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Good point, you've raised some interesting meta-concerns. I guess it's an interesting philosophical question if a term and its evangelical spread that brings knowledge to more people while simultaneously confusing a subset of them is better than never having the term in the first place and leaving more people ignorant (and thus not confused). I know some people reason by literal terminology and when faced with experimental fact that a term doesn't correspond to what they think it means, they still refuse to change their mind on what they think it means. (Or the inverse of ignoring any evidence associated with a particular term because they think they apply their prior on the term alone, not what it means--my poster-child on this is global warming, every winter you'll hear the same things.)

I don't think it's that interesting that people are actively opposing things that don't affect them, even if in some cases it's fun to point and laugh.

It is definitely a brilliant piece of viral marketing. You know your right-wing propaganda is working when even the few progressive media outlets fall into saying the same things. I'm just not really in agreement with how large the subset of people confused by the term from the name alone is and I think most people confused by the term are likely confused by so many other things that it doesn't matter stressing over the one term causing confusion when the aggregate should be looked at. This may explain why I used to be a grammar nazi when I was a young teen, then realized that there are much larger problems with people's handle on English than problems like typos, their/they're, u/you, and so on. Unsolicited correction these days is mainly for trolling and "lulz". I still get deeply annoyed at the most egregious abuses of English (my pet peeve being the simple then/than), so I can see where you're coming from now. Unlike you, I have yet to run into anyone confused by death tax in such a way as you've mentioned. Of course, I think saying "No, it's not death tax, it's inheritance tax" can mislead them toward the truth in 3 seconds, while saying "No, it's not death tax, it's estate tax" doesn't. All these terms go to the same Wikipedia article.

At the very least I think most HN readers aren't confused in the ways you've highlighted, though they may be misinformed about specific facts like the amount of the cutoff. Maybe I'm wrong though and overestimating the community knowledge. If I'm right, then pointing out the potential terminology problems reduces to a more pedantic point about encouraging habits that will save you outside the community. Just because most of us are emotionally capable of handling abusive statements mixed with other comments (2+2=4 you dumbass) doesn't mean we ought to get in the habit of writing abusive comments.
Neat, works in the CoffeeScript REPL too, thanks!
The capital was taxed at ordinary income, yes, but the capital gains was not.

He's right, it's time to start treating capital gains as ordinary income. My fifty dollars of capital generated by fixing a bug at work is equal to your fifty dollars of capital generated by the time/risk value of money.
Sorry, I didn't understand your stance.

I'd like to clarify:

You don't advocate not paying taxes[1]. (so you advocate paying taxes)

You think a vote in favor of ANY tax is immoral[2].

Is that right?

[1] quote from your second comment.
[2] quote from your first comment.
Good point, although most of the tweaks I've seen on GitHub seem to omit theos and assume the user can find and install it.

I'm not a tremendous fan of submodules but this is a good use case for one; I'll add theos as a submodule and push a commit in a second.

Edit: Done, but users have to manually download ldid (presumably due to licensing issues) anyway.

Thank you for the feedback and advice!
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25% going forward.

When you introduce the system, of course, you have to give people credit for all their past income tax paid. Most people of working age will have overpaid and will get a windfall in the form of a huge one-off tax credit, which will compensate them for the higher tax they will pay later in their lives.

If letting people hold onto their money early in life and give it to the government later is considered to be undesirable public policy, it would be possible to even out the tax by including tax deductions based on age. For example, when computing your lifetime taxable income, subtract a "lifetime personal exemption" of $4k times your age. This causes no problems other than that your annual tax bill could potentially be negative (if you earned less than $4k that year).
Those without their eyes or fingers are probably the ones more requiring of gov't services.
> This article has a fundamental flaw. It starts with the premise that some outrageous tax revenue level is necessary, and from that premise tries to analyze the fairness of the existing tax code.

It's really not. The proposal in the article has a strong theoretical basis. Read the chapter on realization in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Chirelsteins-Taxation-Concepts-Insight....

> Honest question: Can someone convince me that it's not immoral to vote for a tax? Please don't down-vote me for asking a question, because I am honestly trying to understand. If you disagree, help persuade me.

Taxation is only "immoral" if you believe in radical individualistic libertarianism. That is not the only tenable view of the world (and I'd argue it's not even a tenable view of the world).

