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by amscanne 6y ago
Again: I’m not excusing the obviously dangerous behavior of the driver. However, people do stupid and reckless things all the time — and as a society we take reasonable precautions against that. I don’t know why he ended up on that road, bu
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by amscanne 6y ago
> You mean the police blocked the interstate for the protest This makes me so sad. I’m in no way excusing the driver (who will undoubtedly receive punishment), but after 19 consecutive days of walking onto the freeway, and the city eff
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by amscanne 6y ago
To be fair, there’s also some due process when you’re not paying your taxes. In this case, I imagine that the process for dealing with non-payment is rather violent, inconsistent and chaotic.
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by amscanne 6y ago
And a bunch of companies in Canada, apparently.
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by amscanne 6y ago
I’ve seen this hot take before, and it always struck me as coming from someone that had seen very few episodes. About half the time episodes end with exposition to spell out the point for people that didn’t quite get it. The creators defini
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by amscanne 6y ago
The point made above is that this was a well-known aspect of the supplement. That the executive had other reasons for pushing the bill anyways doesn’t change that.
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by amscanne 6y ago
Are you talking about the CERB? Canada didn’t give it to everyone, you had to apply but the CRA essentially approved every application immediately. Then, surprise surprise, there was rampant fraud (8 million Canadians applied and received C
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by amscanne 6y ago
You might misunderstand what VW did. Apparently it is common for cars to have a "test mode" bit, because they run on a dyno (only one set of wheels spin), and the car may disable certain traction control systems, etc. VW changed t
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by amscanne 6y ago
Many of these employees were likely working for below market salaries after being sold on the high potential value of their options. I'm not arguing anything about whether this is right or wrong (particularly in this case), but I belie
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by amscanne 6y ago
> You can then apply for more credits to pay off these SRED consultants fees Even better, many SRED consultants work on a contingent basis, i.e. they just get a fraction of your SRED refund!
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by amscanne 6y ago
> CMPQ JBE(label(morestack)) … ^^ It's still the preamble for most functions :)
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by amscanne 6y ago
The article has this information. > The spending comes with a few restrictions: Residents can’t use the money to buy cigarettes, lottery tickets, or alcohol. The currency is designed for the essentials, including food, gas, and daycare.
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by amscanne 6y ago
Isn’t the subscription only for Stadia Pro, which gets you 4K streaming & some free access to games? I thought you still had access to purchased games (though not 4K) without the subscription. If indeed this is the case (maybe I’m wrong
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by amscanne 6y ago
Same difference. Apple won't sell the parts, and won't allow manufacturers to make & sell the parts either. So manufacturers do it anyways, and sell them in the grey market. I wound up with these parts myself after trying to b
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by amscanne 6y ago
I am pretty sure that's the _intended_ Facebook stance, and the disagreement comes over what's a "grey area" and what's clear cut -- which is what makes it a grey area to begin with.
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by amscanne 6y ago
The pro-life viewpoint considers pro-choice views to be advocating violence in the most direct way possible ("murdering babies"). That's the fundamental problem: there is a huge subjective grey area.
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by amscanne 6y ago
Sure reads to me like it’s advocating for violent revolt, albeit far more eloquently. I think this is the fundamental problem: it’s all subjective.
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by amscanne 6y ago
The dumbest headline is the Business Insider one. The articles are clearly not “testing” anyone. It’s satire. Yeesh.
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by amscanne 6y ago
That’s the narrative: Bezos is a genius, Slim is a cut-throat business person, Buffet is a stock sage, etc. It’s easier than the reality that they are all random, complex combinations of smart, lucky, persistent, charismatic, etc.
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by amscanne 6y ago
I’m pretty sure that most TSA employees forgot why water bottles aren’t allowed a long time ago (if they ever knew), and now are just searching for water bottles directly. That’s the consequence of hard and fast rules — people stop using th
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by amscanne 6y ago
> They are not and never have been. They have always been paid what someone is willing to pay them for the work they do. “Willing” is the wrong word. People are paid based on what the company can get away with paying them, as long as it’
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by amscanne 6y ago
You’re acting like the company is assigning value to people and paying them accordingly. That’s not how it works. Pay is determined by the labor market. Substitute wizzle for “senior engineer”, and wozzle for “bootcampers” or “marketing”. F
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by amscanne 6y ago
Of course there’s no “perfect information” (why quote something I didn’t say?), just available information. The sentiment is that arbitrage opportunities are rare and typically disappear before they can be exploited. Again, no one would cla
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by amscanne 6y ago
I don't think this it's a refutation of all. The efficient market hypothesis doesn't assume that the market is _perfect_ -- just that it has priced in all available information. When an arbitrage opportunity is noticed (i.e.
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by amscanne 6y ago
I don’t think it’s just that it has risen over 50%, the increases over the last ~6 years are quite rapid. Consider BC [1]: Top income tax bracket in BC in 2013: 43.7% Top income tax bracket in BC in 2014 and 2015: 45.8% Top income tax brack
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by amscanne 6y ago
This is an infamous gap, and AWS has had to reboot customer instances in the past: https://www.quora.com/Why-cant-Amazon-AWS-migrate-a-live-ins... The question is whether something has changed.
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by amscanne 6y ago
I was under the impression that AWS needs to do mandatory guest power cycles in order to update underlying infrastructure (e.g. to mitigate Meltdown, Spectre, L1TF, MDS, etc.). Is that not the case? Has the instance actually been up since 2
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by amscanne 6y ago
This is about a report by the “Safra Center for Ethics”. The Harvard Global Health Institute estimates that 500,000 tests per are needed. Given the focus of these institutions, I think that the global health institute is a more meaningful r
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by amscanne 6y ago
The “taxes” assessment is also way off as soon as the numbers a bit larger. In Ontario, you’ll hit the top marginal rate of 54% just north of 200k CAD (140k USD), and you’ll already have an effective rate of ~36% so you’re only keeping ~130
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by amscanne 6y ago
That chart is funny. The title is “unprecedented spike”, but it just shows that such outliers have occurred regularly.

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