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The point is taxes are second order. Locally (st.city) are based on either property values and incomes. (1) if incomes cannot support paying the housing costs, they cannot support higher taxes, because there is no excess earning power; (2) if people cant pay the rent, then they are likely to move away to "somewhere more affordable". Most people spend ~30 pc of their income on tax and another ~30pc income on housing. So those are material numbers. When housing was going up=up=up, the mismatch of income to consumption was masked. Lower income supported higher living b/c the real-estate capital gains was not taxed and the grand-fathered real-estate became a lower % of income as salaries rose proportionate to real estate. So, if you had a 10 year house, you had $500K appreciation in the bank (no tax) and maybe a morgage taking only 15% of income b./cause it was bought cheap. this leaves a lot to pay taxes no problem. But same people cannot make math work if they need 30 pc after tax to pay rent, and 30 pc to pay tazes. 40%r residual for save/consume vs 55% is almost 1/3 drop, and a big difference. If gov;t ups taxes anothe 5%, then 55 to 35 is even bigger hit. But without the 500k in appreciation per decae accruing to savings, the 35% needs even more to be allocated to savings. So spendin cash mabed is only 20-25% from 55% in this example. In other words, that is a huge pay cut doing same work, etc. And that knind of pay-cut (1/2 order of magnitude) will cause people to look for new places to live. The taxes issue is more a problem for businesses (who are next in line after consumers to get taxed), but it is the residential people moving out that is the focus of the discussion for the most part here.
The downmods are undeserved. Knowing a bit about this subject, I find Greenwald's coverage to be some of the worst. People need to remember that he's not a journalist and his goal is not to inform. He's a pundit making an argument, and his arguments are often contrary to the facts.
The problem is that any answer to the question will hurt you. It's just a question of minimizing the harm. There's also a competitive aspect to it where if you don't lie, someone else will.
TL;DR: Krugman says that the shortfall in funding of US entitlements is that a growing percentage of income is coming from capital gains rather than payroll and that only payroll contributes to these entitlements.
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It's so crowded, nobody goes there anymore (after Yogi Berra)
Not sure what I did to get 'noted', but I hope it was good :)

I might dispute your view of that attorney - he may well have many other distractions that prevent him from getting stuff done, but certainly the 'time with the kids' factor isn't there.

Of course, when interviewing people for jobs, we're never supposed to ask about personal/family issues, but I do eventually bring it up (though I haven't been in a job interview in several years). My wife and I are both self-employed, have no kids, and are able to devote stretches of time to work when necessary. I point that out - "if you need someone to travel and stay overnight, I've got no issues with that" sort of thing. Not sure it helped all that much for 'jobs', but it has helped in freelance/consulting. "Yes, I can be there tomorrow, and my fee is $x".
The point of a decentralized system would be to have large numbers of issuers, each of which might have independent ways to become trusted.

The exchange itself doesn't need to be particularly trusted; you could do a transaction either instantaneous and of low value, or some more complex protocol. There's also no inherent monopoly for the exchange, although there's a natural monopoly for any given pair of currencies.

Assuming everything is automated and low friction, you could be in and out of a given currency to make a transaction pretty fast, so arbitrarily short risk. You could split transactions up into smaller transactions so arbitrarily low financial risk per transaction.
:-) Nothing wrong with that.
People refer to Prop 13 as if it's going to be the budget-savior, but don't forget that property taxes are distributed to municipalities (counties and cities), so if Prop 13 was dropped, wealthy cities would get even more revenues, while ghettos would remain the same, as there's more turnover at low-end of the real estate market (so constant reassessment of property values that more or less follows the boom and bust cycle).

City of Mountain View ran at a profit for a few years, from what I recall, so having more money from Google might result in couple of additional parks or extra lanes on Shoreline, but not going to be the game changer for South Central LA.
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this is my experience from working in many restaurants (not as a cook) along with being a foodie. While food tastes differ and is subjective, all you'd have to do is compare the best restaurants menu with a food buffet.
I do not believe the US Government is a giant conspiracy to evade the constitution for the purpose of apprehending drug users. I believe that when the government seeks a warrant to surveil foreign targets for counterterrorism, their interests are actually in disrupting terrorism.

That doesn't mean I think we have effective counterterrorism (for instance, there's widespread evidence that CIA uses, or at least for a long time used, torture to attempt to obtain information in counterterrorism cases; torture is morally repellent and, equally importantly, demonstrably counterproductive), or that I think terrorism is legitimately the key federal goal that DHS and CIA claim that it is.

