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by bmelton 9y ago
> barely disguised corporate graft on top of a historic shifting of the tax burden away from the wealthy How does the minimum wage affect taxation on the wealthy? Corporate taxes, high or low, are paid by the consumers, no matter whethe
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by bmelton 9y ago
At the risk of coming across like a naysayer, this paper omits a lot of crucial details. The obvious, and most usually contested metric is not whether or not the economy goes up or down, but by how much it might have gone up or down in the
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by bmelton 9y ago
As a one-time national Scripps Bee competitor who ultimately lost out in an early round to a (now-known to be) ridiculously easy word[1], this was a very good article. Point 1 (Length) can't be stressed enough, while point 2 (Latin) is
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by bmelton 9y ago
Because, until there's precedent from the Supreme Court, any ambiguities in the law can be interpreted to practically any viable way of interpretation. Further, because of precedent, a single "weird" decision in a given dist
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by bmelton 9y ago
Regarding California: https://www.arb.ca.gov/enf/complaints/smoke.htm https://www.arb.ca.gov/enf/complaints/svc2.htm Regarding rolling coal: https://www.vice.com/en_us&#x
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by bmelton 9y ago
Sure. One of the Djangoesque opinions is that if you're building a site, you'd like it to be maintainable, and that you'll probably add on to it. If you've been working in the Python ecosystem long enough to know that
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by bmelton 9y ago
Sure, they'll consume all the services you offer, and especially health care, as the parent suggests. But, yes, you need to have a generous pension, as well as meet another number of requirements that vary from place to place. In orde
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by bmelton 9y ago
They may well have. After watching the video you linked, it seems that there is a very blurry, very nuanced line between supporting the rights of the offender and supporting the offenses, and listening to that interview with a blank-slate
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by bmelton 9y ago
I don't know much about CAGE, and my Googling isn't proving to be terribly enlightening (yet), but: The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is
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by bmelton 9y ago
At my old company, I built technopedia.com, which used to hold all of this information available in a nice, convenient, searchable interface. That said, it appears they've retired that information since I left, and relegated the actua
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by bmelton 9y ago
Generally speaking, the money that gets earmarked goes where it belongs. It's all the other money that wasn't earmarked before-hand that gets pulled out. The political promise is usually "Hey, we'll implement a lottery
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by bmelton 9y ago
Which is funny to me, because Wawa has a few, very effective means of ensuring customer loyalty. Between state-minimum priced cigarettes (for smokers), fee-less ATMS, the awesome, cheap coffee bar, and pretty darn reasonable rates on the
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by bmelton 9y ago
Airplanes not being the best example, since they control the entirety of the supply chain, but if they were more like arena ticket sales, or sports-team ticket sales, then they actually would be helping people by maximizing their profits.
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by bmelton 9y ago
If so, I don't know how the Obama regulation would have been any different.
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by bmelton 9y ago
You may be correct, now that I re-read it again. There may be something in a subsequent act that prevents non-aggregate data, but until/unless I find that, I'm working under the assumption that you are right and I am wrong, regar
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by bmelton 9y ago
There might be multiple options that the federal government would respect: * https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title5/html/USCODE... * http://ws680.nist.gov/publication/get_p
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by bmelton 9y ago
I think you're misreading it, unless you have reason to believe that you've already given your permission. Either way, the regulation that Trump's EO overturns also allowed you to opt in if you wanted to.
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by bmelton 9y ago
So, that's applicable to every instance except where being provided to the government (section h), and . It's somewhat circular in that regard. Combined with disclosure restrictions, specifically 2(c)(ii), the net result is that
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by bmelton 9y ago
Agreed, with the caveat that there are also restrictions requiring aggregation as well.
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by bmelton 9y ago
I'm not saying it does nothing. I'm saying it doesn't do what people think it does. Repealing the Obama rule does mean that you can't opt out of data collection or sale. It does not mean that your individual browsi
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by bmelton 9y ago
The common response to this is that ISPs have access to everything you do (which is true), and that they could sell that (which is false). The regulations being overturned here are ones that have only recently taken effect, and non-anonymiz
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by bmelton 10y ago
In general, I would agree, but we collectively seem a-okay with routine violations of the 'be civil' rule when the target of such incivility is a politician we don't like.
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by bmelton 10y ago
Huh. He was CEO of dotCloud, so I just assumed that he came over as CEO of Docker. Looking at LinkedIn, I guess he was CTO anyway. I didn't know these things. Thanks for the correction.
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by bmelton 10y ago
> This is a company we're talking about here, not an individual I'm not saying pull punches, I'm just saying maybe remember that we aren't talking about a faceless politician here, and that to many, Solomon is someone
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by bmelton 10y ago
Not that I'm anybody to say so, but I think it's worth posting a friendly reminder that Solomon is a beneficial HN contributor here in good standing (shykes), and will likely read the remarks we post here at some point. I see some
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by bmelton 10y ago
I've been in a home that was burgled, and slept through it. It wasn't until I was woken up by my wife asking what I had done with the X-box that it got weird. Knowing that we had two dogs and three people living in the home, no
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by bmelton 10y ago
I didn't know about it until a couple of years ago, the Ravens were the defending Superbowl champions, which usually entitles one to a home opener, but because the Orioles were still contending for the playoffs, the Ravens had their fi
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by bmelton 10y ago
New York Giants / Jets comes to mind as well. On top of that, there are other competitive factors involved, e.g., in Baltimore, the Orioles and Ravens generally can't be playing mass-attendance games at the same time because they
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by bmelton 10y ago
Sorry, not trying to confuse the two, so much as acknowledging that they're both probably complicated here, but also as remedy often factors in to the severity of a crime, then it extends lenience to the interpretation of a right. e.
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by bmelton 10y ago
I'd say it varies too much by locality to even generalize about. In the parts of the south I've lived in, the unlawful discharge laws tend to only apply to MUCH denser population centers. I know of a case in Arkansas in which a

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