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811.
by RhysU 5y ago
Correct, it's not a laurel to rest on. The act of producing a doctoral dissertation usually leaves something of a mark on one's outlook, skills, etc. I claim it is a _distinguishable_ achievement for life.
812.
by RhysU 5y ago
Someone learned from the Cisco hardware glut in the dot com crash!
813.
by RhysU 5y ago
Look at life satisfaction and success metrics, however you value them personally and from a source that you trust, conditioned on membership in the parties in your country. While half of everyone in a country must be unconditionally at or b
814.
by RhysU 5y ago
ATGATT: All the gear, all the time.
815.
by RhysU 5y ago
I would be willing to bet that the 99% pays at least 99% of those nickels and the 1% pays at most 1% of them. I would consider those nickels regressive if most of them come from the lower half of economic distribution even if they all end u
816.
by RhysU 5y ago
How often is the consumer who fronts the nickel the person redeeming the nickel? I suspect the nickels are, in aggregate, a regressive tax. I have no data, however, to back that claim.
817.
by RhysU 5y ago
I really like the Spelunky book's content on "Finishing a Game". I think it applies to nearly any extended, difficult endeavor.
818.
by RhysU 5y ago
Plot one or more files from the command line: https://github.com/RhysU/gplot "Interpret" C and C++ files: https://github.com/RhysU/c99sh
819.
by RhysU 5y ago
The non-super-rich can borrow against their assets, tax free, too. HELOCs and brokerage account margin, for example.
820.
by RhysU 5y ago
> We need to focus on making that ride as benign to humanity as possible. I like the idea of planning to accommodate the upcoming changes (climate, geopolitical, behavioral, etc) with defense-in-depth approaches. That is, reliability eng
821.
by RhysU 5y ago
> Or that they had lowered crypto tax rates a little because it's highly risky anyways. That'd be a fun principle applied to stocks. Pay less in capital gains as more leverage is employed. That's a wacky feedback loop to t
822.
by RhysU 5y ago
Define "meaningful work". Is it challenging? Enjoyable? Does it provide a good or service that someone wants? Can you support your dependents? Do you like the people you eat lunch with? Does it use the specialized skills that you
823.
by RhysU 5y ago
I like the word describing this tendency: apophenia : the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas) I learned the word on account of http://apophenia.inf
824.
by RhysU 5y ago
Here's another example focusing on just market makers and the value they provide... Many people disparage used car dealers. The used car salesperson is a trope punching bag. They offer bad prices versus what someone can get by using Cr
825.
by RhysU 5y ago
Agreed! Chasing comp for its own sake is unsatisfying. Pursue the vector aligned with what you like and with what pays well enough.
826.
by RhysU 5y ago
> What, exactly, is the "meaningful mission" of modern tech-driven finance firms? Suppose that such a firm accepts money from a state (or other) pension plan. Then part of the mission of that firm is to provide a stable retirem
827.
by RhysU 5y ago
Man, I am so sick of my industry being a punching bag. I work in "Wall Street". My firm sells things to those who want to buy them in a highly regulated marketplace with considerable governmental and self-regulatory oversight. We
828.
by RhysU 5y ago
It would be interesting to study how the uniqueness of new programming language names and the superior technical search results they bring about causes programmers to adopt new languages as time wears on.
829.
by RhysU 5y ago
... Outside of grieving death. Grieving death is acceptable within a short period of the loss.
830.
by RhysU 5y ago
Comically, going from a one-income household to a two-income household to a three-income household to a ... one arrives at the flat tax.
831.
by RhysU 5y ago
What fraction of your properly educated, civically minded individuals drive over the speed limit on public roads?
832.
by RhysU 6y ago
> And yes, the "media" as in the NBC variants, CNN, CBS, ABC, NPR, etc. seem to all mimic/amplify each others reporting. TIL by watching multiple DVR-ed news shows from the same night while visiting family... It is eerie t
833.
by RhysU 6y ago
I don't think this is a good idea but I don't see how it is illegal: "Alice, pick up the ticket for Bob." "No, Bob voted for X!" Then, sometime later, Alice is fined and/or sent to jail.
834.
by RhysU 6y ago
Depends on how loose-lipped the old landlord is. I am pretty confident he or she is not going to maintain a list of acceptable passphrases left by former tenants for the purpose of authenticating credit check phone calls 10 years later.
835.
by RhysU 6y ago
They're useful. How else would you get on a plane with only a suitcase, land the equivalent of a Europe away, then buy a house from an ecosystem of people that you have never dealt with before? And not overpay for the privilege? For th
836.
by RhysU 6y ago
Correct. Investors pay laborers to build said infrastructure. Like, the investor pays all the laborer's wages even if the infrastructure idea was stupid and the investor loses his shirt in the process. The laborer still cashes paycheck
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by RhysU 6y ago
> Heck, even if it were for everyone, I've yet to see a solid reason why earning a dollar from investing money is somehow better for society than earning a dollar for investing your labor. A laborer gets paid $1 for working hard. An
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by RhysU 6y ago
I have an "mkcd" function in my startup files: mkcd() { mkdir -vp "$1" && cd "$1"; }
839.
by RhysU 6y ago
If you live in NYC you pay their resident surtax no matter where you work. If you live in NY and work in NYC you pay NY state taxes. If you live in NJ and work in NYC you pay NY state taxes. I believe Connecticut works the same way. NY stat
840.
by RhysU 6y ago
Right, the military leadership is underpaid. Not winning a war stinks. Why risk it on second tier leaders because the first tier hit the private sector?

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