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by bialpio 4y ago
I was mostly responding to the "but they can't be spent either" part. From my perspective there isn't that much difference if a company is doing a buyback vs a dividend, as long as it's sharing its profits with the
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by bialpio 4y ago
Just set up your own charity that pays for your charity-related travel - it's not your fault that the charity focuses on work in a region where you happen to have a summer home. ;- )
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by bialpio 4y ago
My understanding is that you can play tricks with stocks so that you don't really need to realize the gains to benefit from them. They can be used as collateral for loans, directly donated to charities (lowers down your tax bill w&#x2F
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by bialpio 4y ago
I'd hope they do follow some procedures. The problem that those procedures may be lax / subjective / easy to work around is a whole other matter...
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by bialpio 4y ago
Yeah, but they need to follow some procedures to lock you up, so similarly they probably should have to follow some procedures (like getting a warrant) before surveiling you for extended period?
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by bialpio 4y ago
I think the part that I don't understand is how you can say that you understand it but then follow up with something that seems like a lack of understanding. : ) Yes, we know it doesn't make sense to be stressed about it, and yet
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by bialpio 4y ago
You do realize that emotions are by definition not something you can easily reason yourself out of? Not everyone reacts the same way, good for you that you can approach it "in cold blood", so to say.
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by bialpio 4y ago
Huh, I think my brain is not wired to think about `x` as a storage, it is closer to "add 3 to x for x = 2", which then gets reduced to "add 3 to 2" and then the destination is missing...
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by bialpio 4y ago
But English "add 4 to x" tells you nothing about where to store the result. : - ) "Add 4 to x and store result in x" vs "Let x be x + 4"?
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by bialpio 4y ago
I think the main problem is the lack of intuition of what "1 Gini means", except the "lower is better". Is difference between coefficient of 10 & 11 the same as difference between 30 and 31? The poster to which I res
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by bialpio 4y ago
I would probably not classify Poland as small, especially noting how big of a population drop between Poland and Romania is. And if Poland were a US state, it would rank 2nd in terms of population, sightly over 1 million people less than Ca
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by bialpio 4y ago
Agreed, this is actually pretty scary for me (living in the US for a decade now) - bankruptcy is potentially one accident away (especially if it takes away the ability to continue doing the high-paying job).
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by bialpio 4y ago
Some metrics aren't linear so w/o knowing more about Gini coefficient, my first thought is "I have no idea if the difference is significant or not". Can someone ELI5 this so that I can build an intuition for what "1
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by bialpio 4y ago
There's also https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:gpu...
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by bialpio 4y ago
Nitpick: WebKit is more of an Apple's thing than Google's thing. : - )
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by bialpio 4y ago
https://www.fec.gov/updates/foreign-nationals/ Looks like green cards may already lift the limitations, my bad.
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by bialpio 4y ago
Because a) folks that are the most impacted by this cannot vote and b) IIRC there are even limits imposed on political activity by visa holders, they get slightly relaxed when you get a green card (but do check it out, IANAL and may be misr
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by bialpio 4y ago
For moving things around across monitors & snipping them to specific half of desktop I personally use Winkey+[shift]+arrows shortcuts, I recommend you check it out if you haven't already! I honestly don't remember when was the
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by bialpio 4y ago
As for <chrono>, the link you provided also has a (short) justification behind the decision: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/styleg... Regarding smart pointers, not sure if yo
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by bialpio 4y ago
That's not how I read the "That is still religious." comment to which I was responding.
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by bialpio 4y ago
Doing something that has religious roots doesn't automatically make it religious. The question is: what are you getting out of it? We're setting up a (now fake) tree during holidays, but treat it as tradition and a nice decoration
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by bialpio 4y ago
Rapid vaccine development does indeed give some cause for optimism. Some counters that I'd have to that would be a potential resurgence of polio in the US [1] and the appearance of drug-resistant pathogens (typhoid fever in this case)
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by bialpio 4y ago
Bacteriology was already developing at that time, first vaccines were already in use (for none other than a viral disease!), and the existence of a pathogen smaller than bacteria was already hypothesized. The response to Spanish flu was als
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by bialpio 4y ago
> (...) it means that nature with its own means did not manage to manufacture such a highly-transmissive disease (...) I think I'm less optimistic than you in this matter. There's at least one counter-example to that statement
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by bialpio 4y ago
"Under state law, the court can assess a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation. In addition, because Meta’s violations are found to have been intentional, the court may triple the amount of the judgment as punitive damages.&quot
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by bialpio 4y ago
I'm not sure where you got the 14.5 months from. This is roughly how much time it took for my citizenship application to get processed, but it does not include the 5 year period of being a permanent resident (and applying for it also t
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by bialpio 4y ago
Where does one normally find dry ice in the US, even when there's no emergency? Is it a commonly stocked thing?
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by bialpio 4y ago
IANAL, but I'm not sure if it matters, as long as the methodology is published? "Here's the number, here's how we calculate that number, don't buy shares if you think our methodology sucks" sounds reasonable to
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by bialpio 4y ago
You may need to have a reason that's called out in the deal to walk away from the deal. If you've e.g. waived inspection contingency and later find some issue w/ the house, you may be forced to close the deal anyway (there ma
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by bialpio 4y ago
From the moment it can interact with the underlying operating system? C++ doesn't specify any GUI framework as a part of the standard, and yet people manage to write GUI apps. Rust should have the same capabilities of calling into the

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