But I don't subscribe to the slippery slope argument that suggests that the government will inevitably use every power we give it for any purpose to, I don't know, enforce the Comics Code Authority.
On another selfish part it sounds like a lot of people who have kids say: "if you don't who will take care of you?" So...You having kids so they can wipe your ass when you are old? I rather be dead than be a major pain in the ass and bother my kids when they have their own problems (their own kids perhaps, crazy work, maybe illness and their own interests) and not be able to function on my own. And if you take care of yourself now, maybe you won't be sick, miserable fuck and have enough money to live on your own or have a med-girl visit you time to time.
Expensive/organic/artisanal food is a native Northwest thing, though -- it's not just a California import.
At the death, as it were, you've produced one of my favourite posts of 2012. I don't have kids yet, in the works, but this resonated with me a lot.
I wonder who that is (is he public?)
node.js is on my todo list. Heared many cool things about it.
I'd hope you would abstract the representation so that you don't have to rewrite everything just to add another digit of precision....
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Given the scope and focus of FISA legislation that's extremely unlikely. It would be far easier to use some other legislative vehicle than try to shoehorn something into FISA that is already explicitly outside its scope.
It's not 100% good for the body because you're inhale more exhaust gas. By the way let's not forget that the US cyclists wear masks at the Beijing 2008 Olympiad [1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/sports/olympics/06masks.ht...
>>> they've essentially made everybody in california subsidize low-tax-locked real estate

That's not true - your tax base is set at the time of the purchase. And California real estate market is quite vibrant compared to other states.
God, this is so much cooler than my holiday project :). Nice work.

In terms of critique, if you're interested in that, the UI could use some work (the interactions are weird, and it's not very intuitive), but once you get past that, the visualization is awesome. The UI is also quite pretty, so I think if you fine-tuned the interaction issues, it would be fantastic.
Actually most don't seem so bad. Burning Man sounds like a normal job - other people with kids have jobs, too? Zero-gravity flights only take a couple of minutes, maybe a day if you include the trip to the airport. It is actually possible to take a day off even if you have kids (assuming a supportive spouse, or, if you are alone, a suitable babysitter). Same for wing-suit skydiving, although admittedly it seems possible that you would be less keen to do that if you had kids.

Don't know about Amsterdam: they do have kids in Amsterdam, but perhaps you mean "a year living high on drugs surrounded by prostitutes"? No offense - just wondering why it would be incompatible with kids.

Antarctica: again, why not. Depends on what you want to do there. Also you can do some things when your kids are older.

Even taking a few months off doesn't seem impossible, with a supporting spouse. I think there are lots of parents who go away to remote locations for work (truck drivers and oil rig workers for example).
The funny thing is the counties where people weren't leaving (SF) had the highest housing prices.
This will sound silly, but after watching The Wire, I am tempted to support
Chris Odom:

http://monetas.net/team
That's quite a conclusion to jump to. Maybe you haven't noticed but the Web is running great, especially when developed by thoughtful, competent programmers.

It's sad how many non-web developers still complain about how the Web is sour grapes.
it works for me: Chromium Version 22.0.1229.94 Ubuntu 12.10 (161065)
Adapt? :-x
This is misstated:

"You can find the post here. It didn’t have any upvotes (besides mine) for about 10 minutes. Then it slowly started to climb. And climb. By about 1 am it was at the top of the front page and the orders were pouring in! By 2 am I was scrambling to fill orders. I had a huge TextEdit file open with customer names, site URLs, and email addresses. I sent every email, and set up every survey by hand.

By 6 am I had completed processing every order and went to bed. I got up an hour later forwork at 7 am. In those few precious moments of sleep I had made another $40. By the end of the day on Monday I had made over $330 and the number kept climbing.

So now I’m sitting here writing this blog post with a bunch of orders to fill, features to build, and customers to help. My Stripe account also says that I’ve made $350 to date. All from three pages and some payment code."

You made $350 from 3 pages, a payment code, and 5 hours of manual labor from 1AM to 6AM. And the additional hours you spent creating the pages. So that is about $70/hr at best and closer $25/hr if you include the other time investment.

I only mention this because it is a common mistake people make when they see real money come in for the product of their work that they see it as paying $x for the product because they haven't included any value for their own time.

If you are not careful that mistake can have you working below minimum wage :-).
This isn't anything new. Feinstein was a supporter of SOPA/PIPA (Boxer as well)
I've owned an 8000lb come-along in the past. Pulling my truck from the mud, the cable came off the pulley. I replaced it with a new come-along from a different brand, and again the cable hopped the pulley. This damages the pulley and bends the axle, rendering the winch useless. They're less than ideal for vehicle retrieval, especially if doing intense labor is not a great idea (like when you're at risk of hypothermia). Pulling a stuck car with a come-along is a very laborious and time-consuming task.
Quick, someone needs to complete the circle!

