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>They also talk about the system, how it came to be, etc., for example:

True, I should credit the article for giving the background, but I would have preferred it to be the focus instead of someone who won the lottery.

>In some sense, one could view the detailed reporting as a guidebook for how anyone can do this too!

Roths have never been a secret. They just have had very low caps (still only $6k per person), and most people would rather 95% chance of getting 5% returns on their $6k investment rather than a 0.00001% chance of getting 1,000,000% return on their $6k investment.

Obviously, a richer person has more ability to gamble and thus profit from this, but the article frames it as a guaranteed mechanism to evade taxes (uses the term “side step”), when in reality, it is still very much a gamble (assuming there is no fraud).
I think the title might better off start with "forall x" as on the link instead of "Forallx"
How do you prove yourself to be 'inventor' or 'original' if there are already preexisting patents?
> Taxing in Spain is higher and higher and evidence says that things are not getting better. If that was true, more taxes -> more welfare. Yet public positions that make no sense grow and "productive economy" is smashed with taxes.

You are not addressing the problem there.

Don’t get me wrong, my taxes in Poland are absurdly high and my QoL is not that much higher compared to when I was in Denmark as a broke grad student barely making it through each month.

A bloated public sector is not evidence that collective assistance is bad, it is not. In the example I gave above, local information suggests to simply not help the homeless, but global information finds that housing them cuts the costs and improves the situation for everyone.

What prevents “a” charity from doing what I describe is that charities are run by people, and most of them are not effective, which is why effective altruism is a thing in the first place. The aim of effective altruism is to maximise the net impact of individual people’s charity by avoiding giving money to bad ones.

Still, EA does not have the capacity to see the complete picture because it still lacks data and can not organise large scale operations across multiple sectors whereas individual charities are very limited in scope.
> We have a Discord server where we all still talk and chat, but it's a cheap imitation of what we used to have.

I moved half a world away for a masters and now have a job in another country. I feel this so much. I've been tempted to go back several times just because the lack of connection. It doesn't help I'm in a smaller country which makes it hard to break into friend groups when they've all known each other since secondary school (or longer) or Uni.

Discord really can't replace in-person discussion and experiences.
>Ubuntu is feeling more and more like Windows every day. There are lots of parts that feel unpolished, and blatant bugs make it feel untested.

That's way worse than Windows. All core Windows GUI components actually work and are stable. GUI wise, my Ubuntu 22.04 provided at work is way, way, more buggy than my Windows 11 Pro install at home. Don't know if it's Ubuntu issues, GNOME issues, GNOME extensions issues, Wayland issues, SNAP issues, pipewire/pulseaudio issues, or a combination of those, but as a user trying to get work done, I don't have time to debug which component of this bazaar engineering laundry list is at fault.

The whole point of Ubuntu is that you were getting older packages and components, but it was bulletproof, battle tested, working and stable. They seem to have lost the plot a while ago.

I can't even disable the touchpad when a mouse is plugged in lol.

Granted, Gnome has some stellar UX choices though, credit where credit is due, but if I were to recommend someone a Linux distro reagrdless of desktop environment, to it wouldn't be Ubuntu.
This a a plug in hybrid though, so if you can't charge it why are you buying a plug in hybrid? So that point is moot, although I disagree with it for other reasons.

Plus, your position seems to preclude any kind of electrification, so why build a Prius to start with?

Ultimately. Compared to the previous Prius, they've increase engine size. That increases weight and cost. Assuming batteries have come down in price they can use that saving either (broadly) to lower the price of the car, increase electric range, or increase the IC power.

They chose to spend some of this saving on a bigger engine. Why? Smaller engine would equal less weight, increasing electric range, so would spending the money on a bigger battery.

I kind of see your point that batteries are expensive, X% of journeys are less than X miles so it makes sense to decarbonise that first X%, even if it's not cost effective to decarbonise them all. but as batteries get cheaper, the range of hybrids should be increasing, as the break even point changes.
I attended Montessori school for many years and, in retrospect, I don't think it was very good for me.

Montessori education allows children freedom to explore and follow their own interests, and this lack of structure can be problematic. I was a bright kid and many things came easily to me, so when I encountered something that didn't, I would get frustrated and quit.

Unfortunately there are many topics that require pure grinding to master: multiplication tables, musical scales, foreign vocabulary[0], etc. Not only was there nobody to force me to focus on repeating difficult, unpleasant work, I also failed to learn the meta-skill of how to make myself stick at doing things I suck at.

This eventually came to hamstring me later in my education, and even in my adult career I struggle to make myself do necessary yak-shaving.[1]

[0] maybe less so for young children

[1] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3880...
The web uses port 443 for HTTPS, so this example is unlikely to be an issue. Having said that, there are weird and wonderful corporate and government proxy configurations out there that do wacky things.

