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> Sales tax is indeed double taxation.

Yes!

> That's why you're allowed to deduct it

It's complicated.

First, Sales taxes cannot be deducted from SALT if you deduct state income tax. You have to pick which one you deduct. But if the intention was to avoid double taxation, they would have allowed you to deduct both.

Second, SALT exists from the era when top marginal rates were 90 percent, so you could end up in situation where you paid more than your income in taxes. Actually this is true even with the SALT deduction, but the deduction was basically a tax break to top earners in order to compensate for very high federal rates. The rationale for it doesn't exist today.

Third, double taxation does not refer to the amount of tax paid but to the fact that the same income is taxed twice. Deducting the sales tax (or the income tax) would not eliminate double taxation, it would only reduce it by a small amount.

E.g. if you earn $1 in income and spend half of it, and if the sales tax is 10% and state income tax is 10% and the Fed tax is 30%, then:

* Without SALT, your liability is 45 cents (thank God you only spent half!) and you have triple taxation on $.50 (sales, state, federal) and double taxation on $.50 (state, federal)

* With SALT, your liability is 42 cents and there is triple taxation on $.50 (sales, state, federal) and double taxation on $.40 (state, federal). Thus the SALT deduction saves you 3 cents by reducing your federal liability from 30 cents to 27 cents. But you paid 15 cents to the state. This is because the SALT deduction is not a tax credit, it's a tax deduction that just reduces your taxable income a bit.
Coax cable is limited to 10 Gbps (DOCSIS 3.1) and is shared with many houses/apartments (can easily be a few hundred modems) in a neighborhood. Theoretically only 10 people can use 1 Gbps at any one time, in practice probably even less.
What danachow said makes sense to me. Under the "Logarithms and exponential" heading, it says the operator chip uses an exponential look-up room to convert this value back to a linear value. "This value" here refers to the output of log2(x*y). So I think it's implied that yes, the log2 calculation will yield a floating point number, but that floating point number will be converted back to a phase increment value that corresponds to the LUT. This is my shallow understanding of things
They certainly don't host DDoS network ops. What you're talking about is hosting web pages.
"May" is pretty specious. Is there any evidence of something likely to work? I would love to see practical fusion, but I see no reason to believe it will exist soon. Someone has to figure out how to actually make it practical first.
Parents will need to drive their own kids to school then. No different than consumers who can’t or won’t pay exorbitant fees to have groceries or takeout delivered.
Can you explain how much of a difference it is from non state of the art equipment? I don’t know much about electronic vehicles, I assumed that it was just power regulators, and it could be done on hardware like charging through an advanced IC charger. Basically if you replace the chip with another one, what is the greatest cost?

Do you have that replacement might be mitigated through other means?

Do firmware updates matter? I know that there were projects to make a Bluetooth finder with non replaceable batteries not functional when the batteries were replaced, it was tile, it depended on waste, a replaceable battery that was locked, and became non functional to sell more product.

Do you see it being bricked in a forced update like the tiles? Are you sure it’s able to be tuned for the newer battery capacity, or do you see workarounds? I can see a switch that can change it to stock mAh cells to ensure the best compatible with the software, but you also lose efficiency through voltage lowering buck conversion.
The numbers are bigger than 8 bits. I'm still figuring out the exact sizes, but it looks like the phase values are 23 bits and the table lookups are 12 bits. There are also numbers that are sort of floating point, with the value shifted by a few bits depending on how large it is. (This is one reason that DX7 emulators don't exactly match the DX7, because the number of bits used isn't standard.)
Glass bottles were very common in Germany, as there was a standing threat that a punitive deposit on single-use bottles would be introduced if the fraction of drinks sold in reusable bottles dropped too low.

Once that happened (fraction dropped, punitive deposit was introduced, and thus the threat was gone), glass bottles mostly disappeared.

This strongly indicates that there is some factor that makes them undesirable. My guess would be that the reverse logistics are so expensive that it doesn't make economical sense, which is also a good hint that it may not make sense ecologically either. Because you save the production of the bottles, but now you have to transport the heavy glass, twice, for each drink sold.
>But it makes you wonder how many did and which smiles at the grocery store are forced

Do you seriously expect you deserve genuine smiles from all service employees? And that if some don't do it it must be because of your nationality?

Did it occur to you that maybe some don't smile because they work shit dead end jobs, for shit pay, dealing with shit people as customers every single day for months/years on end?
ISO(-8601) can go fly a kite. Dashes or forward slashes are confusable as subtraction and division respectively between numbers as year, month, and day separators. - and − do not have enough of a discernible difference to matter. Periods could work if not for the choice of using them to start file extensions. Commas are already used to group numbers in sets of 3 significant figures. Writing the year, month, and day as a sequence separated by commas is distinct as the month and day are at most 2 digits.
Definitely not. I think I enter it about once per machine.
I'm not really interested in Lisp or Haskell. I don't feel like I'll be all that productive with them and there is little to no chance I'll use them professionally.

