truly shitty situation or rising out of the muck around you to actually have a decent marriage/ nice friends/ safe home. So when college educated lefties come around and tell them to have pity on fuckups and weirdos because its society's fault, or that personal character and traditional values don't matter, any working class person is likely to tell them to go to hell.

So today's Republicans mobilize personal character rhetoric, traditionalism rhetoric, and the cultural non-understanding between leftist leadership and working people, and -- voila, working people voting against their own interests.

Until the left figures out the working classes again -- which means taking the time to show up in the middle of the country, go to church, eat ribs, etc, etc -- Capital will continue to screw everyone. So quit whining about how stupid working class people are -- nobody represents their interests today, neither left nor right, but at least the Republicans pretend.
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This is what I got when I tried in Safari 5.05 under Snow Leopard. Not sure if it helps since you can't test but here ya go. Also shows the errors I got in the error log console.

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While I agree there's a big distinction between someone earning $250k/year and $10m/year, are you aware that if your family is earning that much then you're earning over eight times the median household income?
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Ah, that would make more sense. Unfortunately my mind wasn't in "hyperbolic rhetoric" mode.
My memory is a little cloudy as well. Maybe you can tell me who continued all those things, and even extended them.

But I thought we were talking about economics.
I'm not sure what you do with Excel, but another major downside for the Mac version is it doesn't have statistical analysis like its Windows counterpart does.

Not a big issue unless you're doing psychological research or work in finance.
How is it a logical fallacy?

If believe A should B
I am A
Therefore I believe I should B.

A = rich people
B = pay more taxes
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Have you looked at the Vast API. http://www.vast.com/info/customapi
Agree completely. I think the problem is that $250K is around that "top 1%" mark. It's a convenient demarcation line and makes for a smooth soundbite.

What many don't get is that the bottom of the top 1% includes doctors, attorneys, and entrepreneurs.
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Interestingly, it looks a lot like a Pareto optimal curve that is being optimized for maximum value to the seller, not the buyer.
Without going into the ethics or the police action I am guessing that BART paid a sizable sum to get the website done by a company that can't protect against SQL injections.

This reminds me of my building's condo board paying 30k for a "community portal" website that could've been done in one afternoon (and still wasn't done right).
In the UK the main speed factor is the line between you and either your cabinet, or your exchange. You're sold packages that are probably either 8 or 24 MB/s, and you get what you can. I'm 1.1 miles from the exchange directly with no fibre in the road, so I get 6.5 while paying for 24. When fibre comes any nearer, it will be free. How is it in US? Is fibre to the street/cabinet common?
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"It's blindingly obvious that a single person cannot pay for those public goods." ... "It's called shared sacrifice because it's meaningless unless everyone participates."

Huh? By this logic, taxes are "meaningless" unless everyone pays taxes. However, many poor and lower-income people do not pay income taxes. Does that render the income tax "meaningless"?

Also, the claim that it's "like the neighborhood park... [e]veryone wants one, but no one wants to pay for it" is absurd. We see many examples of charitable contributions made by the rich and the middle class which are used to purchase public goods such as museums, nature preserves and the like.

When push comes to shove, what Buffet really wants -- and what you are advocating when you say that no matter how much money he donates, it "will not be enough to solve our budget issues" -- is an increase in the size of government fueled by higher taxes, rather than a diminution of its scope by reducing the funds made available to it.

A bigger government benefits crony capitalists like Buffet, because they have sufficient power and influence to ensure that the goodies that can be redistributed by the Leviathan are steered their way. I wish Buffet would be honest enough to say that, rather than bloviating about how terrible it is that he doesn't pay enough taxes when he is unwilling to take the obvious direct action necessary to rectify that unfortunate situation.
Well, thank you for your informative response.

Without a corporate income tax owners can withdraw the incomes minus dividend taxes. With corporate income tax they can withdraw income minus corporate income tax minus dividend taxes. How can you say they're not the ones paying the tax when the money could go directly in their pockets if not for the tax?
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Thats cause thats how they are classified on cars.com. Can't blame the developer. He scrapped the data correctly just some smart ass marketing guy who put up the ads cheated...
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Because you are ignoring the "alone" part.
Follow Randall's advice, but take the first letter of each word in your sentence. You don't even have to come up with a particularly random phrase, take a song lyric. Doesn't match any common password pattern (i.e. 'someRealWord[digits]'), and it's still very easy to remember.
The link that he gave already adjusts the numbers for payroll taxes (but it's obvious from looking at how the tax is collected that it's regressive -- i.e., flat rate up to $106k and then no tax on wages above that).

