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Is 50% your ETR if you only look at INCOME taxes (federal and state)? If so, you're probably an extreme outlier.

Or are you including payroll "taxes" (social security, medicare), sales taxes etc also?

IIUC, if you add up health insurance premiums (employer share + employee share) + all income taxes + all payroll taxes of US and compare it to the same quantity of other DEVELOPED countries, the tax burden on the US is not unreasonably high.

Keeping a developed country developed is hard/expensive. :)

I take this blog post as confirmation that:

1) ANY one message can be intercepted even if the sender exhibits ideal levels of alertness [Whatsapp server drops message to recipient; sends a rekey request with a fake key; message is intercepted since fake key was generated by server. Sender will see a warning if they turned on that setting (default is to show no warning), but it's too late].

2) Only Whatsapp has this vuln, not Signal app.

3) Depending on sloppiness of sender, more extensive interception is possible. [E.g., server not supplying delivery reports + sender doesn't have warning for key changes + sender sloppy about noticing lack of double check mark => full transcript can be generated]

Of course, of course, this is unlikely to be an NSA backdoor. But maybe .... </CK_LOUIS>

i dabbled in this api way back in the past so i may be wrong about its capabilities.

skype used to be EXCELLENT at working in most networks, including "locked down" corporate ones. Network admins used to find it notoriously difficult to "ban" on networks.

so relying on skype to exfiltrate info may serve two purposes:

1) use another program's capabilities instead of reinventing the wheel.

2) hide the fact that some random program is doing network access.

skype could be one of a range of data exfiltration mechanisms with different levels of obfuscation.

Looks fine to me. Ikea's site looks similar (to my eyes at least), btw. And nothing like the 90's whitehouse site.

There's a lot of niche sites that get the job done without following all the latest "trends". More power to them.

Function over form FTW.

Sorry, I don't know.

Is it possible that mining activity could accidentally change the orbits of one of these asteroids enough to send it crashing into earth eventually (in a few decades)?

bottle.py + Postgres + Nginx on Ubuntu on a VPS is my go-to boring stack.

I recommend just using SQLite for the MVP. Launch then iterate.

What could possibly go wrong with securitizing interest streams? :)

This line bothered me more than it should :)

    typedef std::string String;

when

    using std::string;

would have done just as well.

Yes, I noticed the capitalization change. But why do you want to change the name of a fundamental type?

I hope (1) FM radio receivers come back, (2) and phones implement a way to grab the waveform and modify it before it hits the speakers.

I can imagine useful public-safety capabilities that could be enabled via data over FM radio.

FM radio is an insanely low-power, low-tech way to do medium-range one-to-many wireless communications.

Actually, I'm happy to see that this author didn't give into the temptation of making a "one ring that rules them all" abstract design.

OpenGL is a C API. This adds a decent C++ API around it. Seems to be a decent effort.