bojangleslover

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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Absolute poverty has never been lower. And I would rather have kids now than in a more equal, but poorer on average, society. For the important things (health and safety) it's never been a better time to have kids.
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Staggeringly obvious—not sure why you're getting downvoted.
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
They don't pay tax because they don't earn any money. When they sell assets they pay capital gains like everyone else. Then it's taxed when they die at a hell of a lot higher than single digits. Not saying system is perfect b
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
I'm Far more comfortable as a native English speaker in Amsterdam or Copenhagen than London or NYC.
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
What about the fact that she owns half of all marital assets as they accrue?
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Tax (in the UK and US, probably much of the rest of developed world) has never been more progressive. I have never understood why this isn't more widely known on HN. Not saying we should maintain the status quo but if we want "sub
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
>the rich don’t pay taxes The top 10% of taxpayers pay 70% of the tax. Focusing on Tony Blair's 300k Stamp Duty avoidance is a penny-rich, pound-poor move.
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Absolutely right, in aggregate we have never been this prosperous. Inequality is a good thing because it shows people take risks. "poverty" is no longer about not meeting your basic needs, it's about seeing your neighbor driv
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
I would actually chip in fairly seriously for this!
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Inequality is not necessarily a bad thing. http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
But nobody can quantify the cost of those externalities
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Yeah why can't the "heating vs eating" people just take 2hrs to bike 30km to work every day like we do? On the flip side I respect your dedication to bike that much thru Dutch winter!
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Yeah, eventually lawmakers will, but will probably keep their own kids in private school the whole time. Just like the UK's abolition of grammar schools. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34538222 tl;dr "I
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
How do you explain the accuracy going up with more samples then? Also, it wasn't all 90/10. It was all pairwise: Among men, the classification accuracy equaled AUC = .81 when provided with one image per person. This means that in
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Have you read the paper? However, among the 100 of 585 individuals with the highest probability of being gay according to the classifier, 47 were gay. In other words, the classifier provided for a nearly seven-fold improvement in precisio
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Totally agreed on the snake oil. But you can't deny there are definitely strong signals. For example, NN's can detect with 91% accuracy the sexual orientation of males, with only five images. Also, not saying 91% is good enough fo
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Couldn't find a lick of petrol near Cambridge. Really starting to miss the amber nectar.
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. I've been moving every three months or so and it actually sucks. On my gap year it was great but with a job (even though it's remote) and a girlfriend, jetlag and the desire for stability, it definitely t
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Of course it gets better if you get more than 7%!
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
"At some point in the future, news will likely be tailored for you."
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
That's because having a family is a choice, plain and simple, and this would incentivize having more kids to get paid more.
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Interesting you say that, I'm trying to buy a house right now and that's the big variable I just have accepted I won't know the proper weight of until I do it myself. I've decided to just take the plunge, it's the o
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
>I am an adult with a family Minimum wage is not meant to support a family
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
"Peter Thiel has a sizzling Roth IRA and It's Not Fair"
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
400k seems a bit hyperbolic for early stage startups
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by bojangleslover 5y ago
Do they want to pay lower taxes? Or do they not want to pay higher taxes? I think every percentage point over about 40% starts to really niggle people—more in magnitude than getting a 1% break would please them. In other words, fear of goin