MikePlacid

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by MikePlacid 4y ago
Everyone can - Google Translate is… uhm acceptable. So do not be shy, post the links.
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
> criminally prosecuting people (with taxpayer resources) to enforce private debts owed to the meter company, there’s a good chance a court would find the practice to be illegal. The deal structure is as follows: - if the city fails to p
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
> should be off the table for selling to a private entity. It’s not sold, it’s leased.
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
The word “recouped” was written by a journalist. The same journalist uses the word “revenues” as the source of recouping, not “profits”. They also use such strange constructions as: > private investors have already extracted $2.1 billion
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
Private UPS and FedEx deliver packages right to my door. I have to go to the post office for USPS packages.
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
“ It feels like a bait and switch, ignoring the very real issues with the writer while labeling as bad, wrong or offensive words that have no such inherent value.” I read this as: editors are changing just some words in order to save Dahl,
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
> Publishing is a business. If they dont make money they will stop existing. In my country publishing existed without any concern for making money for decades. State funding.
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
In the long run or in the short run?
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
But since the original version gets into public domain, it will be hard to make money on the “improved” version. Unless there is a huge demand for the sanitized text.
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
> As an example, in one team their test process was entirely manual and took a month. Ouch!
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
> “But it works on the build server" we used to say, as, with time, it become harder and harder to build locally This got me puzzled for a couple of minutes. Yeah, that “WTF, WTF” moment. Then I realized that our build “server” co
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
Not sure how speed of the change is related to batches. The “batch” is related to “due this week”, there never was a single item in this list. “Speed” is related to “due which week”, that depends mostly on the priority of the change, not
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
I own both 401k, which is mostly in mutual funds (and which are hurt every time you try to hurt Steve Balmers of this world) and also I manage some after-tax portfolio on my own (the experience I warmly recommend to anyone who is trying to
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
Putin is an omni-present monster, sure, and an oil and gas monster to that. But he also is THE biggest nuclear power monster: [Rosatom] ranks first in the overseas NPP construction, responsible for 76% of global nuclear technology exports:
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
Russia produce not only oil and gas but also is one of the biggest nuclear plant equipment exporters. If I were them I would rather sponsor articles on how it is hard to dispose of solar panels…
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
Russia is one of the biggest producers of nuclear power plants equipment.
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
I have a “living experience” in a country where (potential) billionaires were not allowed to make money. Believe me, you do not want to be there.
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
“Wash sale” prohibition is mathematically absurd. “Two different versions of a common stock” is just a mathematical proof of the absurdity.
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
> there will be other stocks in a losing position that can wash the washer. That is equivalent to “your stock portfolio will never grow”. > This only makes sense to me if you have a very large, very diversified portfolio. You do not n
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
Yes, you and I would have reaped the benefits of compound interest - if the “wash sales” law is repealed. What’s wrong with that?
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
More than that: we are talking about stock sales. Long term sales are not part of tax brackets. 18% flat right now, until the law changes. And it can only increase, since we are now in a middle of mad deficit spending. So deferring taxes ha
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
They do not want to tell you: we want to close this tax planning possibility that everyone - including you - can use. So they tell you: Steve Balmer, loophole, avoidance! The original “wash sale” prohibition is pretty unfair and damaging to
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
Re 2 - we are talking about stocks, they are taxed independently of your tax bracket. Tax % on stocks changes only when law changes, and this can only rise, given our current situation. Overall, the article is against tax planning, picturin
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
> an inspiration for divergent thinking In my “living experience” philosophy was used as a tool to enforce the “correct” thinking. It can be easily converted to such a tool, exactly because it has no strong tether to reality. Math is mu
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
On one hand - yes. In our math classroom there was a quote of Lomonosov ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lomonosov ): “You should study math because it puts your brains in order”. I tend to agree with it. On the o
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Forcing maths on the population is straight out of China's playbook(telegraph.co.uk)
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
https://archive.ph/XItip
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
In early 90s we’ve got a CD-ROM with all known genomic data from NCBI. And on the same CD there was a portable (Win, Macintosh, X Win) graphics system written in C in OOP style, named Vibrant. Portable graphics long before Java! And using t
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
Why on Earth would I care? I can be referenced as "he" or "she" only if you are talking about me to somebody else, right? It's not my business to even listen to such talk. But if you insist - could you please refer
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by MikePlacid 4y ago
I am not sure why I have simplified your task in my previous post. It seems you’ve agreed that pronouns exist to make me comfortable when you are speaking about me. Actually they exist to provide you some linguistic comfort when speakin

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