9oliYQjP

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by 9oliYQjP 10mo ago
I don't have an economics or finance background. But why could there not be a taxable event for the loan amount when it is made? Sure, maybe it gets taxed at a lower rate than even capital gains to continue incentivizing leveraged inve
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by 9oliYQjP 4y ago
Having worked at non-profits, the distribution of wages can be unlike anything ever seen at for-profit corporations and has made me become quite cynical. At a couple of the organizations I was involved with, there was lots of unpaid volunte
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by 9oliYQjP 4y ago
You might be right. But I just want to add that this housing asset bubble is global in nature. We here in Canada have been running the interest rate increase experiment ahead of the US. We've also had a much worse run up in housing pri
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by 9oliYQjP 4y ago
Does it say if the researchers knew his family members' names in advance? Wouldn't the "a ha!" moment be when the patient shares something that the researchers couldn't possibly find out on their own and that wouldn
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by 9oliYQjP 4y ago
For macOS at least, the cause of this is the ECM driver that is used for the Realtek 8153. If you're lucky enough to find a device that has the Realtek 8156 chipset, which I believe the CalDigit TS4 uses, macOS will use the NCM driver
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by 9oliYQjP 4y ago
At least with respect to macOS, the Realtek 8153 chipsets in these docks suffer from having to use the built-in ECM driver. If you're on Apple Silicon, that's your only option. If you're on Intel, there are some flaky but mor
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
The donor is anonymous but their characteristics are heavily marketed. In cases like this one, parents feel like they were intentionally misled: promised one thing and sold something else. I haven't had time to read the full article, b
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
I know it sounds farfetched but hear me out. Stranger things have happened. Bitcoin is a speculative asset like housing and used cars currently are in 2022. But the similarities end there. All the other speculative asset classes have been t
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
I'm somewhat using it as a stand-in, but I do have this gut feeling that bitcoin has a few characteristics that will make it the standard (more on this later). I also think there will be digital dollars issued by central banks. In that
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
I used to think like this. But the older I get the more cynical I become. In massively corrupt environments, everybody needs to appear to be playing the game by the rules when it comes to primary objectives like the distribution of wealth a
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
Russia has a 10:1 advantage to the US in tactical nukes. They have all sorts of creative nuclear devices that can very much be used in theatre without triggering a MAD scenario. Why the big discrepancy? US weaponry is better. It's more
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
Brands like Levis never weigh in on controversial issues until they've hit a certain inflection point of public discourse and it is clear where the majority of society will land on it. Then in hindsight, they will try to present themse
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
Agreed, but there's a higher baseline mental overhead due to increased complexity of Swift that Objective-C doesn't have, at least once you get past the weird square bracket syntax. This is mental overhead that distracts from the
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
Apple's move to Swift and away from Objective-C won't be viewed as the no-brainer obvious decision with positive results 10 years from now, at least when both technical and business merits are considered. It will be compared in a
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
The FLQ kidnapped a British cabinet minister then murdered a Quebec politician responsible for immigration. There's a lot more to the October Crisis and the invocation of the War Measures Act than you are alluding to. I hope that you s
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
The article makes no mention of the warming predating the industrial revolution. Rather, the quote below indicates a marked change in temperature at the beginning of the 20th century. When we looked at the whole 800-year timescale, our te
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
The Chinese and Russians just completed joint military exercises for the first time on Chinese mainland soil. It’s a ratcheting up of their version of NATO - the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. My pet theory is Russia is playing both si
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
I'm from Canada and we were taught something similar as early as grade school. But that was back in the 1990s and I'm not sure if it's currently part of the curriculum or if this was taught across the country as education cur
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by 9oliYQjP 5y ago
The Canada Revenue Agency is very clear about how they are interpret tax law here. If it’s a gift from a non-employer then it’s most certainly not taxable. There is no gift tax. However, Vitalik has generated a capital gains event by the ac
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by 9oliYQjP 6y ago
I was piling on but could have done a better job with the opening statement to articulate this, yes. I’ll take every opportunity to point out the Nobel prize issue because I think it has created real harm. The equity of the real Nobel prize
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by 9oliYQjP 6y ago
To be fair it's not a real Nobel prize. It's paid for by a bank and it was first issued in 1968. One of Nobel's descendants is on record speculating that Nobel would never have agreed to the award. It's very much about p
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by 9oliYQjP 6y ago
The 'M.B.A.-ization' of the corporate west -- it's not just the U.S. where this is happening -- is in some ways a specific example of a more general problem in which professions that just don't need robust credentialism
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by 9oliYQjP 6y ago
I'm running it on GeForce NOW with all settings turned to highest possible (Ultra where possible, High, and one Psycho). I also have ray tracing on Quality mode and I am at an utter loss for how well this thing runs. This is the first
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by 9oliYQjP 6y ago
I agree. Even releasing the original videos showing the UFOs being tracked was likely sending a signal to an adversary. The fact that the objects were being tracked by commodity Navy fighter jets and not something more advanced might send t
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by 9oliYQjP 6y ago
Here's an interesting video from another MD who provides some much needed nuance to Kyle-Sidell's insights. https://youtu.be/Fz2gyhto-iI?t=767
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by 9oliYQjP 7y ago
I keep hearing that masks make people touch their face. I put to you the following questions: 1. Do frontline healthcare workers also "touch [their] face" when wearing these masks for the same reasons regular people do? I imagine
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by 9oliYQjP 7y ago
I hear you and understand in theory things like surgical masks allow coronaviruses to pass through them. But we've got to stop thinking about wearing masks in absolute terms of "it works" or "it doesn't work".
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by 9oliYQjP 7y ago
It was a Conservative government responsible for this debacle. The previous Liberal government which had started legalization would have sold cannabis at LCBO stores which are in every neighbourhood and are run quite efficiently. Under the
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by 9oliYQjP 7y ago
I found my problematic quick look plugin by running ```qlmanage -m plugins``` and doing a hack binary search where possible. I identified 3rd party plugins, assumed the problem was there, then disabled half of them by temporarily removing t
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by 9oliYQjP 7y ago
I actually run my setup in clamshell mode while connected to the eGPU and just use one big display. So I'm not a great person to provide a testimonial there. But I have periodically run with the MBP display open and enabled. The bigges

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