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A means of separating fools from their money
Apparently there are no extensions at all.
If I am not mistaken, Javascript can't disable Meta tags.
If I buy a painting though, it's irreplaceable and can't truly be replicated. Can't say the same of digital. I suppose there's "bragging rights", but if someone was like "I own the original doge image NFT" I think I'd roll my eyes and think less of them.
Even with an intermediary, you still have to trust them with your credentials and it's not foolproof.

MT Gox was the biggest exchange in the world when it was hacked in 2014 and billions in bitcoin was stolen, it's account holders were totally left to dry. The freedom of choice is nonsense in an immutable, decentralized system where stuff like this can happen. If someone gets your private key from you directly or through a hosted exchange, that's it.
I agree and it is the wrong approach. Rich people can always find ways to hide their money because they can afford to pay people to help them because of the sheer scale.

I'd rather see us get rid of the like kind exchange and also modify how we handle capital gains. Get rid of the long term rate. How about any time you make money, you have to pay tax on it. It seems more reasonable and simple. Additionally, we should start adding VAT on certain kids of revenue, especially digital advertising. It is far too profitable to propagate hate today. I'd also like to see additional taxes on real estate with an exception for everyone's personal residence. We need to make it too expensive to just sit on an asset everyone needs. I know some places like Vancouver have started programs like this but we need it more broadly. Personally, I'd also like to see an additional tax on buybacks. Companies should have to pay the corporate tax rate plus and additional rate to buyback their own stock.
Sure, so you want to hedge against a bank run (even though bank deposits are insured)? I don't think you're making any sense but, anyway... what kind of hedging instrument do you intend to use against a bank run and why?
Last week my little one-person business crossed $1.3M in revenue
My favorite coding font is liberation mono, but I wish I understand truetype well enough that I could make it substitute -> with a proper right-pointing arrow, and !=, >=, <= etc. by their proper mathematical equivalents.

I've tried editing the font myself using fontforge, but without any luck...
Are you making a joke about "Aliens" or is this an honest question
It will start as a wealth tax on billionaires but within five years it will be a wealth tax on anyone with a net worth greater than 100k. That’s how these things go. Take a look at the history of the history of the federal income tax for an example. It started in 1913 as a mere 1% on the lowest income earner. By 1918, the lowest bracket was 6%. Now it’s 10%.

You’ll have to do some adjusting for inflation, but this document lists every federal income tax bracket over the past 150 years:

https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/fed_individual_r...
I think there can absolutely be incompetent governments, like say an idiot country that puts a game show host in office.
You're missing an extremely important detail. When we write a check for our rent, we're really paying two rents. One is for the land rent (for the actual land beneath the building), the other is for our section of the building on top of that land.

In most developed areas, the land rent is really the vast majority of the cost. I.e. In a city, you can buy a building, tear it down, and somehow you haven't destroyed most of the capital you just purchased.

Under Lore's "Equitism" (fancy name for Georgism/Geoism), the land rent is recaptured by the thing that actually produced the increasing value - everything around the plot of land.
>This is the first technology to come along and offer artists an actual avenue to payment for their creative work, and for fans to directly engage with and support with artists.

Except for, ya know, Bandcamp, Patreon, PayPal, so on and so forth...

>For once... musicians... can be in control of their own distribution and the terms of it.

Bandcamp has always offered this for musicians? Artists in all mediums could always host their own website and take whatever payment/amount they want through PayPal or other processors? Am I crazy?

Edit:

>People who own or sell NFTs aren't doing it just to "own" a jpeg, it's a digital representation of something purchased, or proof of attendance.

Not to keep focusing on Bandcamp specifically, but again - Bandcamp. If I buy music there, my user thumbnail is listed under "supported by" on that track/album's page, and it's added to my public-facing-by-default collection list. Got a piece of music in physical form that you bought elsewhere? Cool, add it to your Discogs collection and keep your profile public.
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Hmmm.... that icon.

I'd offer to create a new one for you if I understood what "55" was referring to. (All I can think of is the 55 MPH speed limit from decades ago.)
Very good point. At least the contract wasn’t awarded via a VIP channel overseen by Michael Gove. Or then again who knows …?
I'm late to the game and not the downvoter, but I assume it's because you picked a relatively random, only vaguely related post to hang your comment off.

