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by Glyptodon 4mo ago
The problem I have with "safetyism" is it comes across as something you can say about cars, knives, power tools, skis, hang gliders, and so many other things. Like do I buy that even though ski deaths are lower in non-skiing house
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by Glyptodon 4mo ago
I think with younger shooters there are many people who enjoy 3 gun and other modern match style sort of tactical shooting or cowboy action without obsessively carrying or planning for defensive use. But I don't think these folks overl
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by Glyptodon 4mo ago
Are people who are armed because they enjoy shooting or hunting supposed to exist in this research model or not?
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by Glyptodon 4mo ago
What's funny about this to me is that I tried to sign up for insta once and could never get past their automated ID check that would fire after signup despite using a real ID. (So never did sign up. I suspect maybe they just really don
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by Glyptodon 4mo ago
I agree with that, but it sounds more like a college readiness certificate concept than a competitive exam concept.
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
So just to be clear, I guess the issue isn't so much SAT or placement tests as it is that there's no functional baseline level of knowledge without some kind of entry exam, and without that there's no functional boundary on t
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
Putting the financing debt on the books of the thing that's bought instead of the purchaser's shouldn't be legal IMO. Imagine if you could buy houses and leave the mortgage on the house's book instead of your own. It&#x2
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
While this is true, I think the bar should be lower - the real question should be "and how does it compare to renting" - there is very possibly a universe where owning is cheaper than renting even if your home depreciates. Because
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
In all fairness they also have very little in the way of very low population density areas compared to the US. For example, Montana is bigger than Germany and has like 7 people per square mile overall.
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
I suspect this is probably more complicated. My family members who live in small towns and rural areas have been having larger health issues and more trouble getting care even if they want to for years if not decades compared to my relative
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
There are probably good argument for it being lower (maybe circa $10 or $12 million. But I have a feeling they do want to try and not hit land-rich-but-otherwise-maybe-not "family farms" that have hundreds or thousands of acres.
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
You obviously didn't read the thing. 20% is not on wealth. The argument in the piece is that 1% on wealth is the same as 20% on income, and therefore 1% on wealth is obscene. Please read before making replies that don't make sense
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
Most FIRE people aren't going to have $50 million plus and be hit by this.
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
With different issues than the ones caused by deferring gains forever through shenanigans.
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
Lol, that's still totally feasible for normal FIRE/retirement situations, my understanding is that most proposals only start at $50 million or more. You can still have a super cushy retirement with $3mil+ and 3% withdrawal forever
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
On top of that it seems to imply that a 20% effective tax rate is outrageous even though that's totally normal for most. Maybe it's not what you're used to as really wealthy person who avoids realized income and has a 0 or 5
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
The argument is plausible - that you can treat wealth taxes as equivalent to income taxes if you treat wealth taxes as a tax on the ostensible income generation of the wealth. Of course there's more complexity than this, but that aspec
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
I think I've seen the odd HN post about Mondragon that does portray it positively. Though I'm not sure I've seen one in at least several years.
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
That people don't realize full test coverage just means every line is hit, not that everything is correct is always funny to me. (I don't view as an argument against tests, but with AI it's especially important as if you&#x27
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by Glyptodon 5mo ago
What happens if you use an integer like 2 or 3 instead of e in the softmax equation? Is e what makes it so they end up summing to 1? (I have not done real math in yearssss.)
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by Glyptodon 6mo ago
I guess making like 75% of their search results ads that look like results works.
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by Glyptodon 6mo ago
That might just mean even more savings as you'd only need need a size n cluster for m engineers where n is probably < m.
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by Glyptodon 6mo ago
I think there's another route this goes. At $7k a year or more per eng in token use, I think it's very reasonable to buy engineers machines with obscene GPUs and RAM and run models locally. And if it doesn't make sense now, s
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by Glyptodon 6mo ago
I don't like this because many of these transition colors I don't really consider blue or green but some sort of blue-green or green-blue. I would also trust the results more if it bounced you around a bit randomly rather than tri
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by Glyptodon 6mo ago
I do not buy that income / housing / cost of living related issues are not part of the story so much as I buy that they're very intertwined with inflation and labor costs. The other thing that this waves over that I think is
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by Glyptodon 6mo ago
FWIW eviction was what I immediately thought would fill in the blank, and without the Trump presidency, I think deportation would probably be a lot less common of a choice despite fitting quite fine.
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by Glyptodon 6mo ago
My memory of RDPD was that it preaches getting assets which generate income, not that your management of those assets would be passive. Though obviously it also did have a subtext of "scale some kind of assets that generate income to a
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by Glyptodon 6mo ago
I think you should write them back and ask that they provide you with a customer list and continually update you as they get new customers so that you may follow the advice they've given you.
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by Glyptodon 6mo ago
I wonder if anyone has any incentive to make it so you can pay with cash like a vending machine. (I think some of biggest benefits could be for those who struggle to afford cars, but those folks don't always good payment options.)
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by Glyptodon 6mo ago
I definitely think sapphire is the best gemstone for rings given the huge variety of colors and reasonable synthetic rough prices. My only gripe is that green shades that look nice are hard to find in synthetics.

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