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> Philosophically, if those services deteriorate beyond repair and are riff with corruption/nepotism, the people have the right to object, by any means necessary.

Is that a taxation problem or a corruption problem?

Fix the corruption first.
No need for the "Right now" qualifier. It implies a particular future and a desire to grow, which may not be the case. It is perfectly fine to be a solo entrepreneur and adding that prefix implicitly implies otherwise.
I think once you're past 100% you're fucked anyway. Might as well YOLO it.
Nope -- we're global. Paris, Sydney, SF, London, Austin, NYC, Belarus -- and lots of remote rolls. Send me a resume if you're looking!
Society needs money to function, and income is roughly as sensible to tax as other things.

Having a floor that exempts low incomes is probably fine and good though.
Jamie Zawinski is another; whose WWW site, if redirected from Hacker News, returned an obscene image at one point.
Why can’t they make a custom menu of my most used buttons? That would be real user customization, not a reel of my top listened songs. Or better still, let me make my own Player layout.

Today, I find the UI downgrade buries Offline, Playback, Settings, One more layer deeper, behind a circle that has the first letter of my username.
What is the *conceptually* smallest *compiler* that can compile itself?
More directly, property is a social construct. A useful one, yes, and one we consider a right. But that doesn't make tax unfair. Good luck enforcing your property rights without a society, and preferably without violence.

The real world tends not to be full of absolutes. It's unhelpfully reductive to go from "property is a right" to "taxation is theft".
> Nevertheless, they continue to support it, maintain it and release it.

Baker's organisation continues to release the browser which pulls in several hundreds of millions from Google. This money is for the largest part not used to improve the browser or the software ecosystem surrounding it - Firefox sync is withering on the vine, Thunderbird has been spun off, Seamonkey has been spun off a long time ago, Servo has been terminated (the project is continued by volunteers), the Rust team has been let go, etc. The money is used for political activism and to fund Baker (who again raised her own remuneration, from $2.5 million to $3 million) [1] and her organisation.

That Firefox still is being released is more despite of Baker's managerial decisions than thanks to them. Mozilla is kept alive by Google because the presence of Firefox on the market is an insurance against claims of a monopoly. That insurance is getting less effective now that Firefox has dropped to a low single digit market share so it remains to be seen whether Google will continue to shore up Mozilla for much longer.

> If you want a browser today in 2023 that puts out user control and privacy first, this is it, Firefox.

Yes, that is still true because of the work done by Mozilla developers and volunteers. Now imagine how much further the browser and related projects could have been had Mozilla been led by someone who would use the proceeds of the Google deal to further software and ecosystem development instead of what largely amounts to political virtue signalling, "color of change" and other PACs and similar activities.

Baker is not the right person to lead this organisation, she is a political activist [2] better suited for an NGO or PAC.

[1] https://techrights.org/o/2022/02/17/mozilla-salaries/

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
> You waste so much time

It's time well spent — making sure I am paying for the things I really need/want.
DNS is reverted and should be back up based on your local TTLs/caching.

Sorry about that, everyone!
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It actually is, for exact URL matches: if you try to submit a URL that has a recent exact match, it will just redirect you to that submission instead of creating a new one.
Very much like how YouTube goes well beyond what is required by copyright law.
I had weird muscle issues. Fasciculations. Something usually dismissed out of hand. But with the severity and some other stuff, I presented a bit like MS, ALS, restless leg syndrome, and some other stuff I now forget. Did tests, drugs, therapies -- nothing conclusive, nothing helped.

Eventually, finally, got some MRIs done. Was immediately obvious my nerves were impinged. Which led to surgeries.

Happily, surgery resolved most of my anxiety symptoms (which had also been treatment resistant). Of which my care providers are very skeptical. Specifically, that my physical sensation of anxiety, like clinching, induced my emotional state. Maybe not. But lacking a better theory, I'm preceding with the info that I have.
> Interestingly enough, the DPRK ("North Korea") outlawed income taxes in 1974

Yes they discovered that slavery has lower deadweight loss.
Don’t have to get anything out just need to accelerate the singularity.
Archive: https://archive.ph/20231008050640/https://www.wsj.com/person...

Cited research: https://kenaninstitute.unc.edu/wealthinequality/wp-content/u...

From the research paper, it seems that this conclusion is based on less creditworthy cardholders.

> The credit card products offered by the fintech company range from $500 to $10,000 in credit limit and 10% to 30% APR, and are generally targeted toward consumers with lower credit scores and/or shorter credit records compared with the general population of cardholders.
Thank you for the responses, I'll dig further into the service.
This seems like a strange way to decide homes aren't being sold. Couldn't this just as easily be an indicator of people buying with loans rather than cash? In the former case, it can take a long time to close the transaction (on the order of months -- especially if there's any back and forth on fixups or appraisals), and realtors aren't allowed to make it a 'SOLD' sign until that happens.
I think it is philosophically sound that property rights are natural rights and that use of violent coercion to violate those rights is a basic violation of human rights.

