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by Detrytus 2y ago
I did the same for the past year, mostly for work (so MS Office suite, IntelliJ, Java), but it even works for the old PC games like Heroes of Might and Magic III or Morrowind. The only thing that I could not get working was Global Protect V
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Economic indicators are manufactured by government agencies to support the narrative the current administration wants to spin. Meanwhile, people living in the real world observe some actual state of economy, based on things such as "ho
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Well, many believe that Europe is falling so much behind US and China in areas such as economy, technology, innovation that it basically is just a tourist destination at this point, with no power or relevance in shaping the world's fu
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by Detrytus 2y ago
> Inflation is actually the increase in the money supply It's not that simple. That might be how it is defined in economy textbook, but in practice, how do government agencies measure inflation? You have predefined basket of consume
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by Detrytus 2y ago
The US was "a durable deflationary economy" for pretty much the whole 19th century, and first decade of 20th century. Things started to change once FED was created and given power over money supply.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Or maybe the author did that on purpose: made up a prophecy, to make Jesus look like a prophet. He did not mention fulfillment of that prophecy because all his potential readers already knew about that.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
The benefactor is named, and his name is Theophilus, Luke actually dedicates his second book, "Acts of the Apostoles" to him.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
I thought "synoptic" meant "sharing common point of view", or "written from the same perspective", but I'm really not an expert on this.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Mark, according to tradition was a student of St. Paul, and he personally met St. Peter. Matthew was a Jesus disciple himself. Luke was also a friend of St. Paul, and possibly met St. Peter as well. So, for me the simplest explanation is th
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by Detrytus 2y ago
What's so weird about this? CS literature is not legally binding in any way. Of course a judge would rather quote a previous ruling by fellow judge than a textbook, Wikipedia, or similar sources.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
I think "Unified" vs "shared" is just something Apple marketing department came up with. Calling something "shared" makes you think: "there's not enough of it, so it has to be shared". Calling so
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by Detrytus 2y ago
It's not about efficiency or performance, it's about not having to own the iPhone in the first place. Just put a SIM card inside the laptop and forget about it. Windows laptops can even seamlessly switch between wifi and LTE depen
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by Detrytus 2y ago
But that’s the thing: until you sell all the “capital gains” are illusionary: you borrow against your stock and tomorrow it falls down 50% and now you’re double screwed because you owe tax on those illusionary gains and your bank is also af
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by Detrytus 2y ago
“Prevailing wage determination” is already a part of h1b process, but it is easily gamed.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
While you’re at it, can you please ban “hotspot speed limits”? The annoying thing in US is that if I have a cell phone plan with “unlimited” internet I can use it on my phone, but if I occasionally need to share that connection with my lapt
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by Detrytus 2y ago
That's another thing: my compensation is basically all salary, no stock options of any kind. I think the trick might be that my immigration lawyer listed the PW for "entry level" Software Architect job (is there even such thi
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Well, maybe. I mean, my city is really not that high col city: median house price is $450k and the rent outside city center is just $1300 for one bedroom. But salaries in IT are pretty good here, my salary is actually the average for my pos
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Wasn't Trump's proposal few years ago "95th percentile salary for their profession"? So you still have room for farmers and scientists provided that they are exceptional (or at least exceptionally well paid) farmers and
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by Detrytus 2y ago
> US companies are required to pay the "Prevailing Wage" [0] to H-1Bs, so they cannot use foreigners to undercut US citizens. This is laughable. I do not know how the government calculates those wages, but as someone who got to
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by Detrytus 2y ago
"Citation needed."
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Maybe that's true in small, peaceful countries like Denmark, but in the US children "excersising some independence" would likely be kidnapped, raped or killed.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
But if you have "unrealized gains" tax you should also have "unrealized losses" tax deduction. Also, instead of Apple try imagining NVIDIA: their stock went up like 1000% in two years, they are now a trillion dollar comp
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Is it because Microsoft Word default spellchecker settings?
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by Detrytus 2y ago
There’s a similar concept with real estate taxes in some countries: you pay your tax based on self-reported valuation, but if you sell for a price that’s higher than this valuation then you have to pay adjusted tax for like 5 years back.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
High-ranking officials (like presidents, kings, prime ministers) come in their own private jets, sometimes more than one. It's not like you can have 30 prime ministers coming on the same cheap airline plane.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Not only that, it also creates an incentive for renters to hold on to units they do not need anymore, because if they forego the lease then the next renter will get much higher rent (and so will they, at their new place). So they keep it, j
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by Detrytus 2y ago
We had a scam in Poland decades ago, where companies could buy a station wagon with this metal grating between rear seats and the trunk [0], which was enough to classify the whole vehicle as a truck, which gave you tax breaks not available
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Well, I guess for gas-powered car 500 gallons would be sufficient, so 2 orders of magnitude less water. EDIT: 500 gallons was originally just a wild guess, but here's an article where some firefighter gives 500-1000 gallons range: htt
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by Detrytus 2y ago
I thought one of the reasons to bring Apple Silicon to Mac was that all the iPhone games can now be easily ported?
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Generally, there are two types of debts: consumer debt, which you just spend and the debt you invest in something profit-bringing, like business. Average people generally only accrue the first kind and rarely the second.

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