If anything I'd be interested in Rust, but it's a bit too low-level for most of the things that I need.
The essay is not arguing that GraphQL does not solve a problem, but pointing out that it can be misapplied.

If you do not need to, as you say, "sparsely grab information from multiple resources", but have relatively fixed fetching needs, GraphQL is actually a bad fit. (The essay made this point slightly differently.) Additionally, there are other solutions to the schema problem.
Hm. No. Wikipedia pages on advanced mathematical concepts are intensely useful, frequently more so than any other single text you could find on the topic, because the only other way to obtain the same information would be to scavenge it paragraph by paragraph from a dozen or so textbooks, some of which are on apparently unrelated and/or even more advanced topics. (I’ve had to do this, multiple times, and it can take months and an absolutely unreasonable tolerance of frustration fueled by either youthful naïvety or sheer boneheaded arrogance.)

But that’s provided your general mathematics education is something like one or two semester-long courses away from the thing you want to learn. Otherwise, they’ll frequently be useless, and you’re better off turning to gentler introductions.

Wikipedia is not unique in this; many other technical reference books are the same, including the Springer Encyclopedia of Mathematics (a rebranded and somewhat expanded version of the Russian-language Matematičeskaja ènciklopedija), probably the best general reference on university-level mathematics ever (unsurprisingly, as a lot of it has been written by then-current or -future stars of Soviet mathematics, that being one of the few legal ways to earn additional money while holding a job in academia). Few references are good introductions. You don’t learn C from the ISO standard—or even Scheme from RnRS, as wonderfully written as the latter is.

I am quite literally furious over an accusation of a cleverness contest in a source the quality of mathematics Wikipedia ... But to direct this fury at you would be both wrongheaded and useless. Only, any environment where this kind of behaviour exists at all, in any way, is best exited as soon as possible and forgotten about. It’s just that if you happened to suffer such an environment previously (possibly unwillingly, such as in school), you may see signs of this even where there are none. The best way to avoid this false impression is probably to look not at whether some people (appear to) flaunt their knowledge, but whether others are scorned for not having such (to be distinguished from scorn for being unwilling to learn).

Pure mathematics departments are generally among the friendliest places I’ve been to, if you just show up with a question (and display signs of having tried to find an answer by yourself, even if the result is a completely arse-backwards, mangled parody of the subject). Applied mathematics departments too, by and large, but there’s a small minority of them where people are jaded by having to teach unwilling students and justify their existence to narrow-minded bureaucrats, so unfortunately I can’t just recommend them unreservedly.
How is this a mandate if there is a weekly testing option? Nothing is mandated aside from testing weekly or getting the vaccine.
There is a truly excellent video on Mirai's (the botnet or atleast code in question) origin. It was created in the Minecraft server community by teenagers. The botnet was huge to a point where Akamai had to get help from Google to mitigate an attack on krebs' security blog. It also was used to attack Dyn, the infrastructure provider, and resulted in a huge outage affecting Netflix, Twitter etc.

Sadly it's only in German, but if you are on desktop, you can auto-translate the subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uletKRPMnuo
Did they? Or was it because Google asked everyone who used Google search to install their browser for several years?
Relativity was one of Galileo's contributions, earlier than Leibnitz: 1632 in his 'Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_invariance
Thanks Mark. Please do share your experience. Very keen on hearing how you find our project. We are still in beta, so lots of scope for improvement. We are open to any suggestions you might have.
Come to think of it, it’s a bit odd routers don’t in force this by default.
I think the horizontal gene transfer analogy is spot on for what's going on in the Altaic grouping of languages. Even then, though, it's a weird kind of horizontal transfer that is not well understood.

Probably the most common kind of transfer among languages is loanwords: think of the many many foreign loanwords in English for example. It's easy to see how this happens. You learn a foreign word that has some convenient meaning, there's no good equivalent in your native language, so you start using the foreign word if you think the person you're talking to will know it too.

But in the Altaic languages, you see similarities in abstract structure, without much apparent sharing of words. Altaic languages have a certain strictly head-final syntactic structure, where the verb is the final element in the sentence, you have postpositions coming after nouns, lots of freedom to drop and reorder arguments of verbs, etc. They all have agglutinative morphology with case marking that creates long complex words. They all have, or show historical traces of, some kind of vowel harmony.

All these abstract commonalities happen with only very little sharing of words. You can line up a Korean sentence with its Japanese translation almost morpheme-by-morpheme, and yet those morphemes are all totally unrelated to each other.