Alternatively:
1) Human beings are inherently social, communal creatures.
2) Division of labor requires social organization.
3) Without division of labor, you can't create wealth.
4) Government is created by groups of humans to implement social organization and facilitate division of labor.
5) Fine-grained division of labor yields a huge surplus (i.e. the total production of society using socially-organized division of labor is far higher than the aggregate production of a group of unorganized individuals).
6) The proceeds of that surplus, which exist but-for the institution of social organization, don't morally have to be distributed in any specific way.
7) The rules underlying the social organization are there for utilitarian reasons, and taxation is just another rule that should be justified on utilitarian reasons.

There are no God-given rights. "Rights" and "property" make no sense at all without society imposing, by the threat of force, certain rules on certain people for the greater good. "Theft" is different from "taxation" because the former is not sanctioned by society, for utilitarian reasons, while the latter is sanctioned, again for utilitarian reasons.

Zuckerberg and Elison wouldn't be rich but for the existence of government. They'd be at the bottom of the pecking order, physically weak nerds that would be enslaved or killed by the physically strong. Indeed, "billionaires" on their scale would not exist without government--a society without an effective government can't create that kind of wealth! When society institutes a set of rules to create a net benefit from the combined productivity of a large number of people, why is it "immoral" for society to then decide how those proceeds are distributed?
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Can someone smarter at physics than I am explain how this works?

The article specifically suggests use in hard drives, but how soon could this realistically be used in commercial hard drives?
how about remapping?

nnoremap <leader>d DO<esc>p
It could just be a way to side-step calls to 'out' the guy.
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As it stands you can't get a refund for AMT tax against non-equivalent assets. Instead you get to write it off at $3,000 per year against your income. A number of dot com vets have 150 to 200 years worth of $3K/year write off headed their way.
Taxing appreciation in the value of stock isn't double-taxation. It's like taxing the appreciation in the value of your house.

Taxing dividends can be double taxation, but isn't necessarily.
The US corporate income tax rate is irrelevant to companies like GE that pay no US corporate income taxes.
I'd love to be able to save for later. Also, a link to imdb or a similar movie db would be nice too.

great start but too many 80s movies!
they're ok on a normal browser.. arrows are many pixels wide and the cursors are 1 or 2 pixels wide.

on mobile.. your finger takes like 50 pixels; so yeah.
Well, for starters, where did you even get the concept of "money" from? That's not "yours"; you didn't invent it. Someone else gave it to you. It essentially came from the same place that gave us taxes.

The premise that "taking money from someone else" is inherently immoral is trying to assume an impossible ideal that each person is an autonomous being, and that our lives aren't inextricably interwined with everything around us (or at least that's as much as I can gather from your reasoning). Would you also agree that a police officer arresting a citizen is immoral under any circumstances?

Now I don't necessarily disagree with your notion that taxes are unnecessary (or at least some taxes). I'm sure that it's possible for the government to be at least an order of magnitude more efficient. One somewhat surprising thing I learned (from Ron Paul) is that the income tax didn't even exist until the 20th century. So it's far from clear that it's even necessary.

But I would not start with the assumption that money is a inalienable right. And I don't really understand your alternative. Who is going to beg others to fund things like roads and sewers and subways and food inspection? Fund-raising costs money.

Also, there are a few things that are most efficiently done by a government monolopy -- i.e. it's not practical to have 5 competing subway systems in NYC.

So anyway, I think you're trying to come down too conclusively on one side, whereas the answer is probably more mundane and in between.

(Also, I think you are being slightly dramatic in that in all likelihood no will point a gun at you if you don't pay your taxes. More likely you will get a bunch of letters from IRS over many years.)
I said every place worth living.
people need to actually learn javascript / the dom etc.. all this indirection (coffeescript / jquery) just dumbs people down, at very least do yourself a favour and learn (at least some) of the underlying tech first
social pressure can be incredibly effective, especially when you can make people feel like the world is empty without the impact the "inside group" you think you belong to is making.

they make people think their only choice is remain "accepted" or be cast out among filth. mormons are good at it, but the catholic church perfected it centuries before, and it isn't limited to christianity or even to religion. heck, political parties do it, too-- no law making you join a party.
To the layman, much legalese looks and sounds repetitious because it is hedged with caveats and guards. It's precision is part of what makes it opaque. And yet, if one deciphers several T&C documents one starts to see similarities in structure and form. On this site full of people who are extremely adept at taking complex linguistic constructs and treating them as building blocks for even more complex structures, the temptation to abstract entire paragraphs into symbolic references is strong. We want to be able to minimize the cognitive load and maximise our understanding of the agreements we are being offered.