My guess is that their entire system is so tightly coupled that they can't unpick this without a huge amount of work that requires real developers to stick with it and get around it.
Yes, Alt+F4 does close the application (no more process). Clicking on the X closes the window and moves the icon to the system tray, effectively hiding the icon and making the icon on the task bar disappear (or if pinned seem like the application isn't running).

Anecdotally, I rarely use alt+f4 to close a window.
> there are a handful doing it to millions of employees

Has someone credibly identified them?
Big tractor isn't more complex than smaller machines. It's just bigger. So you're essentially having 1000x the failure rate.

Big farm will also have more than one machine and the "downtime" will be mostly scheduled maintenance, very little chance of your equipment just deciding to not work today. In case of many smaller farms, well, you can ask the neighbour... from what I remember from living in small village with many farmers "harvest" was often few farms pooling their resources and doing all the fields together, instead of each doing their own.
Just as an option, my staff at n0c0de.com develop pretty good Webapps with zero knowledge of HTML/JS/CSS using Bubble. The main downside is it needs to be hosted with Bubble and you need to pay a recurring subscription fee. You cannot do local development either (but the trade-off is quite worth it).

It is a no-code platform that helps create webapps using a pretty good UI driven front-end and back-end logic.

Feel free to email me. It can be a good choice for the app you want to develop.
Elon Musk’s Brutally Honest Management Style
I don't get your analogy here. How exactly is Zapier equivalent to CGI?
Seriously. There are "doctors" offices in NYC that operate in 5 minute appointment intervals. The entire waiting room is full of white collar professionals or college students with this terrible disease, ADHD. Anyone who wants it can get it, you just gotta find a pill mill. You self diagnose by saying "I can't concentrate" or "I get distracted" and the shrink writes you a legal script for speed. Some places may have you answer a questionnaire, which is self fulfilling prophecy. Seriously, look at these questions, its laughable this qualifies you for legal meth - https://add.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/adhd-questionnair...
It's hard to blame apple or blame microsoft for simply having a different convention, which they've long had, I remember struggling to use an iMac back in the day because nothing ever quit when I wanted it to, but I accept that their model is different.

In Windows it's convention for the top right X to be "Quit Application" and equivalent to alt+f4.

It can be useful to have X close to system tray, in which case they can be configured to act that way on an opt-in basis.

I'd still expect an active call to close however, unless a very specific single-purpose thing like mumble. (Which still has "close to tray" opt-in iirc ).

The wider frustrating point is the erosion of the desktop as a whole and the abandonment of native desktop toolkits means it's a total crap-shoot now how something will behave by default, not just on this issue but a whole range of them.
FTX's Chapter 11 petitions and first day pleadings [pdf]
Idea: let patents auto-expire after four years without chance of renewal. In four years, you can use your patent to become a market leader. If your case is so complex that you can't attack the market within that time, let an independent regulatory instance prolong the duration to 5-8 years tops.
Alt+F4 kills the process.
So true, and hating JS is still a dogma that everyone has to assume ..
Ask simple questions and get answers from the full-text of research articles
I will miss Z-Library...
I hope it's alternatives are as good as it...

I linked it to an old email account of mine. Could there be repercussions if you downloaded books from that site? I probably downloaded at least 1k dollars worth of books. Only about half I ever went into.
Just replying to let you know that someone agrees with, ha ha.

In fact I don't buy the “temporary embarrassed millionaire” narrative. I think instead people who disagree with you do so because they truly don't believe in taxes at all or they disagree with a progressive tax system.

I was chatting with a coworker, who is probably the HN type you are describing, about taxes and though we were on different sides of the issue he agreed that taxes were necessary, did not dispute that. He disagreed that it should be progressive however - I think he favored a flat tax rate.

I told him that I saw the collected (collective) taxes as something like a pie (maybe pie chart): the taxes from the poor representing a wedge, the taxes from the middle class another wedge, etc. Slice it up to represent the U.S.'s current (progressive) tax rate — any kind of flat tax or regressive tax is clearly going to mean the rich pay less, the poor and/or middle class pay more.

We can argue as to whether governments collect too much in taxes but to say a flat or regressive tax is "more fair" (to anyone other than the rich) is just a wild notion in my mind.

Myself, I would be an embarrassed billionaire if that were to ever befall me.
Plenty of Windows applications continue running in background by default after pressing X. It's so widespread that I'd say it's the expected behavior for anything that has a tray icon (Discord does). Most apps that are designed to run in background behave like that by default - media players, torrent clients, sync and backup programs, communication apps, even VMs.
Israel is also marketing an actual autonomous killer robot system of quadcopters and ground robots to the world:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/these-israeli-urban-ba...

