TimPC

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by TimPC 5y ago
I think the general aversion to OSS is more that there is no responsible actor. In many cases, if you integrate a third party paid solution you can file a bug on that solution with reasonable confidence it can be a priority. If you use cod
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by TimPC 5y ago
For me in non-leadership senior+ engineering positions I've previously accepted an offer with everything finalized except start date. I then notify my employer I'm leaving and discuss how to do a good transition. I then come back
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by TimPC 5y ago
If you bombed your interview amazing candidate could be code for they need someone to hire to fire.
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by TimPC 5y ago
There is an entire branch of Philosophy called Ethics that gives us better answers to these questions and a better framework for grappling with them then religion ever has. It is quite arrogant to assume that atheists have no answers at all
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by TimPC 5y ago
High performance teams are usually created by good management. If you change the management then bad management can easily undo that. My best managers have been deeply technical people with good people skills, an interest in management, and
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by TimPC 5y ago
Supply is also naturally restricted because there is only so much land in an area. Especially when we are talking about people interested in their own dwelling/home where building a condo just means they look elsewhere. People forget t
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by TimPC 5y ago
Parent was arguing to not delay capital gains at all, as was the article. I'm pointing out how that idea is bad.
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by TimPC 5y ago
Income tax on the gains tends to be bigger than these if you hold on to a property a while in a hot market. 20% of 400,000 is much bigger than 2% of 1,000,000 if you buy at 600,000 and sell at a million for example.
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by TimPC 5y ago
Property taxes are such a small portion of property value that they seldom force a move. Capital gains can be anywhere from 20-50% depending on country. Having your home go from 800,000 to 1,000,000 and having your property taxes go from 40
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by TimPC 5y ago
I think being able to put off capital gains on assets like homes and start-up stock is necessary for the tax system to not do awful things like force people to sell a home because it becomes too valuable or bankrupt someone who has stock op
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by TimPC 5y ago
The problem isn't that it hurts the sheep as well, it's that it hurts the sheep almost entirely. Raising capital gains would be a decent idea that forces the rich to pay more. Basically zero support for it. Closing loopholes help
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by TimPC 5y ago
Collateral for a loan is a completely separate point. The issue was taxing unrealized capital gains. Effectively if your house goes up $100,000 you'd owe the government the capital gains tax on $100,000 immediately, not when you sold.
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by TimPC 5y ago
Capital gains being delayed is not a direction we want to pursue. There are huge problems with unsellable stock in venture-backed start-ups and other situations where you can end up owning a massively valued asset that you can't sell t
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by TimPC 5y ago
Making everyone's income public is very different than a public record or property ownership. I for one wouldn't appreciate people looking up and talking about the income of their high-school classmates. Income drives enough stat
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by TimPC 5y ago
Capital gains aren't a strange middle ground. They are the best attempt to have an income system work: they allow the taxation of income from money. A system that taxes only income from labour is grossly unfair to the poor. A system t
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by TimPC 5y ago
I think it’s impossible for a human to read a mainstream body of minority political work and not come out with an association between black and oppressed. The entire dominant narrative is that all minority groups are oppressed. That associa
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by TimPC 5y ago
I think this technology is in its infancy and we might be looking at far more than 10 years to even get the functionality to make this possible regardless of whether it could actually replace highly paid actors. Occlusion and multi-agent a
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by TimPC 5y ago
There is a difference between being self-critical once employed (where I agree it's a useful practice) and being self-critical during an interview (which is often viewed as the process of selling yourself in order to get a job).
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by TimPC 5y ago
I’m very glad they used a hyphen in the title as it completely changes the expected meaning.
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by TimPC 5y ago
Your favourite question has some cultural gaps as in many countries in interview settings people downplay weaknesses and flaws. It’s why a lot of weakness questions are often ineffective. Unless you are acutely aware of when a person is doi
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by TimPC 5y ago
It depends on your issue. We got good support emailing with the TF Lite team on a neural net bug. I think if you’re interacting with open source in a value add way google support is often quite good. If you’re looking for support for integr
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by TimPC 5y ago
Historically individual taxes were annual while some business taxes were quarterly. In Canada, corporate income tax is annual but sales tax remittances are quarterly. The interest is favourable to government since it reduces the amount of d
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by TimPC 5y ago
I learnt a lot in Math and did well but didn’t feel there was anything in the curriculum I couldn’t have learned independently. English had a lot of subjectivity and soft-skills that required some external calibration for me.
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by TimPC 5y ago
Good to know. I’ll try and keep that in mind.
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by TimPC 5y ago
Most people when they say they are terrible at video games mean they are bad at reflex games. I recommend you don’t discount entire sub genres of non-real-time video games you might enjoy. Depending on your taste that can be anything from t
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by TimPC 5y ago
Capital gains taxes are based on difference between buy and sell price of specific assets and require only those two data points. That’s very different from accurately pricing an asset yearly.
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Capital gains is far less gameable because there isn’t a mechanism to move your capital gains to a different tax region as an individual. Corporations may be able to game capital gains slightly when they hold shares in other corporations bu
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by TimPC 5y ago
Taxing wealth is a terrible idea because it requires government to get balance sheets from the masses. If you miscalibrate earnings minus inflation it’s also punitive. Lastly for many families most of their wealth is their home which isn’t
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by TimPC 5y ago
My high school experience was fairly valuable in certain areas and a waste of time in others. The improvements to my writing and critical thinking were invaluable. Most of the specific knowledge ended up less so. I had a number of great tea
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by TimPC 5y ago
Most economists support a 0% corporate tax rate and higher taxes on dividends and capital gains. This closes most loopholes and doesn’t tax money that corporations reinvest in growing the economy.

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