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All my friends are doing their Phd's and working with Cern, I'll ask them if they might have any ideas for you once they wake up
The main reasons capital gains are taxed at a lower rate are:

1) inflation (if you buy a stock for $100 and sell it 10y later for $120, you actually lost money, at least for every 10y period I know about)

2) invested dollars have a higher multiplier for economic activity than wages earned and then spent, so raising capital gains rates hurt the economy more ("have higher deadweight losses") than wage taxes. Poll taxes and consumption (VAT, particularly) taxes are even better, though.

3) people who have enough money to make meaningful investments tend to vote more reliably than people who earn mainly wage income, and also are in a better position to donate to political campaigns.
I didn't say that folks in the public sector are lazy or stupid, I said that there is rarely a direct connection between their performance on the job and their financial upside. Public sector workers are much more concerned about downside protection (i.e. avoid controversial decisions, cover your ass). In many cases, and I've seen this first hand, inaction is safer than action, whereas the opposite is usually true in business and especially in startups.
Solving the halting problem wouldn't be sufficient to tell you whether a proposition was true, but it could tell you whether a proposition is independent and if it wasn't whether it was true or false.
That's exactly not what I was saying - I was talking about capital gains which isn't taxed as income. Currently that sits at 15%, but will rise to 25%.
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How do I reconcile myself to the fact that I may never achieve so much even in my entire life ? Is it a matter of lowering ones expectations ?

Just let go. If there is success, there is success. If there is no success, there is no success.

If you reach a decent standard of living, there will be plenty to enjoy. Do not forget to do so.
Venice, Holland, and Bangladesh are soaked unless they find a solution.

Venice more than any other city.
Does anyone know if any of the big real estate sites do this as a feature? It seems like zillow used to have this feature but they switched to a different map provider and could no longer offer it. I recently read a book about making money in real estate and the author suggested that you produce a heat map like this (by hand) for the area that you are interested in investing in.

I can't understand why this sort of thing isn't more commonplace. I would like to be able to create animated maps that show the prices over time. Or add in height to show the crime rate over time etc.

It seems like real estate is one of those industries with a strong lobby that has been able to resist having its information become a commodity.
When I bought my condo I thought the MLS was such a joke.
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I find it implausible that some of the richest and most densely populated cities in America would just passively await submersion for decades when this could be averted with good old levees.

What I do believe is that a major UN climate conference is starting today in Doha and that their PR people yet again managed to sell the idea of disaster to the newspapers.
Many areas of the federal government are actually pretty good by commercial standards (at least for caliber of employee), but most state governments are by comparison pretty horrible (particularly California). However, they're much more concerned with fairness and being abused by third parties, since they aren't as constrained to succeed or die. It is better for an employee of a government entity to follow process 100% correctly and ultimately fail than to take a calculated risk outside of normal process and fail, even if the expected return on the riskier path is far higher, or odds of failure lower. Startups are exactly the opposite, since they die by default. Big businesses are somewhere in between -- a new product failing usually won't kill the business if it fails cleanly, but could if enough corners are cut.

The ultimate difference between private firms and government is that a private firm which is seriously screwed up will go out of business. A government agency can continue being dysfunctional for a long time (e.g. the Office of Thrift Supervision). The other big difference is that when a government entity is incompetent, it tends to hurt others a lot more than when a single commercial firm is incompetent.
OK, I'll accept that you weren't intending to suggest that the government has primary claim on your income but you seem unaware of how your framing has been used by others to actually make that claim.

I can accept theoretically that you can separate the progressive structure of the federal income tax from spending decisions but in reality it is pretty hard to solve our budget problems by simply taxing the 'rich'--at least if you use the $250,000 figure that is most commonly used.

Here is a nice calculator you can use to see the difficulty: http://splitwise.com/taxes/
The number at the bottom isn't updating at all (stuck at 0). Edit: refreshing twice brought it back– odd. I have to say though, it's quite a bit of fun. I'm not slow and I can already feel the push, I'm really glad you showed this :)
Oh, definitely. Even folks who are single-issue voters realize that outside of supermajority years executive branch of government has to compromise.