Watch the video. Might we see this used against the Palestinian's?
And users hate it.
> But I think it's easy to say that literally one giant robot covering an entire edible forest is obviously going to be more inefficient and troublesome than a swarm of some size.

Yeah, nobody suggested that we have building size tractors so I don't know what you're arguing.

They were talking about "current farming machine sized ones" vs "a drone with some crap attached"
NSA opens up to outsiders in fight for cybersecurity
I'm pretty sure teams boots you out of the call too? I'm sure I've left meetings by accident that way before.

( Then again, it's not even clear what "teams" is these days given that I've somehow ended up with 2 completely incompatible copies installed on my machine. )
It doesn't really apply to TFA example, but that doesn't mean that there are not numerous (intentional) holes in the tax system which are designed to prevent wealthy people from having to give some back.

There are so many ways to avoid paying taxes if you are wealthy, only a few of which have been publicized (Warren Buffett vs secretary, Mitt Romney and the Bain Capital leak, Panama Papers revelations, etc.)

Regular people don't have those options; and a vastly greater percentage of their income (which is directly taxed already) goes into local taxes on gas, essentials, and any luxury purchases.

When we see another reminder of how unfair these systems are, and we know that their design comes from the people who benefit from them (like Thiel), it is reasonable to direct our ire toward them.

And finally, this doesn't even touch on the overt criminal tax avoidance that is well known to persist amongst this group. The Swiss bank leaks exposed some of these, and the US tax amnesty programs have further illustrated it. Even so, there's surely a lot more money hiding away that has not and never will be taxed.
Such as sensationalist, headline, kind of glossing over the fact that it was perfectly legal.
Does Discord even have a corporate presence in the EU? For the French government to be fining companies because they happen to dislike the UI is such a random and unpredictable decision that it seems like a strong signal for US firms to not set up offices in the EU at all.
This seems to be the correct answer based on my experience.
Teams was more nefarious than that, if you click the x it minimizes the application, if you click exit the application from menu, it keeps a background process alive, ie seperate application, that you need to also exit. I hope they get fined to hell for that since it is so annyoing

They since have seem to have fixed this, but for most of the pandemic it was like as described. Very annoying at the least.
That egg quote doesn't sound right. Is that how you meant to phrase it?
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The article was very specific about it not being crypto and not being used in a word processor, so yes.
This looks like a good metric to track. Looking at some generated asm when I was optimising a no_std program for size, I was surprised how much stack shuffling was going on. Also iirc it had runs of load/store where it seemed like a loop might be better.

Shrinking the size of my library's Error struct seemed to help a lot - I wonder if it's because an error "E" smaller than the Result<T, E>'s "T" can be returned in-place, but a larger one needs a copy...?
So, super rich guy follows the laws on the books, with no special lobbying to do this and people get upset that this makes him richer.

As a great African American poet once said, "don't hate the playa' - hate the game."
Not sure about Discord, but for Teams and Slack, there is no difference between clicking the X button, hitting Alt+F4, or accessing the Window menu (hard to do) and selecting Close from there; which is not surprising, as Alt+F4 is the shortcut for the Close action, which is the equivalent of the X button by convention.
The edit OP made now includes that Apple Silicon may infringe, but original wording was just Rosetta. Rosetta isn't infringing, because it's not actually implementing anything other than translation. It is possible AS is infringing on a patent, but that wasn't there originally in the post. New context changes the discussion.
>Programming/anything to do with PCs in India is a rich man’s hobby.

This is not true. We had a good culture of self assembled PC enthusiasts in our district. This was in early 2000s. In fact it has reduced now maybe due to lack of interest or something even though the prices of PCs have dropped significantly. I see many people use their PCs as locked up phones with no curiosity of hardware.

>Tinkering is not encouraged in colleges in the country.

This sad state is still present to this day and it has become worse as the hardware gets more and more locked down. I don't see much interest in Linux in the younger generations.
PV, wind, batteries and hydrogen ignores hydroelectric generation making such numbers pure fantasy. Of there where any need to do so we can use them for seasonal storage simply by not using them when doing so is unnecessary.
Props to the EU for keeping data giants accountable. It is a shame the data protection authorities only have resources to process so many companies, unfortunately, many get away with much more harm to user privacy.
Yes but as a perfect outcome i would say that we need as little code as possible.

Scenarios in your examples are beneficial because of increased amount of

items moved by steam engine
books printed by press
food farmed

We don't need more code, we need better code.
Canada has become a hell hole, they’ve lost their minds. Trudeau is evil.
All the complexity in farming is in getting the view on the small fraction of the area and applying treatment (water, fertilizer, removing weeds etc) into that area.

The "swarm" is meaningless there. Each node need to have minimum amount of sensing and computation to handle that job.

