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Why was I downvoted? The text of the sixteenth amendment makes this obvious:

> The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

That qualifier -- "without apportionment among the states" -- allows income taxes that aren't head taxes. Head taxes were already allowed. Nothing to do with any interpretation of the commerce clause.
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It’s a cool personal project, but at this level of similarity, why don’t you just write a JS compiler?
They are definitely faster. I get passed by many old people on their e-bikes.
I would not be surprised that speed + reaction time of older people is the main cause of the extra accidents.
If I wanted to throw 10M to a piece of art, I'd rather spend it training Dall-e-2, and have an enormous OLED "canvas" that displays pictures generated by the model.
I think we have a fundamentally different view on morality. (For the record, I don't think your view is particularly uncommon and I don't think it makes you a terrible person.)

You obviously don't like it when I describe your motivation as a "desire for ideological purity". You offer alternative descriptions with nicer words, but my reaction to your alternative descriptions is "exactly! that's what I mean by ideological purity!". So it's not clear to me what the disagreement there is (if any). It seems to me that you oppose this label because it has a negative connotation, even though it's a factually accurate representation of your thought process. So you prefer to describe this exact same thing using different words, which sound nicer, even though the substance is the same. If there truely is a difference of substance, then I would love to know what you perceive to be that difference.

> No, this is not about association, it's about resolve. I do not want to act against my own values. That would make me a hypocrite.

You think crypto is morally reprehensible, I get that. What I don't get is how accepting crypto donations would be acting against those values. I'm looking at morality in terms of expected outcomes: what will the world be like if I choose A, versus what will the world be like if I choose B. And yes I know you said this:

> I can't make the world a good or a bad place, I am not God. The world is what it is and it's largely outside of my control.

We all have the power to make small impacts on the world. I share the feeling that we can't make large impacts, but we can still make small impacts. If we don't accept that, we might as well argue that a single murder is not morally wrong, because a single murder has a statistically insignificant effect on the number of living people, it's practically a rounding error. The decision to not murder still has a small impact on the world. Similarly, many other decisions might have small impacts on the world. Deciding to become a crypto promoter certainly has a small impact. Founding a crypto business certainly has a small impact. But accepting donations in crypto? You would be taking money away from crypto people for the benefit of a charity or non-profit. You take $100k away from crypto people, pay a $5 transaction fee that somebody was going to pay anyway for moving that $100k somewhere, and the net result of these actions is supposedly bad? How? Because it crosses the ideological line somewhere. It breaks ideological purity. Nothing to do with outcomes whatsoever.
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"Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted with a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain."

I use corruption in the dictionary definition sense. I guess you think that corruption only means bribery.
The average life expectancy is from birth - so it includes infant mortality. You need to find the average life expectancy of someone in their 20s.
This is literally the scam of Web3. Just because you name something Web3 doesn't mean it's going to become the next big thing. There is no relationship between the success of Web2 and what will happen with Web3. Do you know how I know that? Because Web3 was coined by Sir Tim Berners Lee in 2006 as the semantic web and it didn't go anywhere.

"Oh well, you see web3 is like web2 + 1 and we know web1+1 was great so web2+1 must be even better". It's an idiots logic.
Personally if I somehow found myself in a country where literally everyone refused to interact with me unless I accepted the Facebook terms of service, I would suspect I am in a cult and GTFO at almost all costs.

not everyone has the option to leave their country. in fact most people don't have that option. and for those that can leave, in most cases family means leaving is not a decision they can make by themselves.

and even if they could use alternative ways to communicate, if facebook were the only way to keep in touch with some family members, then refusing that would in itself be unethical.

so talking about what is an ethical choice here is really really difficult.

also, leaving is fine if you only want to communicate with people that agree with you. but if you want to reach out to others, you have to meet them where they are. FOSS or the awareness about surveillance capitalism is not going to spread much further if we refuse to communicate with people who won't accommodate our preferences.
I did not detected such perception, really. There is a lot of blaming other party for wrong values going around all the time. That is not even mutually exclusive with foreign actors trying to influence politics, whether successfully or not.
Have you talked to the food bank about their policy on past-date canned food? I know at least one food bank where they told people not to donate any food past the date as it will get tossed (plus additional staff and volunteer labor to sort through the stuff). I assume this is common for liability reasons at least.
If I was a betting person, I would never put stock in that atrocious betting record of yours again.