With regard to state taxes, this report gives a pretty thorough analysis for all 50 states:
http://www.itepnet.org/state_reports/whopays.php

It's pretty evident from the data in this report that state taxes are very regressive in most states, mostly due to sales taxes.
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Privacy is a matter of visibility, not compromisability. Ultimately, almost anything you do can be observed, shared, and exploited. The reason we lead any semblance of a private life is a combination of a lack of interest, goodwill, and a low reward/cost ratio.

Publishing this data like this puts it on google and in the media. That makes it a.) highly visible and b.) extremely cheap. Therefore, less private.
Not really, yummyfajitas is guilty of intellectual dishonesty, so this seems like quite a pertinent response.
> many poor and lower-income people do not pay income taxes.

And many middle-income people. ~45% of US households pay no federal income tax.
I think it didn't like the gzipped JS file with the data. Not sure why, pretty much all modern browsers should support it.
The point of the article is that you still need a password manager; even if you use an easy-to-remember, yet still strong 'master' pw.
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I will take a look at it, thanks!
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What makes this any more secure than using the complete phrase?
You're wrong. First, the median income in the US is now at or slightly above $50K per year.

Second, assuming earned income (which is fair even for $250k earners), a median income household will be in either a 15% or 25% tax bracket (depending on if married). A $250k household will be in a 33% tax bracket.
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Your method is vastly different from Randall's method, each word there gets 11 bits of entropy because it's randomly chosen.

In properly formed English sentences, each character only has about 1 to 1.5 bits of entropy, and I'm not certain that taking the first letters of words in a sentence would have much higher per-character entropy than that, as the first letters of words are not very randomly distributed.
Oh dear, maybe read through the rest of the article first.
You have so completely missed the point I'm not sure it's worth arguing with you, but imagine for a moment that the additional revenue from closing loopholes on the rich was used to lower payroll taxes on the average working man, lowering the cost of employment...
That's implication not equation.
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Sure, we can all imagine streaming HD quality video and video chat, but what "new" services do greater bandwidth offer that we can't do today?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2884910

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber
That is a stupid way to measure how much one should pay in tax, honestly.

You rent, electricity, food and clothing doesn't go up because you double your income (unless you move, but then you presumably get better housing too). Why should your tax?
The attacks on him is just and fair because he demands the right to take by force other peoples money.

The rich already pay the most tax. Why should they pay more?
Mhhh. Kotlin is more than ten years late to the game. Considering that most people willing to learn something new already switched to Scala/Clojure/... and the rest won't consider switching from Java even if Oracle would abandon it, imho this suggestions is hardly pragmatic.

Imho Scala is the best we currently have and probably the best we will have for the next decade.
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> Also, the claim that it's "like the neighborhood park... [e]veryone
> wants one, but no one wants to pay for it" is absurd. We see many
> examples of charitable contributions made by the rich and the middle
> class which are used to purchase public goods such as museums, nature
> preserves and the like.

We also see many cases of governments which have much higher tax rates than ours and provide fantastic public services.

> When push comes to shove, what Buffet really wants -- and what you are
> advocating when you say that no matter how much money he donates, it
> "will not be enough to solve our budget issues" -- is an increase in the
> size of government fueled by higher taxes, rather than a diminution of
> its scope by reducing the funds made available to it.

Being blunt: How do you know what Buffett really wants, or what orijing is really advocating? You've just described how you perceive Buffett's motives and orijing's assertions.

And why present this as a "lower taxes vs. smaller government" issue? That seems incredibly disingenuous. What is truly being advocated by many is a combination of both. What's the best way to solve a debt issue? Increase income while also decreasing spending. Why cripple the process by ignoring half the solution?

> A bigger government benefits crony capitalists like Buffet, because they
> have sufficient power and influence to ensure that the goodies that can
> be redistributed by the Leviathan are steered their way. I wish Buffet
> would be honest enough to say that, rather than bloviating about how
> terrible it is that he doesn't pay enough taxes when he is unwilling to
> take the obvious direct action necessary to rectify that unfortunate
> situation.

What evidence do you have of Buffett benefiting from government programs, or having taken advantage of cronyism? Honest question – he very well may have significantly increased his wealth from connections with other "crony capitalists". I have no evidence either way.