It's also at worst "a sloped square" so there is no "swarm mechanic" to move around, just zigzag around the field.
How is this UI design? Wouldn't this fall under UX or just basic functionality? I press X, program close. If I want it minimized I press the minimize button.
Snow is pretty heavy. This wouldn't work for long or a big snowfall.

However - you know where tarps are very useful? Leaves... Instead of raking them and picking them up and putting them into bags and bags and bags, we just blow/rake them into piles on tarps, lift and bundle the tarp, take it to our local "envirodepot" to be mulched. As someone rapidly approaching 50, this was soooo much easier on my back this year.
Plus maintenance on large number of things is a b*tch.

My better half owns a small hotel with 19 rooms. Turns out running a simple 10 minutes task in each room takes... entire day (3 hours for the work + switch room overhead + breaks turns out to be full day often).
I don't mind taxes.

I do mind money being taken from productive capacity and wasted on war, corruption or (ineffectively) on various type of quasi-religious social engineering and propaganda.
Cisco starts 'talent movement options', and restructuring amid real estate cuts
I'm even less a fan of discord having awful options there.

Because this is beyond UX and password policy, it's about behaviour that is bad
Sounds reasonable. How much heat would be generated by such a large decaying sphere of protein though? Would it be enough to cook the meat? Would the heat kill the bacteria/fungus? Would the speed of decay be tempered by the high heat? How much extra salt would be added to local streams and bodies of water from the draining of 'fluids'?

Theoretical questions can get gross.
Alt+F4 asks the window to close. If it's the main window, this will by default terminate the message loop, shutting down the application. But the application is free to handle the message whatever way it likes. Asking for confirmation, ignoring it, hiding it or closing the window without terminating the process.

Like many (most?) applications which show a notification icon, discord hides the main window when the user presses Alt+F4 or clicks on the X instead of closing it.
Can you explain a bit more? What's the problem here?
Haskell and Erlang perhaps, but Pascal is both.

But I think the larger point, that male names are only rarely used, stands.
99.99% is done without blockchain, that's a pilot project with little adoption.
How did you implement those macros?
Indeed it looks like they have a company in the Netherlands https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410339409047-...
Why do apps think it is necessary to start playing with the UI when we have a minimise button? When I click "X" I expect the application to exit as it did in Windows 1.0 and the minimise button to either put it in the startbar or the status bar but keep running.

EDIT: I remembered incorrectly, Windows 1.0 did not have a X button but a close button on the right side of the window.
Done: https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems

The hate for large frameworks is warranted by their poor performance and bloat while struggling to achieve simple objectives in the most challenging ways.
GDPR applies to all companies that provide services to EU residents.
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The position property basically just tells the element how it should position itself on the page and in relation to other elements.

If you add a bunch of elements to a page you'll notice by default those elements will either sit next to each other or below each other depending on if they're inline or block elements, and they'll do so respecting the order you added them to the page. They will never sit on top of each other by default. This is basically what we're talking about when we refer to the "flow layout", or "flow of the document" as your teacher says - it's just the default way elements are arranged and displayed on the page.

However, there are times when you might want to be more explicit... For example a dropdown menu would typically sit on top of elements below it. To achieve this we need to apply explicit positioning rules to element so it doesn't follow the default flow layout rules.

One of those position rules is `position: absolute` which allows you to explicitly define where the element should be positioned relative to its container. That means with position absolute applied elements can sit on top of each other which is what I think we're probably seeing in your example.

`position: static` is just the default and will position the element based on the standard flow layout rules. My guess is that when you're applying `position: static`, you're actually removing a `position: absolute` rule and therefore defaulting back to the flow layout. That's why the elements stop sitting on top of each other when you apply `position: static`.

Honestly CSS is just confusing as hell. There are so many weird rules which you'll need to learn. It just takes time to absorb everything mentally.
Estonian e-residency doesn't solve that problem either, but conditions are worse.
Discord did not get this fine for this one point, but for the sum of all issues.
> "or the language model conversations are very handpicked."

This is very much the case. Experimenting with recent large models shows them to be undoubtedly powerful, but still easily distinguishable from intelligence. They regularly contradict themselves and spout unlikely narratives. Asking relatively simple questions often show a lack of understanding.

That being said, it would not surprise me if the chatbots are nevertheless worse than recent large language models.

For some example successes and (often amusing) failures, see https://cs.nyu.edu/~davise/papers/GPT3CompleteTests.html

For what it's worth, those examples are illustrative, but the best way to get a feel with them (how how handpicked examples may or may not be) is experimenting yourself with prompts.
So if I’m an American company and have no offices in Europe and ignore GDPR for my free customers, what happens? Will I get arrested by the Polizei when I land in Berlin? Will the US force me to pay these fines?