skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To the extent that taxing something results in less of it (whether income or consumption), taxing consumption instead of income should encourage both work and capital formation

That's...kinda silly on the "work" part as an economy-wide statement, and the way that it is true selectively about work and also true about capital formation is...well, there is a reason that people who make this argument are vague and handwavey about how it works.

Taxing things doesn't just magically reduce them in isolation, it reduces them by reducing the net marginal value realized from each marginal increment. But taxing consumption reduces the marginal value of work exactly the same as taxing income, because the marginal value isn't realized by getting a paycheck but by spending the paycheck on consumption; it discourages work, rather than encouraging it. At the same marginal rate, a consumption tax reduces the incentive for additional work just as much as income tax.

But, ät the same marginal rate" is key: VATs are essentially regressive, whereas modern income taxes tend to be progressive, sometimes fairly sharply so on "regular" income, counteracted slightly for the capitalist class by counting the kinds of income they have as eligible for favorable rates.

So, at any given overall revenue level, a VAT is going to have higher effective marginal rates for lower-income workers and lower effective marginal rates for higher-income workers than a politically palatable income tax, and that: that it reduces the incentive and reward for work for lower income workers while raising it for higher-income workers (whose work is also higher-return for the capitalists capturing most of the value produced by work) is what they are referring to when they say it encourages (some) work and favors capital formation. Its not that it coincidentally makes it harder for lower-end workers to get ahead by worker and pushes rewards up the scale both within the working class but also out of that class into the petit and haut bourgeois classes, but that is indeed the exact effect that those "economists and tax experts" are praising.

It's also not a coincidence that the "economists and tax experts" tend themselves to be high-income workers or petit bourgeois, as well.
One Million Commits, new dataset on HF
It does look at Google too. Google is constantly being fined for transgressions and they are also a gatekeeper under this law just as Apple is.
Private security in retail doesn't actively prevent thieves from stealing. They're contractually prohibited from physically engaging anyone due to the legal repercussions [sic] and the possibility of the guards injuring themselves or worse.
"Causing harm to the names, images, reputations, and honor of heroes and martyrs through insult, defamation, or other such means" pretty clearly means to me something along the lines of "you can't point out that Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward caused a famine that killed tens of millions of people."

There's nothing along those lines in any EU country, let alone the US (where such a concept is in extremely flagrant violation of the First Amendment). The closest you'd come is laws against Holocaust denial--but notice the key difference between a law that makes it a crime to suggest that a "good" person might have done something bad versus a law that makes it a crime to suggest that a bad deed never happened.
We've always had massive wealth inequality. Look at Rockefeller or Carnegie or du Pont compared to immigrants living 10 to a room in NYC tenements.
Actually there is, but it's not cheap, so it doesn't appeal to the average consumer. KNX and DALI are effectively the standard in Europe for large commercial buildings. Green building certifications are requiring lights that turn on and off automatically based on occupancy and ambient conditions, and nothing else even comes close to matching it for this. Remote monitoring and management saves money compared to having someone periodically inspect every light in a building.

They are available for residential installs too, but for a new build you are talking about paying the price of a car (and not a Dacia) on top of what you'd pay for a standard lighting installation, so it's only a thing in luxury homes. For that you end up with truly automatic lighting (controlling lights with your phone is not home automation), variable colour temperature and much higher quality lighting.

But the average consumer doesn't care. A lot of the time they can't even replace a bulb in a set with the same colour temperature.
Don't forget the DROS fees, ammo background check fees, and SB 2 which, in the words of the sponsor himself, generally only allows one to carry a concealed gun on some sidewalks. This effectively eviscerates our God-given right to carry a firearm.
Your comment about "disguised ad" also gave us some food for thought and I just wrote an article how we want to be transparent about our own product promotions and some changes we have implemented [1].

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/blog/are-our-articles-disguised-...
Sure, you raise a good point. It's also useful to consider how the idea that the leader for life of the country is going insane could be felt to be denigrating to the country and could be considered to be part of the general China-crash tropes.

For the sake of good analysis, it's important to focus on real alternatives to that hypothesis, and avoid getting bogged down in semantics.
Is the criminal justice system in France based on a presumption of innonce?
> But my question from the outset was about the rationale for taxing both income and consumption

There is no such rationale: its a compromise between ideologically opposed forces with diametrically opposed goals for society, not a coherent policy with an integrated rationale.
This is a tangent but the consumerism that leads to people spending $200 instead of digging a hole in the ground for a fire pit is part of the issue.
If Hollywood wants to cede its business to other countries...
> So you didn't read the article?

