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They yield 3-5% right now. Official inflation is 8%. You're losing 3-6% based on official inflation data. I don't know about you though, but things went up a lot more than 8% for me. But let's say just 3% a year loss, that's a loss of almost 30% over 10 years.

Fell over this relatively new programming language. I normally don't get so excited about new programming languages, but this seems to improve on a lot of the things I dislike about Go while having a lot of the benefits of Go.

Do anyone use V Lang in production? Or for other things? What are your experiences wit this?

Can only agree with you ;)

Yes, you're right. I made two stars but HN removes that. Many times in programming we use two stars for meaning ^

Yeah, that's right. I wrote two stars but apparently they're removed by HN.

I don't take MMT serious. It has been wrong about almost everything. The theories are just theories without substance or evidence.

Ahh Yes, the privileged of being born a certain place makes you forced to continuously pay them money... That's definitely not slavery

They do play games borrowing against their assets. Why can they do this? Becomes the government have monopolized *the cost of capital* I completely agree this is bad. But giving the government more taxes will not make them suddenly change their mind about this.

0.99*10 = 90%. Why do you need to work just to keep your wealth at the same level? Isn't that a big red flag?

didn't say federal income tax. I said tax. Federal, state, municipality taxes. Now adding other things like rent tax etc.. Your steak is now 50% more expensive. If not more

Taxes increase inflation. You buy a steak at a restaurant. If they have to pay 50% extra for their employees in tax, and 50% extra for the meat then it will be more expensive for them to sell you the steak.

You open up a lot of conversations here not related to wealth tax. The question is, do you think it is okay for a government to say "hey, we changed our mind and the money you have that we already have taxed we want to tax again". Besides this, are you okay with keeping people in perpetual wage slavery and force people to work until death. The income tax in the US was introduced only for the rich and was only like 2%? But now the taxes is well above 50% for most Americans. It is always a slippery slope.

Wealth taxes are probably the most unfair tax that exist as they negatively compound. a 1% wealth tax will make you lose 10% over 10 years. Factor in inflation and you lose maybe 50% of your wealth real quick. This ensures you can never really retire and you have to continue to work no matter what.

Scandinavians love their countries and most would never want to move away. Many rich people could just move a few hundred kilometers in, but yet they haven't even through many places your effective tax rate is 50-80%. They believe in their country, but at some point it just becomes too ridiculously to stay.

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Thanks guys, I installed Fedora - third distro this month - and as they say the third is the charm. Everything seems to work - until of course next update :D

Have a good weekend!

Thanks for the nice summary. What about user interface? I always felt MacOS clunky when I tried a Macbook. E.g. no sticky windows.

Apple stuff probably comes the closet to your criteria.

Dont know if it is a AI response, but one of my friends had a M1 and we couldn't watch a movie because VLC wasn't ported yet.

Just some weird things with Snaps that made me "snap" :P Like, Installing Chromium with snap, and then it doesn't have access to file drop which is something I use like 20 times a day. This easily adds 30 minutes to my work. Or sharing my screen I have to click 4 buttons in a slow and clunky manner.

Freedom and flexibity is a large part, but also so many bad stories when the hardware breaks.

Yeah definitely weird and it didn't happen before. I am running a memtester as mongol suggested.

I really enjoy Linux and the freedom it gives me, but using 30 hours last month getting things to work so I can do work... is not how I want to spend my time.

Great suggestion, running memtester now.

Yeah exactly! Especially the whole Wayland and Snap experience. It seems like it is not quite there - I understand the benefits but just not right there.

Thought it might be funny to ask the beast itself:

What do Science Fiction books that predict ChatGPT say it might lead us?

As an AI language model, I do not have the capability to read or analyze science fiction books that specifically predict ChatGPT's impact on the future. However, science fiction books that feature AI and advanced language models often explore themes related to the ethical and societal implications of creating intelligent machines.

Some of these themes include the potential for AI to surpass human intelligence and control, the ethical considerations of creating and using intelligent machines, the impact of AI on employment and labor markets, and the possibility of AI becoming a threat to humanity.

Overall, science fiction has explored a wide range of possibilities and outcomes for AI and intelligent machines, including both positive and negative scenarios. Ultimately, the future impact of AI and language models like ChatGPT will depend on how they are developed, regulated, and used by society.

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Hey HN!

You’ve been amazing at providing us with your awesome feedback on the first version of Duckist.com and hoped you’d be just as active in sharing your thoughts on the new version. Our original idea was to make it easier for companies to share passwords securely. As a small software development service provider, we have had to gain access to countless accounts over the course of our work.

Clients frequently just resorted to sharing passwords in clear text, instead of taking the time to set up password managers. Bad idea!

Our tool took the hassle away, but our clients wanted it to be able to do more.

Now you can also encrypt files directly in the browser and even live chat. Not easy to do in terms of programming, because we have to encrypt a file in chunking using a type of stream. If done incorrectly the browser just crashes because of the excessive memory usage. We are considering to make a detailed blog article about how we achieved this and also open source the relevant part of the code. Would you be interested in reading it?

HN has the best positive roasting community I have encountered, so please feel at liberty to share as much feedback as possible! It would be tremendously appreciated!

thanks

Sad it happened. This highlights why it is important to reduce your exposure to external services. Right now I just deploy on bare metals servers and are ready to move them if need to. As they say, there's no cloud - just someone's else' computer

Interesting talk

I'd say even more relevant. Why? Because 7 years ago our scaling/technology was worse than what we potentially can do now. If you want you can scale with a small team if you focus on the actual problems instead of overengineering

I have many fond memories of making bots for games. Like fishing in World of Warcraft. I haven't used it for like 5 years, but I should check it out again - maybe not for games this time but maybe for auto-posting on Social Media for my company

I never ended up there even though I played a lot of Sonic, but interesting. Reminds me a bit of how when something goes wrong on some of the tech websites it shows a cute animal. Okay at least they made sure I see a cute cat, somehow makes it nicer.