It may or may not get more traction or interest, but is likely to at least get better reaction, if you make it a top level comment or its own submission. Where/as it is, it just feels random and almost bot-spammy.

My 100 Croatian Lipa, for whatever it may be worth :)
But how are those used as loopholes? Aren't these policies that were enacted for the the purposes of giving tax breaks to small businesses?
There's a serious problem where people are just sitting on valuable land in dense areas, your proposal would exacerbate that.
We're still discussing options there, so I don't have an answer on how we might handle them. We do recognize that many business customers will have such requirements.
It didn't make Facebook a devil. It has always been one. His speech may have caused the media to antagonize the company but they're not lying about Facebook's abusive treatment of their users.
The big thing with power for me is phones and other similar devices. I have one phone that supports a quick charge capability, but I need not only their power brick but also their USB cable (something about a pull up resistor that signals the charger / phone combo to go into fast charging mode). Same thing with a tablet, it has its own fast charging standard.

I gave my Pixel C to my Mom, and the charger that came with it seemed to work well on her original Pixel phone. But after a week of using it, the phone went out and had to be replaced. And look up reviews of almost any USB C power delivery hub, they are filled with accounts of Mac's getting fried from using them.
Are you sure? How old were you in 2008?
Are they willing, or is there simply no correct choice at the voting booth because of First Past the Post voting?

Our current electoral system: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
Does Amazon allow torrenting? Or could you have your seedbox push the data to S3 from $WHEREVER? If so, you could possibly use Snowball[1] to get the data to your residence.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/migrate-peta...
You said that inflation and taxes are a way to mitigate or avoid concentrations of wealth.

As a counterargument I said that rich people don't save in cash and that inflation damages the poor more than the rich, the world bank has evidence for that:
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/1...

> Inflation provides an incentive to actually put the money to use,

Inflation provides an incentive to get rid of the money that loses its value over time and instead change it for something else. This not only affects the rich, but also the poor. An effect is that it becomes more difficult for the poor to save and invest. The rich can handle inflation much better than the poor.

I found another article that arguments about this https://mises.org/library/whats-so-scary-about-deflation
Wait what happened? I don't get what's the purpose of the site. I didn't play any game, can anyone explain?
Apple on the desktop is not in a good space. If you take performance out of the equation, the new Pro laptops just look and feel years behind what Microsoft is doing with Windows 11 and the Surface. MacOS was really fantastic a few years ago. It was lightweight and great for development and design. But, now it just feels old and bloated.
How about the following scheme:

1. A government, any government, puts aside about €500 million.

2. Anyone who can submit a proposal, and anyone with a decent enough plan and a convincing group of people to execute it gets €250k. Total budget for this phase is €50 million, so this funds 200 ideas.

3. If ANY measurable progress has been made once the money runs out, your group gets another €500k. Expect 50% of the companies of step 2 to fail. Total budget for this phase is again €50 million, for (now) 100 ideas.

4. If the money from 2. or 3. turns out to be spent maliciously, the government will haunt you to get you to pay it back (there are existing protocols in place to deal with this).

5. If the money from 3. runs out, there is a go/no-go decision. In case of "go", you get €2 to €5 million to really have a go at it and build the real thing. In case of "no go", it stops here. You are obviously free to take your idea and try to find other investors for it. Weeds out (say) 50%, so now left at 50 ideas - total budget about €175 million.

6. For the companies that get the "go" in step 5, observe their performance. If it's promising, give them another €10 million. Again you probably only fund 50%, so that's 25 ideas for about €250 million.

7. Profit.

Tada, a working process that probably gets your country a fairly large number of actually competitive companies that can end up employing thousands of people and at the same time help save the planet.

Germany could run a competition like this for €6 per person. The EU could fund it for €1 per person. Heck, even the city of New York could fund it for the low, low, price of €20 per person. This is eminently doable.
Crypto provides utility by being decentralized, permissionless to participate in, and censorship resistance.

The reason mining consumes so much aggregate energy is because it is the most profitable use of energy at the moment. Part of this is because the cost of energy for fossil fuels in not accurately represented in its price.

Tax payers / governments subsidize the fossil fuel industry in billions every year, including coal which is used in coal power plants. A carbon tax is also not implemented. So externalities are not captured in price.

It should fairly obvious how energy sources change once those issues are addressed.
I assume one of the reason Intel could never develop it's own graphics adapter business is that any proper GPU would initially decrease the load on the CPU, partly reducing the justification for more expensive versions of their main product. Marketing-driven tunnel vision and all that.
It’s a problem of technical complexity (and UX) that creates incentives around centralization.