Part of my critique is that the numbers cited in the article don't relate to their meaning. Measuring catalyst by kg instead of kWh is stupid, so $20/kg means jack when you look at what that actually means for a battery. Sounds hard to believe that there is an inexpensive anything made of only things like nickel-molybdenum-cobalt.

> That's all very nice, but that number is from a paper from 2018.

Hey I agree with you, but that's what the article cited. Maybe they shouldn't be citing a 2018 article. And I bet that $83/kWh was absolutely a best case estimate without manufacturing costs, nor accounting for scaling costs. Thats why I added the link for context.
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They destroyed the internet, with blessings for simplifying it, and then they cannibalized their own services for short term profit.

To paraphrase what the DOJ just said in their opening statement, the Google you're talking about is long gone.
Can I challenge your view a bit? Yes, the rulers are double-dipping and even quadruple-dipping. But if you think about it, why are taxes so incredibly complicated, like there is not a single thing you can do that isn't taxed?

That is because taxation is not the main act, it is only the supportive act. The main act is creating currency from nothing. That is how the rulers get their wealth and finance their government. If you're paying taxes through your nose and think I'm being ridiculous by saying it's only a supportive act, think about this: Why is it so important that you and everybody else pay taxes to the government on your income and everything else, when the government can just print as much money as they need?

It is because the money would be worthless without the complicated taxation system. The money origins from the government (it says as much on the bills, even has a signature), and the only way to make anybody actually want that money is to force them to pay it to the government. So that's why there's so many and unavoidable taxes. If you work for a living you have to pay taxes in the government money - so naturally you'll want your wages in government money. If you make business, it's the same thing. And so on.

Taxes is the only way that the government can create demand for their worthless money, so that's why you have them.
And don’t forget Zoom

https://apnews.com/article/tech-work-pandemic-zoom-wfh-rto-e...
thus "sacrificial toy boxes"

also, your faith in "VM" insulation appaears greater than mine. if i dont trust a VM i dont trust the host running the VM.

others have different opinions and that's ok. my systems run to my standards, however quirky they may be. im stating opinion here, not attempting to inscribe Sysadmin Commandments. them's written on the wall of the bathroom stall.

edit: just for reference, the last cpu i could say i trusted was before speculative execution was a feature. since then its more about risk mitigation. i'm not paranoid, there's people worse than me, and they're nuts. I'm just cautious and lazy.
The language and way of writing feels very weird. The concepts are simple genetics but for some reason I don’t get the idea of underlying type. Wish they used a more formal language
No but I live in the amazing world of free-market capitalism where I can choose to reward whichever company best meets my preferences as a consumer with money.
I never comment about politics. But Baltimore is a nice city with great people that are held hostage by a bunch of crooks in government.

DA Marylin Mosby, another corrupt Baltimore government official, apparently let the killer free after only 7 years of a 30 year violent offense incarceration. Mosby has personally increased the crime rate in Baltimore by failing to prosecute and letting criminals free. She is now federally indicted for perjury relating to bogus real estate transactions and taxes. This woman is a walking disaster.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-culture-of-corruption

Nick Mosby, her estranged husband and city council president, has also been accused of ethics violations:

https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2023/02/13/judge-rules-city-co...

The people of Baltimore deserve better than these bottom feeders.
I've never said hours = productivity, don't assume I've said it. It's in your head.

> Hours are affected. Since hours are not really related to productivity, a family is not impacting it.

You've looking from the lens of a male leaving all the childcare and planning to his wife or someone else. That's a very privileged background.
That's simply rebranded Android.
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A lot of doctors are process oriented as well. Which is fine most of the time. But I was similarly disturbed when a specialist had zero clue what the approx half life of one of the primary drugs they use was. There was a situation that didn’t fit the book and i just looked it up for them on the spot. They didn’t like me.
This is interesting because my early 20's trendy focused non-tech friend who's been an iPhone cult loyalist was just telling me today that she doesn't think she wants the iPhone 15. Instead she wants to get the latest Samsung whatevers. Maybe iPhone is losing their fashion statement appeal?
People with money purchase quality goods, people without money do not.

People don't 'prefer cheap low quality' they can't afford anything else.

> The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
If you don't get resources in a turn (and didn't get robbed) you get a penny. You can trade pennies for resources, but the exchange rate gets worse the more victory points you have.
Yeah. I don't know why they didn't just move it to an extended attribute as part of the APFS transition.
New ‘supercontinent’ could wipe out humans and make Earth uninhabitable
I have a bunch of things at the office set to automatically turn off at a certain time or on command. It's helpful in that I don't leave something running that really shouldn't be, like a laminator, overnight. After that I decided to put an Alexa plug on anything that could potentially be a fire hazard if left on, like the air purifiers and fans.