It seems really odd that you could have a set of languages that share their abstract structure without sharing content. And Altaic isn't the only example of this kind of thing: you also see it in the North American native languages, which share a strongly head-initial head-marking structure, nearly the exact opposite of the Altaic languages, despite a lack of cognates among their morphemes. It's almost as if what was transferred among the languages was an aesthetic, rather than individual words.

We don't really understand how this happens. My best guess is that it happens in situations of massive multilingualism, so that certain habits of articulation and sentence formation get shared across languages within the mind of a multilingual speaker. It's something I'd like to understand more.
I agree, Nix rocks!
Just have some empathy. This isn't a time to judje
Sure, I'm Spanish, I did that.

The walk to anywhere my education happened until I was 18 was took 10 minutes. after that, when I went to college, I had a bus stop about 200 meters from my house that got me there in another 30-40 minutes depending on traffic and such. I didn't finish college and pursued a different kind of higher education degree, that was about a 15 min ride via subway, the stop being less than 3 min away from my home. Then a different one of the same kind, which was a 15 min walk from my home.

My impression is that numbers like this are not at all the usual in the US, I will concede that the area in which I live is pretty well connected, but to be clear, these aren't crazy numbers by any measure.
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What is Keras? The deep neural network API is defined in details
I think the vast majority of Californians couldn't care less about Gavin, it's just that we didn't want the crazy right-wing talk-radio host to take over.
> more than 4.3 kilometers of its specially designed offshore fiberoptic and electric cables were cut and then disappeared.

Ooopsie! Them gonna be some gnarly fish sticks. "High Fiber seafood" maybe.
This feels like a leftist propaganda article. There are thousands of jobs that none of us can imagine doing because we don't understand what it actually takes.

Looking at it, driving a school bus does not seem to be any harder than driving any other bus, or truck. Does not seem to be harder than cutting up chicken, doing roadwork, cleaning a chimney, baking bread. What is with trying to paint school bus driving as some special kind of hardship.

If anything it seems easier and more pleasing than the other jobs I mentioned.

You get a ton of time off, all school breaks and summers, and you only have to work for a specific few hours a day. You get a sense of satisfaction getting kids to school and home, you get to see people, talk to some. There is direct feedback and shows you the value of your work. Why does it matter how many tons the bus is? You don't need to lift that.

If you want to make some part time money, driving a school bus seems a lot more fun and more entertaining than a lot of other jobs.

If there is a bus driver shortage then that is because the people that used to drive the school bus (retired and part time workers) don't want to do it anymore. But reasons are not explored or explained at all. Hence we learn nothing of the real reasons that we have a school bus shortage.

In my opinion drivers are afraid of catching COVID from the kids, so it is not a problem that raising the pay would address.
> Another aspect is that we citizen can’t measure it, so it’s hard to discuss on something that we can’t see

That was true 20 years ago but not anymore. Glaciers, ice melting on the poles, extreme weather events, air and land pollution, biodiversity collapse, primary commodity shortages... some of which we can observe ourselves and some of which is measured by scientists. And again, it's not only about climate.

> Another is that we’re planning on literally playing chemists with the Earth’s atmosphere composition, despite just having concluded that large-scale chemical experiments are to be avoided.

If you're referring to geoengineering, it sounds like a very bad idea to me as well.

> The EU follows and in June it plans to vote an increase of population of 12% by 2030 (through external growth).

I didn't really get this point about population but I'll do my research. I just hope it's not related to the "Great Replacement" theory. I find it interesting that you didn't mention nuclear power as it's one of the most frequent criticism against him (which seems like a straw man to me).

> I’m not saying global warming doesn’t exist.

OK so if I understand correctly your doubts are more about to what extent global warming is caused by human activities? Or do you agree that it's caused by human activities but you think isn't not going to be as bad as some people say?
The tweet is a specific case of the general idea that "Market inefficiencies result in price-value disparities." If you believe this, the tweet naturally follows. The author assumes the audience already believes this.
you can put as many flowers in your mouth as you want but death is death and rot is rot
Make extreme wealth extinct: it’s the only way to avoid climate breakdown
Even if you're not using WSL, you've always been able to turn on case sensitivity via a registry key. This has not been recommended in the past due to possible issues with windows itself as well as third party software. This history is mentioned here[0]. Everywhere that mentioned a registry key seems to be referring to windows nfs server, not to general file access, however I know that SFU (Services for Unix) installer had an option to do so, so it's certainly possible.

As of sometime in 2018, fsutil can set specific directory trees to be treated case sensitive in Windows 10 without setting it for the OS. This ability is mentioned here[1]

[0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/per-directory-cas...
[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/case-sensitivit...
Where I live we don't even have sidewalks in large amounts of the city, let alone crossings, and heavy snow for three~ months of the year.

