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There is substantial difference between income and wealth. I work in tech in the Bay Area, so I have good-to-great income, but I have not accumulated much wealth.

The people I think offend you are the (seemingly idle) rich who make most of their money on capital gains => very little taxes actually paid (and I'm sure there is a lot of history behind long term cap g, but from a regular wage worker perspective it can be hard to not perceive that as skewed, yes).

Pretty much all seriously wealthy people are of course in the top 20% income wise as well, but so are most people on this forum who have started their careers.

So I would call myself a producer. And I'm not getting the sense that I'm getting a dollars worth of return for every dollar spent on taxes.

So let's clean up the tax code (and let's stop using the word "fair" - nothing is ever fair in taxes, nor in death, certain as they may be), and make government more efficient and effective.

Then I'll be a little more excited about April 15.
You do realize that both sides play that game, right? One side tells people the government is taking their money and the other side tells people that rich people are taking their money. The reality is that both are wrong because this stuff is not zero-sum.
How nice of you to create a new account to ask me such a favor. you systemd guys sure get around. I'll be happy to oblige.

as GNOME requires SystemD to operate (battery, login, logging, etc, udev) [1],

and as SystemD is only a Linux technology (more specifically, a Red Hat Technology), and BSD would either have to a) recreate systemd in their software stacks, or b) make a shim so that GNOME will continue working[2],

and as every *BSD conference talk in the last year has at least one derogatory mention of systemd therein,

Therefore, the fact that we can now use GNOME under OpenBSD is thanks to the hard work of a lot of people who really do not like systemd, and are working extra hard to ensure it doesn't infect their OS.

1. https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2014/09/07/systemd-in-gnome...

2. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140915064856
GNOME 3.16 optionally uses systemd interfaces. It still includes support for pre-systemd ways of doing things.
Given he was one of the Senators forcing the government shutdown based on values, I suspect he is one of the more honest politicians.

That being said, an honest politician...

It's almost like we need another word other than politician.
You should exclude SS and Medicare when talking about income tax rates. Both of these are basically forced-savings, not taxes. You pay in (save) when working, you get the money back when you retire in the form of SS payments and medicare coverage. Obviously that's a bit of simplification as todays payroll deductions directly fund today's retirees, but the general idea is correct. Unlike taxes, you will more-or-less get back what you put in when you retire. You can't lump income tax and these two force-savings together when talking about tax burden.
Someday, we'll want to mine that "waste".
The interventions in the Caribbean and Latin America were explicitly that.

There's quite a bit more... roads, disease eradication, and research that is considered too financially risky for the private sector... it goes on.
I have never used Yahoo pipes, but I found IFTTT to be quite limited when I tried it earlier this year. There are no booleans, pipeline control, arguments, scheduling, reuse, etc. I know this tool wasn't written for me, but these are things that I would derive real value from.

I want visual tools at a level just above a scripting language, hosted on a managed platform I can largely ignore. An API for webhooks and oauth, 3rd party API support, triggers that can run custom javascript or python... I'd pay all the money for that.
It's more important to sell the product than it is to write it.

However there are many ways to sell it; you need not spend a lot of money on marketing if you learn how to SEO your own website. It's a lot of time and effort, and somewhat slow to pay off, but it does pay off big if you do your SEO well.

I don't mean keyword stuffing; put content on your website that other people will recommend to others by giving you links.
It's true. He did a great job at Yahoo's mobile developer conference this year.
Elasticsearch takes input in JSON format. It's not quite a web service, but could certainly work for your use case.
That argument is absurd. It's like saying that an employee has some kind of moral obligation to their employer because without the employer, they wouldn't have a job. The reality is that in a market economy, people voluntarily exchange goods, services, labor, whatever, when the exchange is mutually beneficial. Nobody owes anyone anything in the sense you are talking about.
Linux systems are barely POSIX, were never UNIX, and systemd doesn't have anything to do with POSIX.

Windows has a crummy POSIX layer, and it's not like it ships sysvinit.

Be serious.
Exactly.

Let's say you are born with a $20M trust fund and never work. You never get taxed on it (yes, I know sales taxes, property taxes and so on..., but we are talking income taxes).

If you play one year in the MBA make the same $20M all that seame year and get injured and cannot work anymore, you get taxed much more than someone making the same $20M during their life time.

The issue is that there is not an easy way to tax people on their wealth (which is really what the state warranties through police, justice, infrastructure, defense, etc...). So we use income as a proxy for wealth (which is a really bad proxy and benefits disproportionately people that are already wealthy). There is an argument to be made that you where already taxed when you made that money, but the problem is that you don't stop benefiting from the state warranties after making that money.

One of the issues with taxing wealth, which is fairer in my opinion, is that it is very difficult and prone to gaming evaluating anyone's wealth. Not even talking about how politically viable it would be to propose taxing 2% of each american's wealth each year instead of a much larger percentage on their income.