You may believe that a violation of people’s natural rights to own things and be free from violent coercion is justified in service of building a central government, but it is still a human rights violation.
I was confused because I pay my credit card with autopay, or at least I thought I did. Never paid a penny in credit card interest. Because for me autopay means paying off the entire bill in full. I guess here it means paying off the minimum every month. Yeah, I can understand why that's silly.
I prefer smart light switches to smart bulbs myself. It seems like a cleaner, less wasteful way of getting what i really want - the ability to turn lights on and off from an app/through voice.

Putting all this circuitry into a bulb with a limited lifespan seems silly to me, like the old TV/VCR combos. When I used to sell televisions we always steered people away from those because invariably one would fail before the other, making the device far less useful.
One of the "crimes" (he types hyperbolically) of Microsoft Office is that is basically sucked all the air out of the room for anything else in the non-graphical artist office productivity area that wasn't Office or a pretty direct knock-off.

The spreadsheet model is a good example (even if Excel is probably the best thing in Microsoft Office. But it also means that if you can't make Word do a good enough job for desktop publishing you generally have to go to InDesign which is probably way overkill if yoiu're not a publishing professional.
Too much effort? Takes me maybe 30 mins a week. Seems like very little effort in exchange for being on top of your finances.
The media sensationalism isn't the underlying problem, it just exposes it. The modern economy runs primarily on the confidence and emotions of the market participants. It is at the mercy of an irrational mix of evolved ape behavior.
The idea that all people have a human right to be free from violent coercion.

Almost nobody would pay taxes if there weren’t the implicit threat of a man with a gun.
> But truthfully, you really do need at least 2 people as a bare minimum to sell a viable product.

Not true. Fine to be a solo entrepreneur, especially for more senior founders. YC may want multiple founders, but they cater to first-time founders.

> Lots of customers will want some assurance that if you die in a car crash on the way home, there is someone left to continue on with.

Another person involved does not improve the chances that the company will survive if you get hit by a bus. Releasing all the code as Open Source, or providing the source to existing customers is a much better way to mitigate risk.
You’re not going to get far arguing with someone who is using the output of false syllogisms as slogans.
That seems like an implementation issue rather than a philosophical issue? Tax could be spent with high efficiency, and is in other countries with less bureaucracy and corruption. I wouldn't throw out the idea of income tax because the US happens to have a poor system. The same could be said for democracy, the US having a fairly poor implementation, but no one is seriously suggesting the US stop being a democracy.
Affero is effectively bait-and-switch.
Or they keep doing what they are doing, which is to print money and liquidity letters of credit (leliqs).
I only use the bank autopay on a CC that is used for stable recurring payments, like utilities, which themselves have autopay set up against the CC. The recurring payments are within certain amounts so the total CC bill is predictable.

For all other CC's, I do manual pay since I do the monthly review on the CC charges at the same time.
I believe Pr[evidence | innocence] is p-value (or maybe one minus p-value, not sure). Statisticians use this routinely to test "innocence". It does not mean probability of innocence, but it means something.
The prosecutor's fallacy is the mistake of confusing the probability of a piece of evidence given guilt with the probability of guilt given a piece of evidence.

In other words, it’s asking: “If Bob is guilty of this robbery, what are the chances we'd find his fingerprints at the crime scene?” When you should be asking: “Given that we've found Bob’s fingerprint at the crime scene, what’s the likelihood that he is guilty?"
>is like hoping people listening for free music radio will actually buy the record.

That's a weird example, because it supported a huge industry for decades.
For context, I was referring to using someone's likeness or CSAM. Both of those are significantly different than fictional characters portrayed by consenting actors.
Didn't he announce that people's raises were capped at like 3% despite crazy inflation at the time or something like that? I can't imagine I'd be a happy employee if my pay got stunted while way up the food chain these people are making millions.
I still look at the statements.
Writing checks and mailing them out is pure drudgery.
It has the same problem as other social sciences in that often the experiments are set up in ways that just so happen to prove the ideological biases of the researchers. It also happens that the researchers who are awarded the most prestige and airtime are sympathetic if not outright fanatics of the prevailing order.
I tried the first site listed there (Bumper.com) and it played a (probably fake) progress bar animation for a full minute and then asked me for my e-mail before it would show me any data. In contrast, OP's site showed me the results within a few seconds and didn't ask for additional information.
We had waaayyyyy less of them.
That sounds like it has the makings of a class-action lawsuit that would win.

