RhysU

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by RhysU 4y ago
My father worked for the SSA for most of his working life and he strongly believed in its mission. I don't think he would call it a particularly efficient way to cut checks.
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by RhysU 4y ago
In the GGP's example, the tax rate dropped from 20% to 19%. It requires changing 1 number. Everyone already had to file taxes using whatever number the government provides. If we send every person a check it requires, at the very least
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by RhysU 4y ago
> Does it really matter if the government gave me an untaxed $1,000 “handout” check or if they “reduced the money they take from me” by cutting my taxes by $1,000? Yes, it matters. First, reducing what they take is more efficient than in
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by RhysU 4y ago
> Imagine if only changing one thing means, that you need a test cycle of 15 minutes or even if it is only 5 minutes. Step 0: Shorten the test cycle.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Moreover, one's property taxes should fall as housing prices fall.
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by RhysU 4y ago
This is why the optimum lighting pattern really looks vaguely like the spouse of the viewing driver, preferably embracing a former lover.
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by RhysU 4y ago
An SNL skit that I want to watch... Moses and Aaron are standing in front of Pharoah. Evidently we're several plagues into Pharoah not letting the Israelites go. The scene starts with chitchat on this matter then Pharoah shaking his he
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by RhysU 4y ago
Hydrox are the best. Also, Oreos were a Hydrox rip-off: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrox
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by RhysU 4y ago
A keynote from Strange Loop 2022 a couple of weeks ago. Really enjoyed sitting 30 feet back in the audience and hearing the stories. Definitely catch the Q&A about the D&D campaign starting at 44:18.
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The Early Days of Id Software: Programming Principles(youtube.com)
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by RhysU 4y ago
> What’s the end-game? Step 1: Move somewhere affordable. Step 2: Spend years building an awesome community because you personally endeavor to make it what you want. Step 3: Profit. Notice this is the same process for a fixer upper house
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by RhysU 4y ago
Isn't that more money than a decent printer?
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by RhysU 4y ago
Seconded on a duplexing laser with network support. Makes all the difference in the world to be able to print nothing for 90 days then to casually drop 100+ flawless pages. Biggest trick is finding replacement toner once every couple of yea
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by RhysU 4y ago
Flip your argument and turn it up to 11... Suppose everyone else on the planet is given $10B and you get nothing. Why would you be concerned? How could it be unfair? They're just being given something that you are not.
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by RhysU 4y ago
I keep thinking the endgame is a Lucius Fox/Dark Night-style, on-demand surveillance network. No basis in fact.
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by RhysU 4y ago
> The government pays off my $10,000 and your situation is literally no different. No, because you spent $10K on random stuff that he/she did not. Somewhere you have $10K in goods, services, or experiences that he/she does not.
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by RhysU 4y ago
> The connection is of course made in the parallel calculus-based physics class she is taking... The physicists as always (a) are pragmatically out-front but (b) don't worry about whether their tools are internally sound so long as
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by RhysU 4y ago
I like this education label idea. I further suggest a couple of columns of numbers based on the outcomes for several socioeconomic groups. Most people can read the side of a cereal box.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Yes, yes I do have the Sommerswerd.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Disagree. The President himself bit it simply getting off a bike. A trike does not avoid the need to dismount.
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by RhysU 4y ago
But ineffective policies and wasteful actions are also a funny way to express compassion.
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by RhysU 4y ago
> Like me, the majority of the campus was not here at the beginning of this matter in 2016. The buck stops with my predecessor. Delightful executive engineering of the slimiest sort. One gets paid to own the past at that level. Accepting
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by RhysU 4y ago
We pay taxes wrong. A silly example shows this to be true. Suppose there's a planetary government and a solar government. Hear me out. Filing a local, state, federal, planetary, and solar return each year is stupid. The solar governmen
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by RhysU 4y ago
Such bells are worse than useless when the pedestrian is a small child. A three-year-old moves into the traveling bicycle's path on the sidewalk when it looks at the source of the curious sound.
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by RhysU 4y ago
Thank you for the discussion. I appreciate the well-made points.
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by RhysU 4y ago
People can and will downgrade to absorb costs. > ...individual landlords may charge less than what individual tenants can bear... I lived in a supply-constrained city once and my landlord, a nationwide public company, could have charged
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by RhysU 4y ago
Why would the landlord not push the increased tax expense onto the renter?
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by RhysU 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin says "The belief began to emerge in the 3rd century..." which is early enough to establish mild causality for Emperor Constantine. Remember, he didn't have to
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by RhysU 4y ago
The guilt of original sin driving individuals towards redemption via organized religion thereby allowing increasingly large, stable civil structures in Europe.
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by RhysU 4y ago
In Austin, Texas, US we paid $500 out-of-pocket by using a midwife and a birthing center, including all pre-natal and post-natal care. The rest was picked up by my employer's insurance. One has 9 months to shop around, no? Shout out to

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