With high enough population density and near-by schools these ideas could work, but the US is very spotty and way way too car-centric for this to be a turn-key solution.
Sand mining is ecologically destructive.
I really liked the earlier version of that one I had in the early 2000s. The quality (especially video) was atrocious by today’s standards but the form factor couldn’t be beat. Mine had a couple of bad pixels that had to be painted out in gimp. Not sure why I didn’t return it, but can’t remember. Maybe happened later.
To me, there is one big difference with postmark. Their focus is on transactional emails. Not marketing emails. I believe they have a separate service now for marketing emails, but the big reason I chose them is that they are very focused on keeping their IP addresses clean. One way they do this is by only allowing users of their service to send transactional emails like invoices, password resets, or thing that have been specifically requested by users. I assume they keep all that on IP addresses reserved only for that. Most people won't mark a password reset email as spam. But they will frequently mark recurring marketing emails as such.

I use Postmark for everything that is very important that it gets through. I actually use mailgun for mass emails, marketing, announcements, etc.
I certainly hope not! JSON is another flavor-of-the-month format, just like XML before it. I really wish people would stop messing with perfectly working software just to make it different. It almost never makes it better, on the contrary.
I think I'm broadly right [1]. They have opted out of the agriculture policy it seems and do technically have to approve EU laws, but rejecting them is pretty much unheard of.

[1] https://fullfact.org/europe/norway-switzerland-eu-laws/
What is the point of weekly testing anyway? If it doesn't equally apply to both vaccinated and unvaccinated. If the test is positive it's too late with unvaccinated anyway. And if vaccinated aren't tested they are still wilfully spreading to those who aren't vaccinated...
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They only write that BitBlt was demonstrated, not image rotation with BitBlt. So as far as we know currently, the 1981 article was the first mention of image rotation.
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This is a very beautiful geometric problem!

EDIT: removed hint.
The entire patent system is ridiculous. Every new idea is a tiny little increment on the vast mountain of human knowledge. No one should own it and prevent others from building further structures on top of that.

Everyone here on HN knows that ideas are worthless and execution is everything.
In my 35,000 person city, we’re facing real school budget issues due in parent to shifting population. Our superintendent is a smart guy and has made a number of moves to help maintain buildings and services. One of his first moves was to better optimize the bus routes, which was claimed to save $400K / year. Unfortunately the true outcome was that more parents gave in and started driving their kids to school because the bus service is now so crappy.
> Parents will need to drive their own kids to school then.

So is the school day going to get longer or the work day shorter? Or do all households now all need two parents with only one working?
Why on earth someone would pay 10x-20x alternatives for encryption that these days is available in high quality free open source software such as Restic, Borg or Duplicacy?
Tech firms, startups shifting benefits to attract and keep star staff
Aren’t those the most important areas that need housing? Isn’t rent control being used as the proposed solution for affordable housing? Wouldn’t removal help? The cost is also less nature and it can lose attractive characteristics, like how gentrification changes environments.
I don't think that's enough precision? I.e. if you only have -7 to +7 range for the whole number and 0-16 for the fractional portion, how do you represent 6.9886? 1000/16 means increments of 62.5 so the closest numbers we can represent are either 7.000 or 6.9375 - but 6.93xx overlaps with log2(126) = 6.9773 and 7.000 overlaps with log2(128)
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I would assume there isn't a magic number which can't be exceeded, but something which can be observed usually happens around that time, i.e. the glass becomes visibly cloudy and it's undesirable to sell new product in them, as opposed to invisible cracks in carbon fiber composites which require ultrasound to detect.
They already have a design, so it seems like at least they think they have the engineering problems figured out. This test rig should allow them to verify that.

They might well be able to compete based on differentiating factors other than cost, such as availability. Small sats riding on an F9 are generally on ride-share programs and can have to wait years for a slot. Unless you're commissioning a whole F9, you take what you can get. With this thing they can throw up a single small satellite whenever you like, and pretty much as many or as few as you like.

Price may well be comparable to reusable F9, after all this thing puts the "upper stage" to about the same altitude as an F9 second stage, and as with this the F9 second stage isn't reusable. Also the "first stage" of this thing is a catapult that's functionally infinitely reusable, whereas F9 first stages have only racked up a maximum of 10 launches so far. This catapult should theoretically manage thousands of launches.

Starship is a real game changer for sure, but we'll have to see how that pans out. It's still a long way from being a functioning service doing daily launches.
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I do backup my android phone using borg installed via termux.
I prefer to hand write my own. I feel it's over-complex for simple parsers and not complex enough for the more esoteric ideas I have. But I'd love to hear of people that have had success here?
Do you have a reference to show that image rotation using BitBlt was written any earlier than 1981?