Personally, I think it would the right thing to do if viable, because the tax would be proportional to how much the government and its institutions are warranting your property (aka, how much you have at stake).
Given the sorts of candidates that BigCo HR teams tend to let through the process, I'd be pretty surprised if the HR filtration process would actually pick up some random court case, much less act on it.
Why would you say that? Not that I disagree but I don't have any information that causes me to agree with you.
The poster said "hard dependency". This is false.
No, we should definitely include SS and Medicare. You're correct about retirement programs, but the reality is that people lump income taxes and these "forced savings" into "stuff taken out of my paycheck". When you claim the rich pay 84% of taxes, the implication is that their "stuff taken out of my paycheck" contribution is five times that of the average schmuck, and that's not the case.
By definition, "mediocre people" make up approx. 66% of the workforce. We are supposed to celebrate their inability to make a living?
Regardless of anyone's opinion of GamerGate, they have uncovered quite a bit of unethical behavior on the Guardian's behalf. It's sad too because I really respected their Snowden coverage (obviously!).

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/search?q=guardian&res...
Look towards applications. It's that simple.

Amiga "owned" the TV market for a long time because it happened to get some important products first (Video Toaster for example).

Apple got better desktop publishing tools first.

E.g. if you wanted to do TV you during some period would want a product like the Video Toaster. If you wanted to do newspapers, you'd want Quark.

While there may have been certain platform quirks that tilted the initial creation of those tools in one direction or another (such as genlock support for video for the Amiga), platform mattered far less than application, and early application traction in a niche would paper over a lot of other platform issues.

WYSIWYG output for printing was largely still an application issue, not a platform issue, for example. Exactly for those kinds of reasons, an application lead also translated to a platform lead for those kind of niches where people would buy the platform to support an application rather than the other way around. People would buy Quark, and a Mac to run it, not pick a system and see what desktop publishing would run on it. If you loved the Amigas pre-emptive multitasking and "colourful" (compared to the Mac..) environment, tough - it couldn't run Quark (been there - had exactly that discussion back in those days).

Regarding PPC, note that the PPC cards for the Amiga appeared after Commodore had already gone bankrupt, as far as I know. At least PowerUP first appeared in '97 after Amiga Technologies announced Amiga going PPC in '95. It'd been largely obvious the game was over at least from 95-96 even for most die-hard supporters.

Interestingly, had Commodore continued it's clear the next generation Amigas would have most likely been different - the prototype "Hombre" chipset was a SOC that included a HP PA-RISC core [1]. Interestingly Commodore apparently choice PA-RISC primarily with the intent of being able to run Windows NT (at the time of the decision, the lower priced PPC - and MIPS - alternatives were not supported for NT) - something which would have been massively controversial with a lot of Amiga users.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset
Other than possession? The technology required to harvest them is far more advanced than the tech required for an ICBM, so anyone who can I get there, I don't think will be paying tribute.
stupid question, in table
http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BF-AJ529A_11txr_16...
it states that the share of income tax paid by the bottom 20% is "-2.2%" - how do these people pay a negative tax rate?
"I've been doing litigation for twenty years. The only ones who ever win are the lawyers." -- Tyler Paetkau

It's commonly the case that the members of the class in a class action lawsuit receive very little of the money, while the law firm gets most of it. I feel that's wrong but that's commonly the case.

I'm not real sure what you can do about it.
Depends how you look at it. If it's a "survival of the fittest" state of nature, which is what humans emerged from, remember that those with a lot have a lot to lose, those with nothing have nothing to lose. We'd either fight it out, or come to an understanding about how to share limited resources while cooperating for the betterment of all.

This is the social contract, google and wikipedia are your friends ;)
Probably, if you started studying or learning software engineering sometime between then and now.

"Get off my lawn!"
I'm considering something similar (23 now, studied in Imperial, working now in the US, but missing learning so many new things like I had in undergrad).

Did you experience a large decrease in quality of life? Have you saved up a lot until you started at 25?
I discover books through three sources:

1) New releases from publishers/editors/authors I like. If you like 3 books from one publisher, you're probably more likely to like another book from that publisher despite its topic. Same for editors. And, for authors although author releases are less frequent than editors which are less frequent than publishers.

2) Colleagues and friends. Word of mouth still seems to be the number one way people discover books. Ask your friends what they are currently reading. Hop over to GoodReads.com and see if you can find a network that reads genres similar to what you like.

3) Blogs/forums. We like to talk about what we're reading since that makes an otherwise rather solo activity more social. Search the personal/academic/company blogs for topics you like.

Finally, why not create a hacker news thread called "What are you currently reading?" :)
it's amazing how you can be misleading, while telling the complete truth. are you a lawyer?

