Veelox

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by Veelox 8y ago
Unfortunately I can no longer tell is this statement is meant in jest or not.
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by Veelox 8y ago
To complicate the situation, a French citizen, living in Spain, the sole owner of a company incorporated in Ireland, buys software from an American company to run for a customer in Brazil. Which country/countries should be able to tax
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by Veelox 8y ago
If they could not receive any kind of payment or kickback from any company I would give it a 70% chance they pick Google. As it stands, Apple knows that it can charge Google and Google knows its worth paying so they stay in the mutually ben
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by Veelox 8y ago
The 40th percentile income in the US is $43.3k [0], with 126 million households [1], that comes out to about 50 million households that make less than $44k. To put my feelings bluntly, get out of your bubble. [0] https://statisti
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by Veelox 8y ago
Its a great week to live in the Bay Area.
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by Veelox 8y ago
According to a site [1] Mana is 19th. While that is probably overly high, I would say he is easily in the top 200 Starcraft 2 players in the world. I would also say that to get from beating a top 200 human to beating all humans is much smal
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by Veelox 8y ago
Here is a somewhat modified situation. Say you use a machine learning algorithm to recommend if a person currently accused of a crime should be allowed bail. The fitness function should be to maximize the number of people who are allowed ba
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by Veelox 8y ago
Wow, Alphastar was able to 5-0 vs TLO (when he was off racing) and 5-0 vs Mana in an impressive manner. I am quite impressed that DeepMind has been able to take down Go and now Starcraft. From here on out, if DeepMind makes an announcement
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by Veelox 8y ago
This comment makes me think you have never played starcraft.
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by Veelox 8y ago
As long as the change we well advertised and gave people time to adjust norms, I would be all for it.
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by Veelox 8y ago
I know what you are getting out but I would like to remind you that US corruption is nothing compared to parts of the world where it is expected to have to give the police cash when they pull you over.
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by Veelox 8y ago
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
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by Veelox 8y ago
It still does, while someone might point out that a few percent of Google's code is not in the monorepo, most of it is in the same repo.
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by Veelox 8y ago
Hey if Stripe really is reaping in the profits I have great news for you! Someone, maybe even you, can launch a competing project, offer a similarly polished API, and charge 2.5% and reap slightly less profit but still almost pure profit! O
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by Veelox 8y ago
I find it really interesting the difference in views on money between /r/povertyfinance, /r/personalfinance and /r/financialindependence.
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by Veelox 8y ago
Lol. Do you have no self awareness? In a post, where it talks about trying to be more open to conservative viewpoints, you imply that the default reason to support border security is racism? This is exactly the line of thinking that causes
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by Veelox 8y ago
Also in the memo he stats >Your colleagues are afraid because they know that they — not their ideas — will be attacked. They know that all the talk of “openness to different perspectives” does not apply to causes of “social justice,” imm
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by Veelox 8y ago
>So then why do you wonder why he pushes for politics in the workforce? His goal—hell, it should be all of our goal—is to stamp out places where such hate is encouraged. How do you think a person who wore a MAGA hat to Google or Facebook
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by Veelox 8y ago
One thing that article doesn't touch on, if we returned ceo pay to 1978 average of 30:1, how much of a raise would that give each employee?
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by Veelox 8y ago
>right to free speech from governmental interference I don't like where this argument goes. Do you think it should be legal for Google to remove every search result of a cannabis business? Should it have been legal for Google to cen
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by Veelox 8y ago
>A proposed fix would be to stop giving tax cuts to the rich/businesses in hopes that the not rich will somehow magically get some trickled down benefit and instead do things that actively benefit the lower economic classes. So it s
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by Veelox 8y ago
I skimmed it and the closest I could get to find an answer to my question was >Finally, it also seems worth noting that this decoupling coincided with the passage of many policies that explicitly aimed to erode the bargaining power of lo
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by Veelox 8y ago
Thank you for providing that link. It seems like that the divergence started in 1973 and was clear by 1980. Do you have any ideas on what changed in that time phrase that caused the divergence?
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by Veelox 8y ago
>But I have some issues as to why that inequality happens. Can you expand on why inequality happens and some ideas to change/fix the causes?
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by Veelox 8y ago
>(For example, luxury condos get built, but affordable housing does not.) One think to think about, in a lot of areas where only luxury condos are being built, there tend to be pretty limited numbers of condos being built. If you are a d
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by Veelox 8y ago
If I am reading the charts on page 3 right [0] the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that labor productivity raised ~1% in 2017 while unit costs of labor raised ~2%. Going off the assumption that labor should be paid in proportion to the valu
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by Veelox 8y ago
One of my issues with the discussions of reducing wealth inequality is that people talk about the negatives of having billionaires but often propose measures that would negatively affect millionaires. Also, it would be nice to see more disc
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by Veelox 8y ago
>Putin said in Helsinki that he favoured Trump and directed his officials to help Trump. Wait, what? Can I get a cite for that because I have heard a lot of claims about Helsinki but I have never heard that.
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by Veelox 8y ago
>> these bad actors are clearly non-partisan >No, it's not at all clear. > The 2016 disinformation campaign clearly favored one candidate, while simultaneously attempting to radicalize his opposition. Per a recent article b
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by Veelox 8y ago
Raising children is very hard. I simply saying any benefits a person qualifies for while a single parent should not go away once married.

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