SideQuark

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by SideQuark 7mo ago
Tons of goods companies paid tariffs for were inputs for those industries. Instead of being mad at companies that were forced to pay illegal tariffs, who now want to recoup some of that, be mad at the cause of illegal tariffs. Letting the g
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by SideQuark 7mo ago
Yes. Ever do hiring, or run a significant interview system? I have. Us engineers thought the same way you did, but after a significant number of interviews, we went back over resumes versus interview performance to find ways to save costs&#
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by SideQuark 7mo ago
Ever run a company or do a lot of hiring? It’s not a line of thinking. If can cost effectively find equivalent candidates from a weaker pool, you’ll be rich selling that service.
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by SideQuark 7mo ago
Hiring costs time, money, and other engineers time and effort. Wasting money and time reviewing a pool with less good candidates will simply lose you business over time, as you waste more resources to obtain the same result.
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by SideQuark 8mo ago
They’re wrong. Lyndon Johnson imposed the 25% Chicken Tax during trade skirmishes with Germany to make Volkswagens more expensive, and later tapes surfaced showing this was actually done for political favors. It had zero to do with national
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by SideQuark 8mo ago
At significant loss to the consumer. Sure a tariff can benefit a subset of people, by costing others even more. We could also do this without tariffs by simply taking money from some group and handing it to another.
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by SideQuark 8mo ago
The question was for a specific example, not some moral vague strawman. The question is a good one, right to the heart of the claim. Without specific examples, especially ones that are not post selected (i.e., pick all tariffs at a point in
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by SideQuark 8mo ago
Also a PhD in math, where complex numbers are fundamental, and also part of large swaths of similar structures that are also fundamental. They fit in nicely among a ton of other similar structures and concepts, so they seem about as fundame
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by SideQuark 8mo ago
That's not true unless the distribution is uniform. If it were always true, then compression would not work. Compression, in a simple case, often compresses data stored as byte sized chunks into smaller space, precisely because those 8
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by SideQuark 8mo ago
Plenty of cities outside the top 100 have massive amounts of jobs. And the person I replied to specifically stated willing to vary location as an option.
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by SideQuark 8mo ago
In the US, this is trivial to do. Theres plenty of states where unskilled entry lever wages easily allows this life, for most of the locations, with the exception of extremely high cost city centers. Pick IL for example. Min wage $15, so $3
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by SideQuark 8mo ago
The base standard of living has increased throughout pretty much all of humanity over the past 50 years, and through huge parts of humanity over even 20 years. Theres also lots more people, and as more people consume more resources it does
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by SideQuark 8mo ago
They got higher paying jobs as more of mankind could specialize away from grunt labor. How do you think, despite centuries of jobs being automated, that more people work than ever before, and have quality of life few if any could dream of w
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by SideQuark 9mo ago
Except they’re destroying those places too, and the places producing those skilled people, and breaking the pipelines that created innovation. This past year top US talent entering college left the US at 5x the rate they did before. Europe,
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by SideQuark 9mo ago
All other first world countries tax their low and middle classes at much higher effective rates than the US to pay for those nets. Google stuff like effective tax rate by decile or quintile country name historical, and dig till you find sol
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by SideQuark 9mo ago
The US, with around 4% of world population, has around 25% of the worlds prisoners, vastly higher in total and percentage wise than China.
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by SideQuark 9mo ago
They’re not misusing it. You are arguing things in your head instead of reading what is written. That you double down on it, when wrong, shows why you make up arguments with yourself. Simply read what is written before making false claims a
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by SideQuark 9mo ago
Trump got 77,302,580 votes. US population is slightly over 340,000,000. That's at best 22.7% of the US population voted for Trump.
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by SideQuark 9mo ago
Because we have science. Laser frequency, power, and pulse length, among other things, are chosen to be eye safe. You’ll get far more energy dumped into your eye from a blue sky.
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by SideQuark 9mo ago
That’s not an argument against * any * current evidence, only sloppy thinking trying ignore evidence. What replaces evidence is better evidence, not fairy tales that ignores reality. And statistically, if you take all knowledge, and look at
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by SideQuark 10mo ago
Someone at work recently copied the ellipse SDF from that page into production code without checking it, and shipped a crash to a ton of people. If you simply glance at it, you’ll see it divides by zero on circles. Then, if you try to check
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by SideQuark 10mo ago
Not when accounting for inflation. Then that high was years back.
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by SideQuark 1y ago
Corp income tax (paid by shareholders from the rich to teacher pensions to anyone with a retirement account...), estate tax,... When all is accounted for ... The rich still pay a far larger share than the income they earn. It's why OEC
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by SideQuark 1y ago
"well regulated" applies not to guns but to militias, and has nothing to do with legal restrictions. It means well functioning, well trained, efficient. It has nothing to do with legal regulations. The word has many meanings. Lear
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by SideQuark 1y ago
Well regulated meant well trained, not regulated as in restricted or controlled by the govt. Regulated has more than one meaning. Read which is which.
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by SideQuark 1y ago
The bill of rights are about personal freedoms, as is made clear during the discussion leading up to them. All states copied these in some form into their own constitutions, and if you go look at those, most are quite explicit this is a per
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by SideQuark 1y ago
You should learn about the source and context of that quote. It does not mean what you think it means. For example, https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...
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by SideQuark 1y ago
100%. The US took all that capability and could not win in 20 years of fighting in Afghanistan against such a force. Same in Vietnam. The US populace is vastly larger and better armed and capable than Afghanistan. The US military requires a
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by SideQuark 1y ago
Japan has strict gun control and an extremely high rate of suicide. The US has more homicides per capita by simply beating someone to death by ones bare hands than many countries have total homicide rate (check data in FBI UCR). Restricting
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by SideQuark 1y ago
He confuses two different places there is energy. Light is made (this is a little bit of a cheat) of photons. Each photon has a wavelength λ, and a per photon energy E where E = hc/λ, h is Plank's constant and c is the speed of li

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