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by Erem 5y ago
I understood him to mean that your annual property tax bill is usually a proportion of the property value, and increases with the property's value, and that's a precedent for doing something similar to other property like stocks.
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by Erem 5y ago
In your link, Snopes brought a bunch of evidence to bear: price of the Big Mac on Uber Eats in the two places, actual Menu prices in Copenhagen vs Oklahoma, then the Big Mac index, which I think you were referring to. It ends with a few mor
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by Erem 5y ago
People choose whether to vaccinate and businesses choose whether to employee the unvaccinated. What is so wrong about that? 20 years ago my college wouldn't let me matriculate without a meningitis vaccine. So I weighed my choices and g
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by Erem 6y ago
If you believe this, then you must also believe that Christians and Jews do not worship the same God since obviously Jews do not believe in the deity of Jesus either.
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by Erem 6y ago
So on the one hand I see you using extreme words like "deeply corrupted", "erasing historical figures", "destroying", "lunatics running the city into the ground". Then on the other hand I see that you
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by Erem 6y ago
Let's not compare fear of cops to fear of criminals just based on stats -- there are qualitative differences that matter too. For example, when criminals target you, you have recourse: calling the cops. Having that option can assuage f
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by Erem 6y ago
Nimbius, the way that you write is remarkably effective. Makes me want to crack open my old Steinbeck novels. Please keep writing.
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by Erem 7y ago
> Who gets to decide what benefits should result from that amount of time? You? Why? Practically speaking, voters do because we live in a democracy. It is perfectly fine for a society to decide "a full time job should have to pay en
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by Erem 7y ago
> neighbors A permanently absentee landlord is not a neighbor, and reporting a vacant lot next to my home is not ratting.
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by Erem 7y ago
By what metric should we rate the value of infrastructure like Amtrak's? Should it really be profitability? Maybe I'm not reading the right articles, but I never see highway or interstate infrastructure judged by their ability to
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by Erem 7y ago
I think about this often from the perspective of my job in tech. I just started taking action by getting plugged in with the Citizen's Climate Lobby ( https://citizensclimatelobby.org/ ) which are actually making a diffe
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by Erem 7y ago
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by Erem 8y ago
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by Erem 8y ago
INSTRUMENTAL | SRE: Systems | Bay Area, CA (Palo Alto) | Full-time, Onsite | instrumental.com Interested in a Systems SRE role with a twist? As a Site Reliability Engineer at Instrumental, you'll apply your expertise in linux configura
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by Erem 8y ago
I was actually part of the player population at the time. My friends and I would wait for mountain goats to spawn so that we could kill them and take their hides -- goat hide was the easiest way to acquire leather to make armor and sell for
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by Erem 8y ago
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by Erem 8y ago
INSTRUMENTAL | INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER | Bay Area, CA (Palo Alto) | Full-time, Onsite | instrumental.com As an infrastructure engineer at Instrumental you will own and scale a distributed linux compute fleet that delivers bleeding edge AI t
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by Erem 8y ago
I think devonkim meant that politicians DO in fact have control over which deplorable supporters they get associated with in the public eye -- the politicians who accept donations from racist organizations are the racist politicians.
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by Erem 8y ago
The author was maybe the best engineer I've had the pleasure to work with directly in my 13 years in the industry. What a treat to read her internal thoughts on the job. Highly recommend her other posts on e.g. measuring performance of
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by Erem 8y ago
Your post reminds me of some pre-WW1 opinions shared by Dan Carlin in his great podcast on the topic. There were a number of intelligent observers that thought a pan European war could not happen at that time because the economies of the gr
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by Erem 8y ago
Although the additional regulation in states like California may invite comparison with the likewise highly regulated Chinese system, the paths taken to enact those regulations are very different and that difference matters doesn't it?
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by Erem 8y ago
That clause describes the power of the individual states, not the federal government. And unless you've seen Oklahoma trying to pay their debts in OK Bucks I think it holds true today. The federal government is allowed to use whatever
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by Erem 8y ago
Agreed that eradication of religion and denouncing culture were properties of the soviet revolution, but I disagree that they were primary drivers of the slaughter. After all, don't most revolutions involve a denouncement of the previo
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by Erem 8y ago
From what I understand, nothing forces it to ever go out. But if it does go out, it must go out to charity.
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by Erem 8y ago
My Fidelity DAF is the linchpin of my family's giving strategy -- I don't know how we could achieve what we want to achieve without it. The plan has been simple: put 5% of our monthly income into mutual funds through the DAF until
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by Erem 9y ago
Sapolsky is just arguing for us to understand each other a little bit more, recognize unconscious biases, and move towards judging one another on individual merits rather than groupthink. These are basic free-society, founding fathers kind
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by Erem 9y ago
What is a solution you could get behind then? I would love to be proven a fool, but where you see an eagerness to tax I see a lack of free market solutions for tragedies of the commons such as the atmosphere.
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by Erem 10y ago
INSTRUMENTAL | SRE | Bay Area, CA (Palo Alto) | Full-time, Onsite | instrumental.ai Instrumental makes intelligent data-driven tools that help product companies find and fix issues on their assembly lines. We are working to improve the manu
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by Erem 10y ago
What an unreasonably combative response. Next time just say "sorry I don't have hard evidence for this opinion on hand". Nobody expects you to know everything but they do expect you to treat people decently.
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by Erem 10y ago
INSTRUMENTAL | SRE / DevOps | Bay Area, CA (Palo Alto) | Full-time, Onsite | instrumental.ai Instrumental makes intelligent data-driven tools that help product companies find and fix issues on their assembly lines. We are working to im

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