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A somewhat similar chart for the US is at the link below. It also includes a GIF that shows effective tax rates back to 1862. https://github.com/chrisvwx/taxFoo.jl

Archive link for original article: https://archive.ph/zIx9b Simons also funded Quanta magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/about/ His Wikipedia page is interesting: https://en.…

As a marketing term I like "Limitarianism"

* The Idea Factory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory ) includes info on Kelly ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion ) as well as Shannon. * A Mind at Play …

I couldn't finish Sinclair's book on aging [1]; even in a book that he co-authored he comes across as a scammer [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespan:_Why_We_Age_%E2%80%93...

MKBHD on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1777045761705853295 "Just pointed my phone camera directly at the midday sun for 5 minute straight. It got a little warm, but... …

Possibly-related: * 8sleep blog about the study: https://www.eightsleep.com/blog/research-paper-reveals-the-e... * "Sleep and subjective age: protect your sleep if you want to feel…

I guess "Degen" in this context means [1] a person "engaged in high-risk, high-reward strategies without much regard for potential losses. These individuals were seen as reckless, …

An opposing view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4nJ07_02NQ I often buy organic food: I can afford it and like the goal of using zero or minimal pesticides and herbicides. For me…

Thanks for responding

mb needs a 2015 tag?

Where did you get that number? Vitalik gave goals of 1.33 MB per second in blob space, and a compressed tx size of 25 bytes. This gives around 50,000 transactions per second, which…

At first I thought the lack of a link was a sort of recursive comment on our online situation (We are always clicking, but never going anywhere). But I guess the real situation is …

Table 1 in that article doesn't satisfy my internal bullshit detector, and it looks like others have debunked it as well; see the article below for an example. https://www.intmath.…

Begrudging? From m-w.com the definition of begrudging is "said, done, or given reluctantly" So you want PMs who will only work at Eight sleep reluctantly?

In what part of the world is it typical to say "45 year engineer"? I'm an engineer in the western US, and would say "an engineer with 45 years of experience". I interact with lotsa…

If by "this kind of approach" you mean lattice tools, then I think the answer is yes. See the link below for an example in the Wikipedia page on the LLL. Also the second link may b…

Kolmogorov complexity [1] is a measure of the complexity of an object (say a text), while Cyclomatic complexity is a measure of the complexity of a program. Can we make any stateme…

Everyone can get an app on their phone or computer that supports TOTP, such as Google Authenticator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_one-time_password

At present the title of the article [1] is "Is American Journalism Headed Toward an ‘Extinction-Level Event’?" To which I would answer "No". That's a click-bait headline complainin…

I initially read it as "QAnonYoutube.com"

It's called "the internet". People from around the world can collaborate easily on incredibly projects such as Linux or OpenRISC. Or on closed-source projects as used by FAANG comp…

If it's a "classic anti-trust issue", can you point to a similar company from the past that was successfully constrained by anti-trust regulation?

Today on HN: EV Batteries Could Retire to Solar Farms https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38870723