Pyxl101

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His point specifically is that tax write-offs don't reduce how much you have to pay overall. They may even increase it. They just redirect some of it to other purposes such as research instead of paying taxes.
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> In terms of frequencies, if the drive frequency is f = 1/T, then this system responds at a frequency f/2, whereas normal systems can only respond at frequencies f, 2f, 3f, ... that correspond to harmonics. Interesting. I hear
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Is it fair to call that experiment a flop? It failed to achieve its goals of running a self-sustaining colony, but it sounds like we learned a lot about the challenges of doing so from running that experiment. I don't know if we should
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Increasing density also has a lot of downsides for the nearby residents. It means that congested roads become even more congested, and so on. Dirty roads get that much more dirt. Schools become packed such that students end up in temporary
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> However it may be a risk worth taking: on the one hand, you have a distribution channel that could help you take off, but might compete with you later. If you're worried about this, then you should also worry that competitors migh
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I'm not entirely sure if I understood your first paragraph, but it seems like you might have overlooked this quote from the page I linked: > If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages [...] do not equa
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> In the US, the fact that waiters are paid less than minimum wage and expected to make it up on tips is often cited to explain why it is so bad to not tip at all. Waiters always earn minimum wage in the US regardless of what tips they g
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Do you have a link to NodeJS sharing mutexes between different containers? I'd be interested to learn more about that.
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Same. It's really annoying. I finally changed my voice mail to say, "If it's important, leave me a voice mail or send me a text message. Otherwise I will not answer and you will never hear back from me." Just sayin'
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Could you be more specific? In which jurisdiction do they provide a taxi service without a license? Could you provide a source? Many (most?) jurisdictions differentiate between for-hire-vehicles and taxis, and Uber doesn't operate unli
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What regulations have they flouted? I'd be interested to learn more because I hear this claim occasionally but haven't heard the details behind it. Could you share more details?
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Is there no trivial way to print a PowerShell object? As JSON or XML or an ascii table formatted into columns? That seems like a point of friction, then, I'd agree.
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The design goals of bus1 are described here: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/... Some call-outs for you: > * efficiently support n-to-n communication. * be well-suited for both unica
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Any webmail provider can also read the contents of your email. Even if they don't display ads alongside your email content, be aware that they could data mine it to learn all kinds of things about you. If you receive email receipts of
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It's all sarcastic. It's poking fun at how trendy advances might not necessarily be better than what existed before, as well as how much complexity is involved in them. It makes the most sense if you're already familiar with
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I have seen actual Slavic non-native English speakers make this mistake (more than one). I haven't inquired into why. I was giving one of those people informal advice to improve their English, and that was one of the things I had to ke
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Supposedly the Trump campaign is viewed as getting along with Russia while Hillary's campaign is viewed as more antagonistic toward Russia. Trump and Vladimir Putin are both rich businessmen. This article has some details: http:/
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Another sign of Slavic speakers is the incorrect usage of "is" where "it is" would be grammatically correct. > Q: What is in auction files? A: Is secret. > Q: When does auction end? A: Unknown. When we feel is time
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Could any electrical engineers comment on this story? How would you measure whether current is "dirty"? What quantifiable factors would you want to examine to figure out if this improvement is real or B/S? Is a personal trans
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> I think it is wrong because the people advocating cutting the pie differently are not poor, You mean, the people who are advocating for taking someone else's pie. Where does this idea come from that the rich are "taking"
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What do you find to be wrong about this situation, and what kind of protection are you looking for? How would it help in this scenario - force Cyanogen to keep the employees on, and go bankrupt, or lay off most employees and probably still
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I'm sorry to hear that. What has the experience been like for you to buy food? Are you stuck in the lines as well? How do restaurants obtain raw ingredients with which to cook?
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There are almost twice as many white people living in poverty in the USA than black people. Why would we assume that white people who commit murder will be rich and can afford an expensive lawyer, while the black people who commit murder wi
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Blacks commit higher rates of murder, rape, and other violent crime. These are crimes that you're caught for afterword and don't have to do with a single interaction with police. FBI crime statistics show many types of crime broke
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I'm interested to hear your opinion on this, but you've got to actually explain , not merely state differences and conclusions. > Who says I can't articulate the difference? The comments have not included one so far. Wha
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There aren't a lot of females in waste management either (i.e., garbage men). I've heard it can be a pretty well-paying job too. No one says that we need more women waste management workers, truck drivers, or coal miners.
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> The effort a corporation expends to avoid taxes, such as those under scrutiny in the matter at hand, are not at all homologous to electing to take a dependent exemption for an individual citizen. Reducing one's tax bill via deduct
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> 5 days seems to be ample amount of time. Ample amount of time for what? The underlying problem is that DigitalOcean should not be arbitrating trademark disputes between companies. They're not competent to decide who is right and w
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Since the DMCA was not involved here, as far as I'm aware (IANAL) there's no obligation on DigitalOcean's part to take any action. DigitalOcean isn't an appropriate party to arbitrate a fair use dispute involving tradema
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The solution that provides strong security is end-to-end encryption. This is how Signal works, the product that Moxie built: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software) Levison's follow-up project DarkMail als

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