Sweden set to join NATO: https://mobile.twitter.com/shashj/status/1514181898456555531
The Quake engine BSP format precompiled visibility and lighting elements into the level file data. So at runtime you had a precomputed 'potentially visible set' (PVS) for any position a player could be within the playable area, and rendering was then performed based on that set only. Walking that tree was stunningly fast compared to runtime occlusion culling techniques. Likewise lighting info was pre-baked into the level as a layer of texture, and computed based on point-in-space light objects raycast against the PVS calculated in the previous step. All of this meant you were processing on less textures and polygons for any given position during the game, and that provided a speed edge at a time when absolute reduction in overdraw was key to performance.

This let you do stuff like (and I'm working from memory here) have a 15k triangle budget from which you could easily develop a 300k triangle environment, as long as you were VIS-ing well enough that a player never saw more than 5% of the environment from any common position. Non-visible areas were essentially completely free, because they weren't even considered at runtime. This was a significant edge over culling approaches such as the one you mentioned, at a time when that kind of edge mattered a lot.

That said, IMO this approach was tuned for extracting maximum performance from the hardware available at the time (~Mid 1996- late 98). It showed it's age heavily from Quake 3 onward and was quickly overtaken by engines adopting somewhat different approaches (e.g. Unreal) quite quickly.
Devastating? I don't see anything devastating in the article you linked. Perhaps you can point it out? The language is very weak.

> PwC considers it plausible that the people who ended up on the blacklist on the basis of appearance or nationality were disadvantaged as a result. Like others on the list, they presumably did not qualify for smooth debt restructuring, debt forgiveness, or a personal payment arrangement. Unlike in the allowance affair, according to PwC, the list played no role in the assessment of income tax returns.

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They can't point to a single case in which this happened?
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I think the problem isn't so much "where you start", but rather if you stop and backtrack along the way. What I mean is that if you have "convoluted interfaces, unused class/struct/type member variables, duplicate data" etc. then you started with some approach but never stopped for a minute along the way to redesign things using the knowledge you've learned from the first implementation pass.

I sometimes end up with a messy and crappy solution on my first try, but it does work (sort-of) and then I just start from scratch again, liberally copying stuff over but also deleting/changing a lot of stuff, as needed.
I linked the elsewhere in this thread but will paste them here for convenience.

https://www.techdirt.com/2011/03/18/us-military-kicks-off-pl...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/04/facebook-must-take-the...

And iirc, there was a bill around 2015 that revoked the blocking of US military from carrying out domestic propaganda. I gotta double check tho.

Edit: It was the State Dept who were banned from domestic propaganda via their broadcast arm under the Smith-Mundt act until 2013 when the ban was lifted.

https://www.techdirt.com/2013/07/15/anti-propaganda-ban-repe...
But if I read the article correctly, this glyph comes from a set of math symbols. I don't think "stock goes down" was ever used in any mathematical script.
I'm not German but from CEE but I also do not consider 'sandwich bread' as 'bread' or at least not as default option for 'bread'.
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I love this project! I agree support for arbitrary grids would add a lot to the user experience. You might not even need ml for that. For instance, look for the blob of uninterrupted color that occupies the largest contiguous space in the image and interpret cell order within it by a function of their midpoint and filter for size. You could draw missing outside walls via convex hull generation first.
The trick to getting the best out of camera phones is to shore up their weaknesses with external devices. Cell phone cameras are multiple stops slower than "real" cameras (i.e. they take in 1/4 to 1/8th as much light). So you add light to the scene to shore up that weakness.

Most of these pictures were probably lit very carefully with high quality lights, or else were taken in bright daylight, and the phone was probably held in a high quality tripod. It is also likely that hundreds of dollars worth of software was used to edit each of these images.

It's pretty cool that you can get such nice results from a phone. But you'd probably have an easier time of it on a five year old aps-c camera with a macro lens, to say nothing of modern 35mm cameras.

These images are somewhat analogous to the videos of fake hamburgers that fast food companies use to sell their product. That is, the physical conditions where this picture was taken did exist. It's not totally CG. But the images are designed to make you think that you can get results that practically are out of reach for most of the people looking at the photos.

Still knowing that can also allow you to make better cell phone pictures by taking into account those weaknesses when you're taking pictures. There are valuable techniques to learn from these images, aside from the fact that they are all high quality art.
Presuming a sorted list gives an 'objective view' which you can act on directly, without needing to check context, interpretation, bias in your input, and unintended consequences of treating this sorted list as truth, is quite dangerous.

