IkmoIkmo

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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Agreed. I've written a lighting system exactly like this one (it's a very common 2d lighting concept, basically any sprite-based game with dynamic lightning will use exactly this). The only difference was that I used 24 light-dire
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
What do you mean by relevance here, could you elaborate?
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Salaris en bonussen worden exact hetzelfde belast bij de jaarlijkse afrekening, net als je vakantiegeld en je eindejaarsuitkering. Allemaal hetzelfde. Echter wordt er gedurende het jaar vaak over de bonus tegen het toptarief ingehouden als
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yup, same experience in Florence. Beautiful city but just couldn't enjoy it. I saw half a dozen other Italian cities and had a great time, Florence was the worst experience and it had little to do with the city and everything to do wit
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I mean, it's still for sale, the original Macbook Air, it's just a horribly outdated machine now. It's got a 5th generation (2015) CPU, 128 PPI (what), and bezels as thick as your thumb. It's still a great little thing,
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
"a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable."
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Ugh, I hate the way Dell lies! That's obviously not a metaphor. Also, whenever journalists and commentators write about Dell screens as being edge to edge, years before Apple, they're not lies, they're metaphors. It only beco
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
You misunderstand me, I'm saying after you take out the difference in sales tax you're still left with about a $350 gap that has nothing to do with sales tax. I've got no complaints about the sales tax.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I mean, I hear you and I agree (I wrote the post above you after all), pricing has been a bit tough. But since you asked, some additional background information comparing the 2014 $1300 Mac to today's $1300 Mac (which isn't a 2018
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Fair point! But average sales tax in the US is about $100. It's still a $350 difference.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Good point, this surely makes some difference, although doesn't explain the entire amount. You can get 2 extra years of warranty for $250 through an AppleCare product. I'd assume the third year is most expensive, so the first year
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
You're being silly, it is a metaphor and it's been used before Apple ran with it. The Dell XPS was often said to have an edge to edge display. [0] It didn't, literally, the bezels are similar to this ipad. Because in the cont
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Love the device but I can't get over how expensive it has gotten. A 20% price bump... Sure, there's still the old Macbook Air around, but it wasn't updated and is based on a decade old model with a CPU/GPU that's a
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
You don't seem to understand what a metaphor means. If I say it's fast as lightning, I'm not saying it's exactly that fast. It's a metaphor for fast. The fact the speed of lightning is measurable and 'as concre
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
It's like saying 'lightning fast', when in reality it could be faster or slower than lightning, it's a metaphor that does well in marketing and doesn't leave you open to legal challenges as much as a more technical
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> The fun thing is that total marginal income tax between those two numbers is 60% without counting national insurance. Could you elaborate?
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I'd suspect bots will be able to become much better at avoiding suspicion much faster this way. Any popular extension is basically a free A/B testing environment for bot producers.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
It really depends. If you're conveying a dance routine for example, text is horribly inefficient, a short dance instruction video can be much better. I have the opposite for news for example. Essentially, whenever people read text out
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
No, it is illegal. Consumption and carrying small amounts is tolerated, police will not take any action and public attorneys never prosecute these cases. But production is illegal and besides two small plants in your home, completely not to
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Because you're comparing national average income to non-national housing prices. The average house is not at all more expensive in China than in the US. It is true that in particular cities like Beijing or Shanghai the average sits aro
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yes, but it doesn't mean they're considered American. If you would, according to that logic you'd have to say that the iPhone is a Chinese (Korean/Taiwanese) product. But yeah it's a bit silly to bring nationalism&#
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Which mostly has to do with having few models (65% of production is in this one model) and a national sales focus (50% in US), rather than the car selling (or rather, manufacturing) so well. There's multiple US manufacturers which prod
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. All the big four and smaller firms have tax advisory departments which advice on how to avoid (not evade) taxes. They sometimes set up the structure as well but usually that's done by a third party, foll
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
As you can see from my post referencing journalism in Europe, I'm not referring to the US case. You'd also see that my post referenced income, not wages. An important distinction, and exactly the kind that journalists don't m
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
This frustrates me to no end. I'm quite alright with being exposed to extreme left and right wing opinions on a daily basis. But I simply can't stand all blatant misinformation which is fuelling seemingly ever increasing levels of
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I'm personally not a big fan of households as a unit of analysis, at least not in isolation of any context. As far as I'd understand it, they hide meaningful issues. For example, if everyone had high personal income and an abundan
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Never heard of it. /D
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
The key is not to confuse IQ as an isolated effect, but rather study it as an interactive effect, e.g. taken together with grit / perseverance, IQ likely becomes one of the best explanatory variables for success. IQ is not a definitive
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Part of it is training but part of it is also what police officers face. In my country the odds a police officer will pull over someone for speeding who has a gun in the car is 1:10000. In the US in some parts I wouldn't be surprised i
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I still don't really see the issue here. The donor gives up $1m, suppose he has a marginal tax rate of 40% on his income, he can subtract the $1m from his taxable income and save $400k in taxes at the cost of $1m. The donator is econom

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