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by bmelton 9y ago
It may or may not. I'm admittedly not an economist, and even if I were, I'm not remotely informed on California tax policy. That said, it's confounding to me that eliminating the mortgage deduction, and eliminating SALT dedu
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Meanwhile, progressive-leaning organizations have been pushing for the elimination of SALT deductions for years, on the logic that it primarily benefits the wealthy residents in high tax states. The Center for American Progress was urging t
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I think this has a lot to do with a lot of things. If I'm working in the city, it's easy for me to say "Well, I plan to drink tonight, so I'll cab to the place where I'm drinking so that I'll have to cab fro
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If you don't get bogged down in details of the service, I see this as generally net good. For many, ambulance rides are prohibitively expensive, and while I certainly wouldn't be cost-conscious taking an ambulance in the event of
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Between now and the event horizon, there may be considerable opportunity. I mined some bitcoin in the early days, when you could solo-mine for a week or so and net coins. I had a handful of coins that I cashed out for less than $100, bec
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> or simply forcing ISPs to ban traffic on mining ports now that NN is gone If the government can force ISPs to implement content-neutral routing, what on earth would stop the government from forcing ISPs to mandate content-neutral routi
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Apologies. I intended "costs" to mean "costs to consumer".
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> You're selling part of the nation's infrastructure, that was paid for by taxpayers, to now be exploited for profit Maybe. If it's taxpayer funded infrastructure, it doesn't perpetuate itself by self determination.
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> you must define every bit of a model in order for it to work. Rails is the opposite. ActiveRecord will ‘just work’ with the database. If you have an existing database, sure, Rails is preferred. If you're starting from scratch, th
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> Is it a disgrace for the law to find a way to stick it to them? If you don't uphold the civil rights of the loathsome, then those protections won't be there to protect the righteous. It's worth remembering that while Shk
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The previous paragraphs insist that they had no police department, so unless they skipped or abridged the timetable, it seems most likely that it was a clown dressed as a cop.
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> I would like to see any intelligent person make the argument that the gag order is a necessary part of due process. I can't personally fathom an argument that justifies it as necessary to due process , but I can sort of imagine a
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I know that feeling. When we first moved northward of Tennessee, everybody would tell us about how great this little convenience store was. I, as someone who'd grown up thinking names like Wawa were stupid and dumb, refused to shop t
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If it's like Assembly, the coins/tokens themselves don't have value _per se_, they just represent ownership. Basically, in this case, it's acting more of a ledger to represent equity than as the commodity it's typi
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Some taxes are made difficult by the lack, but land taxes, wheel taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, VAT taxes, GET taxes, service taxes, recycling taxes, employment taxes, gas taxes, hotel taxes, ticket taxes, vice taxes, excise taxes, f
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Interesting to see the comparison. I've been (very) loosely following the progress of Colony, and I've had the sense that they were much closer to Assembly ( http://assemblymade.com/ ), which is now defunct. I was
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I'm in the same boat as you. You might Google for DEC2, and maybe there's even a test for it. I'm convinced I have it, and even did a 23andMe thinking they might test for it, but alas, they don't. Despite knowing that
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Offtopic perhaps, but that's the one feature I regularly use on the Alexa. "Alexa, add milk to my shopping list" is such a common occurrence in this house that we haven't switched off of the Alexa even though that'
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It doesn't. It might support bluetooth headphones, as the tech specs indicate that it does have Bluetooth and WiFi, but the only physical port, sadly, is Micro-USB, which is weird to me that it isn't USB-C. I keep hoping that o
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The Pixel is so solid, and still plenty fast enough for me that I honestly can't imagine upgrading until there's something I need that doesn't support it.
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Thanks for that. I think they're currently listed in sort of chronological / as-I-thought-of-it order. I can definitely see the value in having the bigger, bottom-line accomplishments first (or maybe last?) in the bullets.
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I did not expect them to ramp up the amount of notification spam 100-fold as I engage with the service less. I've no intention of logging back in to check my notification settings, but when I was using Facebook, I would get a push no
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by bmelton 9y ago
I've tried (and failed) to delete my Facebook a couple times in the past, so this most recent go, when I quit using Facebook, I just quit using Facebook -- I uninstalled the apps from my phone, and mapped 'facebook.com' to lo
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It seems like you meant to post this in the "Who's Hiring?" thread. It's over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15384262
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It seems like you meant to post this in the "Who's Hiring?" thread. It's over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15384262
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by bmelton 9y ago
Location: Millersville, MD (Accessible to Baltimore, DC, Annapolis) Remote: Ideally. I have 6+ years experience working remote, but will commute if preferred, or relocate for the right opportunity Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Pyth
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If true, it seems unlikely that marches and protests in recent days would be reaching record numbers. As it stands, the largest ever American march was the Women's March earlier this year. Other notable marches include the March for
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As of Backpage v Dart, the activities on Backpage are presumptively lawful. This isn't to say that every action that occurs on Backpage is above board (just as not every transaction on Facebook is). That said, the case was premised on
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If I'm recalling correctly from NPR this morning, nearly 100% of Catalan people under the age of 40 speak Catalan, while very few over the age of 40 do. This is the result of the language having been made illegal, then not illegal, the
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I'm glad you shared that. The perfect follow-on gift would be a silver coffee stirrer.

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