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1. 271.▲
   by itcrowd 7y ago

   > progressive income tax European countries have this.
2. 272.▲
   by itcrowd 7y ago

   Roads, sidewalks, bridges, public transport, education (+ buildings), public libraries, emergency services, hospitals, ( ... the list goes on) are all heavily subsidized by the government here. You could design taxes such that these are all
3. 273.▲
   by itcrowd 7y ago

   I agree it is a regressive tax. Re-reading my comment I can understand that it may seem that I don't agree with that. Sorry about that. However, I fail to see why regressive taxes are bad in general and why VAT is bad in particular. I
4. 274.▲
   by itcrowd 7y ago

   > But they won't. Spend it, I mean. At least not on things where VAT is relevant. If we can agree that the VAT is levied because the government has added some value to each product sold (value added tax..) then I don't see why
5. 275.▲
   by itcrowd 7y ago

   I feel for you. The (near-)monopoly in some service areas is disgusting. $150-220 for triple play (tv, internet, phone) is still preposterous. It is 2-4 times more expensive than the most expensive package I could find for my current loca
6. 276.▲
   by itcrowd 7y ago

   I don't understand your point. Even the rich will have to pay 13% once they spend the money.
7. 277.▲
   by itcrowd 7y ago

   Forget the bogus fees for a moment. $150-220 for cable TV per month is preposterous.
8. 278.▲
   by itcrowd 7y ago

   Original reporting by Bloomberg, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21152421
9. 279.▲
   by itcrowd 7y ago

   Sorry in case I wasn't clear. I meant that, on average, 25 WeWork employees manage / oversee a single WeWork location, not that they actually work in that location.
10. 280.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    There's not one number, obviously. But if you look at a large hotel, maybe 10? Then again, WeWork isn't nearly as large as a large hotel and doesn't provide equivalent services. >10 on average per location (being generou
11. 281.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    Running the numbers here. WeWork has 12.500 employees with 500 locations. That means on average 25 employees per location. That sounds absurd for workspace management, especially since construction / renovations / cleaning are mos
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    The Ocean Cleanup Successfully Catches Plastic in Great Pacific Garbage Patch(theoceancleanup.com)

    34 points by itcrowd 7y ago|6 comments
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    by itcrowd 7y ago

    On an unrelated note, does anyone else get the feeling that the vBulletin website looks similar to what a Microsoft Support scammer might refer you to in order to download Remote Desktop software? https://www.vbulletin.com/
14. 284.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    I like the "dumbphone" + e-ink display use case but I don't like the SAR claims and the claim to patented technology. The patent itself just describes yet another antenna design [1]. May be good, may be bad. Linking it to &qu
15. 285.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    > “Zerodium customers were aware of it since 3 years.” This is why we can't have nice things. Zerodium, thanks for being honest, but services such as yours are actively making the internet a worse place.
16. 286.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    Good: Echompanion (this list is more difficult) Bad: E. Choli, Echocentric, Echoterrorist, Echromancer, Echoroomer, Echommercial, Echo-kroach, Echonvict
17. 287.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    No, I still wouldn't. It's unethical (and in many cases illegal) to record and analyze other people's conversations without consent. The intended usage is to only record your own speech but it inevitably leads to compromising
18. 288.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    Thanks for the reference and your great insights. On reading the new Google paper more closely, they do FM the readout.
19. 289.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    Well I don't want to answer for him but you could make the same point with the airplane: The first flight was 2 people in a plane that lasted very short. I could have ridden my horse more quickly over that distance! How is this a meani
20. 290.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    I agree on your other points and trust that you are more qualified to judge what the biggest obstacles are. Do you have a paper I can look into that goes into the chip architectures in more detail (not specifically for this new device)? Oth
21. 291.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    You may not agree with the authors' or Aaronsons' definition of quantum supremacy, that's ok. I think his definition is very reasonable. Aaronson argues that this experiment will prove quantum computing supremacy in great l
22. 292.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    I was a little too fast and loose in my previous post. You are correct that we want a large [number of qubits] on a chip eventually. The chips are tiny and the fridges large enough for now (50 qubits). It's not clear to me that they ca
23. 293.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    > every single country that signed the Paris deal, who did not decline modestly, even for a time. Completely false. For example: the UK has been emitting less and less at least since 1990. Source: https://www.gov.uk/gover
24. 294.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    Yes, every country must do its part. No, the US is not "doing something about it" and it is clear from the article: > For a time, US emissions continued to decline modestly despite the Trump administration’s environmental vanda
25. 295.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    Here are the totals, based on the figures in the post: 10.8% gross for A16Z 14.5% for S&P 500. Calculation: https://imgur.com/a/jeFN8fL
26. 296.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    Essentially, they use superconducting electronics to create a quantum circuit. It's not the same logic gates as a traditional computer chip and not based on the same physics. The details are difficult & messy. There are several rea
27. 297.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    I'm sorry for what happened to you and it is horrible. There are no excuses for said behavior. Some of the events sound possibly criminal and should be reported to the authorities. That said, and especially since you end your statement
28. 298.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    OK, I'll bite and have a balanced discussion with you. Could you explain more about what you would like from such a system? Where do you see it deployed? Airports, public areas, streets, shops, everywhere?
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    by itcrowd 7y ago

    In addition to false positives, the false negative rate must also be given. For example: if 100 "suspect cars" pass by, but only 5 are identified as suspect, then 95% of the suspects are still on the loose and the system is again
30. 300.▲
    by itcrowd 7y ago

    Yes: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis... This is global data per sector. The rest of the page is fantastically insightful, too.