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by amscanne 10y ago
This article starts with a conclusion and works backwards without any legitimate attempt at analysis. For example, I have no idea on what basis one could argue that a fixed "real estate fee" is more rational, effective or fairer t
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by amscanne 10y ago
> This seems like a pretty poor argument for a flat tax and in fact could be seen as an argument against it. If raising top end bracket taxes didn't increase overall income, then it must be the case that it reduced the tax burden on
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by amscanne 10y ago
The effective rate is much lower, and I indicated as much: > The brackets are lower all the way up, so you pay way less overall even if you do hit 1m+. I'm not going to do the math for a specific example though, people should do tha
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by amscanne 10y ago
Not at all. At ~170k USD (220k CAD) in Ontario, you'll be hitting the combined top marginal rate of 54%. It's true that California+Federal will be within a couple points of that at their top marginal rate, but that's 1m+ in C
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by amscanne 10y ago
You lock your doors because you don't trust your _neighbors_? That's madness. Companies often face legal requirements that your data is truly gone, e.g. see the European Union's Data Protection Directive. So it's not jus
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by amscanne 10y ago
People aren't blacklisted for leaving, that's blatantly false. Your story is obviously missing some key elements. Median tenure does not necessarily indicate retention issues for core roles at any company. It could simply be rapid
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by amscanne 10y ago
That is very nearly what they are. The compiler actually just transforms everything channel related into function calls within the runtime package. The majority (probably > 99%) of the implementation of channels and select is Go itself.
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by amscanne 10y ago
You misinterpreted me. I was saying that digging a hole is the classic _useless_ project.
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by amscanne 10y ago
It seems to be that as long as you're malicious (I.e. deliberately hiding items), then that's on them. At least that's what the implied contract is to me. Otherwise it's just a "self checkout" app.
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by amscanne 10y ago
I wouldn't take a press release from the company as evidence that the deal actually closed, especially if you suspect some slightly shady dealings.
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by amscanne 10y ago
What you're saying is of course completely true, but it also means that "I'd be happy to pay my $45.71 per person per year" is equally invalid as a indicator as to whether some public good or service is worthwhile. I bel
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by amscanne 10y ago
I don't personally think it's a commentary on government, but it's a reasonable conclusion. It was John Maynard Keynes who famously said (talking about government stimulus) that the government should "pay people to dig h
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by amscanne 10y ago
That would be a _responsible_ commercial enterprise. This property (and many other AirBNB) properties are commercial, but effectively skirting all regulations that would normally apply. This specific house was rented and a massive party thr
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by amscanne 10y ago
Isn't that a condominium corporation? I believe there are special regulations that apply there.
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by amscanne 10y ago
I also "suffered" through Rob Ford. His main problem was substance abuse. That led to the the massive circus that was his last two years in office. Trump does not have this issue (or at least, doesn't seem to) so I don't
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by amscanne 10y ago
I thought that loophole was closed? Doesn't a change in controlling interest cause the revaluation?
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by amscanne 10y ago
I'm sure that this is already a factor in some cases. As the article notes, companies are likely to maintain lists of specific companies they don't want people moving to and will offer retention bonuses to prevent it.
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by amscanne 10y ago
Not sure if the race can be triggered with a single CPU.
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by amscanne 10y ago
No, it requires only two threads to trigger the race. Two processes are not needed.
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by amscanne 10y ago
This is like saying "the widget sells for $15 and the price is $2". I assume you mean they have $2bn in annual revenue?
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by amscanne 10y ago
(Whoops, I mean _second_ form.)
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by amscanne 10y ago
So does Go (use the first form). Saying "loop variables are scoped outside the loop" is incorrect. All the gotchas noted stem from the fact that people are using _closures_ in the form of go and defer statements, which capture i b
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by amscanne 10y ago
Interfaces aren't pointers, they are a value type (it's a tuple as you describe). The distinction for typed nil is useful because some receivers may work with a nil value. This whole thread enumerates the disadvantages pretty clea
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by amscanne 10y ago
I don't really get why it's seen as "reusing" the memory. i++ is obviously changed the value of a single i variable. Who thinks it's creating a new i somehow?
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by amscanne 10y ago
With named return values, the defer can modify them. For example: func Foo() (err error) { defer func() { err = errors.New("some error") }() } The function will return the "some error" error.
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by amscanne 10y ago
> Bitcoin and Ethereum and their ilk have, out of necessity, valued ACID qualities above all else They definitely don't have ACID properties. The blockchain gives you something like eventual consistency, but it's probabilistic.
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by amscanne 10y ago
It's not two types of nil. When a nil value is converted to an interface, it carries type information. When an interface carries type information, it isn't nil.
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by amscanne 10y ago
TIL that I wear an antisocial badge. It's perfectly possible to be happy and healthy without a Facebook account. You might lose out on one particular kind of "social" connection, but that doesn't mean you lose actual soc
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by amscanne 10y ago
That's clever, but there are reasons a purpose-built subsystem could be a better a fit: * Inotify events are coalesced. Great for notifications, may be bad for discrete messages. * The sender may want information about # of messages se
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by amscanne 10y ago
AFAIK, there's no good way to "broadcast" messages without bouncing through a user space co-ordinator. The current primitives just don't match this kind of need. Presumably, this inefficiency could be a bottleneck for so

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