However, the anecdotal evidence of "stored wealth vs current income" tax is there, notice how "let's-back-tax-everybodys-income" Prop-30-happy California is also home to "dont-you-dare-to-raise-taxes-on-my-mansions" Prop 13. My original remark was to point out that wealthy people and high income people are frequently advocating opposite causes.
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They probably assume that as long as it's not too burdened with runtime dispatch, then LLVM will take care of the speed. And they'd be right.

(Popular JavaScript implementations manage high speed even with runtime dispatch. The optimizations make heavy use of static analysis, but this is difficult to do.)
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WebOS had HTML/JS apps as well and it didn't do very well. Execution, not ideas, is what wins user's loyalty and dollars. Microsoft was king of execution in the 90s. Today, not so much.
No, that kind of brilliance is not what it takes to succeed.

It doesn't hurt either, but the biggest factor is perseverance.

If you get discouraged because someone younger than you can succeed when you can't then that perseverance element is exactly what you have to work on.

For every Patrick and every John there are 10's of thousands of people that succeed. And almost all of them are not nearly as brilliant or as young. Imagine a world without them. In that world you would be closer to the top. But your chances of success would not be diminished, nor would they be decreased.

Now repeat that process for all those that are smarter, richer and more dedicated than you. At some point you'll be the one at the top. What would you blame it on if you then still did not succeed?

In the end, all that matters is when and how you decide to make a go of it, how much you apply yourself, how well you'll deal with the unavoidable hardships and how much luck you will have and how the timing will favor you.

It doesn't really matter how much higher than 120 your IQ is, plenty of people with less than that have succeeded at a level that even Patrick or John will never exceed simply by being in the right place at the right time and making use of every opportunity that life threw at them.

If you want to measure yourself do it with people that started off with less than you had and that still made it. Then figure out what they did right that you're doing wrong and go for it.
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I can't believe this didn't at least include cupertino, let alone the rest of the san jose suburbs.
Unless you spend a few billion dollars on a flood barrier across the bay mouth next to Golden Gate bridge.
Look, before PG rightfully jumps in here like the SkiFree Yeti and tells us both to knock it off, let's see if we can squash this:
http://xkcd.com/667/

I'll concede that my last comment was inappropriate (it's super-basic Python, not a proof).

Can you at least concede that loose talk of beheading capitalists is, at the very least, counter-productive to what we should all want, which is a robust recovery?

Are you really advocating that people like PG and Elon Musk should be murdered without due process for being successful?

If not, why say so? Even solely as a rhetorical device, it's extremely distasteful, polarizing, and makes a rational person discount anything else you might have to say on the matter.

Or maybe you and people like you have no intention of really following through with these threats - they're just attempts to bully political opponents into adopting your tax policies. So, we're just talking soft-extortion here, not outright plans of murder and violence.

How about "evil" financiers like Warren Buffett (or is he "one of the good ones"?), or the other bankers and financiers - many of whom heavily donated to Obama, some of whom even served in his administration. Should the chopping block be reserved just for them? Do they get a pass if they donated to the right political parties and organizations?

This extreme demonization of capitalism is really troubling to me, and I think it helps explain the sluggishness of the economic recovery. The holders of capital are a bit spooked, and rightfully so.
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I didn't read the parent as saying 'not actually a millionaire because he's an idiot', you seem a little touchy here.
It seems reasonable to ask for that clarification - if you make the assumption that both brothers came into control of millions of dollars worth of available assets, you might wonder what they were doing with the money, especially as related to their continuing business ventures. The additional information that they don't actually have it answers that question.
> The Apple way through this would be to berate us for being impatient, but at least they'd be talking. And they'd certainly be taking emails and cash now for phones later.

When you order something from Apple you get charged only when it ships.
If selling the hardware is profitable for Google, I'd guess they'd go all out to make it happen .... which makes me think that Google is subsidizing the Nexus line and hence the inventory problems.

Edit: A corollary would be that T-mobile maybe telling the truth about the $300 discount.
That might be complex, at least without killing the #4 port in the US. I guess maybe you could build a lock or something?
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This bothered me as well...
Forgive me if I'm not terribly excited. Tegra2 has been around for... over 3 years now. It's certainly showing its age: so-so graphics, no NEON, only the 16-register variant of VFPv3, crappy memory bandwidth.