I’m hopeful urbit can be a way out of it: https://urbit.org/ I think without really thinking of the underlying issues with the stack and tackling that directly, other existing attempts at federated systems are DOA and won’t solve the real problem.
I think this simplifies things a bit too much. Fiscal and monetary policies are administered by two separate branches of government, the Fed and Congress. The Fed is only nominally under democratic control, with just the board members approved by Congress every few years. They're literally different hands, so one may giveth and one may take away. Conventional Keynesian theory specifies both fiscal and monetary stimulus when a recession occurs. I'm curious to know what other fiscal policies could have had a similar impact given the very low benchmark interest rates already. Anyone have some thoughts on policy alternatives?
> I get that it's an image (maybe any digital media?) and it is associated with an entry on a blockchain somewhere but then I get confused.

Not entirely correct. The NFT confers ownership of the NFT, not the asset it "represents" unless otherwise specified in a regular old contract or terms of sale. Often times the copywrite of the NFT's asset isn't even transferred correctly to the NFT owner.
Critics of NFTs incessantly conflate them with copyright and DRM, but it's a strawman argument.

Buyers are aware that it doesn't grant them any actual rights beyond "I can transfer this NFT".

I'm against NFTs for their environmental impact, I'm fine with their vanity.
Please don't make me request a demo via email. Upload a video and name your price. I don't want to be convinced by talking with a salesman in a call. If I like what I see in the video, I'll pay for Pro without arguing.

So please make the commercial option more visible and transparent -- without people having to email you.
You don't need to mint on Ethereum. I'm there are cheaper options.
When a German security team discovered problems with vaccination certificates, they generated a card for Robert Koch [0]. Really better way to demonstrate the vulnerability without offending people.

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/security-flaws-uncovered-in-eu-vaccina...
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I took my son to see the movie who didn't know anything about Dune but is really into Star Wars. After, I told him Dune heavily influenced Star Wars, he said "I could tell!" but at first he thought I meant it was heavily influenced by Star Wars, he's been rethinking his entire childhood ever since :)
Unredacted Google antitrust docs [pdf]
Just raise interest rates and use eminent domain to build housing in locally zoned off areas.

Of course we can't do either of these things (gov debt and people with power have money -> own land -> love strict zoning)
I bow down to your experience of driving through a few times, over my experience of living in the region for the first twenty-odd years of my life.
Taxing asset growth would encourage business people to do all of their valuations "under the table" and never go public, to defer asset growth taxes. Valuations would become a tax accounting fiction.
> I find it very hard to support that much spending when they haven't even figured out where they're going to get the money from.

How are you defining "figured out"? It sounds like you are expecting that to mean consensus, but the nature of politics is that every politician has "figured out" their own solution. So the only way to consensus is compromise, and that is what we are seeing here.
there is Klutch card (formerly Alloy card)

https://www.klutchcard.com/#developer
The Godfather re-cut to be in chronological order was even better. I believe it was on HBO.
It looks interesting, but I wouldn't even download or use it for free, knowing I have to send out an email just to find out what the pricing tiers are (even for an individual user) and what is/is not included. Are you willing to publicly share that information?

Since you explicitly mention Sublime Text: their pricing is listed on their website and they have a clear 'Buy' button.
Not sure why you would share that your pricing is similar and name a specific product, but also appear unwilling to display what the pricing and featureset is.
Things I freakin' love about Google Cloud's approach to IAM
Fairly sure this is illegal in the UK, and it was the enforcement against such schemes that blew up Rangers football club among others. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/loan-schemes-and-...
Why should urban citizens subsidize a lifestyle choice for others?

Because people that live in cities need to eat.

Because we are a society.

Because not everyone that lives in the country (or a small enough town) chose to live here - people get born there and turn into adults there.

I shouldn't have to mention this, but farmers need infrastructure to keep making your food. Gas and groceries and utilities and grain silos and schools and doctors and a bunch more - oh, and people that operate all of this.

Those people that make all that stuff run need a lot of that stuff too.
World faces disastrous 2.7C temperature rise on current climate plans, UN warns
To be fair, "overwhelmed" is how one feels reading the book; we're given SO MUCH all at once.

