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by anamax 4y ago
> Skype started out as a p2p thing. But ultimately, video calls became a commodity where orchestrating them centrally proved to be good enough. It's my understanding that "phone" without the ability to tap is illegal in th
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by anamax 4y ago
Depreciation is only relevant if you keep the asset. If a crypto-miner becomes unprofitable to run, selling it for less than the "after depreciation basis" effectively accelerates the depreciation.
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by anamax 4y ago
> This is how the US has operated for centuries after all Actually, the US was extremely restrictive on immigration from the late 20s until 1965. For most of the "centuries", the US wasn't an attractive destination, so leg
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by anamax 4y ago
The money is not evenly distributed does not imply that the crappy schools are the ones with no money. Above a fairly low threshold, spending is largely independent of school success.
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by anamax 4y ago
Tether's "peg" has long been more of a guideline than a fact. For example, Tether traded as low as $0.95 and as high as $1.40 in 2021.
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by anamax 4y ago
One of the early deliverables from Microsoft Research was an efficient scheme for running big programs on 286 machines. That gave them a couple of years when Microsoft applications could do things on standard customer machines that their co
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by anamax 4y ago
Whether or not something is a good bet does not depend on the outcome.
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by anamax 4y ago
One solution is to have employees bid on projects, low bid wins.
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by anamax 4y ago
Were the Spanish alone, or did they have local help? Cortes had lots of local help against the Aztecs. (Other tribes didn't much like the Aztecs. Cortes started a preference cascade.)
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by anamax 4y ago
FWIW, Tyson lost that fight to Evander Holyfield. And yes, that was the "ear bite" fight.
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by anamax 4y ago
Remind me - what fraction of Democrats think that Al Gore beat W?
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by anamax 4y ago
The original claim was that the left hadn't moved. The response was "prove it". I provided examples of movement by the institutional left. No, those examples don't have numbers, but they do show movement. Besides, how
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by anamax 4y ago
However, "Alice is able to notice" isn't a given. Yes, setting a hill on fire may be more likely to "get through" than sending a messenger in response, but there's still a chance that the fire won't be see
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by anamax 4y ago
It's sneer quotes. I'm claiming that the fact that the original poster didn't provide something like "0.2 units to the left" doesn't actually refute his fundamental point. Feel free to disagree.
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by anamax 4y ago
How much would you want to keep some of your money in smart contracts?
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by anamax 4y ago
How does Twitter's lack of hierarchy demonstrate that hierarchy doesn't help anyone?
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by anamax 4y ago
Nope - just lazy, or I play with other knobs. Plus, I can usually work in someone else's Emacs session and most people can work in mine. (Yes, they almost always comment on how it's odd to not have their customizations, but they&
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by anamax 4y ago
I didn't say that I was offering a measurement, in fact, I asked how we were defining "an objective measure." Moreover, I have no idea how many Democrat voters go along with the institutional Left. That said, the institution
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by anamax 4y ago
Emacs has been my primary editor since it was written in Teco and only ran on PDP-10s. I haven't had an emacs config for >25 years.
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by anamax 4y ago
I don't know how we're defining "an objective measure", but pushing CRT sure looks like "move left." So does "we're going to help your kid transition without telling you" and XYs in women's
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by anamax 4y ago
Are immigrants fungible wrt "start firms, create jobs"?
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by anamax 4y ago
> The point was, these people COULD do more than move boxes from A to B, could have been more productive, and could contribute more to the economy, if they were provided training. Yes, they could, but what does that have to do with Walma
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by anamax 4y ago
Making me pay into social security but not giving me the benefits is NOT "taking a payout" early or otherwise.
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by anamax 4y ago
Who is forced to work at Walmart or Amazon instead of becoming a doctor? How does that work? Did Walmart shut a medical school? You may not like Amazon or Walmart, but people work at Walmart because it's better than their alternatives
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by anamax 4y ago
Paying for you is part of civilization? Why isn't paying for ME part of civilization? Do you really want to claim that this is socialism?
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by anamax 4y ago
> You can buy a ticket VIE->FRA->SXB for 1000 EUR in Business class. There's your problem. Put them in economy. That adds 50% more seats to the flight AND saves money. Or rather, reimburse them for economy and let them decid
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by anamax 4y ago
> Because growing the economy by $461 million a year grows the economy and hence tax receipts Growing the economy by $461M grows tax receipts by significantly less than $461M.
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by anamax 4y ago
So, you want me to pay for my own retirement AND subsidize yours? And before you say "but you'll be relying on my kids", I'll be PAYING for my retirement. Just like you. The difference is that you think that you're
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by anamax 4y ago
> Yup. I've said in other places that people who can have kids but don't probably shouldn't get social security. And you also said that such people shouldn't pay social security either, right? Moreover, they get a ref
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by anamax 4y ago
10 years isn't enough time to research coronavirus transmission? (SARS1 wasn't the first, but ....) How long then?

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