I'm not surprised it's taken so long to get this much, though, given what their closed-source under-NDA drivers looked like back in 2009 (I was working for a company building something based on Tegra2). At that time they didn't even give us full source for the driver, but what they did give us was a mess of binary blobs and ginormous abstraction layers. For a while there was actually a user-space daemon that you had to run that sat between the X11 driver and the kernel. (To be fair, though, nvidia isn't unique in the embedded world in doing crazy proprietary things on top of Linux.)

An open source Tegra3 driver would be much more interesting, but I'm sure we won't see that until Tegra3 isn't top-of-the-line anymore.

Granted, it's pretty rare in general for a manufacturer to open source their drivers for any of their SoC lines (even last-gen ones), so nvidia at least deserves some praise for that.
1. I want to finish my CS bachelors degree online from somewhere reputable

2. I want an "Uber for babysitters" (yes I know of sitter city and the like, not impressed) ... we are very last-minute and spontaneous so our regular sitters aren't always available.

3. I often want to try making new/different cocktails but I never have all the ingredients ... ("birchbox for cocktails"?)

4. I have a close female family member that is overweight/obese and on a trajectory to get worse. No one else in the family knows how to help or even approach the subject.
Why do you think run time dispatch is that slow? With static typing you can setup an efficient vtable, while even with just dynamic typing there is a lot of cachingq you can do to reduce call overhead. Static analysis helps for some inlining, but the gain isn't more than a few percent.

Garbage collection and run time safety checks probably cost more than call indirection.
I take you to mean that people forget that this is the inevitable outcome, but is there proof of that? China and ancient egypt for extremely stable examples of societies with hugely disproproriate distribution of wealth. Is it possible that revolutionary France and Russia are the outliers of history?
'spindoctoring' indicates a conscious effort to increase the stature of the subject of the article, and is a word with a strong negative connotation.

The fact that they had an idea, built it and executed their vision successfully enough that another company bought them out are the bits that matter. That the buying party was significantly reduced in value after the acquisition is not their fault, and even if it had not it would have been stock (likely with all kinds of encumbrances) not cash.

Doing a stock deal is risky at best and can end very bad for the acquiree. Assets are not money, stock is not money, even so for a 17 year old that was an absolutely amazing track record.

I'm not clear on the details of that particular deal, and frankly I don't even care. All I know is that most people here would dream of doing a deal like that or even being in the position to make that particular mistake, and hindsight (the company acquiring tanking shortly thereafter) is 20/20.
Great post. Very interesting.

One suggestion: please further improve your startup's domain expertise w/r/t Manhattan (I don't know enough about the Bay Area).

Nobody I know in Manhattan - and I lived there over 15 years - thinks of South Street Seaport the way you describe it:

"The cobblestone streets combined with the low-density feel of the area give it a historical vibe that is second-to-none in the borough."

There are cobble-stone streets with low density and a historical feel in Tribeca, which - price aside - virtually all Manhattanites would consider significantly more desirable to live in than South Street Seaport.

South Street Seaport is a weird area to live. Very touristy. Far walk to most jobs on Wall St. Far from subways. Not that residential and very windy, since it is on the edge of the city.

I had one friend who lived in that area, on Cliff Street.

Everyone else was everywhere else.
and the vicious cycle then moves to B2D ?
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Great answer.

Another important point is that - just like with gaming consoles - the money is not just in the hardware unit but in the app market. This gives Google yet another advantage when compared to other Android phone providers.

But I would go as far as saying that Google has had (and will have) only a limited stock on Nexus 4 just to make sure it isn't stepping on the toes of other manufacturers in the Android ecosystem.

They've made their point with Nexus 4 to make iPhone 5 look over-priced and lacking in many features (articles claiming innovation is happening elsewhere have been appearing all the time now). They've also stolen at least some of the thunder of Nokia's new Lumia 920, which has been selling surprisingly well if the first reports are correct.

So, what it seems to me is that Google has done a brilliant move: launch a product everyone is talking about instead of iPhone 5 and the Windows phones but keep the stocks small enough so that it won't really cannibalize its partners' market.
This page doesn't sell it to me. Maybe it's a great language, who knows?

1. With Go, I understand the point. It makes advances in terms of how easy it is to write concurrent programs, without completely ditching the traditional imperative model.

2. Rust is a different take on the same point. We want concurrency and safety. Rust's difference from Go is that it is more safe, and makes it easier to give latency guarantees.