You can clearly demonstrate the exact customers harmed by it. You should see if you can find a law firm to take it on.
Excessive capital in the hands of centralized government breeds corruption. They get to send $100s of millions, sometimes billions, to corporations and foreign nations. This leads to bribery and kickbacks. The US has people in government who are worth $100s of millions of dollars off salaries that would be entry level in Silicon Valley.
Anything else come to mind in argentina's history that might be relevant?
I was hoping the blog post would include a tentative roadmap for adding tiered storage.
Jumping the shark?
> Your first link is to an older version of the Launchpad Pro that Novation no longer sells or makes.

Novation still makes and sells it - see the first link.
Also that.

Is an "electionist" meassure by the current president Sergio Massa (he is not officially president, but he is acting like one for more than a year) who is running for president.
Not sure if you are American or not, but at least from my prospective experience as someone in the US there seems to be a never ending glee from the media in predicting an imminent economic downturn and there were/are constant articles and stories about how difficult the economic situation is, how bad inflation is, and so on.

Maybe a Democratic Party partisan outlet would say it is just a Republican talking point but the average news media outlet I have seen has had something negative to say about the economy every week for the past few years.
I have more than that I can't autopay but I can go on my bank's site and just have them write a check to recurring payees.
Search is 100% a valid justification to use contiguous storage. It wasn't high in my list of considerations when I was starting out.
Have you tried Easy Data Transform? It is a lightweight ETL tool for doing data transformations (such as pivot) on Excel, CSV and various other file formats. Runs natively on Windows and Mac.
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When I moved from a country with public, so called “free” healthcare (Sweden) to one with private health care (CH) where I’m a customer rather than a “user”, I was blown away. I can see a doctor tomorrow, I can select which language (maybe higher chance to find a Swedish-speaking doctor here ngl), there are not the crazy bureaucracy and endless hours waiting in a phone queue, and I’m welcomed to my doctors office with a cup of coffee. Being a customer rather than a nuisance is great! It’s like upgrading from waiting in line for a Trabant to getting a Volvo! My health insurance here is also cheaper than the one I paid in Sweden (technically tax to the Region/Län).
…except autopay isn’t invisible? Also what in the world does paying off a credit card monthly have to do with “nickelandimeism”? How you use the CC is a wholly separate from how you manage its payment.
Surely there are still downsides to the wider economy even if people have managed to adapt?
Just bought a Lenovo Windows 11 laptop to replace my aging Win10 one. (My main computer is still my Win10 desktop -- I mostly use the laptop for surfing and email.) I couldn't find any new Lenovo Win10 laptops for sale.

An article on Tom's Hardware showed me how to avoid a Microsoft account. And with the help of ShutUp10++ and StartAllBack, plus uninstalling a bunch of crappy apps, I've been able to make it into a reasonably well behaved machine. It still wants to push Edge on me, but I've been rooting out those settings too. I see that life after Win10 is indeed possible, but I wouldn't want to recommend it to anybody.
You gotta run it at a loss to get market share before you can enshittify it.
> Prove it.

Literally all some kid has to do is use the Photoshop magic wand feature to copy someone's face and post it on another image.

High schoolers don't care about the difference. They'll harass the target just as much if those kinds of pictures show up around school.

And that would only take a couple minutes to produce.

High schoolers don't need a 3000$ gaming computer, and the skills of figuring out how a GitHub repo and install process works to harass their fellow students.

You are entirely confused about what the problem is here. Slight differences in technology are not the cause of the problem of sexual harassment.
Again, that’s not how it works. You don’t lay off bad employees, you lay off randomly or lay off teams you no longer need or want. Layoffs are an opex reduction exercise, not a house cleaning.
This is a standard feature for many banks with quality phone apps. It's also good for alerting you instantly if your card is compromised.
Probably has more to do with the teams preferences and tastes rather than any sort of commercial rationale.

Same with the new zimablade - looks pretty sharp even though open air would cool better
The studios will lobby heavily to prevent that. If content becomes that abundant how could they charge so much for it?
Indeed, according to some leftists Garry Tan is now a white supremacist (???)
Ding ding ding. The fundamental problem of non-state societies: who's gonna stop a state from taking over, either from within or without?
Because it comes with everything else, notably it includes all the footguns or C and then adds orders of magnitudes more.

Unless you're a solo developer, this is not a win.

It's no accident that C++ is the only language in which its proponents have to self police their own teams to only use a subset of the language.
Talk about unimportat problems if you don't wanna talk about real problems.

And yeah, that's a stupid idea anyway.
I'm really disappointed with all the LED lights I tried (except one brand that doesn't exist anymore). Led lights were supposed to last 10 years at 8h per day. Initially they were expensive, but it was possible to get LEDs of good quality. 7 years ago when I was building my house I bought 100 gu10 7W 550 lumen cool white "halogen style" 240V led lights. In these 7 years I replaced around 16. Many of these lights are used 16+ h/day. I'm very happy with them. Unfortunately the brand dissappeared (it was a reseller brand).