Linux systems are quite POSIX. the whole point of GNU was to be compatible.

They were never unix, because they weren't of BSD or AT&T heritage. true, and completely irrelevant.

systemd absolutely hates POSIX, and is actively steering Linux away from it.

I have no idea why windows even applies here. If you are comparing Windows to systemd, you may be correct, but both are abhorrent to OpenBSD users.
buzzfeed is complete and utter trash and in no way a legitimate news organization.

However, with White House now using buzzfeed as a medium link up with the younger generation, it's become a source of "information" (see below) to see what agenda Obama is peddling to the kids today.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/02/12/385867076/wat...
About 2/3 of the federal budget goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicare, military, and interest on the debt.
Interesting game theory question: if we assume that "both sides" of the political spectrum always play that game, how should politicians respond? By being more honest (and still be assumed to be playing that game) or by being less honest (because they'll be assumed to be playing that game anyway)?
Perhaps it is because Apple are such perfectionists, that when they miss some tiny detail it's actually quite glaring, because you're not used to them missing that kind of thing.

For example, the Finder's tags configuration dialogue is a masterpiece of horrendous UI design. It's the kind of thing you'd never expect Apple to get wrong, given their usual attention to detail: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/8/#tags
The title is flamebait, the actual key point of the article is that the US (federal level) is making 51% of its revenue from the same source, which fiscally speaking does seem risky. For example, other countries extract much tax from actual use of money (consumption tax)

The fact that the top 20% pays 84% of income tax is of little interest not knowing how much they make (i.e. they could make 95% of all the income or 35%), how much of a burden the tax actually is (i.e. 83% of not a lot is still not a lot)

note: I made the mistake of quickly scanning the article and then it was paywalled when I tried properly reading it, leaving just the title - which I suppose will be reused verbatim to justify all sort of fancy idiotic discussion in the weeks to come.
The vast majority of the current market cap is Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. Heck, all of it by some accounts. The stockholders will get their money back. The stock price reflects this.

7b* in profit is substantial and it'd be a travesty if 15k people lost their jobs for a little short term action.

*http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=yhoo%20profit
Elementary OS Freya Released
It's easy, politicians are always looking for good news. Metrics like "jobs created" get cranked out of some model based on dollars invested.
If people are confused about "stuff taken out of my paycheck", then the answer is education, not more muddying of the waters by mixing two completely different deductions.
Agreed. There is a difference however in claiming that its somehow immoral or wrong to expect people who benefit the most to pay the most to pay the most tax and the claim that people with the least access to capital, employment, and influence have some superior position that they not only haven't earned but are actively stealing.

The former is an argument based on a principal I disagree with...the latter is a fear that the social compact where work is rewarded is somehow invalid. I think people probably sense this somehow and default to distrust of out-groups rather than thinking through the implications of their unease.

I'm really just rambling and kinda thinking out loud...
I've got an Arch image on my MBP, it's just as simple to setup as it sounds, just load the iso and follow the installation steps based on the distro. You may need to install some virtualbox drivers, but that's not difficult.
> Detectives lawfully obtaining a warrant and performing their search within the limitations of that warrant is not a problem.

An encryption system installed by the manufacturer that the manufacturer itself cannot decrypt makes it a problem. Even if a cop showed all of the probable cause necessary and obtained a warrant from a judge, he would still be unable to search the device - not because the suspect took steps to protect the evidence, but because the device manufacturer did.

> The problem is that a warrant _isn't_ required to search a cellphone, laptop or any other personal device.

A warrant is required to search cell phones. See Riley v. California [1], which went all the way to the Supreme Court. The ruling will likely apply to laptops, etc., as well - the opinion went so far as to refer to cell phones as "minicomputers".

> Those devices can be seized and searched at the border [...]

A split key solution would solve that problem - border patrol/the police couldn't search the device without obtaining a warrant and getting the device manufacturer to decrypt it.

[1] https://epic.org/amicus/cell-phone/riley/

[2] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/573/13-132/opini...
md absolutely hates POSIX, and is actively steering Linux away from it.

Remember maths class? Show your working. systemd has fuck all to do with POSIX. If anyone still cared about POSIX, I'm sure you could waste money to get a systemd platform fully certified.

(By the way, OpenBSD is about as POSIX compliant as Linux in that neither are particularly concerned about it.)
One of your premises seems to be equal to your conclusion. So I still don't see, how this video has anything to do with it.
Yup, it's mainly just a few guys in their free time IIRC. The HIG has been coming soon for several years now though.
Perhaps you could ask yourself "how, as a non-free software developer, could I use systemd's RPC system to bypass the LGPL and GPL's requirements that all related software and derivative software must be licensed under the same license?"

