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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> we need to be recycling only aluminum and cardboard And glass?
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> So what’s the alternative? To which? I think we should encourage/require government spending on things that are actually useful (and I acknowledge that there is wide-ranging disagreement on this criterion) and fund such spending a
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The practical distinction is often not there except for things that are so egregious there is a good chance billionaires would be crossing the boundaries of legality for doing them. But yes, government does have a slight edge on billionair
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You're thinking social security. Medicare is very much not capped, and in fact you only hit the 2.35% rate after 200k individual or 250k family income; it's 1.45% before that (for the employee side).
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
23.8%, because he would surely have to pay NIIT as well, right? But also, that's just federal taxes. California adds 13.3% on top of that (for any income over $1 million, which is most of the income here). But also, this is a stock gr
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
The COVID vaccine patent protections were not constraining vaccine supply, because they were being licensed to anyone with the capacity to produce the vaccines anyway. It sure did make for good grandstanding to speak out against the patents
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Tim funding a war on "gays" would be .... very surprising. But also, there's no guarantee that _anyone_ including the government will use money for "good" causes. Bridges to nowhere, military adventurism, wars on d
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Both improving education and building infrastructure, as they are actually practiced, are not "simple" and questionably "surely-helpful". See also bridges to nowhere and schools with top-of-the-line computers but broken
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> If we divide Tim's $750,000,000 bonus/payout this year by that $4,681.92 yearly Foxconn salary, we get 160,190 Why are we dividing a once-in-10-years (based on targets set 10 years ago) bonus by an every-year salary number? A
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In the short term? Because building a fab takes time and money, I would expect.
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> but the book's font is smaller. If the book's font is smaller, but the lines are the same width, that means more words per line in the book, yes? And each line is taking a larger fraction of the visual field, since the book i
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Yes, it's not wide enough. Just holding up a book to my screen, 700px is about the width of the text in a mass-market paperback. But the reading distance for a screen is much larger than the reading distance for a book, of course. An
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Per https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/07/news/rumsfeld-rejects-pla... which I think is describing the same incident it was not an "unconditional surrender", though it was somewhat close: the cond
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A 700px max-width would actually make it quite annoying to read for me (as a lot of content on the web is, unless I switch to reader mode)....
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Yes, indeed. :)
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Not just perl. Also sed, which is likely where perl got it from.
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Those don't implement the same SQL as SQLite does, or as each other... What would the standard actually say?
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Imagine a world in which everyone has exactly the same income and the same expenses, saves up the same amount of money for retirement, and lives exactly the same amount of time. In that world, someone just about to retire would in one sense
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
That is one plausible outcome here, yes.
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Thank you, that is useful context!
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> This is policy, not capability. The capability is each and every image can be scanned. Are you familiar with the implementation? If it's in the uploader, then the capability for each image to be scanned sounds like it would invol
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
Famous Chekhov quote: "Университет развивает все способности, в том числе — глупость". Or in English: "a university education develops all one's abilities, including stupidity".
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> It seems much easier for the attackers to supply themselves (even in a foreign land) That's a modern-transportation perspective. Unless the siege happens to be on a waterway and you supply that way. Land-based logistics for pre-m
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
What makes you think they didn't? (I don't know whether they did or not, but I would absolutely expect such lobbying to (1) be happening and (2) be kept very quiet because it's too easy to spin it as "Apple supports ped
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> scanning your entire Photos library The parts of it being uploaded to iCloud, not the whole thing, yes? > and sending hashes to an unaccountable, no oversight nonprofit (NCMEC) As I understand it, the whole point is that the hashes
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
> but Apple has said that the scanning is done on-device Yes, but only for images being uploaded to iCloud. > meaning whether or not you upload your photo library to iCloud, your local photos will be scanned Not in the currently propo
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
The really interesting part is the huge gap between loading the CSS and starting the load of "patternbg.png", which is linked to by the CSS. When I load https://lgms.nl/ locally, I see the CSS finish loading at t
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
There are absolutely studies out there. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57061 and similar for other years (this is data through 2018, but published this year, presumably after they are pretty sure that various delayed
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> The top tax rate in the US, decades ago, was 90%. Which pretty much no one paid because there were so many exceptions to it. Starting with the fact that the top long-term capital gains tax rate was 25%, not 90%. A lot of those excepti
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by bzbarsky 5y ago
I don't see how open immigration solves the self-determination problem, unless the premise is that: 1) You allow open immigration. 2) You then allow a democratic vote, including by the new immigrants, to partition the existing state (t

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