Whether that is done with bubblesort or not indeed does not matter. But thinking that acting based purely on data and data processing is a good idea, that sure as shit matters. In fact, it is a big mistake.
Keep in mind, this service appears to be focused on India, where the kind of loaf bread pictured is also not the most traditional. (When I lived in Afghanistan and would occasionally buy loaves of sandwich bread at groceries catering to expats, my Indian colleagues referred to it as "double roti"—a term I found delightful. I wonder how common that usage is in India these days.)
I think at the national level that’s true, but there are plenty of anarchist book clubs, an entryist socialist party had a massive growth in 2017 and I’ve got a friend who has a cache of guns for when she is called to fight for the communist revolution, though she also is too scared of covid to leave her apartment.

So uh, you’re probably right, but at the same time I never stop hearing about it.
Those are all lies though! :D

I would rather increase my life-expectancy of 5 years with science than believing in an immortality based on religions whose fundamental books are full of things we have disproven.

Bible "on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."
No dude, if there ever was a god it would have not taken 6 standard rotations of our sun around our planet.
There are billions of stars in our Universe, our Sun doesn't matter to God, home sapiens alone wouldn't particularly matter to God. That story is just completely nonsensical once you know basic astronomy.

So given how ridden of easily disprovable things are religious books, why should you trust them about anything at all? You shouldn't.

Throw away the fairytales books from thousands years ago and stop brainwashing next generations with it.
> The 'bulgaren-fraude' was the cause for the government to change policy (and I believe law) to be much stricter on fraud and be much more vigilant when trying to detect fraud.

Whatever the stated reason was, they failed horribly at execution - by unfairly stereotyping and discriminating against innocent people.

There lots of other ways to combat tax fraud.
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That doesn't jive with the history in TFA — the Unicode name and location was inferred from the symbol itself without knowledge of its meaning.
They aren't mutually exclusive. If you use numpy, you're using array-oriented, procedural, and object oriented all at once; maybe functional too, depending on your programming style. They should be thought of less as all-consuming "paradigms" and more as useful tools, like regex. Sometimes a tool is so powerful you can do everything with it; that doesn't mean it's a good idea!
Fantastic read, thanks, I needed that this morning.

I never thought to go check what else he had written, even though I've read several of the other authors listed.
That's just evil, but also, likely not terribly enforceable.

It would just bring crypto back to its roots as a government resistant alt currency. Being uncontrollable was the whole point. Particularly regarding Bitcoin and Monero.
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Fully agreed.

But the stated reason is still relevant, if only to check what the history and reasoning of the original plan was. Here it informs us how the tax office came to see citizens as adversaries, when that was not (or less so) their stance before 2016.
>it's also unfair to omit discussion of the fundamental innovation, and those who do so will end up on the wrong side of history.

No, please stop with this fallacy. I don't know where people get this idea besides from marketing hype. There is no innovation in cryptocurrency. It's perfectly fair to also disregard any claims of innovation, because they're not true. I'll go into the specifics here.

>1) programmatic public chains that are inexpensive to run

The innovation you're taking about here is a database server, blockchains not necessary. AWS and Azure are also an "inexpensive programmable and public" server except you can put anything you want on it, it doesn't have to take the form of an immutable ledger. Blockchains are just strictly worse than everything else.

>2) zero-knowledge proofs.

Also has nothing to do with blockchains, zero knowledge proofs are useful for other purposes besides cryptocurrency, and were invented long before it.

>By combining public chains and zero-knowledge proofs, we get an inherently global market, with p2p transactions that scale to all of humanity, where you can send money digitally, similar to handing a $20 bill to a friend.

No, you don't. By combining those things you might get some structure that would theoretically allow you to do that, but that's only a small portion of building a scalable financial platform. There are still a ton of other services you have to build, which have to exist anyway for any form of online finance regardless of whether you use a blockchain or not. Blockchains are also not "p2p" in any way, by definition they require middlemen to run the chain.

I'm growing tired of reading these comments about cryptocurrency where basically everything is wrong, it's exhausting to deal with the torrent of misleading statements. That should tip any technologist off that something is seriously wrong there. I can't even blame you for making them, the marketing hype is just out of control and is confusing everybody.
The article you posted states that Apple won their appeal against the finding of illegality in the ECJ.