There is no legal equivalent to widely used open source libraries where one can go to the parts bin and pull out the functionality one needs and only that functionality. And yet most of the law firms I've worked with do have boilerplate documents that fit their practice. It's a knotty problem; lawyers and programmers operate under different constraints, and things that are obvious to one may be complete mysteries to the other.

If we had a legislature that worked and understood the internet, this sort of thing is exactly what they would be tackling...
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I'm also an iOS developer although I've never needed to use the Address Book API's. I always presumed that some sort of permission was required I'm really surprised it isn't. I actually think this is a bigger privacy concern than location access as not only are you giving away access to your contact details but everyone who has trusted you with theirs.
One has to ask, why don't they upload hashes? This would be sufficient to check for friends (email,telephone).

Why do they upload real data? Do they sell it? What happens when they go bankrupt?
> What in your view is the threshold for government action? Is it only to prevent violence, or similar violations of person and property?

My views are evolving, which is why I asked the question in this forum, which I consider to be pretty sharp and left-leaning. I think government could extend beyond what you suggest. Public works projects are not out of the question. Establishment of just laws seems reasonable. Protecting the country from the tyranny of other nations seems necessary.

I think the US Constitution is a good place to start, to determine the threshold.

I actually have little doubt that we could raise enough money through donations to support a modern military. The people who have a great deal of wealth have reason to protect the system; many have a strong desire to make a difference.
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It's not a viable business, the potential for revenue generation is very small without resorting to questionable tactics (see TRUSTe). I was hoping it would function more as a community effort with the human-readable TOS hosted on the relevant site much like Creative Commons. Sadly I think the human-readable TOS is going to have to come from the business itself (or possibly from an established user-rights organization, i.e. CC or EFF).

As for Path's storage of user contacts; while I find the practice sketchy, especially since I just signed up for Path and had no idea this was happening, but not unexpected especially considering facebook's status as a 'role-model' for privacy issues.

Side-note: Khula Project in its current form is deadpooled. I do plan to relaunch sometime in the future with a project more focused on information distribution.
I presume trotsky is referring to the "content://" URI vulnerability found by Thomas Cannon:

http://thomascannon.net/blog/2010/11/android-data-stealing-v...

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-480...

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48256/info

Exploit needs to be able to determine the exact path + filename of any file to be stolen.
The securityfocus.com entry referenced above includes a demo script implementing the exploit if you want to see the details.
Just wrap the XHR requests to the local URIs in a try/catch and go fishing for filenames of interest within standard directories.
As mentioned in Cannon's original article, photos would be an easy target given the common location plus filename format for the jpg files
(e.g., /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/IMG_yyyymmdd_hhmmss.jpg). Another interesting directory to poke around in would be /sdcard/Android/data/com.dropbox.android/files/scratch/.
I tweaked the demo script a bit and was able to steal my own dropbox files and photos on my junky little LG Optimus V on Android 2.2.1. Good Times.
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I'm not a physicist, this is what i understand : They've found that very quick heating of a magnetic dipole can cause it to flip. Currently this is flipping is done by a magnetic head (in hard disk drives). Since bursts of infra red light can be used for heat pulses, recording can be sped up considerably.
Thank you for being such an inspiration - and a therapist, I'm working on an online reservation tool for small business service providers cos the rest of them as you say 'suck goatnuggets' (LOL) but it's all too easy to get depressed reading HN about all the 'cool stuff that other startups are doing'.

TIL that I've got to put the right mental filter on before coming to HN.

One question, obviously you don't have any high-touch sales going on, what do you do for marketing to find and convert new customers?
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He only casually mentioned it (Twitter link here: https://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/110068027608932352) so I too have absolutely no idea.
>> "Get over it."

What a stupid response. I'm not a huge privacy advocate but this is a massive breach of trust/privacy. Not only are apps taking your personal contact information but the contact information of everyone you have in your address book. So regardless of your stance on privacy, the privacy of all of your contacts is also at stake.
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I don't have the buffering issues on Firefox 10. Everything else happens though. (The cursor not hiding can be avoided by moving it to the bottom-right corner of the screen, which effectively hides it.)
This is an awesome little tweak.
I'm really glad to see more competent people using Theos and Logos to implement useful things!

