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by Manuel_D 2y ago
You can read Singal's response to these criticisms here: https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/a-sorta-quick-response-to... The criticisms of Singal's piece are pretty weak, and often resort to refuting things h
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
There are indeed such instances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Occom The first indigenous Presbyterian minister Here's another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Colbert A native A
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There are, however, instances of entire Native tribes adopting settled agrarian economies, developing written languages, and largely adopting European civilization: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee The Native A
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
No, according to third party police use of force tracking projects: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Of those 1000 people, the vast majority are armed and actively threatening either the public, the police officers themselves or both.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
From what I can gather online, US citizens can indeed legally bet on elections: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/election-bett...
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> Del Pizzo’s F-35B malfunctioned and its primary displays and communications cut out as Del Pizzo was attempting to land through rain at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina. However, the report said its standby flight display and back
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by that? The democratic candidate lost, and by no small margin. I'm a democrat. It's unambiguously our loss.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> the counterpart is being called a groomer, traitor, child murderer, election stealer, deep state benefactor etc. And when did this behavior start? After Democrats started calling Trump and Co. Nazis, fascists, etc. They just followed
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The 2020 primary went without large interference. Lo and behold, the democratic candidate won that election. The lesson is clear: to win elections hold actual primaries instead of appointing candidates.
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401k is taxed at the time of withdrawal, but that's usually at a lower tax bracket. 500k in income 1 year is ~$162k in income tax. 500k in income split across 2 years is $68.5k each year totalling $137k. It's not massive but it&#x
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Longevity is absolutely a big factor in underfunded pensions. "Actuarially sound" is based on projections of how long retirees will draw from pension funds. When retirees start consistently outliving those projections, a sound pen
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This is no silver bullet. If the pension custodian assumed retirees would live to 75 on average and they start living until 90 then it's going to have a problem.
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Regarding point #1, Singapore uses mandatory retirement savings. If you're pedantic it's not much different than a tax. But functionally it's more like workers are mandated to pay a certain percentag into their 401k.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Income contributed to a 401k is not taxed at the time of earning. Not putting a limit on contributions would mean you could pay very little income tax. A wealthy person making 200k a year could contribute 100k to their 401k and more than ha
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Most employees are bright enough to at least contribute as much to max out the company match. It's free money.
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Guaranteed annuities have the same problem: who's paying workers in their old age, and what happens when that entity becomes insolvent? Nothing is truly guaranteed in finance, especially when life expectancies rise faster than the pens
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If the employer goes insolvent your 401k still has money. The whole point of 401k match is to prevent the "fuck you, got mine" when a company goes belly up
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If one worker is willing to respond to alerts at 3 AM and another only works 9-5, then those two workers are providing different levels of value to the company assuming equal ability. Why shouldn't the worker that contributes more ge
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There's other research that suggests remote work isn't as effective: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/06/28/t...
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> My point is business should (but never do) think about their employees as humans and not just numbers on a spreadsheet This has not been my experience. The businesses I've worked at have had great benefits and amenities for their
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
it's not anti union propaganda. The largest union in the United States is the public school teachers union. It has explicitly fought against merit based pay for decades. Other Unions like the electricians unions also sets up seniority
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I think Boeing developers might be part of their engineers union. Tech companies tend not to unionize, because most developers don't see net gain to be had from unionizing. Most unions end up serving the interest of the union instead o
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
75% of Chinese report negative views of the US: https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/how-do-chinese-p... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-American_sentiment_in_m... Apparently 60% respo
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
No, it's a much wider field of view than the magic leap 2. 45 degrees vs 70 degrees. And more importantly it's in a much smaller form factor. https://www.magicleap.io/hubfs/ML_22214-104-1.jpeg https:/&#
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Cutting edge technology. Those Orion smart glasses use a totally novel display using micro-projectors bouncing light through waveguides etched into the silicon carbide lens. The glasses also apparently use 10 custom chips.
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Dropbox is (or at least was) renowned for having one of the hardest software developer interview loops.
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Dropbox was barely cash-flow positive (basically meaning profitable excluding equity compensation) when it had its IPO. It's been having trouble expanding from the consumer space into the business space, and I wouldn't be surprise
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
What are you reading in that decision that suggests Prodigy was doing moderation beyond what we'd expect a typical internet forum to do? This is the relevant section of your link: > Plaintiffs further rely upon the following additio
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> Cubby ruled in the opposite direction -- that a service should not be held liable for user-posted content. Because Cubby did zero moderation. > Stratton did rule that the Prodigy was liable for content posted, but it was specificall

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