Taxation is not an EU competence so in general it is not within the power of the EU to declare a member state's tax policy to be illegal. Vestager has been trying to use state aid as a vehicle to circumvent that restriction but the ECJ rebuffed her attempt to do that in Ireland. A big part of the problem is that the state aid findings rely on the assertion that tax authorities applied special rules to one particular company, which is typically not the case.
Wearz were very nice things.
Indeed. The zoning code for my town specifically calls them out (as allowed, with no permits necessary).
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GP used the same definition - employees of the tax-office received no illicit benefits or personal gain.
> Afaik we are very close to artificially creating living cells. This is one recent example [1].

I beg to differ. It may look impressive on the surface, just like GPT-3 looks impressive on the surface, but is far from the real thing. It is just another extension of the ladder to the Moon.

The effort described in the article is nowhere near a living cell. It lacks protein building and DNA/RNA mechanisms. They basically describe a group of nanomotors.

I can recommend watching James Tour on this very topic [1] and Stephen Meyer on the related topic of intelligent design [2]. Those two lectures were eye-opening for me learning more about this field. Note: both of them are self-confessed theist scientists which to me did not represent a problem (my viewes are agnostic, and it only made it more interesting as you rarely get to hear different views about these matters than pop-sci).

> The consciousness part is similar to AGI.

It is not clear what you mean by that. One thing is to build computer code and then have it manifest 'intelligence'. Whole another thing is doing same with organic matter that can not be 'programmed', even if we knew how to do it (let alone there is no evidence that 'programming' is responsible for consciousness at all to begin with).

This is also known as 'hard problem of consciousness' and David Chalmers is considered one of the leading experts in the field [3]. Basically smartest scientists in the world are clueless about this and do not know even where to begin, in many ways similar to AGI.

> Some things might be a logistical challenge rather than one of knowledge. Fusion energy attempts to replicate the way stars produce energy and we already managed to replicate the effect, we are just (many years) shy of maintaining it to produce positive energy.

I can see why one can have this position where it seems like we are making progress in everything we talked about, but that is the main punchline of the ladder to the Moon analogy. Indeed it is imaginable, and indeed every step makes us closer. But it does not mean we will ever reach it.

I agree with you that the discussion ultimately boils down to direction and strength of one's beliefs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU7Lww-sBPg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pk9oDrpf6k

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5DfnIjZPGw
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Billions were spent in the election, why would some random thing like this make any difference?

https://nypost.com/2016/12/09/hillary-clintons-losing-campai...
Most of your points are entirely fair, and my experience may have been unique (lived in the centre of a succession of European cities and used trains extensively throughout Europe for many years). Not every train is easy to work on, but with a minimum of planning I can usually design a long-distance journey such that the probability of being able to work during most of the trip is very high. My productivity doesn't depend on access to the Internet every minute of the day; for others the frequent loss of mobile connectivity e.g. on some routes in Germany would be a problem.

> Virtually any airline outside of the no-frills-Ryanair sector happily sells you flexible tickets (often for price).

This is not the same thing. I do not need to tell anyone that I have decided to take a later train using my open train ticket.
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> "An audit showed that the tax authorities focused on people with “a non-Western appearance,” while having Turkish or Moroccan nationality was a particular focus".

This has nothing to do with algorithms, mates. It had to do with how it wasn't tested and monitored. It appears that it was just rolled out live.

> "Fraud prediction and predictive policing based on profiling should just be banned"

And here are the usual luddists pandering on the confused using wrong arguments. Sigh.
Yes, because only at the end of __new__ AND __init__ would the object be complete.
> […] in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain.

There was no personal gain nor illicit benefits gained by the civil servants responsible. For something to be corruption, the perpetrator has to gain something.
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> EU parlement will outlaw self hosted wallets

Isn't it self-hosted anonymous wallets?
Seems like Form Energy has come up with a better method, also iron-based but no combustion.

https://formenergy.com/technology/
Agreed, and there are some innacuracies that could have been corrected with a little research. For example, the description under the Girl logo states "The company doesn’t only make skateboarding products for females, but it has launched skateboards for male skaters." but the company name never had anything to do with products for girls at all.

As an aside, I'd always assumed that the Birdhouse logo is what it is because it's based on the Bauhaus typeface and the names are similar... I'm surprised that's not picked up on here.
I assumed W.A.S.T.E. were behind them.

(Might need to add this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_of_Lot_49)
Genuine question... is 'people from Bulgaria' a euphemism for Roma gyspies?
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