I've got one minor nit to pick, and that's that you're using Logos, but only for its %ctor directive! Not that that's a bad thing, it gets more language coverage!

You could possibly extend this to hook those parts of those apps individually or on a case-by-case basis, and present a different/better UI for them in particular.
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I'm not having these particular issues except for the timing one, but I'm definitely not a fan of the HTML5 player (yet). I'd also like to use it but it's just nowhere near as good.

Videos open and pause at 0, and no matter what I do I can't get them to play unless I reload until I get the flash player. Seeking is pretty wonky. As well a couple of weeks ago it used a different sound output than flash (Flash would use what my music did, the headset, but the HTML5 player would try to use my speakers, which were off. Seems to have improved now).

Just hoping it improves significantly in the future.
Are you only using the embeddable player with all the controls included? I just started using YouTube's HTML5 player as a fallback for users who don't have Flash, but with a chromeless player and using their iFrame API. The iFrame API is definitely rough on the edges, but it is experimental. And as far as I know, the HTML5 player for YouTube is in trial so I'd give them the benefit of the doubt on bugs and that they're working on it.

I haven't seen the bugs you mentioned, but will look out for them now.
I think they answered your question pretty thoroughly and promptly, despite your intense neckbearding.

Certainly more thoroughly than the Path guys.
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> One somewhat surprising thing I learned (from Ron Paul) is that the income tax didn't even exist until the 20th century.

Before the 20th century, the majority of Americans lived in rural areas working on small farms. Industrialization dramatically increased the level of division of labor in the society, and of course as you increase the degree of social inter-dependence, it's no surprise that your organization overhead increases, super-linearly.

If we were talking about any system other than the political system, the proposition that bigger, more complicated systems have exponentially-increasing amounts of organizational overhead would be completely uncontroversial. It's a phenomenon that us engineers see in systems constantly. Yet, when we see it in the political system, we assume something is wrong.

When I work on a small farm, and you work on a small farm, we don't need an EPA. When we live in a city and your factory dumps poisons into our shared river and makes my kids sick, we do. When we work on small farms, we don't need an SEC. When we work in the city and our savings consist of securities rather than silos full of grain, we do. When we make all our own clothes we don't need a Consumer Products Safety Commission, when we grow our own food we don't need an FDA, when we work for ourselves on our own farms we don't need an NLRB or an EEOC. When we ride horses to work we don't need an FAA. When we don't depend critically on Middle Eastern oil we don't need a very big Army. When people die naturally of old age at 45 we don't need Social Security. When small, stable, farming communities take care of their poor we don't need Medicaid.
Freedom isn't free. Pay your dues for the assets, as others have.
"Too bad about the jailbreak requirement :)" :(

Jailbreaking means so many different things to different people. I know it causes issues with Apple-sanctioned updates, but sometimes those issues are just plain worth it.

All the stability issues, all the battery life issues, and all of the downsides apart from a more complicated update process are first and foremost effectively made-up. There's no solid data to back those things.

Jailbreaking has time and time again patched vulnerabilities that Apple didn't (in a timely manner), and proven that it is a valuable part of the ecosystem.
If anyone would like a more detailed investigation of this topic, there's a good article on SSRN by another tax professor (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1734601), or Miller's own more expansive article (http://www.cadwalader.com/assets/article/120505MillerTaxNote...).
Interesting take. I've always experienced caching issues of the video buffer not buffering correctly. This has happened ever since they introduced 1080 content. I generally only go to 720p if I ever want to actually finishing watching the video.

It could be that their servers just cant keep up with the 1080p feed. It would need a thorough investigation to get to the bottom of it.

However, there is one great feature with their new player.

I have 3 monitors and when I fullscreen a video on one monitor, I can continue watching it and click away and work on another monitor and it is still maximized.
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I am not trying to start a rally to get people to quit paying their taxes.

I am trying to ask the question as to whether voting for a tax is moral. I have come to the conclusion that it is not, and am asking for some reasons why that might be an incorrect conclusion.

I believe in freedom and supporting freedom financially. If I had a choice of paying my taxes, or paying 10% more to an organization that supported a system of government with no taxes, I would choose the latter. But I am not aware of any such choice, so I naturally pay my taxes, which is the closest thing that there is.

Let me say that again: I WANT to pay for freedom. I DON'T want to FORCE someone else to pay for freedom (which has an obvious contradiction).