Afforess

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by Afforess 4y ago
> I hate how this story is always framed as the fault of evil TurboTax/Intuit. They are simply lobbying for their continued existence. Fascinating way to reframe this as a natural survival instinct of... checks notes ... a corpora
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by Afforess 5y ago
Fun fact, Stock buybacks were largely illegal until 1982: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/10/23/the-dangers-of-bu... .
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by Afforess 5y ago
>Do the sanctions actually hurt Putin, or are we hurting ourselves and the everyday Russian for nothing? This conversation will go nowhere unless you define "hurting ourselves" vs "hurting everyday Russians" in actual
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by Afforess 5y ago
Here's my counter: what if, instead of taxing students after their graduation, we taxed all adults income, then used the tax proceeds to make university tuition cost-free. The advantage would be that more students would attend, we&#x27
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by Afforess 5y ago
Same reason the Coca-Cola recipe is not published nor made freely available by the Coca-Cola corporation.
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by Afforess 5y ago
I realize you are not defending these ideas, just stating them. However, they are absurd.... objections In order: 1. Charging rent would cost more administratively than giving the space for free, in 99.9% of cases. Yes, the city should allo
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by Afforess 5y ago
> City staff said they don’t see any way around putting restaurateurs through a more intensive process to make their outdoor structures permanent What? Make the current rule changes permanent? How come this is not considered as "a
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by Afforess 5y ago
The existence of and overall success of China's zero covid strategy says you're wrong, human actions can contain it. If your reply is China's data can not be trusted, then Australia or NZ. But same conclusion, we can and shou
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by Afforess 5y ago
This mentality of thinking is exactly the problem, I think. You want a tool that can solve an entire class of problems. We are telling you that no such tool can exist to do what you want, the problem and the tools don't work that way
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by Afforess 5y ago
>it seems that you and the postmodern crowd both value highly the creation of a shared narrative about what's important and what's going on This is a fairly widely mocked opinion, it;'s the same caliber of criticism as the
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by Afforess 5y ago
Time in the market > Timing the market.
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by Afforess 5y ago
This is only correct if labor is the largest component of the price of a good. If labor is not a large component, paying more for labor, at the expensive of competitors labor supply, is a good idea, and employers should do it.
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by Afforess 5y ago
I've read the books and watched the show as far as it's aired. I agree, but I almost think it's good that Asimov's vision is getting smoothed out a bit. After "second foundation" in the book series, the books g
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Texas Isn’t Ready for Another Deep Freeze(bloomberg.com)
2 points by Afforess 5y ago|0 comments
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by Afforess 5y ago
The TX Winter Storm and Big Freeze did more damage to the TX economy than the shutdowns. Try again.
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by Afforess 5y ago
I was not trying to bait you - thanks for a clear answer.
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by Afforess 5y ago
>Is this in jest? Or are you truly suggesting that even conversing with someone who holds an opinion that differs from yours somehow makes you of the same opinion? Are you truly suggesting the correct action to take with Nazi's is a
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by Afforess 5y ago
Can you explain which of abvdasker's, hackerswords's, unsui's posts were not nice? I sincerely want to know, so I can argue against you further without being "unnice".
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by Afforess 5y ago
Leif Erikson? Popularized by Spongebob, no less.
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by Afforess 5y ago
You misspelled TAI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
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by Afforess 5y ago
> If you really are not comfortable with the consequences your personal labor you should probably leave your job or not take it in the first place. This sounds like a decadent rationalization for highly compensated people that want to f
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by Afforess 5y ago
Worth noting that the article states that the current year crop is projected to be a record high: > For cereal production, FAO projected a record world crop of 2.800 billion tonnes in 2021, up slightly from 2.788 billion estimated a mont
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by Afforess 5y ago
I'm trying to assume good faith
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by Afforess 5y ago
I'm confused why the correct course of action isn't to revert the commit, ask the author to re-open the PR for comment, and follow the process. Why the tortious apology?
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by Afforess 5y ago
Literally no police departments have been "defunded" yet - even in places where they have been trying, the cuts have not taken effect. Any stats about a rise in crime is very misleading. The cause of the rise in crime is in no way
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by Afforess 5y ago
Anyone handling a decent amount of cash might be carrying counterfeit money. Everyone rolls through stop signs. You could arrest 5% of America on those two things any given day.
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by Afforess 5y ago
You are making the argument that public pay reduces the upper window on merit-based compensation. This may even be true! However, consider the other group of people this helps. Minorities, H1B holders, other commonly discriminated classes,
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by Afforess 5y ago
No, it wasn't. I had power the entire time and I had to help neighbors whose vehicles would not start and deal with dangerous roads. No one in Texas has the correct winter tires and cities lack the infrastructure to clear the roads qui
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by Afforess 5y ago
No, not usually. Usually they are replacing a less profitable, but larger grocery store with a highly profitable, smaller dollar store. It's a greater profit at the cost of product selection.
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by Afforess 5y ago
Predicting recessions is easy. Economists have predicted 18 of the last 4 recessions.

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