Since then ever single LED I bought failed with a year or two. Big outdoor led floodlights 25W,50W and few 100W. Every single one fails in a couple of months. They're not even used that much as they have PIRs, maybe they are on 20min per day. Then there are E17 lights I bought for a small workshop (12 of them). None lasted over 6 months (used few hours per week in an unheated workshop). I'm not even buying the cheapest LEDs. It's the same regardless if I pay for "premium" or the cheapest.

I have so many broken LEDs I started fixing them. I have a hot air soldering station and a pcb heating tool. They always fail the same way. One of the LEDs is burned. Why? Because they are driven too hard that's why. If they were driven with 10% less power they would have a chance to last.
Argentinian here. I agree with everything.

Plus: desperate attempt for the current party to cling to power. Don't read too much into this event.
I'd prefer to defund the federal government and focus on local/regional systems. I'm much more likely to support my neighbor and local communities over putting 20-30% of my income to be divided up in Washington, 1000s of miles away.
It’s also arguably innumerate, or at least financially unaware. The middle option is the optimal choice, as it gives you a free one-month loan from the bank. Interest doesn’t accrue until you’ve carried a balance over month to month.
30 minutes a week seems like a lot. (Admittedly the alternative of scanning your credit card bills and bank transactions is not zero but it's a lot less.)
This is incredibly common due to multiple levels of media hype. I got interviewed by someone from university PR for a series on what different grad students were working on during my PhD. We had a 30 minute phone call and the result a week later was an article that I was allowed to edit before release. The article was conveyed the most ambitious possible take of my research agenda and had a rather forced narrative relating it to the department beer league softball team I played on for a single season at that point. I could have rewrote the whole thing but it wasn’t factually wrong and I had neither the time nor care to do so.

This didn’t happen to me, but these university press releases then get picked up by science journalists who, maybe with an additional interview, build off it for their own article and hype up the work and narrative even more. It’s like a game of hype telephone.
You might not have personally agreed - but society has ( as least in a democracy ).

The whole point of centralised laws is it's much more efficient than negotiating with everyone you meet as to whether they will k!ll you and/or take or stuff or not.

The scale of interactions in modern societies requires simplification of the management of those interactions - laws and enforcement of - what's allow or not is decided once, not every interaction.
We also had way fewer people.

The system scales with the same people doing the same work for the same money, with or without taxes.

Roads, schools, and hospitals existed before taxes, and they will exist after them.
Paying "manually" doesn't mean writing checks and mailing it out. You just log into your bank and click pay instead of have it paid automatically.
What would be the alternative? An entirely new physical connector every time manufacturers feel the desire to make this year's model slightly more capable than last year's? Some form of "physical semver" where "not all new features are possible with all old cables" mandates a new plug shape?

If we were still limited to domain specific connectors (one for storage, one for networking, one for audio, one for video, one for each type of user input) we'd still run into the same (non)issues: unless every revision of, say, displayport came with it's own unique connector, without digging a little deeper (checking some version/capability symbols) you don't know wether a given cable supports the latest feature set or not. The universal in USB is not the problem.
Is the raw data available anywhere in parseable format? I'd be curious about looking up new license plates recognized by my home automation image recognition system in my driveway.
It’s works but that slot is pcie gen 2 if memory serves. Seems to work fine with gen 3 nvme ssds at lower speed though
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Why though? Are you actually paying the full statement balance in time each month this way and this avoiding interest charges? If so, then by paying before the due date you're giving away money unnecessarily, especially with interest rates at 5% now.
It's ALWAYS dns :D
Is there anything to play with here without the signup?
> If you're somewhere in the middle where you can pay more than the minimum but not the full balance, obviously you're not using autopay…

That's not obvious to me. Just because someone can pay more than the minimum balance, doesn't mean that they do. I think that's one case where autopay could cause someone to run up unnecessary interest. A person may know that they can't pay the full bill, so they set up autopay to make sure they at least pay the minimum.

However, someone poor at managing their finances might have gone in to pay more than the minimum if autopay wasn't available. But since it's set to autopay, they might not bother to make any additional payments. This isn't necessarily caused by autopay, but you could argue that if autopay didn't exist, some fraction of people who are currently paying the minimum balance, might have paid down balances more quickly.

I don't hav any particular evidence to support this, but it seems plausible enough to me not to be dismissed out of hand.
To be clear though, the article is talking about search ads which run on a separate auction. The actions you are referring to concern the display side where Google runs a different exchange with multiple sellers for the inventory.
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"Property" only exists so far as there is law enforcing it and the infrastructure to support it. Taxation is not someone stealing your money, it is the buy-in to a system that allows you to reliably consider things you have to be your property.
SK is basically langchain in C# or .NET.
>to reach really low prices.

really low when compared to what? $50k USD for a camera body is not really low prices. $1500 USD for a memory card is not really low.