Competing cultures. Strange names. Prophecy. Paul is referred to in 4 or 5 different ways... it's a lot to take in.

The movie was the same way. They explain everything, but there's a LOT to explain so they say it once and move on.

One constantly feels "behind" and then, at the end, you feel this "wow" sensation of the scale of squeezing all that lore and world-building and storytelling and philosophy into one book.
For illiquid holdings, the plan only taxes them at time of sell (which, by definition is when they are liquid). The only thing that is taxed continually are things like stocks, that are pretty liquid (though can be put into structures that make it illiquid, which may be a tax avoidance strategy?)
Why don't they just use the shields as nuclear weapons then?
It is not mobile + cloud that ended up here. It is lack of symmetric fiber to the home connections. People do not have upload capacity at home, so there is no choice but to depend on large cloud providers. If people had upload capacity, then it could have been possible to host your own backup solutions or media or personal websites.
Kentucky is full of mountain roads with questionable maintenance and build quality which are used by coal and mining trucks all the time. They are basically one lane roads too.

As long as the "road" is kind of flat and made of something slightly more sturdy than sand, these trucks can get through.
> I think this discussion is interesting but misguided. For consumer laptops, light, very thin, and a single USB-C port makes sense to me. On the other hand, if you are building a larger form factor laptop for professional use, why not add additional ports, they are easy to fit into the design.

But this conversation is largely about the MacBook Pro, where it's a "larger form factor laptop for professional use", and yet they removed all but the USB-C ports, and then put them back. That seems rather on point in this discussion.
I might be in a minority, but I came to a conclusion, that Lynch's "Dune" (1984) is a superior movie. Of course, the extended version with all deleted scenes put back in.

Sure, this movie has great visuals, great actors, great cinematography, but _that_ movie too had great actors, imaginative distinct sets, and great memorable music. The biggest flaw is short runtime - first half of the book fits 85% of runtime, and then things are quickly rushed to a conclusion (note that the audiences in 1984 weren't taught to see movies in 2 or more parts). I feel that many book scenes were done better by Lynch (Paul's awakening, Yueh, Leto's death, Gom Jabbar test), while many Villeneuve scenes must be utterly confusing to viewers who didn't read the books (Shadut Mapes scene, which is quite weird without Jessica's inner monologue, and her lucky 'maker' pick).

In Villeneuve's Dune, the plot is very unclear, the traitor plot is absent, no meaning is given to why nobody suspected Yueh to be a traitor. His mentats are useless furniture. Thufir Hawat is given three scenes: in the first, he counts the travel costs, in the second, gives assessment of production capabilities, and in the third offers his resignation, which is declined. Who is he, an accountant? COO?! Peter DeVries is reduced to a sad freak who stands near the baron and then dies.

If you look past the visual effects, the only three big improvements in the new movie are Momoa's Idaho, which was GREAT, Batista's Rabban, and all fight scenes. Idaho's role is wasted in Lynch's Dune, Rabban was so-so, and battle sequences were meh. If only Lynch had steered away from those sonic weapon modules and had 6 hours runtime, we'd have an extremely good and vivid movie. Oh, and sound design in new movie is good, Harkonnen / Sardaukar singing / battle language are cool and weird.

All things considered, Dune (1984) was a flashy, vivid, and somewhat messy movie full of life, while Dune (2021) is sterile and almost devoid of emotions.
Cross-Platform Elixir Deployments
An NFT is basically a link to a URL stored on a blockchain. Websites can host an artist's image at a specific URL and help them sell the NFT as a kind of "crypto-autograph" for the artwork. It doesn't mean the actual artwork gets stored on the blockchain, it doesn't actually transfer ownership or copyright to the work, and it doesn't prevent e.g. the servers actually hosting the artwork from going down. It's basically a digital commemorative plaque that says "The owner of this token "bought" the artwork at [URL]".
You joke, but even some of the most poorly engineered streaming services, like Crave.ca, managed to implement screenshot blocking.

Seriously, this is a service whose Android app always appears as "unavailable in your region" (I'm in Canada), yet it allows mobile browsers to play the content just fine, except for the screenshot blocking.
Is it possible for everyone in a society to achieve upward mobility through compounding?
> I have had multiple real problems in my life where not knowing the exact source checkout and time something was built has been a problem.

Once you know the exact source, what does it matter when the binary was built?
I feel like it was pretty obvious what was going on, and I didn't read the book