That said, do we need to look at past examples of when aggressive government spending has helped individuals or small companies? Once again, this doesn't need to be a black and white world – as the spender of last resort, the government can provide liquidity and resources to individuals, small companies, and large companies when no one else is willing to take the risk. Yes, some people may profit immensely as a result. Does that mean those programs were wrong? And a bigger government doesn't have to only benefit "crony capitalists"...

I don't understand why a holistic view is so rarely considered in these discussions. Rather than making this an "right vs. wrong", "rich vs. poor", "liberal vs. conservative", "communist vs. capitalist" argument, let's make it a discussion to find the best solution to our problems. Only then will we actually solve the problems our country faces.
TL;DR Get a password manager

The first part is interesting, if you had been less verbose an ALL the different accounts you had it would have been a more interesting read.

There are still undeniable issues of using a password manager if you lose the data (or your master password is compromised but lets not get into that).
The problem is not how much money is being 'donated'. The amount is fairly insignificant. The problem is the influence it buys and how that influence impacts the bigger picture.

So yes, I agree with you that this kind of corruption is a big problem. But how much money goes around in that circuit is not what concerns me, personally.
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Genes are a lot more complicated than that. Unless you get some really blatant genetic problem, like Down Syndrome, there's a very heavy environmental component to how you turn out. And that's exactly what you want, isn't it? You want your life not to be predetermined, or even predictable -- and that seems to be the way things really are!

Of course, some people do wind up with, say, a genetic predisposition to alcoholism or depression. But if you have something like that, wouldn't you like to know about it? If you know that you're predisposed to alcoholism (or whatever) then you can do something about it, instead of just letting it happen to you.
I think you're missing the point. No one person alone can fix this extremely complicated budget crisis. What "obvious direct action necessary" are you recommending for Buffet? Even if Buffet donated all of his money to the US gov't, it's not going to solve the problem. Will it help as a stop-gap? Yes, but it's just a quick fix. There must be a collective response, which includes everyone - lower class, middle class, congress, mega-rich, etc - for lasting progress. This is what Buffet is calling for and he specifically calls out the demographic he represents - the mega-rich.
What would be 'advanced features' of Word that are neither completely unnecessary nor could be replaced by (more or less) simple LaTeX macros?

I'm actually curious - I've heard a lot of people raving about the 'power of MS Word', yet no one was really able to name any meaningful features that would justify calling it 'powerful'.
While strictly true, this statement ignores all the other taxes that people pay. Rather than rehashing the entire conversation, I'll simply point you towards the thread where this was previously addressed:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2885574
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Actually for the money, you can do better than Kopi Luwak or Jamaican Blue Mountain.

Cup of Excellence winners are always good, though it may be more expensive than Blue Mountain. I was given a sample to roast once. Something like $40/kg _green_. Otherwise just sample various beans from a speciality roaster.
Come on, please stop trolling.
The government does that already by printing more money. The more money printed the less valuable your $10K. Better to keep money on assets that do not devalue with inflation.
How confident are you in your intuition on this matter? IQ does seem to be significantly correlated with a bunch of things that fall under the general umbrella of "getting ahead in life", like income and job performance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ#Social_outcomes
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Is the idea to separate the wheat from the chaff? For a good deal, my eye tends to look away from the cluster and find outliers, but these $399 or leases not the asking price.
I honestly don't understand your question. I don't mean that statement to be argumentative – I really don't understand.

Are you saying the top 1% should pay what I paid in taxes last year? I paid around $100k. I'm not sure why someone making millions to billions a year should only pay $100k. If you assert I should pay the same as high-income individuals, should someone making far less than I am also pay $100k?

To flip it around, if you assert someone making less than me should not pay the same dollar amount as me, then why should someone making many orders of magnitude more than me pay the same dollar amount?

Now then, if I assume you're asserting the mega-rich should pay the same percentage as me, then we both agree that Buffett should pay more. My tax rate was 23% while Buffett's was only 17%.

How ever you slice it, someone's going to have to pay more than someone else. Either the poor need to pay less since they can't afford the flat dollar rate that's established, or the rich need to pay more because the flat percentage rate means they owe more.

Thus, I don't understand your question – it seems logical that, given any taxation system, the rich should pay more. Am I missing something?
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Keeping a historical trove of prices would also be really neat-- then you could see what to expect.

It's cool, I would use it. I'd love to be able to set a range of mileage and price, filter by model names, location, etc. etc.
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