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CS history lesson -- don't use rationals for money. You have no business messing with the denominator, so the extra freedom of using arbitrary rationals is just more rope to hang yourself with.
As much as I agree with you in theory about being able to make judgments without being in a given situation, I'd have to disagree specifically about the kids situation.

You might think I'm generalizing, but I know I'm not the only one to think that nothing can prepare you for having kids. It's probably because it's as much a technical situation as it is an emotional situation. And the long-lasting nature of raising kids will impact you in ways you could never have possibly imagined.
> The Manhattan Institute is an explicitly conservative political organisation.

Are we going to do this for all submissions? Newspapers' leanings, political donations of blog authors...?

And if so, would it be reasonable to expect examples of actual bias? Or at least credible sources for that kind of information?
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Ask HN: Is submitting links to blogs with ads frowned upon?
Looking through the blogs that have reached the front page the last couple of days, I noticed that very few, if any, had an ad anywhere on the site. Is this because submitting a blog with an ad on it is frowned upon or something else?

I want to have a place, a blog, where I can share my projects and ideas with communities such as HN but also a small return on my time investment, if only to cover the cost of running a blog.
It's perfectly fine to live in California as a salaried employee, you're likely not to get screwed.

For an entrepreneur, where you might subside 7 years on Ramen noodles to (maybe) have a large windfall during the 8th year, California places an unreasonable penalty on that once-in-a-lifetime event.

Therefore from selfish standpoint, if you start a business, grow it fast somewhere else, and then, when growth plateaus, bring it to California (let's face it, it's still a large consumer market).

http://allthingsd.com/20121204/what-proposition-30-means-for...
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residence based taxation is a stealth wealth tax. us is illegal wealth tax directly. problem was in 1970s, people bought 10k house on 3k/ye wages. 10 yes later, it was million dollar house. 3k/wages cannot pay taxes on million dollar house. so that is why they passed such a law. otherwise, people would have all had to sell house for capital gains and move out of california in 1970s.

This is not justifying system, but explaining how these thnings come about. Again, it has to do with people not being able to afford the either the real-estate (at market values) or the taxes based on their incomes. taxes just second order effect though.
Then add appropriate interest representative of the risk you are taking on.

When we say zero-interest, we're talking about basic interest/liquidity premium: the interest which is attached to loans simply because of the opportunity cost of lending, not the risk taken on.
Since the question is about what I (the reader) would do, I'll answer it from that POV. I'm 35 and I've had that feeling ever since I can remember. To me it's a feeling of wanting growth and movement in all aspects of my life. I adopted the motto "always happy, never satisfied," which sums it up perfectly for me. Only when I'm feeling down do I feel like a loser. I make sure I take stock and be thankful for what I have achieved, otherwise it's easy to get caught up in all my unmet goals.
Stripe's approach to staffing is not something that's easily imitated. Most of their employees have either previously been founders or have managed products before as a higher level employee. It's not fair to assume that every startup/company will have that caliber of employee top to bottom.

It also seems like Ries was trying to direct this post at all kinds of companies, not just early startups. Patrick himself said that Stripe's approach to staffing is an example of "doing unscalable things while you can". Not everyone is a small startup and the approach of letting everyone manage themselves doesn't work at 100+, 500+, 1000+, 10,000+ person companies.
Yeah, that's the joke. It's a place where nobody wants to live, where all the houses cost a fortune and there's a waiting list for every apartment.

The funny thing is there's a big generational shift underway right now. People born around 1980 and later are much more likely to express a desire for a real urban environment, like that found in San Francisco, New York, and throughout Europe, instead of the suburban environment favored by their parents. Now, far be it from me to judge anyone, but it seems to me that anyone leaving California for Nevada is clearly expressing their preference for the suburban or even rural lifestyle. That lifestyle, being extremely energy intensive, is the definition of non-sustainable. If other states are attracting residents because they have lots of that unsustainable development, I think they can pretty much have as many of those people as they want. I far prefer to see California investing in real cities, attracting the kinds of people who prefer to live in those real cities, and building a future that actually has a future.

It won't be very long (certainly within fifty years) before non-places like Las Vegas and Phoenix are viewed as bizarre, obvious mistakes of our past.
So Q and A mined from Quora qualifies for Slate now? Oh well.

Kids or no kids are definitely a YMMV issue. I have a 18mo old daughter who I love dearly and is "the light of my life" yawn. But I'm also aware enough to know the tradeoffs of children and belive that it is just as equally possible to be wonderfully happy without them as it is to be miserable with them.

Please. Children != happiness.

In fact I believe this has been studied at length, but I can't recall the source now. That said, sharing your life with a child or two can be highly rewarding.
Maybe I would feel worse about having contributed to overpopulation if other people wouldn't multiply in such an unchecked fashion.