The answer will come quickly, I bet. it's how you figure out magic tricks, as well. :)
If it's similar to Magic, why have something built at all? It sounds like you could validate your concept by creating a brief landing page and generating an extra phone number using something like Flyp.

The beautiful part of Magic is the simplicity of just interacting through text. If you generate enough interest you can worry about scaling it up later.
Which isn't unexpected, given that that's the whole point of marginal tax rates.

It's also worth noting that high earners pay exactly the same tax on their first $X as low earners.
When it gets to that point, you can take on employees.
> Enact a 20-hour work week

"Enact" implies the government restricting everyone to working 20 hours per week. That's a violation of our freedom to work as many hours as we want.

I do support you in that all of people shouldn't have to work in order to meet the basic needs of life today (food, housing, and connectivity). Agricultural and industrial efficiency and automization has advanced to a point where we can provide these basic needs to 90% of the populace with only 10% of people maintaining/operating these machines.

A lot of people will continue to work 50 or 60 hours, because a lot of humans are naturally inclined to work. They derive pleasure and satisfaction from it. I would myself personally continue working, perhaps even harder than I do now, but would direct my efforts towards things that I enjoy more, and that are potentially more impactful, meaningful, and beneficial to society. Ensuring that everyone's basic needs are met would give people great personal freedom to pursue what they want.

How would we implement this? One possible way is basic income -- although it might be beneficial to incentivize productive and meaningful use of freedom that basic income gives people. We don't want a country where 50% of the population spends time watching soap operas, and eating junk food.

Just some of my thoughts...
Commodore outsold Apple on the low end by a large factor for many years (and continued to do so in terms of units on a worldwide basis pretty much to the bitter end).

They'd have continued to support Commodore if Commodore didn't continuously mess them around. A major factor was the price war that was to be Jack Tramiel's parting shot: Commodore overnight announced a massive price drop and left their dealers to take the hit on all inventory they already had on hand.

That was typical for Tramiel playing hard-ball but also severely hurt a lot of businesses that had bet on Commodore.

You see the difference when you look at the US market vs. Europe - Europe was handled by subsidiaries that often handled their dealer networks far better. Particularly the UK and Germany were Commodore strongholds. The UK subsidiary actually tried to get financing for a buyout of Commodore International after the bankruptcy, and survived for quite a while on their own financial strength.
Talk about a terribly designed website. If someone had no idea what Elementary OS is, the website does absolutely nothing to tell them. No list of even basic features. No explanation of compatibility or how to install it. Only a single screenshot. Why is this the case?
How to Build a GCC Cross-Compiler for the Raspberry Pi
A book about this: http://thelightsinthetunnel.com
The Joy of Quiet (2011)
I'm not trying to be offensive, but that simplifies the human condition to an almost cartoon-ish degree. People aren't really the simple rational economic actors that are useful in theory. I know that sounds trite, but it is true.
4.6b is profit is substantial

No, they had 4.6b in revenue. Their operating income was 146m for 2014... (which is a big drop from the 590m in 2013, and 565m in 2012).

Re edit: I see you edited the profit number to 7b. This number includes 10b in one-time asset sales during 2014. (EDIT: sold 10b of Alibaba stake [0]). For Yahoo's sake, I hope Marissa's plan isn't to sell off Yahoo 10b at a time to boost net profits.

it'd be a travesty if 15k people lost their jobs for a little short term action.

No where have I suggested layoffs. I said Marissa may find herself out of a job if things don't improve. I imagine she has another year or two max (unless things change). That's very different than saying 15k people should be let go.

0. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/yahoo-faces-moment-of...
Why does it matter when the tax payer gets something back? And do I get nothing back from the income taxes I pay today? If I pay income taxes today to buy a ship for the U.S. Navy, and that ship is used 10 years later to defend the port where I work, does that change how I view the income tax paid today?

I'm pretty sure they're taxes either way.
I understand that Rand Paul is heavily into the "rights" of corporations. Is that actually true?

I personally am rather more worried about corporate surveillance than NSA surveillance. That's why I pay cash for everything, and take pains to blackhole web analytics servers with my hosts file.
so, you're agreeing with me that Lennart, and therefore systemd, hates POSIX? or are you disagreeing, and saying that, if tested for compliance, systemd would pass?

can you please show me where OpenBSD shows as much hatred of POSIX compliance as LP (or even Linux) does?
Confucius once wrote that 'seeing the right thing and not doing it is cowardly'. This is still true today. But you are right that the life of a coward is easier.

Living a virtuous life is always 'hard mode'; if it were not, would we ever have bothered to identify virtue?
I agree. The Stirling formula is another place where the square root of pi pops out from factorials.
I don't know what kind of machines you used in 1985, but 80x25 was easily done on an A1000, and was what you were competing against on the PC side in most instances.

There were many problems for Commodore, but lagging on the graphics side vs. the PC was not an issue until years later.