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by anothermachine 14y ago
rprasad was responding to yummyfajitas https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182231 , and misread the byline
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Title: "New Data: Top 1% Pay Greater Dollar Amount in Income Taxes to Federal Government than Bottom 90%" Where does that article discuss "proportionate portion of their income", which I take to mean "percentage of income"?
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Some bizarre OCR technology, or special typesetting code from the print edition getting misinterpreted?
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by anothermachine 14y ago
"American" can be a resident, not necessarily a citizen.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
That's a commonly prosecuted source of tax fraud. If someone works like an employee (how and when they do their work is dictated by a manager, etc), the IRS says they are an employee. Microsoft was famously dinged for this a few years back.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
The kind of apartments where Tesla owners live (or the Google offices where they work) can easily install power outlets in the garage.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
At $50,000 base price, we're not at 10% yet. But yes, progress.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Creating something beautiful, fixing something broken, these are improving the world.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
If they take Top Gear seriously, the people you know surely are not intelligent enough to amass the resources to by a Tesla roadster.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Iron Man is decades old. If anything, the reverse is true: The popular perception of Musk is based off the Iron Man archetype.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
1. Downstream sometimes patches packages to solve problems. Patches can have bugs. 2. A bug may be triggered by the presence of two conflicting libraries or configuration settings that appear in the version sets chosen by a distro.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
"You should follow me on twitter" send the same message about the author's tech-savvy as "Email me at Rabbit47@aol.com"
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by anothermachine 14y ago
But physics doesn't pay attention to our models and intentionally change its behavior to stymie us. The financial market does, since financial modelling is the recursive introspective study of its own modelling process.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
> Economics is not tainted or colored by ideology, You must be joking. Economics is the most ideological of the sciences, because so much of it cannot be tested in nature or a lab, as it only can be tested an impractically large scale a
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Startups.* *Equity value, may vary unpredictably. And it's entry post-PhD, not entry from college.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Most lawyers at the top-income end hate their bosses and jobs. Law firm partnership track at large firms is a dog-eat-dog 80-hour week hell. People are only happy when they are the few who claw to the top, or the many who drop out. The ones
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Note that the Googlean Exceptionalism there was invented by the author, not Mr Tan.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Or an admission that there is more than one kind of person in the world?
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by anothermachine 15y ago
the watermark isn't for legal purposes, it is for communication and content-devaluation purposes
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by anothermachine 15y ago
"commenting" is only one aspect of fair use, and it generally is interpreted to mean "copying a small snippet as an example" or "reproducing a low-resolution copy for reference" to provide context. Another aspect of fair use is "not deprivi
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by anothermachine 15y ago
BTW, you mean "I trust the person who told me to take the image from a third party ." Imagine calling AAA to tow "your" car, and they show up and tow it, only to find out later that it wasn't your car at all.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Just print the pictures and send the photog a tip via Paypal or buy something (anything) the photog is selling.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
could something go wrong when workers are "freed" from protections? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp#Vizcaino_v._Microsof... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Labor_p... Why overlook unionization as a solution
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Try again next year. Consider the math (not exactly how it works, but you'll get the idea): A job offer depends on 5 flawlessly decided "hire" votes. A mere 5% of interviews are flawed due to interviewer weaknesses (poor training, bad attit
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by anothermachine 15y ago
If you want feedback, ask a smart friend (or a professional service) to mock interview you and give detailed feedback. That's better than what any official employer could do.
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Absolutely true. As strange as it may seem, a (terminal) masters degree is almost always less indicative of programming skill than the undergrad degree. I'd expect to be more impressed by a random UWashington Bachelor with no Masters over a
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Facebook gives interview feedback. It reflects their core value of sharing. It's one of a few ways you can see that their process is thoughtfully and intentionally improved upon their predecessors at Google and Microsoft, and reflects the c
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Cenotaph, not a grave marker (yet) It's a chapter in How to Play in Traffic : http://books.google.com/books/about/Penn_Teller_s_how_to_pla... Pic: http://www.ldphotography.net/Graves/Famous/P/slides/Penn%20a...
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by anothermachine 15y ago
Interesting. This linkbait* article has 3 points and is frontpaged. The next-lowest-score frontpage article at the moment is 14pts. * The second paragraph contradicts the headline: "The goal ‘learn how to code’ is a waste of your time. Don
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by anothermachine 15y ago
It's a humorous exaggeration.

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