What is the world all about anyway?

Since I have a child, I actually want my friends to have children too, so that my child can have friends, too. Rather selfishly (you might even say racist), I want my culture to survive.

The probability seems quite high that my child will be confronted with a difficult future. That held me off from having children for a long time, but ultimately, they deserve their chance. I don't need 10 children, but one or two should be OK.
Sorry, not about to reveal realistic traffic counts (also this is getting off-topic)... but I will say that we generally push somewhere around 120-160Mbit/s.
I don't think it's fair to blame the users. Our software products are smarter than them. Surely we can win.
Yes AOL AltoMail is interesting indeed!
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Perhaps some of these thoughts of mine will be useful for you. I have a 10 year old step-daughter who I have been raising since she was 3 and a 3 year old son.

For me, hands down, the most important thing I have done is try my hardest to maintain a solid, loving relationship with my wife. Without inspiring each other to be better parents, without the support we provide to each other, we could never flourish as parents/professionals/etc.

Things definitely get better as they get older. When they are able to entertain themselves, are no longer attached to your hip 24/7, it is much easier to start finding time for hobbies, side-projects, etc.. Of course a balance needs to be found here - you don't want to miss out on quality-time with your kids.

Going to bed/getting up early can add a few extremely productive hours to your day. I find that pretty much nothing productive happens for me after 9:00 PM. Of course, that's just me and plenty of people find late night hours very productive.

Try your best to stay healthy. Diet and exercise are often put on the back burner when times get busy. It can be tempting to skip sleep in favor of getting a few extra hours in. When it comes down to it though, if you're a mess you will not be effective.

I've found it useful to have friends with similar interests that have children. I'm not sure if this is widely applicable or not. I started raising my daughter when I was 22 and it was a very sudden change from care-free recent college grad to parent with a ton of responsibility, so I lost many of my friends as I struggled to find balance among my overwhelming responsibilities. My current friends that are parents, who share similar interests and manage to succeed in many different aspects of life, keep me motivated .
Bumper-mounted winches being used with a proper winch bumper won't take damage in a crash either; if they do, you're likely not driving away from the crash so easy retrieval is unimportant. Off-road and winch bumpers are not designed with crumple zones in mind, they're mounted directly to the frame and the winch itself is tucked behind a 3/16th steel plate and steel tubing surrounding it.

With a front-mounted hitch, though, you can keep the winch inside and just hook it to either the front or the back depending on the needs. The downside is there's one more thing in your car taking up space and becoming a projectile in a crash.

Come-alongs (hand winches) are less than ideal for many reasons I've listed in another reply to your comment. The better solution is to do your best to not need one.
Seems odd to try and focus only on domestic migrations. In 1990 the population of California was 29.9M, in July 2011 it was 37.6M. The total population has continued to climb - https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=kf7tgg1uo9ude_&...

The net draw to California still seems to be in place.

I moved from California to Utah in 2007. The reason? My wife wanted to be closer to her family there and my job didn't care where I lived.
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I'm guessing those capacitors are sold by the reel, maybe 4,000 to the reel.
For the other clueless folks: FAS seems to refer to http://www.fas.org/, and here is a helpful search to quickly find their info: https://www.google.com/search?q=FAS+fisa (I think.)
Working (pretty much no family left...). It is highly annoying when no lawyers, consultants, other professionals are available these days. ;-)
The thing is, having children is a transformative experience. I don't think you can compare the two states of existence in the way the question assumes.

I call kids a "terrible blessing". There's so much downside, yet on the whole its not something you regret, once you make the transition. All generalizations are false, yet biologically we are made to sexually reproduce. Therefore reproduction and the creation of replacements is a natural part of life for most of us.

I don't think you can make value judgments about whether one situation is better or worse than another. It doesn't work that way. Having said that, I am reminded of something my adoptive mother told me before she died. Having spent a couple of decades in a very active community of older people, she found the ones without children the saddest. "They don't have anybody," she'd say sadly. Yes, they might have had a great life where they accomplished much and did all they wanted to do, they might even have a Rolodex full of friends, but at the end, there was nobody left for them. There were no replacements or people to carry on their memory long after they were gone. There was a deep loneliness and an empty spot as they socialized with others and enjoyed their last days. This was something others could notice. This was something most of them admitted to feeling.

Take that for what it's worth --- probably not a lot. For me, this is one of those things that looks dramatically different at age 47 than it did at age 17.
Maybe I'm naive but they don't sound too ridiculous to me... could you point out some specific fallacies?
The person you are replying to has 12 karma. They may very well be a rare browser of HN and tech-sites in general.