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841.
by blacksqr 7y ago
"According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of jobs in restaurants and bars in the Seattle area has grown from 134,000 to 158,000 since 2015" "Ultimately, workers already employed either saw their take-home pay g
842.
by blacksqr 7y ago
How's the Ford family doing?
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by blacksqr 7y ago
They had to eat something.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
Assume a spherical university.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
CONCLUSION: Early administration of high-dose enteral vitamin D3 did not provide an advantage over placebo with respect to 90-day mortality or other, nonfatal outcomes among critically ill, vitamin D–deficient patients.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
I recently worked with a professor leading grad students in a software development project, he told me they seemed somehow cognitively incapable of absorbing information from standard docs and man pages. When they came to him with question
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by blacksqr 7y ago
Cultural flourishing != happiness Freud said: "Our civilization is largely responsible for our misery. The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness." Culture "flourishes" until civilized people
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by blacksqr 7y ago
If nothing else, I find John Berger's voice immensely soothing. Toss on.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
"The $15 minimum wage was supposed to hurt New York City restaurants — but both revenue and employment are up" https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-15-minimum-wage-was-su...
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by blacksqr 7y ago
"if we take Ethos at their word, they should be just as good a steward for .org as the Internet Society has been" Nothing to worry about here!
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by blacksqr 7y ago
HN 2019: downvoted for noting plainly observable phenomenon.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
That's the insane part. That they wouldn't take a vote so plainly in their political self interest, that was also in the spirit of the Constitution by increasing representation.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
Great summary.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
It's insane that the Democrats didn't significantly increase the size of the House in 2009, when they had a filibuster-proof 60 votes in the Senate. It probably would have given them a lock on the House, and the presidency too in
856.
by blacksqr 7y ago
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Sather had caught on. (forked from Eiffel in 1990, unlike Eiffel it was free and open-source) Authors claimed it was as fast as C++. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather
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by blacksqr 7y ago
Cement is too heavy to transport economically over long distances. I remember reading years ago that something like 90% of cement is made within 35 miles of where it's used.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
Yes, I've always thought that Tcl should be promoted as an archival quality programming language.
859.
by blacksqr 7y ago
Nothing says a place is unlivable like record-high rents and real estate values.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
>At least 10,000 wealthy people left the country to avoid paying the tax; most moved to neighboring Belgium Unlike many countries, US citizens can't escape US income tax by moving out of the country, income tax must be paid regardle
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by blacksqr 7y ago
You're reinforcing the point that the linked article was poorly researched and written.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
The article also inaccurately states that Tuvel's article was retracted.
863.
by blacksqr 7y ago
"rm -rf /" ought to do it.
864.
by blacksqr 7y ago
Seems like such a strategy would already be illegal as a means of avoiding capital gains taxes. It would also have the side-effect of destroying the company's valuation and thus its credit rating.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
LLCs have membership shares, and large LLCs and partnerships generally have well-defined buy-in and cash-out values.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
Many privately-held companies sell stock, and their value can thus be calculated. For those that do no stock trades, a gross income tax would be a simple alternative.
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by blacksqr 7y ago
Instead of taxing individual wealth, far easier and constitutionally sound to impose a corporate tax as a percentage of total stock value. Let the markets determine the value of the stock, then calculating the tax is a few minutes' wor
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by blacksqr 7y ago
>It seems there are only ever allegations The company hired a third party to investigate, the accused person left the company of his own accord without contesting the allegations, the CEO made a public statement that he found the allegat
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Turtles: Tcl Universal Recursive Trace Log Execution Scrutinizer(github.com)
1 points by blacksqr 7y ago|0 comments
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Toolatra: A Sinatra-like micro web framework in Tcl(github.com)
3 points by blacksqr 7y ago|0 comments

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