It's hardly a bulletproof solution but it's better than the old solution of, "Oh shit, I think I left X running… welp, time to waste 40 minutes driving back and forth."
It's the first time we've had some serious quantitative data behind it, though.

There are good indicators that an economic stagnation or recession are coming, and that could potentially hurt the CCP long term.
It’s apparently the DOJ’s turn to call Google a monopoly, the case they filed in 2020 is finally going to trial, and it’s all over the news.

The FTC itself sues google every few years, last two were in 2019 and 2022 so give it a few more years.
One of the problems with OSS burnout is this many-to-one relationship with the users and maintainer. It’s sort of like the relationship between an outfielder and the bleacher crowd at a baseball game.

Maintainers get requests to do things they have no interest in, like maintaining software for OSes past a certain date. That doesn’t sound so bad, but there are a lot, and they can even be mean. The maintainer can block these users individually, but it’s different users all the time, so that doesn’t stop it.

So, the maintainer addresses the user base, the whole crowd all at once. The problem is most of these users haven’t seen these interactions, so the message seems hostile. Having someone say “I owe you nothing.” seems really weird when you’ve never asked them for anything. Or, if they list of all the ways and reasons for you to not contact them it looks hostile. The users don’t see the fan next to them throwing a beer can at the center fielder.
It can be a requirement to participate in regulated markets to provide an ID that confirms with the Real ID requirements.

Access to IDs should definitely be improved as well.
Right, how am I supposed to know "buster" is newer than "stretch"? (wait, it is, right?)... I've never understood this approach.
The valid alternative is to use a dutch auction.

Can you imagine the US Treasury saying "Um, we made a deal with Blackrock and they bought all our treasuries. It's an exclusive deal and we're not letting anyone else buy treasuries now. Oh and p.s. the price is secret."
The DA's job is to question the credibility of witnesses. If credentials conferred credibility, it wouldn't be possible to ever convict an expert of anything.

So to be plain: No, DA's don't (and aren't supposed to) just take experts by their word. They ask clarifying questions, and often bring additional experts offering contradicting testimony.

Do you seriously think courts operate by "the doctor said so, case closed"? We wouldn't need courts if that were the case.
Maternal milk is better than formula in every possible way and there is a perfect scientific consensus around this. Formula is the least worst substitute to maternal milk but going around and screaming that formula is perfectly fine, as if it was as good (or even better!) than maternal milk is denying some very well-established piece of science for likely ideological reasons.
> My porch light turns on 30 minutes after sunset and off before sunrise. It's under a roof so I would have needed to either replace the switch with one of those fancy ones, or installed a photocell somewhere else. But it was just a couple automations added to the config file to get that functionality.

Eww, that's gross, especially for all the migrating birds and wildlife, just so you can have a terrible light on outside when you don't need it at all.

Basically you're harming wildlife https://birdcast.info/

And you're worsening the environment with needless and completely unutilized light pollution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pollution

Wow.
and if so is sugar specifically singled out to be well regulated?
I honestly think the world is a poorer place for having had a single
US company dominate so many areas of digital technology for so long.

I hope that in another 25 years giants like Google, Microsoft, Apple
and so on are just small players in a globally inter-operable, open
and diverse technological world.
we can't sustain exponential growth. we're approaching the limit and soon the curve will hit its maximum
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…in 250 million years
> "That search returned 10 blue links, but no green dress."

Such a heart-warming story about Google wanting the green dress for itself, scraping a copy so the destination site didn't get the web traffic.
clear room for further improvement

That’s your answer. It’s hard to imagine what GPT-5 will be capable of.

Also, don’t say “GPGPU”. No one uses that term anymore.
The minute a competitor appeared to challenge them, they threw all their initial goodwill away. It’s very unfortunate, so yeah. Thanks for destroying the internet Google.
They didn't want retraining as mill workers. It was much lower paid work. They wanted their old jobs which didn't exist anymore. I agree that the government should absolutely take care of people who lose the capitalism lottery.
The luddite example is one of suddenness: The owners see the massive advantage of mechanization and move in fast. The workers are blindsided - they don't have the time and spend all the time they do have in a ludicrous war. The regions are somewhat mono-industry which completes in making a giant mess. All in all the exact quandary not to get caught in. Now that they have demonstrated it, long ago, do we really have to fall in the same problem again and again? Just because it didn't happen in the US, or in this century, doesn't mean we can't learn from it.