But I don't get what's "hard" about, say, Go, that Crack would make things easier for me. What does Crack offer that Go doesn't? Or Python? Why would I want to use Crack at all?

(I get that they want to say it's "addictive" so they'll call it "crack", but it's a terrible name. I worked for a company that wanted a product to go viral so they code-named it "Marburg", after a biological weapon. Maybe I should name my next product "Enola Gay" because it will level the competition?)
It wasn't a willful misreading. I was addressing the part that I quoted - because it's likely to be a debate point in the fiscal cliff negotiations.
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I suppose my point is that we have a feature in the tax code which is ostensibly designed to achieve his very goals, but it's become useless over time because a) it's not indexed to inflation, and b) it allows some deductions and generally adds complexity, rather than being a true flat minimum.
Just read his Wikipedia entry:

> Mochizuki attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated in 2 years. He entered Princeton University as an undergraduate at age 16 and received a Ph.D. under the supervision of Gerd Faltings at age 23.

He is 43 Years old now, I assume he is 100% committed to Mathematics. These people fascinate me, having a feedback loop that is unbreakable. Especially for topics where you have a knowledge of something and almost nobody else is the world is capable of understanding you. It's like Star Trek for the mind.
If it's "REALLY EASY" and "cheaper & faster" to build an internet or mobile business that can potentially gain millions of users, this begs the question, is this valuable?

Every app or service which attains a million users reduces the impact and worth of attaining a million users on the next app or service.

Where is the value today?
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That statement rings false.

The product of doctor's without borders is better health for the disadvantaged. The product of the red cross disaster relief is comfort and care in times of distress. The EAPN main goal is to elevate the disadvantaged above their current situation and prevent the cycle of poverty.
>> The estimate that I was told for the average mathematician reading the average math proof is one page per day.
Thus the average mathematician facing this will see 750 pages just to becomes of the the 50 people who have mastered the basics of anabelian geometry. That's 2 years.

Ah, well I did not know this. I appreciate the enlightenment. I see the trepidation of reading the whole thing then.
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By then we won't care

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These are good points:

1) yes, I did 7am-3pm for a long time and found it matched my body's rhythms way better than 9am-5pm. I realize that's a privilege; it's too bad because I was so much more productive and still had a healthy amount of face time.

2) coffee: man I love coffee. I generally have 1 in the morning now, and 1 around 3pm. I should drink more fluids. I'm a big fan of almonds and have a pack in my desk drawer most days.

3) never heard of the roller. ;)

4) puttting off breakfast... I've definitely see that work (especially if I start really early, like 5am)
Don't stress out over it.

I'm Patrick, John's brother.

I too constantly feel that I should be more successful, and I'm pretty sure the feeling doesn't go away -- no matter what's achieved.

I think looking at others can be a useful gut check: am I working as hard as I could? Am I as focused as I'd like to be? But given that there's so much randomness and circumstance there too, it's a bad benchmark for anything.

(For what it's worth, the check I use personally is: "is there a difference between how those who know me best would describe me, and how I'd like to be?" Most of the time, I just try to fix those gaps.)

Good luck!
One interesting form of taxation might be to tax purely status purchases. e.g. in countries like Singapore, where you don't really need a car, they tax cars heavily -- yet rich people still go out of their way to get super expensive cars to show off. Progressive real estate taxes, luxury taxes on vehicles, expensive types of clothing or jewelry, etc. wouldn't deter purchases much, but would raise money.

The most awesome tax I have ever seen is auctioning short license plates (done in the middle east and Hong Kong) -- pure profit for the state, and artificial scarcity created by the state. In fact, it's "better" for me to own the "1" license plate if everyone knows I spent $10mm on it than if they thought I got it by being lucky.

(In general, I'd like to see more VAT + poll + etc. taxes vs. income or investment taxes. And taxes on things we want to discourage, like pollution.)
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Call indirection prevents inlining. It's not about comparing indirect calls versus direct calls, it's about comparing indirect calls against no function call at all.

For example, imagine a function that multiplies two matrices. If the matrices are statically typed, the resulting function would only need to allocate the result. If the matrices aren't statically typed, you need to dispatch on the type of each element in each matrix. That will take much longer.

Yes, there are ways around this in languages with dynamic dispatch. However, my point is that LLVM won't do it for you.
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A Youtube video with a pretty accessible explanation.
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