Majromax

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by Majromax 6y ago
No, the United States does not have high employer-paid payroll taxes. The employer is responsible for about 8% for social security (pension) and medicare (old-age health care) taxes, but only income up to $150k/yr is subject to this t
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"Burgle" is not a particularly common verb (746k results for "burgle" with quotes on Google) compared to "burglar" (40m), so it's not on the tip of the tongue. The American instinct is then to reconstruct
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To elaborate, it appears that American English treats "hospital" as a place. So you go to the hospital, just like you go to the airport, or the subway station. On the other hand, Commonwealth English treats "hospital&q
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But people do choose to use US Dollars. Emerging economies facing currency problems frequently become "dollarized" on a de facto or de jure basis precisely because the currency is so liquid (internationally) and so stable. Insi
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> This is the right a private property owner (say the owner of a bar) has to kick you out. Not exactly? It's certainly not criminal law. Proof beyond reasonable doubt has no place here. But it's also not exactly the relations
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> This is the reason behind a push for more KYC-like verification on these platforms (e.g. asking for IDs). But this comes at a huge privacy cost for legitimate users. A way to square this circle is to have rights engage at the point of
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> It's net revenue, not "revenue", Check the financial statements again. The $26.5b figure you cite is gross revenue, of which $24.4b is operating revenue. From that revenue you deduct the $19b cost of goods sold (includ
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> Starbucks in 2019: Made $26.5 billion dollars Hold on a minute, that's Starbucks' revenue , not profit. You haven't accounted for any non-labour expense. From its financial data ( https://finance.yahoo.com&#x
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> But if you don't know what bl—ch— in the third paragraph refers to It took me longer than it should (pre-caffine) to parse this part of the article, so I'll supply a hint. The article describes it as a "distributed cryp
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I think that's literally what they intend to do with an expansion pack, after all.
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> Where things get interesting And when a lawyer says "interesting," they mean "expensive." > Where things get interesting (and fuzzy) here that I’m not quite sure where the line is between a group working together
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> Yep, it's really great that markets can create speculation that are not tied at all to the fundamentals of a security. To take the other side of the argument, the linked post is not about a value "not tied to the fundamenta
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> Wrong. The bull case was made for GME as far back as late 2019, and it gained momentum this year. That argument was made last year and early this year. The argument this week has been that the stock price will increase specifically
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> Why wouldn't they double down? Because short sellers accept potentially unlimited liability in the event of a price increase. Remember the old maxim: the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. The opera
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This is Google. It's probably very smart pattern matching for profanity. The neural network may have taken millions of core-hours to learn to be as dumb (here) as a blind keyword search.
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Casual programmers, especially those learning Python as a first programming language, aren't well-placed to know which language features they need. If they're learning from multiple sources and tutorial series A teaches Python 2-
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Yes, because it did so for the wrong reason. "I thought that Apple stock was overvalued, so to short it I bought a lottery ticket" is nonsense, even if the lottery ticket wins . Portfolio construction isn't about picking the
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On the other hand, the billion prices project ( http://www.thebillionpricesproject.com/ ) is generally well-correlated with the CPI.
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> Now fast-forward one year. In March of 2020, I bought a large amount of Bitcoin. At the time, I saw a market dislocation and the likelihood of significant dollar inflation due to the US Government’s likely response to the unfolding pan
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My working theory of the eigentweet is that it's more internal than people "wanting to target this audience." I don't think it requires much if any outside influence or explicit bad faith. (I'm a moderator on a no
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Ah, of course you're right. I added that line as a bit of an afterthought and meant for it to be atomic, but of course it isn't. Unthinking parallelism is pitch black, and you are likely to be eaten by a grue.
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Companies can follow their terms of service, but under some circumstances they must act in good faith. If Parler can show that Amazon deliberately applied its terms of service in an arbitrary or discriminatory manner, then arguably it coul
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This has been in the news again lately with Apple Silicon. The ARM architecture has a weaker memory model than x86 in that it does not normally provide "total store ordering". Under that memory model, if thread A executes (from
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But the NYT can carry liability for letters to the editor published in its dead tree format -- see https://www.rcfp.org/supreme-court-will-not-hear-letter-edit... as an example of a local newspaper being held liable for let
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> USD [...] is a perfect currency for exchange, it's just not a great store of value. USD is a fantastic store of value. Since 1982 (arguably the beginning of the modern inflation-targeting era), the USD has lost no more than 6.3
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The phase 3 trials were already large: the Pfizer trial had over 40,000 enrolled patients. However, they were still optimizing for speed: they presented results to regulatory agencies as soon as they reached a threshold number of covid infe
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> Have you ever experienced Humid -40C air? It doesn't happen. > I've had very humid -25C air in Alaska You haven't had very humid -25C air, in an absolute sense. Take a look at a vapour pressure calculator ( https:&#x
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> This was a meme a few years ago: a 1800s era Harvard entrance exam, and Harvard was the easy school And thank goodness we've moved past such facile exams. Few of those questions test any sort of understanding, comprehension, or s
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> The simple fact that 40 states are getting involved just says Facebook is guilty until proven innocent at this point This is a matter of civil law -- the burden of proof is the balance of probabilities (more likely than not that the al
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I admit to being frustrated by the SymPy documentation. It does an adequate job of explaining "what" (i.e. the mechanics of each function or class), but I cannot read it to get an idea of the "how" or "why" qu

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