People at all level should do better using the time there is. For the ones (workers) to move up or away in their skills. For the others (businesses) to recognize a looming availability of human workforce which might be useful for some (other) business opportunity. For the third (governments) to - just in time - organize or encourage re-training at scale and in time. Trying to impose on each business to manage this whole world by itself is idiotic - normal business is tough and precarious enough. Trying to let each worker manage their own training is also insufficient: few people can optimally manage their own career at the same time as everything else.

An example in this direction is, I believe, Denmark's "Flexicurity". Firms can adapt to follow their needs; while workers can in general principle retain earnings while they retrain; while the state orchestrates availability of training (which itself can be a big industry sector). No doubt not perfect for anyone, but the general idea sounds solid.
Tom Scott did a video about this a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/dt22yWYX64w
I wonder how many times we'll collectively say "but we can't because profit" before everyone realizes what the problem is?
Do you really think someone is going to break into your home by cracking the security of your smart lock? I’m not OP but I use August smart locks and they work great, easy to install, nothing on the exterior to give it away, and it unlocks automatically when I get home. Could someone hack into the August servers and remotely unlock my door? Could the Bluetooth connection from my phone be spoofed? I’m sure it’s possible but the effort level is 1000x beyond what anyone would reasonably do to break into my home. Anyone motivated to break into my house would just break a window with a rock. The convenience is incredible. Seriously, I haven’t had to worry about my keys in years, and since it automatically locks the door after two minutes my house is safer than ever. Not having to think “did I remember to lock the door before I left?” is such a weight off my mind, and being able to unlock it remotely is an added bonus even though it rarely gets used by anyone outside of the family.
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I just got an email that they killed Google Podcasts app. Birthday surprise for us!
If the Chinese don’t screw up themselves, with the size of the market, they may just take a fresh look at the entire approach for information processing substrate and do something completely new instead following the legacy and cumbersome supply chain …
The google that deserved much praise has been dead since not long after the DoubleClick acquisition. They’ve been DoubleClick/Google since. Ordering intentional.

That means they’ve been evil or rushing as fast as they can toward evil since… 2008.

Google died at about 10 years old.
I beg to differ. Difficulty depends upon the recipe.

Lamb/mutton tagines are incredibly easy to make. They’re basically “throw it into a slow cooker and come back eight hours later” dishes. You can improve the flavor by browning, but the simplest versions are still wonderfully delicious and basically idiot proof.
I know. I live in Hong Kong. Some of these are worrying but a few of them seem questionable. From what I can find, the previous asian games opening also wasn't attended by many world leaders. It's not Olympic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Asian_Games_opening_cer...
that's indeed super interesting. for me it's purely the safety and convenience of everything just working i'm after, not fashion... if anything i still feel kinda cringe walking around with an iphone lol because i've always made fun of iphone users gulp
Writers struck as part of larger contract negotiations; they had relatively tame demands around AI that mostly boiled down to IP contracts. And modern strikes themselves are really tame compared to what the Luddites did. If people look at the writers' strike as more extreme than Luddite protests, they don't know much about Luddites.

The Luddites struck too, the difference is their strikes involved riots where they intentionally destroyed factory equipment and where they clashed directly with police. Modern AI "protests" barely register, Silicon Valley workers just think the backlash is extreme because the modern tech industry is culturally disconnected from the history of most blue-collar labor movements.

There is something to the idea that this is the first time that many white-collar workers have ever seriously thought about the cultural impacts of automation before and on a small-scale it's the first exposure many people have to backlash over automation and so that backlash feels novel to them. But that doesn't mean the backlash is actually more extreme now, Luddites captured an attitude about automation's impact on labor and worker rights that is largely absent in today's society.
Wow, I'm not super happy about the syntax of this language. I'm familiar with what each paragraph is describing from multiple other languages, but I can't even guess how some of the syntax here maps onto those other languages, even with the explanations.
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Hi I'm Lady. I'm neurodivergent, and sometimes I come off a bit awkward (usually). Now that's out of the way- if you knew someone who had basically no coding skills, but could read some linux, and didn't really know what VS is, but pretends she does, yet had a knack for tech and a whole lot of potential, what would you tell her to do if she had an amazing idea for an app/website (two ideas actually), and very little money to spare? I'm honestly in such a dark place as a mother and human being, that I want a drag and drop solution to create this magnificent piece of work, to feel good about myself. I need go start bringing in money, and this stuff is all I can bring myself to do considering my decline in physical and mental health. I had a feeling that a genius kid would have the purest non-biased answers. Are there any resources you could point me to? I know nothing of Java, for some reason I'm scared of it? Any general advice?
Thanks so much.
Truly, Lady